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#1947
USA
The rockets were applied to essentially (note from vog: but not 100%...) peaceful purposes: for sounding the upper atmosphere. The explosive charge was replaced by special devices, photographic chambers, spectrographs, etc. destined to descend by parachute, and knowledge of our aerial envelope could thus be extended up to 135 km, and even 183 kilometers of altitude in 1947. (see 1949) ("L'Astronautique" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12)

#1947, January 10 
USA, White Sands
(Or January 23?) 14:13 test launch of V-2 #18, altitude 115 km.
Launch on January 23 of V-2 #19, which only reached 50 km altitude. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947, January
USA, West of Globe (Arizona)
W.H. still in service with the US Navy, out with C.C. who was discharged, looking for a property to acquire in a remote location. They arrive near the Papagos Indian Reservation, on the north side of the Superstition Mountains west of Globe. Driving on a bad road, they come across a group of soldiers on guard around a crashed and partially burned saucer in the sand. Object topped with a dome, about 30 feet in diameter, two outer rings seeming to frame portholes. (UFO Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) (note from vog: probably debris from one of the V2s launched in January...? )

#1947, February
BRAZIL, Manuos, (Amazon River)
A traveler saw five "birds" with leather bodies and wings.
(Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 314)

#February 20, 1947
USA, White Sands Proving Grounds
11:16 am - Test launch of V-2 #20, reaching 109 km altitude. It is believed to have been a launch with "biological experiment". (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952) (GESAG, Launches, Nieuwenhuis H. 1988)

#1947, March 7
USA, White Sands
11:23 AM - Launch of V2 #21, altitude 160 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947, April 1
USA, White Sands
At 13:10 launch of V2 #22, it reached 129 km altitude.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947, April 8
USA, White Sands
At 17:10 launch of V2 #23 which reached 103 km altitude.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#April mid-1947
USA, Richmond (Virginia)
Meteorologist Minozewski and his team observed, during a balloon launch, an ellipsoidal silver object just below it. This object had a kind of dome on its upper part and was larger than the balloon. It moved horizontally quickly. (Michel BOUGARD: "From S.V. to UFOs" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 32)

#1947, April 17
USA, Georgetown (South Carolina)
At around 2:00 PM Mrs. Harrelson, occupied in her kitchen, heard a sound like an airplane followed immediately by an awful crash. She went outside and was astonished to see that the neighboring house had no roof. The rafters had been torn off, tiles and bricks thrown in all directions around. However, there was no airplane in the sky, the weather was absolutely calm, without wind. And the humming was getting farther away.
(Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V. - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 52)
(indeed strange... )

#1947, April 17
USA, White Sands
At 16:22, launch of V2 #22, altitude reached 140 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#April 1947
FRANCE, Col de Serre (Falgoux)
At 8:15 Maxime Orliange was driving and saw a disk 30 meters in diameter, lenticular, with a dome hovering above him. Blue light coming from between the dome and the disk. The object made a loop while rising without noise to a position 400 meters from the witness, at about 30 meters in height. Disappearance almost instantaneous vertically. (M. FIGUET/J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 50)

#1947, May 5
USA, Washington State
At 3:30 PM three witnesses saw a silver disc making a dive, then disintegrating, leaving only a column of smoke. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, around May 5
USA, Tucson (Arizona)
Mrs. H. V. Olavick and Mr. Rawlins, who later became her husband, observed 10 flying saucers performing bizarre aerial maneuvers above Tucson. One of the saucers was larger than the other nine and was estimated to be 100 feet in diameter. While they watched, the nine smaller saucers seemed to be "playing hide and seek" together around a cloud and this game was accompanied by violent maneuvers that lasted seven minutes. Finally, regrouping behind the largest saucer in a V formation, the group flew off to the northeast at a dizzying speed. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 32)

#1947, May 14
HUNGARY, Budapest
At approximately 8:30 PM, an aerial phenomenon was observed crossing the sky from SE to NE following a practically rectilinear trajectory. A consensus of the observers placed the object at an altitude of approximately 3000 feet and a speed greater than 400 mph and the witnesses described the object as being spherical in shape with an approximate diameter of 3 to 4 feet. It seemed to be burning and left a generally uniform trail, but with, sometimes, enlargements that could suggest successive pulsations. The object also apparently emitted a trail of flames of about 3 meters long, but no sound was heard. (Phenomena #35 of 1997 pp. 6 and 7)

#1947, May 15
USA, White Sands
At 16:08, V2 #26 was launched, reaching an altitude of 122 km.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#May 17, 1947
USA, Oklahoma City
… an enormous oval saucer, ten times its diameter in length, was seen by Byron Savage, a pilot from Oklahoma City. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p89) Observation report at 8:30 PM by Brian Savage (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) On May 17, 1947, the American pilot Byron (??) Savage saw an enormous disk moving at an unimaginable speed. Two days later, this disk was reported in another region of the USA. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Flying Saucers Come from Another World" Fleuve Noir 1947 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 re-edition - p. 217)

#1947, May 18
USA, Richmond (Virginia)
Several witnesses observed a flat, white, cigar-shaped object quickly traversing the sky at sunset, heading northwest. (Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 21, 25.5.97)

#1947, May 19
USA, Manitou Springs (Colorado)
... In the short time it could be followed, it changed direction twice, maneuvering at an incredible speed. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Are Real" ed. Corrêa Paris 1951, p 89)
Seven employees of the Pike's Peak Railway were peacefully having lunch when, around 12:15, a bright silver object approached quickly. When it arrived above the witnesses, the UFO almost stopped and began to circle. At times it reflected the sunlight and when observed through binoculars it was impossible to accurately estimate its dimensions. The object moved silently for more than 20 minutes, diving towards the ground and changing direction before finally disappearing. (Michel BOUGARD: "From S.V. to UFOs" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 32,33)

#1947, May 19
CHILE, Del Salto
The observatory staff saw and was able to photograph a strange meteorite above Santiago. The object moved slowly, sometimes emitting white smoke plumes. The report indicated an increase in speed towards the end of the observation. (Phenomena #35 of 1997 p. 7)

#1947, End of May
USA, St Helena Found (South Carolina)
Colden R. Battey, a doctor from Augusta (Georgia) was fishing when he saw a formation of 4 discs fly over quickly. They were silver, seemed to spin around their axis, and reflected the light. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 33)

#1947, May 29
USA, White Sands
In the forenoon launch of a V2, it falls beyond the Polygon at El Paso. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 258)

#1947, June 2
USA, Rehoboth (Delaware)
Report from Forest Wenyon: a UFO in the shape of a jar moving very quickly. The witnesses were interviewed by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, June
ROMANIA, Oradea
Testimony of Andréas Schulhof: He relates the time of June 1947 when he saw through the window of a train six unusual objects flying in formation near Oradea at a speed such that he attributed to them a speed of 2000 km/h. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 296)

#1947, June
USA, Oak Ridge (Tennessee)
The first "UFO" incident above the Oak Ridge atomic base dates back to June 1947, with the photograph taken by a civilian. (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979 - p. 141, 142)

#1947, June 7
INDIA, Bombay
According to the "Times of India" UFOs were seen above Bombay. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33)

#1947, June 10
HUNGARY, Budapest
U.S. Air Force records contain cases observed in Budapest on this date. Ted Bloecher, who mentions this in his "Report on the UFO Wave of 1947," does not give any details since his study only concerns the American wave of 1947. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - translated by Laffont 1976 - p. 246) Gyorik Ference saw four objects of yellow-red color in the shape of plates flying above Budapest. (note of vog: here is the contradiction in the following sentence) The objects were spherical and silver in color. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33)

#1947, June 10
USA, Douglas (Arizona)
At 11 PM, Mrs. Coral Lorenzen saw a light rising from the Mexican side,
it was spherical in shape and rose quickly until it disappeared
among the stars. The observation only lasted 10 seconds. (with her husband
Jim Lorenzen they then created APRO) (Ufo Roundup vol. 2 n° 21
25.5.97)

#1947, June 14 (not 23).
USA, Bakersfield (California)
Richard Rankin, Palm Springs, California, pilot, reported having observed 10 flying saucers above Bakersfield on the 23rd (error, it was the 14th) of June. They were flying at an altitude of 9000 feet, quickly, at a speed of 300 or 400 mph. "I counted 10 in formation," he said. "They were heading north. At 2:15 pm (error, it was noon) they turned around, heading south, and there were only seven left in the formation. I couldn't see their engines, or where they were located, and they had no wings. They appeared round to me. They resembled the drawings of the "Navy's Flying Flapjack". The Navy claims the Flapjack have not left their base.
Rankin has logged 7000 hours of flight, and is the brother of stunt pilot Tex Rankin. (from the "Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 2, 1947. Portland, Ore., July 2.") Richard Rankin was outside at noon and watching a boy mowing the neighbor's lawn. The weather was clear and sunny when Rankin and the young man saw ten objects flying in a loose V formation. They were heading north. But then seven of the discs turned around and flew back over them on their way south. Their diameter was 30 to 35 feet and they were flying at an estimated speed of 350 mph at an altitude of about 8500 feet. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33)

#1947, June 14th and following days
USA, Roswell (New Mexico)
Mac Brazel finds on his ranch 140 km from Roswell debris from an unknown device. Only on July 7th did he inform the sheriff who alerted the military base. On July 8th Colonel Blanchard announced the recovery of a crashed flying disc. That same evening General Ramey denied this information saying it was a weather balloon. For 50 years now this affair has been the subject of much ink: UFO or not UFO? Recovery of some small dead and alive creatures by the USAF? Will we ever know? All authors have abundantly described the peregrinations of the affair, from Stanton Friedman to Crain Jr, from Maurice Chatelain to Gildas Bourdais, from Ph. Corso to Lagrange, and I forget dozens...

#1947, June 15
USA, Lansing (Michigan)
At 9:30 PM Harry Ripper was alerted by the house owner Mrs. Letta Loree, who saw "balls of fire" jumping in and out of the clouds, like clay pigeons, and burning for ten minutes. Ripper got tired of the show and went home. Once at home he saw a stationary beam of light, but he thought it was not related to the phenomenon observed. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33)

#1947, June 16
USA, Valley City (North Dakota)
Firefighter Hjalmer Lokken reported having observed at around 9 PM "something that looked like a very red ball" passing quickly through the sky at the height of the flag flying over the college (65 m altitude) and heading west. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 33)

#1947, June 17
USA, Dubuque (Iowa)
Mrs. Louis Korn, of 879 Rush Street, saw six objects which were all alike, above the Mississippi River. They appeared to measure only two feet long by one foot wide, and were oval in shape and somewhat vaporous, somewhat like a white cloud. They seemed to float gently in the air, remaining visible for an hour. The Korns saw identical objects again on July 4, 1947. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 18
USA, Eugene (Oregon)
E.H. Sprinkler saw in the southwestern sky a multitude of saucers flying in the direction of the northeast. Sprinkler wanted to take a photo, but their speed was so great that they were out of sight before his camera was ready. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, around June 18
USA, Bremerton (Washington)
Mrs. Elma Shingler, who lives west of the Cascade Mountains, saw twice objects shaped like saucers, reflecting light, flying at dizzying speeds. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 19
USA, Webster (Massachusetts)
An elderly lady saw from her window an object of the apparent size of the moon, passing nearby. In this object there was a slender figure whose clothing resembled a Navy uniform (Inforespace No. 48 of 1979, p. 29).

#1947, June 21
USA, Saint Joe
A woman from Spokane saw eight discs descending in a "falling leaf" pattern near the banks of the Saint Joe River (Idaho). ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 21
USA, Maury Island, Tacoma
14:00: Dahl, on a patrol boat in the harbor, saw when looking up, at 600 m altitude, 6 machines resembling giant inner tubes with portholes. 5 of them were slowly turning around the 6th, which seemed to be in trouble. They slowly and silently descended to 150 m above the water. After a muffled explosion, the central object started to pour out slag and molten metal, which hit the water with a hissing sound. The whole group then rose and moved away out to sea. Dahl made a report to his superior Fred L. Crisman, who was initially skeptical before seeing a saucer himself in the area. Through editor Ray Dero Palmer, Kenneth Arnold met Dahl who claimed that in the meantime he had been contacted by a mysterious man in black. This man described the Tacoma incident as clearly as if he had been standing next to Dahl during the observation. The man ordered him to keep quiet. (Philippe SCHNEYDER: "Ovni, premier bilan" - éd. du Rocher 1983, p. 185)
(...) "Five minutes passed like this, then one of the machines detached from the formation and approached the one that was not moving. It seemed to us that it touched it, then in turn it stopped. After a few minutes we heard a muffled sound and the lowest placed object started to eject thousands of (...) fine white metal particles that were fluttering in the air (...) Then the same object spat out black metal fragments that were thrown into the water or onto the beach. They must have been hot because their contact with the water caused a release of steam. We ran to take refuge on the rocks, but my son was burned on one arm by a fragment of this metal, while our dog was killed. Suddenly the metal rain stopped. The strange object and its five companions rose silently and headed west, towards the Pacific. (...) (A. RIBERA: "Ces mystérieux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 66 to 71) All this affair would be a hoax set up to discredit the Kenneth Arnold case - also read "The coming of the Saucers" by K. Arnold, 1952, Palmer, and John Keel 'OUR HAUNTED PLANET'. [IN REALITY, it is a hoax, cfr: Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France- Empire 1958, p. 39 to 42, where Ruppelt calls them Jackson and Richards although these are not their real names.] (1968., Fawcett Crest., Greenwich, Conn.) 

#1947, June 22
USA, Radium Springs (Oregon)
During the day of June 22 a "flying saucer" was observed by
H.E. Hammond and his son L.V.W. Hammond, director of the Oregon Savings Bank Association. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 23
USA, somewhere in Mississippi
Mrs. Elizabeth Hall was awoken at two o'clock in the morning by a brilliant light outside her open bedroom window. The light grew larger and then smaller. After blinking three times (in pulses) the object silently disappeared in a fourth pulse. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 23
USA, El Paso (Texas)
In the afternoon of June 23, around 3:30 PM, a shining disc was flying at 150 mph above El Paso. One of the witnesses, Dr. G. Oliver Dickson, an optician, described it as having the shape of a balloon with a point at each end. The sunlight was not reflected by the object. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 23
USA, Wapakoneta (Oregon)
On the evening of June 23, Richard L. Bitters, editor of a major newspaper, saw strange flying objects, but only revealed this observation after the Kenneth Arnold case. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 24
USA, Cedar Rapids (Iowa)
An engineer assigned to the railroad, getting off the train, observed ten objects in the shape of flying discs in strict formation: "like wild geese". His story was published, but ironically, the six lines relating the observation, attracted no attention. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 34)

#1947, June 24
USA, Boise (Idaho)
Lt. Gr. Donald S. Whitehead and Chief Justice Lampert saw a strange object in the sky in the afternoon. The object was stationary in the sky and resembled a comet. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.37)

#1947, June 24
USA, Richland (Washington)
At around 2:30 PM Leo Bernier saw several silver discs high in the sky, on a west-southwest trajectory. This was the first witness to suggest an extraterrestrial link to his observation. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37)

#1947, June 24
USA, between CHEHALIS and YAKIMA, Mount Rainier (Washington)
"Kenneth Arnold Incident".
Against the whiteness of the snow, he saw nine bright discs rushing at a frantic pace, a speed he mentally estimated, by comparing their angular speed and their approximate distance given by the mountain, at more than two thousand kilometers per hour. For three minutes the astonished American saw the nine bright discs maneuvering around the peaks, in formation, "exactly," he recounted later, "as if they were connected to each other at 4,000 meters of altitude." Still relying on the approximate distance of the mountain, he calculated that their size must have been that of a DC-3"... . ("Lights on Flying Saucers" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 15) Kenneth Arnold had taken off from Chehalis for a mountain search mission: a C-46 of the Navy would have crashed somewhere in the Cascade Mountains. Sunny afternoon and very good visibility. Suddenly, around 3 pm, a white-blue flash illuminated the entire right side of his cabin. He looked around to see where it came from, when a second flash, then others, made him turn his head. He then saw a formation of nine sparkling objects, of a metallic shine, coming from the direction of Mount Baker and going in that of Mount Rainier; it flew very close to the peaks and at a very high speed. The objects that composed it seemed to be connected to each other and it disappeared behind a high peak. Taking Mount Rainier and Mount Adams as reference points, Mr. Arnold calculated by triangulation the speed of these objects and was surprised to obtain 2,700 km/h; the formation was 30 to 40 km from his plane. Its speed was astonishing at the time because the sound barrier had not yet been broken, that is 1,200 km/h. He also noticed that the objects flew in two parallel lines, one of five, the other of four and that their flight was not straight, regular, but erratic. That same evening he declared to journalists that these objects had behaved like saucers bouncing on the water. Each disc-shaped object had about the size of a four-engine C-54, which is respectable. Their appearance was similar to that of a hammered bronze bowl. The bottom of each saucer seemed flat and the top more bulging. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of Flying Saucers" - Laffont 1970 - p.86-87) Hans Van Kampen, after a thorough examination (...) concluded that Arnold could have seen a flight of F-84 Thunderjets which were still secret planes at that date. Were the first UFOs really planes? (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 47) Pendeleton (Oregon) June 25 (A.P.) - Kenneth Arnold reports that he observed nine bright objects, flying at 2000 km/h above the Cascade chain in the western part of the state of Washington. These objects were saucer-shaped and were at an altitude of 3000 meters. When Arnold had spotted them, they were 40 or 50 km away and were heading north (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les éditions Mondiales" 1951, p.169, which cites the "Los Angeles Times of June 26, 1947, title "Nine saucers flying at 2000 km-h have been observed. But what are they?" (also read "The coming of the Saucers" by K. Arnold, 1952, Palmer: of the nine objects 8 were similar and one was very different.) (continued on July 29, 1947)

#1947, June 24
USA, Cascade Mountains (Oregon)
On the same June 24, 1947, before the aviator's story was released by the press, a prospector working in the Cascade Mountains named Fred Johnson had seen in the sky six objects exactly like those of Kenneth Arnold. He was even able to follow them with a telescope for several seconds. Curiously, while these objects were passing, the magnetic needle of his compass, gone mad, was agitated in its case. ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 15,16) A prospector, Mr. Johnson, reported the daytime passage of several UFOs that made the needle of his compass swing from side to side. The witness was questioned at length by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee trans. Jean Sider) Johnson had his attention drawn to a flash of light in the sky and saw six bright, round objects. As these objects flew towards the southeast at an altitude of about 1000 feet, Johnson noticed they had tails and flew silently. The observation lasted from 45 to 60 seconds as the prospector watched them through a hand telescope. He estimated their diameter to be about 30 feet, their shape was not perfectly circular, it ended in an oval point towards the front. At the tail end he also saw something swinging from left to right. The objects flew at a speed never seen before. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37)

#1947, June 24
USA, Yakima (Washington)
Mrs. Ethel Wheelhouse reported having observed the flying discs at very high speed. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 37)

#1947, June 24
USA, San Francisco
Sergeant David Menary of the highway patrol, saw from the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco a dozen bright objects in the sky in the evening. "They were each the size of a football, they flew past me in a rush, and fell into the sea," he said. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38)

#June 25, 1947
USA, Suburbs of New York
Two couples living in the suburbs of New York have revealed that they had seen one of these strange fireballs called "flying saucers" which have been keeping all Americans on edge for the past two weeks. The latest commented revelation is that of Mr. Harold Dahl (note from vog: see the date of June 21, 1947) who has just sent to the University of Chicago a piece of metal which was allegedly thrown by a flying saucer observed on June 25th. (no references) (archives of L.D.L.N.) (Michel MONNERIE: "The Shipwreck of the Extraterrestrials" ed. Nouvelles Editions Rationalistes, Paris, 1979, p. 106, which considers this kind of press clipping as a hoax to feed the myth)

#1947, June 25
USA, Kansas City (Missouri)
Carpenter W.I. Davenport saw nine objects high in the sky that looked like discs flying at very high speed towards the west.
("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38)

#1947, June 25
USA, Utah, Oklahoma, and New York.
A single disc appears in the sky of Utah and later C.E. Holman reports the observation of two illuminated discs in Oklahoma. The same day Louis Stebbins saw a reddish object crossing the sky of the countryside near Glens Falls, New York. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38)

#1947, June 26
USA, La Grande (Oregon)
Nine bright objects, with "fins," entered and exited the clouds in La Grande. The sighting was made by student Larry Jones and two Catholic nuns. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38)

#1947, June 26
USA, Denver
Later in the evening Henry Martin and Walter Harrod observed a group of objects resembling "coffee pot lids", shiny, and flying in a southwesterly direction at an altitude of about 5000 feet. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 38)

#1947, June 26
USA, in Utah
Glen Bunting and two other independent witnesses observed a single object flying at high speed towards the east. A similar and equally fast craft was reported in Utah by Roy Walters, a private pilot who made the observation near Cedar City. The director of the Cedar City airport, Royce R. Knight, confirmed the observation. Another independent witness in Cedar City, Charles Moore, also saw a single object flying at high speed towards the east. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.38)

#1947, June 27
USA, Woodland (Washington)
Clyde Homan observed two formations of 4 or 5 objects moving quickly above a railway line. They reflected light, moved silently by rocking forward and backward, undulating. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 34)

#1947, June 27
USA, Kansas City
Nine objects, resembling silver plates, were seen by a woman as they flew over the Cascade Range. During their flight, these discs swayed and changed direction. (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 73)

#1947, June 27
USA, White Sands
Following UFO sightings in the area, Lieutenant Colonel Harold R. Turner said "the flying saucers that were reported in several western areas on the night of Wednesday to Thursday were more than likely jets. Jets have circular exhausts and when they fly people can have the optical illusion of seeing round objects." ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39)

#1947, June 28
USA, Waterloo (Iowa)
J.E. Johnson went down to the basement, around 1:30 in the morning, to check the plumbing. A basement that was entered from the front of the house. When he came out, while he was in his yard, his attention was drawn to a circular, luminous object that crossed his field of vision 8 meters in front of him. It had a diameter of about 4 meters, appeared flat and quickly moved at low altitude from south to north. Its appearance surprised him "not so much in itself, but because the object emitted rays that had numbed me from head to toe. I could barely get back home". His wife, a nurse, was in the kitchen and confirmed his state. The next day he felt pain in his chest and had difficulty raising his arm. He said that the observation was accompanied by a "fireworks rocket noise". (Phenomena #35 of 1997, p. 8)

#1947, June 28
USA, Luke Meade (Nevada)
At 2:00 PM Lt Armstrong, at the controls of his aircraft, saw a formation of 6 white discs coming straight towards him, at an altitude of 2000 m. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) The pilot of an F-51 was flying near Lake Meade in Nevada when he spotted a formation of 5 or 6 circular objects to his right. It was around 3:15 PM (Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France- Empire 1958, p.32)

#1947, June 28
USA, Alabama, Maxwell Base
At 9:20 PM observation by members of the A.A.F. of the Maxwell Base, including Air Force Intelligence officers. For 5 minutes they observed a UFO making zigzags. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Around 9:20 PM four military aviators, two pilots and two officers, saw a very bright light crossing the sky. They spotted it just above the horizon, it zigzagged towards them with moments of very high speed. When it reached their vertical, it made a 90° turn and disappeared in a southward direction. 15 (Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 32)

#1947, June 28
USA, Chicago
A housewife saw a (pulsating light) "with legs".
(Edward J. Ruppelt: "Confronting the Flying Saucers", ed. France-Empire
1958, p. 33)

#1947, June 28
USA, Appleton (Colorado)
Farmer H.E. Soule reported to local authorities in Grand Junction that he had observed a small disk-shaped object coming from the northwest and flying less than 33 meters above his house without emitting any sound. The disk then reportedly departed to the east above highway 6 for a distance of about one mile, before finally turning southeast. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39)

#1947, June 29
USA, south of Pendleton (Oregon)
At around 11 o'clock in the morning Mrs. Morton Elder saw seven objects flying north emitting a faint buzzing sound. Other independent witnesses reported the same kind of sighting in the area.
("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 39)

#1947, June 29
USA, Las Cruces (or White Sands?) (New Mexico)
Dr. C.J. Zohn, an expert in missiles, accompanied by three other people, were examining the launch site of a V-2 rocket, when suddenly, around 1 pm, a bright light was seen in the sky. They then saw a silver disc spinning rapidly above them. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 34)

#1947, June 29
USA, Richland (Washington)
At 3:00 PM Mr. and Mrs. James Harbor saw a huge silver disc surrounded by a kind of halo. Several other inhabitants of Richland saw the same thing. Most of the witnesses agreed that the outer edge of the disc indicated that it was spinning rapidly and that the central section remained still. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.40)

#1947, June 29
USA, between Des Moines and Manson City (Iowa)
At 4:45 pm the driver of a bus saw an oval object followed by 4 other objects. Then 13 other objects came from the opposite direction. They all flew at an estimated altitude of 400 m. They made a noise like a dynamo and disappeared in the direction of NNO. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels)

#1947, June 29
USA, St Joseph (Missouri)
At around 5:30 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Budds and their son were observing a bright object flying low and at a slow speed, heading south. The unusual object appeared like a small sun or a full moon, while the sky was completely covered by clouds. It flew at a constant speed towards the south. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 40)

#1947, June 30
CANADA, Vancouver (BC)
Two citizens reported having observed mysterious objects rotating, luminous, and flying at high speed above the city. William Crodie saw a silver object, without wings or tail, he said that the phenomenon was descending slowly. A woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, reported having seen some vaporous objects in the shape of a disk pass over her house about a month ago. She did not dare to say it right away, for fear that people would consider her crazy. (source: Jan Aldrich of UFO activity over British Columbia during the summer of 1947 - newspaper articles).

#1947, June 30
At sea, off the coast of KENYA
The steamer Llandovery Castle was sailing along the Kenyan coast southward. The night was very starry but without a moon. A passenger who was walking on the ship's aft deck noticed an unusual shadow that partially masked the stars. It seemed to him that it was descending and approaching the boat. He told an officer who, having seen it, called the captain. At that moment twelve people, nine of them passengers, were observing the object that was approaching. It was huge and had no running lights. The thing settled at a height of 30 m above the sea and at a distance of 800 m from the ship, between the coast and it. It lit up a blinding white searchlight that illuminated the sky from the bottom of the object to the surface of the water and the reflection of this light allowed to see a gigantic dirigible-shaped craft, controlled intelligently, which advanced in concert with their ship. It was about twice the length of the Llandovery Castle, that is to say about 300 m, was silent, seemed to be made of a shiny material that reflected the light reflected by the sea as well as the glow of the stars. This craft sailed in concert with the ship for several minutes then turned off its projector and rose quickly and silently into the night sky from whence it came. (Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 27, 28.)

#1947, June 30
USA, Grand Canyon
At 9:10am Lt. McGinty, in command of his aircraft, saw two round, gray UFOs descending towards the ground in a vertical line. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1947,
USA, between Flagstaff and Phoenix
Clarence Hale and his wife Ruth said they saw hundreds of UFOs in the area. The first one in 1947. They got so used to it that they no longer pay attention. "We have a kind of intuition," said Ruth. "We feel that there is one outside, and when we go out, of course, there is one. They give us the impression of a kind of warm friendship. They are trying to make the earth and the universe better, filled with friendship and love. Most of the people in the area think the same thing.

In addition, they claim to have provided the US authorities with a lot of evidence and evidence, such as this powder that is often spread in circles. Cliff Johnson found 5 each 4 meters in diameter, in his lawn one beautiful morning. Clarence Hale adds that he also found circles of powder after observing a UFO at 8 o'clock in the morning, flying at 30 mph, measuring nearly 300 meters long, with lit portholes and doors "(Roger BOAR and Nigel BLUNDELL: "The World's Greatest Ufo Mysteries" ed. Hamlyn 1995, p.138, 139) (note from vog: should we not be wary of this kind of testimony? ... they have, they say, some kind of intuitions ... hm! not very objective that.)

#1947, July 1
USA, Portland (Oregon) and Tucson
At 11:45 the Baillet couple saw two groups of flying saucers pass over their new house in Portland. The second group was composed of ten or twelve objects and flew low over the small hills near the Columbia River. A quarter of an hour later another woman in the area saw a bright object for fifteen minutes near the Columbia. A welder at work had his gaze drawn outside and watched the bright object with his protective glasses still on. There was an influx of observations and phone calls to Fort Stevens and the Coast Guard of Port Adams. The young county officer Robert E. Johnson also saw a silver disc flying over his area in the afternoon. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41)

#1947, July 1
Canada, Prince Edward Island, Edmonton, Delaware
Dr. and Mrs. C.G. Gunn and two friends saw strange objects flying at high speed in the sky. At Edmonton (Alberta) Mrs. A. Olson reported seeing around 3 pm a silver craft flying at very high speed towards the southeast. Between Wilmington and St George in Delaware a man saw five oval shaped objects with two short protrusions at the back. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41)

#1947, July 1
JAPAN, Chitoze AAB, Mokkaido
A radar operator detected a target flying at a speed of 600mph.
The object changed direction four times during the detection. The Pentagon in Washington was very interested because at that time very few aircraft could reach that speed. (...) Major Farrier however pointed out that at that date it was known that the USSR had aircraft capable of reaching that speed. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 41)

#1947, July 2
USA, Magdalene, N.M.
Mr. Barnett saw a bright object in the desert. He approached it to see what it was and found a crashed saucer-shaped object, 30 feet in diameter. Later a military truck arrived with personnel to oversee the investigation at the site. Mr. Barnett saw bodies being taken away by the military: they were not wearing military clothing and did not have a human appearance. Seen from a distance, the bodies seemed to be wearing tight silver jumpsuits and were less than one meter tall. (Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

#1947, July 3
USA, Harborside, Maine.
2:30 p.m. EDT. Witness: Astronomer John Cole of Brooksville, Me. Observed for 10-15 seconds ten very bright objects, with two dark shapes on their right side, moving like a swarm of bees in a Northwest direction. A very low sound accompanied the flight of the phenomenon. -(Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) He estimated their speed between 600 and 1200 mph when they passed in a hazy sky towards the northwest. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44)

#1947, July 3
USA, St Maries (Idaho)
Mrs. W. Johnson and her family were able to observe the landing of nine objects. At least nine people saw a formation of 8 or 9 objects in the shape of a bowl, very large, luminous, moving slowly in jerks. Arriving above a clearing they descended. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 35) An air patrol of the Oregon National Guard almost saw one of these objects. They considered sending an airplane that day to do research near St Maries, where a woman reported that at least ten people saw eight of these flying objects disappear into the fog on July 3rd. ("Las Vegas Review-Journal", July 7, 1947 Internet, May 1997).

#1947, July 3
USA, Redding (California)
A couple saw a flying, luminous triangle pass silently over the area, heading north. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44)

#1947, July 3
USA, Santa Rosa (California)
Interesting observation because it takes place at the Auxiliary Naval Station and the witnesses are all well trained in observation.
One of the witnesses recounts: "I saw it a few minutes before 5 pm. From my position the phenomenon seemed to be at 1000 feet above the north-south runway of the airfield and I estimated its diameter to be 15 or 20 feet. (...) It had the shape of an enormous pocket watch, without the winding stem. It was covered with a silver material, like aluminum. There was no mark or sign on the surface, which was perfectly smooth. The object flew at the speed of a glider under normal conditions and my first impression was that it was one. However, there was something strange about it, and I observed it better. That's when I realized there were no wings, or any protruding parts. It flew gently north until it reached the end of the runway, there the object turned east, with very little inclination, and headed towards Santa Rosa. I had a moment of inattention and when I looked up again, the thing was gone. But the object must have been controlled. It only deviated when the winds were strong, to resume its straight trajectory. In short, the object behaved exactly like a glider. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 44)

#1947, July 4
USA, Portland, (Oregon)
In Portland, Oregon, there were hundreds of simultaneous witnesses: pilots, port officers, police officers. And their testimony was consistent: they all had seen a dozen shining discs in the sun, moving quickly in the sky at an altitude that the most qualified estimated at 13,000 meters. ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes Volantes" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, p. 16) At 11 o'clock the passengers of a bus saw, near Redmond, four objects in the shape of a disc flying like lightning over Mount Jefferson. At 1:05 p.m. a police officer, on the parking lot behind the central police station of the city of Portland, noticed that the pigeons were fluttering around as if they were frightened; he looked up and saw five objects in the shape of a disc, two going south and three east. They were flying very fast and seemed to oscillate on their lateral axis. A few minutes later, two other officers, both former pilots, declared that three of these objects were flying in a line. Shortly afterwards, the port patrol called the central police station: a crew of four patrolmen had seen three to six of these discs, in the shape of a chrome wheel hubcap, and moving very quickly, they were also oscillating while flying. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.94) It is evident that the multiple fireworks fired at different times on the occasion of Independence Day multiplied the observations of unidentified flying objects, often seen as simple or multiple lights. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 45 and following)

#1947, July 4
USA, Vancouver (Washington)
Having heard the radio call from Portland, 7 or 8 deputies of the sheriff went out to check. They saw 20 to 30 discs heading southwest, just above the city courthouse. Fred Krives, one of the witnesses, stated: these objects were dark, not at all shiny, they flew in a single line, separated by equal intervals. They headed towards Portland, 7 km away. They stopped flying in formation above Portland by spreading out to the south and west. The witness would have heard a faint buzzing during the observation. (Inforespace n° 20, p. 14)

#July 4, 1947
Emmet, Idaho 
8:17 p.m. PDT. Witnesses: Capt. E.J. Smith of United Air Lines, First Officer Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Observed for 12-15 minutes four white objects with flat base and structured top, flying at varying speeds. One of the objects flew higher and to the right of the other three. (Project: Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) "Five things," the pilot wrote in his report, "thin and smooth underneath and appearing rough on top, were silhouetted against the setting sun shortly after takeoff from Boise at 8:04 p.m. We saw them very clearly and followed them for about 70 miles in a northeasterly direction. They then disappeared, without our being able to say whether they moved away or disintegrated. We also cannot say whether they were round, oval, or of some other shape, but we are sure they were neither airplanes, clouds, nor smoke." (Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 34)

#1947, July 4
USA, Redwood (California)
(Associated Press) A flight of about thirty saucers was observed this day at 10:35 AM above the San Carlos region, by Stanley Miramon and his mother, Mrs. Marie Maranta. Miramon said they were heading northeast of San Carlos, at 2000 feet altitude, that they were round, silver in color, and the size of a car. A twin-engine transport plane was in the same region of the sky and it seemed to him that the pilot was observing these phenomena and heading towards them. Miramon went into the house to call the newspaper and when he came out the objects were gone. (Internet May 1997)

#1947, July 4
USA, Corning, California
At around 5:15 in the morning, at least five witnesses saw an unusual object in the sky, flying above Highway 5, near Corning. Jay Munger was drinking his coffee, as he worked the night shift at a bowling alley. He was with the police officers James Overton of Corning and Frank Rakes of Orland. It was Munger who first saw the object through the window. All three of them quickly went outside and saw something oval-shaped and dark grey in color, with a light on the top part, which shone upwards, and a less intense light illuminating downwards, on the base. A darker or black band encircled the object at mid-height. At first the thing was to the west, at a quarter of a mile away, and at around thirty meters above the ground. The thing was practically motionless. The sun had not yet risen, but the lights of the object itself were bright enough. Munger was calling his wife, but she couldn't see anything from where she was, trees blocking her view. He then rejoined the two police officers. The object had barely moved, now being at half a mile away. But then suddenly it accelerated, heading south and disappearing from their sight in less than ten seconds. Paul Heideman, from Fremont, California, was driving on Highway 5 southwards at the same time. He was accompanied by his friend Robert King. He saw the light of the object turn eastwards and remain almost motionless five blocks to the west. The diameter of the object is estimated to be 15 to 30 meters, the thickness 5 to 8 meters, and the black band could have been 1.50 to 3 meters. This object made no sound. (Source: NICAP and James McDonald)

#1947, July 4
USA, Circleville (Ohio)
(A.P.) Sherman Campbell announced that he had found on his farm an
strange object shaped like a six-pointed star, 1.25 meters high and 1.20
meters wide, covered with a layer of tin and weighing about two pounds.
IN REALITY: the Port Columus weather station declared that the description
of this device corresponded to that of an object used by the air forces
to measure wind speed. (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed.
Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 171 which cites the
"Los Angeles Examiner" of July 5, 1947 under the title "Strange Find -
A Saucer Falls into a Farm".)

#July 4, 1947
USA, Santa Monica
Dan J. Whelan and Duncan Underhill, from Hollywood, announced that on July 4, at 5 pm near Santa Monica, they had seen a disc, at about 600 meters above them. They were flying at 2000 meters altitude. It was a flat and round object, resembling a target for training, having 12 or 15 meters in diameter and flying at 700 or 800 km/h. (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 171, citing the "Los Angeles Examiner" of July 5, 1947, title "Aviators See Flying Saucers Closely. One Says 'Ovoid Objects Troubled Him'.")

#1947, July 6
USA, Kansas City
Commander A. B. Browning, AC/A3 Pentagon, saw at 1:45 PM aboard a B-42 flying at 10,000 feet, a round silver disc, in clear weather without clouds. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, July 6
USA, Bozeman
(United Press) A P-38 pilot reported on July 7 that he had shot down a flying saucer on the 6th, above the Root Mountains in western Alabama. He called the saucer a "flying yo-yo". The pilot, Vernon Baird of Los Angeles, flying for the Fairchild Photo-grammetric Engineer's Company, said he spotted the "yo-yo" from his firm's P-38. For the firm, aerial photos were to be taken between Helena and Yellowstone Park. Vernon Baird and his photographer George Suttin of Los Angeles were flying at 360 mph at 32,400 feet when they had engine trouble. "One hundred yards behind us, the yo-yo was there. It was a kind of small, nicely made round plane, pearl gray in color, with a Plexiglas dome. It measured 15 feet in diameter and nearly 4 feet thick." The "yo-yo" came over the P-38 and Baird made an evasive maneuver, in which the propeller touched the "yo-yo" which split into two parts, like a shell. The two halves spiraled down somewhere towards the Madison Range. (note from vog: and nobody found a single little piece?) Baird adds that after the fall of the two parts of the "yo-yo" he saw a lot of other of these things, spinning around "like a bunch of molecules dancing the rumba" Baird said he was too preoccupied with his maneuvers to have noted if there was a pilot in this craft. His photographer didn't even think of taking a photo. (note from vog: doesn't this look like a journalist hoax?)
(Internet, May 1997)

#1947, July
USA, Tucson
Mrs. Olavick was in her kitchen at 2101 East Hawthorne Street, Tucson, while Mrs Down was in the garden. Suddenly Mrs. Down called the neighbor in an excited manner. It was noon, with a beautiful cloudless sky. A little to the north of their zenith was a single fluffy, vapor cloud, at an altitude difficult to estimate but probably at 3000 meters. Into and out of this cloud were entering and exiting white, matte objects that moved erratically in the sky, occasionally disappearing into or above this strange cloud. They stayed in observation for 5 or 6 minutes when suddenly the entire group of white things disappeared into or above the cloud. A minute later, a new object emerged from the cloud, it was two to three times larger than the white objects observed previously. Behind the largest object, the small ones followed, and they flew in a "V" formation: four objects just behind the largest, then a row of three and finally two objects in line to finish. As soon as the last two objects closed the formation, the whole group shot off like an arrow towards the northeast, rising, so that in 2 or 3 seconds they had disappeared from view. The witnesses do not know what happened to the cloud after the departure of the objects. In their opinion, they had just had the chance to observe American top-secret planes. (Source: NICAP and James McDonald)

#1947, July 6
USA, Fairfield-Suisan Air Base (California)
In broad daylight. At Fairfield (California), Captain Burniston of the AAF and his wife saw, for one minute, a UFO moving quickly while oscillating. It had no wings. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Among the most interesting observations, a large disc was seen accompanied by smaller objects entering or leaving it. This series of testimonies began in the evening in Tucson and a few hours later in Palmdale and Hollywood (California). There were other witnesses afterwards in Tacoma (Washington) (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 39)

#1947, July 7
USA, Lancaster, March Field
(Las Vegas Review-Journal, July 8, 1947) A rotating disc is said to have fallen into a ravine behind the trees, near Lancaster. "Fifteen or twenty trees caught fire," said the witness. A farmer by the name of Frits Godde denies it, he says that the ovoid and silver saucers were flying in a straight line towards Redlands, he told H.J. Stell, truck driver, who saw eight of them this morning at 6:12. Another farmer, R.V. Allen, says that a whole troop of these objects passed over Ontario. "They flew through the air like a pole swimming in water," he said. Another witness recounts that they flew so low that their engines could be heard. As for Hall Hibbard, vice president of Lockheed, he claims to know nothing of a secret project. He supposes that the witnesses are seeing reflections on airplanes, that it is a kind of collective hysteria coupled with the desire of some to see their name printed in the newspapers. (Internet, May 1997)

#1947, July 7
USA, Koekonong and East Troy (Wisconsin)
At 11:45 an instructor and a trainee, saw during a training flight, a UFO descending towards the ground, then flying horizontally at a speed of 9600 km/h. Around 14:30 a captain of the AAF and a passenger, during a flight, saw a UFO flying at 7000 km/h. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, July 7
USA, Phoenix (Arizona)
William Rhodes was on his way to his laboratory located behind his home when he heard a noise above him. He looked up and saw a dark circular object spinning above the house. He rushed to the laboratory and came out with his camera: he was able to take two pictures published on July 9 in the Arizona Republic of Phoenix. A few weeks later an officer and an FBI agent went to Rhodes' house who spontaneously gave them the original negatives. Afterwards, he tried in vain to get them back. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 39) He saw a dark, elliptical, flat, heel-shaped object flying between 400 and 600 mph. The photo shows an irregular shape and looks very much like the description made at the other end of the country, in Lakeland, Florida. (see next case). ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 56)

#1947, July 7
USA, Lakeland (Florida)
A man heard a whistling sound and this noise was followed by the appearance of five unidentified objects flying towards the northeast. After the observation, the witness constructed a model of what he had seen. It was a single-leaf clover-shaped craft with a small vertical tail and topped with a dome. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 56)

#1947, July 7
USA, Port Costa, California
(United Press) Ralph Dinsmore reported having observed a formation of flying saucers in the vicinity of Mount Diablo. The central object seemed to have a protuberance resembling a coffee cup and just below it there was another bearing a symbol that announced "5 cents". As he watched, the "5 cents" announcement seemed to change into a "10 cents" configuration while the coffee in the saucer's cup seemed to empty, the sugar disappeared and the cream too. (note from vog: !!!) Three police officers from San Leandro saw the saucer last night coming from the west, hovering over San Leandro at an altitude of 10,000 feet, for an entire hour. Private pilot Robert O'Hara from Hamilton Field, Marin County reported having seen a 40-foot saucer above the field at about 6000 feet. Frank Tylman, engineer and pilot during the first world war, saw with his 9-year-old son Danny a saucer on Sunday at 8:20 in the morning, 2 miles west of Pittsburg, Contra Costa County. "It was catapulting towards Mt Diablo," he said, "turning counterclockwise, at an altitude of about 3000 feet, and faster than a jet. The wingspan was that of a P-80, it was silver, circular in shape, curved above and below and it left no condensation trail or smoke." (Internet, May 1997)

#1947, July 7
USA, Riverside (California)
In the early morning a man stepped out of his house to find the cause of the static electricity noise emitted by the radio. He then saw hovering above a high-tension line, six small discs, the size of small plates. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, Colton (California)
At 6:21 eight objects in the shape of discs, or ovoid of silver color
were observed flying silently in single file. One of the discs was more
elliptical and was flashing. The witness said that the unidentified
objects were flying much faster than airplanes. ("UFO's: A Century of
Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, San Carlos (California)
At 10:35 Stanley Miramon and his mother saw about thirty objects circling above them at an altitude of 2000 feet. Miramon compared their size to that of an automobile and said they were round and silver in appearance. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, Glenn (California)
Two farmers busy with their harvest saw the sun reflecting off three "rows" of discs passing overhead. They estimated that there must have been at least 25 objects flying at high speed in a wavelike and rocking motion from right to left. Before they were out of sight, they saw the three rows change into a V formation. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, Sacramento
William Smith, a photographer for the "Bee", saw a round object that seemed to be doing loops in the air, alternately showing a dark side and a light side. Smith had served as an aviator in the Navy. He wanted to take a picture of the objects, but when he returned with his camera, they had disappeared. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, Palmdale
(United Press) Mrs. Amy Herdliska reported to the police that she saw a "mother" saucer eject five small saucers above the mountains. The small discs scattered, returned to the mother disc and were seemingly absorbed by it. It was a bit like a mother hen and her chicks. (Internet, May 1997). ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, Sonoma (California)
(United Press) General H. H. (Hap) Arnold, head of the armed forces during World War II, stated this day that the saucers are probably a development of American scientific research, but not yet perfected. He added that it could of course be foreign country's devices, which have escaped all control. Lastly, the general supposes that they are simply combat aircraft. (Internet, May 1997)

#1947, July 6th or 7th
USA, Temple (Arizona)
Landing and ascent of a small disc. (In the documents of the Project Blue Book, the folder referring to this case is empty!) (Michel BOUGARD: "From S.V. to UFOs" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 38)

#1947, July 7
USA, Shreveport, Louisiana
The FBI office in New Orleans reported by telex on 7.7.47 that a small disc had been found. It had descended from the sky emitting smoke. The secret service of the army (G-2) of Barksdale was charged with retrieving it. It was a small flat disc 16 inches in diameter (40 cm) to which two small nozzles were applied. The G-2 of Barksdale had proposed to the FBI to take care of it themselves and the director (Hoover) was informed the next day, July 8, that the Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal had published the day before that Father Joseph Braskey had discovered a wooden saucer. The FBI could not fail to note that Braskey was a confirmed drinker and that he was telling any story and that there was no need to make a more thorough investigation. (CENAP, "Müll aus den Weltraum" = Space Garbage)

#1947, July 7
USA, Tacoma (Washington)
Several witnesses saw several objects, some of which landed on rooftops. The witnesses saw "little men" who disappeared when the journalists arrived. (Inforespace #48 of 1979, p. 29) Two policemen observed bright discs in the sky, in an erratic course. At first the objects emitted red light, then it became purple before changing to blue-white and then back to red. They said that the "central saucer" acted as if commanding the others. Around it, smaller saucers seemed to enter and exit. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, Fort Bragg (California)
Two teenagers who were fishing, observed around 3:30 pm, an object "flat and reflective" seeming to come towards them from the ocean. It quickly lost altitude and touched the water about 400 meters from the shore. The impact created a column of water. Then it floated on the surface before sinking. The two teenagers estimated the size to be that of a truck wheel. (Phenomena No. 35 of 1997, p. 9)

#1947, July 7
USA, Springfield (Missouri)
At the Rogers Airport in Springfield, three witnesses saw a "flat" and luminous object, bearing what looked like "fins". This object seemed to be constantly tumbling. This object followed Walker's plane, and when Walker finally turned towards the southwest, the object disappeared. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 7
USA, St Joseph, Missouri
At 8:30 PM, John W. Hawkins and Virgil Ashley, sitting in Ashley's garden, saw a flying saucer pass by at very high speed, heading north. The saucer was luminous, silver in color. They estimated its altitude to be around 300 feet and they heard a faint buzzing sound. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 57)

#1947, July 7
CANADA, London (Hamilton)
(The London Free Press, July 8) Three members of the James (Lucky) Ferguson family, 117 Langarth Avenue, Manor Park, saw the mysterious disc last night shortly after 8 pm. "It seemed about as big as one of those weather balloons, but it was flat, like a frying pan," said Ferguson. "It was silver and had a luminous halo on the sides and at the back there were dark markings, and like serrations. The back part was not as rounded as the front part. It was alone." (Internet May 1997)

#1947, July 7
ENGLAND
The wife of a pastor had her attention drawn to the sky where she saw
a black ring with cut edges flying through the air. ("UFO's: A Century
of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 53)

#1947, July 8
USA, Cook Springs (Alabama)
At 7:05am a private pilot observed something strange while flying over Cook Springs: a circular object with a polished mirror-like surface silhouetted against the mountains. He attempted to get closer, but the UFO's speed was so great that it quickly disappeared. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 57)

July 8, 1947; Muroc Air Base, California. 9:30 a.m. PDT. Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. They observed for an indeterminate amount of time two silver, circular, metallic-appearing objects flying in large circles, later one of the two objects reduced its circular trajectory to a smaller circle. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner) July 9, 1947 (9??) Muroc Base, Mojave (California). At 9:30 in the morning at the canteen, an officer of the cantonment said: "I will believe in these discs when one has been shown to me." He went out and... first saw two moving at approx. 500 km/h at 2500 m altitude on a heading of 320°. He called other witnesses. Shortly afterwards he saw a third, on the same heading, describing reduced circles in a rigid plane. (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, pp. 95 to 97.)

#July 8, 1947
USA, Rogers Dry Lake (near Murdoc)
On July 8, 1947, at 11:50, we were in an observation car in Sector 3, Rogers Dry Lake, to follow two P-82s and an A-26, flying at 6000 meters which were to carry out an ejection seat test. We noticed a round object, the color of aluminum, which at first seemed to us to be a parachute. Our first impression was that an ejection seat had been prematurely ejected, but this was not the case. The object was below 6000 m and was falling at a speed about three times greater than that of the test parachute which we saw open 30 seconds after the discovery of the object. As it fell, it was moving slightly to the north of true west, against the prevailing wind. We were unable to determine the horizontal speed but it seemed to us to be lower than the maximum speed of an F-80. When the object reached an altitude allowing us to observe its lateral silhouette, it presented itself in a clearly oval shape with, at the top, two projections which could be thin ailerons or caboches. They crossed each other at intervals, suggesting a slow rotation or oscillation.” (Edward J. Ruppelt: “Face aux Soucoupes Volantes”, ed. France-Empire 1958, p.35, 36)

#1947, July 8
USA, Seattle
At 3:30 pm a very bright, oval-shaped object topped with a "glass" dome was flying in a north-west direction above the city. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 62)

#1947, July 8
USA, 40 miles from Muroc
40 miles south of Muroc, at 3:50 PM a P-51 pilot at an altitude of 20,000 feet saw an object without wings or tail, "flat and reflecting nature". He attempted to intercept it twice but could not reach the same altitude. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 58)

#1947, July 8
USA, Norfolk (Virginia)
B. Turrentine saw and photographed a UFO in the shape of a rugby ball
spinning and swaying. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947
USA, Acres Home - Houston (Texas)
A witness saw a silver saucer land. Out of it came a small pilot who was no more than 60 cm tall, with a round head the size of a basketball. This dwarf saluted the witness, went back into his craft and took off. (Inforespace n° 48 of 1979, p. 29)

#1947, July 8
USA, Mt. Baldy (California)
At 3:50 PM Lt. A.E. Mormant, flying his fighter at 20,000 feet, saw a flat, wingless, tailless UFO moving at 35,000 feet. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, July 8
USA, Corapeak (North Carolina)
A farmer observed a disk shaped like a huge pancake, something like a ray without a tail. The UFO seemed to be at 2000 feet altitude, flying at about 800 mph and had an estimated diameter of 20 or 30 feet. The object had two window-shaped openings. The body seemed to be metallic and had the luster and polish of stainless steel or aluminum. When the object had passed the witness, he heard for 3 or 4 seconds an almost inaudible sound. The object had several protuberances shaped like pipes and these emitted steam. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 62)

#1947, July 9
USA, Midland (Michigan)
Mr. and Mrs. R.E. Lane were picking berries around 5 pm when they saw an object hovering a few meters above a stretch of sand. After about ten seconds the object disappeared, but a black substance and some metal fragments were found at the site. Analysis concluded that the metal was silver and the black substance was thorite with some impurities of iron, aluminum, and titanium. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 40, 41)

#July 9, 1947
Boise, Idaho
12:15 p.m. PDT. Witness: Idaho aviation editor and former AAF B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. After three days of aerial searches, he concentrated his gaze on the object and saw it maneuvering so that its edge was presented to him. At that moment it sparkled once in the sunlight. It then seemed to execute a maneuver resembling a roll or barrel roll, which instead of completing, stopped at around 180°. At that precise moment he lost sight of it. He forgot to look at his watch to determine the exact moment he saw the object, but immediately afterwards he called the Civil Aviation Weather Service which recorded his communication at 12:17 p.m. (Brad STEIGER: "UFO, the Project Blue Book" - translated by Belfond 1979 - pp. 39,40; Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1947, July 9
USA, Llano (Texas)
At around 8 PM T. A. Smith saw a flying disc heading southeast. He said the phenomenon looked like a whirling washing tub. He also noted that the object was emitting sparks, which was confirmed by another witness. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, White Sands
At 12:18 EST, V2 #29 was launched, reaching only 16 km in altitude,
radio cut-off (emergency) (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947, July 10
USA, west of Buhl (Idaho)
At 1:20 PM George Dey and Roy Wilson reported seeing flying saucers
west of Buhl above Joel Hart's farm. They said that at first the objects were luminous and flying in formation, then they scattered. (note from vog: could they not have seen the V2 launched an hour earlier?) ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, Logan, West Virginia
George Vance observed at 4:30 PM "a round turtle-backed object" shining intensely while flying in a straight line. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, Black River Falls, Wisconsin
A 17-inch diameter disc (42.5 cm) was found. It was apparently made of cardboard and painted with silver enamel. In the center of the disc there was a small pipe and a small motor and on the side a propeller. This "UFO" was requisitioned by a colonel of the civil guard, but seeing the "toy" the FBI did not want it. (CENAP: "Mülle aus den Weltraum" - space junk -).

#1947, July 10
USA, between Clovis and Clines (New Mexico) Fort Summer
Astronomer Lincoln La Paz, accompanied by his wife and two daughters, was travelling from Clovis to Clines Corners when they all noticed a curious bright object almost motionless in the sky amidst thin clouds, around 4:50 PM. This object was ellipsoidal and began to climb slowly before disappearing behind a cloud. It reappeared a few seconds later, but much higher, which made Dr. La Paz think he had just encountered a brand new aerial invention. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 41) At 4:47 (...) luminous, a bit less white than Jupiter in dark weather (...) The object was visibly trembling (...) The object was between 30 and 50 km away, was between 55 and 80 m long and between 20 and 30 m high, its horizontal speed was between 150 and 250 km/h, its vertical elevation between 800 and 1500 per hour. It was moving in an oscillating manner (...) (Leslie Adams and George Adamski: "Les S. V. ont atterri" - J'ai Lu 1971, p. 44 à 46) At 4:47 a renowned astronomer (whose identity is not mentioned in the magazine "Life" where the author drew the article from) accompanied by two of his teenage daughters saw an elliptical object very high among the clouds (note from vog: still the V2?) The astronomer, using his pencil to determine the apparent size, estimated that the object was at a distance between 20 and 30 miles from his position, elliptical and rigid, 160 feet long, 65 feet wide, flying at 120 to 180 mph horizontally or 600 to 900 mph vertically. It was silent (??? note from vog: I'll believe it, at that distance!) luminous through the clouds, with a slightly undulating movement, without a condensation trail. The observation lasted 2 minutes 30. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, Cheyenne (Wyoming)
Two silver discs shaped like saucers with a dome on the upper part passed slowly over the city on a clear day. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, Temple (Texas)
Smith Tarrant, who had been a colonel in the Air Force, saw from the doorway of a store two flying saucers at about 1500 feet altitude, flying in a straight line at a speed of 200 to 250 mph. They left his view to the south after a three minute observation, during which he heard no sound, nor did he perceive any exhaust trail, or any visible means of propulsion. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, in Missouri
Sixty people at the local ice cream parlor at the John Cox farm saw groups of flying saucers flying in pairs or threes from north to south. Some flew alone, but most were in formation. The same kind of observation was made by Mr. and Mrs. Dykes and Mr. and Mrs. Van Buren and their family as they drove on Highway 65. The sight of this phenomenon caused all these people to pull over to the side of the road where they were joined by other stunned motorists. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 64)

#1947, July 10
USA, near Brockton (Montana)
At 7 PM, Ray Carpenter and his wife saw a luminous object in a bank of dark clouds. A former director of the Wolf Point aerodrome, Carpenter estimated the size of the object to be that of a private plane flying very fast. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65)

#1947, July 10
USA, Tulsa (Oklahoma)
At 8:00 PM a pilot from the "Lee Geophysical Company" saw a luminous craft fly south. An independent witness, J.C. Penman, saw instead "a round fluorescent lamp" heading northeast. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65)

July 10, 1947; Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada. Between 3 and 5 PM local time. Witnesses: three crew members and Mr. Leidy, of Pan American Airways, observed for a short time a translucent disc, or wheel-shaped, flying rapidly and leaving a dark blue trail, before making its way through the clouds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). At 5 PM, civilian navigators saw a UFO similar to a truck wheel at 10,000 feet. Photo taken of some kind of smoke trail. Around 11:15 PM, several witnesses in St. Jean saw round and luminous UFOs. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider).

#1947, July 10
NORWAY, near Skotfoss
At around 7:30 pm my wife told me she had seen an object in the sky. It was entering the clouds at an indeterminate altitude, shining like a star or like a mirror reflecting the sun. When it went into the shade it became dark and round or oval. There was no sound coming from the object which was the size of an airplane. It stayed in view for four minutes and then disappeared towards the southeast." ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 66)

#1947, July 11
CANADA, Codroy
At 2:20 AM the inhabitants of Codroy saw a flying saucer with a conical tail. The object was very bright, in yellow tones and left a yellowish trail. It flew extremely fast, coming from the northwest and heading east at an altitude of about 6000 feet. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 65)

#1947, July 11
USA, Brush (Virginia)
Johnny Johnson, working for the E. L. Mansure company, tried in vain to shoot down the "flying saucers". He was at his home and sleeping, when his wife, who was returning from church around 10 pm with neighbors, came to wake him up to tell him that there were "strange objects" in the air. He took his gun and fired several shots at the saucers, in the hope of shooting one down. They were flying at low altitude, were circular, and continued to fly over the area for half an hour. Unable to reach them, Johnson eventually went back to bed. (Source: Bluefield, West Virginia SUNSET NEWS, 12 July 1947, Page 1. Edition I and Edition II. "Learns Shots Can't Ground Flying Discs - cfr Jan Aldrich)

#July 11, 1947
USA, High Point (North Carolina)
The Associated Press reported this: "Two pilots flying at 1000 feet about 10 miles south of High Point saw at 7:20 pm 'a ball of fire..' 'A huge object flying at very high speed..' A flash of light to the left of their plane made them look in that direction. They then saw a huge object, rounded on top, with a black band outlining the central part, flying at an incredible speed towards the north. The base of the object was rotating, and regularly there was a fire emission coming from it, as if it was a jet. The pilot had turned to get closer to this 'thing', but his maneuver was not yet finished when the object passed him and disappeared in the direction of the north, towards Winston-Salem, on a trajectory that passed through High Point and Thomasville." (Investigator's note: The two pilots, Ed Lewis and Dick Milsaps, would have collaborated together on a local magazine "Southern Wings", one being the author, the other the editor, but Bullard and Aldrich's investigation could not find any trace of the magazine or the pilots.) (Wilmington, (NC) MORNING STAR, 13 July 1947, Page 1 "YEP, THEY'RE REPORTED AGAIN'" - Jan Aldrich)

#1947, July 11
ATLANTIC, Bay of Biscay
At 10:00 GMT in the morning, accompanying a Viking transport to Argentina, Captain Norman E. Waught of London Airwork Ltd was at approximately 8000 feet when he saw ahead of him at a higher altitude, an elongated, tadpole-shaped object flying at 16000 feet. First Officer Peter Roberts and Radio Officer Stuart Chinneck confirmed that the object was grayish and of an unusual shape. At one point they were 5 or 6 miles away from the UFO, which then passed by their aircraft at an enormous speed leaving a trail of vapor. The crew estimated the speed of the object to be 6000mph and 7000 feet above them. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 67)

#1947, July 12
USA, Silver Lake (Washington)
A man reported the observation at noon of an orange ball flying and making a humming sound above Silver Lake.
("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68)

#1947, July 13
USA, Wingville (Oregon)
Several witnesses saw at 7 pm above Baker Valley, a round object moving in a yo-yo pattern. Among them were pilots who attempted to intercept it in vain. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68)

#1947, July 16
CANADA, Vancouver Island (BC)
Mr. C. Arnell found in his garden the debris of an American weather balloon, a "US Army Signal Corps weather balloon" which had probably been launched from an airport in the state of Washington. There were rubber pieces, a parachute like crepe paper, bright red in color. A complex mechanism was enclosed in a semblance of a box, weighing not 1 kilogram. Other similar balloon debris had already been found in various places on Vancouver Island. (Press clippings - cfr Jan Aldrich)

#1947, July 17
USA, Helena (Montana)
Between 2:45 PM and 3:00 PM several objects appear at different altitudes above Helena. But it is possible that it was a balloon release as the military did at that time. ("UFO's: A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68)

#1947, July 20
USA, Texas
One UFO event is reported in Texas, and according to its description it appears to be a rocket launch.
("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68)

#1947, July 20
At sea, near Newfoundland (Canada)
A ship reported that at around 8:15 PM red-orange flashes were emitted by a UFO changing direction in its progression. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, July 23
BRAZIL, Bauru-Pitanga, Campo de Mourao
A works supervisor, José C. Higgins, heard a very sharp, piercing sound and saw a large disc land that was about 50m wide. It was made of a grayish-white metal and stood on curved metal legs. The other workers fled and Higgins was left alone with three entities over 2 meters tall wearing "transparent suits covering head and body, and inflated like rubber bags," as well as "metal boxes" on their backs. Their clothing, visible through the suits, resembled brightly colored paper. The entities, all identical, had huge round eyes, enormous round and bald heads, no eyebrows, no beards, and legs that were proportionally longer than ours. Higgins couldn't tell if they were male or female but he found them strangely beautiful. They surrounded him, one of them raised a metal tube towards him and they seemed to want to draw him into the disc. But observing that they feared the bright sun, he managed to escape and hid for half an hour in a bush where he then observed that, with extraordinary agility, they jumped and gamboled while throwing huge stones. Then they went back into the craft which vanished with a whistle towards the north. In the previous phase one of them had dug eight holes in the ground with a stick and showed Higgins that the largest hole was "Alamo" while the seventh, the farthest away, was "Orque". (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 107) José C. Higgins, who was then in Brazil, encountered three astronauts wearing transparent and inflated scuba suits like automobile tires. Each of them had a kind of metal bag on their shoulders. One of the characters drew a point surrounded by seven circles on the ground, then indicated the seventh circle as well as the craft from which they had just disembarked. According to their external appearance, they did not differ in any way from the inhabitants of our planet. (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 227, he places this in August 1947) Three humanoids 2.10m tall who looked like triplets. (Jean SIDER: "UFO, the Unmasked Invaders", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 80)

#1947, July 23
USA, Morristown (New Jersey)
(cf: July 10, 1947) The "Continental J. 3" plane of pilot John E. Janssen was stopped and immobilized in mid-air by a flying saucer. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 68) The pilot's body was filled with unpleasant electric tingles. The plane's circuits were cut. The aviator saw above him the presence of two overlapping metal discs, one clearly hovering much higher than the other. After a while the plane nosedived, the tingles disappeared and Janssen was able to restart the engine and straighten the plane. (J. G. DOHMEN: "A identifier et le cas Adamski" - éd. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 51, 52)

#1947, July 23
Belgium
A green fireball was reported under the clouds. This is the only good UFO report for this date. (the author cites the newspaper "Het Belang van Limburg" and a letter from 1954) ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 68)

#1947, July 29
USA, White Sands
At 05:55, launch of V2 No. 30, reaching an altitude of 159 km.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

July 29, 1947; Hamilton Air Base, California. 12:00 p.m. PDT. Witnesses: Base Operations Assistant Captain William Rhyerd, former AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Observed for an unspecified length of time two round and shiny objects, estimated to be 15-25 feet in diameter, flying at 3 or 4 times the apparent speed of a P 80. One of the objects flew in a straight line, the other oscillated from left to right like an escort. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1947, July 29
USA, Union, Oregon
(cf. June 24, 1947, Kenneth Arnold case) Above Union he saw
flying straight ahead, a strange group of objects the color of embers,
resembling ducks in migration. He tried to photograph them.
These objects were round, their upper part matte with a spot.
They flew at several hundred miles per hour. (The coming of
the Saucers" Kenneth Arnold, Palmer, 1952)

#1947, July 29
USA, Canyon Ferry
At 12:05 a bright disc moving quickly, then hovering. After being shaken by oscillations it is seen "dissolving" into the air. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, July
FRANCE, Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie (region of Rouen)
Mme S. was cycling at around 3pm on the road that runs alongside the Seine. She saw on the road a kind of large rugby ball, 3 meters long and 2 meters high. Beside the craft were two small beings, about 1 meter tall. "When I got to about a hundred meters from this thing, I stopped and rang my bike bell. The two small beings got up, saw me, and rushed into their craft. It rose vertically to about a hundred meters, then stopped oscillating for a few seconds before speeding away." Astonished, the witness continued on her way, wondering what devilry she had just witnessed... (GARREAU and LAVIER: "Face aux extra-terrestres" - DELARGE 1975 - J'ai Lu, p. 89, 90)

#1947, late July
SWITZERLAND, Azeindaz
In 1969, after reading in the newspaper "La Suisse" articles about UFOs, a reader took up her pen and wrote: "At Azeindaz, one evening with beautiful weather, I was sitting around 8 pm against the wall of my brother's house, on the side of the Tour d'Azeindaz. Suddenly, I saw in the sky, high above the said Tour, a luminous disc. It was the size of the moon (the size is difficult to evaluate, now I have the impression that it was bigger), of a bright white-silver, like aluminum, slightly tinted mauve-light blue, and accompanied by green and red balls. The most characteristic was its descent movement towards the ridges, turning slowly on itself, like leaves falling in autumn. The apparition was very beautiful, I was very moved, it disappeared behind the Tour d'Azeindaz, in the precipice towards Solalex. The whole movement lasted about 15 to 20 seconds, if not more. What was also characteristic is that the object seemed to rush towards me, to "come" from very high. I went to the others to announce this wonderful extraordinary vision, but nobody paid attention and I was even answered very evasively. I did not talk about it anymore, but I remember it very well..." (Marlise Flotron, Lausanne) (Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997)

#1947, July 30
Canada, between Torquay and Estevan (Saskatchewan)
A motorist driving his vehicle was observing storm clouds in the sky just before dawn. As he watched, something emerged from the clouds, passed over him and flew off in a south-easterly direction. This thing glided towards the ground, righted itself and gained altitude before disappearing at great speed. The object did not seem to be very high in the sky. "It looked like an airplane wing burning at both ends, but when it passed over me I could see it was round in shape. It was the size of a tractor wheel and four feet thick. It was spinning and flames were coming out all around it. I had laughed at stories about these things, but this time I wasn't laughing, I was scared. The object was real. I wish I had found another witness to this apparition, but at that hour there was no one around." The witness said the object was silent and he was able to observe it for about 20 seconds. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 70)

#1947, August 1
FRANCE, Arèches (Savoie)
Two women saw three discs topped with dark domes, coming in a triangular formation from behind the hills. They crossed the sky in a straight line, from WSW to ENE. All three seemed to have a lower part in rotation and had a metallic look. (Phenomena No. 35 of 1997 p. 15)

#1947, August 2
CHILE, Santiago
A Lancastrian Star Dust of British South American Airways,
was due to land in Santiago at 5:45 pm. At 5:41 pm the radio reported to the
control tower that all was well on board and that the pilot, Capt.
R. J. Cook was about to begin the approach procedure. At the end of this
message, the Santiago radio operator heard three times, very clearly, very loudly, pronounced by another voice than that of
the pilot, a word that could be spelled as "STENDEK"... (note of vog:
"stand on deck"? It is the cry launched when a ship (mariner) is in distress) From that moment on, there was no more news either from
the plane, or from the 5 crew members, or from the six passengers, or from the radio, or from any other testimonies. A large corridor of 400 km² was combed through with several aircraft, without result. (Henry
DURRANT: "First Investigations on Humanoid ETs" - Laffont 1977 - p. 103, 104) IN REALITY: But in December 1999, Argentinian aviation
enthusiast Juan Carlos Mouso was flying over Mount Tupungato, 110
kilometers (66 miles) southwest of Mendoza and 500 kilometers and 500
kilometers (300 miles) west of Buenos Aires, "when he spotted the glint
of sunshine on a fuselage on the mountain's south face." Mouso convinced
the Argentinian government to mount a search of Tupungato. Assisting
Mouso in the arduous climb was Argentina's 11th Mountain Infantry
Regiment. On Monday, January 24, 2000, Mouso and two Argentinian
soldiers "found a badly-damaged four- engine Lancaster and three frozen
bodies" on one of Tupungato's glaciers at an altitude of 5,500 meters
(17,600 feet.)." Apparently, the Star Dust had exploded in mid-air,
scattering debris over the snowfields to a distance of one kilometer
(0.62 miles). "Investigators huffing through the thin air at the crash
site found twisted metal and the remains of three frozen bodies amid the
wreckage of the fuselage."<br/><br/>
"Besides the three bodies, the searchers also found a woman's hand and a
shoe with a Royal Air Force (RAF) insignia that may have belonged to one
of the pilots." "'The urgency now is to fence off the (crash) site so no
one removes any of the discovered remains until a group of specialists
can arrive, which is difficult but not impossible,' Lt. Col. Bustos
said." Argentinian "federal judge Alfredo Manuel Rodriguez is in charge
of the forensic investigation and is taking fingerprints and DNA samples
to establish the victims' identities." Paul Simpson was reportedly
wearing a small silver lapel pin in the form of a running greyhoud. This
is the insignia of a King's Messenger and will probably be used to
identify his remains, if they are found. (See the Argentinian newspapers
Uno for January 24, 2000 and La Nacion for January 26, 2000. - Scott
Corrales, Jim Hickman et UFO Roundup, Volume 5, Number 5, 3.2.2000,
Editor: Joseph Trainor)

#1947, August 4
USA, near Boston
At 4:00 PM the pilot and navigator saw from their plane
an orange, shiny, cylindrical UFO, its two ends
tapering off. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI.
(doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, August 4
ALASKA, near Béthel
On a day in July, with a cloudless sky, it was still daylight, around 10 pm. (...) The pilot was arriving with his DC 3 towards the Béthel airport. He saw the object to his left and declared that the co-pilot saw it at the same instant. They made a 45° turn to leave the object's trajectory and then had the impression that it was moving away. The pilot described it as a winged object of the apparent size of a C.54. He could not see any propulsion system, any combustion, or any vapor trail. (...) The civil aviation authorities of Béthel had no other plane in the sector. (...) The object was at 1000 feet, and was moving at 300 mph. No radio interference. The object appeared dark and very sharply outlined against the sky. (...) (Phénoména n° 35 of 1997, p. 12 which falsely relates the story in July) At 10 pm (but it was still daylight) the pilot and co-pilot of a military plane saw a UFO in the shape of a winged object without engines or trace of combustion smoke. Witnesses were extensively interrogated by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider, he places the date at August 4, 1947). ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 71 and 72, on the date of August 4).

#1947, August 6
USA, Philadelphia
At around 10:30 PM many witnesses saw a UFO in the shape of a "giant firecracker" moving at an apparent speed of several hundred miles/hour. Witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, August 2nd (?)
SWITZERLAND, Locarno
On August 8th 1947 (note from vog: August 8th was a Sunday, if I'm not mistaken), the Gazette de Lausanne, citing the Corriere del Ticino, mentions a communication from its correspondent in Locarno: "Last Monday, around 3 o'clock in the morning, a luminous globe was seen in the sky, accompanied by a very shrill whistling, crossing the horizon from east to west and disappearing behind the Pizzo Ruscada. Many think it was one of the famous "flying saucers" and others affirm it was a meteor of an exceptional size." (The Saucers in Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1977)

#August 13, 1947
USA, Twin Falls (Idaho)
A.C. Urie and his two sons saw, around 1 o'clock, in the Snake River Gorge, an object of lenticular shape, pale blue, with a bright red incandescent flange along the top leaving behind it like a red exhaust flame. The object descended to 90 m in the deep gorge of 120 m at that place. It disappeared behind a tree. The closest sound heard was a "ch-ch-ch".
Dimensions: 6 m high, 3 m wide and 3 m high, resembling an upside-down pie plate. All witnesses were extensively questioned by the FBI. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.94)
(doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, August 14
ITALY, Raveo (Villa Santina) (Frioul)
Professor R. L. Johannis, a painter and geologist (but also author of science fiction books: 15 or 16 titles in the collection "I Romanzi di Urania" by Mondadori in Milan - cfr Charles BOWEN: "In Search of the Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 228 - for the Italian CISU group: he is only a painter and science fiction author, and Johannis is the pseudonym of Lugi Rapuzzi) on an excursion in the Italian Alps, discovered around 9 o'clock in the morning, while going up the Chiarso stream, a lenticular disc about 10 m wide and two "boys" 50 m away from him. He called them by showing the disc and heading towards them. Halfway there he stopped, stunned, noticing that the boys were 90 cm tall dwarves who were taking a few steps towards him. Big head, no hair, no eyebrows, greenish face, straight nose, widely split mouth, somewhat fish-like. The skin around the huge, round and prominent yellow-green eyes formed rings rather than eyelids. The excited professor started shouting at them, asking who they were and where they were from, while gesturing with his ice axe. One of the two dwarves put his hand to his belt from which then came a very short beam. The professor found himself on the ground and the ice axe flew towards the dwarves who took it away. The witness felt a violent electric shock. The disc rose into the air and a cascade of stones and earth came down from the place where it had been stationed.(Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 216)
<br/><br/>While he was lying on the ground, the two dwarves advanced and stopped 2 meters away from Johannis. He managed to turn and lie on his side. He saw one of the adversaries bend down and pick up the ice axe which was bigger than him. At that moment he could clearly see the green hand taking the object. It had eight fingers of which four were rigid, without joints. It was not really a hand but rather a kind of claw. He also noticed that the breathing of the two beings was oppressed. (A. RIBERA: "Ces mystérieux ovni" - de Vecchi 1976, p. 252, 253) (The CISU group - which also assumes that it is a hoax - gives the following details: the saucer was very shiny as if varnished and of a beautiful red color with a pinkish transverse slit, in the center there was a dome topped with a telescopic antenna. He saw two beings and thought they were small shepherds, before seeing their way of walking in small steps. They had a big head covered with a kind of brown helmet, their eyes were huge and protuberant, the pupil of yellow color crossed by a vertical line and surrounded by a dark iris. They wore a dark blue tights. To the question of what they were doing there, one of the beings manipulated a small box at his belt from which a light smoke came out. Johannis found himself on the ground and one of the beings took his ice axe. They returned to their craft which first rose vertically, then inclined a bit, and left at an enormous speed. At their departure Johannis noted the loss of his ice axe and various aluminum elements of his equipment. Johannis would have made a report of this adventure in 1964, for the Clypeus group. (note from vog: as he was an author of science fiction...)

#1947, August 14
JAPAN, Guam Island
At 10:40 a.m. soldiers saw a crescent-shaped UFO, quickly zigzagging twice during the same hour. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider) Around the same time American planes were pursued by glowing balls. Once, one of them penetrated into a bomber, passing through the walls of the cabin and exiting in the same way, terrifying the astonished crew. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - DE VECCHI 1977, p. 34)

#1947, August 19
USA, Twin Falls (Idaho)
Mr. and Mrs. Busby, as well as Mrs. Henry Swift, were sitting on the porch of their house around 9:30 pm when suddenly Mrs. Busby cried out, pointing to the sky where she had seen an object fly off to the northeast at an incredible speed. Ten minutes later, the three witnesses saw similar objects, moving in the same direction in a triangular formation. Just as the formation disappeared, three objects detached from its left flank and flew off to the north. The others seemed to tighten their ranks and continued to the northeast. Three to five minutes later they saw three more objects in the same direction, and five minutes after that, five to six objects, still in a triangular formation. Very shortly after, a group of 35 to 40 objects were flying in the same direction in a triangular formation. Twenty minutes later, objects grouped in threes were returning to the city to the southeast. Inspector Frazier of the police arrived with two officers, following Mrs. Busby's call, and they too observed these objects. (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, p. 39, 40)

#1947, between August 15th and 20th
USA, Rapid City AFB, Weaver
Major Smith reported that shortly before nightfall, while sitting in the parking lot near the restricted area gates, he saw about 12 flying objects in a tight diamond formation. Coming from the northwest they were descending slowly. At about 150m altitude, they leveled off, made a wide 110° right turn and resumed an ascending course towards the southwest. They rose with a rapid acceleration and seemed to be moving between 500 and 650 km/h. Seen in a horizontal plane they had an elliptical shape and the size of a B.29. No sound or condensation trail. (J. Allen HYNEK: "The UFO Report" - Belfond 1979, p. 40, 41)

#1947, August
BELGIUM, Jalhay (Liège)
Mr. Dessily was with other people witness to the terror of a peasant after the landing of a UFO on his field. A circular trace of 15 m in diameter was visible in the half-charred plants. (list Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belg.)

#1947, August
USA, near Los Angeles
At around 10:00, a mountain hiker saw a UFO landed on the ground. It took off, causing the witness to become dizzy. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1947, September 2
CANADA, Nanaimo, Vancouver
Flying saucers caused panic in a pigeon release, driving them, in panic, back to the pigeon loft. Thomas Naylor, well known to pigeon fanciers, reported the news. He swears to have observed, high in the sky, spinning discs in the sky, at the moment he was releasing his Birmingham pigeons. Finally it appeared that there was only one object, but it cut the trajectory of the flight and the pigeons returned precipitously to the pigeon loft, refusing to come out for a certain time. (Source: The Vancouver (BC) SUN of 3 Sep 1947: 'Flying Saucers' Stampede Pigeons" cfr: Jan Aldrich)

#1947, September 6
BERMUDA, "Midway"
British test launch of a V2, reaching 9.6 km altitude
and exploding. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 258)

#1947, September 6
From the Persian Gulf to the USA
The logbook of the tanker USS Chipola (...) reveals an observation made at 9:40 PM: "unidentified luminous phenomena" were observed 10° above the horizon at an estimated distance of 5 miles. The crew observed the maneuvers of two groups of 8 oval-shaped objects of a bluish color, at a speed of about 5 knots. They disappeared in about eight seconds. The witnesses were Officer of the Watch R.L. Simmons, Ensign J.B. Harris and Third Class J.A. Wisnienski. (Phénoména n° 35 of 1997 p. 16)

#1947, September 12 (?)
SWITZERLAND, La Rosiaz, Lausanne
On September 13, 1947 (note from vog: September 13 was a Saturday if I checked correctly), the Lausanne Gazette headlined: "Are these flying saucers?" "Reliable people living in La Rosiaz, Lausanne, witnessed a curious phenomenon on Friday evening. At around 6 pm, they saw a large, very bright star slowly crossing the sky from the Villeneuve region to above Evian. At 7 pm, a second star crossed the sky in the same direction, but this time it "attached" itself to the Dent d'Oche, where it stayed for several minutes before disappearing." These witnesses insist that these aerial lights moved much slower than shooting stars. We cannot help but compare this account to the flying saucer affair, without drawing any conclusions." (Les Soucoupes chez Heidi, cfr GREPI, Switzerland, 1997)

#September 20, 1947
USA, Southern California, at sea
Something off the coast of Southern California greatly disturbed the population. The incident occurred on September 20 and was reported by the US Coast Guard as: "A flaming object (that) fell into the sea off the coast; no missing aircraft; Griffith Park Observatory does not believe it was a kind of meteorite". Strange indeed, since it looks very much like a meteorite and, in such cases, this is normally the first line of defense of orthodoxy. However, a more thorough investigation revealed that this darned "thing" was maneuvering, and for quite a while, and consequently it had greatly distressed the Coast Guard. (Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles Under the Seas" Albin Michel 1979 - pp. 50-51)

#1947, 23 September
USA: Document TWINING.
DATE: 23 September 1947
SUBJECT: AMC Opinion Concerning "Flying Discs"
TO: Commanding General
Army Air Forces
Washington 25, D.C.
ATTENTION: Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2
1. As requested by AC/AS-2, the considered opinion of this command concerning the so-called "Flying Discs" is presented below. This opinion is based on interrogation report data furnished by AC/AS-2 and preliminary studies by personnel of T-2 and Aircraft Laboratory Engineering Division T-3. This opinion was arrived at in a conference between personnel from the Air Institute of Technology, Intelligence T-2, Office, Chief of Engineering Division, and the Aircraft, Power Plant and Propeller Laboratories of Engineering Division T-3.<br/><br/>
2. It is the opinion that:
a. The phenomenon reported is something real and not visionary or fictitious.
b. There are objects probably approximately the shape of a disc, of such appreciable size as to appear to be as large as man-made aircraft.
c. There is the possibility that some of the incidents may be caused by natural phenomena, such as meteors.
d. The reported operating characteristics such as extreme rates of climb, maneuverability (particularly in roll), and action which must be considered evasive when sighted or contacted by friendly aircraft and radar, lend belief to the possibility that some of the objects are controlled either manually, automatically or remotely.<br/><br/>
e. The apparent common description of the objects is as follows:
(1) Metallic or light reflecting surface.
(2) Absence of trail, except in a few instances when the object apparently was operating under high performance conditions.
(3) Circular or elliptical in shape, flat on bottom and domed on top.
(4) Several reports of well kept formation flights varying from three to nine objects.
(5) Normally no associated sound, except in three instances a substantial rumbling roar was noted.
(6) Level flight speeds normally about 300 knots are estimated.<br/><br/>
f. It is possible within the present U.S. knowledge - provided extensive detailed development is undertaken--to construct a piloted aircraft which has the general description of the object in subparagraph (e) above which would be capable of an approximate range of 700 miles at subsonic speeds.
g. Any developments in this country along the lines indicated would be extremely expensive, time consuming and at the considerable expense of current projects and therefore, if directed, should be set up independently of existing projects.
h. Due consideration must be given the following:<br/><br/>
(1) The possibility that these objects are of domestic origin -the product of some high security project not known to AC/AS-2 or this command.
(2) The lack of physical evidence in the shape of crash recovered exhibits which would undeniably prove the existence of these objects.
(3) The possibility that some foreign nations has a form of propulsion possibly nuclear, which is outside of our domestic knowledge.<br/><br/>
3. It is recommended that:
Headquarters, Army Air Forces issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification and code name for a detailed study of this matter to include the preparation of complete sets of all available and pertinent data which will then be made available to the Army , Navy, Atomic Energy Commission, JRDB, the Air Force Scientific Advisory Group, NACA, and the RAND and NEPA projects for comments and recommendations, with a preliminary report to be forwarded within 15 days of receipt of the data and a detailed report thereafter every 30 days as the investigation develops. A complete interchange of data should be effected.
4. Awaiting a specific directive AMC will continue the investigation within its current resources in order to more closely define the nature of the phenomenon. Detailed Essential Elements of Information will be formulated immediately for transmittal thru channels.
N.F. TWINING
Lieutenant General, U.S.A.
Commanding.

#1947, October 9
USA, White Sands
At 12:15 launch of V2 No. 27 which reached 156 km altitude.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947, early October
USA, Muroc
Then on the 10th. Test pilot Chuck Yeager, on P-51 (XS-1), which he had named "Glamourous Glennis" in honor of his wife, reached a speed of Mach 0.93. (...) On October 10th Yeager reached Mach 0.94. But ice was forming inside the cockpit. Fighter pilots Bob Hoover and Dick Frost on Lockheed P-80 then assisted him "viva voice" to land blind. Analysis of the oscillographic film compared to ground data confirmed that the XS-1 had reached Mach 0.997 at 12000 meters altitude, or a speed of 1059 km. It was also, for everyone, the experience of the first "supersonic bang". (NASA Website, 1997 see "On the Frontier, Ref 1-19)

#1947, October 14
USA, Muroc
The Sound Barrier was broken on October 14. Preparations began at dawn. There was a secret kept by Jack Ridley and Walt Williams about the horse fall that test pilot Yeager had the day before: He had two broken ribs and was bandaged roughly by a civilian doctor... So they made a short cut for him to be able to enter the plane. The crew of the B29 who had heard of the fall but ignored the case of the broken ribs, presented him with a carrot and a turnip. The Glamourous Glennis was put into the bomb bay of the B29 and then the tanks were filled with 1177 liters of liquid oxygen and 1109 liters of ethylene fuel (...) At 10:02 the Superfortress took off. Two P-80 fighters accompanied it. At 10:26, at 6000 meters of altitude, the Glamourous Glennis was launched into the sky above the Mojave Desert. (...) Soon it reached Mach 1.05, at 13100 m of altitude (speed 1125 km/h). Fourteen minutes after the launch it touched the ground in the bed of the dry lake. The Sound Barrier had been definitely broken. (NASA Website, 1997)

#1947, October 14
USA, near Cave Creek (Arizona)
NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona, at noon. Witnesses: former AAF bomber pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, and a third person. Observed for 45-60 seconds an object in the shape of a flying wing, about 3 feet in size, appearing to be black in color, seen through the clouds, and red against the blue sky, flying in a straight line at an estimated speed of 380 m.p.h., at an altitude of 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner). (Note from vog: see previous article... this seems clear to me!)

#1947, Early October?
USA, Cave Creek, Arizona.
Selman Graves (22 years old) and his brother-in-law Bob Malody (16 years old) were hunting rabbits and exploring abandoned mines in what is now known as the Cave Creek Recreational Area. At one point, standing atop the highest hill, they looked south towards their friend Walt Salyer's house. From their vantage point they could make out the house, the corral, and even the water tank. But when they looked west, they saw something unforgettable. It was an aluminum dome erected in the middle of the desert, like an observation dome. There were five men and two trucks near the dome. One of the trucks was a military-style (2.5-ton) personnel and equipment transport. But there was no equipment, no small cranes, nothing. Moreover, the five men didn't seem to be working either. The dome was estimated to be 11 meters in diameter and was located about a mile from their position. (See the newspaper Newsday of Melville, N.Y. for July 6, 1997. Lou Farrish of UFO Newsclipping Service, 1997.) (see above: October 14, Muroc, and the landing...)

#1947, November 15
NICARAGUA, Managua
47,000 spectators of a baseball match saw two "flying saucers" slowly flying above the stadium, hovering for a moment before suddenly speeding away at a terrifying speed. ("UFO's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 74)

#1947, November 20
USA, White Sands
At 16:47, a V2 "special" was launched, only reaching 21 km in altitude, poor performance. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947, November 24
USA, White Sands
First launch of an Aerobee, it reached 57 km in altitude and
stopped after 35 seconds (jerks). (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 286, doc. Van Allen)

#1947, December 8
USA, White Sands
At 14:42, V2 #28 was launched, reaching 104 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1947
COTE D'IVOIRE, Adiopodoumé
A young African saw near the Institute of Education and Research, located near the forest, a small man with red fur on his body and long hair on his head. This creature emerged from the trees, but upon realizing that she was not alone, she retreated back into the forest. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 198)

#1947
USA, Stratford, Connecticut
Thomas C. Smith, recently graduated from Penn State University with a degree in mechanical engineering, was working for the Chance-Vought Aircraft Company in Stratford, which was manufacturing airplanes for the US Navy. He had the opportunity to see on the ground and then in flight, a perfectly terrestrial flying saucer. The disc was in a hangar, was elliptical in shape, measured about 12 meters in diameter and was powered by propeller engines. Its takeoff was vertical for the first three meters (like a helicopter) and then it took an ascending trajectory. The bubble-shaped cockpit allowed the pilot to see in front of him and below him. The edges of the craft were thick, about ten centimeters, and the bubble was only 60 centimeters high. Smith saw the pilot enter and lie down on his stomach on the provided bunk. At the back there were two propellers. The metal parts were painted khaki. Smith claims that many such devices were being developed and tested by test pilots and that there were obviously from time to time, accidents. (Source: Lancaster New Era, Pennsylvania, 12.7.1997)

#1947 (Spring or Summer)
CANADA, Langley Prairie (C.B.)
Excerpt from a letter from an anonymous witness: "We were living there, on the side of the road called the Trans Canada Highway, the Cloverdale/Langley road crossed our property. The area is very sparsely populated and consists mostly of flat fields as far as the eye can see. We were on vacation, I was 16 years old. With my brother I was near a pond close to our house. While he was trying to fish for minnows, I was reading, leaning against and in the shade of a tree. It was quiet, it was nice. I had heard a humming sound, but I didn't think anything special about it. Then, I remember, we see in the sky something gray-silver, right in front of us. What happened? For an hour we experienced conscious situations, interspersed with moments of unconsciousness. In the object a door opened, its full height, and four or five grotesque creatures, resembling praying mantises, but dressed in gray-silver tights, without buttons, zippers, nothing, came out. I had gotten up, still holding my book in my hand, and one of these creatures came straight towards me. I was petrified, it put a hand on my shoulder and looked me straight in the eyes, as if to read my thoughts and I had the impression of hearing "clicks" like a camera, produced by its huge black eyes. It was terrifying.
Then there was a blackout.<br/><br/>
... I felt calmer, and I sent my mother, who was screaming, back inside, telling her that he "would kill her if she didn't go back into the house". The creature left me to join its congeners. They walked around the UFO, which seemed to be broken down, because they seemed to be repairing something on the side of the door. Little by little I regained my senses and noticed that several vehicles were circulating on the road. The drivers could not fail to see the scene. But the first creature was coming back towards me, putting its hand on my shoulder again, looking me straight in the eyes again and I understood this telepathic message: "We are leaving now, don't look up, don't look, don't look." I was there, head bowed, but I thought: "I have to look" which I did. The thing was there, above the tree where I was standing, going up vertically into the sky, where there were also four military planes. The saucer was going faster than anything I had ever known before or after, without any noise. The UFO disappeared in the direction of Washington, and I had the impression that the military planes were trying in vain to chase it. In my opinion, there must be a report about it. I called my brother, who was not moving. I had to get into the pond and take his hand, saying "Come, let's go back now". When I got back into the kitchen, my mother was angry "Finally, here you are". We didn't talk, couldn't talk, but we were terribly thirsty. We drank water, a lot of water and went to bed, both of us. We spent several days in bed, drinking only water and sleeping. When I finally recovered, going down to the kitchen, I could see through the window near the pond, a large circle of scorched grass. A few months later my parents moved. We never talked about this event, neither between us, nor with others." (Source: UFO UpDates Mailing List, from: boliver at Direct.CA (Bill Oliver) 4.8.1997)