Event 0

Date: 0's
Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO's
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 1

Date: 1600's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort

Event 2

Date: 1700's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort

Event 3

Date: 1780's
Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
Type: scientific advanced
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 4

Date: 1800's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort

Event 5

Date: 1825
Description: Ampère published his "Ampère’s law."
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 6

Date: 1831
Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 7

Date: 1838
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link

Event 8

Date: 7/10/1858
End date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Test born (dies 1/7/1943)
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 9

Date: 1860
End date: 1864
Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 10

Date: 1865
Description: James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light is an electromagnetic wave.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 11

Date: 7/1868
Description: A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth century.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 638; Anatomy 11 (Vallee)
Location: Copiago, Chile
Magnolia ID: 1

Event 12

Date: 12/7/1872
Description: At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 189 (Vallee)
Location: Banbury, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 2

Event 13

Date: 1873
Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 14

Date: 3/14/1879
End date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein born
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 15

Date: 5/15/1879
Description: Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m. Distance between the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min. Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur"
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round up 17; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
Location: Persian Gulf
Magnolia ID: 4

Event 16

Date: 1880
Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 2O6 (Vallee)
Location: Eastern Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 5

Event 17

Date: 1880
Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Aldershot, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 3

Event 18

Date: 3/26/1880
Description: Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Lamy, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 6

Event 19

Date: 6/11/1881
Description: The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow").
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 637; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia
Magnolia ID: 7

Event 20

Date: 1885
Description: The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was the first car put into series production.
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 21

Date: 11/2/1885
Description: A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
Location: Scutari, Turkey
Magnolia ID: 8

Event 22

Date: 11/1886
Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link

Event 23

Date: 11/12/1887
Description: A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. Duration: 5 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean
Magnolia ID: 9

Event 24

Date: 4/20/1889
End date: 4/30/1945
Description: German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in Austria-Hungary.
Type: historical figure
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 25

Date: Winter 1889
Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs
Type: scientific event
Reference: link

Event 26

Date: 1890's
Description: The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that, Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists.
Type: Wikipedia
Reference: link

Event 27

Date: 1894
End date: 1895
Description: The first practical radio transmitters and receivers invented in by Guglielmo Marconi using radiotelegraphy
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 28

Date: 11/8/1895
Description: X-Rays discovered
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 29

Date: 1896
Description: Author Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Magic Without Tears, by A. Crowley (Vallee)
Location: Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps
Magnolia ID: 10

Event 30

Date: 3/26/1897
Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Sioux City, Iowa
Magnolia ID: 11

Event 31

Date: 3/28/1897
Description: The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 185 (Vallee)
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Magnolia ID: 12

Event 32

Date: 4/1/1897
Description: The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It was seen to rise up at fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Everest, Kansas
Magnolia ID: 13

Event 33

Date: 4/12/1897
Description: A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 186,187 (Vallee)
Location: Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 15

Event 34

Date: 4/12/1897
Description: On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 186; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
Location: Nilwood, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 14

Event 35

Date: 4/14/1897
Description: An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 188 (Vallee)
Location: Gas City, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 16

Event 36

Date: 4/14/1897
Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. A man, about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored balloon rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 m and circled "like a hawk" before flying away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 189 (Vallee)
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 17

Event 37

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 190 (Vallee)
Location: Linn Grove, Iowa
Magnolia ID: 18

Event 38

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66,4 (Vallee)
Location: Howard-Artesian, South Dakota
Magnolia ID: 19

Event 39

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. After Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly, although the train was then running at 65 km/h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 190 (Vallee)
Location: Perry Springs, Missouri
Magnolia ID: 20

Event 40

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew. was making electrical repairs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65,1 (Vallee)
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 21

Event 41

Date: 4/16/1897
Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 191 (Vallee)
Location: Downs Township, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 22

Event 42

Date: 4/17/1897
Description: At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings." One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 196 (Vallee)
Location: Williamston, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 23

Event 43

Date: 4/17/1897
Description: Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Aurora, TX

Event 44

Date: 4/19/1897
Description: Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated cigarshaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They approached within 50 m of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a searchlight. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." They spoke a language no witness could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 16; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Leroy, Kansas
Magnolia ID: 24

Event 45

Date: 4/20/1897
Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Hooton saw the wheels spin as the craft rose and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Homan, Arkansas
Magnolia ID: 25

Event 46

Date: 4/22/1897
Description: Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not follow the explanation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 193; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Josserand, Texas
Magnolia ID: 27

Event 47

Date: 4/22/1897
Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. Barclay was met by a man who told him his purpose was peaceful and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took off "like a bullet out of a gun."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 192; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Rockland, Texas
Magnolia ID: 26

Event 48

Date: 4/23/1897
Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs." (Farish, in Allende Letters
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Award Special, 1968) (Vallee)
Location: McKinney Bayou, Arkansas
Magnolia ID: 28

Event 49

Date: 4/25/1897
Description: People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a lightblue uniform.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 194; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Merkel, Texas
Magnolia ID: 29

Event 50

Date: 4/26/1897
Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible on the underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to the south, 5 km from Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he saw the object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 195 (Vallee)
Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas
Magnolia ID: 30

Event 51

Date: 5/6/1897
Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the machine, about 2O m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested that the policemen fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back through the same spot 40 min later and found nothing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Magnolia ID: 31

Event 52

Date: 10/28/1902
Description: Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 641; Anatomy 20 (Vallee)
Location: Gulf of Guinea
Magnolia ID: 32

Event 53

Date: 1904
Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 164 (Vallee)
Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 33

Event 54

Date: 9/6/1905
Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper published
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 55

Date: 1908
Description: The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. When seamen tried to move some chains on the bridge, they found that they were glued to the metal floor. Suddenly the cloud rose and was seen above the sea for some time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 197 (Vallee)
Location: Coast of Delaware
Magnolia ID: 34

Event 56

Date: 6/30/1908
Description: Unexplained explosion in the taiga, equivalent to a thermonuclear blast, sometimes interpreted as the crash of an interstellar vehicle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 18; Challenge 99 (Vallee)
Location: Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR
Magnolia ID: 35

Event 57

Date: 10/1/1908
End date: 5/26/1927
Description: The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual handcrafting.
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 58

Date: 5/18/1909
Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 198; Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
Location: Caerphilly, Wales
Magnolia ID: 36

Event 59

Date: 6/16/1909
Description: An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
Location: Donghoi, Annam
Magnolia ID: 37

Event 60

Date: 1/1910
Description: Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman -saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. The opening closed, and the object accelerated and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stuart 24 (Vallee)
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand
Magnolia ID: 38

Event 61

Date: 4/15/1912
Description: Sinking of the Titanic
Type: disaster
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 62

Date: 1/1/1914
Description: The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the way for today’s daily transcontinental flights.
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: St. Petersburg, FL

Event 63

Date: 6/1914
Description: Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigarshaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. He approached them, but they went aboard the object as soon as they appeared to be aware of his presence. A door closed, and the craft took off silently, climbing vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten April, 62 (Vallee)
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Magnolia ID: 39

Event 64

Date: 7/28/1914
End date: 11/11/1918
Description: World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 65

Date: 8/1914
Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. On the opposite side were three men dressed in light brown, wearing square masks down to their shoulders. Seeing the witnesses, they reentered the craft except for one dwarf, wearing shoes with a curved, pointed tip, who remained outside while the craft rose 3 m above the water and shot upward, leaving a short trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 199 (Vallee)
Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
Magnolia ID: 40

Event 66

Date: 5/24/1915
Description: The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a "crime against humanity" in reference to that regime's persecution of its Christian minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)

Event 67

Date: 8/21/1915
Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview 45; LDLN 82; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Gallipoli, Turkey
Magnolia ID: 41

Event 68

Date: 11/1915
Description: Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 69

Date: 10/1917
Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. He watched the object for 1-2 min until it took off with a high-pitched sound, rising gradually like a slow plane. Its size was that of an average car. The top of the object was a dome with elongated windows through which figures could be seen.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 157 (Vallee)
Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 42

Event 70

Date: 11/11/1918
Description: End of World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 71

Date: 6/28/1919
Description: Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 72

Date: 1/16/1920
Description: First meeting of the League of Nations
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
See also: 4/20/46

Event 73

Date: 11/2/1920
Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh PA
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 74

Date: 1921
Description: Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Marseilles, France
Magnolia ID: 43

Event 75

Date: 1922
Description: County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine (4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in shape and glowing and of a shiny metal.
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: County Donegal, Ireland

Event 76

Date: 2/22/1922
Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 22 (Vallee)
Location: Hubbell, Nebraska
Magnolia ID: 44

Event 77

Date: 9/9/1922
Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 639 (Vallee)
Location: Barmouth, Wales
Magnolia ID: 45

Event 78

Date: 1926
Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Himalaya Mountains

Event 79

Date: 10/1928
Description: Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the first of the American bases on the continent and was well-equipped.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antarctica

Event 80

Date: Spring 1929
Description: SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged its size to be tremendous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5))
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA

Event 81

Date: 6/12/1929
Description: Levis Brosseau, 2O was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the dark object take off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size of object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Fermeneuve, Canada
Magnolia ID: 46

Event 82

Date: 7/1929
Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jan., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Robsart, Canada
Magnolia ID: 47

Event 83

Date: 10/4/1929
Description: US stock market crashes
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City, New York

Event 84

Date: 11/29/1929
Description: Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little America to the Pole and return.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antartica

Event 85

Date: 1933
Description: Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support, in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antartica

Event 86

Date: 1/30/1933
Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
Location: Germany

Event 87

Date: 3/4/1933
End date: 4/12/1945
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Location: Washington DC

Event 88

Date: summer 1933
Description: A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. Pushing it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many instruments, no occupant. Smell of ammonia.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Chrysville, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 48

Event 89

Date: 7/4/1933
Description: The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, after all other parties are banned or split up
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
Location: Germany

Event 90

Date: 1934
Description: INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J. Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were soundless and moved at a snail's pace. Duncan's sighting has many things in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes, as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Location: Fort Washakie, WY

Event 91

Date: 6/19/1934
Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, replacing the Federal Radio Commission.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 92

Date: 7/29/1934
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born in Elizabeth, NJ.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Elizabeth, NJ

Event 93

Date: 1935
End date: 1937
Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Type: UFO activity
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Ethiopia

Event 94

Date: 6/26/1936
Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Location: Germany

Event 95

Date: fall 1938
Description: (Or following year.) Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. The skin was brown-green, compared to pegamoid, hands normal. The creature walked in a peculiar "but elegant" fashion, the head waving up and down while the legs moved "carefully." When pursued, the creature accelerated very fast, with feet "fluttering." About 100 m away it vanished completely'.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Juminda, Estonian coast
Magnolia ID: 49

Event 96

Date: 10/30/1938
Description: Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: New York City, New York

Event 97

Date: 1939
End date: 1941
Description: Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in 1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued without him.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Antartica

Event 98

Date: 8/1939
Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, made its first flight
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 99

Date: 8/2/1939
Description: Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President Roosevelt stating "it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future... This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs"
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Einstein

Event 100

Date: 9/1/1939
End date: 9/2/1945
Description: World War 2
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 101

Date: 5/26/1940
End date: 6/4/1940
Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Dunkirk

Event 102

Date: 7/10/1940
Description: Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 103

Date: 7/10/1940
End date: 10/31/1940
Description: Battle of Britain
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Britain

Event 104

Date: 1941
Description: Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: link
Location: Bakersfield, CA

Event 105

Date: 1941
Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 106

Date: 3/17/1941
Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast
Type: military
Reference: link
Location: West Coast

Event 107

Date: Late 4/1941
Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)
Type: UFO crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO

Event 108

Date: 2/24/1942
End date: 2/25/1942
Description: Battle of LA
Type: military
Reference: link
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 109

Date: 2/26/1942
Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, C.G. Marshall stating: UFO's appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA Document, OCS 21347–86.)
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p15,446)
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 110

Date: 4/27/1942
Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study completed
Type: project study
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 111

Date: 6/13/1942
Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, begins operations
Type: historical
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 112

Date: 10/3/1942
Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, 85–90km
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: Germany

Event 113

Date: 12/1942
Description: THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped form. Each "coach" was identical in size and shape except the first, which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Location: Columbia, PA

Event 114

Date: 12/2/1942
Description: Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 115

Date: 1943
Description: SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10 minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the saucers disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5)
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 116

Date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Test dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: United States

Event 117

Date: 1/16/1943
Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium production
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Hanford, WA

Event 118

Date: 2/18/1943
Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Event 119

Date: Spring 1943
Description: Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped
Type: UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away
Reference: link
Location: Laguna Beach, California

Event 120

Date: 4/1/1943
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 121

Date: 5/1943
Description: Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but apparently Einstein turned him down.
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Princeton, NJ
Attributes: Einstein

Event 122

Date: 6/1943
Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link

Event 123

Date: 6/15/1943
Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News Bulletin
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 124

Date: 7/1943
Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: Burbank, CA

Event 125

Date: 7/1/1943
End date: 3/31/1944
Description: Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National Archives.
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 126

Date: 7/18/1943
End date: 10/15/1944
Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 127

Date: 9/1943
Description: Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Oncativo, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 50

Event 128

Date: 1944
Description: Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO
Type: paranormal phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 129

Date: 1944
Description: During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like device spinning inside.
Type: scientist
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)

Event 130

Date: 4/1944
Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 131

Date: 8/1944
Description: Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195, which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 132

Date: end of 8/1944
Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Mattoon, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 51

Event 133

Date: 9/7/1944
Description: First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris. V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces, initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 134

Date: 11/8/1944
Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 135

Date: 1945
Description: Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using 70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the “Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
See also: 1947

Event 136

Date: 1945
Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
Magnolia ID: 52

Event 137

Date: 1945
Description: Radar signals secretly bounced off the Moon “during WW2” according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. Lee
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Location: New Jersey

Event 138

Date: 1945
Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 139

Date: 2/1945
Description: Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto: "Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945".
Type: ufological event
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 140

Date: 3/1945
Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it rested briefly on the ground, then lifted again with a humming sound, started to spin, released a shower of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, disappearing in seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS May., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Belfast, Maine
Magnolia ID: 53

Event 141

Date: 3/1945
Description: Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 30 (Vallee)
Location: Aleutian Islands
Magnolia ID: 54

Event 142

Date: 3/17/1945
Description: Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a German target during the war
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 143

Date: 3/27/1945
Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 144

Date: 4/12/1945
End date: 1/20/1953
Description: President Harry S. Truman in office
Type: historical event
Location: Washington DC

Event 145

Date: Summer 1945
Description: Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers. These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above 42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the unknown craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: "Alien Base", Timothy Good, page 152 (photos)
Location: Hanford, WA

Event 146

Date: 6/26/1945
Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on 10/24/1945
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City

Event 147

Date: 7/16/1945
Description: First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile Range)
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 18.6

Event 148

Date: 8/6/1945
Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 16

Event 149

Date: 8/9/1945
Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 21

Event 150

Date: 8/16/1945
Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: San Antonio, NM

Event 151

Date: 8/22/1945
Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic bomb effort
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Moscow, Russia

Event 152

Date: 9/2/1945
Description: End of WW2
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 153

Date: 10/1945
Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Langley, VA

Event 154

Date: 10/2/1945
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Rocket type: V-2

Event 155

Date: 10/15/1945
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Rocket type: V-2

Event 156

Date: 10/24/1945
Description: United Nations charter in full force
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City, New York

Event 157

Date: 1946
End date: 1951
Description: Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 158

Date: 1946
Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Scandinavia

Event 159

Date: 1946
Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition (Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost 1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won an Academy Award for best documentary.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antarctica

Event 160

Date: 1946
Description: Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the Soviet "Los Alamos" (Weapons design and research, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 161

Date: 1946
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 162

Date: 1/10/1946
Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off Moon
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Medium
Location: New Jersey

Event 163

Date: 2/26/1946
Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Scandinavia

Event 164

Date: 3/6/1946
Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is deactivated
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Pacific Coast Region, US

Event 165

Date: 3/15/1946
Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad 33
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 166

Date: 4/16/1946
Description: First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching 5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to cutoff)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km

Event 167

Date: 4/20/1946
Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United Nations (UN)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 168

Date: 5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Scandinavia

Event 169

Date: 5/10/1946
Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.6km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km

Event 170

Date: 5/13/1946
Description: Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Astrakhan Oblast

Event 171

Date: 5/29/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km

Event 172

Date: 6/13/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 117.2km

Event 173

Date: 6/28/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude (nose separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 107.8km

Event 174

Date: 7/5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Description: Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled.
Type: Newspaper Article
Reference: link
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Event 175

Date: 7/9/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 134.4km

Event 176

Date: 7/19/1946
Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (oxygen pump explodes)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km

Event 177

Date: 7/30/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 161.5km

Event 178

Date: 8/15/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude (Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 6.4km

Event 179

Date: 8/22/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude (Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km

Event 180

Date: 9/4/1946
Description: Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800 UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C. by our Military and Naval Attaches
Type: top secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p22,447)
Location: Sweden

Event 181

Date: 10/9/1946
Description: Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established contact and reported it would return
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: rg
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 182

Date: 10/10/1946
Description: First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km

Event 183

Date: 10/10/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 173.8km

Event 184

Date: 11/7/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude (Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: .32km

Event 185

Date: 11/21/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude (Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.4km

Event 186

Date: 12/5/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude (Control system failed at altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 152.9km

Event 187

Date: 12/17/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude (Rocket exploded at 440s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 184.4km

Event 188

Date: 1947
Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia

Event 189

Date: 1947
Description: Einstein sees "Greys" for the first time
Type: rumor
Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
Location: Roswell, NM
Attributes: Einstein
Attributes: channeled

Event 190

Date: 1947
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: N 58 39 E 59 47

Event 191

Date: 1/1947
Description: W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or heavy equipment.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Location: Papago Indian Reservation

Event 192

Date: 1/7/1947
Description: SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky established presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon department of geology and mineral industries, said it gives reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. Largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice shower occurred Saturday confined to a fifteen foot square area of Hill Military Academy.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Location: Portland, OR

Event 193

Date: 1/10/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 116.2km

Event 194

Date: 1/23/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km

Event 195

Date: 2/9/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins writing essay competition
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Attributes: Einstein

Event 196

Date: 2/20/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude (Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 109.4km

Event 197

Date: 3/7/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.2km

Event 198

Date: 3/17/1947
Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young students to find their directions”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 199

Date: 4/1/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129.2km

Event 200

Date: 4/8/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.2km

Event 201

Date: 4/17/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 142.4km

Event 202

Date: 5/1/1947
Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the actual beginning of the CIA in 1961.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 203

Date: 5/15/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly 5/21/47)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Event 204

Date: 5/15/1947
Description: A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches 135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failure.
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 135.2km

Event 205

Date: 5/19/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manitou Springs, CO

Event 206

Date: 5/19/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manitou Springs, CO

Event 207

Date: 5/29/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude (Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico.
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 79.3km

Event 208

Date: 5/31/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class photo in newspaper
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Attributes: Einstein

Event 209

Date: 6/1947
Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
Type: majestic document
Reference: Majestic Document
Attributes: Einstein
Attributes: majestic

Event 210

Date: 6/10/1947
Description: Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise from the ground in Mexican territory. It took a definite spherical shape and vanished in less than ten seconds among the stars.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 4 (Vallee)
Location: Douglas, Arizona
Magnolia ID: 55

Event 211

Date: 6/11/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day of high school (estimate)
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 212

Date: 6/17/1947
Description: John A. Petsche, electrical worker and another witness independently saw a disk-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 6 (Vallee)
Location: Bisbee, Arizona
Magnolia ID: 58

Event 213

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Maury Island Incident
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Medium
Reference: link
Attributes: metals

Event 214

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Eight disk-shaped objects the size of a house, were seen flying at 1000 km/h. A civilian woman stated that the objects fell with a deadleaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Spokane, Washington
Magnolia ID: 57

Event 215

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal. Officially regarded as hoax.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ruppelt (Vallee)
Location: Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington
Magnolia ID: 56

Event 216

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops metal residue.
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Maury Island, WA
Attributes: metals

Event 217

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, Washington
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Mt. Rainer, WA

Event 218

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost 1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and between 45 to 50feet long
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research

Event 219

Date: 6/29/1947
Description: Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C. J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see UFO's 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which would probably be Pad 33).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: White Sands, NM

Event 220

Date: 6/30/1947
Description: A Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about 3 m in diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of the Grand Canyon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona
Magnolia ID: 59

Event 221

Date: 7/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein
Type: scientist
Reference: Bragalia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 222

Date: 7/1947
Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/47) and 15 other UFO encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.)
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 6/24/47
See also: 9/23/47

Event 223

Date: 7/1947
Description: Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12 group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area.
Type: majestic document
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 9/24/1947

Event 224

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three facilities go on full alert.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: White Sands, NM
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 225

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1

Event 226

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 227

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Magdalena, N.M.

Event 228

Date: 7/3/1947
Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Location: Magdalena, NM

Event 229

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one heavily injured, one surviving
Type: ufo crash
Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
Location: Magdalena, NM

Event 230

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue Book Report includes state and local police witnesses
Type: mass ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Location: Portland, OR

Event 231

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in PNW
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Twitter
Location: Pacific Northwest

Event 232

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at 20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned and maneuverable.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Location: Portland, OR

Event 233

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM

Event 234

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (crash)
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 235

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner
Type: anomalous incident
Reference: Medium
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 236

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in Spokane area
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Location: Spokane, CA

Event 237

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix, Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford, flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet. It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a bright blue-white light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )
Location: Medford, OR

Event 238

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge on against a dark sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )
Location: Louisville, Kentucky

Event 239

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 240

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: An Air Force major observed a metallic object, reflecting sunlight oscillate, go down to ground level, and rise again. Simultaneously it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Muroc Air Field, California
Magnolia ID: 60

Event 241

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special plane to Wright Field
Type: ufological event
Reference: YouTube
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 242

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and was recovered near Roswell NM
Type: teletype
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, RECOVERY)
Location: Dallas, TX

Event 243

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, N.M., this date...Information provided this office because of national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources) attempting to break the story of location of disc today...(the recovered disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination...Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise (FBI) results of examination.”
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 7/2/47
See also: 7/7/47

Event 244

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: “absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 245

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant metal or alloy not yet known.”
Type: FOIA release
Reference: Medium

Event 246

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University
Type: Newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 247

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 months, 21 days old.
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 248

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude (Early yaw led to termination at 32s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.25km

Event 249

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p148)
Reference: link

Event 250

Date: 7/11/1947
Description: A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in Germany was coming here.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 251

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).”
Type: declassified statement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G, p16)

Event 252

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July 17th, or the 24th)
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 253

Date: Mid 7/1947
Description: In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he stated: “...the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers were real Flying Saucers are REAL! and not manmade...the technology represented by the (recovered) disc...was so far beyond our own that it could not be understoodimmediately...Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a military secret. This would mean containing all information about it within some small group.”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 1/31/49

Event 254

Date: 7/15/1947
Description: Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”...before agreeing (to the investigation of crashed saucers)...we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E, p541, RECOVERY)

Event 255

Date: 7/23/1947
Description: A group of survey workers ran away as they heard a hissing noise and saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through, a window. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over 2 m. tall. They drew the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 163; FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 61

Event 256

Date: 7/24/1947
Description: Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 257

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern Oregon area.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium

Event 258

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude (Near vertical trajectory.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 160.7km

Event 259

Date: 8/1/1947
Description: A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link

Event 260

Date: 8/3/1947
Description: Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying ‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium

Event 261

Date: 8/13/1947
Description: Two boys and their father saw a sky-blue object 100 m away and 25 m above ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not spin. It made a swishing sound. Shape: inverted plate, 7 m diameter and 3.5 m thick. There was a red flame on one side of the top.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho
Magnolia ID: 62

Event 262

Date: 8/14/1947
Description: R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the ground and two dwarfs less than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads, greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes without eyelashes or eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They wore something similar to crash helmets. The center of their belts projected a "vapor," and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight talonlike fingers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS 67, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Raveo, Italy
Magnolia ID: 63

Event 263

Date: 9/6/1947
Description: V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.5km

Event 264

Date: 9/18/1947
Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Langley, Virginia

Event 265

Date: 9/19/47
Description: Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 11/30/47

Event 266

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: USAF project "SIGN" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 267

Date: 9/23/47
Description: Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552)
Type: secret briefing
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 7/47
See also: 9/15/50
See also: 8/54

Event 268

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by Fred Johnson
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 269

Date: 9/24/47
Description: A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons selected to control all branches of government, both military and non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses, confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 2/15/87
See also: 9/4/87
See also: 7/47

Event 270

Date: 9/28/47
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 271

Date: 10/47
Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 272

Date: 10/1/47
Description: First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 273

Date: 10/9/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude (Internal explosion at 83.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 156.1km

Event 274

Date: 10/18/1947
Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km (Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 207km

Event 275

Date: 10/20/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated 181 kilometres from intended flight path)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 231km

Event 276

Date: 10/23/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated, possibly due to the warhead failure.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km

Event 277

Date: 10/28/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km

Event 278

Date: 10/31/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started rolling after lift-off and crashed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 2km

Event 279

Date: 11/2/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km

Event 280

Date: 11/2/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), 260km (Lost fins after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km

Event 281

Date: 11/4/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 268km

Event 282

Date: 11/10/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 24km

Event 283

Date: 11/13/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km

Event 284

Date: 11/13/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km

Event 285

Date: 11/20/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE technology proving flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 26.7km

Event 286

Date: 11/30/47
Description: In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities).
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic

Event 287

Date: 12/8/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (Stable flight but less than planned altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km

Event 288

Date: 12/23/1947
Description: First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Muray Hill, NJ

Event 289

Date: 12/30/1947
Description: USAF project "Saucer" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 290

Date: 12/30/1947
Description: Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with "2A" Security Classification at Wright-Patterson)
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, B1-G p23)
Location: Washington DC

Event 291

Date: 1948
Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Europe

Event 292

Date: 1948
Description: Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air, received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta, directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft. ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4 ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft landed inside the secure area of White Sands.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Reference: Twitter
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
See also: 3/25/48
See also: 2/13/1948

Event 293

Date: 1948
Description: Mr. Galbraith twice saw an object land. The first time, it was a disk-shaped craft with a humanoid figure-the second time, cigar shape with three figures.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Swastika, Canada
Magnolia ID: 64

Event 294

Date: 1948
Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Location: Washington DC

Event 295

Date: 1/1948
Description: Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide metal”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium
Reference: link

Event 296

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
Type: UFO encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky

Event 297

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
Type: UFO encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky

Event 298

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to 30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic object....oftremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above....I am trying to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded inmid-air and disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Maysville, KN

Event 299

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of the sighting...At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the skiessouth of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4 National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell in one of the F-51s.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Maysville, KN

Event 300

Date: 1/15/1948
Description: USAF officially a separate service
Type: history
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 301

Date: 1/22/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude (Payload separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 159.3km

Event 302

Date: 2/6/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude (Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 111km

Event 303

Date: 2/13/1948
Description: Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research, ALIENS
Location: Aztec, NM
See also: 3/25,1948

Event 304

Date: 3/19/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low altitude flight prevented any data recovery)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km

Event 305

Date: 3/25/1948
Description: Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest, including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy. Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by Virgil Armstrong.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
Reference: book link
Reference: book link
Reference: book link
Reference: Robert Spencer Carr
Reference: Robert Spencer Carr
Location: Aztec, NM
See also: 2/13/1948

Event 306

Date: 3/25/1948
Description: IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM, radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation, Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Location: Aztec, NM

Event 307

Date: 4/1948 (estimated)
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies.
Type: witness statement
Reference: link
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 308

Date: 4/2/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude (Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 144km

Event 309

Date: 4/5/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB
Type: top secret report
Reference: NICAP — Air Intelligence Report — ONI
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Holloman AFB

Event 310

Date: 4/19/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude (Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight termination)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 56km

Event 311

Date: 4/30/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr. Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against wind
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)

Event 312

Date: 5/13/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude (Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 127.3m

Event 313

Date: 5/27/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7

Event 314

Date: 5/27/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7

Event 315

Date: 6/1948 (approximate)
Description: “Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the crash retrieval program.
Type: historical event
Reference: Amazon
Location: US

Event 316

Date: 6/11/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude (Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 62.3

Event 317

Date: 6/15/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of conventional aircraft
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E, p481)
Location: Miles City, MT

Event 318

Date: 6/19/1948
Description: A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they could attract attention.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar

Event 319

Date: 7/1/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer, Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph. Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of sight
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base

Event 320

Date: 7/17/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O” after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Kirtland Air Force Base

Event 321

Date: 7/20/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Netherlands
See also: 7/25/48

Event 322

Date: 7/24/1948
Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Event 323

Date: 7/24/1948
Description: Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July 24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed to have observed a "glowing object" pass by their plane before it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed before it pulled "up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds." They observed the object for a total of ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Event 324

Date: 7/25/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description: Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a V-2.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: US
See also: 7/20/48
See also: 8/3/48
See also: 1/31/50

Event 325

Date: 7/26/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude (Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll began at 70s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 86.9

Event 326

Date: 7/29/1948
Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 65

Event 327

Date: 8/3/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Moscow
See also: 7/25/48

Event 328

Date: 8/5/1948
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.7km

Event 329

Date: 8/11/1948
Description: Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object 70 cm in diameter, 30 cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid Phone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hamel, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 66

Event 330

Date: 8/19/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude (Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 13.4km

Event 331

Date: 8/29/1948
Description: A farmer observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Maplewood, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 67

Event 332

Date: 9/2/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude (Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.6km

Event 333

Date: 9/12/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Midway

Event 334

Date: 9/30/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude (Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.3km

Event 335

Date: 10/1/1948
Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Fargo, North Dakota

Event 336

Date: 10/1/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
Location: North Dakota

Event 337

Date: 10/15/1948
Description: An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from 200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p235)
Location: Japan

Event 338

Date: 11/1948
Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 339

Date: 11/1/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km

Event 340

Date: 11/18/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude (First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section. Nominal performance.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 145.3km

Event 341

Date: 11/18/1948
Description: Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files: at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes. The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and evasive movements.”
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)
Location: Andrews AFB

Event 342

Date: 11/23/1948
Description: Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000 ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p237)
Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Event 343

Date: 12/1948
Description: Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK. (Capt. Ruppelt?)
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 3/52

Event 344

Date: 12/9/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude (Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 108.4km

Event 345

Date: 12/10/1948
Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 1/7/1948
See also: 11/1/1948

Event 346

Date: 1949
Description: United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86 Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S. air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of the first three production models seeing combat.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 347

Date: 1949
Description: Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Bishop, CA

Event 348

Date: 1949
Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Siberia

Event 349

Date: 1949
End date: 1990
Description: Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 350

Date: Early 1949
Description: USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Leon Davidson
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 351

Date: 1/6/1949
Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Los Alamos, NM
See also: 1/31/49
See also: 7/25/48

Event 352

Date: 1/13/1949
Description: CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be self-disintegrating.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p482)
Location: NM

Event 353

Date: 1/13/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2

Event 354

Date: 1/28/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km attitude (Defective performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 59.9km

Event 355

Date: 1/31/1949
Description: Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any. (Possible search teams in UFOs.)
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p53, CRASH)
Location: NM

Event 356

Date: 1/31/1949
Description: MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/48 and 01/06/49, sightings of UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M. (Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City)
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p483, B1-G p30)
Location: NM
See also: 7/25/48
See also: 7/47
See also: 8/4/50

Event 357

Date: 2/1949
Description: Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.”
Type: final report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 358

Date: 2/1949
Description: C. A. V. an oil company employee, 30, was driving to Lima when he saw a shiny disk at ground level. He walked toward it for 10 min. Three figures came out as he was 20 m away. They looked like mummies, had joined legs and one large foot. They "slid" along the ground. They were covered with a strange "towely" skin, asked the witness where they were, had a lengthy discussion with him, and took him for a trip in their craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 122 (Vallee)
Location: Pucusana, Peru
Magnolia ID: 68

Event 359

Date: 2/4/1949
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.”
Type: confidential message
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)

Event 360

Date: 2/11/1949
Description: USAF Project "GRUDGE" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH

Event 361

Date: 2/17/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 100.6km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 100.6km

Event 362

Date: 2/17/1949
Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm with a green lightning flash. It became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
Location: France, exact location unknown
Magnolia ID: 69

Event 363

Date: 2/24/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 km)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129km

Event 364

Date: 3/1949
Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 365

Date: 3/21/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km

Event 366

Date: 4/1949
Description: 2 UFO's tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico

Event 367

Date: 4/11/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 87.2km

Event 368

Date: 4/21/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km

Event 369

Date: 4/24/1949
Description: Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Arrey, NM

Event 370

Date: 4/27/1949
Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 371

Date: 5/5/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8.85km

Event 372

Date: 5/11/1949
Description: Israel admitted to the UN
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City

Event 373

Date: 5/13/1949
Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA's “second memorandum of importance” on flying discs.
Type: publication
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Medium
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Event 374

Date: 5/18/1949
Description: Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at the AFU in Sweden.
Type: memorandum
Reference: Twitter
Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH

Event 375

Date: 5/22/1949
Description: Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16 floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to silence him.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland

Event 376

Date: 6/10/1949
Description: White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p238)
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 377

Date: 6/14/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km

Event 378

Date: Summer 1949
Description: USAF Project "Twinkle" started
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 379

Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Two prospectors are said to have observed a disk-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
Location: Death Valley, California
Magnolia ID: 70

Event 380

Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 381

Date: 8/29/1949
Description: First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1)
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 22

Event 382

Date: 9/3/1949
Description: USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL

Event 383

Date: 9/9/1949
Description: DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic explosion on the continent of Asia.”
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 384

Date: 9/16/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early termination)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.2km

Event 385

Date: fall 1949
Description: Don Bushnell, plant superintendent with Southwestern Porcelain Steel Corp., saw an object fall in front of his car as his radio was blocked. He applied the brakes; object vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: KeyhoeS (Vallee)
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 71

Event 386

Date: 9/23/1949
Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 387

Date: 9/29/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 150.8km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.8km

Event 388

Date: 10/6/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2

Event 389

Date: 10/12/1949
Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: Hollywood, CA

Event 390

Date: 11/1949
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object.
Type: witness statement
Reference: book "The UFO Crash at Aztec" by Steinman and Stevens
See also: 3/25/48
See also: 4/48

Event 391

Date: 11/18/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 123.9km

Event 392

Date: 11/23/1949
Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: Hollywood, CA

Event 393

Date: 12/1949
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: WA

Event 394

Date: 12/8/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 130.3km

Event 395

Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF Project "Saucer" closed
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 396

Date: 12/28/1949
Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen
Type: radio show
Reference: link
Location: Richmond, VA

Event 397

Date: 12/31/1949
Description: Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 months, 23 days between 7/8/47 and 12/31/49.
Type: newspaper articles
Reference: link
Reference: link

Event 398

Date: 1950
Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying Saucer as I Saw It”
Type: publication
Reference: Archive.org
Location: WA

Event 399

Date: 1950
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens (Plutonium production)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 400

Date: 1950's
Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kapustin Yar

Event 401

Date: 1950's
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Location: Area 51

Event 402

Date: Early 1950
Description: Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches tall had been found dead in the wreckage.
Type: rumors
Reference: Medium

Event 403

Date: 1/1950
Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying Saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 404

Date: 1/1/1950
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying Saucers are Real” in Newspapers
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 405

Date: 1/6/1950
Description: Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation, exotic metals, acclimation program, etc.
Type: rumors
Reference: Amazon
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 406

Date: 1/16/1950
Description: CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2 ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were perfectly preserved.
Type: classified staff message
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
See also: 1/6/50
See also: 1/30/50

Event 407

Date: 1/22/1950
Description: U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times. Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a matter of minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kodiak, Alaska

Event 408

Date: 1/29/1950
Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green ovoid object hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 m, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
Location: South Table Mountain, Colorado
Magnolia ID: 72

Event 409

Date: 1/30/1950
Description: The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation program.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
See also: 1/6/50

Event 410

Date: 1/31/1950
Description: Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Los Alamos, NM
See also: 1/6/50

Event 411

Date: 2/17/1950
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 148.7km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 148.7km

Event 412

Date: 2/22/1950
Description: USAF denies existance of flying saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 413

Date: 3/8/1950
Description: Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute.
Type: lecture
Reference: YouTube - Part 1
Reference: YouTube - Part 2
Location: University of Denver

Event 414

Date: 3/8/1950
Description: Mysterious "Silas Newton" speaks at University of Denver
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 415

Date: 3/16/1950
Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: "Behind the Flying Saucers" by Frank Scully
Location: Lima, Peru

Event 416

Date: 3/16/1950
End date: 3/18/1950
Description: Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local newspapers reportedly censored.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Farmington, NM
Location: Aztec, NM

Event 417

Date: 3/18/1950
Description: A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two objects, one of which landed. He walked within 150 m of the aluminum-looking craft which gave off a greenish-blue vapor and "an intense smell of burning benzine." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men, dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments. They saw him and shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated the craft; the vapor increased and flames (alternately reddish and greenish) shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 32 (Vallee)
Location: Lago Argentino, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 73

Event 418

Date: 3/22/1950
Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM (corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/50). Description: Circular with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies, only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, B1-E p527, RECOVERY)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 3/25/48

Event 419

Date: 3/22/1950
Description: Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that "Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the USA
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, B1-E p464)
Location: Ottawa, CA

Event 420

Date: 3/31/1950
Description: Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts” and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17).
Type: tape recording
Reference: YouTube
Location: Denver, CO

Event 421

Date: 3/31/1950
Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio transmitter.
Type: memo
Reference: YouTube
Location: Washington DC

Event 422

Date: 4/1950
Description: Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks he saw landing and taking off 60 km north of Jun.au.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Magnolia ID: 74

Event 423

Date: 4/7/1950
Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter Link
Location: San Diego, CA
See also: 5/16/1950

Event 424

Date: 4/8/1950
Description: A metal worker was awakened by his dog and observed an object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk, 5 m in diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north, very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 75

Event 425

Date: 4/8/1950
Description: David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a disk land behind a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 200 (Vallee)
Location: River Road near Amarillo, Texas
Magnolia ID: 76

Event 426

Date: 4/17/1950
Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Sauces” announced coming soon.
Type: announcement
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Glens Falls, NY

Event 427

Date: 4/20/1950
Description: Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km west of town when he saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering about 7 m above him with a dull red glow. It took off with a "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness feIt a burning sensation on his face.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Lufkin, Texas
Magnolia ID: 77

Event 428

Date: 4/24/1950
Description: Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark, hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting clothes and wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The witness had the time to note many details of the machine and its occupants.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Abbiate Guazzone, Italy
Magnolia ID: 78

Event 429

Date: 4/27/1950
Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 430

Date: 5/7/1950
Description: A couple and their grandson were returning from a picnic when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white object at treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated "as if attempting to rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Ely, Nevada
Magnolia ID: 79

Event 431

Date: 5/11/1950
Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near McMinnville, Oregon.
Type: ufo photo
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: McMinnville, OR

Event 432

Date: 5/16/1950
Description: Reply letter from White House to BSRA
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter Link
Location: Washington DC
See also: 4/7/1950

Event 433

Date: 6/1950
Description: Many sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 434

Date: 6/25/1950
Description: Korean War
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Korea

Event 435

Date: 7/1950
Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR FICTION?”
Type: publication
Reference: link

Event 436

Date: 7/2/1950
Description: In a story strangely similar to that of Mr. Kiehl (Aug., 1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots "changing direction without turning their bodies." Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and "seemed to be their chief." They immersed a hose in the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss forming on the lake.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U (Vallee)
Location: Steep Rock Lake, Canada
Magnolia ID: 80

Event 437

Date: 7/4/1950
Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back in 30 minutes
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 438

Date: 7/20/1950
Description: Mr. Campello and several others in a car saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a hillock, the other on flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They came within 600 m of the objects, which went away at "an incredible speed," causing a rush of air that rocked the car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV 30 (Vallee)
Location: Porto Novo, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 81

Event 439

Date: 7/24/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km

Event 440

Date: 7/29/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km

Event 441

Date: 8/1950
Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers” published
Type: publication
Reference: Amazon
Location: US

Event 442

Date: 8/1/1950
Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Washington DC

Event 443

Date: 8/4/1950
Description: CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj. U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still investigating.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p485)
Location: Hanford, WA

Event 444

Date: 8/31/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 136.4km

Event 445

Date: 9/15/1950
Description: In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board), scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 "Behind the Flying Saucers" book is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the H-bomb.
Type: conference
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p519)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 9/23/47
See also: 1/26/53

Event 446

Date: 10/6/1950
Description: Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of the Aztec crash.
Type: confidental memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)
Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX
See also: 3/25/1948

Event 447

Date: 10/26/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8km

Event 448

Date: 11/10/1950
Description: Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of 1946.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter Link
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 449

Date: 11/11/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2

Event 450

Date: 11/21/1950
Description: Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government research into UFO’s and propulsion technology.
Type: top secret memo
Reference: link
Location: Canada

Event 451

Date: 12/1950
Description: Project "Magnet" authorized in Canada
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Canada

Event 452

Date: 12/3/1950
Description: Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned, immediately, to Air Force Intelligence.
Type: classified communique
Reference: link
Location: Richmond, Virginia

Event 453

Date: 12/6/1950
Description: The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40 aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary, "It looks like World War III is here. I hope not--but we must meet whatever comes--and we will."
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Limestone, Maine

Event 454

Date: 12/6/1950
Description: A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area. The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia, NM.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Location: Guerrero, Mexico

Event 455

Date: Early 1950's
Description: Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport. A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations were also present.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69
Location: Carson's Field, New Zealand

Event 456

Date: 1951
Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, describes seeing 100's of UFO's flying in formation at very high altitudes over Europe.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Europe

Event 457

Date: 1951
Description: Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology, UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a loose/unofficial association.
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 458

Date: 1/14/1951
Description: Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities”
Type: scientist
Reference: link

Event 459

Date: 1/18/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.6km

Event 460

Date: 2/10/1951
Description: Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular, reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300 ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E, p486)
Location: Keflavik, Iceland

Event 461

Date: 2/25/1951
Description: BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his neighbor's dog were also affected.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 462

Date: 3/8/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 — Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 3.1km

Event 463

Date: 4/27/1951
Description: Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is released
Type: movie
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 464

Date: 6/14/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km

Event 465

Date: 6/19/1951
Description: Joseph Matiszewski, a mechanic, heard a whistling sound and saw an object land in a meadow. Approaching within 50 m, he found himself paralyzed and observed that birds had stopped singing and cows seemed to be similarly unable to move. From the object emerged four handsome men who had brown skin and wore black shiny suits and translucent helmets. Eight objects also emerged from the craft and hovered above it. Other men inside the craft and on its deck appeared to be making repairs, then the objects flew to about 100 m altitude and climbed rapidly out of sight. Only then did the paralysis subside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten May., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Sonderborg, Denmark
Magnolia ID: 82

Event 466

Date: Summer 1951
Description: USAF project "Bluebook" is started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: US

Event 467

Date: 6/28/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 — Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.8km

Event 468

Date: 7/9/1951
Description: Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: NICAP
Location: Columbus, GA
See also: 7/10/1951

Event 469

Date: 7/10/1951
Description: Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx. distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam. UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose camera malfunctioned.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: NICAP
Location: Macon, GA

Event 470

Date: 7/22/1951
Description: The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before that.
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 471

Date: 8/22/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 213.4km

Event 472

Date: 9/1951
Description: A group of Unmatjera aborigines observed a shiny circular object land near a similar craft, about 12 m in diameter. Several min later, a dwarf dressed in a shiny suit and having "a round, shiny head" came out of one craft and entered the other; both took off with a buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Edwards 93 (Vallee)
Location: Central Australia
Magnolia ID: 83

Event 473

Date: 9/10/1951
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft. Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph. (p127 of Ruppelt’s book)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p487)
Reference: NICAP
Location: Asbury, NJ

Event 474

Date: 9/18/1951
Description: Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 475

Date: 9/24/1951
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 38.3

Event 476

Date: 10/1951
Description: Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field mounting concern for the Pentagon.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 12/48
See also: 3/52

Event 477

Date: 10/18/1951
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 41.2

Event 478

Date: 10/21/1951
Description: Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of speed near Battle Creek, MI.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Battle Creek, MI

Event 479

Date: 10/26/1951
Description: The driver of a transcontinental train on the east-west line saw an object that illuminated the countryside like the full moon. It flew very fast, came close to the train, appeared ready to land in the desert, then took off and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 249 (Vallee)
Location: Australia
Magnolia ID: 84

Event 480

Date: 10/29/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 140.9km

Event 481

Date: 11/2/1951
Description: Two forest observers were in a canyon 50 km north of the Mojave when they saw a disk-shaped flying object in the southwest; 10 m estimated diameter, 3 m thick, blue-green, well-defined, surrounded with a glow of same color. Stopping their jeep, they signaled to the object, which approached within a few meters, flew away, seemed to play with them. Eventually it vanished "like a magician's trick."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mojave, California
Magnolia ID: 85

Event 482

Date: 12/1951
Description: Sam Coley and his two children saw an object with a human-looking occupant.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
Location: Red Springs, North Carolina
Magnolia ID: 87

Event 483

Date: 12/1951
Description: A man from Lincoln was driving to Indiana when he saw a blue light in the northwest sky. It vanished to the southeast. The witness missed a turn, had to go back toward Auburn, and had reached a point northwest of Peru when he saw an orange glow in the sky. Coming near, he observed the glow came from a cauldron-shaped object on the ground, about 12 m from the road. He stopped to examine the object, which measured about 10 m diameter and seemed to be made of cast iron. Thirty cm from the top was a row of windows, 25 cm in diameter, from which the orange light was coming. On the other side was a blue flamelike glow. There was no noise, no sign of life or activity, and no antenna or protrusion. The witness drove away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Peru, Nebraska
Magnolia ID: 86

Event 484

Date: 1952
Description: Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 485

Date: 1952?
Description: SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B. Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes.
Type: secret information
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p511)
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 10/2/52

Event 486

Date: early 1952
Description: A fiery, spherical object made a right-angle turn during an observation by a C-54 crew flying from Westover to Goose Bay. It was also seen from the ground by the control tower and by two men who plunged to the earth when the object made a low pass at them. It went away at 2247.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador
Magnolia ID: 89

Event 487

Date: 1/1952
Description: A 38-year-old rancher saw a "shooting star" that suddenly stopped in mid-air between him and a mountain. It was seen spinning in a clockwise direction. It had one red window periodially facing the observer. It went down toward the Little Powder River and came up again. The witness turned his car to send light signals, to which the object seemed to respond by stopping its red window facing the witness's location. Spinning resumed, the object rose and came down. A similar craft arrived and both went into the deep valley, out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Weston, Wyoming
Magnolia ID: 88

Event 488

Date: 3/1952
Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project Grudge, “Project Blue Book”.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 12/48
See also: 10/51

Event 489

Date: 4/1952
Description: Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?”
Type: article
Reference: Medium
See also: 12/48
See also: 10/51

Event 490

Date: 4/25/1952
Description: UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y (bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p241)
Location: San Jose, CA

Event 491

Date: 5/10/1952
Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth before fading out of sight directly overhead.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p540)
Location: Paphos, Cypress

Event 492

Date: 5/12/1952
Description: “Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Dr. Leon Davidson
Reference: NY Times
Location: Seattle, WA

Event 493

Date: 5/20/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army training test. Also designated TF-2)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 103.5km

Event 494

Date: 6/1952
Description: Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many times
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 495

Date: 6/1952
Description: Reports of UFO's in Korean War
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: US

Event 496

Date: 6/1952
Description: Big month for sightings
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: US

Event 497

Date: 6/4/1952
Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report.
Type: intelligence report
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 5/10/1952

Event 498

Date: 6/15/1952
Description: An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above 35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Gordonsville, VA

Event 499

Date: 6/15/1952
Description: Men at work in the forest saw large, circular objects similar to parachutes coming down. Half a dozen witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: France-Soir Jun. 18, 52 (Vallee)
Location: Magneville, France
Magnolia ID: 92

Event 500

Date: 6/18/1952
Description: EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter Aquarius document
Type: majestic document
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic

Event 501

Date: Summer 1952
Description: While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO. The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt himself).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 7/52

Event 502

Date: summer 1952
Description: Mrs. Rogers saw an object descend slowly and pass across a pasture at 7 m altitude. She stopped her car and observed it was "wobbling" in mid-air, was shaped like a turtle, and showed three oarlike protrusions that moved slowly. Estimated dimensions: 5 by 4 m, 1 m thick. It was greenish-gray in color, emitted a blue flame, but showed no other light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Barker 78 (Vallee)
Location: Martin County, Texas
Magnolia ID: 91

Event 503

Date: summer 1952
Description: A woman was awakened by a thunderclap and a strong bluish light. As she got out, she saw a large number of hovering disk-shaped machines resembling "inverted soup plates" 200 m away at an altitude of about 1 m. She observed them for 30 min, saw two figures standing on one of the craft and looking at the sky. They went back inside, and shortly thereafter the "fleet" took off, one object at a time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68,1 (Vallee)
Location: Itenhaem, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 90

Event 504

Date: 7/1952
Description: Ohio Northern University sets up Project "A" to investigate the UFO's.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Ohio Northern University

Event 505

Date: 7/1952
Description: Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 506

Date: 7/11/1952
Description: Oscar Linke, former Wehrmacht major, and his daughter Gabrielle, 11, had to leave their motorcycle when they had a flat tire. Inside the woods the girl noticed two men in silvery suits examining the ground in a clearing near a pink disk-shaped object, 8 m in diameter, showing a double row of openings around the rim and a black turret on top. One of the men had a flashing box. Both men went inside, and the disk vibrated, rose along the turretlike cylinder, then spun faster and rose out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Guieu 52 (Vallee)
Location: Hasselbach, Germany
Magnolia ID: 93

Event 507

Date: 7/14/1952
Description: Pan American pilots see formation of UFO's.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 508

Date: 7/16/1952
Description: German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter saucer
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Germany

Event 509

Date: 7/19/1952
End date: 7/26/1952
Description: UFO's detected by radar over Washington., D.C.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: radar

Event 510

Date: 7/19/1952
Description: Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000 mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional patterns.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/26/52

Event 511

Date: 7/20/1952
Description: Approximate date. R. Petijean saw a luminous object, 20 m diameter, on the ground. It gave off bluish flashes as it took off, leaving a smell of burning sulphur.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Dai-el-Aouagri, Morocco
Magnolia ID: 94

Event 512

Date: 7/20/1952
Description: Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/52): 3 UFO spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude. Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer” reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Andrews AFB

Event 513

Date: 7/23/1952
Description: Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 514

Date: 7/23/1952
Description: In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A. Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO's “Those people have seen something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to know”.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p128)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 515

Date: 7/24/1952
Description: A man who was fishing in the Serchio River saw a disk hovering for 10 min. From it hung a hose that plunged into the water. The object was 20 m in diameter, with five propellers in the rear and a dome with something like blades on top. An orange glow could be seen through slits along the deck. A man wearing a diving helmet looked at the witness through a window, and he received a kind of electric shock as a "green ray" hit him. He looked up with difficulty, in time to see the object fly away toward the east. Six days later a stranger with a foreign accent contacted the witness and intimidated him.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69,1 (Vallee)
Location: Vico, Italy
Magnolia ID: 95

Event 516

Date: 7/24/1952
Description: BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in official FBI UFO files.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 517

Date: 7/26/1952
Description: Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards the UFOs.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC

Event 518

Date: 7/27/1952
Description: Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other visits.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 519

Date: End of 7/1952
Description: SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell, Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947 to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in 1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such importance that the matter should be brought before the National Security Council.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p31,506, war escalation)
Location: Dayton OH
See also: 9/19/76
See also: 5/10/80
See also: 5/19/86
See also: 9/4/87

Event 520

Date: 7/28/1952
Description: Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p505, Churchhill)
Location: Britain
See also: 8/9/52

Event 521

Date: 7/28/1952
Description: USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper articles
Type: letter
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Washington DC

Event 522

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: Sidney Eubank went to the Enid police station and told Sergeant Vern Bennell that an enormous disk had buzzed his car as he drove between Bison and Waukonis on Highway 81. The rush of air made the car leave the road while the object flew west very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 134 (Vallee)
Location: Enid, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 96

Event 523

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Michigan

Event 524

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Washington DC

Event 525

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15, 1952.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p505)
Location: Britain

Event 526

Date: End of 8/1/1952
Description: CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.”
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, Virginia

Event 527

Date: 8/9/1952
Description: Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The Americans have reached a similar conclusion.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p449)
Location: Britain
See also: 7/28/52

Event 528

Date: 8/16/1952
Description: CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam. of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire. Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over 1500 kilometers/hour.
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p512)
Location: Langley, Virginia

Event 529

Date: 8/19/1952
Description: Ronny Desvergers saw a large, round, dark object above him in a clearing. It had a turret on top. Red balls of light were emitted by the object and burned him. He also observed a "hideous" creature aboard the craft. Grass roots were scorched at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ruppelt 222; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Magnolia ID: 97

Event 530

Date: 8/19/1952
Description: J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is burned.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Attributes: injury

Event 531

Date: 8/20/1952
Description: Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.)
Type: memorandom
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 11/25/52

Event 532

Date: 8/22/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 78km

Event 533

Date: 8/23/1952
Description: CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen, Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about 3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see 02/23/55, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”)
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p513)
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 2/23/1955

Event 534

Date: 8/24/1952
Description: A man driving through a wood encountred a strange object and stopped to observe it. It looked like two turtle shells glued together, about 25 m long, with a humanoid creature in what appeared to be a control cabin in front. Windows lighted by an intense blue light and a throbbing sound were also reported. The object was oscillating and suddenly flew straight up with a strong humming noise. The middle section supported what looked like propellers. The object hovered 3 m above ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Frontenac, Kansas
Magnolia ID: 98

Event 535

Date: 8/27/1952
Description: A saucer-shaped craft, 3 by 2 m, landed on the witness's property after hitting a chimney. A little man, about 70 cm tall, emerged and was asked whether he was hurt, but he did not answer. The craft took off with a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 268 (Vallee)
Location: Lamberton, North Carolina
Magnolia ID: 99

Event 536

Date: 8/31/1952
Description: Herbert Long saw an object land 15 m away from the road. He made a drawing of it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 257 (Vallee)
Location: Pennsylvania, exact location unknown
Magnolia ID: 100

Event 537

Date: 9/12/1952
Description: Space "monster" appears from saucer near Sutton, West VA
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Sutton, West Virgina

Event 538

Date: 9/12/1952
Description: A group of young people saw a "meteor" land on top of a hill and went to the site with Kathleen Hill and three men. They observed a globe as large as a house making a throbbing or hissing sound and a huge figure with glowing orange eyes nearby. About 4 m tall, the figure had a red face and "floated" toward the witnesses, who fled in terror. A lingering smell and skid marks were found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
Location: Flatwoods, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 101

Event 539

Date: 9/13/1952
Description: Mr. and Mrs. George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mixed with sulphurous smoke) filled the air. Mr. Snitowski thought a chemical plant might be burning in the area and walked toward a strong light visible in the woods, in spite of the nauseous smell. Coming near it, he felt pricklings throughout his body, had to stop, lost his balance several times as he returned to the carwhere he found his wife terrified, pointing to a giant creature (3 m tall), human-shaped, 10 m away. They locked the car as "it" inspected the vehicle, glided away and went into the woods. Soon afterward, the sphere of light was observed to rise gradually, to swing like a pendulum, and to leave a luminous trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Paul Lieb (Vallee)
Location: Frametown, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 102

Event 540

Date: 9/14/1952
Description: Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: North Atlantic

Event 541

Date: 9/19/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 27km

Event 542

Date: 9/20/1952
Description: An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/52) is sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Between England and Scandinavia
See also: 9/19/52

Event 543

Date: 9/20/1952
Description: Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at an incredible speed. (9/19/52, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation Mainbrace)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p31,450, B1-G p43)
Location: North Yorkshire, England
See also: 9/20/1952

Event 544

Date: 9/21/1952
Description: Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere” heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO situation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: North Sea
See also: 7/52
See also: 6/24/53

Event 545

Date: 10/2/1952
Description: SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with the Psychological Strategy Board.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p509)
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 11/25/1952

Event 546

Date: 10/15/1952
Description: Approximate date. Figures with helmets and masks were seen through lighted windows inside a bright yellow, cigar-shaped object on the ground. Length 30 m, diameter 6 m. Forward section was rounded, and a sort of fog was noted at both ends of object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; Anatomy 62 (Vallee)
Location: Le Vigan, France
Magnolia ID: 103

Event 547

Date: 10/27/1952
Description: Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary ships.”
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 548

Date: 10/27/1952
Description: Customs officer Gabriel Gachignard observed a cigar-shaped object land briefly on the airfield 100 m away, producing a dull sound. The object was dark with four lighted windows. It took off with a "swish" and a shower of sparks when the witness ran toward it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 6 (Vallee)
Location: Marignane Airport, France
Magnolia ID: 104

Event 549

Date: 11/1952
Description: A child was burned when a strange disk, 25 cm in diameter, landed near Dublin.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Magnolia ID: 105

Event 550

Date: 11/4/1952
Description: NSA is established
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Event 551

Date: 11/18/1952
Description: MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President (elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Majestic

Event 552

Date: 11/18/1952
Description: Nello Ferrari, 41, a farmer, found himself flooded with a reddish light and saw a large plate 10 m above him, between gold and copper in color. At the center of the bottom surface, 20 m in diameter, was a cylinder of 5 m diameter made of rapidly rotating parts, producing a noise similar to that of an electric motor. On the upper surface was a turret inside which three occupants were visible, looking directly at the witness. They looked perfectly human, wore rubber coveralls and transparent face masks. They spoke a few words, which were not understood; a loud metallic noise was heard; and the top part of the object lowered itself toward the lower plate. The sound gained intensity, and the craft flew vertically at very high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 102 (Vallee)
Location: Castelfranco, Italy
Magnolia ID: 106

Event 553

Date: 11/20/1952
Description: George Adamski contacts man from Venus.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: CA

Event 554

Date: 11/21/1952
Description: At a place alled "La Butte" a luminous sphere, which seemed to spin, its color changing from orange to white, was seen at low altitude. It oscillated left and right, then took off toward the southwest, according to the witness, Mr. Gauci.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 56 (Vallee)
Location: Belle-Ile, France
Magnolia ID: 107

Event 555

Date: 11/25/1952
Description: (cont’d briefing from 8/20/52): Memorandum for Director CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date. UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell.
Type: memorandum
Reference: link
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 8/10/52
See also: 10/2/52
See also: 11/25/52

Event 556

Date: 12/2/1952
Description: Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.”
Type: statement
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 10/2/52
See also: 11/25/52

Event 557

Date: 1953
Description: Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.”
Type: classified mission
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 9/21/52

Event 558

Date: 1953
Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (AQUARIUS, B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic

Event 559

Date: 1953?
Description: Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless, narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint. Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with oxygen failed.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES)
Location: Arizona
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB

Event 560

Date: 1/20/1953
End date: 1/20/1961
Description: President Eisenhower in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 561

Date: 1/26/1953
Description: The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P. Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton Page.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research

Event 562

Date: 1/26/1953
Description: The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet. Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (A10, B1-E p542)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 9/15/50

Event 563

Date: 1/29/1953
Description: Hearing a commotion in his barn, a farmer observed an object about 7 m long and 4 m wide at treetop level. It was light gray in color and lit up inside. It resembled a half egg. The witness fired his gun at the object. Numerous livestock died "mysteriously" in the area after the sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Conway, South Carolina
Magnolia ID: 108

Event 564

Date: 2/1953
Description: Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco - mysterious, then disappear.
Type: anomalous event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: San Francisco, CA

Event 565

Date: 3/19/1953
Description: Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the government.
Type: public presentation
Reference: Medium
Location: Glendale, CA

Event 566

Date: 5/20/1953
Description: Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kingman, AZ
See also: 5/21/53

Event 567

Date: 5/20/1953
Description: Two miners, John Q. Black, 48, and John Van Allen, reported that an object, silvery, 2.5 m in diameter, 2 m thick, with a tripod landing gear, landed on a sand bar 50 m away from them. An occupant described as a broadshouldered dwarf wearing clothing that covered the head and the trunk was also seen. His arms and legs were covered with tweedlike cloth fastened at the wrists and ankle. He filled a shiny pail with water and handed it to someone inside the craft. He then appeared to notice Black and jumped into the craft, which made a hissing sound and departed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
Location: Brush Creek, California
Magnolia ID: 109

Event 568

Date: 5/21/1953
Description: Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20 inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft. wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same material.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kingman, AZ
See also: 5/20/53

Event 569

Date: 6/18/1953
Description: Howard Phillips, Hilda Walker and Judy Meyers saw in a garden at 118 East Third Street a strange "shadow" on the lawn which resembled a "flying man," and they watched it take off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 261 (Vallee)
Location: Houston, Texas
Magnolia ID: 110

Event 570

Date: 6/20/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: California Coast

Event 571

Date: 6/20/1953
Description: John Q. Black, witness of the May. 20 incident, observed an exact repetition of the scene, including the "little man." Van Allen saw only the landing marks, about 30 cm wide and re sembling elephant tracks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 53 (Vallee)
Location: Brush Creek, California
Magnolia ID: 111

Event 572

Date: Summer 1953
Description: Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt. H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher. All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS)
Location: Camp Polk, Louisiana

Event 573

Date: 6/24/1953
Description: USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of Quonset Point.
Type: ufo collision
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p488)
Location: Quonset Point, Rhode Island
See also: 6/26/1953

Event 574

Date: 6/24/1953
Description: A civilian woman saw something like "a large aircraft" flying very slowly and low. It had a lighted red band around the middle and was coming straight toward her house with an oscillating motion. She still thought it was an aircraft of some new design when it stopped near her, 25 m above ground. Then it flew backward over the water and hovered, making the same noise as a swarm of bees. The top section supported a series of red lights and a cabin with four portholes through which a control panel was visible. No occupant was seen. The cabin rose above the object, rotated, then glided back. The object tilted toward the west and rose toward the southeast, disappearing within 3 sec at an 80 degree angle of climb after the 3-min sighting. Diameter: 30 m. Two days later a yellowish moss was observed at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hampton Bay, Long Island
Magnolia ID: 112

Event 575

Date: 6/26/1953
Description: USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA, Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/53 for details of report)
Type: ufo collision
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p488)
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 6/24/53

Event 576

Date: 7/2/1953
Description: Approximate date. An illiterate boy cowherd, Maximo Munos Olivares, 14, saw a "big balloon" on the ground behind him when a faint whistling attracted his attention. Shaped like a water jug, it was metallic. Through an opening came three dwarfs 60 cm tall, with yellow faces, narrow eyes, and oriental features. They spoke in a language he could not understand. They were dressed in blue, had a sort of flat hat with a visor in front and a metal sheet on their arms. One of them smacked the boy's face, then they reentered the machine, which glowed very brightly, made a soft whistling sound and went off "like a rocket." Footprints and four holes 5 cm deep forming a perfect square 36 cm in side were found by police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 29 (Vallee)
Location: Villares des Saz, Spain
Magnolia ID: 113

Event 577

Date: 7/19/1953
Description: Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86 through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5 minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
See also: 7/27/53

Event 578

Date: 7/20/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: California Coast

Event 579

Date: 7/26/1953
Description: Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N 9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman, TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light on it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p359)
Location: Perrin Tower, TX

Event 580

Date: 7/27/1953
Description: Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.
Type: Confidential Message
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/19/53

Event 581

Date: 7/31/1953
Description: A metallic object 30 m in diameter was observed by five Polish and two German workers as it landed in a field close to a railway. It was shaped like a sphere with a flat disk around it, showing numerous openings at the periphery.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Intelligence Digest Nov., 53 (Vallee)
Location: Wolin, Poland
Magnolia ID: 114

Event 582

Date: 8/12/1953
Description: First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt, Semipalatinsk Test Site
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 400

Event 583

Date: 8/13/1953
Description: Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds” released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 584

Date: 8/16/1953
Description: Claude Pasquier saw two disks flying very low, quite slowly, along a straight course, with a "hard" sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 65, 141 (Vallee)
Location: Tours, France
Magnolia ID: 115

Event 585

Date: 8/17/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 586

Date: 8/18/1953
Description: Approximate date. Cab driver Salvador Villanueva, 40, observed two creatures 1.2 m tall wearing coveralls with wide, shiny, perforated belts, metal collars, and small, black, shiny boxes on their backs. They had helmets under their arms. The witness thought they were pilots of Indian race. One of them spoke to him in Spanish, "stringing the words together" in a strange accent. Trivial matters were discussed until dawn, when they returned to their craft, 13 m in diameter, through a staircase under the lower disk. The witness ran away when invited to follow them. The object rose with a pendulum motion and shot up vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 32; FSR 56, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Ciudad Valleys, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 116

Event 587

Date: 8/23/1953
Description: Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 28

Event 588

Date: 8/26/1953
Description: Regulation AFR 200–2 issued to Air Force personnel for reporting UFOs.
Type: regulation
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 8/12/54

Event 589

Date: 9/1953
Description: The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski published.
Type: book
Reference: Amazon
Location: California

Event 590

Date: 9/4/1953
Description: A woman saw two objects on the ground and three 1.5-m-tall men running toward the craft. They had oversized heads and wore helmets and boots. One entered the elongated object, 5 m long, 1.5 m wide, which spread "wings" that made it look like a butterfly. It then took a vertical position, resting on a tripod, and took off with the spherical object into which the other two creatures had gone. Traces were found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA 68, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Tonnerre, France
Magnolia ID: 117

Event 591

Date: 9/12/1953
Description: Brovst was the scene of an attempted abduction of a girl by two humanoids emitting a golden light. Their hands were rugged and cold like a fish.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
Location: Brovst, Denmark
Magnolia ID: 118

Event 592

Date: 9/16/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North Miami area
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 593

Date: 10/2/1953
Description: Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation titled "Flying Saucers Have Landed" to the Federation of Women's Clubs at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften the blow.
Type: lecture
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Lancaster, Ohio

Event 594

Date: 10/9/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at the Aerodex Management club
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 595

Date: 10/25/1953
Description: Jim Milligan, 16, was driving through a park when he saw something fall in front of his car and stopped as the object landed in some bushes. He walked toward it, found a craft that looked like two ship hulls, about 3 m long, 2 m wide glued together. When he tried to touch it, the object flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins A 223 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 119

Event 596

Date: 11/1953
Description: Mr. Trygve, Mrs. Bufflot and a neighbor saw an object rise from behind a hill, oscillate over a lake, follow their car, and stop ahead of them just above the ground. They stopped, felt "pricklings" until the craft took off vertically. A watch stopped working, and numerous people vouch for the fact that the paint on the car changed from dark beige to bright green.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 62; FSR 56, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Gjasjoen Bridge, Norway
Magnolia ID: 120

Event 597

Date: 11/2/1953
Description: Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR 200–2A.
Type: regulation
Reference: Pea Research

Event 598

Date: 11/10/1953
Description: A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 599

Date: 11/13/1953
Description: Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 600

Date: mid 11/1953
Description: Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes now at the AHC.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: CA

Event 601

Date: 12/1953
Description: Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it was held somewhere else.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: CA

Event 602

Date: 12/1953
Description: Mrs. Orfei heard a knock at the door in the middle of the night and obtained no answer when she asked who it was. When more furious knocks were heard, her Alsatian dog jumped toward the door, but suddenly retreated, trembling as if terrified and retired to a corner. Mrs. Orfei went to an upper door and saw two "indescribable" shadows go away from the house. A while later a big, round object took off 100 m away with a blue-green lightning. The police found broken bushes as evidence of an enormous weight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
Location: Sherbrook, Canada
Magnolia ID: 121

Event 603

Date: 12/8/1953
Description: CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”.
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, VA

Event 604

Date: Winter 1953
Description: Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane. Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to 70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round, thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Salisbury Plain, England

Event 605

Date: 12/31/1953
Description: Marines observed the landing of an unknown round object which throbbed and pulsated, emitting red lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 210 (Vallee)
Location: Quantico Marine Base, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 122

Event 606

Date: 1954
Description: US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.”
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 607

Date: 1954
Description: Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
Location: US
Attributes: Majestic

Event 608

Date: 1/1954
Description: Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 609

Date: 1/1954
Description: Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US government has an “object” under examination in California.
Type: radio
Reference: Medium
Location: California

Event 610

Date: 1/4/1954
Description: Mr. Chesneau, fireman, saw a round luminous object slowly coming down and called the control tower to report it. When he came out again, the object had disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Guieu (Vallee)
Location: Marignane Airport, France
Magnolia ID: 123

Event 611

Date: 1/24/1954
Description: Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/53 rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of several beings off a saucer.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 11/53
See also: 12/53

Event 612

Date: 2/1954
Description: A native was riding a horse over a low ridge when a spherial object about 13 m in diameter "nearly skittled me off my horse." It went up suddenly with a heavy wind, rumbling and emitting four columns of smoke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 211 (Vallee)
Location: Todd River Downs, Australia
Magnolia ID: 124

Event 613

Date: 2/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Forster stated they saw a craft on the ground, with a woman close by. She was wearing luminous clothing, a sort of hood, and thick glasses and held a tube in one hand and a box in the other. Mrs. Forster had to be taken to the hospital in a state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Barker (Vallee)
Location: Peakskill, New York
Magnolia ID: 125

Event 614

Date: 2/6/1954
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of 3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p495)
Location: Carswell AFB, TX

Event 615

Date: 2/15/1954
Description: Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston, England.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Coniston, England
Attributes: ufo photo

Event 616

Date: 2/18/1954
Description: Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from Mars and saucer.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 617

Date: 2/20/1954
Description: Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover story.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: book link
Location: Edwards AFB, CA
See also: 4/2/54

Event 618

Date: 2/24/1954
Description: Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH, military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans, after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off there, claimed Air Force permission to talk.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Miami, FL

Event 619

Date: 3/1954
Description: Rubem Hellwig was driving when he saw a football-shaped machine, the size of a Volkswagen, on the ground. He walked toward it and met two men of slim build, normal height, their faces brownish, wearing no helmets. One was inside the object while the other collected grass samples. They spoke to Hellwig in a strange language, and yet he said he understood they were asking for ammonia. He directed them to a nearby town. The craft vanished silently and instantly with blue and yellow flames.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 126

Event 620

Date: 3/1954
Description: Rubem Hellwig again saw a strange machine the next day. He observed a tall, faircomplexioned man and two women, who had light brown skin, long black hair, dark, slanted eyes. All three wore one-piece garments of a fabric resembling suede, with zippers. They told Hellwig that they were scientists, spoke of the natural riches of Brazil, and expressed surprise that he did not run away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 1; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 127

Event 621

Date: 3/1954
Description: Sec. of Air Force Talbott's aircraft paced by UFO over Fresno, CA
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Fresno, CA

Event 622

Date: 3/1/1954
Description: "Castle Bravo" hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States at 15mt.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 15

Event 623

Date: 3/11/1954
Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers.
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 624

Date: 4/1954
Description: SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document
Type: majestic document
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
See also: 12/1994

Event 625

Date: 4/12/1954
Description: Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert, NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter. There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between 4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark blue suite. Faces, under ‘copter spotlight, were light green with a luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security. Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer equip.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM)
Location: NM
See also: 2/10/54
See also: 4/24/54
See also: 3/7/55

Event 626

Date: 4/13/1954
Description: Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA. Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present according to witnesses.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/15/1954

Event 627

Date: 4/15/1954
Description: Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with others at Edwards AFB.
Type: public bulletin
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/13/1954

Event 628

Date: 4/22/1954
Description: American military personnel saw a cigar-shaped object of a gray color coming to the ground. Smoke was seen to rise where it landed, but a search yielded no results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: San Nicholas Island, California
Magnolia ID: 128

Event 629

Date: 4/24/1954
Description: Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in saucer.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Mt. View, MO

Event 630

Date: 4/24/1954
Description: A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A. (initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (RECOVERY)
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/12/54

Event 631

Date: 5/12/1954
Description: Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 632

Date: 5/15/1954
Description: Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the flying saucers: "If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed about!"
Type: statement
Reference: "My First 10,000,000 Sponsors" by Frank Edwards, page 123
Location: Amarillo, TX

Event 633

Date: 5/18/1954
Description: Two persons witnessed the landing of a lens-shaped object the size of a house. It came to the ground near the railroad tracks, kicking up a small sand storm in the desert. One witness first decided to approach it, then ran away in fear.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 129

Event 634

Date: 5/20/1954
Description: Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long time before).
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: California

Event 635

Date: 5/20/1954
Description: Nigel Frapple was cycling home from a dance in Wincanton. At Redlynch crossroads, he saw an orange glow in a field and observed it from a hedge. It came from a huge object 35 m away, less than 7 m above the ground, which made a throbbing sound. After 1 min, it moved toward the northwest, accelerating and climbing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 2; Humanoids 3 (Vallee)
Location: Bruton, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 130

Event 636

Date: 6/4/1954
Description: From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.”
Type: letter
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB

Event 637

Date: 6/9/1954
Description: Janet Brown, 16, and a 13-year-old friend heard a loud noise and saw a large, dark object that "burst into light" hovering 20 m away at the height of a factory gate. It was cylindrical, 10 m long, 5 m high, with a canopy on top. It flew away and was lost to sight behind some trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 216 (Vallee)
Location: East Dandenong, Australia
Magnolia ID: 131

Event 638

Date: 6/21/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Guy Baker saw a disk, about 14 m in diameter, with a dome and several rotating lights. They had to push their car, which could not be started until the object left the ground. They found a large, brown, circular spot in the pasture where the disk had been resting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 104 (Vallee)
Location: Ridgeway, Canada
Magnolia ID: 132

Event 639

Date: 6/29/1954
Description: A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at 19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15 minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada, for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were confiscated by USAF personnel.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Atlantic Ocean

Event 640

Date: 7/7/1954
Description: A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, object and entity had vanished. Investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keyhoe C 184 (Vallee)
Location: Garson, Canada
Magnolia ID: 133

Event 641

Date: 7/14/1954
Description: MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16, 1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm. Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon of the original form.
Type: majestic document
Reference: link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p84, majic)
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Majestic

Event 642

Date: 7/16/1954
Description: Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and President Eisenhower.
Type: secret meeting
Reference: Pea Research (MJ-4)
Location: Washington DC

Event 643

Date: 7/20/1954
Description: Near this city, two men were chased by an object and stopped their car to observe it. After the sighting, a watch stopped working and the paint on the car allegedly changed color.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 129; 3; cf. Case 120 (Vallee)
Location: Oslo, Norway
Magnolia ID: 134

Event 644

Date: 8/1954
Description: Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are inter planetary!”
Type: public statement
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 9/23/47
See also: 10/9/55

Event 645

Date: 8/1954
Description: Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired.
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 646

Date: 8/10/1954
Description: The Coupal childrm said that a brightly lighted object followed them to the farm. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise and speed off to the west. Grass was flattened over 15 m, with two tracks about 5 m long.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
Location: Hemmingford, Canada
Magnolia ID: 135

Event 647

Date: 8/12/1954
Description: New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff, USAF.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p489)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 8/26/1953

Event 648

Date: 8/12/1954
Description: EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft. above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th, Ft. Genning, GA.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p493)
Location: Maxwell AFB

Event 649

Date: 8/21/1954
Description: Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Event 650

Date: 8/23/1954
Description: Approximate date. A strange object hovered low over the house of Mr. Lucas and left straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 4 (Vallee)
Location: Varennes, near Diges, France
Magnolia ID: 136

Event 651

Date: 8/23/1954
Description: Elise Blanc approached an object looking like an aluminum trailer with two small beings in silvery dress, grunting like pigs, standing close by. The craft took on a fiery color and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 129 (Vallee)
Location: Lugrin, near Thonon, France
Magnolia ID: 137

Event 652

Date: 8/25/1954
Description: Two girls in Norway meet spaceman.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Norway

Event 653

Date: 8/27/1954
Description: A wingless flying object was seen by Bill Supa, an employee of the Caswell Construction Co. It landed about 2 km way from the witness, who approached within 300 m before it took off and flew away. Grass was flattened where it had landed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
Location: Boston Creek, Canada
Magnolia ID: 138

Event 654

Date: 8/28/1954
Description: Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three men get out.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Quebec, Canada

Event 655

Date: 8/28/1954
Description: Two boys saw a craft land and two or three men come out. No details given.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 277 (Vallee)
Location: Quebec, Canada
Magnolia ID: 139

Event 656

Date: 8/30/1954
Description: Sgt. Durdle saw a brilliant, circular object flying across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hanging down from a central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When it tilted, the witness was able to observe regulatorlike devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages, which looked like necklaces, were hanging from the craft. Durdle woke up four Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 227 (Vallee)
Location: North Bay, Canada
Magnolia ID: 140

Event 657

Date: 9/3/1954
Description: Many workers in the fields 12 km south of the town saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on edge, and swing like a pendulum a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 5 (Vallee)
Location: Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia
Magnolia ID: 141

Event 658

Date: 9/7/1954
Description: Between Harponville and Contay, two bricklayers, Emile Renard, 27, and Yves Degillerboz, 23 saw an object floating in mid-air over a field: "It looked like an unfinished haystack, with a plate turned upside down on top of it." When they approached, it took off. Diameter 10 m, height 3 m. A kind of door was noticed. The observation lasted over 3 min. The object released smoke when it departed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 6; M 35 (Vallee)
Location: Harponville, France
Magnolia ID: 142

Event 659

Date: 9/10/1954
Description: A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, 34, came out of his house as a dog was barking and saw a dark object on the railroad tracks, then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself paralyzed as a strong orange light was projected at him.The creatures were under 1 m tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits. No face or arms were visible. Traces made by an object of estimated weight 30 tons were noted by French Air Force and police on the ballast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 8; M 44; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Quarouble, France
Magnolia ID: 144

Event 660

Date: 9/10/1954
Description: A farmer, Mr. Mazaud was walking home when he was suddenly confronted with a helmeted being of average height who made friendly gestures, then went back into the brush, entered a cigar-shaped object about 4 m long, which took off toward Limoges. A few minutes later witnesses in Limoges reported a disk-shaped, red object leaving a bluish trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 7; M 40 (Vallee)
Location: Mourieras, France
Magnolia ID: 143

Event 661

Date: 9/14/1954
Description: John J. Swain, 12, was driving a tractor back from the fields when he saw a small man no bigger than a 5-year-old child a few meters away from him. He had a long nose and long ears and seemed to "fly" when he moved toward a saucershaped craft hovering less than 2 m above ground. It "opened up" and the creature "popped inside." The craft became luminous and went out of sight. Strange traces were found by police. The creature was dressed in shiny clothes, and his shoes seemed to have "fins." He carried two cylinders on his back and had long, pointed ears.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 9; Humanoids 53; Wilkins U 239 (Vallee)
Location: Coldwater, Kansas
Magnolia ID: 145

Event 662

Date: 9/15/1954
Description: A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., 19, who observed that it came from a large, dark object 10 m above ground. It flew away with the noise of a wet firework, throwing magnesiumlike sparks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 10; M 49 (Vallee)
Location: Feyzin, France
Magnolia ID: 146

Event 663

Date: 9/17/1954
Description: Between Cenon and Vouneuil, Yves David, 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. He was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter an object on the road, about 3 m by 1 m in size; it took off "like lightning," throwing a greenish light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 11; M 58 (Vallee)
Location: Cenon, France
Magnolia ID: 147

Event 664

Date: 9/18/1954
Description: A small gray disk flew over a car at very high speed, followed by cold air currents. This was reported by Mr. Guitta of Casablana.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos (Vallee)
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Magnolia ID: 148

Event 665

Date: 9/19/1954
Description: A bright light was seen in the east, came to the ground, lost its brightness, remained on the spot about 40 sec. It was the size of a small bus, and there was a figure in front of it. It rose and took on the appearance of a red ball.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 12; M 63 (Vallee)
Location: Oberdorff, France
Magnolia ID: 149

Event 666

Date: 9/20/1954
Description: A guard saw a craft, 3.5 m in diameter and 1.5 m thick, land on the airfield. The witness, Vitorino Lourenco Monteiro, said a figure emerged from the craft and said something he could not understand, before taking off again. There were antennalike protrusions on top of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria Airport, Azores
Magnolia ID: 150

Event 667

Date: 9/23/1954
Description: Mrs. Vignolles saw a luminous object come down rapidly, without noise, and land in a field near the church. It took off very fast a few seconds later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 15; M 77 (Vallee)
Location: Lencouacq, France
Magnolia ID: 152

Event 668

Date: 9/23/1954
Description: The Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object giving off a magnesiumlike light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 13; M 69 (Vallee)
Location: Le Jou, France
Magnolia ID: 151

Event 669

Date: 9/24/1954
Description: Mr. Cisterne, who was coming back with his tractor, saw a luminous object fly very low over him. Two other witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 16;M 76 (Vallee)
Location: Farm Lachassagne, near Ussel, France
Magnolia ID: 155

Event 670

Date: 9/24/1954
Description: Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 m tall, dressed in shiny clothes, emerge from a landed craft and gather flowers, shrubs, and twigs in a shiny box, then take off. They seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 55, 245; 24 (Vallee)
Location: Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal
Magnolia ID: 154

Event 671

Date: 9/24/1954
Description: Two women (Widow Geoffroy and Miss Gisele Fin) made independent reports of a dark gray disk, 6 m in diameter, 1 m high, seen in a clearing. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and a kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 m of the craft and stated the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 14; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
Location: Becar, near Diges and "Les Michauts" or "Les Jolivets", France
Magnolia ID: 153

Event 672

Date: 9/26/1954
Description: Mrs. Leboeuf was suddenly confronted with a creature resembling "a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes." This creature entered a flat, circular machine, which took off toward the northeast with a soft whistling. Traces. Witnesses in state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 17; Carrouges 116; Anatomy 70; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Chabeuil, France
Magnolia ID: 156

Event 673

Date: 9/27/1954
Description: A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. Witness in a state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 19;M 88 (Vallee)
Location: Perpignan, France
Magnolia ID: 159

Event 674

Date: 9/27/1954
Description: Children saw "a box" and "an unknown man" standing nearby. The object took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Figeac, France
Magnolia ID: 158

Event 675

Date: 9/27/1954
Description: At "Revety," people in a bus saw a reddish light coming down. Later Mr. and Mrs. Roche noticed an object on the ground, softly glowing, a short distance from their home, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as "a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 18; M 84; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
Location: Foussignargues, France
Magnolia ID: 157

Event 676

Date: 9/27/1954
Description: Four children came out of their home as dog barked furiously. They found a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in the yard. Raymond Romand, 12, threw stones at the intruder.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 20; Challenge 170 (Vallee)
Location: Premanon, France
Magnolia ID: 160

Event 677

Date: 9/28/1954
Description: At "Le Grand Tertre" Mr. Mercier observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the "robbers." He was amazed when he saw a luminous mass fall from the sky about 50 m away, and found himself "paralyzed" as three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 22; M 97 (Vallee)
Location: Bouzais, France
Magnolia ID: 162

Event 678

Date: 9/28/1954
Description: At "La Butte Rouge" two railroad engineers, Bernard and Potraux, who were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray, saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 15 sec before veering off. Potraux had to see a doctor.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 23; M 95; Anatomy 70 (Vallee)
Location: Saint Nicolas de Redon, France
Magnolia ID: 163

Event 679

Date: 9/28/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot and Georgette Mongot observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 21; M 94 (Vallee)
Location: Froncles, France
Magnolia ID: 161

Event 680

Date: 9/30/1954
Description: While driving to work, Lawrence Cardenas, 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight-fitting skull caps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be giving them instructions. About 80 m away was a craft 4 m high with colored lights flickering on and off. The witness did not wait.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 230 (Vallee)
Location: Dearborn, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 164

Event 681

Date: 9/30/1954
Description: Georges Gatay and seven construction workers saw a disk at ground level, with a humanoid standing close by. Both vanished in a very strange manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 25; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France
Magnolia ID: 165

Event 682

Date: 9/30/1954
Description: At sea between Brest and Roven, the crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed an object touch the surface of the sea, then take off vertically and give off a red flame before being lost to view.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 26 (Vallee)
Location: Brest, France
Magnolia ID: 166

Event 683

Date: 9/30/1954
Description: Jean Andrieux, ferry operator, saw a large white sphere, with a smaller green sphere below, hang motionless above the Seine for 20 min. Two witnesses. It eventually flew away to the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 27 (Vallee)
Location: Grand-Couronne, France
Magnolia ID: 167

Event 684

Date: 9/30/1954
Description: As he was returning home near La Flotte-en-Re, Celeste Simonutti saw a bright light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 m in diameter hovering at 1 m altitude, turning red, blue, and taking off. Two other witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 28 (Vallee)
Location: Isle of Re, France
Magnolia ID: 168

Event 685

Date: 10/1954
Description: Project "Magnet" discontinued
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Canada

Event 686

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: A woman reported to police she had seen a luminous disk leaving a long trail. It landed in a field, then took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 29; Challenge 132 (Vallee)
Location: Dhubri, India
Magnolia ID: 169

Event 687

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: Returning home, fireman Jean Dufix, 26, saw an oval light in the sky and thought it was a shooting star. Later he was alarmed when his yard seemed to be ablaze. Rushing out again, he saw a disk rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and took off at fantastic speed. A neighbor, Jean Labonne, 61, saw the disk, 3 m in diameter, resting on three legs in the yard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 31 (Vallee)
Location: Bergerac, France
Magnolia ID: 176

Event 688

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: Coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of "mushroom" on top. As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Branges, near Louhans, France
Magnolia ID: 175

Event 689

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: Near Saint Jan d'Angely, two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man cross ing the road in front of their car. Having stopped, they saw the figure disappear into the woods.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 28 (Vallee)
Location: La Roulerie, France
Magnolia ID: 174

Event 690

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: Two young men saw a luminous white disk moving in the sky. It dived to the ground and two men, described as being very tall and dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Jussey, France
Magnolia ID: 173

Event 691

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: Approximate date. A farmer saw a white craft in a field. Flattened grass was later found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Ressons-sur-Matz, France
Magnolia ID: 172

Event 692

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: Two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object 3 m long, 80 cm wide, which took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 30 (Vallee)
Location: Blanzy, France
Magnolia ID: 170

Event 693

Date: 10/1/1954
Description: A man and his dog were "paralyzed" as a luminous white object dived toward them and climbed again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bry, France
Magnolia ID: 171

Event 694

Date: 10/2/1954
Description: At the Bourg du Cerisier, two women (Janiki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disk about 3 m in diameter had flown very low over the village.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 32 (Vallee)
Location: Levroux, France
Magnolia ID: 177

Event 695

Date: 10/2/1954
Description: Two creatures were seen on the ground, and two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at very low altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Jonches, France
Magnolia ID: 178

Event 696

Date: 10/2/1954
Description: A disk emitting a weak green glow landed in a field. Witnesses: Messrs. Domant and Gilcher.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 105 (Vallee)
Location: Guebling, France
Magnolia ID: 181

Event 697

Date: 10/2/1954
Description: A mechanic, Ernest Delattre, 19, was riding home on his motor scooter when an egg-shaped object, brilliantly illuminated, landed on the left side of the road 15 m away. He saw short, dark shapes "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Croix d'Epine, France
Magnolia ID: 180

Event 698

Date: 10/2/1954
Description: In the immediate vicinity of case 175, Mr. Nicolas saw a craft with a dome on top, on the ground between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings a strong yellow light shone.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 33;M 109 (Vallee)
Location: Louhans, France
Magnolia ID: 179

Event 699

Date: 10/3/1954
Description: Between Rue and Quend on Road D27, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a honeycomb, on the road ahead of them. A strange "man" wearing a diving suit was standing close to it. When they got within 70 m of it, the object took off very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 3Z; M 118 (Vallee)
Location: Vron, France
Magnolia ID: 183

Event 700

Date: 10/3/1954
Description: Angelo Girardo, 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work when he saw a circular craft 3 m diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 32; M 130 (Vallee)
Location: Bressuire, France
Magnolia ID: 182

Event 701

Date: 10/3/1954
Description: Near La Rochelle. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, 2.5 m high, 5 m diameter, hover for several minutes 1 m above ground, then rise vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 34; M 131 (Vallee)
Location: Benet, France
Magnolia ID: 187

Event 702

Date: 10/3/1954
Description: A circular craft was seen by Jean Allary between Montmoreau and Villebois-Lavalette. It seemed to be gliding on the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.20 m high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area 7 m across.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 36; M 130 (Vallee)
Location: Ronsenac, France
Magnolia ID: 186

Event 703

Date: 10/3/1954
Description: Less than 3 hrs after case 183, an orange object chased a car for 8 km, then flew away toward the sea. Witness: Georges Galant, a butcher.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 35; M 116 (Vallee)
Location: Quend, France
Magnolia ID: 185

Event 704

Date: 10/3/1954
Description: The crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot, it took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 113 (Vallee)
Location: Chereng, France
Magnolia ID: 184

Event 705

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: Ten-year-old Bertiaux saw an object "like a tent" and an unknown man near it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Villers-le-Tilleul, France
Magnolia ID: 193

Event 706

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: At Les Chavannes, about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. It took off vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
Location: Montceau-les-Mines, France
Magnolia ID: 192

Event 707

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seems to be the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, emitting light
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 38;M 139 (Vallee)
Location: Tregon, France
Magnolia ID: 191

Event 708

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: A farmer, Mr. Garreau, saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said something like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 37; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Chaleix, France
Magnolia ID: 190

Event 709

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck betwem Lagrasse and Villemagne when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 m diameter and took off with a burst of light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 35 (Vallee)
Location: Lezignan, France
Magnolia ID: 189

Event 710

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 35 (Vallee)
Location: Limoges, France
Magnolia ID: 188

Event 711

Date: 10/4/1954
Description: Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 m in diameter swung in mid-air and landed near her farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 37; M 134; Anatomy 71 (Vallee)
Location: Poncey-sur-Lignon, France
Magnolia ID: 194

Event 712

Date: 10/5/1954
Description: A fisherman met with a red-clad being who spoke an unknown language. No details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Roverbello, Italy
Magnolia ID: 195

Event 713

Date: 10/5/1954
Description: Ten km from here, several persons saw an object coming toward them and getting brighter. When it was about 150 m away, they felt "a strange sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzine.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 34; Challenge 53 (Vallee)
Location: Beaumont, France
Magnolia ID: 199

Event 714

Date: 10/5/1954
Description: A roadmender, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight-fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigarshaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 38, 39 (Vallee)
Location: Mertrud, France
Magnolia ID: 198

Event 715

Date: 10/5/1954
Description: East of Le Mans on Route N23, Renault employees were going to work when they saw near the road a luminous object on the ground and felt "pricklings and a sort of paralysis." The object emitted a burst of green light and flew away very low over the fields.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 42; Vuillequez; M 143 (Vallee)
Location: Le Mans, France
Magnolia ID: 197

Event 716

Date: 10/5/1954
Description: A baker, P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular, about 3 m diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval face covered with hair and eyes "as large as raven eggs" who touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf went away, and the object took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 34 (Vallee)
Location: Loctudy, France
Magnolia ID: 196

Event 717

Date: 10/6/1954
Description: Two women (Mrs. Salabrino and her daughter) saw a whitish light in the western sky. It seemed slowly to come toward the ground, and was later seen between the railroad station and the bridge 100 m away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment and flew away rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 138 (Vallee)
Location: Villers-le-Lac, France
Magnolia ID: 202

Event 718

Date: 10/6/1954
Description: Near the military barracks, soldiers saw a strange object on the ground 300 m away. As one of them approached the torpedo-shaped object, which was about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: La Fere, France
Magnolia ID: 201

Event 719

Date: 10/6/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Laroche, from Paris, saw a fiery sphere landing near Chantonnay.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 40 (Vallee)
Location: Monchamps, France
Magnolia ID: 200

Event 720

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: A railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object 3 m in diameter, in a field 3 m away from Route N16 and 1 m above ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about 5 m above the witness, following him to the next village.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41; M 143 (Vallee)
Location: Jettingen, France
Magnolia ID: 206

Event 721

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: On Route N138, a truckdriver, Mr. Tremblay, saw an intense, blue light coming toward him. The object producing it was cigarshaped, red and blue. Engine and headlights died.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41;M 143 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Jean-d'Asse, France
Magnolia ID: 207

Event 722

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: R. Margaillan saw an object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 m in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt "paralyzed."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 145; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Monteux, France
Magnolia ID: 208

Event 723

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: Etienne-sous-Barbuise (France). Marcel Guyot was coming from work near this village, and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 min later. Both saw, at a railroad crossing, three objects on the ground that gave a bright white light. One was circular, the others cigar-shaped.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 42; M 146 (Vallee)
Location: St
Magnolia ID: 209

Event 724

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 43; M 146 (Vallee)
Location: Bompas, France
Magnolia ID: 210

Event 725

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: The two Lanssellin children witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object shaped like a half-egg, and saw two occupants who looked like normal men.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 145 (Vallee)
Location: Hennezis, France
Magnolia ID: 203

Event 726

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: A farmer, Mr. Thebault, saw a luminous object, 2 or 3 m in diameter, emitting a beam of light which swept the countryside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41; M 142 (Vallee)
Location: Beruges, France
Magnolia ID: 205

Event 727

Date: 10/7/1954
Description: The crew of several fishing boats saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 m of the ground, then flew away to the southeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 41; M 140 (Vallee)
Location: Plozevet, France
Magnolia ID: 204

Event 728

Date: 10/8/1954
Description: Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street, was on the second floor of his house when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air 2O m away. lights were shining from the rear and the sides of the craft, inside which could be seen a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask with a trunk like an elephant. "I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 52, 58 (Vallee)
Location: Teheran, Iran
Magnolia ID: 211

Event 729

Date: 10/8/1954
Description: On the road to Boulogne a bluish object, clearly seen with a dome on top, dived toward the ground, became white and went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 44, 45;M 154 (Vallee)
Location: Calais,, France
Magnolia ID: 212

Event 730

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Willi Hoge, a projectionist, saw four occupants of an object that had come to ground level 70 m from the road. He was returning home when he observed a blue light and thought an airplane had made an emergency landing. The object was cigar-shaped, and four men wearing rubber coveralls were working under it. They were about 1.2 m tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 47 (Vallee)
Location: Rinkerode, Germany
Magnolia ID: 217

Event 731

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere on the road ahead. The top half seemed to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were standing inside. It took off rapidly, flying east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 48; M 145 (Vallee)
Location: Carcassonne, France
Magnolia ID: 219

Event 732

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes, walked on the road for one minute and went into the forest. The witness was "paralyzed" throughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 45, 48; M 153; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Lavoux, France
Magnolia ID: 221

Event 733

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Four children-Gilbert Calda, 12; Daniel Hirsch, 9; J. P. Hirsch, 5; and Robed Maguin 16-were roller-skating when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 m in diameter, standing on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 m tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them, and said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 49; M 154; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Pournoy-la-Chetive, France
Magnolia ID: 220

Event 734

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 46; M 154 (Vallee)
Location: Soubran, France
Magnolia ID: 216

Event 735

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: People out hunting saw a luminous sphere take off and fly toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 153 (Vallee)
Location: Dreux, France
Magnolia ID: 215

Event 736

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Near the Landeforet pool, Christain Carette saw for 10 sec a fiery sphere flying at treetop level. Diameter: 4 m. Protuberance on top.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 48;M 152 (Vallee)
Location: Beauvain, France
Magnolia ID: 218

Event 737

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: A mailman saw a cigar-shaped object land. Twn silhouettes "approximately human" were seen aboard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 45; M 154 (Vallee)
Location: Huy, Belgium
Magnolia ID: 213

Event 738

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: On Route N631 at "La Caiffe," a technician, J. P. Mitto, was coming back from Toulouse with two other persons when they saw two small figures, the height of 11-year-old children, cross the road about 5 m in front of the car and jump into a pasture. Stopping immediately, the witnesess saw a large convex disk take off vertically. It was about 6 m in diameter, orange in color and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 43, 50 (Vallee)
Location: Briatexte, France
Magnolia ID: 222

Event 739

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: Between Montaren and Serviers, 1 km from "Le Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in mid-air. It was very bright and "fiery," and it came very low.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Montaren, France
Magnolia ID: 214

Event 740

Date: 10/9/1954
Description: The local representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an object give off a white light and land. It took off vertically, with a spinning motion, and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 51 (Vallee)
Location: Beirut, Lebanon
Magnolia ID: 223

Event 741

Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Roger Gayout and family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Saillat-sur-Vienne, France
Magnolia ID: 229

Event 742

Date: 10/10/1954
Description: A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disk about 7 m in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 m to the side of the road. Spinning, it dived to the ground from an altitude of about 800 m, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 55, 57 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France
Magnolia ID: 228

Event 743

Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Roger Thiriet, jailer in Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminum colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome and two portholes. It was about 2 m in diameter and 1 m high. It took off immediately.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 54 (Vallee)
Location: Charmes-la-Cote, France
Magnolia ID: 227

Event 744

Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Second landing here, seen by Marius Dewilde (cf. Case 144) and his 4-year-old son. A disk, 6 m diameter, about 1 m high, landed again on the tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Quarouble, France
Magnolia ID: 226

Event 745

Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Between Epoisses and Toutry, Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, topographers saw a luminous sphere 3.5 m diameter on the ground near Route N454.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Epoisses, France
Magnolia ID: 225

Event 746

Date: 10/10/1954
Description: Approximate date. Many farmers observed the landing of a "marvelous luminous object," hemispherical in shape, emitting multicolored beams. The central part appeared to be metallic. The object shot straight up suddenly and vanished while the crowd watched.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Creighton; 52 (Vallee)
Location: Mahallat, Persia
Magnolia ID: 224

Event 747

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about 2 m in size. It stayed within 25 m of the car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 58; M 158 (Vallee)
Location: Lacanche, France
Magnolia ID: 233

Event 748

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Farmers awakened by a whistling sound saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose very fast, vertically, and flew away. The ground was found calcined. Samples were taken by police officials for analysis.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 56 (Vallee)
Location: Doncourt-Village, France
Magnolia ID: 230

Event 749

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron who were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny felt an "electric shock" as the car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 m away. It was cylindrical, fairly thick, and three dwarfs were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point. Both witnesses were "paralyzed" until the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 57; M 158 (Vallee)
Location: Sassier, near La Carie, France
Magnolia ID: 234

Event 750

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other persons saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 56; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Heimersdorf, France
Magnolia ID: 235

Event 751

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk, was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the headlights came on again and he was able to restart his truck.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 57 (Vallee)
Location: Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, France
Magnolia ID: 232

Event 752

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: A large red object was seen flying very fast at treetop level while cattle panicked. Three witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Bauquay, France
Magnolia ID: 236

Event 753

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: A large disk flying very low over a road scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into the fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 59 (Vallee)
Location: Lavarande, Algeria
Magnolia ID: 237

Event 754

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Three men driving near Taupignac got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round machine with a dome, 6 m diameter, giving off a yellowred light, 200 m away at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, 1 m tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses wae blinded by a sudden burst of light, blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Taupignac, France
Magnolia ID: 238

Event 755

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac, saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 160 (Vallee)
Location: Birac, France
Magnolia ID: 239

Event 756

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: A round craft, 4 m diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light, took off with a formidable acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; Mr. Gardelle, farmer; Mr. Ginestre, shoemaker; and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt "an electric shock."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 60, 61; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Montbazens, France
Magnolia ID: 240

Event 757

Date: 10/11/1954
Description: Two men riding motorcycles saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 m high, hovered 1 m above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 m high, then it remained motionless for about 1 hr, during which time a third witness joined the first two. It ultimately turned brighter and flew away toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 55; M 162 (Vallee)
Location: Acquigny, France
Magnolia ID: 231

Event 758

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: A railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a torpedo-shaped, metallic craft on the ground near a gas-oil tank. An individual covered with hair was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing disappeared in the meantime.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 63; M 167 (Vallee)
Location: Montlucon, France
Magnolia ID: 243

Event 759

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: Jan Marty, 42, mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a luminous disk about 6.5 m diameter and 2.5 m thick, land. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
Location: Leguevin, France
Magnolia ID: 244

Event 760

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: Gilbert Lelay, 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar in a pasture and a man near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Carrouges 103; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Sainte-Marie d'Herblay, France
Magnolia ID: 245

Event 761

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: A businessman, Mr. Vielle, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier when he saw a circular flying craft, which gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and rose again in the sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 167 (Vallee)
Location: Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France
Magnolia ID: 246

Event 762

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: Roger Ramond, a nightwatchman saw a great light and noticed an oval object which landed 300 m away. It looked like a fieryorange ball, illuminated the vinyard for nearly 3 hrs, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 m above ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 64; M 168 (Vallee)
Location: Vielmur, France
Magnolia ID: 247

Event 763

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey saw a dwarf about 1.2 m in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62 (Vallee)
Location: Mamora Forest, Morocco
Magnolia ID: 241

Event 764

Date: 10/12/1954
Description: A farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. It glided over the road for 30 m, then rose rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 167; Carrouges 98 (Vallee)
Location: Orchamps, France
Magnolia ID: 242

Event 765

Date: 10/13/1954
Description: At Donjon de Montlaur, five persons, among them J. Dubois, saw a round craft maneuver, give off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to land far from them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Crocq, France
Magnolia ID: 248

Event 766

Date: 10/13/1954
Description: Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish disk about 4 m diameter with a small being close by, about 1.2 rn tall, wearing a diving suit: "His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass." The craft was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the men came within 2O m of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing him to the ground, and rose very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62, 63 (Vallee)
Location: Bourrasole, France
Magnolia ID: 249

Event 767

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: In Erchin Wood, Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 143; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Lewarde, France
Magnolia ID: 252

Event 768

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: A municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Several persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only 6 m away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 65 (Vallee)
Location: Biot, France
Magnolia ID: 253

Event 769

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: A farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several persons in Angles observed the scene.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62 (Vallee)
Location: Angles, France
Magnolia ID: 254

Event 770

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at 4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England, two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: North Weald Airfield, Essex, England

Event 771

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: A farmer observed an orange sphere land and went near it. He found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 m in diameter, and gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 m. It was transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 min it flew north, while a bright cloud slowly fell to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62; M 174 (Vallee)
Location: Meral, France
Magnolia ID: 255

Event 772

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous orange object on the ground near a corn field.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 175 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Germain-du-Bois, France
Magnolia ID: 256

Event 773

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: South of Gueugnon, Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 175) Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
Location: Chazey Wood, France
Magnolia ID: 257

Event 774

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. In the same area an engineer saw a luminous object coming down rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Romain, France
Magnolia ID: 259

Event 775

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: On the road between Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Thieulloy-la-Ville, France
Magnolia ID: 260

Event 776

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Andre Cognard, coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light as a diskshaped object flew low over his car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 130 (Vallee)
Location: Chazey Wood, France
Magnolia ID: 258

Event 777

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: Several witnesses saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Ambroix, France
Magnolia ID: 250

Event 778

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: A man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. Coming near, he observed it was an object 5 m long, near which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 m away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 52 (Vallee)
Location: Shamsabad, Iran
Magnolia ID: 251

Event 779

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside; it then emitted lights of various colors.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 54, 68; M 181 (Vallee)
Location: Isbergues, France
Magnolia ID: 268

Event 780

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked back.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 182; Humanoids 4; FSR 62, 12 (Vallee)
Location: Southend, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 267

Event 781

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: A yellow, cigarshaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering the head could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Nimes-Courbessac Airfield, France
Magnolia ID: 266

Event 782

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: Farmers saw a disk-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 65; M 181 (Vallee)
Location: Po-di-Gnocca, Italy
Magnolia ID: 265

Event 783

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: An ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two caught fire.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 83 (Vallee)
Location: Luino, Italy
Magnolia ID: 264

Event 784

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: A baker saw a brilliant yellow craft descend rapidly and land on the railroad tracks. It was shaped like a mushroom, about 4 m diameter, 2 m high.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 62; M 180 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Pierre-Halte, France
Magnolia ID: 263

Event 785

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: A farmer leading cows to a pond suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, throwing a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The witness ran to the house and fainted; three other persons saw the craft depart. Dark, surrounded by short blue and yellow flames, the object was egg-shaped, flew 15 m above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over, while the cattle suffered burns.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 67; Plantier 104 (Vallee)
Location: Boaria, Italy
Magnolia ID: 262

Event 786

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: Truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disk followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 69; M 182 (Vallee)
Location: Fouesnant, France
Magnolia ID: 269

Event 787

Date: 10/15/1954
Description: Near the swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Damien Figueres, 56, was walking with his dogs when a reddish, luminous sphere landed 30 m away and an individual in a diving suit walked around it. The dogs barked at him. He boarded the machine, and it flew away in silence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 65; Carrouges 120 (Vallee)
Location: Perpignan, France
Magnolia ID: 261

Event 788

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Guy Puyfourcat, 22, who was coming back from the fields, leading a mare by the bridle, was surprised when the animal became restless. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 m in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about 3 m in the air, and the witness had to release the bridle. Then the animal fell like a mass and for 10 min was unable to move. At last, it rose and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Cier-de-Riviere, France
Magnolia ID: 272

Event 789

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52-E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt "paralyzed." He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2.5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 70;M 198 (Vallee)
Location: Mazaye, France
Magnolia ID: 273

Event 790

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Approximate date. An object landed about 30 m away from a woman, who fainted. The witness suffered from a skin disease following the incident.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
Location: Thin le Moutiers, France
Magnolia ID: 271

Event 791

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Two objects were seen, one of which made a pass at treetop level. It top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 84 (Vallee)
Location: Quasso, Italy
Magnolia ID: 270

Event 792

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared phosphorescent and of large size. It took off very suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 83 (Vallee)
Location: Siena, Italy
Magnolia ID: 276

Event 793

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Dr. Robert, while driving through this village, saw four objects, at about 300 m altitude, flying slowly in echelon formation. Suddenly one of them dropped to the ground with a dead-leaf motion, 100 m away. The witness felt an electric shock as engine and headlights died, and the car stopped when the object touched the ground. Incapable of moving, Dr. Robert saw a figure about 1.2 m tall moving in the light of the object, then all went dark. Some time later the headlights resumed operation by themselves, and Dr. Robert saw the craft take off toward the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 71; M 185 (Vallee)
Location: Baillolet, France
Magnolia ID: 274

Event 794

Date: 10/16/1954
Description: Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 m diameter, 2 m high, come within 4 m of the ground for 3 or 4 min. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended for 4 m around.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Dompierre, France
Magnolia ID: 275

Event 795

Date: 10/17/1954
Description: On Capri, an artist Raffael Castelle, saw a disk 5 m in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte. Upon approaching it, he discovered it was not a helicopter and saw four dwarfs wearing coveralIs emerge from it. After 30 min the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 72 (Vallee)
Location: Cape Massulo, Italy
Magnolia ID: 281

Event 796

Date: 10/17/1954
Description: A hunter, Manuel Madeira, saw an object, which flew away as he approached it, rose in the sky, and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: O Alvito, Portugal
Magnolia ID: 278

Event 797

Date: 10/17/1954
Description: Leon B., a city council member, saw a circular, orange craft take off from the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Cyr-sur-Mer, France
Magnolia ID: 277

Event 798

Date: 10/17/1954
Description: Several witnesses, among them Mr. Beuclair a policeman, saw a bright red domeshaped object descend to ground level 20 m away. The underside showed red and white lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 188 (Vallee)
Location: Varigney, France
Magnolia ID: 280

Event 799

Date: 10/17/1954
Description: A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog, near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River, when he saw a gray object, about 4 m long and 1 m high on the ground and 40 m away. It showed a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partialIy paralyzed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Cabasson, France
Magnolia ID: 279

Event 800

Date: 10/18/1954
Description: Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 73; M 196 (Vallee)
Location: Pont l'Abbe d'Arnoult, France
Magnolia ID: 283

Event 801

Date: 10/18/1954
Description: J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light, resting in a field. When they approached it, the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew to the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 70; M 198 (Vallee)
Location: Cisternes-la-Foret, France
Magnolia ID: 282

Event 802

Date: 10/18/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a cigar-shaped red object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted with a bulky human figure, about 1 m tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 km.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Fontenay-Torcy, France
Magnolia ID: 284

Event 803

Date: 10/18/1954
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two disks in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous "bridge" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 74 (Vallee)
Location: Royan, France
Magnolia ID: 285

Event 804

Date: 10/18/1954
Description: Miss Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near the old factory. Near it were three beings: two, dwarfs, crossed the road ahead of her; the third was a man of medium size. The craft took off, flying over the lake at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 197; LDLN 97; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Point Lake, France
Magnolia ID: 286

Event 805

Date: 10/19/1954
Description: Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field. Out of them came small, red, monstrous beings who chased him. In a state of great excitement Senesi was brought to a hospital, where he tried to hide under a bed, screaming and trembling in terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 85 (Vallee)
Location: Livorno, Italy
Magnolia ID: 287

Event 806

Date: 10/19/1954
Description: Two men saw a disk-shaped object, 6 m diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of it was a very high antenna. Two small robotlike beings, 1.2 m tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were "sharp" and dark red. They said something that sounded like "Dbano da skigyay o dbano," went back aboard their craft, and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 87 (Vallee)
Location: Fabriano, Italy
Magnolia ID: 289

Event 807

Date: 10/19/1954
Description: Filippo Corridoni saw a half-empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River. Near it, a disk 10 m in diameter was resting on a strange frame. The upper part was white with a black domelike turret, around which was a series of portholes, some illuminated with a very bright, bluish-white light, which suddenly went out as the object took off spinning and rising vertically, pulling the balloon with it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 86 (Vallee)
Location: Gorizia, Italy
Magnolia ID: 288

Event 808

Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Lucien Fisch saw an object land near Route N83. It was luminous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; 75 (Vallee)
Location: Issenheim, France
Magnolia ID: 290

Event 809

Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Forty-year-old Lazlo Ujvari was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and cloth headgear (like a pilot's) who pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language, asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said: "2:30." The man took his watch and said "You lie; it's 4:00." Then he wanted to know how far and in what direction Marseilles was. He made Ujvari walk on the road with him, and they came close to a gray craft with an antenna on top. When he was about 200 m away, he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Carrouges 99; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Raon-l'Etage, France
Magnolia ID: 291

Event 810

Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Roger Reveille saw an oval object, 6 m long, at treetop level, and felt intense heat from it. It took off vertically at great speed. Inside the woods, the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke was forming under the rain. After 15 min the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy; M 204 (Vallee)
Location: Lusigny Forest, France
Magnolia ID: 292

Event 811

Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Several unknown objects maneuvered for 2 hrs near this village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. Two others were seen near the cliff in Mers, and seemed to be in communication by means of light signals with objects in another group.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 75 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Valery, France
Magnolia ID: 293

Event 812

Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Mr. Schoubrenner, 25, a truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: "My hands were as though glued to the wheel." The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, the top luminous with a yellow or orange point.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 76; M 204 (Vallee)
Location: Turquenstein, France
Magnolia ID: 294

Event 813

Date: 10/20/1954
Description: Renzo Pugina, 37, bad just put his car in the garage when he saw a strange being covered with a "scaly" luminous suit, about 1.3 m tall, standing near a tree. The creature aimed the beam from a sort of flashlight at him, and he felt paralyzed, until a motion he made when clenching his fist on the garage keys seemed to free him. He attacked the intruder, who rose and fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 77;Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Panavicino d'Erba, Italy
Magnolia ID: 295

Event 814

Date: 10/21/1954
Description: Between Serifere and Paille, a man from Cherbonnieres suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 80; M 341 (Vallee)
Location: Pouzou, France
Magnolia ID: 300

Event 815

Date: 10/21/1954
Description: The car driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonnau, stoped as a large ball of fire flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. "The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out." Thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 79 (Vallee)
Location: Criteuil-la-Madeleine, France
Magnolia ID: 299

Event 816

Date: 10/21/1954
Description: Near Shrewsbury, Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a diskshaped, aluminum object hovering above the house. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene "sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Ranton, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 298

Event 817

Date: 10/21/1954
Description: A young man walking in a field heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot with a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 m away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 88 (Vallee)
Location: Melito, Italy
Magnolia ID: 297

Event 818

Date: 10/21/1954
Description: An egg-shaped object, about 5.5 m diameter, hovered and landed near the road. Two dwarfs, about 1.25 m tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 78 (Vallee)
Location: Pons, France
Magnolia ID: 296

Event 819

Date: 10/23/1954
Description: Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a luminous disk in the sky and alled her family. When everyone saw the object come closer, they locked all doors and spent a sleepless night. They did not observe the object's departure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 81 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Hilaire-des-Loges, France
Magnolia ID: 301

Event 820

Date: 10/23/1954
Description: Two persons in a car saw an object resting by fhe side of the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, 2 m diameter, which suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 89 (Vallee)
Location: San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy
Magnolia ID: 302

Event 821

Date: 10/23/1954
Description: A farmer saw a flying craft descend to ground level about 50 m away, with a sound like that of a compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent, flooded with bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls, having human faces and masks. When he touched part of the craft, the witness felt a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next 2O min, the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with instruments. Reliable investigations were made.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Tripoli, Libya
Magnolia ID: 303

Event 822

Date: 10/24/1954
Description: Near Sainte Catherine, a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was "dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron. He walked with his legs stiff, had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, like those of the cows."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Les Egots, France
Magnolia ID: 305

Event 823

Date: 10/24/1954
Description: A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Ain-el-Turck, Algeria
Magnolia ID: 304

Event 824

Date: 10/24/1954
Description: Between Biozat and Effiat, on the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died as an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without noise, leaving a bright trail behind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Biozat, France
Magnolia ID: 306

Event 825

Date: 10/25/1954
Description: Ulderico Cardinali saw a disk-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp. It was 2 m in diameter, and near it was a small being, 1.40 m tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 90 (Vallee)
Location: Northern Italy, exact place unknown
Magnolia ID: 308

Event 826

Date: 10/25/1954
Description: G. Mahou, municipal muncilor, 30, saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a brooder, about 2 m in diameter, 1 m high, rise vertically from the road, leaving a luminous trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 91 (Vallee)
Location: Arraye-et-Han, France
Magnolia ID: 309

Event 827

Date: 10/25/1954
Description: Approximate date. A. Treussard and a friend were almost blinded by a luminous disk, which landed in a pasture.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Plemet, France
Magnolia ID: 307

Event 828

Date: 10/26/1954
Description: Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about 7 m) at 50 m distance, near the road, 18 km from this town, going toward Paris. It took off without noise, leaving a white trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 9Z (Vallee)
Location: Angouleme, France
Magnolia ID: 310

Event 829

Date: 10/26/1954
Description: Aime Boussard, 47, a farmer, was suddenly confronted with an individual of normal height (1.60 m) wearing a sort of diving suit with a pale-green light on either side of the helmet. The individual aimed at the witness the beam of two blue lights, and he was thrown backward. No craft was observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 92 (Vallee)
Location: La Madiere, France
Magnolia ID: 311

Event 830

Date: 10/26/1954
Description: Approximate date. At this place situated near Saint Quirin, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed an orange craft, 6 m diameter and 3 m high, fly over them as their tractor engine died. The lights also went out, and the battery was found dead after the sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Les Metairies, France
Magnolia ID: 312

Event 831

Date: 10/26/1954
Description: Mrs. Spinner and another witness saw a flying object come from the west and land 1 km away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Heiteren, France
Magnolia ID: 313

Event 832

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: A shop owner and his employee felt an electric shock as a very bright object flying very low stopped the engine and turned off the lights on their car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 92; M 204 (Vallee)
Location: Linzeux, France
Magnolia ID: 314

Event 833

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: Policemen saw a craft, which took off from the ground. No details were given.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Mezieres, France
Magnolia ID: 315

Event 834

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: A young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field. It was stationary, 1 m above the ground, seemed transparent and emitted a blinding glare. The witness fell on the ground "because of his strong emotions" at the sight. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 93 (Vallee)
Location: Ciolica Alta, Italy
Magnolia ID: 316

Event 835

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: A farmer, Gilbert Hee, was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He dared not investigate, but he saw cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights went out, and the witness lost interest and went home. Two hours later, an 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were about 1 m tall, walked in stiff fashion, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France
Magnolia ID: 317

Event 836

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: An object was seen on the ground by a schoolboy and his school director. Triangular traces were reported.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 53 (Vallee)
Location: Moussey, France
Magnolia ID: 318

Event 837

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: On Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw for 15 min a bright, cigar-shaped object, flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 m altitude. Suddenly it tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Oye-Plage, France
Magnolia ID: 319

Event 838

Date: 10/27/1954
Description: Near Grosseto, Ermellina Lanzillo, who was looking for her cat, saw from her window a strange entity standing in the garden. The being appeared fat and had narrow shoulders, apelike eyes, and a head like a diving helmet. Paralyzed with terror, she regained self-control when called by her niece and withdrew from the window.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 94 (Vallee)
Location: Grosseto, Italy
Magnolia ID: 320

Event 839

Date: 10/29/1954
Description: A 14-year-old child sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, crying that he had been chased by a saucer. A disk three times as large as the sun, red and purple, spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground and then it vanished. Investigation by local police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Mesples, France
Magnolia ID: 321

Event 840

Date: 10/30/1954
Description: Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50 m away. It was rhomboidic, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 82 (Vallee)
Location: Muro Lucano, Italy
Magnolia ID: 322

Event 841

Date: 10/31/1954
Description: Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Corrompu, France
Magnolia ID: 323

Event 842

Date: 11/1/1954
Description: A 40-year-old lady going to a cemetery suddenly observed an object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appared two dwarfs, 1 m tall, wearing gray coveralls and reddish helmets. Speaking words she could not understand, and with smiles that showed fine white teeth, they took a pot of flowers from the witness and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Poggio d'Ambra, Italy
Magnolia ID: 324

Event 843

Date: 11/2/1954
Description: Two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, who were hunting, saw a dwarf 1 m tall with a "rubber" head and a flexible tube connecting his face to a cylindrial container on his back. When they came close to it, the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. The witnesses ran away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 90 (Vallee)
Location: Cremona, Italy
Magnolia ID: 325

Event 844

Date: 11/3/1954
Description: Maroc-Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., driver of a delivery truck, "a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight," observed an object flying over the Beth River. "I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disk and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 95 (Vallee)
Location: Oued Beth, Morocco
Magnolia ID: 326

Event 845

Date: 11/4/1954
Description: Jose Alves was fishing in the Pardo River when he suddenly saw a craft approach with a wobbling motion and landing near him. Shaped like two washbowls placed together, it was about 4.5 m in diameter. Too terrified to move, the witness saw three little men, dressed in white, wearing tight-fitting skull caps, with dark skin, come out of the craft, gather vegetables and water and fly away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 33; Lor. I 44 (Vallee)
Location: Pontal, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 327

Event 846

Date: 11/5/1954
Description: Raymond R. saw a craft, which made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, "which emitted a beam of light three meters long." The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces: a whitish substance and a circle 3 m in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: La Roche-en-Brenil, France
Magnolia ID: 329

Event 847

Date: 11/5/1954
Description: Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disk rise 150 m away with a slight noise like an explosion and fly away at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 96 (Vallee)
Location: La Coruna, Spain
Magnolia ID: 328

Event 848

Date: 11/6/1954
Description: Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Padre Island, TX

Event 849

Date: 11/7/1954
Description: A motorcyclist saw a disk-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell 50 m away. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disk, about 15 m in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 97; Wilkins U 237 (Vallee)
Location: Monte Ortobene, Sardinia
Magnolia ID: 330

Event 850

Date: 11/8/1954
Description: Andre Chaillou felt pricklings in his hands, "in spite of his gloves," when a blue disk came close to his motorcycle and his electrical system failed. He was unable to move or articulate a word for several minutes. As soon as the blue light was turned off, he started again and went near the light when it reappeared 200 m away. He saw the object, a cone 5.5 m in size, rise vertically with a soft whistling, then fly horizonally to the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 98 (Vallee)
Location: La Tessoualle, France
Magnolia ID: 333

Event 851

Date: 11/8/1954
Description: In the Vacheresse Forest, reliable persons reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and become dark. The next morning, investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 m in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Voussac, France
Magnolia ID: 332

Event 852

Date: 11/8/1954
Description: A crowd of about 150 people, destroying barriers to come closer, gathered to observe a luminous craft landed in a stadium. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supporting an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 238 (Vallee)
Location: Monza, Italy
Magnolia ID: 331

Event 853

Date: 11/9/1954
Description: Two villagers reported the landing of a 2-m-high "flying egg" in a pasture. Screams seemed to emanate from it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U 251 (Vallee)
Location: Bois de Villers, Belgium
Magnolia ID: 334

Event 854

Date: 11/10/1954
Description: An agronomist and his family in their car saw a landed disk from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like clothes, emerged and came toward the car with arms raised. As the frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disk, which rose and flew off at very great speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 42 (Vallee)
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 335

Event 855

Date: 11/13/1954
Description: Near the local airport, Mr. Davril saw a craft like a round hut 300 m away. It took off without noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Berck, France
Magnolia ID: 336

Event 856

Date: 11/13/1954
Description: At intersection of Routes N28 and N319, Mr. R. L., of Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while he feIt pricklings and was paralyzed. The engine of the car slowed down but did not stall.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Buchy, France
Magnolia ID: 337

Event 857

Date: 11/13/1954
Description: A lens-shaped object was seen on the railroad tracks. Near it, three dwarfs wearing tight-fitting suits were looking at the tracks with a light. When the witness approached, the machine took off very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 99; Humanoids 33 (Vallee)
Location: Curitiba, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 338

Event 858

Date: 11/14/1954
Description: Approximate date. Marcel Pipers a gardener saw a craft resting near the road give off a very bright light. His clothing was partially burned when he went close to it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Wasmes, Belgium
Magnolia ID: 340

Event 859

Date: 11/14/1954
Description: A shange beam of red light, apparently from some flying source, was reported sweeping the countryside. As it illuminated two tractors, one of them stalled, but the other, a diesel, continued. The beam was seen for about one hour by a large number of persons.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 211 (Vallee)
Location: Forli, Italy
Magnolia ID: 341

Event 860

Date: 11/14/1954
Description: Amerigo Lorenzini, a farmer, saw a bright, cigar-shaped craft land near him and took cover. Out of it came three dwarfs dressed in metallic diving suits. They centered their attention on rabbits in a cage while speaking among themselves in an unknown language. Thinking they were going to steal the animals, the farmer aimed a rifle at the intruders, but it failed to fire and the witness suddenly felt so weak that he had to drop the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and their craft departed, leaving a bright trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 100 (Vallee)
Location: Isola, Italy
Magnolia ID: 339

Event 861

Date: 11/22/1954
Description: A radio operator at the local air base saw a huge, dark object about 30 m in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he saw it for several hours, sometimes softly glowing, sometimes coming down almost to the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 4511 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 342

Event 862

Date: 11/22/1954
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in Northwest Miami
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Northwest Miami, FL

Event 863

Date: 11/25/1954
Description: Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, suddenly saw three figures who, as soon as they were discovered, entered a small spherical craft concealed 10 m away behind some bushes. The beings were small, about 35 cm tall, had very large heads and lead-gray skin. The craft had two sharppointed propellers in front, which started spinning. The craft took off suddenly with a hissing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 90 (Vallee)
Location: Calcerosa, Italy
Magnolia ID: 343

Event 864

Date: 11/28/1954
Description: G. Gonzales and Jose Ponce, truck drivers, found their road blocked by a luminous sphere over 3 m diameter, hovering 2 m above ground. A small creature with claws and glowing eyes came toward them. Gonzales grabbed it, found it strangely light (less than 2O kg), and observed its body was very hard and covered with fur. But the creature pushed him back, while two other dwarfs emerged from the bushes and leaped into the sphere, carrying stones and other samples. Gonzales was blinded by a light from the craft and the strange beings flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor I 52 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 344

Event 865

Date: 11/30/1954
Description: Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in Alabama.
Type: anomalous event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Alabama

Event 866

Date: 12/1954
Description: Early in December, the director of Barquisimeto College was chased by a luminous disk as he was driving near Guanare. He fired at the object with his revolver, without effect. He stopped another car in which a lawyer and two policemen were traveling. All four saw the machine fly away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
Location: Guanare, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 345

Event 867

Date: 12/1/1954
Description: A 39-year-old civilian saw an oval light, very bright, illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than 3 km away, then flew off to the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bassoues, France
Magnolia ID: 346

Event 868

Date: 12/4/1954
Description: Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine, with a side of 10 m, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Zuaga, Spain
Magnolia ID: 347

Event 869

Date: 12/4/1954
Description: For several minutes a waiter saw a circular object stationary in a pasture 50 m away. It was blue with symmetrical openings, from which a bright red light was emitted. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at the very tall figure who came out of the turret on the craft. Immediately a very strong wind was felt, and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 101 (Vallee)
Location: Caselle di Nogara, Italy
Magnolia ID: 348

Event 870

Date: 12/9/1954
Description: A farmer, O. da Costa e Rosa, observed a stranger standing near a machine shaped like "a tropical helmet," cream-colored, surrounded with haze, making the same noise as a sewing machine. Another man was looking at a fence, and the head and arms of a third one were visible inside the craft. As the witness dropped his hoe, the man smiled, picked it up, and gave it back to him, after which they motioned him to stay away and took off. They were of average height, had broad shoulders, long hair, very white skin, and slanted eyes. They wore brown coveralls ending with shoes without heels.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 349

Event 871

Date: 12/9/1954
Description: Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object descending toward them at great speed. It hovered 5 m above ground when they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigarshaped, 5 m long, 2 m wide. They saw it turn off its lights and fly toward the forest. Other people in a bus saw the same thing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 56 (Vallee)
Location: Dorf-Gull, Germany
Magnolia ID: 350

Event 872

Date: 12/10/1954
Description: A doctor from Caracas who was driving with his father near this town stopped his car as two little men were running into the bushes. Soon thereafter, a luminous disk rose from the side of the road with a sizzling sound and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 43 (Vallee)
Location: Floresta, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 351

Event 873

Date: 12/10/1954
Description: Having seen a bright object land near the Trans-Andean Highway, two young men approached it, found it was shaped like two bowls g]ued together, about 3 m diameter. The underside was a source of fiery light. Four small beings emerged and attacked them, in an apparent kidnapping attempt. The dwarfs were extremely strong, their bodies covered with hair. They fled into the machine, and it took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 51 (Vallee)
Location: Chico, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 352

Event 874

Date: 12/11/1954
Description: Near the site of Case 349, Pedro Morais saw two human beings dressed in "yellow bags" take a tobacco plant and a chicken, then go away. Their craft "had a bottom like an enormous polished brass kettle," hovered with an oscillating motion, and made a noise like a sewing machine. Its upper part resembled a jeep hood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 46; Humanoids 34 (Vallee)
Location: Linha Bela Vista, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 353

Event 875

Date: 12/16/1954
Description: Three young men saw a dwarf, who attacked one of them, Jesus Paz, before fleeing into a disk-shaped machine, which flew off immediately. It was flat and shiny and had been hovering 1 m above ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 50; Humanoids 35 (Vallee)
Location: San Carlos, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 354

Event 876

Date: 12/17/1954
Description: A woodsman from Poligny saw a very bright light on the road, first thought it was an American car with its headlights on, but soon observed it came from a dark craft about 80 m away. The light turned brighter; the witness felt an intense heat wave and thought he was going to die. Finally, the light went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bersaillin, France
Magnolia ID: 355

Event 877

Date: 12/19/1954
Description: Jose Parra, an 18-year-old jockey, saw six small creatures loading stones into a disk-shaped machine hovering about 3 m above ground. He tried to run away but was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the creatures entered the craft, and it took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
Location: Valencia, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 356

Event 878

Date: 12/20/1954
Description: An employee of the Barbula sanatorium saw an object on the ground but did not report it. Three hours later, another employee saw the craft. It was luminous and took off soon afterward.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 52 (Vallee)
Location: Valencia, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 357

Event 879

Date: 12/22/1954
Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin.
Type: channelling
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 880

Date: 12/22/1954
Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin.
Type: channelling
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 881

Date: 12/29/1954
Description: Near Gardonne, Mr. Gamba saw an oval red object 50 m away. When he tried to approach it, he found he was unable to move. As soon as this "paralysis" subsided, he ran to get his brothers and came back to the craft, which turned white, then red. It rose and flew away toward the east. It had been on the ground for at least 15 min. Strange traces were found, as if the ground had been dug up. Small trees near the river were found damaged, as if they had been cut with a knife.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 103 (Vallee)
Location: Bru, France
Magnolia ID: 358

Event 882

Date: 1955
Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research grounds.
Type: ufological event
Reference: “The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
Location: Soviet Union

Event 883

Date: 1955
Description: Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 884

Date: 1/3/1955
Description: Two persons in a car saw a flying object come within 70 m of them after their vehicle was stopped.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Magnolia ID: 359

Event 885

Date: 1/5/1955
Description: A red circular object 3 m in diameter was observed to land and take off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: San Sebastian, Spain
Magnolia ID: 360

Event 886

Date: 2/23/1955
Description: Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between 10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth vs. the F.S.”)
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p451-453, ALIEN)
Location: Britain
See also: 8/23/52

Event 887

Date: 3/1955
Description: Robert Hunnicutt, a businessman, saw three men kneeling on the side of the road. They were about 1 m tall, had gray skin, and wore tight-fitting gray clothes. They had froglike face, long slender arms, normal eyes, but no eyebrows. One of them held a dark object (emitting blue flashes) between his raised arms. Hunnicutt tried to go near but "must have lost consciousness," because he found himself driving to the police station without remembering what took place in the meantime.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stringfield; FS May., 61; Sanderson 147 (Vallee)
Location: Branch Hill, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 361

Event 888

Date: 3/2/1955
Description: A car was followed for 10 min by three elongated "balloons," each showing eight red lights and about 7 m long.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Huntley, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 362

Event 889

Date: 3/7/1955
Description: K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954.
Type: personnel discharged
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)
Location: Roswell, NM
See also: 4/12/54

Event 890

Date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein dies
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Princeton, NJ

Event 891

Date: 4/21/1955
Description: Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Hopkinsville, KY

Event 892

Date: 5/18/1955
Description: News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as Area 51).
Type: news release
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Groom Lake

Event 893

Date: 5/29/1955
Description: Approximate date. Three farmers, among them Thomas Robinson, saw a light growing in size for 2 min and flying between them and Mt. Williams. Looking like a "light airplane on fire," it changed course, losing altitude and trailing flames. It touched the ground, lighting up the whole area, rose again, and began to "feel its way along the crooked edge of the cane field and the swamp toward our house." It returned to earth four times. The dogs ran out barking as it landed within 100 m of the witnesses before taking off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Smithfield, near Cairns, Australia
Magnolia ID: 363

Event 894

Date: 5/31/1955
Description: A farmer, 74-year-old J. B. Collange, was watching his cows on a clear, calm morning when he suddenly observed, in an easterly direction, a vertical circular object about 3 m away, the bottom edge about 30 cm from the ground. It measured about 1.10 m in diameter, was very luminous, white, but not blinding. Many filaments of various colors were radiating from the disk. Their length varied between 0.5 and 2 m. The object rose over a hedge and was lost to sight behind some woods.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 14, 15, 22 (Vallee)
Location: Puy-Saint-Gulmier, France
Magnolia ID: 364

Event 895

Date: 6/10/1955
Description: Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret research group.
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 896

Date: 7/3/1955
Description: Mrs. Wesley Symmonds was driving near this town when she saw four "bug-eyed" creatures near the road. They were small beings with thin arms, large eyes, and pointed chins. Two were turned away from the witness; one was bending over with something like a stick in its hand; and the fourth one was facing her with its right arm raised. It had bulging eyes, a sort of cap, no visible mouth, a long pointed nose, a chin which came to a sharp point, and long thin arms with claws.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stringfield; Humanoids 54 (Vallee)
Location: Stockton, Georgia
Magnolia ID: 365

Event 897

Date: 7/12/1955
Description: Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M. Odarenko.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland

Event 898

Date: 7/18/1955
Description: Mr. Maupin and five other witnesses on the airfield were blinded by a light from a disk-shaped object 150 m away. It left orange glows in its trail. Silent, flying slowly, it hovered near the Metro station, close to the ground, but did not actually land. It left toward the northwest. A woodsman from Mareul-Caubert, Mr. Rolle, saw the object half-an-hour earlier. It came from the direction of Amiens.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Plessiel Airfield, near Abbeville, France
Magnolia ID: 366

Event 899

Date: 8/1/1955
Description: Two persons in a car saw a lighted object dive toward them and hover about 30 m above the road. A disk, 12 m in diameter, it flew around the car and went away without noise. The witnesses were tourists, who went straight to the Arles police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 105 (Vallee)
Location: Salon, near Arles, France
Magnolia ID: 367

Event 900

Date: 8/1/1955
Description: Mr. Sheneman, who was coming from Willoughby, came out of his car and saw a circular object with a red light on it that came down fast, hovered, and emitted two beams of light. The witness fled toward his house, and the object appeared to chase him at less than 70 m altitude. It measured about 30 m in diameter and supported a dome. Mr. Sheneman, his wife, and their two children saw it fly away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 114 (Vallee)
Location: Chardon Road, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 368

Event 901

Date: 8/5/1955
Description: Messrs. Coisin and Mahieu saw five brown, disk-shaped machines coming down and up again at great speed. One of them flew under the others, then two disks appeared to land 300 m away near the German cemetery. The others flew away toward the south at tremendous speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Buzancy, Ardennes, France
Magnolia ID: 369

Event 902

Date: 8/16/1955
Description: Mr. Ernest Suddard, 35, and his 13-year-old son were in a lorry on Roundhill Street when they saw what seemed to be a human being about 1.20 m tall, dressed in skin-tight black clothes. It held its arms close to its sides, its feet close together, and walked by a series of jumps. On its chest was a silver disk perforated with holes. It turned off suddenly into a passageway and was lost to sight. The witnesses were too amazed to follow it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
Location: Bradford, England
Magnolia ID: 370

Event 903

Date: 8/19/1955
Description: About 700 m away from Roundhill street, Mr. Wood, a warehouseman, saw a bright, bullet-shaped, silvery object behind a hillock. It measured about 4 m in height, 1.5 m in diameter, had a surface similar to chromium and made a highpitched buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 222 (Vallee)
Location: Bradford, England
Magnolia ID: 371

Event 904

Date: 8/21/1955
Description: The Sutton family saw a light landing near their farmhouse, then several nightmarish entities about 1 m tall, with glowing silver clothing, an oversized round head, huge eyes and ears, and a slit-like mouth harassed them for several hours, in spite of heavy gunfire. At one point, one of the entities was knocked down from the roof by a bullet: it "floated down." Running out of ammunition, the Suttons got the police, who observed a lighted object in the sky, flying very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic, Anatomy 173; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Magnolia ID: 372

Event 905

Date: 8/22/1955
Description: A group of children was playing in the garden of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas when they observed a hovering object which disappared and reappeared as a spinning disk with curved lines radiating from it. Other objects, silvery and semi-transparent, soon appeared and were seen by all children. They made musical sounds as they vanished and reappeared. One of them landed, and a creature the size of a 4-year-old child, transparent, wearing a belt with a bright disk, was seen nearby. Another creature appeared and spoke to one of the boys. All the children experienced visions of the object and the creatures, as well as "arms" which appeared to beckon to them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: TSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Casa Blanca, near Riverside, California
Magnolia ID: 373

Event 906

Date: 8/25/1955
Description: Four adolescents in a car saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stringfield 64 (Vallee)
Location: Greenhills, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 374

Event 907

Date: 9/16/1955
Description: A young shepherd heard a whistling sound as a dark mass appeared to fall from the sky and a rush of air swept him from his feet. The object looked like a machine with an opening where a stairway became visible. Two occupants were seen. One was observed to have a reddish face, a bald head and very fine teeth. The craft was round, about 3.5 m diameter, 2 m high, lighted with neon-like light. The occupants gathered some plants and flew away to the northwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Boisseuges, France
Magnolia ID: 375

Event 908

Date: 9/17/1955
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bordes, of New York City, were fishing when they heard a loud splash and a "gurgling sound," saw a pink, iridescent, mushroom-shaped object rise about 70 cm above the water, and sink into the reservoir. Later, they saw the object again, about 5 m long and surrounded with turbulence. It reversed direction several times without turning around and finally flew away very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Constance 226; FSR 55,5 (Vallee)
Location: Bush Pine, New York
Magnolia ID: 376

Event 909

Date: 9/21/1955
Description: Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 3.5

Event 910

Date: 10/5/1955
Description: Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his duties.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: Pearl Harbor

Event 911

Date: 10/28/1955
Description: A disk with a row of blue lights on the periphery slowly maneuvered above a car on a deserted road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 135, 146 (Vallee)
Location: Galloway, England
Magnolia ID: 377

Event 912

Date: 11/1955
End date: 4/1956
Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition (Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Base).
Type: lecture
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: McMurdo Station

Event 913

Date: 11/2/1955
Description: Deputy-sheriff A. H. Perkins, C. F. Bell, and a dozen other witnesses saw six bellshaped objects moving by successive leaps. One came close to a patrol car; the men inside felt that their arms and legs "went dead" and that their clothes were burning them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 64 (Vallee)
Location: Williston, Florida
Magnolia ID: 378

Event 914

Date: 11/22/1955
Description: First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 1.6

Event 915

Date: 1956
Description: Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Mexico

Event 916

Date: 1956
Description: Much UFO activity in South America
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: South America

Event 917

Date: 1956
Description: According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research groups.
Type: secret meeting
Reference: “The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
See also: 1955

Event 918

Date: 1956
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Uranium enrichment)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 919

Date: 1956
Description: E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs steer from farm
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Twin Falls, Idaho
Attributes: cattle mutilation

Event 920

Date: 2/5/1956
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time on February 5, 1956.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kapustin Yar
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: .3

Event 921

Date: 2/7/1956
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion group in Coral Gables, FL
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Coral Gables, FL

Event 922

Date: 2/8/1956
Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 923

Date: 3/3/1956
Description: Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 924

Date: 4/6/1956
Description: Two men saw a silvery, balloonshaped craft about 2 m in diameter land in a field 100 m away from them, about 8 km east of McKinney. They stopped their car to investigate, but the object took off at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: McKinney, Texas
Magnolia ID: 379

Event 925

Date: 4/7/1956
Description: Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks to Venusians.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: South Africa

Event 926

Date: 4/8/1956
Description: Near Exauroux, two brothers, 18 and 20, saw a red ball to their left coming down and hovering at tree height. It then left at fantastic speed. Three additional witnesses reported it independently. The object was a disk about 7.5 m in diameter, with a red dome, and rotating fins under it. It emitted a yellow-orange glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Elboeuf, France
Magnolia ID: 380

Event 927

Date: 4/16/1956
Description: On Route 1, just before dawn, two government employees saw for a few seconds a large, top-shaped object passing over their car. It was as large as the road and made no sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Henderson, North Carolina
Magnolia ID: 381

Event 928

Date: 5/9/1956
Description: Two girls, Joan Frost and Gertie Wynn, while waiting for a bus, saw two pulsating lights flying horizontally and disappearing. 15 min later the lights were seen again, stopping at the zenith, merging, and diving to 50 m altitude. As the bus arrived, it seemed that the objects had separated and were about to abduct the witnesses, and they ran to the vehicle in terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Jacksonville, Florida
Magnolia ID: 382

Event 929

Date: 6/6/1956
Description: An object hovered about 30 m above and 100 m away from the witness's car. Showing something like a dome on top, it crossed the road slowly, turned, and crossed the road again behind the car, then vanished suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Banning, California
Magnolia ID: 383

Event 930

Date: 6/13/1956
Description: Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 931

Date: 7/19/1956
Description: Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: California
Attributes: ufo photo

Event 932

Date: 7/20/1956
Description: Three witnesses independently claimed that they observed a huge, ballshaped object from which emerged three beings. They were nearly 2 m tall, had long, blond hair, and wore tight, green suits.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hanlon; Humanoids 64 (Vallee)
Location: Panorama City, California
Magnolia ID: 384

Event 933

Date: 8/29/1956
Description: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena organized in Washington DC
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Washington DC

Event 934

Date: 9/1956
Description: O. Guarichi was walking on the beach with his dogs when he saw an object come from the sea and land. Two men, 1.80 m tall, wearing metallic-looking uniforms, emerged. One of them picked up objects from the beach. There was an exchange of gestures with the witness. One of the dogs turned away when the witness approached the craft, which was 20 m wide 3 m high and showed flashing lights as it left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Mar., 61 (Vallee)
Location: Cabo Frio, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 385

Event 935

Date: 9/7/1956
Description: Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc escapes.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Moneymore, Ireland

Event 936

Date: 10/2/1956
Description: Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said, “a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury done by the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting with injury
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Trenton, NJ

Event 937

Date: Late 1956
Description: Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese.
Type: movie
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Castle AFB, CA

Event 938

Date: 10/24/1956
Description: NICAP established. One of its board of directors was Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12 member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP from the inside in any direction they wanted.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC

Event 939

Date: 1957
Description: Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by spacemen
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Birmingham, England

Event 940

Date: 1957
Description: A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people. The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead.
Type: radiological event
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia

Event 941

Date: 1957
Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Weapons design and research)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link

Event 942

Date: 1/15/1957
Description: William West and Wallace Liddell saw an object similar to a shooting star coming close to them appearing then as an oval, fluorescent craft, about 40 m in diameter, which almost touched the grass. They rushed to catch it, but it jumped away, turning into a bluish-white sphere with a dark red center. Each time they tried to reach it, the craft jumped farther away. It cleared a high fence and slowly vanished. The Invercargill Weather Bureau had no explanation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 107 (Vallee)
Location: Balfour, New Zealand
Magnolia ID: 386

Event 943

Date: 2/9/1957
Description: Approximate date. Ina Salter was driving on Route 53 in a desolate area when she encountered a cigar-shaped objert about 5 m long, showing several portholes, which was hovering close to the ground to the left of the road. The portholes, about 50 cm in diameter, were illuminated with a yellowish light, and there were shadows moving behind. As she passed the object, it took off straight up, hovered for a few seconds, then rose out of sight
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Georgetown, Connecticut
Magnolia ID: 387

Event 944

Date: 3/8/1957
Description: A pilot saw a circular object flying against the wind. It was luminous, about 5.5 m in diameter, and flew so low that it appeared to suck up the snow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
Location: Baudette, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 388

Event 945

Date: 3/10/1957
Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run)
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: New York
Attributes: aerospace

Event 946

Date: 3/10/1957
Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: New York
Attributes: aerospace

Event 947

Date: 4/14/1957
Description: At an intersection, two women, Mrs. Garcin and Mrs. Rami, suddenly heard a noise and saw behind them a top-shaped object, 1 m high and 1 m wide, nearly touching the ground. It made a sudden jump and landed again: There were a number of antennalike projections on top of it. The noise did not come from the object, but from a metallic road sign vibrating in its vicinity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 207; Challenge 14 (Vallee)
Location: Vins-sur-Caramy, France
Magnolia ID: 389

Event 948

Date: 4/19/1957
Description: Japanese fishermen aboard the "Kitsukawara Maru" saw two metal disks come into the sky. This was followed by violent turbulence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 147 (Vallee)
Location: Pacific Ocean, near Japan
Magnolia ID: 390

Event 949

Date: 4/22/1957
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Firmin Bason heard an unusual noise and saw a whirlwind of flames 10 or 15 m above ground, coming down toward the vineyard. It was red and blue, spinning wildly, flying slowly. It hovered for 5 min over plants which moved violently, then it flew south with a deafening roar, hovered again and departed to the southwest. Diameter at the top: about 5 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 21 (Vallee)
Location: Palalda, France
Magnolia ID: 391

Event 950

Date: 5/1957
Description: Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared, ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if he talked.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Reuters Link
Location: Manston, Kent

Event 951

Date: 5/1957
Description: Frances Stichler, who lived on a farm, was working in her barn when she heard a whirring sound and saw a bowl-shaped object, 7 m in diameter, with a rim over 1 m wide about 5 m above ground. It stopped with one side tilted toward her. A man dressed in a loose, shiny, gray suit, wearing a tight-fitting helmet, was facing her from inside the object. He seemed of average height had deep-set eyes, tanned skin, and a long face with a "quizzical" expression. Almost immediately the object left toward the southeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 108; Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
Location: Milford, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 392

Event 952

Date: 5/1/1957
Description: When his motorcycle suddenly failed, the driver observed a disk, 2O m in diameter and 5 m thick, hovering about 15 m above ground. He hid in a ditch and saw the craft come down, making a sound similar to air escaping from a valve. A sort of lift descended from its base almost to the ground. In it was a man of average height, who made friendly gestures to the witness. He was dressed in a plastic diving suit. The witness entered the machine and saw inside several people seated before instrument panels, lighted by an extraordinary light. He was then escorted out, and the disk rose to the northwest. During the next hour, six sightings were made along the same course by independent witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 35; FSR 65, 1; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Pajasblancas Airport, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 393

Event 953

Date: 5/3/1957
Description: Astronaut Gordon Cooper spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB.
Type: ce2 event
Reference: YouTube
Location: Edwards AFB

Event 954

Date: 5/10/1957
Description: A Hungarian refugee, Michel Fekete, was riding his bicycle when he saw an object hovering 30 cm above ground and four little men nearby. The police found lavalike fragments at the site. Six other witnesses vouch for the sighting including Messrs. Iklef and Lepot and their wives. The craft was luminous, pulsating between red and white (remaining red longer). When white, it was more blinding than a powerful searchlight. It was 50 m away from the group of witnesses. Occupants were about 1.30 m tall with a beige-gray body, an abnormally large black head, and a waddling gait. The object flew away when a car came into view.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 109; M 211 (Vallee)
Location: Beaucourt-sur-Ancre, France
Magnolia ID: 394

Event 955

Date: 5/20/1957
Description: OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manston, Kent

Event 956

Date: 6/2/1957
Description: Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied areas anyway.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: Nevada

Event 957

Date: 6/5/1957
Description: Undocumented report of a landing and of "bellicose dwarfs."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Uriman, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 395

Event 958

Date: 7/1/1957
Description: International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping), meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena, since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important confirmation of plate-tectonic theory.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 959

Date: 7/25/1957
Description: Mr. Joao Guimaraes, who is a professor at the Catholic Faculty of Law in Santos, was sitting near the shore when he saw a hat-shaped, luminous craft approach from the sea and land near him. From it came a metallic stairway. Two normal men with long, fair hair hanging to their shoulders, a youthful appearance and wearing one-piece suits, came down, gave no verbal answers to his questions, but invited him "telepathically" to come aboard the craft. Inside the illuminated compartment, he sat on a circular seat with the crew. The machine rose for a short flight. On his return, Guimaraes found that his watch no longer worked. (Humanoids 36; FSR 57, 6
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: (Vallee)
Location: Sao Sebastiao, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 396

Event 960

Date: 7/30/1957
Description: Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for 45 minutes
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Galt, Ontario

Event 961

Date: 7/30/1957
Description: Jack Stephenson was walking about 7 km from Galt when he saw a flash in the sky. A circular object making a whirring sound came down and landed with a throw of flames. It took off again 30 min later,leaving the ground blackened and branches broken. The craft had a stationary dome, but the periphery was spinning.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 188 (Vallee)
Location: Galt, Ontario, Canada
Magnolia ID: 397

Event 962

Date: 8/20/1957
Description: An Air Force man inside a tent heard a loud, shrill sound and saw a disk that came down as grass and plants fluttered wildly under it. He found himself unable to draw his gun, which "seemed to be glued in its holster." A voice came from the craft, telling him in Spanish that UFO's had a base in the Salta area and would soon show themselves to warn all people about the dangers of a nuclear catastrophe.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
Location: Quilino, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 398

Event 963

Date: 8/22/1957
Description: A black, bellshaped object bearing two bright, white lights at the top and maeasuring 15 m in diameter was chased by a civilian in a car until the engine stalled. The object was then hovering 3 m away. The underside of the machine resembled a disk with fins. When a jet aircraft took off from the airfield, the object went out of sight almost instantaneously. The car battery was found completely dead. There was no helicopter in the area, although the two witnesses compared the noise made by the object to that of a helicopter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Cecil Naval Air Station, Florida
Magnolia ID: 399

Event 964

Date: 8/31/1957
Description: In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.”
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research

Event 965

Date: 9/1957
Description: A man suddenly fell, as if paralyzed, and his two companions then observed an object shaped like a disk with a dome on top and another dome under it, 50 m away. A door opened and three men, 1.70 m tall, wearing close-fitting, iridescent clothing, and who walked as if on skis, appeared to make a check of the craft and the surroundings. They gathered samples in a large box. The witnesses saw small portholes and a tripod landing gear. The craft took off after 20 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Jul., 60 (Vallee)
Location: Campinas, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 400

Event 966

Date: 9/10/1957
Description: Approximate date. Anonymous witnesses saw a disk dive down and explode, showering the area with flaming fragments. Some samples were gathered, sent to a Brazilian newsman, analyzed by friends of Dr. Fontes, of Rio, and were found to consist of surprisingly pure magnesium.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor.l 90; 110 (Vallee)
Location: Ubatuba, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 401

Event 967

Date: 9/16/1957
Description: Les McDonald, 17, and Gladys Smith, 14, saw a red light changing to green, spreading around them like a mist and covering an area about 100 m diameter. They became nearly paralyzed and "felt a warm glow." They had no fear, but were "merely cognizant of things as they were without being able to react." This sensation lasted two min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFO Bulletin Dec., 57 (Vallee)
Location: Smithfield, Australia
Magnolia ID: 402

Event 968

Date: 9/19/1957
Description: A boomerang-shaped object bigger than a house was reported to have landed. Grass flattened.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Point Pleasant, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 403

Event 969

Date: 9/26/1957
Description: Three hundred people were said to have seen three elongated objects with a series of portholes, maneuvering at ground level in an area with many empty oil wells. One of these objects, said to be 150 m long and 20 m high, pearl-colored, glistening under the setting sun and showing a series of circles painted on its surface, landed for 20 min. An occupant emerged, observed the abandoned derricks and took off again. Observed through binoculars, he appeared as a "monster," 1 m tall, moving with strange jumps. He picked up something from the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Perego (Vallee)
Location: Yellow Falls, Texas
Magnolia ID: 404

Event 970

Date: 9/29/1957
Description: Undocumented report of a landing observed by missile men.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keyhoe S (Vallee)
Location: Deerwood Nike Base, Maryland
Magnolia ID: 405

Event 971

Date: 10/1957
Description: At the Gabiroba farm, owners A. Santinoni and S. de Oliveira were blinded by beam from a round object at ground level. The light was green and yellow. When they came near, all went dark and the object vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 205 (Vallee)
Location: Niquelandia, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 406

Event 972

Date: 10/4/1957
Description: Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on 1/4/58
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
See also: 11/12/57

Event 973

Date: 10/5/1957
Description: Antonio Villas-Boas who could not sleep because of the heat, opened the shutters of his house and saw a silvery glow in the yard, but no flying object. The light moved and was seen going over the house.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 407

Event 974

Date: 10/8/1957
Description: Two couples going from Nabouwalu to Nawaca in a motor boat saw a white object come down from the sky, thought it was a plane in trouble and went closer. They found the object hovering 7 m above the water, and a figure on board the craft aimed at them a beam so bright they "felt weak." The figure disappeared suddenly, and the object took off vertically at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 202; Challenge 18 (Vallee)
Location: Nabouwalu, Fiji Islands
Magnolia ID: 408

Event 975

Date: 10/10/1957
Description: Mrs. Edward Yeager who lived in a trailer on the Duanesburg-Church Road near Mariaville, saw a circular object go down behind the hill. Two min later it flew up again, very bright. The next day she was feeding animals that ran away as the same or a similar object came within 2 m of the ground. Two dark, little men came out of the craft and went into the woods. The object remained there two min, then left. A search for the occupants proved futile. A bus driver was said to have seen two craft land in a nearby field at the same hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Schenectady, New York
Magnolia ID: 409

Event 976

Date: 10/10/1957
Description: Naval officer Miguel Espanhol and another man, traveling to Ceres, saw a bright object that illuminated the countryside and came down to ground level as the truck stalled. It was oval or saucer-shaped, over 150 m in diameter and 40 m deep, with a dome supporting a long "aerial" with a red light on top. The bright light went off and the witnesses saw seven childlike beings, with long hair and luminous suits, who looked down at them for about 3 min. The craft flew south and released a smaller disk, which flew north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
Location: Quebracoco, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 410

Event 977

Date: 10/11/1957
Description: Two witnesses in a car saw something they described as "a dark, transparent ball" about 50 cm in diameter rising from the side of the road. It had appendages trailing behind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 111 (Vallee)
Location: Roulon, France
Magnolia ID: 411

Event 978

Date: 10/14/1957
Description: Second observation by A. Villas-Boas. He was plowing a field with his brother when they saw a red light at the edge of the field. He went toward it, but it shifted its position every time he went close. It vanished on the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 412

Event 979

Date: 10/15/1957
Description: Mr. Moudy, a farmer, observed a silvery disk which hovered above his tractor; the engine failed when the object rose.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Covington, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 413

Event 980

Date: 10/15/1957
Description: Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an human-looking female.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Brazil

Event 981

Date: 10/16/1957
Description: Third observation by A. Villas-Boas. Alone in the fields on a clear night, he saw a big, red star which took the appearance of a luminous, egg-shaped object and stopped 50 m above his tractor. Its light was brighter than that of the headlights as it landed 15 m away. The top part was spinning. It became green as it slowed down, was then seen as a flattened dome. Three legs emerged from the machine as it settled down. The tractor engine stalled, and the witness was seized by unknown individuals and carried aboard the craft, where he was medically examined, then left with a woman of short stature with whom he had sexual intercourse. Villas-Boas reported that crew members wore tight, white clothes with a light on the belt, heelless white shoes, big gloves, and opaque helmets with a slit at the level of the eyes. Their language was shrill, and he could establish no verbal communication with them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 et seq. (Vallee)
Location: Francisco de Sales, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 414

Event 982

Date: 10/25/1957
Description: A girl suffering from cancer appeared about to die when the house was suddenly illuminated by a strong light, as if a searchlight had been aimed at the room. It came from an object whose top part was reddish yellow. Two figures emerged from it and entered the house. They were about 1.20 m tall, had long yellow-red hair, small green, slanted eyes, and wore white gloves and glowing white clothes. Before the astounded witnesses (the author of the report and the family of the girl), they used a device producing a bluish-white light and another instument, in what appeared to be radiation treatment of the patient. After 30 min they went away, leaving her completely cured. The report was anonymous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Petropolis, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 415

Event 983

Date: 10/31/1957
Description: A businessman and his wife saw a large, lighted object with openings, which hovered, came to ground level, and took off with a great increase in brightness at very high speed, but without noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Longchaumois, France
Magnolia ID: 416

Event 984

Date: 11/1957
Description: Haskell Raper, Jr., was driving home on a rainy night when he saw a large, lighted object on the road ahead, which he thought was a truck. Suddenly the object flashed a beam of light directly at the car, apparently exerting a strong pressure and slowing it to a stop 5 m away. The object was then described as oval, 5 m long, 3 m high, army green in color. It bore lettering beginning with the letters UN, followed by some numbers. A sort of heat wave filled the car, and the witness ran out in panic as the vehicle caught fire. The object rose with the sound of a diesel engine. Raper ran to the town, less than 2 km away; and reported the incident. The car, a 1956 Ford, was completely destroyed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Provencal, Louisiana
Magnolia ID: 417

Event 985

Date: 11/2/1957
Description: A large number of reports from the Levelland area described a low-flying object, over 60 m long, equipped with a bright light, and which interfered with car ignition.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 136; map (Vallee)
Location: Levelland, Texas
Magnolia ID: 419

Event 986

Date: 11/2/1957
End date: 11/3/1957
Description: Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars stalled
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Levelland, TX

Event 987

Date: 11/2/1957
Description: 5 km west of this town, military and civilian witnesses reported a submarine-shaped object, red and white, two or three times as long as a car and about 3 m high, at ground level. A figure was seen near this object, also something compared to a white flag. When a car stopped in the vicinity, a flash of light from the object coincided with the sudden failure of the headlights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Canadian, Texas
Magnolia ID: 418

Event 988

Date: 11/2/1957
Description: Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic) effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off. Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M., reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to them rose to about a hundred people.”
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Loveland, TX
See also: 11/5/57

Event 989

Date: 11/3/1957
Description: At Stallion Site, an army patrol in a jeep saw an orange, "apparently controlled," luminous object on the ground near the site of the first A-bomb explosion. It was first seen as a sunlike source 50 m above ground, descending to ground level after 3 min, and landing several km away at the northern end of the testing grounds. Two witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 238 (Vallee)
Location: White Sands, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 420

Event 990

Date: 11/4/1957
Description: Two policemen, Joseph Lukasek and Clifford Schau, and a third man named Daniel De Giovanni, while looking for the cause of a headlight failure, observed a fluorescent object 50 to 100 m away from them, coming down. The car hadlights functioned properly again and they drove toward the object but had to stop at a cemetery wall. They turned off all lights and watched the object for two min. It played "hide and seek" with them as they tried to reach its location.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 240; 113 (Vallee)
Location: Elmwood Park, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 421

Event 991

Date: 11/5/1957
Description: Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks to spacepeople
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Kearney, NE

Event 992

Date: 11/5/57
Description: A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4 was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some witnesses.”
Type: investigation
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Loveland, TX

Event 993

Date: 11/5/1957
Description: A man heard a noise similar to that of a helicopter and perceived a "burning" odor. He saw a balloon-like, elongated object that came to ground level, did not touch the ground, but rose again and disappeared. The witness was "paralyzed" during the observation. The object appeared to have generated thick smoke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Scotia, Nebraska
Magnolia ID: 424

Event 994

Date: 11/5/1957
Description: An object looking like "a big meat platter" was seen at close range by Mrs. Jasper Barlow and her two children, who were inside their car. It had a flickering light on the bottom. There was no ignition interference noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 245 (Vallee)
Location: New Castle, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 422

Event 995

Date: 11/5/1957
Description: In Van Cortland Park, Frank C. was talking with a bus driver when they saw in the park, about 400 m away, a metallic object shaped like a disk, spinning with a soft whirring. On top was a fixed dome with portholes. The object was hovering at tree-height. A yellow light from the craft suddenly illuminated the area, and it flew off "like a shooting star."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 241 (Vallee)
Location: New York City, New York
Magnolia ID: 423

Event 996

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars, talk to spacepeople
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 997

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: North of Seoul a barrel-shaped object, bluish-white and luminous, was seen close to the ground, reflected in a pool of water. It rose and vanished "like a light switched off."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Seoul, Korea
Magnolia ID: 426

Event 998

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: John Trasco saw a brilliant, egg-shaped object hovering in front of a barn and was confronted with a being 1 m tall with a putty-colored face and frog-like eyes. He thought the dwarf said in broken English: "We are peaceful people; we only want your dog." The little man, who was dressed in a green suit with shiny buttons, a green tam-o-shanter-like cap, and gloves with a shiny object at the tip of each finger, fled when the witness denied his request.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 56; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Everittstown, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 430

Event 999

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: 180 km north of Ottawa Jacques Jacobson and three of his friends saw a bright, yellowish-white sphere hovering over a hilltop about 4 km away. From top and bottom issued light cones that illuminated the countryside and the clouds. Radio reception was blocked throughout the observation, except for a very powerful signal at one wavelength, modulated, but not in Morse code. The object rose slowly toward the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 249 (Vallee)
Location: Baskatong Lake, Canada
Magnolia ID: 432

Event 1000

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: A civilian source reported an object so bright that his eyes could not sustain it. It appeared to land on a ridge, then took off again. It was round and much larger than a plane, had an "odd color," left no trail and made no noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake County, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 428

Event 1001

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: Richard Kehoe was driving near the beach when his engine stopped, and so did three other cars. The man got out and observed an egg-shaped object wrapped in "a blue haze" on the beach. Two men, below average height got out of the craft and asked them questions about their identity, what time it was, etc. They looked normal wore black leather pants, white belts, light-colored jerseys, and seemed to have yellowish-green skin. They went back inside the craft, which left rapidly, and the cars could then be started.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 57 (Vallee)
Location: Playa del Rey, California
Magnolia ID: 427

Event 1002

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: J. Martinez and A. Gallegos saw an egg-shaped object coming toward them at low altitude. It moved slowly, illuminating their car and producing a humming sound. The car engine, the clock and a wristwatch stopped. The object shot away toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 246 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 425

Event 1003

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: A civilian source reported an oval object, about 5 m long, bright orange, similar to glowing coals, hovering 4 m above ground. The witness went to call his family; the object had vanished when he returned. Unidentified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Boerne, Texas
Magnolia ID: 431

Event 1004

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: Olden Moore, 28, a plasterer was driving home when he suddenly saw an object looking like a bright meteor split into two pieces, one of which went straight up. The other got larger while its color changed from bright white to blue-green. It hovered 60 m above a field and came to the ground with a soft whirring sound, 150 m away. After observing it for 15 min, Moore then walked to the object, which he found to be shaped like "a covered dish" 15 m in diameter, 5 m high, with a cone on top about 3 m high, surrounded by haze or fog, pulsating slowly. Holes, footprints and radioactivity were found at the site by Civil Defense Director Kenneth Locke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 252 (Vallee)
Location: Montville, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 433

Event 1005

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: 12-year-old Everett Clark saw a strange object on the ground and four occupants, two men and two women who spoke a language he thought was similar to German. They went back to the craft in a manner the witness could not understand, for he saw no door.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 271;114; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Knoxville, Tennessee
Magnolia ID: 429

Event 1006

Date: 11/7/1957
Description: Truck driver Malvin Stevens, 48, was driving to Memphis when, about 23 km northwest of Meridian, he saw an object which appeared to have two propellers at either end and a third one on top. Getting out of his truck, he saw three little men about 1.30 m tall, in gray clothes, with "pasty white faces" that seemed friendly and willing to talk, but he was unable to understand their "chattering." "I stood there for what seemed like an eternity." They got back into the machine and it took off straight up. There was no ignition interference. An 8-year-old girl from Honse independently reported a round object crossing the sky toward the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 273; 115 (Vallee)
Location: Meridian, Mississippi
Magnolia ID: 434

Event 1007

Date: 11/8/1957
Description: Fourteen people, including Mrs. Maty Home, reported to police that a diskshaped object followed their truck, dived toward it, came within 20 m of them, then left toward the sea, leaving a double vapor trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 217; 116 (Vallee)
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Magnolia ID: 435

Event 1008

Date: 11/8/1957
Description: A cigar-shaped object 70 m long was observed less than 7 m above ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 264; 117 (Vallee)
Location: Sloanville, New York
Magnolia ID: 436

Event 1009

Date: 11/8/1957
Description: Hank Mollohan and eight other persons saw an elongated object, 12 m long, with several portholes from which fire and smoke appeared to be coming. It swung at low altitude and dropped to the ground. People seemed to be moving around it, but the witnesses were driven away by a hard rain.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 265 (Vallee)
Location: Holly, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 437

Event 1010

Date: 11/8/1957
Description: Paul Rutledge saw an object 16 m long flying over his garage. The top part was bright, and there were two figures visible inside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 266 (Vallee)
Location: Waterloo, Iowa
Magnolia ID: 438

Event 1011

Date: 11/9/1957
Description: A civilian driving his car home from work observed a hovering object 16 m long. His car engine died as he neared the object's position, and it started again only after the object's departure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake City, Missouri
Magnolia ID: 439

Event 1012

Date: 11/10/1957
Description: Mrs. Leita Kuhn observed a very large, lighted object 20 m above ground. It was so brilliant that she had to close her eyes. It was over 10 m wide, 3 to 4 m thick, with a dome on top. The witness had to consult a physician several days later because of serious eye and skin irritation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: M 267; 118 (Vallee)
Location: Madison, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 440

Event 1013

Date: 11/12/57
Description: FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release ‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.” [Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.]
Type: status report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington, DC

Event 1014

Date: 11/16/1957
Description: A blinding object, red and yellow, twice landed-first near the Jockey Club, then near the Rural Exhibition.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Bage City, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 441

Event 1015

Date: 11/18/1957
Description: Mrs. Cynthia Appleton, 27, mother of two, saw the figure of a man appear near her fireplace while a whistling sound was audible. He was tall and fair, wore a tight-fitting plastic garment, and seemed to communicate with her through telepathy, indicating he was looking for titanium and was coming from a world of peace and harmony. Suddenly he disappeared. Mrs. Appleton had subsequent contacts with similar entities.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Aston, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 443

Event 1016

Date: 11/18/1957
Description: Farmers Joao Ernani and Pedro Zilli heard a strange humming sound, then saw two aluminum-colored disks 200 m away. Near them were six mm of average height, slim build, dressed in "dark gray suits glued to their bodies." The disks were about 3.5 m wide, hovering 1 m above ground. They rose with a sharp whistling sound, while coconut trees below them bent double. Three more disks rose from behind the trees, and all five flew toward the Atlantic.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 36 (Vallee)
Location: Maracaja, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 442

Event 1017

Date: 11/22/1957
Description: A shop owner saw a pyramidshaped, luminous, transparent object fly fast across the road. As it was above 250 m away, he clearly saw two figures who looked like human beings, sitting one behind the other aboard the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Gesten, Denmark
Magnolia ID: 444

Event 1018

Date: 11/23/1957
Description: Four disk-shaped objects on the ground were observed for 20 min from a distance of 15 m. When the witness tried to come closer, they took off with an unbearable humming sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Tonopah, Nevada
Magnolia ID: 445

Event 1019

Date: 11/25/1957
Description: Two engineers were driving about 200 m from the railroad crossing in Faverges when they saw a nearly spherical object at ground level, performing zig-zags on the road. They stopped and were amazed as the object simply vanished, leaving no trace.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Ugines, France
Magnolia ID: 446

Event 1020

Date: 12/1957
Description: Edmund Rucker was awakened by a roaring noise and saw a strange object land near his house. "Its windows were lighted, and I saw strange-looking heads there." An opening became visible and four creatures emerged. They had large heads, dome-like foreheads, and bulging eyeballs. They delivered a message to the witness in English, stating that they had philanthropic and scientific purposes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
Location: El Cajon, California
Magnolia ID: 447

Event 1021

Date: 12/5/57
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and Saucers”
Type: status report
Reference: NICAP
Location: Washington, DC

Event 1022

Date: 12/8/1957
Description: Between Woodward and Seiling, 12 km from the latter, an unknown flying object allegedly took complete control of a car with three passengers. The driver, an employee of an aircraft company, had turned the heater, windshield wiper, and radio on. He was nearing a hill in this wooded area when a bright light appeared ahead. It reminded the witness of the light from a mercury lamp. As a crash seemed imminent, the car slowed down by itself and stopped, as if the entire electrical circuit had failed. Over the vehicle was a disk 16 m in diameter with portholes around the periphery, emitting a current of hot air and a high-pitched sound. It had a dome on top and bottom. It rose as the car started by itself. The car was a 1954 Dodge Coronet without automatic transmission. The witness spent four hours with two Kirtland AFB officers who told him of similar observations. The case was never reported to Blue Book.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Woodward, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 448

Event 1023

Date: 12/11/1957
Description: Many cars stopped to observe a silent, reddish, glowing disk, about 15 m in diameter, which flew 6 m above the ground at about 80 km/h. A small, windowless cabin was visible on the underside of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Ellsworth, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 450

Event 1024

Date: 12/11/1957
Description: Mary Louise Tobin, a schoolteacher, was driving on State Highway 1 when she saw an object that she compared to the rising sun, in the vicinity of a smoking car. The driver, an elderly lady, came out with a child who seemed to have suffered burns. The unknown object went away: The disabled car did not catch on fire.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Chestnut, Louisiana
Magnolia ID: 449

Event 1025

Date: 12/18/1957
Description: Mary Stan was awakened by a brilliant light and saw through her east window the fuselage of a craft that hovered in midair. Aboard were two men, each with his right hand raised, wearing yellowish jackets. A third man joined the first two, then all lights went off inside the craft while it glowed like brass. A spinning antennalike device was noted. A few minutes later it flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60,3 (Vallee)
Location: Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Magnolia ID: 451

Event 1026

Date: 12/21/1957
Description: Mrs. Mendonca and five other persons saw a light in the south, which later appeared as two spherical objects coming closer to the witnesses on an oscillating course. One of them hovered close to the car while the other circled. They were shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring, and chased the car for two hours over the deserted road. Estimated diameter: 5 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Ponte Poran, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 452

Event 1027

Date: 12/28/57
Description: Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Japan

Event 1028

Date: 12/30/1957
Description: George Chowanski, an auto mechanic was alerted by the barking of his dog and heard a whirring sound similar to that of an electric shaver. A lighted object was observed by Chowanski and his wife as it came within 60 cm of the ground. Two figures came out of the bottom of the object, walked around a clearing, and one picked up something before returning to the craft, which then took off. Total duration: 2 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Oct., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Drakestown, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 453

Event 1029

Date: Late 1950's
Description: The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished and all records were transferred to the Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p55)
See also: 5/16/84

Event 1030

Date: 1958
Description: DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon program
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's Manuscript
Location: Washington, DC

Event 1031

Date: 1/1958
Description: A lady who was driving on the New York State Thruway during a snow storm saw a large shape with a tall, luminous pole on the side of the road. Her car stalled, and the lights went off. Two figures, looking like animals or huge insects were observed near the pole. They soon disappared, and the object took off spinning. The witness was then able to start her car. She noted that the snow at the site had been melted and the grass was warm.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Depew, New York
Magnolia ID: 454

Event 1032

Date: 1/4/1958
Description: Sputnik deorbits
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington, DC

Event 1033

Date: 1/4/1958
Description: A woodcutter reported that he saw an object land, and a very tall man with a tanned face, wearing a helmet, stepped from the machine. He went back in after a few minutes; the craft took off "with a noise like a flock of birds." Air Force officers and policemen searched the snowcovered hill for traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Stavanger, Norway
Magnolia ID: 455

Event 1034

Date: 1/7/1958
Description: Two figures again appeared to Mrs. Appleton and spoke to her in English (see Case 443).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 4 (Vallee)
Location: Aston, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 456

Event 1035

Date: 1/13/1958
Description: Brian Crittendon, 21, was chased by a dome-shaped object that emitted a narrow light beam toward the ground. He was so frightened that he drove home on a half-flat tire, followed for 5 km by the object, which was about 50 m away and 10 m above ground. It overtook his car at a speed exceeding 100 km/h. Radio interference was noted, but no noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFO Bulletin Mar., 58 (Vallee)
Location: Farm Hill, Australia
Magnolia ID: 457

Event 1036

Date: 1/22/1958
Description: Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO discussion
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 1037

Date: 1/26/1958
Description: A very bright object landed before numerous chemical workers; they reported beings falling from the sky without parachutes. They wore strange suits and spoke an unknown language.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Shimada City, Japan
Magnolia ID: 458

Event 1038

Date: 2/1958
Description: Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 1039

Date: 2/1/1958
Description: First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26

Event 1040

Date: 2/2/1958
Description: Farmer Yasukichi Nakaguchi and his son, and Kametaro Takuma, saw an egg-shaped object that landed silently.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 58, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Hokkaido, Japan
Magnolia ID: 459

Event 1041

Date: 2/5/1958
Description: Reinhold Schmidt's 2nd contact with saucers & spacepeople, takes ride.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Kearney, NE

Event 1042

Date: 2/24/1958
Description: Three witnesses, among them Dr. C. da Costa, decided to sleep in their car when the engine stalled and could not be started again. Then a very large, blue silvery object appeared and came to ground level with a swinging motion. was shaped like a sphere surrounded by a flat ring. When they tried to approach it, the object maneuvered in a strange "aerial dance."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 143 (Vallee)
Location: Conceicao Almeida, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 460

Event 1043

Date: 3/1958
Description: Big "flap" in Arizona. Much activity.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Arizona

Event 1044

Date: 3/2/1958
Description: A civilian source was said to have observed a balloon-shaped object land on the airfield then take off slowly and hover at 250 m altitude before disappearing. It showed a bright light source.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Tampa, Florida
Magnolia ID: 461

Event 1045

Date: 3/14/1958
Description: Two persons, in their backyard, saw a round object 1 m in diameter come from the west and land 15 m away. It took off toward the east, turned south, and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Healdsburg, California
Magnolia ID: 462

Event 1046

Date: 3/19/1958
Description: Near Moscow, a large, disk-shaped object was seen on the ground. It rose in a spiral motion, then took off and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Moscow, USSR
Magnolia ID: 463

Event 1047

Date: 4/1958
Description: Near Paripueira, jeweler Wilson Lustosa and numerous fishermen saw an object hovering 15 m above the sea, 40 m away. It was lens-shaped, about 12 m thick, and showed portholes with a glowing red light. Below the object the water seemed to be "boiling" or attracted upward, while a soft, whirring sound was heard. For one hour the object kept going up and down.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV (Vallee)
Location: Maceio, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 464

Event 1048

Date: 4/1958
Description: All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in respective countries
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: New York City, New York

Event 1049

Date: 4/15/1958
Description: Approximate date. In the mountains, about 14 km from Abra Pampa, a luminous object 30 m in diameter came to ground level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Tabladitas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 465

Event 1050

Date: 4/17/1958
Description: All night long, three hovering disks were seen by several witnesses in this area. A railroad employee, Mr. Cavalheiro, and the station chief, J. Machado, wired the Tupancireta police, and all saw the objects coming to ground level about 1 km away. At times they appeared to exchange signals. One of the disks flew over the station itself, leaving a luminous trail and considerable heat.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
Location: Abaatu, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 466

Event 1051

Date: 5/1958
Description: Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp for the F-89’s and then flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Maelstrom AFB, Montana

Event 1052

Date: 5/2/1958
Description: Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms. The pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touched the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Dischi Volanti, by L. Bulgarini (Vallee)
Location: Bogota, Colombia
Magnolia ID: 467

Event 1053

Date: 5/23/1958
Description: Explorer 1 loses contact
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: medium earth orbit

Event 1054

Date: 5/27/1958
Description: Remo dell'Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing was left to be seen when he regained consciousness.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Perego; Bulgarini (Vallee)
Location: Boa del Tigre, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 468

Event 1055

Date: 8/16/1958
Description: A dozen people out on the lake in perfect weather saw a bright light coming down. They stopped their boat as it came to hover about 15 m above them. It was saucer-shaped, 10 m in diameter, with a cabin showing several windows on top. The outer disk below the cabin was spinning. As it came down toward the water, a noticeable current was created. No noise or occupants were noticed. After several leaps in mid-air, the craft flew off at "unbelievable" speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Leman Lake, Switzerland
Magnolia ID: 469

Event 1056

Date: 9/1/1958
Description: About 11 km before Laval, a businessman coming from Paris suddenly saw a motionless object, 10 m above ground, to the left of the road, 150 m away. It was shaped like two cones with a common base and showed two rows of about ten openings in the middle section. It seemed about 20 m wide, metallic, with a light similar to that of a red traffic light shining through the windows. The witness had time to stop and maneuvered to get the object in his headlight beams. Throughout the observation a whistling sound such as that of a jet aircraft was heard. The object rose very slowly, flew off faster climbing out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 119 (Vallee)
Location: Laval, France
Magnolia ID: 470

Event 1057

Date: 9/21/1958
Description: A circular, flat object, 7 m in diameter, 2 m thick, hovering 1.5 m above ground, and making a jetlike sound was seen from a house by a civilian woman. Its color was that of aluminum; it had a wobbling motion and emitted gray smoke before rising again and taking off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sheffield Lake, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 471

Event 1058

Date: 10/27/1958
Description: An object resembling a large gray cigar with an assembly tail flew at treetop height, making a strong "swishing" sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Union Dale, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 472

Event 1059

Date: 10/31/1958
Description: A civilian reported an eliptical, aluminum-colored object at 2 km altitude, coming down to 4 m, flying up and down by sudden jumps, stopping at ground level less than 200 m away for five min. A red light appeared at one end of the object, which gradually took a fiery color, then exploded. The witness ran away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Caledon East, Canada
Magnolia ID: 473

Event 1060

Date: 11/1958
Description: Two soldiers of the Territorial Army on an exercise near Ballater heard a "gurgling noise" and saw two figures, over 2 m tall, dressed in peculiar suits. As they fled, they heard a "swishing" noise and saw a large disk flying at ground level, which then swooped over their heads and away, pulsating and leaving a sparkling trail. Witnesses were in a state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 5 (Vallee)
Location: Braemar, Scotland
Magnolia ID: 474

Event 1061

Date: 11/17/1958
Description: A luminous object, with an apparent diameter greater than that of the full moon, was seen coming down from a high altitude, hovering at tree height, then landing. It was observed for two min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Soviet Union, exact location not revealed
Magnolia ID: 475

Event 1062

Date: 11/23/1958
Description: An engineer, Julio M. Ladaleto, stopped when his car hit a can rolling on the road, then observed an object about 35 m away. It was shaped like a lamp shade with an upper transparent sphere emitting a bluish, pulsating light, 12 m diameter, 7 m high, resting on three half-spheres. An occupant 2.5 m tall was photographed by the witness as he crossed the road and appeared to inspect the craft. He wore a blue coverall and luminescent heelless boots, and had a bald head. The observation lasted 10 min, after which the object took off with a whining sound, sparks and smoke. The following day, before he had revaled anything about the case, Ladeleto was contacted by strange "newsmen" who appeared to know all the details of it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Sep. 16, 62 (Vallee)
Location: Cojutepeque, San Salvador
Magnolia ID: 476

Event 1063

Date: 12/20/1958
Description: Near Domsten, Hans Gustavsson, 35, and Stig Rydberg, 30, saw something in the woods and stopped their car to observe it. They found a disk about 5 m wide set on a tripod. All of a sudden they were attacked by four gray-colored creatures described as "fluid," but one witness reached the car and blew the horn for help. The beings fled and the craft took off, emitting "paralyzing vibrations."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. II 56 (Vallee)
Location: Hoganas, Sweden
Magnolia ID: 477

Event 1064

Date: 12/20/1958
Description: Approximate date. A disk of 20 m diameter was observed and caused damage on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Location: Clermont-Ferrand, France
Magnolia ID: 478

Event 1065

Date: 12/20/1958
Description: Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size, then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars. Visibility: unlimited.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dunellen, NJ

Event 1066

Date: 12/28/1958
Description: A black flying object, 2 m wide, cut a tree in two, 3 m above ground, and did not stop. The tree in question is 70 cm wide and 13 m tall. This event was observed by a farmer named Bennett.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Portglenone, Ireland
Magnolia ID: 479

Event 1067

Date: 1959
Description: Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact with Aliens.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 4/15/64

Event 1068

Date: 1/1959
Description: Leonard Hewins, of Tredington, saw a fiery, round object come down from the east and land 100 m away. While a blue haze formed, three figures emerged from the object and seemed to sit down with clumsy movements. The witness was unable to move until the craft and its occupants took off swiftly, leaving a trail of stars.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Stratford-on-Avon, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 480

Event 1069

Date: 1/26/1959
Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral Gables, FL.
Type: whistleblower
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Coral Gables, FL

Event 1070

Date: 2/1959
Description: 350 km east of Umiat, trappers saw a red, disk-shaped object less than 4 km away, going up and down, sometimes nearly touching the ground. It circled and went away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Umiat, Alaska
Magnolia ID: 481

Event 1071

Date: 2/28/1959
Description: Private Gerry Irwin stopped his car to investigate what he thought was a crashing plane. He was later found unconscious. Sequels of the incident (fainting, amnesia and his return to the site in a trancelike state) are sometimes quoted as evidence of psychologial experience correlated with the observation of the luminous object. Irwin deserted, and his subsequent whereabouts are unknown.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 121; Lorenzen; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Cedar City, Iowa
Magnolia ID: 482

Event 1072

Date: 3/1959
Description: On the Polish coast, not far from Kolobreg, soldiers saw the sea become turbulent as a triangular object, 4 m in size, emerged, circled the barracks, and flew away at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 122 (Vallee)
Location: Kolobreg, Poland
Magnolia ID: 483

Event 1073

Date: 3/13/1959
Description: Near Claypans, 150 km northeast of Adelaide, Carl Towill, postmaster, and Percy Briggs, mail carrier, saw a dome-shaped object take off from a field 400 m away. It resembled a huge, brilliant circus tent, studded with lights that kept changing from red to blue. They approached within 200 m, then saw it rise, hover, and shoot off at immense speed toward the south. They had observed it for 10 min. Mr. Briggs was questioned by investigators from Woomera Rocket range.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
Location: Pumong, Australia
Magnolia ID: 484

Event 1074

Date: 3/20/1959
Description: A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon, A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by 1965.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Redstone Arsenal

Event 1075

Date: 3/31/1959
Description: Barry Neale was driving home to Goolwa when he saw on the ground a glowing, reddish-orange object with a row of portholes. It illuminated the trees, was about 5 m wide. He got within 300 m of it, and drove around the wooded area in time to see it take off. No radioactivity was found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59,5 (Vallee)
Location: Port Elliot, Australia
Magnolia ID: 485

Event 1076

Date: 4/1/1959
Description: An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG (Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from 7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at Mc Chord AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R. Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been silenced,” Gribble reported.
Type: ufo midair collision
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Orting, WA
See also: 9/29/59
See also: 5/61

Event 1077

Date: 4/15/1959
Description: Between Svendborg and Nyborg, Ove Christensen, coming home after work on his bicycle, was stopped on the road by a disk-shaped object spinning at ground level. After five minutes it began chasing him, flying 6 m above him for 5 m. The object was luminous and seemed made of glass.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Svendborg, Denmark
Magnolia ID: 486

Event 1078

Date: 4/29/1959
Description: Alex Gillis and Jerry Monkman saw from a hilltop an egg-shaped object in the middle of the road. It was about 5 m long, the top part emitting a bright light. The object went away silently. Fearing ridicule, the witnesses reported the incident one month later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Grassy Plains, Canada
Magnolia ID: 487

Event 1079

Date: 5/20/1959
Description: Two hunters saw a diskshaped object resting on the ground 150 m away. It looked like an aluminum craft about 2.5 m high, with a dome on top. Grass flattened.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 53 (Vallee)
Location: Tres Lomas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 488

Event 1080

Date: 6/21/1959
Description: A civilian woman observed a saucer-shaped object hovering 5 m above ground. It was bathed in an orange glow, similar to that of a dying fire. It flew away horizontally and was lost to sight behind a hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 59, 6 (Vallee)
Location: The Willows, South Africa
Magnolia ID: 489

Event 1081

Date: 6/26/1959
Description: Many witnesses, among them Fr. W. B. Gill, head of a local mission, saw an orange object that hovered in mid-air. Four engines were visible on its "deck" and a beam of blue light was emitted upward from it. The object did not come to ground level, but its position above the ocean was almost on a level with the observers standing on the hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 123; Anatomy 145 (Vallee)
Location: Boianai, New Guinea
Magnolia ID: 490

Event 1082

Date: 7/13/1959
Description: Mrs. Moreland saw a diskshaped object as she was milking cows. It was about 10 m diameter, had two intense, green lights and two rows of jets around the rim, emitting orange flames. Inside a glass dome on top were two men dressed in aluminumlike suits. The craft did not land, but took off at great speed with a high-pitched sound. Heat sensation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 124; Challenge 24 (Vallee)
Location: Blenheim, New Zealand
Magnolia ID: 491

Event 1083

Date: 7/14/1959
Description: Hunters reported the landing of a red object on the island. Other hunters saw a similar object near Karumba Lodge.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 123 (Vallee)
Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
Magnolia ID: 492

Event 1084

Date: 8/9/1959
Description: Mr. Uribe, a petroleum engineer, and two other witnesses had to stop when they ran out of fuel; they observed a light swinging like a pendulum, coming close to the ground. It appared as a large, vertical, egg-shaped object which made a "whooshing" sound. Closest approach was 120 m. Estimated height: 2 m; width, 1.5 m. When Uribe aimed a rifle at the object, it went out of sight within seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. IlI 14 (Vallee)
Location: Sombrero, Tierra del Fuego
Magnolia ID: 493

Event 1085

Date: 8/12/1959
Description: A 60-year-old farmer saw an eggshaped object come down at high speed and land in a pasture near a river. Then it took off vertically and flew away toward Santiago. Traces. Engine noise, not similar to helicopter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Brion, Spain
Magnolia ID: 494

Event 1086

Date: 8/13/1959
Description: A bright, flying object passed low over a car, whose engine stalled, and landed in a wooded area. Six witnesses in two separate groups observed the object, and the police were called. The dense underbrush prevented investigation of the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Freeport, Texas
Magnolia ID: 495

Event 1087

Date: 8/25/1959
Description: Near Hagen, Lutz Holtmann went toward a bright object in a forest, and fainted when he got close to it. When he regained consciousness, he saw it take off silently and vertically. It was round, had a tripod landing gear, two rows of bright openings, and was about 30 m in diameter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Werdehl-Eveking, Germany
Magnolia ID: 496

Event 1088

Date: 9/7/1959
Description: A bluish, disk-shaped object was observed at ground level by a mail carrier. It suddenly went away horizonally, leaving a stained ring on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Nov., 59 (Vallee)
Location: Wallingford, Kentucky
Magnolia ID: 497

Event 1089

Date: 9/29/1959
Description: Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt., spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about 1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it. Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542, carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was stationary both times it was tracked.
Type: ufo midair collision
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Buffalo, Texas
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 5/61

Event 1090

Date: 10/2/1959
Description: Approximate date. Miss G. Wilson, 14, was out riding a horse when a luminous object dived toward her, and she rushed home in fear. Her father came out and saw the object, which he described as orange and making a "painful" sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 125 (Vallee)
Location: Glenora, Canada
Magnolia ID: 498

Event 1091

Date: 10/25/1959
Description: On the Trans-Canada Highway west of this town, four hunters (Douglas Robinson, Ray Disguiseppe, Victor Arnone and John Defilippo, of Port-Arthur) saw an oval, luminous object follow their car about 13 m above them. The object was spinning, stopped when they did, was white in color and remained with them for nearly 50 km.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Fort William, Canada
Magnolia ID: 499

Event 1092

Date: 12/22/1959
Description: Kenneth Lindsley and several other witnesses saw a bright, orange object at ground level. It was bowl-shaped, as wide as the road, and shadows that appeared to be moving could be seen.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Oakdale, California
Magnolia ID: 500

Event 1093

Date: 1960
Description: The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 1094

Date: 1960's
End date: mid 1980's
Description: ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April 2, 1912 — January 20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of the first major things he does is discredit “Gerald Light”
Type: research group
Reference: link

Event 1095

Date: 1960's
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps
Type: secret location
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar

Event 1096

Date: 1/31/1960
Description: Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret aircraft” rumors of a Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB.
Type: telegram
Reference: link

Event 1097

Date: 3/1960
Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
Type: article
Reference: link

Event 1098

Date: spring 1960
Description: An electronics engineer was fishing when he heard a shrill, whirring sound and saw a round object, with a rotating light on top, land on the shore. The sound gradually stopped, an opening became visible, and two dwarfs with oversized heads came out with a hose and pumped water from the river. Later they appeared to play like children. Their bodies glowed with lights of changing colors.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Syracuse, New York
Magnolia ID: 501

Event 1099

Date: 4/5/1960
Description: An orange disk landed with a hissing sound, then exploded, while four dwarfish figures ran away into the brush.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 5; 126 (Vallee)
Location: Beira, Mozambique
Magnolia ID: 502

Event 1100

Date: 4/18/1960
Description: Mr. Arnold saw a round object, fiery red in color, arriving at high speed from the south. It touched the ground about 300 m away with a loud explosion heard by many people, and a flame. It bounced in an easterly direction for about 300 m, then rose again, turned west and disappeared. The ground was scarred in nine places, and a substance resembling metallic paint was found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Science & Mechanics Dec., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Lacamp, Louisiana
Magnolia ID: 503

Event 1101

Date: 5/4/1960
Description: A yellow, elliptical object with four evenly spaced windowlike openings was observed at ground level by an architect.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 60 (Vallee)
Location: Sarasota, Florida
Magnolia ID: 504

Event 1102

Date: 5/14/1960
Description: Raimondo dos Santos saw two craft land on hill near a farm called Capin Acu. He went near them and saw several small beings, palelooking, making friendly gestures. He ran away. The creatures wore blue uniforms and white helmets. The previous day at 1900, over 100 witnesses had observed a dark-gray, circular craft, 20 m in diameter with a powerful light, maneuvering and hovering.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 37; LDLN 58 (Vallee)
Location: Paracuru, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 505

Event 1103

Date: 5/19/1960
Description: Salvatore Cianci, jeweler, and his wife, were driving near this Sicilian town when a creature about 1 m tall appeared in the headlights. It wore a shining coverall and a diving helmet and had two short wings. Mrs. Cianci suffered from shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Siracusa, Italy
Magnolia ID: 506

Event 1104

Date: 5/25/1960
Description: Vera Bowden, 35, saw a gray, elliptical object hovering at tree height over Broadwater Lake for 18 min. Then it left toward the west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 60, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Chinthurst Hill, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 507

Event 1105

Date: 8/1960
Description: Mrs. K. St. Bereits was in her garden when she saw an object coming down at great speed. Arriving at ground level, it came toward her, appearing as a disk standing on edge, 7 m in diameter with a pulsating halo of yellow light. Three beams of light came from a central opening. A sort of haze and "gas stream" was also described.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Jan., 61; FSR 61, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Magnolia ID: 508

Event 1106

Date: 8/13/1960
Description: Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft. Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow (color not mentioned) and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats. The local RADAR operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it the next day. Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO and another similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Red Bluff, CA

Event 1107

Date: 9/23/1960
Description: A Canadian ship reported that a cylindrical object with lighted portholes came down, hit the ocean, and sank off the northcoast of Labrador.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Labrador
Magnolia ID: 509

Event 1108

Date: 10/1960
Description: New apparitions of a monstrous "cyclops."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 129 (Vallee)
Location: Yariguarenda Jungle, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 510

Event 1109

Date: 11/11/1960
Description: Four witnesses, among them three military men, saw an object that seemed about to land, then took off again toward the north, leaving a trail of sparks and blinding them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 130; FSR 61,1 (Vallee)
Location: Warminster, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 511

Event 1110

Date: 11/13/1960
Description: Remi Carbonnier, 45, was awakened by a green light illuminating his room. He went to the window and saw a bright, round object, 6 m in diameter, resting on three legs on the railroad tracks 300 m away. It was emitting orange flashes. A dome on top of the object started spinning, the legs disappeared, and the object rose vertically above the trees, without noise. Less than 20 sec later, it had cleared the hill and was lost to sight in the southwest. The next day the witness went to the site and found no trace, but his dog turned around and ran away,
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 131 (Vallee)
Location: La Londe, France
Magnolia ID: 512

Event 1111

Date: 12/9/1960
Description: A dog barking at a glowing object resting in a park. Three witnesses observed it from separate locations. It appeared as an oval, luminous craft, 4 m in diameter, inside which vague shadows were seen. It took off toward the north. A circle of yellowed grass was found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 27 (Vallee)
Location: Carignan, France
Magnolia ID: 513

Event 1112

Date: 1961
Description: Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an elliptical area where he claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to Earth in 1961. A local resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s story about the 1961 crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself. She said a big, fiery, red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the valley by the river.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Russia

Event 1113

Date: 1961
End date: 1963
Description: Near Nellis AFB, NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at Nevada’s AEC between 1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal that Project REDLIGHT was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”, a 50-mile-square quadrant of land east of Nellis AFB. This Project “involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been shipped there from Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20 to 30 ft. in diam., and had no wings or tail.
Type: ufo testing
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Area 51

Event 1114

Date: 1961
Description: ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he was given a file cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which contained material recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use these items for “utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out to various companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further develop. Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night vision, fiber optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and lasers.
Type: historical event
Reference: "The Day after Roswell", by Philip J. Corso
Reference: Philip J. Corso's Manuscript
Location: Washington DC

Event 1115

Date: 1/1/1961
Description: A government topographer, Adolfo P. Pisani, was passed by a truck as he was driving on the Andean Highway. A brilliant disk with the appearance of blue steel swooped down very close to the hood of the truck and then flew away. The truck was pulled up nearly 1 m above the road and overturned in a sandbank. The driver escaped with minor injuries.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor.I 250 (Vallee)
Location: La Victoria, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 514

Event 1116

Date: 1/20/1961
End date: 11/22/1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 1117

Date: 1/22/1961
Description: An electronics professor at Bordeaux University and three school teachers observed an elongated, glowing, orange object. Interference with car ignition was noted. One witness was said to have felt a slight indisposition and to have heard or somehow perceived the word "ZEMU" repeated twice.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 26 (Vallee)
Location: Cestas-Gazinet, France
Magnolia ID: 515

Event 1118

Date: 2/28/1961
Description: US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese troops during operations in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Vietnam

Event 1119

Date: 3/10/1961
Description: F. Reynolds and his son were camping near the water. They observed an object on the ground with four windows in it. There was a fire nearby, and four figures could be seen between it and the object. At 2130 it had disappeared. Witnesses in Wodonga, West Albury, Wangaratta and Tallangatta independently observed an unknown object in flight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Austr. FSR 5 (Vallee)
Location: Bowna, Australia
Magnolia ID: 516

Event 1120

Date: 4/18/1961
Description: J. Simonton heard a whining sound and saw an object, 10 m in diameter, 4 m high, with exhaust pipes around the periphery, land near his house. A door was opened and a man appeared. About 1.50 m tall, he wore a black, turtle-neck pullover with a white band at the belt, and black trousers with a vertical white band along the side. Two figures were visible inside the object. Simonton filled a jug with water, returned it to the man, who gave him three ordinary pancakes, and the craft took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Eagle River, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 517

Event 1121

Date: 4/28/1961
Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia

Event 1122

Date: 5/1961
Description: In the May issue of “Fate” magazine, Master Sgt. O.D. Hill admits that we are still losing Air Force planes to UFOs. The first case was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to investigate an UFO that had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air Base (name and dates classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO heading straight for the craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to climb at once, but it was too late. The two blips merged as one and the UFO was tracked moving away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single shred of the F-86 was ever found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with crew of two merged with an UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second Case: A radar operator was tracking a transport plane carrying 26 persons aboard when, suddenly, another blip appeared on the screen closing at 2500 mph on the transport. Before the operator could warn the transport the two blips emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight up at tremendous speed. A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil slicks on the water, although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating around.
Type: publication
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Location: US
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 9/29/59

Event 1123

Date: 5/3/1961
Description: Approximate date. A hemispherical craft with portholes, resting on a road, took off when a car came near it. Estimated diameter was 4 m, height 2.5 m, bearing "fluorescent lights."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 139, 147 (Vallee)
Location: Union Mills, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 518

Event 1124

Date: 6/3/1961
Description: Off this town, four people in a boat were suddenly shaken by growing waves and saw the sea swelling like an enormous bubble 1 km away. An object emerged, hovering at 10 m altitude for a brief time, its underside glowing, and it left obliquely at high speed toward the northeast. Its shape was similar to a cone resting on a disk.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Jan. 6,63 (Vallee)
Location: Savona, Italy
Magnolia ID: 519

Event 1125

Date: 7/3/1961
Description: An object resembling a hovercraft, having five windows through which an orange light was shining, hovered about 20 m above the trees. It left suddenly at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Ryde, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 520

Event 1126

Date: 7/17/1961
Description: One mile north of Bonny Spring Ranch, on U.S. Highway 91, two civilians in a car observed in the rear-view mirror a low-flying object that overtook their car, followed by a rush of cold air. It stopped, circled the vehicle, flew off and was lost to sight behind the mountains, where it may have landed. In the course of an exceptionally complete investigation by military authorities, however, no evidence of a landing was discovered.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Magnolia ID: 521

Event 1127

Date: 7/21/1961
Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
Type: aerospace
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Location: US
See also: 1/27/67

Event 1128

Date: 8/12/1961
Description: Two Drake University students saw a large object shaped like an oval with "running boards" bearing a series of lights. It hovered for about 4 min at tree-height, shot straight up, climbed away toward the east, then disappeared from view in five sec or so.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Magnolia ID: 522

Event 1129

Date: 8/25/1961
Description: Approximate date. Five persons observed a luminous, yellow sphere, 8 m in diameter, flying about 10 m above the road. Horizontal and vertical bands of darker tone gave the impression of "windows." The object flew up very fast when the car reached town.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN (Vallee)
Location: Toulouse, France
Magnolia ID: 523

Event 1130

Date: 9/19/1961
End date: 9/20/1961
Description: Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire: Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or planet, which seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty… As the object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see occupants inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited. They climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would vanish into oblivion.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire

Event 1131

Date: 9/19/1961
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Hill saw a lenticular object with a double row of portholes and half-a-dozen dark figures working at control panels inside, when they stopped to investigate a light following their car. They became afraid and drove away. A "beeping sound" enveloped the car, and they felt a prickling sensation before losing consciousness. When they came to, they were driving near Ashland. A series of nightmares and medically controlled hypnosis brought back what apparently was the memory of their abduction by the occupants of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fuller; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Indian Head, New Hampshire
Magnolia ID: 524

Event 1132

Date: 9/30/1961
Description: Eight km south of La Porte, 16year-old Dennis Bealor saw a large sphere of orange light rise ahead of him on the road. He was so frightened that he lost control of his bike and left the road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 158 (Vallee)
Location: La Porte, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 525

Event 1133

Date: 10/3/1961
Description: Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield, Novaya Zemlya archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in WW2 combined, heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd degree burns at 100km distance.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 50

Event 1134

Date: 10/8/1961
Description: Privately circulated letter from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over his concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological warfare.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 1135

Date: 12/21/1961
Description: Jerry Hislope, 20, was driving to Kentland when he saw a glowing white object, 3 m in diameter, 1 m thick, dive at him, flying 3 m above the ground. He stopped to observe it, but the object flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Mar., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Lafayette, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 526

Event 1136

Date: 1/8/1962
Description: A truck driver and two other men observed two powerful lights lost sight of thern, but later saw a craft on the ground 150 m to the side of the road. It took off at high speed when illuminated by the headlights. Farther away, two objects maneuvered above the road leading to La Bajada. As the police were driving to the scene, they saw one of the craft on the ground near Loma Brava.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Catamarca, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 527

Event 1137

Date: 2/9/1962
Description: Mr. Wildam, of Luton, noticed that his car was gradually losing speed as he approached a bright, oval thing hovering 10 m above the road. The object was surrounded by a glow, and left at high speed very suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Aston Clinton, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 528

Event 1138

Date: 4/1962
Description: Flight Commander P.J. (initials), attached to TAC Fighter Wing was deployed at Wright-Patterson AFB and mistakenly entered into an air hanger where he thought the gym was located. Upon entering the hanger he was approached by an air police sentry with a sub-machine gun. Behind the sentry was a saucer approx. 12–15 ft. diam. suspended off the ground by two engine test stands. There were no markings or insignia on the saucer. It had no rivet markings. The saucer was roped-off and 8 guards stood at parade rest around it. P.J. and his friend were encouraged to leave the hanger. P.J. returned to Myrtle Beach AFB, SC
Type: witness statement
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Location: Wright Patterson AFB

Event 1139

Date: 4/10/1962
Description: Mario Zuccula, 27, was walking home when he suddenly felt a current of cold air. He was paralyzed with fear when he saw a white object, 10 m in diameter, metallic in appearance which hovered close to the ground. A metallic cylinder was lowered from the craft, and two little men about 1.30 m tall, came out through a door lighted by a source inside the cylinder. A low voice similar to the sound of an electronic device told him they would return at the end of the fourth moon, one hour before dawn, with a message. The beings had their heads covered with a hood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62, 4 (Vallee)
Location: San Casciano, Italy
Magnolia ID: 529

Event 1140

Date: 4/11/1962
Description: Between Saronno and Legnano, Benazzi and three other witnesses saw a peculiar craft fly above them and land on the road. It was intensely luminous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Sarouno, Italy
Magnolia ID: 530

Event 1141

Date: 4/18/1962
Description: Object was first spotted over Oneida, New York and was heading in a westerly direction. Object reported over Kansas, Colorado and Eureka, Utah. The object was reported by over a thousand people. The object appeared to land and then take off again from Eureka, CA. The town of Eureka experienced a blackout when it landed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Oneida, NY
Location: Kansas
Location: Colorado
Location: Eureka, Utah

Event 1142

Date: 4/30/1962
Description: Eugenio Siragusa, 43, claimed to have met two men of normal height, clad in diving suits, with belts emitting intermittent yellow-green blue light, who delivered to him a peace message in Italian. The voice had a metallic tone. Also observed was a very dazzling object, 15 m in diameter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Mount Eba, Italy
Magnolia ID: 531

Event 1143

Date: 5/1962
Description: Approximate date. Four people whose car had run out of gas, were waiting in a drizzling rain when a bright light, first thought to be from a car, approached them. It turned out to be a lowflying object that landed. It was round with a blinking light, and stayed there about one hour before taking off at high speed
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Jujuy, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 532

Event 1144

Date: 5/12/1962
Description: General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy”
Type: speach
Reference: link
Location: West Point Academy

Event 1145

Date: 5/12/1962
Description: V. and G. Tomasini and H. Zenobi saw an object on the ground 100 m away from the road. It looked like a railroad car and was illuminated. As they came close to it, the object took off, crossed the road at low altitude, rose with a flame, and separated into two sections that flew away in different directions. It made a humming noise and was seen on the ground for one min. Within a circle 60 m in radius, grass was burned, insects were carbonized, and the ground was "petrified." Sample analysis was done by the Puerto Belgrano Naval Base.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV 30; 132; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Pampa Province, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 533

Event 1146

Date: 5/13/1962
Description: Dozens of witnesses in Uncativo, Cordoba, Carranza, and Los Molinos Dam observed a very luminous, elongated object with a bright trail. Soon thereafter, fog filled a wooded section near Uncativo, and a landed object resembling a small house was observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 133; CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Uncativo, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 534

Event 1147

Date: 5/22/1962
Description: A woman was hospitalized after her observation of a strange object that landed, and of the "ugly" giant beings who emerged from it. Approximate date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 135 (Vallee)
Location: Winifreda, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 535

Event 1148

Date: 6/16/1962
Description: Four persons from Thursday Island, among them E. Thorpe, were climbing a hill when they observed a silvery object on a nearby hillside, less than 2 km away. It could not be located again when they reached the other side of the hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62,5 (Vallee)
Location: Prince of Wales Island, Australia
Magnolia ID: 536

Event 1149

Date: 6/26/1962
Description: For about one hour, 20-year-old Roberto Poregozzo, his mother, Maria, and his 25year-old sister, Luisa, observed a silvery disk, the apparent diameter of the moon, maneuvering in the sky near Santa Anastasia church. They finally went home. About 0300, one of them was awakened by a feeling of intense cold and perceived a greenish light in the room. In the window a sharply defined human shape, delineating a semi-transparent body, was visible. The apparition had a huge bald head. The witness screamed, awakening the two others, and they saw the apparition shrink and vanish "like a TV image when one turns off the set."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Verona, Italy
Magnolia ID: 537

Event 1150

Date: 7/30/1962
Description: A man driving near Pasnembi stopped when his engine failed and observed a cylindrial object, described as "a bottle with two necks," about 40 m long, 15 m high, which had landed on the road. Two men (one at either end of the craft), appeared to be changing some luminous signals. This lasted 10 min and the craft took off at high speed. In Alta, a number of people reported a bright object moving at high altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 136; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Pasnembi, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 538

Event 1151

Date: 7/30/1962
Description: Roberto Mievres, 17, was riding his motorcycle when a tall being, with a head like a watermelon and three eyes, appeared as the engine stalled. The apparition snatched the boy's scarf, but he ran away and came back with a group of people, who found the scarf on the ground, discovered some traces and observed an unknown craft flying away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Bajeola Grande, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 539

Event 1152

Date: 8/2/1962
Description: Luis Harvey, airport manager, and his staff thought that an unannounced aircraft was about to land, as they saw a luminous object circling at high speed. It came down to hover about 1 m above the runway for some four min. It was spherical, spinning, and emitted flashes of blue, green and orange. When approached, it took off at very high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Camba Punat Airport, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 540

Event 1153

Date: 8/17/1962
Description: Rivalino da Silva, a diamond prospector, told his associates that he had seen two strange dwarfs digging a hole near his house. They ran away as he came near them, and moments later an object took off from behind the bushes. It was shaped like a hat and surrounded with a red glow.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep.,62 (Vallee)
Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 541

Event 1154

Date: 8/19/1962
Description: Raimundo, the son of Rivalino da Silva (see previous case), was awakened by the sound of steps and saw "a weird shadow" in the room. It was small and not human in shape. Voices were heard saying, "This one looks like Rivalino," and later that they would kill him. The family stayed on the alert all night.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 542

Event 1155

Date: 8/20/1962
Description: Raimundo da Silva (see previous cases) testified before the police that while working in a field, he saw two spherical objects hovering 2 m above ground, a few meters from the house. One was black with an antenna-like protrusion and a small tail; the other was black and white. Both emitted a humming sound and a flickering fire through an opening. The boy's father warned him to stay away as Rivalino walked toward the objects, praying. When he was 2 m away, the two spheres merged into one, raising dust from the ground and spreading a yellow mist that enveloped the man. The boy ran after his father, noting that the cloud had "an acrid smell." As it dissolved, everything had vanished. Police investigation, headed by Lieutenant Lisboa, failed to reveal any clue. Many terrified people left the area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Duas Pontes, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 543

Event 1156

Date: 9/1962
Description: A. T. Gray, a dairy rancher, thought some lights in a field were those of a car. When coming nearer, he realized the object was oblong with blunt edges and hovered about 7 m above the ground, making no noise. When Gray was 50 m away, the object came toward him, rose, and took off toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Orland, California
Magnolia ID: 544

Event 1157

Date: 9/5/1962
Description: Second observation by Mr. Siragusa (Case 531), who saw two figures over 2.10 m tall. The light from their belts prevented him from seeing them in detail. A large, spinning object, 25 m wide, top-shaped, hovered nearby. "From the under part, a metallic cylinder over 3 m long reached down almost to touch the road, with a small door, a sort of lift."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Mount Manfre, Italy
Magnolia ID: 545

Event 1158

Date: 9/13/1962
Description: Myra Jones was driving between Overfield and Norris Hill when she saw a luminous, gray object, larger than a car with a dome on top. It was flying at the altitude of the Phone poles, slowly spinning. Dark spots were visible on the underside. It nearly touched the car, then gave a whistling sound and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 137; FSR 62, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Overfield, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 546

Event 1159

Date: 9/15/1962
Description: Two bright disks were first seen at 1700, then were seen again at 1800, at the state line. Two witnesses saw one round object with a fin on top and another under it at 1950, and reported that it was going down toward the Oradell reservoir. Three young men saw and heard the object as it touched the water. Another witness called police. The luminous object took off a few minutes later. Official investigation described it as bright, surrounded with a glow, the apparent size of a small plane 1 km away. It left toward the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Oradell, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 547

Event 1160

Date: 9/18/1962
Description: Three men working in a rubber plantation saw a large, disk-shaped object hover above the river. It emitted sparks, was of silvery color, and very brilliant. It eventually rose straight up at high speed. Disappearance of cattle was noticed in the area during that period and blamed on the same cause.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Barcelos, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 548

Event 1161

Date: 10/24/1962
Description: Undocumented claim that a landing took place. No traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 62 (Vallee)
Location: Horsetooth Reservoir, Colorado
Magnolia ID: 549

Event 1162

Date: 10/28/1962
Description: Mrs. E. D. Silvester was driving with her three children when an illuminated oval object landed near the road. She watched it for 40 min, and reported seeing a man wearing a helmet and gas mask in the vicinity of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Norwood, Australia
Magnolia ID: 550

Event 1163

Date: 11/1962
Description: A garage owner was driving through a rainstorm when he suddenly saw a group of figures 80 m away. He slowed down as they went away jerkily, and observed that they were bizarre, birdlike creatures. As they rushed toward the car, he drove past them in terror and saw them going back toward a luminous, blue object hovering in a field. They entered it as if "sucked into it," and a dull sound was heard before the object flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Var, France
Magnolia ID: 551

Event 1164

Date: 12/9/1962
Description: Antonio Candau saw a circular object land in Cadivilla, 9 m away from him. It was about 5.5 m m diameter, and two men emerged from it, approaching within 2 m, and spoke incomprehensible words. They wore yellow coveralls and a wide belt. Noting that the witness was afraid, one of them made a reassuring gesture with his hand, and the craft departed with a strange sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Settimana Incom. Dec. 30, 62 (Vallee)
Location: Bologna, Italy
Magnolia ID: 552

Event 1165

Date: 12/11/1962
Description: G. L. Colodrero and the director of the Cordoba Historial Museum were driving from Catamarca to Cordoba when, 7 km away from Chumbicha, they saw seven objects on the ground of a mountain slope. They were bright and spherical, rose straight up and flew away with a very bright trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Chumbicha, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 553

Event 1166

Date: 12/17/1962
Description: Francesco Rizzi, night watchman, was crossing the factory yard when he heard a whistling sound and observed an object hovering 1 m above ground. It was a silvery disk, about 5 m in diameter, with lighted windows. The noise stopped, a door became visible, and a small being appeared and made a gesture. A second figure was also seen. The craft took off with a puff of white smoke and a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 138 (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Italy
Magnolia ID: 554

Event 1167

Date: 12/19/1962
Description: Three sailors on a ship observed two gray, helmet-shaped objects hovering 1 km away at 20 m altitude above Lake Major. Diameter: about 15 m. After 5 min one object started moving rapidly, gaining height with an undulating movement. It was soon joined by the second object, and both disappered together at the horizon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 139 (Vallee)
Location: Verbania, Italy
Magnolia ID: 555

Event 1168

Date: 12/21/1962
Description: A large, fiery disk was observed on the runway by Horado Alora and Mario Pezzuto, the two control tower operators, and by the crews of two aircraft. It rose to 10 m altitude, hovered, and flew away to the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1962 (Vallee)
Location: Buenos Aires Airport, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 556

Event 1169

Date: 1/4/1963
Description: A well-known psychiatrist saw an object on the ground in a deserted city park. Shape: a dome upon a cylinder, bearing a series of round apertures and surrounded by a thick, roundish ring, set on a tripod landing gear supporting the base of the cylinder 1 m above the ground. Diameter: 5 m. Suddenly the ring started spinning rapidly, and a gust of air was felt as the craft rose a few m above ground, then disappeared in a split second.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 142 (Vallee)
Location: Rome, Italy
Magnolia ID: 557

Event 1170

Date: 1/11/1963
Description: A 43-year-old farmer was awakened by restless animals and went out to calm them. Fifteen min later he saw an object land in a small square in the village, went toward it, was "paralyzed" when 10 m away. Two min later the craft, 4.5 m long, 1.5 m high, with a translucent upper dome showing two dark, moving figures, ascended in the direction of Brindisi, emitted a vertical beam of green light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 143 (Vallee)
Location: San Pietro, Italy
Magnolia ID: 558

Event 1171

Date: 1/28/1963
Description: A former Chilean Air Force officer, who was driving a truck, observed two disk-shaped objects that followed him for over ten min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mamina, Chile
Magnolia ID: 560

Event 1172

Date: 1/28/1963
Description: Mary Sharp and Mrs. E. L. Sharp saw an object on the ground. It had four windows, emitted a yellow-orange light, and eventually left toward Rugby.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Shilton, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 559

Event 1173

Date: 1/31/1963
Description: An object was reported to have landed. The Lopez brothers found traces in the grass and evidence of intense heat. Police investigation. A whitish powder was also found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Ganada de Algosaray, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 561

Event 1174

Date: 2/5/1963
Description: Approximate date. A student, Anastasio Lenven, saw an object land on the school grounds. In a different observation, several residents, including an official of the Ministry of the Interior, saw an object flying at very high speed over Ascension.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Ascension, Paraguay
Magnolia ID: 562

Event 1175

Date: 2/15/1963
Description: A civilian observed an object arriving from the east. It stopped at 15 m altitude over his farmhouse. The object made a swishing sound, and measured about 8 m in diameter, 3 m in height. The underside was spinning in a counterclockwise direction, had a blue color and no light. It took off faster than a jet, after hovering about five sec. The witness suffered from a strong headache all day.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Willow Grove, Australia
Magnolia ID: 563

Event 1176

Date: 2/20/1963
Description: A young man saw from a window ,a slowly spinning object, almost stationary, 500 m away. It appeared as a disk having a central upper dome, with a total diameter of 3 m. The object had a brilliant yellow red halo, but its dome was much more brilliant. The witness observed it through binoculars, reported seeing a "particle" leave the object, after which it stopped spinning, gained altitude with a vertical shifting, and left toward the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 144 (Vallee)
Location: Lecce, Italy
Magnolia ID: 564

Event 1177

Date: 2/21/1963
Description: A strange globe of fire hit a car driven by a civilian man. Several people called authorities to report that they had been awakened by a peculiar object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Belgrade, Montana
Magnolia ID: 565

Event 1178

Date: 3/9/1963
Description: Amos Biggs observed a silver, saucer-shaped craft, with an oval dome, which landed on the frozen lake for 10 min. A "door" was opened and then shut, and the craft took off with a buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Crystal Lake, Montana
Magnolia ID: 566

Event 1179

Date: 3/12/1963
Description: After an intense rainfall Pablo Michalowski and Roberto Jorge Martinez observed and photographed a luminous object that rose from a forest preserve about 2 km from Colonia Yerua.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1963 (Vallee)
Location: Colonia Yerua, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 567

Event 1180

Date: 3/13/1963
Description: Fred White was fishing when he heard a high-pitched whine coming from the east and saw an object come in his direction and land 15 m away, scattering sand. It was at least 30 m in diameter, and was shaped like two plates glued together. Through several oval portholes he could see light inside. A man with a fair complexion, wearing a metallic helmet, looked at the witness. He wore a sky-blue, one-piece coverall with no visible buttons or fasteners, and gloves made of shiny mesh. Warm air was felt as the craft took off about six min later, and radio interference was noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Richards Bay, South Africa
Magnolia ID: 568

Event 1181

Date: 5/7/1963
Description: Margaret McCutcheon and her 13-year-old son reported to the police that, after the house lights blacked out while watching television, they saw an object about 6 m in diameter, with two aerials and a red light flashing, emitting a low buzz, near the house. After one minute, it flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Kirkby, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 569

Event 1182

Date: 5/15/1963
Description: Mr. and Mrs. D., of Carignan, saw an object on the ground to the left of the road as they were driving between Bergerac and Bordeaux, beyond the Yvrac intersection, 2.5 km from Maille. They stopped to observe it, and the object then followed them for part of their trip.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 71 (Vallee)
Location: Yvrac-Maille, France
Magnolia ID: 570

Event 1183

Date: 5/20/1963
Description: A 17-year-old witness, who wishes anonymity for fear of ridicule, saw what he first thought was a bulldozer by the side of the road. He came within 20 m of it, then was blinded by a strong light as his car suddenly stopped. The object crossed the road and flew away. The light was as intense as that of a welder's torch. The witness's father testified that his son came home white and visibly terrified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 63 (Vallee)
Location: Glencoe, Australia
Magnolia ID: 571

Event 1184

Date: 6/4/1963
Description: A multicolored object, the size of a light truck, was reported to have landed in the vicinity of Lyle. Police searched an area over 3 km wide on both sides of the Iowa-Minnesota border, with no results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Lyle, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 572

Event 1185

Date: 6/28/1963
Description: A fiery red object, 8 m wide 4 m high, with a concave top and flat bottom, was seen on the road by a Willaston resident who stopped his car 4 m away. The object rose, tipped to one side and flew away at fantastic speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 141; FSR 64, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Sandy Creek, Australia
Magnolia ID: 573

Event 1186

Date: 7/15/1963
Description: A farmer discovered strange crater 2.5 m wide and 2.5 m deep. Vegetation around it was burned and there were four holes in the ground around the crater itself.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Charlton, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 574

Event 1187

Date: 7/17/1963
Description: A passenger of a Convair-880 related to UFO investigator, James Moseley, that the 4 engine jet airliner she had been flying in was pursued by an UFO. The jet, traveling at 600 mph, made a sharp turn to avoid the UFO, now rapidly closing in on the plane. Just as they were about to collide, the UFO swerved away at fantastic speed and disappeared in the night sky. When the (unnamed) woman confronted the pilot about the incident, he said, “I wouldn’t dare risk telling the airline of the incident. If I could tell you of some of the experiences my buddies have had, you’d never fly again!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: US

Event 1188

Date: 7/22/1963
Description: William Holland, 12, and two other persons saw a hovering, silvery object with a flashing red light on top, at 20 m altitude. It had three "legs" and a periscope underneath that pointed at the witnesses. The object went up into a cloud of unusual color, which flew against the wind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Parr, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 575

Event 1189

Date: 8/5/1963
Description: Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear tests were conducted
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 1190

Date: 8/7/1963
Description: Five persons observed a luminous source flying slowly over the railroad tracks. Direction of travel: west, then north. It appeared ready to land in a wooded area. Its luminosity was variable.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Centralia, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 576

Event 1191

Date: 8/8/1963
Description: An oval, luminous object coming from the north dived toward Centralia Road, followed a car, flying around it. Then it went away toward the west, disappeared like a bulb turned off, and was seen again in the west flying very fast. It was observed by numerous people. Total duration: 15 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 577

Event 1192

Date: 8/13/1963
Description: An elliptical object with lights on its entire length and occasional flashes at both ends was seen at ground level for over one hour by an entire family.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 141 (Vallee)
Location: Ellsworth, Maine
Magnolia ID: 578

Event 1193

Date: 8/20/1963
Description: In a wooded area near Rome, a man in a car observed an object resembling a plate turned upside down, with a central turret, flying low over his vehicle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rome, Italy
Magnolia ID: 579

Event 1194

Date: 8/28/1963
Description: Two brothers, F. and R. Eustagio, 11 and 9, saw a luminous sphere at treetop level. Through an opening they observed "several rows of people inside" and a thin, 3 m tall being, whho glided down to the ground along two vertical beams of light. He walked with a strange, swinging motion, then sat down. He wore a transparent helmet, had one eye in the middle of his forehead, wore high boots that left a triangular imprint, and carried a box emitting flashes. He made a threatening gesture and flew up to the sphere, which left. The chlldren somehow became convinced that the being was "good" and would return.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 37; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Sagrada Famila, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 580

Event 1195

Date: 9/19/1963
Description: Four children saw a bright oval object hover in a field and drop something. Approaching the site, they were confronted with a 3 m tall man, dressed in "a white monklike suit," who held out his hands and made unintelligible sounds. The children fled in panic, and one girl was admitted to the hospital in shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Saskatoon, Canada
Magnolia ID: 581

Event 1196

Date: 10/1963
Description: A middle-aged woman, who had seen a strange craft hovering near her house the previous Jul., observed a gray-colored object, 3.5 m long, hovering less than 2 m above ground. Through the transparent front part she could see three figures. Suddenly one of the occupants was standing on the grass. He was clothed in "asbestostextured coveralls" and neither the face, nor the hands, nor the feet was visible. When she asked, "What do you want?" the answer, in English, was: "One of our party knows you; we will return." The object then decreased in size, tilted, partially sank into the ground, grew to its previous size, and departed to the east, producing steam, a flash, and a noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Whidbey Island, Washington
Magnolia ID: 582

Event 1197

Date: 10/12/1963
Description: E. Douglas, while driving a truck through,a violent rainstorm, had to stop when he encountered a large, blinding object, 35 m high, from which three giants, 3 m tall, wearing luminous clothes and strange helmets, emerged. Douglas fired at them, as a red beam burned him. He ran away and found shelter in Monte Maiz. He suffered burns similar to ultraviolet exposure. Footprints of large dimension were found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1963; Austr; FSR 8; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Monte Maiz, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 583

Event 1198

Date: 10/21/1963
Description: Six strange objects were observed for 40 min causing a local panic. One was hovering at ground level above some railroad tracks, while another, showing a dome and portholes, was nea a house. When witneses flashed a light, the house was flooded with a strong beam. Temperature rose and a sulphurous odor was noted. Figures were seen in the vicinity of the first disks. All six objects had a white and a red light beam, measured 8 m in diameter, and left a cloud of white smoke.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 145; LDLN 66 (Vallee)
Location: Trancas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 584

Event 1199

Date: 10/31/1963
Description: Jim Davidson saw an object about 3 m long, bearing orange and red lights, which came close to his light truck, flew ahead of him, then departed and appeared to land behind a hill. Two witnesses independently reported a maneuvering light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Austr. FSR May., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Daylston, Australia
Magnolia ID: 585

Event 1200

Date: 10/31/1963
Description: A farmer, Issuo Oikiti, and two other witnesses saw a luminous object, resembling a huge, aluminum ball, which hit the river, changed direction while spinning, crossed to the other side and plunged into the water, which appeared to boil.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Vuillequez (Vallee)
Location: Peropava River, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 586

Event 1201

Date: 11/15/1963
Description: Peter Valko and Jim Keosian ran toward a strange object that appeared about to land, but it "vanished."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Bloomingdale, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 587

Event 1202

Date: 11/16/1963
Description: Four teenagers, among them painter John Flaxton, while walking on a country road, saw a moving star turn into a reddish glow coming toward them, then disappearing behind some trees. Shortly thereafter, a bright, golden light was seen 80 m away, floating 3 m above ground, and a dark figure the size of a man, with wings like a bat, came toward them. They fled in terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Saltwood, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 588

Event 1203

Date: 11/22/1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 1204

Date: 11/22/1963
End date: 1/20/69
Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 1205

Date: 12/1963
Description: A Japanese man reported the landing of an object, from which emerged a being who spoke to him in a language he could not understand, climbed aboard again, and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN67 (Vallee)
Location: Japan, exact location unknown
Magnolia ID: 589

Event 1206

Date: 12/10/1963
Description: At the RAF camp, two airmen observed a dome-shaped object that landed behind a hangar. It gave out a bright glow, and the witnesses fled when an opening became visible.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Cosford, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 590

Event 1207

Date: 12/14/1963
Description: Messrs. Muller and Immelman suddenly found the countryside illuminated and saw an object, 15 m in diameter, with intense orange and blue lights, emitting sparks, flying toward their car. They stopped and jumped out as it dived five or six times, at one point hovering for two min 15 m above them, making a humming sound, before flying away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 146; FSR 64, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Vereeniging, South Africa
Magnolia ID: 591

Event 1208

Date: 12/25/1963
Description: A fisherman witnessed the landing of a craft, from which a terrifying creature emerged. It was humanoid in shape, spoke sounds he could not understand, left footprints on the sand, and went back to the machine and flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 147;LDLN 70 (Vallee)
Location: Libreville, Gabon
Magnolia ID: 592

Event 1209

Date: 12/27/1963
Description: A shiny white object was seen on the ground at Bank's Stables. It was about 3.5 m long, 1 m high, and had something like a windshield more brilliant than the rest of the craft. It took off, flew horizontally for 30 m, and was hidden from view. Grass was flattened over a circular area, and four traces were found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BUFORA 1 (Vallee)
Location: Epping, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 593

Event 1210

Date: 4/3/1964
Description: Four people in a car observed a rigid configuration of intense red and white lights, apparently attached to a large object that came to ground level, hovered, and flew off very fast as they were driving about 2 km west of Monticello.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Challenge 31 (Vallee)
Location: Monticello, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 594

Event 1211

Date: 4/15/1964
Description: USAF Intelligence officer meets with 2 Aliens at prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico near Holloman AFB. Project SIGMA operates at AFB, New Mexico.
Type: alien meeting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Holloman AFB

Event 1212

Date: 4/22/1964
Description: Marie Morrow and two other persons were driving west, about 2O km east of Lordsbury when the entire area was illuminated by a bluish light "as bright as day," and a round object flew about 3 m above the car, making a whining sound, then went north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO May., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Lordsbury, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 595

Event 1213

Date: 4/24/1964
Description: Policeman Lonnie Zamora observed the landing of a white craft, resting on four legs, in a depression 4 km outside Socorro. Near it were standing two figures, below average height, dressed in white. Within 30 m of the object, he saw a red insignia on its aluminumlike surface. It rose to 4 m with a strong roar, became silent, hovered and flew away. Traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Challenge 34; Humanoids 47; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Socorro, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 597

Event 1214

Date: 4/24/1964
Description: Dairy farmer Gary T. Wilcox saw a shiny, egg-shaped object, about 8 m long and 6 m wide, in his field. He spoke in English to two dwarfs, 1.2 m tall, wearing seamless clothing and hoods, and carrying trays.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 59; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Tioga City, New York
Magnolia ID: 596

Event 1215

Date: 4/26/1964
Description: Orlando Gallegos observed a bright, metallic, egg-shaped object about 70 m away, on the ground, north of La Madera. Blue flames appeared to circle the base of the machine, which was silent and about the length of a Phone pole. Scorch marks and four imprints were found, according to Police Capt. Martin Vigil.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: La Madera, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 598

Event 1216

Date: 4/28/1964
Description: Numerous witnesses, among them policeman Paul Arteche, saw a reddish, round object hover at low level, then take off very rapidly toward the west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Anthony, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 599

Event 1217

Date: 4/30/1964
Description: Several anonymous adults observed an elongated, glowing object. Two children saw a lighted craft land and take off, leaving four rectangular indentations.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Canyon Ferry, Montana
Magnolia ID: 601

Event 1218

Date: 4/30/1964
Description: Gloria Biggs, her husband, and her mother observed a brown, dome-shaped object on a hilltop about 17 km west of Baker on U.S. Highway 91. They lost sight of it a moment, could not see it again, and found only a depression in the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 64, 5; Anatomy 75 (Vallee)
Location: Baker, California
Magnolia ID: 600

Event 1219

Date: 5/5/1964
Description: A farmer, Alfred Ernst, saw an object rise from a field and fly rapidly into the cloud bank. It was described as oval, and it left a depression and imprints in the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Comstock, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 602

Event 1220

Date: 5/9/1964
Description: Three children, John Owens, Cheryl Glunt, and Bernie Montello, saw a silvery, dome-shaped object arrive from the south and land in a field 150 m away. Estimated diameter: 3 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jun., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Mogadore, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 603

Event 1221

Date: 5/13/1964
Description: A woman saw two objects, one of which landed in a field. It was round and luminous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Rio Vista, California
Magnolia ID: 604

Event 1222

Date: 5/17/1964
Description: A fiery object, maneuvering at low altitude, was seen from Wooster and Smithville at 2110. then from Lawrence and Burbank between 2125 and 2130. It flew erratically with a whirring sound and changes of color, apparently interfering with police radio. lt went down toward the northwest, seemingly ready to land. Abnormal radioactivity allegedly was found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Akron UFO Res. Soc. (Vallee)
Location: Massillon, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 605

Event 1223

Date: 5/18/1964
Description: A bright, silvery object, 3 m long, 1.5 m high, with a cone-shaped front part, resting on four legs, was seen in a wheat field by 10-year-old Mike Bizon. It made a beeping noise, rose first to the altitude of the Phone poles, then took off vertically. Wheat was found flattened in all directions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Hubbard, Oregon
Magnolia ID: 606

Event 1224

Date: 5/24/1964
Description: A man driving on Millinocket Lake Road saw a fiery, spherical object to the side. He stopped and left his car with a friend to observe it better. When they became afraid and walked back to the car, the sphere followed them; the engine could not be started as long as the sphere remained within 2 or 3 m of the car. It flew away after five min. It was described as a ball of fire without structure, about 75 cm in diameter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Millinocket, Maine
Magnolia ID: 607

Event 1225

Date: 6/2/1964
Description: David Wilson, 14, was going to get some straw for his rabbits when he stopped with other children to observe half-a-dozen dwarfs, about 80 cm tall, dressed in bright green, and having hands lighted "like electric bulbs," who seemed to be searching for something. Another child later reported that she had seen a silvery disk-shaped object, the size of a car, take off from the same location.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Dec.,64 (Vallee)
Location: Leam Lane, England
Magnolia ID: 609

Event 1226

Date: 6/2/1964
Description: A "black object with flames" is blamed for burns suffered by an 8-year-old child, who said he saw the object coming from the sky. His grandmother, Mrs. Frank Smith, who was standing nearby, heard a sound similar to that of a bullet, but saw nothing. The child suffered second-degree burns on his face, and lost part of his hair.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Saucer News Mar., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Hobbs, New Mexico
Magnolia ID: 608

Event 1227

Date: 6/5/1964
Description: A 42-year-old doctor and his wife were 30 km away from the airport when an intensely bright object appeared on the road ahead. They drove very close to it and saw three men dressed in gray, one of whom told him in Spanish that "they had a mission on Earth."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
Location: Pajasblancas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 610

Event 1228

Date: 6/8/1964
Description: Helen Reed observed a spinning object 5 m above ground,less than 20 m away, coming and going with right-angle turns. It had a dome from which colored light emanated (blue turning to red) and bands of yellow light. The object was lost to sight behind trees in the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Lawrenceville, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 611

Event 1229

Date: 6/13/1964
Description: Karen Fahle saw a bright object coming to the ground about 200 m away. While approaching its lights blinked and turned to dark red. Five min later it went away slowly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: AMUFO Sep., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Penberville, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 612

Event 1230

Date: 6/14/1964
Description: Charles Englebrecht went outside when his TV set and all house lights suddenly failed and saw a glowing blue-white object, about 30 nn in diameter, land about 18 m away in the field. He felt a mild electric shock when he tried to approach it and was unable to move forward.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Dale, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 613

Event 1231

Date: 6/15/1964
Description: A miner, R. A. Donoso, observed a strange machine land. From it emerged two fairskinned men who asked for water in a language which appeared to be a mixture of English and Spanish. Donoso took some water from his car radiator for them and they left. Their craft was about 3 m long and 1 m wide.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65; 2 (Vallee)
Location: Aria, Chile
Magnolia ID: 614

Event 1232

Date: 6/23/1964
Description: Author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” and journalist Frank Scully dies in Palm Springs, CA. In 1988 his large archive of 1950’s-early 60's material (personal notes, private correspondences, newspaper clippings, etc.) is contributed by his wife Alice to the American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming) in Laramie, WY.
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Palm Springs, CA

Event 1233

Date: 7/7/1964
Description: Nine persons from three different houses, including J. Ivester, described an object like "a flying top." TV interference was associated with the object's presence. It flew silently at tree height and hovered over the vard of Mrs. Russell Mickinan's house. The lower part was bright red, with three lights on the upper part. As it left, a green light illuminated the countryside. A powerful odor similar to "embalming fluid" was noticeable when police arrived. The next day, witnesses felt a burning sensation on their faces and arms.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Challenge 39 (Vallee)
Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
Magnolia ID: 615

Event 1234

Date: 7/14/1964
Description: Miss P. Upton came running home nearly hysterical. While riding bicycles, she and a friend saw a low-flying object that terrified them. A strong unpleasant smell also was reported.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Nov., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Tallulah Falls, Georgia
Magnolia ID: 616

Event 1235

Date: 7/16/1964
Description: Edmund Travis, 9, Randy Travis, 7 Floyd Moore, 10, and two other boys, saw a dwarf dressed in a black suit and a helmet, with a glass section in front of his face, which looked human. He appeared to request some water in a strange tone, which sounded "as if it came from a pipe." He then walked to a shiny machine partially hidden in the brush, as the boys ran home.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 59 (Vallee)
Location: Conklin, New York
Magnolia ID: 617

Event 1236

Date: 7/27/1964
Description: An engineer stopped his car when he saw an aluminum-looking object, stationary, about 15 m above ground. The edge of the craft seemed fluorescent, and three beams of very bright light were emitted before it flew off at high speed. Total duration: 6 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sherburne, New York
Magnolia ID: 618

Event 1237

Date: 7/28/1964
Description: A former Navy pilot and another man, both regarded as trustworthy, were at work in a field when they saw an intense light, cone-shaped, emitted from the ground. A similar light was observed in the sky when the one on ground was turned off, then the reverse took place. A round, aluminum-looking object, about 10 m in diameter, with one red and one white light, then appeared and descended to ground level with a strong whistling sound similar to a small jet. Piercing and high-pitched voices similar to those of children playing were heard. After 40 min the craft took off. Before it did so, a jet aircraft flying at low altitude circled its position. On Jul. 31 and August 1, the densely wooded area was explored from a helicopter and on foot by Sheriff Nickell and a U.S. Air Force officer, but nothing was found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake Chelan, Washington
Magnolia ID: 619

Event 1238

Date: 7/30/1964
Description: A whitish, elliptical object followed a car, then landed in a field. The driver got out to observe it, but when the object started in his direction he became afraid and drove off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Flemington, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 620

Event 1239

Date: 8/2/1964
Description: Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Vietnam

Event 1240

Date: 8/7/1964
Description: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against Vietnam begin
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Vietnam

Event 1241

Date: 8/12/1964
Description: Witnesses got out of their car to watch an object resembling a "burning haystack," oval or crescent-shaped, which rose from the ground, crossed the sky, and was lost to sight in the south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Brekkens Corner, Montana
Magnolia ID: 621

Event 1242

Date: 8/25/1964
Description: Richard Pratt, 17, heard a whistling noise and saw a silvery, oval object surrounded with a soft white glow, supporting a dome, which went down to ground level. A similar object had been observed one hour earlier at Littleton, about 50 km west, by four boys. It was described as silvery gray, with three blinking red lights and a white light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Sep., 64 (Vallee)
Location: Lynn, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 622

Event 1243

Date: 9/5/1964
Description: Chafredo Dagota observed a circular object that came to the ground briefly. It stood on a sort of pillar and emitted a blinding light. He caught sight of two figures moving near it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Cofico, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 623

Event 1244

Date: 9/5/1964
Description: A hunter, who had lost his way in the mountains, observed approaching lights that seemed to land. From a vantage point in a tree, he saw a dome-shaped object at ground level, about 500 m away. Several creatures, one of them a robotlike figure with "eyes" about 10 cm in diameter, came near, apparently trying to dislodge the witness from his tree. The creatures appeared to fear the light from flaming objects thrown at them. The witness fell asleep after an exhausting series of attempts to keep the creatures away. At dawn there was nothing to be seen.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Cisco Grove, California
Magnolia ID: 624

Event 1245

Date: 9/11/1964
Description: Karen Campbell was scared by an oval, dull copper object that flew low over her car. It measured about 1.2 m in height, had a dome on top, made a "rushing" noise, and seemed to "float" over the car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 148 (Vallee)
Location: Ulysses, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 625

Event 1246

Date: 9/15/1964
Description: James Warren was awakened by a noise, and saw an object bearing blinking red and green lights fly over his house at treetop level. He called the police, who also reported seeing the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jan., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Core Lane, Louisiana
Magnolia ID: 626

Event 1247

Date: 10/1964
Description: Air Force and Army radar stations tracked an UFO as it hovered over and flew along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. The UFO was visible for over an hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Korea

Event 1248

Date: 11/1964
Description: Mr. Lehel observed a lighted object at hilltop level, about 700 m away. At the site, a wide circle of crushed vegetation was found, three branches were broken, and a pole was calcined.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 76 (Vallee)
Location: Saint-Alexis de Montcalm, Canada
Magnolia ID: 627

Event 1249

Date: 12/10/1964
Description: Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials).
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Riley, KA
See also: 11/65

Event 1250

Date: 12/19/1964
Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured): Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Navel Air Station between 1500 and 1530 hours. Two UFOs approached Air Base at 3800 mph. Another UFO approached at 6000 mph. Radar operator, Chief Pinkerton had visual on Radar. US Coast Guard had “visual” on the UFOs. Official statement to press: the (single) blip was caused by faulty radar equipment!
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Patuxent Navel Air Station
See also: 1/25/65

Event 1251

Date: 12/21/1964
Description: Mr. Burns saw a huge object cross the road, hover at ground level in a field for less than one min, then take off vertically. There were other witnesses in the area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Harrisonburg, Viginia
Magnolia ID: 628

Event 1252

Date: 12/28/1964
Description: Two young girls, R. Bender and J. Quinn, observed an object flying 17 m above the ground. It was shaped like two plates glued together, with two rows of intense lights, and a turret with a green light on top. When an opening became visible, the witnesses thought the thing was about to land, and they fled.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Magnolia ID: 629

Event 1253

Date: 1965
Description: While visiting the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, R.M. (initials), a government employee of 23 yrs., went through a double- door marked “Off Limits” and suddenly came face to face with an Alien in a self contained space suite. Description: About 4.5 ft. tall with a translucent dome over its’ large head; wasn’t human; large eyes under a heavy brow; no noticeable nose; a slit for a mouth; bluish skin. When the creature walked it didn’t bend its’ knees. R.M. later found out from a retired Air Force Colonel from Wight-Patterson AFB, that 2 live Aliens were held in captivity in an artificial environment. The Colonel also said that a 2-man sized craft crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana, as a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. (The Alien would have to lock his knees in a high-gravity environment to avoid falling down.)
Type: alien sighting
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
Location: Fairborn, Ohio

Event 1254

Date: 1/12/1965
Description: A member of a federal agency, who was driving toward the base, saw a low-flying object, 10 m in diameter, which avoided collision at the last moment. He got out of the car and observed it hovering for one min, then it flew off. at high speed. The object was tracked on radar. The same night, a round, glowing object with a dome on top landed on a nearby farm, melting snow in a 10 m diameter urcle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Blaine Air Force Base, Washington
Magnolia ID: 630

Event 1255

Date: 1/14/1965
Description: James Myers saw an object rise from the ground, appearing as a bright, circular silvery craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Norfolk, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 631

Event 1256

Date: 1/15/1965
Description: Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a diameter of 408m, 100m deep
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Kazakhstan
Atomic type: subsurface
Atomic KT: 140

Event 1257

Date: 1/19/1965
Description: A workman cutting wood on the Augusta archery range saw two saucer-shaped objects, 30 m and 6 m in diameter, hovering in the sky. The smaller one landed, a door opened, and three pilots emerged. They looked human, but had a reddish-orange skin and staring eyes. One of them had "a long finger on his left hand." Their clothes were the same color as the craft, whose open door showed a strange light inside. The object was so highly polished that "I would bet on a clear day you could not see it at five thousand feet." The occupants spoke sounds that were not understood and reentered the object. The door outline could not be seen when it was closed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Brands Flat, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 632

Event 1258

Date: 1/23/1965
Description: A 31-year-old man driving a '64 Cadillac was at the intersection of U.S. Highway 60 and State Route 14 when the engine failed, and he had to stop by the side of the road. He then observed an object about 1.2 m above ground. It was shaped like a mushroom or an electric bulb, 25 m high, 8 m in diameter made noise similar to a vacuum cleaner had a metallic gray coIor, a red-orange light on one side, and a blue one on the other. It took off against the wind toward the west, at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Williamsburg, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 633

Event 1259

Date: 1/25/1965
Description: Woody Darnell, policeman, his family, and several neighbors saw a stationary object on the ground. It took off with a shower of sparks. Several trees were found uprooted or calcined at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jul., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Marion, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 634

Event 1260

Date: 1/25/1965
Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case #(censured).
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 12/19/64

Event 1261

Date: 2/3/1965
Description: A man saw a light on the beach near Penguin Street and got out of his car to observe it. He then heard a modulated whistling sound and saw an object, 7 m wide, rise from the beach to an altitude of about 20 m. He came back to the site with other persons, and a dog that became restless at a spot where grass was found flattened. Another witness, driving near Humphrey Ave., saw the object as it rose over South Brighton.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 149 (Vallee)
Location: South Brighton, New Zealand
Magnolia ID: 635

Event 1262

Date: 2/4/1965
Description: Several persons observed five luminous objects in flight. A transparent craft landed, and five creatures, about 2 m high, with one eye on the forehead and flashing helmets, emerged and tried to abduct a villager. Approximate date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 39 (Vallee)
Location: Torrent, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 636

Event 1263

Date: 2/11/1965
Description: Personal Interview report by Capt. D.M. (initials): Aerial encounter of three UFOs with radar and visual sightings. Air Force flight F-169 en route from Anchorage, AL, to Japan. Capt. R.W. (initials) and Capt. W.(initial) observed 3 UFOs on radar 5 miles off the wing. The UFOs paced the Flying Tiger freighter aircraft for 30 minutes then climbed away at a steep angle at about 1200 knots ground speed. Estimated size (thumb and finger method) approx. 200 to 1000 ft. diam., glowing red and oval shaped. The pilot remarked, “we often see UFOs on the Alaskan run!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Pacific Ocean

Event 1264

Date: 2/21/1965
Description: About 50 Toba Indians, including policemen, saw three little men with luminous glows emerge from an object that had made several low passes over the village with other flying craft. A photographer took several pictures and noted that the creatures feared the light from his flash camera. The object increased in luminosity as it took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI; FSR 65, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Chalac, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 637

Event 1265

Date: 3/2/1965
Description: John F. Reeves, 65, retired, was walking in the woods when he observed an object 10 m in diameter, 2m thick, saucer-shaped with an outer rim and a stairway. After watching it for 10 min, he saw a robotlike being, about 1.30m tall, wearing a silver uniform, glass headgear, and then returned with a The being walked walked to the craft, then returned with a box that emitted a flash when pointed at the witness. The object subsequently took off with a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Brooksville, Florida
Magnolia ID: 638

Event 1266

Date: 3/4/1965
Description: A farmer and his employee saw from their car three yellow-orange spheres rapidly rising. Oily spots were found in the field.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Magnolia ID: 639

Event 1267

Date: 3/8/1965
Description: Three persons saw a cigarshaped object with two fixed red lights, which flew above them, avoided hitting the house at the last moment, and was lost to sight in the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Mount Airy, Maryland
Magnolia ID: 640

Event 1268

Date: 3/15/1965
Description: In the Everglades, 30 km east of Big Cypress, James Flynn, 45, who was hunting, saw a huge, lighted object 1 m above the swamp surface. He watched it for 40 min, observing that it was conical, twice as wide as it was high, and seemed built from metal sections over one square m each. It showed four rows of square windows, 70 cm wide. Estimated diameter: 25 m. A yellow light shone through the windows, and the object made a sound of a transformer and wind. Flynn got within 2 m of it and made a gesture. A beam of light from the underside of the object struck him between the eyes and he lost consciousness for 24 hours. He had lost vision in the right eye, saw poorly with the left, went to a doctor in Fort Myers, and spent five days in the hospital.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Sep.,65 (Vallee)
Location: Fort Myers, Florida
Magnolia ID: 641

Event 1269

Date: 4/1965
Description: Felipe Martinez, 37, reported that he was paralyzed during the landing of a silent, large, egg-shaped object, from which emerged a small man, about 1 m tall, wearing a helmet linked to the object by three cables. The being spoke slowly and with difficulty in, Spanish.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
Location: Monte Grande, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 642

Event 1270

Date: 4/8/1965
Description: A 60-year-old man saw an object 200 m away, in the northwest at 30 m altitude. It turned east, then left toward the south. First seen as a single, bright light, then two luminous sources were visible through a "door" in the object, which appeared metallic. Radio interference was noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kindrae, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 643

Event 1271

Date: 4/23/1965
Description: A woman observed an object land near her house while she was working in her kitchen. It was shaped like a disk, showed portholes and a cylinder about 1 m high, with a sliding door from which a small creature, about 1 m tall, emerged and jumped to the ground. Its face was not clearly visible but it had pointed ears, a sort of tail, and was linked to the main object by a cable. It wore white clothing, appeared to pick up something from the ground, and reentered the cylinder, which then slid up into the larger white disk. The outside rim started spinning in a counterclockwise motion with a soft whistling sound and the object rose straight up, out of view. Estimated diameter of the disk: 7m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rivesville, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 644

Event 1272

Date: 4/26/1965
Description: Gary X., 9, saw an object which came down silently and hovered at ground level 60 m away. A sort of periscope emerged from it, and a strange noise (also heard by the boy's father) was noted. After 1-2 min the "periscope" disappeared, the object rose, and then dashed up at unbelievable speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: New London, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 645

Event 1273

Date: 5/23/1965
Description: About 70 km from Mackay, Jim Tilse, Eric Judin, and John Burgess saw a circular object, 10 m in diameter, flying erratically, making a buzzing sound. It had headlights, a tripod landing gear, and supported another disk-shaped device. Police investigation disclosed damaged trees and other landing traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Eton Range, Australia
Magnolia ID: 646

Event 1274

Date: 5/24/1965
Description: Mr. and Mrs. French observed an object in a field at 4 m altitude. It had blinding white lights, caused radio interference, and made a high-pitched sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview 44; LDLN 80 (Vallee)
Location: Geradton, Australia
Magnolia ID: 647

Event 1275

Date: 5/24/1965
Description: Hunters saw through binoculars an object resembling an upside-down plate, very luminous, with a red light on top, flying in circles and landing on a hilltop. The Lujan police sent a patrol, under Comm. Osvaldo Pagella, which found a large, metallic object resting on the hill, but they could not approach the object before it took off, because of the difficult terrain.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Paso de las Carretas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 648

Event 1276

Date: 5/28/1965
Description: Police statement (interview); Bougainville Reef, Australia: An Ansett-A.N.A. DC-6B airliner (VH-INH) en route to Port Moresby, New Guinea, was buzzed by a UFO at about 3:25 a.m. The pilot radioed the Townsville Ground Control Tower and talked to Mr. O. (initial). Description: slightly spherical and oblate, flattened on top and bottom; appeared to have exhaust gasses coming from it. Photos of the UFO were taken by the pilot but were later confiscated at Canberra as was the taped conversation to Mr. O., the Tower operator. Mr. O. was threatened with dismissal if he talked about the incident.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Bougainville Reef, Australia

Event 1277

Date: 6/2/1965
Description: Mr. D. Armstrong, a former airman, was called outside by his sons and saw a spherical object with flashing lights that appeared to land silently on a hillside situated on Mr. Watson's property.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Kuranda, Australia
Magnolia ID: 649

Event 1278

Date: 7/1/1965
Description: Farmer Maurice Masse, 41, heard a strange noise and saw an egg-shaped object 30 m away in a lavender field. The craft was set on a central pivot with six legs, was about 5 m long, and had a door showing two seats back to back. Near it were two dwarfs the size of 8-year-old children, with heads, normal human eyes, fine hands with five fingers, and no hair. They seemed surprised when the witness came near, and stopped their examination of a plant to aim a small device at him, causing inhibition of movement. They spoke among themselves in shrill sounds similar to a gargle. The craft took off and "vanished." Traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Valensole, France
Magnolia ID: 650

Event 1279

Date: 7/3/1965
Description: Newspaper reports, Antartica: Argentine, British and Chilean military and scientific personnel observed an UFO moving at a frightening speed doing incredible maneuvers. It was something solid, glowing blue-green and causing E/M interference with our equipment. Lenticular shaped “flying saucer”. Tracked by theodolite, binoculars and magnetograph tapes. Also, 10 color photographs were taken of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Antartica

Event 1280

Date: 7/6/1965
Description: The commander and crew of the Norwegian tanker "Jawesta" observed a lighted object flying out of the sea. First Officer Toronin Lien first saw a large, blue, intense flame behind the ship at high speed. He called the captain and tracked the object with binoculors as its altitude reached about 300m. Its shape was that of a cigar, with a row of lighted portholes showing a clear yellow glow, and it left a bluish trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 150 (Vallee)
Location: Puerto La Cruz, Portugal
Magnolia ID: 651

Event 1281

Date: 7/9/1965
Description: At the Cote-de-Thermont, 30year-old Mrs. Zielonka saw a metallic object rise at high speed and fly away toward Metz. Estimated diameter: 3 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 152 (Vallee)
Location: Moyeuvre, France
Magnolia ID: 652

Event 1282

Date: 7/12/1965
Description: Student Humberto Aranjo da Silva nearly hit a saucer-shaped craft, 6 m in diameter, with two V-shaped landing pads and a dome, which had landed on the road. It made a whirring noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84; SBEDV 51, 53 (Vallee)
Location: Bairio Paraiso dos Barbeiros, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 653

Event 1283

Date: 7/15/1965
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Bosquets and their family observed a luminous object, its color changing from blue to orange, about 12 m in diameter, and showing several portholes. The object left traces on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI 1965 (Vallee)
Location: Loretami Valley, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 654

Event 1284

Date: 7/17/1965
Description: A blinding object, smaller than an airplane and having metallic legs, was seen on the bank of the Rio de la Plata River by two workers and four young men. White smoke emerged from the craft, which remained on the sand for two min, leaving X-shaped traces. It flew up to about 10 m altitude, then went away. The craft showed a round central section with two oval ends and looked somewhat similar to an egg.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 153 (Vallee)
Location: Colonia, Uruguay
Magnolia ID: 655

Event 1285

Date: 7/19/1965
Description: Maria Andres, teacher, Mr. Gomez, Mrs. Goicoecha, and others saw a small object leave a larger one, land, and burn a spot on the ground before going back to the main object. It emitted a blinding light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Asi Jul. 30, 1965 (Vallee)
Location: Villas Rosas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 656

Event 1286

Date: 7/19/1965
Description: Mr. Crowe was attracted by a strong light on the beach, and walked within 20 m of the craft producing it, which took off with a yelloworange light. Estimated diameter: 7 m, height, 3 m, with blue-green edges.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview 44 (Vallee)
Location: Vancluse, Australia
Magnolia ID: 657

Event 1287

Date: 7/19/1965
Description: Carlos Videla Zamudio saw a "strange machine" land on an isolated beach. It was shaped like a mushroom or a top, was lighted from inside, rested on the ground silently, flew up to 30 m, and disappeared at fantastic speed. This was the third landing on a beach reported in Jul..
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 155; LDLN 78; APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Chanaral, Chile
Magnolia ID: 658

Event 1288

Date: 7/20/1965
Description: R. Pereyra was driving near Monte de los Curas when he saw a parachutelike object land. Going near, he observed a chromiumlooking, egg-shaped craft standing on metal legs, with a transparent upper part. A blond-haired pilot, wearing plastic coveralls and small boots, seemed to study a piece of paper. Inside the craft was another man seated before an instrument panel. Shortly thereafter the object took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 40 (Vallee)
Location: Quilmes, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 659

Event 1289

Date: 7/23/1965
Description: An object was observed to land on ranch 45 km north of this town by a chemical engineer, his wife, and several farmers. It remained on the ground for 45 min, leaving traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Saucer News 61 (Vallee)
Location: Lima, Peru
Magnolia ID: 660

Event 1290

Date: 7/25/1965
Description: Mr. Alva was awakened by a strange sound and saw an object on the ground emitting green light flashes. He woke up other employees, who had time to note that the object was about 3 m in diameter, had small windows in its upper part, and a revolving telescopic appendage. The investigating commission found dark, triangular traces on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Chosica Power Plant, Peru
Magnolia ID: 661

Event 1291

Date: 7/26/1965
Description: A teenager, Adilon Azevedo, a others who fled, saw two objects at ground level, about 3 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with five occupants, wearing luminous helmets, speaking among theselves, in unfamiliar language. One of the beings had a bright object in his hand. The witness experienced headaches for five days.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
Location: Carazinho, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 662

Event 1292

Date: 7/29/1965
Description: Alain Bressol observed a large, disk-shaped object in a field near Monsempron-Libos. It flew at high speed toward the south. Official report.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 156;LDLN 78 (Vallee)
Location: Grouzies, France
Magnolia ID: 663

Event 1293

Date: 7/30/1965
Description: Hundreds of people in two separate spots observed an object that landed for five min. It emitted a blinding purple light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 157; LDLN 78 (Vallee)
Location: Puerto Monte, Chile
Magnolia ID: 664

Event 1294

Date: 7/30/1965
Description: Two children attracted by the barking of a dog saw a luminous object resting on a tripod landing gear, and observed it for one hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Goonumbla, Australia
Magnolia ID: 665

Event 1295

Date: 7/31/1965
Description: A woman in a car saw an object on the road. It took off, then landed again in Belluco where it was seen by several people. The object emitted a bright, purple light and a green beam.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview (Vallee)
Location: Belluco, Chile
Magnolia ID: 666

Event 1296

Date: 8/2/1965
Description: Two deputy sheriffs of Tarrant County saw an object as bright as burning magnesium, which landed as they were on a patrol near Wagle Mountain Lake. Extensive investigation by the police led to negative results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Justin, Texas
Magnolia ID: 667

Event 1297

Date: 8/2/1965
Description: Five children saw a brilliant, round object without wings, close to the ground, in the 600 block on Northwest 63.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 668

Event 1298

Date: 8/3/1965
Description: A young man saw an object rise from the lake area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lake Hefner, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 669

Event 1299

Date: 8/3/1965
Description: Approximate date. Dr. Antonin Kukla and Mrs. Audrey Lawrence saw an object dive toward them. They switched off the car headlights and got out of the vehicle to observe the oval object, which hovered at ground level, its color changing from orange to fluorescent green, before it took off at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
Location: Carnarvon, Australia
Magnolia ID: 670

Event 1300

Date: 8/4/1965
Description: A bright, silvery object landed on a hill for 45 min. There were numerous witnesses, among them military men. Official investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten Oct., 65 (Vallee)
Location: Chena, Chile
Magnolia ID: 671

Event 1301

Date: 8/4/1965
Description: A man in a car observed a red and blue light thought it came from a police car, then was passed by a huge, orange object flying at ground level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Dallas, Texas
Magnolia ID: 672

Event 1302

Date: 8/4/1965
Description: Truck driver Don Tenopir had reached a point 35 km from Abilene, going toward Lincoln, when his headlights blinked and failed. An object then dived toward the truck and stopped on the road 30 m ahead causing a car coming in the opposite direction to leave the road in order to avoid it. The object was orange, 5 m in diameter, 1.5 m high, with a dome and a "black spot." It took off toward the west, then turned south.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 82 (Vallee)
Location: Abilene, Kansas
Magnolia ID: 673

Event 1303

Date: 8/4/1965
Description: Joao Erondo dos Santos saw a disk 50 m in diameter land with a distinct sound, although no traces were found afterward. The object illuminated a wide area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Trapua, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 674

Event 1304

Date: 8/5/1965
Description: Several children saw an object shaped like two saucers glued together come to ground level several times on the farm of William Butcher. It was chromelike, measured about 16 m in diameter, took off with green and yellow flames, and illuminated the clouds when it flew into them. Capt. James Dorsey and four technicians from Niagara Falls AFB investigated the case. They found no trace, concluding, however, that the witnesses were not lying.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Cherry Creek, New York
Magnolia ID: 675

Event 1305

Date: 8/9/1965
Description: Three girls driving a car observed what they first thought was the rising moon. It was a circular, pale-yellow object, with a silhouette moving inside the glow. There were five other witnesses one of whom stated that as he approached the object, it appeared to "blow up" with a bang.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Grand Forks, North Dakota
Magnolia ID: 676

Event 1306

Date: 8/13/1965
Description: Ellen G. Ryerson, 16, and her sister, Laura, were going to work in a bean field when they observed three creatures about 1.60 m tall, with bulging eyes, expressionless faces, white craniums, large pores, and a protrusion at the back of their heads. They wore purple jerseys and white shirts. They had disappeared when the running girls looked back.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Renton, Washington
Magnolia ID: 678

Event 1307

Date: 8/13/1965
Description: A 37-year-old civilian had just put his car in the garage when he saw an object about 100 m in diameter, shaped like a disk, which flew in front of the moon in a northerly direction at about 80 km/h. It was surrounded with orange lights that weakened as a blue source came on, very intense for about 3 sec then all lights disappeared as the object was about 700 m away. This was followed by a sort of "shock-wave" effect, and tree leaves were shaken. The witness entered his house and called the Air Force. Twenty minutes later his vision became hazy and his eyes were painful. He gradually lost vision in both eyes, and his entire body was "sunburned." Medical examination compared the symptoms to ultraviolet exposure. His vision came back gradually over a period of several days.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Baden, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 677

Event 1308

Date: 8/14/1965
Description: Patrick Nash and his family were awaiting a ferry boat when a brilliant, orange-red object shaped like a large soup plate appeared 50 m away, rose from the ground, flew low over the car, landed 20m away on the other side, vanishing suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
Location: Stranraer, Scotland
Magnolia ID: 679

Event 1309

Date: 8/15/1965
Description: Five persons in a car heard a humming sound, and an object with changing colored lights landed and blocked the road while the car engine stalled. The object was as wide as the road, and 3 m high. Before it took off, three human beings were seen inside.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
Location: Salto, Uruguay
Magnolia ID: 681

Event 1310

Date: 8/15/1965
Description: A guard saw a boatlike object flying at high speed, with red flames on its sides. It circled and came low over a farm. In fear, the man fired at it with his rifle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Nablus, Jordan
Magnolia ID: 680

Event 1311

Date: 8/20/1965
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Yacobi heard a loud humming sound and saw a glowing, oval, flashing object land 200 m away. Figures moved around it, as if examining the craft, which took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 42 (Vallee)
Location: Mar del Plata, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 685

Event 1312

Date: 8/20/1965
Description: Four students working on a farm noted radio interference and a peculiar "beeping sound," then saw an object at low altitude on the farm of William Butcher. It was shaped like two saucers glued together, had a shiny chromelike surface, diameter of 15 m, height of 6 m, and left a trail and smell of burned gasoline. It rose straight up into the clouds, which were illuminated with green light. Five min later it came down again over a woods, rose, and finally flew off to the southwest. Effects were noted on animals: milk production decreased from 2 1/2 barrels to one; a dog barked, and other animals were terrified.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Cherry Creek, New York
Magnolia ID: 684

Event 1313

Date: 8/20/1965
Description: Several tourists, including Alberto Ugarte and Elwin Voter, observed a strange craft landing near the Inca ruins that they were visiting. Two creatures described as luminous dwarfs, who seemed to have "vertical mouths," were seen briefly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 43 (Vallee)
Location: Cuzco, Peru
Magnolia ID: 683

Event 1314

Date: 8/20/1965
Description: Mrs. T. E. Schumaker was awakened by a loud humming sound and found she could not speak or move for a while. When she finally reached her window, she saw a vertical, cigarshaped, luminous object. It moved right and left, then back, etc. Ultimately it disappeared behind some trees. The next morning a circle of crushed grass, 4 m in diameter, was found in the yard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66,2 (Vallee)
Location: Mount Airy, North Carolina
Magnolia ID: 682

Event 1315

Date: 8/21/1965
Description: A man was repairing the broken chain of his motorbike when an object shaped like a top, gray, spinning, 1.8 m high, same diameter, suddenly appeared 5 m away, 1.5 m above the road. It shot off toward the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65,6 (Vallee)
Location: Bury's Bridge, Eire
Magnolia ID: 686

Event 1316

Date: 8/23/1965
Description: Casimiro Zuk was riding his bicycle near a railroad crossing when he saw a luminous object above him that circled, then landed near the tracks. It was round, 5 m in diameter, and 2.5 m high. A door opened, and a man dressed like a pilot emerged, walked around, and reentered the object, which flew off in a spiral.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 158 (Vallee)
Location: Apostoles, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 687

Event 1317

Date: 8/25/1965
Description: Zoilo Campos Aguilar observed an object very close to the ground for 38 min. It was semi-oval, with a powerful yellow-orange light and left rapidly toward the south with a double trail. Apparent diameter was that of the full moon. The witness was a night watchman.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Terreon, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 688

Event 1318

Date: 8/25/1965
Description: A red object shaped like a plate, emittting fire and smoke through two openings in its lower section, shook a school building as it allegedly landed on the roof. Faculty and students at the Santa Leonor College observed the craft, which had two antennae on top, rise spinning and emitting red light beams It flew off to the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Callao, Peru
Magnolia ID: 689

Event 1319

Date: 8/30/1965
Description: A spinning, top-shaped object with openings through which an orange light was visible was observed taking off with a "foggy" trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 66 (Vallee)
Location: La Blanquilla, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 690

Event 1320

Date: 9/1/1965
Description: A worker observed the landing of an oval object on an airfield where he had gone "drawn by a strange feeling." Four other persons also saw the object, from which a dwarfish creature, 85 cm tall, emerged. The entity had a head double the size of a normal human head, and made gestures that were not understood. He reentered the machine, which became illuminated and took off, first vertically, then toward the west.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Huanuco, Peru
Magnolia ID: 691

Event 1321

Date: 9/3/1965
Description: Project Blue Book File #(?): Damon/Angleton, TX. Deputy Sheriffs Billy E. McCoy and Robert W. Goode were investigating an UFO in the back-woods roads when the purplish UFO shot instantly towards them to within 150 feet and hovered at 100 feet off the ground. The bright glow illuminated the interior of the car and the surrounding fields (11:30 p.m.). “Every blade of grass stood out clearly” in the field. Officer Goode, who was driving with his arm out the window, felt heat on his arm and later reported that a cut that was on his arm healed more rapidly than normal [U/V effects].
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Angleton, TX

Event 1322

Date: 9/3/1965
Description: J. Fernandez was awakened by a humming sound and saw a luminous, oval object rising from the roof of his house. Its color varied from white to red, and it left marks on the roof.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 41 (Vallee)
Location: San Justo, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 692

Event 1323

Date: 9/3/1965
Description: A young man and two Police officers observed five lights in a rigid configuration moving over a field, sometimes fluttering to low altitude with a falling-leaf motion. The lights illuminated the countryside and flashed in sequence.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fuller (Vallee)
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire
Magnolia ID: 693

Event 1324

Date: 9/3/1965
Description: Two Angleton sheriffs, McCoy and Robert Goode saw from their car a huge object 70 m long, 15 m high, with a bright, violet light at one end and a pale-blue light at the other. They stopped to watch it and saw the craft fly within 30 m, casting a huge shadow when it intercepted the moonlight. They felt a heat wave and drove away in fear, but returned to the site a second time, only to turn around when they found the object was still there. Goode had been bitten by an animal before the sighting, and his left index finger swelled and bled freely. After exposure to the light from the object, the pain was gone, and the wound cured unnaturally. Later that evening, two men found him at a restaurant and described the object in detail, adding he should keep future encounters to himself.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Aug.,65 (Vallee)
Location: Damon, Texas
Magnolia ID: 694

Event 1325

Date: 9/5/1965
Description: Governor Sebastian Macha saw two dwarfish creatures, 80 cm tall, on the snow near Ceulacocha. They entered a craft, which left with a thundering noise.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Barbara, Peru
Magnolia ID: 695

Event 1326

Date: 9/7/1965
Description: More than 200 witnesses saw two objects come to ground level, leaving crater-like depressions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: San Joaquin, Peru
Magnolia ID: 696

Event 1327

Date: 9/8/1965
Description: After work, latex collectors saw an object resembling a huge wheel, intensely bright, with two flaming openings in front, about to land near them. They went into hiding, and observed the craft as it flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Alto Purus, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 697

Event 1328

Date: 9/8/1965
Description: A child reported the observation of a luminous object from which seven creatures, 80 cm tall, with only one eye, emerged. The same day a newsman was said to have seen an object land in the vicinity of Puno, and to have made an unsuccesful attempt at communication.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Puno, Peru
Magnolia ID: 698

Event 1329

Date: 9/10/1965
Description: Four persons saw a creature with glowing catlike eyes, dressed in black, walking in a street. The entity was holding a metallic tube, was pursued, and vanished suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 159; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Jalapa, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 699

Event 1330

Date: 9/10/1965
Description: Three women were said to have observed a group of beings, 3 m tall, without noses or mouths with red, bright eyes, wearing gray clothing and boots. No object was described. Approximate date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 159 (Vallee)
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 700

Event 1331

Date: 9/11/1965
Description: Antonio Pau Ferro saw two objects land. Two dwarfish beings emerged, 70 cm tall, dressed like humans, with "ugly" skin. They appeared to examine some tomato plants, reentered their craft, 6 m in diameter, and flew off. They spoke in a language which was not understood.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Guarulhos, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 701

Event 1332

Date: 9/15/1965
Description: Two policemen, John Lockem and Koos de Klerk, were on a patrol of the Pretoria-Bronkhorstspruit Road when their headlights illuminated a disk 10 m in diameter, copper-colored, resting on the road. Ten sec later it took off in a pool of flames, at high speed. The tar on the road kept burning for some time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 71 (Vallee)
Location: Silverton, South Africa
Magnolia ID: 702

Event 1333

Date: 9/16/1965
Description: NICAP Report #(?): Pretoria, S. Africa: Constables John Lockem and Koos de Klerk while on patrol (after midnight) suddenly had a domed, disc shaped object come into their van headlights. It was sitting on the road. The UFO was copper colored and about 30 ft. in diam. Immediately the UFO lifted off, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes or channels on the underside. The flames deflected about three feet off the macadam road surface and were still visible after loosing sight of the craft. Road damage: part of the road was caved-in, and in a 6 foot area the gravel was separated from the tar. Samples of the road surface were taken for analysis, report was never released. Lt. Col. J.B. Brits, District Commandant of Pretoria North said the incident was “highly secret”, and inquiry is being conducted in top circles.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Event 1334

Date: 9/20/1965
Description: A farm woman saw an object land, and six dwarfs, 80 cm tall, emerged from it. They wore very shiny white clothes and "walked like ducks." She hid during the observation, and noted that they spoke in a language she could not understand. After their departure, a liquid resembling vinegar was found on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Pichaca, Peru
Magnolia ID: 703

Event 1335

Date: 9/27/1965
Description: Addie Jones, 61, saw a silvery object, 10 m in diameter, rise from a wooded area and hover silently before leaving toward the west. Under the object was a boxlike device. Distance to witness: 400 m. No light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 160 (Vallee)
Location: Fredonia, New York
Magnolia ID: 704

Event 1336

Date: 9/29/1965
Description: Two men in a car, Julio L. de Romana and Antonio Chavez Bedoya, saw a strange being, 80 cm tall, by the side of the road. The creature had only one eye, and gold and silver stripes over its entire body. Soon afterward a craft flew over their car. Several persons living 20 km away also reported an unidentified object within min of this sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Arequipa, Peru
Magnolia ID: 705

Event 1337

Date: 10/1965
Description: Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan

Event 1338

Date: 10/1/1965
Description: Three students, Santos Vallejos, Antonia Aparti, and Adela Sanchez, who were walking to General San Martin School, were attacked by small creatures with greenish skin. The children ran away, and arrived at the school in a state of terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: CODOVNI (Vallee)
Location: Aguas Blancas, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 706

Event 1339

Date: 10/4/1965
Description: An object was said to have landed near Southington. No details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
Location: Southington, Connecticut
Magnolia ID: 707

Event 1340

Date: 10/4/1965
Description: Betty Valine and her 12-yearold son Robbie observed a large, plate-shaped machine with a dome on top, inside which three creatures were clearly visible. The witnesses did not see the object touch down.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Rio Vista, California
Magnolia ID: 708

Event 1341

Date: 10/13/1965
Description: Two adolescent girls, Marg Gudajtes and Judy Norlock, saw a large, metallic, oval object with bluish lights land in a park at the edge of town. It had left by the time they returned with help. An oval area of crushed grass was observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Minot, North Dakota
Magnolia ID: 709

Event 1342

Date: 10/18/1965
Description: Thousands of persons saw a circular object that flew over the beach, circling. Later two witnesses saw it land in an isolated spot between Cuaranga and the Santos Air Base.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ouranos 32; LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Ponte Praia, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 710

Event 1343

Date: 10/22/1965
Description: Approximate date. Jose Camilo Filho saw two creatures near a landed object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Canhotinho, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 711

Event 1344

Date: 10/23/1965
Description: James Townsend, 19, was driving on Highway 27 when his engine, lights, and radio stopped operating. He then observed an object 10 m tall, about 3 m in diameter, shaped somewhat like a rocket, sitting on fins on the road. Three creatures with "tripod legs and matchstick arms," brownish-black in color, having no eyes or facial features, stood in a large, lighted circle under it, facing the witness for a few moments before disappearing in the intense light. The object rose straight up for 400 m, with a high-pitched humming sound, stopped and vanished. The car then resumed normal operation by itself.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 712

Event 1345

Date: 10/30/1965
Description: Witnesses in a Volkswagen encountered a strong light on the road. A truck and another Volkswagen arrived and went near the object, which took off suddenly and flew over them. It was also observed by dozens of witnesses at the Pinhal Junction.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Pinhal, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 713

Event 1346

Date: 11/1965
Description: Fort Riley, KA: “AK” (Aaron Kaback) was on guard duty at 2 a.m. when the duty officer drove up and ordered him to hop into the jeep. He and 3 other officers were driven out to a remote area where a large oval object was resting. An army chopper was hovering above the object and shining a bright light on it. The object was approx. 35–48 ft. in diam., had a fin on the end and an exhaust port or some kind of hole below the fin. It had rows of squares around the rim and remained completely dead for the 2 1/2 hours they guarded it. (Kaback seems to be confused as to the actual date this incident occurred.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Riley, KA
See also: 12/10/64

Event 1347

Date: 11/1965
Description: Eric Williams saw a large object, 30 m in diameter, 15 m high, about 75 m away. He reported seeing clearly a row of portholes illuminated with a greenish light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Broken Hill, Zambia
Magnolia ID: 714

Event 1348

Date: 11/9/1965
Description: During the great power blackout, actor Stuart Whitman was startled to hear a whistling sound outside his 12th floor window and to observe two hovering objects, one orange and the other blue giving off a luminescent light. He then heard an English message indicating that the blackout was a "demonstration."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: New York City, New York
Magnolia ID: 715

Event 1349

Date: 11/13/1965
Description: Dario Filho, his wife, his grandson, and a bank director saw an object land 100 m away, flashing a beam of light toward the sky. Two policemen on the scene also observed the incident. Near the object were two dwarfs. One of them wore coveralls, the other had a gray shirt and brown trousers. By what seemed an optical effect, a third being with a flat, squarish head, wearing something like a surgeon's apron, was also seen near them. The object and the creatures were very bright.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Mogi-Guassu, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 716

Event 1350

Date: 11/16/1965
Description: T. Untiedt was driving on Highway 28 about 5 km west of Cyprus when he saw a red flourescent, cylindrical object with a cone on top, 4 km long and 2 m in diameter, surrounded with a white glow. The car slowed down as the observer was 400 km away from the object, which took off toward the northeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Cyrus, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 717

Event 1351

Date: 11/29/1965
Description: Kevin Davis, 12, and Gary Jardine, 10, saw an object with a blinking red dome fly over the Cooper Creek area and come to ground level. They observed portholes and a long bar with fingerlike devices emerging from an opening. Snow was blown away and bushes were flattened.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Jan., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Springhill, Nova Scotia
Magnolia ID: 718

Event 1352

Date: 12/9/1965
Description: A UFO crash-landed in the Kecksburgh, PA woods. It had appeared as a fireball flying across several U.S. states and Canada. Dozens of witnesses described military personnel cordoning off the landing area. The object was transported away by military truck. In Feb. 1969, the key witness (John Murphy ) to this incident was struck and killed by a car on a highway near Ventura. Researcher, Stan Gordon kept the research of this incident alive. The Blue Book report changed the name of Kecksburg to “Acme” PA. After 20 yrs. Bill Bulebush came forward with a description of the downed UFO.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kecksburgh, PA

Event 1353

Date: 12/16/1965
Description: A railroad worker, Cesar T. Gallardo, was surprised when his carbide lamp and his radio stopped working. He saw strange lights outside the sleeping coach where he was reading, and a luminous being whose legs were clad in shiny dark cloth came in, tore up his newspaper, poured the contents of an oil can into a small bottle and went away, leaving the witness amazed. Other people saw "a luminous man" walking along the tracks. Police report.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Sauce Viejo, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 719

Event 1354

Date: 12/20/1965
Description: Edward Burnd, 15, was driving west in a farm truck when he saw an object 2 m above the road about 30 m away. As the engine died, the object glowed red and the witness lost consciousness. When he awoke, the truck was facing east and rested in a ditch.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Herman, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 720

Event 1355

Date: 1966
Description: Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the 4/54 Edwards AFB meeting.
Type: hand written note
Reference: Twitter
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 1356

Date: 1/7/1966
Description: A civilian had to stop his car when an object he first thought was a helicopter landed on the road about 5 km southwest of Georgetown. The craft was about 8 m in diameter, supported a cone with a flashing green light, made a loud whirring sound. It appeared to hover, then left at high speed. The witness could then restart his engine, which had died during the close approach. Sulphur or a "rotten egg" smell was noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Wilmer, Alabama
Magnolia ID: 721

Event 1357

Date: 1/11/1966
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at Palm Beach Towers, FL
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 1358

Date: 1/16/1966
Description: On the Morlaix-Callac Road, 23year-old Eugene Coquil was driving his Renault Dauphine when he saw headlights in a field and observed an object come over his car and land on the other side of the road. It was square with four vertical lights resembling lamps. The witness drove away and did not see the object leave.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; 161 (Vallee)
Location: Bolazec, France
Magnolia ID: 722

Event 1359

Date: 1/19/1966
Description: George Pedley, 27, was driving his tractor when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a strange gray-blue craft, 8 m in diameter, 3 m high, rise from the lagoon 25 m away. It was spinning like a top, rose to 20 m, and flew to the southwest on a fast, oblique course. Flattened reeds were found in several places.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66,2; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Horseshoe Lagoon, near Tully, Australia
Magnolia ID: 723

Event 1360

Date: 1/29/1966
Description: Two civilians returning from a sporting event observed what they first thought was the moon. After driving for about 1 km, they saw that it was a flat, well-defined object, which had blocked the road. The object was the size of a truck and cast an intense yellow-orange light on the ground. The witnesses turned around and drove back to Rexburg.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rexburg, Idaho
Magnolia ID: 724

Event 1361

Date: 2/6/1966
Description: Vicente Ortuno and another man observed a bright orange disk, about 11 m in diameter, with three legs, which came down, landed, and took off again at high speed on the "El Relajal" estate.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Aluche, Spain
Magnolia ID: 725

Event 1362

Date: 2/16/1966
Description: A luminous object was said to have landed in the woods. It showed flashing red, blue, and green lights. A second object was later seen to join the first one.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Brunswick Naval Air Station, Maine
Magnolia ID: 726

Event 1363

Date: 2/22/1966
Description: Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the UFO.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: NICAP
Location: Exeter, NH

Event 1364

Date: 2/22/1966
Description: Miami News: Engineer, inventor and lecturer Norman S. Bean is interviewed. States that after enough reports are gathered flight paths can be determined, craft can fly at 5000mph, wobble after stopping and can turn on a dime, must use some sort of gravitational propulsion to avoid destruction from high G-forces, occupant description, Wright-Field has had wreckage of 4 crashed discs for years, many sightings are related to water being pumped in or out of crafts. Reports forwarded to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB.
Type: interview
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 1365

Date: 2/26/1966
Description: A civilian witness was driving 8 km east of Farmington when a flying oval object, the size of a car, came within 3 m of him, then circled twice and left toward the north. It emitted a bright red glow, supported a sort of dome with a green light on top, produced radio interference, and made a strange "signallike noise."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hanna City, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 727

Event 1366

Date: 3/3/1966
Description: Several civilians reported an object that flew slowly toward the south, hovered, came within 15 m of them, and finally flew off toward the southwest.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Oswego, New York
Magnolia ID: 728

Event 1367

Date: 3/17/1966
Description: Mr. Ward saw an object 12 m in diameter and 7 m high, emitting a pulsating white light, in a field. It had a revolving section with portholes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Aug., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Harrow, Canada
Magnolia ID: 729

Event 1368

Date: 3/17/1966
Description: A police officer observed an object in the southwest. He thought it was a plane about to crash, although no sound was audible. He tried to contact the police headquarters, but his radio transmitter did not work properly. The object, which now colored lights spinning at the periphery, and a diameter of 16 m, came within 25 m of the patrol car, following it for 1 km, then flew off toward the northwest. The witness had been a policeman for 10 years, and had never seen anything like that object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 730

Event 1369

Date: 3/20/1966
Description: La Porte, IN: Patrolman Michael Spevak was on duty when 2 youths pulled over and pointed out an UFO that they said had been following them from Michigan City to La Porte. According to the young men, the object frequently burst into such a bright glare that it blinded them, forcing them off the highway. It had been following them at an altitude of about 60 ft. Both the young men and the patrolman noticed a cross-shaped appendage protruding from the lower portion of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F, p257)
Location: La Porte, IN

Event 1370

Date: 3/20/1966
Description: Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald, saw a luminous object hovering over a swamp. It was described as brown, with a "scaly" surface, coneshaped, and showing bluish lights that turned red. Then the whole object lighted up with a yellowish glow and flew away at high speed with a whistling sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Dexter, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 731

Event 1371

Date: 3/20/1966
Description: Dexter, MI.: Frank Mannor, age 47, and Ronald Mannor, age 19, went out at night through swampy, hummocky terrain to investigate flashing lights in the swamp. They saw a domed, elliptical object with aquilted surface hovering about 8 ft. off the ground in a patch of apparent mist. The object glowed “blood red” and the body lights disappeared. They lost sight of the UFO and didn’t see it again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Location: Dexter, MI
See also: 3/21/66
See also: 4/1/66

Event 1372

Date: 3/21/1966
Description: William Van Horn, Civil Defense Director, and a group of students observed a pattern of lights on the ground. The source of the light appeared to manuever for about two hours.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hillsdale, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 732

Event 1373

Date: 3/21/1966
Description: Law enforcement officer F.B. (initials) at Dexter, Michigan, and officer “C” (initial) on patrol sighted a landed saucer in a swamp. Description: Large craft, like a pot; no windows; had a dull glow and steam was coming up from the water. Sounded like a turbine, a low whine or hum. He notified Selfridge AFB which immediately sent out MP’s, well armed. All law officers were ordered back and their film was confiscated. Later his report and other reports disappeared from police headquarters. Then, everyone in the force, including he and “C”, were transferred to other parts of the county. The UFO wasn’t disabled. F.B. saw it take-off and climb straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)
Location: Dexter, MI
See also: 3/1/67

Event 1374

Date: 3/21/1966
Description: Engineer, inventor, and lecturer Norman S. Bean is quoted in the Miami News: “We have good reason to believe that the Air Force has wreckage from at least four of these small vehicles and has been conducting studies of such wreckage at Wright Field for years”. Also mentions what is now known as the US Gravity Control Research Program.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Miami, FL

Event 1375

Date: 3/23/1966
Description: Two young men were walking through a wooded area when they saw a bright object that they thought was a balloon covered with fluorescent paint but it became so intensely bright that they could not look directly at it. As they walked closer, it exploded, leaving no trace.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Fort Pierce, Florida
Magnolia ID: 733

Event 1376

Date: 3/23/1966
Description: An electronics instructor, who was driving to work at a local Air Force Base, observed an object blocking the road. It was shaped like an airplane fuselage, 25 m long, with a "bubble" on top resembling the canopy on a B-26, rested on legs, and had very bright aft and forward lights. There was a door and a short stairway to the side of the object, and a man in coveralls appeared to be examining the craft which bore the identification "TL 4768" (see case 417). When the witness approached, the "pilot" went back inside, a sound resembling that of a highspeed drill was heard, and the object rose. No engine was observed. The witness was familiar with all conventional military aircraft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Temple, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 734

Event 1377

Date: 3/24/1966
Description: Two women saw a glowing object on the road. As they came near it, they found that it hovered and showed two intense white lights, as well as a green and red light. The object was bowlshaped, and they lost sight of it when they drove away. They saw it again later, flying low on a southnorth trajectory.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 735

Event 1378

Date: 3/25/1966
Description: John King, 22, working with the Bangor Police Department, suddenly saw above him a very bright object with a dark underside. He fired at it four times, hearing the bullets hit a metal surface as the object flew off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Bangor, Maine
Magnolia ID: 736

Event 1379

Date: 3/26/1966
Description: Jean Voilquin, 54, saw a strange "wheel" roll 15 m away at a speed of about 30 km/h. It was about 80 cm in diameter, 25 cm thick; it rolled away and vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN; GEPA 8 (Vallee)
Location: Attigneville, France
Magnolia ID: 737

Event 1380

Date: 3/26/1966
Description: Two civilian women were driving back from Amarillo when they saw an object aproaching from the north. The engine died and the headlights failed. The object flew over the car and hovered 400 m away. After 10 min, the witnesses were able to start their car and leave. They reported the object had a wafflelike surface and glowed with an intense red light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Texahoma, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 738

Event 1381

Date: 3/28/1966
Description: A man driving at a speed of about 100 km/h suddenly encountered a large lighted object 1 m above the road on a hilltop. It flew off, as the car engine and headlights died. The light bulbs had to be replaced. The object was oval, 7 m long, dark gray, and showed about 30 lights along its periphery.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Fayetteville, Tennessee
Magnolia ID: 739

Event 1382

Date: 3/30/1966
Description: An elongated object about 30 m long and 9 m high was reported to have landed near a highway for 5 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Pecos, Texas
Magnolia ID: 740

Event 1383

Date: 3/30/1966
Description: A civilian woman and her four children observed an oval object crossing the road as they were driving south about 15 km north of Lexisburg. It came close to the car, and a pulsating sound was heard, increasing in frequency as the object came nearer, but it seemed to come through the car radio rather than directly from the object. The witness drove away in fear, but was followed for 13 km by the object, whose color suddenly changed from reddishorange to bluish-white before accelerating out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lexisburg, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 741

Event 1384

Date: 3/30/1966
Description: An anonymous witness saw a round object with two lights land near the Ohio State University campus. A door opened and a very thin, child-sized figure was seen. The object then began to move torward the witness's car and rose rapidly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jun., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Mansfield, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 742

Event 1385

Date: 3/31/1966
Description: A man driving home saw lights on the road and discovered a gray,lens-shaped object hovering at 1 m altitude. It had one intense white light and three colored flashing lights. Driving within 2 m of it, he became afraid and backed up, but the object suddenly flew over and behind him. A noise similar to that of a swarm of bees was audible. It left at high speed toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Vicksburg, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 743

Event 1386

Date: 3/31/1966
Description: Two women observed a large object with a pulsating bluish light on top, an orange light below, windows, and antennae, resting in a construction area. Silhouettes could be seen moving inside, one of them gesturing as the craft took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jun., 6 (Vallee)
Location: San Francisco, California
Magnolia ID: 744

Event 1387

Date: 3/31/1966
Description: Charles Kozens, 13, saw two objects, 2.5 m long, 1.2 m high, with flashing lights, land near Hamilton. When he tried to touch an antenna on one of the objects, he received an electric shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Hamilton, Canada
Magnolia ID: 745

Event 1388

Date: 4/1/1966
Description: From LIFE magazine: In a hastily called press conference, the USAF spokesman J. Allen Hynek suggested that the Dextor, MI, UFO and others seen in the swamps near Hillsdale may have been marsh (or swamp) gas that had spontaneously ignited.
Type: magazine article
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dextor, MI
See also: 3/20/66
See also: 3/21/66

Event 1389

Date: 4/1/1966
Description: A civilian man, 34, was driving about 10 km south of Tangier when he reached a hilltop and saw a green object flying north at very high speed, emitting a shrieking noise and a "heat wave." The car engine died. The witness noted that the object was wider than the road.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Tangier, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 746

Event 1390

Date: 4/1/1966
Description: Darlene Underwood and her mother saw two starlike objects land in a field. One of them rose rapidly when a train came into view. It went behind a hill, while the second one hovered at tree height with its lights off. When the train had passed, both objects landed again and two manlike shadows were seen. Voices shouting in a foreign language and what sounded like a pig being butchered were heard. Light signals.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: IIR May., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Liberty, Missouri
Magnolia ID: 747

Event 1391

Date: 4/4/1966
Description: A civilian man, 40, saw an object resting on the ground as he was going to work, less than 2 km southeast of Hague. It was an elongated craft, 2 m long, 70 cm high. When he tried to touch it, the craft left at great speed toward the west. It had six openings, 10 cm in diameter, and made a "turbine" noise so loud that the witness had to put his hands over his ears. After going away for a few meters, it vanished suddenly. Rain was falling throughout the observation, which lasted four min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Hague, Florida
Magnolia ID: 748

Event 1392

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan.
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G p64)
Location: Washington DC

Event 1393

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: R. Sullivan was driving toward Maryborough when his headlight beams appeared to "bend" to the right. He then observed a vertical, conical beam of light in a nearby field, very white at ground level and rainbowlike up to an altitude of 7 m. Top and bottom diameters: 3 and 1 m respectively. The object producing the light flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO May., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Wycheproof, Australia
Magnolia ID: 749

Event 1394

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: A woman was awakened by a flash, thought her heater had exploded, but found everything in order. The next day she was told that a pulsating, luminous object had flown at very low altitude over her trailer, circled and left. Three witnoises. Low buzzing sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Binder (Vallee)
Location: Durhamville, New York
Magnolia ID: 750

Event 1395

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: A civilian woman, 42, went to get a glass of water in her kitchen and saw a spinning object, 3 m in diameter, 6 m above ground near her house. It departed very suddenly, leaving a trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Lycoming, New York
Magnolia ID: 751

Event 1396

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: A landed object was observed through binoculars by four persons. It took off, hovered for a while, and left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Kittery, Maine
Magnolia ID: 752

Event 1397

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: Two civilian men stopped to watch an object hovering above a swamp, tried to follow it, but it flew awav. They observed that animals (cows, dogs, horses) were restless in all the areas that the object crossed. A photographic reconstitution by the U.S. Air Force showed an oval object, 30 m long, flying at 5 m altitude, between a high-tension line and a row of trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Alto, Tennessee
Magnolia ID: 753

Event 1398

Date: 4/7/1966
Description: Six teenagers reported strange lights following their car as they left the site of a picnic in a state of extreme fear. An unknown man, 2.20 m tall, wearing black clothes, had been seen passing in front of the shelter entrance and walking on the roof.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Daniels Park, Colorado
Magnolia ID: 754

Event 1399

Date: 4/8/1966
Description: Mike Dorsey and Gary Hunt, 12 were walking to school when they saw a circling object making the sound of humming bees. They ran for cover, trying to stop a car. The craft resembled an upside-down plate, very smooth, apparently metallic, with a black spot near the rim, a red light and an antennalike projection, and red and white lights spinning counterclockwise. Diameter2.5 m, height, 1.5 m. Minimum altitude was 2 m, held for 5 min, with a slight rocking motion. The object then took off at great speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 108 (Vallee)
Location: Norwalk, Connecticut
Magnolia ID: 755

Event 1400

Date: 4/11/1966
Description: A civilian man, 43, saw a well-defined object 5 m above ground, 100 m away. It showed a flashing red light, rose, was lost in the fog, then came back at treetop level with a strong whistling sound. Its shape was that of a cigar, 15 m long. It had no wings, tail assembly, or wheels.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 756

Event 1401

Date: 4/12/1966
Description: During a power failure many residents, including Robert Moses and Robert McCambly, saw an oval object with a dome on top and lights (red to white to green) around the bottom, which appeared to land on the roof of the Oliver Wendelle Holmes grammar school after a series of maneuvers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Dorchester, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 757

Event 1402

Date: 4/17/1966
Description: A person in a car saw an oval object the size of a car follow his vehicle, then cross the road behind it at 5 m altitude. The object reflected sunlight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Millersville, Texas
Magnolia ID: 758

Event 1403

Date: 4/17/1966
Description: Ravenna, OH, to Conway, Penn.: Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff of Portage Countywere on patrol when an UFO stopped above them, illuminating them and the surroundings (it was just about dawn). As the UFO moved away from them at about 300–500 ft. above the road, it would alternately start and stop ahead of them playing cat and mouse. At E. Palestine, OH, officer Wayne Huston joined in the pursuit. At speeds of 100 mph in unfamiliar territory, they were soon low on gas and had to give up the game with the UFO. Through local police dispatch the officers alerted the Air Force, who sent out fighter planes to investigate the UFO. As the officers saw the AF planes approaching the UFO shot straight up and out of sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p259)
Location: Ravenna, OH
See also: 6/24/66

Event 1404

Date: 4/18/1966
Description: An egg-shaped object, 25 m long, 5 m high, gray-colored, was observed from a distance of 25 m by a 42-year-old witness driving a car. The object supported a cockpit with windows and three rows of lights, emitted red flames, and made the same noise as a heavy truck on wet pavement. The object followed the car for some time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Battle Creek, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 759

Event 1405

Date: 4/19/1966
Description: Two women saw a cigar-shaped object, with bright, red lights at both ends, flying erratically. It made a whistling sound when moving, was silent when hovering. Minimum distance: 100 m, length, 20 m. The lights began flashing and the object went down behind some trees when five planes and a helicopter came over the area. Two of the aircraft circled the location, then flew on. The whistling sound was again heard, but the object was not seen after the departure of the planes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bellingham, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 760

Event 1406

Date: 4/19/1966
Description: A man saw what he thought was a crashing plane, then observed it was oval, had white, red, and green lights, flew low over him, circled, came down with pendulum motion, and appeared to land on Route 114. At midnight, two men driving along that route saw a beam sweep the road, stopped, and saw the object in a field. It was a disk with a white, a green, and three red lights. The two reports were independent.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Peabody, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 761

Event 1407

Date: 4/22/1966
Description: Several people were said to have observed an object fly at low altitude and land outside Bagley. Four dwarfs seemed to make repairs, then the craft flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Mar., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Bagley, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 762

Event 1408

Date: 4/22/1966
Description: A child saw a blinding, multicolored source of light making a buzzing sound as it flew over the road 15 m away from the house. It seemed to land in a field near the school. Three adults came out to calm the child and also saw the object circling and hovering. They called the police. Two officers arrived and saw the object appearing to "dance" with two other craft. All witnesses then observed the arrival of one helicopter and two aircraft, as the remaining object flew away to the southwest. Police described the object as plate-shaped when stationary above the school building. TV reception was blurred throughout the observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Beverly, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 763

Event 1409

Date: 4/24/1966
Description: Tom M. Lasseter, architect, was camping near the river when he was awakened by a fluttering sound and observed a glowing white disk, 7 m in diameter, at treetop level 60 m away. It had a row of lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Pedernales River, Texas
Magnolia ID: 764

Event 1410

Date: 4/24/1966
Description: Two men saw an object dive within 30 m of their car. It was silent, had a bright blue light on top, suddenly accelerated, and was lost to sight toward Mt. Watatic.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Ashby, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 765

Event 1411

Date: 4/26/1966
Description: A young man saw a silent object shaped like two bowls glued together, 30 m altitude, ahead of his car. Estimated diameter: 10 m. He drove away without looking behind.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Follansbee, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 766

Event 1412

Date: 5/10/1966
Description: A man observed the landing of an oval object and two beings, who ame out of the object through a system of light beams. They used strange instruments to examine a number of objects, especially plants. They were 2 m tall, had oversized heads, appeared bright and "transparent." Their eyes were slanted, their shoulders very broad. They wore no apparent weapon, but their belts were very wide and emitted light rays. They did not touch anything without first illuminating it with these beams. They went back aboard their craft "as if carried by the light."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Marisela Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 767

Event 1413

Date: 5/10/1966
Description: Approximate date. The crowd at a movie projection panicked, thinking it was an earthquake, as an unknown object exploded. According to police, a sulphurous odor and a trace 25 cm deep, 35 cm wide, were noted at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84 (Vallee)
Location: Atafona Campos, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 768

Event 1414

Date: 5/16/1966
Description: Manuel Hernandez was coming back from the fields near Cordoba when he saw a disk-shaped object land 100 m away. Small beings resembling "green birds" came out for a few instants, then took off again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 162 (Vallee)
Location: Cordoba, Spain
Magnolia ID: 769

Event 1415

Date: 6/3/1966
Description: Two witnesses observed a stationary object 3 m above ground. It had a diameter of 7 m, lights on top and bottom and smaller lights at the rim. It flew away very fast to the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: West Point City, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 770

Event 1416

Date: 6/8/1966
Description: A civilian man, 43, driving west between Kansas and Toledo, saw an object appear out of nowhere. It was cigar-shaped, bright metallic, and flew low to the northeast. Minimum distance: 30 m. The object was completely silent, and the size of an airliner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Sandusky Road, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 771

Event 1417

Date: 6/11/1966
Description: A civilian who was going fishing saw an object dive toward his car and hover at treetop level, stopped and observed it for two min. It was shaped like two plates glued together, and had a smaller, oval object on top. It took a 45 (degree) inclination, rose, made a right-angle turn, and changed color (white to yellow to blue to green) as it accelerated.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP (Vallee)
Location: Westport, Connecticut
Magnolia ID: 772

Event 1418

Date: 6/13/1966
Description: The policeman who had observed an object over Milan on Mar. 17 saw an unidentified machine on the ground at a street intersection. He drove toward it with his headlights illuminating the object, which took off like an airplane, flying away to the southeast. Investigation by Selfridge AFB.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Michigan
Magnolia ID: 773

Event 1419

Date: 6/18/1966
Description: The Mayor of Bar-sur-Loup, Leon Barbier, saw a large, round object with yellow and green lights on a hilltop.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
Location: Bar-sur-Loup, France
Magnolia ID: 774

Event 1420

Date: 6/18/1966
Description: A truck driver, Mr. Dugelay, saw a disk-shaped object over Le Rouret. It remained motionless for five min, then disappeared. Its lights were alternately red and bluish-green.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 84; 163 (Vallee)
Location: Le Rouret, France
Magnolia ID: 775

Event 1421

Date: 6/18/1966
Description: Four campers saw an object with three flashing red lights land on the ground 200 m away. It remained there all night, rose at dawn, was then observed through binoculars as a red-colored, bell-shaped craft. Broken trees and other traces were found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Mount Mitchell, North Carolina
Magnolia ID: 776

Event 1422

Date: Summer 1966
Description: Nha Trang, Vietnam: At this active Army Base at about 9:45 p.m., what was thought to be a flare lit up the north sky. The bright UFO approached the base alternately moving at low to high speeds. Upon descending toward the soldiers it hovered at an altitude of 300–500 ft. All of a sudden the 6 generators failed along with the engines of the idling Skyraiders, bulldozers and trucks. The entire valley and surrounding mountains were illuminated by the hovering UFO for about 4 min. after which it went straight up and disappeared in about 3 sec. After the incident a plane load of officials from Washington arrived to investigate.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
See also: 3/4/69

Event 1423

Date: Summer 1966
Description: Results of an Iowa Poll, Iowa: 45% Iowans queried believe UFOs to be real objects. Of the 45%, 21% were of the opinion that the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin.
Type: poll
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Iowa

Event 1424

Date: 6/23/1966
Description: A 61-year-old civilian woman was reading when an intense red light illuminated the ground near her house. She went outside and saw a lighted object 20 m away 1 m in diameter, which backed up and flew away "like a bullet." Three other persons saw it from the next house. (Atic) <*>
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: (Vallee)
Location: Hamburg, New York
Magnolia ID: 777

Event 1425

Date: 6/24/1966
Description: Officer William L. Stevens, Jr., observed a dirigible-shaped UFO at 3:30 in the morning near the fairgrounds. It was about 100 ft. long and 30 ft. thick with greenish-yellow lights on its perimeter. Stevens attempted to chase the UFO but it maintained an even distance from him even though he sped up and slowed down. “The object seemed to be playing cat & mouse with me,” he later said. After 10–15 min. the UFO accelerated and sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Richmond, VA
See also: 4/17/66

Event 1426

Date: 7/5/1966
Description: Several persons reported seeing a very small creature leaving a luminous trail, quietly walking along the streets, while children and adults panicked.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 164 (Vallee)
Location: Chaclacayo, Peru
Magnolia ID: 778

Event 1427

Date: 7/11/1966
Description: Two civilian women saw a red, luminous object 30 m away in a field. It had small openings and made a whirring sound. Length, 30 m; height, 6 m; duration, 90 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Union-Kirkwood, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 779

Event 1428

Date: 7/13/1966
Description: Camillo Faieta, 35, a lineman, was on duty when a light dazzled him, and he observed that it came from an object on a small island on the Emissario Canal. Two little men were seen briefly on the ground before the departure of the object. There are four other witnesses.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 86; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Pontedera, Italy
Magnolia ID: 780

Event 1429

Date: 7/17/1966
Description: Rene Pebre and two others were driving back from Draguignan when they saw a gray oval, metallic object, about 5 m long, hovering at low altitude, about 300 m from them. They noticed several window-like openings on the craft, which emitted a light beam. All the dogs in the vicinity were barking.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Rebouillon, France
Magnolia ID: 781

Event 1430

Date: 7/25/1966
Description: A man driving between Greenville and Vancehars saw a glow in the woods and was followed by the light even at speeds of 170 km/hr. He finally stopped to observe it, but became afraid when he saw that it came from a pulsating object that flew within 100 m of the car, 15 m above ground. The color changed in sequence, orange to red to blue to green, and the object wobbled on its axis. It came within 30 m, then suddenly left straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Vancehars, North Carolina
Magnolia ID: 782

Event 1431

Date: 7/28/1966
Description: A photographer, Mr. Lacoste, and his wife, saw a red, lighted object cross the sky and appear to touch the ground. It then rose, hovered, and disappeared. The next day a wheat field was found flattened over an area 3 m in diameter, and covered with an oily substance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 166; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Montsoreau, France
Magnolia ID: 783

Event 1432

Date: 7/31/1966
Description: Young witnesses reported an object flying erratically and landing 300 m away. It had the shape of a mushroom and swept the area with a light beam. A strange being, 1.80 m tall, was seen. Police report.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 167; FSR 66, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Erie, Preque-Ile Park, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 784

Event 1433

Date: 8/1/1966
Description: Several young witnesses reported seeing an unidentified object at low altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 109 (Vallee)
Location: Rushville, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 785

Event 1434

Date: 8/6/1966
Description: A civilian man and his family observed a dark object hovering near their isolated house. It had a square "door" emitting a yellow light. Three children saw a dwarf through the opening. He was dressed in shiny black coveralls. The object left slowly with a soft humming sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Texas
Magnolia ID: 786

Event 1435

Date: 8/18/1966
Description: Three hunters, E. Beucomo, J. Zapata and J. Ramos, observed a strange glow in the forest and discovered a very large, egg-shaped object, stationary 2 m above ground. It had large, circular openings emitting a multicolored light, and it made a whistling sound. The hunters ran away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Barinas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 787

Event 1436

Date: 8/19/1966
Description: A border patrolman saw a bright, shiny disk on its edge, 10 m in diameter, 5 m high, floating down the side of a hill, wobbling from side to side 3 m above ground. It reached the valley floor, climbed to about 30 m, and moved across to a small reservoir where it assumed a horizontal position. A dome then became visible on top of the disk. It hovered for one min and seemed about to land less than 80 m away, but tilted back on edge and flew into the clouds at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Donnybrook, North Dakota
Magnolia ID: 788

Event 1437

Date: 8/20/1966
Description: Otto Becker, his son, and daughter-in-law woke up to find the whole house bathed in bright light, and they observed a "six-story" object at treetop level 60 m away. It gave off rainbow colors which appeared to pour off its edges "like water" in a fantastic display. Distinct engine noise was heard before it took off vertically. Domestic animals had been greatly disturbed, and the witness had inflamed eyes for several days.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Heraldsburg, California
Magnolia ID: 789

Event 1438

Date: 8/20/1966
Description: A woman called police to report a luminous object rising and descending on top of a high hill. When policemen climbed to the site they found the bodies of two men, electronics technicians Pereira da Cruz and Viana. The bodies had lead masks on the upper part of the face. An autopsy failed to disclose the cause of death. Investigation disclosed several earlier incidents and an organization to which these men belonged.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Niteroi, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 790

Event 1439

Date: 8/24/1966
Description: An airman observed and reported by radio a multi-colored light high in the sky. A strike team was sent to his location and confirmed the unknown. A second object, white, was seen to pass in front of clouds. At the radar base, an object was detected and tracked. The observations lasted nearly 4 hours and were confirmed by three different missile sites. Radio interference was noted by teams sent to locations where the object was sometimes described as hovering at ground level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota
Magnolia ID: 791

Event 1440

Date: 9/1966
Description: A police officer was driving at nearly 200 km/h toward the north on Route 71 when he suddenly saw an object on the road ahead and another one following his car. The first one looked like a flaming car and was the size of a 3-story house. It flew away as the policeman was about to hit it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 168 (Vallee)
Location: El Campo, Texas
Magnolia ID: 792

Event 1441

Date: 9/3/1966
Description: Two young witnesses went outside when the TV set became blurred. They observed a fantastic spinning light illuminating the house. It came from an object hovering at the same location as an earlier sighting (see Case 786).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Texas
Magnolia ID: 793

Event 1442

Date: 9/5/1966
Description: A civilian man observed a peculiar light phenomenon and a small figure that appeared to enter a bedroom. The figure was not seen again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Texas
Magnolia ID: 794

Event 1443

Date: 9/7/1966
Description: About 15 km east of Durand, Mrs. E. Bruns and her two children observed an elongated object, about 10 m long, with revolving lights, hovering 1 m above ground and making a deafening noise. After 30 sec, it tilted and took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Durand, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 795

Event 1444

Date: 9/9/1966
Description: A man saw an object descend from a cloud bank, slow down, and land with a soft whirring sound. It showed three horizontal bands of light-blue, red and green.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Franklin Springs, New York
Magnolia ID: 796

Event 1445

Date: 9/13/1966
Description: A child of 11 years saw a disk-shaped object land near a farm. It had a tripod landing gear, two red lights, two white and one green light, and a transparent dome. A businessman from Gwinner and an Air Force Lt. Col. went to the site and discovered three traces, apparently left by spherical objects, 18 cm deep, very compact. Radiation measured at 0.1 milliroentgen (normal). The child reported that the object "went away so fast that it vanished."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Stirum, North Dakota
Magnolia ID: 797

Event 1446

Date: 9/17/1966
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Ronald MacGilvary saw a golden-white, luminous object resting on the beach, with two bright lights flying in and out of the craft. It went away after one hour.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 88; NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Cranes Beach, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 798

Event 1447

Date: 9/21/1966
Description: Eight members of the Royal Canadian Air Force saw a bright object that flew down at high speed, stopped abruptly, remained at ground level for 20 min, and flew away straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Summerside, Canada
Magnolia ID: 799

Event 1448

Date: 10/5/1966
Description: A boy saw a disk-shaped object with a transparent dome and a row of lights, at ground level. It rose at high speed, emitting a "heat wave," and was lost in the clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 66 (Vallee)
Location: Potomac, Maryland
Magnolia ID: 800

Event 1449

Date: 10/14/1966
Description: James Roberts saw two round pinkish-red objects on a hillside near his home. He fled when they took off with a hissing sound emitting streams of fire.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Gribble Jan., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Fork, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 802

Event 1450

Date: 10/14/1966
Description: A adolescent first saw a bright light, then a plate-shaped object hovering near the house. It took off at high speed, causing static on the phone as the boy was calling his mother to describe it. When she came home, she found her son in a state of shock and the dog hiding in a corner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Newton, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 801

Event 1451

Date: 11/2/1966
Description: W. Derenberger, salesman, saw a dark object ahead of him on the road. It was flat on the bottom and rounded on top. As he stopped, the object came within 20 cm of the road surface, and a man of dark complexion, dressed with a shirt and ordinary trousers, both a shiny blue color, came out, smiled at the witness who then thought that he received a message, although no word was spoken. The message described a hypothetical "other world" and suggested that the observation be reported to authorities. The man also promised to return. Several people who drove by the witness did report seeing a man speaking to him, as well as a strange vehicle nearby.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 169; FSR 67, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Parkersburg, West Virginia
Magnolia ID: 804

Event 1452

Date: 11/2/1966
Description: Mrs. Mark deFriend, 32, saw an object at ground level in front of her car on a rainy night. It would leave the road and fly over the fields from time to time. The greenish-blue object flew back in front of the car, then was lost to sight behind some trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 168 (Vallee)
Location: El Campo, Texas
Magnolia ID: 803

Event 1453

Date: 11/17/1966
Description: Patrolmen A. G. Huskey and C. Hutchins saw a dark, spherical machine with a flat rim land near them. Estimated diameter: 7 m. An opening and a short ladder became visible, and a small man, dressed in a shiny gold suit, emerged, came within 6 m of them, and spoke in perfect English before taking off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Gaffney, South Carolina
Magnolia ID: 805

Event 1454

Date: 11/19/1966
Description: Two local businessmen observed a dark, gray, metallic sphere, from the top of which projected a dozen "tentacles" over 2 m long, flying at about 40 m altitude and then coming down behind a house. It was assumed that it plunged into the bay, but a search by patrol boats was unsuccessful.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: Bavonne, New Jersey
Magnolia ID: 806

Event 1455

Date: 11/28/1966
Description: Two witnesses observed a dark, red object land by the side of the road, later following their car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 168 (Vallee)
Location: El Campo, Texas
Magnolia ID: 807

Event 1456

Date: 12/30/1966
Description: A physics professor driving through a wooded area saw a bright, pulsating glow, changing from orange to white, in the woods about 1.7 km away. Coming back the next day, he located traces of burns, and called the Air Force and the University of Colorado.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Haynesville, Louisiana
Magnolia ID: 808

Event 1457

Date: 1967
Description: In 1967 a drought reduced water levels in Lake Karachay where nuclear waste was being dumped, exposing radioactive dust. The dust was spread by gale-force winds in the area, spread over 25,000 square kilometers and exposing another 500,000 residents to nuclear fallout. The lake would eventually accumulate over 120 million curies of radionuclides. To put that in perspective, the Chernobyl incident released 1 million.
Type: radiological event
Reference: link
Location: Lake Karachay, Russia

Event 1458

Date: 1/5/1967
Description: A civilian man, 32, driving to work in his 1964 Chevy truck, had to stop and inspect the vehicle when its engine stalled. Only then did he observe an intense light to his right, coming closer. He saw it land on the road, and locked himself inside the cabin. The craft settled on a tripod landing gear; it measured 25 m in diameter and was 10 m high. Something similar to an elevator came down from it, and a man dressed in blue coveralls "with something like a glass fishbowl on his head," of medium height, seemed to check something and left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Winsted, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 812

Event 1459

Date: 1/17/1967
Description: F. Bedel, 23, driving on Route 135 about 8 km north of Freetown saw a plate-shaped object with red, yellow, blue, and white blinking lights, lost control of his car, and ran off the road. Less than 2 km away, Phil Patton saw an identical object that came within 30 m of his car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 22 (Vallee)
Location: Freetown, Indiana
Magnolia ID: 810

Event 1460

Date: 1/17/1967
Description: A woman walking home saw a beam of light about 1 m in section sweep the ground in her direction. It came from a circular, white object that turned off its main light. She then saw reddish spots before it vanished entirely. Another witness saw the phenomenon from a separate location, 2 km away (LDLN).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: (Vallee)
Location: Romieres, France
Magnolia ID: 809

Event 1461

Date: 1/19/1967
Description: Two min later it flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Charleston (West Virginia) Tad Jones, 38, was driving near Charleston when he saw a large, metal sphere, about 6 m in diameter, having four legs equipped with wheels and a very small propeller underneath
Magnolia ID: 811

Event 1462

Date: 1/26/1967
Description: A Methodist minister was driving on Route 185 near Coffeen when he saw an object, flat on the bottom, rounded on top, cross the road silently 100 m away, at low speed. Length, 20 m; height, 3 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Coffeen, Illinois
Magnolia ID: 813

Event 1463

Date: 1/28/1967
Description: Children observed "a little blue man with a tall hat and a beard" that disappeared in a puff of smoke; they later saw him again, and heard "foreign-sounding" voices.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Studham, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 814

Event 1464

Date: 2/1/1967
Description: Three witnesses independently saw a craft emitting light signals land a few meters away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 93 (Vallee)
Location: Boadilla del Monte, Spain
Magnolia ID: 815

Event 1465

Date: 2/5/1967
Description: A young man heard a strange noise and a barking dog, and saw an egg-shaped object land. From an elevatorlike shaft came human figures that placed small spheres around the craft. A man walked to them and appeared to speak with the entities. The witness was seen, the creatures tried to abduct him, and then took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Hilliards, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 816

Event 1466

Date: 2/11/1967
Description: Miss Hildebrand, 19, and Michael McKee fled when they saw a large shiny object off the road. Returning to the scene with a policeman, the found broken branches at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Milford, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 817

Event 1467

Date: 2/22/1967
Description: G. Grammond saw an object with flashing red and green lights glide, circle, and land in a field. He saw it again spinning in the northeast when he came out with two other witnesses 5 min later.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Chippenham, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 818

Event 1468

Date: 2/23/1967
Description: Mrs. Rice and Mrs. Weston were talking on the phone when they were surprised to hear a very strong sound and saw an object flying low over their area. A third person saw the object, and many heard it. The snow was swirling under it. The object was mushroom-shaped, supported a dome with a fin, was greenish, and left toward the Severn River.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 170 (Vallee)
Location: Linstead, Maryland
Magnolia ID: 819

Event 1469

Date: 2/24/1967
Description: Approximate date. An engineer from Osorno, well-known locally, saw an object touch down and a strange being, 1.50 m tall, emerge, wearing a transparent suit. He had a very white face and white hands, a pronounced jawbone, and no apparent nose. Seeing the witness, he got back inside the machine, which took off at great speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 59; Vuillequez (Vallee)
Location: Riachuelo, Chile
Magnolia ID: 820

Event 1470

Date: 3/1/1967
Description: Lt. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, sends notice to all branches of the military warning of persons imitating military officers and harassing private citizens and confiscating UFO photos.
Type: notice
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 3/21/66

Event 1471

Date: 3/3/1967
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Fellows were driving toward Sandwich when they saw a lighted object going up and down, turning from white to greenish blue, and following their car for 20 min until they reached Route 113. It left to the northeast. They reported feeling an "electric discharge" as it left, and their dog was very nervous during the observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Red Hill, New Hampshire
Magnolia ID: 821

Event 1472

Date: 3/4/1967
Description: The Sodestrom family obsered two plate-shaped objects, one 30 m in diameter, the other smaller and gray in color. They hovered at 20 111 altitude for 15 min. The object left with a hushed whistling sound, illuminating the forest with intense light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 171 (Vallee)
Location: Vilhelmina, Swedish Laponia
Magnolia ID: 822

Event 1473

Date: 3/8/1967
Description: Two persons observed deep fog in the vicinity of a cemetery and saw a light in the center, coming from an object hovering 100 m above ground. Thinking it was a fire, the witnesses stopped. Paralysis and ignition interference were then noted while the object, about 13 m in diameter, oscillated and then departed with a whirring sound. It took about 20 min for the witnesses to recover muscular coordination.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Leominster, Massachusetts
Magnolia ID: 823

Event 1474

Date: 3/9/1967
Description: Three witnesses observed an object as they were driving on Route 2. It was round, hovered at rooftop level, left suddenly at high speed. Its size was that of a car, and the underside showed several lights.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Follansbee, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 824

Event 1475

Date: 3/12/1967
Description: A boy who had gone outside to buy a newspaper saw an object resembling an inverted mushroom hovering 10 m above ground. It was not larger than a car, took a 45 (degree) orientation, oscillated, and left to the northwest. Three photographs were reportedly taken.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Rochester, Minnesota
Magnolia ID: 825

Event 1476

Date: 3/20/1967
Description: A man and his daughter saw two lights that they thought were landing lights on aircraft, but they came to ground level, flew straight toward the car, and suddenly vanished. At the same time, five figures appeared about 3 m away. They had narrow, pointed noses, mouths and eyes like slits, blond hair, rough skin, and were dressed in loose "hunterlike" clothes. Witnesses drove away as fast as they could.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Butler, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 826

Event 1477

Date: 3/24/1967
Description: Numerous reports came from this area, including one of a landing observation. At dawn, police and a Malmstrom AFB helicopter made a search, with negative results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Belt, Montana
Magnolia ID: 827

Event 1478

Date: 3/25/1967
Description: An intensely luminous object woke up several residents. People in trains going toward Acapulco and people traveling by car saw the same phenomenon. It came to ground level with a blinding light, then took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 177 (Vallee)
Location: Iguala, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 828

Event 1479

Date: 3/26/1967
Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Dick and Mrs. W. Buhr were driving toward Gretna. Near three radio towers situated 3.5 km south of Altona, they saw a very bright object at ground level, illuminating the countryside with a pink glow. The object itself was dark, with a luminous band around it, was motionless and pulsated, then suddenly disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 173 (Vallee)
Location: Altona, Canada
Magnolia ID: 829

Event 1480

Date: 3/31/1967
Description: Three strange objects, a bright, orange light emitting a shower of green sparks, and two smaller sources, were seen in a field. No details.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Hanley, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 830

Event 1481

Date: 4/1/1967
Description: Two boys saw an orange disk, less than 1 m in diameter, flying at high speed, stop and hover for three min, 20 m above ground. Chief of Police Peter Mehan confirmed that the sighting was under investigation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 174 (Vallee)
Location: New Westminster, Canada
Magnolia ID: 831

Event 1482

Date: 4/5/1967
Description: Justice of the Peace John H. Demler was driving north on Route 72 when his car stalled and the lights went out. He then saw an object, 10 m in diameter, which gave off a smell of sulphur and camphorated oil, hovering low over the car, which was pulled and rocked when the object took off. Physiological effects (perspiration and peeling skin) were reported after 12 hours. The object gave off a sound resembling an electric motor, and emitted sparks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Jonestown, Pennsylvania
Magnolia ID: 832

Event 1483

Date: 4/6/1967
Description: An entire class at an elementary school observed an object 20 m above ground, 2 km away. It vanished suddenly as the children and their teacher, 33-year-old Robert Apfel, were watching it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 176 (Vallee)
Location: Crestview, Florida
Magnolia ID: 833

Event 1484

Date: 4/7/1967
Description: More than two hundred children and three teachers saw an oval object, with a light at each end, come to ground level. Several other objects also were seen, moving up and down with a pendulum motion.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Crestview, Florida
Magnolia ID: 834

Event 1485

Date: 4/16/1967
Description: Guillermo Roldan, his daughter, and other persons saw a glowing, egg-shaped object fly across the sky at high speed, stop suddenly and descend to ground level. As the witnesses rushed toward the area, the object took off at very high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 60 (Vallee)
Location: Boraure, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 835

Event 1486

Date: 4/21/1967
Description: Mr. Crowder was driving home when he saw an object on the road 70 m away. Supported by four legs, it was a vertical cylinder, 5 m in diameter, with a half-sphere on top. It was gray and its base was 1 m above the pavement. When the witness turned his high beams on, the craft gave off a vertical light and vanished. The road burned for 15 min. Mr. Martin, who lived nearby, also observed the light. Holes, traces of burns, and calcined matches were noted at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: South Hill, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 836

Event 1487

Date: 4/26/1967
Description: Brian Dorscht saw a dark object, measuring 1 m in diameter and 1.5 m in height, with flashing green and white lights. When 1 m above ground, six legs came out, and it landed on a lawn near the National Grocers Company. The whirring sound the object was making stopped, and the witness became afraid and ran away. Police found six prints at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 177; SS&S; Summer, 67 (Vallee)
Location: Kitchener, Canada
Magnolia ID: 837

Event 1488

Date: 4/27/1967
Description: Four boys with binoculars observed an object come lower with oscillating motions, illuminating the woods 1 km away. It was concshaped, with a blue underside, and a top that changed from red to orange to white.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Location: Green Lake, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 838

Event 1489

Date: 5/6/1967
Description: A mechanical engineer and his daughter saw a disk-shaped object on the ground off a highway. They stopped the car and took three photos of the object as it was taking off. The first one showed the object at treetop level, the second showed it in flight, and the third photo missed the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
Location: Durango, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 839

Event 1490

Date: 5/7/1967
Description: Ricky Banyard, 14, saw a strange object in the sky and followed it with a friend, Glenn Coates, through binoculars. It hovered near a cemetery, making a hushed whistling sound and illuminating the ground with a vertical beam of light. The object left suddenly with a roar similar to that of a jet, and a series of "bangs." Stones were found calcined at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 178 (Vallee)
Location: Edmonton, Canada
Magnolia ID: 840

Event 1491

Date: 5/9/1967
Description: In a field which belonged to the Mayor, Mr. Maillotte, a depression was discovered, and blue powder was found in small trenches radiating from that area. A formidable weight seemed to have rested at the spot. No radioactivity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 179 (Vallee)
Location: Marliens, France
Magnolia ID: 841

Event 1492

Date: 5/11/1967
Description: Michael Campeadore, 25, a hospital employee, was driving to Salt Lake City when he heard a noise similar to that of a truck, but saw nothing. Then a yellow light became visible to the left, and thinking that it was a jet plane about to crash, he got out and saw it stop 30 m away at 30 m altitude. It was shaped like an inverted bowl with a dome on top and looked metallic. The witness became afraid and emptied his .25 Beretta in the direction of the craft. He heard the bullets hit metal and the object took off at great speed. When he told his story at a nearby service station, the attendant replied that about 20 reports had been made in the Saint George area recently.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 180 (Vallee)
Location: Saint George, Utah
Magnolia ID: 842

Event 1493

Date: 5/16/1967
Description: Roman and Jose Arribas observed an object land in a pine forest north of Nieva-Segovia. They saw "people" enter the ashcolored craft, which took off straight up, at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 89 (Vallee)
Location: Nieva-Segovia, Spain
Magnolia ID: 843

Event 1494

Date: 5/20/1967
Description: Polish-born Steve Michalac, 52, industrial mechanic and prospector, saw two redglowing objects flying at high speed. One of them blew vegetation as it landed, surrounded by a glow, and it was observed for 30 min before a door opened, showing a purple light. A high-pitched sound and an odor resembling a burning electrical circuit were noted. Approaching, the witness heard voices, and upon touching the craft, he burned his rubber-coated glove, and was "blown out" by hot air when the subject started spinning. The witness felt dizzy, suffered minor face burns, second and third degree burns on his chest, vomited frequently for 4 days, and lost over 10 kg. Diameter of craft, 11 m; height, 3 m, with a 1-m-high superstructure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 60; Condon 316 (Vallee)
Location: Falcon Lake, Canada
Magnolia ID: 844

Event 1495

Date: 5/22/1967
Description: A teacher, 45-year-old Mr. Tyrode, saw a glow, then an object shaped like an inverted plate emitting a greenish-blue light. It flew less than 20 m above his car, at 40 km/h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 94 (Vallee)
Location: Evillers, France
Magnolia ID: 845

Event 1496

Date: 5/24/1967
Description: Remy Deneuville and his family saw a white light to the side of the road, but it was turned off when they drove within 150 m of its location. Minutes later, they saw a luminous spherical object fly away for several minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Arbonne, France
Magnolia ID: 846

Event 1497

Date: 6/1/1967
Description: John Norton, 7, had to be taken to a hospital after observing a disk-shaped, buzzing object, the size of a Volkswagen, with green and red lights, which landed in a clearing and took off "like lightning."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP May., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Richmond, Virginia
Magnolia ID: 847

Event 1498

Date: 6/7/1967
Description: A vehicle stalled in the vicinity of a brilliant, transparent, mushroom-shaped object, aboard which occupants with catlike faces were seen. Under the object was a quadrangular protuberance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Itajuba, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 848

Event 1499

Date: 6/11/1967
Description: Two children saw a disk-shaped object 1 m in diameter and 25 cm thick, making a metallic noise as it hovered 10 m above them. They took a series of photos that show only a blur.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 181 (Vallee)
Location: Price Hill, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 849

Event 1500

Date: 6/13/1967
Description: An object hovering 4 m above ground, and three dwarfs, were observed. Traces and an oily substance were found at the site.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Caledonia, Canada
Magnolia ID: 850

Event 1501

Date: 6/20/1967
Description: Farmer Arvi Juntunen heard a loud humming sound and saw a round, shiny gray object 50 cm above ground, 6 m away. It had a domed top with a fin and measured 75 cm in diameter. As he was about to seize it, the object rose with a blast, circled and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Suomussalmi, Finland
Magnolia ID: 851

Event 1502

Date: 7/3/1967
Description: R. T. (initials), with ALPHA RED TOP SECRET CRYPTO Clearance, rank PFC, assigned to Canine Corps at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA., states that he and his dogs were air transported 2.5 hrs. to a sight in a desert (unknown location) UFO crash-sight. Saucer: Metallic, 30 ft. diameter, domed top, no windows. He also observed: Large walk-in refrigerator, empty body bags, men at work with technical instruments.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA

Event 1503

Date: 7/5/1967
Description: One hundred persons claimed to have seen a silvery disk-shaped object, about 10 m long, land in the area.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Clifton, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 852

Event 1504

Date: 7/7/1967
Description: Antonio Brambila and another man saw a glow coming from a disk, 6.5 m in diameter and 2.5 m high, with a dome on top and four telescopic legs, which emitted a strange vibration.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 91 (Vallee)
Location: Milan, Italy
Magnolia ID: 853

Event 1505

Date: 7/11/1967
Description: Two persons saw a cigar-shaped object on the ground, 400 m away from the road, which took off, rising rapidly. It had windowlike openings emitting a bright light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 183 (Vallee)
Location: Santa Clara del Mar, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 854

Event 1506

Date: 7/17/1967
Description: E. Browne, walking in a wood, saw a disklike, dull, blue-gray object with a rough surface, hovering about 2 m above ground. An opening became visible in the middle section and two men dressed in silvery clothes emerged, walked in the woods, then reentered the craft, which rose and vanished from sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland
Magnolia ID: 856

Event 1507

Date: 7/17/1967
Description: Children were terrified by four dwarfish creatures dressed in black clothing, about 1 m tall, who moved very rapidly among the bushes. They were dark-skinned, had bulging eyes, and spoke among themselves in a strange, musical dialect.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 182 (Vallee)
Location: Arc-sous-Cicon, France
Magnolia ID: 855

Event 1508

Date: 7/18/1967
Description: A minister was awakened by a strange sound and had the "impulse" to go downstairs and look outside. Between his house and the next one, he saw a silhouette wearing a luminous suit. He thought someone was playing a prank, but the apparition was well-defined and looked real. It turned into a shapeless glow and vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keel; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Boardman, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 857

Event 1509

Date: 7/21/1967
Description: Barbara Fawcett, 18, and her sister saw a yellow "jagged" object rise above a swamp and land on a hill. Air Force investigators found a very large scorched area at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Jewish Creek, Florida
Magnolia ID: 858

Event 1510

Date: 7/24/1967
Description: Between Mareuil and Ste-Hermine, Daniel Bonifait and his family saw a red disk, the size of a building, fall 300 m away behind a hill. Dark forms were observed on the disks surface, and the forest seemed to be ablaze as the witnesses drove away in fear.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Mareuil, France
Magnolia ID: 859

Event 1511

Date: 7/31/1967
Description: A guard, Sidney Zipkin, 50, was driving through a large parking lot when he observed a cigar-shaped object, 16 m long, with green lights under it, land on the pavement. He stopped his truck within 30 m of the object, with the headlights aimed on it, and was surprised to see two dwarfs dressed in shiny black uniforms rush by the vehicle and enter the craft, which took off straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 184 (Vallee)
Location: Churchville, New York
Magnolia ID: 860

Event 1512

Date: 8/3/1967
Description: Two persons saw a luminous, whitish object, 10 m in diameter, resembling two plates glued together. The whole yard was illuminated and a humming sound was heard. A door opened in the base of the craft, and something similar to a light bulb lowered itself to ground level. This, too, had an opening, from which stepped a small man in silvery, luminous clothes, his head surrounded with vapor. He was about 5 m away from the witnesses, and was observed to pick up stones, examine them, look up and seem to communicate with the main object. He then dropped the stones and stepped into the "bulb" that reentered the craft, which took off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 44 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 862

Event 1513

Date: 8/3/1967
Description: J. Vieira, a lawyer, and his driver, Amauri, at km 15 on the Miguel Peraira Highway saw two yellowish lights, then many others, about 500 m away to the left. They blinked and faded. Similar lights were seen again at Conrado. When the driver blinked the car's headlights, the objects seemed to respond. An object which illuminated the whole area was seen resting in a woods.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 17 (Vallee)
Location: Conrado, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 861

Event 1514

Date: 8/4/1967
Description: Engineer Hugo S. Yepes was on a beach 25 km north of Recife when he saw a disk, 6 m in diameter, come out of the water. It was gray, looked metallic, hovered for a few sec at 1 m altitude, then rose slowly to the east and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Recife, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 863

Event 1515

Date: 8/5/1967
Description: Ronald Sherven and Robert Bodine saw a glowing, white object on a west-east trajectory north of Sawyer. The object was hidden by a hill at first but all of a sudden it appeared again over a cemetery, came to ground level, and sped away to the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Oct., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Sawyer, North Dakota
Magnolia ID: 864

Event 1516

Date: 8/6/1967
Description: Antonio Neri Perez and several other people saw three glowing, red disks take off from a field near the house.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 65 (Vallee)
Location: Hidalgo, Mexico
Magnolia ID: 865

Event 1517

Date: 8/7/1967
Description: In the San Bernardino section, Pedro Riera, of Avila Ave., was awakened by the shaking of his bed and saw a creature in his room, which "flew" out through the open window. Lights on the ground blinded the witness when he rushed to the balcony. Other people had seen a strange vehicle parked in the street. That afternoon, a strange dwarf entered the office of Dr. S. Vegas, who examined him. The being spoke perfect Spanish, had peculiar heart sounds, and did not understand the notion of "age."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 74 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 866

Event 1518

Date: 8/8/1967
Description: Evangelic Pastor Estanislao Lugo Contreras was at the shore when he saw a diskshaped object with a very bright orange glow emitting a buzzing sound, rise out of the sea, hover a few seconds then rise obliquely.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 55 (Vallee)
Location: Salina, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 867

Event 1519

Date: 8/12/1967
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Miedtke, awakened by the barking of their dog, saw a large hemispherical object with a fluorescent glow and a short flash of light. Too terrified to go outside, they heard heavy footsteps around their trailer. At dawn there was a sound like that of a generator, and seconds later the object was gone.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 27 (Vallee)
Location: Ogema, Wisconsin
Magnolia ID: 868

Event 1520

Date: 8/23/1967
Description: A boy and a girl, both 15, noticed a red glow coming down in the woods. Later they saw a large source of light in mid-air and heard piercing whistling sounds, then footsteps, and saw a jumping creature, 10 m away. It was about 1.30 m tall, had an oversized head, made jerky motions, raised a tube in its arms, and had a "shimmering" appearance.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Sep., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Kolmarden, Sweden
Magnolia ID: 870

Event 1521

Date: 8/23/1967
Description: Stanley Moxon, of Toronto, driving to Montreal, was between Joyceville and the Glen Grove Rd. when he encountered a large, diskshaped craft and two creatures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in white suits and helmets. They "flew back" into the object at once and it left silently at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 32 (Vallee)
Location: Joycevi]le, Canada
Magnolia ID: 869

Event 1522

Date: 8/24/1967
Description: A motorcyclist was suddenly engulfed in a bluish-white light so dazzling that he had to stop. He then saw a metallic object, 30 m away, its shape that of two saucers one on top of the other, with a dome on top, silvery, the lower half dark gray, about 10 m in diameter, and bearing a black mark or insignia. Near it appeared two figures about 1.5 m tall, wearing silvery coveralls and opaque helmets. A gesture from them scared the witness, who drove away but was followed by the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Sydney-Melbourne Road, Australia
Magnolia ID: 871

Event 1523

Date: 8/25/1967
Description: Three disks of large dimension were seen to emerge from the sea by Ruben Norato, after he observed a "precipitous movement of the water."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: NICAP Mar., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Catia la Mar, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 872

Event 1524

Date: 8/26/1967
Description: Esteban D. Cova, a private in the Marines, was relieved of duty at the airport and returned to his quarters. Then he met an ugly dwarf, 1 m tall, with a huge head, bulgy eyes, and a body covered with "hairy stuff or wiry metal." It made a deep whistling sound, and Cova felt a prickling sensation in his body. In perfect Spanish the creature said: "Won't you come with me? We need one human being." Cova fainted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 79 (Vallee)
Location: Maiquetia Airport, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 873

Event 1525

Date: 8/26/1967
Description: Saki Macharechi spotted an object in flight, which he thought was a heron, land near a bridge. He then saw that it was a dwarf, about 1 m tall, with huge eyes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
Location: Maturin, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 874

Event 1526

Date: 8/29/1967
Description: Two children saw a sphere, 2 m in diameter, and "four little devils." One of them was bending over, apparently busy with something on the ground, and another held a mirrorlike object. They hovered and flew around the sphere, then dived into it as it rose with a soft whistling sound. A smell of sulphur began to spread, and the object flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5; LDLN 90 (Vallee)
Location: Cussac, France
Magnolia ID: 875

Event 1527

Date: 9/2/1967
Description: Nelson Gutierrez, a salesman, saw an object on the Plains Highway, and a creature, of which he took several photographs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 78 (Vallee)
Location: Hato Viejo Farm, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 876

Event 1528

Date: 9/3/1967
Description: Paula Valdez, suffering from a headache, was suddenly aroused by a whistling sound and saw a small man, with a large head and prominent eyes, who said: "I want you to come with us, so that you'll know other worlds, and you'll realize how small your world is." The witness screamed wildly, and the apparition ran.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 80 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 877

Event 1529

Date: 9/4/1967
Description: Police Officer P. A. Andrade was on duty at City Hall when he heard a humming noise and footsteps in a garage. He met a dwarf, 1 m tall, with a big head and bulging, reddish glowing eyes, wearing a silver-colored, metallic-looking coverall. Andrade pointed his machine gun at the creature, but a voice from a hovering disk said in Spanish that he should not harm the creature. The dwarf then tried to convince Andrade to come to "their world," adding it was "very distant and much larger than the Earth, and with many advantages for Earthlings." When Andrade declined, the creature flew back into the object, which left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 82 (Vallee)
Location: Valencia, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 878

Event 1530

Date: 9/8/1967
Description: A. Aguilar, 23, saw a creature outside her bedroom window and screamed. Her parents ran into the room in time to see it soaring over rooftops, surrounded by a bluish-yellow glow. It moved as if suspended from a balloon. A strong smell of "melted iron" was detected by all.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 81 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 879

Event 1531

Date: 9/11/1967
Description: During a raging storm, an entire family watched a large, glowing object in a field 300 m away, giving off brilliant beams of light for 4 hours, after which it took off in seconds. Sootlike material with an unpleasant smell and tracks on flattened grass were noted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Villa Constitucion, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 880

Event 1532

Date: 9/14/1967
Description: Fabio J. Diniz, 16, was walking near a hospital when he saw a mushroom-shaped craft on a playing field. It had a cupola on top, and a guillotinelike door that slid up. The boy fled, but a voice told him in Portuguese: "Don't run away." He saw two men, 2 m tall, dressed in green tight-fitting clothes. They told him not to be afraid and to return the next day, "otherwise we will take your family." They had greenish skin, and round eyes set wide apart.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: La Baleia, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 881

Event 1533

Date: 9/15/1967
Description: The carcass of a horse named Snippy was discovered. Unusual radioactivity and strange traces were claimed to have been found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Condon 344; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Alamosa, Colorado
Magnolia ID: 882

Event 1534

Date: 9/15/1967
Description: Two teenage girls observed a large, glowing object, and three small figures, about 1.25 m tall, witll oversized heads, running near a barn. From the object came a noise similar to that of "a power mower when it fires but fails to start." The object blacked out, and the figures hid while a car passed, after which the object pulsated between very bright white and dull red, and moved diagonally several times.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 166; Condon 347 (Vallee)
Location: Winsted, Connecticut
Magnolia ID: 883

Event 1535

Date: 9/18/1967
Description: Forestry employee Russell Hill heard a strange pulsating sound and saw an object giving off a green glow hover near his cabin. Radio interference.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 34 (Vallee)
Location: Nanton, Canada
Magnolia ID: 884

Event 1536

Date: 9/22/1967
Description: Near Caracas, a race track employee was attacked by a very strong creature that choked him, but ran away when a horse was heard neighing frantically in the stable. Thirty min later, a horse was attacked, and an employee saw a dwarf, 1 m tall, "zoom" out of the building.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 885

Event 1537

Date: 10/9/1967
Description: A boy riding his bicycle saw an aluminum cylinder standing on end, 3 m high, 80 cm wide, supported by two legs ending in round pads joined by a bar. He got within 12 m of the object before it rose vertically with a deep, low-pitched hum, but no smoke, flame, or haze. It left two impressions.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 119 (Vallee)
Location: East Tucson, Arizona
Magnolia ID: 886

Event 1538

Date: 10/11/1967
Description: Othmar Willi, 37, observed three cylinders, 10 m high, 5 m in diameter, with two rows of square windows and a small cone on top, hovering 50 m away and 5 m above a maize field, making a noise resembling a swarm of bees. A small object was dropped briefly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Oberhrendingen, Switzerland
Magnolia ID: 887

Event 1539

Date: 10/21/1967
Description: Four boys were driving east on State Route 7 when they saw three men on the road, who "almost flew off and disappeared." They were about 1.20 m tall and wore shiny blue-green clothing. Their faces looked human, but they had very large ears. The next day a small footprint showing four toes was found in the mud.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 84 (Vallee)
Location: Duncan, Oklahoma
Magnolia ID: 888

Event 1540

Date: 10/24/1967
Description: Donald Chiszar, 13, and Pat Crozier, 10, saw a bright object hovcrillg in mid-air. It tilted toward them, and they could see two big, square windows separated by a bar, and strange lettering under them. Two aliens, and control panels with lights and knobs, could be seen inside. It vanished on the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III, 180 (Vallee)
Location: Newfield, New York
Magnolia ID: 889

Event 1541

Date: 10/25/1967
Description: Clive Robinson and Richard Corben, 14, and a third boy, reported the landing of a dome-shaped object with a smaller hump on top, 200 m away. It took off diagonally, leaving some traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68 (Vallee)
Location: Malvern, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 890

Event 1542

Date: 10/26/1967
Description: A businessman driving north between Hook and Reading was puzzled when the electrical system of his car broke down. He then observed a dull object, 20 m in diameter, 100 m away, at about 15 m altitude. He made the rest of his journey in a trancelike state.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Reading, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 891

Event 1543

Date: 10/27/1967
Description: A spinning object, 7.5 m in diameter, emitting red and green lights, came down to a river, causing thunderous agitation of the water, and took off over a forest, with a heat wave.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 92 (Vallee)
Location: Dympep, India
Magnolia ID: 892

Event 1544

Date: 10/30/1967
Description: A businessman was driving toward Boyup Brook when his car failed completely and stopped, although he did not recall feeling deceleration. He found a strong light beam aimed at him from a mushroom-shaped craft, 10 m in diameter. He had no recollection of starting the car again after the departure of the object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Boyup Brook, Australia
Magnolia ID: 893

Event 1545

Date: 11/2/1967
Description: Will Begay and Clyde Soccie, in their early 20's, said that an object landed on top of their car, forcing them to stop. Two dwarfs spoke to them, but were not understood. The object left.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Ririe, Idaho
Magnolia ID: 894

Event 1546

Date: 11/3/1967
Description: Carlos Spini and another man saw a luminous, blue, circular object land nearby, as they were examining some cows. It took off when they came near.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Location: San Jeronimo, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 895

Event 1547

Date: 11/5/1967
Description: Lorry driver Karl Farlow told police that as his lights and radio blacked out, although his diesel engine continued to work, he saw an egg-shaped object, 3 m long, 15 m away. Moments later, a white Jaguar coming in the opposite direction also stopped. The object, emitting a green light and showing a whitish dome under its lower surface, hovered between the two vehicles for 2 min and left at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 67, 6; 68, 3 (Vallee)
Location: Fordingbridge, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 896

Event 1548

Date: 11/14/1967
Description: Orlando Gonzales and two other persons saw an oval object, 1.5 m high, resting in the middle of a highway 80 m away. It left straight up.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Barinas, Venezuela
Magnolia ID: 897

Event 1549

Date: 11/16/1967
Description: Mrs. Quick and another woman saw a flickering light and a deep-red, glowing object at ground level, with a dark figure, slightly larger than a normal human, approaching it. The object disappeared suddenly.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 2 (Vallee)
Location: Storrington, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 898

Event 1550

Date: 11/16/1967
Description: Farm manager Alan Pool, 43, saw an object, 6 m in diameter and 1.5 m high, with round and square windows, land in a field with a whining noise. It took off and vanished, leaving no trace.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Yerecoin, Australia
Magnolia ID: 899

Event 1551

Date: 11/24/1967
Description: Technician Ugo Battaglia, 39, and a boy, heard a high-pitched sound and saw a bright, metallic, disk-shaped object come down, hit a tree and hover, while three tall men in white coveralls walked around. The boy later suffered severe headaches. Traces.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Nov., 67 (Vallee)
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 900

Event 1552

Date: 11/29/1967
Description: Percy McBride saw a flashing object, the size of a station wagon, with two aerials, arrive from the east and land in a woods for 15 min. It made a clicking sound and a noise similar to six radio receivers tuned on different stations. It had a square, boxlike protuberance supported by a pole underneath.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jan., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Yarmouth, Canada
Magnolia ID: 901

Event 1553

Date: 12/3/1967
Description: Abduction of Herbert Schirmer, a Nebraska patrolmen. Was told there were alien bases off the Florida coast, the polar region, and off the coast of Argentina. Motherships were cigar shaped, 6ft diameters discs for recon surveillance.
Type: abduction
Reference: Matrix 1, Valerian
Location: Nebraska

Event 1554

Date: 12/3/1967
Description: Police Officer Schirmer observed a bright, aluminum-colored object just above the road and approached within 14 m, when the object rose, emitting a shrill beeping noise and a red-orange beam. Under hypnosis at the University of Colorado, the witness reported that a small human form, about 1.30 m tall, came from under the craft and approached him to communicate a message stating that "they" came from space and would meet him again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 4 (Vallee)
Location: Ashland, Nebraska
Magnolia ID: 902

Event 1555

Date: 12/22/1967
Description: Six teenagers observed a silvery, disk-shaped object with a pointed projection on top and multicolored lights, 100 m away, and felt a heat wave when it hovered above them.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jun., 68 (Vallee)
Location: Holmes County, Ohio
Magnolia ID: 903

Event 1556

Date: 1968
Description: Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate all UFO information pertinent to space technology.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 1953
See also: 12/69
See also: 1976

Event 1557

Date: 1/19/1968
Description: DIA Intelligence Report from Liaison in Moscow, Russia mentioning an attempt by the British Government in 1967 to collaborate with the Soviets in UFO research.
Type: intelligence report (B1-E p543)
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Moscow, Russia
See also: 2/22/68

Event 1558

Date: 2/1/1968
Description: Serafim Vieira Sebastiao, a watchman at the Azores Air Station, saw "an oval object with a metallic gleam, topped by a glass tower with a small balustrade on which two beings were standing." There were two other figures inside the tower. When he shone a light toward it, a cloud of dust surrounded the witness, the craft vanished, and he fainted. Investigation by American military authorities.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Criacao do Cabrito, Azores
Magnolia ID: 904

Event 1559

Date: 2/22/1968
Description: UNCLASSIFIED AIR GRAM, U.S. Dept. of the State regarding UFOs in the Soviet Union: Feb. 1968, Soviet Life published three pages pertinent to UFOs, by Felix Zigel. He also published a UFO article in 1966. Until recently no study of UFOs had been made in the Soviet Union.
Type: unclassified air gram
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p473)
Location: Soviet Union
See also: 1/19/68

Event 1560

Date: 3/3/1968
Description: Nick Sgouris, while driving to work, observed a luminous, cigar-shaped object, about 20 m long, showing numerous multi-colored lights. The car almost stopped as the object flew low overhead, and the witness was briefly paralyzed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRG Bulletin 67 (Vallee)
Location: Syracuse, New York
Magnolia ID: 905

Event 1561

Date: 4/2/1968
Description: Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 1562

Date: 5/1968
Description: Gerardo Vidal and his wife were driving along Route 2 when they were caught in "a dense fog" and lost consciousness for 48 hours. When they came to, it was daytime, and the car, whose paint was badly scorched, was parked in an unknown road. They spoke to local people and found that they were in Mexico.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5; Magonia (Vallee)
Location: Chascomus, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 906

Event 1563

Date: 6/1968
Description: Pedro Pretzel, 39, motel owner, observed an object 50 m away on road 20, showing two powerful red headlights. Arriving at his room, the witness found his daughter unconscious. When she came to, she said that a blond man, 2 m tall, wearing a blue, bright suit, and holding a paleblue sphere in his hand, had appeared and spoken to her.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
Location: Carlos Paz, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 907

Event 1564

Date: 6/14/1968
Description: Jorge Yaru, 35, saw a strange light outside and a bright object, the size of a bus, 30 m away. It had yellow, green and red lights at the bottom. As he approached, the object rose suddenly, hovered for 40 min, and left at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
Location: Mendiozaca, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 908

Event 1565

Date: 6/16/1968
Description: Chief of Provincial Police German Rocha and Police Major Niceforo Leon observed a round object with a vivid blue light. It landed, left a strange, powerful odor, and burned grass and shrubs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: El Choro, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 909

Event 1566

Date: 6/19/1968
Description: A settler, Romulo Velasco, 25, saw a bright object land. From it emerged a strange "tall, slim being" who came toward the witness, who fainted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Cabreria, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 910

Event 1567

Date: 6/21/1968
Description: A man riding his bicycle encountered a large object, 50 cm above the ground. The top part was spinning, and it cast a vertical beam of red light toward the ground. Calcination traces were found by police.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 95 (Vallee)
Location: Miramar, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 911

Event 1568

Date: 6/25/1968
Description: Jorge Ribles, electrician at the Carmal Chemical Plant, noticed that the engines were at a standstill, while the countryside was lit up with intensive reddish light. Another man, 52-yearold Jose J. Rociski, fell unconscious as a vivid light enveloped him. He was unable to move his left arm for three days, and suffered from pain and extreme nervousness.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Bouchard, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 912

Event 1569

Date: 7/1/1968
Description: Three boys saw an object, about 8 m wide, 350 m away. It had a large tripod under carriage and a ladder reaching down to the ground. These devices were retracted, and the object rose a few meters, then flew off at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 6 (Vallee)
Location: Botucatu, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 914

Event 1570

Date: 7/1/1968
Description: Raul Calcedo met two giants, almost 3 m tall, in Ricardone. He fled in terror, in spite of a strange power that tended to make him stay.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Ricardone, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 913

Event 1571

Date: 7/2/1968
Description: Oscar H. Iriart, 15, saw two men of normal height, with short, white hair and red clothes, semi-transparent legs, motioning to him. Near them was an elliptical, silvery machine, 2 m long, 60 cm high, with three 50 cm legs. The men gave him an envelope with a childish message and flew off. The witness's horse and dog were paralyzed for several minutes. The boy arrived home "like a madman."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Sierra Chica, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 916

Event 1572

Date: 7/2/1968
Description: A boy, Sola, saw, a few meters away, a strange being, about 2.10 m tall, hovering in the air, his body emitting a peculiar glow, near a bright, unknown object.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 68, 5 (Vallee)
Location: Cofico, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 915

Event 1573

Date: 7/31/1968
Description: Luce Fontaine, 31, a farmer, was in a clearing when he suddenly saw an oval object, 25 m away, less than 5 m above ground. It had a clear center, dark-blue ends, two protrusions on top and bottom, and measured 5 m in diameter, 2.5 m in height. In the object stood two beings, 90 cm tall, wearing coveralls. A violent flash and a blast of hot air were noted as the object vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 96 (Vallee)
Location: Plaine-des-Cafres, La Reunion Island
Magnolia ID: 917

Event 1574

Date: 8/27/1968
Description: Maria Josa Cintra, who worked at the Clemente Ferreira Sanatorium, was awakened by a noise. At the front door was a "foreign-looking" woman of normal height, wearing light-colored clothes, and a headdress exposing only her face. She spoke in an unknown language, and handed Marie a mug and a glass bottle covered with beautiful engravings. Maria filled them. The woman said something such as "Rempaua," and went out to a pearlshaped, bright object that took off with the sound of wings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Lins, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 918

Event 1575

Date: 8/31/1968
Description: Three witnesses, among them two Casino employees, stated that they observed five dwarfs, with oversized heads, who emerged from a landed craft and traced undecipherable signs on the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Le Figaro Sep. 2, 1968 (Vallee)
Location: Mendoza, Argentina
Magnolia ID: 919

Event 1576

Date: 10/9/1968
Description: Doribio Pereira, 41, municipal employee, suddenly observed a golden, cigar-shaped object, and a figure armed with a flashing weapon that immobilized him. Three beings were standing on a platform under the craft, and another figure appeared to be using a keyboard inside the transparent top part. The object took off rapidly, leaving the witness in a state of shock.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Lins, Brazil
Magnolia ID: 920

Event 1577

Date: 11/2/1968
Description: During a thunderstorm, a medical doctor was awakened by his crying 14-month-old son. He saw two luminous objects outside his house, and observed them coming close together and merging about 180 m away. A vertical beam of light was aimed at him for a second as the object tilted, and then the display vanished with a flash, leaving a slowly dissolving cloud. Persistent nightmares and various physiological phenomena were later recorded.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 1 (Vallee)
Location: France
Magnolia ID: 921

Event 1578

Date: 11/20/1968
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Milakovic were driving to Hednesford when they suddenly saw a brilliant object rising from a held to the left and hovering above a house. It appeared to "quiver like a jelly." Several figures were seen on the deck of the craft for about five min, then it left with a jerky motion.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 69, 1 (Vallee)
Location: Hanbury, Great Britain
Magnolia ID: 922

Event 1579

Date: 11/22/1968
Description: A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was lost to sight at the horizon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: France-Soir Nov. 24, 1968 (Vallee)
Location: Fleury-d'Aude, France
Magnolia ID: 923

Event 1580

Date: 1969?
Description: A retired Colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB with Top Secret Clearance states that a 2-man saucer crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana as a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
Location: Whitewater Lake, Indiana
See also: 1968

Event 1581

Date: 1/20/1969
End date: 8/9/1974
Description: President Richard Nixon in office
Type: historical event
Reference: (Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)

Event 1582

Date: 2/21/1969
Description: Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 1583

Date: 3/4/1969
Description: Near Atlanta, Missouri: The City Marshall and Mail Carrier in Elmer, Missouri, William R. Overstreet observed an UFO at early dawn over the road ahead of him. It was about 100 ft. in diam. apparently rotating clockwise and emitting a strong white beam of light down to the road which seemed to magnify the size of theroad it was shining on. He felt intense heat from the direction of the UFO and his CB radio was dead. As heneared the light beam from the UFO his truck motor and radio quit. As the beam moved away from his truck he was able to start the engine again. He followed the UFO for about 4 mi. staying away from the beam. The UFO followed the contour of the land it was flying over. After 7–8 min. the UFO veered away and went out of sight. “I had never believed in them too much until I saw this,” he said. “Now I know that there is something to these UFOs!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p265)
See also: 8/13/75
See also: 6/66

Event 1584

Date: 3/28/1969
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 1585

Date: 7/3/1969
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 1586

Date: 10/1969
Description: Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p516)
Location: Leary, Georgia

Event 1587

Date: 12/1969
Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project BLUEBOOK is closed.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic

Event 1588

Date: 1970's
Description: Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot asking for information.
Type: letter
Reference: BSRA archive
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 1589

Date: 3/31/1970
Description: Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia Link
See also: 2/1/58

Event 1590

Date: 6/26/1971
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 1591

Date: 1972
Description: Project SNOWBIRD established to test fly a captured flying saucer. This was an alleged ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that researched, developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project, however another “Project Snowbird” has been found described as a “Joint Army/Air Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in 1955” in the 1963 Gale Research’s Code Names Dictionary. Project SNOWBIRD is another project that was revealed in the Project AQUARIUS Briefing Document.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, SNOWBIRD)
Reference: archive.org

Event 1592

Date: 10/2/1972
Description: A letter from the Dept. of National Defense, Canada, Brig. Gen. L.A. Bourgeois states: All UFOs reported to CFHQ are investigated by the Director of Operations. It isn’t a practice to allow the public to study these files. Since the beginning of 1968 these UFO reports have been passed along to the NRC. Evidence suggests that UFOs present no threat to the world. They exhibit a unique scientifically advanced technology.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p467)
See also: 9/19/26

Event 1593

Date: 11/23/1972
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 1594

Date: 3/29/1973
Description: The last United States combat troops left Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Vietnam

Event 1595

Date: 9/1973
Description: At Great Lakes Naval Base, Instructor R. K., Gunnery School Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed envelope to the Commandant in the quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft. diam. and 10 ft. ht. resting on a wooden platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering, it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from one end to the other and there were no windows. R.K. believed this saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft. water between Hawaii and the mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii then stateside to Chicago.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII)
Location: Hawaii

Event 1596

Date: 10/18/1973
Description: Capt. Lawrence Coyne, while flying an Army helicopter with three other crewmen were 45 minutes out over Mansfield when Staff Sgt. Robert Yanacsek spotted a red glowing UFO headed toward their helicopter at an estimated 600 mph. It stopped abruptly 500 ft. above them. It had a big, gray, metallic looking hull about 60 ft. long, shaped like an airfoil or streamlined cigar with a red light in front and a green light in the rear, the lead edge glowed red a short distance from the nose. There was a center dome. The ‘copter radio wouldn’t function and the copter was set for a 20 degree dive but gained altitude from 1700 ft. to 3500 ft. with no power applied. After a slight “bounce” the UFO took off to the N.E.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p319, 271)
Location: Mansfield, OH

Event 1597

Date: 10/25/1973
Description: Director of FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, states: UFOs are not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.
Type: statement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p475)
Location: Washington DC

Event 1598

Date: 12/13/1973
Description: Patrick Thrush spots a hovering UFO above a river with a tube leading from the craft to the water. Witness takes 2 photos with his flash, the tube retracts and the UFO goes over his car and drops warm dry “rocks” on it. UFO seen by another witness. Norman S. Bean contacted.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Bradenton, FL

Event 1599

Date: 1974
Description: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed
Type: law
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 1600

Date: 8/9/1974
Description: President Gerald Ford in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 1601

Date: 10/11/1974
Description: Robert Spencer Carr described in great detail on a local radio show interview the Aztec crash, had anonymous military and civilian witnesses, made international news.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Tampa, Florida
See also: 3/25/48

Event 1602

Date: 12/1974
Description: Date given by Professor Carr on 10/11/74 predicting the government will launch a carefully-engineered acclimation effort to prepare American public for an announcement of the existence of extraterrestrial life.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Tampa, Florida

Event 1603

Date: 1975
Description: Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear stated "The main Air Force sightings were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for up to two and three hours over a period of three days."
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Loring AFB

Event 1604

Date: 1/8/1975
Description: Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air Base
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p459)
Location: Las Bardenas Reales, Spain

Event 1605

Date: 3/28/1975
Description: Letter from Senator Barry Goldwater stating: Ten or twelve years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson (HANGER-18) where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably denied access. It is still classified above TOP SECRET. I’ve heard they plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not to have to wait too much longer.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p2)
Reference: See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue Room
Location: Washington DC

Event 1606

Date: 8/13/1975
Description: Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF, drove out to the outskirts of town late one night to watch for meteors. As a disc-shaped UFO descended toward him, he tried to start his car to get away but it wouldn’t start. He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and saw shadowy figures in it and felt numbness, after which the UFO departed. After driving home he found he couldn’t account for 1.5 hours. The next day his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture wound over his spine and a few days later he developed a body rash. As months passed he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours. He remembered that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small 4'8" humanoids. They had whitish gray skin, large heads, large eyes, small slit-like mouths and mask-like features. He had been in a drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod like device into his back. After this they escorted him about the ship and later dropped him off at his car.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p282)
Location: Alamogordo, NM
See also: 3/4/69

Event 1607

Date: 8/13/1975
Description: Near Haderslev, Denmark: Police Officer Evald Hansen Maarup was driving home at 10:50 p.m. when all of a sudden his car was engulfed by a bright blue light while at the same time his car lost all power. The temperature in his car rose to that of a warm summer day and his radio was dead so he couldn’t call for help. The bright beam from the UFO was conical in shape with a bottom diam. of 4–5 meters and a top diam. at the UFO of 10 meters. Two dome-like protrusions were visible on the underside of the UFO that was hovering at about 20 meters altitude. He activated a special camera on the patrol car which automatically took 3 pictures of the UFO. As the UFO sped away he regained power to his car. The developed film which was later turned over to the Danish AF showed the light source of the UFO on it. No report or analysis has been available from the AF to date.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p281)
Location: Haderslev, Denmark
See also: 3/4/69

Event 1608

Date: 10/1975
End date: 12/1975
Description: Reliable military personnel saw unconventional and unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage sites, aircraft alert areas and missile control complexes at installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no indication that the fighters fired on the intruders.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Washington Post
Location: US

Event 1609

Date: 10/27/1975
Description: The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented, both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. Retired Sgt. Stephen B. Eichner was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring ammunition dump. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a football-shaped reddish orange object, three or four car-lengths long, hovering over the Loring ammunition dump. He said the object suddenly vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway. Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object. Eichner said it made no noise and could not be mistaken for a helicopter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Washington Post
Reference: Debrief
Location: Loring AFB

Event 1610

Date: 10/28/1975
Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report: UFOs, suspicious objects seen by ground personnel. Sounded like jet aircraft. Intermittent radar contact made with object. Jets scrambled to intercept but objects lights went out, interceptors passed and then came on again. Then the object increased in speed and raised to a high altitude and could not be discerned from the stars. Description: Through binoculars, looked like 100 ft. sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. To date, AF and SAC helicopters have failed to provide a positive I.D. of the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p468)
Location: Loring AFB
See also: 11/11/75
See also: 7/52

Event 1611

Date: 10/29/1975
Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: AFB penetration. At 290200 EST, AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter (UFO), possibly two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB, Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area. Army Nat. Guard helos called in to assist in locating UFO. NORAD informed of the incident by SAC. Received authority to proceed into Canadian airspace, if necessary, to locate UFO. A similar incident was reported the evening before.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p468)
Location: Loring AFB

Event 1612

Date: 11/11/1975
Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p468)
Location: US
See also: 10/28/75

Event 1613

Date: 1976
Description: Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project xxxxxxx.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
Location: US
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 1968

Event 1614

Date: 1/21/1976
Description: MEMO from NMCC by Rear Adm. J. B. Morin stating: Two UFOs reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, N.M. Security Police report the UFOs to be 25 yards (75 ft.) in diameter, gold/silver in color with blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p524, B1-F p342)
Location: Cannon AFB, NM

Event 1615

Date: 4/9/1976
Description: CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should remain classified.
Type: confidential message
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p508)
Location: Langley, VA

Event 1616

Date: 7/30/1976
Description: NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: Reports of UFOs. At approx. 0345, EDT, the ANMCC received several reports of UFOs near Fort Ritchie. At 0130, civilians reported an UFO to the NAB. At 0255, two separate patrols sighted three UFOs; oblong with a reddish tint. At 0300, the Desk Sgt. (name with held) sighted an UFO over the ammo storage area at 100–200 yds. altitude. At 0345, an Army Police Sgt. sighted an UFO in the vicinity of sight R. ANMCC was requested to have each individual write a statement on the sightings. One person said the UFO was the size of a 2.5 ton truck.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland

Event 1617

Date: 9/19/1976
Description: Tehran, Iran: Civilians reported an UFO to the AFB. The Iranian AF scrambled an American F-4 for intercept. As the F-4 was vectored towards the brilliant UFO, all communications and instrumentation were suddenly lost. As the pilot broke off pursuit, all aircraft functions returned to normal. A second F-4 that was scrambled began closing in on the UFO at greater than Mach 1 and was closing on the UFO at 150 nautical mph., but the UFO accelerated and stayed ahead of the F-4 (confirmed by Radar). Multi-colored flashing lights were visible on the UFO. The moment the F-4 pilot tried to lock an AIM-9 missile at the UFO he lost all weapons panel and communication control. The UFO launched two smaller UFOs, one of which began to follow the F-4. After evasive action by the F-4, the smaller UFO returned and united with the larger UFO. The other smaller UFO seemed to have landed on the ground so the pilot flew down to investigate it. The landed UFO appeared to be 12feet in diameter. As the pilot descended the light from the landed UFO went out and he lost sight of it. The DIA termed this sighting as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a study of a UFO phenomenon.” And, “an inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72)
Location: Tehran, Iran
See also: 10/2/72
See also: 9/20/76

Event 1618

Date: 1977
Description: Former USAF Sergeant, Mario Woods, claims that Richard Doty was present at the debriefing of his 1977 UFO incident over a nuclear silo at Ellsworth AFB.
Type: debriefing
Reference: link
Location: Ellsworth AFB

Event 1619

Date: 1977
Description: V. Alexeyev said that at some “unnamed” weapons test ranges when UFO’s appeared soldiers signaled, mostly in a physical way. The UFO’s responded by “compressing” their visual shape.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Attributes: communication

Event 1620

Date: 1977
Description: CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), a non-profit freedom of information activist group that advocates for the release of classified information regarding UFOs, is founded.
Type: non-profit organization
Reference: Wikipeda
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Event 1621

Date: 1/20/1977
End date: 1/20/1981
Description: President Jimmy Carter in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipeda
Location: Washington DC

Event 1622

Date: 9/1/1977
Description: Air Force Letter from Col. Charles H. Senn, Wash., D.C., to Gen. Duward L. Crow (Ret.), NASA, Wash., D.C. stating: Enclosed are the UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries you requested. I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p581)
Location: Washington DC

Event 1623

Date: Late 70's
Description: In an interview, Colonel-General Gennady Reshetnikov, chief of the Top Command Academy of the Air Defence Forces reported several incidents where aircraft were scrambled to chase UFO’s. He also investigated sightings of a cigar shaped object with portholes in the late 70’s over Arctic region of Norilsk, alarming local military units.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Norilsk, Soviet Union

Event 1624

Date: 1/18/1978
Description: During the early morning hours of January 18, 1978, UFOs were sighted flying over Fort Dix and McGuire AFB, adjacent military bases. Shortly afterward, an Air Force security patrol was ordered to the back gate of McGuire AFB to allow entry to New Jersey State Police who were searching for something.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Ft. Dix, NJ

Event 1625

Date: 1/18/1978
Description: MP at Ft. Dix shoots and kills an Alien. Incident report sent to Col. Landon and Brig. Gen. Brown (AFOSI). The reporting officer was S. W. (initials), Lt. 1st Class. Sgt. J.M. (initials), Security Police Squad (PACAF) also witnessed and reported the incident (Sept. 16, 1980).
Type: alien encounter
Reference: link
Location: Ft. Dix, NJ

Event 1626

Date: 2/1/1978
Description: NASA Information Sheet claims NASA is not involved in a research program involving UFOs, nor is any other government agency. The U.S. Air Force no longer investigates UFOs. (see NASA arrest laws re. private citizens)
Type: information sheet
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p515)
Location: Washington DC

Event 1627

Date: 7/18/1978
Description: DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran, Iran
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p501)
Location: Tehran, Iran

Event 1628

Date: 7/29/1978
Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield gives his first talk on Crash Retrievals in Dayton, OH. He is threatened twice (by phone and then in person), moved to a location not of his choosing by security men with radios.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 1629

Date: 10/21/1978
Description: Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report: Fredrick Valentich vanished while reporting a UFO playing cat and mouse with his airplane which was a Cessna 182L. It’s hovering above me… it’s got a greenlight and sort of metallic (like) it’s all shiny (on) the outside… it’s hovering and it’s Airplane not an aircraft… (end of transmission…pilot presumed dead).
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p461-463, B1-F p298)

Event 1630

Date: 11/9/1978
Description: Project Mercury Astronaut Gordon Cooper, in a letter to the U.N., states that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and crewed by aliens. He also describes seeing 100's of UFO's over Europe during 1951.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: New York City

Event 1631

Date: End of 1978
Description: UFO research at the USSR Academy of Sciences came under the umbrella of STEKA-AN. UFO acronym was banned until 1989, instead “Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena” was the sanctioned acronym.
Type: book reference
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 1632

Date: 1979
Description: Ufologist Paul Bennewitz, President and owner of Thunder Scientific Company in Albuquerque, NM, lives next to the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, near Sandia Base. He’s also an investigator for APRO (Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization), and others see strange lights in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: Albuquerque, NM

Event 1633

Date: 11/1979
Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO changing colors and hovering for 30 minutes over secret rocket test range (Kapustin Test Range — where V-2 was tested)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Test Range

Event 1634

Date: 11/4/1979
Description: Iran Hostage Crisis
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iran

Event 1635

Date: 1980's
Description: Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Area 51

Event 1636

Date: 5/10/1980
Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p503)
Location: Area 51
See also: 7/1952

Event 1637

Date: Summer 1980
Description: Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully, but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more hours.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 1638

Date: 7/28/1980
Description: Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at night.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: New York City

Event 1639

Date: 8/1980
Description: Three guards reported sighting an aerial light which descended on the Sandia Military Reservation. Ernest Edwards reported the sighting to AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty, unaware that Doty had already heard from Russ Curtis (the Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia Security guard had sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty included these reports and several others in his formal report, forwarding it to AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) Headquarters in Washington DC.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range

Event 1640

Date: 8/9/1980
End date: 9/3/1980
Description: AFOSI Complaint Form: At Kirtland AFB three persons report seeing UFO over a Restricted Test Range. On Aug. 9th a Sandia Security Guard drove down the Coyote Canyon access road to check out an alarmed building and observed a landed UFO next to an alarmed building. The UFO was around disk shaped object. As he approached the object on foot equipped with a shotgun the object took off in a vertical direction at a high rate of speed. His radio wasn’t working right at the time so he couldn’t reach dispatch. The building contained HQ CR 44 material. (Nature of material not known.)
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Kirtland AFB

Event 1641

Date: 9/1/1980
Description: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore is published.
Type: book
Reference: Amazon
Location: US

Event 1642

Date: 9/16/1980
Description: Sgt. J.M. (initials) of the PACAF writes to Len Stringfield that he was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, when, on Jan. 18, 1978, an MP shot and killed an alien at the Ft. Dix Army base next to the AFB.
Type: letter
Reference: (link
Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
See also: 1/18/78

Event 1643

Date: 10/24/1980
Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz contacts Major Ernest Edwards of the Kirtland AFB Security Police who, over the period of the next few months, became concerned and requested the guards on the Manzano Weapons Storage Area to report to him any sightings of unusual aerial lights.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range

Event 1644

Date: 11/10/1980
Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz presented his evidence of sightings near the Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano range to high ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena.
Type: private presentation
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range

Event 1645

Date: 11/17/1980
Description: SECRET USAF OSI Document: Analysis of photo of UFO following C-5A aircraft inclusive. Photo analysis of Cylinder Shaped UFO legitimate. Photo E. showed legitimate disc shaped UFO of 37 ft. diameter with trilateral insignia on object. USAF still has an interest in all UFO sightings over installations and test ranges. Several other Government agencies, lead by NASA, actively investigate legitimate sightings through COVERT COVER. One agency that deceives the public which such covert cover is the UFO reporting center at U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD. 20852. (The results of PROJECT AQUARIUS is still classified TOP SECRET with access limited to “MJ-12”.)
Type: secret document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p528)
Location: US
Attributes: majestic

Event 1646

Date: 12/1980
Description: UFO landing between the Bentwaters and Woodbridge NATA bases in England. Nearby animals driven into a frenzy, surrounding trees damaged, left moderate levels of radiation, 17 firsthand witnesses, event filmed.
Type: ufo landing
Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985
Location: between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge
See also: 3/3/1985

Event 1647

Date: 12/27/1980
Description: USAF UFO report signed by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander, RAF Woodbridge stating: Two USAF security police patrolmen saw a UFO either hovering or on legs outside the backgate, Woodbridge. Being early morning, it illuminated the entire forest with a white light. Description: Metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, pulsing red light on top and banks of blue lights underneath. Approx. 2–3 meters across and 2 meters high. It maneuvered through the trees and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p456)
Location: RAF Woodbridge
See also: 12/29/1980

Event 1648

Date: 12/29/1980
Description: Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Location: north of Houston, TX

Event 1649

Date: 12/29/1980
Description: A low flying UFO was escorted by a large number of helicopters (23) including some Chinooks and possibly Hueys, near Dayton, Texas. It was probably escorted to the Top Secret underground installation within Fort Hood, Texas. The secret air force base is NOT listed in the Air Force Officer’s Guide or the Air Force Almanac (it is an Army AFB). The name of the Secret base is Gray AAF, Texas. The special group piloting the helicopters escort for UFO are known as the “BLUE BOYS”. The Texas Department of Public Safety works closely with Gray AAF on UFO cases.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, TX
See also: 6/6/88

Event 1650

Date: 12/29/1980
Description: Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs and later sees 3 other UFOs.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p456)
Location: RAF Woodbridge
See also: 12/27/1980

Event 1651

Date: 1981
Description: The "China Society of UFO Research" (CSUR) research organization was established. More than 600 UFO's have been reported within the past 5 years in China. Studies will be done on UFO's and human body science relationships.
Type: research organization
Reference: "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good page 219
Location: China

Event 1652

Date: 1/13/1981
Description: Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Bentwaters AFB
See also: 12/27/80
See also: 12/29/80

Event 1653

Date: 1/20/1981
End date: 1/20/1989
Description: President Ronald Reagan in office.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
See also: 12/27/80
See also: 12/29/80

Event 1654

Date: 10/19/1981
Description: Barry Goldwater, Senator, Arizona, in a letter to Lee Graham, Aerojet Electric Systems, Azusa, CA, states that he has given up trying to get into the BLUE ROOM at Wright-Patterson AFB where UFO artifacts are stored by the Air Force.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC

Event 1655

Date: 11/3/1981
Description: Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Washington Post
Location: US

Event 1656

Date: 11/3/1981
Description: Civil Action, Case #80–1562, goes against the plaintiff and for the defendant, the NSA. The NSA retains the right to withhold 156 Top Secret records containing communications intelligence (COMINT) reports which were produced between 1958 and 1979. Only military personnel with a Top Secret Clearance were allowed to view the documents for the court hearing. NOT even the Judge was allowed to see them, even though he ruled against the plaintiff (CAUS).
Type: court case
Reference: Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A)
Location: US
See also: 6/24/83

Event 1657

Date: 1982
Description: Investigator Paul Bennewitz was sending regular reports to the APRO and contacted US Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter Domenici, as well as other UFO investigators such as Linda Moulton Howe and John Lear. By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz’s claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former schoolteacher turned writer and ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Bill Moore later stated in a public confession that he was recruited by someone with the code name Falcon to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by AFOSI agents (believed to be Richard Doty and Steve Atwater), and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the forged “Aquarius Document” to Bennewitz. This disinformation included “verification” of Bennewitz’s beliefs about the “grays” and the underground base at Dulce. Bennewitz had to be hospitalized for “exhaustion”. He later died on June 23, 2003.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Albuquerque, NM

Event 1658

Date: 2/6/1982
Description: Prof. John Spencer Carr of Clearwater FL calls ufologist Leonard Stringfield and revealed a key USAF officer’s witness name to the 1948 Aztec C/R. Stringfield sat back dumbfounded, because in the past this officer had spoken to Stringfield and told him about UFO’s. The USAF officer saw the occupant bodies on location.
Type: telephone call
Reference: Twitter
Location: Clearwater FL
See also: 3/25/48

Event 1659

Date: 6/27/1982
Description: Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los Alamos Monitor”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 1660

Date: 7/28/1982
Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a presentation.
Type: meeting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 1661

Date: 8/21/1982
Description: Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National Laboratory”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Event 1662

Date: 11/27/1982
Description: Police Commander Michael McDonald was on patrol at 5:00 a.m. when the area around his car was lighted, as if by a phosphorous flare. Looking up he saw a large white UFO with tinges of red at an altitude of 900–1000 ft. Two other officers, alerted by radio, also observed the UFO. The other two cars gave pursuit to the UFO at speeds of between 60–65 mph but the UFO outdistanced them. A few minutes later another UFO was noted by the commander and then the other two officers. It was a diffuse “domed disc” which was seen to emit a beam of light towards the ground. The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line of a forest preserve. The police report includes a tape recording of the radio communications during the sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Palatine, IL

Event 1663

Date: 3/27/1983
Description: A cigar-shaped UFO about the size of a Boeing 747 hovered over Gorki Airport at low altitude for 40 minutes. No jets were scrambled. The Soviet Government appointed a cosmonaut Pavel Popovich to head the Commission on Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena. Popovich declared the incident definitely had taken place.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: "Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us" by George C. Andrews
Location: Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus

Event 1664

Date: 6/24/1983
Description: Larry W. Bryant, Director of CAUS, filed a Civil Action, Case #83–1932 (Judge Oliver Gasch) petitioning for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Extraterrestrial, in the United States District Court for the Dist. of Columbia, seeking to obtain the release from custody of “one or more occupants of apparent extraterrestrial origin.” Mr. Bryant contends that the Government action in maintaining secret custody, detention, and prosecution of such extraterrestrials is unlawful and a violation of their basic rights and is seeking to restore their civil rights.
Type: lawsuit
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 11/3/81

Event 1665

Date: 10/23/1983
Description: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings
Type: terrorist attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Event 1666

Date: 11/29/1983
Description: Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, consultant US Research and Development Board and President and Chairman of the Board, Washington Institute of Technology, in a letter to Dr. William I. Steinman states that Frank Scully’s book (“Behind the Flying Saucers”) story is true and persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John von Neuman and Dr. Vannever Bush. Also, Dr. Sarbacher thought that Robert Oppenheimer was also involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT to remove them from his office.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (A2, B1-E p525, B1-G p49)
Location: US

Event 1667

Date: 1984
Description: From the Air Traffic Controllers Manual: Controllers MUST report UFOs immediately to AIS (Military), LATCC. A completed report MUST be sent to MOD (AFOR). A list of phone numbers and locations is shown in the directory at Appendix H.
Type: manual
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p458)
Location: US

Event 1668

Date: 1984
Description: USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom Lake
Type: land seizure
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Area-51

Event 1669

Date: 1/13/1984
Description: New York Post: Soviet scientists are puzzled by the flight of a mysterious bright sphere followed by seven small lights which flew at great speed but low altitude across southern Russia and Ukraine. The objects changed altitude and direction and were flying less than half a mile above the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Archive.org
Location: Soviet Union

Event 1670

Date: 4/1984
Description: Reported in APRO Bulletin: D.M., who lives just south of White Swan, WA went out to his rural mailbox just before dawn to get his paper. He observed a large flying triangle passing overheard. It was lighted completely around its perimeter with multicolored lights which burned steadily. He estimated it was 8k-10k feet high, made no noise and was in sight for several minutes as it wasn't moving at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Archive.org
Location: White Swan, WA

Event 1671

Date: 5/1/1984
Description: The book “Clear Intent”, later renamed to “The UFO Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say” in 1990, written by Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood is published.
Type: book
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 1672

Date: 5/16/1984
Description: Dept. of the Army letter to W. S. Steinman stating that the IPU was disestablished in the late 1950s and all records were transferred to the Air Force. Therefore the Army isn’t aware of what their function was even though it was a Secret unit of the Army. (FOIA requests to USAF)
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p55)
Location: US

Event 1673

Date: 1985
Description: Scientific UFO Conference in Darlian, China. China Daily reported that 20,000 people involved in UFO research. Professor Renglin of Guangzhou Jinan University said more than 600 reports in China in prev. 5 years.
Type: conference
Reference: Pea Research
Location: China

Event 1674

Date: 3/3/1985
Description: Meeting between researchers Ray Boeche and Scott Colborn and US Senator J. J. Exon D-Neb concerning the 12/1980 Bentwaters and other incidents. Exon is described as concerned that as a member of the Armed Services Committee he has not been fully appraised of the Bentwaters and other UFO events.
Type: meeting
Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985
Location: Washington DC
See also: 12/1980

Event 1675

Date: 4/19/1985
Description: In a letter from Ministry of Defense, Lord Trefgarne states, “There is no organization in the MOD appointed solely for the purpose of studying UFOs, and no staff are employed on the subject full time… the staff in the Department… examine the reports as part of their normal duties… and we cannot inform observers of the probable identity of the objects seen.”
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: London, England

Event 1676

Date: 6/28/1985
Description: USAF ACCESS RESTRICTED NOTICE: Report TR-DE-3A, Oct. 15, 1955, from Air Tech. Intel. Ctr., file no. TS5–2862, has been WITHDRAWN from the National Archives and is classified a TOP SECRET UFO Report.
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p529)
Location: National Archives, Washington DC

Event 1677

Date: 8/27/1985
Description: Darlian, China, the “China Daily” reports: 20,000 people are involved in UFO research. The first recognized photo of a UFO in China was taken in 1945.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p472)
Location: Darlian, China

Event 1678

Date: 1986
Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test Range
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Test Range
See also: 11/79

Event 1679

Date: 5/11/1986
Description: Minister Robert H. Henderson and his wife, Nann, of Phoenix, AR, were flying at an altitude of 8500 ft. at 4 p.m. when a very bright UFO was seen approaching head-on to them. As he prepared to take evasive action the UFO passed quickly to the left and below of his plane. The UFO was seen to be wingless and resembling a “modified half-sphere, with the flat side down.” The closure rate was estimated at about 1200 mph.
Type: aerial ufo encounter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: near Sedona, AR

Event 1680

Date: 5/19/1986
Description: Near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Between 9:00 to 12 midnight the Brazilian Air Defense and the Civil Air System were swamped with Radar and pilot UFO sightings. As Ospires Silva, President of Petrobras Oil Company were preparing to land, the control tower informed him of UFO targets on their radar. He and his companion, Alcir Pereira da Silva, saw bright red-orange UFOs, not at all like stars or planes. They attempted to pursue the UFOs for 30 min. but gave up as the UFOs seemed to be jumping from place to place. At this time three F-5E fighter jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB. Capt. Marcio Jordao was able to approach within 12 miles of an UFO, visible to him as a bright light changing from white to green. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho chased another UFO which was a very intense light, changing from white to green then red again. Both pilots broke off chase as they were running low on fuel. Ground Radar picked up 10–13 more UFOs that surrounded another plane with Capt. Armindo Souza Viriato de Marinho, K.C. Freitas piloting it. Capt. Freitas tracked the UFOs on his radar, but only de Freitas, A.S.V. saw them visually once as they climbed vertically past him. Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima made these events public at a press conference and allowed the pilots and radar operators to be questioned by the media.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
See also: 7/52

Event 1681

Date: 11/17/1986
Description: Japan Airlines flight #1628, a Boeing 747 freighter, was cruising at 35000 ft. altitude and at 5:11 p.m. the pilots noticed bright lights 30 degrees to the left and below them. The UFOs moved up directly in front of the 747 and, said Capt. Kenju Terauchi, “most unexpectedly, two spaceships stopped in front of our face, shooting off lights (like numerous exhaust pipes). The inside cockpit shined brightly and I felt warm in the face.” The UFOs appeared as two rectangular clusters or arrays of light, one above the other. As the larger UFOs moved away from the 747 Airlines Flight 1628 there remained two smaller flat white UFOs. At about 5:30 p.m. Capt. Terauchi checked the pale white light behind their craft visually. He saw a gigantic “walnut-shaped” UFO (Saturn-shaped) following them. As an evasive action the Capt. ordered the 747 to turn away from the giant UFO that was following them, at which time the UFO “spaceship” disappeared.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Yukon, Alaska

Event 1682

Date: 2/15/1987
Description: The San Jose Mercury states that the Pentagon has a “Black Budget” which has become a “Black Hole” for secret projects spending. It is far bigger than the federal budget for education, transportation, agriculture or the environment. These Projects are classified above TOP SECRET, therefore very few federal investigators have the security clearances necessary to audit black programs.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Pea Research (J4-B)
Location: San Jose, CA

Event 1683

Date: 3/12/1987
Description: US Army Intelligence letter: The IPU (Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit) of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished during the 1950’s and never reactivated. All of its records were turned over to the USAF (which can’t seem to locate them). This letter was sent to Timothy Good.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p484)
Location: US
See also: 5/16/84

Event 1684

Date: 9/4/1987
Description: JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) (now deceased), MUFON (Sequin, TX), APRO (Tucson, AZ) and Just Cause (Coventry, CT) states that: “WE (military personnel) have been ordered by the CIA to shoot at UFOs, silence pilots who have seen UFOs, intimidate, harass, jail, confine to institutions, and destroy military careers of witnesses to UFO sightings. We VIOLATED the Freedom of Information Act by hiding Government documents.” Maj. Keyhoe sent this letter to PEA Research in 1987.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (JMP)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/52
See also: 9/24/47

Event 1685

Date: 9/21/1987
Description: President Reagan states to the UN General Assembly “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”
Type: statement
Reference: link
Location: New York City

Event 1686

Date: 9/25/1987
Description: Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: DC

Event 1687

Date: 12/13/1987
Description: Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12
Type: statement
Reference: Article by John Lear (TODO)
Location: Nevada

Event 1688

Date: 12/21/1987
Description: CIA letter to former assistant director of NICAP Mr. Richard H. Hall stating the CIA’s reasons for denying certain FOIA requests about himself on the basis of national defense reasons and must be kept secret. Mr. Hall is an UFO investigator and book author.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Langley, VA

Event 1689

Date: 1988
Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John Lear
Type: meeting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: NV

Event 1690

Date: 1/28/1988
Description: Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About Aliens On Earth
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1691

Date: 5/5/1988
Description: For the third time, publicly, President Ronald Reagan states that the nations of the earth would unite if we were threatened by an Alien race from a hostile planet.
Type: statement
Reference: Pea Research (J4-A)
Location: Washington DC

Event 1692

Date: 6/6/1988
Description: Letter received from ufologist Paul F. Bennewitz describing Project Beta: Alien base located in New Mexico consisting of type "Grey" Aliens. NASA CIR film has aided in locating this base and revealing US Military involvement with the "Greys". Aliens helped US Military to build a working saucer, Atomic Powered. Two women and a boy exposed to radiation burns by this saucer. Government is not picking up the medical bills. "Grey" base is currently abandoned. Another group called "Orange" is based on the west slope of Mt. Archeleta near "the Diamond". Goal of Project Beta: to locate, inventory and propose ways of destroying Alien bases.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: New Mexico
See also: 12/29/80

Event 1693

Date: 9/19/1988
Description: The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction research.
Type: funding
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 1694

Date: 10/14/1988
Description: “UFO Cover-Up?: Live!” Broadcast from Washington DC on 130 syndicated stations throughout the US. Soviet ufologists appeared live by satellite. AFOSI officer Rick Doty played the part of ‘Falcon’ in the Kodak-produced documentary, but it is generally accepted he wasn’t the ‘real’ Falcon of the Aviary.
Type: TV broadcast
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 1695

Date: 11/15/1988
Description: First and only test of the Soviet Buran orbital spaceplane. It was the first spaceplane to perform an uncrewed flight, including landing in fully automatic mode.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 1696

Date: 11/29/1988
Description: Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar
Type: telephone call
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1697

Date: 12/1988
Description: Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface)
Type: historical event
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Area 51

Event 1698

Date: 1989
Description: Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2 statement
Type: tax statement
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1699

Date: 1989
Description: The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program”
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 1700

Date: 1/20/1989
End date: 1/20/1993
Description: President George H. W. Bush in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 1701

Date: 3/1989 (approximate)
Description: Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 1702

Date: Spring 1989
Description: Bob Lazar takes groups of friends on Wednesday nights into the desert around Papoose Dry Lake, 15 miles south of Groom Lake. They appeared to be large glowing, disc-shaped objects. At least one sighting was recorded on video.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 1703

Date: 3/29/1989
Description: Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to viewing area for 2nd time
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 1704

Date: 4/2/1989
Description: Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom Lake
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 1705

Date: 4/7/1989
Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at work
Type: employment
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 1706

Date: 5/1989
End date: 11/1989
Description: Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things Bob Lazar.
Type: historical event
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1707

Date: 5/14/1989
Description: Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp.
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1708

Date: 5/17/1989
Description: Kalahari Desert, close to the borders between the Republics of South Africa and Botswana: UFO shot down by 2 scrambled Mirage jets. 2 live EBE’s and craft debris transported to Wright Patterson AFB. A South African Air Force Intelligence officer leaks photos of the EBE’s.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African Sky”
Location: Kalahari Desert

Event 1709

Date: 5/24/1989
Description: Bob Lazar interviews on KLAS-TV in silhouette using assumed identity “Dennis”. Sometime after this, Popular host Billy Goodman organizes bus trips to the outskirts of Groom Lake for UFO viewing parties.
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Reference: YouTube
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1710

Date: 9/28/1989
Description: UFO landing and Government attempt at intercept: Six helicopters circle around an UFO, between 574–1000 ft. in diam. while it was close to a downed UFO on the beach. The UFOs apparently got away. The eyewitness took 48 photos of the event. This even occurred in Suffolk County.
Type: ufo retrieval attempt
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Archive.org
Location: Smith's Point Beach, Shirley, NY

Event 1711

Date: 11/1989
Description: “UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public.
Type: TV series
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1712

Date: 1990's
Description: USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name Area 51
Type: court filings
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Location: US

Event 1713

Date: 8/2/1990
End date: 1/17/1991
Description: Operation Desert Shield
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iraq

Event 1714

Date: 2/28/1991
Description: Operation Desert Storm
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iraq

Event 1715

Date: 1/20/1993
End date: 1/20/2001
Description: President Bill Clinton in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 1716

Date: 3/20/1994
Description: “Groom Lake Toxic Burning Alleged” A former worker at the secret Air Force base says poisonous substances were routinely ignited. Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20, 1994, Page 1B.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Groom Lake

Event 1717

Date: 9/16/1994
Description: Ariel school incident
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Ruwa, Zimbabwe

Event 1718

Date: 12/1994
Description: SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document “leaked” to UFO researcher
Type: majestic document
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
See also: 4/1954

Event 1719

Date: 12/18/1994
Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cincinnati, OK

Event 1720

Date: 1996
Description: Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Skinwalker Ranch

Event 1721

Date: 1996
End date: 1997
Description: Crimean ufologist Anton Anfalov made a map of the Soviet secret sensitive site “Zhitkur” with instructions on the location of all sites and drew diagrams of their devices.
Type: document
Reference: link
Location: Crimea

Event 1722

Date: 2/8/1996
Description: Wall Street Journal on Area 51 worker toxic disposal fires lawsuits: “A Secret Air Base Hazardous Waste Act, Workers’ Suit Alleges U.S. Cites National Security In Fighting Claims Tied to Toxic Disposal Fires Plaintiffs Fear Retaliation”
Type: article
Reference: link
Location: Area 51

Event 1723

Date: 3/1996
Description: Area-51 workers and their widows lose suite against the federal government in Las Vegas. “..the Air Force could invoke the common law state secrets privilege to protect military secrets at Area 51, and that once invoked, the privilege is absolute, protecting even innocuous-seeming information from disclosure.”
Type: lawsuit
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1724

Date: 1997
Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland” radio show
Type: radio appearance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Rachel, NV

Event 1725

Date: 2/1997 (approximate)
Description: “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4, speaks in “Area 51: The Alien Interview” by Rocket Pictures. Claims two psychics were present to interpret the responses from an alien in custody. Aliens were highly psychic.
Type: interview
Reference: Youtube
Reference: IMDB
Location: US
See also: 5/23/97
See also: 2008

Event 1726

Date: 5/23/1997
Description: Art Bell anonymously interviews “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4 (see 2/1997). Claims no successful communication has taken place and that most psychics used in the program were frauds.
Type: interview
Reference: Youtube
Location: US

Event 1727

Date: 7/23/1997
Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appeared on Coast to Coast AM and again was interviewed by Art Bell. This time, he was accompanied by Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C. and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts of Corso’s public service. He indeed had served honorably as a Lieutenant Colonel under Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau and worked in the White House for four years.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Rachel, NV

Event 1728

Date: 2/28/1998
End date: 6/11/1999
Description: Kosovo War and NATO intervention
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kosovo

Event 1729

Date: 11/16/1998
Description: Newspaper Article: “High court won’t review “state secrets” privilege in ‘Area 51’ case”. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in early November to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by workers at a “secret” air base near Groom Lake, Nev., dubbed “Area 51.”
Type: lawsuit
Reference: link
Location: Area 51

Event 1730

Date: 1/20/2001
End date: 1/20/2009
Description: President George W. Bush in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 1731

Date: 7/4/2001
Description: Art Bell interviews Linda Moulton Howe, Philip J. Corso, and Bill Birnes were interviewed live in Roswell, NM, about the infamous UFO crash in 1947.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 1732

Date: 9/11/2001
Description: September 11 Terrorist Attack
Type: terrorist attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Location: New York City

Event 1733

Date: 10/7/2001
End date: 8/30/2021
Description: Afghanistan War begins
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Afghanistan

Event 1734

Date: 3/2003
End date: 4/2003
Description: Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II)
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Iraq

Event 1735

Date: 2004
Description: TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel off the coast of southern California
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: TODO
Location: off the coast of southern California

Event 1736

Date: 2007
Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, an astrophysicist, starts working as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP)
Type: newspaper article
Reference: NY Times
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 1737

Date: 2008
Description: Claimed Area-51 S-4 worker named “Victor” appears anonymously in bonus footage for the re-release of “Alien Interview”. “Victor” claims that Donald Rumsfeld has been aware of alien interviews since 1974.
Type: video interview
Reference: link
Location: US
See also: 2/1997
See also: 5/23/97

Event 1738

Date: 1/20/2009
End date: 1/20/2017
Description: President Barack Obama in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 1739

Date: 11/6/2009
Description: ex-Police Detective and ufologist James Clarkson gives a presentation at a UFO Conference about ex-Wright Patterson AFB worker June Crain, who had heard of 3 crash retrievals during her time working there.
Type: presentation
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: US

Event 1740

Date: 6/4/2010
Description: First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL

Event 1741

Date: 3/1/2015
Description: Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope in Supreme Court ruling”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1742

Date: 1/20/2017
End date: 1/20/2021
Description: President Donald Trump in office
Type: historical document
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC, US

Event 1743

Date: 4/18/2017
Description: The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 8648 about the Maury Island Incident. It stated “The FBI’s conclusions and Dahl’s (the main witness) secret were sealed for fifty years.” It also states “Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation of the deaths of Davidson and Brown and ultimately concluded that Dahl did not recant his story but that his claim of hoax was itself a fabrication to avoid further public attention and ridicule.”
Type: state resolution
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Olympia, WA
See also: 6/21/1947

Event 1744

Date: 6/2017
Description: Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash, EBE-1
Type: majestic document
Reference: link]
Reference: archive.org
Location: US

Event 1745

Date: 10/12/2017
Description: Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research (TTSA)
Type: company formation
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 1746

Date: 12/16/2017
Description: NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program
Type: newspaper article
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 1747

Date: 8/14/2018
Description: TTSA’s “ADAM Project” (an acronym for Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials) hand delivers exotic materials claimed to be from a crashed UFO to EarthTech in Austin, TX.
Type: delivery
Reference: YouTube)
Location: Austin, TX

Event 1748

Date: 10/11/2018
Description: Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning UFO's.
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Tucson, AZ

Event 1749

Date: 3/2019
Description: NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, Aerospace Corporation (a defense contractor), gives a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 1750

Date: 4/30/2019
Description: In an interview, Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD (who has a security clearance) talks about the “crash retrieval program” that was terminated in 1989 for lack of progress.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 1751

Date: 5/13/2019
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies age 84
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Toronto, Canada

Event 1752

Date: 5/31/2019
End date: 8/22/2020
Description: First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation”
Type: documentary
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 1753

Date: 6/20/2019
Description: Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an interview with Joe Rogan
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
Location: US

Event 1754

Date: 9/20/2019
Description: “Storm Area-51” event planned
Type: event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Area 51

Event 1755

Date: 10/21/2019
Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 1756

Date: 10/23/2019
Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 1757

Date: 1/20/2020
Description: President Joe Biden in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 1758

Date: 3/11/2020
Description: COVID-19 Pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.
Type: pandemic
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 1759

Date: 3/23/2020
Description: Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce
Type: layoff
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1760

Date: 6/6/2020
Description: Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler dies
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Edgewater, Maryland

Event 1761

Date: 7/28/2020
Description: NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved materials”, all information is classified
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: New York, New York

Event 1762

Date: 1/23/2021
Description: Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles, CA
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 1763

Date: 4/26/2021
Description: Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD program
Type: letter
Reference: TODO

Event 1764

Date: 6/4/2021
Description: South China Morning Post: China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs. To the People’s Liberation Army they are ‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best way to keep up with them.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: China

Event 1765

Date: 8/30/2021
Description: Afghanistan War ends
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Afghanistan

Event 1766

Date: 12/28/2021
Description: Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 1767

Date: 2/6/2022
Description: Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with the show title “UFOs and Aliens”
Type: interview
Reference: YouTube
Location: US

Event 1768

Date: 3/29/2022
Description: Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 1769

Date: 6/3/2022
Description: Ex-US Navy Aviator Ryan Graves gives a keynote titled “UAP & Government: The Innovation Imperative” at the SCU AAPC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL. Graves states at the conference that aviators are reporting sightings, but are being ignored, and if this continues they will stop reporting them.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 1770

Date: 6/4/2022
Description: Dr. Alexander Wendt gives the virtual presentation “Dangerous Knowledge — UFO Science and the Last Humans” at the SCU AAPC conference, near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL, on potential societal collapse and mass panic if Disclosure of the reality of UFO’s is rushed. Mentions a 20 year process of acclimation focusing on young people.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 1771

Date: 6/4/2022
Description: Panel held at the SCU APC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL: “The National Security Implications of Scientifically Studying UAP”- Dr. Joseph DiNoto (moderator), Dr. Matthew Szydagis, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Joshua Pierson, and Mr. Richard Hoffman.
Type: public panel
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 1772

Date: 6/4/2022
Description: ex-Col. John B. Alexander states on video at the SCU AAPC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL that MJ-12 was real, but then claimed it had nothing to do with UFO’s. Stubblebine said it was very secret.
Type: public statement
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 1773

Date: 12/23/2022
Description: President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections and references to back-engineering
Type: law
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 1774

Date: 1/12/2023
Description: CNBC: "More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021"
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 1775

Date: 1/12/2023
Description: CBS News: “Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest report”. “On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the total number of UFO sightings to over 500. The assessment revealed that the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004. This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial report in 2021. Department of Defense has determined that about half of the additional sightings displayed “unremarkable characteristics.” A U.S. official told CBS News that none of the incidents have yet been definitively linked to China, Russia or any other country.”
Type: unclassified report
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC