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#1948, January 7
USA, Madisonville (Kentucky) and elsewhere. MANTELL Case
In the early afternoon hundreds of inhabitants of Madisonville, then
thousands of citizens of the same state, saw an immense circular and
shining object. The state police alerted Fort Knox, The diameter of the
craft was, it was believed, at least 75 meters. (etc… ) (Donald E.
KEYHOE: "The UFO Files" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.37, 38) At 1:15 pm a
round object, about 70 m in diameter, is reported above Madisonville
heading towards Fort Knox. At 1:45 pm the observer of the Godman air
base signals it; the officers observe it from the ground with binoculars
and with the naked eye. The commander of the base, Colonel Hix, orders
by radio a patrol of three F-51 fighters to take the object in pursuit
and observe it. The patrol, commanded by Captain Mantell, who was
overflying Fort Knox, then heads towards Godman. At 2:45 pm Mantell
reports that the object is above him. He rises to meet it and the speed
of the three fighters is about 500 km/h.<br/><br/>Radio message from Mantell:
"I'm approaching to better examine it. The craft looks like it's made
of metal and it's huge".<br/><br/>At an altitude of 5,000 m the object still
rising, the other two fighters lose sight of Mantell due to the clouds
and abandon the pursuit to return to the Godman base. At 3:15 pm Mantell
reports that he can't reach the object and that he will abandon the
pursuit at 6,000 m if the craft continues to rise, as he does not have
an oxygen inhaler. This is his last message. Around 4 pm debris from
Mantell's F-51 was found within a radius of several kilometers, which
would prove that the plane disintegrated in mid-flight. Despite the
searches made, nothing of the pilot's body was found. (Henry DURRANT:
"The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.89-90) (note from vog: see
newspaper article of the following day: the remains of Mantell were
indeed found and evacuated from the crash scene by ambulance)<br/><br/>Years
later it was known that the secret military Skylook weather balloons
were being tested in the area and Arnold would have died from lack of
oxygen at an altitude of 20,000 feet. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern
Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 48)<br/><br/>Here is
an excerpt from the article published in the January 8, 1948 edition of
the weekly "The Franklin, Kentucky Favorite". AN AIRPLANE EXPLODES AT
MID-ALTITUDE, THE PILOT IS KILLED IN THE CRASH ON JOE PHILLIPS' FARM.
An Army P-51 combat plane exploded at mid-altitude yesterday and
crashed on Joe Phillips' farm in the afternoon around 3:30 pm killing
the pilot identified as Thomas F. Mantell (Jr.), 3533 River Park Drive,
Louisville. The plane bore (on the tail) No. Ky. NG 869. Mrs. Joe
Phillips said she was sitting near the fire when she heard the plane,
whose engine apparently had some trouble, flying near the house. Almost
immediately there was a great explosion.<br/><br/>Surprised she looked out the
window and saw 200 yards from the house, the disintegrated plane fall
into a wooded lot. Pieces of the wreckage were found up to a quarter of
a mile around the point of impact. Several people in Franklin say they
heard the explosion. A trail of steam still floated in the air an hour
after the crash. Another eyewitness, Barbara Mayes, a student at the
Franklin Grade School said she saw the plane explode while it was still
at mid-height. She was waiting for the bus to go home when she heard
the explosion. This is the second explosion in a few months. The place
of the explosion was only 3 miles away from the one that took the life
of Ed Snow and Richard M. Thomason on April 29, 1947. (…)<br/><br/>Mrs. Joe
Phillips said she called an ambulance and help. The remains of the dead
pilot were removed from the scene by ambulance and taken to the Booker
funeral home awaiting official instructions.<br/><br/>Captain Mantell was a
veteran of World War II and participated in the June 6, 1944 Normandy
landing, he was among others decorated with the Flying Cross. He was
demobilized a year ago (in 1946). He leaves a wife and two children. (…)
(Lee Trail and Lou Farish of the UFO Newsclipping Service made this
article available to UFO ROUNDUP vol. 3 n° 01 from 04 jan. 1998, ed
Joseph Trainor)

#1948, January 22
USA, White Sands
13:12 Launch of V2 No. 34 which reached an altitude of 159 km.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#February 1, 1948
USA, Circleville (Ohio)
Farmer B. Stevens was up early that winter morning, like every other morning. He first went out to the barn to take a look at the pigs. But on the way he saw something he couldn't accept. Above the farm buildings was suspended an object of metallic appearance in the shape of a saucer. Very down-to-earth Stevens could immediately judge that the object was real and solid, that it measured 60 feet in diameter and was thick from 10 to 12 feet. The center seemed dome-shaped and a bright orange light was coming out of it. This dome was transparent, because when the saucer inclined slightly, he could make out a silhouette inside. The occupant of the saucer seemed to concentrate his gaze on the farm buildings and Stevens thought that the cause might be the green light that lit up one of his hangars. Soon the light from the dome was fading and Stevens could no longer make out the occupant well. Then the saucer glided upwards and flew away out of sight. ("Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 100)

#February 4, 1948
USA, Muroc
The skyrocket did not seem to fit in with the research plan. Designed for both jet and rocket engines. The first skyrocket (the D-558-2 as it is called) made its first flight on February 4th with John Martin as test pilot. (continued 24.5.49) (NASA Website 1997 - "On the Frontier")

#1948, February 6
USA, White Sands
At 10:17 AM, launch of V2 #36 which reached an altitude of 112 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, February 13
USA, Aztec N.M.
Dr. Gee (his real name is GeBauer) claims to have been part of the recovery team of a saucer, when 16 small humanoid bodies were found dead on board. According to Jerome Clark, Gebauer and Silas Newcomb were later arrested and imprisoned for attempting to sell extraterrestrial material, "of immeasurable value". It is not said when they were released from prison. (Ufo Winipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

#1948, March 5
USA, White Sands
Launch of an Aerobee which reached 96 km in altitude. Measurements of intensity and distribution of cosmic rays. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 286, doc. Van Allen)

#1948, March 19
USA, White Sands
At 16:10, launch of V2 #39 which only reached 5 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, April 2
USA, White Sands
Launch of V2 #25 at 06:47. It reached 143 km in altitude.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, April 3
ITALY, San Martino in Pensilis - Fara di Cigno
Giusseppe Langiano and his foreman Giuseppe Bavota observed a saucer of the shape of an open umbrella, without the handle, of a luminous orange color. It was heading west to east in the sky. Suddenly it stopped at about ten meters from the ground. There, stationary, it emitted a beam of white light from its center, which descended to the ground while the witnesses then had the impression of feeling very hot. On the upper part of the saucer there was a rounded protuberance illuminated by a soft and silvery light. After two minutes, a more or less anthropomorphic figure, about one and a half meters tall, descended vertically through the central light beam, until it touched the ground. It wore a suit that seemed metallic, large gloves and boots of the same material. Its head was covered and a kind of visor was outlined in the one-piece helmet with the suit. In this visor there were two circles (glasses?) The witnesses were less than 200 meters away (let's say that to see the circles in the visor, these witnesses had some good eyes ... try it ...) and were heading towards the strange machine, but at that moment the being was going up, vertically, through the beam (elevator?) which was getting shorter. Suddenly the object flew away, even faster than it had arrived. (CISU, archive file 4801 - sources: GDM 3, 23, 13-16; Ufo in Italia I, 94-95 and 102, Ossola III, 321-322, Ufo Info 12, 48, 18 + 13, 53.)

#1948, April 13
USA, White Sands
Launch of an Aerobee, altitude reached 96 km, measurements of the geomagnetic field. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 286, doc. Van Allen)

#1948, April 18
ALASKA, Fairbanks
Incident reporting a flat, round object, oscillating at 1:06 PM and reported by 1st Lt Aytch M. Johnson Jr of the 375th VLR Weather Squadron. The UFO was coming from the northeast flying towards the southwest. Flying at an altitude of 2000 feet, and at a speed of 200 to 300 mph. But at one point the object made a dive covering 500 feet in 2 seconds. Horizontal flight, silent, in a clear sky with unlimited visibility. ("UFO's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p.103)

#1948, April 19
USA, White Sands
Launch of V2 #38, at 0:54. It reached 56 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, April 23
GERMANY, north of Munich
At 10 pm, the captain of an F 80, in flight, saw an object that was moving
vertically from the base (American in Germany) at an altitude that
could not be specified. The object, which looked like a star, was red. It was heading south, towards Munich. Then
suddenly it changed direction and headed first southwest
and finally southeast. Its speed must have varied between 300 and 900
km/h (...) The base gave the alarm to the radar station which at first did
not see anything on the screens. After a few minutes the radar station
announced an object flying at 1350 km/h, at an altitude of 8000
meters in a point located 45 km south of Munich. The captain noted that the object he had spotted was not in this
area. After a few minutes the radar station indicated that the object
was now at 15000 meters altitude, circling about sixty km south of Munich. (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" -
De Vecchi 1976, p. 93, 94)

#1948, April 29
USA, Muroc
Test pilot Howard Lilly reached a speed of Mach 0.88 with the Skystreak. (see 3.5.48) (NASA Website 1997, "On the Frontier")

#1948, 3 May
USA, Muroc
Test pilot Howard Lilly was killed in an experimental flight with the NACA Skystreak. This aircraft had the same aerodynamic configuration as the XS-1 but apart from the wing and tail, the D-558-1 (official name of the Skystreak) had nothing else in common. The Skystreak took off from the ground with its own General Electric TG-180 turbojet engine. The Douglas Company had built three of these D-558-1s. (NASA Website, 1997 - On the Frontier)

#1948, May 5
TURKEY, Adapazari
The newspaper "Yeni Sabah" of May 5, 1948 reported that a luminous object exploded in mid-air above Adapazari. Pieces fell into a nearby village, killing a shepherd dog. The recovered parts clearly show that it was a missile. It came from the northwest and was only 200 meters above Adapazari before it fell. Rumor has it that this flying object was from Soviet tests conducted at the Alagoz base near the eastern border of Turkey.
("Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc.
1999, p. 104)

#1948, May 13
USA, White Sands
Launch at 06:43 of V2 #B1, Bumper Program, altitude 112 KM.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, May 17
USA, Muroc
(cf: 3.5.48) Exactly two weeks after the dislocation of the Skystreak causing the death of Lilly Howard, the test pilot of the Ames Laboratories, Ryland Carter, perished while testing a P-51 H Mustang. These two accidents temporarily put a stop to the race for supersonic speed. (NASA Website, 1997 - On the Frontier)

#1948, May 25
LUXEMBOURG (Grand Duché), Wasserbillig
Hans Klotchbach was travelling without a passport on a coal train. At night, just before the Wasserbillig border control station, he fell onto the ballast and injured both of his legs. He fainted, losing blood and unable to walk. He claimed to have regained consciousness inside a flying saucer, in a cabin bathed in an opaline blue light. A voice gave him information in German about upcoming cataclysmic events and added that it was by chance above his unconscious body that the occupants had come to his aid. He fainted again. Four days later he was sitting in the moss of a small wood, 6 km inside Luxembourg, 10 km from the place of his fall: his legs completely healed but his trousers and shoes full of clotted blood. (Henry DURRANT: "Premières enquêtes sur les Humanoïdes ET" - Laffont 1977 - p. 64) (continued December 30, 58)

#1948, May 27
USA, White Sands
Launch at 7:15 of V2 #35. It reached 140 km altitude and weighed 13624 kg. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, May 28
USA, Monroe (Michigan)
At 3:00 PM, a passenger aboard a C-47 transport observed at 8000 feet altitude, three objects in the shape of a disc. He defined them as being "golden silver". Another passenger confirmed the observation, but only saw two objects. The size of the objects was estimated to be 300 or 400 feet and with a well-defined outline when they emerged from the clouds at 18000 feet. They flew in the opposite direction to that taken by the plane. ("Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 104, 105)

#1948, June 11
USA, White Sands
Launch at 03:22 of V2 #37 which reached 63 km altitude. It
carried in the frame of "Blossom III N" the rhesus monkey Albert A.
malfunction. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952 and Caldin 1960, p. 102)

#1948, June 16
USSR, Kasputine Yar (Baskounchak)
Test pilot Arcad Ivanovitch Apraksine took off in a series aircraft, reached an altitude of 10500 m and found himself above a solid sea of clouds, flying in a southward direction. He had been flying for half an hour when he spotted an unknown flying craft coming across and descending. The object had the shape of a cigar. Light cones or beams were projected backwards. Seeing this craft, Apraksine, who was in radio communication with his base, described what he saw. He was told that the unknown object was being tracked on radar, had been given the order to land and had not responded. Apraksine was given the mission to intercept the craft and order it to land and, if it did not, to open fire. Carrying out these instructions, Apraksine maneuvered for interception and approached to a distance of 10 km from the object. Its light beams then opened up in a fan and engulfed his aircraft, dazzling him. At the same time he realized that all the electrical controls of the aircraft were dead and the engine stopped. Apraksine managed to make a forced landing after a glide. He saw the object shoot up into the sky. (Continued on May 6, 1949) (Jacques VALLEE: "The Invisible College" - J'ai Lu 1975, pp. 81-83)

#1948, June 26
USA, White Sands
Launch of V2 #40, it reached 96 km altitude. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, July 2
Canada, Val D'Or (Abitiba)
At around two o'clock in the morning, hundreds of Valdoriens witnessed the passage of several flying saucers. These, of a purple-red color, moved in a fantastic ballet above the city of Val d'Or. (Jean FERGUSON: "All about Flying Saucers" ed.; Leméac, Ottawa, 1972, p.151)

#1948, July 20
NETHERLANDS, The Hague, Arnhem
A two-storied spacecraft, moving at a higher speed, had been seen on July 20, 1948 (...) Witnesses had reported it at a very high altitude moving at a fantastic speed. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les soucoupes volantes existent" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, p. 97) An object was observed four times, when it intermittently emerged from the clouds around 1:30 PM. It was built like a V2 from the Second World War, without wings or fins, but its appearance did not resemble that of a rocket. One of the witnesses said he was able to see two floors on the object. ("Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 105)

#July 23, 1948
USA, Atlanta-Boston
The DC 3 was at 2:45, 32 kilometers west of Montgomery, when a projectile-shaped aircraft came roaring along the air route. … "It suddenly changed course and passed about two hundred meters to our right. I then saw that it had no wings." The mysterious aircraft flew past where Whitted was, allowing him to examine it in detail. ) – The object was about thirty meters long, cigar-shaped and had no wings, he said. It was about twice the diameter of a B 29, without protrusions. According to Chiles, the cabin looked like an ordinary cockpit, except that it was lit by a light of supernatural brightness. Whitted and he agreed that the brightness was comparable to that of a magnesium flash. They did not see any occupants, which is not surprising at that speed. – An intense dark blue glow emanated from the side of the craft, Chiles said. (…) It ran the length of the fuselage, like a fluorescent blue lamp. The exhaust was an orange-red flame, lighter at the outer edges. The two pilots said that the flame extended between ten and fifteen meters to the rear. As it passed, Chiles observed a kind of beak similar to a radar antenna. (…) So the spacecraft was not a stray rocket. But it could be a new kind of aircraft, somewhat revolutionary, made in the greatest secrecy. (Donald KEYHOE: "Les soucoupes volantes existent" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, pp. 91 to 95, and same author: "Le dossier des Soucoupes Volantes" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.39) Chiles and Whitted on their DC.3 saw a lit bolide emerge at 03:40. Chiles had only time to move away and the UFO passed along the plane at less than 200m. It was cigar-shaped, 30 m long, the cabin was lit like by a magnesium flash. An intense dark blue light emanated from its side. The exhaust was an orange-red flame extending over about fifteen meters. The UFO had also maneuvered to avoid collision. The pilots saw it rear up, spew out an awful jet of flames and climb at a terrifying speed. Duration of the observation: 10 seconds. It had no wings or other protrusions but had two rows of rectangular windows lit up (Jacques POTTIER: "Les Soucoupes Volantes" - DE VECCHI - 1974 - p. 25) An airplane was shaken by the wake caused by the passage of a UFO (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p. 210)

#1948, July 26
USA, White Sands
Launch of an Aerobee. It reaches 112 km and takes photos of the surface of the earth and cloud formations. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 286, doc. Van Allen)

#July 29, 1948
USA, Indianapolis (Indiana)
9:55 a.m. Witnesses: James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a cleaning firm. An aluminum object, more or less in the shape of an airplane propeller with 10 to 12 small protuberances on each side. Estimated size: 6-8' long, 1.5-2' wide. The object glided over the road at a few hundred feet in altitude and apparently descended into a wooded area in front of their vehicle. Duration of observation: a few seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). Two employees of a cleaning company were crossing a bridge at 9:55 a.m. when they saw an object crossing the road gliding at a hundred meters in front of them. It was bright and made of metal, was about 2 to 2.5 meters long and 50 cm wide (in the shape of an oblique "Z"). It was flying horizontally at an altitude of 10 m and made a wide turn to the left. It was only seen for a few seconds and apparently landed in a wooded area, but no trace was found. (Brad STEIGER: "Ovni, le projet Blue Book" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 108)

#1948, July 31
USA, Indianapolis, Indiana.
8:25 a.m. Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he is an electrician. Object
shaped like a cymbal or like a dome disc about 20' wide and
6-8' thick. Without any shine. Flew in a straight line
from horizon to horizon in 10 seconds, blinking in the sun as if it
was rotating. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner). At 08:25 this
electrician was standing at the bathroom window facing west
when he saw a lenticular object. He ran to the kitchen to show it to his wife. The object flew in a level and straight line from west
to east. Duration of the observation: 10 seconds. (Brad STEIGER: "Ovni,
the Project Blue Book" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 114)

#1948, August 5
USA, White Sands
At 05:07, launch of V2 #43 which reached 167 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#August 11, 1948
USA, Hamel (Minnesota)
At noon, two children aged ten and eight were playing in the garden of the farm where they lived. They then drew their attention to the sky, where they noticed a dark gray object descending. Each child questioned separately described the object as being in the shape of two plates stuck together. It landed making a resonant metal sound. But soon the object emitted a hiss, rose 20 feet, hovered, maneuvered above the trees and telephone lines, before flying away for good. (...) In the files of the US Air Force this file bears the number 198 and is considered "not credible". ("Ufo's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 110)

#1948, August 19
USA, White Sands
At 07:45, launch of V2 No. B2 as part of the BUMPER Program, it reached 13 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, September 2
USA, White Sands
At 18:00 launch of V2 No. 33 which will reach 151 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, September 23
USA, San Pablo, California
12 o'clock, noon. Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham, retired Colonel Horace Eakins. Two objects: one is a brown or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark center. The arms of the amoeba are undulating. Both objects travel very quickly. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1948, September 30
USA, White Sands
Bumper Program: Launch of V2 #B3, it reaches 149 km, radio cut-off (emergency). (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, October 1
USA, Fargo (North Dakota)
A real aerial duel between a UFO and Lieutenant Pilot George F. Gorman, of the North Dakota Air National Guard. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.91) "(...) Suddenly Gorman noticed a strange phenomenon. Instead of discerning the silhouette of an airplane around the eclipse light, he saw none. (...) The pilot, at that moment, distinctly saw the thing. It was a white disc about 20 cm in diameter. (...) When Gorman approached with his F-51, this 20 cm light suddenly stopped flashing and jumped to his left. It was absolutely round, white and without material consistency. There was nothing, no shape, no machine in the center of the glow: a disc of pure light, without apparent emission source. "(Henry DURRANT: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 - p. 50) The authorities concluded that Gorman had chased a weather balloon and that in the second part of the incident he was chasing a mirage of the planet Jupiter, caused by a temperature inversion. Apparently Jupiter descended below the horizon when Gorman saw the light rise and disappear. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London, 1989, p. 49)

#1948, October
USA, New Mexico
October 1948 to 1951. Many green fireballs silently flew over the Southwest and in particular the nuclear installations of New Mexico. They could be as big as the moon, had horizontal trajectories and sometimes exploded emitting intense flashes. A certainly natural but still unexplained origin. (Science et Vie, special edition 1997: 50 years of UFO, Atlas of Unsolved Cases, pp. 60 to 63)

#1948, October 13
USA, South Bend (Indiana)
At 11:45 two employees standing in front of the window of an office at the Studebaker Corporation observed a silver, flat disk flying silently in the sky at an altitude of 1500 feet. The UFO seemed to them a bit smaller than a DC-3, but it was traveling three times faster. The sun was reflecting off of it and giving it a kind of blinking brightness, as bright as that which can be reflected by a chrome surface. It was coming from the northwest and flying towards the southeast. There were no wings, engines, or other visible propulsion devices on the object. The two employees held positions of trust in the company and had an excellent reputation. ("UFO's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 112)

#1948, October 15
JAPAN, in flight near Kyushu
Fusuoka, Japan. 11:05 p.m. Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill aboard a P-61 "Black Widow". Up to six objects detected on radar, but with the naked eye: only one was observed. Dark or black object in the shape of a dirigible with a flat bottom and cut tail. The pilot attempted to approach the objects seen on the screen, the only one he could see departed at great speed. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1948, November 1
USA, White Sands
Bumper program, launch of V2 No. B4 which exploded at 5 km altitude.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, November 4
SOUTH KOREA
At 10:43 above the Army Observation Post #1, at 37°57'N, 125°31'E, flying from east to west at an altitude of 5000 feet. The same object was observed at Observation Post #2 37°51' N, 125°17'E as well as the two following. The object circled above Post #2 before veering north. It resembled a twin-engine bomber, and it is assumed to be Soviet. ("Ufo's: a Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 114)

#1948, November 10
SWEDEN, Ervalla
A farmer returning home late at night was flown over by a UFO of conical shape, emitting white light. During the flight, the witness's hair and fur stood on end. Back at home, everyone noticed that his complexion had suddenly become very tanned. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 353)

#1948, November 18
USA, White Sands
At 15:35, Launch of V2 #44, it rose to 145 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, December 3
USA, Fairfield, Suisan AFB, California.
In the night of December 3, 1948 (8:15 p.m.), while the airfield was swept by winds stronger than usual. In the gusts, they reached 110 km/h. A strange luminous ball was suddenly seen at an altitude of about three hundred meters. As the base personnel watched it in amazement, the mysterious light suddenly rose almost vertically. It reached an altitude of seven thousand meters in an incredibly short time and then disappeared. (Donald KEYHOE: "Flying Saucers Exist" - ed. Corrêa, Paris, 1951, p. 107)
8:15 p.m. Witness: a USAF Sgt., operator at the control tower; A round and white light flies for 25 seconds at varying speeds, jerky movement to end with erratic ascent. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1948, December 9
USA, White Sands
At 9:08 AM, launch of V2 #42 which reached 108 km. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1948, December
USSR, Moscow
Oblong metallic objects, shaped like fish, were seen reflecting the sunlight. (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries" - trans. Laffont 1976 - p. 274)

#1948, December 29
USA
Already in a report published on November 11, 1945, General H.H. Arnold, Supreme Commander of the American Aviation, envisaged the launch of a space exploration program. (...) On December 29, 1948, Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal officially revealed that a program of artificial satellites was under study in each of the three arms and that the Commission of Special Long-Range Engines was going to take charge of these files to develop a common program. ("Conquest of Space" - Thomas de Galiana, ed. Larousse Pocket, 1967, p. 147)

#1948
USA, White Sands (New Mexico)
The launches of V2 rockets were followed by visits from UFOs. I have the recording of the interview with Charles Schwartz, the radar operator at White Sands during one of these UFO appearances. (Has anyone heard this recording???) The object had the shape of a disc, it rose to 1600 km/h at the same time as the V2 which it circled around. It was observed with binoculars, theodolites and radar. It had passed the rocket at some 9000 km/h and had disappeared into space. (Frank EDWARDS: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 202)

#1948, March 25
USA, near Aztec, N.M.
Three flying saucers, approximately 11 m in diameter, fell into the hands of the US Air Force. Inside, the bodies of 34 small men, 0.80 m to 1 m tall, were found. (note from vog: only 34? pff!) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 110) The OSI of the Army and the IPU in red alert and all the military mobilized when a UFO crashed near Aztec. The UFO was targeted on radar in four zones (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter, to oscillate from side to side and descend towards the ground. The object fell on the property of the H.D. family who had to swear to keep the secret - see also March 22, 1950. The UFO measured 100 feet in diameter. (Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

#1948
SPAIN, Gargauta la Olla (Cacérès)
A creature entered a hut as it approached the fire, in the midst of a storm. The witness escaped, terrified. He saw a ball of fire suspended in the air at a short distance away. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" LAFFONT 1977 - P. 175 and 178)

#1948, December
USA, Muroc
The NACA had hoped to receive one of the two X-4 aircraft that Northrop was building this month (as part of the transonic research). But in December 1948 only one was complete and still at the factory, where it made its initial flight. The X-4 program experienced delays and design problems: in six months it only made three flights and according to the pilots, this aircraft was far inferior to the Skystreak with which Howard Lilly had lost his life. (NASA website 1977 "On the Frontier".)

#1949
USSR
Soviet rockets had moved slowly, since their first vertical launch engine dated back only to 1949 with an altitude of 110 km. (see 1957, August) ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12, 13)

#1949, January
USA, Gardnerville (Nevada)
On a cold January morning in 1949, a strange phenomenon was observed on the farm of the Lampe couple. It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning, looking out the window, Mrs. Lampe saw in the snow a patch of light gray color, no bigger than two hands held together. It had an irregular shape. It "rested" on a small rounded pile of snow, about three wheels from the house and right in front of the window. Suddenly this patch changed into a disk of bright white light with a diameter of three feet (90 cm). This lasted about two full minutes. Then suddenly the light contracted into an orange bar 10 to 12 cm wide which flew quickly towards the window where the witness was looking and then, apparently, exploded against the stone foundation of the porch as several sparkling red and blue sparks rose up to 70 cm above the door frame. When day broke, the couple looked for evidence, but no mark or trace to explain the phenomenon was found. (THE CASE FOR THE UFO by Morris K. Jessup, Citadel Press, New York, N.Y., 1955, page 168)

#1949, January 4
USA, Hickham Field, Hawaii.
2 p.m. Witness: USAF Capt. Paul Storey, pilot, on the ground. An object, flat, elliptical, white with the upper part matte, flew in circles oscillating from left to right before departing at high speed. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner).

#1949, January 27
USA, Cortez-Bradenton, Florida.
10:20 p.m. Witnesses: Capt. Sames, an active military member of the USAF at Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They observed for 25 minutes an object shaped like a cigar, as long as two Pullman cars, with seven square windows illuminated and emitting sparks. The object first descended, then rose in jumps at an estimated speed of 400 m.p.h. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1949, January 28
USA, White Sands
At 10:20 Launch of V2 #45, it rises to 59 km. Weight 13,340 kg. Radio stop. (Emergency) (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, February 17
USA, White Sands
At 10:00 AM launch of V-2 #48 which reached 127 km. It weighed 13235 kg. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, February 17
USA, near Albuquerque
Approximately 100 (one hundred) witnesses observed a round object, moving in an elliptical shape of a bright white, observed for about 6 minutes. Its angular size was comparable to that of the moon. It moved from east to west, then disappeared. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1949, February 24
USA, White Sands
The Americans created the "WAC Corporal", "Aerobee", and "Viking": they
attached a WAC to a V-2 and this two-stage assembly broke the height
record with 400 kilometers of altitude. ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau,
Hachette 1965, p. 12)

#1949, February 17
FRANCE, unspecified
Alain Bérard saw a large object on the ground, shining with an intensity similar to the light of a green flash. He saw 3 people with short and thick legs and without a head. Frightened, he shot at them three times. The craft took off vertically. (list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt (Belg))

#1949, from March 7th to April 25th)
USA, White Sands:
Static testing with Viking 1. (Ley 1958, 274)

#1949, March 17
USA, Camp Hood, Texas.
7:52 p.m. Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While waiting for a firing, they observed for an hour the passage of eight large objects, green, red and white, resembling shells, flying generally on a horizontal trajectory. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1949, March 17
MEXICO
Mexico experienced a strange incident. "Aviation from Beyond Space" by Alberto Perego and other works extensively relate this extraordinary event. So, on this March 17, a few hours from Aztec, a mysterious disc of about thirty meters in diameter landed close to secret bases. Alerted immediately, the authorities surrounded the area with secret service agents and called in aeronautical experts. As one can imagine, there was great confusion and anxiety and men examined the outside of the craft for several days. (...) Time passed, bringing with it the certainty that "no one could come out alive" from this craft. So technicians tried to open the hermetically sealed cockpit. Their fear, as soon as they entered the strange vehicle, turned to terror. Sixteen men, of human appearance, lay there, on the ground, dead. One of the witnesses reported "that they all looked like "twins", with fine features and very beautiful faces. They wore a blue uniform of the type of our naval officers and could measure between 1 m 30 and 1 m 40. They had obviously died in the landing. It was with difficulty that the parts of the craft, embedded one in the other, could finally be dismantled and the first analyses revealed that this mysterious disc had been designed in a very light alloy, the composition of which could not be established. The bodies of the mysterious pilots were then taken to the Aeronautical Hospital and subjected to an autopsy. After which, the doctors stated that they were "in all respects like us". (S.DELLO STROLOGO: "What Governments Hide from You About Flying Saucers" - De Vecchi 1975- p. 125-126)

#1949, March 21
USA, White Sands
At 23:43, Launch of V2 #41, Altitude 129 km. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, March 21
USA Stuttgart (Arkansas)
That night, two American aviators, Jack Adams and his co-pilot G.W.Anderson declared to have seen a flying saucer: "It was during the first part of our flight to Shreveport, (Louisiana), explained Anderson. "Jack was at the controls. We were heading west, and we were about 25 km north of Stuttgart (Arkansas). The visibility and the ceiling were unlimited, we were flying at about 600 meters. Suddenly, Jack saw, on our left, a flashing light, of a bluish color, and of an extraordinary intensity. It was about 300 meters above us and 800 meters away. It shone at the top of an object of almost spherical shape. The object was buzzing at a great speed, 800 to 900 km/h approximately. It was moving towards the north, in front and above us. The craft remained well visible for thirty seconds, and we were able to consider it attentively. It had no navigation lights, but we distinctly saw other lights, which seemed to come from eight or ten windows or portholes lit in the lower part of the aircraft." "The lights were of a fluorescent kind, soft, flaky, and did not resemble anything we had ever seen.. The "object" was circular. It approached and disappeared exactly like another plane. (...) "The object was about the size of a DC 3. It had no exhaust pipe, and caused no smoke trail. In our opinion, it was an aircraft, but not a jet." [note from vog: I did not find mention of this observation in American authors ...] (Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 - p.29-30)

#1949, April 3
USA, Dillon, Montana.
11:55 a.m. Witnesses: entrepreneur Gosta Miller and three other people. An object shaped like a saucer, flat bottom, dull, top shiny aluminum color, 20 feet in diameter, 4 to 5 feet thick. Six cycles of movements, all at very high speed: descent, swaying, flight, swaying, rotation, swaying. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1949, April 4
USA, Merced (California)
Leaving his home at 10:00 PM, the witness heard a considerable noise of clicking. Towards the east, at 40° above the horizon, he distinguished after 10 seconds an object, a solid mass, curved, rounded, of the size of 4 to 5 feet in diameter, at a height of less than 1000 feet. Its color was dull, slightly colored by the lights of the ground that were reflected in it. The object moved slowly towards the west or the northwest. The visual observation lasted about 35 seconds. The object made a kind of turn of 90°, the clicking noise was constant, even during this turn. On the part of the modified trajectory (towards the south) the noise became duller. When the sound was no longer perceptible, the witness no longer saw the object. There were fluctuations in this sound, resembling that of an incorrectly adjusted household mixer-beater. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee translated by Jean Sider)

#1949, April
PEROU (USA) coast.
Three Aerobee launches, all three from SS Norton Sound.
(GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, 286)

#1949, April 11
USA, White Sands
Launch of V-2 No. 50 at 15:05, altitude 85 km. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, April 15
USA, El Paso (Texas)
At 4:30 PM a witness observed for 15 minutes a small grayish disc followed by a thin trail of the same color, quickly rising in the sky from 30° above the horizon. The observation ended when the object was no longer visible. (declassified FBI doc.)

#1949, April 21
USA, White Sands
Launch of V-2 #b6. Bumper Program. Altitude 150 km. Poor performance. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, April 24
USA, Arrey (White Sands), New Mexico
DD - Time: 10:30; number of observers: 5; duration: 1 minute. Charles Moore Jr.- Mc Laughlin, instead of Moore?- is cited by: A. RIBERA: "These mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 106, 107) an aerological survey specialist was leading a team of four recruits from the Navy. They had set up the recording instruments that preluded the launch of a Skyhook balloon. (..) there was a theodolite consisting of a 25x magnification telescope mounted to provide elevation and azimuth readings. At 10:30 the group released a 350 gram weather balloon for observation of wind speed and direction at high altitude. Moore followed this balloon with the theodolite for several minutes, after which he handed the instrument to a sailor. Shortly afterwards, he noticed that the sailor had pointed the instrument in another direction. Letting out a choice of naval curses Moore was about to snatch the instrument from the sailor when the latter said: "But I'm keeping it in there." Moore looked and saw in the theodolite's field of view an elliptical whitish object. It was moving east at a speed of 5° of azimuthal displacement per second. It seemed to be two and a half times longer than wide. It was easily visible to the naked eye, and all the members of the group observed it. (...) (J. Allen HYNEK: "UFOs, myth or reality" - trad. Belfond 1974 - p. 85-86 and 274) (Desmond Leslie and Georges Adamski: "The S. V. have landed" J'ai Lu, 1971, p. 46,47 says: "a group of five technicians led by J. Gordon Vaeth, aeronautical engineer of the Naval Research Bureau) 10:30 a.m. Witnesses: the General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert C.B. Moore and others from the balloon launch team. An ellipsoid white, whose length is twice the width (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1949, April 27
USAF M-26-49 statement:
The possible existence of some kind of strange extraterrestrial animals was also vaguely considered, since several of these objects described behave more like animals than anything else. But there are few reliable reports on extraterrestrial animals. Space navigation, outside the solar system is a near certainty... [note from vog: I can't resist adding A. Ribera's personal follow-up in "These Mysterious UFOs": What is absolutely certain, in any case, is the existence of certain "terrestrial animals".. many of which belong to the personnel of ATIC where they hide under the appearances of dignified technicians.]  (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.95-96, 99) 

#1949, May 3
USA, White Sands
Launch of a Viking 1. Altitude 80 km. Premature stop due to leak in turbine. Engine stopped after 54 seconds. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, 274? AND M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955)

#1949, May 5
USA, White Sands
Launch at 8:15 of V-2 #46, only 8 km altitude, poor performance. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, 5 May
USA, Fort Bliss (Texas)
11:40 a.m. Witnesses: Army officers: Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, Capt. Vaughn. Two white, oblong discs, flying at a speed of approximately 200-250 m.p.h., made a slight circular motion during the 30-50 seconds of observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1949, May 6
USSR, Moscow (in flight)
(cf: June 16, 1948) Apraksine was on a test flight at maximum altitude. (...). Suddenly, he saw an "incomprehensible" aircraft, lower than him, which began to descend even lower. Apraksine maneuvered towards the flying cigar. The two aircrafts were going very fast on a collision trajectory. At a distance of 10 km, a cone of light beams was once again directed at Apraksine. He was blinded. All the electrical controls of the plane were destroyed. The Plexiglas windshield was damaged. The cabin pressurization was lost and, although wearing a special suit and a waterproof helmet, Apraksine was in great difficulty. He nevertheless managed to land on the right bank of the Volga, 40 km north of Saratov and lost consciousness. (...) in January 1950 he appeared before a medical committee and was definitively retired. (Jacques VALLEE: "The Invisible College" J'ai Lu 1975, pp. 83 to 85)

#1949, May 6
USA, Livermoore, California.
9:35 a.m. Witness: C. G. Green. Two objects resembling discs,
luminous, turning around each other while blinking. One shot up to the sky emitting a grey trail, and the other one joined it afterwards. Duration: 5 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1949, May 9
USA, Tucson, Arizona
Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat objects, silver in appearance, estimated to be 25 feet in diameter, flying at 750-1,000 m.p.h. in regular jumps. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#May 21, 1949
USA, BAF Moses Lake, Hanford (Washington)
In the afternoon, an F-82 fighter took off on a mission to intercept a flying saucer in the no-fly zone above the Hanford atomic center, hovering at 5000 or 6000 m. This silver disc-shaped object was visually spotted on the ground and on the radar screens at the station. As soon as the plane took off, the object sped south at a speed higher than that of a jet aircraft. (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, p. 140, 141)

#1949, May 24
USA, Muroc
(cfr 4.2.48) NACA received a second example of the Skyrocket, which made its test flight on May 24, piloted by Bob Campine. NACA did not look favorably upon the Skyrocket, partly due to the rocket engine, it did not exactly fit transonic research. Walt Williams recalled: it had to take off before the temperature reached 80° F. Then it had to struggle to reach an altitude of 24,000 feet, having used almost the entire tank in the climb, then it had to try to reach Mach 0.9. This never lasted more than half an hour in total. (NASA website 1997, "On the Frontier")

#1949, May 24
USA, Roque River (Oregon) (No. 1119.00)
At around 5 pm several witnesses saw with the naked eye, at the edge of a river 4 km from its mouth, an object that reflected the sun. Looking through binoculars, the witness no longer saw this reflection (did the binoculars have filters?). It appeared to be made of metal and was distinct enough to see that its hull was dirty. The front was smooth and the back was wrinkled and rough, with a kind of piece on top. It moved away in a level flight at increasing speed, reaching that of a jet plane before disappearing. No means of propulsion were visible. Duration of observation was 2 and a half to 3 minutes. [note de vog: see previous article, test flight...] (Brad STEIGER: "Ovni, le projet Blue Book" - trad. Belfond 1979, p. 113, 114)

#1949, May 27
USA, flying over Oregon
South-central Oregon. 2:25 p.m. Joseph Shell, from Red Bluff, California.
From 5 to 8 oval-shaped objects, twice as long as wide and 1/5th for the thickness. Flying in single file, leaving an interval of 3 to 4 times their length, except for the second and third which were closer to each other. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1949, June 14
USA, White Sands
At 15:35, launch of V2 No. 47, weighing 13,667 kg, reaching a height of 133 km (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) Monkey "Albert" killed in the crash on the ground. (Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) The monkey, Albert II, reached an altitude of 134 km in the V2, but the return parachute did not function. (Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15)

#1949, June 27
ITALY, Albera Ligure
At around 8:15 pm a veterinarian and his friend, Ercole Cerutti, were near the Borbera stream when they noticed the presence of a flying object ten meters above the ground. The lower part of the thing was rust-colored, while the upper "glass" part was divided into four panels. The craft was quite small, about two meters in diameter. When the object was directly above them, they could see that the base was completely round, crossed by four reinforcing bars two in each direction, at the back, the two bars ended in a kind of exhaust pipes directed downwards from which a thick orange gas came out, especially when the craft gained altitude. The trail of this gas measured 40 meters long and only formed 4 or 5 meters behind the craft. There was only a very light buzzing, the object then passed over the trees at 40 or 50 meters altitude, and continuing on its trajectory, disappeared from their view behind a hill. (CISU, archive file 49001 - source: 1985 letter from the witness, addressed to CISU, following an article published in the newspaper "La Stampa".)

#1949, July 24
USA, Atlanta
(U.P.) Airline pilots report seeing a huge craft emitting a twelve-meter-long stream of flames from the rear. The craft seemed to be illuminated by an incandescent trail running along its center. It was moving at a speed between 800 and 100 km/h. (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 174, citing the "Los Angeles Times" of July 25, title "An Aerial Monster Without Wings and Incandescent")

#1949, July 24
USA, Mountain Home, Idaho.
Noon. Witness: Henry Clark, flight director, aboard his Piper Clipper. Seven triangular objects, with a wingspan of 35-55 feet, length 20-30 feet, thickness 2-5'; of a light color except for the dark circle of 12 feet at the back of each object. They flew in a tight formation of two, two and one, and made a perfect turn without inclining. During the 10 minute observation, they oscillated less and less. Clark's plane had difficulties during the observation and upon landing it was found that all the electrical fuses had blown. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#August 20th, 1949
USA, Las Cruces (New Mexico)
On the evening of August 20th, 1949, at 10:45 PM, Professor Tombaugh was in front of his house in Las Cruces, New Mexico, with his wife and her mother. Looking up at the sky, he suddenly saw near the zenith, six or eight rectangles shining with a greenish light, flying quickly towards a point on the horizon between 25 and 30 degrees southeast. They moved with a rapid and uniform motion and seemed to be windows of some unlit craft carried in a luminous vague silhouette against the black of the firmament. In any case, these rectangles were certainly flat objects, because as they moved away they gradually contracted in the direction of flight, as if the three witnesses had seen them increasingly in profile. The whole of the six or eight rectangles, which followed each other two by two, formed in the sky a perfectly rigid design of an area of about one degree, which corresponds to twice the width of the full moon. (...) (There are slight differences between the two accounts: first in the magazine "Life" and then in Menzel): in the first Tombaugh frankly speaks of a cigar with two rows of windows, while in the second, the cigar has faded into a vague silhouette. In the first account the observation lasts about twenty seconds, it is much shorter in the second. ("Glimpses of Flying Saucers" Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME, 1954, pp. 69 and 70, dated August 20th)

#1949, August 19
USA, California - Death Valley
Two gold prospectors were witnesses to the crash landing of a flying object in the shape of a disk. Two small men emerged from it and the gold prospectors gave chase. They lost the small men in the sand dunes and when they returned to what they estimated to be the landing site, the craft had gone. (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of the Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 174)

#1949, August 31 (?)
USA, Muroc Air Base
A giant in the sky, emitting a flame, more than a kilometer long,
passed at 15,000 meters above the Muroc Air Base. The
control towers of the airfield and the air traffic control officers at the Lockheed, Palmdale and Long Beach bases received
this amazing information from a private pilot and his two passengers.
The pilot is Bob Hanley, a calm and trustworthy man. He saw
the object at 12:15 above Mint Canyon. (F. Scully: "The Mystery of
Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les éditions Mondiales" 1951,
p. 175 he cites the "Los Angeles Daily News" of 31.8.1949, title "A
strange aerial monster emitted a trail of fire more than a kilometer long.")

#1949, September 6
USA, White Sands
Launch of Viking II. Stopped at 51 km altitude, escape in the turbine. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, M.W. ROSEN, N.Y. 1955)

#1949, September 16
USA, White Sands
At 16:19, launch of V2 No. 32. Operation Blossom. Altitude 5 km.
Explosion (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) Monkey
"Albert III" killed in the explosion. (GESAG, Launches: Nieuwenhuis h. 1988, 17)

#1949, September 25
USA, in flight, Virginia
In the afternoon, at 2:45 PM, this pilot was flying from Clark Field to Parkersburg in a Luscombe 84, at 160 km/h and 3450 feet above sea level, in the west of Virginia when he suddenly noticed a bright yellow shape coming straight towards him. The object was coming towards him at such a speed, added to the speed of his own plane, that it made him jump when it passed him in the space of two seconds. But it was flying roughly 100 feet below, 50 feet to the right. Thanks to the dark green of the forest that was passing beneath the plane, he was able to clearly distinguish the intruder: it was a bright canary yellow, 15 to 18 inches long, diameter around 4 inches at its widest part. It looked like a missile, but in fact had the same shape and proportions as the fuselage of a Lockheed X 90 of the Air Force. No wings, but vertical and horizontal ailerons at 1/3 of its rear. No visible means of propulsion, no engines, combustion trail, smoke, steam, exhaust gas. The front of the missile was very pointed, with a needle-shaped nose. This needle was about 6 inches long and resembled a lead pencil. The other end of the object was as pointed as the tail of a jet plane. The missile was heading west at 240°. It seemed to be coming to the end of its course when it passed the plane, as its speed seemed to be slightly decreasing. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1949, September 29
USA, White Sands
At 9:58 AM, Launch of V2 #49, Altitude 151 km. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, October 12
USA, New Mexico
(Note from vog: in my opinion, all this can only be the biggest hoax ever put together by Scully himself and others, including the famous Doctor G. alias GeBauer) October 12, 1949: Variety (New York) Title "A Flying Saucer Lands in New Mexico" - A two-column article by Frank Scully, announcing the landing of a flying saucer and giving all the details according to the accounts of scientists who had examined the craft. "It was 100 feet in diameter and 72 inches high". Scully adds that "sixteen men" with charred skin were found inside the cabin and that the craft was made of "two metals still unknown on this earth". (The magazine "Variety" of November 23, 1949, publishes other details due to Scully's pen) (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les éditions Mondiales" 1951, p. 176 which thus cites itself!)

#November 18, 1949
USA, White Sands
V2 Launch #56 at 09:03, altitude 124 km. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1949, November
BELGIUM, Brussels
At around 7:30 PM, Mr. Toussaint observed 6 red objects, rolling along the southern horizon at a speed of approximately 200km/h - elevation 40° on the horizon. (list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium.)

#December 8, 1949
USA, White Sands
At 00:15, launch of V2 No. 31, altitude 127 km (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 and Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) "Albert IV" the monkey is the last to be launched by a V2. The parachute does not work. (Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15 which dates this to December 12).

#1949, 25 December
ISRAEL, Tel-Aviv
Uri Geller, then aged 3, saw a large, shining, saucer-shaped object in the sky above him. He also saw, in the garden, a very large radiant figure with no discernible face, only a radiant form. This is the beginning of Uri Geller's story with all that surrounds the character.

#1949
USA, Albuquerque (New Mexico)
In 1949, a new type of UFO descended at night near the Albuquerque airport, in New Mexico. It was about 200 meters away when, all of a sudden, it fell to around 50 meters and exploded, spreading a rain of red dust. At the time, people feared it might be a toxic gas, but no harmful effects were observed. The incident repeated itself three times at the same hour, in the same place. There was no doubt that the red-emitting UFO's were very precisely controlled. The case was recorded in the "Grudge" study group report. Without any comment. (Donald E. KEYHOE - 1973 - Trans. "Les Etrangers de l'Espace" Ed. France-Empire coll. Press Pocket 1975 - p. 211-212)

#1949
USA (Alaska)
Mikel Conrad shot a 300-meter film of the maneuvers, landing, and takeoff of 8 flying saucers, 70 km north of Juneau (Alaska), in 1949. The American government confiscated this film, examined it, and studied it in detail before returning it to him a year later. (Jimmy GUIEU: "The S.V. come from another World" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire 1972 Reissue - p. 256)

#1949
At sea, Strait of Hormuz
Excerpts from an article in the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, by Commander J.R. Bodler (USNR): My ship had just passed through the Strait of Hormuz, bound for India. The night was clear and beautiful. The second mate called me to the bridge, saying he had seen something I should see. About four points (45°) on the starboard bow, toward the coast of Iran, there was a band of light that seemed to pulsate. Its aspect suggested an aurora borealis, but much lower, below the horizon in fact. Binocular examination showed that the lighted area was distinctly below the horizon, in the water, and was approaching the ship. As the phenomenon drew near, it became apparent that the pulsations seemed to emanate from the middle of the band and ripple out to the ends. At a distance of about one mile from the ship, the phenomenon appeared vaguely circular in shape, with a diameter of 300 to 450 meters. The pulsations were clearly caused by a rotary motion of the whole about a rather ill-defined center, with light rays like searchlight beams, radiating from the center and revolving (in a counterclockwise direction) like the spokes of a giant wheel. For several minutes the ship occupied the approximate center of the phenomenon. Slightly curved bands of light swept rapidly across the starboard bow to the stern and across the port bow. The brightness made the superstructure very visible. The luminous bands seemed to pass over a given point about every half second. As can be imagined, the effect was strange and extremely impressive; the ship seemed to occupy the center of a huge fireworks sun, with its “phosphorescent rays” revolving rapidly around the vessel as hub. The “hub” of the phenomenon gradually drew nearer the port side and passed astern, becoming more and more distant on the port quarter. While still in view several miles astern, and appearing at that time as a pulsating band of light, a repetition of the manifestation occurred on the port bow. (Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles Under the Seas" Albin Michel 1979 - pp. 119-120)

#1950's
USA, New York
(Sometime in June.) One evening in June, people were leaving a New York theater. It was 11 pm when suddenly they saw in the middle of the intersection a man who seemed from another era. He was wearing a jacket with a row of buttons on the back, a wrinkle-free and non-reversible pants and a top hat. The people who saw him declared: "He was there, in the middle of the intersection, looking with an astonished air at the red lights, as if he had never seen them before". Suddenly what was predictable happened, a taxi could not avoid the man who died on the spot. On him was found an identity card with the name Rudolf Fentz and old coins. The police investigation will allow to trace the trace of a certain Rudolf Fentz who mysteriously disappeared in the spring of 1876, wore the same clothes and had the same age as the man who died at an intersection of another era than his own. (Christian DE ZAN: "Guide of the UFO Phenomenon Hunters", ed. De Vecchi1980, p. 25, 26; he cites J. Bergier and the team of Giornale dei Misteri in the collection "The Paths of the Impossible" ed. Albin Michel).

#1950, January
ALASKA (USA) Gulf of Alaska
Two Aerobee launches from the SS Norton Sound. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, 286)

#1950, January 22
ALASKA, Kodiak
At 02:40, Lt. Smith of the US Navy, the flight commander of a P2V3 patrol plane #4 of Squadron #1, reported a radar contact with a UFO (note: launch of AEROBEE???) 20 miles from the Naval Air Base of Kodiak. At 02:48 a second radar contact was made with an object located 10 miles southeast of the base. The radar operator, Lt. Gaskey, reported intermittent radar interference of a type he had never recorded before. The contact was then lost, but the intermittent echo persisted. At 04:40 Smith had a visual and radar contact with the object which was moving at a high speed, and for 10 seconds all the crew members saw the object flying above them at about 1800 mph. The object then seemed to return and was observed at a larger size. But it quickly turned and seemed to be heading towards Smith's side, who turned off all the lights and the plane's lights. Four minutes later the object was moving away to the southeast. It appeared as two orange lights rotating around a common center. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1950, January 23
ALASKA, near Kodiak
At 04:35, Lts. Causer and Barco and Captain Paulson, the flight commander, saw an object for 10 minutes while they were in flight 62 miles south of Kodiak. At no time was a radar contact made. The object appeared to them like some kind of projectile in the shape of a flame of pulsating yellow-orange light, pulsing regularly every 3 to 5 seconds. When they saw the object more closely, the pulsations were at a beat of 7 to 8 seconds. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, trans. Jean Sider)

#1950, night of January 30th to 31st
SPAIN, Madrid
Around midnight an intense phosphorescence accompanied by various luminous shapes was observed in the sky, going from north to south. At the same time in the Madrid radio receivers, words were spoken in an unknown language. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out sur les S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 67) (and the Spaniards don't mention this anywhere???)

#1950, February 5
USA, Teaticket, Massachusetts.
5:10 p.m. Witnesses: former military pilot Marvin Odom, Lt. Philip Foushee, military pilot from Otis AFB, and two others. Two thin illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a fireball, maneuvered together and disappeared at high altitude after 5 minutes of observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#February 9, 1950
USA, White Sands
At 14:45, launch of Viking III, altitude 80 km. With measuring instruments for the upper atmosphere. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, 277 and M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955)

#February 17, 1950
USA, White Sands
Launch of V-2 #53 at 11:00 AM, reached altitude 148 km. (GESAG,
Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#February 24, 1950
USA, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1:55 p.m. Witnesses: Weather employees of the Luther McDonald Municipal Airport, Harrison Manson. A white oval, slightly elongated, was observed for 1.5 minutes with a theodolite, flying horizontally in a straight line. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, February 25
USA, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
3:55 p.m. Witnesses: twelve security inspectors from the Atomic Energy Commission. A silver, flashing cylinder with truncated ends flew slowly and then quickly, cavorted, and oscillated, changing direction. According to the witnesses, the observation lasted from 23 seconds to 2 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, March 3
USA, Selfridge AFB, Michigan.
11:05 p.m. Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. An intense and huge yellow light descended vertically, then began to fly horizontally at great speed. Duration of observation: 4 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, 8 March
USA, Dayton
In the middle of the morning a T.W.A. aircraft was preparing to land at the Dayton municipal airport. As it maneuvered to present itself, the pilot and co-pilot saw a bright light, seeming to hover towards the southeast. They warned the control tower. The operators replied that they also saw this light and had warned the Ohio National Guard squadron stationed at the airport. A pilot was already running to his F-51. All the staff actually saw the UFO: an extremely bright light, much brighter and bigger than a star. It was at a very high altitude because the thick and high clouds masked it from time to time. In the air there was the F-51 of the (...) A few minutes later the object disappeared from the radar screen. The two F-51s descended. When the clouds dissipated, nothing could be seen anymore. (Edward J. Ruppelt: "Face aux Soucoupes Volantes", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 100, 101)

#March 9, 1950
USA, Selfridge (Michigan)
Radar-optical observation. The object was detected on the screens of two radar stations. The object remained stationary for 2 minutes, its velocity magnitude and acceleration of three-dimensional movements exceeded the known capacity of lighter-than-air vehicles in directed flight. (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979 - pp. 123, 124)

#1950, March 10
USA, La Crescenta (California)
At 8:45 many people from the locality saw coming from the north, towards Big Tujunga Canyon, a triangular object, at an altitude of 1500 to 3000 meters. Mrs. Ruby Lytle, one of the first witnesses, described it as having a construction resembling a gondola, inside a slightly colored halo. This object flew slowly, without audible noise. It eventually disappeared into the sky towards the southwest. (from the book "The Tujunga Canyon Contacts, p. 139 - Ufo Folklore Center)

#1950, March 16
BELGIUM, Spa
(Source: GESAG, GS 006) A UFO above Spa! White smoke was coming out of the craft. On Thursday morning several inhabitants of Spa saw an object which they identified as a UFO! One of the witnesses specified that the craft left behind a trail of white smoke. ("Le Soir" of Brussels, 17.3.1950, "La libre Belgique" of 17.3.1950, Le journal de Bruges of 18.3.1950)

#1950, March 18
ARGENTINA, Lago Argenino
At 6:30 PM Wilfredo H. Arevalo saw a disc land, while a second craft hovered higher up. Arevalo got as close as 150 meters to the disc on the ground which emitted a bluish-green vapor and an "intense smell of burning gasoline" and seemed to be made of a phosphorescent metal similar to aluminum. On the disc a large flat part was spinning "like a gramophone disc". In the center the disc had a "glass" cabin very transparent through which he saw four tall, well-formed men, dressed in something like Cellophane, working on various instruments. He was particularly struck by the paleness of their faces. Seeing him, the men directed a spotlight towards him, a blue light illuminated the craft, there was an increase in vapor and red-green flames shot out from the base. The craft then rose with a low rumble and the two machines disappeared leaving bluish trails. (ground traces) (Charles BOWEN: "In Search of Humanoids" - J'ai Lu 1974, p. 108)

#March 31 (or 20?) 1950
USA, Stuggart, Arkansas.
March 31: 9:26 p.m. Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines Capt. Jack Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. A circular disc of 100' with 9 to 12 portholes along its lower part, emitting a soft purple light and at the upper part a white flashing light that blinked 3 times in 9 seconds, flying at least 1,000 m.p.h. Observation of 25-35 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).
On the night of March 31 at 9:29 p.m. the pilot Jack Adams noticed the presence of a white light on his left. His companion the second pilot G. W. Anderson made the same observation. When the UFO passed in front of the DC 3 they were able to examine it closely. Neither of them was able to indicate its exact shape because, according to them, its contours were blurred. Because of the arrangement of the 8 or 10 portholes through which a bluish light could be seen, they assumed it must have been round. In addition, a white light was flashing intermittently at the top of the craft. (Edward J. Ruppelt: "Confronting the Flying Saucers", ed. France-Empire 1958, p. 105) and "plagiarized" word for word in: (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious Ufos" - De Vecchi 1976 p. 108, 109) ("Ufo's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 130, 131, which dates to March 20 at 9:26 p.m.)

#1950, March 29
USA, Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee.
7 a.m. Witnesses: Whiteside and Williams. From 6 to 12 dark objects shaped like 150 kg bombs, 5 feet long, flying at 500 mph, descending, making a sound like the wind in the trees. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#March 29, 1950
SPAIN, Burgos - Villafria
At noon, Ruiz Gomez, head of the weather service at the air base, the sergeant in charge of transmissions, and the officer responsible for teletypists, heard a sound similar to that of an airplane approaching the airfield. They were surprised because no plane was expected in Villafria. From the top of the control tower where they were, they saw a flying saucer appear, coming from the southwest, soon to be vertical to the tower. It then changed its route abruptly and headed east. The three observers calculated that the aircraft was flying between 500 and 1000 meters in altitude and resembled one of those airplanes called "winged wings". However, the object observed was much smaller than the planes of this type .. one could have thought that it was simply an eagle. The UFO passed over the witnesses at 1800 km / h, three times as fast as the fighter planes of the time. (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 322, 323)

#April 7, 1950
USA, Logan (Massachusetts)
The duty officer of the Logan International Airport control tower and the other controllers saw from 21:55 GMT to 22:05 GMT, while on the ground and at altitude the wind was blowing in gusts at 75 km/h from the northeast, full west, 15° above the horizon a dark blue light, sailing towards the southwest. During the observation it changed to a bright white, then back to a dark blue. This point split into two blue lights that were spinning around each other and their trajectory led them to 45° above the horizon. (Cloud cover at 5000 m altitude). There was also a mass that was once luminous white, and then cherry red. The object was moving against the wind. [Note from vog: if the wind was blowing from the northeast and the object was flying west and then southwest, it was not flying against the wind!] (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, pp. 66-68)

#April 8, 1950
USA, Kokomo, Indiana.
2 a.m. Witness: Earl Baker. A gray metallic disc 50 feet in diameter, 15 feet thick, saucer-shaped with a conical turret, three openings on the belt emitting blue light. It hovered for 2 minutes and flew away. Baker was awakened by his dog's barking. (Project Blue Book - cf. Don Berliner). Above northern Indiana, another T.W.A. DC3 saw a UFO resembling "a large globe of molten metal". (Edward J. Ruppelt: "Confronting Flying Saucers", ed. France-Empire 1958, p.105)

#April 9, 1950
USA, Amarillo (Texas)
Young Lightfoot approached the UFO so closely that he could touch it. It was a small flying saucer no bigger than a truck tire. The bottom was rounded and the top looked like a shallow plate, with a slight space between the two parts. David Lightfoot was injured on his face and hands by a burning jet that came out of the craft at takeoff. The top part kept spinning during the landing and this movement accelerated to take off. (Inforespace #43, January 1979, p. 18)

#1950, April 14
USA, Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey.
2:30 p.m. Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four rectangular objects of amber color, about 1 m to 1 m 20 in length, changed speed and direction abruptly. The group of objects rose together at a high speed at the end of the observation which lasted from 3 to 4 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#April 20, 1950
BELGIUM, Bruges (Flanders)
Residents observed for one minute to the northwest of the city, a flat "U" shaped crescent, with a fringed edge. It was located at a high altitude in a different direction than the Moon. (listing by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium)

#April 23, 1950
USA, Red Bud (Illinois)
Dean Margen, an amateur photographer, on an excursion in the forest around his hometown, ran down a small hill, crossed a thicket and found himself in the open air. He directed his gaze to the sky and almost fell back in terror. "Seven meters above my head, I saw the metal base of a huge circular craft, absolutely motionless as if suspended in the air. On top there was a red-colored dome, the craft started moving." He had time to arm his camera and take a picture. It was then 3:38 PM. During the same day, around 4 PM, a young newspaper carrier, Donald Gene, who was cycling about fifty miles from Red Bud, stopped in front of the Green family house. As he glanced at the roof being repaired, he saw a silver "saucer" flying very high in the sky. (A. Schneider-H. Malthaner: "The Secret File of UFOs", De Vecchi ed., 1978, pp. 103-105)

#April 24, 1950
ITALY, Abbiate Guazzone (Varese)
At 10 pm Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks and discovered an object, dark in color, hovering between a pole and a tree at a distance of 100 to 200 meters from his house. A man wearing tights and a helmet was making repairs, and three other silhouettes were working around the craft. When Facchini offered his help, the men spoke among themselves with guttural sounds and one of them projected a kind of beam at Facchini, which knocked him down a few meters away. Then he was caught in a kind of whirlwind of air which threw him back to the ground. The work finished, a hatch was closed and the craft flew away with a sound like that of a giant beehive. Bruises and wounds. Traces. Police investigation. Other witnesses (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU, p. 222, 223)

#April 27, 1950
USA, Goshen (Indiana) in flight
At 8:25 PM a TWA DC 3 heading west flew over Goshen. In the cockpit were Captain Robert Adickes, and Captain Robert F. Manning, who was serving as second for Flight 117 to Chicago. As the plane flew at 600 meters altitude, Manning suddenly saw an unusual red light moving quickly behind them and a bit below their plane. He saw it descend and then continue on its way beneath the DC 3, approaching the plane. At this point the DC 3 was flying at 280 km/h. The mysterious object passed them at great speed while its brightness increased. It had an orange-red color and seemed like a molten metal bar sliding through the sky. Manning could make out a spherical shape at the top that shone intensely, while the bottom was dark. He drew Adickes' attention (...) who decided to contact the control tower. The UFO began to fly alongside the DC 3, and Adickes suddenly made a turn, but immediately the mysterious craft veered away. The pilot executed the maneuver a second time with the same result. He called flight attendant Gloria Hinshaw and ordered her to alert the passengers (to ensure their testimony). Suddenly the UFO began to dive at a dizzying speed towards the north towards South Bend. Gloria Hinshaw said: "It looked like a huge wheel of red color spinning close to our plane. The spectacle was extraordinary. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have had a hard time believing the pilots' story. (...) (A. RIBERA: "These Mysterious UFOs" - De Vecchi 1976, pp. 369-373)

#May 1950
France, Vaux en Dieulet (near Buzancy)
M. Pierrard and his daughter Madeleine, aged 14 at the time. "It was 6:30. As usual we were going up to the meadows with our dog to get the cows. When we reached the park I suddenly exclaimed: 'Dad, look at the sun, it's really close? (...) We heard a strange noise, it was like: hou! hou! hou! hou! and then a ball appeared. It was like a ball of fire. It came closer, then it landed in front of us. My father asked me not to move or go forward, for fear of being burned. It was after the ball was still that we realized it was more like a kind of saucer. I then saw, right in front of me, inside the object totally transparent like glass, a little man about 1 m 40 tall, arms spread, perhaps hindered by the diving suit he was wearing. He was absolutely motionless. He looked like a Michelin man. He wore a kind of motorcyclist's helmet with a Plexiglas visor and two tubes apparently connected to two tanks above his shoulders. What shocked me the most was that it seemed to me that he was constantly looking at me. I felt completely paralyzed during the whole observation. I felt a heat stroke similar to the one felt when sunbathing. I did not move during this period which lasted about two minutes. The object then rose like a spinning top, turning slightly on itself, rising in successive steps, emitting the same noise as at the beginning, after which it moved away and disappeared in the direction of Buzancy. "(Jean-Michel LIGERON: "Ovni en Ardennes" 1981, p 23)

#1950, May 10
ARGENTINA, Bahia Blanca region
Enrique Caretenuto Botta (Enrico Botha, other authors write E.C. Bossa)), an aeronautical engineer, was driving when he saw a metallic disk with a shiny surface, 10 m in diameter and 4 m high (2 m high on the edges), resting in a field near an infrequently used road. The only activity detectable was a flashing light on the dome. There were no visible landing gear, the disk was slightly tilted on the ground. The whole had a smooth and shiny look, but at the same time like a kind of elasticity like rubber). He approached and entered through an opening on the side. (There was an odor of ozone and garlic. Three humanoids, about 1 m 30 tall, dressed in a lead-colored suit were sitting motionless on seats (in the turret). (Their faces and hands were uncovered. Their skin was tanned, their hair gray-brown, their eyes very large) He touched them: they were dead (and rigid). In front of them were control instruments and a kind of television screen. The humanoid sitting in the center held his hands on two levers. The other two were lying on curved beds along the circular wall). Above a flashing orange light. Very impressed, Botta left (he had only been inside for 5 minutes) and returned the next day with two engineer friends. They only found a pile of ashes (still hot, leaving a greenish color on their hands). They then observed, very high in the sky, a large cigar and two disks, one of which was hovering above them. Then the two disks entered the cigar which (became all red) and disappeared in a few seconds. (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 110, 111 - for the complements between parentheses: Mufon Ufo Journal December 1996, n° 344, pages 15 to 17) (Leonard STRINGFIELD: "General Alert OVNI" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p.116 to 118)

#May 11, 1950
USA, Jarvis Island, Santa Barbara Channel.
At 4:00 PM launch of Viking IV, 169 km altitude, fire in the same rocket. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955) DURATION 435 SECONDS, RANGE 12 KM, FALL INTO SEA (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, 279/280)

#May 11, 1950
USA, McMinnville (Oregon)
On this day, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Trent, farmers, saw a metallic, shiny object with a superstructure. As it came to their level, the witnesses felt a "gust of wind". Mr. Trent took two photographs in 30 seconds. The object quickly moved westward just after the second photo was taken. (Henry DURRANT: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 - pp. 254-256 and photographic insert)

#May 20, 1950
USA, Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff (Arizona)
At Lowell Observatory, Professor Hall, an astronomer, affirmed to have seen through the telescope a bright silver disk, moving slowly in the sky. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.99) Astronomer Seymour L. Hess made a remarkable observation at 9:20 PM. It was a partially shaded disk flying against the south-east wind towards the north-west and which disappeared into a cloud bank at an altitude of 12000 feet. ("Ufo's: A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 134)

#1950, May 20
FRANCE, Cours-les-Barres (Cher) (Fourchambault)
A woman, Micheline G., had a terrifying encounter at the place called "Givry" during a walk, around 4 pm, along the Loire. Before that, there was a great gust, a whirlwind, like a storm wind and she heard a strange laugh, heard as if through water. The laugh stopped abruptly and then she received a kick in the back, as if the knee was made of steel. She fell and was forced to lie down, still with her head held tight, and that's how the entity dragged her onto the path and into a bush of thorns and nettles. Then it said "There she is. We have her!" as if speaking to someone. She was dragged through the bushes into a small pasture and there it gradually let go. She wanted to call out but had no voice. She was able to stand up. She saw the tops of the trees bend, the branches shaking violently. It didn't last very long. There was then a bitter, unknown taste in the air. After the traumatic encounter there was again a violent displacement of air and she was blinded by a burning white light, while she felt an electric current in her body, like a brief paralysis. It was brief, calm returned immediately. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p 210) Micheline headed for the lockkeeper's house in Givry, who treated the bloody and covered in multiple bruises victim, with finger marks embedded in her neck. The lockkeepers were inside the house and had been blinded by a great white light shortly before her arrival. Numerous traces on the spot and investigation by the gendarmerie of Fourchambault. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, le premier dossier complet..." éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 52, 53)

#1950, June
USA, Muroc
The experimental aircraft Skystreak completed its last research flight (Vortex Generator) and reached Mach 0.99. This was the limit of its possible performance. It was not retired from the program until 1953. (NASA website 1997, "On the Frontier" Ref 2-25)

#June 23, 1950
USA, Lake Michigan
American Navy divers were unsuccessfully trying to retrieve debris from an airplane buried 50 meters deep in the muddy waters of the lake. They found nothing. Yet, shortly afterwards, something began to rise to the surface on its own; it had bizarre shapes, with no relation to what is usually found after an explosion. Imagine violently hammered glass tiles and you will have an idea of what was collected that day in Indiana. (Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 304)

#1950, June 29
USA, Phoenix (Arizona)
At 3:45 PM witnesses, including FBI agents, saw a very high object in the sky. It was also picked up by radar. An airplane passing through the area at 290 miles/hour was able to make a circle under the object which was at about 35000 feet. The object had the shape of a balloon and was moving very slowly (50 miles/hour) towards the west in the absence of any wind. (Doc. FBI, Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1950, June
AMERICA, Atlantic
Mr. Suarez saw four luminous objects emerge from the sea, close to the shore, one after the other, while the sea boiled like a maelstrom, with a terrifying noise. (Michel BOUGARD: "Des S.V. aux OVNI" - SOBEPS 1976 - p 214)

#June 1950
USA
Frank Scully, author of "Behind the Flying Saucers", claimed that he had boarded a Venusian vessel equipped with an electromagnetic propulsion system and had undertaken a journey with its occupants. (A. RIBERA: "Ces mystérieux ovni" - De Vecchi 1976, p. 226) (note from vog: I did not find this in Scully's claims...)

#1950, June
ARGENTINA, Tierra del Fuego, between San Sebastian and Rio Grande
A man who was walking along the beach, saw an oval-shaped UFO emerge from the sea and fly towards the land. A few nights later he saw a similar phenomenon near Santa Cruz. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 307)

#1950, early summer
CANADA, Vassan (Abitibi)
L. B. was returning home after spending the evening playing cards with his neighbors. The weather was nice, the sky was clear. It was between 1 and 2 o'clock in the morning. The witness was walking on the dirt road when he saw, near an abandoned barn, a light. At the same time he heard noises that he thought were of metallic origin. He wondered if it was wise to approach, but after a moment of hesitation, he decided to approach. He then heard voices perfectly. He thought it was people who had taken up residence in this barn to make "bagosse" (illegal moonshine). He had already heard that this had been seen in the region. (...) he slipped behind a "pitoune" (wooden balls) rope. There he heard the voices very well and he saw the object that emitted the light. It was a bright and shiny disc 6 m in diameter, suspended one and a half meters from the ground. (...) "Near this device, I clearly saw, because of the light that was still quite strong and coming from the object, a being 1 m 60 tall. He was well built, thin and looked rather young. (...) I was not afraid to look (...) and so I advanced." Up close the witness noticed that the man had a phosphorescent one-piece garment and on his face he wore a mask that seemed to be made of a piece of soft leather with holes for the eyes. It started in the middle of the forehead and ended just under the mouth. (...) the character spoke words in an unknown language (note from vog: detached syllables resembling German) Almost immediately the witness felt movement under the luminous object. Another character emerged from under the apparatus. (...) this second character is smaller than the first; he is dressed in the same way; his head is bigger and covered with a kind of hood. He has wide shoulders, a hunched back. At the waist he wears an object similar to a flashlight. With an awkward gesture he directs the instrument towards the witness, who immediately feels "mortified". (note from vog: paralyzed in place but seeing and hearing everything). (...) The two beings began to talk. The character with the flashlight approached the witness (...) he touched his forehead (...) with a hand with fingers deformed as if by arthritis. (...) his head barely reached his shoulders (...) he removed his hood. (...) L.B. had a shudder of disgust (...) The skin was wrinkled and tanned... deformed by a grimace, one could clearly see all his teeth... small and all alike. (...) because he was showing me those eyes with his fingers all deformed. (...) the area around the eyes had wrinkles like the area around the eyes of a chicken. And the black dots of the two eyes did not reach the same height, as if they were looking in different directions. I also saw that the face had no mobility at all, it was stuck there, period. (...) he put his hood back on. He stayed a few minutes looking at the witness's face. The other (..) started talking very loudly. The one in front of me left me on the spot to go to the luminous object. The two then climbed into the object by a short ladder. (..) L.B. remembers nothing else. (...) he was able to move again. (...) He was sitting in the grass. (Jean Ferguson: "Les Humanoïdes, les cerveaux qui dirigent les S.V." ed. Leméac 1978, p. 241 to 244)

#1950, July 1
USA, Chicago
The witness, being in an observation tower north of Chicago, saw at around 01:00 an object in the shape of a cigar. 2/3 of the front part were lit up with a glow resembling the color of the flame of a kerosene lamp. The last third of the object was dark. The UFO left a light blue trail in the sky, of the same length as the object itself. No noise. (Doc. FBI, Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1950, July 2
CANADA, Steep Rock Lake
A couple had gone, as they often did, to a secluded cove of Sawbill Bay, a narrow and deep arm of the lake, surrounded by rocks just above the water. In the afternoon they had pulled their boat onto the beach, eaten and drunk tea and were resting in the open air when it began to vibrate. The strange sensation persisting, the man had climbed a rock, which was cut at its top by a narrow slit through which one could see without being seen. "I saw a large, shining object floating on the water in the curve of the opposite shore, less than 40 m from the entrance of the farthest pass. I quickly descended and, trying to keep my calm, I told my wife what I had seen. We climbed the rock together. The thing was still there: it looked like two large saucers joined by the edges. On the circumference there were portholes bordered in black and spaced one meter apart. As the base was in the water one could not see the underside. At the top there were like hatches open and at the surface a dozen strange little beings were slowly turning in a circle. An object in the shape of a hoop was rotating around a central point 2.50 m in the air. As it was just opposite us it stopped and the little beings imitated it. Everything seemed to converge on the slit through which we were looking. Instinctively we stepped back. Glancing over my right shoulder I caught a movement in the bushes. A deer was coming down to drink. The circle or hoop and the little beings faced the deer. The hoop having started to turn again did not stop on the deer. My wife and I stepped back, we had the impression that the rock was protecting us from the hoop. This one was maneuvered by a being who was standing on a small platform. He had a skull or a bright red helmet. All the others wore dark blue helmets. All were the same size, about 1 m. All were dressed the same way and had something shiny on their chest that seemed metallic and something darker on their arms. They moved like automatons and did not turn around like us, but had to move their feet to change direction. I watched one of these beings grab the end of a flexible tube of a very bright green and lift it while he was in a certain position and make his feet turn half a turn to be able to go in the opposite direction. At the same time my wife and I heard a regular humming. They seemed to be drawing water with a tube and discharging something with another. We had to step back again because of the hoop and when we looked again, everything had disappeared from the surface of the object and it began to rise above the water. It was about 2.50 m high. The water where it had landed was reddish blue with golden reflections. The thing seemed to have a thickness of 4.50 m in the center and 3.50 m on the circumference. There was a gust of wind at the moment it flew at about 45° and quickly disappeared in the distance. Comparing it to two trees on the opposite shore I estimated its diameter to be about 14.50 m." (Frank Edwards: "Les S.V. affaire sérieuse" - trad. Laffont 1967 - p. 144 to 146)

#July 4, 1950
USA, White Sands (New Mexico)
Daniel W. Fry, supervisor of the rocket launching facility at White Sands, had gone for a nighttime stroll. Suddenly he saw an oval object slowly descending and landing 20 meters away from him: no sound except for the cracking of branches. He walked around the object and estimated its diameter to be 9 meters and its height to be 8 meters. He found no openings. He touched the shiny metal surface with violet reflections and found it to be extraordinarily smooth and quite warm. He lightly tapped it with his hand and immediately felt a tingling in his fingers. That's when a voice came out of nowhere, telling him not to touch it. Fry was so scared that he backed away, stumbled and fell. The voice spoke in correct English and then spoke in a way that was meant to "advance mankind" and Fry was invited aboard. A panel opened on the lower part and Fry entered the cabin which was 2.7 meters long and 2.1 meters wide and contained 4 chairs adapted for humans. There was no one aboard. But Fry was able to make a trip to New York in 30 minutes, and back. He had barely left the spacecraft when the panel closed, the craft was surrounded by a red halo and it rose vertically, while Fry felt as if he was being pulled off the ground and almost lost his balance. (Johannes von BUTLAR: "UFO, We Are Not Alone" - Presses de la Cité 1979 - pp. 39-41) On July 4, Daniel Fry wanted to go to Las Cruces to see the fireworks of the Independence Day celebration and missed the last bus. He decided to take advantage of the beautiful night to go to the desert. Suddenly he saw a shooting star, which went up and then down. It was a 20 meter diameter saucer that landed. A voice echoed, coming from a mothership still in the sky. The craft on the ground had no crew. In 30 minutes, Fry, who had entered the craft on the ground, made a round trip to New York, at 13500 km/h. (continued on July 28) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998) In 1954, the contactee Daniel Fry published a book in which he detailed several highly questionable experiences. However, he claims to have had a telepathic dialogue with an extraterrestrial whose name is sometimes written as A-lan and sometimes as Alan, who took him in his flying saucer on July 4, 1954. (Jean SIDER: "UFO, the Unmasked Invaders", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78)

#1950, July 13
USA, Redstone Arsenal, Alabama.
5 p.m. Witnesses: two experienced ballistic arsenal employees, including Mr. Washburn. An object, in the shape of a pointed arrow, with the appearance of polished aluminum, flew horizontally. Then this triangle rotated 1/4 turn on its axis inversion and returned to its initial position. The object then made an abrupt right angle turn, accelerated and disappeared in the distance. Observation lasted 30 seconds. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, July 23
FRANCE, Guyancourt (20 km from Paris)
Lucky Blondeau, owner of the squadron bar, on the edge of the airfield, recounts: "Around 11 o'clock at night I was going for a walk before going to bed. I admired the starry sky on the airfield, where I was isolated more than a kilometer from the first house. Suddenly I heard a sound of wind. Turning around I saw at a hundred meters from me in the darkness, two gray shapes: perfectly round objects of 5 m in diameter and about 1.60 to 1.70 m in height. All around the edge was glazed, sort of rectangular portholes. On the lower face of each of the objects an ovoid door very thick (40 cm) opened and I saw a man descend from each machine. These pilots measured about 1.70 m and their hair was dark. They wore a gray-brown or dark blue suit. These men rushed to one of the machines where they placed or moved a kind of blade resting on something like rubber. They did this work with their bare hands, without tools. Despite my emotion I approached. Seeing me they seemed surprised but calm. "Are you broken down?" I asked. And one answered "Yes, but not for long". A minute later the repair finished, each of them advanced towards the door of his machine and opened it. From the inside a formidable lighting burst out. Hesitating I risked a look through the open hatch. It was the most perfect lighting, throwing no shadows. In the middle there was a kind of armchair and in front of it a radio station with 7 or 8 buttons. Above there was a huge oval wheel with a handle at each end. It was solid metal, covered with signs and buttons. Other devices were mounted on blocks around the armchair. I asked other questions but the answer was brief: "Energy". They entered, locking the doors. I had the impression that the metal of the machines resembling aluminum, weighed nothing and that the discs were suspended 10 cm from the ground without touching it. From their horizontal position these machines immediately passed to the vertical and thus disappeared, like shooting stars. After takeoff I heard a small sound of wind, like a breath. In all, since I had seen them, barely two minutes had passed. [IN REALITY: it would be a hoax that at the time largely abused the press. Its author admitted to having set up this story from scratch, without giving the reasons.] (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - pp. 86 to 88) (M. FIGUET / J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, First Complete File ..." - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, pp. 655, 656)

#July 28, 1950
USA, unspecified location
(cf. July 4, 1950) Daniel Fry had a new contact with the extraterrestrial A-Lan. He explained to Fry that the saucer had two poles and that electrons were in free mixture between them. The control mechanism caused the electrons to be expelled through the two rings above and below the saucer. He was made to understand that it was a powerful electromagnetic field and Fry, being a scientist, was able to follow the conversation. A-Lan specified that his people had been living on board ships for generations. Tens of thousands of years before, their ancestors had built an empire on the Earth Lemuria, part of the continent Mu, now submerged in the Pacific Ocean, A-Lan said. They were of a very advanced culture and technology. This was also the case for the inhabitants of Atlantis, but the two races were rather rivals. There was an atomic catastrophe, which is related in the Mahabharata. The survivors fled to Mars (etc...) (...) As proof of his contact, Fry received a cruciform disc 8 cm in diameter which, according to analyses in scientific laboratories (note from vog: which ones, and where are the results?), contained a curious mixture of various elements. (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1950, Summer
CANADA, in Manitoba
The 8 year old girl was playing in her grandparents' barn,
when suddenly she found herself hundreds of meters away
in the farm yard, without understanding how she had gotten
to that place. A warm liquid was running down her leg: at mid-calf a deep, clean and absolutely painless wound of 2.5 cm long and 1 cm deep. She was bleeding abundantly: yet, the pants were absolutely not torn. (continued: summer 1966, France, in Alsace)
(Bertrand MEHEUST: "En soucoupes volantes" - Imago 1992, p. 43)

#1950, Summer (or 1955?)
Belgium, Maldegem
(Source: GESAG, GS 552) Willy V. (aged 8-10) was outside the house with his younger sister Yvette, at the hamlet of Broekhuize, Maldegem. Yvette first noticed the phenomenon, looking up at the sky almost mechanically. It was a disc rotating on itself, flat on the top and curved on the bottom. At the periphery of the disc were short beams of grayish light. There was no emission of smoke and the light rays remained fixed on the edge of the object, like short pulsations. At 60 cm from the eyes, the diameter was estimated at 20 cm, while the speed of movement could be estimated as that of the planes of the time (900km/h). It seems that it was not the outer ring that was rotating around the vertical axis. Yvette specifies that sometimes the surface of the object sparkled, despite the absence of the sun but that the sky was clear. The object was moving from west to east, almost passing directly above the young witnesses at an altitude estimated between 4000 and 6000 meters. The children rushed into the house to alert the parents and when they all returned outside, everything had disappeared. From the moment of the observation until they returned to the house, about 3 minutes had passed. (Investigation by Jacques Bonabot, in September 1972.)

#1950, Summer
ESTONIA, Liiduvere
A 6-year-old girl spotted an "airplane" in a clover field not far from her father's farm. She wanted to go and take a closer look.
The airplane had no wings, only a long fuselage about 6 m long with silver ends and a black middle. Four small men, barely taller than her, were busy. They were extraordinary: dressed in bright green, with a red face and a kind of cap on their heads. They moved like puppets, one of them kicked the airplane, their eyes were fixed and did not move. The girl then told them that they were in a clover field in the village of Liiduvere, but suddenly she was seized with panic and ran home. Looking back, she saw the plane rise slowly. The next day she returned to see if the plane had returned, but she was scared when she approached the place. For a long time, for her, the word "airplane" evoked this cigar-shaped device. She had told her story to her grandmother and her mother, but they did not believe her. (International Ufo Reporter, vol. 2 n° 12, 1977)

#1950, July 24
USA, Florida
At 09:29 launch of V2 #B8, Bumper Program. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1950, July 29
USA, Florida
Launch of V2 #B7 at 06:25. Bumper Program. (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1950, August 4
USA, approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39' 35' N., 72' 24.5' W.).
10 a.m. EDT. Witnesses: Quartermaster Nils Lewring, Chief Petty Officer Jacob Koelwyn, Third Mate of the M/V Marcala. An object 3 meters long at an altitude between 20 and 35 meters, flying in a wavy motion, accelerated at the end of the 15 second observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#August 15, 1950
USA, Great Falls (Montana)
DD; 11:30 - 2 witnesses, duration 1 minute
UFO film: two small punctual lights in the bright sky containing enough reference objects to allow for a significant study. (J. Allen HYNEK: "UFOs, Myth or Reality?" - trans. Belfond 1974, p.78,79, 274) Film shot by Nick Mariana of Great Falls. (Henry DURRANT: "The UFO File" - Laffont 1973 - p.180) This color film was carefully studied by physicist Dr. M.L. Baker, "top secret security clearance card." The film contains 290 successive images. On the first 35 one sees a kind of mark or band at the periphery of the two objects that rotate synchronically. Or rather: one saw. These 35 images were confiscated by the Air Force. (Aimé MICHEL/Georges LEHR: "FOR/AGAINST UFOs" BERGER-LEVRAULT 1969, FOR section, p. 51, 52)

#1950, August 25
BERMUDA, approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29' 40' N., 67'28' W.).
8 p.m. Witness: B-29 radar operator S/Sgt. William Shaffer.
Radar sighting and possibly a blue light visually 2 to 3 minutes later. The B-29 pursued an unidentified target, passed within 1/4 mile of it, then the B-29 was followed for 5 minutes by the target before it accelerated away. Total duration of the radar sighting: 20 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, August 30
CANADA, Sandy Point, Newfoundland
1:30 p.m. Witnesses: three people from the locality, including Kaeel and Alexander, from the Air Force base. A dark object shaped like a barrel with the opening facing down, in the water, flying at about 5km/hour, at an altitude of 4 to 6 meters during the 5 minute observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, August 31
USA, White Sands
At 10:09, launch of V2 No. 51, 136 km altitude, weight 13672 kg.
(GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959) with mice on board, killed in the crash on the ground. (Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17)

#August 1950
Japan Sea
One morning in August, in the midst of the Korean War, a Russian reconnaissance plane - which, escorted by two fighters, had taken off from Vladivostok - was flying over the Japan Sea. A Japanese merchant vessel was sailing on the same sea and its crew often looked up to follow the maneuvers of the Soviet aircraft. The sailors were rightly worried; they were suddenly stunned. A round, very bright thing had just crossed the sky and stopped motionless at the height of the planes. Suddenly the reconnaissance plane turned around while the fighters began to whirl around the luminous ball and one of the two pilots took it under fire from his machine guns. The thing, which seemed insensitive and invulnerable, the fighter pilot seemed to want to approach it and at the moment when he was about to touch it, the sailors saw the Soviet one remain motionless for a few seconds, then waver, then tremble, then vibrate, then eject planes exactly like him, he who still did not move. There were three, four, five exactly identical ones arranged in a fan, connected to each other by the beak. Then there was the explosion. (...) (Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 338)

#1950, September 3
USA, Spokane, Washington.
2 p.m. Witnesses: Maj. R.J. Gardiner, Mrs. Gardiner and a neighbor (one of the witnesses saw 3 objects, the other two saw only one object). Disk of metallic appearance and bronze color, 20-30 feet long and 2-6 feet thick. Independent and erratic movements for 5 minutes. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, September 20
USA, Kit Carson, Colorado.
10:49 a.m. Witness identified as "credible". Two large, bright round objects, and three smaller objects "inside". The two large ones hovered for a minute, while the three smaller ones entered and exited the large objects. All of them rose and disappeared, accelerating. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)

#1950, September 21
USA, Provincetown, Otis, Massachusetts.
9:52 a.m. Witness/: M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during M.I.T tracking of USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed was 22 miles/minute (1,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration during 1 minute observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner)... During the third mission we detected another "airplane" in the radar sweep, heading roughly north on a course converging with that of the F 86s. (...) The echo caught up with the F 86s, passed them, and crossed their course, then, after a sharp, tight turn to the right, reversed course back toward Boston, passing directly over our aircraft. (...) A moderate estimate of the speed of the object would be approximately 1,900 km/h, and the centrifugal force exerted on the craft at the time of its turn would exceed 5 g...." (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979 - pp. 138-140)

#September 26, 1950
USA, Philadelphia
Two police officers patrolling in a car saw through the windshield an object slowly approaching the ground. The object seemed to them at first to be a parachute. Located at the tops of the trees it seemed to have a diameter of six feet. It landed in a nearby field. The police officers, after watching it for some time, wanted to take possession of it, but the object disintegrated, leaving only a slight odorous residue. Total duration of the observation: 25 minutes, during which the object emitted a light so bright that the witnesses saw that the grass did not even bend under the craft. (FBI doc. - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider) It was a circular mass about two meters in diameter, thick about 30 cm in the center and 5 to 6 cm at the edges. In the light of their torches, they distinguished that the strange thing was reddish and that it quivered like something alive. In the darkness the thing radiated a faint red glow. "Should we pick it up?" one of the police officers proposed. After a moment of hesitation, Collins tried. He only managed to grasp pieces of a gelatinous material that broke and slipped between his fingers, leaving a kind of grease or foam on his hands without smell. In less than half an hour, the whole quivering mass had disintegrated, evaporated. The police officers are certain of one thing: it was alive. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 80)

#1950, October 5
USA
When the California Central Airlines plane took off from Burbank-Hollywood Airport at 7:55 PM, neither the captain nor the co-pilot suspected they were on a collision course with a UFO. Five minutes after takeoff to Oakland, the plane was somewhere between Van Nuys and San Fernando, climbing to 4500 feet. Suddenly the captain, Cecil Hardin, drew the co-pilot's attention to an illuminated object approaching directly ahead. The co-pilot, Jack Conroy, later told reporters that the object was only observed for a few seconds before passing beneath the plane. "It's impossible to say how fast it was going and how far away it was," said Conroy. "But it seemed big, flying at a tremendous speed, and quite close, say 500 feet from us," added Hardin. "What really seemed strange to us was that it had absolutely no fuselage. We didn't feel the rush of air from its engine or its speed when it passed beneath us." They estimated the length of the object to be about 85 feet, with 6 to 8 bright lights arranged on the upper part, all of which were blinking. (NUFORC, Looking Back, by Bob Gribble)

#1950, October 12
USA, Knoxville (Tennessee)
Radar detection of at least eleven objects at 11:25 PM. They were moving in the heavily monitored area of Oak Ridge. Their altitude varied between 1000 and 5000 feet, the density of the targets was comparable to that of the navigation lights of a C.47, the estimated speed was 120/125 miles/hour.
A fighter was sent to try to intercept the unknown aircraft, but the pilot could not distinguish anything on the on-board radar, nor with the naked eye. (doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, translated by Jean Sider)

#1950, October 23
USA, Bonlee, North Carolina.
12:42 p.m. Witness: former USAF pilot Frank Risher. An aluminum object in the shape of a dirigible or a Convair C-99 cargo, with 3 portholes, arrived from the SE, hovered for 3 to 5 seconds and flew away towards the SSE at the end of the 40 second observation. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, October 26
USA, White Sands
At 16:02 launch of V2 #61, explosion. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959)

#1950, October 30
ENGLAND, Preston
Mr. A.W. Bearne, of Preston, saw above his house a kind of cigar spewing flames and descending at great speed. It changed direction and left horizontally. Its tail flames suddenly decreased in intensity and two large disks of silver-blue color appeared in front of the cigar at a higher speed. They moved silently at about 2000 feet and approximately at the same speed. Their minimum diameter must have been 15 to 20 meters. They stayed in view for about fifteen seconds and disappeared above Goodrington and Brixham. (Jimmy GIEU: "The S.V. come from another World" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Omnium Littéraire Reissue 1972 p.34)

#1950, October 30th, 31st, and November 1st
ROME, Vatican
Pope Pius XII (...) after getting up as usual at 6:30 and fulfilling his duties, went out for a walk. (...) Pope Pius XII approached a statue of the Virgin at the bottom of the garden (...) it was on his way back from this place that he looked up at the sky. To his great astonishment, he saw the sun dancing just like at Fatima thirty years earlier. Certainly the phenomenon had something worrying about it in more than one respect. The sun, although bright, did not dazzle him, he was able to look at it for long minutes without feeling any discomfort. The "sun" began to vibrate on itself, then it went zigzagging in the sky. It moved in abrupt, almost violent and very fast movements from north to south, then from east to west. Its trajectory often brought it back to its starting point from where it started the same game again. Then it stabilized in the sky and began to spin at an incredible speed. It had the appearance of a wheel of fire and from this wheel came out in disorder spiral bursts of light, pink, yellow, orange and mauve which shot towards the 4 points of the horizon. Suddenly there was a complete stop and the sun became normal again, but after a few moments it started its amazing game again (...) and suddenly the heat seemed unbearable. (...) The phenomenon was to be repeated for him again on October 31st and November 1st (Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmas of the Present Time" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, p. 49)

#1950, November 5
USA, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
11:55 a.m. Witnesses: Fairchild Aircraft illustrator Don Patrick.
A translucent light gray object with a dark rim, pear-shaped.
Flew for 5-10 minutes in a caracoling and rapid motion. (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, November 21
USA, White Sands
At 10:18 AM, launch of Viking V, altitude 173 km. Photographs of the Earth taken from high altitude. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, 280, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955)

#1950, December 2
KENYA, Nanyika
10:50 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. L. Scott. An object like a pearl, with the top flattened, spinning and hovering and making a sound like a swarm of bees. Only document in the file: East African newspaper "Standard" (Project Blue Book - cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, December 6
USA, Ft. Myers, Florida.
5 p.m. Witnesses: former interceptor pilot Harry Lamp and four boys,
with x10 binoculars. An object of 25 meters, one meter thick, with
a bubble on the upper part, silver and white belt, with
two orange reactors. The center is rotating when the object is flying;
then it takes off accelerating prodigiously. (Project Blue Book -
cfr Don Berliner).

#1950, December 6
USA, El Indio Guerrero, border between Texas and Mexico
Crash of a saucer that burns completely. A photo of the event reached ufologists in 1980 (note of vog: which ones? The author is the only one I know to claim this) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1950, December 11
USA, White Sands
Launch of Viking VI. 64 km altitude, night fire, damaged wings. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, M.W. Rosen, N.Y. 1955)

#1950, December 12th and 13th
USA, White Sands
On December 12th, an Aerobee was launched at 10am and another at 9pm. The following day, an Aerobee was launched at 2am and another at 12pm. (GESAG, Launches: "Ley 1958, 288)

#1950, night of December 24th to 25th
USA, Datil (New Mexico)
A white object, which then turned red and green, with a tail,
travelled 1° every 2 minutes. It was observed for 2 hours and 30
minutes before disappearing and photos were taken by Mr. Stanfield.
(doc. FBI - Bruce Maccabee, trans. Jean Sider)

#1950, December
KOREA, at sea, Inchon Channel
In December 1950, the American seaplane tender Gardiners Bay was heading up the Inchon Channel in Korea when its crew spotted two mysterious objects with smoke trails that struck the water at an incredible speed. Two huge columns of water shot up more than 35m at the moment of contact. No aircraft was observed, either visually or by radar; and the U.S. NAVY announced: "The identification remains a great mystery." (Yvan T.SANDERSON: "The Invisibles Under the Seas" Albin Michel 1979 p.51)

#1950
USA, unspecified location
A lesser-known contactee, John Watts, claims to have been able to visit the planet Venus in 1950 aboard a flying saucer piloted by a Venusian who was called Mara. (Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 84)