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- **February:** An American steamship, the *Tulsa*, picks up distress
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messages from a ship communicating: Here, P.E.C.C., P.E.C.C. We
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have just been attacked by an unknown submarine. S. O. S., S. O.
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S., S. O. S\... 2 ships immediately head towards the source of
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the calls which is located about 550 km south of the Azores. It is
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the British steamship *Empress of Australia* and the Greek cargo
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ship *Mont Pelion*. When they arrive at the scene of the drama,
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they find nothing. No wreckage, no boats, no corpses or injured,
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no traces of oil or fuel. The two ships then form spirals on the
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sea, increasingly wider. They send radio messages without
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interruption. In vain. An investigation takes place: no submarine
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was in this region at the time of the drama. The distress calls
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had lasted only a few moments. Fishermen, in Horta, near the
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Azores, bring testimonies contradicting the official statements
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that this disappeared ship had never existed and that the radio
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operators had been victims of an error of interpretation. These
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fishermen had observed mysterious shapes resembling submarines
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on the surface in the vicinity of the disappearance.
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- In China, paleontologist and science-fiction writer [Ivan Efremov](ScienceFiction.html) sees dinosaur skulls pierced with a neat hole, which he describes as the hole of a bullet.
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- **August 27:** Less than a week before the start of the war, Germany enters the era of jet aviation with the first flight of the Heinkel He-178.
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- In Kristiansand (Norway), Linnea observed a bright cross in the western sky [\[UFO-NYT, 4/1969, 162\] \[Liljegren: A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II, 1987, 2\]]{.source}.
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- **Autumn (or Autumn 1940):** At Røskeland/Osterøy (Norway), Berit Clemmensen and Dagveig Berntsen - both aged around 12-13 at this time - witnessed the surrounding area getting lighted when walking home one dark and moist evening. The strange light lasted for a few seconds, and was unlike any other kind of light they knew. They felt themselves enclosed by this light, and they were unable to determine its source or direction. They were very afraid and excited when the light finally disappeared. There were rain and fog this evening [\[UFO, 1/1992, 11; 2/1992, 9\]]{.source}.
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- *Canadian Official Secret Act*.
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- **During the war:** At Otterøy/Namsfjorden (Norway), Lorentz Johnsen saw on the island small discs or luminous balls, capable of performing evasive maneuvers [\[UFO-NYT, 2/1973, 56\]]{.source}.
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- **During the War, Summer, Late Afternoon:** At Sandefjord (Norway), Mrs. Edvardsen and her friend(s) saw at 300 or 400 m 3 or 4 luminous objects towards the North. The objects were as big as a barn, and moved like insects. Their color was described as the fire of a cigarette [\[Letter from Arne Foss, 22 Oct 1977\]]{.source}.
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