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# UFO Event Timeline, Part 1: Distant Past up to and including 1949, v1.26 - Compiled 6/19/2023

An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, Larry Hatch, and NICAP.

Copyrights:

Richard Geldreich, Jr. - Copyright (c) 2023 (all parsed dates and events marked "maj2" unless otherwise attributed)
Dr. Jacques F. Vallée - Copyright (c) 1993
LeRoy Pea - Copyright (c) 9/8/1988 (updated 3/17/2005)
George M. Eberhart - Copyright (c) 2022
Dr. Donald A. Johnson - Copyright (c) 2012
Fred Keziah - Copyright (c) 1958
Larry Hatch - Copyright (c) 1992-2002

Update History:

v1.23-1.24: Added a handful of key historical events, such as Edward Tauss the head of CIA UFO disinformation in the 50's
v1.22: Fixing the date of Dr. Eric W. Davis's March, 2020 classified briefing to the Senate (I had it listed as March 2019) - info from NY Times. Basic locations added to Eberhart records using OpenAI.
v1.20: Split up into 5 parts, to work around iPhone web browser limits. Minor spelling and grammer fixes throughout timeline.
v1.15: Eberhart records now have basic locations, thanks to OpenAI's Davinci-3 AI model. They aren't perfect, but it's a good start to geocoding them.
v1.14: Added nuclear test data, over 2000 records, from the Worldwide Nuclear Explosions paper by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards. Note the locations in the paper are approximate, and the yields are not super accurate, which are two problems I'll fix over time. I improved the coordinates of the earliest USA/USSR tests by looking them up from Wikipedia.
v1.13: Split up the timeline into 4 parts. Still not the best solution, but it avoids croaking browsers.
v1.12: Added *U* database record data, using a custom event description decoder to handle his 1k+ abbreviations and custom syntax
v1.11: Crawled all ~10.5k unique URL's in this timeline using curl and fixed dead URL's to use archive.org.
v1.10: Added NIPCAP DB data.

Important Notes:

Best viewed on a desktop/laptop, not a mobile device.

I've split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present.

The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it's important to be aware that this is a timeline of UFO/UAP related events, not necessarily or exclusively UFO sightings.

Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature.

Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate "time" fields, but most don't. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields.

A few events don't have firm dates, for example "Summer of 1947", or "Late July 1952". In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.)

Source Code:

This website is created automatically using a C++ command line tool called “ufojson”. It parses the raw text and Markdown source data to JSON format, which is then converted to a single large web page using pandoc. This tool's source code and all of the raw source and JSON data is located here on github.

Year Ranges

Year Histogram

Years

0 70 812 840 927 989 1015 1034 1180 1186
1235 1254 1269 1271 1322 1361 1387 1388 1415 1433
1458 1461 1468 1491 1520 1535 1547 1551 1554 1557
1561 1566 1600 1606 1614 1621 1638 1646 1660 1663
1665 1672 1685 1686 1692 1700 1707 1716 1726 1731
1733 1737 1741 1742 1743 1744 1745 1749 1752 1755
1756 1758 1759 1762 1767 1768 1777 1780 1783 1790
1793 1795 1796 1798 1799 1800 1803 1808 1809 1811
1812 1813 1814 1817 1819 1820 1822 1823 1824 1825
1826 1828 1829 1831 1832 1833 1835 1836 1838 1842
1843 1845 1847 1849 1850 1852 1854 1855 1857 1858
1860 1861 1862 1863 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870
1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880
1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890
1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910
1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920
1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 1930
1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949

Event Timeline

Year: 0 (Back to Top)

Event 0 (979AEFAA)

Date: 0's
Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO's
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_0

Year: 70 (Back to Top)

Event 1 (B10DE7B7)

Date: 5/21/70
Time: ~18:00
Location: PALESTINE
Description: Many observer(s). Chariots and regiments circle towns in sky. Loud noises later.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_5

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Israel", Credibility: "4", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "PALESTINE:MANY OBS:CHARIOTS+REGIMENTS CIRCLE TOWNS in SKY:LOUD NOISES LATER", LatLong: "31.766668 35.233335", LatLongDMS: "31:46:00 N 35:14:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 812 (Back to Top)

Event 2 (5AA87AC1)

Date: 812
Locations: Lyon, France; Magonia; Mahón, the port of the island of Menorca, Spain
Description: Agobard , the archbishop of Lyon, France, writes De Grandine et Tonitruis “On Hail and Thunder”, in which he condemns pagan folk beliefs, such as the notion of a “certain region called Magonia, from which ships, navigating on clouds, set sail to transport back to this same region the fruits of the earth ruined by hail and destroyed by the storm.” He cites an episode in which some foolish peasants capture “three men and one woman who they said had fallen from these ships.” Brought out in front of an enraged mob, Agobard intervenes and prevents their lynching, persuading the crowd that the charges are false and absurd. Some ufologists interpret this as a visitation from an alternate reality or an abduction case, while Jean-Louis Brodu observes that in the 9th century the atmosphere was likened to an ocean in which aerial ships could navigate from point to point on the earth. Miceal Ross argues that Magonia is a corruption of Magonianus, relating to the city of Mahón, the port of the island of Menorca, Spain.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jean-Louis Brodu, “Magonia: A Re-Evaluation,” Fortean Studies 2 1995: 198–215; Miceal Ross, “Anchors in a Three-Decker World,” Folklore 109 1998: 63–75; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 23–24; Clark III 1213–1214; Vallée and Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, pp. 70–73; Pierre Chambert-Protat, “Florus de Lyon et les Extra- terrestres,” Florus de Lyon, November 4, 2014; Pierre Lagrange, “Agobard, la Magonie et les ovnis,” Actualité, no. 440 October 2017: 28–29; Wikipedia, “Magonia (mythology)”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_0

Year: 840 (Back to Top)

Event 3 (D2C51E95)

Date: 1/840?
Location: LYON, FRANCE
Description: Mob Lynches 3 figures from 'cloudship'. They admitted flying.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_6

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "4", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "LYON,FRANCE:MOB LYNCHES 3 FIGURES FROM 'CLOUDSHIP':they admitted flying", LatLong: "45.750002 4.866667", LatLongDMS: "45:45:00 N 04:52:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Rhône", Strangeness: "10"

Year: 927 (Back to Top)

Event 4 (A0B5950D)

Date: 3/927 (approximate)
Location: VERDUN, FR
Description: 'Fiery armies' pass in sky here and all E. France according to Scribe Flodoard.
Type: sighting
Reference: FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_7

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "VERDUN,FR:'FIERY ARMIES' PASS IN SKY HERE +ALL E.FRANCE per Scribe FLODOARD", LatLong: "49.150002 5.350000", LatLongDMS: "49:09:00 N 05:21:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Meuse", Strangeness: "3"

Year: 989 (Back to Top)

Event 5 (9A71A0D0)

Date: 8/3/989
Location: JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: Unusually bright saucers fly. Then join together. Time unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_8

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "JAPAN/LOC UNK:UNUSUALLY BRIGHT SCRS FLY:THEN JOIN TOGETHER:TIME UNKNOWN. ", LatLong: "35.666668 139.833340", LatLongDMS: "35:40:00 N 139:50:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1015 (Back to Top)

Event 6 (DB59132B)

Date: 8/23/1015
Location: JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: 2 spheres hover. 2 small objects exit.. 1 smokes. No further details. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23 p35.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_9

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "JAPAN/LOC UNK:2 SPHERES HVR:2 SML OBJs EXIT..1 smokes:NFD:/SOBEPS IFS#23 p35", LatLong: "35.633335 139.800007", LatLongDMS: "35:38:00 N 139:48:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1034 (Back to Top)

Event 7 (EB99F8B6)

Date: 1/1034?
Location: NEAR VERDUN, FR
Description: Fiery ovoid going quickly southeast turns going quickly west. / Verdun Museum / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23 p35.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_10

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "nr VERDUN,FR:FIERY OVOID >>SE TURNS >>W:/VERDUN MUSEUM /SOBEPS IFS#23 p35", LatLong: "49.083336 5.333334", LatLongDMS: "49:05:00 N 05:20:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Meuse", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1180 (Back to Top)

Event 8 (015F78FC)

Date: 10/27/1180 (approximate)
Location: KII SANCHI, NARA, JAPAN
Description: Glowing 'pot' flies and maneuvers between mountains. Going quickly south. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_11

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "5", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "KII SANCHI,NARA,JAPAN:GLOWING 'POT' FLIES+MNVRS BTWN Mtns:>>S:/SOBEPS IFS#23", LatLong: "34.000002 135.672229", LatLongDMS: "34:00:00 N 135:40:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1186 (Back to Top)

Event 9 (AFEC2999)

Date: 8/9/1186
Time: 14:00
Location: DUNSTABLE, BEDFORDS
Description: Many observer(s) amazed. 'Sky opens up'. Huge cross hovers till midnight.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_12

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "88", HatchDesc: "DUNSTABLE,BEDFORDs:MANY OBS AMAZED:'SKY OPENS UP':HUGE CROSS HVRS TILL MIDNITE", LatLong: "51.883336 -0.450000", LatLongDMS: "51:53:00 N 00:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1235 (Back to Top)

Event 10 (80CDB668)

Date: 9/24/1235
Time: ~22:00
Location: JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: Night lights and fireballs overhead all night. 'Wind making stars sway' / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#23.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 11)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_13

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HST: Historical account, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "8", Duration: "88", HatchDesc: "JAPAN/LOC UNK:NLTS+FBLS OVHD ALL NITE:'WIND MAKING STARS SWAY'/SOBEPS IFS#23", LatLong: "37.016668 140.000007", LatLongDMS: "37:01:00 N 140:00:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1254 (Back to Top)

Event 11 (618322D7)

Date: 1/1/1254
Time: 23:50
Location: ST. ALBANS ABBEY, HERTFS
Description: Date exact. Many observer(s). Large elegant ship. Paris also. / IFS#23.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 11)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_14

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "3", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "ST ALBANS ABBEY,HERTFs:DATE EXACT:MANY OBS:LRG ELEGANT SHIP:PARIS ALSO:/IFS#23", LatLong: "51.733336 -0.333333", LatLongDMS: "51:44:00 N 00:20:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1269 (Back to Top)

Event 12 (47359A2D)

Date: 12/6/1269
Time: ~18:00
Location: KRAKOW, POLAND
Description: Many observer(s). Cross-shape lights town like a strong projector. / Cromer.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_15

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KRAKOW,POLAND:MANY OBS:CROSS-SHAPE LITES TOWN LIKE A STRONG PROJECTOR:/CROMER", LatLong: "50.100002 20.016668", LatLongDMS: "50:06:00 N 20:01:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Krakow", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1271 (Back to Top)

Event 13 (0F215EBC)

Date: 9/12/1271
Time: ~12:00
Location: JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: Sudden 'extra moon'. Panic stops execution of priest / r186 #23.
Type: sighting
Reference: EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_16

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "JAPAN/LOC UNK:SUDDEN 'EXTRA MOON':PANIC STOPS EXECUTION OF PRIEST./r186 #23", LatLong: "37.000002 140.000007", LatLongDMS: "37:00:00 N 140:00:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1322 (Back to Top)

Event 14 (F2AC946E)

Date: 11/4/1322
Time: ~19:00
Location: UXBRIDGE, ENGL
Description: Big pillar / fire. Rises going south. Fireball / front shoots beams. Turns going north and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_17

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "9", HatchDesc: "UXBRIDGE,ENGL:BIG PILLAR/FIRE:RISES > S:FBL/FRONT SHOOTS BEAMS:TURNS>N+AWAY", LatLong: "51.533336 -0.450000", LatLongDMS: "51:32:00 N 00:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1361 (Back to Top)

Event 15 (FAACBEE6)

Date: 1/1361?
Location: OFF WEST JAPAN
Description: Date unknown. 6M "drum shaped object" emerges from sea and flies away. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_18

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "OFF W JAPAN:DATE UNK:6M "DRUM SHAPED OBJ" EMERGES FROM SEA+FLIES AWAY:NFD", LatLong: "37.000002 134.833340", LatLongDMS: "37:00:00 N 134:50:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1387 (Back to Top)

Event 16 (47763ABF)

Date: 10/14/1387
Time: 06:00
Location: DERBYSHIRE AND LEICS COS, ENGL
Description: Fiery wheel / barrel spins. Strong rays. Cloud dumps 'blood'.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_19

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "53", Elev: "150", HatchDesc: "DERBYs+LEICs cos,ENGL:FIERY WHEEL/BARREL SPINS:STRONG RAYS:CLOUD DUMPS 'BLOOD'", LatLong: "53.000003 -1.500000", LatLongDMS: "53:00:00 N 01:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Year: 1388 (Back to Top)

Event 17 (1256F5EB)

Date: 1/8/1388
Time: ~23:00
Location: RAGUSA, ITALY
Description: Several friars. Luminous bodies fly single file / 1 hour. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) r186#23.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_20

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", Elev: "502", HatchDesc: "RAGUSA,ITALY:SVRL FRIARS:LUM.BODIES FLY SINGLE FILE/1 HOUR:/SOBEPS r186#23", LatLong: "36.966668 14.683334", LatLongDMS: "36:58:00 N 14:41:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ragusa", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1415 (Back to Top)

Event 18 (0D5FF3A1)

Date: 10/25/1415
Time: 12:00?
Location: AGINCOURT, FR
Description: Fast fireballs strike with a disabling beam French troops. Henry V wins historic battle.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_21

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, HST: Historical account, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "AGINCOURT,FR:FAST FBLS ZAP FRENCH TROOPS:HENRY V WINS HISTORIC BATTLE", LatLong: "50.455558 2.127778", LatLongDMS: "50:27:20 N 02:07:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1433 (Back to Top)

Event 19 (54E6BE81)

Date: 1/5/1433
Location: NICE, FR
Description: St. Boniface Manuscript v2p397. Luminous globe appears / sky / several hours. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_22

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "44", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "NICE,FR:St.BONIFACE MANUSCRIPT.v2p397:LUMn.GLOBE APPEARS/SKY/SVRL HRS:NFD", LatLong: "43.716669 7.250000", LatLongDMS: "43:43:00 N 07:15:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Alpes Maritimes", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1458 (Back to Top)

Event 20 (5365000B)

Date: 3/17/1458 (approximate)
Location: JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: 5 'stars' appear. Circle the moon. Change colors 3 times.. vanish.
Type: sighting
Reference: EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_23

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "JAPAN/LOC UNK:5 'STARS' APPEAR:CIRCLE THE MOON:CHANGE COLORS 3 TIMES..VANISH.", LatLong: "35.850002 139.666673", LatLongDMS: "35:51:00 N 139:40:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1461 (Back to Top)

Event 21 (E8EA902D)

Date: 11/1/1461
Location: ARRAS, FRANCE
Description: Fiery rod hovers / 15 minute(s). Suddenly spirals and twists upward and gone! / IFS#23.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 11)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_24

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "4", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "ARRAS,FRANCE:FIERY ROD HVRS/15min:SUDDENLY SPIRALS+TWISTS UPWARD+GONE!:/IFS#23", LatLong: "50.300002 2.766667", LatLongDMS: "50:18:00 N 02:46:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "6"

Event 22 (CA5304ED)

Date: 11/1/1461
Description: A fiery rod or cylinder hovered for 15 minutes over the town of Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France. It suddenly spiraled and twisted upward and was gone.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Data-Net Report, May 1970; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7362

Year: 1468 (Back to Top)

Event 23 (97B25F51)

Date: 3/8/1468 (approximate)
Location: MT. KASUGA, JAPAN
Description: Dark object makes 'wheel-like sound'. Flies going quickly west from mountain. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_25

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "Mt.KASUGA,JAPAN:DARK OBJ MAKES 'WHEEL-LIKE SOUND':FLIES >>W from MOUNTAIN:NFD", LatLong: "35.800002 139.633340", LatLongDMS: "35:48:00 N 139:38:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1491 (Back to Top)

Event 24 (0621ACA6)

Date: 8/13/1491
Time: 20:00
Location: MILANO, ITL
Description: Fazio Cardano. 7 small humanoids (or Greys). "Live 300 years.. can't say much / special laws..".
Type: sighting
Reference: Book: BERGIER, Jacques: E.T. VISITATIONS, PREHISTORIC TIMES to the PRESENT; J'ai Ju, France 1970 & H. Regnery, Chicago 1973, Signet, NY 1974. (Milan, 1491 pg 85. Esterhazy, pg 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_26

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, CNT: Contactee related, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "4", Duration: "180", Elev: "122", HatchDesc: "MILANO,ITL:FAZIO CARDANO:7 OIDS:"LIVE 300 YRS..CANT SAY MUCH/SPECIAL LAWS.."", LatLong: "45.466669 9.200000", LatLongDMS: "45:28:00 N 09:12:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Milano", Strangeness: "9"

Year: 1520 (Back to Top)

Event 25 (6B07D666)

Date: 1/1520?
Location: ERFURT, PRUSSIA
Description: Round glow. Rotating beam scorches ground. Also 2 fiery spheres. / r8 p??
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 178)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_27

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "4", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "ERFURT,PRUSSIA:ROUND GLOW:ROTATING BEAM SCORCHES GND:+2 FIERY SPHERES:/r8 p??", LatLong: "50.983336 11.066667", LatLongDMS: "50:59:00 N 11:04:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "THR", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1535 (Back to Top)

Event 26 (C0A4DC09)

Date: 4/20/1535
Location: STOCKHOLM, SWD
Description: Many observer(s). '7 suns' circle city. Same over Weimar, Germany / same date.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_28

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "STOCKHOLM,SWD:MANY OBS:'7 SUNS' CIRCLE CITY::SAME OVR WEIMAR,GERMANY/SAME DATE", LatLong: "59.350003 18.000001", LatLongDMS: "59:21:00 N 18:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1547 (Back to Top)

Event 27 (047D9906)

Date: 12/15/1547
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Description: Mariners in the port of Hamburg, Germany, see a fireball moving to the south. Its rays are so hot that passengers cannot remain inside the ships. Thinking the vessels are about to burn, they hide and take cover.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Simon Goulart, Thrésor d’histoires admirables et mémorables de nostre temps, Geneva, 1600, vol. 1, p. 55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1

Year: 1551 (Back to Top)

Event 28 (0C548653)

Date: 1/3/1551
Location: LISBON, PORTUGAL
Description: Flying red cylinders and fireballs terrify population. 'Rain of blood'(?)
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_29

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "LISBON,PORTUGAL:FLYING RED CYLs+FBLS TERRIFY POPULATION:'RAIN OF BLOOD'(?)", LatLong: "38.683335 -9.066667", LatLongDMS: "38:41:00 N 09:04:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1554 (Back to Top)

Event 29 (DB449C6D)

Date: 6/10/1554
Time: 18:00
Location: SALON-DE-PROVENCE AND ST. CHALMAS, FR
Description: 'Lance' wobbles east going quickly west. Flames all over. Seen / 2 hours.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_30

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "SALON-de-PROVENCE+St CHALMAS,FR:'LANCE' WOBBLES E>>W:FLAMES ALL OVR:SEEN/2hrs", LatLong: "43.650002 5.100000", LatLongDMS: "43:39:00 N 05:06:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1557 (Back to Top)

Event 30 (7C14E4E7)

Date: 12/5/1557
Time: 07:00
Location: NEAR TUBINGEN, GERM
Description: Many large colored 'hats' exit odd clouds. Small humanoids (or Greys) too? / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#24.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_31

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "4", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "nr TUBINGEN,GERM:MANY LRG CLRD 'HATS' EXIT ODD CLOUDS:OIDS TOO?:/SOBEPS IFS#24", LatLong: "48.550002 9.083334", LatLongDMS: "48:33:00 N 09:05:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "7"

Event 31 (82FB3902)

Date: 12/5/1557
Description: Above Tubingen, Germany fiery clouds circled in the sky around seven o'clock in the morning, from which emerged "large, tall and wide" hat-shaped objects. The glow cast upon the ground was yellow and "bloody". The hat-shaped flying objects were multicolored: black, red, blue, and green.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 33; Jacques Vallee, Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8190

Year: 1561 (Back to Top)

Event 32 (9EC8C3DD)

Date: 4/4/1561
Location: Nuremberg, Germany
Description: Dusk. A “frightening vision” is seen in the sky above Nuremberg, Germany, said to be observed by many. Printer Hans Glaser describes in his broadside many blood-red, blue, and black balls or discs near the Sun. “They were three alongside each other, sometimes four in a square, and several alone, and between these balls blood- colored crosses” are seen. Two “great pipes” cannon are also observed, and everything starts to “fight against each other.” The battle lasts about one hour, then the burning balls fall to the earth and vanish on the ground. Although cited as a possible early UFO report, the narrative is simply about a battle in the sky by phantom armies told as an allegory of what awaits an unrepentant humanity on Judgment Day.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hans Glaser, Himmelserscheinung über Nürnberg am 14. April 1561, Holzschnitt, 1561; Carl Jung, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies, Mentor ed., 1969, pp. 103–104, between pp. 120–121; Ulrich Magin, “A UFO in the Year 1561,” Fortean Times 283 February 2012: 40–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_2

Event 33 (7071AD15)

Date: 4/14/1561
Time: 06:00
Location: NUREMBURG, GERM
Description: Spheres and disks exit cylinder/cylindrical object / sky. Gone in flames. 'Common event' / r2p12.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_32

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "4", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "NUREMBURG,GERM:SPHERES+DISKS EXIT CYL/SKY:GONE in FLAMES:'common event'/r2p12", LatLong: "49.450002 11.116667", LatLongDMS: "49:27:00 N 11:07:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1566 (Back to Top)

Event 34 (68B34B9A)

Date: 8/7/1566
Time: 06:00
Location: BASEL, SWZ
Description: Large tilted cylinder/cylindrical object and many black disks. Aerial combat? / IFS#24+/ r221p14.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_33

Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "4", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "BASEL,SWZ:LRG TILTED CYL+MANY BLACK DISKS:AERIAL COMBAT?:/IFS#24+/r221p14", LatLong: "47.500002 7.583334", LatLongDMS: "47:30:00 N 07:35:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Basel", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1600 (Back to Top)

Event 35 (C5A905E6)

Date: 1600's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_1

Year: 1606 (Back to Top)

Event 36 (E4A1D2C2)

Date: 5/1/1606 (approximate)
Location: KYOTO, JAPAN
Description: May. Many fireballs. Flaming wheel spins near Nijo Castle. / Belgian UFO Society (SOBEPS) IFS#24.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_34

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "KYOTO,JAPAN:MAY:MANY FBLS:FLAMING WHEEL SPINS nr NIJO CASTLE:/SOBEPS IFS#24", LatLong: "35.000002 135.766673", LatLongDMS: "35:00:00 N 135:46:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "3"

Year: 1614 (Back to Top)

Event 37 (411060C2)

Date: 5/10/1614
Time: 18:00
Location: WESTLEY, ENGLAND
Description: Church records. 3 'suns' hover / one hour. Back again 18 Mar. '1639. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 399)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_35

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "WESTLEY,ENGLAND:CHURCH RECORDS:3 'SUNS' HVR/1hr:back again 18MAR1639:NFD", LatLong: "52.250002 0.666667", LatLongDMS: "52:15:00 N 00:40:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1621 (Back to Top)

Event 38 (F245F418)

Date: 9/11/1621
Description: Contrails and white "crowns" moved in groups over Paris, France at 10:00 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue 125
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5847

Event 39 (82A09183)

Date: 9/12/1621
Time: 22:00
Location: PARIS AND ST. DENIS, FR
Description: Separate observer(s). Contrails and white 'crowns' move in groups. / r186#24.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 125)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_36

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "10", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "PARIS+St DENIS,FR:SEP.OBS:CONTRAILS+WHT 'CROWNS' MOVE in GROUPS:/r186#24", LatLong: "48.816669 2.316667", LatLongDMS: "48:49:00 N 02:19:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1638 (Back to Top)

Event 40 (95D96328)

Date: 1638
Location: Moon
Description: English clergyman and philosopher John Wilkins writes The Discovery of a World in the Moone, in which he highlights the similarities of the Earth and the Moon seas, mountains, atmosphere and concludes that the Moon is likely to be inhabited by living beings, whom the calls “Selenites.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maria Avxentevskaya, “How 17th Century Dreamers Planned to Reach the Moon,” Real Clear Science, December 2, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_3

Event 41 (CE4E7B24)

Date: 1638
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Description: Night. John Everett and two companions are crossing the Muddy River near Boston, Massachusetts, in a boat when a “great light” appears above them. It darts back and forth across the river, sometimes hovering and “flaming up,” for about 2–3 hours. After they stop watching it, they discover that their boat has moved about one mile against the current to the place where they had embarked.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John Winthrop, The History of New England from 1630 to 1649, Little, Brown, 1853, vol. 1, pp. 349–350
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_4

Year: 1646 (Back to Top)

Event 42 (4B6340BF)

Date: 5/21/1646
Location: NEWMARKET TO/FROM THETFORD, ENGL
Description: Vertical cloud-cylinder/cigar-shape goes going down. Rises. Changes shape and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_37

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "90", HatchDesc: "NEWMARKET><THETFORD,ENGL:VERTICAL CLOUD-CGR GOES↓:RISES:CHANGES SHAPE+GONE", LatLong: "52.366669 0.550000", LatLongDMS: "52:22:00 N 00:33:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1660 (Back to Top)

Event 43 (59BC474F)

Date: 3/14/1660
Time: 20:00
Location: LONDON
Description: Bright white cloud 'drops fire' / Westminster Hall and parliament.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_38

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "LONDON:BRITE WHT CLOUD 'DROPS FIRE'/WESTMINSTER HALL+PARLIAMENT.", LatLong: "51.500002 -0.133333", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 00:08:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1663 (Back to Top)

Event 44 (4BB36054)

Date: 8/15/1663
Locations: church in a village near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia; Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia
Description: 12:00 noon. The faithful gathered in a church in a village near Lake Zarobozero, Vologda Oblast, Russia, hear a loud noise outside and see a large ball of fire descend from the north and then head south following the lake, low over its surface. The fireball seems to measure about 140 feet across and has blue smoke issuing from its sides. Two fiery rays extend from its front part. Less than an hour later, a similar fireball reappears over the same lake. Moving from south to west, the object again disappears. It reappears a third time a short while later, this time larger than before, and stays over the lake for an hour and a half. Peasants in a boat try to get close to it, but the heat is too intense. The water of the lake is illuminated to a depth of 30 feet, and fish are seen swimming away from the object, which then flies off to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Akty istoricheskie, sobranye i izdanye Arkheografischeskaia Kommissiia, Vol. 4, Saint Petersburg, 1842, pp. 331–332; Hobana and Weverbergh 54–61; Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, Wonders in the Sky, Tarcher, 2009, pp. 215–217; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 March 2012: 31; Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, pp. 157–161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_5

Event 45 (AF0E80F4)

Date: 8/15/1663
Description: At noon on this day a large ball of fire, 45 meters in diameter, descended toward Lake Robozero, Bieloziero, Russia. Two beams of light came from the object and was directed onto fisherman in a boat on the lake. The water in the lake was illuminated to a depth of 30 feet. The fisherman were burned by the heat from the beams, and the water became covered with a "rust" material.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, pp. 54-55; John W. Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 128 ; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 135
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5027

Year: 1665 (Back to Top)

Event 46 (97C821AB)

Date: 4/8/1665
Locations: Stralsund, Germany; St. Nicholas Church
Description: 6:00 p.m. Numerous wonders are seen in the sky over Stralsund, Germany, including ships, large flocks of birds, fire, and smoke, as well as a dark “round flat form like a plate and like a big man’s hat” that hovers above St. Nicholas Church for one hour. Witnesses include several fishermen who later complain of tremors in their hands and feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Eine abgebildete Beschreibung von dem wunderbarlichen Stralsundischen Lufft-Kriege und Schiff-streite , Leipzig, 1665; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 23–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_6

Year: 1672 (Back to Top)

Event 47 (71A3EB39)

Date: 2/8/1672
Time: 13:00
Location: OFF CHERBOURG, FR
Description: Dark 'flying ship' hovers still / wind. No sails. Going quickly south. / r186#25.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_39

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "33", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off CHERBOURG,FR:DARK 'FLYING SHIP' HVRS STILL/WIND:NO SAILS:>>S:/r186#25", LatLong: "49.833336 -1.750000", LatLongDMS: "49:50:00 N 01:45:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "6"

Event 48 (AEF12A1F)

Date: 2/8/1672
Description: A dark "flying ship" hovered in place over the ocean near Cherbourg, France during a wind. It had no sails, and eventually flew off to the south after 33 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 186
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_751

Year: 1685 (Back to Top)

Event 49 (226FF48C)

Date: 12/10/1685
Time: 22:30
Location: MOON
Description: Astronomer Bianchini. Reddish ray / light crosses crater Plato during eclipse.
Type: sighting
Reference: PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_40

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "MOON:ASTRONOMER BIANCHINI:REDDISH RAY/LITE CROSSES CRATER PLATO DURING ECLIPSE", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PLT", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1686 (Back to Top)

Event 50 (0C27C05D)

Date: 1686
Description: French philosopher Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle writes Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds, in which he speculates on extraterrestrial life. He imagines Venusians to be “little black people, scorched with the Sun, full of fire, very amorous.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_7

Event 51 (2E1A64CA)

Date: 7/9/1686
Time: 01:30
Location: LEIPZIG, GER
Description: Astronomer Kirch and more/others. Moon-size fireball hovers / 8 minute(s). Altitude = 50km. Same / 22 Mar. '1680.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 144)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_41

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "9", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "LEIPZIG,GER:ASTRONOMER KIRCH++:MOONSIZE FBL HVRS/8min:ALT=50km:SAME/22MAR1680", LatLong: "51.333336 12.400001", LatLongDMS: "51:20:00 N 12:24:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Saxony", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1692 (Back to Top)

Event 52 (D718C6A1)

Date: 5/6/1692
Time: 12:00?
Location: EDO = TOKYO, JAPAN
Description: 3 objects in formation. Type unknown. 6 wheels and 2 flying barns in Wales / 1694.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_42

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "EDO=TOKYO,JAPAN:3 OBJs/FORMn:type unk::6 WHEELS+2 FLYING BARNS in WALES/1694", LatLong: "35.683335 139.766673", LatLongDMS: "35:41:00 N 139:46:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1700 (Back to Top)

Event 53 (8E3A3D71)

Date: 1700's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_2

Year: 1707 (Back to Top)

Event 54 (D923A232)

Date: 12/18/1707
Time: 20:00
Location: SEVERAL COS / SOUTH ENGL
Description: Huge cylinder/cylindrical object and odd cloud and night lights move together. Low / horizon. / Rev. John Morton.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_43

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "60", HatchDesc: "SVRL cos/S.ENGL:HUGE CYL+ODD CLOUD+NLTS MOVE TOGETHER:LO/HRZN:/Rev.John Morton", LatLong: "52.000002 -2.000000", LatLongDMS: "52:00:00 N 02:00:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1716 (Back to Top)

Event 55 (50716DC7)

Date: 3/1/1716
Time: 21:00
Location: OFF NORTHWEST SPAIN
Description: British ship. Glowing cloud divided / beams of light. Seen / 15 hours and vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_44

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "132", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "OFF NW SPAIN:BRIT.SHIP:GLOWING CLOUD DIVIDED/BEAMS OF LITE:SEEN/15hrs+VANISHES", LatLong: "45.600002 -10.000000", LatLongDMS: "45:36:00 N 10:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "6"

Event 56 (0A561639)

Date: 3/6/1716
Time: 19:00
Location: LONDON
Description: Astronomer Edmond Halley. UFO / 2 hours. 'Bright enough to read'. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_45

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "LONDON:ASTRONOMER EDMOND HALLEY:UFO/2hrs:'BRIGHT ENOUGH TO READ':TYPE UNK", LatLong: "51.500002 -0.100000", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 00:06:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1726 (Back to Top)

Event 57 (18F9F290)

Date: 10/19/1726
Time: 19:30
Location: ATH, BELGIUM
Description: Large glowing clouds collide. Fireballs and light circles. Same / Vilvoorde later.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_46

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "8", Duration: "90", HatchDesc: "ATH,BELGIUM:LRG GLOWING CLOUDS COLLIDE:FBLS+LITE CIRCLES::SAME/VILVOORDE LATER", LatLong: "50.622225 3.772222", LatLongDMS: "50:37:20 N 03:46:20 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1731 (Back to Top)

Event 58 (887DF15A)

Date: 12/9/1731
Location: FIRENZE, ITALY
Description: 'Luminous cloud' going quickly [to] overhead at high velocity. / Charles Fort / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_47

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "FIRENZE,ITALY:'LUMINOUS CLOUD' >> OVHD AT HIGH VELOCITY:/CHARLES FORT/NEWS", LatLong: "43.783335 11.250001", LatLongDMS: "43:47:00 N 11:15:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Firenze", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1733 (Back to Top)

Event 59 (D7FEB48A)

Date: 12/8/1733
Time: 11:40
Location: FLEET, DORSET
Description: 1+2 observer(s). Silver saucer darts to and fro. Going quickly northwest. Same Berks to/from Kent / 11 Dec. '1753.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_48

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "FLEET,DORSET:1+2 OBS:SLVR SCR DARTS to+fro:>>NW::SAME BERKS><KENT/11DEC1753", LatLong: "51.283336 -0.833333", LatLongDMS: "51:17:00 N 00:50:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1737 (Back to Top)

Event 60 (BCE24C4F)

Date: 12/5/1737
Locations: Sheffield, England; Venice, Italy; Kilkenny, Ireland
Description: 5:00 p.m. Physician Thomas Short witnesses a blood-red luminous display in the sky around Sheffield, England, which moves from west to north and then to the east. The cause seems to be one or more clouds in which are embedded brilliant lights as bright as the full moon that give off slow-moving streamers or rays. The display is accompanied by unseasonable heat and lasts until 10:30 p.m. Short hears that a similar phenomenon is seen at the same time in Venice, Italy, and Kilkenny, Ireland, where it appears as a bursting fireball.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Thomas Short, “An Account of Several Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 41 1741: 625–627
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_8

Event 61 (530BA691)

Date: 12/5/1737
Description: An astronomer in Sheffield, England saw a dark red, luminous cloud that emitted intense beams of light (solid light). The light beams moved slowly, then stopped. He suddenly felt so hot that he had to remove his shirt outdoors.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of Phenomenon, p. 9; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Best UFO Cases--Europe, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8191

Event 62 (975E169D)

Date: 12/6/1737
Locations: Bucharest; Wallachia; Banat region
Description: Afternoon. A large, blood-red object is seen in the western sky at Bucharest, Wallachia [now Romania]. It lingers for two hours before splitting up then reuniting once again. The phenomenon is said to have occurred at night in the Banat region.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 222; Romania 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_9

Year: 1741 (Back to Top)

Event 63 (A0495A0E)

Date: 9/21/1741
Locations: Selborne, Hampshire, England; New Alresford; Bradley
Description: Dawn. Parson-naturalist Gilbert White wakes up at his vicarage in Selborne, Hampshire, England, and finds the neighboring clover fields matted all over with a thick coat of cobwebs, laced with dew. The dogs are blinded by it when they attempt to hunt. At 9:00 a.m. more cobwebs fall from the sky and continue until dusk. They are “perfect flakes or rags; some near an inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity that showed they were considerably heavier than the atmosphere.” The fall extends to the neighboring villages of New Alresford and Bradley.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne 1789, Letter XXIII
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_10

Event 64 (79ECBEAA)

Date: 12/11/1741
Time: 12:50
Location: HERTSFORDSHIRE AND LONDON, ENG
Description: 20cm fireball falls. Levels going quickly ESE and away. / r186#26+/ r34p85.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 387)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_49

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "HERTSFORDSHIRE+LONDON,ENG:20cm FBL FALLS:LEVELS >>ESE+AWAY:/r186#26+/r34p85", LatLong: "51.500002 -0.066667", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 00:04:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1742 (Back to Top)

Event 65 (5BC0C89C)

Date: 12/16/1742?
Locations: St. James’s Park; Westminster; London; England
Description: 8:40 p.m. Physician Cromwell Mortimer , secretary of the Royal Society, is walking through St. James’s Park in Westminster, London, England, when he sees a light ascend from behind the trees and houses in the southwest. When it reaches 20° against the sky, it takes a horizontal path with an undulating motion before disappearing in the northeast after a full 30 seconds. The front part is luminous with a frame-like structure behind it, and it has a faint trail. The date is questionable since Mortimer calls this a “Thursday” and December 16 was a Sunday.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [A Note by Cromwell Mortimer], Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 43 1745: 524–525
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_11

Year: 1743 (Back to Top)

Event 66 (8EFB94FE)

Date: 12/16/1743
Time: 20:40
Location: LONDON
Description: M. Cromwell. Flaming red-glowing cylinder/cylindrical object rises. Going northeast / slow wavy trajectory. / MJ#148.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 278)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_50

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LONDON:M.CROMWELL:FLAMING RED-GLO CYL RISES:>NE/SLOW WAVY TRAJECT:/MJ#148", LatLong: "51.500002 -0.050000", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 00:03:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1744 (Back to Top)

Event 67 (2498C335)

Date: 6/6/1744
Location: HRADEC-KRALOVY, CZK
Description: 2 brilliant disks seen. No further details. / Lumieres dans la Nuit (monthly, Paris) #326p34.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_51

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Czech and Slovak Republics", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "HRADEC-KRALOVY,CZK:2 BRILLIANT DISKS SEEN:NFD:/LDLN #326p34", LatLong: "50.200002 15.833334", LatLongDMS: "50:12:00 N 15:50:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VYC", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1745 (Back to Top)

Event 68 (314B6B9F)

Date: 7/14/1745
Locations: Standlake Broad; Oxford, England
Description: Astronomer George Costard observes a meteoric stream of fire that persists for at least one hour at Standlake Broad west of Oxford, England.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Part of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Geo. Costard to Mr. John Catlin, concerning a Fiery Meteor Seen in the Air on July 14, 1745,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 43 1745: 522–524
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_12

Year: 1749 (Back to Top)

Event 69 (92B5BCE6)

Date: 1/2/1749 (approximate)
Location: JAPAN / LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: 3 moonlike objects / 4 days. Later they line up. Days later 2 more show.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_52

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "6", Duration: "128", HatchDesc: "JAPAN/LOC UNK:3 MOONLIKE OBJS/4 DAYS:LATER THEY LINE UP:DAYS LATER 2 MORE SHOW", LatLong: "36.050002 140.000007", LatLongDMS: "36:03:00 N 140:00:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Event 70 (0C0E1DEA)

Date: 11/4/1749
Locations: North Atlantic Ocean; Cape Finisterre, Spain
Description: 11:50 a.m. The crew of the HMS Montagu watches a large blue fireball, apparently low on the water, head directly toward them from the northeast and explode some 150 feet away from the ship, causing some damage to the mast, before it continues on toward the southwest. The incident takes place in the North Atlantic Ocean some 240 miles west of Cape Finisterre, Spain.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Chalmers, “An Account of an Extraordinary Fireball Bursting at Sea,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 46 1752: 366–367; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 67–75; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 105–114
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_13

Year: 1752 (Back to Top)

Event 71 (D22F19E1)

Date: 4/15/1752
Location: STAVANGER, NORWAY
Description: 'Octagonal star' seen. / Charles Fort / Book of the Damned and IFS#26.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_53

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "STAVANGER,NORWAY:'OCTAGONAL STAR' SEEN:/CHARLES FORT/BOOK OF THE DAMNED+IFS#26", LatLong: "58.950003 5.716667", LatLongDMS: "58:57:00 N 05:43:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "5"

Event 72 (14E5D1AE)

Date: 6/1/1752?
Location: AUGERMANLAND, SWD
Description: Luminous spheres exit bright cylinder/cylindrical object in sky. Coordinates approximate. / IFS#26.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_54

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "AUGERMANLAND,SWD:LUM SPHERES EXIT BRITE CYL.IN SKY:COORDS APRX:/IFS#26", LatLong: "60.000003 15.000001", LatLongDMS: "60:00:00 N 15:00:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1755 (Back to Top)

Event 73 (B416ECB4)

Date: 3/1755
Location: Jupiter
Description: German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens, in which he theorizes that distance from the Sun determines the intelligence level of a world’s inhabitants; thus, the people who live on Mercury are the stupidest, and the Venusians are only dimly brighter—making any Jupiterians and Saturnians much smarter than earthlings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Universal Natural History and Theory of the Heavens”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_14

Event 74 (3278F6C0)

Date: 8/15/1755
Time: ~21:00
Location: CHISWICK, LONDON
Description: Odd sphere shoots brilliant beams. Drops and hovers just over ground.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_55

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "CHISWICK,LONDON:ODD SPHERE SHOOTS BRILL.BEAMS:DROPS+HVRS JUST OVR GROUND", LatLong: "51.483336 -0.266667", LatLongDMS: "51:29:00 N 00:16:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1756 (Back to Top)

Event 75 (942D1F0C)

Date: 1756
Description: Scottish astronomer James Ferguson writes Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, proclaiming the certainty of a plurality of inhabited worlds “peopled with myriads of intelligent beings, formed for endless progression in perfection and felicity.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: James Ferguson, Astronomy Explained upon Sir Isaac Newton’s Principles, 8th ed., London, 1790, p. 6; Matthew Goodman, The Sun and the Moon, Basic Books, 2008, pp. 189–190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_15

Event 76 (5B594964)

Date: 1/2/1756
Time: 16:00
Location: TORINO, ITL
Description: Blast shakes sky. Blue object shoots flames / 20 minutes passing. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_56

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", Elev: "239", HatchDesc: "TORINO,ITL:BLAST SHAKES SKY:BLUE OBJ SHOOTS FLAMES/20 MINUTES PASSING:NFD", LatLong: "45.083335 7.750000", LatLongDMS: "45:05:00 N 07:45:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Torino", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1758 (Back to Top)

Event 77 (F7FBDE28)

Date: 1758
Locations: Jupiter; Mars; Moon; Planets beyond the solar system
Description: Swedish theologian and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg writes in The Earths in the Universe that that he has conversed with spirits from Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Venus, and the Moon, as well as spirits from planets beyond the solar system. From these encounters, he concludes that the planets are all inhabited and that such an enormous undertaking as the universe cannot have been created for just one race on one planet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Emanuel Swedenborg, The Earths in the Universe, London, 1875; Richard Smoley, “Is There Really Life on Other Planets?” Swedenborg Foundation, February 15, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_16

Event 78 (DE7CA21E)

Date: 11/26/1758
Location: EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
Description: Fast conical object flies over. Offloads 3 small disks and flies away!
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_57

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "32", HatchDesc: "EDINBURGH,SCOTL:FAST CONICAL OBJ FLIES OVER:OFFLOADS 3 SML DISKS+FLIES AWAY!", LatLong: "55.950003 -3.233333", LatLongDMS: "55:57:00 N 03:14:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1759 (Back to Top)

Event 79 (689C074C)

Date: 4/27/1759
Location: Longdon, Somerset, England
Description: 4:00 p.m. Following a clap of thunder, a flat, pale object is seen “dancing” in the sky over Longdon, Somerset, England. It is joined by three similar objects, all of which move from west to east for 30 seconds and disappear in a cloud.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Universal Chronicle, May 5, 1759; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 83–96
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_17

Year: 1762 (Back to Top)

Event 80 (3E71FE38)

Date: 8/9/1762
Location: BASEL AND SOLETHURN, SWZ
Description: 2 astronomers. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape crosses solar disk. Outer edge glows.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_58

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "BASEL+SOLETHURN,SWZ:2 ASTRONOMERS:HUGE CGR CROSSES SOLAR DISK:OUTER EDGE GLOWS", LatLong: "47.516669 7.566667", LatLongDMS: "47:31:00 N 07:34:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Basel", Strangeness: "7"

Event 81 (4CD676DE)

Date: 8/9/1762
Locations: Lausanne, Switzerland; Solothurn, Switzerland; Paris, France
Description: 12:00 noon. An amateur astronomer named de Rostan is observing the Sun at Lausanne, Switzerland, when he notices a large, spindle-shaped body moving across the solar disc from east to west at a slower rate of speed than sunspots move. It is surrounded by a thin “nebulosity.” An observer named Croste in Solothurn, Switzerland, also observes the object, but French astronomer Charles Messier, who is also taking solar measurements in Paris, France, does not see it. It remains visible until September 7, when it passes the Sun’s western limb.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Observation Astronomique,” Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Sciences, 1766, pp. 106–107; “An Account of a Very Singular Phaenomenon Seen in the Disk of the Sun,” Annual Register, 1766, pp. 120–122; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 33–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_18

Year: 1767 (Back to Top)

Event 82 (58B4B5A2)

Date: 9/1767
Location: COUPAR ANGUS, SCOT
Description: Pyramid. Lifts cart. Knocks man / horse. Damages buildings. / r186#28.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 256)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_59

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "59", HatchDesc: "COUPAR ANGUS,SCOT:PYRAMID:LIFTS CART:KNOCKS MAN/HORSE:DAMAGES BLDGs:/r186#28", LatLong: "56.550003 -3.266667", LatLongDMS: "56:33:00 N 03:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "8"

Event 83 (B71CF74B)

Date: 9/9/1767
Locations: Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland; River Isla; River Ericht; Blairgowrie
Description: A cloud “like a house on fire” that soon takes on a pyramidal form is seen traveling along the course of the River Isla near Coupar Angus, Perth, Scotland. It moves northeast to the confluence of the River Ericht and follows that stream to the west toward Blairgowrie where it disappears. It is accompanied by strong winds that destroy two houses.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Annual Register 1767, pp. 127–128
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_19

Year: 1768 (Back to Top)

Event 84 (2E746B2A)

Date: 9/1/1768 (approximate)
Location: NEAR LEIPZIG, GERMANY
Description: Goethe. Ballet of miniature lights / roadside hollow. / IFS#28.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_60

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "nr LEIPZIG,GERMANY:GOETHE:BALLET of MINIATURE LITES/ROADSIDE HOLLOW:/IFS#28", LatLong: "51.300002 12.400001", LatLongDMS: "51:18:00 N 12:24:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Saxony", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1777 (Back to Top)

Event 85 (B0ED6E4F)

Date: 6/17/1777
Location: Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France
Description: 11:46 a.m. French astronomer Charles Messier views a large number of round, dark-brown globules passing in front of the disc of the sun for 5 minutes from west-southwest to east-northeast. He sees them through an achromatic refractor at the naval observatory located in the Hôtel de Cluny in Paris, France. His estimate of their size one-600th the size of the solar disc puts them near the limit of resolution for his telescope, but Messier claims the objects are far away and in focus.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles Messier, “Observation singulaire d’une prodigieuse quantité de petits globules qui ont passé devant le disque du soleil, le 17 juin 1777,” Mémoires de l’Academie Royale des Sciences, 1777, pp. 464–472; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 7–18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_20

Year: 1780 (Back to Top)

Event 86 (F6C7E6E5)

Date: 1780's
Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
Type: scientific advanced
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_3

Event 87 (13B85F25)

Date: 2/5/1780
Time: 07:00?
Location: BUSSIERES, FR
Description: Civil records. Flaming 'dragon' going [to] overhead / 15 minute(s). Lights all below brightly.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_61

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "BUSSIERES,FR:CVL RECORDS:FLAMING 'DRAGON' >OVHD/15min:LITES ALL BELOW BRIGHTLY", LatLong: "48.927780 3.238889", LatLongDMS: "48:55:40 N 03:14:20 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine-et-Marne", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1783 (Back to Top)

Event 88 (CB7C73A2)

Date: 1783
Location: Bath, England
Description: British astronomer William Herschel has been observing the lunar surface since the mid-1770s in Bath, England, and writes journal entries in which he details sightings of immense trees, forests, and pastures, comparing it to the English countryside. By 1778, he is seeing circular formations that he thinks are towns and villages. He also notes canals, roads, and patches of vegetation, but never writes about it publicly, since he knows that telescopic observations can be tricky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George Basalla, Civilized Life in the Universe, Oxford University, 2006, pp. 51–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_21

Event 89 (C3B5452B)

Date: 8/18/1783
Time: 21:30
Location: GREENWICH, ENGL AND BELGIUM
Description: Cloud cylinder/cigar-shape and 8 spheres all going southeast slow. Meteors? / r2p13+IFS#28.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 145)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_62

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "GREENWICH,ENGL+BELGIUM:CLOUD CGR+8 SPHERES ALL >SE SLOW:meteors?:/r2p13+IFS#28", LatLong: "51.466669 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "51:28:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "2"

Event 90 (626D65C3)

Date: 8/18/1783
Locations: British Isles; North Sea; east coast of Scotland; England; English Channel; southwestern France; northern Italy; Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England
Description: 9:15–9:30 p.m. An unusually bright bolide is observed in the British Isles on a clear, dry night. Analysis indicates that the meteor has entered the Earth’s atmosphere over the North Sea, before passing over the east coast of Scotland, England, and the English Channel; it finally breaks up, after a passage within the atmosphere of around 1,000 miles, over southwestern France or northern Italy. Perhaps the most prominent witness is Tiberius Cavallo , an Italian natural philosopher who happens to be among a group of people on the terrace at Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England, at the time the meteor appears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “1783 Great Meteor”; Tiberius Cavallo, “Description of a Meteor, Observed Aug. 18, 1783,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 74 1784: 108–111; Charles Blagden, “An Account of Some Late Fiery Meteors,” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 74 1784: 202–232; Martin Beech, “The Great Meteor of 18th August 1783,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 99 1989: 130–134; Kaushik Patowary, “The Great Meteor of 1783,” Amusing Planet, September 8, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_22

Year: 1790 (Back to Top)

Event 91 (9A5230B6)

Date: 6/12/1790
Location: Alençon, Normandy, France
Description: 5:00 a.m. Several farmers in Alençon, Normandy, France, see a large globe surrounded by flames and making a whistling sound. The object slows, oscillates, and moves toward the top of a hill, unearthing some plants along the slope. The heat is so intense that grass and small trees start burning. In the evening the sphere is still warm. Witnesses include two mayors, a doctor, and three other authorities in addition to the dozens of peasants who are present. A kind of door opens and a person emerges. He is dressed in a tight-fitting suit and, seeing all the people, says some words that are not understood. He runs into the woods. The sphere explodes silently, throwing pieces everywhere, and these pieces burn until they are powder. The original source is allegedly from a June 17 report by a Police Inspector Liabeuf and forwarded to the French Academy of Sciences. However, the Academy reported in 2006 that it has no knowledge of such a report in its archives. Probable hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Alberto Penoglio, “Antichi Visitatori dal Cielo,” Clypeus 3, n. 3 1966: 13–14; Vallée, Magonia, pp. 60–61; “1790 UFO Crash or Time Traveller?” Cool Interesting Stuff, June 1, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_23

Year: 1793 (Back to Top)

Event 92 (8F2F0A80)

Date: 11/27/1793
Time: ~19:30
Location: FLORESTI, ROM
Description: Earthquake. Next day 'moon' east going west / 30 minute(s) across sky and stops! / LDLN#119.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_63

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "FLORESTI,ROM:EARTHQUAKE:NEXT DAY 'MOON' E>W/30min ACRS SKY +STOPS!:/LDLN#119", LatLong: "45.100002 23.850001", LatLongDMS: "45:06:00 N 23:51:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bucharest", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1795 (Back to Top)

Event 93 (FD18A877)

Date: 11/18/1795
Time: 23:00
Location: DERBY, ENGL
Description: Many observer(s). Fireball bounces going up and down. Odd clouds. Sonic booms. No further details. / Periodicals.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_64

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "10", Elev: "67", HatchDesc: "DERBY,ENGL:MANY OBS:FBL BOUNCES ↑+↓:ODD CLOUDS:SONIC BOOMS:NFD:/Periodicals", LatLong: "52.938891 -1.466667", LatLongDMS: "52:56:20 N 01:28:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1796 (Back to Top)

Event 94 (2B74A206)

Date: 10/1796 (approximate)
Time: ~07:00
Location: NEW MINAS, NS
Description: 3 observer(s). 15 airships going quickly east. Man seen / front end / 1 ship. / r54p18.
Type: sighting
Reference: LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_65

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "NEW MINAS,NS:3 OBS:15 AIRSHIPS >>E:MAN SEEN/FRONT END/1 SHIP:/r54p18", LatLong: "45.072224 -64.472225", LatLongDMS: "45:04:20 N 64:28:20 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nova Scotia", Strangeness: "8"

Year: 1798 (Back to Top)

Event 95 (245868CA)

Date: 9/10/1798
Time: 22:40
Location: ALNWICK, NORTH ENGLAND
Description: Cylinder/cylindrical object jumps from cloud. Splits going [to] 2 saucers with luminous rays. Vanishes / 5 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_66

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "ALNWICK,N.ENGLAND:CYL.JUMPS FROM CLOUD:SPLITS>2 SCRS W/LUM.RAYS:VANISHES/5min", LatLong: "55.077780 -1.716667", LatLongDMS: "55:04:40 N 01:43:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 96 (5DC22480)

Date: 9/10/1798
Location: Alnwick, Northumberland, England
Description: Before midnight. Schoolmaster Alexander Campbell and one other person observe a “remarkable comet, or meteor” at Alnwick, Northumberland, England. It rapidly increases in brightness, changing from a star-like object to a shape like “two half-moons, back to back, having a short luminous stream between the two backs” over the course of 5 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Annual Register 1798, p. 83
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_24

Year: 1799 (Back to Top)

Event 97 (5F17D608)

Date: 7/1799
Location: BRUGES, BELGIUM
Description: Unusual meteor goes south. Returns going quickly north. Then makes 45° turn going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_67

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BRUGES,BELGIUM:UNUSUAL METEOR GOES S:RETURNS >> N:THEN MAKES 45° TURN>>NW", LatLong: "51.200002 3.200000", LatLongDMS: "51:12:00 N 03:12:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1800 (Back to Top)

Event 98 (32481B28)

Date: 1800's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_4

Year: 1803 (Back to Top)

Event 99 (DA42B921)

Date: 2/22/1803
Location: NEAR TOKYO, JAPAN
Description: 6M saucer-ship floats ashore. Young woman exits. Very white skin..
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN ABDUCTIONS - the Mystery Solved; Inner Light, NJ 1988. (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_68

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "2", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "nr TOKYO,JAPAN:6M SCR-SHIP FLOATS ASHORE:YOUNG WOMAN EXITS:VERY WHITE SKIN..", LatLong: "35.500002 139.666673", LatLongDMS: "35:30:00 N 139:40:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "8"

Event 100 (23E6F2B5)

Date: 2/22/1803
Alternate date: 3/24/1803
Location: Hitachi province, Japan
Description: An attractive young woman aged 18–20 years old arrives on a beach aboard a “hollow ship” Utsuro-bune that looks like a rice cooking pot or incense burner in Hitachi province, Japan. Fishermen bring her inland to investigate further, but the woman is unable to communicate in Japanese. She is dressed in a foreign fashion made of unknown fabrics and is clutching an ornate box also marked with the unknown script. The vessel is covered in hieroglyphs that no one can decipher. The fishermen return her and her vessel to the sea, where it drifts away. Accounts of the tale appear in three texts: Toen shōsetsu 1825, Hyōryū kishū 1835, and Ume-no-chiri 1844, but no official records mention it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Utsuro-bune”; Kazuo Tanaka, “Did a Close Encounter of the Third Kind Occur on a Japanese Beach in 1803?” Skeptical Inquirer 24, no. 4 July/August 2000: 37–60; Masaru Mori, “The Female Alien in a Hollow Vessel,” Fortean Times 48 Spring 1987: 48–50; Junji Numakawa, “On a UFO-Shaped Boat in 1803,” UFO Criticism 1, no 1 January 2001: 2–3; Tanaka Kazuo, “‘Utsurobune’: A UFO Legend from Nineteenth-Century Japan,” nippon.com, June 26, 2020; Shoichi Kamon [pseud. of Tanaka Kazuo], The Mystery of Utsuro-bune: Ancient UFO Encounter in Japan? Flying Disk Press, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_25

Year: 1808 (Back to Top)

Event 101 (18B819ED)

Date: 5/16/1808
Time: ~15:00
Location: SKANNINGE, SWEDEN
Description: Sky turns red. Brown hat-crown size objects pass overhead going quickly east. / Charles Fort.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_69

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SKANNINGE,SWEDEN:SKY TURNS RED:BROWN HAT-CROWN SIZE OBJS PASS OVHD>>E:/C.FORT", LatLong: "58.394447 15.077778", LatLongDMS: "58:23:40 N 15:04:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 102 (CC999384)

Date: 5/16/1808
Locations: Biskopsberga; Skänninge; Sweden
Description: 4:00 p.m. Swedish lichenologist Erik Acharius watches a stream of dark-brown spherical objects moving slowly through the sky in a straight line over Biskopsberga, near Skänninge, Sweden. Some hover temporarily and speed up, while others fall to earth. The objects appear in the western sky and stream to the east for 2 hours. Some are apparently linked together in groups of three, six, or eight, and all of them have some kind of trail. A few of them fall in the vicinity of K. G. Wettermark, who has also been observing. They resemble soap bubbles and dissipate quickly, leaving a film like cobweb.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Erik Acharius, “Besynnerligt Meteor-Phenomén,” Konglige Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handligar, ser. 2, vol. 29 July/September 1808: 215–218; “Account of an Extraordinary Meteoric Phenomenon,” North American Review 3 1816: 320–322; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 18–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_26

Year: 1809 (Back to Top)

Event 103 (1D961CE2)

Date: 8/10/1809
Location: LONDON
Description: Scientist Staveley. Many night lights maneuver / dark cloud cover. No further details. / r2p14.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 403)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_70

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "LONDON:SCIENTIST STAVELEY:MANY NLTS MNVR/DARK CLOUD COVER:NFD:/r2p14", LatLong: "51.516669 -0.083333", LatLongDMS: "51:31:00 N 00:05:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "3"

Year: 1811 (Back to Top)

Event 104 (AC80CEF9)

Date: 11/7/1811
Time: 20:50
Location: LONDON, ENG
Description: T. Forster. Large meteor moves in sudden jumps. Enters cloud. Never exits.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_71

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "LONDON,ENG:T.FORSTER:LRG METEOR MOVES IN SUDDEN JUMPS:ENTERS CLOUD:NEVER EXITS", LatLong: "51.483336 -0.100000", LatLongDMS: "51:29:00 N 00:06:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1812 (Back to Top)

Event 105 (AA3455A1)

Date: 4/1812 (approximate)
Time: ~20:00
Location: NORTHEAST / MANOSQUE, FR
Description: 7 observer(s). Luminous globe going [to] over road. 4 figure(s) with lights inside. Volcano active.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_72

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "NE/MANOSQUE,FR:7 OBS:LUMn.GLOBE >OVR ROAD:4 FIGs W/LITES INSIDE:volcano active", LatLong: "43.916669 5.916667", LatLongDMS: "43:55:00 N 05:55:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Alpes de Haute Provence", Strangeness: "8"

Event 106 (1B32BD35)

Date: 5/1/1812
Time: 09:00?
Location: BARBADOS ISLAND
Description: 2 large colored clouds hover / 12 hours. Other clouds move. Blasts. Big ash fall.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_73

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "8", Duration: "208", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "BARBADOS ISL:2 LRG CLRD CLOUDS HVR/12hrs:other clouds move:BLASTS:BIG ASH FALL", LatLong: "13.083334 -59.550003", LatLongDMS: "13:05:00 N 59:33:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRB", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1813 (Back to Top)

Event 107 (A0EEDCE6)

Date: 3/22/1813
Time: 19:20
Location: LONDON AND AREA
Description: Triangular 'meteor' hovers near cloud. Going west. Beams rays all over/all about. Glowing-orbs exit.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_74

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LONDON+AREA:TRIANGULAR 'METEOR' HVRS nr CLOUD:>W:BEAMS RAYS ALLO:GLO-ORBS EXIT", LatLong: "51.516669 -0.116667", LatLongDMS: "51:31:00 N 00:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1814 (Back to Top)

Event 108 (7F2BC307)

Date: 9/5/1814
Time: 11:00
Location: NORTHWEST / AGEN, FR
Description: Small round cloud hovers / strong wind. Spins and shoots going quickly south. Stones fall. Fades.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_75

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "50", HatchDesc: "NW/AGEN,FR:SML ROUND CLOUD HVRS/STRONG WIND:SPINS+SHOOTS>>S:STONES FALL:FADES", LatLong: "44.333335 0.500000", LatLongDMS: "44:20:00 N 00:30:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Lot-et-Garonne", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1817 (Back to Top)

Event 109 (CD84759C)

Date: 9/25/1817
Time: 18:30
Location: LANEJOIS, FR
Description: 3 observer(s). Red-glowing disk disk going [to] near Roman ruins / 2-3 minute(s). / Journal de Lozere.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_76

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "LANEJOIS,FR:3 OBS:RED-GLO DISK DISK > nr ROMAN RUINS/2-3min:/JOURNAL de LOZERE", LatLong: "44.500002 3.577778", LatLongDMS: "44:30:00 N 03:34:40 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Lozère", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1819 (Back to Top)

Event 110 (80AD7966)

Date: 8/13/1819
Location: Amherst, Massachusetts
Description: 8:00–9:00 p.m. A brilliant white fireball streaks across the sky at Amherst, Massachusetts. The next morning, Erastus Dewey finds a strange substance 20 feet from his front door and assumes it is residue from the meteorite. It is about 8 inches in diameter, resembles an upside-down salad dish, and consists of buff-colored pulpy substance with an overwhelmingly bad smell. It is covered with a nap that, when removed, causes the interior to liquefy and form a starchy substance. A couple days later, it largely dissipates. Geologist Edward Hitchcock thinks it is some kind of “gelatinous fungus” common to the area in the late summer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Rufus Graves, “Account of a Gelatinous Meteor,” American Journal of Science 2 1820: 335–337; Edward Hitchcock, “On the Meteors of Nov. 13, 1833,” American Journal of Science 25 1834: 354, 362–363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_27

Year: 1820 (Back to Top)

Event 111 (976A8B86)

Date: 2/12/1820
Description: 10:45 a.m. A German astronomer and cleric named Steinheibel watches a clearly defined dark orange-red spot traversing the disc of the Sun in about five hours.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joseph Johann von Littrow, “Further Note on the Supposed Observation of an Intra-Mercurial Planet on the 12th of February, 1820,” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 22 1862: 276
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_28

Event 112 (73F1AE09)

Date: 9/7/1820 (approximate)
Time: 20:00?
Location: EMBRUN, FR
Description: Many observer(s). Saucers maneuver / military precision during lunar eclipse. 90° turns etc.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_77

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "EMBRUN,FR:MANY OBS:SCRS MNVR/MIL PRECISION during LUNAR ECLIPSE:90°TURNS etc", LatLong: "44.566669 6.500000", LatLongDMS: "44:34:00 N 06:30:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hautes Alpes", Strangeness: "6"

Event 113 (C14826F3)

Date: 9/7/1820
Description: At 8:00 p.m. many observers in Embrun, Hautes-Alpes, France watched flying saucers maneuver with military precision during a lunar eclipse, making 90 degree turns and other maneuvers, for five minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers magazine, November 1973, p. 36; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 24
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5706

Year: 1822 (Back to Top)

Event 114 (CCF07942)

Date: 10/23/1822
Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
Description: Date unknown. Astronomer Pastorff. 2 disks pass sun's face. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_78

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "9", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "BERLIN,GERMANY:DATE UNK:ASTRONOMER PASTORFF:2 DISKS PASS SUN'S FACE:NFD", LatLong: "52.533336 13.400001", LatLongDMS: "52:32:00 N 13:24:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "6"

Event 115 (89B84165)

Date: 10/23/1822
Description: On this day in Berlin, Germany Astronomer Pastorff watched two disc pass in front of the face of the Sun.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case no. 81
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7032

Year: 1823 (Back to Top)

Event 116 (9D3DF87B)

Date: 8/7/1823
Time: 17:00
Location: NOBLESVILLE, IN
Description: 12M square cloud / clear sky. Spirals going down. Shots heard. Drops meteorite!
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_79

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "242", HatchDesc: "NOBLESVILLE,IN:12M SQUARE CLOUD/CLR SKY:SPIRALS↓:SHOTS HEARD:DROPS METEORITE!", LatLong: "40.033335 -86.016671", LatLongDMS: "40:02:00 N 86:01:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1824 (Back to Top)

Event 117 (CFD2771A)

Date: 1824
Locations: Munich, Germany; Moon; Schröter crater
Description: Bavarian astronomer Franz von Gruithuisen of Munich, Germany, writes Discovery of Many Distinct Traces of Lunar Inhabitants, Especially of One of their Colossal Buildings, in which he announces his discovery of a city on the Moon in the rough terrain to the north of Schröter crater that he names the Wallwerk. This region contains a series of somewhat linear ridges that have a fishbone-like pattern, and, with the small refracting telescope he is using, can be perceived as resembling buildings complete with streets. His claims are readily refuted using more powerful instruments. Gruithuisen also thinks that the mysterious “ashen light” observed on Venus’s dark side is due to a festival of fire in honor of the “ascension of a new emperor to the throne of the planet.” Later, he speculates that the illumination is caused by burning jungles to create new farmland.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Gruithuisen’s Lunar City,” whatsupinthesky.com; David Dunér, “Venusians: The Planet Venus in the 18th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate,” Journal of Astronomical Data 19, no. 1 2013: 162; Andrew May, “The Lost Ruins of the Moon,” Fortean Times 358 October 2017: 56
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_29

Event 118 (744B5C95)

Date: 2/11/1824
Location: DARK LIMB OF MOON
Description: Light flashes intermittently / 30 minute(s). / observatory record.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_80

Attributes: HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "5", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "DARK LIMB of MOON:LIGHT FLASHES INTERMITTENTLY/30min:/OBSERVATORY RECORD", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"

Event 119 (61EAF593)

Date: 10/20/1824
Time: 05:00
Location: DARK PART / MOON
Description: Astronomer. Bright object 400X200 km. wide! Going quickly [to] Mt. Copernicus.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_81

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "DARK PART/MOON:ASTRONOMER:BRITE OBJ 400X200 km. WIDE!:>>MT COPERNICUS", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MCP", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1825 (Back to Top)

Event 120 (C0175E43)

Date: 1825
Description: Ampère published his "Ampère’s law."
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_5

Event 121 (1FAC6EBA)

Date: 8/12/1825
Time: 03:30
Location: SEA NEAR HAWAII
Description: A. Bloxam. Round glowing object rises / sea going up [to] clouds & descends twice.
Type: sighting
Reference: SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_82

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SEA nr HAWAII:A.BLOXAM:RND GLOWING OBJ RISES/SEA ↑CLOUDS & DESCENDS TWICE:", LatLong: "21.333334 -158.000008", LatLongDMS: "21:20:00 N 158:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HWI", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1826 (Back to Top)

Event 122 (3FE90B18)

Date: 4/1/1826
Locations: Rastpfuhl; Saarbrücken; Germany
Description: 4:00 p.m. Stone mason Johannes Becker hears a noise resembling thunder at Rastpfuhl, northwest of Saarbrücken, Germany, and sees a grayish object “like two pieces of tin” approaching the earth with lightning speed and expanding itself like a sheet before falling to earth, apparently not far away. After one minute there is another sound like thunder and a strong whirlwind, as if coming from an impact. Pastor Köllner collects testimony from other nearby witnesses and visits the supposed landing site but finds no burn marks or meteoritic stones.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ernst Chladni, “Über eine merkwürdige meteorische Erscheinung, am 1 April 1826, nicht weit von Saarbrücken,” Annalen der Physik und Chemie 7 1826: 373–377; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 31–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_30

Year: 1828 (Back to Top)

Event 123 (3401DC13)

Date: 5/28/1828
Time: 10:00?
Location: NURNBERG, GERM
Description: Kaspar Hauser age 17. Apparently raised / aliens. Amazing. see reference.
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHELL, John: The FLYING SAUCER VISION; Ace-Star Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_83

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "NURNBERG,GERM:KASPAR HAUSER AGE 17:APPARENTLY RAISED/ALIENS:amazing. see ref", LatLong: "49.466669 11.116667", LatLongDMS: "49:28:00 N 11:07:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "9"

Event 124 (E52026A2)

Date: 10/1828 (approximate)
Location: CASSADAGA SWAMP, NY
Description: Man lost. Brilliant 12M square / light guides him back to road twice!
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 140)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_84

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "50", Elev: "396", HatchDesc: "CASSADAGA SWAMP,NY:MAN LOST:BRILL.12M SQR/LITE GUIDES HIM BACK TO ROAD TWICE!", LatLong: "42.316669 -79.300004", LatLongDMS: "42:19:00 N 79:18:00 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "9"

Year: 1829 (Back to Top)

Event 125 (AB804E71)

Date: 8/20/1829
Location: York Road east of Leeds, England
Description: 11:00 p.m. A man on the York Road east of Leeds, England, sees a moon-like object split into two halves, the upper half of which gives off an apparent shaft of light. He sees two human figures visible to the waist, one of which has a red cloth around its head. The object is visible for more than one hour and is seen by others, during which time a cloud passes in front of it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Celestial Phenomena,” York Herald, August 22, 1829, p. 2; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 111–125
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_31

Year: 1831 (Back to Top)

Event 126 (225017DB)

Date: 1831
Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_6

Year: 1832 (Back to Top)

Event 127 (49C66361)

Date: 7/4/1832
Location: MOON
Description: Astronomer Webb. Dot and dash flashes / Mare Crisium. Blots and rays / light. / r223p51.
Type: sighting
Reference: PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_85

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "MOON:ASTRONOMER WEBB:DOT+DASH FLASHES/MARE CRISIUM:BLOTS+RAYS/LITE:/r223p51", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MCR", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1833 (Back to Top)

Event 128 (0018787F)

Date: 11/13/1833
Description: On this date in 1833 a series of incidents involving a luminous aerial object and the fall of mysterious jelly-like substances were reported in New York, New Jersey and Ohio. At dawn in West Point, New York, a woman milking her cow saw a luminous object descend "with a sposh" sound. She discovered a flattened, jelly-like transparent mass. By 10:00 in the morning it had sublimed and disappeared. The same kind of jelly-like substance was found on the ground in Newark and Rahway, New Jersey. In Poland, Ohio a luminous object in the northeastern sky, at dawn, hovered for nearly an hour. It was described as very brilliant, and was shaped like a "pruning hook." Earlier, at a short time after 2:00 a.m., a luminous object was also seen in the sky at Niagara Falls, New York. It was shaped like a square table, remained stationary in the sky, and emitted rays of light.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon Lore, Jr. and Harold H.Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 60-61
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7622

Year: 1835 (Back to Top)

Event 129 (16FD241D)

Date: 5/11/1835
Locations: Palermo Observatory; Italy
Description: At the Palermo Observatory in Italy, astronomer Niccolò Cacciatore detects a starlike object in the Southern sky between the constellations Virgo and Crater moving at a slow rate that might indicate a planet beyond Uranus. It is nowhere to be seen during his next observation on May 14.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Supposed New Planet,” American Journal of Science 31 1837: 158–159
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_32

Event 130 (A264B037)

Date: 8/25/1835
End date: 8/31/1835
Locations: New York; America; Europe
Description: The New York Sun publishes a series of six articles on the alleged discovery by English astronomer John Herschel of plants, animals, and winged people on the lunar surface. Using a huge and powerful telescope, Herschel supposedly sees herds of bison-like quadrupeds, a spherical amphibious creature, and a bipedal beaver that lives in huts. The humans are man-bats “covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs.” The article is an elaborate hoax. Herschel hasn’t observed life on the moon at all, nor is Herschel even aware of the story until much later. The announcement causes enormous excitement throughout America and Europe. Authorship of the article is usually attributed to Richard Adams Locke, a reporter who is working for The Sun at the time. Locke publicly admits to being the author in 1840, in a letter to the weekly paper New World, although his intent is satire, not misinformation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Great Moon Hoax”; Richard Adams Locke, The Moon Hoax, Gowans, 1859
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_33

Year: 1836 (Back to Top)

Event 131 (681A8D45)

Date: 7/1836?
Location: SZEGED, HUNGARY
Description: Spherical lights. Lady-in-white appears and vanishes. Local uproar.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_86

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, HST: Historical account, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Hungary", Credibility: "4", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SZEGED,HUNGARY:SPHERICAL LITES:LADY-IN-WHITE APPEARS+VANISHES:LOCAL UPROAR", LatLong: "46.250002 20.150001", LatLongDMS: "46:15:00 N 20:09:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CSG", Strangeness: "8"

Year: 1838 (Back to Top)

Event 132 (2621D085)

Date: 1838
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_7

Event 133 (6E98F7BA)

Date: 1838
Location: Broughty Ferry, Dundee
Description: Scottish minister and science writer Thomas Dick publishes Celestial Scenery: The Wonders of the Planetary System Displayed, in which he suggests that every planet in the Solar System is inhabited. At his home in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, he computes that the Solar System contains 21.9 trillion inhabitants, 53.5 billion of them on Venus. This is done comparing the surface area of each planet and the population density of England.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Thomas Dick, Celestial Scenery , Harper, 1838
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_34

Year: 1842 (Back to Top)

Event 134 (F3673F9D)

Date: 6/30/1842
Time: 12:00?
Location: CUPAR, FIFE, SCOTLAND
Description: Big boom. Clothes fly off lines. Some drop. Others fly away!
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_87

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "48", HatchDesc: "CUPAR,FIFE,SCOTLAND:BIG BOOM:CLOTHES FLY OFF LINES:SOME DROP:OTHERS FLY AWAY!", LatLong: "56.322225 -3.005556", LatLongDMS: "56:19:20 N 03:00:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "5"

Event 135 (CDD1F244)

Date: 7/1842?
Location: ORENBURG, RUSSIA
Description: Odd cloud hovers. Perfectly hexagonal metal pieces fall! P280.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_88

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ORENBURG,RUS:ODD CLOUD HOVERS:PERFECTLY HEXAGONAL METAL PIECES FALL!:p280", LatLong: "41.833335 55.083336", LatLongDMS: "41:50:00 N 55:05:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ORE", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1843 (Back to Top)

Event 136 (CFB23006)

Date: 3/5/1843
Time: 01:00
Location: BUCHAREST, ROM
Description: Signs appear in sky. One is [a] pyramidal comet. Not weather balloon.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_89

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "9", Duration: "104", HatchDesc: "BUCHAREST,ROM:SIGNS APPEAR IN SKY:1=PYRAMIDAL COMET:NOT WEATHER BALLOON:", LatLong: "44.433335 26.100001", LatLongDMS: "44:26:00 N 26:06:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bucharest", Strangeness: "5"

Event 137 (5438293B)

Date: 5/7/1843
Description: An object with the "resemblance of a ship" sailed through the air over Quebec City, Quebec, Canada and cast a shadow on the ground.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John R. Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2610

Event 138 (4C95BDAA)

Date: 10/3/1843
Description: Farmer Cooper saw three men flying through the sky over Warwick, Quebec. They were completely white.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Colombo, UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, p. 209
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6516

Year: 1845 (Back to Top)

Event 139 (8C7D7F30)

Date: 5/11/1845
Location: CAPODIMONTE OBSERVER(S), ITL
Description: Astronomer. Odd shapes pass suns face / 2 days. / Nature. / r2p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 278)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_90

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "CAPODIMONTE OBS.,ITL:ASTRONOMR:ODD SHAPES PASS SUNS FACE/2 DAYS:/NATURE:/r2p15", LatLong: "40.866669 14.200001", LatLongDMS: "40:52:00 N 14:12:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NA", Strangeness: "4"

Event 140 (07BE51C4)

Date: 6/18/1845
Location: NORTHWEST / MALTA
Description: Steamship Victoria. Wind stops. 3 luminous silver saucers rise / sea. Hover. Shoot going up. / r44p34.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_91

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "NW/MALTA:SS VICTORIA:WIND STOPS:3 LUMn.SLVR SCRS RISE/SEA:HVR:SHOOT↑:/r44p34", LatLong: "36.683335 13.744445", LatLongDMS: "36:41:00 N 13:44:40 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "7"

Event 141 (19F7E1AD)

Date: 6/18/1845
Locations: Strait of Sicily; Licata, Sicily, Italy; Ainab, Lebanon
Description: 10:30 p.m. The British brig Victoria, captained by George Henry Caithness , is becalmed in the Strait of Sicily about 30 miles southwest of Licata, Sicily, Italy, when a huge wind suddenly blows from the east for two hours. Then the wind suddenly stops, and the crew feels an overpowering heat and smells a sulfuric stench. At this moment three “luminous bodies” emerge from the sea about one-half mile away and remain visible for 10 minutes. Shortly thereafter the wind picks up again. This could be a magma plume from an undersea volcanic vent. Around 7:10 p.m., at Ainab, Lebanon, two objects five times as large as the moon, joined by “streamers or appendages,” are observed in the west and remain visible for one hour, moving slowly on an easterly course. The objects are so bright they are painful to look at. A possible outgassing event from the Madrepore subsea vent.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Atmospherical Phenomena,” London Morning Chronicle, August 8, 1845, p. 5; The Athenaeum, August 19, 1848, p. 833; James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors, 1860–61,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1861, pp. 30–31; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 139–152; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 115–126
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_35

Year: 1847 (Back to Top)

Event 142 (355CC71A)

Date: 3/18/1847
Location: DARK PART / MOON
Description: Luminous dots appear / 2 days. 11+12 December. Bright flashing light / dark part.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_92

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "5", Duration: "196", HatchDesc: "DARK PART/MOON:LUM.DOTS APPEAR/2 DAYS::11+12DEC:BRITE FLASHING LITE/DARK PART", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "DRK", Strangeness: "6"

Event 143 (A9ACD625)

Date: 3/19/1847
Locations: Highbury East, London, England; Hampstead
Description: 8:30 p.m. A woman and her companion are in Highbury East, London, England, when they notice what seems to be a fire balloon ascending slowly in the west, seemingly over Hampstead. It shoots out “several fiery coruscations” and turns into an intensely radiant cloud, which moves on further west. Its light shines down on the houses below. Suddenly another bright cloud appears above the first. After 2–3 minutes, a fiery ball drops from the upper cloud to the lower one, followed by two others. Soon after this, both clouds disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Meteoric Stones,” Littell’s Living Age 56 1858: 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_36

Year: 1849 (Back to Top)

Event 144 (8C4A24BF)

Date: 10/17/1849
Time: 13:00?
Location: BANGALORE, INDIA
Description: Lt. Hershel. Luminous disks stream past sun. 1 pauses then burst / speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_93

Extra Data: Country: "India", Credibility: "6", Duration: "152", HatchDesc: "BANGALORE,INDIA:Lt HERSHEL:LUM.DISKS STREAM PAST SUN:1 PAUSES THEN BURST/SPEED", LatLong: "13.050001 77.650004", LatLongDMS: "13:03:00 N 77:39:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KRN", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1850 (Back to Top)

Event 145 (68617CE3)

Date: 9/15/1850
Locations: Wellington Channel; Cornwallis; Devon Islands; Nunavut; Canada
Description: 6:20 p.m. Senior medical officer Elisha Kent Kane and other crew members of the USS Advance, participating in the First Grinnell Expedition to the Arctic to determine the fate of the lost Franklin Northwest Passage expedition, watch a balloon-like object over the Wellington Channel between Cornwallis and Devon islands, Nunavut, Canada. It is floating slowly northward and appears to be 2 feet long by 18 inches wide. After a short time, a small object appears below it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Elisha Kent Kane, The U.S. Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, Harper and Brothers, 1854, p. 190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_37

Event 146 (3EAC8087)

Date: 12/8/1850 (approximate)
Location: ABERDEEN, SCOTLAND
Description: Violet meteor north going south. Shoots out small fiery ball / 90° to original trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_94

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "36", HatchDesc: "ABERDEEN,SCOTL:VIOLET METEOR N>S:SHOOTS OUT SML FIERY BALL/90° to ORIG TRAJ", LatLong: "57.166669 -2.133333", LatLongDMS: "57:10:00 N 02:08:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1852 (Back to Top)

Event 147 (33D7F487)

Date: 12/17/1852
Time: 05:00
Location: DOVER, KENT
Description: Triangular cloud with tail appears / storm. 1/2 moon-size. Blast. Dissipates.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_95

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "13", HatchDesc: "DOVER,KENT:TRIANGLR CLOUD W/TAIL APPEARS/STORM:1/2 MOONSIZE:BLAST:DISSIPATES", LatLong: "51.166669 1.316667", LatLongDMS: "51:10:00 N 01:19:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1854 (Back to Top)

Event 148 (C3C1C957)

Date: 3/21/1854
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: 9:30 p.m. People in Washington, D.C., see a brilliant light in the sky overhead “like a coal of fire glowing,” red in color and stationary. It is visible for 20–30 minutes before it fades away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Atmospherical Phenomenon,” Gettysburg Pa. Adams Sentinel, March 27, 1854, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_38

Year: 1855 (Back to Top)

Event 149 (03BCEE6E)

Date: 1/22/1855
Locations: New Haven, Connecticut; Eta Ursae Majoris; Denebola in the constellation Leo
Description: 10:00 p.m. A witness walking in the public square in New Haven, Connecticut, sees a brilliant red fireball in the sky near the star Gamma Draconis. At first it is stationary but after 15 seconds it moves slowly toward the east with a slight undulatory motion. It passes below the star Eta Ursae Majoris and disappears not far from Denebola in the constellation Leo. The object is visible for 10 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Meteoric Phenomenon,” New York Times, January 25, 1855, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_39

Year: 1857 (Back to Top)

Event 150 (0AB2657A)

Date: 6/19/1857
Alternate date: 6/20/1857
Location: Carbondale, Pennsylvania
Description: Sunset. A large cloud moves in over Carbondale, Pennsylvania, from the northwest, accompanied by considerable wind. It emits a dark-looking substance that falls to the ground, where it becomes highly luminous. It moves toward a large barn and passes through its center, setting it on fire, and continues on in a straight course for the woods, burning up the underbrush. It makes a path about 16 feet wide for a distance of 3 miles, and it finally stops against an outcrop of anthracite coal 60 feet in thickness. It leaves a sulfurous mass behind.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Extraordinary Meteoric Phenomenon,” Baltimore Md. Sun, June 27, 1857, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_40

Year: 1858 (Back to Top)

Event 151 (B88102AA)

Date: 7/10/1858
End date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Tesla born (dies 1/7/1943)
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_8

Year: 1860 (Back to Top)

Event 152 (048746F2)

Date: 1860
End date: 1864
Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_9

Event 153 (B0E256AB)

Date: 7/13/1860
Location: WILMINGTON, DE
Description: 60M object / 30m altitude. Type unknown. 3 glowing-balls trail / 30m intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_96

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,DE:60M OBJ/30m alt:TYPE UNK:3 GLOW-BALLS TRAIL/30m INTERVALS", LatLong: "39.733335 -75.550004", LatLongDMS: "39:44:00 N 75:33:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Delaware", Strangeness: "5"

Event 154 (D1DED67A)

Date: 7/13/1860
Description: In Wilmington, Delaware at 9:45 p.m. a pale blue light illuminated a 200-foot long cloud-like object in the sky that moved slowly and silently through the sky. At regular distances behind the cloud followed three "very red and glowing balls."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 65
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4024

Event 155 (BD6457AB)

Date: 7/20/1860
Locations: Brooklyn, New York; Texas State University–San Marcos; Hudson River; New York; Philadelphia; Washington, D.C.; Baltimore; Norfolk
Description: 9:40 p.m. A poem by Brooklyn, New York, poet Walt Whitman , “Year of Meteors 1859-60,” published in a later edition of Leaves of Grass, describes a “strange huge meteor-procession dazzling and clear shooting over our heads.” For many years, no one could identify the event. Then in 2000, Texas State University–San Marcos physicist Donald W. Olson discovered a painting by Hudson River artist Frederic Edwin Church depicting two large meteors streaming across the sky and dated July 20, 1860. An examination of contemporary newspapers revealed that this was probably Whitman’s meteor procession. Around 9:40 p.m., two meteors with trails, one behind another, are seen in New York, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Norfolk, and other locations in the East, proceeding slowly from northwest to southeast for nearly one minute. They are as bright as Venus. A rare event, and little understood until 1913, a meteor procession occurs when an earth-grazing meteor breaks apart and the fragments travel across the sky in the same horizontal path. Olson and his colleagues finally publish their discovery in the July 2010 issue of Sky & Telescope.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Wonders of the Heavens: The Meteor Train,” Brooklyn N.Y. Evening Star, July 21, 1860, p. 2; “The Meteor of Friday Night,” New York Herald, July 22, 1860, p. 1; “Texas State Astronomers Solve Walt Whitman Meteor Mystery,” Office of Media Relations, Texas State University, May 28, 2010; David Dickinson, “Remembering the Great Meteor Procession of 1860,” Universe Today, July 20, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_41

Event 156 (F0B17B94)

Date: 8/2/1860
Locations: Norfolk, Virginia; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Description: 11:00 p.m. Another seeming procession of two meteors is observed in Norfolk, Virginia, moving with an undulating motion in the western sky in a northerly direction. One of the lights is clear red and the other is greenish, and they both emit flashes of light, leaving a sparkling trail. The phenomenon is also seen in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Some unnamed contemporary scientists compare it to the July 20 meteor procession.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Another Splendid Meteor,” Baltimore Md. Sun, August 6, 1860, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_42

Event 157 (68382493)

Date: 8/6/1860
Location: Norfolk, VA
Description: Two objects, one red and one green, flew overhead together, moving with an undulating motion. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_0

Event 158 (63C78957)

Date: 8/6/1860
Description: Red objects with a green tint were seen flying in formation over Norfolk, Virginia, moving erratically with an "undulating motion, rising and subsiding."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Baltimore Sun, August 6, 1860; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 71
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4713

Year: 1861 (Back to Top)

Event 159 (F278A0B8)

Date: 3/19/1861
Location: MENDOZA, ARG AND AREA
Description: Round glowing-orbs all over. Huge quake kills thousands next day.
Type: sighting
Reference: BANCHS, Rodolfo: LAS EVIDENCIAS de los OVNI; Rudolfo Alonso Editor, Argentina. 1976 (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_97

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "824", HatchDesc: "MENDOZA,ARG+AREA:ROUND GLO-ORBS ALL OVR:HUGE QUAKE KILLS 1000s NEXT DAY.", LatLong: "-32.883335 -68.816670", LatLongDMS: "32:53:00 S 68:49:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MND", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1862 (Back to Top)

Event 160 (024B24F4)

Date: 11/1862
Location: Morpeth, New South Wales
Description: Early morning. Magistrate Osman Edward Middleton hears a “peculiar rushing noise” at Morpeth, New South Wales, and looks up to see a dark object traveling rapidly toward the southeast. It appears to be revolving on its axis.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Letter], Sydney N.S.W. Morning Herald, November 20, 1866, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 167–173
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_43

Year: 1863 (Back to Top)

Event 161 (3A843E08)

Date: 8/12/1863
Time: 23:00?
Location: EAST / MADRID, SP
Description: Luminous object / horizon. Halo / top. Hovers then maneuvers / all directions. / Gaceta de Madrid.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 346)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_98

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "E/MADRID,SP:LUMn.OBJ/HRZN:HALO/TOP:HVRS then MNVRS/ALL DIRs:/Gaceta de Madrid", LatLong: "40.450002 -3.666667", LatLongDMS: "40:27:00 N 03:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MDR", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1865 (Back to Top)

Event 162 (FE887F16)

Date: 1865
Description: James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light is an electromagnetic wave.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_10

Event 163 (90D875C3)

Date: 1865
Locations: Baltimore; Moon
Description: French novelist Jules Verne publishes From the Earth to the Moon. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post–American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people—the Gun Club’s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet—in a projectile with the goal of a lunar landing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “From the Earth to the Moon”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_44

Event 164 (7DB759CC)

Date: 4/10/1865
Location: MOON
Description: Astronomer Ingall. Perfect point / Steller light / Mare Crisium! Also blots and lines.
Type: sighting
Reference: PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_99

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "7", Duration: "99", HatchDesc: "MOON:ASTRONOMER INGALL:PERFECT POINT/STELLER LITE/MARE CRISIUM!:+BLOTS+LINES", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MCR", Strangeness: "5"

Event 165 (86A95265)

Date: 12/1865
Locations: Durham, England; Whitburn; Tyne; Sunderland; Lizard Point
Description: The British Board of Trade asks Trinity House to investigate the “false lights” of the Durham, England, coast, mysterious revolving lights seen above a rocky headland at Whitburn by mariners negotiating a hazardous stretch of the northeast coast. Between 1860 and 1870, more than 150 ships are wrecked on the rocks near Whitburn after following a light or lights in the sky that they wrongly believe are from a lighthouse at the mouth of the Tyne. A commission led by Rear Admiral Richard Collinson meets in Sunderland on December 28 to interview witnesses and determine whether salvagers are responsible for the lights that are causing shipwrecks. Although the commission decides that the false lights are not deliberately lit, they are puzzled about the true cause. The lights and wrecks continue until January 1871 when the Souter Lighthouse is erected on Lizard Point.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “False Lights on the Durham Coast,” Newcastle Weekly Courant, January 12, 1866, p. 5; David Clarke, “Britain’s First X-File?” August 14, 2010; David Clarke, “The False Lights of Durham,” Fortean Times 266 October 2010: 40–42; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 77–79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_45

Year: 1866 (Back to Top)

Event 166 (878CB96B)

Date: 5/4/1866
Location: MOON
Description: Linne crater changes black to white. Small well-defined dots appear there.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_100

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "MOON:LINNE CRATER CHANGES BLACK to WHT:SMALL WELL-DEFINED DOTS APPEAR THERE", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CLN", Strangeness: "4"

Event 167 (9B332CEC)

Date: 6/21/1866
Description: The US Hydrographic Office is established by Congress. It is assigned to the Navy Bureau of Navigation and collects reports from ships’ officers on observations of various marine phenomena, hazards, and other activities. Among the reports collected are meteors, ball lightning, and other celestial and meteorological phenomena.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Hydrographic Office”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_46

Year: 1867 (Back to Top)

Event 168 (5718FC55)

Date: 6/10/1867
Location: SULPICIUS GALLUS, MOON
Description: 3 black dots appear. Stay until 13 June when they vanish!
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_101

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "6", Duration: "204", HatchDesc: "SULPICIUS GALLUS,MOON:3 BLACK DOTS APPEAR:STAY UNTIL 13JUNE WHEN THEY VANISH!", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SLP", Strangeness: "9"

Event 169 (6DE1679B)

Date: 11/4/1867
Locations: Waterworks Reservoir; Chatham, England
Description: 3:00–4:00 p.m. James E. Beveridge is passing the mill by the Waterworks Reservoir in Chatham, England, when he and the miller see numerous black discs moving in the air to the west, some in groups, others scattered. They are visible for more than 20 minutes. In passing in front of the sun they appear like large cannon shot. Several groups pass over his head, disappearing suddenly, and leaving puffs of grayish brown smoke.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Three Strange Stories,” Symons’s Monthly Meteorological Magazine 2 1867: 130
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_47

Event 170 (3E65F3E7)

Date: 11/4/1867
Description: In the middle of the afternoon a large number of black discs in groups and separately passed rapidly through the sky over Chatham, England. The procession continued for more than 20 minutes. Several groups passed silently overhead, then vanished leaving a brown, smoke-like vapor.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7455

Year: 1868 (Back to Top)

Event 171 (1568CDAC)

Date: 3/15/1868
Time: 17:00
Location: COPIAPO CHILE
Description: Giant bird with scales. Metallic noise. Low altitude. No further details. / r8#001 / Charles Fort.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_102

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Chile", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "381", HatchDesc: "COPIAPO CHILE:GIANT BIRD W/SCALES:MTLC NOISE:LOW ALTITUDE:NFD:/r8#001 /C.FORT", LatLong: "-27.366668 -70.333337", LatLongDMS: "27:22:00 S 70:20:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Atacama", Strangeness: "6"

Event 172 (A20F263F)

Date: 6/8/1868
Location: Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University, England
Description: 9:50 p.m. John Lucas Sr., an observer at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford University, England, notices a comet- like object with a trail a bit west of Polaris. As he is pointing it out to some others, it begins moving west. It moves in a straight line at first, then moves south for a bit, then continues to the north. They watch it for 4 minutes until it disappears below the northwestern horizon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Remarkable Meteor,” English Mechanic 7 July 10, 1868: 351
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_48

Event 173 (618BBEDD)

Date: 7/1868
Location: Copiago, Chile
Description: A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_1

Event 174 (6E08DB82)

Date: 7/1868
Location: Copiago, Chile
Description: A strange "aerial construction" bearing lights and making engine noises flew low over this town. Local people also described it as a giant bird covered with large scales producing a metallic noise. Although not an actual landing, this is the first instance of close observation of an unknown object at low altitude in the nineteenth century.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 638; Anatomy 11 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_1

Event 175 (1506EDAF)

Date: 7/25/1868
Location: PARRAMATTA, AUST
Description: Dream? Flying head invites observer(s) / flying ark. See reference! / r174p23.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 821)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_103

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "5", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "PARRAMATTA,AUST:DREAM?:FLYING HEAD INVITES OBS/FLYING ARK:see ref!:/r174p23", LatLong: "-33.816668 151.005563", LatLongDMS: "33:49:00 S 151:00:20 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "10"

Event 176 (5156FA5C)

Date: 7/25/1868
Location: Parramatta, New South Wales
Description: Engineer Frederick William Birmingham of Parramatta, New South Wales, watches a bizarre procession of the faces of two prominent Australians Archbishop of Sydney [Frederic Barker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic%5FBarker) and New South Wales Premier [James](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMartin%5F%28Australian%5Fpolitician%29) [Martin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FMartin%5F%28Australian%5Fpolitician%29) through the air as well as a vessel he calls an “ark.” He hears a voice suggesting that “That’s a machine to go through the air.” The voice comes from a “spirit” whom he describes as “like a neutral tint shade and the shape of a man in his usual frock dress.” After the ark maneuvers for a while in the air, the spirit says, “Have you a desire or do you wish to enter upon it?” He is then lifted up and carried through the air into the object about 60 feet away. The spirit guides him into the “pilot house” of the machine where he is given some papers with formulas on them that will help him construct a flying machine. He observes another UFO-like craft on March 9, 1873, and later attempts to build a mechanical replica of what he has seen.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “The Mystery of a Machine to Go through the Air: A UFO Vision?” 1998; Clark III 60–65; “Did Frederick William Birmingham Build a Flying Machine Based on His Bizarre 1868 UFO ‘Vision’ in Parramatta, NSW, Australia?” TheOzFiles, November 30, 2013; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 185–190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_49

Event 177 (A9709D09)

Date: 11/14/1868
Time: 00:10
Location: MEDFORD, MA
Description: Astronomer Trouvelot. 5 hours / meteors. One / 90° turn. Some curve and reverse!
Type: sighting
Reference: Periodical: UFO HISTORICAL REVUE (UHR Qtrly) Barry Greenwood. Issue #6 Mar., 2000. POB 176, STONEHAM,MA 02180
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_104

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "44", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "MEDFORD,MA:ASTRON.TROUVELOT:5 HRS/METEORS:ONE/90°TURN:SOME CURVE+REVERSE!", LatLong: "42.416669 -71.094448", LatLongDMS: "42:25:00 N 71:05:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1869 (Back to Top)

Event 178 (4D007E1B)

Date: 1869
Location: Mars
Description: French poet and inventor Charles Cros is convinced that pinpoints of light observed on Mars and Venus are the lights of large cities on those planets. He spends years petitioning the French government to build a giant mirror to communicate with the Martians and Venusians by burning giant lines on the deserts of those planets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Alissa Walker, “A French Inventor Once Proposed a Giant Mirror to Burn a Message on Mars,” Gizmodo, October 16, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_50

Event 179 (F5C87461)

Date: 8/7/1869
Location: Adamstown, Pennsylvania
Description: 12:00 noon. Four or five witnesses watch a luminous object land in a vacant lot about 200 yards north of the village of Adamstown, Pennsylvania. It is originally square-shaped but shoots up into a column about 3–4 feet high and 2 feet thick. The object glitters like a “column of burnished silver.” It gradually fades away and disappears after 10 minutes. No unusual traces are found on the lot.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Singular Phenomenon,” Lancaster Pa. Daily Evening Express, August 10, 1869, pp. 2–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_51

Event 180 (2CE99AC9)

Date: 8/7/1869
Location: St. Paul's Junction, Iowa
Description: About 4:45 p.m. During a total solar eclipse, four amateur observers in St. Paul’s Junction [possibly a railroad stop between Maynard and West Union], Iowa, both with and without instruments independently notice a bright object below the lunar disc and just outside the solar corona. There are no visible stars in that position in the sky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Was It the Intra-Mercurial Planet?” Astronomical Register 7 1869: 227–228; John Russell Hind, “Stellar Objects Seen during the Eclipse of 1869,” Nature 18 1878: 663–664
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_52

Event 181 (D107C31D)

Date: 8/7/1869
Description: Around midday a luminous square body settled near the center of an empty lot in Adamstown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster county. It shot up a shiny column four feet high and two feet thick that glittered like burnished silver. It gradually faded away, and was gone in 10 minutes. It frightened the four witnesses, but left no traces.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Skylook, March 1972
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4757

Event 182 (E5944F02)

Date: 8/16/1869
Location: MARE CRISIUM, MOON
Description: Astronomers. Odd lights maneuver / changing patterns til March / 1870.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 73)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_105

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "MARE CRISIUM,MOON:ASTRONOMERS:ODD LITES MNVR/CHANGING PATTERNS TIL MAR/1870", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CPL", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1870 (Back to Top)

Event 183 (B71A8633)

Date: 3/22/1870
Location: SS / ATLANTIC
Description: Light grey saucer flies into wind / 30 minute(s). Hook-shape appendage / r221p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_106

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "35", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SS/ATLANTIC:LITE GREY SCR FLIES INTO WIND/30min:hook-shape appendage/r221p15", LatLong: "5.783334 -27.866668", LatLongDMS: "05:47:00 N 27:52:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "6"

Event 184 (6D6E7E40)

Date: 3/22/1870
Locations: North Atlantic; 860 miles from the coast of West Africa
Description: 6:30 p.m. Capt. Frederick William Banner, master of the barque Lady of the Lake, is sailing in the North Atlantic 400 miles north of the Equator and 860 miles from the coast of West Africa when he sees a “curious- shaped” light-gray cloud in the south-southeast. It is circular, with four rays or arms extending from the center to the edge, and a curved tail. It is visible for about 50 minutes until it is too dark to see.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frederick William Banner, “Extract from Log of Barque ‘Lady of the Lake,’” Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society 1 1873: 157; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 89– 109
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_53

Event 185 (91EFC94D)

Date: 3/22/1870
Description: At 6:30 p.m. in the Atlantic Ocean south of Cape Verde, the crew of the steamship Lady of the Lake sighted a gray object in the sky divide into four connected sections while it flew against the wind. Behind it trailed a long hook connected to the center of the UFO. It was visible for at least 30 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 46; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 57; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1610

Event 186 (39E94932)

Date: 4/5/1870
Time: 23:00
Location: GENT = GAND, BELGIUM
Description: Several / observer(s). Ring becomes wheel going [to] ovoid going [to] fish shape. Vibrant bright red and fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_107

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GENT=GAND,BELGIUM:SVRL/OBS:RING BECOMES WHEEL>OVOID>FISH SHAPE:VBRITE RED+FAST", LatLong: "51.200002 3.716667", LatLongDMS: "51:12:00 N 03:43:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"

Event 187 (83ED5B84)

Date: 9/26/1870
Locations: Berlin, Germany; Eiswerder island
Description: A luminous object with a tail is seen in the constellation Lyra by Reginald Brabazon, 12th Earl of Meath , second secretary of the British legation to the North German Confederation, in Berlin, Germany. Possibly a light pillar reflection caused by a bright arc-light source at a military installation on Eiswerder island.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brabazon, “A Meteor,” London Times, September 30, 1870, p. 9; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 111–116
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_54

Year: 1871 (Back to Top)

Event 188 (A297FBE9)

Date: 1871
Description: English astronomer Richard A. Proctor writes Other Worlds Than Ours, in which he discusses the question of the plurality of worlds in the light of new facts. He suspects that Venus is likely the “abode of living creatures not unlike the inhabitants of earth.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard A. Proctor, Other Worlds Than Ours, Appleton, 1871
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_55

Event 189 (9A7D3C4D)

Date: 8/1/1871
Time: 10:40
Location: MARSEILLE, FR
Description: Meteor going quickly / 20 minute(s). Several stops and 90° turns. Drops going [to] horizon. / Nature Oct. '1871.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 190)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_108

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "11", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "MARSEILLE,FR:METEOR>>/20min:SVRL STOPS+90°TURNS:DROPS>HRZN:/NATURE OCT1871", LatLong: "43.250002 5.383334", LatLongDMS: "43:15:00 N 05:23:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "5"

Event 190 (B2812806)

Date: 8/1/1871
Location: Marseille Observatory, France
Description: 10:43 p.m. Astronomer Jérôme Eugène Coggia at Marseille Observatory, France, watches a slow, blood-red fireball move across the sky and change course twice before falling to the earth. He sees it for 20 minutes and 20 seconds. Possible earth-grazing meteor or a candle balloon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jérome Eugène Coggia, “Observation d’un bolide, faite à Observatoire de Marseille le 1 er août,” Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’Académie des Sciences 73 1871: 397–399; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 117–119
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_56

Event 191 (CB112C65)

Date: 8/29/1871
Location: MEUDON, FR
Description: Astronomer Trouvelot. Several orbs and triangles. 1 / dead leaf drop. / r221p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_109

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "MEUDON,FR:ASTRONOMER TROUVELOT:SVRL ORBS+TRIANGLES:1/DEAD LEAF DROP:/r221p15", LatLong: "48.800002 2.233333", LatLongDMS: "48:48:00 N 02:14:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HDS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 192 (27DB0EDC)

Date: 10/4/1871
Time: 03:20
Location: HIGH WYCOMB, BUCKS
Description: Night lights. Box found / leaves. Sprouts eyes and probes. Catches rat! References.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLUNDELL, Nigel & BOAR, Roger: The WORLDS GREATEST UFO MYSTERIES; Octopus, London 1989 & PB/Berkley Books, NY 1990 (Index 92)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_110

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, RBT: Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "4", Duration: "44", HatchDesc: "HIGH WYCOMB,BUCKS:NLTS:BOX FOUND/LEAVES:SPROUTS EYES+PROBES:CATCHES RAT!:REFS.", LatLong: "51.611114 -0.744444", LatLongDMS: "51:36:40 N 00:44:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "12"

Year: 1872 (Back to Top)

Event 193 (F86ED0C7)

Date: 12/7/1872
Time: 01:00
Location: BANBURY, ENG
Description: 'Haystack' going [to] high and low. Wrecks trees and walls. Smoke and flame. Vanishes. / r221p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_111

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "102", HatchDesc: "BANBURY,ENG:'HAYSTACK' >HI+LO:WRECKS TREES+WALLS:SMOKE+FLAME:VANISHES:/r221p15", LatLong: "52.066669 -1.333333", LatLongDMS: "52:04:00 N 01:20:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 194 (66E54AC4)

Date: 12/7/1872
Location: Banbury, UK
Description: 1:00 a.m. At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_2

Event 195 (2CACBE98)

Date: 12/7/1872
Time: 0100 hours
Location: Banbury, Great Britain
Description: At King's Sutton an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course. Sometimes high, sometimes very low it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It suddenly vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 189 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_2

Event 196 (3F71A602)

Date: 12/7/1872
Description: At King's Sutton in Banbury, England an object resembling a haystack flew on an irregular course at one o'clock in the morning. Sometimes flying very high, sometimes very low, it was accompanied by fire and dense smoke. It produced much the same effect as a tornado, felling trees and walls. It vanished suddenly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 2
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8250

Year: 1873 (Back to Top)

Event 197 (DB79C03A)

Date: 1873
Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_11

Event 198 (DE85F056)

Date: 1873
Locations: Wellesley, Massachusetts; Mars
Description: English-American geologist and psychometrist William Denton of Wellesley, Massachusetts, publishes volume 3 of The Soul of Things, in which he describes his astral visit to Mars along with his sister Anna Cridge and wife Elizabeth. He finds it harbors a thriving civilization with a technology based on aluminum. He reports that they soar above traffic on their individual fly-cycles and seem particularly fond of air travel, with as many as 30 Martians occupying some of the large flying conveyances.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: William Denton, Soul of Things, Wellesley, Mass.: Elizabeth M. F. Denton, 1873, vol. 3, pp. 171–267
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_57

Event 199 (B28CEEC8)

Date: 3/9/1873
Time: 19:00
Location: PARRAMATTA, NSW
Description: 3 brown colored clouds. Large object extends screws going down. Saucer appears between screws.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 821)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_112

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "PARRAMATTA,NSW:3 BRN CLOUDS:LRG OBJ EXTENDS SCREWS↓:SCR APPEARS BETWEEN SCREWS", LatLong: "-33.833335 151.000007", LatLongDMS: "33:50:00 S 151:00:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"

Event 200 (E199A459)

Date: Late 3/1873
Locations: Taylorsville (now Philo); Bristol Township; Lawrence Road; New York Herald
Description: Evening. Thomas Inman and his son are traveling home from the village of Taylorsville [now Philo], Ohio, and are possibly in Bristol Township when they see a bright light descending swiftly with a roaring noise. It strikes a short distance in the road [probably Lawrence Road] ahead of them, flickers and flares, then fades. A man dressed in a suit of black carrying a lantern emerges from the object. He walks a few paces and steps into a buggy, which Inman has not noticed before. The buggy begins to move silently and quickly, even though there is no horse attached to it, until it reaches a deep gully, into which it plunges and disappears. Historian William Alexander Taylor , who supplies the story to the New York Herald, vouches for the witnesses.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Very Like a Whale,” New York Herald, April 8, 1873, p. 7; Clark III 1123–1124; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 175–191
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_58

Event 201 (47388E27)

Date: 9/10/1873
Location: NEAR CLERMONT-FERRAND, FR
Description: 3cm stones fall very slowly. Normal fall rate on rebound.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_113

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "nr CLERMONT-FERRAND,FR:3cm STONES FALL VERY SLOWLY:NORMAL FALL RATE ON REBOUND", LatLong: "45.766669 3.083333", LatLongDMS: "45:46:00 N 03:05:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Puy-de-Dôme", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1874 (Back to Top)

Event 202 (8DB93F49)

Date: 4/24/1874 (approximate)
Location: PRAGUE, CZ
Description: Astronomer Schafarick. Vibrant bright slow white object crosses moons face going [to] space.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_114

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Czech and Slovak Republics", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "PRAGUE,CZ:ASTRONOMER SCHAFARICK:VBRITE SLOW WHT OBJ CROSSES MOONS FACE >SPACE", LatLong: "50.083336 14.433334", LatLongDMS: "50:05:00 N 14:26:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LUN", Strangeness: "5"

Event 203 (EA0D0855)

Date: 4/24/1874
Locations: Prague; Czech Republic
Description: 3:30 p.m. Chemist and astronomer Vojtěch Šafařík of Prague [now in the Czech Republic] sees “an object of so peculiar a character that I do not know what to make of it.” It is a dazzling white object slowly crossing the moon. He first sees it in front of the moon, then watches it against the “deep blue sky like Sirius or Vega in daylight.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Vojtěch Šafařík, “Telescopic Meteors,” Astronomical Register 23 1885: 205–211
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_59

Event 204 (2893FA31)

Date: 7/6/1874
Location: OAXACA, MEXICO
Description: 130M spiral 'trumpet'. 60M bell hangs going down. Floats 5 minute(s) and vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_115

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "1552", HatchDesc: "OAXACA,MEX:130M SPIRAL 'TRUMPET':60M BELL HANGS ↓:FLOATS 5min+VANISHES", LatLong: "17.050001 -96.700005", LatLongDMS: "17:03:00 N 96:42:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OAX", Strangeness: "4"

Event 205 (AB860558)

Date: 7/6/1874
Description: In Oaxaca, Mexico a 130-meter long spiral-shaped "trumpet" and a 60-meter diameter bell hovered and floated in the sky for five minutes and then vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3854

Event 206 (BEEFC721)

Date: 8/13/1874
Locations: Pascagoula, Mississippi; Gulf of Mexico
Description: 11:00 p.m. A large, “luminous electric cloud” flies over the western edge of Pascagoula, Mississippi, from the northwest to the southeast. It illuminates the ground and emits heat so intense that some witnesses think their houses are about to ignite. When last seen over the Gulf of Mexico, it renders the spars and rigging of a ship “distinctly visible.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Singular Phenomenon,” Pascagoula Miss. Star, August 22, 1874, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_60

Year: 1875 (Back to Top)

Event 207 (C9BC89D7)

Date: 4/15/1875 (approximate)
Location: GMX NEAR VERACRUZ, MX
Description: Sea Captain. Luminous straight lines appear / sea surface.
Type: sighting
Reference: SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 97)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_116

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GMX nr VERACRUZ,MX:SEA CAPTAIN:LUMINOUS STRAIGHT LINES APPEAR/SEA SURFACE ", LatLong: "19.250001 -95.916671", LatLongDMS: "19:15:00 N 95:55:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GMX", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1876 (Back to Top)

Event 208 (7E0128F3)

Date: 12/21/1876
Locations: Topeka, Kansas; western Pennsylvania; Columbus, Ohio; Rochester, Indiana
Description: 8:30–8:45 p.m. A bright bolide that explodes and breaks up into a group of 20–100 smaller balls is seen over a wide swath of the US from Topeka, Kansas, to western Pennsylvania. Over Columbus, Ohio, it is described as “a cluster or flock of meteors seemingly huddled together, like a flock of wild geese, and moving with the same velocity and grace of regularity. The color of their light was a yellowish red, like red rocket-balls.” A stony chondrite falls 3 miles northwest of Rochester, Indiana, at the same time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: James Glaisher, et al., “Report on Observations of Luminous Meteors during the Year 1876–77,” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 47 1877: 98, 149–152; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 144–145
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_61

Year: 1877 (Back to Top)

Event 209 (E05FA626)

Date: 1877
Location: Unknown City, UK
Description: Three meteor-like objects moving together with "remarkable slowness" flew across the sky, visible about three minutes, "moving with the same velocity and grade of regularity. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_3

Event 210 (B0EE66C8)

Date: 5/15/1877?
Location: ALDERSHOT, HAMPS
Description: Helmeted figure floats over guards who shoot. Stunned / beam. / r221p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_117

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ALDERSHOT,HAMPs:HELMETED FIG.FLOATS OVR GUARDS WHO SHOOT:STUNNED/BEAM:/r221p15", LatLong: "51.250002 -0.750000", LatLongDMS: "51:15:00 N 00:45:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 211 (76CD15A3)

Date: 10/1877
Locations: Brera Observatory; Milan, Italy
Description: Astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli reports seeing canali on the Martian surface from Brera Observatory in Milan, Italy, during the Great Opposition. While the term “canals” indicates an artificial construction, its proper translation as “channels” implies that the observed features are natural configurations of the planetary surface. From the incorrect translation into the term “canals,” various assumptions are made about life on Mars; as these assumptions are popularized, the canals become famous, giving rise to waves of hypotheses, speculation, and fiction about the possibility of intelligent life on Mars—the Martians.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Martian canal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_62

Year: 1878 (Back to Top)

Event 212 (7E51724B)

Date: 1/22/1878
Location: 6 miles north of Dallas, Texas
Description: John Martin is out hunting near his ranch 6 miles north of Dallas, Texas, when he notices a dark object high in the southern sky. It is so bright it hurts his eyes as it moves with great speed to directly over his head. The object is “about the size of a large saucer” and looks like a large balloon. It speeds away rapidly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Strange Phenomena,” Dallas Daily Herald, January 23, 1878, p. 4; Patrick Gross, “The First Publicized Flying ‘Saucer’ Report?”; “Dallas 1878,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_63

Event 213 (38B92D2C)

Date: 1/24/1878
Time: ~08:00
Location: SOUTH / DENISON, TX
Description: Farmer J. Martin. Flying saucer / wonderful speed. Longitude & latitude coords. approximate. / r204p134.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_118

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "S/DENISON,TX:FARMER J.MARTIN:FLYING SAUCER/WONDERFUL SPEED:LL APRX:/r204p134.", LatLong: "33.750002 -96.550005", LatLongDMS: "33:45:00 N 96:33:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 214 (FA361EDE)

Date: 7/29/1878
Locations: Ann Arbor (Mich.); Separation, Wyoming; Rochester, New York; Denver, Colorado
Description: About 12:30 p.m. Astronomers James Craig Watson, director of the Ann Arbor Mich. Observatory, and Lewis Swift , an amateur from Rochester, New York, both claim to see a planet-like object close to the Sun during the total solar eclipse. Watson, observing from Separation, Wyoming, places the object about 2.5° southwest of the Sun and estimates its magnitude at 4.5. Swift, observing from a location near Denver, Colorado, sees what he takes to be an intra-mercurial planet about 3° southwest of the Sun. He estimates its brightness to be the same as that of Theta Cancri, a fifth-magnitude star which is also visible during totality, about six or seven minutes from the object. Both Watson and Swift describe the object as red in color. Watson says it has a definite disc, unlike stars, which appear as shimmering pinpoints of light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: James C. Watson, “On the Discovery of an Intra-Mercurial Planet,” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 1878: 230–233; Lewis Swift, “Letter from Mr. Lewis Swift, Relating to the Discovery of Intra-Mercurial Planets,” American Journal of Science, ser. 3, 16 1878: 313–315; Richard Baum and William Sheehan, In Search of Planet Vulcan: The Ghost in Newton’s Clockwork Universe, Plenum, 1997, pp. 185–223
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_64

Event 215 (7631B476)

Date: 7/30/1878
Time: 13:00?
Location: EDWARDSVILLE, KS
Description: Railroad/railway crew. 'Train' nears. Steam and lights. Jumps track and enters woods!
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_119

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "EDWARDSVILLE,KS:RR CREW:'TRAIN' NEARS:STEAM+LITES:JUMPS TRACK+ENTERS WOODS!", LatLong: "39.061113 -94.822227", LatLongDMS: "39:03:40 N 94:49:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "9"

Year: 1879 (Back to Top)

Event 216 (74FF3FB5)

Date: 3/14/1879
End date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein born
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_12

Attributes: Einstein

Event 217 (2C206743)

Date: 4/13/1879
Time: 20:30
Location: LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: Astronomer Harrison. Inexplicable object maneuvers 3.5 hours. Very bright.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 68)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_120

Extra Data: Country: "Earth Orbit or seen from space stations/capsules", Credibility: "8", Duration: "210", HatchDesc: "LOC UNK:ASTRONOMER HARRISON:INEXPLICABLE OBJ MNVRS 3.5 hrs:VERY BRIGHT", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"

Event 218 (C40DCCD6)

Date: 5/15/1879
Time: 21:40
Location: SS VULTUR / PERSIAN GULF
Description: 2 40M luminous/glowing wheels spin and descend slow. Back / 1880. / r2p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_121

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Arabian Peninsula", Credibility: "9", Duration: "35", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SS VULTUR/PERSIAN GULF:2 40M LUMn WHEELS SPIN+DESCEND SLOW:back/1880:/r2p17", LatLong: "26.433335 53.183336", LatLongDMS: "26:26:00 N 53:11:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PGF", Strangeness: "6"

Event 219 (2C56EC87)

Date: 5/15/1879
Location: At sea, Persian Gulf
Description: 9:40 p.m. Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_4

Event 220 (F6B8D03E)

Date: 5/15/1879
Time: 2140
Location: Persian Gulf
Description: Two very large "wheels" were seen spinning in the air and slowly coming to the surface of the sea. Estimated diameter: 40 m. Distance between the objects: 150 m. Speed: 80 km/h/ Duration: 35 min. Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur"
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round up 17; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_4

Event 221 (748493D4)

Date: 5/15/1879
Description: Witnesses aboard the ship "Vultur" in the Persian Gulf saw two very large "wheels" spinning in the air at 9:40 p.m. They watched them slowly descend to the surface of the ocean. Their estimated diameter was 40 meters, with a distance between the objects of 150 meters. They moved at an estimated speed of 80 kmph. The sighting lasted 35 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, case 4; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 111
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2847

Year: 1880 (Back to Top)

Event 222 (2725F311)

Date: 1880
Location: Aldershot, UK
Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire." (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_5

Event 223 (D436D6F3)

Date: 1880
Location: Eastern area, Venezuela
Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_6

Event 224 (BF665399)

Date: 1880
Location: Aldershot, Great Britain
Description: A strange being dressed in tight-fitting clothes and shining helmet soared over the heads of two sentries, who fired without result. The apparition stunned them with something described as "blue fire."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_3

Event 225 (640DD831)

Date: 1880
Location: Eastern Venezuela
Description: A 14-year-old boy saw a luminous ball descending from the sky and hovering near him. He felt somehow "drawn" to it, but succeeded in backing away in spite of his terror.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 2O6 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_5

Event 226 (99FDFF6D)

Date: 3/22/1880
Locations: Kattenau, East Prussia; Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia
Description: About 6:00 a.m. A large number of brilliantly luminous bodies are seen to rise from the horizon and pass from east to west at Kattenau, East Prussia [now Furmanovka, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia]. They move through space “like a string of beads.” Possible meteor procession.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Remarkable Phenomenon,” Nature 22 May 20, 1880: 64; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 169– 170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_65

Event 227 (5F3B6AC0)

Date: 3/26/1880
Time: ~19:00
Location: LAMY, NM
Description: 4 observer(s). Fish-blimp with prop and 8 figure(s). Music and gibberish. Drops flower and cup. / r221.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_122

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, MIB: Men in Black, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "1976", HatchDesc: "LAMY,NM:4 OBS:FISH-BLIMP W/PROP+8 FIGS:MUSIC+GIBBERISH:DROPS FLOWER+CUP:/r221", LatLong: "35.483335 -105.877783", LatLongDMS: "35:29:00 N 105:52:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "10"

Event 228 (0224B21C)

Date: 3/26/1880
Location: Lamy, NM
Description: Evening. Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_7

Event 229 (A032CA93)

Date: 3/26/1880
Time: evening
Location: Lamy, New Mexico
Description: Four men walking near Galisteo Junction were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65, 3 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_6

Event 230 (B1FB52DA)

Date: 3/26/1880
Location: Galisteo, New Mexico
Description: Night. The train depot operator and a few friends are walking at Galisteo, New Mexico, when they hear loud voices and laughter coming from a “large balloon” shaped like a fish approaching from the west. A flower is dropped from the car of the balloon to which is attached a slip of silk-like paper on which Chinese characters are written. The next morning, searchers find a cup of peculiar workmanship, but both artifacts are purchased by a “wealthy young Chinaman” and a “collector of curiosities” who visits town on March 28, although this part of the tale seems facetious and racist. The yarn is typical of sensational newspaper hoaxes that have no basis in reality.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Galisteo’s Apparition,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, March 29, 1880, p. 3; “Solved at Last,” Santa Fe Weekly New Mexican, April 5, 1880, p. 4; Clark III 69–70, 592; Patrick Gross, URECAT , December 3, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_66

Event 231 (A6409376)

Date: 3/26/1880
Description: Lamy, New Mexico - Four men walking near Galisteo Junction in the evening were surprised as they heard voices coming from a "strange balloon," which flew over them. It was shaped like a fish and seemed to be guided by a large fanlike device. There were eight to ten figures aboard. Their language was not understood. The object flew low over Galisteo Junction and rose rapidly toward the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Flying Saucer Review, May 1961; Santa Fe New Mexican, March 27, 1880
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1667

Event 232 (7B3A9F64)

Date: 5/1880
Time: 23:30
Location: PERSIAN GULF
Description: HMS Patna swept / 16 spokes / light from 300M luminous wheels / sea. / r28 p71.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_123

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Arabian Peninsula", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PERSIAN GULF:HMS PATNA SWEPT/16 SPOKES/LITE fm 300M LUMn.WHEELS/sea:/r28 p71", LatLong: "27.000001 52.000002", LatLongDMS: "27:00:00 N 52:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "PGF", Strangeness: "8"

Event 233 (DF7E01D8)

Date: 5/8/1880
Description: A farmer named Ju Tan in Song-Zi Xian Couny, China came upon a misty white light in some bushes around 8:00 p.m. He then felt a tingling paralysis, and heard a humming or rushing noise. He was levitated upwards and lost consciousness. His next recollection was finding himself, in a dazed state, in Guizhou province, which was 300 miles away from his home. The time was two weeks later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jenny Randles, Time Storms: Amazing Evidence for Time Warps, Space Rifts, and Time Travel, p. 25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2648

Event 234 (90BCE18D)

Date: 6/1880?
Location: East Kent [now Chatham-Kent], Ontario
Description: David Muckle and W. R. McKay of East Kent [now Chatham-Kent], Ontario, are in a field on Muckle’s farm when they hear a loud explosion and see a cloud of stones flying upward. They go to the spot and find a circular area, 16 feet across, that has been swept clean of vegetation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Curious Phenomenon,” Rock Hill S.C. Herald, July 7, 1880, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_67

Event 235 (144316C5)

Date: Early 7/1880
Locations: Chattanooga Railroad; Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Description: A train is running on the Chattanooga Railroad near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in a thunderstorm when the engineer sees a large ball of fire rushing down the rails to the engine. As it passes under the locomotive, he feels a shock that jars the entire train. There is a loud explosion “opposite the ladies’ car” and a telegraph pole is splintered from top to bottom.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Passengers Shocked by Lightning,” Memphis Tenn. Public Ledger, July 15, 1880, p. 2; Mark Rodeghier, “UFO/Vehicle Very Close Encounters,” IUR 27, no. 1 Spring 2002: 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_68

Event 236 (8F631B5C)

Date: 7/28/1880
Time: 18:00
Location: LOUISVILLE, KY AND MADISONVILE
Description: Numerous observer(s). Dumbell-ovoid maneuvers all directions up and down. See reference.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_124

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "LOUISVILLE,KY+MADISONVILE:NMRS OBS:DUMBELL-OVOID MNVRS all dirs UP+DOWN:see rf", LatLong: "38.233335 -85.716671", LatLongDMS: "38:14:00 N 85:43:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"

Event 237 (43277619)

Date: 7/28/1880
Locations: 2nd and Chestnut streets, Louisville, Kentucky; Ohio River bridge; Madisonville, Kentucky
Description: 6:00 p.m. C. A. Youngman and Ben Flexner are looking out a drugstore window at 2nd and Chestnut streets in Louisville, Kentucky, when they see something in the air coming from the direction of the Ohio River bridge. As it approaches them, it appears to be a man surrounded by machinery, which he is working with his hands and feet. The object is too high to make out the details of its construction. The man moves off to the south, pedaling constantly. Around 8:00 p.m., the Royster family of Madisonville, Kentucky, watches a circular flying object with a ball at each end moving above the train depot.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More Monkeying,” Louisville Ky. Courier-Journal, July 29, 1880, p. 4; “The Flying Machine,” Louisville Ky. Courier-Journal, August 6, 1880, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_69

Event 238 (841A6EEF)

Date: 7/30/1880
Time: 12:00?
Location: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA
Description: Large and 2 small glowing orbs follow ravine / 3 minute(s). / r84p280.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_125

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "St PETERSBURG,RUS:LRG+2 SMALL GLOWING ORBS FOLLOW RAVINE/3min:/r84p280", LatLong: "59.933336 30.366668", LatLongDMS: "59:56:00 N 30:22:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STP", Strangeness: "6"

Event 239 (ACFFD245)

Date: 8/25/1880
Time: 13:00?
Location: BAGNERES-DE-LUCHON, FR
Description: Yellow cylinder/cigar-shape exits storm clouds. Pointed ends. Drops something.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_126

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BAGNERES-de-LUCHON,FR:YLW CGR EXITS STORM CLOUDS:POINTED ENDS:DROPS SOMETHING", LatLong: "42.766669 0.600000", LatLongDMS: "42:46:00 N 00:36:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 240 (0D8F5C8C)

Date: 9/30/1880
Location: Columbus, Georgia
Description: 9:45 p.m. A brilliant object is seen crossing the sky in Columbus, Georgia, at a very low altitude. Coming from the south, it heads northeasterly in a horizontal line. It appears made of three perfectly developed balls of an equal size and equidistant from each other. The first ball emits a tail that envelops the two following and extends behind them. The tail is luminous except at the far end, where it is indistinct and nebulous. It is visible for a full 50 seconds and continues on its course without falling.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Wonders of a Meteor,” Marion Ohio Star, October 5, 1880, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_70

Event 241 (3ECFFFEB)

Date: 11/30/1880
Description: A procession of numerous objects flew over the Palermo Observatiory in Sicily, Italy at 8:30 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 213; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 46; Ray Palmer, Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8062

Year: 1881 (Back to Top)

Event 242 (DA8E13A1)

Date: 6/11/1881
Time: 04:00
Location: MELBOURNE TO/FROM SYDNEY, AU
Description: Prince / Wales and 13. "Phantom vessel all aglow" / sky. / r2p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_127

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "MELBOURNE><SYDNEY,AU:PRINCE/WALES+13:"PHANTOM VESSEL ALL AGLOW"/SKY:/r2p17", LatLong: "-39.500002 144.000007", LatLongDMS: "39:30:00 S 144:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "6"

Event 243 (29CA8A00)

Date: 6/11/1881
Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, AU
Description: 4:00 a.m. The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "LaBacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow"). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_8

Event 244 (F156E1FD)

Date: 6/11/1881
Time: 0400
Location: Between Melbourne and Sydney at sea, Australia
Description: The two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when an object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen ("a phantom vessel all aglow").
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 637; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_7

Event 245 (8576608A)

Date: 6/11/1881
Description: At sea at 4:00 a.m. between Melbourne and Sydney, Australia, the two sons of the Prince of Wales, one of them the future king of England, were cruising aboard "La Bacchante" when a flying object resembling a fully lighted ship was seen, "a phantom vessel all aglow."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 180, citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 637
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3415

Event 246 (B2B8AF2B)

Date: Late 10/1881
Locations: Milwaukee; Green Bay; Fort Howard; Sheboygan; Ozaukee County, Wisconsin
Description: An unusual fall of spider web occurs near the coast of Lake Michigan at Milwaukee, Green Bay, Fort Howard, Sheboygan, and Ozaukee County, Wisconsin. The webs seem to come from “over the lake” and fall from a great height. The strands are from 2 feet to several yards long, strong in texture, and very white. No spiders are seen.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Rain of Spider Webs,” Scientific American 45 1881: 337
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_71

Year: 1882 (Back to Top)

Event 247 (5751BD03)

Date: 7/3/1882
Location: MOON
Description: 2 luminous/glowing delta/triangle/box-like crafts / upper limb. 2 dark triangles / lower limb 30 minute(s) later. / Charles Fort and more/others.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_128

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "MOON:2 LUMn DLTs/UPPER LIMB:2 DRK TRIANGLES/LOWER LIMB 30min later:/C.FORT++", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "---", Strangeness: "6"

Event 248 (03A4F2BC)

Date: 7/6/1882
Locations: Jersey City Heights, New Jersey; Ursa Minor; Capricorn
Description: 10:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer N. S. Drayton in Jersey City Heights, New Jersey, watches a red object without a trail move across the sky from the constellation of Ursa Minor to Capricorn in 45 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: N. S. Drayton, “A Supposed Meteor,” Scientific American 47 July 22, 1882: 53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_72

Event 249 (D234FA63)

Date: 11/17/1882
Locations: Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London; Hog’s Back, Surrey, England
Description: 6:00 p.m. An auroral beam is observed from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London, by astronomer Edward Walter Maunder and by John Rand Capron from his private observatory on Hog’s Back, Surrey, England, in association with a geomagnetic storm. The beam is described in detail in various ways, including as a “beam,” “spindle,” “definite body” with a Zeppelin-like shape and pale green color, passing from horizon to horizon above the moon. The phenomenon transits the sky in approximately 75 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “November 1882 geomagnetic storm”; J. Rand Capron, “The Auroral Beam of November 17, 1882,” Philosophical Magazine, ser. 5, 15 1883: 318–339; Edward Walter Maunder, “A Strange Celestial Visitor,” The Observatory 39 May 1916: 213–215; Paul Fuller, “The Life and Times of John Rand Capron 1829–1888,” The Antiquarian Astronomer 8 March 2014: 21–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_73

Year: 1883 (Back to Top)

Event 250 (EA7137D6)

Date: 2/5/1883
Location: ARVIKA, SWEDEN
Description: Huge meteor going northwest / 18s. Turns going southeast. Zigzags / 50 second(s). / Nature March 1883.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 190)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_129

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ARVIKA,SWEDEN:HUGE METEOR > NW/18s:TURNS>SE:ZIGZAGS/50sec:/NATURE MAR.1883", LatLong: "59.594447 12.538889", LatLongDMS: "59:35:40 N 12:32:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 251 (923AB262)

Date: 2/5/1883
Locations: Lake Glasfjorden; Arvika, Sweden
Description: 6:45 p.m. A witness at Lake Glasfjorden, near Arvika, Sweden, spots a meteor-like object high on the horizon moving from southeast to northwest. It makes several minor course changes, varies its color from white to yellow, and emits some sparks. After 18 seconds, it changes its course to the southeast and is so low to the ground that its light is reflected in the lake. By this time, it has a distinct tail. Total duration is 50 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “On February 5, at 6.45 p.m.,” Nature 27 March 1, 1883: 423
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_74

Event 252 (1D5111D9)

Date: 2/5/1883
Description: A huge fireball flew over Lake Glasfjorden near Arvika, Sweden towards the northwest for 18 seconds. It turned toward the southeast and zigzagged through the sky for an additional 50 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 4, citing Nature, March 1883
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_694

Event 253 (6511B12B)

Date: 2/23/1883
Time: ~19:00
Location: SPACE
Description: New fourth magnetic/magnitude star maneuvers between Orionis and Sirius. Stops and goes according to L'astronomie.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_130

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "SPACE:NEW 4RTH MAGN STAR MNVRS BTWN ORIONIS+SIRIUS:STOPS+GOES per L'ASTRONOMIE", LatLong: "48.844447 1.000000", LatLongDMS: "48:50:40 N 01:00:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"

Event 254 (FB8BD11F)

Date: 8/12/1883
Time: ~08:00
Location: ZACATECAS OBSERVER(S), MEXICO
Description: Astronomer Bonilla. 283 objects pass suns face. Photograph of 1 taken.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_131

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "2543", HatchDesc: "ZACATECAS OBS,MEX:ASTRONOMER BONILLA:283 OBJS PASS SUNS FACE:FOTO OF 1 TAKEN", LatLong: "22.733334 -102.533338", LatLongDMS: "22:44:00 N 102:32:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ZCT", Strangeness: "6"

Event 255 (66272935)

Date: 8/12/1883
End date: 8/13/1883
Location: El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico
Description: Astronomer José Árbol y Bonilla , director of the El Cerro de la Bufa Meteorological Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico, is observing the sun by eyepiece projection when he and an assistant see a large number of small bodies crossing the solar disc. Over the course of two days, they count a total of 447 dark objects. They seem bright as they approach the sun but are dark as they pass across its face. He takes several photographs and suspects that they are relatively near the earth. Mexican astronomers in 2011 suggested that a comet may have split into several pieces; these objects were estimated to have had a size of between 150 and 3,350 feet, and to have passed only 334 to 5,000 miles from the Earth; they thought a fragmented Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks was one possibility, in which case Earth barely avoided multiple Tunguska events or even a mass extinction; this was reported in the media and disputed in October 2011; but the source of these objects could also have been comet C/1883 D1 Brooks-Swift or even a third, unknown comet that year; the event also coincided with the annual Perseid meteor shower; even migrating birds cannot be ruled out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: José Á. y Bonilla, “Passage sur le disque solaire d’un essaim de corpuscles,” L’Astronomie 4 1885: 347–350; Hector Javier Durand Manterola, Maria de la Paz Ramos Lara, and Guadalupe Cordero, “Interpretation of the Observations Made in 1883 in Zacatecas Mexico: A Fragmented Comet That Nearly Hits the Earth,” Earth and Planetary Astrophysics 2011; “Billion-Ton Comet May Have Missed Earth by a Few Hundred Kilometers in 1883,” MIT Technology Review, October 17, 2011; “Did a Massive Comet Almost Wipe Out Humans in 1883?” The Week, January 8, 2015; “OT- 1883 Zacatecas Observation of Objects before Sun Were Not 12P/Pons-Brooks Fragments,” October 17, 2011; Phil Plait, “Did a Fragmenting Comet nearly Hit the Earth in 1883? Color Me Very Skeptical,” Bad Astronomy, October 17, 2011; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 189–207
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_75

Event 256 (CEC3A540)

Date: 8/12/1883
Description: On this day at around 8:00 a.m. Astronomer Bonilla at the Zacatecas Observatory in Zacatecas, Mexico watched as 283 objects passed across the face of the sun. He took a photograph of one of them.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 19; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 55
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4926

Event 257 (3CE47086)

Date: 12/27/1883
Time: 18:30
Location: NEWCOMERSTOWN, OH
Description: Many observer(s). Brilliant square night light going north slowly / Eastern sky. Leaves trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 939)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_132

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "246", HatchDesc: "NEWCOMERSTOWN,OH:MANY OBS:BRILL.SQR NLT >N SLOWLY/EASTERN SKY:LEAVES TRAIL", LatLong: "40.272224 -81.605559", LatLongDMS: "40:16:20 N 81:36:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1884 (Back to Top)

Event 258 (D13F29FE)

Date: 6/6/1884
Location: south-central Dundy County, Nebraska
Description: 1:00 p.m. Rancher John W. Ellis and some of his ranch hands in south-central Dundy County, Nebraska, allegedly see a blazing object fall from the sky and crash into many pieces, burning the grass and fusing the sand. The light is so intense it blinds one of them. The newspaper suggests it is a “vessel belonging originally to some other planet.” The remains of the object are said to have dissolved in a rainstorm. However, the tale is actually a fictional story written by a correspondent in Benkelman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Celestial Visitor,” Lincoln Neb. Daily State Journal, June 8, 1884, p. 5; “The Magical Meteor,” Lincoln Neb. Daily State Journal, June 10, 1884, p. 4; Jerome Clark, “Spaceship and Saltshaker,” IUR 11, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1986: 12, 21; Clark III 593
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_76

Event 259 (806FF251)

Date: 7/3/1884
Location: NORWOOD, NY
Description: Saturn-object going [to] slow overhead. Dark rings / center. / Charles Fort and more / r242p129+/ r85..
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 50)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_133

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "NORWOOD,NY:SATURN-OBJ > SLO OVHD:DRK RINGS/CENTER:/Ch.Fort+/r242p129+/r85..", LatLong: "44.750002 -74.994448", LatLongDMS: "44:45:00 N 74:59:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 260 (C979EB0B)

Date: 7/3/1884
Location: Norwood, NY
Description: Saturn-shaped UFO (globe with central ring) flew slowly overhead. [Credit: Charles Fort, from Science Monthly, 2-136] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_9

Event 261 (80EB590D)

Date: 7/3/1884
Location: Norwood, New York
Description: 8:30 p.m. L. C. Yale of Norwood, New York, watches an object with a long tail move slowly from east to west. It has a “nucleus like a globe, as large as the moon, surrounded by a bright ring, two dark lines crossing the nucleus in vertical direction, the lines larger in the middle, straight on inside, curved on outside, tapering both ways to points.” The general appearance is of a “gigantic sword of fire, moving handle first.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Great Meteor,” Illustrated Science Monthly 2 1884: 136
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_77

Year: 1885 (Back to Top)

Event 262 (9613520E)

Date: 1885
Description: The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was the first car put into series production.
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_13

Event 263 (440A70D0)

Date: 2/16/1885
Locations: Pennsylvania; Delaware River; Port Jervis, New York
Description: Night. During a severe snowstorm, a bright light suddenly flashes in the high rocks on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware River some five miles northwest of Port Jervis, New York. The snow-covered hill glows like red-hot iron for several feet around, gleaming through the storm for several minutes, then growing dim and disappearing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mysterious Light,” Wichita Kan. Beacon, March 25, 1885, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_78

Event 264 (FCC415C8)

Date: 2/25/1885
Locations: North Pacific; Victoria, British Columbia
Description: 5:00 a.m. Sailing in the North Pacific some 800 miles west of Victoria, British Columbia, Captain John Waters of the barque Innerwick and his mate see the sky turning fiery red. Suddenly a large fireball appears above the ship and falls hissing into the sea about 150 feet away from them, causing a wave of water to impact the ship. Electrical discharges run through the rigging and the masts.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Frightful Experience at Sea,” Sacramento Calif. Record-Union, March 3, 1885, p. 1; “Notes and News,” Science 5 1885: 242–243; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 177–199
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_79

Event 265 (5F62CB2E)

Date: 8/22/1885
Time: 08:20
Location: OFF SAIGON, VTNM
Description: Men / ship. Large red night light maneuvers in and out / clouds. / L'Astronomie and more / r2p20.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_134

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Vietnam", Credibility: "8", Duration: "8", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "off SAIGON,VTNM:MEN/SHIP:LRG RED NLT MNVRS IN+OUT/CLOUDS:/L'Astronomie+/r2p20", LatLong: "10.833334 106.800005", LatLongDMS: "10:50:00 N 106:48:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SAI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 266 (E7C8180B)

Date: 11/1/1885
Time: 21:30
Location: ADRIANOPLE, TURKEY
Description: Slow saucer = 4-moons diameter. Lights campsite. / r221p16+/ r2p20.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_135

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Turkey", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "ADRIANOPLE,TURKEY:SLOW SCR=4-MOONS Diam:LITES CAMPSITE:/r221p16+/r2p20", LatLong: "41.683335 26.583335", LatLongDMS: "41:41:00 N 26:35:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EDI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 267 (0F1A5159)

Date: 11/1/1885
Description: A huge disc-shaped object was seen in Edirne, Turkey at 9:30 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 275; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 227; Flying Saucers, November 1973, p. 36
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7363

Event 268 (73ACEB4F)

Date: 11/2/1885
Time: ~07:00
Location: SCUTARI, TURKEY
Description: Fireball-saucer circles pier / 6M altitude. Blinding lights. Sinks quietly.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_136

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Turkey", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SCUTARI,TURKEY:FBL-SCR CIRCLES PIER/6M ALT:BLINDING LITES:SINKS QUIETLY", LatLong: "41.016669 29.033335", LatLongDMS: "41:01:00 N 29:02:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KDK", Strangeness: "7"

Event 269 (61524BDA)

Date: 11/2/1885
Location: Scutari, Turkey
Description: Dawn. A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_10

Event 270 (42AC0051)

Date: 11/2/1885
Time: dawn
Location: Scutari, Turkey
Description: A luminous object circled the harbor. Altitude: 5-6 m. Illuminated the whole town. Duration: 1 1/2 min, as a bluish-green flame. Then plunged into the sea. Made several circles above the ferry-boat pier.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_8

Event 271 (86D39F95)

Date: 11/2/1885
Description: Scutari, Albania (then called Uskudar, a part of Ottoman Turkey). At dawn a luminous object circled the harbor at an altitude of 56 meters for 90 seconds. It illuminated the entire town with a bluish-green glow. It made several circles above the ferryboat pier then plunged into the sea.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ivan Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 34; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7409

Event 272 (974EB33E)

Date: 11/12/1885
Description: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean - A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the ship "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 meters, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed off" toward the southeast. The sighting lasted five minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7603

Year: 1886 (Back to Top)

Event 273 (541A13A7)

Date: 1886
Description: French novelist Jules Verne publishes Robur the Conqueror, which describes the appearance of mysterious objects and strange lights in the sky all over the world. It turns out that the sightings are of a flying machine, invented by the novel’s anti-hero Robur, who kidnaps people and takes them on board the airship.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Robur the Conqueror”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_80

Event 274 (12FF4766)

Date: 10/24/1886
Time: 23:00?
Location: MARACAIBO, VNZ
Description: Humming and penetrating light. Family / 9 vomits. Burnt. Very radiation/radioactivity sick. / Scientific American.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 871)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_137

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Venezuela", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "MARACAIBO,VNZ:HUM+PENETRATING LITE:FAMILY/9 VOMITS:BURNT:VERY RDA SICK:/Sci.Am", LatLong: "10.666667 -71.616670", LatLongDMS: "10:40:00 N 71:37:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MRC", Strangeness: "8"

Event 275 (599586B7)

Date: 10/24/1886
Location: Maracaibo, Venezuela
Description: During the night, which was rainy and tempestuous, a family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut a few leagues from Maracaibo, were awakened by a loud humming noise and a vivid, dazzling light, which brilliantly illuminated the interior of the house. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_11

Event 276 (5CA8AB02)

Date: 10/24/1886
Locations: Maracaibo, Venezuela; 10 miles from Maracaibo, Venezuela
Description: Night. Nine persons who are sleeping in a hut some 10 miles from Maracaibo, Venezuela, are awakened by a loud humming noise and a dazzling light that illuminates the interior. The people begin to pray but they start vomiting as extensive swellings appear on the upper part of their bodies, especially around the face and lips. They feel no heat, although the light has a smoky appearance and a peculiar smell. The next morning, the swellings subside but leave black blotches. By November 2, the skin peels off and the blotches are round sores. Portions of their hair falls off. Trees around the hut show no damage until November 2, when they suddenly wither. The symptoms are similar to those of ionizing radiation syndrome.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Warner Cowgill, “Curious Phenomenon in Venezuela,” letter, Scientific American 55 December 18, 1886: 389; Clark III 949; Patrick Gross, UFO Reports from the Past
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_81

Event 277 (A4B972CD)

Date: 10/24/1886
Description: On this night a loud humming noise awakened a family of nine in a hut in a village in Maracaibo, Venezuela. A vivid, dazzling light illuminated the inside of the hut. The family suffered symptoms of apparent radiation exposure, including vomiting, hair loss, swelling, black blotches, and sores. Trees in the area withered and died nine days later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Scientific American, December 1886, p. 18; APRO Bulletin, July-August 1972, p. 6; N. M. H. Turner, FSR Case Histories, December 1970, p. 15; Gordon David Kaswell, UFO Magazine, August 2002, p. 44; John F. Schuessler, UFO-Related Human Physiological Effects, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7066

Event 278 (F0FEF267)

Date: 11/1886
Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_14

Year: 1887 (Back to Top)

Event 279 (9A188592)

Date: 3/19/1887
Locations: North Atlantic; 590 miles northeast of Bermuda
Description: 5:00 p.m. Captain Cornelis Dirks Swart of the Dutch bark J.P.A. sees a “meteor in the shape of two balls” during a storm in the North Atlantic about 590 miles northeast of Bermuda. One ball is black and the other is luminous and oblong. The luminous object descends with a roar and lights up the ship and surrounding water. The crew feels heat from the object even as solid lumps of ice fall on the deck and the rigging becomes iced. The side of the ship where it falls turns partially black and the copper plating is blistered. The wind increases to “hurricane force.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Rare Electrical Phenomenon at Sea,” American Meteorological Journal 4 July 1887: 98–99; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, 2015, pp. 205–217; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 201–210
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_82

Event 280 (0F2A94ED)

Date: 11/12/1887
Time: 23:50
Location: OFF CAPE RACE, NFL
Description: Ship crew. Red fireball going up / sea. Going [to] against wind. Dives going down. / r33p7+/ r44p28.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_138

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off CAPE RACE,NFL:SHIP CREW:RED FBL ↑/SEA:>AGNST WIND:DIVEs ↓:/r33p7+/r44p28", LatLong: "46.583336 -53.000003", LatLongDMS: "46:35:00 N 53:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "5"

Event 281 (A72F98BF)

Date: 11/12/1887
Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean
Description: Midnight. A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_12

Event 282 (858517EC)

Date: 11/12/1887
Time: 2400
Location: Cape Race, Atlantic Ocean
Description: A huge sphere of fire was observed rising out of the ocean by witnesses aboard the "Siberian." It rose to an altitude of 16 m, flew against the wind, and came close to the ship, then "dashed oft" toward the southeast. Duration: 5 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: LDLN 48; Anatomy 14 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_9

Event 283 (B0EE8657)

Date: 11/12/1887
Locations: Cape Race, Newfoundland; 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland
Description: Midnight. Captain R. F. Moore of the English steamer SS Siberian, sailing 10 nautical miles off Cape Race, Newfoundland, watches an enormous fireball rising from the sea to the height of 15 feet. It travels against the strong wind and comes close to the ship, then turns to the southeast and disappears. The object is seen for about 2 minutes. Moore says he has seen this phenomenon before and considers it a sign of stormy weather.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Globular Lightning,” Science 10 1887: 324; Thomas Corwin Mendenhall, “On Globular Lightning,” American Meteorological Journal 6 February 1890: 437, 442–443; Theo Paijmans, “Fiery Objects Rising from the Oceans,” Charles Fort Institute Blogs, July 6, 2007; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 2, Anomalist, 2021, pp. 151–174
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_83

Event 284 (FE9BB455)

Date: 11/23/1887
Location: MOON
Description: Night lights converge / Plato crater. Form "marching triangle". / Charles Fort and more / l'Astronomie.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_139

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "MOON:NLTS CONVERGE/PLATO CRATER:FORM "MARCHING TRIANGLE":/C.Fort+/l'Astronomie", LatLong: "0.000000 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "00:00:00 S 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PLT", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1888 (Back to Top)

Event 285 (71D90F41)

Date: Early 9/1888
Location: Winsted, Connecticut
Description: 3:15 p.m. During a severe thunderstorm, after a flash of lightning and a peal of thunder, witnesses see a huge flame at Highland Lake, near Winsted, Connecticut. The water is parted for yards by a huge ball of fire at least 10 feet in diameter, and billows rise on either side to a height of 20 feet. The light moves toward the head of the lake with great velocity. When it is within 100 yards of the shore, another flash of lightning strikes, and the fireball disappears. The waters of the lake remain disturbed for hours.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Ball of Fire on a Lake,” Hagerstown Ind. Exponent, September 12, 1888, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_84

Year: 1889 (Back to Top)

Event 286 (D2526E0A)

Date: 2/7/1889
Locations: Oella, Maryland; Patapsco River
Description: 6:00 p.m. A cylindrical luminous object passes over Oella, Maryland, at only several hundred feet altitude. It lights up the village “as brilliantly as if by a strong electric lamp.” It curves and appears to descend to the ground one mile away. It follows the course of the Patapsco River to the north for several seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Brilliant Meteor,” Washington D.C. Evening Star, February 9, 1889, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_85

Event 287 (FB5BB281)

Date: 2/14/1889
Description: On this evening in Catonsville, Maryland near Baltimore a luminous cylindrical object passed overhead, then appeared to descend nearthe village while following the course of the Patapsco River. The landscape beneath the object was lit up as bright as a carbon-arc light, causing alarm among the residents.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, Spring 2003, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_911

Event 288 (210AF5C1)

Date: 4/20/1889
End date: 4/30/1945
Description: German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in Austria-Hungary.
Type: historical figure
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_15

Event 289 (1327F1B4)

Date: 6/13/1889
Time: 23:30
Location: LEICESTER, LEICS
Description: Observer(s) = F. T. Mott. 'Meteor' zigzags across sky. Going quickly [to] under clouds! / Nature.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_140

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "LEICESTER,LEICs:OBS=F.T.MOTT:'METEOR' ZIGZAGS ACRS SKY:>>UNDER CLOUDS!/NATURE", LatLong: "52.600003 -1.133333", LatLongDMS: "52:36:00 N 01:08:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"

Event 290 (302E805A)

Date: 6/13/1889
Description: On this night in 1889, in Leicester, England a fireball zigzagged across the sky under the cloud cover.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: J. B. Delaire, UFO Register, volume 7, 1976
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3452

Event 291 (63E2A88D)

Date: Winter 1889
Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs
Type: scientific event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_16

Year: 1890 (Back to Top)

Event 292 (1D94842C)

Date: 1890's
Description: The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that, Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_17

Year: 1891 (Back to Top)

Event 293 (E7691712)

Date: 6/13/1891
Location: Dublin, Texas
Description: Day. An unnamed witness claims to see a “meteor” explode with a loud noise over the Wasson & Miller flour mill and cotton gin in Dublin, Texas. The object looks like “a bale of cotton suspended in the air after having been saturated in kerosene oil and ignited, except that it created a much brighter light” that dazzles people standing several hundred feet away. The object shatters into pieces before it hits the ground, the fragments setting the grass and weeds on fire. In addition to the fragments is a scrap of paper with writing in a strange language.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Dublin 1891,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_86

Event 294 (92851231)

Date: 7/12/1891
Locations: Theodore Street; Ottawa, Ontario
Description: 7:00 p.m. Residents of Theodore Street in Ottawa, Ontario, see over the rifle range a cigar-shaped balloon with a bright light on one end and a fan on the other traveling from south to north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MacLeod Ont. Gazette, July 16, 1891; Clark 45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_87

Event 295 (D9507283)

Date: 8/14/1891
Time: 18:30
Location: TOPONAS, CO
Description: / old diary. Large round glowing object maneuvers about dark clouds. Fast. Going quickly northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 297)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_141

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "2524", HatchDesc: "TOPONAS,CO:/OLD DIARY:LRG ROUND GLOWING OBJ MNVRS ABOUT DARK CLOUDS:FAST:>>NE", LatLong: "40.061113 -106.805561", LatLongDMS: "40:03:40 N 106:48:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "5"

Event 296 (9178A307)

Date: 9/2/1891
Location: Coyote Canyon [now within the Sandia National Laboratory complex], New Mexico
Description: 8:00 p.m. Alonzo M. Swan and L. D. Dodson an equestrian recovering from an illness are camped in Coyote Canyon [now within the Sandia National Laboratory complex], New Mexico, to benefit from the mineral springs there when they see a brilliant light rise above a mountain to the south. As it moves closer against the wind, they see it has a series of “electric arc lights” around it and a “pole” or rudder that is similarly lit. The object is in view for nearly two hours. Another lighted object appears from the southwest and approaches the first object, but clouds prevent any further observation. Swan sees a lighted object again on September 4, although this time it could be a star.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Mid Air Ships,” Albuquerque N.Mex. Weekly Citizen, September 12, 1891, p. 3; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 219–237
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_88

Year: 1892 (Back to Top)

Event 297 (9CC8E518)

Date: 1/1892?
Location: west coast of Baja California, Mexico
Description: George W. Crusselle and S. D. Cuthereil from the USS Thetis are wandering among the salt water lagoons on the west coast of Baja California, Mexico, when they see a luminous object with smooth edges about 30 feet in diameter approaching from the ocean at an altitude of 50 feet. It changes shape from circular to an hourglass and moves swiftly to the surface of a lagoon, covering it with a “brilliant halo of light.” It rises moments later, changing its shape frequently, and moving swiftly in a zigzag fashion. After 15 minutes it disappears inland.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George W. Crusselle, “The Coast Survey,” Atlanta Constitution, April 10, 1892, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_89

Event 298 (01768909)

Date: 3/7/1892
Time: 21:00
Location: DOMBROVNO AND AREA, POL
Description: 'Balloon' follows railroad/railway going northeast against wind. Bright beam. Returns going southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 351)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_142

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "DOMBROVNO+AREA,POL:'BALLOON' FOLOS RR >NE AGAINST WIND:BRITE BEAM:RETURNS >SW", LatLong: "50.333336 19.166668", LatLongDMS: "50:20:00 N 19:10:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KTW", Strangeness: "6"

Event 299 (BD123384)

Date: 3/22/1892 (approximate)
Time: 20:00?
Location: KOVNO = KUANAS, LITH
Description: 'German' balloon going [to] over Russian fort. Hovers. Turns back going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 351)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_143

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Estonia, Latvia& Lithuania", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "KOVNO=KUANAS,LITH:'GERMAN' BALLOON > OVR RUSSIAN FORT:HVRS:TURNS BACK >W", LatLong: "54.666669 23.916668", LatLongDMS: "54:40:00 N 23:55:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Lithuania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 300 (CDA9C451)

Date: 3/23/1892
Time: ~22:00
Location: WARSAW, POL
Description: Balloon going east. Sweeps intense beam around. Hovers until O100hrs. Going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 351)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_144

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "13", Duration: "180", HatchDesc: "WARSAW,POL:BALLOON > E:SWEEPS INTENSE BEAM AROUND:HVRS UNTIL O100hrs:>W:", LatLong: "52.250002 21.066668", LatLongDMS: "52:15:00 N 21:04:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Warsaw", Strangeness: "6"

Event 301 (2A77DEA5)

Date: 3/23/1892
Locations: Warsaw, Poland; Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; Modlin Fortress (in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki), Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland
Description: Evening–1:00 a.m. Residents of Warsaw, Poland, watch a balloon over the city that casts rays of light from an electrical apparatus. It remains stationary until 1:00 a.m., then it takes off to the west. Other supposed balloons are seen March 22 or earlier over Kaunas Fortress, Lithuania; and Modlin Fortress in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, Sosnowiec, Dąbrowa Górnicza, and Dąbrowice, Poland. As they remain stationary for as long as 40 minutes, some assume they are piloted by German spies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Spying by Balloon,” New York Evening World, March 25, 1892, p. 1; “Balloons As German Spies,” New York Times, March 26, 1892, p. 3; “Steering Military Balloons,” Birmingham Daily Post, March 31, 1892, p. 8; Clark 45; Brett Holman, “The Phantom Balloon Scare of 1892,” Airminded, July 11, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_90

Event 302 (33EEB508)

Date: 4/16/1892
Location: Przemyśl Fortress, Poland
Description: Witnesses at Przemyśl Fortress, Poland, see a bright point of light in the north that seems to be a sphere emitting searchlight beams above and below it. The object is hovering at an altitude of 2,100 feet and begins circling.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_91

Event 303 (F082AE45)

Date: 6/1/1892
Location: Newark, New Jersey
Description: Night. A large balloon carrying a searchlight and four passengers passes over Newark, New Jersey, descending as low as 20 feet from the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Trenton N.J. Times, June 2, 1892; Clark III 70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_92

Event 304 (AF1FD674)

Date: 6/19/1892
Location: Conyers, Georgia
Description: Night. J. L. Shaw of Conyers, Georgia, sees a mysterious light in the sky from which balls of fire fall to the ground near him.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw Balls of Fire,” Atlanta Constitution, June 21, 1892, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_93

Event 305 (1ABCA06B)

Date: 8/30/1892
Location: Waxahachie, Texas
Description: 11:00 p.m. Several people in Waxahachie, Texas, see a “kind of balloon” with colored lights passing over the northern part of the city after hearing a man shouting a greeting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “What Was It?” Galveston Tex. Daily News, September 2, 1892, p. 6; Clark III 70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_94

Event 306 (0597BCC1)

Date: 9/20/1892
Location: Gainesville, Florida
Description: Large quantities of a white, thread-like substance fall from the sky during a rainstorm at Gainesville, Florida. Samples are sent to arachnologist George Marx of the US Department of Agriculture, who performs a chemical analysis that shows it to be from migrating spiders.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Spider Web from the Clouds,” Scientific American 67 1892: 325
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_95

Year: 1893 (Back to Top)

Event 307 (C59E5E0F)

Date: 2/24/1893
Time: ~22:00
Location: CHEJU ISLANDS, KOREA
Description: HMS Caroline. Formation / disks going north. Brown colored contrails. Seen against mountains.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 71)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_145

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "Korea(both sides)", Credibility: "9", Duration: "120", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "CHEJU ISLS,KOREA:HMS CAROLINE:FORMn/DISKS >N:BRN CONTRAILS:seen against mtns", LatLong: "33.333335 126.416673", LatLongDMS: "33:20:00 N 126:25:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SKR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 308 (7040A82E)

Date: 2/24/1893
End date: 2/25/1893
Locations: Jeju Island, South Korea; Korea Strait; Hallasan volcano on Jeju; Port Hamilton [now the Korean islands of Geomundo]
Description: 10:00 p.m. Charles James Norcock, captain of the corvette HMS Caroline, is sailing about 16 miles south of Jeju Island, South Korea, in the Korea Strait when the officer of the watch observes some round lights resembling “Chinese lanterns festooned between the masts of a lofty vessel.” They are moving slowly north and appear to be in the air between the ship and the Hallasan volcano on Jeju. They are visible until roughly 12:00 midnight, sometimes appearing as a mass, other times strung out more in an irregular line. The ship’s crew observes them again the next night as they are sailing east from Port Hamilton [now the Korean islands of Geomundo]. This time they are visible until dawn. Although there are some odd characteristics of this observation, the likeliest explanation is that they are inferior mirages of distant fishing boats, as atmospheric conditions are favorable on these dates.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles J. Norcock, “An Atmospheric Phenomenon in the North China Sea,” Nature 48 1893: 76–77; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 253–281
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_96

Event 309 (F1704B55)

Date: 8/18/1893
Locations: Leslie; Cumberland County, Kentucky
Description: Sunrise. People living near the small hamlet of Leslie in Cumberland County, Kentucky, notice that the sun has a peculiar color. Thousands of small discs, seemingly about the size of a wagon wheel, appear in the sky, all of them in motion. They appear round in shape from far away, but when closer to the ground they change to triangles, squares, or odd forms. Their colors vary: Some are bright red, others green or black, but when they are close to the ground they are all a deep purple color. All are silent. The phenomenon lasts about one hour, during which time the villagers fear it is judgment day.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Judgment Day,” St. Louis Globe-Democrat, August 20, 1893, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_97

Event 310 (E0857D7B)

Date: 8/26/1893
Description: In Leslie, Kentucky thirty minutes after sunrise the sun took on a "peculiar color" and the sky became filled with thousands of discs, the size of wagon wheels, in motion. They would change shape into triangles, squares, and odd forms. They were various colors, including red, green, black, and red.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark, International UFO Reporter, April 2003, p. 19, citing the Arizona Republic, August 27, 1893
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5350

Event 311 (E3E5A825)

Date: 12/20/1893
Location: , VA TO NORTH CAR
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Huge noisy saucer maneuvers. Stops / 15 minute(s). Continues going south. / r221p16.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_146

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HST: Historical account, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "20", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: ",VA to N.CAR:100s/OBS:HUGE NOISY SCR MNVRS:STOPS/15min:CONTINUES >S:/r221p16", LatLong: "37.000002 -77.000004", LatLongDMS: "37:00:00 N 77:00:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1894 (Back to Top)

Event 312 (867B6B8B)

Date: 1894
End date: 1895
Description: The first practical radio transmitters and receivers invented in by Guglielmo Marconi using radiotelegraphy
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_18

Event 313 (803350F5)

Date: 2/1894?
Locations: Gulf of Mexico; West Coast of Florida
Description: Capt. Corning of the British schooner W. and H. Witherspoon sees several lights rise from the Gulf of Mexico off the west coast of Florida. They ascend to a height of 25 feet, explode, and disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Cum Grano Salis,” Lowell Mass. Daily Sun, February 8, 1894, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_98

Event 314 (7B87D8F7)

Date: 5/1894
Location: Flagstaff, Arizona
Description: During the opposition of Mars, the idea that Schiaparelli’s canali are really irrigation canals made by intelligent beings is first hinted at, and then adopted as the only intelligible explanation, by American astronomer Percival Lowell in Flagstaff, Arizona, and a few others. The visible seasonal melting of Martian polar icecaps fuels speculation that an advanced alien race indigenous to Mars has built the canals to transport the water to drier equatorial regions. Newspaper and magazine articles about Martian canals and “Martians” capture the public imagination. Lowell publishes his views in three books: Mars 1895, Mars and Its Canals 1906, and Mars As the Abode of Life 1908. He remains a strong proponent for the rest of his life of the idea that the canals were built for irrigation by an intelligent civilization.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Martian canal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_99

Event 315 (3810AC4A)

Date: 6/7/1894
Locations: Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona; Mars
Description: Astronomers Percival Lowell and William H. Pickering at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, see two “dazzling white specks” for a few moments on the south polar cap of Mars. The most likely explanation is the reflection of sunlight from ice on the surface or ice crystals in clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Percival Lowell, Mars, Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 ed., pp. 86–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_100

Event 316 (57B05043)

Date: 7/20/1894
Locations: Marriott-Slaterville; Utah; Ogden
Description: Sunset. Bernard Parry and his wife are near Marriott [now Marriott-Slaterville], Utah, when they see a “small black cloud” in the northeast quickly approaching them. It grows bigger, then smaller, as they watch it. When it is only 450 feet away, it stops and hovers. Its sides seem to be folded up toward the center. Many small black-and- white objects birds? are moving in its center. Suddenly the object pivots to the east and moves away toward Ogden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ogden Utah Standard, July 26, 1894
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_101

Event 317 (E3B2DC5F)

Date: Late 11/1894
Location: Manchester, Kansas
Description: 11:00 p.m.–2:00 a.m. Mennonite farmers Henry W. J. Smith and Benjamin W. Blue see a luminous ball in the northeastern sky about 30° above the horizon some 3 miles west of Manchester, Kansas. The object, in the shape of a “casket,” shoots toward the west 3° then returns to its original position. As it maneuvers near them, it opens several times, revealing various entities each time, from a crowned man to a “haughty woman” and a military leader. The original report appears in the Evangelical Visitor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Battle in the Heavens,” Wilkes-Barre Pa. Times, October 6, 1894, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_102

Year: 1895 (Back to Top)

Event 318 (90A526E6)

Date: 1895
Location: Mars
Description: French parapsychologist Albert de Rochas is asked to hypnotize a family friend, “Mireille,” who is suffering from some ailment. In one of her sessions, Mireille describes how she is rising in space, which she describes as luminous and peopled with phantoms. Subsequent sessions reveal that she has visited Mars and other planets in astral form. Mars has canals, of course, but also Martians who are less intelligent than earthlings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1986: 8–9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_103

Event 319 (F0FFB861)

Date: 8/1895
Location: Onondaga County, New York
Description: US psychical researcher James Hyslop begins investigating a case of automatic writing by Sarah Harper Cleaveland “[Mrs. Smead](https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/smead-mrs-ca-1902)” in Onondaga County, New York. She keeps records of her planchette experiments and puts them at Hyslop’s disposal. In August, she makes several references to the planet Mars and Jupiter. She provides a crude map of Jupiter’s surface, and the planet is said to be the “babies’ heaven.” At the next sitting, she draws a map of Mars, the different zones named in the Martian language; she gives several communications about the inhabitants and the canals. Martian revelations cease for another 5 years until September 1900, when the communications return in a developed state. She draws men, boats, houses, and flowers, named in Martian and written in hieroglyphic characters. Some of the sketches a self-winding double clock are very ingenious, while others a Martian airship are peculiar but unconvincing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1986: 6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_104

Event 320 (85199D49)

Date: 8/31/1895
Time: 20:00?
Location: OXFORD, ENGL
Description: Luminous disk bigger / Venus. Rises from trees and crosses sky. Going quickly east / Jan Murray.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 72)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_147

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "OXFORD,ENGL:LUM DISK BIGGER/VENUS:RISES fm TREES+CROSSES SKY:>>E/JAN MURRAY", LatLong: "51.716669 -1.266667", LatLongDMS: "51:43:00 N 01:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 321 (E15D34CE)

Date: 8/31/1895
Locations: Oxford, England; London; Margate, Kent
Description: 8:00 p.m. Oxford English Dictionary lexicographer James Murray watches a “brilliant luminous body” move slowly over the Oxford University campus in Oxford, England, toward the east. At roughly the same time, other observers in London see a similar meteor pass over slowly for about 5 minutes, and A. Warren Melhuish sees it at Margate, Kent, around 10:15 p.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. A. H. Murray, “Remarkable Meteoric ? Appearance,” London Times, September 4, 1895, p. 3; “Remarkable Meteoric Appearance,” London Times, September 6, 1895, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_105

Event 322 (B87D887C)

Date: 11/8/1895
Description: X-Rays discovered
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_19

Year: 1896 (Back to Top)

Event 323 (A2B6030A)

Date: 1896
Location: Arolla (near Zermatt), Swiss Alps
Description: Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_13

Event 324 (159D5D70)

Date: 1896
Location: Arolla, near Zermatt, Swiss Alps
Description: Author Aleister Crowley was walking in the mountains when he suddenly saw two little men. He made a gesture to them, but they did not seem to pay attention and disappeared among the rocks.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Magic Without Tears, by A. Crowley (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_10

Event 325 (9E192F15)

Date: 7/1/1896
Location: Winnipeg, Manitoba
Description: 6:00 p.m. A mysterious balloon passes over Winnipeg, Manitoba, to the east at an estimated 2,000 feet. It is lost to view after 20 minutes
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Mysterious Balloon,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, July 2, 1896, p. 4; “They Think It’s Andreé’s,” Chicago Tribune, July 2, 1896, p. 1; Clark III 70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_106

Event 326 (11DFA1D8)

Date: 7/3/1896
Time: 19:30
Location: NEAR HAZELTON, BC
Description: 1+several observer(s). Dark object emerges / clouds and maneuvers / 120M altitude. Vibrant bright lights.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_148

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "94", HatchDesc: "nr HAZELTON,BC:1+SVRL OBS:DARK OBJ EMERGES/CLOUDS+MNVRS/120M alt:VBRITE LITES:", LatLong: "55.250003 -127.666673", LatLongDMS: "55:15:00 N 127:40:00 W", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "120", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 327 (52734A88)

Date: 7/3/1896
Locations: Blackwater Lake, British Columbia; Skeena River, British Columbia
Description: The chief of the Kispiox people and a group of Canadian trappers see a brightly lit balloon traveling north near Blackwater Lake, British Columbia. The same day, a First Nations boy sees something similar at the Skeena River, British Columbia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “It Was No Dream,” Winnipeg Manitoba Morning Free Press, August 13, 1896, p. 2; Brett Holman, “Believing Is Seeing,” Airminded, May 2, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_107

Event 328 (30A07E2C)

Date: Mid 7/1896
Locations: Princeton, Missouri; Lineville, Iowa
Description: Night. Chester N. Crotsenburg , a postal clerk on the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railway, is on a train heading north from Princeton, Missouri, when he notices a round, dull-rose-colored light low on the western horizon. It then rises in height to 45°, and appears to be pacing the train, keeping a half-mile or one mile distance. After the train reaches Lineville, Iowa 13.7 miles away, it passes out of sight behind buildings. Possibly the moon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 26 August 1898: 358; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 291–304
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_108

Event 329 (0CC1FAD5)

Date: 8/11/1896
Location: San Francisco, California
Description: Charles Abbott Smith of San Francisco, California, is granted a patent for a cylindrical airship with a cone- shaped bow, “two wings hinged at the upper part of the vessel,” and a compartment for machinery and passengers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Patent, “Air-ship,” granted August 11, 1896
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_109

Event 330 (72500882)

Date: 10/1896
Locations: Telegraph Avenue; Oakland, California
Description: Evening. A Miss Hagstrom is riding a bicycle on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland, California, when she notices an object with a powerful headlight moving toward the west and gradually descending.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Mystic Flying Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_110

Event 331 (D4F17CC4)

Date: 10/25/1896 (approximate)
Time: 22:00?
Location: BOWMAN, CA
Description: 2 separate observer(s). 3 very bright lights 8' apart going quickly east / 100MPH. In sight / several min.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_149

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "494", HatchDesc: "BOWMAN,CA:2 SEP.OBS:3 VERY BRITE LITES 8' APART >>E/100MPH:IN SIGHT/SVRL MIN:", LatLong: "38.933335 -121.066672", LatLongDMS: "38:56:00 N 121:04:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "4"

Event 332 (9378975A)

Date: Late 10/1896
Location: Bowman, California
Description: Fruit rancher Constant T. Musso and his family in Bowman, California. watch three bright lights moving toward the east at about 100 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mission of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_111

Event 333 (50803FB3)

Date: 10/31/1896 (approximate)
Time: ~08:00
Location: BOLINAS RIDGE, CA
Description: Man hunting. 'Airship' / morning sky. 100M away over trees. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_150

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", Elev: "396", HatchDesc: "BOLINAS RIDGE,CA:MAN HUNTING:'AIRSHIP'/MORNING SKY:100M away OVR TREES:NFD", LatLong: "38.000002 -122.800006", LatLongDMS: "38:00:00 N 122:48:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 334 (57F566BE)

Date: Early 11/1896?
Locations: Sutro Heights estate; Sutro Heights Park; Richmond District; San Francisco, California
Description: Evening. Some of the employees at the Sutro Heights estate [now Sutro Heights Park in the Richmond District] of San Francisco, California, Mayor Adolph Sutro watch a brilliant light approaching from the sea at a height of 500 feet. Two lights are visible, one a “misty-looking mass” and the other a searchlight. The object disappears in the direction of the city and turns to the north just before it passes from view. Another report suggests that the object passe over Seal Rocks and shone its searchlight on the seals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Apparition of the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_112

Event 335 (F7F76DDF)

Date: Early 11/1896
Location: Woodland, California
Description: 8:00 p.m. Louis Charmak and one other person in Woodland, California, notice three bright lights in the southwestern sky moving toward the northeast. As they reach Main Street, they rise another 100 feet in the air. They are close together and followed by a white trail of light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Was It an Airship?” Woodland Calif. Daily Democrat, November 24, 1896, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_113

Event 336 (106F96F3)

Date: 11/5/1896 (approximate)
Time: ~21:00
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Description: Great airship over Sutro House. Beams going down / Seal Rock. Seals dive. Going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_151

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:Gt AIRSHIP OVR SUTRO HOUSE:BEAMS ↓/SEAL ROCK:SEALS DIVE:>>E", LatLong: "37.794446 -122.516673", LatLongDMS: "37:47:40 N 122:31:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 337 (F287EB2F)

Date: 11/15/1896
Time: 21:00
Location: SUISUN BAY, CA
Description: Telegraph lineman. 'Powered balloon' flies into wind.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_152

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SUISUN BAY,CA:TELEGRAPH LINEMAN:'POWERED BALLOON' FLIES INTO WIND", LatLong: "38.066668 -122.033339", LatLongDMS: "38:04:00 N 122:02:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 338 (6D3373FE)

Date: 11/15/1896
Description: At 9:00 p.m. a telegraph lineman in Suisun City, California saw a "powered balloon" flying into the wind.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 191; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7681

Event 339 (DD3D0A45)

Date: 11/17/1896
Time: 18:00
Location: SACRAMENTO, CA
Description: 90M cylinder/cigar-shape with searchlight flies into wind / 30 min and more. Back 21 November.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_153

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "60", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "SACRAMENTO,CA:90M CGR W/SEARCHLIGHT FLIES INTO WIND/30 MIN+:BACK 21NOV", LatLong: "38.583335 -121.466672", LatLongDMS: "38:35:00 N 121:28:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 340 (DDE4E83C)

Date: 11/17/1896
Locations: Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento; Sacramento; California
Description: Afternoon and evening. A mystery airship wave begins in California when residents of the Oak Park neighborhood of Sacramento see a high-flying object moving slowly in a circle, leaving a trail of smoke. Around 6:30 p.m., a light resembling an electric arc lamp appears in the night sky above Sacramento. Horse trainer David Carl notices it close to the ground and hears a voice saying, “We are too low down here. Send her up higher.” Hundreds watch as it passes at low altitude for 30 minutes, avoiding buildings and hills. Some people claim to hear voices, either arguing or singing. R. L. Lowry sees four men pushing the vessel by its wheels. The witnesses include streetcar workers Charles Lusk and Granville C. Snider , who watch the object rise and fall as it moves southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mystery airship”; “Voices in the Sky,” Sacramento Calif. Evening Bee, November 18, 1896, p. 1; “Strange Craft of the Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 19, 1896, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1896 , The Author, 1974; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; Clark III 70–75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_114

Event 341 (94B73A1A)

Date: 11/20/1896
Time: 14:00
Location: TAGUS, CA
Description: Farmer and 1 observer(s). Strange 'spread-out canvas sheet' / 2K' altitude floats going quickly northeast and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 5)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_154

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "TAGUS,CA:FARMER+1 OBS:STRANGE 'SPREAD-OUT CANVAS SHEET'/2K'alt FLOATS>>NE+AWAY", LatLong: "36.283335 -119.727783", LatLongDMS: "36:17:00 N 119:43:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 342 (EAB29D97)

Date: 11/20/1896
Location: Tagus, California
Description: Afternoon. D. H. Risdon is working in an orchard near Tagus, California, when he spots an object “like an immense sheet” moving against the wind at a “considerable elevation.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Mystic Flying Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_115

Event 343 (1FA101F3)

Date: 11/20/1896
Locations: Oakland, California; San Francisco; Folsom; Sacramento; Modesto; Manteca; Sebastopol
Description: 5:30 p.m. Passengers on a streetcar in Oakland, California, notice a “peculiar-looking contrivance” high in the sky and moving in a westerly direction toward San Francisco. It has a powerful headlight and another light on the bottom. It is also seen over Folsom, San Francisco, Sacramento, Modesto, Manteca, Sebastopol, and several other cities later in the evening and is reportedly viewed by hundreds of witnesses.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Mystic Flying Light,” San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896, p. 13; Wikipedia, “Mystery airship”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_116

Event 344 (B8384DA7)

Date: 11/22/1896
Time: ~18:00
Location: KNIGHTS FERRY, CA
Description: 2 ministers. Fireball skims ground. Rises. Half-circle maneuver. Speeds away.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 8)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_155

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "KNIGHTS FERRY,CA:2 MINISTERS:FBL SKIMS GND:RISES:HALF-CIRCLE MNVR:SPEEDS AWAY", LatLong: "37.311113 -120.655561", LatLongDMS: "37:18:40 N 120:39:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 345 (696E634E)

Date: 11/22/1896
Time: 19:00
Location: RED BLUFF AND CHICO AND LEESVILLE, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Fast 30M cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] over mountains. Several turns. Going northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_156

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "95", HatchDesc: "RED BLUFF+CHICO+LEESVILLE,CA:SVRL OBS:FAST 30M CGR > ovr MTNS:SVRL TURNS:>NE", LatLong: "40.183335 -122.238895", LatLongDMS: "40:11:00 N 122:14:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 346 (644FB1C9)

Date: 11/22/1896
Time: 19:30
Location: SAN LEANDRO, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Large dark cylinder/cigar-shape beams long sharp light going down. 20mph. Going quickly south / Hayward.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_157

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "35", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "SAN LEANDRO,CA:SVRL OBS:LRG DRK CGR BEAMS LONG SHARP LITE ↓:20mph:>>S/HAYWARD", LatLong: "37.716668 -122.150006", LatLongDMS: "37:43:00 N 122:09:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 347 (CD6502CB)

Date: 11/22/1896
Locations: San Francisco; California; Maine; Oroville; Oakland; Havana, Cuba
Description: San Francisco attorney George D. Collins announces that he represents the airship inventor, a “very wealthy man who has been studying the subject of flying machines for fifteen years” and who moved to California from Maine in 1889. He claims the airship is a 150-foot metal contraption with two canvas wings 18 feet wide and shaped like a bird’s tail. It has been built in Oroville and is now hidden in the San Francisco, California, area as the inventor deals with technical problems. However, people in Oroville sense a hoax, as they know of no such inventor. On November 24, Collins complains to the San Francisco Call that another newspaper, the San Francisco Examiner, has been printing falsehoods about him, including an interview with another attorney, Frederick Bradley. Suspicion falls on an itinerant dentist from Maine, Elmer H. Benjamin, who insists his only inventions are dental fittings. A prominent citizen of Oakland, George H. Carleton, claims to know the inventor but has been sworn to secrecy. Former California Attorney General William H. H. Hart soon claims to represent the mystery inventor, who has fired Collins for talking too much. But Hart is also blabbing prolifically, saying that two or three airships exist a second built in an eastern state and his role is to “consolidate both interests.” Hart asserts that the airship can carry four men and 1,000 pounds of dynamite for dropping on Havana, Cuba.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 71–73; “A Lawyer’s Word for That Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 22, 1896, p. 36; “Collins Sticks to His Airship Story,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 23, 1896, p. 12; San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “Have We Got ‘Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “Coy Mr. Collins and His Airship,” San Francisco Chronicle, November 24, 1896, p. 9; “The Apparition of the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1; “Mission of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1; “Hart Stands by His Ship,” “Hart Confirms the Story from Sacramento,” San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1; “Three Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2003, pp. 249–315
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_117

Event 348 (4C8D2275)

Date: 11/22/1896
Location: Sacramento, California
Description: 5:30 p.m. Another mystery light moving in a wavering fashion toward the southwest is seen in Sacramento, California, by many people. At times it disappears, then flashes out again with renewed brilliance. Edward Carragher, owner of the Saddle Rock Restaurant, views the light through binoculars and is able to see a large object supporting an arc lamp. Cigar store vendor Jacob Zemansky watches the undulating light through a telescope until it fades into nothingness.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Have We Got ‘Em Again?” Sacramento Bee, November 23, 1896, p. 1; “A Winged Ship in the Sky,” San Francisco Call, November 23, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_118

Event 349 (5E5E298D)

Date: 11/22/1896
Locations: Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California; Golden Gate; Twin Peaks downtown; Pierce Street hill; Ashbury Street; Oakland; Alameda; San Leandro; San Jose, California; Tacoma, Washington
Description: 7:05 p.m. M. H. Cohen, a conductor on the Hayes Street line, sees an aerial light at about 300–400 feet altitude when he is at Market and 8th streets in San Francisco, California. Other people on the streetcar also watch the light, which is moving across the Golden Gate and flashing periodically. When the streetcar disembarks at 1st Street at 7:13 p.m., Cohen and the others see the light over the Twin Peaks downtown. At the top of Pierce Street hill, Cohen sees it returning from Twin Peaks, and at 7:51 p.m. he watches it from Ashbury Street. Airships are seen later at Oakland, Alameda, San Leandro, San Jose, California, and Tacoma, Washington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Apparition of the Air,” San Francisco Call, November 24, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_119

Event 350 (E137F7FB)

Date: 11/23/1896
Time: 22:10
Location: STOCKTON, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Fast bright night light exits shadow-ovoid. Dips low near buildings.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_158

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "STOCKTON,CA:SVRL OBS:FAST BRITE NLT EXITS SHADOW-OVOID:DIPS LOW nr BLDGS", LatLong: "37.950002 -121.266672", LatLongDMS: "37:57:00 N 121:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 351 (C99F02A9)

Date: 11/23/1896
Time: 23:00
Location: SAN JOSE, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Bright night light going south. Again going quickly north one hour later. Back 26 November / 'good observer(s)'.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_159

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "61", Elev: "26", HatchDesc: "SAN JOSE,CA:SVRL OBS:BRITE NLT> S:AGAIN >>N 1hr LATER:BACK 26NOV/'GOOD OBS'", LatLong: "37.333335 -121.883339", LatLongDMS: "37:20:00 N 121:53:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 352 (D84C189F)

Date: 11/23/1896
Locations: Chico, California; Red Bluff, California
Description: 7:00 p.m. A bright light is seen west of Chico, California, traveling to the northwest. The same or similar light is seen west of Red Bluff, California flying west at about 2,000 feet. After a few minutes it descends to 1,000 feet. It disappears over the Coast Range.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mission of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_120

Event 353 (2EDBDF7D)

Date: 11/23/1896
Description: Several observers in Stockton, California witnessed a fast moving, bright light in the sky that had exited from a shadowy ovoid object at 10:10 p.m.; it dips low near buildings in the city. There were several other reports this evening from Antioch, Chico, Lathrop, Oakland, San Francisco, and San Jose, California.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Stockton (CA) Daily Independent, November 24, 1896; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 164, citing Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7832

Event 354 (4A83DC12)

Date: 11/24/1896
Time: 19:00
Location: VISALIA, CA
Description: Several observer(s). 'Vessel' / sky at train speed. Up-down-left-right. Going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_160

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "99", HatchDesc: "VISALIA,CA:SVRL OBS:'VESSEL'/SKY at TRAIN SPEED:UP-DOWN-LEFT-RIGHT:>>NW", LatLong: "36.316668 -119.300006", LatLongDMS: "36:19:00 N 119:18:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 355 (46C67C5D)

Date: 11/24/1896
Time: 23:50
Location: MT. RAINIER, WA
Description: 2 observer(s). Object beams variable-colored lights / all directions. Going quickly southeast. Examines mountain peak.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_161

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", Elev: "4392", HatchDesc: "Mt RAINIER,WA:2 OBS:OBJ BEAMS VARI-CLRD LITES/ALL DIRS:>>SE:EXAMINES MTN PEAK", LatLong: "46.855558 -121.761117", LatLongDMS: "46:51:20 N 121:45:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 356 (0C75B774)

Date: 11/24/1896
Locations: San Francisco; Oakland, California; Broadway
Description: 6:45 p.m. Several passengers on a train crossing the bay from San Francisco to Oakland, California, see an airship alternately stop, hover, and move on. Minutes later, 6th Street in Oakland is overflowing with onlookers as the object passes above Broadway, flashing its light. One spectator is watching through binoculars and says the airship’s turns causes the searchlight to shine in different directions. Among the witnesses are Col. Thomas F. Garrity , city electrician George H. Carleton , George Hatton of the Oakland Tribune, and Melvin Holmes .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mission of the Aerial Ship,” San Francisco Call, November 25, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_121

Event 357 (7FCF472A)

Date: 11/24/1896
Description: Many witnesses in Red Bluff, California witnessed a light maneuvering in the sky for several minutes at 7:00 p.m. In Visalia, California several observers saw a "vessel" in the sky moving at the speed of a train; it moved up-and-down and left-and-right, and departed quickly to the northwest. At 11:30 p.m. two witnesses in Tacoma, Washington watched a flying object beam vari-colored rays of light in all directions. It then flew to the southeast and examined the Mount Rainier mountain peak.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Oakland Tribune, November 25, 1896; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, pp. 8-9; Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 21, 26
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7864

Event 358 (BEC00B0E)

Date: 11/25/1896
Time: 18:30
Location: FRESNO, CA
Description: Airship with lights / both ends. Beams in odd directions. High-altitude going quickly northwest 2-7 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_162

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "89", HatchDesc: "FRESNO,CA:AIRSHIP W/LITES/BOTH ENDS:BEAMS IN ODD DIRECTIONS:HI-ALT >>NW 2-7min", LatLong: "36.750002 -119.783339", LatLongDMS: "36:45:00 N 119:47:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 359 (0B7B887D)

Date: 11/25/1896
Time: 21:00?
Location: AUBURN, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Barrel-shape / high-altitude passes with sinuous motion up and down / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_163

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "385", HatchDesc: "AUBURN,CA:SVRL OBS:BARREL-SHAPE/HI-ALT PASSES WITH SINUOUS MOTION UP+DOWN/NEWS", LatLong: "38.866669 -121.083339", LatLongDMS: "38:52:00 N 121:05:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 360 (6D5DFA6E)

Date: 11/25/1896
Locations: Sacramento, California; Galt, California
Description: Evening. A mystery light flies in circular patterns around Sacramento, California, at a rapid rate of speed. Observers include Deputy Secretary of State George A. McCalvy, District Attorney Frank D. Ryan, and E. D. McCabe, the governor’s personal secretary. It is three times as large as Venus, also visible. The light is observed for 20 minutes then reappears later in the evening. A Professor Dodge of Galt, California, claims he can make out the “outlines of a dark body” just above the light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 73; “Hart Confirms the Story from Sacramento,” San Francisco Call, November 26, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_122

Event 361 (E6C2F94B)

Date: 11/25/1896
Location: Lodi, California
Description: 6:00 p.m. Col. H. G. Shaw and Camille Spooner are riding in a carriage near Lodi, California, when their horse stops suddenly. Looking up, they see three slender beings about 7 feet tall. Shaw walks up to them and asks them where they are from; they reply in an odd warbling language. He notes that they are hairless and wear no apparent clothing. The eyes are large and lustrous, and they each seem to be carrying and egg-shaped light and a breathing apparatus under the left arm. Shaw claims the beings try to lift him but they are not strong enough. They then notice a 150-foot airship hovering 20 feet above the water close to a bridge. The three beings float to the craft, open a door in the side, and disappear inside. The ship flies quickly out of sight. Shaw speculates that the beings are from Mars.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Three Strange Visitors,” Stockton Calif. Evening Mail, November 27, 1896, p. 1; Patrick Gross, UFOs in the Daily Press
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_123

Event 362 (B8831BC1)

Date: 11/26/1896
Time: 10:30
Location: MODESTO, CA
Description: Several at bank. Night lights fly going quickly northwest / great altitude. Called Great Airship.. .
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_164

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "28", HatchDesc: "MODESTO,CA:SVRL at BANK:NLTS FLY >>NW/GREAT ALT.:called Great Airship...", LatLong: "37.650002 -120.983339", LatLongDMS: "37:39:00 N 120:59:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "3"

Event 363 (7EC32318)

Date: 11/26/1896
Time: 20:00
Location: BAKERSFIELD, CA
Description: Several separate observer(s). Huge red night light. Back gliding going south / 27 November with lights.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_165

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "122", HatchDesc: "BAKERSFIELD,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE RED NLT::BACK GLIDING >S/27NOV W/LITES", LatLong: "35.383335 -119.016672", LatLongDMS: "35:23:00 N 119:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "3"

Event 364 (508C82E9)

Date: 11/26/1896
Locations: Monroe Street; San Jose, California
Description: 7:00 p.m. Farmer John Bawl and his family see an airship moving to the southwest over his residence on Monroe Street near Franklin Street in San Jose, California. It is lunging sharply from side to side and has a pair of flapping wings and a red light on the bottom. Musician and President of the University of the Pacific Moses Smith Cross also sees the strange aerial light when he is visiting a colleague two blocks away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “It Flitted over San Jose,” San Francisco Call, November 28, 1896, p. 1; “Three Airships, Says Hart,” San Francisco Call, November 29, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_124

Event 365 (B4B682A3)

Date: 11/26/1896
Locations: Oakland, California; San Francisco
Description: 8:00 p.m. Electrician Case Gilson and three other men see an unlighted airship in a clear sky 1,000 feet over Oakland, California. It is flying northward against the wind and looks like a “great black cigar with a fishlike tail.” The body is at least 100 feet long and looks as if it is made of darkened aluminum. It is seen again at 8:30 p.m. and disappears in the direction of San Francisco.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 73; “Says He Saw It,” Oakland Calif. Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1; “Saw the Airship at Close Range,” San Francisco Call, December 2, 1896, p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_125

Event 366 (6BFADDF3)

Date: 11/27/1896
Time: 18:00
Location: SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA
Description: Many observer(s). Night light plays / sky. 2 night lights / Los Angeles / 30 November. Southeast going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_166

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", Elev: "295", HatchDesc: "SAN FERNANDO VALLEY,CA:MANY OBS:NLT PLAYS/SKY:2 NLTS/LOS ANGELES/30NOV:SE>>NW", LatLong: "34.250002 -118.383339", LatLongDMS: "34:15:00 N 118:23:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 367 (770EC770)

Date: 11/27/1896
Location: Woodland, California
Description: 10:00 p.m. A prominent attorney and others in Woodland, California, see a cluster of lights attached to an apparent airship moving at an altitude of about 500 feet at about 25 mph. It remains visible for an hour.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More Airship Stories,” Woodland Calif. Daily Democrat, November 29, 1896, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_126

Event 368 (6C996653)

Date: 11/28/1896
Location: Oakland, California
Description: Percy Drew watches an enormous airship with a red light over Oakland, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Says He Saw It,” Oakland Calif. Tribune, December 1, 1896, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_127

Event 369 (5379DB90)

Date: 11/29/1896
Time: 19:00
Location: TULARE AND DELANO, CA
Description: 100+observer(s). Airship. Descends. Rises. Shoots going quickly west toward(s) Hanford, CA.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_167

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "5", Elev: "288", HatchDesc: "TULARE+DELANO,CA:100+OBS:AIRSHIP:DESCENDS:RISES:SHOOTS >>W TWRD HANFORD,CA", LatLong: "36.205557 -119.344450", LatLongDMS: "36:12:20 N 119:20:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 370 (A6769E76)

Date: 11/29/1896
Description: Over a hundred witnesses in Tulare, California watched an airship descend, then rise, and finally shoot off to the west toward Hanford, California.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 23
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8023

Event 371 (565669E3)

Date: 11/30/1896
Time: 20:20
Location: ANDERSON AND POTTER VALLEY, CA
Description: Several separate observer(s). Airship west beams / light. Horses panic. Going southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_168

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "60", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "ANDERSON+POTTER VALLEY,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:AIRSHIP W BEAMS/LITE:HORSES PANIC:>SW", LatLong: "40.450002 -122.294450", LatLongDMS: "40:27:00 N 122:17:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 372 (70348444)

Date: 11/30/1896
Description: In Anderson, Shasta County, California several independent witnesses saw an airship fly over emitting beams of light; horses panicked during the overflight as the unknown craft flew off to the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The UFO Wave of 1896, p. 25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8063

Event 373 (491D136B)

Date: 12/1/1896
Locations: Rumsey, California; Davis, California; Los Angeles
Description: Harry Lytle watches an airship as it flies toward the southwest over the Coast Ranges 3 miles north of Rumsey, California. He claims to recognize it as an “aircycle,” kind of a winged balloon with a pedal-driven propellor, plans for which he submitted to E. W. Brown of Davis, California, and which they constructed in 1893. He calls it the Nonesuch. On an alleged test flight to Los Angeles on March 2, 1893, the device was stolen by some “hoboes.” He assumes the airship is his stolen invention.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Mystery Solved,” Woodland Calif. Daily Democrat, December 8, 1896, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_128

Event 374 (9C0DCFC3)

Date: 12/2/1896
Description: On this day in 1896 an airship descended from the sky 15 miles north of Pacific Grove, California and landed on the Pacific Ocean. Three human occupants aboard guided it to shore and then hid it in the woods, according to the two witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: San Francisco Call, December 3, 1896; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 31; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified, p. 141
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8119

Event 375 (B0808BF7)

Date: 12/4/1896
Locations: Dixon; Elmira, California
Description: 6:30 p.m. Travelers on a freight train between Dixon and Elmira, California, see two large, bright lights moving parallel with them at about 1,000 feet altitude. The lights outdistance the train and disappear to the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 74; “The Airship Again,” Woodland Calif. Daily Democrat, December 7, 1896, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_129

Event 376 (B1942007)

Date: 12/7/1896
Description: A large airship flew over the small town of Camptonville, Yuba County,California and landed nearby at 9:00 p.m. Five men went out to investigate, and found the ship with its sole occupant, a bearded man who appeared to be deaf and mute. Some written communication was attempted, in response the man produced an "alphabet" and spelled out a message saying he lived in the Montezuma Mountains with his wife and two children. He declined to answer any further questions, so the five men left. The craft was seen flying off the next day.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: San Francisco Examiner, December 8, 1896; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 142; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8251

Event 377 (E38B8D0F)

Date: 12/10/1896 (approximate)
Time: ~18:00
Location: BATTLE MOUNTAIN, NV
Description: Strange light north / town heads going quickly west. Rises straight up. / local paper.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_169

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1381", HatchDesc: "BATTLE MOUNTAIN,NV:STRANGE LITE N/TOWN HEADS>>W:RISES STRAIGHT UP:/LOCAL PAPER", LatLong: "40.644446 -116.933339", LatLongDMS: "40:38:40 N 116:56:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "5"

Event 378 (6DC18EFF)

Date: 12/10/1896 (approximate)
Time: ~18:00
Location: ELKO, NV
Description: 50 observer(s). Strange night light rises / north and goes going quickly west. Fast and steady. Too slow for meteor.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1896. Self published 1974, 87 (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_170

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "2", Elev: "1540", HatchDesc: "ELKO,NV:50 OBS:STRANGE NLT RISES/NORTH+GOES>>W:FAST+STEADY:TOO SLOW FOR METEOR", LatLong: "40.833335 -115.755561", LatLongDMS: "40:50:00 N 115:45:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "4"

Event 379 (77C374CF)

Date: 12/10/1896
Description: At 6:00 p.m. in 1896, in both Battle Mountain and Elko, Nevada a strange light was seen flying to the west. Moving too slowly to be a meteor, it suddenly shot straight up through the atmosphere.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8291

Event 380 (08922354)

Date: 12/26/1896
Locations: Wilmington, Delaware; Salt Lake City; Cuba
Description: Early morning. Dairy farmer Ezekiel Sergeant and a hired man have just finished milking their cows near Wilmington, Delaware, when they hear strains of music in the air. Then a bottle falls at Sergeant’s feet and breaks into pieces. He sees an enormous, fish-shaped airship with extended wings, a large tail, and a bright searchlight. Amid the shattered glass he finds a slip of paper allegedly written by Capt. James Dashiel and Thomas Murphy on the airship Icarus that is sailing from Salt Lake City to Cuba.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw an Air-Ship,” Philadelphia Pa. Times, December 28, 1896, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_130

Year: 1897 (Back to Top)

Event 381 (F16C2E7E)

Date: Mid 1/1897
Location: Acampo, California
Description: Just after sunset. People in Acampo, California, see an airship the size of a small house, seemingly built of canvas, and moving to the southeast. It looks “like a cigar box with a spark of fire in it.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Reported Again,” Stockton Calif. Evening Mail, January 22, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_131

Event 382 (CB699DDC)

Date: 1/30/1897
Time: ~18:00
Location: HASTINGS, NEBR
Description: "Sober observer(s)". 12M great airship. Days later seen 40 mile(s) south = Invale, northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_171

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "4", Elev: "598", HatchDesc: "HASTINGS,NEBR:"SOBER OBS":12M Gt.AIRSHIP:DAYS LATER SEEN 40mi S=INVALE,NE", LatLong: "40.588891 -98.388894", LatLongDMS: "40:35:20 N 98:23:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 383 (05A566F3)

Date: 1/30/1897
Description: A mystery airship with an immense artificial bright light was sighted in the early evening by several "sober observers" in Hastings, Nebraska. It was estimated to be 12 meters in length, and perhaps 800 feet in the air. Days later it was seen 40 miles south of Invale, Nebraska.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Omaha Bee, February 2, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_595

Event 384 (3AAE0CC0)

Date: 1/31/1897
Location: Hastings, Nebraska
Description: 9:30 p.m. A “large, glaring light,” apparently from an airship, is seen for nearly 30 minutes west of Hastings, Nebraska, hovering, ascending, descending, and moving at a “most remarkable speed.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “See an Air Ship at Hastings,” Omaha Neb. Daily Bee, February 2, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_132

Event 385 (68DE0D1D)

Date: 2/1897
End date: 7/1897
Locations: Nebraska; Colorado; Texas; Ohio
Description: The mystery airship wave continues, from Nebraska and Colorado to Texas and Ohio. Hoaxes and pranks pollute the information pool in a major way during this era and the planet Venus and other celestial objects undoubtedly play a major role, but many airship reports emanate from manifestly sober, puzzled citizens, and they continue long after the initial excitement subsides. To all appearances, they are objects of some kind, but since newspapers rarely question witnesses critically about details at this time, little can be deduced from the mass of reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949 , The author, 1971; Roger L. Welsch, “This Mysterious Light Called an Airship: Nebraska Saucer Sightings, 1897,” Nebraska History 60 1979: 92–113; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981; Thomas E. Bullard, The Airship File, The author, 1982; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part I,” IUR 16, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1991: 4–23; Jerome Clark, “Airships: Part II,” IUR 16, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1991: 20–21, 24; Michael Busby, Solving the 1897 Airship Mystery, Pelican, 2004; Jerome Clark, “UFOs or Mystery Airships?” IUR 31, no. 4 March 2008: 8–14, 29; J. Allen Danelek, The Great Airship of 1897, Adventures Unlimited, 2009; Dennis Crenshaw and P. G. Navarro, The Secrets of Dellschau: The Sonora Aero Club and the Airships of the 1800s, Anomalist, 2009; Clark III 75–90
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_133

Event 386 (21103218)

Date: 2/1/1897
Description: A large glaring light circled for a few minutes in the sky over Hastings, Nebraska at 9:30 p.m. It then descended to an altitude of 200 feet, traveled at a remarkable speed, slowed, and again circled for 15 more minutes. Finally, it descended once more and disappeared mysteriously.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_649

Event 387 (AFF4AC14)

Date: 2/4/1897
Locations: Inavale, Nebraska; Big Springs, Nebraska
Description: Night. A dozen people returning home from a prayer meeting in Inavale, Nebraska, see a bright light passing overhead. Six smaller lights are placed at intervals around a larger dark body. After 10 minutes it returns at a lower altitude, now visible as a conical object 30–40 feet long with two sets of wings and a large rudder. Voices can be heard plainly. “[Air Ship Is](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993112/) [Seen at Inavale,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/91993264/)” Omaha \(Neb. Daily Bee, February 6, 1897, p. 6) February 17 —Night. Hy Smith, Charles Braternitz, and Harry Reese see a bright light moving to the east just west of Big Springs, Nebraska. The light repeatedly rises up about 300 feet then descends quickly, sending out sparks.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Seen near North Platte,” Kearney Neb. Hub, February 18, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_134

Event 388 (E00995B6)

Date: Mid 2/1897
Location: Valley Falls, Kansas
Description: Residents of Valley Falls, Kansas, can see the outlines of an airship behind a large light that passes over the town.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Supposed Kansas Airship,” Atchison Kan. Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_135

Event 389 (6BFF900F)

Date: 2/26/1897
Locations: Falls City, Nebraska; Stella; Beatrice; Wymore; Hastings; Kenesaw; Hartwell
Description: 10:15 p.m. People at the railway depot in Falls City, Nebraska, see an object with a large searchlight in the northern sky. According to dispatcher Ike Chidsey, it is moving west at 60 mph and also has a red light. Chidsey alerts other Missouri Pacific train stations to the west. Over the next four and a half hours, the object is seen over Stella, Beatrice, Wymore, Hastings, Kenesaw, and Hartwell.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Supposed Kansas Airship,” Atchison Kan. Daily Globe, February 27, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_136

Event 390 (27F1C6BC)

Date: 3/13/1897
Location: North Loup, Nebraska
Description: Night. A bright fireball appears in the west over North Loup, Nebraska, moving up and down erratically. It occasionally throws out sparks.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Strange Light Again,” Lincoln Nebraska State Journal, March 16, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_137

Event 391 (D8422B03)

Date: 3/14/1897
Time: 21:30
Location: OMAHA, NEB
Description: Many observer(s). Glowing object southwest going quickly northeast / 30 minute(s). 29 March hundreds / observer(s). Big airship news.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 143)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_172

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", Elev: "312", HatchDesc: "OMAHA,NEB:MANY OBS:GLOWING OBJ SW>>NE/30min::29MAR 100s/OBS:BIG AIRSHIP NEWS", LatLong: "41.266669 -95.933338", LatLongDMS: "41:16:00 N 95:56:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 392 (E974EED8)

Date: 3/14/1897
Location: South Omaha, Nebraska
Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with a “big engine headlight” flies over South Omaha, Nebraska, and remains visible for 30–40 minutes. It is moving to the west and disappears behind some buildings. One of the witnesses is Isaac J. Copenharve , a compositor for the Omaha Bee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Visions of an Air Ship,” Omaha Neb. Daily Bee, March 16, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_138

Event 393 (25E6E9DE)

Date: 3/23/1897
End date: 3/26/1897
Locations: Belleville, Kansas; Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot
Description: Night. Residents of Belleville, Kansas, watch a lighted airship moving at 75 mph and “lighting up the houses and city like an immense meteor.” It hovers for 20–30 minutes, changes direction, and is seen on four nights in succession. At 9:20 p.m. on March 25, workers at the Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad depot and others in Belleville watch a bright light pass above the city for 45 minutes. It disappears to the northwest and reappears two more times.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Say They Saw an Air-Ship,” Kansas City Mo. Times, March 27, 1897, p. 5; “It Flies at Night,” Kansas City Mo. Journal, March 28, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_139

Event 394 (9E5696F0)

Date: 3/26/1897
Location: Sioux City, IA
Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibnight bard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_14

Event 395 (0356FA50)

Date: 3/26/1897
Time: night
Location: Sioux City, Iowa
Description: Approximate date. Robert Hibbard was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 m and fell as his clothes were torn.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_11

Event 396 (5F0D93CF)

Date: 3/26/1897
Description: On or about this date Robert Hibbard in Sioux City, Iowa was caught by an anchor dropped from an unknown flying machine 22 km north of the town. He was dragged over 10 meters and fell as his clothes were torn.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 140 & 182, case 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1668

Event 397 (A9DBD419)

Date: 3/27/1897
Time: 20:30
Location: TOPEKA, KS
Description: Many observer(s). Huge night light and cylinder/cigar-shape seen / several evenings. Hovers over Belleville / 19 Apr. '87.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_173

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "231", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "TOPEKA,KS:MANY OBS:HUGE NLT+CGR SEEN/SVRL EVEs:HVRs OVR BELLEVILLE/19APR87", LatLong: "39.050002 -95.666671", LatLongDMS: "39:03:00 N 95:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 398 (187CB222)

Date: 3/27/1897
Location: Topeka, Kansas
Description: 8:30 p.m. A blood-red light appears in the western sky over Topeka, Kansas, moving northward parallel with the horizon until after 20 minutes it disappears “with a flicker.” Among the witnesses is Kansas Gov. John W. Leedy , who describes it as a “very strange light.” Harold T. Chase, editor of the Topeka Capital, is on the State House steps with Leedy and says the object is a large, oblong shape.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Light in the Sky,” Topeka Kan. Daily Capital, March 28, 1897, p. 1; “Neither Star Nor Planet,” Kansas City Mo Times, March 29, 1897, p. 1; “Airship Is Seen by Gov. Leedy,” Chicago Tribune, March 29, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_140

Event 399 (840F1321)

Date: 3/28/1897
Location: Omaha, NE
Description: 10:30 p.m. The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_15

Event 400 (61F4134C)

Date: 3/28/1897
Time: 2230
Location: Omaha, Nebraska
Description: The majority of the population observed an object arriving from the southeast. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 185 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_12

Event 401 (DB0F12F6)

Date: 3/28/1897
Description: The majority of the population of Omaha, Nebraska observed an object arriving from the southeast at 10:30 p.m. It looked like a huge light, flew northwestward slowly, came to low altitude. A crowd gathered at a street corner to watch it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, March 30, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1706

Event 402 (778C6855)

Date: 3/30/1897
Description: In 1897 in Denver, Colorado a mysterious light was seen flying through the night sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: New York Herald, April 12, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1724

Event 403 (12CEE755)

Date: 4/1/1897
Time: 21:30
Location: EVEREST, KS AND MORE/OTHERS
Description: Object lights ground and clouds and buildings / huge lamps. Zigzags. Going up / extremely fast. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_174

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "351", HatchDesc: "EVEREST,KS++:OBJ LITES GND+CLOUDS+BLDGs/HUGE LAMPS:ZIGZAGS:↑/XFAST:TYPE UNKN", LatLong: "39.677780 -95.422227", LatLongDMS: "39:40:40 N 95:25:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 404 (E6BE39F7)

Date: 4/1/1897
Location: Everest, KS
Description: 9:00 p.m. The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_16

Event 405 (37B4226B)

Date: 4/1/1897
Time: 2100
Location: Everest, Kansas
Description: The whole town saw an object fly under the cloud ceiling. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with its powerful light. It was seen to rise up at fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for 5 min at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All could clearly see the silhouette of the craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_13

Event 406 (82835346)

Date: 4/1/1897
Location: Kansas City, Kansas
Description: 8:00 p.m. Strange lights appear in the sky south of Kansas City, Kansas, zigzagging and crossing the horizon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Ship Headed toward Omaha,” Omaha Neb. Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_141

Event 407 (6217CD70)

Date: 4/1/1897
Locations: Everest, Kansas; Commercial Hotel
Description: 9:00 p.m. J. E. Gunn, proprietor of the Commercial Hotel, and other residents of Everest, Kansas, watch a 30- foot-long object that looks like a canoe suspended from a balloon. Two wings are visible on each side. Its light appears to dim when the object is moving and glows brightly when hovering.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Ship Headed toward Omaha,” Omaha Neb. Daily Bee, April 3, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_142

Event 408 (F829E361)

Date: 4/1/1897
Location: Galesburg, Michigan
Description: Night. Residents of Galesburg, Michigan, see a brilliant white light passing overhead. It is attached to a black object that emits a crackling sound. Human voices are heard distinctly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship Story Spreads,” Cedar Rapids Iowa Evening Gazette, April 2, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_143

Event 409 (1320642E)

Date: 4/1/1897
Description: The whole town of Everest, Kansas saw an object fly in under the cloud cover. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with a powerful searchlight. It was seen to rise up at a fantastic speed until barely discernible, then to come down again and sweep low over the witnesses. At one point it remained stationary for five minutes at the edge of a low cloud, which it illuminated. All said they could clearly see the silhouette of the craft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 181, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr.& Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 15
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1777

Event 410 (301551E0)

Date: 4/2/1897
Time: 02:00
Location: CHICAGO, IL
Description: Great airship. Enormous. Seen from skyscraper. Has very strong beacon.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_175

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "25", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "CHICAGO,IL:GREAT AIRSHIP:ENORMOUS:SEEN from SKYSCRAPER:HAS VERY STRONG BEACON.", LatLong: "41.850002 -87.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:51:00 N 87:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 411 (4473DA95)

Date: 4/2/1897
Time: 22:00?
Location: WESLEY, IA
Description: Several reliable observer(s). Conic airship. Bright light / windows. / news / L. Farish.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_176

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "388", HatchDesc: "WESLEY,IA:SVRL RELIABLE OBS:CONIC AIRSHIP:BRITE LITE/WINDOWS:/news/L.Farish", LatLong: "43.088891 -93.988893", LatLongDMS: "43:05:20 N 93:59:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 412 (598FEE5A)

Date: 4/2/1897
Location: Wesley, Iowa
Description: Evening. People in Wesley, Iowa, view a cone-shaped object with windows in the side through which light is visible. It is traveling slowly toward the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Wesley Saw the Air Ship,” Algona Iowa Republican, April 7, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_144

Event 413 (51B5F4F1)

Date: Early 4/1897
Locations: Elburn, Illinois; Pacific; Atlantic; Chicago and North Western Railway
Description: An airship allegedly lands near Elburn, Illinois, where some farmers run across it. It is made of “some light substance like aluminum.” Two aeronauts are repairing the vehicle and will only say that they are flying from the Pacific to the Atlantic by following the Chicago and North Western Railway.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Blooming Ship,” Rockford Ill. Daily Republic, April 12, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_146

Event 414 (3386E21E)

Date: 4/4/1897
Locations: Wolf Creek Township, Iowa; Sioux City
Description: 12:15 a.m. Dairy farmer Dick Butler is returning to his farm in Wolf Creek Township, Iowa, after delivering milk in Sioux City when he notices an electric-like light on his right about 200 feet away in a cornfield. He can see a dark object with light coming through its windows. It appears to be a “long, narrow car, resembling a corset box in shape,” some 30–35 feet long and 6–7 feet high. Above the car floats a cigar-shaped bag about the same length and 8–10 feet thick. When his horses see the object, they bolt and tumble his wagon into the ditch. By the time Butler recovers, the object is moving briskly in a descent to the south. He watches it as it moves out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Ship Again,” Marshalltown Iowa Evening Times-Republican, April 9, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_145

Event 415 (6FA52B3C)

Date: 4/5/1897
Time: 20:00?
Location: OMAHA, NEBR
Description: Great airship back. Ridicule abates when all see its large shape. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 101)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_177

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "25", Elev: "312", HatchDesc: "OMAHA,NEBR:GREAT AIRSHIP BACK:RIDICULE ABATES WHEN ALL SEE ITS LRG SHAPE:>N", LatLong: "41.266669 -95.950005", LatLongDMS: "41:16:00 N 95:57:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 416 (C7817E9C)

Date: 4/6/1897
Locations: Peru, Nebraska; Missouri River; Cuba
Description: 2:00 a.m. James Southard gets lost on his ranch near Peru, Nebraska, looking for strayed cattle. He notices a light on a bar in the Missouri River, and it turns out to be on a landed airship 200 feet long, whose crew are apparently repairing its searchlight. The aeronauts answer all of Southard’s questions, telling him that “the craft is loaded with several tons of dynamite and is bound for Cuba” to bomb Spanish ships.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Boarded the Airship,” Auburn Neb. Granger, April 9, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_147

Event 417 (205F93C8)

Date: 4/7/1897
Time: ~20:00
Location: SIOUX CITY, IA
Description: Great airship looks like cigar-balloon. 35' X 12' size estimated.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_178

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "335", HatchDesc: "SIOUX CITY,IA:GREAT AIRSHIP LOOKS LIKE CIGAR-BALLOON:35' X 12' SIZE ESTM.", LatLong: "42.500002 -96.400005", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 96:24:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 418 (A6BF3054)

Date: 4/8/1897
Locations: West Liberty; Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description: 8:00 p.m. Many people in towns along the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad from West Liberty to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, see an object with a “bright glaring headlight,” a glistening steel body, and wings on either side. It makes a hissing noise as it glides through the air. By 10:00 p.m., it fades from view to the north of Cedar Rapids.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Appears in Iowa,” Chicago Record, April 9, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_148

Event 419 (401E4785)

Date: 4/8/1897
Description: A dark bulk with a narrow, rectangular shape and illuminated windows flew over a dairy farm in the western part of Iowa after midnight. It was 30 to 35 feet long and 6 or 7 feet wide. Over the rectagular shaped was a cigar-shaped bag, about the same length but 10 feet thicker in width. The two horses of a carriage being driven by a dairy farmer spooked at the sight of the craft and bolted, throwing the man into a ditch. The object rose vertically on its departure.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 5
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1892

Event 420 (2D3BE71A)

Date: 4/9/1897
Locations: Chicago; Evanston; Niles Center; Schermerville; South Chicago
Description: 8:30 p.m. Hundreds of people in Chicago, Evanston, Niles Center, and Schermerville, Illinois, see an airship earing multicolored lights and swinging a huge white searchlight from side to side. Nearly 800 witnesses on Davis Street in Evanston watch the object, estimated to be 400 feet in length. Using binoculars, the outline of a structure can be seen behind the powerful light. By 9:30 p.m., the airship is last seen over South Chicago. Northwestern University astronomer George W. Hough, director of the Dearborn Observatory, tells the newspapers he is sure the airship is the star Alpha Orionis Betelgeuse.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “See Airship or a Star,” Chicago Tribune, April 10, 1897, pp. 1–2; “California Airship on the Wing,” Chicago Tribune, April 11, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_149

Event 421 (8E2A17E4)

Date: 4/10/1897
Time: 14:30
Location: CARLINVILLE, IL
Description: Domed cylinder/cigar-shape lands / field. Flies as observers approach. / r221p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_179

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "18", Elev: "189", HatchDesc: "CARLINVILLE,IL:DOMED CGR LANDS/FIELD:FLIES AS OBSs APPROACH:/r221p17", LatLong: "39.283335 -89.883338", LatLongDMS: "39:17:00 N 89:53:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 422 (D2370EF6)

Date: 4/10/1897
Time: ~20:00
Location: CHICAGO, IL
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape? / wavy motion going quickly west from lake. Red and green rotating lights. / r129p11.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: The AGE of FLYING SAUCERS; Hawthorne Books, NY 1971 (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_180

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "CHICAGO,IL:CGR?/WAVY MOTION>>W fm LAKE:RED+GRN ROTATING LITES:/r129p11", LatLong: "41.833335 -87.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:50:00 N 87:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 423 (87948833)

Date: 4/10/1897
Location: Marshfield, Wisconsin
Description: Evening. Witnesses in Marshfield, Wisconsin, see a cone-shaped airship with a bright headlight moving south of town.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Hides in the Woods,” Chicago Chronicle, April 11, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_150

Event 424 (9BF76AA3)

Date: 4/10/1897
Location: Platte City, Missouri
Description: 10:00 p.m. A noise draws residents of Platte City, Missouri, outside where they can see a hovering object 100 feet long and 20 feet wide. Two immense wings on either side are moving up and down. Greenish light beams shine down on Main Street from its back and front. Suddenly there is a hissing sound and explosions and the object moves away to the northeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Airship,” Buffalo N.Y. Enquirer, April 12, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_151

Event 425 (ED7C0B7D)

Date: 4/10/1897
Location: Jacksonville, Illinois
Description: 10:30 p.m. Policemen, firemen, and many other residents of Jacksonville, Illinois, see a bright light moving swiftly from east to west a few hundred feet in the air. The light sways from side to side and throws out beams several hundred feet in length. When it is above the city, the object the light is attached to can be seen as metallic and long with possible wings. Some witnesses can hear voices. The object reverses direction over Jacksonville, throwing its searchlight in all directions, and disappears to the east.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy Ill. Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_152

Event 426 (86E74809)

Date: 4/10/1897
Locations: Quincy, Illinois; Mississippi River; South Park
Description: 11:00 p.m. A bright white light with red and green lights on either side of it is observed by many residents of Quincy, Illinois, flying low above the Mississippi River on the city’s west side. At one point it is no more than 400–500 feet above the ground. The light is attached to a metallic cigar-shaped object. Two wings extend from the sides and on top is some kind of superstructure. Witnesses estimate its length to be 50–100 feet. The object ascends, moves east, then south, then west, hovers above South Park for a few minutes, then moves north and stops again. It reverses direction and leaves toward the south at “tremendous speed.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship over Quincy,” Quincy Ill. Morning Whig, April 11, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_153

Event 427 (A3970AE9)

Date: 4/11/1897
Time: ~09:00
Location: ROGERS PARK, IL
Description: W. McCann and 3. Big cylinder/cigar-shape going north. 2 photographs taken / clear skies. No further details. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 952)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_181

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "179", HatchDesc: "ROGERS PARK,IL:W.McCANN+3:BIG CGR >N:2 FOTOS TAKEN/CLEAR SKIES:NFD:/news", LatLong: "42.016669 -87.666671", LatLongDMS: "42:01:00 N 87:40:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 428 (E0BF568F)

Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Hawarden, Iowa
Description: 12:30 a.m. John Peterson, E. K. Rowley, George Moody , Bayard Taylor French , and other residents of Hawarden, Iowa, see a conical object about 60 feet long with four sets of 15-foot wings. It is flying so low about 600 feet that they can hear machinery, voices, and laughter. Two red lights are positioned on the tail end and a large searchlight is in the front. After three minutes it moves off to the north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Another Wonderful Tale,” Des Moines Iowa Leader, April 13, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_154

Event 429 (D6D1E640)

Date: 4/11/1897
Location: 4356 East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois
Description: 5:30 a.m. An alleged photo of an airship is taken at 4356 East Ravenswood Park in Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois, by an ex-policeman named Walter R. McCann and George A. Overrocker, who provide copies to several newspapers. The Chicago Tribune photo editor pronounces it a fake because it looks like it is taken by a Kodak with a small lens that cannot achieve a panoramic view. A later report claims that McCann has photographed a piece of canvas on which an airship is painted.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Myth Yet Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5; “Airship Is All a Joke,” Chicago Chronicle, April 13, 1897, p. 2; Wautauga N.C. Democrat, April 27, 1897, p. 1; Clark III 78; Wikimedia Commons, “Mystery airship 1897”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_155

Event 430 (107077F0)

Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Bloomington, Illinois
Description: 12:15 p.m. Gary Carlton Jr. watches a flat object looking like a “big piece of yellow canvas” pass over Bloomington, Illinois, at a high altitude toward the northeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship,” Bloomington Ill. Daily Pantagraph, April 12, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_156

Event 431 (6B8818B9)

Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Benton Harbor, Michigan
Description: 7:45 p.m. John Lee and others in Benton Harbor, Michigan, watch an airship rapidly moving north-northwest for 15 minutes. With the naked eye it looks like a huge ball of fire, but through opera glasses it resembles a cluster of soft yellow lights.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Ship Seen Here,” Benton Harbor Mich. Evening News, April 12, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_157

Event 432 (A7166A1F)

Date: 4/11/1897
Locations: 3126 Fourth Avenue South; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Lake Minnetonka
Description: 8:00 p.m. R. G. Adams and his parents at 3126 Fourth Avenue South in Minneapolis, Minnesota, watch a lighted, cigar-shaped object flying low towards the southwest. Through binoculars it appears to be 18–20 feet long. A square light that changes from white to green to red, depending apparently on its speed, is on top. Hundreds of other people also see the object over the next four hours, maneuvering above Lake Minnetonka and eventually receding into the northeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Does He Hail from Mars?” St. Paul Minn. Pioneer Press, April 12, 1897, p. 4; “Wonder! Mysterious Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_158

Event 433 (5309B1AF)

Date: 4/11/1897
Locations: Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Lake Michigan
Description: 9:00 p.m. An airship approaches Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from the northeast over Lake Michigan and heads toward the southwest. It stops and hovers 1,000 feet above City Hall for 15 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Myth Yet Soars,” Chicago Tribune, April 12, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_159

Event 434 (9DBD9D51)

Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota
Description: After 10:30 p.m. Stuart Mackroth is riding a bicycle just east of Minnetonka Mills, Minnesota, when a flying machine “shaped like an ordinary boat” passes overhead. It has red and green lights on each side and a powerful electric light in front. Inside he can see men, women, and children, all moving about “as if very busy.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Wonder! Mysterious Airship Seen by Stuart Mackroth,” Minneapolis Tribune, April 13, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_160

Event 435 (24E729C3)

Date: 4/11/1897
Location: Decatur, Illinois
Description: 11:15 p.m. A bank clerk in Decatur, Illinois, sees an object “like two monster cigars with three bright headlights” moving to the north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Air Ship,” Decatur Ill. Evening Republican, April 12, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_161

Event 436 (9C88B2F6)

Date: 4/11/1897
Description: On this night a farmer in Lock Mills, Indiana claimed he was visited by a man in an airship who projected pictures onto the side of his barn.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1946

Event 437 (8CF3A0F6)

Date: 4/11/1897
Description: At 9:00 p.m. an airship hovered near Milwaukee, Wisconsin and was witnessed by a man named Mayer. He reported that their was an occupant visible inside the craft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1947

Event 438 (77A32741)

Date: 4/11/1897
Description: At 10:30 p.m. another airship sighting with occupants aboard was made in Minnetonka, Minnesota by a man named MacKroth.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0013, citing the Minneapolis Tribune
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1948

Event 439 (26FADD35)

Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 18:00
Location: GIRARD AND NILWOOD, IL
Description: 2 separate landings. Cylinder/cigar-shape with dome. Men exit and make repairs. Going quickly north. Traces.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_182

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "204", HatchDesc: "GIRARD+NILWOOD,IL:2 SEP.LANDINGS:CGR W/DOME:MEN EXIT+MAKE REPAIRS:>>N:TRACES", LatLong: "39.777780 -89.783338", LatLongDMS: "39:46:40 N 89:47:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "8"

Event 440 (D9A4451B)

Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 20:00
Location: NORTHWEST / SALISBURY, MO
Description: Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] against wind. Abrupt turn going quickly northeast and upward. Lights / sides.
Type: sighting
Reference: The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 952)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_183

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "230", HatchDesc: "NW/SALISBURY,MO:SVRL OBS:CGR > AGNST WIND:ABRUPT TURN >>NE+UPWARD:LITES/SIDES", LatLong: "39.422224 -92.800004", LatLongDMS: "39:25:20 N 92:48:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 441 (086912DB)

Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 20:30
Location: FONTANELLE, IA
Description: All / town. Great airship southeast going north overhead / 10mph. Engine noise and music heard.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_184

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "379", HatchDesc: "FONTANELLE,IA:ALL/TOWN:GREAT AIRSHIP SE>N OVHD/10mph:ENGINE NOISE+MUSIC HEARD", LatLong: "41.288891 -94.561116", LatLongDMS: "41:17:20 N 94:33:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"

Event 442 (839DB456)

Date: 4/12/1897
Location: Nilwood, IL
Description: 2:30 p.m. On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_17

Event 443 (B9135EED)

Date: 4/12/1897
Location: Girard (near Green Ridge), IL
Description: 6:00 p.m. A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and- Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_18

Event 444 (6EC43A2A)

Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 1430
Location: Nilwood, Illinois
Description: On the property of Z. Thacker, 19 km north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before the three witnesses could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left majestically toward the north. Witnesses: Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 186; Anatomy 12 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_14

Event 445 (3FB761BB)

Date: 4/12/1897
Time: 1800
Location: Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois
Description: A large crowd of miners saw an unknown object land 3 km north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago-and-Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came sufficiently close to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object itself was elongated like a ship with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 186,187 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_15

Event 446 (2DC05C4C)

Date: 4/12/1897
Locations: Chicago; Burlington; Quincy Railroad; Lisle, Illinois
Description: Morning. F. L. Bullard, engineer on the Fast Mail train on the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad, says he caught sight of an airship moving parallel with the train shortly after his Engine 950 left downtown Chicago. The train is moving at 70 mph, and by the time it reaches Lisle, Illinois, the object is far ahead. Bullard estimates it is moving at 100–150 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air-Ship Distances a Train,” St. Louis Mo. Globe-Democrat, April 13, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_162

Event 447 (AF29B138)

Date: 4/12/1897
Locations: Lincoln, Illinois; Pulaski Street
Description: 8:00 p.m. During a rainstorm in Lincoln, Illinois, more than 50 people stand on Pulaski Street to watch a light moving to the northeast. John Fitzgerald sees a V-shaped object with a bright searchlight moving rapidly toward Lincoln. It changes course, the light changes from white to green, and the object disappears behind clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Was It the Airship?” Lincoln Ill. Weekly Courier, April 13, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_163

Event 448 (43953525)

Date: 4/12/1897
Description: A few days before the crescendo in a wave of "airship" sightings across the United States and Canada, there were 65 reports of "airships" on this day, including 25 in Illinois alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting close encounter cases.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1960

Event 449 (558AF723)

Date: 4/12/1897
Description: Nilwood, Illinois - At 2:30 p.m. on the property of Z. Thacker, 19 kilometers north of Carlinville, an unknown object landed. Before Edward Teeples, William Street and Franklin Metcalf could reach it, the craft, which was shaped like a cigar with a dome, rose slowly and left toward the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomena, p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1961

Event 450 (D297B957)

Date: 4/12/1897
Description: At 6 p.m. a large crowd of miners in Girard, near Green Ridge, Illinois saw an unknown object land three kilometers north of Green Ridge and 4 km south of Girard. The night operator of the Chicago and Alton Railroad, Paul McCramer, stated that he came close enough to the craft to see a man emerge from it to repair the machinery. Traces were found over a large area. The object was elongated like a ship, with a roof and a double canopy. It left toward the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Times-Herald, April 14, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1962

Event 451 (C5BA5D06)

Date: 4/13/1897
Time: ~21:00
Location: LAKE ELMO, MN
Description: Figure with lantern searching around. Runs going [to] trees. Grey object flies off.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_185

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TRC: Physical traces, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "284", HatchDesc: "LAKE ELMO,MN:FIGURE W/LANTERN SEARCHING AROUND:RUNS>TREES:GREY OBJ FLIES OFF", LatLong: "45.000002 -92.850004", LatLongDMS: "45:00:00 N 92:51:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "8"

Event 452 (1A1C23BA)

Date: 4/13/1897
Location: two miles south of Louisville, Kentucky
Description: Before sunrise. Augustus Rodgers, a farmer living two miles south of Louisville, Kentucky, goes outside to attend to his livestock. He sees an oblong object, some 40 feet long by 15 feet tall, flying about 400 feet in the air at 100 mph. His wife comes out to watch it with him, and they both see “a form like that of a man” standing in the front and directing its course.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Passed in the Night,” Louisville Ky. Evening Post, April 13, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_164

Event 453 (9578D7DF)

Date: 4/13/1897
Location: Canton, South Dakota
Description: Night. Mayor Charles Merritt Seely and other people in Canton, South Dakota, watch a winged airship passing to the north over the town with a red light in front and a green light in back.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Is Seen by Moonlight,” Omaha Neb. Daily Bee, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_165

Event 454 (A4F81AC5)

Date: 4/13/1897
Locations: Lake Elmo, Minnesota; one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota
Description: 11:15 p.m. Frederick Chamberlain and O. L. Jones are riding one mile west of Lake Elmo, Minnesota, when they notice a figure in a clearing, walking around as if he is looking for something. They turn off the road to investigate and hear a cracking sound followed by a rushing noise. A moment later they notice a gray-white object that looks like the top of a covered wagon. It has two rows of four red or green lights. The object rises quickly at a sharp angle to clear the treetops. They can make out no machinery or wings or rudders or even an outline of the object. In the mud, Chamberlain finds 14 footprints, each 2 feet long, 6 inches wide, “arranged seven on each side, and in an oblong pattern.” Adam Thielen, a nearby farmer, independently sees a dark object with red and green lights flying overhead about the same time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Adam Saw the Airship Light,” St Paul Minn. Pioneer Press, April 15, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_166

Event 455 (9C649EBB)

Date: 4/13/1897
Description: A telegraph operator between Girard, Illinois and Carlinville got a message from Carlinville, Illinois that an airship was headed his way. He went out and saw a 100 foot long object that landed near the railroad track. It had what looked like a large "M" on its side, and several occupants in the cupola. The craft rose vertically, and then flew off quickly toward the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 13, citing Official UFO, July 1976, p. 37
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2000

Event 456 (E5CE513D)

Date: 4/13/1897
Description: At 11:15 p.m. two men, Chamberlain and Jones, saw a very large figure walking around in a clearing looking for something near Lake Elmo, Minnesota. Nearby was a grayish white cylindrical object with two rows of lights, red and green. It took off with a rushing sound. Fourteen giant footprints, two feet long by six inches wide, were found at the site.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 42, Dennis Stacy, Field Guide to UFOs, p. 84; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0017; St. Paul Pioneer-Press, April 15, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2001

Event 457 (0D3C48FC)

Date: 4/14/1897
Time: 15:00
Location: SOUTH / GAS CITY, IN
Description: Object lands / farm. 6 men exit and make repairs. Livestock stampedes. Going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_186

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "260", HatchDesc: "S/GAS CITY,IN:OBJ LANDS/FARM:6 MEN EXIT+MAKE REPAIRS:LIVESTOCK STAMPEDES:>>E", LatLong: "40.466669 -85.611115", LatLongDMS: "40:28:00 N 85:36:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "8"

Event 458 (7BF7A366)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Gas City, IN
Description: 3:00 p.m. An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_20

Event 459 (0C2E7BB6)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Cleveland, OH
Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_23

Event 460 (87CA6E5A)

Date: 4/14/1897
Time: 1500
Location: Gas City, Indiana
Description: An object landed 2 km south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 188 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_16

Event 461 (D9F7CF27)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing," was fishing with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, when they saw on the lake what they thought was a ship, about 13 m long, with a canopy. A man, about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored balloon rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 m and circled "like a hawk" before flying away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 189 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_17

Event 462 (D5BD5083)

Date: 4/14/1897
Locations: Burlington; Frankfort, Indiana; Middle Fork of Wildcat Creek
Description: Early morning. Marble merchant David W. Paul is traveling with a party of workmen from Burlington to Frankfort, Indiana. When they are at the middle fork of Wildcat Creek, they hear a “swishing, roaring sound” and see an object with a blinding white searchlight and smaller green and yellow lights. The object is cigar-shaped with wings or fins. It descends to just above the treetops, hovers there for a moment, then rises and noisily shoots off to the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Mysterious Airship,” Indianapolis Sentinel, April 15, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_167

Event 463 (8E836C98)

Date: 4/14/1897
Locations: Howard City, Michigan; 3 miles northwest of Howard City, Michigan
Description: 4:30 a.m. Farmers see an airship land about 3 miles northwest of Howard City, Michigan, and some go to investigate. Inside the craft is a “strange man” dressed in heavy furs although he seems “to have no use for them, as he was almost naked and seemed to be suffering from the heat.” The man is 9.5 feet tall and speaks in a musical language that, however, sounds like bellowing. One farmer gets too close, and the giant kicks him severely enough to break his hip.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Trip of the Airship,” Saginaw Mich. Courier-Herald, April 17, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_168

Event 464 (DC9D4DB3)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Gas City, Indiana
Description: 3:00 p.m. An airship looking like an “immense bird” approaches Gas City, Indiana, from the northwest. As it draws nearer, witnesses see that it is cigar-shaped and “propelled by broad canvas wings.” The object lands briefly one mile from town, terrifying some farm animals. As a crowd rushes toward it, it takes off and vanishes to the east.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “In Daylight,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_169

Event 465 (43AAA436)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Marion, Indiana
Description: 3:00 p.m. A brownish cigar-shaped object with wings passes south of Marion, Indiana, coming from the northwest. Six passengers can be seen on board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Six Men Seen in the Airship,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_170

Event 466 (0C1B70AE)

Date: 4/14/1897
Locations: Birmingham, Iowa; meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham, Iowa
Description: 7:30 p.m. An airship 100 feet long and 20 feet high in the center lands in a meadow three-quarters of a mile west of Birmingham, Iowa. A large crowd of men and boys sets out to examine the object, but when they are within several hundred feet, it rises with a loud whirring sound and moves away to the northwest. Two men can be distinctly seen inside, one carrying a lantern that he waves as the airship ascends.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Positively Seen,” Burlington Iowa Hawk-Eye, April 16, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_171

Event 467 (DE9CB423)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Casstown, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. James McKensie is feeding hogs on his farm north of Casstown, Ohio, when he hears an odd noise like a flock of geese passing overhead. Looking up, he sees an object with wings and a rudder flying slowly along about 150 feet in the air, and he distinctly hears music. As it disappears, he thinks he hears a human voice, and something large and white is thrown overboard.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Talking Heard by the Citizens,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, April 16, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_172

Event 468 (112A4ECA)

Date: 4/14/1897
Locations: Jefferson Street; Springfield, Illinois
Description: Just after 9:00 p.m. Farmhand John Halley and vintner Adolf Wenke see an airship land on Jefferson Street three miles west of Springfield, Illinois. They supposedly converse with one of its occupants, a bearded scientist who is outside the craft. Inside, they can see another man and a woman. The scientist says little other than “as soon as Congress recognizes Cuban belligerency his air ship would be heard from.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mystery Solved,” Springfield Ill. News, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_173

Event 469 (1EE89D10)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Mount Vernon, Illinois
Description: Night. Many persons in Mount Vernon, Illinois, including Mayor Barton C. Wells , allegedly see an object “resembling the body of a huge man swimming through the air with an electric light on his back.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship’s Travels,” Cincinnati Ohio Commercial Tribune, April 16, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_174

Event 470 (FA655222)

Date: 4/14/1897
Location: Denton, Texas
Description: Night. A man in Denton, Texas, is watching the stars with binoculars when he notices a shadow crossing the Moon. It is caused by a large cigar-shaped object with wings moving slowly to the southeast. In the front it has a powerful searchlight, and along the side appear a row of lighted windows. It remains in sight for 20 minutes. A woman also sees possibly the same object “bounding along through space like a balloon.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship Again,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, April 15, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_175

Event 471 (6FF0FADA)

Date: 4/14/1897
Locations: Rio Grande Railroad; Cresson, Texas
Description: Night. The Rio Grande Railroad operator at Cresson, Texas, sees an object about 60 feet long and “resembling the top of a passenger coach in shape” with a powerful searchlight in the front and several smaller lights on the sides. It is moving to the southwest at a “terrific rate of speed” and has wings “something like that of a bat.” It turns to the southeast after passing the station and disappears in the clouds after a few minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sighting the Air Ship,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, April 16, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_176

Event 472 (C7B9E0C4)

Date: 4/14/1897
Description: This was the day before the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were 48 reports of "airships" on this day, including 13 in Michigan alone. Below are summarized two of the more interesting cases involving occupants.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2006

Event 473 (75F72F20)

Date: 4/14/1897
Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon in Gas City, Indiana an object landed two kilometers south of Gas City on the property of John Roush, terrifying the farmers and causing the horses and cattle to stampede. Six occupants of the ship came out and seemed to make some repairs. Before the crowd could approach the object, it rose rapidly and flew toward the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing Chicago Chronicle, April 15, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2007

Event 474 (F93F0B09)

Date: 4/14/1897
Description: Joseph Singler, captain of the "Sea Wing", was fishing on Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio with S. H. Davis, of Detroit, Michigan when they saw what they thought was a ship, about 13 meters long, with a canopy. A man, looking to be about 25 years old, wearing a hunting jacket and a cap, was fishing from the deck of the object. Near him were a woman and a 10-year-old child. When the "Sea Wing" came close to the craft, a large, colored "balloon" rose from the object, which flew up with it to an altitude of about 150 meters and circled "like a hawk" before flying away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 182, citing the Chicago Tribune, April 16, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2008

Event 475 (BEE95C9A)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: DENTON, TX AND OTHER TOWNS
Description: Cigar with 2 blinding searchlights. Great wings. Goes going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 144)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_187

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "196", HatchDesc: "DENTON,TX+OTHER TOWNS:CIGAR W/2 BLINDING SEARCHLITES:GREAT WINGS:GOES>>SW", LatLong: "33.238890 -97.200005", LatLongDMS: "33:14:20 N 97:12:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 476 (FCCC587B)

Date: 4/15/1897
Time: ~10:00
Location: LINN GROVE, IA
Description: 5+many. Large object going north. Lands. 2 figure(s) hide. Object spreads 4 wings and flies!
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_188

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "383", HatchDesc: "LINN GROVE,IA:5+MANY:LRG OBJ >N:LANDS:2 FIGs HIDE:OBJ SPREADS 4 WINGS+FLIES!", LatLong: "42.888891 -95.244449", LatLongDMS: "42:53:20 N 95:14:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "9"

Event 477 (639EFA73)

Date: 4/15/1897
Time: ~20:00
Location: HOWARD TO/FROM ARTESIAN, SD
Description: Strange object descends. Follows locomotive / engineer. / FSR'66#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_189

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "440", HatchDesc: "HOWARD><ARTESIAN,SD:STRANGE OBJ DESCENDS:FOLOS LOCOMOTIVE/ENGINEER:/FSR'66#4", LatLong: "44.011113 -97.716671", LatLongDMS: "44:00:40 N 97:43:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"

Event 478 (A7C8F863)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Linn Grove, IA
Description: Morning. A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_24

Event 479 (90EC2904)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Howard-Artesian, SD
Description: Nightfall. A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright (Magonia #19, FSR 66,4) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_26

Event 480 (3FB45EF6)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: St. Louis, MO
Description: 7:45 p.m. This is the first report from the entire period to be declared a possible UFO. Dr. Eddie Bullard provided this report to Brad Sparks in Dec. 2006. A Medical doctor/amateur astronomer observed a cigar shaped object with a telescope. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 18970415
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_27

Event 481 (1C1A68E2)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Perry Springs, MO
Description: 9:00 p.m. A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_28

Event 482 (D3904919)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Springfield, IL
Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew was making electrical repairs. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_29

Event 483 (ED659204)

Date: 4/15/1897
Time: morning
Location: Linn Grove, Iowa
Description: A large object was seen to fly slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men (F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland) drove toward it. About 7 km north of Linn Grove, they found the craft on the ground, came within 700 m of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North." Two strange figures aboard the craft made efforts to conceal themselves. Witnesses were surprised at the length of their hair. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 190 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_18

Event 484 (7693B0EA)

Date: 4/15/1897
Time: nightfall
Location: Howard-Artesian, South Dakota
Description: A flying object coming closer and closer to the ground followed a train, as reported by the engineer, Joe Wright
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66,4 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_19

Event 485 (94CB46A6)

Date: 4/15/1897
Time: 2100
Location: Perry Springs, Missouri
Description: A passenger train on the Wabash line, going toward Quincy, was followed by a low-flying object for 15 min between Perry Springs and Hersman. All the passengers saw the craft, which had a red and white light. After Hersman it flew ahead of the train and disappeared rapidly, although the train was then running at 65 km/h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 190 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_20

Event 486 (9B0C4A10)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship-had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 min and that the crew. was making electrical repairs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 65,1 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_21

Event 487 (E012F3EF)

Date: 4/15/1897
Locations: 7 miles west of Cisco, Texas; Cuba
Description: Late evening. Telegraph repairman Patrick C. Byrnes is operating a railroad handcar about 7 miles west of Cisco, Texas, when he sees a light a little distance from the track on the south side. Knowing there is no farmhouse in the area, he goes to investigate. It is a landed cigar-shaped airship about 200 feet long and 50 feet across at its widest point. Several men are repairing its searchlight, and they tell him that the craft is loaded with several tons of dynamite for bombing Spanish troops and ships in Cuba.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Oft-Seen Air-Ship,” Fort Worth Tex. Register, April 18, 1897, p. 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_177

Event 488 (0C82E4EB)

Date: 4/15/1897
Locations: Eau Claire, Wisconsin; farmhouse belonging to Melvin Bannister
Description: Night. An airship with red, green, and white lights lands on a farm near Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Five witnesses see an odd-looking man in a fur coat emerge and walk to a farmhouse belonging to Melvin Bannister, whose dogs are barking fiercely. The stranger points a lantern-like device at them and sends them running. Bannister answers the door and converses awkwardly with the man, who is speaking an odd language, but loans him a hammer, some nails, and a can of skim milk. The man returns the tools, along with a strange coin. The airship takes off with a whizzing sound.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Brunswick and Drammen,” Eau Claire Wis. Leader, April 17, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_178

Event 489 (52E6E49E)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Dunkirk, Ohio
Description: 8:15 p.m. Willie Mahon , ex-Marshal French, and other residents of Dunkirk, Ohio, watch a winged object “as large as a wagon bed” pass over the town toward the east. It has propellers on each end, a red light in front, and a greenish-yellow light on the tail. Voices can be heard coming from the object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Seen at Dunkirk,” Kenton Ohio News-Republican, April 16, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_179

Event 490 (27516D4A)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Farmersville, Texas
Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Farmersville, Texas, notice a dim light traveling toward the city from the south at 60– 80 mph. Thinking it might be a meteor heading toward the Earth, more people gather outside to watch. City Marshal Brown is in the western part of town making his rounds, and the “ship or balloon” passes overhead about 200 feet in the air. Brown can see two men in the object and something like a large Newfoundland dog. He can hear them talking but cannot understand what they are saying.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Seen in Galveston,” Galveston Tex. Daily News, April 18, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_180

Event 491 (D756EA8E)

Date: 4/15/1897
Location: Emerson, South Dakota
Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped airship with a row of red lights along the sides passes above Emerson, South Dakota.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Ubiquitous Airship,” Sioux City Iowa Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_181

Event 492 (1F0AF055)

Date: Mid 4/1897
Location: Homan, Arkansas
Description: 3:00 p.m. Railroad conductor Capt. Jim Hooton is hunting near Homan, Arkansas, when he hears a loud mechanical sound like an air brake. Investigating, he discovers an airship undergoing repairs. The aeronauts are not very communicative, so once the repairs are complete, they reenter the airship and take off with a loud hissing sound.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Air Ship,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, April 22, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_182

Event 493 (D720412C)

Date: Mid 4/1897
Locations: Grinnell, Iowa; Barr Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana; Springfield (Ill.); Fort Wayne, Indiana
Description: Early evening. J. W. Lansing sees a cigar-shaped airship twice in Grinnell, Iowa. It moves in various directions, sometimes against a strong wind. “He Saw It,” Springfield \(Ill. News, April 26, 1897, p. 1) Mid-April – Night. F. Crocker is sitting near the window of his apartment on Barr Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he notices a yellowish light coming from the west. It seems attached to a pear-shaped object with the apex pointed downward. Two yellow rays of light come from its sides as it sways to and fro in the air. He calls R. J. or R. T. and J. L. Tretheway, who live in the apartment below his, and they also glimpse the object, which is in sight for 20 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sighted Here,” Fort Wayne Ind. Weekly Gazette, April 15, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_183

Event 494 (A0C6E359)

Date: Mid 4/1897
Location: Eldridge, North Dakota
Description: Between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. A man in Eldridge, North Dakota, sees an airship that looks like a car attached to a large, kite-shaped structure with wings. It stops and changes course. At one point the man is close enough to hear a humming sound. Some of the time it displays colored lights; at other times it is completely dark.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “He Saw the Air Ship,” Jamestown N. Dak. Weekly Alert, April 22, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_184

Event 495 (CD8C2550)

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: This was the peak date in a wave of "airship" sightings around the United States and Canada. There were over fifty reports of "airships" on this day, including 18 in Michigan alone. There were six humanoid reports, two in Iowa and one each in Texas, Wisconsin, Illinois and Michigan. Two of these reports invovled communication with quite human-looking people.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2011

Event 496 (BB849B30)

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: A large object was seen in Linn Grove, Iowa in the morning hours of this day in 1897 flying slowly toward the north. It seemed ready to land and five men--F. G. Ellis, James Evans, David Evans, Joe Croaskey, Benjamin Buland--drove toward it in a buckboard wagon. About seven kilometers north of Linn Grove they found the craft on the ground. They came within 700 meters of it but it "spread its four giant wings and rose towards the North". Two figures with shoulder-length hair were seen aboard the craft and made efforts to conceal themselves. Most residents of Linn Grove saw the craft in flight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 16, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2012

Event 497 (F5360F71)

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: Two farm workers, Adolph Winkle and John Hulle, saw a strange craft in a field near the city of Springfield, Illinois around midday. They had a discussion with its occupants, a woman and two men, and were told the ship had flown from Quincy to Springfield in 30 minutes and that the crew was making electrical repairs.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, January 1965
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2013

Event 498 (1D742C17)

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: At nightfall the same day a flying object followed a train traveling from Howard to Artesian, South Dakota in Miner County. It came closer and closer to the ground as it did, reported the engineer, Joe Wright.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 183, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2014

Event 499 (07D2227E)

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: At around 9:00 p.m. a passenger train on the Wabash line heading toward Quincy, Illinois had just passed Perry Springs, Missouri when a low-flying object started following it. All the passengers saw the craft, which followed the train for fifteen minutes. It had one red and one white light. It flew ahead of the train and disappeared quickly, although the train was then moving at 65 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Chicago Times-Herald, April 15, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2015

Event 500 (DC51F30B)

Date: 4/15/1897
Description: At 11:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped airship without wings and with yellow lights at the bow and stern flew to the north over Hudson, Michigan. It flew at an estimated altitude of 500 feet, and was clearly visible in the bright moonlight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper clipping files
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2016

Event 501 (00EA7205)

Date: 4/16/1897
Time: 13:00?
Location: EAST / SPRINGFIELD, MO
Description: 1 observer. Great airship on ground. 2 classic nordics. Odd speech. See reference.
Type: sighting
Reference: The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 953)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_190

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", Elev: "395", HatchDesc: "E/SPRINGFIELD,MO:1 OBS:Gt.AIRSHIP ON GND:2 CLASSIC NORDICS:ODD SPEECH:see ref.", LatLong: "37.250002 -93.250004", LatLongDMS: "37:15:00 N 93:15:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"

Event 502 (4BE0A67E)

Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Downs Township, IL
Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again.(Magonia #22, 191) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_30

Event 503 (D3721150)

Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Vincennes, IN
Description: 9:00 p.m. A mysterious airship passed over the city twice on the night of Friday, April 16. According to the Vincennes Morning Commercial, the airship first appeared about nine oclock, traveling along the extreme eastern portion of the horizon (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 18970416
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_31

Event 504 (B4E12011)

Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Downs Township, Illinois
Description: Approximate date. While working in his field, Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving again.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 191 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_22

Event 505 (5510B59B)

Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Danvers, Illinois
Description: 12:03 a.m. An airship and a smaller “trailer which followed it very closely” are seen by residents of Danvers, Illinois. The objects are made of aluminum-like material, and its “occupants were dressed in western style.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Aerial Mystery,” Bloomington Ill. Daily Pantograph, April 17, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_185

Event 506 (D9362CFB)

Date: 4/16/1897
Locations: Bay City, Michigan; Center Avenue
Description: 12:30 a.m. A group of people returning home from a lodge meeting in Bay City, Michigan, notice a large conical object approaching from the south and slowly descending to about 50 feet altitude above Center Avenue. A red light appears at either end of a body that is apparently 50–75 feet long. It shines with a dull red glow, as if there are lights on its upper side. The object moves away to the northeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Ship a Reality,” Saginaw Mich. Courier-Herald, April 16, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_186

Event 507 (642A24D3)

Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Linn Grove, Iowa
Description: Morning. A large object passes slowly over Linn Grove, Iowa, heading north. Five men—James Evans , F. G. Ellis, Ben Buland , David Evans , and Joe Croskey—jump into a rig and follow it 4 miles north of town where it has landed. But when the pursuers get within 2,100 feet of the airship, it spreads out four massive wings and ascends again. The two occupants have extremely long beards and make desperate efforts to conceal themselves. They toss two enormous boulders “of unknown composition” out of the airship.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More Air Ship Fakes,” Indianapolis Journal, April 17, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_187

Event 508 (347CC7A8)

Date: 4/16/1897
Locations: Springfield, Missouri; east of Springfield, Missouri
Description: While wandering in the hills east of Springfield, Missouri, W. H. Hopkins, a traveling insurance agent, spots a landed airship in a clearing. Next to it is a nude female with hair down to her waist. As she picks flowers, she speaks in an unknown language with a musical voice and fans herself as if the day is hot. In the shade cast by the craft lies a naked man with shoulder-length hair and a long beard. After a few minutes, Hopkins approaches the woman, who shrieks and runs toward the man. Hopkins speaks soothingly and the two aeronauts relax. Hopkins asks where they come from, and they point upward, pronouncing a word that sounds like “Mars.” The two examine Hopkins’s clothing, hair, and watch with great curiosity. They show him the interior of the ship but take off shortly afterward, “laughing and waving their hands.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Golden Haired Girl Is in It,” St. Louis Mo. Post- Dispatch, April 19, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_188

Event 509 (F37B1AE3)

Date: 4/16/1897
Locations: Ohio; Marion, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. Howard R. Bolander, superintendent of the Ohio Bicycle Works in Marion, Ohio, is looking at the night sky when he sees the light from a cigar-shaped object moving to the southwest. Its light looks like an incandescent lamp.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Is Your Credulity in Condition for the Only True Airship Story?” Marion Ohio Daily Star, April 17, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_189

Event 510 (5CD4FC23)

Date: 4/16/1897
Location: Hillsboro, Texas
Description: Night. Judge John Spencer Bounds is riding in a buggy in Hillsboro, Texas, when his horse whirls around in fright. A brilliant light as if from an arc lamp shines on him for less than a minute and then moves over to a nearby field. The light suddenly ascends to an altitude of 1,000 feet. As he watches, the searchlight blinks out and smaller lights surrounding a dark object become visible. The object moves slowly to the south and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Seen near Hillsboro,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, April 17, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_190

Event 511 (A02CB94B)

Date: 4/16/1897
Locations: Greenville, Texas; New York State
Description: 12:00 midnight. C. G. Williams is walking across a field two miles south of Greenville, Texas, when he comes across a brilliant light and a large, cigar-shaped object resting on the ground. Three aeronauts emerge from it; two go to work on the ship, and the third approaches Williams and asks him to mail some letters. The man tells him that the airship runs on electricity and that his invention was perfected in a small town in New York State.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “C. G. Williams Saw It,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_191

Event 512 (D23C942B)

Date: 4/16/1897
Description: At 12:30 a.m. in Bay City, Michigan a large object was sighted high in the sky. It gradually descended and was estimated to be around 50 to 70 feet in length. It had a red light at each end, that gave the conical shaped craft a dull red glow. It moved at a rapid pace, then slowed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Courrier Herald, April 16, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2043

Event 513 (0656DC4E)

Date: 4/16/1897
Description: Shortly before 3:00 a.m. police heard a drumming noise in Saginaw, Michigan and then spotted a 30-foot long cigar-shaped airship with something hanging down ten feet below it. It flew at a speed of 25 miles per hour to the south, and carried red and yellow body lights.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lucius Farish newspaper files; Saginaw (MI) Evening News, April 17, 1897; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2044

Event 514 (2C1495C0)

Date: 4/16/1897
Description: While working in his field in Downs Township, Illinois farmer Haney Savidge saw an aerial craft land near him. Six people emerged from it and spoke to him for a few minutes before leaving.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 22, citing Chicago Times-Herald, April 17, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2045

Event 515 (880368D1)

Date: 4/16/1897
Description: On that night there was a sudden flash in the sky over Logan, Ohio and then a 40-foot long dark shape flew over the town slowly. Witnesses thought they could hear voices coming from the object. Some followed it three miles south of town in a buggy. The craft descended to about 50 feet altitude, then rose swiftly and flew out of sight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2046

Event 516 (DBF5B1E3)

Date: 4/16/1897
Description: On the same night a man named Williams in Greenville, Texas came upon a landed airship. He described it as an "immense cigar-shaped vessel" with large wings, and having a "sidewheel like a steamboat" in front, with a fish tail at the rear. He claimed it was 75 feet long and 30 feet wide, and he encountered three men performing repairs on the craft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 39, citing the Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2047

Event 517 (6FDD447B)

Date: 4/17/1897
Location: Aurora, TX
Description: Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_20

Event 518 (EA47212A)

Date: 4/17/1897
Time: 06:00
Location: WATERLOO, IA
Description: 13M airship lands. Aviator does not request money. All amazed.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_191

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "5", Elev: "255", HatchDesc: "WATERLOO,IA:13M AIRSHIP LANDS:AVIATOR DOES NOT REQUEST MONEY:all amazed", LatLong: "42.500002 -92.333338", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 92:20:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"

Event 519 (201635C5)

Date: 4/17/1897
Time: ~10:00
Location: WILLIAMSTON, MI
Description: 12+observer(s). Object maneuvers / 50 minute(s). Lands. 9' man exits. Bellows. Injures farmer.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_192

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, GNT: Giant: Large/tall alien, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", Elev: "280", HatchDesc: "WILLIAMSTON,MI:12+OBS:OBJ MNVRS/50min:LANDS:9'MAN EXITS:BELLOWS:INJURES FARMER", LatLong: "42.677780 -84.283337", LatLongDMS: "42:40:40 N 84:17:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "10"

Event 520 (73A080B0)

Date: 4/17/1897
Location: Williamston, MI
Description: Morning. At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_32

Event 521 (A9581DF5)

Date: 4/17/1897
Time: morning
Location: Williamston, Michigan
Description: At least a dozen farmers saw an object maneuver in the sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man near 3 m tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings." One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 196 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_23

Event 522 (573790EA)

Date: 4/17/1897
Location: Beaumont, Texas
Description: 1:30 a.m. R. E. Draughon, a night watchman at a lumber plant in Beaumont, Texas, sees a “globular” object with a bright light the size of a star in one end. It is moving to the northwest at a high altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Seen at Beaumont,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, April 18, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_192

Event 523 (DF3A8C67)

Date: 4/17/1897
Locations: Aurora, Texas; Fort Worth; Aurora Cemetery
Description: 6:00 a.m. An airship is said to collide with the tower of Judge James Spencer Proctor’s windmill in Aurora, Texas, causing it to explode and strew debris over several acres. The pilot reportedly “not of this world,” or a “Martian” according to an alleged Army Signal Service officer named [Thomas Jefferson Weems](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17165126/thomas-jefferson-weems) from nearby Fort Worth, does not survive the crash and is buried “with Christian rites” at the Aurora Cemetery. Wreckage from the crash site is either dumped into a nearby well located under the damaged windmill or ends up with the alien in the grave. Adding to the mystery is the story of Brawley Oates, who purchases Judge Proctor’s property around 1935. Oates cleans out the debris from the well in order to use it as a water source, but later develops an extremely severe case of rheumatoid arthritis, which he claims is the result of contaminated water from the wreckage dumped into the well. As a result, Oates seals up the well with a concrete slab and places an outbuilding on the spot in 1945. The entire yarn is widely regarded as a hoax, although Proctor’s windmill apparently did exist.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aurora, Texas, UFO incident”; “A Windmill Demolishes It,” Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1897, p. 5; Donald B. Hanlon, “Texas Odyssey of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 12, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1966: 9–10; H. Michael Simmons, “Once upon a Time in the West,” Magonia, no. 20 August 1985; Wallace O. Chariton, The Great Texas Airship Mystery, Wordware, 1991; Thomas E. Bullard, “Defending UFOs,” IUR 34, no. 2 March 2012: 8–10; Clark III 316–318, 592–593; “Aurora 1897,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014; Mutual UFO Network, “Aurora, TX Crash, 1897,” May 14, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_193

Event 524 (39AB6C49)

Date: 4/17/1897
Location: Trenton, Tennessee
Description: 8:30 p.m. A large white light attached to a cigar-shaped object passes over Trenton, Tennessee, at an altitude of about 1,500 feet. It has a red light on the left side and a green light on the right. The object remains in sight for 5 minutes then disappears to the east.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Trenton Has ‘Em,” Memphis Tenn. Commercial Appeal, April 18, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_194

Event 525 (F6F85B1D)

Date: 4/17/1897
Locations: Manchester Street; Cincinnati Southern Railway trestle bridge; Lexington, Kentucky
Description: 9:00 p.m. George Alverson, Alex Oxford, and Charley Hunter are walking on Manchester Street near the Cincinnati Southern Railway trestle bridge in Lexington, Kentucky. An airship lands and settles in a vacant lot about 600 feet away. They hurry forward but are stopped by a man who has just emerged from the machine. He is carrying a bucket, which he fills with water from a nearby spring. He declines to answer any of their questions, reenters the airship, and flies away to the southeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Talked with the Airship Man,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, April 19, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_195

Event 526 (31BDE7F9)

Date: 4/17/1897
Description: At least a dozen farmers in Williamston, Michigan saw an object maneuver in the morning sky for an hour before it landed. A strange man nearly 3 meters (10 feet) tall, almost naked and suffering from the heat, was the pilot of the craft. "His talk, while musical, seemed to be a repetition of bellowings". One farmer went near him and received a blow that broke his hip.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184, citing Lansing State Republican, April 18, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2073

Event 527 (8A1575A3)

Date: 4/18/1897
Locations: Ohio River; Sistersville, West Virginia
Description: 8:30 p.m. W. E. Roe, captain of the Ohio River packet T. M. Barnsdall, as well as watchman Elmer Hardy and engineer Litus Kinnard, sees a light high in the air above the river as the riverboat is lying at Sistersville, West Virginia. It seems to be moving to the northwest but at other times it retraces its course. Around 12:00 midnight it disappears over a hill to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship Seen near Marietta,” Marietta Ohio Daily Register, April 19, 1897
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_196

Event 528 (5BF124A9)

Date: 4/18/1897
Locations: Lyons, Nebraska; Bancroft
Description: 9:30 p.m. An object with lights on both ends is seen southeast of Lyons, Nebraska, traveling to the northwest. Some young observers estimate it is moving at 4–6 mph. When the object is south of Bancroft it makes 2–3 large circles and then moves to the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship’s Lamp Is Lighted,” Omaha Neb. Daily Bee, April 20, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_197

Event 529 (94AC6A46)

Date: 4/18/1897
Description: A cigar-shaped UFO hovered over the town of Sisterville, West Virginia at 8:30 p.m.. It directed brilliant searchlights down toward the ground. It appeared to have large fins or wings, and flashing red, white and green lights on the sides and on each end. Several witnesses estimated the length of the object to be 180 feet long.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I.R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2102

Event 530 (C26F76F8)

Date: 4/19/1897
Time: 19:10
Location: SISTERSVILLE, WV
Description: 55M cone and cylinder/cigar-shape. Both flash multicolor beams. / r204p134+/ r210v25#7.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 111)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_193

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "197", HatchDesc: "SISTERSVILLE,WV:55M CONE+CGR:BOTH FLASH MULTICLR BEAMS:/r204p134+/r210v25#7", LatLong: "39.500002 -81.000004", LatLongDMS: "39:30:00 N 81:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 531 (563FCA97)

Date: 4/19/1897
Time: 23:00
Location: BEAUMONT, TX
Description: Farmer and son. Cylinder/cigar-shape lands / field. 4 riders out repairing it. Ask for water.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 149)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_194

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "BEAUMONT,TX:FARMER+SON:CGR LANDS/FIELD:4 RIDERS OUT REPAIRING IT:ASK FOR WATER", LatLong: "30.083335 -94.083338", LatLongDMS: "30:05:00 N 94:05:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "9"

Event 532 (7E67FDA9)

Date: 4/19/1897
Location: Leroy, KS
Description: 10:30 p.m. Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went and saw an elongated cigar-shaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_34

Event 533 (5D288434)

Date: 4/19/1897
Time: 2230
Location: Leroy, Kansas
Description: Alexander Hamilton was awakened by a noise among the cattle and went out with his son and his tenant. They saw an elongated cigarshaped object, about 100 m long with a transparent cabin underneath showing narrow reddish bands, hovering 10 m above ground. They approached within 50 m of it. It was illuminated and equipped with a searchlight. Inside it were "six of the strangest beings" the witness had seen, also described as "hideous." They spoke a language no witness could understand. A cow was dragged away by the object with the help of a strong red cable; it was found butchered in a field the next day.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 16; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_24

Event 534 (895AB38A)

Date: 4/19/1897
Locations: Armory Hall; Natchitoches, Louisiana
Description: 1:30 a.m. As people are returning from a party at the Armory Hall in Natchitoches, Louisiana, they see a bright light attached to a massive airship in the form of a balloon with a cigar-shaped undercar. The light dims while it is over the city and intensifies again when it has passed beyond it. It moves in undulations and is visible for 30 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship Seen in Louisiana,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_198

Event 535 (DC0F1BDB)

Date: 4/19/1897
Location: El Paso, Texas
Description: 2:00 a.m. A man in El Paso, Texas, sees a cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes on each side. The object approaches from the east and passes overhead at 500 feet. Voices from the craft are heard.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship Seen in El Paso,” El Paso Tex. Herald, April 20, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_199

Event 536 (B754F71F)

Date: 4/19/1897
Locations: Harlem Prison Farm; Fort Bend County, Texas; Lake Charles, Louisiana; Fort Worth, Texas
Description: 12:00 noon. George Dunlap, a man known to Davis H. Tucker , physician at the Harlem Prison Farm [now the Jester State Prison Farm] in Fort Bend County, Texas, is riding in the country near Lake Charles, Louisiana, when he sees an airship moving toward him about half a mile distant. It makes a loud whistling noise, scaring his horses and causing him to be thrown from the buggy. As the horses flee, the ship lands, a rope comes down, and two men rush over to apologize. They are the owner Mr. Wilson formerly of Fort Worth, Texas and his friend Scott Warren. The man is taken into the airship and introduced to two others, a Mr. Waters and a Hispanic man. Wilson tells him the airship is sustained by a gas, and that several of them have been built.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Was Aboard an Airship,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, May 16, 1897, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_200

Event 537 (CC8A3EF7)

Date: 4/19/1897
Locations: Cochransville; Monroe County, Ohio
Description: 9:00 p.m. A bright light moves from the northwest over Cochransville [now a ghost town], Monroe County, Ohio, where it hovers for 20 minutes, flashing red, white, and green lights. Through binoculars a cone-shaped object with large fins on either side can be discerned. It is apparently 180 feet long.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Hovered over the Town,” Cincinnati Ohio Commercial Tribune, April 20, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_201

Event 538 (D6E8ED5D)

Date: 4/19/1897
Location: Yates Center, Kansas
Description: 10:30 p.m. Rancher Alexander Hamilton, his son Will, and his hired hand Gid Heslip are awakened by a noise in the cattle pen of their ranch at Yates Center, Kansas. They watch as a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped airship with a carriage underneath descends to about 30 feet above the ground. Two men, a woman, and three children are heard talking in the carriage. They see a calf caught in a nearby fence with a cable knotted around its neck that connects to the airship above. They cut the cable and the airship floats away. A few weeks later, Hamilton admits he made the story up.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 130, 593; Jerome Clark, “The Great Airship Hoax,” Fate 30, no. 2 February 1977: 94–97; Jerome Clark, “The Leroy, Kansas, Calfnapping Hoax of 1897,” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 April 1977: 26; Daniel Cohen, The Great Airship Mystery, Dodd, Mead, 1981, pp. 92–102
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_202

Event 539 (5614AE04)

Date: 4/19/1897
Locations: Houston; Beaumont, Texas; Gulf of Mexico; Iowa; Beaumont
Description: After 11:00 p.m. John R. Ligon , an agent for a brewery in Houston, and his son Charley notice lights in a pasture a few hundred yards away near Beaumont, Texas. They walk over and discover four men moving around a large dark object, who ask for water. They accompany Ligon to his house, each bringing two baskets, which they fill and return. One of the men identifies himself as “Wilson” and says they are traveling in a flying machine that has been over the Gulf of Mexico and is now headed toward Iowa. Ligon says the airship is 130 feet long and 20 feet wide, propelled by four large wings and powered by electricity. Wilson gives Ligon a tour of the ship and says it is one of five built in a small Iowa town. Rabbi Aaron Levy of Beaumont also claims to have met aeronauts from a landed airship near the city around the same time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Inspected the Air Ship,” Houston Tex. Daily Post, April 21, 1897, p. 2; “The Airship,” New Orleans Daily Picayune, April 25, 1897, p. 7; Jerome Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 December 2010: 5–6; Clark III 81–82
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_203

Event 540 (AA6CE7EB)

Date: 4/19/1897
Description: Mr. Sisson, a postmaster, was walking in the woods on this afternoon in Greenfield, Illinois when he saw an airship in the sky, estimated to be only 150 feet up in the air. He could see a woman on the deck of the object catching pigeons with a net. That same day a man nine miles away found a letter with "Airship Co., Oakland, California" letterhead. The note read, "Having delightful time…Mollie…catching [pigeons] with a net," and went on to describe 200 mph jaunts to St. Louis, Chicago, and Kansas City."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0039, citing the St. Louis (MO) Star, April 20, 1897; Carrollton (IL) Patriot, April 23, 1897; Philip Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2130

Event 541 (3DBBE9BD)

Date: 4/20/1897 (approximate)
Time: 20:30
Location: NNW / LANCASTER, OH
Description: Airship going down / field. Horse spooked. 2 riders show observer(s) craft.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: Lancaster, OH 1897: Cincinnati Enquirer, 25APR1897. http://home.fuse.net/ufo/Aeribarque.html (via Kenny Young)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_195

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "5", Elev: "262", HatchDesc: "NNW/LANCASTER,OH:AIRSHIP ↓/FLD:HORSE SPOOKED:2 RIDERS SHOW OBS CRAFT:", LatLong: "39.766669 -82.666671", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 82:40:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"

Event 542 (A99B418C)

Date: 4/20/1897
Time: 22:00
Location: UVALDE, TX
Description: Airship lands. Crew / 3 ask sheriff / water. Inquire about local man..
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 149)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_196

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", Elev: "276", HatchDesc: "UVALDE,TX:AIRSHIP LANDS:CREW/3 ASK SHERIFF/WATER:INQUIRE ABOUT LOCAL MAN..", LatLong: "29.216668 -99.783338", LatLongDMS: "29:13:00 N 99:47:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 543 (836C268F)

Date: 4/20/1897
Location: Homan, AR
Description: 6:00 p.m.Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_37

Event 544 (EDF95023)

Date: 4/20/1897
Time: 1800
Location: Homan, Arkansas
Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and horizontal blade over it. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Hooton saw the wheels spin as the craft rose and flew away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_25

Event 545 (6442DAF5)

Date: 4/20/1897
Location: Elkton, South Dakota
Description: Henry Heintz of Elkton, South Dakota, patents an airship consisting of a cigar-shaped balloon and a structure for passengers beneath it. At some point he allegedly brings his invention out for a test flight in front of the Elkton blacksmith shop. The airship rises 8 feet into the air before plopping to the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Patent, “Air Ship,” granted April 20, 1897; Ruth Becken, A History of Elkton, [City of Elkton,] 2000, p. 94
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_204

Event 546 (46755C96)

Date: 4/20/1897
Locations: Uvalde, Texas; Goshen, New York; Eagle Pass, Texas; San Angelo; Getty Street in Uvalde; Galveston; Fort Worth
Description: 10:00 p.m. Sheriff Henry W. Baylor of Uvalde, Texas, sees a bright light and hears strange voices behind his house. He finds a landed airship and its crew of three men, one of whom is named “Wilson” from Goshen, New York, who inquires after an acquaintance, C. C. Akers of Eagle Pass, Texas. After procuring water from a hydrant in Baylor’s yard, the men board the airship, which speeds away northward toward San Angelo. County Clerk Henry J. Bowles sees the airship as it passes over Getty Street in Uvalde. Akers tells a reporter in Galveston that he knew a New Yorker named Wilson when he lived in Fort Worth in 1876–1877. Baylor’s seemingly compelling testimony disintegrates after he confesses in late May to making the whole story up, possibly in collusion with Akers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship in West Texas,” Galveston Tex. Daily News, April 24, 1897, p. 3; “The Airship at Uvalde,” Weimar Tex. Mercury, May 1, 1897, p. 6; “Airship Story Exploded,” Weimar Tex. Mercury, May 22, 1897, p. 7; Jerome Clark, “Mystery Aeronauts of Texas,” IUR 33, no. 3 December 2010: 6–7; Clark III 82–83
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_205

Event 547 (DEE6851F)

Date: 4/20/1897
Description: Capt. James Hooton was hunting in the vicinity of Homan, Arkansas when he heard the noise of a steam engine and found an object in a clearing. It looked like a cylinder with pointed ends, lateral wheels, and had a horizontal blade overhead. Hooton spoke with a man who wore dark glasses and walked behind the craft. There were three or four occupants in total. The witness was told this was indeed "The Airship" and that it used compressed air for propulsion. Capt. Hooton saw the wheels spin when the craft rose and flew away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 184; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2149

Event 548 (18263B17)

Date: 4/21/1897
Time: 01:00
Location: HARRISBURG, AR AND HOMAN, AR / 20 APRIL AND MCKINNEY SPRS / 23 APRIL
Description: Great airship lands 3X / 4 days.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 209)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_197

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "136", Elev: "84", HatchDesc: "HARRISBURG,AR+HOMAN,AR/20APR+McKINNEY Sprs/23APR:GREAT AIRSHIP LANDS 3X/4DAYS", LatLong: "35.566668 -90.716671", LatLongDMS: "35:34:00 N 90:43:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 549 (E38A806B)

Date: 4/21/1897
Time: 23:00
Location: ROCKLAND, TX
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape with vibrant bright lights lands. Pseudo-human/entity asks / gets tools. Goes extremely fast. R224p38.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 42)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_198

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "20", Elev: "39", HatchDesc: "ROCKLAND,TX:CGR W/VBRITE LITES LANDS:PSH ASKS/GETS TOOLS:GOES XFAST:r224p38", LatLong: "31.016668 -94.383338", LatLongDMS: "31:01:00 N 94:23:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 550 (DC89E549)

Date: 4/21/1897
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana
Description: 12:30 a.m. An employee of the Picayune newspaper in New Orleans, Louisiana, steps outside the office and sees an airship, 50–60 feet long and bearing a powerful searchlight. He returns to tell his colleagues, but by the time they come out, the airship is gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship,” New Orleans Picayune, April 21, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_206

Event 551 (7D5F5D62)

Date: 4/21/1897?
Locations: Lancaster; Baltimore, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. A man is riding his horse between Lancaster and Baltimore, Ohio, when something scares his horse. He sees an object with two brilliant white lights on either end landing in a nearby field. He tethers his horse and approaches the object, which seems as large as a house. Inside he can see two men conversing, so he walks up to ask them questions. One of the aeronauts seems to be Japanese and the other speaks English with a British accent. The craft is called the Aeribarque, and they are on a test flight. The aeronaut says that they often land in remote areas and come to nearby towns for supplies or mechanical parts, posing either as tourists or “harmless cranks trying to invent perpetual motion.” After giving the witness a demonstration of the electrical lighting system, they take off into the sky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Aeribarque, That’s It’s Official Name,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, April 25, 1897, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_207

Event 552 (F1AD0FF7)

Date: 4/21/1897
Locations: Erie, Pennsylvania; Lake Erie
Description: 11:00 p.m. Confectioner John S. Scheer, Frank King, and Frank Mulick of Erie, Pennsylvania, watch a cigar- shaped, winged object moving north at a relatively high rate of speed. It has a large propeller on its tail end, but it flies silently and disappears over Lake Erie.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Passed over Erie,” Erie Pa. Daily Times, April 22, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_208

Event 553 (003CA989)

Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Rockland, TX
Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_39

Event 554 (5D2178AF)

Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Josserand, TX
Description: Midnight. Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_41

Event 555 (6AF33972)

Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Rockland, Texas
Description: John M. Barclay was intrigued when his dog barked furiously and a high-pitched noise was heard. He went out, saw a flying object circling 5 m above ground. Elongated with protrusions and blinding lights, it went dark when it landed. Barclay was met by a man who told him his purpose was peaceful and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill and took off "like a bullet out of a gun."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 192; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_26

Event 556 (5DB24CDD)

Date: 4/22/1897
Time: 2400
Location: Josserand, Texas
Description: Frank Nichols, who lived 3 km east of Josserand and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened by a machine noise. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, lighted object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it, was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men, the crew of the strange machine. He was told how it worked but could not follow the explanation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 193; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_27

Event 557 (D9B2DE25)

Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Kenly, North Carolina
Description: 7:30 p.m. Prominent citizens, including the mayor, observe a low-flying airship heading slowly southwest above Kenly, North Carolina. Its sails “resembled mosquito netting to the naked eye.” The outlines of two people aboard are plainly visible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Men Seen in the Airship,” Raleigh N.C. News and Observer, April 25, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_209

Event 558 (EDEE4060)

Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Description: 10:10 p.m. A ball of fire is seen moving slowly and horizontally from southwest to northeast over Kokomo, Indiana. Some people can distinguish the faint outlines of a cigar-shaped object and wings. The light is white with a reddish tint and no more than 300 feet in altitude. The witnesses include Harry M. Grimes, William E. Sollenberger , and banking executive Frank McCarty.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Mysterious Air Ship,” Kokomo Ind. Daily Tribune, April 23, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_210

Event 559 (C0F88352)

Date: 4/22/1897
Location: Rockland, Texas
Description: 11:00 p.m. John M. Barclay wakes up when he hears a whirring noise that causes his dogs to bark wildly outside his home near Rockland, Texas. He goes outside and sees an oblong airship with wings and brilliant lights. When he first sees it, the object is hovering 150 feet above the ground. It circles a few times then lands in a nearby pasture. Barclay goes down to investigate with his Winchester rifle, but the lights go out as he gets closer. Some 90 feet away from the airship he is stopped by a man who asks him to put his rifle down. He identifies himself as “Smith” and gives Barclay $10 to purchase lubricating oil, two chisels, and bluestone. When Barclay returns with the materials, the aeronaut will only say he is from “anywhere,” adding that “we will be in Greece tomorrow.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Supplies for Airship,” Houston Tex. Post, April 25, 1897, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_211

Event 560 (128FA090)

Date: 4/22/1897
Locations: Josserand, Texas; Iowa town
Description: 12:00 midnight. Frank Nichols, a farmer living 2 miles east of Josserand, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. Outside, he sees a huge airship in his cornfield. Before he can get close, two men with buckets ask him if they can draw water from his well. Nichols consents and in return they give him a tour of the vessel, whose motive power is “highly condensed electricity.” One aeronaut tells him that five airships have been built in an Iowa town.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Airship,” Houston Tex. Post, April 26, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_212

Event 561 (DE6F3CEE)

Date: 4/22/1897
Description: John M. Barclay of Rockland, Texas was intrigued when his dog started barking furiously at 11:30 p.m. and he heard a high-pitched noise. He went outside and saw a flying object circling five meters above the ground. It was elongated with protrusions and blinding lights. It went dark when it landed. A man who told him his purpose was peaceful met Barclay and requested some common hardware items to repair the craft. He paid with a ten-dollar bill. The craft took off "like a bullet out of a gun."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Houston Post, April 22, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2203

Event 562 (C819F896)

Date: 4/22/1897
Description: On or about this same night Frank Nichols, who lived two miles east of Josserand, Texas and was one of its most respected citizens, was awakened around midnight by the noise from a machine. Looking outside, he saw a heavy, illuminated object land in his wheat field. He walked toward it but was stopped by two men who asked permission to draw water from his well. He then had a discussion with a half-dozen men who were the crew of the strange craft. He said they told how it worked but he could not follow the explanation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Houston Post, April 26, 1897; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 184-185
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2204

Event 563 (A85C0D77)

Date: 4/23/1897
Location: McKinney Bayou, AR
Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs." (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_43

Event 564 (EAA67E5D)

Date: 4/23/1897
Location: McKinney Bayou, Arkansas
Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas, was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japanese."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Farish, in Allende Letters - Award Special, 1968 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_28

Event 565 (EFAC1BA0)

Date: 4/23/1897
Location: Kountze, Texas
Description: Night. Henry A. Hooks and A. W. Hodges of Kountze, Texas, allegedly meet two aeronauts named Wilson and Jackson when their airship suffers a gas leak and lands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Airship,” Houston Tex. Post, April 25, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_213

Event 566 (CD5E2016)

Date: 4/23/1897
Description: Judge Lawrence A. Byrne of Texarkana, Arkansas was surveying a tract of land when he saw a peculiar object anchored on the ground. "It was manned by three men who spoke a foreign language, but judging from their looks one would take them to be Japs."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2249

Event 567 (9033BEC1)

Date: 4/23/1897
Description: According to the Houston Post, two men reported that they had discovered a landed airship near the town of Kountze, Texas. It was cigar shaped, 50 feet long and 20 feet wide. They talked to the two human occupants of the airship, named Jackson and Wilson, who were allegedly repairing a punctured "air compartment."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Houston Post, April 25, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 25; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 49
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2250

Event 568 (DF1CE971)

Date: 4/24/1897
Locations: Stringers Ridge; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Sacramento, California
Description: An airship in need of repairs lands near Stringers Ridge on the other side of the river from Chattanooga, Tennessee. An unnamed journalist talks to one of the aeronauts, who identifies himself as Prof. Charles Davidson of Sacramento, California, the inventor of the airship, which can travel as fast as 93 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Is This a Reality?” Knoxville Tenn. Morning Tribune, April 25, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_214

Event 569 (494FC27F)

Date: 4/24/1897
Location: Toledo, Ohio
Description: 11:00 p.m. Howard Warn is outside his home in Toledo, Ohio, when he notices bright, multicolored lights moving rapidly toward the southwest. The lights are attached to a cigar-shaped object at an altitude of 500 feet. He calls his father, Milo S. Warn , and they watch the lights until the object disappears into heavy clouds to the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Say They Saw the Airship,” Cleveland Ohio Plain Dealer, April 28, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_215

Event 570 (92A926A1)

Date: 4/24/1897
Description: A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form of a man standing at the stern. "He looked at me, and I waved my hat. Two other men were sitting in the helm."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Louisville Courier Journal, April 25, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2269

Event 571 (43B015A2)

Date: 4/25/1897
Location: Merkel, TX
Description: Evening. People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_45

Event 572 (CA85056B)

Date: 4/25/1897
Time: evening
Location: Merkel, Texas
Description: People returning from church observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about 10 min a man came down along the rope cut the end free, and went back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a lightblue uniform.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 194; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_29

Event 573 (2857072E)

Date: 4/25/1897
Location: Merkel, Texas
Description: Evening. As some residents of Merkel, Texas, are leaving a church service, they notice a heavy, anchor- shaped object being dragged by a large rope that is attached to an airship in the sky not far above them. After 10 minutes, a small figure dressed in a blue sailor suit starts climbing down the rope. But when he sees people watching him, he cuts the rope and returns to the airship, which moves away to the northeast. The anchor goes on exhibit at a local blacksmith shop.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Anchor of the Airship,” Houston Tex. Post, April 28, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_216

Event 574 (21909DF0)

Date: 4/25/1897
Location: Sunbury (Ohio)
Description: Night. William F. Whittier, editor of the Sunbury Ohio News-Item, sets up his camera in the printing office to take lightning photographs. He manages to take a photo of a nearby lightning strike and develops it the following morning. The negative shows not only the lightning but the outline of what seems to be an airship. Whittier makes many copies of the photo and sells them to Sunbury residents.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Fairy Story: A Sunbury Editor Takes a Photograph,” Dayton Ohio Daily Journal, April 28, 1897
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_217

Event 575 (CC275319)

Date: 4/25/1897
Description: People returning from church in Merkel, Texas observed a heavy object being dragged along the ground by a rope attached to a flying craft. The rope got caught in a railroad track. The craft was too high for its structure to be visible but protrusions and a light could be distinguished. After about ten minutes a man came down along the rope and cut the end free. He climbed back aboard the craft, which flew away toward the northeast. The man was small and dressed in a light blue uniform.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Houston Daily Post, April 28, 1897; Donald B. Hanlon, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 24; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 185
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2287

Event 576 (88A7360F)

Date: 4/26/1897
Time: 21:00?
Location: MERKEL, TX
Description: Airship anchor caught / railroad/railway tracks. Small humanoid (or Grey) descends. Cuts rope / men appear. Going quickly northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: DIMENSIONS, A Casebook of Alien Contact Ballentine, NY 1989. PB (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_199

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey"

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "3", Duration: "15", Elev: "570", HatchDesc: "MERKEL,TX:AIRSHIP ANCHOR CAUGHT/RR TRACKS:OID DESCENDS:CUTS ROPE/MEN APPR:>>NE", LatLong: "32.472224 -100.011116", LatLongDMS: "32:28:20 N 100:00:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "9"

Event 577 (168768C5)

Date: 4/26/1897
Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, TX
Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_46

Event 578 (BC28150A)

Date: 4/26/1897
Location: Aquila-Hillsboro, Texas
Description: Approximate date. A lawyer was surprised to see a lighted object fly over. His horse was scared and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible on the underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated canopy. It went down toward a hill to the south, 5 km from Aquila. When the witness was on his way back one hour later he saw the object rising. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 195 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_30

Event 579 (92241555)

Date: 4/26/1897
Description: A lawyer was surprise to see a lighted object fly over as he was driving his carriage three miles north of Aquila, Texas. His horse shied and nearly toppled the carriage. When the main light was turned off, a number of smaller lights became visible ont he underside of the dark object, which supported an elongated carriage. The airship went down toward a hill to the south, five kilometers from Aquila, Texas. When the witness was on his way back, one hour later, he saw the object ascending. It reached the altitude of the cloud ceiling and flew to the northeast at a fantastic speed with periodic flashes of light.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 30; Dallas Morning News, April 28, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2327

Event 580 (0464DDC0)

Date: 4/26/1897
Description: At 5:15 a.m. in Barring Cross, Arkansas a photograph of a structured flying object was taken.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark, Flying Saucer Review, July 1967, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2328

Event 581 (3DD432EC)

Date: 4/26/1897
Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Sidnaw, Michigan several people saw a green ball of light fly overhead.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Marquette (MI) Mining Journal, May 1, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2329

Event 582 (6CE4E765)

Date: 4/28/1897?
Locations: Deadwood, Texas; Beaumont
Description: 8:00 p.m. Hiram C. LaGrone hears a disturbance among his horses on his ranch at Deadwood, Texas. Stepping outside, he sees a brilliant, multicolored light approaching from the southwest. It slows, hovers, then lands in a field. LaGrone walks up and discovers five men, two of whom take rubber bags and procure water from his well. The other three tell him that this is one of five airships touring the country and the same one that landed in Beaumont on April 19.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Airship,” Houston Tex. Post, April 30, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_218

Event 583 (B5AA0684)

Date: 4/30/1897
Time: ~03:00
Location: YONKERS, NY
Description: 3 locals. 'Great airship' with partially covered spotlight. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 115)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_200

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "YONKERS,NY:3 LOCALS:'GREAT AIRSHIP' WITH PARTIALLY COVERED SPOTLITE:>N", LatLong: "40.933335 -73.894448", LatLongDMS: "40:56:00 N 73:53:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 584 (5ACCC95B)

Date: 5/1/1897
Time: 21:00?
Location: WINNIPEG, MBA
Description: Many observer(s). Airship follows river going east. Turns sharply going north over hospital.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_201

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "10", Duration: "15", Elev: "228", HatchDesc: "WINNIPEG,MBa:MANY OBS:AIRSHIP FOLOS RIVER > E:TURNS SHARPLY >N ovr HOSPITAL", LatLong: "49.900002 -97.116671", LatLongDMS: "49:54:00 N 97:07:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "6"

Event 585 (0C662475)

Date: 5/1/1897
Description: On this evening a mystery airship flew over Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. It followed the river to the east, then made a sharp turn over a hospital. Also on the same night a well-lighted flying object with a clear outline flew over Shiloh, Ohio and was reported by a Mr. Chamberlain. It was supported by a narrow, 70 foot long cylindrical vessel that looked to be inflated.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 206, citing UFO Roundup; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 46, citing the Ashland Press, May 13, 1897
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2435

Event 586 (C92AB29A)

Date: 5/2/1897
Location: Cassville, Indiana
Description: 1:00 a.m. Edwin Shaffer is driving a rig about one-half mile west of Cassville, Indiana, when he encounters a landed airship 40 feet long. The object spooks his horse, which will not run past it. Shaffer claims the airship is crewed by midgets who speak no English.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship at Cassville,” Kokomo Ind. Daily Tribune, May 4, 1897, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_219

Event 587 (946555F4)

Date: 5/4/1897
Time: 19:30
Location: JENNY LIND, ARK
Description: Whole town. Airship northeast going southwest. Lands! Pseudo-human/entity speak English. "Catch birds".
Type: sighting
Reference: The AUSTRALIAN UFO BULLETIN; Qtrly. Judith MAGEE Ed. VUFORS PO Box 43, Moorabin, VIC 3189 Australia. (Index 953)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_202

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", Elev: "128", HatchDesc: "JENNY LIND,ARk:WHOLE TOWN:AIRSHIP NE>SW:LANDS!:PSH SPEAK ENGLISH:"CATCH BIRDS"", LatLong: "35.250002 -94.316671", LatLongDMS: "35:15:00 N 94:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "9"

Event 588 (11E4C224)

Date: 5/4/1897
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Description: 9:00 p.m. Louis Dumhoff, a physician living at 112 Garfield Place in Cincinnati, Ohio, sees a red, egg-shaped light, “the rays escaping in the center and at each end.” It passes to the southeast in about 5 minutes, moving in a zigzag, up-and-down course. Conductor J. C. Gaupel and attorney W. J. Klein also see the light in the same neighborhood.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, May 5, 1897, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_220

Event 589 (DB387EFE)

Date: 5/4/1897
Description: The whole town of Jenny Lind, Arkansas watched an airship fly over from the northeast to the southwest at 7:30 p.m. It landed, and a human looking occupant got out. He spoke English, and told them he was out to "catch birds."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: St. Louis Post Dispatch, May 5, 1897; Jerome Clark, The Unidentified: Notes Toward Solving the UFO Mystery, p. 147; Philip L. Rife, It Didn't Start with Roswell, p. 24
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2498

Event 590 (D0960E7D)

Date: 5/6/1897
Time: 12:00?
Location: HOT SPRINGS, ARK
Description: 2 cops. Airship lands. Riders gather water. Woman rider hides.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome & COLEMAN, Joren: THE UNIDENTIFIED; Warner PBs, NY 1975 (Index 143)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_203

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, CVS: Conversation/communication, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "193", HatchDesc: "HOT SPRINGS,ARK:2 COPS:AIRSHIP LANDS:RIDERS GATHER WATER:WOMAN RIDER HIDES", LatLong: "34.750002 -92.500004", LatLongDMS: "34:45:00 N 92:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 591 (AC1A226A)

Date: 5/6/1897
Location: Hot Springs, AR
Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_48

Event 592 (1D917C8E)

Date: 5/6/1897
Location: Hot Springs, Arkansas
Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs when they saw a bright light in the sky. About 7 km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The silhouette of the machine, about 2O m long, could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger of the men was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested that the policemen fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back through the same spot 40 min later and found nothing.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 66, 4; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_31

Event 593 (4FC9D56E)

Date: 5/6/1897
Locations: Hot Springs, Arkansas; five miles west of Hot Springs, Arkansas; Nashville, Tennessee
Description: During a rainstorm five miles west of Hot Springs, Arkansas, Deputy Sheriff John McLemore and Constable John J. Sumpter Jr. see a light in the sky descend behind a hill one half-mile away. After seeing two persons carrying lights, they draw their rifles and demand to know who is there. A man with a long, dark beard tells them that he and two others are traveling around the country in an airship and hope to end up in Nashville, Tennessee. He invites the officers to take a ride and transport them to somewhere dry, but they tell him they prefer to get wet. They return to the spot 40 minutes later and the airship is gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Swore They Saw It,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, May 9, 1897, p. 1; “Swear They Saw It,” Arkadelphia Ark. Southern Standard, May 14, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_221

Event 594 (C986B517)

Date: 5/6/1897
Description: Two policemen, Sumpter and McLenore, were riding northwest of Hot Springs, Arkansas when they saw a bright light in the sky. About seven km farther they saw the light again coming down to the ground. One km farther the horses refused to walk. Two men were seen carrying lights. The lawmen took their rifles, called the strangers, and were told that they crossed the country with a flying craft. The profile of the 20-meter long machine could be seen in the clearing. There was a woman with an parasol or umbrella nearby. It was raining, and the younger man was filling a large container with water. The elder man had a beard and suggested to the policemen that they fly with them "to a place where it does not rain." The same witness went back to the same spot 40 minutes later but found nothing there.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 186, citing Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1966
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2573

Event 595 (D3B35FCB)

Date: 5/9/1897
Location: Norwalk, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. Abe Parker of Norwalk, Ohio, sees an object with 10–12 bright white and red lights moving slowly over the town for about 10 minutes. Other witnesses report hearing music coming from it. An unnamed young witness, who follows the object out of town for about one mile after it passes over Main Street, says the shadow cast by the object is round.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “That Airship Again,” Cleveland Ohio Plain Dealer, May 11, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_222

Event 596 (E78A723B)

Date: 5/11/1897
Location: Sandusky, Ohio
Description: 10:00 a.m. John E. Hopley is one of a small group of people in Sandusky, Ohio, who watch a “fleecy white bulk” floating far away to the west. Through binoculars the object looks like a white bird with long black wings. Hopley guesses that it is 1–2 miles high, 20 miles away, and 60–80 feet long.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship: John E. Hopley Sees This Modern Invention,” Bucyrus Ohio Evening Telegraph, May 11, 1897, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_223

Event 597 (98B16679)

Date: 7/4/1897
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Description: 7:45 p.m. Hundreds of witnesses in Lexington, Kentucky, see a lighted object silhouetted against a storm cloud in the southwest moving to the north at 500 feet altitude. When it nears the city, the light goes out and it disappears after passing over the western part of the city.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship or Its Twin Brother Passes over Lexington,” Lexington Ky. Morning Herald, July 5, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_224

Event 598 (0D0AAB71)

Date: 7/10/1897
Time: 02:50
Location: RIVERS INLET, BC
Description: 2 observer(s). Luminous 'pear' rises slow. Strong light. Unaffected by wind.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_204

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "65", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "RIVERS INLET,BC:2 OBS:LUMn.'PEAR' RISES SLOW:STRONG LITE:UNAFFECTED BY WIND", LatLong: "51.677780 -127.250006", LatLongDMS: "51:40:40 N 127:15:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 599 (B30AEFFC)

Date: 7/12/1897
Time: 02:00
Location: KAMLOOPS, BC
Description: Several observer(s). Fireball rises / hill. Moves side-side. Beams light shoot out. Going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_205

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "120", Elev: "346", HatchDesc: "KAMLOOPS,BC:SVRL OBS:FBL RISES/HILL:MOVES SIDE-SIDE:BEAMS LITE SHOOT OUT:>>SW", LatLong: "50.766669 -120.250006", LatLongDMS: "50:46:00 N 120:15:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 600 (F32D7FFD)

Date: 7/29/1897
Location: Whitemouth, Manitoba
Description: Sunset. Farmer Andrew Henderson sees a large, unlighted, oblong object with a suspended car and a huge sail drifting to the northeast over his farm three miles from Whitemouth, Manitoba. He estimates it is only a half-mile away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Could It Be Andree?” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, July 31, 1897, p. 1; “Big Balloon Story,” Winnipeg Manitoba Free Press, August 2, 1897, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_225

Event 601 (4662899D)

Date: 8/1/1897
Time: 02:00
Location: COLDSTREAM, BC
Description: 3 observer(s). Night light rises / Mt. Skirt. Goes going quickly northwest over railroad/railway station against wind.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_206

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "416", HatchDesc: "COLDSTREAM,BC:3 OBS:NLT RISES/Mt SKIRT:GOES>>NW OVR RR STATION AGAINST WIND:", LatLong: "50.266669 -119.200006", LatLongDMS: "50:16:00 N 119:12:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "3"

Event 602 (43DF1A86)

Date: 8/11/1897
Time: ~18:00
Location: ROSSLAND, BC
Description: Several observer(s). Luminous fireball hovers / red mountain / 15 minute(s). Flashes color(s). Circles. Shoots going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_207

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", Elev: "1138", HatchDesc: "ROSSLAND,BC:SVRL OBS:LUM.FBL HVRS/RED Mtn/15min:FLASHES CLRS:CIRCLES:SHOOTS>>S", LatLong: "49.066669 -118.816672", LatLongDMS: "49:04:00 N 118:49:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 603 (5778C43D)

Date: 8/11/1897
Description: At around 6:00 p.m. in Rossland, British Columbia, Canada a luminous red fireball hovered for 15 minutes over a nearby mountain. It flashed colors, circled, then shot off to the south.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 207, citing Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4854

Event 604 (F9F48017)

Date: 8/16/1897
Time: 00:40
Location: HERON BAY, ON
Description: 2 observer(s) and more. Great airship follows train as it turns going north inland. Lights and beams.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_208

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "60", Elev: "229", HatchDesc: "HERON BAY,ON:2 OBS+:Gt.AIRSHIP FOLOS TRAIN AS IT TURNS >N INLAND:LITES+BEAMS", LatLong: "48.650002 -86.283337", LatLongDMS: "48:39:00 N 86:17:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 605 (91C7F8AC)

Date: 8/16/1897
Description: On this night at 12:40 a.m. a giant airship followed a train as it rounded a bend in the tracks around Heron Bay, Ontario, Canada and then flew off inland to the north >N inland. It had body lights and light beams.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 208, citing Brad Steiger
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5069

Event 606 (B9315225)

Date: 8/26/1897
Locations: Asheville, North Carolina; Grove Street
Description: 6:45 p.m. An airship with an attached car is seen moving steadily southwest above Asheville, North Carolina, by Dr. Willard P. Whittington and two other men who are standing on Grove Street. It is about one mile in altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Maybe It Was Andree on His Return?” Charlotte N.C. Observer, August 27, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_226

Event 607 (A88A4E9B)

Date: 8/28/1897
Location: Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Description: 3:00 a.m. Luther Myers hears dogs barking outside his home in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. When he looks through the window, he sees a rapidly moving airship with a light on each end. It has a propeller and rotates as it moves forward.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Our Closeby Neighbors,” Chambersburg Pa, Valley Spirit, September 1, 1897, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_227

Event 608 (A1EF8CB3)

Date: 9/7/1897
Location: Ellsworth (between Sherman and Denison), Texas
Description: 2:00 p.m. V. H. Hollingsworth and his family in Ellsworth between Sherman and Denison, Texas, see an unusual object approaching from the east. It has a fan-like wheel on front and fin-like projections on the side.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Air Ship,” Marshall Tex. Evening Messenger, September 9, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_228

Event 609 (2ABB100C)

Date: 9/17/1897
Location: ANTSIFEROVA, SIBERIA
Description: Several observer(s). Round object flies going northwest. Seen / 5 min. No further details. / r84p33.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_209

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ANTSIFEROVA,SIBERIA:SVRL OBS:RND OBJ FLIES >NW:SEEN/5 min:NFD:/r84p33", LatLong: "50.483336 155.816674", LatLongDMS: "50:29:00 N 155:49:00 E", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SIB", Strangeness: "4"

Event 610 (25389E39)

Date: 9/17/1897
Description: In the far eastern reaches of Siberia several people witnessed a round UFO flying toward the northwest. It was seen for five minutes in Antsiferova, Russia.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue # 204; FSR, January-February 1969, p. 27; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 214
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6037

Event 611 (4FF7132C)

Date: 11/2/1897
Location: Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Description: 12:45 p.m. Engineer Charles W. West sees a balloon of unusual size passing southwest above Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. It looks like an inclined cylinder with rounded ends and has a car suspended from it. After 20 minutes it passes out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saw the Man Who Saw the Ship,” Boston Daily Globe, November 5, 1897, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_229

Event 612 (63924758)

Date: 11/19/1897
Locations: Kellogg, Iowa; Colfax, Iowa
Description: 11:00 p.m. A telegraph operator in Kellogg, Iowa, sees a bright, bluish light moving rapidly to the southwest. He notifies the operator at Colfax, Iowa, and people in the depot there also see it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “See the Airship,” Chicago Ill. Chronicle, November 20, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_230

Event 613 (6C4D9A8A)

Date: 12/5/1897
Locations: Northern Minnesota; Deerwood
Description: Early morning. Engineer John J. Hussey and fireman John Henderson of the Great Northern Railroad in northern Minnesota see a “large, white long light which seemed surrounded by some dark objects” near Deerwood. Other employees of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific railways also view the light
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Was It an Air-Ship,” Saint Paul Minn. Globe, December 7, 1897, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_231

Year: 1898 (Back to Top)

Event 614 (6ECB4893)

Date: 1898
Locations: Surrey; London; southern England
Description: English author H. G. Wells publishes The War of the Worlds, one of the earliest stories to portray a conflict between humans and an extraterrestrial race. The novel is the first-person narrative of both an unnamed protagonist in Surrey and his younger brother in London as southern England is invaded by Martians.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “The War of the Worlds”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_232

Event 615 (2E431E12)

Date: 1/2/1898
Time: 20:30
Location: ROMONT, SWZL
Description: Fireball changes color(s) over Gros-Mont. Maneuvers all directions / high altitude. Going [to] behind mountains.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_210

Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "ROMONT,SWZL:FBL CHANGES CLRS OVR GROS-MONT:MNVRS ALL DIRs/HI alt:> BHND MTNS", LatLong: "46.700002 6.916667", LatLongDMS: "46:42:00 N 06:55:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "FRB", Strangeness: "5"

Event 616 (4CBF411E)

Date: 1/3/1898
Time: 18:30
Location: VANNES, FR
Description: Cmdnt Georget / (seen thru) telescope. 2 slow-low meteors going north / 6 minute(s). 1 / oscillate/oscillation maneuvers. / r3p04.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOEDEC, Jean-Francois: Les OVNI EN BRETAGNE, Anatomie d'un Phenomene. 1978 Editions Fernand Lanore, Paris. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_211

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "6", HatchDesc: "VANNES,FR:Cmdnt GEORGET/TSCOPE:2 SLOW-LOW METEORS >N/6min:1/OSC MNVRS:/r3p04", LatLong: "47.700002 -2.766667", LatLongDMS: "47:42:00 N 02:46:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Morbihan", Strangeness: "4"

Event 617 (8420F0D6)

Date: 1/10/1898
Location: Rome, Georgia
Description: 9:00 p.m. Residents of Rome, Georgia, watch a blue light “attached to some dark and indistinguishable object” as it flies from the northwest to the east.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Star-Gazing in Rome,” Atlanta Ga. Constitution, January 11, 1898, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_233

Event 618 (CD42869B)

Date: 2/4/1898
Location: Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany
Description: Mid-day. The postmaster of Greifswald, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state, Germany, and 11 other persons see an object crossing the Sun’s disk. They watch the object approach the Sun for 15 minutes, take one hour to pass, and stay visible for another hour until clouds obscure it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Martin Brendel, “Ueber ein 1898 Febr. 4 in Greifswald beobachtetes Phänomen,” Astronomische Nachrichten 145 1898: 333–334
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_234

Event 619 (89EBEA96)

Date: 4/25/1898
Time: ~21:00
Location: BELGRADE OBSERVER(S), SERBIA
Description: Astronomer. Meteor stops still / 6 min. Then continues. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_212

Extra Data: Country: "Former Yugoslavia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "6", HatchDesc: "BELGRADE OBS,SERBIA:ASTRONOMER:METEOR STOPS STILL/6 MIN:THEN CONTINUES:NFD", LatLong: "44.800002 20.533334", LatLongDMS: "44:48:00 N 20:32:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SRB", Strangeness: "5"

Event 620 (7E803BE3)

Date: 4/25/1898
Description: Astronomer Michailovitch at the Belgrade Observatory in Serbia, Yugoslavia sighted a fireball at 9:32 p.m. that stopped still in the sky and hovered in one spot for six minutes before continuing on.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 17; Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 196
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2288

Event 621 (1944A863)

Date: 5/2/1898
Location: Pearson building in downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania
Description: Dusk. Bystanders in front of the Pearson building in downtown New Castle, Pennsylvania, notice a bright arc light moving in from the southwest just below the clouds and remaining visible for 5 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Mysterious Light,” New Castle Pa. News, May 4, 1898, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_235

Event 622 (828E2773)

Date: 6/1/1898
Location: Emporia, Kansas
Description: 8:30 p.m. Harry McCandliss is riding in the country near Emporia, Kansas, when he sees a cigar-shaped object flying toward the northwest at about 300 feet. It is suspended from a balloon and is peppered with electrical lights. At one point the lights go out then reappear. A searchlight beam in the front skitters in different directions. It ascends to 600 feet and is lost to view.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [News note], Emporia Kan. Gazette, June 2, 1898, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_236

Event 623 (F235634B)

Date: 6/29/1898
Time: 01:00
Location: FR ASTRONOMER LIBERT
Description: Very bright slow white meteorite. 60 second(s) from Hercules to Ursa Major.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_213

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "FR ASTR LIBERT:V BRITE SLOW WHT METEORITE:60 SEC FRM HERCULES TO URSA MAJOR", LatLong: "48.850002 2.316667", LatLongDMS: "48:51:00 N 02:19:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "4"

Event 624 (A722F92E)

Date: 7/4/1898
Time: 07:10
Location: PARIS
Description: Astronomer Libert. Gold-yellow bolide seen / 12 minute(s) and 44 second(s). Speeds up at the end!
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_214

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "13", HatchDesc: "PARIS:ASTRONOMER LIBERT:GOLD-YLW BOLIDE SEEN/12min+44sec:SPEEDS UP at the END!", LatLong: "48.850002 2.350000", LatLongDMS: "48:51:00 N 02:21:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"

Event 625 (36292BEC)

Date: 10/4/1898
Locations: Italy; Greenville; Garland; Blossom, Texas; Sherman
Description: 9:00 p.m. A brilliant object passes over Italy, Greenville, Garland, and Blossom, Texas. Initially moving in an easterly direction, it seems to change course and shoot upwards then burst, throwing out three distinct objects, one red, the other white, and the last one blue. The red and blue lights die out, but the white one continue a few seconds before it too bursts, emitting a shower of sparks. Blossom merchant Dick Moore says the light is so glaring that he thinks his “house was falling on him.” About 2.5 miles north of Sherman, 12-year-old George Campbell is riding with his father when they see the fireball descending, apparently coming as close as 3 feet above the ground before moving upward; they can hear a buzzing noise and think the object is about 10 feet in diameter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Aerial Phenomena in Texas,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, October 5, 1898; “The Meteor,” Dallas Morning News, October 7, 1898; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 May 2012: 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_237

Event 626 (97FFA31F)

Date: 10/4/1898
Alternate date: 10/3/1898
Location: Fort Washita, Oklahoma
Description: Night. At Fort Washita, Oklahoma, Mrs. William Peveto possibly [Mary Peveto](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6822240/mary-e-peveto) watches a fireball probably the same one as October 4 descend. A few minutes later, distracted by the meteor, she is standing in her kitchen when a “female ghost” appears and chats with her for a few minutes, saying that if she would follow her, she will lead her to a fortune. Peveto becomes terrified, and the entity flees through a closed door. The entity visits her again on other nights, again talking about treasure in the basement. They continue until February 1899 when they occur nightly. At one point the ghost claims to have been murdered years ago in Fort Washita and shows her strangle marks around her neck. Poltergeist phenomena tables moving occur and a male ghost also talks to her. Peveto becomes ill and apparently moves away from the place.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ghosts at Old Fort Washita,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, October 20, 1898; “Old Fort Washita Ghosts: Mrs. Peveto Contributes Another Uncanny Chapter to the Record,” Dallas Tex. Morning News, March 26, 1899; Theo Paijmans, “High Strangeness in Texas,” Fortean Times 286 May 2012: 30–31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_238

Event 627 (8C5628EB)

Date: 10/27/1898
Time: 18:00
Location: WICKLOW CO, IRELAND
Description: Extra 3 / 4 moon going [to] over mountain / 5 minute(s). Also seen / Wales / r156#18p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_215

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "200", HatchDesc: "WICKLOW co,IRELAND:EXTRA 3/4 MOON >OVR Mtn/5min::also seen/Wales/r156#18p17", LatLong: "53.000003 -6.166667", LatLongDMS: "53:00:00 N 06:10:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1899 (Back to Top)

Event 628 (6976439F)

Date: 1899
Locations: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Europe; Mars
Description: Serbian-American inventor Nikola Tesla is working in his laboratory near Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he observes unusual signals from his receiver that he speculates are communications from another planet. He mentions them in a letter to a reporter in December 1899 and to the Red Cross Society in December 1900. Reporters treat it as a sensational story and jump to the conclusion Tesla is hearing signals from Mars. In 1901, Tesla writes that it has not been immediately apparent to him that he is hearing “intelligently controlled signals” and that the signals could have come from Mars, Venus, or other planets. It is possible that he is intercepting Guglielmo Marconi’s European experiments in July 1899—Marconi may have transmitted the letter S dot dot dot in a naval demonstration, the same three impulses that Tesla hinted at hearing in Colorado—or signals from another experimenter in wireless transmission. Brian Dunning of the Skeptoid podcast attributes Tesla’s signals to pulsars, which are not identified until 1968.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nikola Tesla, “Talking with the Planets,” Colliers Weekly 26 February 9, 1901: 4–5; Margaret Cheney, Tesla: Man Out of Time, Dorset Press, 1989 ed., pp. 111–113; Daniel Blair Stewart, Tesla: The Modern Sorcerer, Frog, 1999, p. 372; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 July 2005: 11; W. Bernard Carlson, Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age, Princeton University, 2013, p. 315; Brian Dunning, “The Black Knight Satellite,” Skeptoid podcast, no. 365, June 4, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_239

Event 629 (9AC3FF85)

Date: 1899
Locations: Switzerland; Basel, Switzerland
Description: Swiss psychologist Carl Jung investigates his 15-year-old cousin, Hélène Preiswerk “S.W.”, in Basel, Switzerland, who claims to be a spiritualist medium. Her trances frequently involve journeys to other planets. She claims that Martians have flying machines, and they irrigate the land with canals and artificial lakes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1986: 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_240

Event 630 (F47704A7)

Date: Mid 1/1899
Location: McMahan, Texas
Description: Late night. People returning from a dance near McMahan, Texas, see a group of stars in formation, moving in one direction. A few miles further east, hunters camping on a hilltop see the full outline of an airship with headlights and windows.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Dallas Tex. News, January 25, 1899; Clark III 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_241

Event 631 (87C6D46D)

Date: 1/26/1899
Location: McAlester, Oklahoma
Description: 11:00 p.m. People outside the opera house in McAlester, Oklahoma, watch an airship “like a railway car suspended from a large balloon-like arrangement” pass overhead. It shines a bright searchlight along the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [News note], Garfield County Okla. Democrat, February 9, 1899, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_242

Event 632 (F4951370)

Date: 4/27/1899
Time: 16:00
Location: BAYE, FR
Description: 2 kids and many. 10M red ball crosses N51 / steady trajectory going southwest. Lights area red.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_216

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BAYE,FR:2 KIDS+MANY:10M RED BALL CROSSES N51/STEADY TRAJ >SW:LITES AREA RED", LatLong: "48.872225 3.761111", LatLongDMS: "48:52:20 N 03:45:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Marne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 633 (E249D06B)

Date: 4/27/1899
Description: At four o'clock in the afternoon a 10 meter in diameter red ball crossed highway N51 near the town of Baye, Marne department, France on a steady trajectory. It illuminated the surrounding area a red color, and went off to the southwest. There were many witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 129
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2360

Event 634 (8B2FA9A1)

Date: 5/6/1899
Time: 20:30
Location: PARIS
Description: Astronomer Libert. Very very slow bolide. Shape = tadpole-head. Fast waving tail.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_217

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "PARIS:ASTRONOMER LIBERT:VV SLO BOLIDE:SHAPE=TADPOLE-HEAD:FAST WAVING TAIL.", LatLong: "48.833336 2.350000", LatLongDMS: "48:50:00 N 02:21:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"

Event 635 (A8BB4035)

Date: 6/1/1899
Locations: Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai, Russia; Lake Khanka
Description: Late evening. Observers in Kamen-Rybolov, Primorsky Krai, Russia, see a blue sphere about 28 inches in diameter flying silently from south to north near the steamboat Kazak Ussuriyskiy moored on Lake Khanka. It is seen for 20 minutes, then it returns later in the evening flying north to south at greater speed, disappearing 11 minutes later.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stonehill and Mantle, Russia’s USO Secrets, Flying Disk, 2020, p. 113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_243

Event 636 (065336C8)

Date: 7/4/1899
Location: Spokane, Washington
Description: 4:30 p.m. A mystery balloon floats across the sky in Spokane, Washington, from southwest to northeast. Before it disappears, it ascends so high that “nothing but a small black ball far up in the heavens could be discerned.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Who Owns the Big Balloon?” Spokane Wash. Chronicle, July 5, 1899, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_244

Event 637 (02F5DE34)

Date: 9/1899
Time: 13:00?
Location: SOUTHWEST / NOGALES, MX
Description: Silver bowl follows Posse. 1 sees small humanoid (or Grey) / silver suit. Posse leader vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 227)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_218

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", ABD: Human or animal abduction, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "6", Duration: "120", Elev: "1300", HatchDesc: "SW/NOGALES,MX:SLVR BOWL FOLOS POSSE:1 SEES OID/SLVR SUIT:POSSE LEADER VANISHES", LatLong: "30.750001 -111.750005", LatLongDMS: "30:45:00 N 111:45:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Sonora", Strangeness: "9"

Event 638 (1C87569D)

Date: 10/1899
Location: Fosston, Minnesota
Description: Midnight. Physician Malcom McKinnon is driving home to Fosston, Minnesota, in his carriage when a dazzling ball of white light crosses the road ahead about one-quarter of a mile away, lighting up the road like daylight. It resembles an electric arc lamp and moves slowly from north to southeast about 3 feet above the ground, throwing the field furrows into visible relief. As it passes closer, McKinnon sees that it is clearly “disk shaped, about the size of an umbrella.” It is in sight for 30 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Minneapolis Minnesota Journal, October 25, 1899; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 239–251
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_245

Year: 1900 (Back to Top)

Event 639 (BEB1183F)

Date: 1900
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
Description: Psychic medium Catherine-Elise Müller under the pseudonym “Hélène Smith” of Geneva, Switzerland, becomes famous with the publication of Des Indes à la Planete Mars From India to the Planet Mars by Théodore Flournoy , professor of psychology at the University of Geneva. The medium and the psychologist remain very close until 1900, when the book is first published, documenting her various series of somnambulatory trances in which she experiences a civilization on Mars and her former lives: the “Martian” cycle, “Ultramartian” cycle, “Hindu,” “Oriental,” and “royal” cycles. She writes out the Martian communications on paper and translates them into French, popularizing automatic writing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Society for Psychical Research, PSI Encyclopedia, “Hélène Smith”; Hilary Evans, “Martians of the 1890s,” IUR 11, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1986: 4–6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_246

Event 640 (669E747B)

Date: Summer 1900
Location: Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales
Description: Dusk. A 12-year-old girl is walking back to her farm from Cadwst, Denbighshire, Wales, when a large disc- shaped object about 14 feet in diameter silently passes above her and over a nearby meadow.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_247

Event 641 (EF123941)

Date: Mid Summer 1900
Location: Reedsburg, Wisconsin
Description: 3:00 a.m. Perrian A. McGilvra, 14, is returning on horseback from a dance near Reedsburg, Wisconsin, when his horse begins acting up. He sees a large, dark, dirigible-shaped object passing over a grove of poplar trees. The trees bend like they are in a strong windstorm, but he notices no wind. The object flies over his head with a whooshing sound. The horse remains frightened even after the object leaves.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_248

Event 642 (4DE9EEDE)

Date: 12/1900
Locations: Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona; Mars
Description: Percival Lowell at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, records a shaft of light that projects from a “well-known geographical point” on Mars for 70 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Science Notes,” Scientific American 84 1901: 179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_249

Year: 1901 (Back to Top)

Event 643 (7F55EA54)

Date: 3/7/1901
Time: 13:00?
Location: PINOS ALTOS, NM
Description: Man photographs airship. 3 cylinders lashed together with 1 suspended beneath.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_219

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "2133", HatchDesc: "PINOS ALTOS,NM:MAN FOTOS AIRSHIP:3 CYLS LASHED TOGETHER W/1 SUSPENDED BENEATH", LatLong: "32.866668 -108.222227", LatLongDMS: "32:52:00 N 108:13:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 644 (5C36B00B)

Date: 3/7/1901
Description: On this afternoon in 1901, newspaper accounts report a flying machine was photographed in Silver City, New Mexico. The photograph "has the appearance of three cigar-shaped objects, which seemed to be lashed together, the one hanging below the other two." Unfortunately, the photograph was later lost.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark & William Corliss, UFO Calendar 1999
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1360

Event 645 (9DE4F4C0)

Date: Summer 1901
Location: Bournbrook, West Midlands, England
Description: Day. A 10-year-old boy is walking home to Bournbrook, West Midlands, England, through a path behind his family’s garden when he comes upon a large box-shaped device with a small, centrally placed turret. The only opening is a door, through which two small men less than 4 feet tall in military uniforms but no insignia, each wearing an odd-looking cap with a wire sticking up on both sides, step out. One stays by the door, but the other walks toward the boy and waves him away. The beings go back in the craft, a bright flash surrounds it, and it shoots into the air with a whooshing sound.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 261; Jenny Randles and Philip Barnet, “Humanoids Encountered in 1901?” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 March 1979: 28–29; “UFO Britannia: Part 1, The Early Years,” Above Top Secret, December 19, 2012; Jenny Randles, “The ‘Wes’ Effect 1: The Hut That Flew,” Fortean Times 309 Christmas 2014: 27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_250

Event 646 (6EBA3413)

Date: 8/1901 (approximate)
Time: 14:00
Location: BOURNEBROOK, ENG
Description: Boy. Small domed box / backyard. 4' small humanoids (or Greys) exit and re-enter and fly. / r80p12.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_220

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey"

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", Elev: "116", HatchDesc: "BOURNEBROOK,ENG:BOY:SML DOMED BOX/BACKYARD:4'OIDS EXIT+RE-ENTER+FLY:/r80p12", LatLong: "52.438891 -1.938889", LatLongDMS: "52:26:20 N 01:56:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "9"

Event 647 (FF63F111)

Date: 10/25/1901
Location: MOON
Description: Astronomer Bolton. Anomalous luminous lines cross crater Marius. No explanation.
Type: sighting
Reference: PINDEVIC, Thierry: Le NOEUD GORDIEN ou la FANTASTIQUE HISTOIRE des OVNI. Editions France-Empire, Paris 1979. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_221

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "MOON:ASTRONOMER BOLTON:ANOMALOUS LUMN.LINES CROSS CRATER MARIUS:no explanation", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CMR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 648 (94C8936B)

Date: 12/21/1901
Time: 00:50
Location: HAWORTH AND KEIGHLEY AND SHIPLEY, YORKS
Description: 2 cops. Green 'tip-cat' lights area. Maneuvers / 15 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 308)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_222

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "303", HatchDesc: "HAWORTH+KEIGHLEY+SHIPLEY,YORKs:2 COPS:GRN 'TIP-CAT' LITES AREA:MNVRS/15min", LatLong: "53.833336 -1.933333", LatLongDMS: "53:50:00 N 01:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1902 (Back to Top)

Event 649 (91DCFD41)

Date: 2/9/1902
Time: 19:40
Location: LE HAVRE, FR
Description: Astronomer Libert. Meteor turns and loops and curves / 12 second(s). Tail lasts 90 second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_223

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "Le HAVRE,FR:ASTRONOMER LIBERT:METEOR TURNS+LOOPS+CURVES/12sec:TAIL LASTS 90sec", LatLong: "49.516669 0.100000", LatLongDMS: "49:31:00 N 00:06:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"

Event 650 (CC3B746C)

Date: 2/9/1902
Description: At 7:40 p.m. a "meteor" turned, looped, and curved for 12 seconds over Paris, France. Its tail lasted 90 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 5
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_765

Event 651 (D31A0D9B)

Date: 5/13/1902
Location: Austin, Texas
Description: 8:00 p.m. A blue-colored fireball appears over Austin, Texas, and ascends into the sky until it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Austin Tex. Daily Tribune, May 14, 1902; Clark III 1168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_251

Event 652 (ABF40DF1)

Date: 9/2/1902
Time: ~07:00
Location: OFF LOWESTOFT, ENGL
Description: Girl and several observer(s). Large grey silent cylinder/cigar-shape with fins going north offshore.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_224

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off LOWESTOFT,ENGL:GIRL+SVRL OBS:LRG GRY SLNT CGR W/FINS >N OFFSHORE:", LatLong: "52.466669 1.750000", LatLongDMS: "52:28:00 N 01:45:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 653 (99CEA853)

Date: 10/28/1902
Time: 03:10
Location: 1200MI.S / GHANA, AFR
Description: British ship. 100M metallic cylinder/cylindrical object lights / ends. Sinks slowly. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v18#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_225

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "1200mi.S/GHANA,AFR:BRIT.SHIP:100M MTLC CYL LITES/ENDS:SINKS SLOWLY:/FSR v18#3", LatLong: "-5.516667 -4.700000", LatLongDMS: "05:31:00 S 04:42:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "AFR", Strangeness: "8"

Event 654 (F80BABF3)

Date: 10/28/1902
Location: At sea, Gulf of Guinea
Description: 3:05 a.m. Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_50

Event 655 (F0F8496D)

Date: 10/28/1902
Time: 0305
Location: Gulf of Guinea
Description: Three persons aboard the "Fort Salisbury," including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing lights in the sea ahead. It was observed sinking slowly. Estimated length: 200 m.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 641; Anatomy 20 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_32

Event 656 (68C44DD5)

Date: 10/28/1902
Description: Three men aboard the "Fort Salisbury" steaming in the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean, including Second Officer A. H. Raymer, saw a huge, dark object bearing two lights in the sea ahead. It was observed submerging slowly. Its estimated length was 150-200 meters.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark, FSR, May-June 1972, p. 18; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 32; Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort, p. 642
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7213

Event 657 (784B1C58)

Date: 11/20/1902
Location: ADELAIDE OBSERVATORY, SOUTH AUS
Description: Astronomer. Fireball lasts / 4 minute(s)! / Charles Fort / IURv9#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 190)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_226

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", HatchDesc: "ADELAIDE OBSERVATORY,S.AUS:ASTRONOMER:FBL LASTS/4min!:/C.FORT/IURv9#3", LatLong: "-34.866668 139.183340", LatLongDMS: "34:52:00 S 139:11:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Australia", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1903 (Back to Top)

Event 658 (6A1B3490)

Date: 1/27/1903
Location: COMMUGNY TO/FROM/BETWEEN COPPET, SWZ
Description: 2 observer(s). Area lit. Bluish circular fireball going [to] straight going down. / B. Mancusi.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: Commugny, Vaud, SWZ. Le Bouquet: 07 FEB 1973. clipping Bruno Mancusi, Switzerland.
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_227

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "COMMUGNY<>COPPET,SWZ:2 OBS:AREA LIT:BLUISH CIRC.FBL >STRAIGHT↓:/B.MANCUSI", LatLong: "46.316669 6.183334", LatLongDMS: "46:19:00 N 06:11:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vaud", Strangeness: "4"

Event 659 (95626203)

Date: 3/17/1903
Location: Helmer, IN
Description: During the early evening a family watched a brilliantly glowing cigar-shaped object hovering at treetop level. It had two rows of evenly spaced windows. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_51

Event 660 (2C105D2F)

Date: 3/17/1903
Location: Helmer, Indiana
Description: Mid-evening. Madge Brosius, 12, and her father Charles see a “huge object like a gigantic ripe cucumber with slightly tapered ends” over the family farm in Helmer, Indiana. Its inside is illuminated, and it has 8 windows in two rows of four each. Her father estimates it is 100 feet long. It begins moving away from him as he moves toward it, zigzagging like a child’s balloon losing air.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Madge Brosius Allyn, “The Flying Cucumber of 1903,” Fate 24, no. 3 March 1971: 45–47; Clark III 1162
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_252

Event 661 (527B6D29)

Date: 3/17/1903
Description: On this evening a father and daughter observed a glowing 100 foot long cigar shaped object with two rows of four equally spaced windows. It was hovering just behind some trees over a farm in Helmer, Indiana. As the man ran toward the object it moved away, and zigzagged across the sky at great speed, accelerating away toward the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 14; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 5, citing Jerome Clark
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1533

Event 662 (73EBE821)

Date: 9/29/1903
End date: 10/3/1903
Locations: Van Meter, Iowa; Mather & Gregg’s building
Description: An implement dealer named U. G. Griffith is on his way home in Van Meter, Iowa. As he approaches, he notices a strange point of light like a spotlight emanating from the top of the Mather & Gregg’s building. He approaches cautiously, but the light sails across the street. He tells others about the experience, and over the next few days several people report a half-human, half-animal entity with large bat-like wings. The townsfolk chase the creature toa local mine shaft, down which it disappears, never to be seen again.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1216–1218; Craig Woolheater, “The Van Meter Visitor,” Cryptomundo, May 9, 2013; Chad Lewis, Noah Voss, and Kevin Lee Nelson, The Van Meter Visitor, On the Road, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_253

Event 663 (CF314743)

Date: 12/17/1903
Location: 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Description: Inventors Orville and Wilbur Wright make the first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier- than-air aircraft with the Wright Flyer 4 miles south of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Wright Flyer”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_254

Event 664 (AB8CC7EE)

Date: 12/24/1903
Description: A priest named Ivanku Petrovszky saw a glistening ball of light illuminate the countryside in Szuhabaranka, Hungary. The object landed and shadowy figures returned to it. A man who had gone to a well at the same time was never seen again. The case of his disappearance was closed ten years later but still unsolved.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 255, citing the UFO Report Annual 1983, p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8583

Year: 1904 (Back to Top)

Event 665 (C04C5FB3)

Date: 1904
Location: Rolling Prairie, IN
Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_52

Event 666 (4ED4EC1E)

Date: 1904
Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana
Description: Tom Darby, with his brother and mother, saw two whitish-blue objects about 400 m away, from a point situated 3 km north of Rolling Prairie. The objects hovered 2 or 3 m above ground, flew toward a barn, came closer to each other, and were hidden from view by a hill.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 164 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_33

Event 667 (7FAAB9C4)

Date: 1904
Locations: Dixboro, Michigan; Dixboro United Methodist Church
Description: Late afternoon. Wirt M. Covert, 17, and Arthur B. Eldert are returning on horseback from a grocery store in Dixboro, Michigan, when they see a large object in the air moving west behind the steeple of the Dixboro United Methodist Church. He compares its shape to the Confederate ironclad Virginia and it has a thick mast sticking up from its center and orange light shining through some windows. Suddenly it rises at about a 60° angle over the hills, tipping its mast back, and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_255

Event 668 (F63A77E9)

Date: 2/28/1904
Time: 06:10
Location: USS SUPPLY AT SEA
Description: 3 observer(s). 3 bright ovoids quickly going down [to] below clouds. Rise away going quickly southeast. / IURv9#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_228

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "USS SUPPLY at SEA:3 OBS:3 BRITE OVOIDS ↓↓ BELOW CLOUDS:RISE AWAY >>SE:/IURv9#3", LatLong: "35.966668 -128.600006", LatLongDMS: "35:58:00 N 128:36:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "4"

Event 669 (ADB14641)

Date: 2/28/1904
Location: San Francisco (North Pacific off), CA
Description: Formation of three objects sighted by U.S.S. Supply in North Pacific off San Francisco. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, II) (These were apparently fireball meteors. See report and analysis by Brad Sparks.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 19040228
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_53

Event 670 (D1382DF2)

Date: 2/28/1904
Locations: Guam; San Francisco, California; 300 miles west-southwest of San Francisco
Description: Mid-evening. The steamer USS Supply is transporting the ill Governor of Guam, William Elbridge Sewell, from Guam to San Francisco, California. About 300 miles west-southwest of San Francisco, commanding Lt. Frank Herman Schofield observes three objects “beneath the clouds, their color a rather bright red.” As they approach the ship they appear to soar, passing above the broken clouds. After rising above the clouds, they appear to “be moving directly away from the earth. The largest had an apparent area of about six suns. It was egg-shaped, the larger end forward. The second was about twice the size of the sun, and the third, about the size of the sun. Their near approach to the surface appeared to be most remarkable.” The objects are in sight for over two minutes by three people. Barry Greenwood thinks they are meteors, but Bruce Maccabee is not so sure.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank H. Schofield, “Remarkable Meteors,” Monthly Weather Review 32 March 1904: 115; Bruce Maccabee, “Even More Remarkable,” IUR 9, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1984: 14–15; Bruce Maccabee, “Meteors? Even More Remarkable,” 2005; NICAP, “Three Red Objects Sighted from USS Supply”; Barry Greenwood, “The USS Supply Sighting of 1904,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 September 1998: 2–6; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 329–351
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_256

Event 671 (90CDC3B7)

Date: 2/28/1904
Description: At 35.97 N 128.60 W in the Pacific Ocean between Honolulu and San Francisco at 6:10 a.m., three large dull red bodies flew in from the northwest over the U.S.S. Navy ship Supply. The largest one was egg or pear shaped, and six times the apparent size of the sun. The objects flew in an eschelon formation, flying very fast below the clouds. They gained altitude, turned, and travelled off to the west-northwest while climbing above broken clouds. There were at least three sailors as witnesses, including the main witness named Schofield. The duration of the event was more than two minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: New York Herald, March 9, 1904; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 6; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 36; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 90; Bruce Maccabee, International UFO Reporter, September 1984, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1170

Event 672 (6C5A3775)

Date: 6/1904
Location: Rolling Prairie, Indiana
Description: 10:00 p.m. When Tony Darby goes outside to the well on his farm 5 miles north of Rolling Prairie, Indiana, he notices two round, orange-colored, silent objects hovering 5–6 feet from the ground near the barn. He estimates they are the size of wagon wheels. One of the objects is 2 feet behind and to the left of the other. Running back to the house, he calls for his mother and brother, and all three walk toward the objects, which move away slightly then stop when the witnesses stop. Soon the objects move steadily away to the northeast, still maintaining their relative positions, at about the speed of a man walking. They pause briefly in a small hollow, then continue over a small hill and out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp. 91–92
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_257

Year: 1905 (Back to Top)

Event 673 (12CA954E)

Date: 1905
Locations: Yreka, California; Mount Shasta, California
Description: Frederick Spencer Oliver’s book A Dweller on Two Planets is published posthumously. It is a narrative channeled by Oliver in Yreka, California, through automatic writing and mental dictations by a spirit calling itself Phylos the Tibetan, an Atlantean who reveals his story from 1883 to 1886. The book deals with deep esoteric subjects including karma and reincarnation and describes Phylos’s final incarnation in 19th century America where his Atlantean karma plays itself out. In that incarnation as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the Theo-Christic Adepts he travels to Venus in an astral body while his physical form remains at a temple inside Mount Shasta, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “A Dweller on Two Planets”; Frederick Spencer Oliver, A Dweller on Two Planets , Baumgardt, 1905
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_258

Event 674 (9CC0F409)

Date: 3/22/1905 (approximate)
Location: NEAR BARMOUTH, WALES
Description: Night lights follow car / 1 mile. Turn up side road. Return as car continues.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_229

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "271", HatchDesc: "nr BARMOUTH,WALES:NLTS FOLO CAR/1mi:TURN UP SIDE ROAD:RETURN AS CAR CONTINUES", LatLong: "52.722225 -4.050000", LatLongDMS: "52:43:20 N 04:03:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 675 (DC54957E)

Date: 3/23/1905
Description: On or about this night a small red sphere of light, accompanied by two white lights which danced about it, paced in front of an automobile being driven by a man named Jones in Egyryn, Wales. There was also a female passenger in the car, also with the last name of Jones.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Roger Sandell, FSR, March-April 1972, p. 31, citing the Barmouth Advertiser, March 23, 1905
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1617

Event 676 (15439F60)

Date: 3/29/1905
Time: 22:00
Location: CARDIFF, WALES
Description: Large red luminous cylinder/cylindrical object or light beam hangs vertical and lights sky. / IFS#33.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_230

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "16", HatchDesc: "CARDIFF,WALES:LRG RED LUMN.CYL or LITE BEAM HANGS VERTICAL+LITES SKY:/IFS#33", LatLong: "51.500002 -3.300000", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 03:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 677 (8C311A7C)

Date: 3/29/1905
Description: A large luminous cylindrical object hung in the sky in a vertical orientation over Cardiff, Wales, U.K. on this day at 10:00 o'clock in the evening.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Computer Catalog, case 248
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1716

Event 678 (3F234EA1)

Date: 4/1/1905
Location: CHERBOURG, FR
Description: Glowing disk with corona seen over town 10 nights in succession.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_231

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "12", Duration: "176", HatchDesc: "CHERBOURG,FR:GLOWING DISK W/CORONA SEEN OVR TOWN 10 NITES IN SUCCESSION.", LatLong: "49.633336 -1.600000", LatLongDMS: "49:38:00 N 01:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "6"

Event 679 (291EFC12)

Date: 8/3/1905
Locations: Silsbee; El Centro; Imperial, California; Northeast
Description: 1:30 a.m. Farmer John A. Jackson is driving a herd of hogs from Silsbee a former settlement 6 miles southwest of El Centro to Imperial, California, when a bright light flashes on him from above. He is momentarily blinded, and the hogs start running away. Jackson sees it is a searchlight from an airship about 100 feet long and propelled by wings that move up and down. It has smaller lights along the sides. Jackson wakes up W. E. Wilsie, who lives nearby, and they watch it disappear to the northeast. Another farmer, A. J. Morey, also glimpses the airship.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Aerial Navigation in Imperial Valley,” Imperial Calif. Press, August 5, 1905, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_259

Event 680 (A925FA4A)

Date: 8/4/1905
Time: 01:30
Location: BRAWLEY AND IMPERIAL, CA
Description: Several separate observer(s). 21M airship with searchlight. Large wings! / r203p108.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_232

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "-36", HatchDesc: "BRAWLEY+IMPERIAL,CA:SVRL SEP.OBS:21M AIRSHIP W/SEARCHLITE:LRG WINGS!:/r203p108", LatLong: "32.983335 -115.527783", LatLongDMS: "32:59:00 N 115:31:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 681 (6E74851F)

Date: 9/2/1905
Location: LLANGOLLEN, NORTH WALES
Description: Intensely dark object flies / 2 miles altitude. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_233

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "423", HatchDesc: "LLANGOLLEN,N.WALES:INTENSELY DARK OBJ FLIES/2mi ALTITUDE:NFD", LatLong: "52.955558 -3.166667", LatLongDMS: "52:57:20 N 03:10:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "4"

Event 682 (FD5D40FD)

Date: 9/2/1905
Description: An intensely dark object flew over Llangollen, Gwynedd, Wales at an altitude over two miles.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Desmond Leslie, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 34
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5561

Event 683 (CEF29689)

Date: 9/6/1905
Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper published
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_21

Attributes: Einstein

Year: 1906 (Back to Top)

Event 684 (3861CCA9)

Date: 1906
Location: Mitchell, South Dakota
Description: Herbert Vern DeMott, 10, watches an object come down near his family’s water well in Mitchell, South Dakota. As he approaches it, a door rolls back and he is welcomed inside by two human-like occupants who are sitting inside on camp stools. They converse with him fluently, but he does not know where they come from. He sees a lever that apparently can cut off the earth’s “magnetism,” allowing the object to rise. The occupants take water from the farm’s horse trough to be “used in making electricity.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “DeMott Rock Study Crosses Continents,” Albany Oreg. Democrat-Herald, August 27, 1973, p. 11; Clark III 261; Patrick Gross, URECAT , July 22, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_260

Event 685 (F2A93F71)

Date: 1/1906?
Time: 22:00
Location: LA CELLE-SOUS-GOUZON, FR
Description: 10+'martians' stand / road. 1 flies overhead! / r30p45.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_234

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "LA CELLE-sous-GOUZON,FR:10+'MARTIANS' STAND/ROAD:1 FLIES OVHD!:/r30p45", LatLong: "46.216669 2.211111", LatLongDMS: "46:13:00 N 02:12:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Creuse", Strangeness: "8"

Event 686 (27A1BB61)

Date: 1/4/1906
Locations: Paia, Maui, Hawaii; Wailuku Mountains; Mount Haleakala
Description: Night. Martin Meyerson is on the beach at Paia, Maui, Hawaii, when he sees a green object with the shape and diameter of the full moon appear from behind the southern slopes of the Wailuku Mountains. It is so bright it illuminates the cane fields below, then travels like a “slow-pitched baseball” and disappears behind Mount Haleakala to the southeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_261

Event 687 (63D60303)

Date: 6/2/1906
Location: GULF OF OMAN
Description: Mr. Carnagie aboard ship. Spokes / light rotate / water near ship.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_235

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "GULF OF OMAN:Mr CARNAGIE ABOARD SHIP:SPOKES/LITE ROTATE/WATER NEAR SHIP", LatLong: "24.533335 58.366669", LatLongDMS: "24:32:00 N 58:22:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GOM", Strangeness: "6"

Event 688 (0BD4CE6E)

Date: 9/16/1906
Locations: Indianapolis, Indiana; Irvington
Description: Late afternoon. Hundreds of people in Indianapolis, Indiana, see a “cigar-shaped object” like an airship pass over the city. It is seen first in Irvington and then floats over the southern side of the business district where it is distinctly seen from downtown. Some estimate it to be 2,000 feet in the air; the watchman at the courthouse tower looks at it through binoculars but cannot see any detail. It disappears to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ship Founders in Air,” Indianapolis Star, September 17, 1906, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_262

Event 689 (21CF9E0C)

Date: 10/7/1906
Time: 17:00
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: Numerous observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape rises / southeast horizon. Sudden turn going quickly east and away. / Bullard'82.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_236

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:NMRS OBS:CGR RISES/SE HORIZON:SUDDEN TURN >>E+away:/Bullard'82", LatLong: "39.766669 -86.100004", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 86:06:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 690 (05ADDE89)

Date: 10/7/1906
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: 5:00 p.m. An airship again floats over the southeastern portion of Indianapolis, Indiana, and is seen by many as it turns northeast and disappears in the distance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ship Floats over City: Hundreds See It in Flight,” Indianapolis Star, October 8, 1906, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_263

Event 691 (2A9B1D30)

Date: 10/30/1906
Time: ~16:00
Location: 600M NORTHEAST / CAPE RACE, NFLD
Description: Crew / steamship St. Andrew. Fireballs zig-zag and descend into sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: SANDERSON, Ivan: INVISIBLE RESIDENTS; World Publishing HB 1970 & Avon Books PB 1973 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_237

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "600M NE/CAPE RACE,NFLD:CREW/SS St.ANDREW:FBLs ZIG-ZAG+DESCEND INTO SEA.", LatLong: "52.000002 -44.000002", LatLongDMS: "52:00:00 N 44:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NFL", Strangeness: "5"

Event 692 (1D1EE8D8)

Date: 11/1906
Location: 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma
Description: Dusk. Roy Russell and four other cotton-pickers are taking a brief respite from work 10 miles southeast of Anadarko, Oklahoma, when they see a fiery object shaped like a stovepipe. From an initial altitude of 60 feet, the object sinks down, comes toward them, and passes within 16 feet at eye level. Then it seems to flatten out and just blacks out. Another similar object follows and then several others. Russell watches them for 20 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Recalls Fiery 1906 U.F.O.,” Des Moines Iowa Tribune, May 4, 1966, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_264

Year: 1907 (Back to Top)

Event 693 (548576F8)

Date: 3/14/1907
Location: STRAITS / MALACCA
Description: Pacific and Orient Steamship Line steamship orient. 270M shafts / light / water near ship. Turn like spokes.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_238

Extra Data: Country: "Malaysia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "STRAITS/MALACCA:P&O SS ORIENT:270M SHAFTS/LITE/WATER nr SHIP:TURN LIKE SPOKES", LatLong: "1.750000 102.333338", LatLongDMS: "01:45:00 N 102:20:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MLC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 694 (62C76432)

Date: 4/20/1907
End date: 4/26/1907
Locations: Nashville; central Tennessee
Description: The Nashville American prints some tall tales about encounters with occupants of a balloon who land briefly in various places usually near a spring around central Tennessee. The witnesses include a farmer named W. A. Smith, Walter Stephenson, Herman Schubert, Asa Hickerson, and A. Mollycoddle. The aeronauts are dressed strangely, play music, and speak a foreign language.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nashville Tenn. Sunday American, April 21–23, 28, 1907; “Here’s a Weird Tale,” Cincinnati Ohio Enquirer, April 25, 1907, p. 6; Theo Paijmans, “The Tennessee Aeronaut Flap of 1907,” Fortean Times 313 May 2014: 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_265

Event 695 (9DC332BF)

Date: Summer 1907
Location: Vilppula [now Mänttä-Vilppula], Finland
Description: While playing along the shore of a lake near Vilppula [now Mänttä-Vilppula], Finland, a group of boys see a light come from over the water and settle on the beach nearby. A door opens, and human-like beings emerge, sending the youths running. Searchers who come to the site later find traces and footprints.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 261; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1900-1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_266

Event 696 (69B3B5FD)

Date: 7/2/1907
Location: BURLINGTON, VT
Description: 1 observer. Flying torpedo shoots flames / all directions. Stops. Going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOUGARD, Michel: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES; SOBEPS Group, Belgium 1976. HB (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_239

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "339", HatchDesc: "BURLINGTON,VT:1 OBS:FLYING TORPEDO SHOOTS FLAMES/ALL DIRECTIONS:STOPS:>>S", LatLong: "44.483335 -73.200003", LatLongDMS: "44:29:00 N 73:12:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "6"

Event 697 (19284D4C)

Date: 7/2/1907
Locations: Burlington, Vermont; Church and College streets; College Street
Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Bishop John Stephen Michaud is talking with Vermont ex-governor Urban A. Woodbury at the corner of Church and College streets in Burlington, Vermont, when they hear a loud explosion and see a torpedo-shaped object about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter suspended in the air about 300 feet away. It is dark, with several tongues of flame issuing from it at various points, as if its covering is ruptured. It slowly begins to move to the southeast. The explosion has either knocked down or stunned a horse in College Street. A strong downpour of rain ensues shortly afterward. Although described as a “possible case of ball lightning,” the object appears more likely to have been an exploded balloon that someone has attached fireworks to in preparation for a Fourth of July celebration.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: William H. Alexander, “A Possible Case of Ball Lightning,” Monthly Weather Review 35 July 1907: 310–311; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 354–372, reprinted in “Revisiting the Bishop’s Torpedo,” Fortean Times 387 Christmas 2019: 44–51
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_267

Event 698 (13259649)

Date: 7/2/1907
Description: Burlington, Vermont. The Bishop John Michaud was standing on a Burlington street corner around 2 in the afternoon, engaged in a conversation with Ex-Governor Woodbury and Mr. A.A. Buell, when without warning they were startled by what sounded like a nearby explosion. Looking eastward along College Street they observed a torpedo-shaped object, some 300 feet away, hovering in the air about 50 feet over the tops of the buildings. It was estimated to be about 6 feet long and 8 inches in diameter. It was dark, with red flames being emitted from spots on the surface resembling unburnished copper. The object began to move slowly toward the south. As it moved the surface seemed to be rupturing in places, and through these ruptures came the intense red flames.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, The Complete Books of Charles Fort. New York: Dover, 1974, pg. 292.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3783

Event 699 (217013E8)

Date: 7/7/1907
Location: Phoenix, Arizona
Description: 6:40 p.m. W. E. Thomas is watching a vivid sunset in Phoenix, Arizona, when he sees a “blue disk floating in the heavens apparently close to the sun.” It passes in front of the sun, completely covering it. Other discs appear until there are seven of them. His wife also sees the objects, which are constantly in motion, changing directions and sometimes moving in a straight-line formation. The disks are visible for another hour until sunset, when they are last seen as blue blotches.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Phoenix Man Sees Blue Stars,” Tucson Ariz. Citizen, July 11, 1907, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_268

Year: 1908 (Back to Top)

Event 700 (46647B03)

Date: 1908
Location: At sea, DE
Description: The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_54

Event 701 (B325551B)

Date: 1908
Location: Coast of Delaware
Description: The English ship "Mohican," piloted by Capt. Urghart, was going to Philadelphia when it was surrounded by a thick, luminous cloud which "magnetized" everything on board. The compass was observed to swing wildly. When seamen tried to move some chains on the bridge, they found that they were glued to the metal floor. Suddenly the cloud rose and was seen above the sea for some time.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 197 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_34

Event 702 (0891DDDC)

Date: 2/4/1908
Time: 19:00
Location: KENT, WA
Description: Trainload / observer(s). Red cylinder/cigar-shape north going quickly south over drawbridge. Night lights / several days. / r203p109.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_240

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "120", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "KENT,WA:TRAINLOAD/OBS:RED CGR N>>S OVR DRAWBRIDGE:NLTS/SVRL DAYS:/r203p109", LatLong: "47.383336 -122.233339", LatLongDMS: "47:23:00 N 122:14:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 703 (EBD22362)

Date: 3/30/1908
Location: Queens Park, Chester, England
Description: 10:15 p.m. F. W. Longbottom in Queens Park, Chester, England, is photographing the Whirlpool Galaxy NGC 5194 in Canes Venacti with a 12.25-inch reflector. When the plate is developed, it shows an unknown nebulous object some 25 minutes of arc northeast of the galaxy. He does not see the object when he examines the same spot again on April 6.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: F. W. Longbottom, “Comet or ———?” The Observatory 31 1908: 215–216
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_269

Event 704 (0E2E3B1C)

Date: 5/1908
Location: Great River, Long Island, New York
Description: Late evening. Helen C. Peterson sees a string of lighted beads in the sky over Great River, Long Island, New York. The first light stops and as the others reach it, they seem to bump into it. It grows a little bigger, appearing like a large star. Suddenly it begins to spin like a pinwheel, but without sparks. The motion stops and what looks like a very bright star takes off at great speed toward the southeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1168–1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_270

Event 705 (100BC945)

Date: 5/1/1908
Location: VITTEL, FR
Description: Moon-size luminous disk with glowing corona. Grows slanting black band.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_241

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "VITTEL,FR:MOONSIZE LUM.DISK W/GLOWING CORONA:GROWS SLANTING BLK BAND", LatLong: "48.200002 5.966667", LatLongDMS: "48:12:00 N 05:58:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vosges", Strangeness: "6"

Event 706 (23A57164)

Date: Summer 1908
Location: Denmark
Description: Repeated sightings of unidentified airships, sometimes flying against the wind, take place in Denmark. They usually have wings and searchlights; on one occasion, an antenna is seen jutting from the front end. Other reports are of oddly shaped clouds from which a searchlight emanates, sweeping the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Willy Wegner, “The Mystery ‘Airship’ over Denmark in 1908,” The UFO Register 8, no. 1 November 1977: 3–8; Clark III 1163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_272

Event 707 (6168957F)

Date: 6/27/1908
Time: 22:30
Location: AALBORG, DK AND AREA
Description: Several separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with antennas. Bright beams straight going down [to] and going up. Going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_242

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "240", HatchDesc: "AALBORG,DK + AREA:SVRL SEP.OBS:CGR W/ANTENNAS:BRITE BEAMS STRAIGHT ↓+↑:>>NW", LatLong: "57.000003 10.000000", LatLongDMS: "57:00:00 N 10:00:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"

Event 708 (215DF3EB)

Date: 6/30/1908
Time: 07:20
Location: TUNGUSKA NORTH / VANAVARA, RUSSIA
Description: Huge blast flattens area. Meteor going quickly northwest? No crater found.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 65)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_243

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "15", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "TUNGUSKA N/VANAVARA,RUS:HUGE BLAST FLATTENS AREA:METEOR>>NW?:NO CRATER FOUND", LatLong: "61.177781 102.250005", LatLongDMS: "61:10:40 N 102:15:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EVE", Strangeness: "6"

Event 709 (53A457C0)

Date: 6/30/1908
Location: Podkamennaia Tunguska, Russia
Description: Tunguska event. Mainstream scientists generally hold that it was a comet or asteroid (in actuality a comet could not have survived to such low altitude, but a stony asteroid might have, but the radioactivity remains unexplained). (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_55

Event 710 (D113F250)

Date: 6/30/1908
Location: Podkamennaia Toungouska, USSR
Description: Unexplained explosion in the taiga, equivalent to a thermonuclear blast, sometimes interpreted as the crash of an interstellar vehicle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 18; Challenge 99 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_35

Event 711 (497D0B8C)

Date: 6/30/1908
Locations: Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate [now Krasnoyarsk Krai], Russia; Lake Baikal; Eastern Siberian taiga
Description: 7:14 a.m. A large explosion takes place near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate [now Krasnoyarsk Krai], Russia. Evenki natives and Russian settlers in the hills northwest of Lake Baikal observe a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the sun, moving across the sky. About 10 minutes later, there is a flash and a sound similar to artillery fire. Eyewitnesses closer to the explosion report that the source of the sound moves from the east to the north of them. The sounds are accompanied by a shock wave that knocks people off their feet and breaks windows hundreds of kilometers away. The explosion over the sparsely populated eastern Siberian taiga flattens 770 square miles of forest and possibly causes up to three human casualties. The event is generally attributed to the air burst of a meteoroid. It is classified as an impact event, even though no impact crater has been found. The object disintegrates at an altitude of 3–6 miles rather than hitting the surface of the Earth. The area is so remote that the site is not inspected until 1927 by a team led by Russian mineralogist Leonid Kulik, who finds a zone about 5 miles across where trees are scorched and devoid of branches but still standing upright. More exotic explanations for the event include a black hole impact, antimatter, a UFO crash as recently as 2004 by Russian ufologist Yuri Labvin, a nuclear explosion, and an inadvertent experiment by Nikola Tesla.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Tunguska event”; Hobana and Weverbergh 10–30; John Baxter and Thomas Atkins, The Fire Came By: The Riddle of the Great Siberian Explosion , Doubleday, 1976; Surendra Verma, The Mystery of the Tunguska Fireball, Thriplow, 2005; Vladimir Rubtsov, The Tunguska Mystery, Springer, 2009; Phil Plait, “Aliens Saved Tunguska!” Bad Astronomy, May 29, 2009; Mark Peplow, “Rock Samples Suggest Meteor Caused Tunguska Blast,” Nature, June 10, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_271

Event 712 (8130FD80)

Date: 6/30/1908
Description: On this morning at 7:17 a.m. the Tunguska, Russia explosion occurred in a remote region of the Siberian taiga, which brightened the pre-dawn sky as far away as London and had the equivalent energy of a 15 to 40-megaton nuclear explosion. Detailed scientific analysis shows that the object that caused the devastation exploded above an altitude of three miles and left an area of destruction for more than 850 square miles, in a heart-shaped pattern. It is widely thought to have been either an asteroid or comet impact, but it has sometimes been interpreted as the crash or mid-air explosion of an alien spaceship. Several anomalies still remain to be explained if the explosion was caused by a celestial body entering Earth's atmosphere. For example, why was radioactive Cesium 137 found in 1908 tree rings from the area.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: William R. Corliss, Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature, p. 281; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 63
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3739

Event 713 (727C1398)

Date: 7/1908?
Time: 13:00
Location: SOFIA, BULGARIA
Description: All present. Basketball-size and shape going [to] overhead very slow / great altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 192)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_244

Extra Data: Country: "Bulgaria", Credibility: "14", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "SOFIA,BULGARIA:all present:BASKETBALL-SIZE+SHAPE >OVHD VSLOW/GREAT ALT", LatLong: "42.716669 23.333334", LatLongDMS: "42:43:00 N 23:20:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sofia", Strangeness: "4"

Event 714 (93AE5D19)

Date: 7/11/1908
Location: GOBILLI RIVER, RUSSIA
Description: Explorer. Small humanoid (or Grey) hides / bushes. Observer(s) throws rock. Small humanoid (or Grey) flies to river.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_245

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "4", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GOBILLI Rvr,RUSS:EXPLORER:OID HIDES/BUSHES:OBS THROWS ROCK:OID FLIES TO RIVER", LatLong: "49.266669 138.050007", LatLongDMS: "49:16:00 N 138:03:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SIB", Strangeness: "8"

Event 715 (620979B1)

Date: 7/25/1908
Locations: Forestville neighborhood of Bristol, Connecticut; Lake Compounce; Massachusetts
Description: About 6:00 p.m. A “large airship sailing very high” is seen passing from north to south over the Forestville neighborhood of Bristol, Connecticut. It seems to be an elongated gas bag under which a framework with a propeller is suspended. After “maneuvering” a while, it stops and circles over Lake Compounce then changes course toward the southwest. An East Bristol man named Wilson later claims it was a pig-shaped balloon he had sent up for his daughter’s birthday party, but “balloon” sightings continue in Massachusetts through December.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Large Airship Seen Sailing over East Part of Bristol, Ct.,” Boston Herald, July 26, 1908, p. 16; “The Lake Compounce Airship,” Willimantic Conn. Daily Chronicle, July 29, 1908, p. 26; Clark III 1163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_273

Event 716 (2CEC2134)

Date: 7/26/1908
Description: A special agent force in the Department of Justice, forerunner of the FBI, is created by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte. Its first chief is Stanley Finch. Attorney General George W. Wickersham renames the force the Bureau of Investigation in March 1909.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline , March 31, 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_274

Event 717 (E46B19F9)

Date: 10/1908
Locations: North Sea; Lowestoft, Suffolk, England; Netherlands
Description: Skipper J. H. Stockman of the smack Superb is fishing in the North Sea 35 miles out of Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, when he sees a large “star” rise out of the water and approach his ship. He signals it with a red flare, and to his surprise he is immediately answered with a red flare above him. He then shows a white flare and receives a blue flare in response. The object appears sausage-shaped and carries a single light. It disappears in the direction of the Netherlands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 20, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Clark III 1163; David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 1999; Patrick Gross, URECAT , August 17, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_275

Event 718 (547F914D)

Date: 10/1/1908
End date: 5/26/1927
Description: The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual handcrafting.
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_22

Year: 1909 (Back to Top)

Event 719 (33ED0B0D)

Date: 1909
Location: East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany
Description: Night. Frederick G. Hehr sees a bright white light executing a “curious dance” over a village one mile away in East Frisia, Lower Saxony, Germany. A minute later the light suddenly streaks in his direction, coming within 300 feet as it passes by at 60 feet altitude. Three seconds later it is gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 5 July 1951: 95–96; Clark III 1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_276

Event 720 (D80C6408)

Date: 2/25/1909
Time: 22:00?
Location: ANDERLUIS, BELGIUM
Description: Teacher. 25M sphere glides down road. Turns into small path..
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_246

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ANDERLUIS,BELGIUM:TEACHER:25M SPHERE GLIDES DOWN ROAD:TURNS INTO SMALL PATH..", LatLong: "50.400002 4.266667", LatLongDMS: "50:24:00 N 04:16:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "7"

Event 721 (6832F030)

Date: 2/25/1909
Description: On this night in Anderlues, Belgium a teacher sighted a 25-meter in diameter sphere glide down a road, and then turn and go down a small path.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: SOBEPS, case 163
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1093

Event 722 (D9039B06)

Date: 3/4/1909
Time: 20:30
Location: LAMBOURNE, BERKSHIRE
Description: Large torpedo-dirigible going quickly west / 60M altitude. 3 booms / regular intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_247

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "LAMBOURNE,BERKSHIRE:LRG TORPEDO-DIRIGIBLE >>W/60M alt:3 BOOMS/REGLR.INTERVALS", LatLong: "51.500002 -1.533333", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 01:32:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 723 (58818D8C)

Date: 3/4/1909
Location: St. Michael’s Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England
Description: 8:25 p.m. Charles Maberly, an organist at St. Michael’s Church in Lambourne, Berkshire, England, is returning home from choir practice when he sees a bright searchlight attached to a torpedo-shaped dirigible heading west at 200 feet altitude. He walks for about 50 yards watching it. As it passes out of sight, he hears three explosions at regular intervals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Evening News, May 18, 1909; Carl Grove, “The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1970: 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_277

Event 724 (46E866FA)

Date: 3/23/1909
Time: 05:10
Location: PETERBOROUGH, ENGL
Description: Separate observers. Silent cylinder/cigar-shape searches railway / strong light. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v6#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_248

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "PETERBOROUGH,ENGL:SEP.OBSs:SLNT CGR SEARCHES RAILWAY/STRONG LITE:/FSR v6#4", LatLong: "52.583336 -0.233333", LatLongDMS: "52:35:00 N 00:14:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 725 (1C6648E6)

Date: 3/23/1909
Locations: Peterborough, England; Cromwell Road
Description: 5:15 a.m. Police Constable James Kettle of Peterborough, England, sees a powerful light about 1,200 feet in the air above Cromwell Road making an engine-like buzz. The light is on a dark, fast-moving oblong object. It is in view for about 3 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Peterborough Advertiser, March 27, 1909; “Aerial Mystery,” London Standard, May 17, 1909, p. 7; Carl Grove, “The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1970: 9; David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 1999
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_278

Event 726 (4A24610F)

Date: 3/23/1909
Description: An unidentified object with a very strong searchlight flew over Peterborough, England at 5:10 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 20; Flying Saucer Review, July-August 1960, p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1618

Event 727 (4881BBC2)

Date: 4/24/1909
Time: 09:20
Location: FIRENZE, ITL
Description: Numerous observer(s). White ovoid passes. 2 men dressed / white inside. / La Nazione.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_249

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "FIRENZE,ITL:NMRS OBS:WHT OVOID PASSES:2 MEN dressed/white inside:/La Nazione", LatLong: "43.766669 11.250001", LatLongDMS: "43:46:00 N 11:15:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Firenze", Strangeness: "7"

Event 728 (A97AA3A6)

Date: 4/24/1909
Time: 20:00
Location: IPSWITCH, SUFFOLK
Description: Crowd / observer(s). Silent balloon with very strong light. Flies into wind.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_250

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "IPSWITCH,SUFFOLK:CROWD/OBS:SLNT BALLOON W/VSTRONG LITE:FLIES INTO WIND", LatLong: "52.050002 1.150000", LatLongDMS: "52:03:00 N 01:09:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 729 (82C811BE)

Date: 4/24/1909
Description: At 9:20 in the morning a white ovoid shaped flying object was seen in the skies over Florence, Italy. Two men dressed in white suits were seen inside.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 254
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2270

Event 730 (9A90A84D)

Date: 5/2/1909
Time: 19:30
Location: LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK
Description: Several observer(s). Egg-shape quickly passes clouds going quickly west. / r221p22.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_251

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LOWESTOFT,SUFFOLK:SVRL OBS:EGG-SHAPE QUICKLY PASSES CLOUDS >>W:/r221p22", LatLong: "52.466669 1.700000", LatLongDMS: "52:28:00 N 01:42:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 731 (B96E5F6F)

Date: 5/9/1909
Time: 23:00
Location: STAMFORD, LINCS
Description: 1 observer. Large ovoid / city park flashes searchlight 9X. Going quickly [to] Peterborough.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_252

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "STAMFORD,LINCs:1 OBS:LRG OVOID/CITY PARK FLASHES SEARCHLITE 9X:>>PETERBOROUGH", LatLong: "52.650003 0.477778", LatLongDMS: "52:39:00 N 00:28:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 732 (9E0E1F53)

Date: 5/9/1909
Time: 23:20
Location: SHOEBURYNESS, ESSEX
Description: Silent torpedo going west / Southend and hovers / 4 minute(s). 2 strong beams. Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v16#6.
Type: sighting
Reference: TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 99)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_253

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "6", HatchDesc: "SHOEBURYNESS,ESSEX:SLNT TORPEDO >W/SOUTHEND+HVRS/4min:2 STRONG BEAMS:FSR v16#6", LatLong: "51.550002 0.800000", LatLongDMS: "51:33:00 N 00:48:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 733 (F80367F5)

Date: 5/9/1909
Locations: Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England; London
Description: 11:20 p.m. Miss H. M. Boville notices from her bedroom window at Southend-on-Sea, Essex, England, a “large dark object looming out of the sky” and traveling slowly from the east. After a few seconds it remains nearly stationary for a few minutes in front of her window, and she sees the outline of a torpedo-shaped airship about 1,300 feet in altitude. It rises higher then travels swiftly to the west toward London. It shows two powerful searchlights at each end very briefly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Evening News, May 15, 1909; Carl Grove, “The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1970: 10; David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 1999
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_279

Event 734 (C86C27E3)

Date: 5/9/1909
Description: At 11:00 p.m. a Mr. Cole sighted a large ovoid object over the city park in Stamford, Lincolnshire, England. It flashed its searchlight nine times, and then flew off quickly toward Peterborough. At 11:20 p.m. a witness named Boville in Shoeburyness, Essex, England said a torpedo-shaped airship flew silently to the west toward Southend-on-Sea. It hovered for four minutes, and emitted two strong beams.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2672

Event 735 (70422AFB)

Date: 5/12/1909
Time: 21:50
Location: TERRINGTON, NORFOLK
Description: 1 observer. Cylinder/cigar-shape west searchlight. Rattling motor sound. Going north. Back / 2230hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_254

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "40", HatchDesc: "TERRINGTON,NORFOLK:1 OBS:CGR W SEARCHLITE:RATTLING MOTOR SOUND:>N:BACK/2230hrs", LatLong: "52.766669 0.283333", LatLongDMS: "52:46:00 N 00:17:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 736 (FAD8B924)

Date: 5/12/1909
Description: A cigar-shaped airship with a searchlight was seen flying over Terrington Marsh, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. It made a rattling motor sound and flew off to the north. It was back again at 10:30 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2752

Event 737 (9621CD37)

Date: 5/13/1909
Time: 09:00?
Location: KELMARSH, NORTHANTS
Description: 3 / car. Fast ovoid east / lights front and rear. Engine sound. Going [to] east-northeast / 20mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_255

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KELMARSH,NORTHANTs:3/CAR:FAST OVOID E/LITES FRONT+REAR:ENGINE SOUND:>ENE/20mph", LatLong: "52.405558 0.916667", LatLongDMS: "52:24:20 N 00:55:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 738 (5609BBDC)

Date: 5/13/1909
Time: 21:50
Location: SANDRINGHAM HOUSE, ENG
Description: Several separate observer(s). Black 30M blimp with beams going down. Motor noise. / r65.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_256

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "SANDRINGHAM HOUSE,ENG:SVRL SEP.OBS:BLK 30M BLIMP W/BEAMS ↓:MOTOR NOISE:/r65", LatLong: "52.833336 0.516667", LatLongDMS: "52:50:00 N 00:31:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 739 (5A4DEAE1)

Date: 5/13/1909
Location: King's Lynn, UK
Description: 9:45 PM. A cigar-shaped object illuminated the terrain brightly in King's Lynn. Looking up, he saw the airship-like object speed overhead, two men visible in an undercarriage, and disappear in the distance within a few minutes. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_56

Event 740 (CCC95073)

Date: 5/13/1909
Locations: Kelmarsh; Northampton; England; Peterborough
Description: Night. C. W. Allen and two other men are motoring through Kelmarsh, Northampton, England, when they hear a loud explosion in the air followed by the rumbling of an engine. Allen sees an oblong dark shape, perhaps 100 feet long, with lights in front and behind moving at an altitude of 500–600 feet. They dimly perceive some men on a platform below it. It passes out of sight at 20 mph northeast toward Peterborough.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 13, 1909; Carl Grove, “The Airship Wave of 1909: A Preliminary Survey,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1970: 11; David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 1999
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_280

Event 741 (A8D8FC49)

Date: 5/13/1909
Location: King's Lynn, Norfolk, England
Description: 9:45 p.m. Fred Harrison of King’s Lynn, Norfolk, England, sees a “long, dark object” moving swiftly overhead just above treetop level. It carries a searchlight that illuminates the road, farm buildings, trees, and everything it touches.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express, May 14, 1909, p. 1; David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 1999
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_281

Event 742 (1B6F677B)

Date: 5/13/1909
Description: There were several independent witnesses of a brightly illuminated, 80 to 100 foot long, dark airship, flying over King's Lynn, Norfolk, England at 9:45 p.m. Two men were visible in some sort of carriage underneath the object. The object travelled fast, made a whirring sound, and had a searchlight that lit up the road below it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2788

Event 743 (8B389562)

Date: 5/14/1909
Location: OFF BLYTHE, ENGL
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape aims 5 beams / ships bridge. Does same to different ship. Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v17#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 99)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_257

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "off BLYTHE,ENGL:CGR AIMS 5 BEAMS/SHIPS BRIDGE:DOES SAME TO DIFF.SHIP:FSR v17#1", LatLong: "55.183336 -1.450000", LatLongDMS: "55:11:00 N 01:27:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 744 (821854EB)

Date: 5/14/1909
Description: On this night a witness named Egenes reported that a cigar-shaped object directed five beams of light at a ship's bridge off the coast of Blyth, Northumberland, England. It then shot away a mile to another ship, and did the same thing again.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2823

Event 745 (0E4143BF)

Date: 5/15/1909
Time: 01:00
Location: CASNEWYDD, SOUTH WALES
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers still. 2 lights scan Newport Bridge / 10 minute(s). Flies away.
Type: sighting
Reference: TRENCH, Brinsley Le Poer: MYSTERIOUS VISITORS - the UFO Story; Stein & Day, NY 1971-73 (Index 99)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_258

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "CASNEWYDD,S.WALES:CGR HVRS STILL:2 LITES SCAN NEWPORT BRIDGE/10min:FLIES AWAY", LatLong: "51.594447 -2.950000", LatLongDMS: "51:35:40 N 02:57:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 746 (83B5E94E)

Date: 5/15/1909
Time: 23:30
Location: LOWESTOFT, ENGL
Description: 1 observer. Motor sound. Bottle shape going [to] overhead. Driver / front. Flash. / r221p24.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_259

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "LOWESTOFT,ENGL:1 OBS:MOTOR SOUND:BOTTLE SHAPE>OVHD:DRIVER/FRONT:FLASH:/r221p24", LatLong: "52.466669 1.683333", LatLongDMS: "52:28:00 N 01:41:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 747 (04E5CDDE)

Date: 5/15/1909
Description: Shortly after 1:00 a.m. two witnesses watched as a cigar-shaped object hovered still over Casnewydd, Wales. Two lights from the object scanned the Newport Bridge for 10 minutes, then it flew away. At 11:30 p.m. an observer on the shore in Lowestoft, Norfolk, England heard a motor sound, then watched a bottle-shaped object fly overhead. There was a pilot sitting in the front.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 17; Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 99; (2) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 265, citing FSR, January 1971
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2848

Event 748 (27642A58)

Date: 5/16/1909
Time: 01:00
Location: SOUTHWEST / MONMOUTH, WALES
Description: 5 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers going up [to] going down [to] and turns. Perfect control. Lights / ends. / r221p24.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_260

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "12", Elev: "70", HatchDesc: "SW/MONMOUTH,WALES:5 OBS:CGR MNVRS↑↓+TURNS:PERFECT CONTROL:LITES/ENDS:/r221p24", LatLong: "51.783336 -2.766667", LatLongDMS: "51:47:00 N 02:46:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 749 (24075741)

Date: 5/16/1909
Time: 19:50
Location: BROME, SUFFOLK
Description: Government inspector. Cylinder/cigar-shape flies into strong wind going quickly NNE toward(s) Lowestoft.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_261

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BROME,SUFFOLK:GOVT INSPECTOR:CGR FLIES INTO STRONG WIND >>NNE TWRD LOWESTOFT", LatLong: "52.350002 1.133333", LatLongDMS: "52:21:00 N 01:08:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 750 (A5F3A312)

Date: 5/16/1909
Locations: Belle Vue Park; Yarmouth Road; Lowestoft; Suffolk; England
Description: 1:30 a.m. A Mrs. Wigg, who lives near Belle Vue Park on Yarmouth Road, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, wakes up to an engine-like sound. She looks out her window and sees a long, dark, bottle-shaped object pass by at a low altitude. She thinks she can see a man in front, steering the craft. Other people in Lowestoft hear engine sounds and flashes of light around the same time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 18–19, 1909; Norfolk News, May 19, 1909, p. 13; David Clarke, “Scareships over Britain: The Airship Wave of 1909,” Fortean Studies 6 1999
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_282

Event 751 (F75A0560)

Date: 5/16/1909
Description: At 1:00 a.m. five people driving in the mountains from Monmouth to Treginach, Gwent, Wales spotted a cigar-shaped object in the sky that maneuvered up and down and with turns. It seemed under perfect control, and had lights on the ends. At 7:45 p.m. a government inspector named Hervey in Broome, Suffolk, England reported that a cigar-shaped airship flew into a strong wind to the north-northeast toward Lowestoft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2882

Event 752 (1300A928)

Date: 5/17/1909
Time: 22:00
Location: BELFAST, NORTH IREL
Description: Many observer(s). Silent cylinder/cigar-shape with light flashes several times. Rises high and shoots going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_262

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "BELFAST,N.IREL:MANY OBS:SLNT CGR W/LITE FLASHES SVRL TIMES:RISES HIGH+SHOOTS>E", LatLong: "54.583336 -5.933334", LatLongDMS: "54:35:00 N 05:56:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Northern Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 753 (8A28A2F5)

Date: 5/17/1909
Locations: Great Yarmouth, England; Lambeth North
Description: The subject of mystery airships is brought up in a debate in the House of Commons. Arthur Fell, MP for Great Yarmouth, England, had asked Secretary of State for War Richard Haldane if he could give the number of dirigibles, either built or in progress of being built, in Germany. Haldane replies that 7 dirigible airships have been built and another 5 are under construction. Horatio Myer , MP for Lambeth North, follows up by asking Haldane: “Will the honourable gentleman, in any report he may circulate, tell us about a certain dirigible supposed to be hovering about our coast?” The question is greeted with laughter and Haldane does not reply.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Neil R. Storey, Zeppelin Blitz: The German Air Raids on Great Britain during the First World War, History Press, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_283

Event 754 (61653DF9)

Date: 5/17/1909
Description: At 10:00 p.m. many witnesses in Belfast, Northern Ireland observed a silent cigar-shaped flying object with a light that flashed several times. It rose higher and shot away to the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November-December 1970, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2913

Event 755 (38179367)

Date: 5/18/1909
Time: 23:00
Location: CAERPHILLY, WALES
Description: 2 men by landed cylinder/cigar-shape. Gibberish. Board and zigzag upward. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v17#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_263

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, CVS: Conversation/communication, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "12", Elev: "87", HatchDesc: "CAERPHILLY,WALES:2 MEN by LANDED CGR:GIBBERISH:BOARD+ZIGZAG UPWARD:/FSR v17#1", LatLong: "51.555558 -3.255556", LatLongDMS: "51:33:20 N 03:15:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "8"

Event 756 (18F2336C)

Date: 5/18/1909
Location: Caerphilly, Wales, UK
Description: 11:00 p.m. Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_58

Event 757 (6F352AE2)

Date: 5/18/1909
Time: 2300
Location: Caerphilly, Wales
Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tubelike machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 198; Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_36

Event 758 (42010464)

Date: 5/18/1909
Locations: Senghenydd; Cardiff, South Wales; Caerphilly Mountain
Description: 11:00 p.m. Charles Lethbridge part-time dock worker and Punch-and-Judy showman is traveling on a “spring cart” from Senghenydd on his way home to Cardiff, South Wales. At the summit of Caerphilly Mountain he sees a long, tube-shaped object sitting on the grass by the roadside, with two men busily working on something. They are wearing heavy fur coats and fur caps that fit tightly over the heads. Lethbridge proceeds to about 60 feet of them when they notice him and start jumping up and jabbering in a foreign language. They quickly pick up something from the ground, then jump into a little carriage suspended from the object with wheels at the bottom, which rises into the air in a zig-zag fashion. When it clears the telegraph wires, two electric lights shine out and the craft heads toward the southeast. Lethbridge returns to the site with a newspaper reporter and they find signs of trampling in the grass for about 45 feet. They also pick up a small red French military label, letterhead from a London stockbroker, many newspaper clippings with references to airships or the German army, and a tin box with paste for polishing metal.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Mystery,” The Guardian London, May 20, 1909, p. 7; “Mystery of the Air,” London Daily Express, May 20, 1909, p. 1; Nick Redfern, “UFOs over Wales: A 1909 Wave,” Mysterious Universe, May 23, 2016; Brett Holman, “What the Showman Saw,” Airminded, November 17, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_284

Event 759 (20B1B831)

Date: 5/18/1909
Description: Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road around 11 p.m. near the mountains in Caerphilly, Wales when he saw on the grass a large tube-shaped machine. Aboard the craft were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. There was a depression in the grass at the site after the object had flown off.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187; Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 99
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2949

Event 760 (905597C4)

Date: 5/19/1909
Time: 01:10
Location: CARDIFF, WALES
Description: Several / docks. Cylinder/cigar-shape curves up and down coast. Whirring sound. Fast. 2 lights.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_264

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "CARDIFF,WALES:SVRL/DOCKS:CGR CURVES UP+DOWN COAST:WHIRRING SOUND:FAST:2 LITES", LatLong: "51.483336 -3.283333", LatLongDMS: "51:29:00 N 03:17:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 761 (CC008747)

Date: 5/19/1909
Time: 20:00
Location: SOUTH NEWPORT, WALES
Description: 3+observer(s) / (seen thru) telescope. 12M object with 3 men aboard hovers and maneuvers. 'Flaps about'.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_265

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "S.NEWPORT,WALES:3+OBS/TSCOPE:12M OBJ W/3 MEN ABOARD HVRS+MNVRS:'FLAPS ABOUT'", LatLong: "51.566669 -3.000000", LatLongDMS: "51:34:00 N 03:00:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "8"

Event 762 (45DDB3A4)

Date: 5/19/1909
Time: 21:30
Location: PONTYPOOL, WALES
Description: Several observer(s). Graceful cylinder/cigar-shape with quivering light makes 90-turn going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_266

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "129", HatchDesc: "PONTYPOOL,WALES:SVRL OBS:GRACEFUL CGR W/QUIVERING LITE MAKES 90-TURN >N", LatLong: "51.700002 -3.016667", LatLongDMS: "51:42:00 N 03:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 763 (1360FA1A)

Date: 5/19/1909
Time: 23:30
Location: NORWICH AND THURSTON, ENGL
Description: Vibrant bright light searches ground. Framework seen. High and fast. Sounds?
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_267

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "NORWICH+THURSTON,ENGL:VBRITE LITE SEARCHES GND:FRAMEWORK SEEN:HI+FAST:SOUNDS?", LatLong: "52.650003 1.316667", LatLongDMS: "52:39:00 N 01:19:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 764 (3AF5ACFE)

Date: 5/19/1909
Time: 23:30
Location: WROXHAM, NORFOLK
Description: Globe / light going [to] overhead. Motorcycle headlight malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). OK after. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v17#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: RODEGHIER, Mark/CUFOS: UFO REPORTS INVOLVING VEHICLE INTERFERENCE; CUFOS 1979. Available as CUFOS UFO Archive #1 CD-ROM. http://www.cufos.org/Pubform.pdf (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_268

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "WROXHAM,NORFOLK:GLOBE/LITE >OVHD:MOTORCYCLE HEADLITE EMES:OK AFTER:/FSR v17#1", LatLong: "52.705558 1.405556", LatLongDMS: "52:42:20 N 01:24:20 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 765 (8F801B31)

Date: 5/19/1909
Locations: King's Junction; Queen Alexandra Dock; Cardiff, Wales; Bristol Channel; Weston-super-Mare
Description: 1:15 a.m. Robert Westlake, railroad signalman at King’s Junction in the Queen Alexandra Dock at Cardiff, Wales, sees a cigar-shaped object flying swiftly at perhaps 2,600 feet and making a whizzing noise. It has two lights and is moving eastward. Some dock workers who are loading the SS Arndale also see the object for “a minute or two.” It passes over the Bristol Channel towards Weston-super-Mare. Aeronaut Percival G. Spencer says that he recently sold several of his “man-lifting” 25-foot-long model airships to advertising firms in the UK, one of them in Cardiff.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Globe, May 19, 1909; Brett Holman, “Wednesday, 19 May 1909,” Airminded, May 19, 1909; London Standard, May 21, 1909; Brett Holman, “Friday, 21 May 1909,” Airminded, May 21, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_285

Event 766 (67953D5C)

Date: 5/19/1909
Location: Wroxham, Norfolk, England
Description: 11:30 p.m. A lone motorcyclist observes a glowing light traveling in a straight trajectory overhead near Wroxham, Norfolk, England. As it passes, the motorcycle headlight fails. It begins working again after the UFO passes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: East Anglian Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Norfolk News, May 22, 1909; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, CUFOS, 1981, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Saturday, May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_286

Event 767 (70FA2FA8)

Date: 5/19/1909
Locations: Tharston, Norfolk, England; Norwich
Description: 12:00 midnight. A Mr. Chatten, grocer’s assistant, is cycling home to Tharston, Norfolk, England, when he is dazzled by a bright light with a bluish tinge overhead. It switches off for a few seconds, and Chatten can see a long, cigar-shaped object 300–400 feet above him, moving rapidly toward Norwich. On its underside is a framework with a yellow light at each end.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, May 21, 1909, p. 12; Brett Holman, “Saturday, May 22, 1909,” Airminded, May 22, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_287

Event 768 (1EE71119)

Date: 5/19/1909
Description: At 1:15 a.m. several witnesses on the docks in Cardiff, Wales observed a cigar-shaped airship that curved up and down the coast, making a whirring sound. It was described at fast, with two lights. At 9:30 p.m. several observers in Pontypool, Wales saw a graceful cigar with a quivering light make a 90 degree turn to the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, pp. 18, 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2967

Event 769 (52F39FB2)

Date: 5/19/1909
Description: In Wroxham, Norfolk county, England a searchlight from a white globe of light traveling overhead in a straight trajectory caused the headlamp on a motorcycle to fail at 11:30 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: East Anglican Daily Times, May 21, 1909; Carl Grove, FSR, November 1970, p. 19; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2968

Event 770 (7EDA4088)

Date: 5/20/1909
Time: 20:00
Location: DONNYBROOK AND CENTRAL DUBLIN / MIDNIGHT
Description: 2 separate observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with headlights goes going quickly southwest fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_269

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "240", Elev: "55", HatchDesc: "DONNYBROOK+CENTRAL DUBLIN/MIDNITE:2 SEP.OBS:CGR W/HEADLITES GOES>>SW FAST:", LatLong: "53.300003 -6.266667", LatLongDMS: "53:18:00 N 06:16:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 771 (92A89DD8)

Date: 5/22/1909
Time: 22:00?
Location: ABERYSTWYTH, WALES
Description: 14 observer(s). Night lights and beams 2 miles offshore search Cardigan Bay. Going quickly southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_270

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ABERYSTWYTH,WALES:14 OBS:NLTS+BEAMS 2mi OFFSHORE SEARCH CARDIGAN BAY:>>SE", LatLong: "52.411114 -4.083334", LatLongDMS: "52:24:40 N 04:05:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "4"

Event 772 (7287AD7E)

Date: 5/22/1909
Time: 22:30
Location: MAESTEG, SOUTH WALES
Description: Numerous observer(s). Lit object overhead. 1 observer with telescope sees figures aboard.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_271

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "164", HatchDesc: "MAESTEG,S.WALES:NMRS OBS:LIT OBJ OVHD:1 OBS W/TELESCOPE SEES FIGURES ABOARD", LatLong: "51.600002 -3.650000", LatLongDMS: "51:36:00 N 03:39:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "8"

Event 773 (A98B8E64)

Date: 6/3/1909
Time: 03:00
Location: STRTS / MALACCA, MLYS
Description: Danish steamship Bintang. Large bright wheel surfaces and spins in air.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_272

Extra Data: Country: "Malaysia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "12", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "STRTS/MALACCA,MLYS:DANISH SS BINTANG:LRG BRIGHT WHEEL SURFACES+SPINS IN AIR", LatLong: "3.000000 100.750005", LatLongDMS: "03:00:00 N 100:45:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MLC", Strangeness: "8"

Event 774 (B6A637C7)

Date: 6/16/1909
Time: 04:10
Location: DONG HOI, VTNM
Description: Weatherman and more/others. Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 9 minute(s). Dives / sea 6km offshore. / r44p35+/ r2p30.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_273

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Vietnam", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "DONG HOI,VTNM:WEATHERMAN++:CGR HVRS/9min:DIVES/SEA 6km OFFSHORE:/r44p35+/r2p30", LatLong: "17.416667 106.700005", LatLongDMS: "17:25:00 N 106:42:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NVT", Strangeness: "7"

Event 775 (52BAF029)

Date: 6/16/1909
Location: Donghoi, Annam
Description: 4:10 a.m. An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_61

Event 776 (A981D916)

Date: 6/16/1909
Time: 0410
Location: Donghoi, Annam
Description: An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 21 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_37

Event 777 (C6A246F1)

Date: 6/16/1909
Description: An elongated object flew toward the east over the town of Donghoi at 4:10 a.m. in Vietnam. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea six kilometers away from the coast after a steady flight lasting about nine minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 21; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 187
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3509

Event 778 (811D6FE6)

Date: 7/1909
End date: 8/1909
Locations: New Zealand; South Island; Australia
Description: A mystery airship wave begins in New Zealand with numerous sightings of unusual nocturnal lights and airships seen in both daytime and nighttime. The sightings are at first most intense over the southern end of South Island. In the following weeks the reports appear to move northward and by August, Australia also falls under the grip of what press accounts call “aerialitis.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Early Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020; Clark III 65–67; Brett Holman, “Scareships over Australia—1,” Airminded, October 20, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships over Australia—II,” Airminded, October 23, 2010; Brett Holman, “Scareships over Australia—III,” Airminded, October 25, 2010; Robert E. Bartholomew, “The Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909,” NZ Skeptics, May 1, 1998; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 479–483
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_288

Event 779 (12125861)

Date: 7/23/1909
Time: 13:00?
Location: KELSO, NZ
Description: Several observer(s). Airship going down. Hovers over school / several min. Several drawings match / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_274

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KELSO,NZ:SVRL OBS:AIRSHIP ↓:HVRS ovr SCHOOL/SVRL min:svrl drawings match/news", LatLong: "-45.905558 169.216675", LatLongDMS: "45:54:20 S 169:13:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 780 (99B5D5DE)

Date: 7/23/1909
Location: Kelso, New Zealand
Description: 12:00 noon. Mrs. James Russell and several schoolchildren in Kelso, New Zealand, see an airship shaped like a boat that flies toward them from the east, circles above the school, and returns in the same direction. It seems to have a propeller.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Early Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Bryan Dickeson, “The ‘1909 Kelso Airships’ of New Zealand,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_289

Event 781 (30D239FF)

Date: 7/24/1909
Location: TASMAN BAY, NZ
Description: Night light southwest / Riwaka. Zigzags and maneuvers all over. Rises and falls. Going quickly north and away. R224p37.
Type: sighting
Reference: CATHIE, Bruce: HARMONIC 33. A. & A. Reed, Wellington, NZ (Index 122)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_275

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "TASMAN BAY,NZ:NLT SW/RIWAKA:ZIGZAGS+MNVRS ALL OVR:RISES+FALLS:>>N+AWAY:r224p37", LatLong: "-41.083335 173.166675", LatLongDMS: "41:05:00 S 173:10:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "5"

Event 782 (7BB8BBCB)

Date: 7/24/1909
Time: 21:00?
Location: KAKA POINT, NZ
Description: 6 boys / beach. House-sized luminous/glowing airship glides and maneuvers / rocks. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_276

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KAKA POINT,NZ:6 BOYS/BEACH:HOUSE-SIZED LUMn AIRSHIP GLIDES+MNVRS/ROCKS:>N", LatLong: "-46.383336 169.777786", LatLongDMS: "46:23:00 S 169:46:40 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "7"

Event 783 (5B196561)

Date: 7/24/1909
Time: 23:30
Location: GORE, NZ AND MORE/OTHERS
Description: Numerous observer(s). Airship. 2 lights / ends. 2 figure(s) seen. Quickly going up [to] going quickly southeast. / MJ#177+/ r212p124.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_277

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "GORE,NZ++:NMRS OBS:AIRSHIP:2 LITES/ENDS:2 FIGs SEEN:↑↑ >>SE:/MJ#177+/r212p124", LatLong: "-46.083336 168.933341", LatLongDMS: "46:05:00 S 168:56:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "8"

Event 784 (620390C1)

Date: 7/24/1909
Description: At Kaka Point, southwest of Riwaka, New Zealand six boys on the beach sighted a house-sized luminous dirigible-shaped airship at around 9:00 p.m. It glided and maneuvered near some rocks on the coast, zigzagged, rose and fell, then shot away to the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 180; Xenolog, November 1975, p. 10; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 280, citing Bruce Cathie, Harmonic 33, p. 122
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4340

Event 785 (4C46188F)

Date: 7/27/1909
Time: 10:00
Location: NEAR BALCLUTHA, NZ
Description: 2 observer(s). Flying boat going [to] overhead toward(s) mountains. Dips and swerves and turns back.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_278

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr BALCLUTHA,NZ:2 OBS:FLYING BOAT > OVHD twrd MTNs:DIPS+SWERVES+TURNS BACK", LatLong: "-46.300002 169.800008", LatLongDMS: "46:18:00 S 169:48:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 786 (C32B35C2)

Date: 7/27/1909
Description: At around ten o'clock in the morning a flying object shaped like a boat flew overhead toward the mountains in Lambourne, New Zealand. It dipped, swerved in the sky, and turned back.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Xenolog, November 1975, p. 12; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 180
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4422

Event 787 (105C59B0)

Date: 7/30/1909
Time: ~03:00
Location: GREENDALE, SI, NZ
Description: Farmers. Rumble. Horses spooked. Airship 50 overhead. Lights / front and rear.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_279

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GREENDALE,SI,NZ:FARMERS:RUMBLE:HORSES SPOOKED:AIRSHIP 50 OHVD:LITES/FRONT+REAR", LatLong: "-43.583335 172.083342", LatLongDMS: "43:35:00 S 172:05:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 788 (33DAEAAF)

Date: 7/30/1909
Time: 05:00
Location: WAIKAKA VALLEY, NZ
Description: 3 / boat. Shell saucer wobbles. 2 pseudo-human/entity / dome! Quickly going down [to] and quickly going up [to] and going southwest toward(s) Otakaramu.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_280

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "WAIKAKA Vly,NZ:3/BOAT:SHELL SCR WOBBLES:2 PSH/DOME!:↓↓+↑↑+>SW twrd OTAKARAMU", LatLong: "-46.050002 169.050008", LatLongDMS: "46:03:00 S 169:03:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "8"

Event 789 (F3559582)

Date: 7/30/1909
Location: Mataura River north of Gore, New Zealand
Description: 5:00 a.m. Two men working on a dredge on the Mataura River north of Gore, New Zealand, see a lighted object descend out of the mist. It appears to be a narrow, boat-shaped craft that circles the dredge over a period of several minutes, rising and falling like a bird, and varying its speed. Two figures can be seen inside. It disappears into the mist, leaving behind a yellow glare.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Early Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Tony Brunt, “The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_290

Event 790 (06899312)

Date: 7/30/1909
Description: At 3:00 a.m. several farmers in Greendale, New Zealand heard a rumbling sound. Horses out to pasture were spooked by an airship that flew low overhead. It had lights in the front and rear.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Issue 181
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4497

Event 791 (DE9F2D01)

Date: 7/30/1909
Description: At 5:00 a.m. in the Waikaia Valley north of Gore, New Zealand two men witnessed a shell-shaped domed disc descend through the mist with a wobbling motion. Two human appearing occupants could be seen inside the clear dome. It circled, it ascended upwards, and flew off toward Otakarama. It had a yellow glow.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Xenolog, December 1975, p. 12; Paul Norman, FSR, April 1977, p. 15; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4498

Event 792 (97BBCB07)

Date: 7/31/1909
Time: ~05:00
Location: GREENVALE, NZ
Description: Farm hand. Whirr sound. Animals scared. 50M airship overhead. Away very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_281

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GREENVALE,NZ:FARM HAND:WHIRR SOUND:ANIMALS SCARED:50M AIRSHIP OVHD:AWAY VFAST", LatLong: "-45.883336 169.055564", LatLongDMS: "45:53:00 S 169:03:20 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 793 (90EB549F)

Date: 7/31/1909
Time: ~13:00
Location: DUNEDIN, NZ
Description: 1 observer. Flying airship. Brilliant light from mast / antenna on top. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_282

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "DUNEDIN,NZ:1 OBS:FLYING AIRSHIP:BRILL.LITE from MAST/ANTENNA on top:/news", LatLong: "-45.816669 170.500008", LatLongDMS: "45:49:00 S 170:30:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 794 (5B24680F)

Date: 7/31/1909
Time: 16:50
Location: NEAR FAIRFAX, NZ
Description: Dark fat cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] over hills. Boxy cabin / bottom-center. Going quickly west. / r96#70.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_283

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr FAIRFAX,NZ:DRK FAT CGR > OVR HILLS:BOXY CABIN/BOTTOM-CENTER:>>W:/r96#70", LatLong: "-46.233336 168.050008", LatLongDMS: "46:14:00 S 168:03:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 795 (70C92348)

Date: 7/31/1909
Description: In Greenvale, New Zealand a farmhand saw an "airship" about 150-feet long at dawn. It had a light at each end, and made a strange whirring noise that frightened the horses. A flying fuselage-shaped airship flew over Dunedin, New Zealand later that morning. A brilliant light shone from atop a mast antenna. That afternoon a dark, fat, cigar-shaped object flew over the hills around Fairfax, New Zealand. It had a box-shaped cabin on the bottom, center, and it flew on towards the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 7, citing Matsura Ensign, August 1, 1909; Xenolog, December 1975, p. 14; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 181
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4517

Event 796 (55935083)

Date: 8/2/1909
Description: In Oamaru, near Sumpter's Hill, Otago, New Zealand a large boat-shaped flying object with three lights was observed at 3:00 a.m., clearly illuminated by the moon. Two figures were visible inside the craft, and the object flew "at a fast rate."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4587

Event 797 (FB5503F9)

Date: 8/3/1909 (approximate)
Time: 20:30
Location: WAIHI, NZ
Description: Dark silent cylinder/cigar-shape going [to] straight & level flight slow. Windows / side. Intense blue-green light / front.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_284

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "WAIHI,NZ:DRK SLNT CGR > S&L SLOW:WINDOWS/SIDE:INTENSE BLU-GRN LITE/FRONT:", LatLong: "-37.500002 175.983342", LatLongDMS: "37:30:00 S 175:59:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "6"

Event 798 (85C959EC)

Date: 8/3/1909
Time: 22:00?
Location: WAIPAWA, NZ
Description: Grey torpedo with 3 men circles. 1 shouts gibberish. / FSRv22#6+/ MJ#177.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 832)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_285

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "WAIPAWA,NZ:GRY TORPEDO W/3 MEN CCLs:1 SHOUTS GIBBERISH:/FSRv22#6+/MJ#177", LatLong: "-39.938891 176.600008", LatLongDMS: "39:56:20 S 176:36:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NI", Strangeness: "8"

Event 799 (8C110DCE)

Date: 8/3/1909
Location: Waipawa, New Zealand
Description: Night. A man is riding in Waipawa, New Zealand, when his horse becomes nervous. He sees a large, gray, torpedo-shaped object passing overhead. Three persons are visible in it, one of whom shouts to him in an unknown language. The object rises to a great height, showing lights fore and aft. After circling around, it disappears behind a hill.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 261; Hawkes Bay Herald, August 6, 1909; Tony Brunt, “The New Zealand UFO Wave of 1909,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_291

Event 800 (D6AA08C2)

Date: 8/3/1909
Description: A dark silent cigar-shaped object flew slowly at a low altitude over Waihi, New Zealand at 8:30 p.m. It had windows on each side and an intense blue-green light in front. Later that same evening a man was thrown from his horse in Waipawa, New Zealand when a gray cigar or torpedo-shaped object hovered overhead and frightened the animal. Three human looking figures stood on deck, and one waved and shouted. The craft had lights at both ends. It rose to a higher altitude, circled, and then went behind hill.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Luminieres dans la Nuit, issue 181; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century [1900-1946], p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4620

Event 801 (3825559F)

Date: 8/7/1909
Location: Goulburn, New South Wales
Description: 10:30 p.m. Four young men at brick kilns near the railway station in Goulburn, New South Wales, see a bright, pale blue light arise from behind some hills to the east. After ascending, it circles back in the direction it came from. The object is said to be visible every night from August 5–10.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Goulburn ‘Airship,’” Sydney N.S.W. Morning Herald, August 11, 1909, p. 10; Bill Chalker, “Historical Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 Nov.–Dec. 1983: 27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_292

Event 802 (2CA17EE5)

Date: 8/9/1909
Locations: Concord, New Hampshire; Vale Perkins, Quebec
Description: 7:30–8:00 p.m. A flying object with lights on its front and back sails at a great altitude from west to east over Concord, New Hampshire, eventually disappearing into a cloud. Capt. Lyman Jackman at first thinks it is a balloon, but its estimated speed of 45–50 mph against the wind leads him to think otherwise. “Air Ship or Meteor,” Concord \(N.H. Evening Monitor, August 10, 1909, p. 3) At about the same time, Bertha Niles of Vale Perkins, Quebec, watches a similar lighted object moving west to east.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Ship or What?” Concord N.H. Evening Monitor, August 13, 1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_293

Event 803 (287E62DA)

Date: 8/9/1909
Location: Moss Vale, New South Wales
Description: Night. Residents of Moss Vale, New South Wales, watch a large lighted object like an airship float over the town.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Is It an Airship?” Sydney N.S.W. Morning Herald, August 10, 1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_294

Event 804 (59AFEB9E)

Date: 8/13/1909
Description: At 11:00 p.m. a top-shaped object was observed through a night glass as it moved in a northerly direction over Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia. Its lower portion was lighted while the upper portion was dark, and as the body of the object revolved a light kept turning on to the terrain beneath.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8, citing Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 31
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4957

Event 805 (B1864F87)

Date: 8/18/1909
Location: Fishers Island, New York
Description: 2:30 a.m. Four men Capt. Edward P. Sisson, Ernest T. Newton, Prentice Lanphear, and Edward M. Knapp at the Coast Guard life-saving station on the south side of Fishers Island, New York, see a winged airship 60 feet long and 20 feet wide. Moving swiftly against the wind, it moves in from the northeast, its engines whirring and a dazzling white light at its head. Two dark figures can be seen in the center of the object. Visible for 3 minutes, the object moves off to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Fishers Islanders See Big Aeroplane,” Providence R.I. Journal, August 19, 1909, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_295

Event 806 (9F2BCA34)

Date: 8/22/1909
Location: Upper Montclair, New Jersey
Description: Evening. Residents of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, watch a mystery airplane that emits a large puff of smoke. It descends and flies off to the north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship over Montclair,” New York Times, August 24, 1909, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_296

Event 807 (FF0012AE)

Date: 8/22/1909
Description: The night after a similar sighting, a torpedo shaped object with searchlights was seen again at ten p.m. in Colebrook, Tasmania, Australia.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Keith Roberts, Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5214

Event 808 (B650149B)

Date: 8/24/1909
Location: TALLINN, ESTONIA
Description: Many observer(s). Great airship circles town twice. Going quickly north toward(s) Finland.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_286

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Estonia, Latvia& Lithuania", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "TALLINN,ESTONIA:MANY OBS:GREAT AIRSHIP CIRCLES TOWN TWICE:>>N TWRD FINLAND", LatLong: "59.433336 24.733335", LatLongDMS: "59:26:00 N 24:44:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "6"

Event 809 (D8AA9EB7)

Date: 9/1909
Locations: South Windham, Connecticut; Windham Center Road
Description: 7:30 p.m. E. B. Hanna of South Windham, Connecticut, watches a high-flying, meandering “searchlight” along Windham Center Road for about an hour. After heading toward him, it changes direction and moves southward.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “What Mr. Hanna Saw May Have Been the Worcester Airship,” Willimantic Conn. Chronicle, December 14, 1909, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_297

Event 810 (1F8D38B0)

Date: 9/3/1909
Location: Bloomingdale, Indiana
Description: 9:00 a.m. Several hundred residents of Bloomingdale, Indiana, see a “dirigible balloon” pass over the city for 15 minutes. The car beneath the gas bag is plainly visible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sights Strange Airship,” Indianapolis Star, September 4, 1909, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_298

Event 811 (0AC3DC56)

Date: 9/20/1909
Locations: Meudon Observatory, Paris, France; Pic du Midi Observatory, French Pyrenees
Description: During the opposition of Mars, astronomer Eugène Antoniadi uses the 83cm aperture telescope at Meudon Observatory in Paris, France, to observe Mars. He sees no canals. The outstanding photos of Mars taken at the new Baillaud dome at the Pic du Midi Observatory in the French Pyrenees also bring formal discredit to the Martian canal theory, and the notion of canals begins to fall out of favor. Around this time, spectroscopic analysis also begins to show that no water is present in the Martian atmosphere.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Martian canal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_299

Event 812 (20131A3C)

Date: 9/24/1909
Time: 18:00
Location: GOTEBORG AND OSTHAMMAR, SWD
Description: Winged ovoid over forest. Glowing balloon drops night light / 02 December.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEEL, John: OPERATION TROJAN HORSE; Putnam's Sons, NY 1970. (Index 110)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_287

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "GOTEBORG+OSTHAMMAR,SWD:WINGED OVOID OVR FOREST:GLOWING BALLOON DROPS NLT/02DEC", LatLong: "57.683336 12.000001", LatLongDMS: "57:41:00 N 12:00:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 813 (A7228348)

Date: 9/30/1909
Locations: Edinburgh, Indiana; Taylorsville
Description: Evening. A balloon “supposed to be from Chicago” passes over Edinburgh, Indiana. Its anchor somehow gets entangled in high-tension wires of the traction station for the Indianapolis, Columbus, and Southern interurban rail. It moves south to Taylorsville a few minutes later, and it is so low to the ground that the occupants are able to talk to passersby.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Tramp Balloon Snaps Wires,” Indianapolis Star, October 1, 1909, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_300

Event 814 (61FF056C)

Date: 10/1909
Time: 22:30
Location: LA PORTE, IN
Description: Bowl saucer beams going down / wagon. Horses panic. More beams. Lights / rim. Vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 8)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_288

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "245", HatchDesc: "La PORTE,IN:BOWL SCR BEAMS ↓/WAGON:HORSES PANIC:MORE BEAMS:LITES/RIM:vanishes", LatLong: "41.616669 -86.733337", LatLongDMS: "41:37:00 N 86:44:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 815 (FC7743CC)

Date: 10/1909
Location: La Porte, Indiana
Description: 10:30 p.m. Rev. Ruth Smith and some church members are riding in a wagon in La Porte, Indiana, when the horses rear and a blinding light splashes across the road. A large structure resembling two inverted bowls, separated by a row of lights, is hovering, with several phosphorescent beams extending to the ground. It is encircled in a corona of light and begins moving slowly. After 15 minutes, it blinks out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 97; Clark III 1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_301

Event 816 (2099050B)

Date: 10/25/1909
Time: 12:00?
Location: MINDEROO STATION, WEST AUS
Description: 1+3 observer(s). Mystery airship = squarish blimp. Reflective flashes.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_289

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "MINDEROO Stn.,W.AUS:1+3 OBS:MYSTERY AIRSHIP=SQUARISH BLIMP:REFLECTIVE FLASHES", LatLong: "-22.016668 115.083339", LatLongDMS: "22:01:00 S 115:05:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 817 (394A07BD)

Date: 10/25/1909
Description: A blimp shaped aerial object was sighted over Minderoo Station in Western Australia on this day.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 32
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7108

Event 818 (67E2454B)

Date: 12/13/1909
Time: 22:00
Location: MABELVALE, AR
Description: 1 observer. Beam / light going south fast. Going up and down [to] under overcast. Back 19 December. / r224p39.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_290

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "95", HatchDesc: "MABELVALE,AR:1 OBS:BEAM/LITE>S FAST:↑+↓ UNDER OVERCAST:BACK 19DEC:/r224p39.", LatLong: "34.750002 -92.300004", LatLongDMS: "34:45:00 N 92:18:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "5"

Event 819 (51F1CDC2)

Date: 12/13/1909
Location: Mabelvale, Arkansas
Description: 10:00 p.m. A. W. Norris of Mabelvale, Arkansas, sees a bright, bobbling light moving through the air about 300 feet above him from the south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Flies near Little Rock, Perhaps,” Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, December 15, 1909, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_302

Event 820 (EC10B78D)

Date: 12/22/1909
Location: Worcester, MA
Description: "Mysterious Airship" emitting a bright beam of light appeared moving SE to NW, hovered over city, moved away. Seen again two hours later; hovered, moved away to south and turned east. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_62

Event 821 (F5EDBCB0)

Date: 12/22/1909
Locations: Worcester, Massachusetts; Marlboro; Boston; New York City
Description: 6:30 p.m. Many residents of Worcester, Massachusetts, see a “brilliant ray” emitted by a large black object 1,000 feet high in the southwestern sky. After circling over the town, the object heads to the west, where it is seen over Marlboro. It returns to Worcester between 7:00 and 7:30 p.m., flying at low altitude and sporting a searchlight. One policeman thinks he sees enormous wings; others detect one or two figures inside. The airship is attributed to a Worcester businessman named Wallace E. Tillinghast, who has told the Boston Herald on December 12 that he has invented a heavier-than-air monoplane and has made more than 100 test flights at night to Boston and New York City. But Tillinghast never offers his aircraft for public viewing, and people gradually realize it is a hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Tells of Flight 300 Miles in Air,” Boston Herald, December 13, 1909, p. 1; “Airship Seen in Two Cities,” Boston Globe, December 23, 1909, p. 1; Clark III 1165; Stephen Whalen and Robert E. Bartholomew, “The Great New England Airship Hoax of 1909,” New England Quarterly 75, no. 3 September 2002 :466–376; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 483–486
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_303

Event 822 (9DB05E3C)

Date: 12/23/1909
Locations: Boston, Massachusetts; Revere
Description: 10:00 p.m. Thousands of citizens of Boston, Massachusetts, and neighboring communities see an airship with lights flying at an altitude of around 400 feet. Alex Randall of Revere reports wings, tail, and propeller, but other observers only see a cylindrical shape at most.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Skyship of Mystery Flies above Boston,” Boston Journal, December 24, 1909, p.1; Clark III 1165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_304

Event 823 (A3873DB5)

Date: 12/24/1909
Time: 01:50
Location: LIMERICK, IREL
Description: Amateur astronomer. Luminous saucer goes south slowly. Turns and goes back going north. / r85p35.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOUGARD, Michel: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES; SOBEPS Group, Belgium 1976. HB (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_291

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "32", Elev: "28", HatchDesc: "LIMERICK,IREL:AM.ASTRONOMER:LUM.SCR GOES S SLOWLY:TURNS+GOES BACK>N:/r85p35", LatLong: "52.650003 -8.616667", LatLongDMS: "52:39:00 N 08:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 824 (5CF5CE17)

Date: 12/24/1909
Time: 23:00
Location: RHAYADER, WALES
Description: Boy abduction / farm Christmas party. Screams. Tracks / snow end. Gone for good.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad: STRANGERS from the SKIES; Award Books, NY 1966. (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_292

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TRC: Physical traces, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", Elev: "303", HatchDesc: "RHAYADER,WALES:BOY ABD/FARM XMAS PARTY:SCREAMS:TRACKS/SNOW END:GONE FOR GOOD", LatLong: "52.300002 -3.516667", LatLongDMS: "52:18:00 N 03:31:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "9"

Event 825 (E238B45A)

Date: 12/24/1909
Location: Providence, Rhode Island
Description: In Providence, Rhode Island, author H. P. Lovecraft sees what people are claiming is Tillinghast’s airplane bearing a powerful searchlight, but he identifies it as the planet Venus.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “City Is Airship Mad,” Providence R.I. Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 2; “Providence Men See Searchlight in Sky,” Providence R.I. Journal, December 25, 1909, p. 14; H. P. Lovecraft, Collected Essays, Volume 3: Science, ed. S. T. Joshi, Hippocampus, 2005, p. 99; Clark III 1165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_305

Year: 1910 (Back to Top)

Event 826 (286B9065)

Date: 1/1910
Time: 23:00
Location: INVERCARGILL, NZ
Description: Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 100alt. Man / door. Shouts gibberish. / r229'83#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_293

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "INVERCARGILL,NZ:SVRL OBS:CGR HVRS/100alt:MAN/DOOR:SHOUTS GIBBERISH:/r229'83#2", LatLong: "-46.416669 168.450008", LatLongDMS: "46:25:00 S 168:27:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "8"

Event 827 (360F5AB6)

Date: 1/1910
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand, AU
Description: 11:00 p.m. Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_63

Event 828 (116FBC29)

Date: 1/1910
Time: 2300
Location: Invercargill, New Zealand
Description: Several witnesses among them the vicar, the Mayor, and a policeman -saw a cigar-shaped object hovering at 30 m altitude. A man appeared at a lateral door and was heard shouting some words in an unknown language. The opening closed, and the object accelerated and was lost to sight.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Stuart 24 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_38

Event 829 (95840FC5)

Date: 1/12/1910
Time: 09:00
Location: CHATTANOOGA, TN
Description: Thousands / observer(s). White cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast fast in still wind. Motor noise / r214p53.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 8)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_294

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "13", Duration: "2", Elev: "206", HatchDesc: "CHATTANOOGA,TN:1000s/OBS:WHT CGR >>SE FAST in still wind::MOTOR NOISE/r214p53", LatLong: "35.050002 -85.300004", LatLongDMS: "35:03:00 N 85:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"

Event 830 (A67DE792)

Date: 1/12/1910
Location: Chattanooga, Tennessee
Description: 9:30 a.m. An unknown cigar-shaped aircraft is seen moving over Chattanooga, Tennessee, to the northeast. It returns on January 13.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship in the Air,” Chattanooga Tenn. Daily Times, January 13, 1910, p. 7; “Another Airship Flying,” Chattanooga Tenn. Daily Times, January 14, 1910, p. 6; Patrick Gross, URECAT , February 20, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_306

Event 831 (032CCC88)

Date: 1/12/1910
Locations: Huntsville, Alabama; Chapman Mountain
Description: 4:30 p.m. An unknown airship flies high over Huntsville, Alabama, against the wind, from southwest to northeast, disappearing over the crest of Chapman Mountain.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Airship,” Huntsville Ala. Journal, January 13, 1910, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_307

Event 832 (0128A873)

Date: 1/13/1910
Description: Several thousand people in Chattanooga, Tennessee watched a white cigar-shaped object that passed rapidly over the city at around 11:00 a.m. at 500 to 1,000 feet altitude. It disappeared into a bank of smoke along the river. "Flags on the custom house hung limp [so the wind]…would not have propelled a...balloon."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 8; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_291

Event 833 (603BCA5A)

Date: 1/14/1910
Locations: Summit Hill; Knoxville, Tennessee
Description: 6:55 p.m. Two men on Summit Hill in Knoxville, Tennessee, see a large airship moving south. Its outlines are distinct. The men hear a hum of machinery and see sparks from “its motors.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Positive That They Saw an Airship,” Knoxville Tenn. Journal, January 15, 1910, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_308

Event 834 (00B0483A)

Date: 1/15/1910
Time: 22:00?
Location: PARAGOULD, ARK
Description: Airship with strong beam north going quickly south / 300M altitude. 3-4 figure(s) aboard. / L. Farish.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_295

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "91", HatchDesc: "PARAGOULD,ARK:AIRSHIP W/STRONG BEAM N>>S/300M alt:3-4 FIGS ABOARD:/L.Farish", LatLong: "36.066668 -90.500004", LatLongDMS: "36:04:00 N 90:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 835 (AE26A2B7)

Date: 2/5/1910
Time: 23:50
Location: NORTHWEST / GREER, ID
Description: 2 prospector. Huge brilliant gold globe maneuvers going southeast / Clearwater River Canyon.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_296

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "0", Elev: "333", HatchDesc: "NW/GREER,ID:2 PROSPECTOR:HUGE BRILL.GOLD GLOBE MNVRS >SE/CLEARWATER Rvr CANYON", LatLong: "46.433336 -116.216672", LatLongDMS: "46:26:00 N 116:13:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 836 (D7B4E3C9)

Date: 5/4/1910
Time: 10:00
Location: CANTILLANA, SPAIN
Description: Loud bangs. Then stones shoot up into sky / 2 hours. No explanation.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_297

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "6", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "CANTILLANA,SPAIN:LOUD BANGS:THEN STONES SHOOT UP INTO SKY/2hrs:NO EXPLANATION", LatLong: "37.600002 -5.850000", LatLongDMS: "37:36:00 N 05:51:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "8"

Event 837 (066F23A5)

Date: 5/4/1910
Time: 19:00?
Location: CHERNOVTSY, UKRAINE
Description: Star-like body enters 100M cloud. Maneuvers. / r221p30.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_298

Extra Data: Country: "Ukraine", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "CHERNOVTSY,UKRAINE:STARLIKE BODY ENTERS 100M CLOUD:MNVRS:/r221p30", LatLong: "48.316669 25.866668", LatLongDMS: "48:19:00 N 25:52:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CHR", Strangeness: "5"

Event 838 (F1C1345C)

Date: Summer 1910
Location: Vernal, UT
Description: A man on horseback at night dismounted when his horse became disturbed, and walked to the edge of a clearing in the woods. There he saw a low-hovering disc with a row of lights. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_64

Event 839 (7D48A25C)

Date: Summer 1910
Location: Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland
Description: Morning. Lawrence J. Crone is playing on a baseball field in the Violetville neighborhood of Baltimore, Maryland, when he sees a metallic, brown, blimplike object, more than 100 feet long, hovering above a pine tree 200 feet away. It has a row of colored, rectangular windows. Through one he can see as many as 20 strange entities taking turns looking at him. Their heads are pointed, and they are dressed in light-colored garments with a fur-like texture. Each has small dots for eyes and a slit for a mouth. Two other young men also see the object and are badly frightened.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT , February 20, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_309

Event 840 (27034C70)

Date: Summer 1910
Location: Vernal, Utah
Description: Night. Carl H. Darden is riding near Vernal, Utah, when he notices that his horse is acting strangely. He dismounts and walks the horse into a clearing, where he sees a row of lights a few feet above the ground. They are attached to a huge, hovering disc. After watching it a while, he steps toward it, and it makes a buzzing sound as if in warning. As he advances, it rises slowly into the sky until it reaches an altitude of several hundred feet, when it suddenly streaks off to the north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_310

Event 841 (4B97299F)

Date: 8/1910 (approximate)
Time: ~19:00
Location: GREEN BAY, WI
Description: Summer Eve. Procession of white saucers goes west going east. Clearly defined.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_299

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "178", HatchDesc: "GREEN BAY,WI:SUMMER EVE:PROCESSION of WHT SCRS GOES W>E:CLEARLY DEFINED", LatLong: "44.500002 -88.033338", LatLongDMS: "44:30:00 N 88:02:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 842 (1A3057DD)

Date: 8/1910 (approximate)
Time: 22:00?
Location: VERNAL, UT
Description: Disk hovers very low / desert. Buzz and slow ascent. Then streaks away. / CLARK'92.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_300

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1540", HatchDesc: "VERNAL,UT:DISK HVRS VLOW/DESERT:BUZZ+SLOW ASCENT:then streaks away:/CLARK'92", LatLong: "40.405557 -109.533339", LatLongDMS: "40:24:20 N 109:32:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"

Event 843 (B5109C53)

Date: 8/12/1910
Time: 23:50
Location: SOUTH CHINA SEA
Description: Dutch steamship Valentijn. Bright spinning wheel close to surface. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_301

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "S.CHINA SEA:DUTCH SS VALENTIJN:BRITE SPINNING WHEEL CLOSE TO SURFACE:NFD", LatLong: "5.000000 110.000005", LatLongDMS: "05:00:00 N 110:00:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "SCS", Strangeness: "7"

Event 844 (921DCE27)

Date: 8/12/1910
Description: At around midnight in the South China Sea a bright spinning wheel was see in the ocean, close to surface by four members of the crew of the Dutch ship S. S. Valentijn.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 265; Flying Saucers magazine, June 1970, p. 8, citing National Fisherman, May 1967; Flying Saucer Review, September-October 1967, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4927

Event 845 (A99EAD38)

Date: 8/30/1910
Time: 20:50
Location: MANHATTAN, NY
Description: Many observer(s). Long black object circles buildings. Engine sound. Back / 31 August.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEEL, John: OPERATION TROJAN HORSE; Putnam's Sons, NY 1970. (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_302

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "MANHATTAN,NY:MANY OBS:LONG BLACK OBJ CIRCLES BLDGs:ENGINE SOUND:BACK/31AUG", LatLong: "40.800002 -73.950004", LatLongDMS: "40:48:00 N 73:57:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 846 (7118453C)

Date: 8/30/1910
Description: A long black object circled buildings in downtown Manhattan around Madison Square Park in New York City, New York making an engine sound at 8:45 p.m. There were hundreds of witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John Keel, FSR, May 11, 1970; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 120; Ralph Blum, Beyond Earth: Man's Contact with UFOs, p. 60
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5483

Event 847 (82559B9D)

Date: 9/22/1910
Description: On this evening a UFO landed remotely at the Dunkirk Waterworks in Chautauqua County, New York. It was witnessed by a Mr. D. Ready.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, citing FSR, May-June 1970, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6216

Event 848 (964C60C1)

Date: 10/25/1910
Location: Minderoo Station, Western Australia
Description: 5:30 p.m. A mystery airship is seen at Minderoo Station, Western Australia, by Mrs. A. J. Roe, wife of the station manager. She says it “looked compact, like a dirigible balloon, but it appeared to be squarer and more like an aeroplane. The sun shone on it, and flashes came from it, as though reflected from something revolving, or from metal work.” Three station hands also see the object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mysterious Airship Sighted at Onslow,” Sydney N.S.W. Morning Herald, December 5, 1910, p. 9; Bill Chalker, “Early Australian Historical Encounters,” 1997; Brett Holman, “Scareships over Australia—IV,” Airminded, October 27, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_311

Event 849 (5CA518F1)

Date: 10/27/1910
Time: 10:00
Location: SWIFT CURRENT, SSK
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape flies overhead. Red and green lights / rear. Bright headlight / front. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_303

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "755", HatchDesc: "SWIFT CURRENT,SSK:CGR FLIES OVHD:RED+GRN LITES/REAR:BRITE HEADLITE/FRONT:NFD", LatLong: "50.283336 -107.766672", LatLongDMS: "50:17:00 N 107:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 850 (8B854275)

Date: 10/27/1910
Locations: Swift Current, Saskatchewan; Irvine, Alberta; Medicine Hat, Alberta
Description: 1:10 a.m. An airship with a powerful headlight and red and green taillights is seen flying at 600 feet above Swift Current, Saskatchewan. Observers at Irvine, Alberta, see it at 4:45 a.m. going west. It is also seen at Medicine Hat, Alberta, flying southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Unknown Aeronaut in Alberta,” Calgary Alberta Herald, October 27, 1910, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_312

Event 851 (7C8E1215)

Date: 10/27/1910
Description: A cigar-shaped object with red and green lights on the rear and a bright headlight flew overhead on this morning in Swift Current, Saskachewan, Canada at an estimated altitude of 600 feet.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7177

Event 852 (1C990269)

Date: 10/29/1910
Location: East Providence, Rhode Island
Description: 5:30 a.m. Two objects flying at a great altitude are seen over East Providence, Rhode Island, by newspaper workers and others up early. They are too distant to be recognized as dirigibles or balloons, but they resemble luminous pumpkins. One is far ahead of the other, but both are “cutting pigeon wings, looping aerial loops, circling and diving like birds and generally doing skylark stunts.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Aviators Seen High Up in Air near City,” Providence Journal, October 30, 1910, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_313

Year: 1911 (Back to Top)

Event 853 (9E1EBA16)

Date: 1/9/1911
Locations: Harvard; Boston
Description: Harvard astronomer William H. Pickering tells the Boston Post that he believes Venus is populated by “huge monsters and lizards such as roamed the earth ages ago.” He adds that “If human life exists on Venus, the people do not live as we do.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Olden Monsters Inhabit Venus?” Chicago Tribune, January 9, 1911, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_314

Event 854 (CC257A6C)

Date: 5/5/1911
Locations: St. George, Queensland, Australia; 18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia
Description: 5:00 p.m. William Nixon is working at his father’s sawmill 18 miles from St. George, Queensland, Australia, when he sees a flying machine carrying two men, one of whom is dressed in dark clothing. He estimates it is traveling from south to northwest at about 1,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mysterious Airships,” Perth West Australian, May 15, 1911, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_315

Event 855 (52B2F696)

Date: 7/22/1911
Location: Durango, Colorado
Description: Evening. A ball of fire the size of the full moon is seen for several hours at Durango, Colorado. For a time it grows even larger, then diminishes in size until it disappears entirely.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Large Ball of Fire Is Seen in the Sky,” Reno Nev. Evening Gazette, July 25, 1911, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_316

Event 856 (D21A7724)

Date: 8/3/1911
Locations: Brinkerhoff Avenue; Mansfield, Ohio
Description: 9:00 p.m. Adam H. McCullough and his wife Carrie are driving on Brinkerhoff Avenue in Mansfield, Ohio, when they notice a light, as brilliant as an arc light, in the northern sky. It has an apparent size of 6 inches and looks to be about 50 feet up. It remains visible for several minutes then fizzles out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Phenomenon,” Mansfield Ohio News, August 4, 1911, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_317

Year: 1912 (Back to Top)

Event 857 (40D2D82A)

Date: 1/27/1912
Location: ASTRONOMER F.B.HARRIS
Description: 50 mile(s) wide intense-black object crosses moon's bright side.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_304

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "ASTRONOMER F.B.HARRIS:50mi WIDE INTENSE-BLACK OBJ CROSSES MOON'S BRITE SIDE:", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Unknown", Strangeness: "6"

Event 858 (38537DE9)

Date: 3/6/1912
Time: 20:00?
Location: BATH, AVON
Description: 'Splendidly lit craft' passes over Warmley Village. Going quickly north very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_305

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "133", HatchDesc: "BATH,AVON:'SPLENDIDLY LIT CRAFT' PASSES OVR WARMLEY VILLAGE:>>N VFAST", LatLong: "51.400002 -2.350000", LatLongDMS: "51:24:00 N 02:21:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 859 (E4068BE2)

Date: 3/6/1912
Description: A "splendidly lit craft" passed over Warmley Village, Bath, England at eight o'clock in the evening. It flew very fast to the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, p. 249; Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1327

Event 860 (B01151AD)

Date: 4/8/1912
Location: Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England
Description: Sunset. Charles Tilden Smith at Little Bedwyn, Wiltshire, England, observes the apparent fan-shaped shadow of a stationary object 45° in the sky against the altostratus cloud layer. The dark patch remains stationary against the moving clouds and is visible for 30 minutes. Meteorologist Charles John Philip Cave suspects the object is a pilot balloon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles Tilden Smith, “Clouds and Shadows,” Nature 89 1912: 168; Charles J. P. Cave, “Clouds and Shadows,” Nature 89 1912: 268
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_318

Event 861 (E431ADBD)

Date: 4/15/1912
Description: Sinking of the Titanic
Type: disaster
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_23

Event 862 (35631911)

Date: 9/4/1912 (approximate)
Location: SELATTYN, SHROPS
Description: 2 observer(s). Orange bottle-shape with cylinder/cylindrical object neck upwards drifts going west slowly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GIBBONS, Gavin: The COMING of the SPACE SHIPS; Neville-Spearman, London HB 1956. 13s.6d (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_306

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "SELATTYN,SHROPs:2 OBS:ORG BOTTLE-SHAPE W/CYL.NECK UPWARDS DRIFTS>W SLOWLY.", LatLong: "52.894447 -3.088889", LatLongDMS: "52:53:40 N 03:05:20 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "4"

Event 863 (F9466E0E)

Date: Fall 1912
Location: Alameda, California
Description: About 2:30 p.m. C. F. Rowling, 15, and two friends see three perfectly round, pale-green objects less than a mile away in the northern sky over Alameda, California. They are traveling in parallel with the horizon in a vertical formation one atop the other and heading west. They are completely silent and 75–100 feet in diameter. He watches them for 10 seconds before they pass behind some trees.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_319

Event 864 (E6F848D8)

Date: 10/14/1912
Locations: Sheerness, Kent, England; Eastchurch
Description: 7:00 p.m. Noise from an unseen aircraft startles the residents of Sheerness, Kent, England. Nearby at Eastchurch, residents light flares to guide the craft in case it needs to land. The incident comes up in a debate in Parliament on November 21. MP William Joynson-Hicks asks First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill whether the government has any zeppelins capable of traveling at 60 mph, but Churchill answers no. However, some authorities conclude that the incident is caused by the intrusion of the LZ 13 Hansa Zeppelin over British airspace.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Alleged Visit of a Foreign Airship,” London Times, November 22, 1912, p. 8; Brett Holman, “The Sheerness Incident,” Airminded, October 14, 2007; Brett Holman, “Secrets of the German Aërial Fleet—I,” Airminded, May 29, 2013; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak!, Anomalist, 2009, pp. 486–487; UFOFiles2, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_320

Year: 1913 (Back to Top)

Event 865 (5FF8D2C4)

Date: 1/4/1913
Time: 05:00
Location: DOVER, KENT
Description: Cop and 2. Airship with lights going quickly southeast toward(s) sea. 'Motors' heard. R224p42 / Farish.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_307

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "DOVER,KENT:COP+2:AIRSHIP W/LITES >>SE TWRD SEA:'MOTORS' HEARD:r224p42/Farish", LatLong: "51.150002 1.316667", LatLongDMS: "51:09:00 N 01:19:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 866 (E95754F5)

Date: 1/4/1913
Location: Dover, England
Description: 5:00 a.m. Council worker John Hobbs hears aerial motors at Dover, England, and sees a light speeding toward him from the sea in a northeasterly direction. It is moving steadily despite a gale-force wind. Two other people, tradesman Mr. Langley and Police Constable Pierce, hear the noise but do not see the object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Unknown Aircraft over Dover,” London Times, January 6, 1913, p. 6; “Mysterious Airship,” London Daily Telegraph, January 6, 1913; Brett Holman, “Monday, 6 January 1913,” Airminded, January 6, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_321

Event 867 (D2B256FF)

Date: 1/4/1913
Description: An airship with lights was spotted by three witnesses including police as it flew over Dover, Kent, England southeast toward the sea; "motors" were heard.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lucius Farish, newspaper clipping, January 6, 1913; Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying Saucers Have Landed, p. 36
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_80

Event 868 (9BDD263A)

Date: 1/6/1913
Location: Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Description: 10:00 p.m. Two lights “thought to be the lamps of an airship” maneuver in the sky over Lavernock Battery, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, January 7, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “Friday, 10 January 1913,” Airminded, January 10, 1913
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_322

Event 869 (B3A7739E)

Date: 1/17/1913
Time: 16:50
Location: CARDIFF, WALES
Description: Chief Constable. Vague airship leaves (something behind) dense trail / smoke. Goes fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad & WHRITENOUR, Joan: FLYING SAUCER INVASION. Award Books, NY 1969. 156pp PB. 15 Essays + catalog. (Index 42)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_308

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "16", HatchDesc: "CARDIFF,WALES:CHIEF CONSTABLE:VAGUE AIRSHIP LVS DENSE TRAIL/SMOKE:GOES FAST.", LatLong: "51.500002 -3.283333", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 03:17:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WLS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 870 (35EBC3EC)

Date: 1/17/1913
Locations: Glamorganshire; Cardiff, Wales
Description: 4:45 p.m. Capt. Lionel Lindsay, chief constable of Glamorganshire, watches a large, fast-moving object above Cardiff, Wales, leaving in its wake a dense volume of smoke. Other witnesses see the light moving west from Cardiff at considerable speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “An Airship over Cardiff,” London Times, January 21, 1913, p. 10; Brett Holman, “Tuesday, 21 January 1913,” Airminded, January 21, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_323

Event 871 (6E07F9E0)

Date: 1/24/1913
Time: 19:00
Location: BRISTOL AND LIVERPOOL, ENG
Description: Brilliant lights / sky sweep hills. No planes up. / r224p42 / Farish.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 36)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_309

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "47", HatchDesc: "BRISTOL+LIVERPOOL,ENG:BRILL.LITES/SKY SWEEP HILLS:NO PLANES UP:/r224p42/Farish", LatLong: "51.466669 -2.583333", LatLongDMS: "51:28:00 N 02:35:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "5"

Event 872 (7270B55D)

Date: 1/25/1913
Location: Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England
Description: 7:00–8:30 p.m. Several people see a mysterious aircraft over the Clubmoor neighborhood of Liverpool, England. It is traveling about 25 mph and carries a brilliant light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Aircraft over Liverpool,” London Times, January 28, 1913, p. 13; Brett Holman, “Tuesday, 28 January 1913,” Airminded, January 28, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_324

Event 873 (2D940EFC)

Date: 1/25/1913
Locations: Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales; Carmathenshire
Description: 8:25 p.m. Villagers of Chancery, Ceredigion, Wales, watch a mystery airship with searchlights that turns south and leaves in the direction of Carmathenshire.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mystery Airship,” London Daily Express, January 30, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Thursday, 30 January 1913,” Airminded, January 30, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_325

Event 874 (127A7AA6)

Date: 1/27/1913
Locations: Stretford, Greater Manchester, England; Eccles; Liverpool
Description: 9:00 p.m. A resident of Stretford, Greater Manchester, England, sees an aircraft “like a huge ball” passing silently overhead in a southerly direction. He estimates its speed at 40 mph and its altitude as 700 feet. It has a yellowish light that later turns light red. When it is over Eccles, it turns westward in the direction of Liverpool.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Is It a German Airship?” London Daily Express, January 31, 1913, p. 5; Brett Holman, “Friday, 31 January 1913,” Airminded, January 31, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_326

Event 875 (30570B3C)

Date: 1/29/1913
Locations: Iași, Romania; Focşani; Brăila; Târgovişte
Description: 8:00 p.m. An airplane with a powerful searchlight is seen over Iași, Romania, coming from the direction of Russia. It maneuvers over the town for 10 minutes and then moves toward the barracks. Troops are mustered out and signals are given for the aviator to land. Two warning shots are fired, but the lights go out and the object disappears. Other mystery aircraft are seen this month at military barracks in Focşani, Brăila, and Târgovişte.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [“‘Russian Aeroplane’ Scare in Roumania,](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/92106958/)” Manchester Guardian, January 31, 1913, p. 9; Romania 8–9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_327

Event 876 (4A2427D8)

Date: 2/1/1913
Locations: Lvov, Ukraine; Ternopil, Ukraine
Description: Evening. A Russian airplane equipped with a searchlight is seen maneuvering over Lvov, Ukraine. Another mystery plane, making signals, is spotted over Ternopil, Ukraine.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Globe, February 4, 1913, p. 3; “Airplane Fired at,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_328

Event 877 (07FED8E7)

Date: 2/2/1913
Locations: Aberavon, Wales; Swansea Bay; The Mumbles
Description: 7:30 p.m. Police Constable Church at Aberavon, Wales, watches an airship flying for an hour over Swansea Bay and the Mumbles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Another Mysterious Airship,” London Times, February 3, 1913, p. 6; Brett Holman, “Monday, 3 February 1913,” Airminded, February 3, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_329

Event 878 (0753CD89)

Date: 2/2/1913
Location: East Croydon, England
Description: 8:45 p.m. Mr. Trubshaw of East Croydon, England, sees an airship come in from the southeast and disappear rapidly to the northwest. Rays of light stream from it on the right and the left and downward. Others see the object, said to be moving with the wind.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mysterious Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 3, 1913, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_330

Event 879 (634750EB)

Date: 2/2/1913
Location: Framfield, East Sussex, England
Description: 9:25 p.m. Robert Lawrence Thornton sees an airship pass over his house in Framfield, East Sussex, England.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Mystery Airships,” London Daily Express, February 4, 1913, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_331

Event 880 (BDE480DB)

Date: 2/5/1913
Locations: Newport; Cardiff; Neath, South Wales
Description: Evening. Numerous witnesses in Newport, Cardiff, and Neath, South Wales, watch a “dirigible” carrying a bright light pass in a northwesterly direction.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The ‘Mysterious Airship,’” Manchester Guardian, February 6, 1913, p. 9; Brett Holman, “Thursday, 6 February 1913,” Airminded, February 6, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_332

Event 881 (CDC1CEC7)

Date: 2/9/1913
Locations: Canada; northeastern United States; Bermuda; Brazil; Michigan; New York; Pennsylvania; Ontario; Toronto
Description: 9:00 p.m. An earth-grazing meteor procession is seen from locations across Canada, the northeastern United States, and Bermuda, and from many ships at sea, including eight off Brazil, giving a total recorded ground track of over 7,000 miles. The meteors are particularly unusual in that there is no apparent radiant—no point in the sky from which the meteors appear to originate. Witnesses are surprised to see a procession of between 40 and 60 bright, slow-moving fireballs moving from horizon to horizon in a practically identical path. Individual fireballs are visible for at least 30 to 40 seconds, and the entire procession takes some 5 minutes to cross the sky. Subsequent observers also note a large, white, tailless body bringing up the rear, but the various bodies making up the procession continue to disintegrate and travel at different rates throughout their course, so that by the time observations are made in Bermuda, the leading bodies are described as “like large arc lights in appearance, slightly violet in colour,” followed closely by yellow and red fragments. Research carried out in the 1950s by Alexander D. Mebane uncovers a handful of reports from newspaper archives in the northern United States. At Escanaba, Michigan, the Press states the “end of the world was apprehended by many” as numerous meteors travel across the northern horizon. In Batavia, New York, a few observers see the meteors and many people hear a thundering noise, while other reports are made in Nunda and Dansville, New York where several residents again think the world is ending and Osceola, Pennsylvania. The observations are analyzed in detail later in 1913 by the astronomer Clarence Chant, leading him to conclude that as all accounts are positioned along a great circle arc, the source is a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth. One curious feature of the reports, highlighted by Mebane, is that several appear to indicate a second meteor procession on the same course around 5 hours later, although the Earth’s rotation means that there is no obvious mechanism to explain this. One observer, A. W. Brown from Thamesville, Ontario, reports seeing both the initial meteor procession and a second one on the same course at 2:20 a.m. the next day. Chant’s original report also refers to a series of three groups of “dark objects” that pass on the same course as the previous meteors from west to east over Toronto on the afternoon of February 10, which he suggests are “something of a meteoric nature.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “1913 Great Meteor Procession”; Clarence A. Chant, “An Extraordinary Meteoric Display,” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 7 1913: 145–191; Alexander D. Mebane, “Observations of the Great Fireball Procession of 1913 February 9, Made in the United States,” Meteoritics 1, no. 4 1956: 406–421; Condon, pp. 570–571; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 31–35; “Sample Press Coverage of the 1913 Meteor Procession,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 September 2006: 7; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 383–385
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_333

Event 882 (41D45223)

Date: 2/9/1913
Description: At 9:02 p.m. a formation of lights resembling an express train in the sky was seen over Eesterhazy, Mortlach and other parts of southeastern Saskatchewan. It emerged from the northwest, and continued across the sky in several successions for more than three minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: William R. Corliss & Jerome Clark, UFO Calendar 1999; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta, p. 42; citing Sky & Telescope; George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 283, citing The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 1913, p. 145
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_766

Event 883 (780BC264)

Date: 2/21/1913
Locations: Selby, North Yorkshire, England; Church Fenton railway station
Description: Evening. An airship is seen at several locations around Selby, North Yorkshire, England. It alternately flies and hovers, flashing a searchlight and skirting the roofs of houses before vanishing to the north at “great speed.” At one point a group of businessmen waiting for a train at the Church Fenton railway station are treated to the sight of a powerful searchlight running along the tracks. Other witnesses hear the whir of motors as the vehicle passes by.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Fly-by-Night,” London Daily Express, February 24, 1913, p. 7; “Night Raids by Air,” London Daily Express, February 25, 1913, p. 1; Brett Holman, “Monday, 24 February 1913,” Airminded, February 24, 2013; Brett Holman, “Tuesday, 25 February 1913,” Airminded, February 25, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_334

Event 884 (D214C770)

Date: 2/25/1913
Locations: Hornsea, Yorkshire, England; Hull; Paragon Interchange
Description: 8:00 p.m. Coast guards at Hornsea, Yorkshire, England, see a bright light traveling to the west and report it to the Admiralty. Roberrt Falconer Jameson watches it through binoculars and sees that the lights are attached to a cone-shaped craft. A little later, the object appears over Hull, seen by crowds in the city center and Paragon Interchange for over an hour. It alters its course frequently and hovers occasionally.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship Mystery,” London Daily Telegraph, February 26, 1913, p. 11; Brett Holman, “Wednesday, 26 February 1913,” Airminded, February 26, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_335

Event 885 (72FC9E23)

Date: 2/28/1913
Description: At 8:15 p.m. the trawler S.S. Othello was returning to port of was 120 miles from the coast of Humberside, England in the North Sea when an airborne object with a powerful searchlight dipped down from the night sky and circled the trawler twice at the height of the ship's masthead, with the searchlight focused on the ship. The UFO made a whirring sound as it flew. The main witness was named Parker.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Hull Daily Mail, March 4, 1913; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1171

Event 886 (424AD3D4)

Date: 3/13/1913
Locations: Schwielowsee; Caputh; Ferch; Brandenburg; Germany; Potsdam; Leipzig; Döberitz
Description: 6:00 p.m. Two women walking along a forest road by the Schwielowsee between Caputh and Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany, observe an airship catch fire and explode. The fire brigades of three villages, 40 riflemen from a local garrison, and several police officers and medical attendants rush to the scene. They search the woods south of Potsdam until early morning but find nothing. Though the women are considered trustworthy, they are accused later of hoaxing the report. Later, airman Lt. Zwickau claims that he was firing rockets while flying from Leipzig to Döberitz in order to see his way in the night.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “An Airship Catastrophe near Potsdam?” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 3; “The Tale of the Airship,” Berliner Tageblatt, March 13, 1913, p. 4; “Phantom Airships,” London Daily Telegraph, March 14, 1913, p. 15; “Mysterious Airship near Berlin,” Manchester Guardian, March 14, 1913, p. 8; Brett Holman, “Friday, 14 March 1913,” Airminded, March 14, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_336

Event 887 (20FC6B4B)

Date: 4/8/1913
Location: Cardiff, Wales
Description: 8:23 p.m. An airship reappears over Cardiff, Wales, once again seen traveling at high speed to the southwest by Chief Constable Lionel Lindsay.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Cardiff Aerial Mystery Again,” Manchester Guardian, April 9, 1913, p. 9; Brett Holman, “Wednesday, 9 April 1913,” Airminded, April 9, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_337

Event 888 (66EDFD9B)

Date: 5/1913
Alternate date: 5/1914
Location: 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas
Description: Morning. Silbie J. Latham, 12, is working with his brothers Sid and Clyde on a cotton farm 2.5 miles west of Farmersville, Texas. Their two dogs, on the other side of a picket fence 50–75 feet away, begin barking and howling. The boys stop work and go to investigate. They see a little man, dark green in color and 18 inches high, who “looked like he was sitting on something.” His arms are hanging down by his sides. He has a Mexican-looking hat on, but no other clothes. Right after the boys get there, the two dogs jump him and tear him to pieces. Blood and internal organs spew out, but it doesn’t cry out. The boys go back and check the spot the next day, but the remains are gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT , October 19, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_338

Event 889 (565501E3)

Date: 6/29/1913
Location: Lansing, Michigan
Description: Sunset. An aerial object passes over Lansing, Michigan, from southeast to northwest at a great height. It moves swiftly, taking only 3 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Aircraft Passes over Lansing at Great Rate of Speed Sunday,” Lansing Mich. State Journal, June 30, 1913, p. 3; Clark III 1167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_339

Event 890 (AE5E4303)

Date: 7/1913?
Location: STRUMA VALLEY, BULGARIA
Description: Fireball descends slow as a parachute. Going south. Lights entire sky.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 192)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_310

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Bulgaria", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "STRUMA VALLEY,BULGARIA:FBL DESCENDS SLOW AS A PARACHUTE:>S:LITES ENTIRE SKY", LatLong: "42.500002 23.166668", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 23:10:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BLG", Strangeness: "4"

Event 891 (A6B53383)

Date: 9/1913 (approximate)
Time: 21:00
Location: NEAR BRNO, MORAVIA, CZK
Description: 6 fiery red 'stars' circle point very high / sky clockwise. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_311

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Czech and Slovak Republics", Credibility: "6", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "nr BRNO,MORAVIA,CZK:6 FIERY RED 'STARS' CIRCLE POINT VHIGH/SKY CW:NFD", LatLong: "49.333336 16.583334", LatLongDMS: "49:20:00 N 16:35:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MRV", Strangeness: "5"

Event 892 (19618F5B)

Date: 10/1913
Locations: Geneva Observatory, Switzerland; Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, Arizona; Paris Observatory
Description: Swiss astronomer Fritjof Le Coultre at the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland reports seeing “bluish-white flashes” on Mars for 17 consecutive nights. Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, also observes them. However, astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan at the Paris Observatory thinks the flashes are merely “auto- suggestion.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Is Mars Trying to Signal Us?” Santa Cruz Calif. Evening News, November 24, 1913, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_340

Year: 1914 (Back to Top)

Event 893 (912F76A7)

Date: 1914
Location: Pawtucket, Rhode Island
Description: 3:00 p.m. Hans M. Schnitzler, 7, is sitting in his front yard in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, when he hears a musical humming sound and sees a 30-foot domed object about 25 feet away hovering about 10 feet above the ground across the street in front of a church. An opening appears and eight small entities emerge and begin singing a melody over and over again. Then they return inside. The object rises slowly and disappears behind the church. He remembers the melody and plays it on his harmonica years later.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Correspondence,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 6 Dec. 1982/Jan. 1983: 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_341

Event 894 (735A7148)

Date: 1/1914?
Time: 12:00?
Location: LEON, SPAIN
Description: Several observer(s). 2 men with devices on their backs. They fly away. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_312

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "LEON,SPAIN:SVRL OBS:2 MEN W/DEVICES ON THEIR BACKS:THEY FLY AWAY:NFD", LatLong: "42.633335 -5.550000", LatLongDMS: "42:38:00 N 05:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LEO", Strangeness: "10"

Event 895 (8CF367D4)

Date: 1/1/1914
Location: St. Petersburg, FL
Description: The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the way for today’s daily transcontinental flights.
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_24

Event 896 (8D384B8B)

Date: 3/1914 (approximate)
Location: ST. LEONARD DE NOBLAT, FR
Description: Green round object rests / hilltop. Figure(s) outside. Going up [to] and away fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_313

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "St.LEONARD de NOBLAT,FR:GRN ROUND OBJ RESTS/HILLTOP:FIGS OUTSIDE:↑+AWAY FAST", LatLong: "45.833336 1.500000", LatLongDMS: "45:50:00 N 01:30:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute-Vienne", Strangeness: "9"

Event 897 (DEC46897)

Date: 3/1914
Location: Lajoumard, Haute-Vienne, France
Description: Twilight. A farmer is returning to his house at Lajoumard, Haute-Vienne, France, when he sees a round, green, luminous object hovering just above a hilltop. Several small beings emerge, walk around the machine, and go back inside. The object takes off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT , March 3, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_342

Event 898 (B294D099)

Date: 6/1914
Time: 04:00
Location: HAMBURG, GER
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape / lit windows / field. 4-5 dwarfs reboard. Vertical ascent. / r8#39.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_314

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "HAMBURG,GER:CGR/LIT WINDOWS/FIELD:4-5 DWARFS REBOARD:vertical ascent:/r8#39", LatLong: "53.550003 10.066667", LatLongDMS: "53:33:00 N 10:04:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SCH", Strangeness: "9"

Event 899 (EE1831DB)

Date: 6/1914
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Description: 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigar- shaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_65

Event 900 (ACBB3B56)

Date: 6/1914
Time: 0400
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Description: Gustav Herwagen opened the door of his house and saw in a field a shining cigarshaped object with illuminated windows. Near it were four or five dwarfs 1.20 m tall, clad in light clothing. He approached them, but they went aboard the object as soon as they appeared to be aware of his presence. A door closed, and the craft took off silently, climbing vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Nachrichten April, 62 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_39

Event 901 (63531413)

Date: 6/1914
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Description: 4:00 a.m. Gustav Herwagen sees a cigar-shaped object with luminous portholes in a field next to his house in Hamburg, Germany. Near it are 4–5 dwarfs about 4 feet tall. He walks toward them, but they flee inside the ship, which ascends and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 262; Patrick Gross, URECAT , November 28, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_344

Event 902 (84EFB945)

Date: Summer 1914
Location: Mount Lyndhurst Station, South Australia
Description: Mid-afternoon. For about 60 minutes at Mount Lyndhurst Station, South Australia, an unusual substance floats by at a constant altitude. Some pieces, 6–8 inches long, fall to earth and leave no trace.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Angel Hair: An Australian Perspective,” IUR 27, no. 1 Spring 2002: 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_343

Event 903 (C2C235C1)

Date: 7/28/1914
End date: 11/11/1918
Description: World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_25

Event 904 (54E417A8)

Date: 8/1914
Time: 02:00?
Location: GEORGIAN BAY, ONT
Description: 8 observer(s). Sphere/orb/globe floats / bay. Small humanoids (or Greys) draw water / hose. Scared away / deer!
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: FLYING SAUCER OCCUPANTS; Signet Books, NY 1967. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_315

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "176", HatchDesc: "GEORGIAN BAY,ONT:8 OBS:ORB FLOATS/BAY:OIDS DRAW WATER/HOSE:SCARED AWAY/DEER!", LatLong: "45.250002 -80.833337", LatLongDMS: "45:15:00 N 80:50:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "9"

Event 905 (0967BAFE)

Date: 8/1914
Location: Georgian Bay, CAN
Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. (This was shown to be as a hoax a long time ago.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_67

Event 906 (2F86EA34)

Date: 8/1914
Location: Georgian Bay, Canada
Description: William J. Kiehl and seven other persons saw a spherical craft on the surface of the water. On its deck were two small men wearing green-purple clothes. They seemed to be busy with a hose, plunging it into the water. On the opposite side were three men dressed in light brown, wearing square masks down to their shoulders. Seeing the witnesses, they reentered the craft except for one dwarf, wearing shoes with a curved, pointed tip, who remained outside while the craft rose 3 m above the water and shot upward, leaving a short trail.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 199 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_40

Event 907 (1A448038)

Date: 8/1914
Locations: Georgian Bay, Ontario; small cove along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario
Description: William J. Kiehl, 18, is with seven others in a small cove along the shore of Georgian Bay, Ontario. They see a strange machine on the surface of the lake. Two little men wearing square masks and purple-green coveralls are working with a hose leading from the water to inside the UFO. Three other figures, dressed in khaki, are adjusting some rods that are pulsating with various colors. The beings notice the group watching them and run into the machine, which starts vibrating with colors. It starts to ascend, but one being has not made it inside and is hanging on. After hovering 12 feet in the air to balance itself, it rapidly accelerates upward. A likely hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Old-Timer Tells of Outer Spacemen in Letter to Wanaque Police Officer,” Paterson N.J. News, August 15, 1966, p. 9; Clark III 262; Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, Berkley Medallion, 1976
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_345

Event 908 (FC8EDE59)

Date: 8/10/1914
End date: 8/11/1914
Locations: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England; Vickers shipyard
Description: Night. Maj. Becke, commander of defenses at Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England, reports that two or three cigar-shaped airships are seen above the Vickers shipyard. Soldiers fire upon them with machine guns and the only anti-aircraft battery on the west coast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, p. 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_346

Event 909 (08037287)

Date: 8/11/1914
End date: 9/9/1914
Location: South Africa
Description: Many British residents in South Africa observe a mystery monoplane that is assumed to be on a German reconnaissance mission. Most of the sightings are at night and at a distance. The government issues a statement on August 29 that there are no Union airplanes in South Africa, so any mystery aircraft are assumed to be enemies and should be fired upon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Aeroplane,” Cape Times, August 21, 1914; “Aeroplanes in the Union,” Cape Times, August 22, 1914, p. 7; “Mysterious Airship at Sanday,” Pretoria News, August 24, 1914, p. 5; “Aeroplane Mystery,” Johannesburg Star, August 26, 1914, p. 4; “The Mysterious Aeroplane,” Cape Argus, August 27, 1914, p. 5; “Aviator Discusses Air Visitors,” Cape Times, September 5, 1914, p. 5; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 487–489
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_347

Event 910 (D60032E5)

Date: 8/13/1914
Location: ELSTREE, HERTFORDS, ENG
Description: 'Horrible bunching dumb-bell-like things over town'.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 36)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_316

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ELSTREE,HERTFORDs,ENG: 'HORRIBLE BUNCHING DUMB-BELL-LIKE THINGS OVR TOWN'", LatLong: "51.650002 -0.266667", LatLongDMS: "51:39:00 N 00:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 911 (5326683F)

Date: 8/13/1914
Location: Sweaburg, Ontario
Description: 7:30 p.m. High Constable Hobson and numerous residents of Sweaburg, Ontario, see “two large aeroplanes” pass from east to west. Sporadic sightings of mystery airplanes continue in the region for the next two weeks.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Reports Aeroplanes over Oxford Village,” London Free Press, August 13, 1914, p. 2; “Three Aeroplanes Scan Topography of the Province, London Ont. Free Press, September 5, 1914, p. 8; Barry Greenwood, “And Yet More in 1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 September 2006: 6; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, p. 491
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_348

Event 912 (25417C8D)

Date: 8/14/1914
Locations: Montpelier, Vermont; Winooski River; C. P. Gill stone cutting plant
Description: Afternoon. A large ball of fire sweeps over the southeast portion of Montpelier, Vermont, seen by employees of the C. P. Gill stone cutting plant near the Winooski River. It is accompanied by a loud noise. One man says the heat of the object has scorched his hands. The plant motor stops as the object passes over, and insulation from some electrical wires is found burned off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Great Ball of Fire,” Rutland Vt. Daily Herald, August 18, 1914, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_349

Event 913 (3BE6725E)

Date: 8/17/1914
Location: WORCESTER, RSA
Description: 15 observer(s). Strong searchlight / sky. Many report(s) to August / 1914. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: HIND, Cynthia: UFO'S, AFRICAN ENCOUNTERS; Gemini Books, Salisbury, Zimbabwe 1982. 236pp (Index 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_317

Extra Data: Country: "Republic of South Africa", Credibility: "10", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "WORCESTER,RSA:15 OBS:STRONG SEARCHLITE/SKY:MANY Rpts to AUG/1914:NFD", LatLong: "-33.583335 19.516668", LatLongDMS: "33:35:00 S 19:31:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CAP", Strangeness: "5"

Event 914 (8DE5CA24)

Date: 9/1914
Location: Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales
Description: Two schoolboys named Uden and Hopkins are wandering along Caerphilly Mountain, South Wales, when they encounter an unexpected mist. Two white humanoid figures with piercing eyes and unusually tall hats are standing at the edge of it. They approach, and the boys take off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 262–263; Patrick Gross, URECAT, March 5, 2013; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1910–1939, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_351

Event 915 (FCFC2E0E)

Date: 9/6/1914
Description: Flight Commander C. E. Rathbone of the Felixstowe Naval Air Station, Suffolk, England returned from an early morning patrol in his seaplane to make perhaps the first report of a UFO sighting by a military officer. He reported that, "At 5:35 a.m. whilst on patrol, I sighted an airship steering south-southeast with a silver-colored envelope on the horizon, while flying at 1,300 feet, 27 miles south of Orfordness."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George A. Filer & David E. Twichell, Filer's Files: Wordwide Reports of UFO Sightings, p. 118, citing David Clarke
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5671

Event 916 (CD44F48C)

Date: 9/9/1914
Locations: West Norwood, south London, England; Ashstead, Surrey
Description: Mid-day. Amateur astronomer William Herbert Steavenson points his 3-inch refracting telescope in West Norwood, south London, England, at the planet Mercury, then about 8° distant from the Sun, when a round, luminous object the apparent size of the planet, but brighter, speeds across his field, passing centrally from south to north in about 3 seconds. A few seconds later, another appears going in the same direction. More follow, and the display continues until at least 3:00 p.m. when the sky becomes overcast. He watches several hundred bodies pass; about half are perfectly round and the rest are dumbbell shaped. All the objects are well defined and intrinsically brighter than Venus. The prevailing color is yellowish white. Steavenson sends a telegram to the Rev. T. E. R. Phillips at Ashstead, Surrey, but the sky is now overcast and he cannot confirm the observation. Steavensen thinks high-altitude seeds are the most likely explanation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: W. H. Steavenson, “Bright Objects Observed near the Sun,” Journal of the British Astronomical Association 25 1914: 36–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_352

Event 917 (336C99E6)

Date: Autumn 1914
Alternate date: 1915
Location: Bujoreanca, Romania
Description: Dusk. A man is having an outdoor meal with his family in Bujoreanca, Romania, when they see a reddish object moving to the east 60 feet above the ground, causing trees to bend from its movement, and making a whistling noise. It leaves a trail of glowing sparks and reappears for 6–7 days in the same position.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 224
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_350

Event 918 (7B310323)

Date: 10/5/1914
Description: At Silver Bell Siding in Tasmania, Australia a lighted object appeared traveling from MacQuarie Heads to Mount Dundas. Two lights were distinctly visible, and intermittent rays of light were thrown to the ground.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Australasian Ufologist, January 2001, p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6561

Event 919 (06F33986)

Date: 10/10/1914
Time: 13:00?
Location: MANCESTER, ENGL
Description: 1 observer. Absolute(ly) black spindle crosses sun. Halo fluctuates / front end.
Type: sighting
Reference: Periodical: English Mechanic #100 (16 Oct. 1914) pg. 256: Albert Alfred Buss: "Cosmic and Terrestrial Flosam and Jetsam" http://www.resologist.net/lands224.htm#N_3_
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_318

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "73", HatchDesc: "MANCESTER,ENGL:1 OBS:ABS.BLACK SPINDLE CROSSES SUN:HALO FLUCTUATES/FRONT END", LatLong: "53.483336 -2.233333", LatLongDMS: "53:29:00 N 02:14:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 920 (0E9756C5)

Date: 10/10/1914
Location: Manchester, England
Description: Afternoon. Albert Alfred Buss is observing the sun using a spectrographic telescope at Manchester, England, when he sees an “absolutely black spindle-shaped object” against the sun.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Albert Alfred Buss, “Cosmic and Terrestrial Flotsam and Jetsam,” English Mechanic 100 October 14, 1914: 256
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_353

Event 921 (0ABC8348)

Date: 11/21/1914
Locations: Skjaervser lighthouse; Mindlandet, Nordland, Norway
Description: Some 20–30 people watch an airship flying at 2,300 feet descend to about 1,300 feet and shine a searchlight on a passing ship near Skjaervser lighthouse on the island of Mindlandet, Nordland, Norway.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Airship at Tjølta,” Morgenbladet, November 25, 1914, p. 2; Clark III 1167–1168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_354

Event 922 (EB06560B)

Date: 12/15/1914
Locations: Hull; Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England; Lincolnshire
Description: 4:10 p.m. The crew of a Hull trawler, the SS Ape, is streaming toward Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, when they see a “black object astern” which gradually approaches them. It turns and heads for the Lincolnshire coast where it vanishes in the fog.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_355

Year: 1915 (Back to Top)

Event 923 (BE56D64E)

Date: 2/9/1915
Time: 05:00
Location: BIGFORK, MT
Description: 1 observer. Large dark airship / low altitude. Buzzes. Going quickly southwest. Flathead Courier 11.2.15.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_319

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "905", HatchDesc: "BIGFORK,MT:1 OBS:LRG DARK AIRSHIP/LO ALT:BUZZES:>>SW:Flathead Courier 11.2.15", LatLong: "48.050002 -114.072228", LatLongDMS: "48:03:00 N 114:04:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 924 (11DFE145)

Date: 2/9/1915
Description: A large dark airship flew at a low altitude near Bigfork, Montana around five o'clock in the late afternoon. It headed off toward the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, volume 8 (1977), citing the Flathead Courier, February 11, 1915
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_767

Event 925 (A0D11083)

Date: 2/14/1915
Locations: Brockville, Ontario; Morristown, New York; Gananoque, Ontario; Ottawa; Parliament Hill; Ottawa
Description: 9:15 p.m. The mayor and three city constables of Brockville, Ontario, see the lights of unknown aircraft crossing the St. Lawrence River heading for Ottawa. They can hear the sound of motors. A second flying machine is heard as it crosses the river from the direction of Morristown, New York. Three balls of fire drop from it into the river. Two more objects pass from the east and west ends of Brockville. The mayor, who has seen one of the planes flash a searchlight beam that lights up a city block, tells the police chief to alert the mayor and police chief in Ottawa. At 9:30 p.m., the mayor of Gananoque, Ontario, reports that two invisible aircraft are heard flying over his town. Prime Minister Robert Borden hears about the reports and orders the lights on Parliament Hill to be turned off at 11:15 p.m. The entire city follows suit 5 minutes later. The airplanes do not reappear, but Ottawa is placed on high alert. Later, Brockville police find two paper balloons that might explain the sightings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ottawa in Darkness Awaits Airplane Raid,” Toronto Globe, February 15, 1915, pp. 1–2; “Scare in Ottawa over an Air Raid,” New York Times, February 15, 1915, p. 1; Brett Holman, “The Air Raid That Didn’t,” Airminded, February 13, 2014; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 492–493; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 36–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_356

Event 926 (E34A03EF)

Date: 2/15/1915
Locations: Toronto, Ontario; Guelph; Ontario Agricultural College
Description: Early morning. Residents in a Toronto, Ontario, suburb notify police of a “strange aeroplane” hovering above their homes. Later, a man in Guelph sees “three moving lights passing over” the Ontario Agricultural College. He alerts other residents in his boarding house and they watch the silent lights until dawn.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 37–38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_357

Event 927 (DDFCAAC1)

Date: 4/26/1915
Locations: United States; Fort Lee, New Jersey
Description: Possibly the first UFO film ever made, The Mysterious Airship premieres in the United States. A lost two-reel French short produced by the Ideal Film Company in Fort Lee, New Jersey, and distributed by United Film Service, the film does involve a mysterious airship built by aeronauts, but it is more of a murder mystery.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “United Film Service,” The Moving Picture World 24 May 1, 1915: 806; Barry Greenwood, “UFO Feature Film: In 1914!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 12 September 2006: 2–4; Barry Greenwood, “The Mysterious Airship : An Early Silent Film, Update,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 14 May 2015: 1–3; Internet Movie Database, “The Mysterious Airship”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_358

Event 928 (E423978F)

Date: 5/24/1915
Description: The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a "crime against humanity" in reference to that regime's persecution of its Christian minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_26

Event 929 (671B240B)

Date: Late 6/1915
Locations: Ashburton, Devon, England; Haytor rocks on Dartmoor; Hexworthy; Dartington
Description: Just before dawn. Cecilia Peel Yates of Ashburton, Devon, England, is awakened by her dogs barking. She sees outside her bedroom window a bright light in the sky bearing north. It disappears in the direction of Haytor rocks on Dartmoor. This incident is followed by others at Hexworthy and Dartington in July and August, so much so that British Naval Intelligence sends two officers out to investigate.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nick Redfern, “UFOs and the Military, 1915: Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; Nick Redfern, “UFOs and the Military, 1915: Pt. 2,” Mysterious Universe, May 8, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_359

Event 930 (330433A5)

Date: 7/31/1915
Location: BALLINASLOE, IRELAND
Description: Large luminous body going northwest. Stops 45 minute(s). Continues slowly. Seen / 5 hours.
Type: sighting
Reference: LESLIE, Desmond & ADAMSKI,G: Flying Saucers Have Landed; British Book Center, NY 1956 (Index 36)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_320

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "44", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "BALLINASLOE,IRELAND:LARGE LUM.BODY>NW:STOPS 45min:CONTINUES SLOWLY:SEEN/5hrs", LatLong: "53.333336 -8.216667", LatLongDMS: "53:20:00 N 08:13:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 931 (595A9C52)

Date: 8/7/1915
Time: 21:20
Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
Description: 2 observer(s) and? Huge glowing blimp hovers / 80 minute(s). Vanishes / 1 minute(s). Buzzes.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_321

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "80", HatchDesc: "BERLIN,GERMANY:2 OBS+?:HUGE GLOWING BLIMP HVRS/80min:VANISHES/1min:BUZZES", LatLong: "52.516669 13.400001", LatLongDMS: "52:31:00 N 13:24:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "6"

Event 932 (D26F293C)

Date: 8/10/1915 (approximate)
Time: 22:00
Location: NORTH / CALGARY, ALTA
Description: Huge blimp with blinding light slowly going south. Hovers then enormous speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 320)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_322

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "10", Duration: "224", Elev: "1067", HatchDesc: "N/CALGARY,ALTA:HUGE BLIMP W/BLINDING LITE SLOWLY >S:HVRS THEN ENORMOUS SPEED.", LatLong: "51.083336 -114.083339", LatLongDMS: "51:05:00 N 114:05:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "7"

Event 933 (9E94F56B)

Date: 8/21/1915
Location: Gallipoli, Turkey
Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit. (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_69

Event 934 (2D97A49B)

Date: 8/21/1915
Location: Gallipoli, Turkey
Description: During severe fighting in the Dardanelles a peculiar cloud engulfed a British regiment which was never seen again. This was observed by 22 men of the First Field Company, NZ Army Corps and stated in an affidavit.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Spaceview 45; LDLN 82; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_41

Event 935 (2D442AD7)

Date: 9/4/1915
Time: 21:30
Location: DARLINGTON, DEVON
Description: Bright white sphere/orb/globe rises / meadow to 15M altitude. Clear outline. Heads off.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John & EVANS, Hillary (ed): PHENOMENON - 40 YEARS of F.S.; BUFORA/Avon Books, NY 1988 (Index 312)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_323

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "62", HatchDesc: "DARLINGTON,DEVON:BRITE WHT ORB RISES/MEADOW TO 15M alt:CLEAR OUTLINE:HEADS OFF", LatLong: "50.450002 -3.705556", LatLongDMS: "50:27:00 N 03:42:20 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 936 (B4984C35)

Date: 9/4/1915
Location: Dartmoor, Devon, England
Description: 9:30 p.m. Two British Naval Intelligence officers, Lt. Col. William Price Drury and Lt. C. Brownlow, on Dartmoor, Devon, England, watch a “bright white light, considerably larger in appearance than a planet” ascend steadily from a meadow to a height of 50–60 feet. It then swings 300 feet or so to the left and suddenly vanishes. The officers have been investigating reports of similar lights seen in the region during the summer. In December, GHQ Home Forces issues a 16-page confidential report on the investigation and concludes there is “no evidence on which to base a suspicion that this class of enemy activity ever existed” and that 89% of the reports are explained. Some “moving lights in the air” are attributed to marsh gas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nick Redfern, “UFOs and the Military, 1915: Pt. 1,” Mysterious Universe, May 7, 2014; UFOFiles2, pp. 11–12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_360

Event 937 (4F71BDB4)

Date: 11/1915
Description: Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_27

Attributes: Einstein

Year: 1916 (Back to Top)

Event 938 (D433D4C9)

Date: 1916?
Location: Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England
Description: Mrs. Whiteland of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, sees from an open window a “round platform” on which nearly a dozen men wearing blue uniforms and little round hats stand gripping a handrail. It is moving in the air about 30 feet above the house and coming from the direction of a nearby marsh. It moves toward a railway yard and disappears behind some houses.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 263; “The Aldeburgh Platform,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1969, pp. 23–24; “The Aldeburgh Platform,” parts 1–3; David Halperin, “UFOs, Screen Memories, and the Aldeburgh Platform Mystery,” April 8, 2016; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 299–314
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_361

Event 939 (B21588F0)

Date: 1/31/1916
Time: 20:50
Location: ROCHFORT, ENGL
Description: RAF pilot. Row / windows in sky. Quickly going up [to] and away / pilot shoots. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). / r150.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_324

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ROCHFORT,ENGL:RAF PILOT:ROW/WINDOWS in sky:↑↑+AWAY/PILOT SHOOTS:EME:/r150", LatLong: "51.550002 0.716667", LatLongDMS: "51:33:00 N 00:43:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 940 (5DB5C933)

Date: 1/31/1916
Location: Rochford, Essex, UK
Description: British A/c Encounters Object With Row of Illuminated Windows (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 19160131
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_70

Event 941 (09B72601)

Date: 1/31/1916
Locations: Romford, Essex, England; Rochford, Essex
Description: 8:25 p.m. Royal Flying Corps Lieut. Reginald Maxwell is cruising his B.E.2c biplane at 10,000 feet near Romford, Essex, England, patrolling for German Zeppelins. He sees an “artificial light” to the north. He follows it northeast for 20 minutes, but it moves higher and he loses it in the clouds. At the same time, Royal Flying Corps pilot Sub-Lieut. J. Eric Morgan, also flying a B.E.2c at 5,000 feet near Rochford, Essex, and looking for Zeppelins, sees an object about 100 feet away with a row of windows “like a railway carriage with the blinds drawn.” He tries to close on it, but his engine is malfunctioning. When he fires his pistol at it, the lights rise and rapidly disappear. Morgan is forced to make a crash landing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Capt. Joseph Morris, The German Air Raids on Great Britain, 1914–1918, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1925, pp. 81–82; David Clarke, “Britain’s First Military UFO Encounter?” Part 1 and Part 2 , The Real UFO Project, 2004; UFOFiles2, p. 10; Patrick Gross, “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 10, 2021, and “Near Rochford,” August 2, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_362

Event 942 (983CF03E)

Date: 1/31/1916
Description: Royal Flying Corps pilot Lt. Morgan was flying at 5000 feet over Rochford, Essex, England on this evening on the lookout for Zeppelins. At 8:25 p.m. he saw an object with a row of lights like the windows on a railway carriage with the blinds drawn. He tried to close but his airplane's engine started malfunctioning. When he fired a pistol at the lights they rose rapidly into the heavens and disappeared out of sight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 10 citing J. Morris, p. 81; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6; Ron Halliday, UFO Scotland: The Secret History of Scotland's UFO Phenomenon, p. 89
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_633

Event 943 (F677B983)

Date: 2/29/1916
Location: Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin
Description: 4:30 a.m. John Tullyson, head watchman at Globe Elevators, and John Gustavson at the Carnegie Coal Dock in Superior, Wisconsin, hear an engine noise and see a large flying object “50 feet wide and 100 feet long,” with three lights, “one on each end and one in the middle.” Moving swiftly at 600 feet altitude, the object carries a long rope trailing behind it with a large object attached to it. Three “men” are inside the craft, one of them sitting in the front of the machine. The other two seem to be looking around. Possible Chinese lantern or airplane.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mysterious Aeroplane Continues Nocturnal Trips over Superior,” Superior Wis. Telegram, February 29, 1916, p. 5; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT , March 16, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_363

Event 944 (F523DCD7)

Date: 2/29/1916
Description: In Superior, Wisconsin at 4:30 a.m. several dock workers observed the passage of a large flying machine in which three men were clearly visible.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1186

Event 945 (0F90B37B)

Date: 3/12/1916
Location: Lowry, South Dakota
Description: Early evening. Claude D. McGee is walking home from a trip to a ranch outside Lowry, South Dakota, when he sees a strange glowing light in the hills ahead of him. Suddenly the light swings in a huge arc down into the valley but stays close to the wall of hills where it comes to rest. It stays there a few moments then swings back to where it had been about 2 miles away. It repeats the action twice then disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_364

Event 946 (6846603E)

Date: 5/4/1916
Location: National Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina
Description: Evening. Astronomers Charles Dillon Perrine and Anna Estelle Glancy observe an object resembling a comet at the National Observatory in Córdoba, Argentina. It is moving remarkably fast, moving 10° toward the sun within an hour and passes below the horizon. It has a prominent tail of 8°–10° in length.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Comet or Meteor?” Scientific American 115 1916: 493
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_365

Event 947 (39A073F3)

Date: 6/1916 (approximate)
Time: ~11:00
Location: RENSSELAER, IN
Description: Dull grey 12M ovoid hovers near ground. Streaks away / 25° angle to 8000kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_325

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "212", HatchDesc: "RENSSELAER,IN:DULL GRY 12M OVOID HVRS nr GND:STREAKS AWAY/25°ANGLE to 8000kph", LatLong: "40.938891 -87.150004", LatLongDMS: "40:56:20 N 87:09:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 948 (9AE328FF)

Date: 7/19/1916
Time: 23:00
Location: HUNTINGTON, WV
Description: Unidentified luminous blimp going [to] over town. Vanishes and reappears. / r85p36+/ r242p129.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_326

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "173", HatchDesc: "HUNTINGTON,WV:UID LUMn.BLIMP > OVR TOWN:VANISHES+REAPPEARS:/r85p36+/r242p129", LatLong: "38.400002 -82.450004", LatLongDMS: "38:24:00 N 82:27:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 949 (CB374D22)

Date: 7/19/1916
Location: Huntington, WV
Description: Elongated Oval Object Hovers Near Ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 160719
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_71

Event 950 (4D73A02A)

Date: 7/19/1916
Location: Huntington, West Virginia
Description: 10:30 p.m. Walter H. Eager and another witness in Huntington, West Virginia, watch a nebulous object in the shape of a dirigible that slowly fades from view. Possibly a light pillar created by a nearby blast furnace.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Walter H. Eager, “An Unusual Aurora,” Scientific American 115 1916: 241; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, Redemption of the Damned, vol. 1, Anomalist, 2019, pp. 391–397
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_366

Event 951 (CD3531EB)

Date: 7/19/1916
Description: A luminous blimp-shaped flying object flew over Huntington, West Virginia at eleven o'clock at night. It vanished and reappeared.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Fort, Book of the Damned, p. 278
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4187

Event 952 (3E65656D)

Date: 10/1916
Location: Youngstown, PA
Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_72

Event 953 (0F6B1D4C)

Date: 12/17/1916
Description: On the Western front in Europe, Canadian soldier Maurice Philipp Tuteur and two sergeant majors watch a Zeppelin-like object rise into the clouds in the rear of their lines. It darts ahead at an estimated speed of 200 mph, turns around, darts backward, and shoots up and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_367

Year: 1917 (Back to Top)

Event 954 (A0C2BCEA)

Date: 4/1917
Location: African American neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina
Description: Night. Residents of the African American neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, report hearing strange, motor-like noises in the air at night for several nights. Some have fleeting glimpses of the swiftly moving dark objects that are causing the noise.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Colored People Are Seeing Visions,” Charlotte N.C. News, April 11, 1917, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_368

Event 955 (8FA017BE)

Date: 4/13/1917
Locations: Portsmouth, New Hampshire; Kittery, Maine
Description: Early morning. Two National Guardsmen from Company L of the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry are stationed on the bridge linking Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Kittery, Maine, when they hear the noise of an airplane. They see an unidentified aircraft circling near the bridge. When it descends, apparently to make a pass at the bridge, one of the guardsmen panics and fires his rifle at it. It moves off and disappears in the distance. Other vague reports continue through April 30.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Hunt for Aircraft Base,” Manchester N.H. Union, April 14, 1917, pp. 1, 3; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 496–497
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_369

Event 956 (B6D722AA)

Date: 4/14/1917
Time: 02:30
Location: PORTSMOUTH, NH
Description: Guards fire on mystery plane. 'Toy balloon with smoke'. Turns going north going [to] cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_327

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "PORTSMOUTH,NH:GUARDS FIRE ON MYSTERY PLANE:'TOY BALLOON W/SMOKE':TURNS>N>CLOUD", LatLong: "43.066669 -70.750003", LatLongDMS: "43:04:00 N 70:45:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "4"

Event 957 (CD1FBAF2)

Date: 5/13/1917
Time: ~13:00
Location: FATIMA, PORTUGAL
Description: 3 kids. Flash. Small woman appears. Back every month to October.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOURENCO, Victor: The PORTUCAT CATALOG; (BBS Download). (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_328

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), TLP: Telepathy, CNT: Contactee related, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "FATIMA,PORTUGAL:3 KIDS:FLASH:SML WOMAN APPEARS:BACK EVERY MONTH TO OCTOBER", LatLong: "39.600002 -8.583334", LatLongDMS: "39:36:00 N 08:35:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RBT", Strangeness: "9"

Event 958 (6685C66D)

Date: 5/13/1917
Locations: Cova da Iria; Fátima, Portugal
Description: Three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal—Lúcia dos Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto—report seeing a woman “brighter than the sun, shedding rays of light clearer and stronger than a crystal goblet filled with the most sparkling water and pierced by the burning rays of the sun.” The woman wears a white mantle edged with gold and holds a rosary in her hand. She asks them to devote themselves to the Holy Trinity and to pray “the Rosary every day.” The children had seen an “angel” at the cove since the spring of 1916.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Our Lady of Fátima”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_370

Event 959 (2ABB466E)

Date: 6/13/1917
Location: Fátima, Portugal
Description: The three children at Fátima, Portugal, again see the lady, who reveals that Francisco and Jacinta will be “taken to heaven” soon, but Lúcia will live longer to spread the message. The lady also purportedly reveals to the children a vision of hell and entrusts a secret to them, described as “good for some and bad for others.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Our Lady of Fátima”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_371

Event 960 (D1ADC63E)

Date: 8/13/1917
Locations: Fátima; Aljustrel; Portugal; Cova da Iria
Description: Some 18,000 people have been flocking to Fátima and nearby Aljustrel, Portugal, drawn by reports of visions and miracles. The assembled multitude hears thunder and witnesses lightning in a clear blue sky. Then the sun grows pale and a cloud hovers above the oak tree where the apparitions usually appear. Provincial administrator Artur de Oliveira Santos, believing that these events are politically disruptive, takes the children into custody, jailing them before they can reach the Cova da Iria. Santos interrogates and threatens the children to get them to divulge the contents of the secrets.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_372

Event 961 (7DF0986B)

Date: 8/13/1917
Description: A luminous globe was seen spinning through the clouds by over 18,000 witnesses who had assembled at Fatima, in the Cova da Iria, Portugal to see another monthly apparition of the "Lady in Blue", thought to be the Virgin Mary by Roman Catholic faithful. The sky turned rainbow colors including pink, yellow, and blue. There was a perceived lowering of the temperature, and angel hair residue.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 145
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4958

Event 962 (537F8755)

Date: Late Summer 1917
Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania
Description: 12:30 p.m. John Boback is walking along railroad tracks in Youngstown, Pennsylvania, when he hears a swishing sound and sees an elliptical object about 100 feet away on the ground in a pasture. It has portholes emitting ligt from the interior and a smooth surface. Moments later the object ascends smoothly in a gradual climb and flies away to the east.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp. 104–105
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_374

Event 963 (E418447B)

Date: 8/19/1917
Locations: Cova da Iria; Valinhos, Portugal
Description: Instead of the promised apparition in the Cova da Iria on August 13, the children see the Virgin Mary at nearby Valinhos, Portugal. She asks them again to pray the rosary daily, speaks about the miracle coming in October, and asks them “to pray a lot.”
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_373

Event 964 (3807B310)

Date: Early 9/1917
Location: Salida, Colorado
Description: Witnesses at Salida, Colorado, watch distant moving lights flicking on and off over a period of several days. Through a telescope, one light appears to be a revolving wheel with lights on it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Arlene Shovald, “Edwards’ UFO Sighting Not Salida’s First,” Salida Colo. Mountain Mail, September 7, 1995; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_375

Event 965 (4672F3CF)

Date: 9/13/1917
Location: Cova da Iria, Portugal
Description: With the three children in attendance, the crowd at the Cova da Iria, Portugal, see a “luminous globe” sail across the sky. A white cloud envelops the children and the oak tree. A rain of white roses is said to have fallen out of the heavens but dissolves just before landing. Behind the cloud, the crowd can see Lúcia talking to the invisible lady.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_376

Event 966 (3A9BD4DE)

Date: 10/1917 (approximate)
Time: 12:30
Location: YOUNGSTOWN, PA
Description: Swish! 3M saucer / field by railway. Lit windows / dome. Going up [to] slow. Going quickly east. / r8#42.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 11)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_329

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "335", HatchDesc: "YOUNGSTOWN,PA:SWISH!:3M SCR/FLD by RAILWAY:LIT WINDOWS/DOME:↑ SLOW:>>E:/r8#42", LatLong: "40.283335 -79.361115", LatLongDMS: "40:17:00 N 79:21:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"

Event 967 (AF62DF74)

Date: 10/1917
Location: Youngstown, Pennsylvania
Description: John Boback, 17, was walking along the railroad tracks between Youngstown and Mt. Braddock when he saw a saucer-shaped object with a platform and rows of lights, sitting in a field 30 m to his left. He watched the object for 1-2 min until it took off with a high-pitched sound, rising gradually like a slow plane. Its size was that of an average car. The top of the object was a dome with elongated windows through which figures could be seen.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Hartle 157 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_42

Event 968 (18C515B9)

Date: 10/1917
Locations: Connington; KwaZulu-Natal midlands; South Africa
Description: Seven-year-old Elizabeth Klarer and her older sister Barbara have their first alleged encounter with a UFO on their parents’ farm Connington in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands, South Africa. While playing outside the farmhouse, Elizabeth claims to witness a giant orange-red wheel rolling across the sky. The plummeting object, also described as a fiery pockmarked meteor or planetoid, is intercepted by a silver disc bathed in a pearly luster. Around this time Elizabeth begins receiving occasional telepathic messages from a friendly space alien named Akon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 657; Elizabeth Klarer, Beyond the Light Barrier, Howard Timmins, 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_377

Event 969 (D9DEF619)

Date: 10/13/1917
Time: 13:50
Location: FATIMA, PORTUGAL
Description: 50000 observer(s). Opalescent saucer rotates. Only kids see pseudo-human/entity with silver sphere/orb/globe.
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHELL, John: The FLYING SAUCER VISION; Ace-Star Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_330

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, TLP: Telepathy, CNT: Contactee related, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, HST: Historical account, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "15", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "FATIMA,PORTUGAL:50000 OBS:OPALESCENT SCR ROTATES:ONLY KIDS SEE PSH W/SLVR ORB", LatLong: "39.600002 -8.600000", LatLongDMS: "39:36:00 N 08:36:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RBT", Strangeness: "8"

Event 970 (02944276)

Date: 10/13/1917
Location: Cova da Iria, Portugal
Description: After some newspapers report that the Virgin Mary has promised a miracle for the last of her apparitions, a huge crowd, possibly between 30,000 and 100,000, including reporters and photographers, gathers at Cova da Iria, Portugal. What happens then becomes known as the “Miracle of the Sun.” Various claims are made as to what really happened. The three children report seeing a panorama of visions during the event, including those of Jesus, Our Lady of Sorrows, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and Saint Joseph blessing the people. Father John de Marchi, an Italian Catholic priest and researcher who wrote several books on the subject, included descriptions by witnesses who believe they observed a miracle created by Mary, the mother of Jesus. After a period of rain, the dark clouds break and the Sun appears as an opaque, spinning disc in the sky. It appears significantly duller than normal and casts multicolored lights across the landscape, the people, and the surrounding clouds. The Sun then seems to careen towards the earth before zigzagging back to its normal position. Witnesses report that their previously wet clothes become “suddenly and completely dry, as well as the wet and muddy ground that had been previously soaked because of the rain that had been falling.” Not all witnesses report seeing the Sun “dance.” Some people only see the radiant colors, and others, including some believers, see nothing at all. The only known picture of the Sun taken during the event does not show anything unusual. No unusual solar phenomena are observed by scientists. Some theologians, scientists, and skeptics have offered alternative explanations that include psychological suggestibility of the witnesses, temporary retinal distortion caused by staring at the intense light of the Sun, a sundog, and optical effects caused by natural meteorological phenomena. The Miracle of the Sun is interpreted by others as a UFO event. Investigator Joe Nickell thinks that the effects are “a combination of factors, including optical effects and meteorological phenomena, such as the sun being seen through thin clouds, causing it to appear as a silver disc. Other possibilities include an alteration in the density of the passing clouds, causing the sun’s image to alternately brighten and dim and so seem to advance and recede, and dust or moisture droplets in the atmosphere refracting the sunlight and thus imparting a variety of colors.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Miracle of the Sun”; Clark III 484–485; “O Milagre do Fátima,” Ilustração Portuguesa, no. 610 October 29, 1917: 353– 355; John de Marchi, The True Story of Fatima , St. Paul, Minn.: Catechetical Guild Educational Society, 1956; Joe Nickell, “The Real Secrets of Fatima,” Skeptical Inquirer 33, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 2009: 14–17; Jeffrey S. Bennett, When the Sun Danced, University of Virginia, 2012; Auguste Meessen, “Apparitions and Miracles of the Sun,” in Science, Religion, and Conscience, Actas do Forum International, Centro Transdisciplinar de Estudos da Consciência, October 23–25, 2003, Santos, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_378

Event 971 (F3A9AB4E)

Date: 10/13/1917
Description: Approximately 70,000 people crowded the fields surrounding the Cova da Iria, a grotto in Fatima, Portugal to witness a promised miracle. Miraculous events and apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary had been occurring monthly on the 13th of every month since three children--Lucia, Jesus and Marto-- had first met a mysterious lady in blue there in May. Not many of those in the crowd, even those close to the three children, were able to witness the apparition of the Lady on this day, but it is reported that everyone present saw "something." The most common description was of a "gyrating sun" that became a silver disc, and emitted bright rainbow shafts of light, changing colors in succession from red to violet to blue to yellow. The flat silver disc plunged downward toward earth in a zigzag fashion. Catholics present interpreted these events as a sign from God, and the religious event was later sanctioned as a miracle by the Roman Catholic Church. The prophesies revealed that day have been kept secret by the Vatican, but reportedly involve the assassination of "the last Pope."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 259; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 149; Jacques Vallee, The Invisible College, p. 143
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6803

Year: 1918 (Back to Top)

Event 972 (5E2C89D9)

Date: Early 1918
Location: Waco (near), TX
Description: Reddish cigar-shaped object, with no motor or rigging, passed silently from SW to NE. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_73

Event 973 (93B73342)

Date: 3/1/1918
Locations: Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand; eastern hills
Description: Early morning. A woman at Tahunanui Beach, Nelson, New Zealand, sees two distinct “seaplanes” flying together near the surface of the water. They soon diverge, one going in the direction of the eastern hills and both getting lost in the clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Seaplanes over Tasman Bay,” Nelson Colonist, March 2, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—1,” Airminded, August 28, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_380

Event 974 (2BD7BA41)

Date: Summer 1918
Location: Malta, Montana
Description: 7:30 p.m. At an isolated ranch 60 miles from Malta, Montana, 9-year-old Theodore Warren sees a cigar- shaped “airship” with windows that shine with greenish light. It flies in from the mountains in the east and hovers above the ranch house. He watches it for a while, and then it “whooshes” away to the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ione Warren Conway, “A UFO(?) from the Past,” IUR 7, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1982: 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_381

Event 975 (213C6154)

Date: 8/12/1918
Locations: Durie Hill, Whanganui, New Zealand; South Spit; Landguard Bluff
Description: After 5:00 p.m. Two women at Durie Hill, Whanganui, New Zealand, see an airplane moving swiftly off the South Spit heading toward the south. It disappears behind Landguard Bluff. Other witnesses come forward to corroborate the sighting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Aeroplane off Wanganui,” Wanganui Chronicle, August 13, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_382

Event 976 (2F057179)

Date: 8/13/1918
Location: Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Description: Evening. Mr. C. Rawlinson is cycling to a dance on Carrington Road, New Plymouth, New Zealand, when he sees a bright star against some mountains about 6 miles away. It starts flashing red and white and moves closer and downward, then rises to 400–500 feet and performs other maneuvers. He rides home to tell his sisters, who also see the light until about 8:30 p.m., when it moves off to the sea.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Local and General,” Wellington Dominion, August 14, 1918, p. 4; Brett Holman, “The Mystery Aeroplane Scare in New Zealand—IV,” Airminded, October 26, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_383

Event 977 (0EFB4401)

Date: 10/1918
Location: Tulgas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Description: During operations against the Bolshevik Army in Tulgas, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, soldiers of the US 339th Infantry Regiment watch a round object the color of burnished copper, with a faint light and vapor obscuring much of its shape.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Letter to J. Allen Hynek; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_384

Event 978 (DADA402F)

Date: 11/11/1918
Description: End of World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_28

Event 979 (15DC0D7B)

Date: Winter 1918?
Locations: Rich Field; Waco, Texas
Description: Edwin T. Bauhan and other soldiers at Rich Field in Waco, Texas, see a noiseless, flame-colored, cigar-shaped object 100–150 feet long flying overhead at an altitude of 500 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 105; Clark III 1170; “1918 Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 Winter 1954: 10–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_379

Year: 1919 (Back to Top)

Event 980 (04B20FF5)

Date: 1919
Locations: Mars; Schenectady, New York
Description: Wireless inventor Guglielmo Marconi claims that he has detected large-wavelength radio signals from Mars. He claims the most frequent signal is the Morse code for “S,” or three short dots. The signals, however, are subsequently traced to an experiment conducted by chemist Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Laboratories in Schenectady, New York.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Hello, Earth! Hello!’” White Earth Minn. The Tomahawk, March 18, 1920, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_385

Event 981 (E7A4644D)

Date: 1/5/1919 (approximate)
Time: 20:00
Location: NEAR NETHERAVON, WILTS
Description: 3 weird red and orange globes float down. Vanish. Seen since 1917.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_331

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr NETHERAVON,WILTS:3 WEIRD RED+ORG GLOBES FLOAT DOWN:VANISH:SEEN SINCE 1917", LatLong: "51.216669 -1.816667", LatLongDMS: "51:13:00 N 01:49:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 982 (C84377FE)

Date: 1/22/1919
Time: 20:10
Location: SHUTTLEWOOD, DERBYSHIRE
Description: 40 observer(s). 2 Ft. intense glowing-ball slow / low altitude. Controlled maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 245)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_332

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "45", Elev: "155", HatchDesc: "SHUTTLEWOOD,DERBYs:40 OBS:2 ft.INTENSE GLO-BALL SLOW/LO ALT:CONTROLLED MNVRS", LatLong: "53.250003 -1.300000", LatLongDMS: "53:15:00 N 01:18:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 983 (1D8039DF)

Date: 1/22/1919
Location: Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England
Description: After 10:00 p.m. A brilliant light the size of a tennis ball appears in a garden at Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England. When the witness approaches it, it moves away at a leisurely pace and passes through wire netting. It follows the top of a hedge, turns right, and ascends until it finds a break in the high branches of a tree, where it hovers for 3 minutes before flying on. The witness then notices his neighbor’s farm is illuminated with bright white light. Several minutes later, the sphere returns to the garden, hovers another 3 minutes, then approaches the witness. As it does so, it turns from white to orange. It moves away, stops above a neighbor’s garden, travels along a hedge, traverses a field, and circles a row of houses before soaring into the sky and disappearing. The light is seen for 40 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Mark Ian Birdsall, “The Luminous Pearl of 1919,” Quest International 10, no. 2 1991: 26–27; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_386

Event 984 (0AB60165)

Date: 1/22/1919
Description: A two foot wide, intense glowing ball flew slowly at a low altitude over Shuttlewood, Derbyshire, England at 8:10 p.m. It engaged in controlled maneuvers for 45 minutes. There were at least 40 witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ananda Sirisena, FSR, March 1975, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_404

Event 985 (8474E521)

Date: 6/1919
Time: ~15:00
Location: SCORBE-CLAIRVAUX, FR
Description: Boy. Shiny metal disk descends. Dims. Goes away horizontally.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_333

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SCORBE-CLAIRVAUX,FR:BOY:SHINY MTL DISK DESCENDS:DIMS:GOES AWAY HORIZONTALLY", LatLong: "46.972224 0.416667", LatLongDMS: "46:58:20 N 00:25:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vienne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 986 (6066E081)

Date: 6/2/1919
Location: Ottertail, Minnesota
Description: 9:30 a.m. A tiny circular cloud appears in an otherwise cloudless sky over Ottertail, Minnesota. Suddenly it expands to several times its size. Seconds later, the window that the witness is watching through starts to shake and creak. By the time it stops, the cloud has expanded more and now has a ragged appearance, bending toward the earth. A black object shoots out of the bottom of the cloud, leaving a vapor trail, and begins making 6–7 barrel rolls. It then peels off in a straight line, headed north.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1170; “Supersonic Jet in 1919?” IUR/Frontiers of Science 3, no. 6 Jan./Feb. 1982: 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_387

Event 987 (159C5A50)

Date: 6/2/1919
Description: At 9:00 a.m. a nine-year-old boy in Otter Tail, Minnesota saw a black object emerge from a quick descent, forming an unusual cloud. Windows rattled and the house he was in creaked as the object pealed off, made 6-7 barrel rolls, and left contrails in its wake.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Frontiers of Science, January 1982, p. 14; UNICAT, case # 39
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3217

Event 988 (98EEC81E)

Date: 6/28/1919
Description: Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_29

Event 989 (8B107D3C)

Date: 7/1919
Location: WEBSTER CITY, IA
Description: Small humanoid (or Grey) scoops water into can. Sees observer(s) and rushes to UFO and flies.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN CONTACTS & ABDUCTIONS; Sterling Publ., NY 1993. (Index 137)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_334

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "2", Elev: "342", HatchDesc: "WEBSTER CITY,IA:OID SCOOPS WATER INTO CAN:SEES OBS+RUSHES TO UFO+FLIES.", LatLong: "42.472224 -93.816671", LatLongDMS: "42:28:20 N 93:49:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"

Event 990 (5DBF3FB3)

Date: 7/1919
Location: Webster City, Iowa
Description: 11:00 a.m. A young brother and sister who live on a farm near Webster City, Iowa, hear a strange chirping sound while out playing. They turn and see a brown-green object under a tree near a creek 75 feet from them. They notice a similarly colored figure standing in a door that has been lowered down. It makes strange guttural sounds. They see another figure running toward the stream leading to a pond. This smaller one dips up some water into a can. The larger figure seems to be hurrying the smaller figure back into the object. The door slams shut with a metallic sound, and the vehicle rises up quickly with its three legs still out and goes over a hill. The soil where the object had been is covered with round spots that resemble cane marks.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT , July 23, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_388

Event 991 (C8191065)

Date: 8/1919 (approximate)
Time: ~20:00
Location: GENEVA, SWZ
Description: Orange "extra moon" too large! Quickly going down [to] over 2 scared kids. Going quickly [to] away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Chez HEIDI site: Alain Stauffer. GREPI / Switzerland http://home.worldcom.ch/~dbenaroy/heidi.html
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_335

Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GENEVA,SWZ:ORANGE "EXTRA MOON" TOO LARGE!:↓↓ OVR 2 SCARED KIDS:>> AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "46.200002 6.166667", LatLongDMS: "46:12:00 N 06:10:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GNV", Strangeness: "6"

Event 992 (9BDC1E54)

Date: 8/1919 (approximate)
Time: 22:00?
Location: CODIGORO, ITALY
Description: 25cm orange-red luminous sphere / low altitude. 1 observer moves to let it pass.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_336

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "CODIGORO,ITALY:25cm ORG-RED LUMn.SPHERE/LO ALT:1 OBS MOVES to let it pass", LatLong: "44.816669 12.116667", LatLongDMS: "44:49:00 N 12:07:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "FE", Strangeness: "6"

Event 993 (E11A56D1)

Date: Late Summer 1919
Location: east of Barron, Wisconsin
Description: 10:00 p.m. Harry Anderson, 13 or 16, is out riding with his family and two friends when their car runs out of oil east of Barron, Wisconsin. A passing farmer offers to give them some oil, and Harry accompanies him 2 miles away to his farmhouse. Harry walks back to the car alone and sees 20 little men walking in single file towards him. Their heads are bald, and the figures are dressed in leather “knee pants” held up by suspenders. They are mumbling but pay no attention to him. Terrified, he continues and does not look back.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Jerome Clark], “Encounters with Little Men,” Fate 31, no. 11 November 1978: 83–86; Clark III 263; Patrick Gross, URECAT , July 24, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_389

Event 994 (27F7345B)

Date: 12/1/1919
Description: Boni & Liveright publishes Charles Fort’s first book of scientific anomalies, The Book of the Damned. Fort gathers reports of objects or “vessels” that he humorously speculates might be visitors from a multitude of worlds that have come to earth over the centuries. Among his wilder expressions is the suggestion that floating land masses in the sky harbor civilizations and oceans. Fort also speculates that someone is fishing for us and that an alien race considers us its property, warning off all interlopers. It receives positive reviews from Ben Hecht and Booth Tarkington .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “The Book of the Damned”; Clark III 506–507; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 173–174; Ulrich Magin, “The Book of the Damned,” Fortean Times 386 December 2019: 38–43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_390

Year: 1920 (Back to Top)

Event 995 (D52DC399)

Date: 1920
Locations: northern Montana; northwest to southeast
Description: Day. Stanley Clason , 10, is walking across his uncle’s pasture in northern Montana when he sees an object traveling from northwest to southeast. It has a “long, slim, pointed shape” and appears “silvery in color.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 7, no. 4 April 1954: 115–116; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_391

Event 996 (5704FDC2)

Date: 1/16/1920
Description: First meeting of the League of Nations
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_30
See also: 4/20/46

Event 997 (AD6B836F)

Date: 1/31/1920
Location: LOXLEY, SOUTH YORKS
Description: White 'ghost' crosses field going [to] old mines. Back / Jan. '85. Poltergeists.
Type: sighting
Reference: DEVEREUX, Paul: EARTH LIGHTS REVELATION. 1989 Blanford/UK & 1991 Biddles Ltd, Guilford, Engl. PB (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_337

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "LOXLEY,S.YORKS:WHT 'GHOST' CROSSES FIELD>OLD MINES::BACK/JAN85:POLTERGEISTS", LatLong: "53.416669 -1.533333", LatLongDMS: "53:25:00 N 01:32:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 998 (C1122A8A)

Date: 6/3/1920
Time: 10:30
Location: MT. PLEASANT, IA
Description: 1 / fishing. Metallic blue milk-can lands 15' away. Sits 15 minute(s). Going west. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_338

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "244", HatchDesc: "Mt.PLEASANT,IA:1/FISHING:MTLC BLUE MILK-CAN LANDS 15'AWAY:SITS 15min:>W:SLNT", LatLong: "40.961113 -91.555560", LatLongDMS: "40:57:40 N 91:33:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"

Event 999 (E2A16A03)

Date: 6/3/1920
Location: Mount Pleasant, Iowa
Description: Day. Jesse Clark Linch is fishing on a pond near Mount Pleasant, Iowa, when he sees a soundless, blue, disc- shaped object emerge from behind a grove of 100-foot-high maple trees. It flies across the pond and lands 15 feet away. Linch gets up and walks toward it, but it rises up, slowly moves over some trees to the west, and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mini UFO Landed near Mt. Pleasant in 1920,” The UFO Examiner 2, no. 2 June 1978: 8, 19; “Man Visited by Strange Object While Fishing in Iowa in 1920,” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 382 February 2000: 12; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_393

Event 1000 (84F5AD8D)

Date: 6/3/1920
Description: At 10:30 a.m. a small metallic blue, vertical cylinder, shaped like a "milk-can," landed only 15 feet away from the witness, sat on the ground for 15 minutes northeast of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, then took off and flew away to the west. It made no noise.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: MUFON on-site investigation, report dated September 1, 1973; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3241

Event 1001 (7FE5B148)

Date: 6/8/1920
Time: 18:00
Location: RUSHVILLE, MO
Description: 200 observer(s). Cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly northeast / 23m altitude. Abrupt turn going quickly east into cloud. / r231'76.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_339

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "5", Elev: "242", HatchDesc: "RUSHVILLE,MO:200 OBS:CYL >> NE/23m alt:ABRUPT TURN >>E INTO CLOUD:/r231'76", LatLong: "39.588891 -95.027782", LatLongDMS: "39:35:20 N 95:01:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1002 (A25E02CD)

Date: 6/8/1920
Description: At 6 p.m. a cylindrical object flying at only 75 feet altitude, passing over Rushville, Missouri, was seen by two hundred people. It made a 90-degree turn to the east, and disappeared into a cloud.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Skylook, October 1973, p. 16; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 12; Jay David, The Flying Saucer Reader, p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3366

Event 1003 (D6EA2720)

Date: Summer 1920
Location: Nontron, Dordogne, France
Description: 11:00 p.m. A group of young people, including sisters Louise and Marie Grasset, returning from a dance at Nontron, Dordogne, France, observe small beings in the air above a wooded area. Luminous balls surround the figures, who are giving off “musical sounds.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT , October 3, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_392

Event 1004 (286D2D9F)

Date: 8/1920 (approximate)
Time: 18:00
Location: BREST, FR
Description: Red ball 2X sun-size and huge black cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly south parallel to street. / r251p29.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_340

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BREST,FR:RED BALL 2X SUN-SIZE+HUGE BLK CGR >>S parallel to street:/r251p29", LatLong: "48.416669 -4.500000", LatLongDMS: "48:25:00 N 04:30:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finistère", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1005 (8C574F54)

Date: 8/15/1920
Time: 15:00
Location: DAWLISH, DEVON, ENG
Description: Some kids. 2 red spheres maneuver. Stop. Shoot going quickly southwest over Dartmoor.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 8)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_341

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "3", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "DAWLISH,DEVON,ENG:SOME KIDS:2 RED SPHERES MNVR:STOP:SHOOT >>SW ovr DARTMOOR", LatLong: "50.577780 -3.850000", LatLongDMS: "50:34:40 N 03:51:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1006 (DA5F9277)

Date: Late 10/1920
Locations: Freeport, Texas; 50 miles north of Freeport, Texas
Description: 3:00 a.m. C. B. Alves sees four flying discs 50 miles north of Freeport, Texas, when he is out fishing with some friends. They look like two big silver plates set edge to edge. Each appears to be about 25 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick at the center.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 8, no. 2 February 1955: 122–123; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_394

Event 1007 (0A8C8E0D)

Date: 11/2/1920
Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh PA
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_31

Year: 1921 (Back to Top)

Event 1008 (91077F0A)

Date: 1921
Location: Marseilles, France
Description: Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings. (Magonia #43, Quincy) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_74

Event 1009 (B9749BB9)

Date: 1921
Location: Marseilles, France
Description: Undocumented report of an "abduction" by two beings.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_43

Event 1010 (701BEEF3)

Date: 1921
Location: Marseille, France
Description: An 8-year-old is playing in the hillocks near a canal in Marseille, France. He is suddenly accosted by two tall, slender men wearing apparent diving suits who drag him into a strange looking “tank.” After a while, an opening appears in the ceiling, and in a few moments he finds himself back on the ground. He must walk all afternoon to get back to the place where the UFO picked him up 5 minutes earlier.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 264; [Letter], “J’ai voyagé en soucoupe,” Paris-Match, no. 291, October 23, 1954; Patrick Gross, URECAT , September 7, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_395

Event 1011 (C2B1DD7A)

Date: 7/1921?
Location: MARSEILLE, FR
Description: Boy / 8 abduction / 2 tall thin figure(s) / diving-suits. Tank with square portholes. / MJ#309.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 314)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_342

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "MARSEILLE,FR:BOY/8 ABD/2 TALL THIN FIGS/DIVING-SUITS:TANK W/SQR.PORTS:/MJ#309", LatLong: "43.300002 5.400000", LatLongDMS: "43:18:00 N 05:24:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1012 (66EBCE19)

Date: Late 7/1921
Location: 39 Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, England
Description: 2:00 a.m. Annie Baker of 39 Highland Road, Southsea, Portsmouth, England, sees a “strange looking bladder like monster the shape of an airship only much wider” during a thunderstorm. It is luminous and remains stationary for several minutes but moves away and disappears quickly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp. 13–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_396

Event 1013 (261683B5)

Date: 7/29/1921
Description: The Council on Foreign Relations is incorporated. Founded by corporate lawyer Elihu Root, the organization brings diplomats, high-level government officials, and academics together with lawyers, bankers, and industrialists to engineer foreign policy. The first issue of Foreign Affairs is published in September 1922.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Council on Foreign Relations”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_397

Event 1014 (AF83C245)

Date: 9/1921
Location: British Air Ministry
Description: The British Air Ministry has asked the public to submit reports on observations of ball lightning to its Meteorological Office. The results are summarized by geophysicist Harold Jeffreys , who notes very little uniformity in the observations, with little agreement on size, duration, color, or shape.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Harold Jeffreys, “Results of the Ball Lightning Inquiry,” Meteorological Magazine 56 September 1921: 208–211; UFOFiles2, pp. 13–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_398

Event 1015 (12201D07)

Date: 9/1/1921
Locations: Mediterranean Sea; Mars
Description: J. H. C. Macbeth of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company announces that inventor Guglielmo Marconi is convinced he has intercepted wireless signals from Mars while cruising in the Mediterranean Sea on his mobile laboratory and yacht, the Electra. The signals are regular and “produced high in the meter band.” One of them resembles the letter “V” in the Marconi Code.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Marconi Sure Mars Flashes Messages,” New York Times, September 2, 1921, p. 1; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 July 2005: 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_399

Event 1016 (5AF62DF1)

Date: 10/9/1921
Location: Harvard University
Description: Harvard University astronomer William Henry Pickering claims that he has discovered, through two years of observation, vegetation growing in lunar craters that contain water and a source of heat. They seem to form strips or “canals” that vary according to season.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Says 2 Crops a Day Grow on the Moon,” New York Times, October 9, 1921, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_400

Year: 1922 (Back to Top)

Event 1017 (866C237C)

Date: 1922
Location: County Donegal, Ireland
Description: County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine (4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in shape and glowing and of a shiny metal.
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_32

Event 1018 (70769F54)

Date: 1922
Locations: Oregon Canyon Ranch; McDermott, Nevada; King’s River Ranch near Orovada
Description: Starting this year, ghost lights are seen every year until 1932 in the desert near the Oregon Canyon Ranch, McDermott, Nevada. They look like lanterns or car headlights in the distance. More than 50 of the sheepherders in the area have seen the lights, including Tito Bengoa, the brother of Frank and Christopher Bengoa of the King’s River Ranch near Orovada.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold, “Phantom Lights in Nevada,” Fate 1, no. 3 Fall 1948: 96–98
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_401

Event 1019 (BB413BBF)

Date: 2/22/1922
Location: Hubbell, NE
Description: 5:00 a.m. William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high- pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_75

Event 1020 (AABE684B)

Date: 2/22/1922
Time: 0500
Location: Hubbell, Nebraska
Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterword, a creature over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Anatomy 22 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_44

Event 1021 (EB4281DA)

Date: 2/22/1922
Description: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks near Hubbell, Nebraska at 5:00 a.m. when he heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular flying object. It became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterward, a creature over eight feet tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed. It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1043

Event 1022 (90949FE3)

Date: Summer 1922
Locations: Detroit, Michigan; South Dragoon Street; Vacant Lot
Description: A teenage couple, William O’Brien and Irma later married surname is Hinz, walking home from a movie in Detroit, Michigan, see a large disc-shaped object hovering above a vacant lot on South Dragoon Street. Rectangular windows surround the perimeter of the UFO’s base. Seated at those windows are 20 or so bald- headed beings with close-set eyes. They stare at the witnesses, who become unnerved and leave.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 264; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1910–1939, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_402

Event 1023 (B61F4496)

Date: Summer 1922
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Description: Many witnesses in Warsaw, Poland, see a silvery object, shaped like two hemispheres divided by a rotating ring, that shoots a beam of light and ascends with a loud noise.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bronislaw Rzepecki, “UFOs and Ufologists in Poland,” IUR 11, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1986: 15; Poland 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_403

Event 1024 (456AA760)

Date: 8/1922 (approximate)
Location: WARSAW, POL
Description: Many observer(s). Metallic Saturn-sphere/orb/globe. Ring rotates. Shoots beam. Quickly going up [to] with loud noise.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 134)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_343

Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "WARSAW,POL:MANY OBS:MTLC SATURN-ORB:RING ROTATES:SHOOTS BEAM:↑↑ W/LOUD NOISE", LatLong: "52.233336 21.066668", LatLongDMS: "52:14:00 N 21:04:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WAR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1025 (41267AE4)

Date: 9/9/1922
Location: Barmouth, Wales, UK
Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found. (Magonia #45, Fort 639) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_77

Event 1026 (776C72C6)

Date: 9/9/1922
Location: Barmouth, Wales
Description: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but nothing was found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fort 639 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_45

Event 1027 (E260DA39)

Date: 9/9/1922
Description: John Morris and William James in Barmouth, Wales saw an object fall into the ocean so slowly that they thought it might have been an airplane. A boat was sent out but nothing was found.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 189; citing Charles Fort, The Books of Charles Fort, p. 639
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5783

Year: 1923 (Back to Top)

Event 1028 (5414402F)

Date: 1923
Location: Greencastle, IN
Description: Revolving red object passed over-head from NE to SW. Two witnesses were college professors. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_78

Event 1029 (B7143F97)

Date: 1923
Locations: DePauw University; Greencastle, Indiana
Description: Two DePauw University college students, Andrew Wallace Crandall and Herrick Greenleaf, watch a revolving red object pass over Greencastle, Indiana. The object, round and glowing, moves silently from northeast to southwest, then vanishes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 106
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_404

Event 1030 (2D437552)

Date: 1923
Location: Sebeş, Romania
Description: A photograph shows a domed disc hovering near the church tower in Sebeş, Romania.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Romania 10-11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_405

Event 1031 (5DC4AB32)

Date: 2/1923
Location: PIEVE DI TECO, ITL
Description: Teen. Copper 'fish' dives going down. 2 portholes. Clear dome. Propeller!
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_344

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "240", HatchDesc: "PIEVE di TECO,ITL:TEEN:COPPER 'FISH' DIVES ↓:2 PORTHOLES:CLR DOME:propeller!", LatLong: "44.050002 7.933334", LatLongDMS: "44:03:00 N 07:56:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "IM", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1032 (EFFB30BD)

Date: 6/1923
Time: 08:00?
Location: NEAR EVANSVILLE, IN
Description: Boy / 10. Saucer / 3 legs / pasture. 4' men move / glass dome. Speak English.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: Evansville, IN Courier: 12AUG98 via Stig Ajermose on Toronto email list.
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_345

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "5", Elev: "116", HatchDesc: "nr EVANSVILLE,IN:BOY/10:SCR/3 LEGS/PASTURE:4'MEN MOVE/GLASS DOME:speak english", LatLong: "38.000002 -87.500004", LatLongDMS: "38:00:00 N 87:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1033 (7E6C9719)

Date: 6/1923
Location: Northern Wayne County, IL
Description: Early Humanoid Report (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 2306xx
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_79

Event 1034 (D75A9B3C)

Date: 7/15/1923?
Time: ~07:00
Location: TYATKA R. NEAR SOSNOVKA, RUSSIA
Description: Steamship. 'Flying moon' going / 3 min. Makes 90° turn.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 182)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_346

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "TYATKA R. nr SOSNOVKA,RUSS:STEAMSHIP:'FLYING MOON' > /3 MIN:MAKES 90° TURN", LatLong: "58.416669 51.416669", LatLongDMS: "58:25:00 N 51:25:00 E", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KIR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1035 (F82EBCA4)

Date: 10/1923
Description: Boni & Liveright publishes New Lands by Charles Fort, who writes about odd aerial and astronomical observations: “It seems no more incredible that up in the seemingly unoccupied sky there should be hosts of living things than that the seeming blank of the ocean, should swarm with life.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “New Lands”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 198–199; Clark III 507, 1098
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_406

Year: 1924 (Back to Top)

Event 1036 (E6B2DC56)

Date: 1/1924 (approximate)
Location: NORTH / ROUILLAC, FR
Description: Boy / 13. Moon-size sphere/orb/globe descends. Follows N736 until lost in the distance.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_347

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "N/ROUILLAC,FR:BOY/13:MOONSIZE ORB DESCENDS:FOLOS N736 until lost/distance", LatLong: "45.800002 -0.066667", LatLongDMS: "45:48:00 N 00:04:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Charente", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1037 (E16B24EA)

Date: 1/1924
Time: 21:00?
Location: OSAGE HILLS, OK
Description: 2 observer(s). Large ovoid aims beams going down / snow. Slight hiss. Blue flame / rear.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_348

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "275", HatchDesc: "OSAGE HILLS,OK:2 OBS:LRG OVOID AIMS BEAMS ↓/SNOW:SLIGHT HISS:BLU FLAME/REAR", LatLong: "36.733335 -96.177782", LatLongDMS: "36:44:00 N 96:10:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1038 (8BB4801E)

Date: 1/1924
Location: Unknown City, OK
Description: White oval-shaped object lit up ground, moved out of sight over horizon. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_80

Event 1039 (48F816A9)

Date: 1/1924
Location: Osage Hills, Oklahoma
Description: 1:00 a.m. Perry G. Powers and Duncan Miller are returning to a ranch when they see a beam of light shining on the snow in the Osage Hills, Oklahoma. It emanates from a large oval-shaped object with white dots of light on the side and blue flame at the trailing end. It makes a slight hissing noise and moves out of sight over the horizon in less than 3 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 129; “1924 Sighting,” Civilian Saucer Investigation Quarterly Bulletin 1, no. 4 Winter 1954: 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_407

Event 1040 (F342750C)

Date: 6/24/1924
Time: 23:00
Location: BENEST, FR
Description: 2 teens. Red glow. Glowing-sphere/orb/globe rises / behind hedge. Moves away / very low altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 327)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_349

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BENEST,FR:2 TEENS:RED GLOW:GLOW-ORB RISES/BHND HEDGE:MOVES AWAY/VLOW ALT:", LatLong: "46.044447 0.455556", LatLongDMS: "46:02:40 N 00:27:20 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Charente", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1041 (0678C906)

Date: 8/22/1924
Locations: US; Washington, D.C.; Amherst College; US Naval Observatory; Washington
Description: Mars enters an opposition closer to Earth than at any time in the century before. In the US, a National Radio Silence Day is promoted during a 36-hour period in August 21–23, with all radios quiet for 5 minutes on the hour, every hour, just in case the Martians take the opportunity to communicate with Earth. At the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., an SE-950 radio receiver is lifted 1.9 miles above the ground in a dirigible tuned to a wavelength between 8 and 9 kilometers, using a “radio photo message continuous transmission machine” recently invented by Amherst College and Charles Francis Jenkins of Washington. The program is led by retired astronomer David Peck Todd with the military assistance of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Edward Walter Eberle , with William F. Friedman US Army chief cryptographer, assigned to translate any potential Martian messages. The device records radio signals on chemically treated film. One signal consists of a “fairly regular arrangement of dots and dashes along one side” and on the other “at almost evenly spaced intervals … curiously jumped groups each taking the forms of a crudely drawn human face.” Todd tells a reporter, “It may not be a message from Mars, but if it isn’t from Mars, where is it from?” Astronomer Frederick E. Fowle of the Smithsonian thinks they are “disturbances introduced by solar or terrestrial causes not yet understood.” Other scientists suggest the images are caused by static discharge from a passing trolley car, malfunctioning radio equipment, or the natural symphonic radio waves produced by Jupiter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 Fall 2004: 20; Michael D. Swords, “Radio Signals from Space, Alien Probes, and Betty Hill,” IUR 29, no. 4 July 2005: 11–12; Kristen Gallerneaux, “Reaching for Mars,” Past Forward, August 23, 2016; Jessica Leigh Hester, “Everybody Shut Up! We’re Listening for Mars,” Atlas Obscura, August 3, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_408

Event 1042 (8E8FB68B)

Date: 8/26/1924 (approximate)
Time: 02:20?
Location: WORLDWIDE
Description: Radio signals alternate 25K-75 meters on close approach / Mars.. .
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 130)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_350

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Mars", Credibility: "10", Duration: "231", HatchDesc: "WORLDWIDE:RADIO SIGNALS ALTERNATE 25K-75 METERS on CLOSE APPROACH/MARS...", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RDO", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1043 (0E9945CE)

Date: 9/1924
Time: 20:30
Location: WELLINGTON BRIDGE, IRE
Description: 2 boys. Light beam follows roads / several turns. Going west over railroad/railway tracks.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_351

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "WELLINGTON BRIDGE,IRE:2 BOYS:LITE BEAM FOLOS ROADS/SVRL TURNS:>W ovr RR TRACKS", LatLong: "52.266669 -6.766667", LatLongDMS: "52:16:00 N 06:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1044 (F4A97199)

Date: Fall 1924
Location: Okanagan Lake, British Columbia
Description: Dusk. A hunter in a rowboat on Okanagan Lake, British Columbia, sees a faint blue light moving from northeast to southwest. It temporarily disappears behind a mountain but reappears and approaches the boat, passing it at a distance of 200 feet and a speed of 30–40 mph. The object is pearly silver in color with faint dark blue light at the rear. After moving a quarter mile away, it ascends and disappears at terrific speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1171–1172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_409

Year: 1925 (Back to Top)

Event 1045 (0DE6C376)

Date: 1925
Location: Moora, Western Australia
Description: Thomas Green is riding with another young man on a farm near Moora, Western Australia, when they come across an object “like two saucers placed edge on edge” resting on a paddock. Some oval-shaped windows are visible, and it is resting on four legs splayed outwards. The two decide to return home. Several days later they return and find the earth “scuffed about” on the spot.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Historical Australian UFO Reports,” UFO Research Australia Newsletter 4, no. 3 Nov./Dec. 1983: 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_410

Event 1046 (88FFB486)

Date: 1/1925?
Time: 12:00?
Location: LA MANCHA, TOLEDO, SP
Description: 120cm small humanoid (or Grey) / green uniform on vertical saucer.. rolling along!
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_352

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "4", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "LA MANCHA,TOLEDO,SP:120cm OID/GREEN UNIFORM ON VERTICAL SCR..ROLLING ALONG!", LatLong: "39.666669 -3.916667", LatLongDMS: "39:40:00 N 03:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TLD", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1047 (0C6CFB46)

Date: 6/1925
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: 2:30 a.m. A driver stops his Ford Model T to watch a 300-foot-long, cigar-shaped object flying south toward Chicago, Illinois. Red sparks are peeling away from its nose and it has multicolored lights. As it passes in front, the driver feels a heat wave.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: San Diego Calif. Evening Tribune, August 12, 1965; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_411

Event 1048 (0B6343DC)

Date: 7/1925?
Location: MOORA, WEST AUST
Description: 2 observer(s). Classic saucer with oval portholes / 4 legs. Traces / dirt. / r65p13.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 822)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_353

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MOORA,W.AUST:2 OBS:CLASSIC SCR W/OVAL PORTHOLES/4 LEGS:traces/dirt:/r65p13", LatLong: "-30.583335 116.200006", LatLongDMS: "30:35:00 S 116:12:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1049 (BC4903F6)

Date: 7/14/1925
Time: 21:50
Location: AKRON, OH
Description: 2 observer(s). 200 Ft. 'comet' hisses. Lights windows / side. Darts going up / incredible speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_354

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "AKRON,OH:2 OBS:200 ft. 'COMET' HISSES:LITES WINDOWS/SIDE:DARTS↑/INCRED.SPEED", LatLong: "41.083335 -81.516671", LatLongDMS: "41:05:00 N 81:31:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1050 (D348DE33)

Date: 7/14/1925
Description: A married couple, Mr. & Mrs. Slagle, witnessed a 200 foot long "comet" with illuminated windows on side make a hissing sound as it flew over Akron, Ohio at 9:45 p.m. It then shot up vertically into the sky at an incredible speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Flying Saucers magazine, January 1962, p. 13; Jerome Clark, Saga UFO Report, October 1975, p. 48; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 362, citing UFO Register, volume 9 (1978
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4043

Event 1051 (118DCAFE)

Date: 8/1925
Time: 16:00
Location: BIRMINGHAM, ENGL
Description: 2 observer(s). Sphere circles / cloud opening. 2nd and 3rd identical objects do same.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 356)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_355

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "134", HatchDesc: "BIRMINGHAM,ENGL:2 OBS:SPHERE CCLS/CLOUD OPENING:2nd+3rd IDENTICAL OBJs DO SAME", LatLong: "52.466669 -1.866667", LatLongDMS: "52:28:00 N 01:52:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Year: 1926 (Back to Top)

Event 1052 (E1B10AAD)

Date: 1926
Location: Himalaya Mountains
Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_33

Event 1053 (7E793C9D)

Date: 1926
Alternate date: 1927
Locations: Brzezie; Ujazd, Poland
Description: 3:00 p.m. A 14-year-old girl is tending cows in a meadow between Brzezie and Ujazd, Poland. Suddenly the cows become agitated and pull on their halters. She notices three cement-colored spherical objects some 650 feet away in a field to the north. In front of each is a small entity dressed in greenish uniforms.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_412

Event 1054 (128F01DB)

Date: 1/1926
Time: 13:00
Location: (LOC.UNK / WESTERN), KS
Description: Stunt pilot. 6 huge shiny disks circle light plane. / r65p13.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 152)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_356

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "800", HatchDesc: "(loc.unk/western),KS:STUNT PILOT:6 HUGE SHINY DISKS CCL LITE PLANE:/r65p13", LatLong: "38.000002 -100.000005", LatLongDMS: "38:00:00 N 100:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1055 (EC6ADDB3)

Date: 1/1926
Location: Witicha, KS
Description: Several Circular Objects Surrounded Plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 260100
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_81

Event 1056 (E2B8C223)

Date: 1/1926
Locations: Wichita, Kansas; Colorado Springs, Colorado
Description: Aviator Bert Acosta is flying somewhere between Wichita, Kansas, and Colorado Springs, Colorado, when he notices 6 or so objects that look like manhole covers flying off his starboard wing 600 feet away. They keep pace with his plane for 5 minutes. Finally they turn, change course, and fly away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacques Vallée, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Ace ed., 1965, p. 49; Patrick Gross, “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 6, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_413

Event 1057 (83D9BE60)

Date: 6/1926
Time: 12:00
Location: COLUN, CIRTISOARA, ROMN
Description: Silent 3M ovoid going [to] over / field. Wind blows going down. Going [to] over highway. / LDLN#115.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 60)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_357

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "COLUN,CIRTISOARA,ROMN:SLNT 3M OVOID >OVR/FLD:WIND BLOWS ↓:>OVR HWY:/LDLN#115", LatLong: "45.783336 24.500001", LatLongDMS: "45:47:00 N 24:30:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SBU", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1058 (CE0BE721)

Date: 6/1926
Locations: Leurda plateau; Colun, Romania; Cârța; River Olt
Description: After midnight. Farmer Ion Bunescu is with his horses on the Leurda plateau near Colun, Romania, when he sees a light ascend from the village of Cârța. An illuminated globe moves toward him with a light so strong that it brightens the River Olt some 2.5 miles away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 224–225; Romania 9–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_414

Event 1059 (AA7851C6)

Date: 8/1926
Time: ~20:00
Location: WESTMONT, IL
Description: Large disk going west. 5 small disks follow. Light reflects / clouds above. / NICAP.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_358

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "230", HatchDesc: "WESTMONT,IL:LRG DISK >W:5 SML DISKS FOLO:LITE REFLECTS/CLOUDS ABOVE:/NICAP", LatLong: "41.783335 -87.977782", LatLongDMS: "41:47:00 N 87:58:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1060 (E35B6B13)

Date: 8/1926
Location: Westmont, Illinois
Description: Dusk. Frank Tezky and his father watch 6 disc-shaped objects in Westmont, Illinois. Five smaller discs are trailing in a straight line behind a much larger one, moving west beneath cirrus clouds, which reflect the light cast by the objects.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_415

Event 1061 (B8B2F1E6)

Date: 8/5/1926
Time: 09:30
Location: NEAR QINGHAI HU, CHINA
Description: 6 explorers / (seen thru) binoculars. Huge shiny ovoid going quickly south overhead. Turns going quickly southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_359

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr QINGHAI HU,CHINA:6 EXPLORERS/BINOCS:HUGE SHINY OVOID >>S OVHD:TURNS >>SE", LatLong: "37.000002 100.333338", LatLongDMS: "37:00:00 N 100:20:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "QNH", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1062 (98F6F5E8)

Date: 9/1926
Location: Salt Lake City (near), UT
Description: 11:00 PM. An air mail pilot was repeatedly buzzed by a long, cylindrical object. Each time the object came within about 50 yards, the aircraft engine would begin to sputter and misfire, until the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in a pasture. (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_82

Event 1063 (9E5E5620)

Date: 9/25/1926 (approximate)
Time: 23:00
Location: LOCATION UNKNOWN, NV
Description: Pilot buzzed. 30M cylinder/cylindrical object forces DH-4 airmail-plane to land. / r171+150.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_360

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "2000", HatchDesc: "loc.unk.,NV:PILOT BUZZED:30M CYL FORCES DH-4 AIRMAIL-PLANE TO LAND:/r171+150", LatLong: "40.000002 -117.000006", LatLongDMS: "40:00:00 N 117:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1064 (9A9AFCF5)

Date: Late 9/1926
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah
Description: 11:00 p.m. An Air Mail pilot named Colin Murphy is repeatedly buzzed by a huge glowing object one hour after he takes off in his DH-4 biplane from Salt Lake City, Utah. The object is a 90-foot-long cylinder with no wings or propeller. Every time the object approaches closer than 150 feet, his engine sputters and misfires. He is forced to land in a sheep pasture, whereupon the object shoots away to the south. Possible hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Patrick Gross, “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 5, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_416

Event 1065 (B4B58D47)

Date: 10/27/1926
Location: London, England
Description: Attorney and “telepathist” Hugh Mansfield Robinson, who has been in contact with a female Martian entity named Oomaruru since 1918, convinces the central radio office in London, England, to send out a message, “MMM opesti nipitia secomba” over the airwaves. He intends for it to be picked up by Martian wireless. The next day, he claims that Oomaruru telepathically told him that only the first three letters had been received. Robinson describes the Martians as 7–8 feet tall with large ears, a wealth of black hair, and almond eyes. Over the years he continues receiving messages from Oomaruru while in a trance and attempting to send signals to Mars. Psychic investigator Nandor Fodor, who has attended some of Robinson’s séances, calls him “as slippery as a human eel.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Earl J. Johnson, “Imagination Runs Wild about Visit of Martian Realm,” Pomona Calif. Bulletin, October 28, 1926, p. 1; “Doctor Files Mars Message by Radio ‘At Sender’s Risk,’” Vancouver B.C. Sun, October 28, 1926, p. 18; Nandor Fodor, The Haunted Mind, Garrett, 1959, pp. 259–269; Clark III 1018–1019; Marc Hartzman, “Earth to Mars in the 1920s: The Strange Case of the Man Who Tried to Contact Martians via Radio,” Weird Historian, February 22, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_417

Event 1066 (F195C796)

Date: 11/1926
Time: ~21:00
Location: BOLTON, LANCASHIRE
Description: Several kids. 3 helmeted 'men' / silver space-suits hide in alley.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny: ALIEN CONTACTS & ABDUCTIONS; Sterling Publ., NY 1993. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_361

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "75", HatchDesc: "BOLTON,LANCASHIRE:SVRL KIDS:3 HELMETED 'MEN'/SLVR SPACE-SUITS HIDE in ALLEY:", LatLong: "53.566669 -2.433333", LatLongDMS: "53:34:00 N 02:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1067 (004ECAE5)

Date: 11/1926
Location: Bolton, Lancashire, England
Description: Early evening. Playing hide-and-seek with friends in Bolton, Lancashire, England, Henry Thomas slips into a backyard and finds three figures dressed in odd suits made of silvery gray rubber tubes. They are looking into a window in the back of a house. A tube extends from their helmets into a tank on each figure’s back. They turn to look at him and he sees their heads are pale and “shaped like lightbulbs” and they have slits for mouths. Thomas runs away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “1926: Humanoid Hide and Seek,” ThinkAboutIt; Clark III 264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_418

Year: 1927 (Back to Top)

Event 1068 (974AD2A2)

Date: 1927
Location: Fernvale, New South Wales
Description: For a few weeks, 10-year-old Cecil “Danny” McGann, his family, and other farmers in the area of Fernvale, New South Wales, are terrorized by dancing aerial lights during the night, the unusual deaths of their cattle and pigs, mystery intruders, apparitions, circular areas of scorched grass, large and unfamiliar birds, bizarre noises, and strange men in odd suits. McGann is still terrified of this series of events when he relates them to UFO investigator Bill Chalker in 1985.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 485–491; Bill Chalker, “Physical Traces,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 190
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_419

Event 1069 (4833D2EC)

Date: 2/1927
Location: FERNVALE, AUS
Description: 2 / ranch. Domed saucer seen / days. Burnt grass. Cows scared. Pig missing.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_362

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "64", HatchDesc: "FERNVALE,AUS:2/RANCH:DOMED SCR SEEN/DAYS:BURNT GRASS:COWS SCARED:PIG MISSING", LatLong: "-27.450001 152.583341", LatLongDMS: "27:27:00 S 152:35:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1070 (F261005A)

Date: 2/1927 (approximate)
Time: ~09:00
Location: SAUSALITO, CA
Description: Early / 1927. Cylinder/cigar-shape crosses bay fast going quickly west. Long and thin. Shortens and lengthens!
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_363

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "SAUSALITO,CA:EARLY/1927:CGR CROSSES BAY FAST>>W:LONG+THIN:SHORTENS+LENGTHENS!", LatLong: "37.861113 -122.500006", LatLongDMS: "37:51:40 N 122:30:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1071 (72A83B2C)

Date: 4/1927 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: WEST FRANKFORT, IL
Description: Boy. Bright metallic 12M sphere/orb/globe stops over house. Lit portholes / bottom/underside. Drops line.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_364

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "123", HatchDesc: "W.FRANKFORT,IL:BOY:BRITE MTLC 12M ORB STOPS ovr HOUSE:LIT PORTS/BTM:DROPS LINE", LatLong: "37.916668 -88.933338", LatLongDMS: "37:55:00 N 88:56:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1072 (BAC5A179)

Date: Summer 1927
Location: Wolfe County, Kentucky
Description: Reece Andrew Lacey , 9, sees a large fish-like object with “big fins extended outward near the front, and small, short ones near the rear” in Wolfe County, Kentucky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 2 December 1958: 111–112; Clark III 1171
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_420

Event 1073 (F566741D)

Date: 7/1927?
Location: CORBOLA, ITL
Description: Girl / 11. 3M glowing-object dives / river. Emerges and quickly going up. Small humanoid (or Grey) in dome. / r39p27.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_365

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CORBOLA,ITL:GIRL/11:3M GLOW-OBJ DIVES/RIVER:EMERGES+↑↑:OID IN DOME:/r39p27", LatLong: "45.005558 12.083334", LatLongDMS: "45:00:20 N 12:05:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RO", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1074 (6787CBE9)

Date: 7/1927
Locations: Agricultural engineer; Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania
Description: Agricultural engineer Gheorghe Achimescu sees a smoke-gray, cylindrical object fly silently from west to east over the village of Nicolae Bălcescu, Romania, at an altitude of 650–950 feet. He estimates it is about 50 feet long with a diameter of 10 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 152–153
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_421

Event 1075 (1E607281)

Date: 8/1927 (approximate)
Time: ~13:00
Location: SOLOVYEVKA, RUSSIA
Description: Disk west going east across / sky. Each cloud in path vanishes and reappears after!
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_366

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "40", HatchDesc: "SOLOVYEVKA,RUSS:DISK W>E ACRS/SKY:EACH CLOUD in PATH VANISHES+REAPPEARS AFTER!", LatLong: "52.250002 39.566669", LatLongDMS: "52:15:00 N 39:34:00 E", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LIP", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1076 (FC42C292)

Date: 8/5/1927
Location: Himalayan Mts., Nepal
Description: We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 270805
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_84

Event 1077 (10990C7B)

Date: 8/5/1927
Location: Qinghai Lake, Tibet
Description: Explorer Nicholas Roerich and others in his caravan observe a UFO near Qinghai Lake, Tibet. “We all saw, in the direction north to south, something big and shiny reflecting sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp this thing changed in its direction from south to southwest, and we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly the oval form with the shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun."
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nicholas Roerich, Altai-Himalaya, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929, pp. 361–362; Brad Sparks, “Analysis: Roerich Case, Aug. 5, 1927”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_422

Event 1078 (4413ABC9)

Date: 8/5/1927
Description: At 9:30 in the morning while climbing in the Humbolt Range of the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, explorer Nicholas Roerich and seven companions saw a huge, shiny, flying oval-shaped object that reflected the sunlight. It flew from north to south, then changed direction and flew off to the southeast. The UFO was in view for several minutes and was examined through binoculars. Witnesses of the daylight UFO included members of the mountaineering expedition, Mongols, and Buriat lamas. The lamas believed it was the "Sign of Shambala."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 22; J. Allen Hynek, International UFO Reporter, January 1982, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4669

Event 1079 (C539C83A)

Date: Late Summer 1927
Location: Oslo, Norway
Description: Long delayed echoes—radio echoes that return to the sender several seconds after a radio transmission has occurred—are first observed by civil engineer and amateur radio operator Jørgen Hals from his home near Oslo, Norway. The cause of LDEs remains unknown, although A. G. Shlionsky has proposed 15 different explanations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Long delayed echo”; Carl Størmer, “Short Wave Echoes and the Aurora Borealis,” Nature 122 1928: 681; Sverre Holm, “The Five Most Likely Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” March 16, 2004; Sverre Holm, “15 Possible Explanations for Long Delayed Echoes,” November 6, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_423

Event 1080 (EAEE0A2E)

Date: 10/18/1927
Time: 13:00?
Location: BAKERSFIELD, CA
Description: 1 observer. Metallic object rises / ground. Lens-like protrusions. Sand / ground fused!
Type: sighting
Reference: PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_367

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "123", HatchDesc: "BAKERSFIELD,CA:1 OBS:MTLC OBJ RISES/GND:LENS-LIKE PROTRUSIONS:SAND/GND FUSED!", LatLong: "35.350002 -119.016672", LatLongDMS: "35:21:00 N 119:01:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1081 (49515599)

Date: 10/18/1927
Location: Bakersfield, California
Description: Richard Sweed is driving west on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California, when he sees a bluish-gray metallic disc with portholes take off from the ground at a 45° angle. It is about 60 feet in diameter and makes a whining sound. He examines the spot where the object had rested and finds the sand “fused like glass crystals.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_424

Event 1082 (D8EDFFF9)

Date: 10/18/1927
Description: A man by the man of Sweed witnessed a hexagonal flying craft with rivets and a dome that was flying low over a road in Bakersfield, California. A human looking occupant was seen inside a window. The object shot away extremely fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6946

Year: 1928 (Back to Top)

Event 1083 (DD2D3AAC)

Date: 1/3/1928
Location: Kansas
Description: Kansas journalist Charles Benedict Driscoll begins writing about ball lighting in his syndicated column, “The World and All,” keeping the subject alive for many years.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles B. Driscoll, “The World and All,” Lexington Ky. Herald, January 3, 1928, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_425

Event 1084 (2906E984)

Date: 5/1928 (approximate)
Time: 16:00
Location: WEST / YAKIMA, WA
Description: 1 / car. Domed hexagon with rivets scouts road. Pseudo-human/entity inside window. Going [to] extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CONFRONTATIONS, A Scientists Search..; Ballentine Books, NY 1990+91.PB (Index 133)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_368

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "325", HatchDesc: "W/YAKIMA,WA:1/CAR:DOMED HEXAGON W/RIVETS SCOUTS ROAD:PSH INSIDE WINDOW:>XFAST", LatLong: "46.600002 -120.650006", LatLongDMS: "46:36:00 N 120:39:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1085 (79A72C75)

Date: 5/1928
Location: America
Description: Mystic and white supremacist William Dudley Pelley claims he has an out-of-body experience in which he travels to other planes of existence devoid of corporeal souls. He describes his experience in an American Magazine article titled “My Seven Minutes in Eternity,” expanded to a book 1933 as Seven Minutes in Eternity. In later writings, he describes the experience as “hypo-dimensional.” During this event, he meets with God and Jesus, who instruct him to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. He later claims that the experience gives him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have out-of-body experiences at will.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: William Dudley Pelley, “Seven Minutes in Eternity” with Their Aftermath , Robert Collier, 1929; Clark III 1285
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_426

Event 1086 (A3EEF174)

Date: 6/13/1928
Location: Miami, Florida
Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Something like a “great blurred electric light” appears over Miami, Florida, for more than 30 minutes. One witness, amateur astronomer R. C. Fahrion, describes it as a comet without a tail, but it does not move, is of an “enormous size,” and disappears very suddenly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Miami Astronomers Unable to Identify Light in Sky,” Miami Herald, June 14, 1928, p. 1; “Miamians Watch Sky Mystery, Mistaken for Tailless Comet,” Miami News, June 14, 1928, p. 12; Clark III 1172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_428

Event 1087 (EECD9BDA)

Date: Summer 1928
Location: Anstey Lane, Leicester, England
Description: A 6-year-old girl sees a black, faceless, 5-foot-high figure with a large head and dangling arms in a field off Anstey Lane, Leicester, England. She thinks it is a scarecrow but notices a “large globe on legs” near the figure. She wakes up her father who is resting in the open air but when she turns around, the scarecrow and the globe are gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Pauline Berger, “The Disappearing Scarecrow,” Flying Saucer Review 15, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1969: 29; Clark III 264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_427

Event 1088 (F09F4184)

Date: 10/1928
Location: Antarctica
Description: Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the first of the American bases on the continent and was well-equipped.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_34

Event 1089 (74A46571)

Date: 11/1928
Location: Milton, ND
Description: A UFO, round "like an inverted soup plate," sped overhead emitting rays of light which illuminated the ground and startled cattle. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_85

Event 1090 (6C4AAC6D)

Date: Early 11/1928
Location: Milton, North Dakota
Description: 10:30 p.m. Norman H. Sabie and Thorsten Sabie are driving cattle near Milton, North Dakota, watch a round, metallic object, like a “soup bowl turned upside down,” speed by at a low altitude 15–20 feet, emitting 4–5 rays of light that illuminate the ground and startle cattle. It makes a sound like air pouring through a tube.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 129; Clark III 1170
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_429

Event 1091 (E4C5700A)

Date: 11/5/1928 (approximate)
Time: 22:30
Location: MILTON, ND
Description: 2 observer(s). 6-7M silver bowl-saucer beams rays going down / field. Vacuum cleaner sound. / r78p152.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_369

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, NUC: Nuclear facility related, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "482", HatchDesc: "MILTON,ND:2 OBS:6-7M SLVR BOWL-SCR BEAMS RAYS↓/FLD:VAC.CLEANER SOUND:/r78p152", LatLong: "48.627780 -98.044449", LatLongDMS: "48:37:40 N 98:02:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1092 (B2F89CAF)

Date: 11/28/1928
Location: Rodez, Aveyron, France
Description: French diplomatic scholar Henri Pensa writes that a silvery object trailing fire is seen in Rodez, Aveyron, France, coming from the “direction of Mars.” He says that in the winter of 1927–1928, he has seen a bright light, usually between 8:00 and 11:00 p.m., that brightens the landscape.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Giuseppe Stilo, “Francia, 1928: Marte Attacca?” Cielo Insolito, October 2, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_430

Year: 1929 (Back to Top)

Event 1093 (EF12D4FB)

Date: 1929
Locations: Hertford, England; Orchard
Description: In Hertford, England, a 5-year-old girl and her 8-year-old brother have such an unsettling experience that they do not talk about it themselves until about 1960, and the woman herself does not reveal it to outsiders until 1970. They are playing in a garden when they hear engine sounds and see a tiny 12 or 15 inches wide biplane coming over the fence from the direction of an orchard. It swoops down, nearly hitting a trash can, and lands for a few seconds before resuming its flight. While it is stationary, the girl can see a “perfectly proportioned tiny pilot wearing a leather flying helmet, who waved to us as he took off.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Gordon Creighton, “A Weird Case from the Past,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 July/Aug. 1970: 30; Clark III 1173
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_431

Event 1094 (E5CC37A2)

Date: Spring 1929
Location: Bainbridge Island, WA
Description: SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged its size to be tremendous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5))
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_35

Event 1095 (F558D3A6)

Date: 4/1929
Location: Ward, CO
Description: Possible UFO In Old Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 2904xx
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_87

Event 1096 (160B0CDC)

Date: 6/12/1929
Location: Fermeneuve, CAN
Description: 11:00 p.m. Levis Brosseau, 20 was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_88

Event 1097 (60FCEE65)

Date: 6/12/1929
Time: 2300
Location: Fermeneuve, Canada
Description: Levis Brosseau, 2O was returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were running back and forth. He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the dark object take off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size of object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_46

Event 1098 (129D81DC)

Date: 6/12/1929
Location: Ferme-Neuve, Quebec
Description: 11:00 p.m. As he is driving home at Ferme-Neuve, Quebec, Levis Brosseau, 20, sees something like a black cloud with a yellow light resting on a hillside. He gets out to investigate and discerns a structured object 50 feet in diameter. Outside of it, 4–5 small men of yellowish color are moving quickly about. Soon the object flies overhead, “purring like a milk separator,” and he hears two voices arguing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1910–1939 , p. 31; Clark III 264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_432

Event 1099 (45415843)

Date: 6/12/1929
Description: Levis Brosseau, age 20, was riding home in Fermeneuve, Quebec on horseback at 11:00 p.m. when he saw a dark object with a yellow light landed on the ground. His horse became very nervous. The object was estimated to be 15 meters in diameter and 5 meters high, and he witnessed four or five dwarfish figures running back and forth within 6 meters of the object. He heard their sharp, childlike voices. The dark object then took off with a machine-like sound and rush of air.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, pg. 189
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3431

Event 1100 (90F6CECD)

Date: 6/15/1929
Time: 23:00
Location: FERME-NUEVE, QB
Description: 15M saucer lands. 4-5 small humanoids (or Greys) scurry. High voices scare man and horse. / r54p40.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_370

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "236", HatchDesc: "FERME-NUEVE,QB:15M SCR LANDS:4-5 OIDS SCURRY:HI VOICES SCARE MAN+HORSE:/r54p40", LatLong: "46.705558 -75.433337", LatLongDMS: "46:42:20 N 75:26:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Quebec", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1101 (9EBFA276)

Date: 7/1929
Location: Robsart, CAN
Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_91

Event 1102 (97E01230)

Date: 7/1929
Location: Robsart, Canada
Description: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fate Jan., 58 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_47

Event 1103 (41BC30B2)

Date: 9/1929
Location: Oak Park, Illinois
Description: Medical student William Walton is crossing a street in Oak Park, Illinois, when he sees a very bright yellowish-white light like two saucers pressed together. It approaches his position, and he hears a humming sound like the throbbing of a turbine and feels heat and pressure. The object passes over him at about 100 feet altitude, but the force knocks him to his knees. After it passes, he detects an odor of sulfur.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Linda Zimmerman, More Hudson Valley UFOs, Eagle Press, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_433

Event 1104 (992C1EB1)

Date: 10/4/1929
Location: New York City, New York
Description: US stock market crashes
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_36

Event 1105 (D89F0C07)

Date: 11/29/1929
Location: Antartica
Description: Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little America to the Pole and return.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_37

Year: 1930 (Back to Top)

Event 1106 (0DA6AB7B)

Date: 1930
Locations: Texas; Colorado
Description: 10:00 a.m. A woman is driving the family car in an isolated hilly area of Texas when she rounds a curve and sees a huge object about 100 feet across by the side of the road. A small door is open with steps leading down to the ground. One side of the object is braced up by two slender legs with round plates for feet. A man of normal size comes walking toward her and forces her to stop. He seems to speak to her telepathically, telling her to leave the road and make a shortcut through a gully. Some 8–10 other figures walk forward, much smaller and with slanted eyes. They are wearing tan coveralls and tight caps. Despite potential damage to her car, she drives through the gully as the larger man walks alongside. The next thing she remembers is walking up to her porch at her home 15 miles away. It is around 12:00 midnight. In March 1968, having read Interrupted Journey about the Betty and Barney Hill case, she writes to the Colorado project and offers herself for hypnosis and research. Edward Condon files the letter under “psychological” and does not respond.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Too Close for Condon: Close Encounters of the 4th Kind,” IUR 28, no. 3 Fall 2003: 4–5; Patrick Gross, URECAT , August 29, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_434

Event 1107 (2D50EB0F)

Date: 1930
Locations: Barton Hill Academy; Bristol, England
Description: Day. Schoolboys and teachers at the Barton Hill Academy in Bristol, England, watch a cigar-shaped metallic object speed across the sky faster than a dirigible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 16–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_435

Event 1108 (B4E8BD69)

Date: 1930
Location: Tomintoul, Scotland
Description: 9:30 p.m. Two men walking along a lane at Tomintoul, Scotland, see a white light “like a meteor.” When it gets brighter, they can see figures moving inside it. The witnesses think it is a ghost light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT , September 20, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_436

Event 1109 (E42CE32B)

Date: 1/1930?
Location: TOULX-STE.CROIX, FR
Description: Small humanoid (or Grey) glides across road / angle. Legs still! Vanishes in place!
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_371

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "TOULX-Ste.CROIX,FR:OID GLIDES ACRS ROAD/ANGLE:LEGS STILL!:vanishes in place!", LatLong: "46.266669 2.216667", LatLongDMS: "46:16:00 N 02:13:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Creuse", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1110 (2FA033D9)

Date: 1/1930?
Time: 12:00?
Location: PIETERMARITZBURG, RSA
Description: Long object rotates / sky. (Cross-section = plus sign! ). Flies off.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_372

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Republic of South Africa", Credibility: "7", Duration: "40", HatchDesc: "PIETERMARITZBURG,RSA:LONG OBJ ROTATES/SKY:(CROSS-SECTION=PLUS SIGN!):FLIES OFF", LatLong: "-29.600001 30.383335", LatLongDMS: "29:36:00 S 30:23:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KwaZulu-Natal", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1111 (685D6BAC)

Date: Spring 1930
Alternate date: Spring 1931
Location: Newberry, Michigan
Description: 7:00 p.m. As he walks down a country road near Newberry, Michigan, high school student Ralph Newman sees a “distinctly green fireball” in the low eastern sky that moves from south to north. About the size of the full moon, its light brightens the countryside, then it vanishes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_437

Event 1112 (FEAF298A)

Date: 4/15/1930
Time: 05:30
Location: LARGENTIERE, FR
Description: Several observer(s). 12M orange-glowing cone lands very close. Shoots rays. Flies. Traces.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 315)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_373

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "LARGENTIERE,FR:SVRL OBS:12M ORG-GLO CONE LANDS VCLOSE:SHOOTS RAYS:FLIES:TRACES", LatLong: "44.538891 4.288889", LatLongDMS: "44:32:20 N 04:17:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ardèche", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1113 (89988EE8)

Date: 4/15/1930
Description: A farmer in Largentiere, France saw a bright orange glowing, cone-shaped object on the ground at 5:30 a.m. The object took off slowly and flew away. The grass was flattened where the object had been.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 14, citing Dominique Weinstein
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2017

Event 1114 (03102681)

Date: 5/1930
Location: Greensboro, North Carolina
Description: Day. A top-shaped object 40 feet wide lands in a garden in Greensboro, North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Rankin and their two daughters can see the head and shoulders of a figure inside wearing a tight-fitting outfit and helmet. Some 5–10 minutes later the object ascends quietly and is gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1910–1939 , p. 33; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT , September 15, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_438

Event 1115 (182895F4)

Date: 7/25/1930
Location: KARDHITSA, GREECE
Description: News report. Silent metallic disk / 2km altitude flies overhead. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: Von LUDVIGER, Illobrand ed. UFO's-SEUGEN UND ZEICHEN. Berlin 1995 edition q-Verlags GmbH ISBN 3-86124-300-8. (Index 142)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_374

Extra Data: Country: "Greece and Island nations", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KARDHITSA,GREECE:NEWS Rpt:SLNT METALLIC DISK/2km alt FLIES OVHD:NFD", LatLong: "39.383335 21.950001", LatLongDMS: "39:23:00 N 21:57:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1116 (7F54C58A)

Date: 8/1930
Time: ~08:00
Location: MONTEBENICHI, ITL
Description: Top saucer lands. Door drops. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) going down / ladder and steal calze steso!
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_375

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "MONTEBENICHI,ITL:TOP SCR LANDS:DOOR DROPS:2 OIDS ↓/LADDER+STEAL CALZE STESO!", LatLong: "43.400002 11.533334", LatLongDMS: "43:24:00 N 11:32:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RO", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1117 (12E3DABE)

Date: 10/1930 (approximate)
Time: ~15:00
Location: 6 MILE(S) NORTH / CHATHAM, VA
Description: Metal disk / ground. 4 small humanoids (or Greys) take soil samples. Ignore numerous motorists!
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_376

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "220", HatchDesc: "6mi.N/CHATHAM,VA:MTL DISK/GND:4 OIDS TAKE SOIL SAMPLES:IGNORE NMRS MOTORISTS!", LatLong: "36.922224 -79.383337", LatLongDMS: "36:55:20 N 79:23:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "10"

Year: 1931 (Back to Top)

Event 1118 (ADFA9706)

Date: 1/1/1931
Time: 01:00
Location: COBDEN, ONT
Description: Saucer going south. Searches trees / bright beam. Maneuvers and going quickly north again. / r78p152+/ r242.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_377

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "144", HatchDesc: "COBDEN,ONT:SCR > S:SEARCHES TREES/BRITE BEAM:MNVRs+>>N again:/r78p152+/r242", LatLong: "45.622224 -76.888893", LatLongDMS: "45:37:20 N 76:53:20 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1119 (D936425F)

Date: 1/1/1931
Location: Cobden, Ont, CAN
Description: UFO sighted in early morning, had bright light on front which lit up tree-tops, flashing lights on rear. Object made sweeping curve, sped up and climbed out of sight. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_92

Event 1120 (D200EC66)

Date: 1/1/1931
Locations: Cobden, Ontario; Muskrat Lake
Description: 1:00 a.m. J. Stewart Childerhose and his brother, two farmers of Cobden, Ontario, see an object with a brilliant white light on its front illuminating treetops on the shore of Muskrat Lake. Green and white lights twinkle on its tail end. It moves in a rectangular path, then speeds up suddenly and climbs out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 108
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_439

Event 1121 (14693F22)

Date: 1/26/1931
Location: Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City
Description: Author Tiffany Thayer founds the Fortean Society during a dinner with Charles Fort in the Savoy-Plaza Hotel in New York City in order to promote his books and ideas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Fortean Society”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 239–241
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_440

Event 1122 (EF0B9B48)

Date: 2/1931
Description: Charles Fort writes in Lo!, published this month, that “Unknown, luminous things, or beings, have often been seen, sometimes close to this earth, and sometimes high in the sky. It may be that some of them were living things that occasionally come from somewhere else.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Lo!”; Jim Steinmeyer, Charles Fort: The Man Who Invented the Supernatural, Tarcher, 2008, pp. 235–243; Clark III 507–508, 1098
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_441

Event 1123 (D26CC964)

Date: 3/1931
Location: NORTH / MALDIVES
Description: Fr. ship crew. Laser like beams radiate going up [to] from sea. Water glows and boils.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_378

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "N/MALDIVES:FR.SHIP CREW:LASER LIKE BEAMS RADIATE ↑ FROM SEA:WATER GLOWS+BOILS", LatLong: "10.000000 70.000003", LatLongDMS: "10:00:00 N 70:00:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "ARB", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1124 (6BE1CE0B)

Date: 3/30/1931 (approximate)
Location: CANNES TO/FROM/BETWEEN LA BOCCA, FR
Description: 2M blessed virgin appears. Going quickly [to] to round white saucer-cloud! Quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 195)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_379

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "4", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CANNES<>La BOCCA,FR:2M BLESSED VIRGIN APPEARS:>> to RND WHT SCR-CLOUD!:↑↑", LatLong: "43.533335 6.950000", LatLongDMS: "43:32:00 N 06:57:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alpes Maritimes", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1125 (F572CF31)

Date: 5/1931
Time: 16:30
Location: PAULILATINO, SARDINIA
Description: 2 observer(s). Fake soccer ball west going east slow and level / 1M altitude toward(s) ruins.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_380

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "280", HatchDesc: "PAULILATINO,SARDINIA:2 OBS:FAKE SOCCER BALL W>E SLO+LEVEL/1M alt TWRD RUINS", LatLong: "40.100002 8.750000", LatLongDMS: "40:06:00 N 08:45:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Cagliari", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1126 (1FD00523)

Date: 5/1931
Locations: Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy; Nuraghe Trudumeddu
Description: 4:30 p.m. Pasquale Masala is out riding his horse with a friend a few miles southeast of Paulilatino, Sardinia, Italy. When they reach a megalithic tomb known as Nuraghe Trudumeddu, they dismount to enjoy the view. Suddenly, a strange object the size and shape of a football emerges from the partially blocked entrance of the tomb. It travels at a height of about 3 feet above the ground at a constant speed of about 10–15 mph and enters a thick patch of undergrowth. Marsala runs after it for about a half mile and notices that the bushes part in front of the object and close up after it passes. His companion is frightened and insists on returning to the village.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Mary Boyd, “An Early Italian Cross-Country Case,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 3 December 1974: 21; 1Pinotti 13– 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_442

Event 1127 (1330E374)

Date: 6/6/1931
Locations: New Zealand; Australia; Tasman Sea
Description: Aviator Francis Chichester sees a dull gray-white “airship” as he is making the first solo flight in a Gypsy Moth seaplane from New Zealand to Australia over the Tasman Sea.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Francis Chichester, The Lonely Sea and the Sky, Hodder and Stoughton, 1964, p. 165; Keith Basterfield, “Aviator Francis Chichester’s Classic Sighting: Is the Date Wrong?” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena–Scientific Research, May 29, 2018; Patrick Gross, “Francis Chichester Sighting, 1931”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_443

Event 1128 (02A84015)

Date: 6/10/1931
Time: 15:00?
Location: ?? / TASMAN SEA
Description: Sir F. Chichester / plane. Dull grey-white airship. Flashes. / r65p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_381

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "??/TASMAN SEA:SIR F.CHICHESTER/PLANE:DULL GRY-WHT AIRSHIP:FLASHES:/r65p15", LatLong: "-35.000002 160.000008", LatLongDMS: "35:00:00 S 160:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TSS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1129 (CC951A30)

Date: 6/10/1931
Description: About the middle of the afternoon Sir F. Chichester spotted a dull grayish-white airship while flying over the Tasman Sea, off the coast of Australia. The object reflected light off its front surface. It appeared to draw closer, but then dimished in size, seemed to become transparent, and disappeared.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: James E. McDonald investigation files, case 004
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3402

Event 1130 (AFD01F74)

Date: Summer 1931
Locations: Auckland, New Zealand; Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California
Description: Alice May Williams of Auckland, New Zealand, begins writing letters over a two-year period to Edison Pettit and Seth Barnes Nicholson , astronomers at the Mount Wilson Observatory in Pasadena, California, describing her encounters with telepathic aliens who fly in a circular machine “like a great big lamp.” She writes that “The Planet mars is inhabited by human spirits like us can talk eat & drink wear clothes, but have great power. They are something people of this earth have never seen.” Their ships “are round like the moon with airtight shutter at the front, glass. The machine must be built with some light material, airproof fireproof, waterproof. The inside must be like a room, 2 beds tables & chairs.” Much of her information seems to be derived from articles in the Auckland Star about conditions elsewhere in the solar system.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Herkt, “Who No: Letters from Alice May Williams,” Speaker: Public Address, September 3, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_444

Event 1131 (49240EEE)

Date: 10/10/1931
Time: 14:30
Location: PT PLEASANT, WV
Description: Several observer(s). 'Flaming blimp' going south over river. Big search = nothing. / r171.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_382

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "172", HatchDesc: "Pt PLEASANT,WV:SVRL OBS:'FLAMING BLIMP' >S OVR RIVER:BIG SEARCH=NOTHING:/r171", LatLong: "38.833335 -82.116671", LatLongDMS: "38:50:00 N 82:07:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1132 (B693205E)

Date: 11/1/1931
Location: Unknown City, WV
Description: Flaming, one-hundred foot blimp (Page 6 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_93

Event 1133 (8A02D91C)

Date: 12/6/1931
Location: HAMMONTON, NJ
Description: Cops and 200 search swamps for 'dropped parachute'. Nothing found.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_383

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "HAMMONTON,NJ:COPS+200 SEARCH SWAMPS FOR 'DROPPED PARACHUTE':NOTHING FOUND", LatLong: "39.638891 -74.805559", LatLongDMS: "39:38:20 N 74:48:20 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "5"

Year: 1932 (Back to Top)

Event 1134 (43C19A7F)

Date: 1932
Alternate date: 1933
Location: Oakland, CA
Description: About seven brilliant objects in a group flew from 30 degrees elevation in the east to 45 degrees elevation in the west, in an arc. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_94

Event 1135 (8B3A4B80)

Date: 1932
Alternate date: 1933
Location: Hawthorne, CT
Description: The object was cigar-shaped, emitting a pink glow at its front and a light swirl of grey smoke along its sides. It was huge compared to any other plane, and it had no rudder, [wings,] or elevator. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 32 or 33
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_95

Event 1136 (C2D31FB0)

Date: 1932
Location: Eastern Greenland
Description: Danish pilots Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet and Lt. Tage Andersen are flying an H.M.II Heinkel HE 8 seaplane over eastern Greenland as part of a photogrammetric survey. Suddenly, Andersen notices they are being followed by a hexagonal metallic object about a mile behind them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Rufus Drake, “UFO Crisis over Greenland,” Saga, October 1976, pp. 36–38, 54, 60; Patrick Gross, “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 8, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_445

Event 1137 (D0427A62)

Date: 1/29/1932
Location: Unknown City, NJ
Description: Aluminum-like disc with periphery of yellowish lights or "portholes" on underside. (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_96

Event 1138 (B9B1B1AD)

Date: 3/25/1932
Time: ~10:00
Location: EAST / WAGON MOUND, NM
Description: Several / car. Fiery disks spin and light sky. Back / good Friday / 1941+1975.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 914)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_384

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1870", HatchDesc: "E/WAGON MOUND,NM:SVRL/CAR:FIERY DISKS SPIN+LITE SKY:BACK/GOOD FRIDAY/1941+1975", LatLong: "35.133335 -104.516672", LatLongDMS: "35:08:00 N 104:31:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1139 (0D297025)

Date: 4/1932 (approximate)
Location: NAMBOUR, AUSTRALIA
Description: Small object buzzes boy. Boy faints. Feels sick. Gets blisters. OK later.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO RESEARCH AUSTRALIA NEWSLETTER. (Details missing) (Index 822)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_385

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NAMBOUR,AUSTRL:SML OBJ BUZZES BOY:BOY FAINTS:FEELS SICK:GETS BLISTERS:OK LATER", LatLong: "-26.800001 153.000007", LatLongDMS: "26:48:00 S 153:00:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1140 (9D45CD0B)

Date: 4/1932
Alternate date: 5/1932
Location: Durham, NY
Description: Airplane. (Page 6 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_97

Event 1141 (46ABD443)

Date: 4/1932
Alternate date: 5/1932
Location: Durham, New York
Description: Terry F. Lapeza sees an aluminum-like disc with yellowish lights or “portholes” on the underside, about 100 feet in diameter over Durham, New York. It is moving north at about 300 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 129
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_446

Event 1142 (5B314DDB)

Date: 5/1932
Location: Paris, OH
Description: Sutton photo of domed disc (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 320500
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_98

Event 1143 (EE47E8C0)

Date: 5/4/1932
Description: During a time of personal crises, the witness, now a retired pastor, found himself in a city of 16,000 located 150 miles west of Toronto, Ontario. On this particular night he was standing on a street lit up by a brilliant white light from above. Looking up, he saw the light came from a round cloud with a scalloped edge, about 200 yards overhead. From the cloud-like object streamed down a light like a laser beam. He next saw a young man with golden hair standing beside him, dressed in a suit of a similar color. The man had radiant blue eyes, and was about 5.5 feet tall. He smiled at the witness and told him that his work would be in that city, and reminded him that “the cottages in the rear of the mansion are as important as those who dwell in the mansion.” He told him the witness would reside there for six years and would then work his way to the west coast. According to the man’s account, the prophecies were fulfilled.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1932-01 (A0103), citing John Musgrave & Ted Bloecher
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2499

Event 1144 (D54B0D0B)

Date: 6/1932
Location: Wattsburg, Pennsylvania
Description: Evening. Reuben D. Knight is standing on the porch of his farmhouse near Wattsburg, Pennsylvania, when he notices a bright speck of light approaching from some woods to the south. Growing in size, it comes to within 4 feet of him and appears as a silvery-blue ball about 14 inches in diameter. It travels in a loop and circles back to the woods in a steady path of 35–40 mph. After it circles past him again, he calls his wife and she sees the ball make a final loop before it disappears in the woods.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file; Clark III 1175; Patrick Gross, URECAT, August 19, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_448

Event 1145 (3C2D30A3)

Date: Early Summer 1932
Alternate date: Early Summer 1933
Location: Oakland, California
Description: 7:30 p.m. Teenager Fred W. Van Sant and his brother Milton see 7–8 “meteors flying in a bunch” over hills east of Oakland, California. They maintain the same altitude from east to west in a great arc. The objects are silent and are so bright they seem to be emitting their own light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file; Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_447

Event 1146 (7805AF9A)

Date: 10/1932
Time: 18:00
Location: JOLIETTE, QB
Description: 5 / car. 8' giant / white space-suit walks clumsily. No UFO seen. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_386

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, NFO: No craft seen, GNT: Giant: Large/tall alien, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "JOLIETTE,QB:5/CAR:8'GIANT/WHT SPACE-SUIT WALKS CLUMSILY:NO UFO SEEN:NFD", LatLong: "46.033336 -73.433337", LatLongDMS: "46:02:00 N 73:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Quebec", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1147 (113BDE2E)

Date: 10/1932
Time: ~19:00
Location: NEAR PLAINSBORO, NJ
Description: Aero engineer and 1 / car. 30M blue-glowing disk quickly going down. Levels. Quickly going up. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v23#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_387

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "24", HatchDesc: "nr PLAINSBORO,NJ:AERO ENGINEER+1/CAR:30M BLU-GLO DISK ↓↓:LEVELS:↑↑:/IUR v23#4", LatLong: "40.333335 -74.600004", LatLongDMS: "40:20:00 N 74:36:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1148 (AC1E376A)

Date: 12/1932 (approximate)
Time: 19:50
Location: MT. GAMBIER, SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Description: Blunt-nosed torpedo going [to] fast. Orange light / rear. Flashes lightening.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: AUFORN group, with Diane Harrison. http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw/new
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_388

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "Mt.GAMBIER,S.AUSTRL:BLUNT-NOSED TORPEDO > FAST:ORG LITE/REAR:FLASHES LITENING", LatLong: "-37.500002 140.850007", LatLongDMS: "37:30:00 S 140:51:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Australia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1149 (0EFED9D7)

Date: 12/8/1932
Time: 23:50
Location: ARROYOMOLINOS DE LEON, SP
Description: Fireball explodes with damage. 2nd fireball maneuvers / 1800hrs. / r50p01.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 122)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_389

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "ARROYOMOLINOS DE LEON,SP:FBL EXPLODES W/DAMAGE:2ND FBL MNVRS/1800hrs:/r50p01.", LatLong: "38.022224 -6.411111", LatLongDMS: "38:01:20 N 06:24:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HLV", Strangeness: "4"

Year: 1933 (Back to Top)

Event 1150 (B7BE9A5B)

Date: 1933
Location: Antartica
Description: Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support, in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_38

Event 1151 (639895E0)

Date: 1933
Locations: Fort Washakie, Wyoming; Wind River Indian Reservation
Description: Earl J. Duncan and a Native American boy are in a truck near Fort Washakie, Wyoming, on the Wind River Indian Reservation. As they reach the crest of a hill, they see three perfectly round, pulsating, orange-red balls about 900 feet away. They are moving “in absolute alignment” about 20 feet from the ground toward the nearest mountain range. After 5 minutes of silent movement they disappear over a nearby mountain.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAp case file; Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_449

Event 1152 (C9041F43)

Date: 1/1933?
Time: ~00:00
Location: DISCOVERY WELL, WEST AUS
Description: Large shiny egg going down. Greys exit. Aborigine woman abduction and experimented upon.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_390

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", ABD: Human or animal abduction, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "DISCOVERY WELL,W.AUS:LRG SHINY EGG↓:GREYS EXIT:ABO.WOMAN ABD+EXPERIMENTED UPON", LatLong: "-20.316668 123.800006", LatLongDMS: "20:19:00 S 123:48:00 E", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Australia", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1153 (95DE7D5B)

Date: 1/21/1933
Time: 22:50
Location: BONDY, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). Luminous/glowing white observer(s) 12cm / arms length. Hovers / minutes. Rises and shoots overhead.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 316)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_391

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "BONDY,FR:2 OBS:LUMn WHT OBS 12cm/ARMS LENGTH:HVRS/mins:RISES+SHOOTS OVHD", LatLong: "48.900002 2.483333", LatLongDMS: "48:54:00 N 02:29:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SSD", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1154 (279E1C19)

Date: 1/21/1933
Description: At 10:50 p.m. a luminous white object, with the apparent size of a 12 cm coin held at arms length, hovered over Bondy, Seine-St-Denis, France for five minutes, rose higher in the air, then shot overhead.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 316
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_398

Event 1155 (CD3878EC)

Date: 1/30/1933
Location: Germany
Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_39

Event 1156 (E2BE167A)

Date: 3/4/1933
End date: 4/12/1945
Location: Washington DC
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_40

Event 1157 (7E349C91)

Date: 6/1/1933
Time: ~10:00
Location: MT. EVEREST
Description: Climber. 2 black ovoids hover / wind. Expand and contract. Lost in mist.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_392

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Himalayan states", Credibility: "5", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "Mt.EVEREST:CLIMBER:2 BLK OVOIDS HVR/WIND:EXPAND+CONTRACT:lost in mist.", LatLong: "28.000001 86.950004", LatLongDMS: "28:00:00 N 86:57:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EVR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1158 (0AF182C5)

Date: 6/1/1933
Location: Himalaya Mountains of Nepal
Description: English mountaineer Frank Smythe , during the British Mount Everest Expedition in the Himalaya Mountains of Nepal, is heading for camp at 27,500 feet when he sees two dark objects floating in the blue sky. In shape they resemble kite balloons, except that one appears to possess short squat wings. As they hover motionless, they seem to pulsate in and out as though they are breathing. A minute or two later they disappear behind mountain mist.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank S. Smythe, Camp Six: An Account of the 1933 Mount Everest Expedition, Hodder and Stoughton, 1937, pp. 264–265; Barry Greenwood, “UFOs on Mt. Everest in 1933,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 5 July 1999: 2–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_453

Event 1159 (2BF092A4)

Date: 6/13/1933
Locations: Magenta; Milan, Italy; Vergiate, Varese
Description: An unknown aircraft allegedly crashes at Magenta, just west of Milan, Italy. The Italian government establishes a top-secret group, Gabinetto Ricerche Speziale/33, to examine the craft. It is headed by Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano, and Air Marshal Italo Balbo, with scientific support from Guglielmo Marconi and astronomer Gino Cecchini . Debris is reportedly stored in the hangars of the SIAI- Marchetti aircraft company in Vergiate, Varese. Journalists are ordered to keep silent about the incident due to national security.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, pp. 12–15; Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, 2001; 2Pinotti 179–197
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_454

Event 1160 (5E21240C)

Date: Summer 1933
Location: Cherryville, PA
Description: Morning. A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_99

Event 1161 (D48E5BF4)

Date: Summer 1933
Time: Morning
Location: Cherryville, Pennsylvania
Description: A man observed a faint violet light in a field between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. Pushing it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many instruments, no occupant. Smell of ammonia.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: APRO Jul., 64 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_48

Event 1162 (0193BBB4)

Date: Summer 1933
Locations: Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan; Napawin
Description: For weeks, strange lights in the sky are reported around Tobin Lake, Saskatchewan. Curious about the reports, two young men and a woman drive to the lake from Napawin. On their way they see a glow near the horizon, so they park and trek a quarter mile into the woods where they can see a large, oval-shaped craft sitting on legs. From an open central doorway shines a bright orange glow; a ladderlike stairway extends downward with a dozen figures dressed in silver suits moving up and down the steps. They appear to be repairing the craft. The witnesses watch for 30 minutes when they decide to return to their truck and get closer. Two nights later they return and find imprints and burn marks, which they photograph. Two of them write an article that they submit to magazines, which refuse to publish what they consider outlandish fiction.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John Brent Musgrave, “Saskatchewan, 1933: UFO Stops for ‘Repairs,’” Flying Saucer Review 22, no. 6 April 1977: 16–17; Clark III 264; Patrick Gross, URECAT , July 15, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_450

Event 1163 (9E1050E1)

Date: Summer 1933
Location: Cherryville, Pennsylvania
Description: 2:30 a.m. A man who still insists on anonymity in 1964 is driving near Cherryville, Pennsylvania, when his car gets a flat tire. As he is jacking it up, he sees a faint violet light in the field on his right. Curious, he walks about 200 feet toward the light and sees a bell-shaped object about 10 feet in diameter and 6 feet high on the grass. Light is issuing from a circular door about 1 foot in diameter. He pushes it and it swings open. Putting his head inside, he cannot see much because of the peculiar light coming from the ceiling. The chamber inside is about 6 feet in diameter, 4 feet high, and full of tubing and dials on a console. An ammonia scent pervades the room, which is notably chilly. The man then walks around the object, touching the surface, which is slick, metallic, and cold. After 10 minutes, he goes back to the car, replaces the tire, and drives home.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Saucer Spotted in 1933,” Allentown Pa. Sunday Call-Chronicle, February 16, 1964, pp. B1–B2; Clark III 1175–1176; “1933 Sighting Reported,” APRO Bulletin, July 1964, pp. 7–8; Patrick Gross, URECAT , July 16, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_451

Event 1164 (DC55CC24)

Date: Summer 1933
Location: Beach Haven, New Jersey
Description: Night. Frank Van Keuren is fishing with others along the waterway off Beach Haven, New Jersey. Suddenly they are illuminated by a searchlight coming from an object moving slowly and silently about 1,000 feet in the air. It goes on to circle some radio towers about 8 miles away, flooding them with light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 19–20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_452

Event 1165 (E18995FE)

Date: 7/4/1933
Location: Germany
Description: The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, after all other parties are banned or split up.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_41

Event 1166 (F5D67881)

Date: 7/5/1933
Location: Sussex, UK
Description: Gigantic light (Page 6-7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_100

Event 1167 (15947F9A)

Date: 7/5/1933
Location: Sussex, England
Description: Evening. Four RAF Hawker Fury I biplanes flying over Sussex, England, encounter a gigantic light that shines directly into the center of their formation from a higher altitude. Two Hawkers experience mechanical trouble and separate. Capt. Nigel Tompkins and Lt. Bruce H. Thomas make emergency landings when both their planes’ engines quit. On his way down, Thomas passes so close to the light that it causes burns on his face and hands. Probable hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: History of the III Fighter Squadron, RAF, London Press, 1947; Jan Aldrich, “Aircraft/UFO Encounters Prior to 1942,” Project 1947; Patrick Gross, “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 3, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_455

Event 1168 (D0F53CF3)

Date: 7/5/1933
Description: A huge circular object dropped down into the center of a formation of RAF fighter aircraft over Sussex, England. Two of the planes suffered engine failure and were forced to make emergency landings. One pilot suffered burns to his face and hands after his airplane passed close by the object.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 16
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3834

Event 1169 (9C47AA61)

Date: 7/31/1933
Alternate date: 8/1/1933
Locations: Butt Valley Reservoir; Humbug Valley, California
Description: 9:15 p.m. Somewhere between Butt Valley Reservoir and Humbug Valley, California, high- school science teacher Paul M. Barry Jr. is skywatching when he sees two objects shoot across the sky. They are solid, prolate spheroids with a green luminescence. Their brightness changes considerably as they approach the zenith and diminish as they approach the horizon. He thinks they are 8–10 miles distant. The two objects disappear and are followed by a third.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1175
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_456

Event 1170 (B0155E59)

Date: 8/1933 (approximate)
Time: 02:30
Location: NORTHWEST / NAZARETH, PA
Description: Violet glow / field. 3M sphere / ground. Door ajar. Dials and controls inside.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 775)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_393

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "5", Elev: "155", HatchDesc: "NW/NAZARETH,PA:VIOLET GLOW/FIELD:3M SPHERE/GND:DOOR AJAR:DIALS+CONTROLS INSIDE", LatLong: "40.750002 -75.416670", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 75:25:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1171 (D822F02C)

Date: 8/1933 (approximate)
Time: ~07:00
Location: NORTHWEST / NIPAWIN, SSK
Description: 3 observer(s). Saucer / 6 legs. Small humanoids (or Greys) going up [to] going down [to] ladder / 30m. Photographs / physical traces. / IFS#35 / r210v25#9.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 270)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_394

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "358", HatchDesc: "NW/NIPAWIN,SSK:3 OBS:SCR/6 LEGS:OIDS ↑↓LADDER/30m:FOTOS/TRCs:/IFS#35/r210v25#9", LatLong: "53.366669 -104.000005", LatLongDMS: "53:22:00 N 104:00:00 W", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1172 (803D55B0)

Date: 8/1933 (approximate)
Time: ~18:00
Location: NEAR TUCKERTON, NJ
Description: Disk going [to] overhead slow. Lights 2 observer(s) / strong beams. Lights radio towers..
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_395

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "nr TUCKERTON,NJ:DISK >OVHD SLOW:LITES 2 OBS/STRONG BEAMS:LITES RADIO TOWERS..", LatLong: "39.600002 -74.333337", LatLongDMS: "39:36:00 N 74:20:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1173 (B5110532)

Date: 8/1933 (approximate)
Time: 21:00?
Location: KRASNYYE CHETAI, RUSSIA
Description: 1934? 'Star' going west / satellite speed / 10 minute(s). Turns going northwest!
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_396

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "KRASNYYE CHETAI,RUSS:1934?:'STAR' > W /SATELLITE SPEED/10min:TURNS >NW!", LatLong: "55.700003 46.150002", LatLongDMS: "55:42:00 N 46:09:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CHB", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1174 (1638863F)

Date: 8/1933
End date: 12/1933
Location: East Coast United States, East Coast
Description: East Coast and Britain, mysterious aircraft (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_101

Event 1175 (97BFEED9)

Date: Fall 1933
Location: Contra Costa County, California
Description: 11:45 p.m. A chemist in Contra Costa County, California, hears a humming sound outside coming from the northeast. Looking out the window, he sees the yard bathed in a steady blue-purple light. Suddenly the light goes out and the humming ends with a “pow” sound.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs; The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_457

Event 1176 (767F1290)

Date: Late 11/1933
Location: lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden
Description: After sunset. A lone observer sees what appears to be an aircraft land on ice-covered lake Fjosoken, Sorsele, Sweden. It takes off and circles the lake for one hour, during which time it projects a powerful searchlight on the lake’s surface. However, local police interview the witness and suspect that he was looking at Venus.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 361
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_458

Event 1177 (D69C8822)

Date: 12/16/1933
Time: 18:00
Location: TARNABY, SWEDEN
Description: Several observer(s) / news. Mystery aircraft passes going quickly west. Turns over Joesjo, Norway.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_397

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "TARNABY,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS/NEWS:MYSTERY AIRCRFT PASSES>>W:TURNS OVR JOESJO,NORWAY", LatLong: "65.700003 15.283334", LatLongDMS: "65:42:00 N 15:17:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1178 (9DF48AB4)

Date: 12/18/1933
Time: 10:00
Location: ONKERZELE, BELGIUM
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Fatima like solar apparition. Sparks and flames / 'sun'.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_398

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "ONKERZELE,BELGIUM:100s/OBS:FATIMA LIKE SOLAR APPARITION:SPARKS+FLAMES/'SUN'", LatLong: "50.755558 3.911111", LatLongDMS: "50:45:20 N 03:54:40 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1179 (CF520BE3)

Date: 12/18/1933
Description: At ten o'clock in the morning hundreds of witnesses in Onkerzeele, Belgium watched a Fatima like solar apparition, with sparks and flames from a dancing "Sun".
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena magazine, issue # 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8484

Event 1180 (D374EA3E)

Date: 12/24/1933
Time: 18:00
Location: KALIX, SWEDEN
Description: 'Mystery plane' searches area with strong lights. Going quickly west. / r203 p128.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_399

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KALIX,SWEDEN:'MYSTERY PLANE' SEARCHES AREA W/STRONG LITES:>>W:/r203 p128", LatLong: "65.850003 23.166668", LatLongDMS: "65:51:00 N 23:10:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1181 (1361A57E)

Date: 12/24/1933
Location: Kalix, Sweden
Description: Beam of light coming from machine (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_102

Event 1182 (DC14C8BD)

Date: 12/24/1933
Locations: Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden; Scandinavia
Description: 6:00 p.m. Witnesses in Kalix, Norrbotten, Sweden, see beams of light coming from a machine that seems to be searching the ground below. The beams are “blinding.” The sighting is part of a wave of “ghost flier” reports of gray monoplanes without identifying markings that are reported over rural areas of Scandinavia from November 15, 1933, through February 11, 1934. The Swedish Military Record Office accumulates 96 reports from Sweden, 234 from Norway, and 137 from Finland, and the Swedish Air Force undertakes at least two reconnaissance missions in search of the mystery planes. More than 50% of the reports take place between 5:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., when Venus is low over the horizon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 7; Hilary Evans and Robert E. Bartholomew, Outbreak! Anomalist, 2009, pp. 497–499; Swords 361–363; Anders Liljegren, “Ghost Flier Mystery Still Unresolved,” AFU Newsletter 41 September 2001: 1–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_459

Event 1183 (98054CB2)

Date: 12/26/1933
Time: 09:30
Location: MANHATTAN, NY
Description: Many observer(s). Mystery flier circles city / heavy snowstorm / 5 hours. / r203p128.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_400

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "44", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "MANHATTAN,NY:MANY OBS:MYSTERY FLIER CCLS CITY/HEAVY SNOWSTORM/5hrs:/r203p128", LatLong: "40.750002 -73.966670", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 73:58:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1184 (12513851)

Date: 12/28/1933
Time: 18:00?
Location: HATTEFJALLSDALEN AND LANGMO, NORWAY
Description: Series mystery fliers. High. 3 lights visible only.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_401

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "53", HatchDesc: "HATTEFJALLSDALEN+LANGMO,NORWAY:SERIES MYSTERY FLIERS:HIGH:3 LITES VISIBLE ONLY", LatLong: "65.600003 13.933334", LatLongDMS: "65:36:00 N 13:56:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1185 (CAED83C0)

Date: 12/28/1933 (approximate)
Time: 18:00?
Location: MUOIJEVAARA, SWED
Description: 2 separate drivers. Mystery craft goes 30M over highway. No planes up.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_402

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MUOIJEVAARA,SWED:2 SEP.DRIVERS:MYSTERY CRAFT GOES 30M ovr HIGHWAY:NO PLANES UP", LatLong: "67.144448 20.650001", LatLongDMS: "67:08:40 N 20:39:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1186 (EAA6A2A0)

Date: 12/28/1933
Description: The 4th Swedish Flying Corps begins an investigation of the ghost flyers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 July/Aug. 1970: 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_460

Event 1187 (061C0F74)

Date: 12/30/1933
Location: Unknown City, Sweden
Description: Low-flying aeroplane (Page 7 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_103

Event 1188 (0483B4A7)

Date: 12/30/1933
Location: Sweden
Description: Swedish customs sends a request for air support to Gen. Eric Virgin , head of the Swedish Air Force, to help apprehend the ghost fliers who could be smuggling liquor into Sweden. However, he is cautious and wants more information to evaluate.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 361–362; Good Above, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_461

Year: 1934 (Back to Top)

Event 1189 (784C1BA8)

Date: 1934
Location: Fort Washakie, WY
Description: INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J. Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were soundless and moved at a snail's pace. Duncan's sighting has many things in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes, as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_42

Event 1190 (83A36B14)

Date: 1/1934
Location: 758 Manzanita Drive, Laguna Beach, California
Description: George Adamski , who has been a lecturer and counselor on spiritual topics since about 1928, opens the Monastery of the Royal Order of Tibet at 758 Manzanita Drive, Laguna Beach, California. The monastery serves as his home and headquarters until 1940.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George M. Eberhart, “George Adamski—New Age Meets the Space Age,” IUR 21, no. 2 Summer 1996: 20; “Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_462

Event 1191 (135C9D2F)

Date: 1/1/1934
Time: 03:50
Location: SORSELE, SWD
Description: 1 observer. Plane roars overhead going east. Bigger / any known. Circles railroad/railway station/depot/facility 3X. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_403

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SORSELE,SWD:1 OBS:PLANE ROARS OVHD > E:BIGGER/ANY KNOWN:CIRCLES RR STn 3X:>N", LatLong: "65.516670 17.700001", LatLongDMS: "65:31:00 N 17:42:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1192 (267051E6)

Date: 1/1/1934 (approximate)
Time: 18:00?
Location: STORUMAN AND TARNA AND STENSELE, SWD
Description: Wave / night lights etc. beam lights up and down over lakes and towns and more/others.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 196)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_404

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "53", HatchDesc: "STORUMAN+TARNA+STENSELE,SWD:WAVE/NLTS etc BEAM LITES UP+DOWN OVR LAKES+TOWNS++", LatLong: "65.105559 17.133334", LatLongDMS: "65:06:20 N 17:08:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "4"

Event 1193 (33B6723C)

Date: 1/2/1934
Location: Sorsele, Västerbotten, Sweden
Description: 3:45 a.m. Olof Hedlund is taking a walk in Sorsele, Västerbotten, Sweden, when he hears an engine above him. There is a full moon and visibility is good. He sees an airplane fly over the city from the west, passing directly above the train station. It turns three times in wide circles, then it takes off to the north, following the railroad tracks. It is at about 1,300 feet altitude and visible for 15 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 July/Aug. 1970: 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_463

Event 1194 (D8DD88A4)

Date: 1/9/1934
Location: Västerbotten province, Sweden
Description: A mystery airplane is seen again over Västerbotten province, Sweden. The Swedish Air Force loses two aircraft trying to discover where the plane is based.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mystery Plane Reported,” New York Times, January 10, 1934, p. 11; Strange Company 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_464

Event 1195 (3FB8B8D0)

Date: 1/10/1934
Locations: Upper Norrland, Sweden; Norrbotten County; Norrbotten
Description: Gen. Pontus Reuterswärd , chief of armed forces in Upper Norrland, Sweden, recommends to officials of Norrbotten County that they request assistance from the Air Force to deal with the ghost fliers. Norrbotten administrator Bernard Gärde is skeptical of the “vague and unreliable” reports at first.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 361–362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_465

Event 1196 (ADBDF25B)

Date: 1/22/1934
Location: Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden
Description: A mystery aircraft flies over the military fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, seen by 30 soldiers, and Reuterswärd alerts the press that planes had flown over restricted military areas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part III—The Landings,” Flying Saucer Review 17, no. 4 July/Aug. 1971: 17; Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_466

Event 1197 (DBEDD536)

Date: 1/27/1934
Description: Swedish MP Arvid Lindman puts a question to Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson , asking what action the government plans to take about the ghost fliers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_467

Event 1198 (B9EE3EB0)

Date: 1/28/1934
Location: OFF TROMSO, NORWAY AND MORE/OTHERS
Description: Mystery plane lights ship like day. Unmarked. No try to hide.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_405

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "off TROMSO,NORWAY++:MYSTERY PLANE LITES SHIP LIKE DAY:unmarked:no try to hide", LatLong: "69.700003 19.000001", LatLongDMS: "69:42:00 N 19:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1199 (7E8C1295)

Date: 2/1/1934
Location: central London, England
Description: Night. A mystery aircraft flies in circles for two hours over central London, England. Its engine is noisy, and its course can be clearly seen by its lights. On February 6, Under-Secretary of State for Air Philip Sassoon claims that it was an RAF plane carrying out a training exercise in coordination with ground forces.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 July/Aug. 1970: 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_468

Event 1200 (10BEF5AF)

Date: 2/2/1934
Description: Prime Minister Hansson tells the Swedish Parliament that most ghost flier sightings are misidentifications or fantasy, while others are unsolved.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_469

Event 1201 (25D49C31)

Date: 2/2/1934
Locations: eastern Finland; Helsinki; Vyborg; Finland; Sweden; Norway
Description: Night. A large unidentified airplane is seen over eastern Finland close to the Russian frontier, apparently scouting the district. Flights of ghost planes and mysterious lights have been seen for the past month over Helsinki and Vyborg, Finland, as well as Sweden and Norway. The Scandinavian mystery fliers continue to be seen into 1935.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Finnish Alarm Grows over ‘Ghost’ Planes,” New York Times, February 4, 1934, p. 9; Strange Company 8–9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_470

Event 1202 (983AF50C)

Date: 2/3/1934
Location: Sweden, Northern Finland, Norway, Various
Description: Ghost aviators (as reported by the New York Times) (Page 8 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_104

Event 1203 (8F071E39)

Date: 2/5/1934
Location: MOEN = MALSELV, NORW
Description: Object crashes / Fager Mountains. Only footprints and traces found. FSRv17#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_406

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MOEN=MALSELV,NORW:OBJ CRASHES/FAGER Mtns:ONLY FOOTPRINTS+TRACES FOUND:FSRv17#4", LatLong: "69.166670 18.583334", LatLongDMS: "69:10:00 N 18:35:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1204 (F1C1F2EA)

Date: 2/5/1934
Description: On this evening an unknown mysterious airplane made an emergency landing on Fager Mountain in Malsev, Troms, Norway. Two men were seen clearing away snow, and the engine noise was heard throughout the valley. Parallel marks in found in the snow, 75 meters in length, as well as two sets of footprints.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, July-August 1971, p. 18; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0107
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_695

Event 1205 (74936E79)

Date: 2/12/1934
Location: Norrbotten, Sweden
Description: Norrbotten, Sweden, administrator Bernard Gärde officially requests assistance of the Air Force with the ghost fliers. But air surveillance has actually been taking place since early January.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 362
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_471

Event 1206 (5818BBB9)

Date: 3/4/1934
Location: Sweden
Description: Sweden calls off its hunt for the ghost fliers, although sightings are still being reported. Even though 24 airplanes participated in the search, no Swedish pilot has seen a ghost flier. Soldiers on the ground occasionally report sound from a motor or lights in the sky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 362–363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_472

Event 1207 (7C74DBAD)

Date: 4/1/1934
Location: Oslo, Norway
Description: A very large aeroplane with eight propellers (Page 8 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_105

Event 1208 (60366539)

Date: 4/30/1934
Description: Gen. Reuterswärd tells the press that several ghost flier reports in January had been of real, unidentified aircraft involved in a violation of Sweden’s airspace. MP Elof Lindberg accuses him of not being competent enough to draw such a conclusion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p. 13; Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_473

Event 1209 (63590947)

Date: 6/1934
Time: ~18:00
Location: WATTSBURG, PA
Description: 1+1 observer(s). 35cm ball / light exits woods. Makes U-turn 6' away. Away and back.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_407

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "393", HatchDesc: "WATTSBURG,PA:1+1 OBS:35cm BALL/LITE EXITS WOODS:MAKES U-TURN 6' AWAY:AWAY+BACK", LatLong: "42.005558 -79.811115", LatLongDMS: "42:00:20 N 79:48:40 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1210 (C745AA76)

Date: 6/11/1934
Location: London, England
Description: Night. Two mystery airplanes circle around London, England: “The machines were low enough for their outlines, as well as their navigation lights, to be clearly visible against the sky.” Regulations prohibit RAF planes from flying over London at less than 5,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John A. Keel, “Mystery Aeroplanes of the 1930s, Part 2,” Flying Saucer Review 16, no. 4 July/Aug. 1970: 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_474

Event 1211 (3083E060)

Date: 6/19/1934
Location: Washington DC
Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, replacing the Federal Radio Commission.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_43

Event 1212 (F23F6581)

Date: Summer 1934
Location: Barron, Wisconsin
Description: Day. 9-year-old Coral E. Lightner and two friends watch a white object “like an open umbrella without the ribs or spurs” glide silently through the sky from the west-southwest to the northwest over Barron, Wisconsin. It moves silently with a slight undulation before it disappears after 20 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 15–16; “The Wisconsin Flying Saucer That Changed UFO Research Forever,” Wisconsin Frights, September 20, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_475

Event 1213 (F5424BB8)

Date: 7/14/1934
Time: 20:30
Location: NNE / RINGWOOD, ENGL
Description: Student / France. Large saucer hovers and glows. Windy sound no wind!
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_408

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "NNE/RINGWOOD,ENGL:STUDENT/FRANCE:LRG SCR HVRS+GLOWS:WINDY SOUND no wind!:", LatLong: "50.866669 -1.666667", LatLongDMS: "50:52:00 N 01:40:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1214 (27229DC3)

Date: 7/14/1934
Description: On a clear evening a perfectly circular, vividly white disc-shaped object hovered directly over a French tourist in the New Forest, north-northeast of Ringwood, Dorset, England at 8:30 p.m. A blue halo formed around the object for one minute, and then the UFO changed color from white to yellow to orange to red, whereupon it took off at high speed with a rushing sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Paul Faiveley, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1972, p. 22; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 416; Jean-Claude Bourret, The Crack in the Universe, p. 61; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), citing Jerome Clark
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4044

Event 1215 (3F2D805A)

Date: 7/29/1934
Location: Elizabeth, NJ
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born in Elizabeth, NJ.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_44

Event 1216 (1E7321C6)

Date: 8/1934 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: BARRON, WI
Description: Young Coral Lorenzen. Silent white hemisphere going northwest over horizon. / r210v30#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_409

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "339", HatchDesc: "BARRON,WI:YOUNG CORAL LORENZEN:SLNT WHT HEMISPHERE >NW OVR HRZN:/r210v30#5", LatLong: "45.400002 -91.850004", LatLongDMS: "45:24:00 N 91:51:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1217 (33C9454D)

Date: 8/9/1934
Locations: Keuka Lake; western New York
Description: Around 5:00 a.m. Musician Leon M. Thompson is boating on Keuka Lake in western New York when he notices an odd cloud on the west side of the lake. It is in the form of an elongated cone some 60–75 feet in length and 10–15 feet in diameter at its largest point. Suddenly the sky lights up in a flash and the cloud emits a fireball that arcs across the lake to the east and leaves a fiery train. It falls on a cottage and throws up a cloud of mist or steam that slowly dissipates.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ball of Fire Brings Thrill to Fisherman,” Elmira N.Y. Star-Gazette, August 4, 1934, p. 5; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 315–328
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_476

Event 1218 (9AD9D730)

Date: 10/1/1934
Time: 12:00?
Location: GARGANTA LA OLLA, SP
Description: Small humanoid (or Grey) telepaths message. "Grandson is born". Granny checks. True!
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_410

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", CVS: Conversation/communication, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "4", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "GARGANTA la OLLA,SP:OID TELEPATHS MSG:"GRANDSON IS BORN":GRANNY CHECKS:TRUE!", LatLong: "40.116669 -5.766667", LatLongDMS: "40:07:00 N 05:46:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CCR", Strangeness: "10"

Year: 1935 (Back to Top)

Event 1219 (1AA79DF3)

Date: 1935
End date: 1937
Location: Ethiopia
Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Type: UFO activity
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_45

Event 1220 (C45F8AAE)

Date: 1935
Locations: Panama Canal Zone; Pacific; Atlantic
Description: 10:00 p.m. Edward Winters of the US 4th Coast Artillery Regiment watches a dull-red, Zeppelin-shaped object flying over the Panama Canal Zone at high speed from the Pacific to the Atlantic for about 30 minutes. Later it returns, moving in the opposite direction farther away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_477

Event 1221 (A758F1FE)

Date: 1935
Description: Astronomer Arthur M. Harding writes that “Surely there must be some forms of life on Venus that are not so very different from what we find on earth.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Arthur M. Harding, Astronomy: The Splendor of the Heavens Brought Down to Earth, Garden City Publishing, 1935, p. 408
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_478

Event 1222 (E1D65F34)

Date: 1/10/1935
Location: Lima, Ohio
Description: Charles Spayde, the operator of a telegraph station west of Lima, Ohio, claims that he has been receiving a “series of strange, unintelligible signals” that are broad in wavelength and “come in all over the dial.” He is convinced they are not static or mechanical disturbances and they do not originate on this planet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jerome Clark, “Conversations with Martians,” IUR 29, no. 3 Fall 2004: 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_479

Event 1223 (BF1B60CD)

Date: 1/22/1935
Alternate date: 1/23/1935
Location: Vienna, Virginia
Description: 8:00 p.m. A woman in Vienna, Virginia, sees a lightning-like flash in the southwest that flares up several times then dies down. It seems to come from a “great blazing light, almost a ball of fire,” that is moving around the horizon. It is lost to view in the southeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A correspondent from Vienna, Va., writes,” Science 81 1935: 294
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_480

Event 1224 (5DF6C6F2)

Date: Spring 1935
Location: Mechelen, Belgium
Description: Night. A Mr. Aerts sees a brilliant circular object “like aluminum” in the sky above the roofs of nearby houses in Mechelen, Belgium. It lands and he sees two small occupants come out of the rear; they wear square helmets with short antennas and are apparently examining the exterior surface.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1910–1939 , p. 42; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_481

Event 1225 (0432F131)

Date: 4/1935 (approximate)
Time: 23:00?
Location: NEAR ANTWERP, BELGIUM
Description: 1 observer. Aluminum pan / rooftop altitude. Robot(s)/android(s) float out and examine exterior.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_411

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr ANTWERP,BELGIUM:1 OBS:ALUM.PAN/ROOFTOP ALT:RBTS FLOAT OUT+EXAMINE EXTERIOR", LatLong: "51.216669 4.416667", LatLongDMS: "51:13:00 N 04:25:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1226 (7FF91DBC)

Date: 4/5/1935 (approximate)
Time: 19:30
Location: AZNALCAZAR, SP
Description: Large brilliant saucer going down / just over ground. Small humanoids (or Greys) exit and walk around it! / r50p1.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_412

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "AZNALCAZAR,SP:LRG BRILL.SCR ↓/JUST OVR GND:OIDS EXIT+WALK AROUND IT!:/r50p1.", LatLong: "37.316668 -6.250000", LatLongDMS: "37:19:00 N 06:15:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1227 (8B89DD09)

Date: 4/5/1935
Location: Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain
Description: Dusk. A farmer named Mora sees a large, round, brilliant object descend and hover just above the ground near his property in Aznalcázar, Seville, Spain. Several small beings appear and stroll around it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 264–265; Patrick Gross, URECAT , April 9, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_482

Event 1228 (39476733)

Date: 4/5/1935
Description: In Aznalcazar, Spain a large brilliant, round object descended from the sky 450 meters away and hovered just above the ground in a field. Several small beings got out and walked around for ten minutes. The witness, Mr. Mora, thought he had seen an emanation from God.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Alfredo Moacyr Uchoa, Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1971, p. 17; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case no. 5
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1839

Event 1229 (40A42FC2)

Date: 5/1935
Locations: Olt River; Drăgășani, Romania
Description: Radu Popescu and his cousin are walking by the Olt River near Drăgășani, Romania, when they come upon what seems to be a Romany wagon. They see five figures—one next to the object, two farther away, and another two next to a boat on the shore. Suddenly the figures run toward the object, something black covers it, an antenna appears, and it rises up above the river. It turns to a white color as it moves away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Romania 121–122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_483

Event 1230 (D2AC50F5)

Date: 7/1/1935
Description: The US Division of Investigation officially becomes the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Federal Bureau of Investigation, Timeline , March 31, 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_484

Event 1231 (48A6DDF6)

Date: 7/8/1935
Locations: Sweden; Norway; Finland
Description: The Swedish Chief of Staff releases its final report on ghost fliers. After concluding that 42 of the 487 reports investigated by Sweden, Norway, and Finland are of actual aircraft violating borders, the military admits the phenomenon is at least partially real.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_485

Event 1232 (334BE437)

Date: 9/1935
Time: ~20:00
Location: PETRIOSKIY GATE / MOSCOW
Description: Slow luminous sphere north going south twice / low altitude. Straight and level trajectory / each pass.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_413

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "PETRIOSKIY GATE/MOSCOW:SLOW LUMn.SPHERE N>S TWICE/LO ALT:S/L TRAJ./EACH PASS", LatLong: "55.716669 37.633335", LatLongDMS: "55:43:00 N 37:38:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1233 (1FCD21C2)

Date: 10/1935
Time: 12:00?
Location: ADDIS ADDABA, ETH
Description: Italian air raid expected. Silver saucer hovers instead. (Balloon?)
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 104)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_414

Extra Data: Country: "Ethiopia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "ADDIS ADDABA,ETH:ITALIAN AIR RAID EXPECTED:SLVR SCR HVRS INSTEAD:(balloon?)", LatLong: "9.033334 38.727780", LatLongDMS: "09:02:00 N 38:43:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ADD", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1234 (7746C39E)

Date: 10/10/1935
Location: NEWCASTLE, NSW
Description: Military observer(s) / Nobby's Head photographs definite circular object. Details visible. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 35)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_415

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NEWCASTLE,NSW:MIL.OBS/NOBBY'S HEAD FOTOS DEFINITE CIRC.OBJ:DETAILS VISIBLE:NFD", LatLong: "-32.916668 151.733341", LatLongDMS: "32:55:00 S 151:44:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1235 (64E1EF87)

Date: 10/10/1935
Description: A military witness at Nobby's Head, Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia took a photograph of a circular flying object at ten p.m. The object, seen revolving on its vertical axis, had clearly visible details, and flew off to the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, p. 35
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6695

Event 1236 (8FC79342)

Date: 10/15/1935
Time: 15:00?
Location: MENA, ARK
Description: Woman on porch temporarily paralyzed as saucer hovers 30M away. Feels cold.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_416

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "366", HatchDesc: "MENA,ARK:WOMAN ON PORCH TEMP.PARALYZED AS SCR HVRS 30M AWAY:FEELS COLD.", LatLong: "34.588891 -94.238893", LatLongDMS: "34:35:20 N 94:14:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "35", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1237 (C9C8E537)

Date: 11/24/1935
Location: Palestine, TX
Description: Bright shaft of light (Page 10 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_106

Event 1238 (ABE64CD7)

Date: 12/1935
Location: Unknown City, Brazil
Description: Snake-like shafts of light hanging motionless in sky (Page 10 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_107

Year: 1936 (Back to Top)

Event 1239 (56F0C39D)

Date: 1936
Description: Atmospheric physicist William Jackson Humphreys, after examing 280 cases, argues that ball lightning is caused by persistence of vision, meteorites, will-o’-the-wisp, brush discharge, and other natural phenomena.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: W. J. Humphreys, “Ball Lightning,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 76 1936: 613–626
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_486

Event 1240 (E5C3EBCB)

Date: 1936
Locations: Canal Zone; Miraflores Lake, Panama
Description: Late evening. Mrs. E. P. Higgins and another member of the Canal Zone Astronomical Society observe a moving orange-red star passing from north to south near Miraflores Lake, Panama. Suddenly it halts and travels in three small circles from right to left.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp. 112–113; Clark III 1176
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_487

Event 1241 (288C2890)

Date: 1/1936 (approximate)
Time: 06:00
Location: PAVLODAR, KAZAKH
Description: Flying man comes within 40M / schoolgirl. Absolute(ly) black! Rumbles and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 292)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_417

Extra Data: Country: "Kazakh Republic", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "PAVLODAR,KAZAKH:FLYING MAN COMES WITHIN 40M/SCHOOLGIRL:ABS BLACK!:RUMBLES+AWAY", LatLong: "52.283336 77.383337", LatLongDMS: "52:17:00 N 77:23:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PVL", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1242 (00E6DFE1)

Date: 1/1936
Locations: Laguna Beach, California; Long Beach; Los Angeles
Description: George Adamski’s Royal Order of Tibet publishes Universal Jewels of Life as a free monthly newsletter for those attending his meetings in Laguna Beach, California. Besides Adamski, talks are also given by Marguerite Weir, Alice Wells, and others. Beginning in May, the Royal Order has a weekly 15-minute slot on local radio stations KFOX in Long Beach and KMPC in Los Angeles. He also publishes Wisdom of the Masters of the Far East, a summary of his “ageless wisdom” teachings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_488

Event 1243 (4F96ABCD)

Date: 2/14/1936
Time: 18:00
Location: CODY, WY
Description: Numerous observer(s). Mystery plane circles several times / heavy snowstorm. Never lands.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 195)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_418

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "70", Elev: "1551", HatchDesc: "CODY,WY:NMRS OBS:MYSTERY PLANE CIRCLES SVRL TIMES/HEAVY SNOWSTORM:NEVER LANDS", LatLong: "44.500002 -109.050005", LatLongDMS: "44:30:00 N 109:03:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1244 (12469837)

Date: 5/1936 (approximate)
Time: ~15:00
Location: NEAR WARWICK, RI
Description: Family / car. 12 disks / instant accelerations. Hover and maneuver. Assemble / stack formation.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_419

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "nr WARWICK,RI:FAMILY/CAR:12 DISKS/INSTANT ACCELS:HVR+MNVR:ASSEMBLE/STACK FORMn", LatLong: "41.700002 -71.383337", LatLongDMS: "41:42:00 N 71:23:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Rhode Island", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1245 (B86534B4)

Date: 6/26/1936
Location: Germany
Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_46

Event 1246 (59D79B3D)

Date: 7/1936?
Location: AYLMER LAKE, NWT
Description: Pilot / ground. Light aluminum cylinder/cigar-shape silent and still / several min. Turns and zips going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 299)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_420

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "7", Elev: "375", HatchDesc: "AYLMER LAKE,NWT:PILOT/GND:LITE ALUM CGR SILENT+STILL/SVRL MIN:TURNS+ZIPS>>E", LatLong: "64.450003 -108.366672", LatLongDMS: "64:27:00 N 108:22:00 W", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Northwest Territories", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1247 (C09ED88C)

Date: 8/17/1936
Locations: Venice, Italy; Mestre, Veneto
Description: A metallic disc with a diameter of 33–40 feet is seen flying soundlessly near Venice, Italy. It has windows and alternating white and red lights. Two fighters from a nearby air base attempt to intercept it but cannot reach it. After maneuvering for an hour and passing above Mestre, Veneto, it appears more like a torpedo-shaped object. Two other smaller, domed discs are also seen following it. A report on the incident is sent to Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, p. 12; Roberto Pinotti and Alfredo Lissoni, Gli “X-Files” del Nazifascismo, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_489

Event 1248 (1859A75F)

Date: 9/1/1936
Time: 12:00?
Location: STONE, STAFFS
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape / 5 portholes very close / farm girl. Missing time. Can't recall drawing water.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 287)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_421

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "STONE,STAFFs:CGR/5 PORTHOLES VCLOSE/FARM GIRL:MST:CANT RECALL DRAWING WATER", LatLong: "52.900003 -2.150000", LatLongDMS: "52:54:00 N 02:09:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1249 (AEA78CC8)

Date: Fall 1936
Locations: Texarkana, Arkansas; Bowie County, Texas; Red River Army Depot
Description: Before 12:00 midnight. Louie R. Lindblad and five companions from Texarkana, Arkansas, are fox hunting in Bowie County, Texas [around the current site of the Red River Army Depot] when they observe numerous star- like objects in a circular formation. Occasionally a light would fly across the circle and take up another position until they all seem to relocate. They watch the display for about 30–40 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, no. 150, August 1980, p. 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_490

Event 1250 (2B5B6A49)

Date: 10/1936
Locations: Eklutna, Alaska; Anchorage
Description: Night. Holger Berg and another worker at the Civilian Conservation Corps in Eklutna, Alaska, are walking south toward Anchorage when the see a light approaching them from the south. It is attached to a cigar-shaped object embedded in a blue-green haze and making a strange buzzing noise. As the object passes directly overhead, they notice it actually has a triangular shape and multicolored lights on its tail end. Frightened, they dive into a nearby snowbank then run back to Eklutna.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Marler 64–66
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_491

Event 1251 (E617CEF0)

Date: 10/10/1936
Time: 22:00?
Location: PORTOFERRAIO, ITL
Description: 3 military pilots. Flaming jet going quickly north / 770 kph. Pilot follows. Beams / side.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_422

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "PORTOFERRAIO,ITL:3 MIL.PILOTS:FLAMING JET >>N/770 kph:PILOT FOLOS:BEAMS/SIDE", LatLong: "42.816669 10.316667", LatLongDMS: "42:49:00 N 10:19:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TSC", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1252 (07210B2D)

Date: 10/10/1936
Locations: Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy; Talamone, Italy; Elba
Description: 4:15 a.m. Capt. Mario Rossi, flight instructor at the airfield at Orbetello, Grosseto, Italy, is flying a Savoia- Marchetti SM.62 at 12,465 feet over Talamone, Italy, when he sees an unusual light ahead of his plane. He follows the light, which is at a slightly higher altitude and moving at nearly 440 mph. Rossi loses it after flying into a cloud for 12 minutes and finding himself over Elba.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ernesto Thayaht, “Three Sightings in Italy,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no. 3 July/Aug. 1955: 6; 1Pinotti 15–16; “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_492

Event 1253 (A2A7A7F2)

Date: 11/17/1936
Time: 18:00?
Location: NEAR TROMSO, NORWAY
Description: Several report(s). Night lights and mystery flyers. Beams and radio signals. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEEL, John: OPERATION TROJAN HORSE; Putnam's Sons, NY 1970. (Index 135)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_423

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "87", HatchDesc: "nr TROMSO,NORWAY:SVRL RPTS:NLTS+MYSTERY FLYERS:BEAMS+RADIO SIGNALS:NFD", LatLong: "69.633337 19.000001", LatLongDMS: "69:38:00 N 19:00:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1254 (1E718608)

Date: Winter 1936
Locations: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France; Alps
Description: Robert Damion, an astronomer of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, who has a private observatory in the Alps, claims that for several nights a “certain portion of the sky in the vicinity of Mars” has been lit up with a deep bluish tint for 40 seconds each time. He is convinced that Mars is trying to signal Earth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Strange Light from Mars Called Signal to Earth,” Ogden Utah Standard-Examiner, March 11, 1936, p. 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_493

Year: 1937 (Back to Top)

Event 1255 (9D31209B)

Date: 1/1937?
Location: NEAR VAN BUREN, MO
Description: Private plane chases flying disk. Pilot now state government official.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 213)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_424

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "197", HatchDesc: "nr VAN BUREN,MO:PRIVATE PLANE CHASES FLYING DISK:PILOT NOW STATE GOVT OFFICIAL", LatLong: "37.000002 -91.000004", LatLongDMS: "37:00:00 N 91:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1256 (0C34D2AD)

Date: 1/1937
Locations: Missouri; Van Buren, Missouri
Description: A man who later becomes an administrator in a Missouri state agency chases a disc-shaped object in his private aircraft over Van Buren, Missouri.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification: The First Scientific Field Study of UFO Phenomena, Prentice-Hall, 1981, p. 213
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_494

Event 1257 (31D0CA95)

Date: 1/1/1937
Time: 12:00
Location: WARREN CO, NC
Description: Private pilot. 12M metallic gondola going southeast / 250kph. No windows or propeller!
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_425

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "136", HatchDesc: "WARREN co,NC:Pvt.PILOT:12M MTLC GONDOLA >SE/250kph:NO WINDOWS or PROPELLER!", LatLong: "36.500002 -78.000004", LatLongDMS: "36:30:00 N 78:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1258 (62459404)

Date: 1/1/1937
Location: Unknown City, NC
Description: 30-40 foot in diameter object, no propellers, gun metal color (Page 10-11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_108

Event 1259 (0328A33E)

Date: 1/1/1937
Locations: Virginia; Raleigh, North Carolina
Description: Noon. Pilot Howard S. Behr is flying a Curtiss-Wright CW-15 Sedan at 3,000 feet over Virginia on his way to Raleigh, North Carolina. Suddenly he sees an object beginning to cross his flight path about 1,000 feet below him. It looks like a gondola, gun-metal gray in color, with both of its ends turned up. He estimates it is about 35– 40 feet long and traveling at 150 mph. It moves off to his left and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jerome Clark, Strange Skies: Pilot Encounters with UFOs, Citadel, 2003, p. 6; Patrick Gross, “Pilots UFO Sightings,” August 7, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_495

Event 1260 (24C1B444)

Date: 1/1/1937
Description: At around noon on this day a gondola-shaped object, the color of gun metal, crossed the path in front of a aircraft flying near the Virginia-North Carolina border
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_0

Event 1261 (97299278)

Date: 1/4/1937
Location: Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden
Description: New ghost flier sightings around the fortress at Boden, Norrbotten, Sweden, have prompted Gen. Pontus Reuterswärd to alert Minister of Defence Janne Nilsson about the possibility of foreign spies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_496

Event 1262 (DB0A8E9A)

Date: Late 1/1937
Locations: Västerbotten, Sweden; Umeå; Dorotea; Stensele
Description: Ghost fliers return to Västerbotten, Sweden. A light is seen wandering near the horizon east of Umeå. A light brighter than a headlight is reported from a community near Dorotea. A light similar to position lights on an aircraft flies over a village outside Stensele.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_497

Event 1263 (56A39329)

Date: 2/11/1937
Time: 21:00
Location: KVALSVIK, NORW
Description: Fishermen. Large plane going down / sea. Lights out. Blows fog. Vanishes. / r203p135.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_426

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KVALSVIK,NORW:FISHERMEN:LRG PLANE ↓/SEA:LITES OUT:BLOWS FOG:VANISHES:/r203p135", LatLong: "62.366670 5.566667", LatLongDMS: "62:22:00 N 05:34:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1264 (D6647C69)

Date: 2/11/1937
Location: Kvalsik, Norway
Description: Large aeroplane with red and green glowing lights (Page 11, Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_109

Event 1265 (59DBF987)

Date: 2/11/1937
Location: Kvalsvik, Norway
Description: 9:00 p.m. The crew of the fishing vessel Fram is departing Kvalsvik, Norway, when they notice a “large aeroplane” with red and green glowing lights resting on top of the water. The captain turns the boat around to offer assistance, but the object’s lights go out and it is cloaked in a “cloud of smoke” and vanishes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_498

Event 1266 (3ABBA82C)

Date: 2/11/1937
Description: Several fisherman off the coast of Kvalsik, Norway watched what looked like a large plane descend toward the sea around 9:00 p.m. It extinguished its lights and produced a cloud or fog cover, then vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: John A. Keel, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_816

Event 1267 (80F0ECA3)

Date: 2/15/1937
Locations: Swedish Parliament; Northern Region
Description: MP Elof Lindberg demands in the Swedish Parliament that a commission with civil experts, not military, should investigate the ghost flier intrusions. He suspects the military has embellished the reports to direct more resources to the northern region and to the Air Force in general.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_499

Event 1268 (CB369C9B)

Date: 4/1937
Time: 02:00
Location: CAPODICHINO, ITL
Description: Customs men. Classic 25M saucer quickly going up [to] from ground. Spins. Portholes and dome.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_427

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CAPODICHINO,ITL:CUSTOMS MEN:CLASSIC 25M SCR ↑↑ FROM GND:SPINS:PORTHOLES+DOME", LatLong: "40.883335 14.266667", LatLongDMS: "40:53:00 N 14:16:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NA", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1269 (633D5DA2)

Date: 5/19/1937
Description: Lindberg’s request for a civilian ghost flier investigation is rejected by Swedish Minister of Defence Janne Nilsson , who explains that no new facts have surfaced and few new observations have been reported.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 363
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_500

Event 1270 (DD636628)

Date: 5/30/1937
Location: Nashville, Tennessee
Description: Amateur astronomer Latimer J. Wilson of Nashville, Tennessee, is observing Mars through a 12-inch reflector when he sees a series of intermittent bright flashes across the south polar cap. A line of tiny white spots seems to extend across the cap, some coalescing to swell in a brilliant white spot that quickly becomes yellow, then red- yellow, the “phenomenon passing from left to right across the polar cap.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Latimer J. Wilson, “Apparent Flashes Seen on Mars,” Popular Astronomy 45 1937: 430; Walter H. Haas, “Flashes on Mars Observed in 1937 and Some Random Remarks,” The Strolling Astronomer 45, no. 1 Winter 2003: 43–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_501

Event 1271 (DC338037)

Date: 6/1937
Time: ~21:00
Location: XANTON-CHASSENON, FR
Description: 4 / car. Silent luminous green ball studies each observer(s)! / LDLN#312.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_428

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "XANTON-CHASSENON,FR:4/CAR:SLNT LUMn.GRN BALL STUDIES EACH OBS!:/LDLN#312", LatLong: "46.455558 -0.700000", LatLongDMS: "46:27:20 N 00:42:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vendée", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1272 (3E27F611)

Date: Summer 1937
Locations: Langenau [now Czernica, Poland]; Wernher von Braun's laboratory
Description: An object allegedly falls from the sky in Langenau [now Czernica, Poland] into a field belonging to Eva Braun’s family and is retrieved by German soldiers. It supposedly winds up in Wernher von Braun’s laboratory, but the story is probably mythical.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 116–117
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_502

Event 1273 (3C4C0912)

Date: 7/20/1937
Location: London, UK
Description: Light (Nicknamed Ghost Flier) (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_110

Event 1274 (66CFCEE9)

Date: 7/22/1937
Location: 500 miles off US coast, In Air Space
Description: Lights of alleged aircraft (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_111

Event 1275 (623F4714)

Date: 8/1937 (approximate)
Time: 22:00?
Location: NORTHWEST / ANDERLUES, BELGIUM
Description: 1 observer. Small glowing-ovoid blocks footpath. 'Smart and determined'.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 110)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_429

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "NW/ANDERLUES,BELGIUM:1 OBS:SML GLO-OVOID BLOCKS FOOTPATH:'smart+determined'", LatLong: "50.400002 4.250000", LatLongDMS: "50:24:00 N 04:15:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1276 (DED4B547)

Date: 9/1937
Location: New York City
Description: Tiffany Thayer publishes the first issue of the Fortean Society Magazine retitled Doubt in 1944 in New York City.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Fortean Society Magazine 1, no. 1 September 1937; Clark III 516
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_503

Event 1277 (F6C94E12)

Date: 9/10/1937
End date: 9/12/1937
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Description: George Adamski’s Royal Order of Tibet organizes a festival in Laguna Beach, California, dramatizing the “teachings of the universal masters” and a round-table discussion focusing on the “present day needs in unifying all mankind.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Laguna Beach, 1932–1940: From Temple to Ranch,” The Adamski Case, September 27, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_504

Event 1278 (2F011D0E)

Date: Late 1937
Location: German-Polish border, In Air Space
Description: Objects described as coffins and swords (Page 11 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_112

Year: 1938 (Back to Top)

Event 1279 (B4B7A919)

Date: 1938
Locations: Washington, D.C.; New York
Description: The Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation begin contributing large amounts of money to the Council on Foreign Relations. They create various Committees on Foreign Relations throughout the country, which later become governed by the American Committees on Foreign Relations in Washington, D.C., funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Influential men are chosen in several cities and are brought together for discussions in their own communities as well as participating in an annual conference in New York. These local committees serve to influence local leaders and shape public opinion to build support for the council’s policies, while also acting as “useful listening posts” through which the Council and US government can “sense the mood of the country.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Council on Foreign Relations”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_505

Event 1280 (833FB738)

Date: 1938
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Description: Harvey L. Sperry, 13, sees a white, vapor-like object moving at 5–10 mph at less than 100 feet altitude from north to south in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Its rim seems to be “composed of two interwoven parts revolving and moving in opposite directions.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 136; Clark III 1176
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_506

Event 1281 (08E29CCF)

Date: 2/1938
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Raymond A. Palmer is hired as editor of Amazing Stories magazine, owned by Ziff-Davis in Chicago, Illinois. He immediately sets out to enliven the periodical, which is close to folding. Concentrating on “space opera” stories, he expands its size to more than 200 pages and encourages readers to contribute content.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Raymond A. Palmer”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_507

Event 1282 (19DD4A68)

Date: 2/6/1938 (approximate)
Location: RINGWOOD, HAMPS
Description: 2+4 observer(s). 'Huge brass shield lit / searchlight'. Spheres fly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 48)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_430

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "RINGWOOD,HAMPs:2+4 OBS:'HUGE BRASS SHIELD LIT/SEARCHLITE':SPHERES FLY", LatLong: "50.850002 -1.777778", LatLongDMS: "50:51:00 N 01:46:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1283 (3CAD7703)

Date: 2/8/1938
Location: Unknown City, UK
Description: Things like glowing spheres that were floating in the British sky (Page 11-12 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_113

Event 1284 (FC7A6A7E)

Date: Summer 1938
Location: Unknown City, MA
Description: Silvery object with rectangular portholes (Page 12 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_116

Event 1285 (E86A44DA)

Date: Summer 1938
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts
Description: Midnight. Artist Malcolm B. Perry sees what looks like a Navy blimp moving east to west over Somerville, Massachusetts. It has apparent portholes in the sides, and he can see the silhouette of someone looking at him. Other figures are taking turns looking through portholes. It disappears below some low clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 20–21; “1938: Perry’s Alien,” UFO Roundup 5, no. 37 September 4, 2000; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_508

Event 1286 (72F3E426)

Date: 7/25/1938
Time: 23:30
Location: NEAR GUADALAJARA, SPN
Description: 11M saucer hovers low. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) ride going down / platform! See drawing. / r50p2.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_431

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "nr GUADALAJARA,SPN:11M SCR HVRS LOW:2 OIDS RIDE ↓/PLATFORM!:see drawing:/r50p2", LatLong: "40.666669 -3.166667", LatLongDMS: "40:40:00 N 03:10:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GUA", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1287 (A3220130)

Date: 7/25/1938
Location: Guadalaraja, Spain
Description: Soldiers at the Spanish Civil War battlefront were illuminated by a bright glow, then saw an oval object about 10-12 meters in diameter shaped like “two inverted plates” hovering near the ground. A cylindrical column came down from the center and two beings emerged. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_114

Event 1288 (8AA8FD60)

Date: 7/25/1938
Location: Guadalajara, Spain
Description: 11:30 p.m. A lieutenant and his aide see a strong light coming from a hovering lens-shaped object near Guadalajara, Spain. It is over 35 feet in diameter and 15 feet high. A platform with two moving figures is lowered from underneath. A blue beam from the object shines on the witnesses, who feel a sudden chill. The platform rises back up, and the object glows with an intense white light and flies away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, A Catalogue of 200 Type I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, CUFOS, 1976, p. 2; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_509

Event 1289 (593EC860)

Date: 7/25/1938
Description: A lieutenant in the Spanish Army in Guadalajara, Spain saw a dark, lens-shaped UFO descend toward the ground at 11:30 p.m. The disc was eleven meters in diameter and the top and bottom secions spun in opposite directions. A transparent column from underneath the object came down slowly, and two figures could be seen moving around inside the column. A blue beam of light was projected at the witness by the UFO, and he felt a chilling cold sensation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4371

Event 1290 (56BEE2A5)

Date: 8/1938 (approximate)
Time: ~05:00
Location: MALAKHOVA OIL STATION/DEPOT/FACILITY, RUSSIA
Description: Oval greyish cloud rushes past man. Big. Diffuse. Whistles.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_432

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MALAKHOVA OIL STN,RUSS:OVAL GREYISH CLOUD RUSHES PAST MAN:BIG:DIFFUSE:WHISTLES", LatLong: "55.633336 38.016668", LatLongDMS: "55:38:00 N 38:01:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1291 (ED6F648B)

Date: 8/27/1938 (approximate)
Time: 18:00
Location: MARLE-SUR-SERRE, FR
Description: 30M fuselage going west. Turns going north / 250M altitude / 250kph. Whistles. Rectangular windows.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 169)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_433

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MARLE-sur-SERRE,FR:30M FSLG > W:TURNS >N/250M alt/250kph:WHISTLES:RECT.WINDOWS", LatLong: "49.733336 3.766667", LatLongDMS: "49:44:00 N 03:46:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1292 (85F56B01)

Date: 8/27/1938
Description: A 30-meter long fuselage-shaped object flew toward the west over Marle-sur-Serre, France at six o'clock in the evening. It turned toward the north at an estimated speed of 250 kilometers per hour. It had rectangular windows and made a whistling sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 169
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5386

Event 1293 (E77BF1BA)

Date: 9/4/1938 (approximate)
Time: 23:50
Location: SOMERVILLE, MA
Description: Thin silver blimp going west very low overhead. Thin figure(s) move / portholes. Going [to] clouds. / r65p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 298)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_434

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "SOMERVILLE,MA:THIN SLVR BLIMP >W VLO OVHD:THIN FIGs MOVE/PORTS:>CLOUDS:/r65p17", LatLong: "42.400002 -71.100003", LatLongDMS: "42:24:00 N 71:06:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1294 (F64F3868)

Date: Fall 1938
Location: Juminda, Estonia
Description: Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_117

Event 1295 (8DAEA1C4)

Date: Fall 1938
Location: Juminda, Estonian coast
Description: (Or following year.) Two persons saw a strange "frog-man" 1 m tall with a round head, no neck, and a hump in front of the body. The mouth was a large, straight slit, the eyes were like smaller slits. The skin was brown-green, compared to pegamoid, hands normal. The creature walked in a peculiar "but elegant" fashion, the head waving up and down while the legs moved "carefully." When pursued, the creature accelerated very fast, with feet "fluttering." About 100 m away it vanished completely'.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Personal (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_49

Event 1296 (FB2F148E)

Date: 10/1938
Location: Alger, Ohio
Description: Dusk. A man is in a cornfield with his father near Alger, Ohio, when an object moves up and hovers about 500 feet above the field. The tractor motor stops running. The object is about 100 feet in diameter and has a ring of pulsating, multicolored lights around it. Soon it makes a right-angle turn and vanishes in the sky, after which they get the tractor working again.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “The Timmerman Files,” IUR 26, no. 4 Winter 2001–2002: 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_510

Event 1297 (9E577799)

Date: 10/15/1938 (approximate)
Time: 18:00
Location: WOLFVILLE, NS
Description: College girl. Silent manta saucer east going quickly west. Horizon to horizon / 10 second(s). No trail etc.
Type: sighting
Reference: LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_435

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "95", HatchDesc: "WOLFVILLE,NS:COLLEGE GIRL:SLNT MANTA SCR E>>W:HRZN to HRZN/10sec:no trail etc", LatLong: "45.083335 -64.383336", LatLongDMS: "45:05:00 N 64:23:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nova Scotia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1298 (6FE52FD5)

Date: 10/22/1938
Description: Italian Lt. Col. Mario Pezzi reaches a record altitude of 56,850 feet in a Caproni Ca.161. It is still the highest a manned, propeller-driven biplane has gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mario Pezzi (aviator)”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_511

Event 1299 (EDEA34C0)

Date: 10/30/1938
Location: New York City, New York
Description: Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_47

Event 1300 (4F0D3C6A)

Date: 10/30/1938
Locations: New York City; US; Germany; Russia
Description: 8:00 p.m. “The War of the Worlds” episode of the American radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air, directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, is an adaptation of H. G. Wells’s novel The War of the Worlds 1898. It is performed and broadcast live in New York City as a Halloween episode over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. The episode becomes famous for allegedly causing panic among its listening audience, though the scale of that panic is disputed as the program has relatively few listeners. In the days after the adaptation, widespread outrage is expressed in the media. The program’s news-bulletin format is described as deceptive by some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the broadcasters and calls for regulation by the FCC, which declines. Some government agencies in the US, Germany, and Russia take note of how segments of the population are easily manipulated into thinking fiction is fact. According to Annie Jacobsen, the confusion allegedly inspires Joseph Stalin to create a similar scenario with a fake alien crash in the US.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama)”; John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, McFarland, 2009; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 22, 211
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_512

Event 1301 (04E62AA0)

Date: 12/17/1938
Locations: Berlin, Germany; Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie
Description: The process of nuclear fission is discovered by chemist Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institut für Chemie in Berlin, Germany, producing barium by bombarding uranium with neutrons.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_513

Year: 1939 (Back to Top)

Event 1302 (1B44B986)

Date: 1939
End date: 1941
Location: Antartica
Description: Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in 1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued without him.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_49

Event 1303 (4B2C6E21)

Date: 1939?
Locations: Washington, D.C.; Greenwich, Ohio
Description: Sisters Lucile and Allene Holt , daughters of Rev. Turner Hamilton Holt, claim they are separately told by their father, a cousin of Secretary of State Cordell Hull , that Hull personally showed Holt a wrecked circular craft of some kind and glass jars holding unknown creatures. These are stored in a sub-basement of the US Capitol building in Washington, D.C. Both sisters are told the story when Holt is a minister at the Shenandoah Christian Church in Greenwich, Ohio, before 1947, but researchers can find no confirmation in any of Hull’s papers or memoirs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: William E. Jones and Eloise G. Watson, “Pre–World War II ‘Creature’ Retrieval?” IUR 26, no. 4 Winter 2001–2002: 6–9, 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_514

Event 1304 (D056EC4D)

Date: 1/13/1939
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: The process of nuclear fission is explained theoretically in Stockholm, Sweden, by Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch, who compares it to the biological fission of living cells.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_515

Event 1305 (8BB642F9)

Date: 1/25/1939
Locations: Columbia University; Pupin Hall; New York City
Description: A Columbia University team conducts the first nuclear fission experiment in the US in the basement of Pupin Hall on the south side of 120th Street in New York City. The experiment involves placing uranium oxide inside an ionization chamber and irradiating it with neutrons, then measuring the energy released. The results confirm that fission is occurring and hints strongly that it is the isotope uranium-235 that is undergoing fission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Simon & Schuster, 1986, pp. 267–270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_516

Event 1306 (8B1C8F99)

Date: 1/26/1939
Locations: Carnegie Institution of Washington; Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics; D.C.
Description: The Carnegie Institution of Washington holds a press conference at the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in D.C. to announce the discovery of nuclear fission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_517

Event 1307 (C63C9404)

Date: 6/1939
Time: 11:00
Location: MT. BAYARD, 39, FR
Description: M. Tabard / 13. Metallic top-saucer spins / spinning sound. West going east. Turns going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 308)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_436

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "Mt.BAYARD,39,FR:M.TABARD/13:MTLC TOP-SCR SPINS/SPINNING SOUND:W > E:TURNS>>N", LatLong: "46.400002 5.883334", LatLongDMS: "46:24:00 N 05:53:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Jura", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1308 (13D053FF)

Date: 7/1939
Location: Unknown City, PA
Description: Resembled a modern day jet airliner without wings; weird glow (Page 14 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_118

Event 1309 (654FD1F1)

Date: 8/1939
Location: Germany
Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, made its first flight
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_48

Event 1310 (5AA0380F)

Date: 8/1939
Location: ESSEN, GERMANY
Description: Everything mechanical and electric stops / 10 minute(s). Even car horns. No UFO seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 94)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_437

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "ESSEN,GERMANY:EVERYTHING MECH+ELECTRIC STOPS/10min:EVEN CAR HORNS:NO UFO SEEN", LatLong: "51.433336 6.983334", LatLongDMS: "51:26:00 N 06:59:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NRW", Strangeness: "13"

Event 1311 (C946F841)

Date: 8/2/1939
Location: Washington DC
Description: Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President Roosevelt stating "it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future... This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs"
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_50

Attributes: Einstein

Event 1312 (30743A76)

Date: Early 8/1939
Locations: Armășești, Romania; Bucharest
Description: George Pârvu and four other schoolchildren are playing in an open field in Armășești, Romania, when they see a bright light in the sky moving in a zigzag fashion. It circles a few times then descends in their direction, getting bigger and brighter. The egg-shaped object hovers silently at an altitude of 230–260 feet. Suddenly it becomes a dull coppery color and lands about 140 feet away. Two of the children flee but Pârvu and two others remain. The bottom of the object has a ring of small turbine blades that look like paddles in a water mill. It seems to be 16 feet high. A hatch opens and two little men about 4 feet tall come out, dressed in gray diving suits. They walk toward the children, one of them holding a rectangular box pointing at the ground. The children approach them, holding hands, but when they are about 23 feet away the other man points a thick stick-like device at them and they are no longer able to move forward. The little men bow in their direction, waist deep, then turn around and reenter the object, which takes off. The children find a circular area of yellowed grass where the object had been. Pârvu feels energized, but one of the other boys is temporarily sick. Pârvu encounters what he perceives to be the same object in August 1944, August 1949, and the summer of 1954 in the center of Bucharest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George Pârvu, La voia destinului, CNI Coresi, 2011; Romania 124–128
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_519

Event 1313 (B46B63D4)

Date: 8/2/1939
Locations: Hungary; Germany; United States
Description: Hungarian-American physicist Leo Szilárd writes a confidential letter to President Roosevelt, in consultation with fellow Hungarian physicists Edward Teller and Eugene Wigner. He has persuaded Albert Einstein to sign it as well. The letter warns that Germany might develop atomic bombs and suggests that the United States should start its own nuclear program. It results in the establishment of research into nuclear fission by the US government, and ultimately to the creation of the Manhattan Project. Delayed by the outbreak of war in Europe, the letter is eventually hand-delivered to Roosevelt by economist Alexander Sachs on October 11. Roosevelt gives the letter to his aide, Brig. Gen. Edwin “Pa” Watson with the instruction: “Pa, this requires action!”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Einstein–Szilard letter”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_520

Event 1314 (6A661B05)

Date: Late Summer 1939
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Description: A girl sleeping in the back yard of her home in Fort Worth, Texas, is awakened by a whirring noise. She sees a small object approaching from the east at an altitude of 20–30 feet. When it gets close, it descends to the level of her bed and hovers briefly at the foot, so close that she can touch it. It has the shape of an “old-time Mississippi steamboat with a deck around the bottom.” Strata or veins run through it, and a soft, blue-green glow surrounds it. It is 3 feet around and 1 foot high. It rises suddenly and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Woman Says Strange Object Flew by Her Bed in Yard,” Fort Worth Tex. Star-Telegram, March 24, 1950, p. 23; Clark III 1176
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_518

Event 1315 (1DCDFD06)

Date: 9/1/1939
End date: 9/2/1945
Description: World War 2
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_51

Event 1316 (CB2712E0)

Date: 10/1939
Location: Wisconsin Rapids, WI
Description: Egg-shaped object with spots like portholes observed through an astronomical reflector telescope. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_119

Event 1317 (06480191)

Date: 10/1939
Location: Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
Description: An egg-shaped object with 8 spots like portholes is observed through an astronomical reflector telescope at Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold, UFO Research Coalition, 2007, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_521

Event 1318 (03EB5BF8)

Date: 10/21/1939
Locations: Washington, D.C.; National Bureau of Standards; Carnegie Institution of Washington; Columbia University
Description: After reading Szilárd’s letter, Roosevelt creates an Advisory Committee on Uranium, which meets for the first time at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C. The committee consists of NBS Director Lyman James Briggs, Army Lt. Col. Keith F. Adamson, and Navy Cmdr. Gilbert C. Hoover. It is attended by physicists Fred L. Mohler from the National Bureau of Standards and Richard Brooke Roberts from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and Szilárd, Wigner, and Teller. Einstein is invited but declines to attend. Adamson is skeptical about the prospect of building an atomic bomb, but is willing to authorize $6,000 equivalent to $107,000 in 2018 dollars for the purchase of uranium and graphite for Szilárd and Enrico Fermi’s experiments into producing a nuclear chain reaction at Columbia University.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “S-1 Executive Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_522

Event 1319 (B3F98CB8)

Date: 11/13/1939
Time: ~06:00
Location: BROCKWORTH, GLOUCS, ENG
Description: Humming. Grey bell-shape over field. Solid green light retracts!
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_438

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "84", HatchDesc: "BROCKWORTH,GLOUCs,ENG:HUM:GRY BELL-SHAPE ovr FIELD:SOLID GRN LIGHT RETRACTS!", LatLong: "51.844447 -2.150000", LatLongDMS: "51:50:40 N 02:09:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1320 (7F8C13E6)

Date: 11/13/1939
Location: Brockworth, UK
Description: Motorist heard high-pitched humming sound, saw a gray bell-shaped object hovering over a field, dark window-like patches visible on its side. (Ref. 3; Jenny Randles & Peter Warrington, Sience & The UFOs, 1985, p. 3.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_120

Event 1321 (5DEFCAD9)

Date: 11/13/1939
Location: Brockworth, Gloucester, England
Description: 7:00 a.m. A building foreman is driving past a deserted farm near Brockworth, Gloucester, England, when he hears a high-pitched humming sound. He watches a gray, bell-shaped object hovering about 20 feet above a field 100 feet away. He estimates it is about 25 feet across. Dark window-like patches are visible on the side. A “curtain” of blue-green light emanates from the underside. After about two minutes, the green light retracts into the base of the object. The object then tilts to an angle of about 80° and moves away without a sound.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jenny Randles and Peter Warrington, Science and the UFOs, Basil Blackwell, 1985, p. 3; Jenny Randles, “Beam Me Up,” Fortean Times 381 July 2019: 29–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_523

Event 1322 (72F93390)

Date: 11/13/1939
Description: In 1939 a building foreman drove past a deserted farm in the early morning in Brockworth, England and heard a high-pitched humming sound. He looked and saw a gray, bell-shaped object hovering over a nearby field. It had dark windows on its side, and a curtain of green light underneath, which retracted upwards as if solid.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7623

Year: 1940 (Back to Top)

Event 1323 (738A833D)

Date: 1940
Description: Astronomer Royal Harold Spencer Jones publishes Life on Other Worlds, an essay on the cosmos, the possibility of life arising, science’s tools, the development of the Earth, solar system bodies without atmospheres, the giant gas planets, Venus, Mars, the origin of solar systems, and possibilities for life beyond the solar system.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: H. Spencer Jones, Life on Other Worlds , Macmillan, 1940; Michael D. Swords, “SETI/ETI and UFOs,” JUFOS 5 1994: 141–142
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_524

Event 1324 (B9DCB63B)

Date: 3/1940
Locations: Laguna Beach; Valley Center, California; Palomar Observatory
Description: George Adamski moves from Laguna Beach to a property along the Star Route in Valley Center, California, about 9 miles from where Palomar Observatory is under construction to set up a spiritual retreat. He acquires a 15-inch telescope to create an interest in astronomy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_525

Event 1325 (12B58756)

Date: 3/1940
Locations: US; Columbia University
Description: US physicist John R. Dunning and colleagues at Columbia University verify the hypothesis of Danish physicist Niels Bohr that fission is more readily produced in the rare uranium-235 isotope than the abundant uranium-238 isotope. Dunning begins investigating gaseous diffusion as a process for enriching uranium.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_526

Event 1326 (6DFC3AA1)

Date: 3/1940
Locations: University of Birmingham in England; Australia
Description: Otto Robert Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, two researchers at the University of Birmingham in England—who ironically have been assigned to investigate nuclear weapons by Australian physicist Mark Oliphant because, as enemy aliens in Britain, they are ineligible to participate in secret war work—issue the Frisch-Peierls memorandum. It contradicts the common thinking of the time that many tons of uranium would be needed to make a bomb, requiring delivery by ship. The calculation in the memorandum shows that a bomb might be possible using as little as 1–10 kilograms of pure uranium-235, which would be quite practical for aircraft to carry.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Frisch–Peierls memorandum”; Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_527

Event 1327 (239CF2DB)

Date: Spring 1940
Location: Hinsdale, IL
Description: William T. Powers (later associated with the Center for UFO Studies) saw five disc-shaped objects traveling at about 100-200 m.p.h. They disappeared into a cloud and did not re-emerge. (Ref. 3; Jerry Clark Encyclopedia, 1992, Vol. II, p. 380.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_121

Event 1328 (712FEDAB)

Date: Spring 1940
Location: Hinsdale, Illinois
Description: Afternoon. Walking down a street in Hinsdale, Illinois, William T. Powers sees five disc-shaped objects in the northern sky. They are traveling together at 100–200 mph and disappear into a cloud.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1177
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_529

Event 1329 (0E428C78)

Date: 3/22/1940
Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 8381, creating the three security levels for the most important documents: Restricted, Confidential, and Secret.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US President, Executive Order No. 8381, “Defining Certain Vital Military and Naval Installations and Equipment,” March 22, 1940
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_528

Event 1330 (57BB7083)

Date: 4/1940 (approximate)
Time: ~14:00
Location: HINSDALE, IL
Description: 1 observer. 5 disks / 200kph. Enter cloud.. never exit. No further details. / Letter to Hynek.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_439

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "221", HatchDesc: "HINSDALE,IL:1 OBS:5 DISKS/200kph:ENTER CLOUD..never exit:NFD:/Letter to Hynek", LatLong: "41.800002 -87.950004", LatLongDMS: "41:48:00 N 87:57:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1331 (E74CD209)

Date: 4/10/1940
Locations: England; Royal Society committee room in Burlington House, London
Description: The first meeting of the MAUD Committee in England, established in response to the Frisch-Peierls memorandum to determine if an atomic bomb is feasible, meets in the Royal Society committee room in Burlington House, London. The original members are physicists George Paget Thomson, James Chadwick, John Cockcroft, Mark Oliphant, and Philip Burton Moon; physicists Patrick Blackett, Charles Drummond Ellis, and chemist Norman Haworth are subsequently added, along with a representative of the Director of Scientific Research at the Ministry of Aircraft Production MAP.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “MAUD Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_530

Event 1332 (3B8C16F8)

Date: Mid 5/1940
Location: Fairbank, Iowa
Description: 9:00 a.m. Lavern P. Zewiske and his father Paul are checking some recently planted corn on their farm near Fairbank, Iowa. A gray object with multiple hooked “hairs or tentacles” moving around on the bottom passes overhead at 500–1,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Out of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 Oct./Nov. 1984: 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_531

Event 1333 (672F6A58)

Date: 5/21/1940
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorizes the FBI to conduct electronic surveillance and wiretapping on US spies, saboteurs, or suspicious individuals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Warrantless FBI Electronic Surveillance,” US Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Final Report, April 23, 1976, pp. 271–351
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_532

Event 1334 (D76E97DE)

Date: 5/26/1940
End date: 6/4/1940
Location: Dunkirk
Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_52

Event 1335 (831F2A3D)

Date: 5/30/1940
Time: 06:00
Location: TOLEDO, OH
Description: Dark ellipsoid going northeast. 90° turn. Sizzle sound. Changes color(s) red going [to] orange going [to] yellow.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_440

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "185", HatchDesc: "TOLEDO,OH:DRK ELLIPSOID >NE:90°TURN:SIZZLE SOUND:CHANGES CLRS RED>ORG>YLW", LatLong: "41.666669 -83.566671", LatLongDMS: "41:40:00 N 83:34:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1336 (1D09E1D6)

Date: 5/30/1940
Location: Toledo, OH
Description: At sunrise a dark ellipse was seen moving northeast, then making a 90-degree turn. Color visible on the dark object changed from red to orange to yellow. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_122

Event 1337 (0E509639)

Date: 5/30/1940
Description: During the morning in Toledo, Ohio a dark ellipsoid object flew toward the northeast making a sizzling sound, then made a 90 degree turn. Its flame-like color changed from red to orange and then to yellow.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall: From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3162

Event 1338 (B17542D9)

Date: 6/1940
Time: ~15:00
Location: HOY ISLAND, SCOTLAND
Description: Military observer(s) with range finder. Ovoid at 38K'. Swift level flight. / r65p18.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_441

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "251", HatchDesc: "HOY ISL,SCOTL:MIL.OBS W/RANGE FINDER:OVOID @38K':SWIFT LVL FLIGHT:/r65p18", LatLong: "58.850003 -3.283333", LatLongDMS: "58:51:00 N 03:17:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "11400", State/Prov: "Scotland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1339 (1BB69163)

Date: 6/1940
Location: Hoy Island, The Orkneys, Scotland
Description: On a bright sunny day an anti-aircraft unit member focused a height- and range- finder on a flattened sphere moving rapidly on a horizontal course and tracked it for 10 seconds. It's height was computed to be 38,000 feet. (Ref. 3; Randles & Warrington, 1985, p. 9.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_123

Event 1340 (D6847173)

Date: Summer 1940
Alternate date: Summer 1941
Location: St. Clair, Pennsylvania
Description: Near St. Clair, Pennsylvania, as he is walking along a country road, young Frank Sever hears a loud noise in the nearby woods. He sees something like an “aluminum building” partly concealed in the trees. A short distance from it he sees “six small men milling about or looking for something on the ground.” Thinking they are ghosts, he runs. Later he comes back and confirms there is no building on the spot.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_533

Event 1341 (16365877)

Date: 7/10/1940
End date: 10/31/1940
Location: Britain
Description: Battle of Britain
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_53

Event 1342 (8CE0D2C1)

Date: 7/10/1940
Description: Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_54

Attributes: Einstein

Event 1343 (A7A2CADD)

Date: 8/11/1940
Locations: Holland; Ruhr Valley of Germany
Description: The RAF Bomber Command issues a report on “Phenomena Connected with Enemy Night Tactics” concerning unidentifiable aircraft observed by bombing crews over the coast of Holland and the Ruhr Valley of Germany. The report suggests the sightings are either due to observer strain or German “experimental apparatus.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 16–17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_534

Event 1344 (A3945F21)

Date: 8/18/1940 (approximate)
Location: BATA, HUNGARY
Description: Flaming cartwheel seen / days. Called ball-lightning. WSW / Baja.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_442

Extra Data: Country: "Hungary", Credibility: "9", Duration: "232", HatchDesc: "BATA,HUNGARY:FLAMING CARTWHEEL SEEN/DAYS:CALLED BALL-LIGHTNING:WSW/BAJA.", LatLong: "46.127780 18.777779", LatLongDMS: "46:07:40 N 18:46:40 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TLN", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1345 (40794CD4)

Date: 9/15/1940
Time: 22:30
Location: BRUGINE, ITALY
Description: Several observer(s). Lens saucer passes. Power fails. Light wind. / and Tabloid account.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_443

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BRUGINE,ITALY:SVRL OBS:LENS SCR PASSES:POWER FAILS:LITE WIND:/+Tabloid acct", LatLong: "45.294447 12.000001", LatLongDMS: "45:17:40 N 12:00:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PD", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1346 (5ADECEE5)

Date: 10/15/1940?
Time: ~20:00
Location: 2 MILES EAST / WEST BEND, IA
Description: Brad Steiger. Small humanoid (or Grey) stands / pail and watches parents / kitchen window.
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad: The UFO ABDUCTORS. Berkley Books, NY 1988 (Index 145)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_444

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "2", Duration: "2", Elev: "365", HatchDesc: "2mi E/WEST BEND,IA:BRAD STEIGER:OID STANDS/PAIL+WATCHES PARENTS/KITCHEN WINDOW", LatLong: "42.955558 -94.411116", LatLongDMS: "42:57:20 N 94:24:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1347 (B424C17C)

Date: 11/10/1940
Time: 10:00?
Location: COVENTRY, ENGL
Description: Intense blackness. Writhing 2' fireball at observer(s)' feet. Rises and explodes.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 235)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_445

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "COVENTRY,ENGL:INTENSE BLACKNESS:WRITHING 2'FBL AT OBS' FEET:RISES+EXPLODES", LatLong: "52.416669 -1.483333", LatLongDMS: "52:25:00 N 01:29:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1348 (13DF8203)

Date: 12/1940
Time: 02:30
Location: NEAR INDIO, CA
Description: 4 / car. Red light / valley. Moon-size near car. "Communication with aliens".
Type: sighting
Reference: SCHUESSLER, John F.: UFO-RELATED HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS. 1996 J. Schuessler, POB 58485, Houston, TX 77258 (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_446

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CVS: Conversation/communication, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "5", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "nr INDIO,CA:4/CAR:RED LITE/VALLEY:MOONSIZE nr CAR:"COMMUNICATION W/ALIENS"", LatLong: "33.750002 -116.250006", LatLongDMS: "33:45:00 N 116:15:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1941 (Back to Top)

Event 1349 (3F0193A7)

Date: 1941
Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_55

Event 1350 (5C99DAA0)

Date: 1941
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Description: Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_56

Event 1351 (E55473BA)

Date: 1941
Location: MANCHURIA
Description: Many photographs / Japanese Air Force. Glowing-orbs and ovoids pace and buzz planes and airfields..
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_447

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "10", Duration: "156", HatchDesc: "MANCHURIA:MANY FOTOS/JAPANESE AF:GLO-ORBS+OVOIDS PACE+BUZZ PLANES+AIRFIELDS..", LatLong: "45.000002 125.000006", LatLongDMS: "45:00:00 N 125:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MNC", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1352 (D1E670CE)

Date: 1941
Location: US Highway 99 north of Bakersfield, California
Description: A physicist and his wife are traveling notrh on US Highway 99 north of Bakersfield, California, and pull off to the side to watch a long, slender object of a blazing red, green, and yellow color moving about 8 miles east of them. It is traveling at about 50 mph at an altitude of 200–300 feet and is clearly outlined against the foothills. It seems to be several times longer than a bomber.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Recent Sightings,” APRO Bulletin, January 1957, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_535

Event 1353 (421CDD07)

Date: 2/1941
Location: WEARYAN RIVER, NT, AUS
Description: Nurse. 2 pseudo-human/entity appear and perform operation / injured man!
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: ENTCAT97.DOC: Catalog of Australian Entity and related reports: October 1997
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_448

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "5", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "WEARYAN RIVER,NT,AUS:NURSE:2 PSH APPEAR+PERFORM OPERATION/INJURED MAN!", LatLong: "-16.050001 136.833340", LatLongDMS: "16:03:00 S 136:50:00 E", Locale: "Rainforest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Northern Territory", Strangeness: "10"

Event 1354 (604CCF6D)

Date: 3/1941
Location: English Channel
Description: The Chain Home radars placed around the English coastline detect a formation of blips moving across the English Channel. RAF fighters are sent to intercept, but their crews see nothing and the blips fade. The radar returns are characterized as radar “angels,” invisible targets in the clear atmosphere.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke, “The Radar Angels,” Fortean Times 195 May 2005: 36–37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_537

Event 1355 (E1E7A875)

Date: Early Spring 1941
Location: Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Description: 9:00–9:30 p.m. Rev. William Guy Huffman of the Red Star Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, is summoned to an apparent airplane crash one Saturday. When he arrives at the scene, about 15 miles from town, he finds a weird-looking craft “broken and scattered all around,” but smooth and rounded without edges or seams. A cockpit with a chair facing an instrument panel remains intact. Police officers, military men, and plain-clothes individuals are sifting through the wreckage. He also sees three non-human bodies about 4 feet tall with long arms, oversized heads, and large eyes. He says a prayer for them, and afterward sees someone take a photo of an alien propped up by the arms between two plainclothesmen. The following evening, he is given a copy of the photo by a member of his congregation thought to be [Garland D. Fronabarger](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/15533576/garland-d-fronabarger), but he loans it later to someone who never returns it. Huffman’s wife Floy reveals the story to her granddaughter, Charlette Mann, on her deathbed in 1984, who relates the story to ufologist Leonard Stringfield.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 343–344; Paul Blake Smith, MO41: The Bombshell before Roswell, W&B Publishers, 2015; Billy Booth, “1941 Cape Girardeau, Missouri Crash,” liveabout.com, February 5, 2019; Kevin Randle, “Cape Girardeau UFO Crash, 1941,” A Different Perspective, December 5, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_536

Event 1356 (87149704)

Date: 3/17/1941
Location: West Coast
Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast
Type: military
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_58

Event 1357 (B1765644)

Date: 3/17/1941
Location: Pacific Coast
Description: The Western Defense Command is established as the command formation of the US Army responsible for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast and training soldiers prior to their deployment overseas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Western Defense Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_538

Event 1358 (945EC168)

Date: Spring 1941
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Description: Charlotte Mann, a Texas woman whose grandfather was a pastor of the Red Star Baptist Church, told Leonard Stringfield, that her grandfather was called out to give last rights to some crash victims, who were described as from a crashed object. There were three bodies. All described as "not human". (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_124

Event 1359 (24C01689)

Date: 4/5/1941
Location: Charleston, MS
Description: Farmer abducted into submarine on Mississippi (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 410405
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_125

Event 1360 (F6DB432A)

Date: Late 4/1941
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO
Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)
Type: UFO crash retrieval
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_57

Event 1361 (6CBE182F)

Date: 5/1941
Locations: Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York; Riverside, California
Description: With the help of the American Legion, volunteers are recruited into the Aircraft Warning Service, the civilian arm of the Army’s Ground Observer Corps. On the east coast, the AWS is under the auspices of the Army Air Force’s 1st Interceptor Command based at Mitchel Field near Uniondale, New York. On the west coast, the AWS is under the auspices of the 4th Interceptor Command based in Riverside, California. On both coasts, observation posts, information centers, and filter centers are established.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aircraft Warning Service”; Project 1947, “Aircraft Warning Service AWS: Freeman Observation Post #52”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_539

Event 1362 (B50B005C)

Date: 5/27/1941 (approximate)
Time: ~10:00
Location: NORTHEAST / FOUGERES, FR
Description: Several kids. 2 silent gold rails zigzag / several 90° turns across N177 going northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_449

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NE/FOUGERES,FR:SVRL KIDS:2 SLNT GOLD RAILS ZIGZAG/SVRL 90°TURNS ACRS N177 >NW", LatLong: "48.372225 -1.177778", LatLongDMS: "48:22:20 N 01:10:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ille-et-Vilaine", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1363 (BB3B1A82)

Date: 6/1941
Location: KAISER MOUNTAIN, CA
Description: 150M disk / mountainside / 2 weeks. Seen flying away? Original object gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_450

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "40", Elev: "3000", HatchDesc: "KAISER Mtn,CA:150M DISK/MOUNTAINSIDE/2 WEEKS:SEEN FLYING AWAY?:ORIG.OBJ GONE.", LatLong: "37.316668 -119.166672", LatLongDMS: "37:19:00 N 119:10:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1364 (05307460)

Date: 6/20/1941
Description: The Army Air Corps becomes the US Army Air Forces to provide the air arm greater autonomy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Army Air Forces”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_540

Event 1365 (3AE3059F)

Date: Late 6/1941
Location: Odessa, Ukraine
Description: About 5:30 p.m. Helen Michailoff and her mother are in Odessa, Ukraine, when they see a raspberry-red object slowly moving east and emitting smoke. Thinking it is a bomb, they rush to the basement, but there is no explosion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Out of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 5 Oct./Nov. 1983: 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_543

Event 1366 (BD22C1DC)

Date: 6/26/1941
Description: The first draft of the final report of the MAUD Committee is written by George Paget Thomson and circulates among committee members. It concludes that an atomic bomb is feasible. Vannevar Bush receives a copy. Without the help of the MAUD Committee the Manhattan Project would have started months behind. Instead, they are able to begin thinking about how to create a bomb, not whether it is possible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “MAUD Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_541

Event 1367 (52B33AC4)

Date: 6/28/1941
Description: Roosevelt establishes the Office of Scientific Research and Development; Vannevar Bush is appointed director. It subsumes the National Defense Research Committee, whose Uranium Committee becomes the Uranium Section of the OSRD, soon renamed the S-1 for security reasons. To the S-1 Section, Vannevar Bush adds American physicist Samuel King Allison , Russian-American physicist Gregory Breit, American physicist Edward Condon , physicist Lloyd P. Smith, and Henry DeWolf Smyth. American physicist Ross Gunn is dropped in line with an NDRC policy not to have Army or Navy personnel in the sections. Lyman James Briggs remains the chairman, with American physicist George B. Pegram as the vice chairman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office of Scientific Research and Development”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_542

Event 1368 (A35EDE5D)

Date: 7/3/1941
Locations: Baker Dry Lake; Mojave Desert, California
Description: The Northrop N-1M, an experimental “flying wing” aircraft with a 38-foot wingspan, is first flown at Baker Dry Lake in the Mojave Desert, California, by test pilot Vance Breese for several hundred yards. He reports that the aircraft can fly no higher than 5 feet. After this is corrected, the N-1M takes another 28 flights through November.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop N-1M”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_544

Event 1369 (80264881)

Date: 7/11/1941
Description: Roosevelt establishes the Office of the Coordinator of Information, a forerunner of the Office for Strategic Services, headed by lawyer William J. Donovan. It is tasked with collecting and analyzing national security information.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office of the Coordinator of Information”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_545

Event 1370 (C462A6B4)

Date: 9/1941
Location: Mozambique Channel
Description: Night. Seaman Mar Doroba, Anthony Kornilak, and others on the British troopship SS Pulaski in the Mozambique Channel see a “strange globe glowing with greenish light, about half the size of the full moon.” They watch it for more than an hour before it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 17; Lore and Deneault, pp. 130–131
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_546

Event 1371 (26FFA51B)

Date: 10/2/1941
Locations: Germany; Peenemünde
Description: German test pilot Heini Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 623 mph in a rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163A at Peenemünde, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Heini Dittmar”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_547

Event 1372 (F7230E53)

Date: Early 10/1941
Locations: North Carolina; Uwharrie National Forest
Description: A possible UFO crash/retrieval takes place during preparations for the US Army’s Carolina maneuvers in south central North Carolina possibly in or around the Uwharrie National Forest. The sketchy story is based on the participation of Pvt. Guy B. Simeone, who relates a few details about a crash and dead “little people” to his family in a letter and phone call. Walter N. Webb reports on his investigation of the incident in 1996.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 1,” IUR 21, no. 4 Winter 1996: 20–28; Walter N. Webb, “An Anecdotal Report of a UFO Crash/Retrieval in 1941: Part 2,” IUR 22, no. 1 Spring 1997: 28–32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_548

Event 1373 (32383368)

Date: 10/9/1941
Description: Roosevelt approves an atomic weapons program after meeting with Office of Scientific Research and Development Director Vannevar Bush and Vice President Henry A. Wallace. On Bush’s advice, Roosevelt chooses the US Army to run the project rather than the Navy, although the Navy has shown far more interest in the field, and is already conducting research into atomic energy for powering ships. Bush’s negative experiences with the Navy has convinced him that it would not listen to his advice and cannot handle large-scale construction projects.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Cameron Reed, “Manhattan Project Mystery,” Forum on the History of Physics, Spring 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_549

Event 1374 (BDFF81D6)

Date: 12/1941
Location: Mozambique, Africa
Description: Mozambique and Island of Madagascar strange globe glowing with greenish light about half the size of full moon. (Page 17 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_126

Event 1375 (257D2901)

Date: 12/1941
Location: Unknown City, GA
Description: Light moving in counterclockwise circles (Page 17-18 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_127

Event 1376 (114F53D9)

Date: Early 12/1941
Location: Georgia countryside
Description: Army Lt. Walter Hanson and his wife are stranded in the Georgia countryside when they run out of gas. They see a star-like object that swiftly moves in circles counterclockwise. Suddenly it stops and takes off obliquely.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 17–18; Lore and Deneault, p. 140
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_550

Event 1377 (A931F2DB)

Date: 12/7/1941
Location: U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii
Description: The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II on the side of the Allies the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI and as Operation Z during its planning. (Author Moira McGhee wrote in her book "Alien Gene" that the Pearl Harbor attacks were being observed by one or more UFO's.)
Type: attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_932

Event 1378 (7AEBAB4B)

Date: 12/8/1941
Locations: Honolulu, Hawaii; Pearl Harbor
Description: Around noon. Red Cross volunteer Yoshio Taketa is resting on the lawn of the Kuhio School in Honolulu, Hawaii, with 9 others. The smoke is still rising from the Pearl Harbor attack to the west. One of them notices a round white object at about 20,000 feet overhead. It floats away slowly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 501
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_551

Event 1379 (443EF39F)

Date: 12/18/1941
Locations: S-1 Section; Columbia; Princeton; University of Chicago
Description: With the US at war, funding for an atomic bomb is now available in amounts undreamed of the year before. At the S-1 Section meeting, American physicist Ernest Lawrence asks for $400,000 for electromagnetic separation, and the section immediately recommends granting it. MIT physicist Karl Taylor Compton is allocated $340,000 for nuclear reactor research at Columbia and Princeton, and $278,000 at the University of Chicago. Another $500,000 is earmarked for raw materials. His proposed schedule is no less breathtaking: to produce a nuclear chain reaction by July 1942, and an atomic bomb by January 1945. In January 1942, he creates the Metallurgical Laboratory, centralizing the work at the University of Chicago.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “S-1 Executive Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_552

Event 1380 (AE3733AD)

Date: 12/22/1941
Location: Unknown City, NY
Description: Round sharply outlined object with bright aluminum or chrome finish (Patrick, delete single quotes) (Page 18 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_128

Event 1381 (D6891335)

Date: 12/22/1941
Locations: St. Agnes Avenue; Pleasant Street; Utica, New York
Description: Electrical engineer George Bogner stops his car at the corner of St. Agnes Avenue and Pleasant Street in Utica, New York, to watch a round, metallic object speed silently across the sky. He estimates it at 100 feet in diameter and moving at 300 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 18; Lore and Deneault, pp. 140–141
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_553

Event 1382 (951B7FF6)

Date: 12/22/1941
Description: At 2:15 p.m. a gleaming aluminum or chrome colored disc-shaped object sped silently across the skies of Utica, New York from west to east. It disappeared in 10 seconds. There were two independent witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 141
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8559

Year: 1942 (Back to Top)

Event 1383 (681D64CA)

Date: 1942
Location: Tientsien, Hopeh Province, N. China
Description: China (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 420000
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_129

Event 1384 (F51EFB77)

Date: 1942
Description: Naval Intelligence Officer Bernard M. Baruch Jr. develops a submarine reporting network, Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings on which CIRVIS is modeled in 1948.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Naval War College, Master Script for “Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings,” undated; NICAP, “Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr.”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_554

Event 1385 (ECCCE93C)

Date: 1942
Location: Prouvy, Nord, France
Description: 1:00 a.m. A woman returning home in Prouvy, Nord, France, finds herself face-to-face with three small entities with large round heads and short beards. They have large, luminous yellow eyes and wear tight, one-piece suits with a metallic sheen that leave only their faces exposed. The beings stare at her without moving, so she goes inside to get her husband, but by the time they return the entities have gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1940–1949 , p. 3; Clark III 265; Patrick Gross, URECAT , September 26, 2007
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_555

Event 1386 (D131DB66)

Date: 1/1942?
Time: 13:00?
Location: TIANJIN, CHINA
Description: Street vendor photographs hat saucer over busy street. People stare. See reference.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_451

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "TIANJIN,CHINA:STREET VENDOR FOTOS HAT SCR OVR BUSY STREET:PEOPLE STARE:see ref", LatLong: "39.150002 117.216672", LatLongDMS: "39:09:00 N 117:13:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1387 (98CFAD3B)

Date: 2/24/1942
End date: 2/25/1942
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Battle of LA
Type: military
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_59

Event 1388 (0260F937)

Date: 2/24/1942
End date: 2/25/1942
Locations: Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles County; Pacific coast; Southern California
Description: The Battle of Los Angeles takes place, a rumored enemy attack and subsequent anti-aircraft barrage over Los Angeles, California. Air raid sirens sound throughout Los Angeles County on the night of February 24. A total blackout is ordered, and thousands of air raid wardens are summoned to their positions. At 3:16 a.m., the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade begins firing .50 caliber machine guns and 12.8-pound anti-aircraft shells into the air at reported aircraft; more than 1,400 shells are eventually fired. Pilots of the 4th Interceptor Command are alerted, but their aircraft remain grounded. The artillery fire continues sporadically until 4:14 a.m. The “all clear” is sounded and the blackout order lifted at 7:21 a.m. Several buildings and vehicles are damaged by shell fragments, and five civilians die as an indirect result of the anti-aircraft fire. Three are killed in car accidents in the ensuing chaos and two die of heart attacks attributed to the stress of the hour-long action. The incident is front-page news along the Pacific coast and earns some mass media coverage. Within hours of the end of the air raid, Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox holds a press conference, saying the entire incident was a false alarm due to anxiety and “war nerves.” Knox’s comments are followed by statements from the Army on February 26 that reflect General George C. Marshall’s belief that the incident was caused by commercial airplanes used as a psychological warfare campaign to generate panic. Some contemporary press outlets suspect a cover-up. Rep. Leland M. Ford R-Calif. calls for a congressional investigation, saying, “none of the explanations so far offered removed the episode from the category of ‘complete mystification’ ... this was either a practice raid, or a raid to throw a scare into 2,000,000 people, or a mistaken identity raid, or a raid to lay a political foundation to take away Southern California’s war industries.” The Japanese government, after the war ended, declares that they had flown no airplanes over Los Angeles during the war. In 1983, the US Office of Air Force History attributes the event to a case of “war nerves” triggered by a lost weather balloon and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. A number of fake documents about this incident have been circulated by Timothy S. Cooper.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Battle of Los Angeles”; Clark III 1176–1177; NICAP, “Battle of Los Angeles”; Lore and Deneault, pp. 74–87; Good Above, pp. 15–17; Good Need, pp. 17 , 31; “No Bombs Dropped, No Planes Shot Down,” Los Angeles Herald Express, February 25, 1942, p. 1; “Japanese Carry War to California Coast,” Life, March 9, 1942, pp. 19–23; Brett Holman, “New Light on the Battle of Los Angeles,” Airminded, April 20, 2011; David Marler, “The Battle of LA UFO Incident,” OpenMindsTV YouTube channel, October 9, 2018; Strange Company 19–22; Robert Wood, “‘Leaked’ Documents Shed New Light on Outcome of ‘Battle of Los Angeles,’” MUFON UFO Journal, June 2010, pp. 3–7; US Office of the Chief of Military History, “History of the Western Defense Command, 17 March 1941–30 September 1945,” five ms. vols., Appendix no. 5, “Chronology of Enemy Operations on Pacific Coast of Continental United States,” pp. 25–27; History, Fourth Anti-Aircraft Command, January 9, 1942, to July 1, 1945, pp. 112–124; Wesley Frank Craven and James Lea Cate, The Army Air Forces in World War II: Vol. 1, Plans and Early Operations, Office of Air Force History, 1948, pp. 283–286; Lorraine Boissoneault, “The Great Los Angeles Air Raid Terrified Citizens—Even Though No Bombs Were Dropped,” Smithsonian Magazine, January 19, 2018; Patrick Gross, “Los Angeles, February 25, 1942”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_556

Event 1389 (C087E7F1)

Date: 2/25/1942
Time: 02:30
Location: CULVER CITY, CA
Description: 1430 Anti-Aircraft guns/teams shells fired / huge silent saucer. Not hurt. 18000mph! / r153p14.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_452

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDR: Radar traces/blips, HST: Historical account, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "119", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "CULVER CITY,CA:1430 AA SHELLS FIRED/HUGE SLNT SCR:NOT HURT:18000mph!:/r153p14", LatLong: "34.000002 -118.383339", LatLongDMS: "34:00:00 N 118:23:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1390 (4C6D5924)

Date: 2/25/1942
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Los Angeles, CA, searchlight case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 420225
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_130

Event 1391 (D99105DF)

Date: 2/25/1942
Description: At around 2:30 a.m. on this night in Los Angeles County, California a formation of 6-9 luminous white balls of light flying in a triangular formation flew in from the northwest, moving very slowly. They also appeared as steady radar blips coming in from the sea. As they flew over aircraft factories and this was shortly after the United States entry into World War II, widespread panic resulted, and five people were killed by the anti-aircraft fire hitting the ground and in subsequent traffic accidents. In the evening in Santa Monica, California a white disc was sighted hovering high in the sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Preston E. Dennett, UFOs over Topanga Canyon, p. 263; Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 74
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1094

Event 1392 (42A55288)

Date: 2/26/1942
Location: Washington DC
Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, G. C. Marshall stating: UFO's appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA Document, OCS 21347–86.)
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p17, 446)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_60

Event 1393 (19804C79)

Date: 2/26/1942
Time: 12:10
Location: TIMOR SEA
Description: Dutch Navy men / (seen thru) binoculars. Large aluminum disk circles cruiser / 3 hours and more. Away / 5000kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 42)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_453

Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "200", HatchDesc: "TIMOR SEA:DUTCH NAVY MEN/BINOCS:LRG ALUM.DISK CCLS CRUISER/3hrs+:AWAY/5000kph", LatLong: "-12.666667 125.000006", LatLongDMS: "12:40:00 S 125:00:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TMR", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1394 (201B49AA)

Date: 2/26/1942
Locations: Roosevelt; Los Angeles
Description: Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall writes Roosevelt that as many as 15 unknown commercial aircraft, flying at various speeds up to 200 mph and at elevations from 9,000 to 18,000 feet, were responsible for the Battle of Los Angeles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: presidentialufo.com, “General George Marshall Secret Memo to President Roosevelt about the Unidentified Objects over Los Angeles on February 25, 1942”; Good Above, pp. 17, 446
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_557

Event 1395 (1924BB4C)

Date: 2/26/1942
Locations: Royal Netherlands Navy; Australia; Battle of Badung Strait; Bali; Indonesia; Timor Sea
Description: Royal Netherlands Navy cruiser HNLMS Tromp, returning to Australia after the Battle of Badung Strait off Bali in Indonesia, reports a large, aluminum disc speeding above it in the Timor Sea and maneuvering for nearly 4 hours. It departs at an estimated 3,500 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Australasia,” Flying Saucer Review 3, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1957: 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_558

Event 1396 (BA1CE3E0)

Date: 2/27/1942
Location: Timor Sea, At Sea
Description: Large disc; departed location at 3,500 miles per hour (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_131

Event 1397 (8EBBB68C)

Date: 3/5/1942
Locations: Middle River; Essex, Maryland
Description: Benjamin Smith, formerly of the Army Air Corps, sees several blinking lights moving slowly over the Middle River adjacent to Essex, Maryland. They circle the river two or three times then disappear. Smith reports the incident to local police, who then inform Naval Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Towson Md. Union News, March 6, 1942; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_559

Event 1398 (596F2E4D)

Date: 3/9/1942
Description: The Air Service Command becomes a major Army Air Forces unit to support logistical functions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_560

Event 1399 (2ACB6323)

Date: 3/14/1942
Time: 17:40
Location: NEAR BANAK, NORWAY
Description: Ground RADAR and German pilot. 100M cylinder/cigar-shape 15M diameter hovers. Quickly going up / impossibly.
Type: sighting
Reference: CUFON UFO Network Site (former BBS) various downloads. http://www.cufon.org (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_454

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "nr BANAK,NORWAY:GND RDR+GERMAN PILOT:100M CGR 15M diam HOVERS:↑↑/IMPOSSIBLY:", LatLong: "70.050003 24.983335", LatLongDMS: "70:03:00 N 24:59:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1400 (3C27A582)

Date: 3/14/1942
Description: Ground radar and German pilot flying in Banak, Finnmark, Norway at 5:35 p.m. detected a 100m long cigar-shaped object, 15m in diameter, that first hovered, and then shot straight up at an impossible speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case # 417; Dale Goudie, CUFON
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1467

Event 1401 (5ED38B9D)

Date: Spring 1942
Location: Unknown City, KY
Description: Powerful searchlight shining down, emanating from unidentifiable object; sometimes remained motionless (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_133

Event 1402 (C8EE7A94)

Date: Spring 1942
Location: Unknown City, IL
Description: Light gray, sharply defined rectangle; gray in color (Page 23 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_134

Event 1403 (E3EAB34B)

Date: Spring 1942
Locations: Seabury-Western Theological Seminary; Evanston, Illinois; Northern part of town
Description: Rev. Robert H. Moore and six other persons attending the Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, watch a small, light-gray, rectangular object over the northern part of town for 10 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 142
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_561

Event 1404 (2AFAC6CB)

Date: 3/25/1942
Time: 00:00
Location: ZUIDER ZEE, NETH
Description: 2 airmen. British bomber followed / orange-glowing disk. Away / 1600km / HR.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 330)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_455

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "ZUIDER ZEE,NETH:2 AIRMEN:BRIT.BOMBER FOLLOWED/ORG-GLO DISK:AWAY/1600km/HR", LatLong: "52.666669 5.416667", LatLongDMS: "52:40:00 N 05:25:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Netherlands", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1405 (385FB396)

Date: 3/25/1942
Location: Zuider Zee, Holland
Description: An RAF bomber returning from a raid on Essen, Germany, was followed by a luminous orange disc or sphere. As it came closer the tail gunner opened fire on it, to no apparent effect. Finally it sped away at an estimated 1,000 m.p.h. (Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1962.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_132

Event 1406 (DC94D300)

Date: 3/25/1942
Description: At midnight U.S. Airman Sobinski and another Army Air Force crewman sighted a luminous orange object closely following their warplane over the Zuider Zee, North Holland, The Netherlands. They fired several rounds at the object.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6, citing Jerome Clark; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 19; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1647

Event 1407 (B8E55969)

Date: 4/1942
Location: ARJEPLOG, SWEDEN
Description: Observer(s) = Thorander. UFO and humanoid seen. Electro-magnetic effect (EME). No further details. / S. Aggestad 1981.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_456

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ARJEPLOG,SWEDEN:OBS=Thorander:UFO+HUMANOID SEEN:EME:NFD:/S.Aggestad 1981", LatLong: "66.050003 17.900001", LatLongDMS: "66:03:00 N 17:54:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1408 (8D5D6D84)

Date: 4/1/1942
Description: The Materiel Division of the Air Service Command assumes responsibility for R&D and procurement and is redesignated as the Air Corps Materiel Command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_562

Event 1409 (63310848)

Date: 4/7/1942 (approximate)
Time: ~08:00
Location: OUALLEN, ALGERIA
Description: Legionaires and weatherman. Metallic disk hovers / 2 days. Rotates 3X / 8 hours.
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_457

Extra Data: Country: "Algeria", Credibility: "10", Duration: "240", HatchDesc: "OUALLEN,ALGERIA:LEGIONAIRES+WEATHERMAN:MTLC DISK HVRs/2 DAYS:ROTATES 3X/8hrs", LatLong: "24.716668 1.250000", LatLongDMS: "24:43:00 N 01:15:00 E", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SAH", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1410 (55C1E394)

Date: 4/27/1942
Location: Germany
Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study completed
Type: project study
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_61

Event 1411 (41380FA0)

Date: 5/1942
Location: Miraflores, Peru
Description: 3:00 p.m. Abdon Gonzales Tello, 13, and other boys see a silvery, cigar-shaped object in the sky to the west of Miraflores, Peru. Its ends are cut off at sharp angles, and it takes 20 seconds to proceed to the south and out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_563

Event 1412 (58588155)

Date: 5/2/1942
Time: 12:00?
Location: LIVERPOOL, ENG
Description: Clothes on lines float upwards. Drift going north. (Wind goes going south slowly.)
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED; Citadel 1955 & Pyramid Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_458

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "LIVERPOOL,ENG:CLOTHES ON LINES FLOAT UPWARDS:DRIFT>N:(WIND GOES > S. SLOWLY)", LatLong: "53.416669 -2.866667", LatLongDMS: "53:25:00 N 02:52:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1413 (D0335ED0)

Date: 6/1942 (approximate)
Time: 13:00
Location: FROSON, SWD
Description: Telepathy / hypnosis? Boy / 12 goes / town for mystery package. Gives it to pseudo-human/entity.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 320)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_459

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "FROSON,SWD:TLP/HYPNOSIS?:BOY/12 GOES/TOWN for MYSTERY PACKAGE:GIVES IT TO PSH", LatLong: "63.166670 14.583334", LatLongDMS: "63:10:00 N 14:35:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1414 (5693ED75)

Date: 6/1942
Description: Col. James C. Marshall is selected to head the Manhattan Project.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_564

Event 1415 (CB989B89)

Date: 6/13/1942
Location: Washington DC
Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, begins operations
Type: historical
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_62

Event 1416 (353ACE83)

Date: 6/13/1942
Description: Roosevelt establishes the Office of Strategic Services, a wartime intelligence agency, with Gen. William J. Donovan at its head.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office of Strategic Services”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_565

Event 1417 (88E3B078)

Date: 6/19/1942
Description: Roosevelt abolishes the S-1 Section and replaces it with the S-1 Executive Committee, tasked with the technical and contractual aspects of producing an atomic bomb, while the Army handles engineering, construction, and site selection. American chemist James B. Conant is appointed as its chairman, and Lyman James Briggs , Karl Taylor Compton , Ernest Lawrence , and American chemists Eger V. Murphree and Harold C. Urey as its other members. Roosevelt approves the committee’s recommendation to move to the pilot plant stage and build piles to produce plutonium and electromagnetic, centrifuge, and gaseous diffusion plants to produce uranium-235.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “S-1 Executive Committee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_566

Event 1418 (2A9C90C8)

Date: Summer 1942
Location: Bass Strait, Tasman Peninsula
Description: A singular airfoil of glistening bronze color; domed upper surface; possible crew member, Cheshire cat emblem on dome. (Page 29 Ref 1) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_143

Event 1419 (9C615FEA)

Date: Summer 1942
Locations: Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania; Bass Strait
Description: 5:50 p.m. An RAAF pilot is on flying patrol off the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, following reports by fishermen of strange lights on the waters of Bass Strait. A “singular airfoil of glistening bronze color” appears out of a cloudbank. It’s about 150 feet long, 50 feet in diameter, and has a dome on top. It accompanies his plane for a few minutes before departing at “a hell of a pace.” It turns again and dives into the ocean, throwing up a “whirlpool of waves.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 October 1982: 6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_569

Event 1420 (89A86C33)

Date: 6/25/1942
Location: Unknown City, Holland
Description: Shining copper object, like setting sun, the size of a full moon (Page 23-25 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_135

Event 1421 (797A5910)

Date: Late 6/1942
Location: Cussey-sur-l'Ognon, Doubs, France
Description: Several witnesses heard a motor-like sound and saw a blue-gray oval object with a dome on top hovering just above the ground in a wooded area. (Ref. 3; Michel Bougard, Des Soucoupes Volantes aux OVNI, 1977.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_136

Event 1422 (4CF60FEC)

Date: 6/25/1942
Alternate date: 3/25/1942
Locations: Ruhr Valley, Germany; Zuiderzee in Holland
Description: Midnight. Flight Lt. Roman Ray Sabiński of the 301 Polish Bomber Squadron is flying an RAF Wellington bomber after returning from a run on the Ruhr Valley, Germany; he sees a bright copper-colored light the “size of the moon” following the aircraft over the Zuiderzee in Holland. When it gets within 200 yards, the rear gunner shoots at it with all four machine guns. After two minutes, it moves at terrific speed to the port side, and the front gunner starts firing at it. Sabiński takes evasive action, but the object keeps pacing him. Finally, it moves in front of the bomber, stays there a while, then takes off at fantastic speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 23–25; Gordon W. Creighton. “Foo Fighters,” Flying Saucer Review 8, no. 2 March/April 1962: 15; Patrick Gross, “Pilot Reports”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_567

Event 1423 (D10A8225)

Date: 7/1942 (approximate)
Time: 16:00
Location: SOUTHEAST / CUSSAY, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). Wave / heat. Domed saucer with antennas and portholes. Light signals / code.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 128)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_460

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SE/CUSSAY,FR:2 OBS:WAVE/HEAT:DOMED SCR W/ANTENNAS+PORTHOLES:LITE SIGNALS/CODE", LatLong: "47.322224 5.961111", LatLongDMS: "47:19:20 N 05:57:40 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Doubs", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1424 (F675A031)

Date: 8/1942 (approximate)
Time: 17:50
Location: BASS STRAIT, AUS
Description: 50M domed ovoid paces RAAF plane. Turns 2X. Dives / sea. / r107p225.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_461

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "2", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "BASS STRAIT,AUS:50M DOMED OVOID PACES RAAF PLANE:TURNS 2X:DIVES/SEA:/r107p225", LatLong: "-40.250002 146.500007", LatLongDMS: "40:15:00 S 146:30:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TSM", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1425 (BC6FA56D)

Date: 8/1942
Time: 19:50
Location: WEST / OUEZZANE, MAROC
Description: 3 / car. Desert road lit. Extra moon hovers / N. sky. Shoots going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 344)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_462

Extra Data: Country: "Morocco", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "W/OUEZZANE,MAROC:3/CAR:DESERT ROAD LIT:EXTRA MOON HVRS/N.SKY:SHOOTS >>W", LatLong: "34.133335 -5.250000", LatLongDMS: "34:08:00 N 05:15:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1426 (DF21986F)

Date: 8/1942
Time: 23:00?
Location: SOUTHWEST / KOBLENZ, GERM
Description: 2 Fr. prisoners of war. Moonless night. Crescent moon swings like pendulum!
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_463

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SW/KOBLENZ,GERM:2 FR.POWs:MOONLESS NITE:CRESCENT MOON SWINGS LIKE PENDULUM!", LatLong: "50.000002 7.000000", LatLongDMS: "50:00:00 N 07:00:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1427 (527C18DF)

Date: 8/1942
Time: 23:00?
Location: NEWBIGGIN-ON-SEA, ENGL
Description: RADAR sentry. Night light. Missing time. Small humanoids (or Greys) and medical exam. Scar and rash. / r243p18.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 107)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_464

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", MST: Missing time or time anomaly, ABD: Human or animal abduction, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "NEWBIGGIN-on-SEA,ENGL:RDR SENTRY:NLT:MST:OIDS+MEDICAL EXAM:SCAR+RASH:/r243p18", LatLong: "55.166669 -1.533333", LatLongDMS: "55:10:00 N 01:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1428 (9AA70AB7)

Date: 8/1942
Locations: Lafayette Township; Newton, New Jersey; Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Description: Evelyn M. Howell and two other adults see a huge cigar-shaped object hovering near them between Lafayette Township and Newton, New Jersey. It has “two rows of windows” that give off blue, green, white, and red fluorescent lights. They watch it for 10 minutes, after which it silently and slowly takes off. Howell and her husband see a similar object on the drive home to Ogdensburg, New Jersey.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_571

Event 1429 (B88159FE)

Date: 8/5/1942
Location: Unknown City, Solomon Isl
Description: Saucer shaped cigar with round dome on top; approximately ninety feet in diameter (Page 27 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_137

Event 1430 (3CC986BE)

Date: 8/5/1942
Locations: Solomon Islands; Guadalcanal
Description: Early morning. The Navy destroyer USS Helm is on its way to the Solomon Islands in preparation for the Guadalcanal landings. A radio blackout is in effect. An aircraft approaches, a full alert is sounded, and three cruisers [Vincennes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVincennes%5F%28CA-44%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FVincennes%5F%28CA-44%29) [Quincy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FQuincy%5F%28CA-39%29)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FQuincy%5F%28CA-39%29) [Astoria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FAstoria%5F%28CA-34%29) and seven other ships open fire on it. The object is not hit and proceeds to circle around the fleet. An anonymous sailor on security detail on the Helm watches it through binoculars and sees it as 90 feet in diameter, oval, with a round dome on top. The ships continue to fire on the UFO, which attains extremely high speeds. Commanding Officer Chester Edward Carroll later hears that the aircraft is neither German nor Japanese.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 27–28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_572

Event 1431 (3D604E9A)

Date: 8/11/1942
End date: 8/12/1942
Location: Aachen (near), Germany
Description: A phenomenon described as a bright white light (Page 29-30 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_138

Event 1432 (A9E7E984)

Date: 8/12/1942
Time: 10:00
Location: TULAGI, SOLOMONS
Description: Rows / 10-12 saucers. Dull roar not engine noise. Wobble / high altitude. / r114.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_465

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "100", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "TULAGI,SOLOMONs:ROWS/10-12 SCRS:DULL ROAR not engine noise:WOBBLE/HI ALT:/r114", LatLong: "-9.100000 160.100008", LatLongDMS: "09:06:00 S 160:06:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SOL", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1433 (D611C4B4)

Date: 8/12/1942
Location: Unknown City, Solomon Isl
Description: Formation of silvery objects directly overhead, numbering close to 150; mighty roaring sound (Page 28 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_139

Event 1434 (16B44B30)

Date: 8/12/1942
Locations: Tulagi; Solomon Islands
Description: Day. Sgt. Stephen J. Brickner of the 1st Marine Division on Tulagi in the Solomon Islands is cleaning his rifle when an air-raid warning is sounded. He dives into his foxhole looking to the sky. He hears a roaring sound unlike that of an aircraft. Soon he sees a formation of more than 150 silvery objects, in straight lines of 10 or 12. The objects seem to wobble slightly. They are flying faster than Japanese planes and are soon out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p. 18; Strange Company 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_573

Event 1435 (97DB3F31)

Date: 8/12/1942
Description: At ten a.m. a large formation of as many as 150 aerial objects with no wings was seen from Tulagi Island in the Soloman Islands in the Pacific. They were flying in an equally spaced formation, ten across and fifteen deep, in a perfect square. They were definitely not Japanese planes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gordon I. R. Lore and Harold Denault, Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 126; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 55; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4928

Event 1436 (C0E099CB)

Date: 8/13/1942
Location: Manhattan Engineering District
Description: The Manhattan Engineering District, with Brig. Gen. James C. Marshall as district engineer, is established by Chief of the US Army Corps of Engineers Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_574

Event 1437 (9D4C5483)

Date: 8/13/1942
Description: Sixty-eight UFOs were seen over the Capitol in Washington, D.C. on this night around 11:00 p.m. Photographs were taken, and a big CAA investigation followed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 126
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4959

Event 1438 (59911E7A)

Date: 8/15/1942?
Time: 14:00
Location: TULA PROVINCE, RUSSIA
Description: 20 Germans / battle. Silent 300M blimp going down / cloud. Hovers / 1 minute(s). Away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 291)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_466

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "TULA Prov.,RUSS:20 GERMANS/BATTLE:SLNT 300M BLIMP ↓/CLOUD:HVRS/1min:AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "53.750003 37.333335", LatLongDMS: "53:45:00 N 37:20:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TLA", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1439 (F93453E2)

Date: Mid 8/1942
Location: Tula Region, near Moscow, Russia
Description: Huge cigar-shaped object something like a Zeppelin, but much bulkier and rounder at the front; aluminum hued color. (Page 30-31, Ref 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_141

Event 1440 (CF66866A)

Date: Late Summer 1942
Locations: Cresswell radar station; Newbiggin-by-the-Sea; Northumberland; England; North Sea
Description: Pvt. Albert Lancashire, 27, is standing guard at Cresswell radar station near Newbiggin-by-the-Sea, Northumberland, England, when he sees a cloud-enshrouded light approaching from the North Sea. As it descends, he is drawn up into it by a beam. Small men grab him and carry him into the craft, where he sees other human figures of normal height, including an apparent captain with dark hair and goggles. He is made to lie down on a couch or table. He has only vague memories of what happens next, but he thinks a medical exam is performed. He wakes up back at his sentry post.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1940–1949 , p. 4; “New Time Lapse Case from England Uncovered,” MUFON UFO Journal 107 October 1976: 1–18; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_570

Event 1441 (AFAC618B)

Date: 8/17/1942
End date: 8/18/1942
Location: Osnabruk, Germany
Description: A rocket with a long white tail of light (Page 30 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_140

Event 1442 (CE3BEA3D)

Date: 8/29/1942
Time: 19:00
Location: COLUMBUS, MS
Description: Military Air Traffic Controllers / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 red saucers drop / airbase. Hover and speed away. / r242p129.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 428)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_467

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "COLUMBUS,MS:MIL.ATCs/BINOCs:2 RED SCRS DROP/AIRBASE:HVR+SPEED AWAY:/r242p129", LatLong: "33.500002 -88.416671", LatLongDMS: "33:30:00 N 88:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1443 (9A1BF488)

Date: 8/29/1942
Location: Columbus, MS
Description: Control tower operator at Army Air Base saw two round reddish objects hover over field. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_142

Event 1444 (E8422684)

Date: 8/29/1942
Location: Columbus, Mississippi
Description: Army Air Corps control tower operator Pvt. Michael Solomon sees two small reddish objects descend near the AAC Advanced Flying School at Columbus, Mississippi, then speed away. He later contacts government officials and officers from the school in attempting to confirm his sighting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1177; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_575

Event 1445 (F0CFEBDE)

Date: 8/29/1942
Description: At around 7:00 p.m. two soldiers in the air traffic control tower at the Army Air Corps Flying School in Columbus, Mississippi observed the rapid descent of two red round glowing objects that demonstrated extreme maneuverability and then hovered over the woods at the end of the runway. They next experienced an episode of missing time as well as sensory dislocation: they found themselves out in a field with no memory of how they got there.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 129; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20; Jerome Clark, The Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20, citing NICAP
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5453

Event 1446 (3C147019)

Date: Fall 1942
Location: Long Branch, NJ
Description: A research engineer saw a dark elliptical object sharply outlined against the star field in the night sky. A flickering light was visible at the trailing end as it sped from horizon to horizon in 10-15 seconds. "I saw a nose view, side view, and tail view", the witness said. (Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files.) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_144

Event 1447 (528D74D2)

Date: 9/23/1942
Description: Col. Leslie Groves is promoted to brigadier general and becomes director of the Manhattan Project. The Military Policy Committee, consisting of Vannevar Bush with [James B. Conant](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%5FB.%5FConant) as his alternative, Maj. Gen. Wilhelm D. Styer , and Rear Adm. William R. Purnell, is created to oversee the project.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_576

Event 1448 (2F741096)

Date: 9/25/1942
Location: Germany
Description: RAF Bomber Command’s Operational Research Section releases a report titled “A Note on Pyrotechnic Activity over Germany.” An unnamed Flak Liaison Officer has coordinated the reports from No. 3 and No. 5 Groups and determines there are two types of phenomena: a ball of fire that is shot from the ground and drips multicolored fragments, and multi-part flares. Another type involves “small coloured balls” that climb to 7,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_577

Event 1449 (B4930B37)

Date: 9/29/1942
Locations: US; Tennessee; Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: US Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson authorizes the Corps of Engineers to acquire 56,000 acres in Tennessee for Site X, which will become the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, laboratory and production site.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Oak Ridge, Tennessee”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_578

Event 1450 (A5BFDE1A)

Date: 10/1942
Time: ~18:00
Location: RADWAY GREEN, ENGL
Description: 2 observer(s). Domed saucer going down. Lights / ends. Circular burnt area and footprints found.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_468

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "RADWAY GREEN,ENGL:2 OBS:DOMED SCR ↓:LITES/ENDS:CIRC.BURNT AREA+FPRINTS found", LatLong: "53.083336 -2.333333", LatLongDMS: "53:05:00 N 02:20:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1451 (31EF1F91)

Date: 10/1942
Location: Radway Green, Cheshire, UK
Description: In the evening two witnesses saw an elongated object with a dome on top and lights at either end descend toward the ground. At the apparent landing site a circular burned area and footprints were found. (Ref. 3; Bougard, 1977.) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_145

Event 1452 (622C3B97)

Date: 10/3/1942
Location: Germany
Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, 85–90km
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_63

Event 1453 (5174931C)

Date: 10/7/1942
Locations: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Clinton Engineer Works
Description: Land at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, is acquired by eminent domain for Clinton Engineer Works.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Clinton Engineer Works”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_579

Event 1454 (5377A782)

Date: 10/9/1942 (approximate)
Time: 10:00
Location: GUADALCANAL ISLAND
Description: Thousands / observer(s). 25M silver domed saucer circles huge United States Navy (USN) fleet / 10K mph. / r65.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_469

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "13", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GUADALCANAL ISL:1000s/OBS:25M SLVR DOMED SCR CCLS HUGE USN FLEET/10K mph:/r65", LatLong: "-10.000000 160.000008", LatLongDMS: "10:00:00 S 160:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SOL", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1455 (6AE78FE9)

Date: 10/9/1942
End date: 10/10/1942
Location: Unknown City, Guadalcanal
Description: During the Guadalcanal invasion U.S. Navy fleet radar detected an incoming unidentified object which also was observed through binoculars. (Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 185, July 1983; tape-recorded witness interview.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 421009-10
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_146

Event 1456 (AB16805D)

Date: Late 1942?
Location: Europe
Description: According to records released in August 2010, Prime Minister Winston Churchill supposedly classifies for 50 years an alleged UFO incident because of fears it could create mass panic. The incident allegedly involves an RAF reconnaissance plane returning from a mission in Europe. The aircraft is over or near the English coastline when it is allegedly intercepted by a strange metallic object that matches the aircraft’s course and speed for a time before shooting away. The plane’s crew photograph the object, which “hovered noiselessly” near the aircraft before moving off. According to the documents, details of the cover-up emerge when a man writes to the government in 1999 seeking to find out more about the incident. He describes how his grandfather, who served with the RAF, was present when Churchill and Gen. Dwight Eisenhower discussed how to deal with the encounter. However, the evidence is hearsay and somewhat questionable.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp. 20–21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_568

Event 1457 (0BD574F0)

Date: 10/19/1942
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: Leslie Groves approves J. Robert Oppenheimer to coordinate the scientific research of the Manhattan Project at the Site Y laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_580

Event 1458 (D37D07B8)

Date: 11/1942
Location: LOCATION UNKNOWN BAY OF BISCAY
Description: Military-air crews. Big wingless object. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). 180° turn away. / Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects (CRIFO.)
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_470

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "LOC.UNK BAY of BISCAY:MIL-AIR CREWS:BIG WINGLESS OBJ:RFI:180°TURN AWAY:/CRIFO", LatLong: "46.000002 -4.000000", LatLongDMS: "46:00:00 N 04:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BSC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1459 (BFEB4A3C)

Date: 11/1942
Time: 16:00
Location: BERGAMO, ITL
Description: Man walking. Small disk scoots / street. Going up and down. Pincers / rear. Zigzags going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_471

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "249", HatchDesc: "BERGAMO,ITL:MAN WALKING:SML DISK SCOOTS/STREET:↑+↓:PINCERS/REAR:ZIGZAGS >>E", LatLong: "45.683336 9.716667", LatLongDMS: "45:41:00 N 09:43:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Bergamo", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1460 (69CC190E)

Date: 11/1942
Location: Bay of Biscay, UK
Description: Thing massive in size; no wings; electronic interference. (Page 35-36 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_148

Event 1461 (4ACEDE9C)

Date: 11/15/1942
Locations: University of Chicago; Stagg Field
Description: Teams under physicists Herbert L. Anderson and Walter Zinn have constructed 16 experimental nuclear reactors under the Stagg Field stands at the University of Chicago.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Metallurgical Laboratory”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_581

Event 1462 (21FEBE45)

Date: 11/25/1942
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: The Los Alamos site in New Mexico is acquired for Project Y.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project Y”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_582

Event 1463 (592747FC)

Date: 11/28/1942
End date: 11/29/1942
Location: Turin, Italy
Description: Object two to three hundred feet in length 500 mph &.four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body. (Page 34-35 Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_147

Event 1464 (05B5BEDE)

Date: 11/28/1942
Locations: Turin, Italy; Alps
Description: 10:40–10:45 p.m. Capt. Lever and the No. 61 Squadron crew of an RAF Lancaster are returning from a bombing raid on Turin, Italy, when about 10–15 miles southwest of the city they see an object 200–300 feet long traveling southeast at a speed of 500 mph. It has four pairs of red lights spaced along its body and is flying on a level course. Five minutes later, as the Lancaster approaches the Alps at 14,000 feet, the crew sees the object again traveling southwest up a valley. It disappears when the red lights go out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp. 25–26; Strange Company 34–35; Good Need, pp. 18–19 , 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_583

Event 1465 (A98DD574)

Date: 11/28/1942
Description: On this night a cigar-shaped object flew over Turin, Italy. It was 200-300 feet in length and flew at an estimated 500 mph. It had four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 34
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7977

Event 1466 (FFF30023)

Date: 12/1942
Alternate date: 1/1943
Location: Columbia, PA
Description: THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped form. Each "coach" was identical in size and shape except the first, which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_64

Event 1467 (27E58157)

Date: 12/1942
Time: 01:00?
Location: SOMME ESTUARY, FR
Description: RAF meteor pilot. Night lights rise / ground. Chase plane. Drop and land again!
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 330)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_472

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "SOMME ESTUARY,FR:RAF METEOR PILOT:NLTS RISE/GND:CHASE PLANE:DROP+LAND AGAIN!", LatLong: "50.200002 1.633333", LatLongDMS: "50:12:00 N 01:38:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Somme", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1468 (3EA0152D)

Date: 12/1942
Location: French coast (mouth of Somme River), At Sea
Description: Two amber and orange lights, flying in unison; not aircraft. (Page 36 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_149

Event 1469 (47F55A56)

Date: 12/1942
Locations: Wright Field; Dayton, Ohio
Description: A Technical Data Laboratory is established at Wright Field near Dayton, Ohio, as part of the Army Materiel Command. Its operations include the evaluation of foreign aircraft and related equipment.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Air Force, “National Air and Space Intelligence Center Heritage,” July 31, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_584

Event 1470 (2F9A7580)

Date: 12/1942
Location: River Somme, France
Description: 8:00 p.m. RAAF Lt. Bruce Clyde Lumsden is flying a Hawker Hurricane heading for the French coast. About 7,000 feet over the mouth of the River Somme, France, he observes two orange lights climbing, one slightly above the other. He completes a full turn, putting the lights behind him on the port side. They now appear brighter and larger. When they reach his altitude, they stop climbing and stay at his altitude. He makes another full turn, but the objects stay with him. Lumsden dives to 4,000 feet, but the lights match his maneuvers. He increases his speed to 260 mph and gradually leaves them behind. His squadron mates do not believe him, but the next night another squadron member has a similar encounter with a green light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_585

Event 1471 (8F234C8C)

Date: 12/2/1942
Location: Germany
Description: Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_65

Event 1472 (AF21204A)

Date: 12/2/1942
Locations: Chicago; University of Chicago
Description: Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, goes critical at the University of Chicago under the leadership and design of Enrico Fermi , achieving a self-sustaining reaction just one month after construction was started.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chicago Pile-1”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_586

Event 1473 (3556DA51)

Date: 12/27/1942
Locations: Jack Northrop Field; Hawthorne (Calif.) Municipal Airport
Description: The Northrop N-9M, a prototype flying wing bomber with a wingspan of 60 feet, makes its first test flight at Jack Northrop Field [now Hawthorne Calif. Municipal Airport] with pilot John Wescott Myers. Through May, 44 more flights are made, nearly all terminated by mechanical failures.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop N- 9M”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_587

Year: 1943 (Back to Top)

Event 1474 (B91C1B33)

Date: 1943
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10 minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the saucers disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_66

Event 1475 (ED86737E)

Date: 1943 (approximate)
Location: Washington, DC
Description: Sighting of UFO formation by Metropolitan policeman. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, VII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_150

Event 1476 (15E9D45B)

Date: 1943 (approximate)
Location: Unknown City, CA
Description: Object, international orange in color, elliptical shape; wobbled in unstable manner; no wings, jet exhaust, smoke, or vapor trails. (Page 51 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_169

Event 1477 (0D47893C)

Date: 1/7/1943
Location: United States
Description: Nikola Test dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_67

Event 1478 (26DC9D2E)

Date: 1/8/1943
Time: ~16:00
Location: CHAUNY, 02, FR
Description: Numerous observer(s). Small brilliant silent metallic objects north going quickly south. Groups / 3. Faster / balloons.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_473

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "150", HatchDesc: "CHAUNY,02,FR:NMRS OBS:SML BRILL.SLNT MTLC OBJS N>>S:GROUPS/3:FASTER/BALLOONS", LatLong: "49.666669 3.150000", LatLongDMS: "49:40:00 N 03:09:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1479 (44F8D0A4)

Date: 1/8/1943
Description: In the late afternoon in Chauny, France many people witnessed several small brilliant metallic objects fly silently from the north to the south in groups of three. The UFOs moved faster than balloons, and the procession lasted for a period of two and a half hours.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_189

Event 1480 (DE95B771)

Date: 1/15/1943
Location: Cherbourg, Manche, France
Description: During a US bombing raid over Cherbourg, Manche, France, several crews see “large numbers of projectiles resembling ‘schools of flying fish,’ about a foot long and similar to incendiary bombs, coming up from a direction of the town.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_588

Event 1481 (3D8331EB)

Date: 1/16/1943
Location: Hanford, WA
Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium production
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_68

Event 1482 (6B761DDD)

Date: 1/16/1943
Locations: Washington State; Hanford site
Description: Leslie Groves approves development of the Hanford site in Washington State for plutonium production.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Hanford Site”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_589

Event 1483 (D3F12C2E)

Date: 2/9/1943
Locations: Hanford, Washington; Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Land for a plutonium production complex is acquired at Hanford, Washington. Wikipedia, “[Hanford Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford%5FSite)” February 18 — Construction begins for Y-12, a massive electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Y-12 National Security Complex”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_590

Event 1484 (9948054E)

Date: 2/18/1943
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_69

Event 1485 (0BF112D4)

Date: 3/13/1943
Location: Naples, Italy
Description: Roman candlelights; bright very large red light that looked like a huge irregular mass of neon. (Page 39, Ref. 1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_151

Event 1486 (594F8BA6)

Date: 3/15/1943
Time: ~15:00
Location: MONTECRESTESE, IT
Description: 2 girls. Saucer lands. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / helmets speak gibberish. / r39p29.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_474

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MONTECRESTESE,IT:2 GIRLS:SCR LANDS:2 OIDS/HELMETS speak gibberish:/r39p29", LatLong: "46.150002 8.316667", LatLongDMS: "46:09:00 N 08:19:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NO", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1487 (64FD2157)

Date: Spring 1943
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Description: Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped
Type: UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_70

Event 1488 (8772F403)

Date: 4/1/1943
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_71

Event 1489 (299CE9E6)

Date: 4/1/1943
Locations: Los Alamos Laboratory; New Mexico
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory is established in New Mexico and begins operations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project Y”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_591

Event 1490 (18E7FB5A)

Date: 4/3/1943
Time: 09:50
Location: LONG BEACH, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). Classic domed saucer dives at Army Air Force (AAF) BT13A trainer. Going quickly south. / r150.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_475

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "LONG BEACH,CA:2 OBS:CLASSIC DOMED SCR DIVES at AAF BT13A TRAINER:>>S:/r150", LatLong: "33.783335 -118.183339", LatLongDMS: "33:47:00 N 118:11:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1491 (F0F9FC25)

Date: 4/5/1943
Location: Long Beach, CA
Description: Flight instructor and student pilot saw a glowing orange disc dive at their aircraft and hover alongside, then accelerate and climb away out of sight. (Ref. 3; Witness report to Jan Aldrich, Project 1947.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_152

Event 1492 (D32FAF35)

Date: 4/5/1943
Location: Long Beach, California
Description: 9:50 a.m. Flight instructor Gerry A. Casey and a student pilot in a Boeing-Stearman Model 75 watch a radiant- orange, elliptical disc dive at their aircraft near Long Beach, California. There is no propellor and it has a rounded hump above and below. It hovers alongside with a slight wobble, then accelerates, turns from orange to white, and climbs out of sight in 2 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1943”; Gerry A. Casey, “UFO: The Time for the Telling Has Come,” Tacoma Wash. Western Flyer, July 7, 1989, via UFO Newsclipping Service 241 August 1989, p. 3; Patrick Gross, “Observation at Long Beach, 1943”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_592

Event 1493 (034B93BD)

Date: 4/5/1943
Description: A military pilot reported that over Long Beach, California at 9:50 a.m. a round, orange object flew alongside and then dove at an Army Air Force BT13A trainer aircraft. It subsequently shot away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 21; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 6
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1840

Event 1494 (59733403)

Date: 4/9/1943
Locations: Warsaw Ghetto; Poland; Bonifraterska street; Old Town
Description: 5:00 p.m. Kazimierz Bzowski and other resistance fighters are monitoring a fire in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland. They notice a flying object approaching them at about 60 mph. Through binoculars it appears to be a sphere colored with tangled strips of both raspberry and blue-green colors. Bzowski estimates it is at an elevation of 200 feet and is about 25 feet in diameter. They observe German and Lithuanian snipers on Bonifraterska street shooting at it, although the bullets seem to pass through it. The object alters course and heads toward Old Town, then stops dead and shoots away at great speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_593

Event 1495 (317E9D61)

Date: 5/1943
Location: Princeton, NJ
Description: Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but apparently Einstein turned him down.
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_72

Attributes: Einstein

Event 1496 (A95498F4)

Date: 5/1943
Location: Norwich, UK
Description: Sighting of dome-shaped object and humanoid beings. (Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren, AFU Bibliography.) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_153

Event 1497 (0D072313)

Date: 5/1943
Location: English Channel, UK
Description: Large, stationary orange balloon on or near the sea. (Page 41 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_157

Event 1498 (08CE9EFB)

Date: 5/1943
Location: English Channel
Description: Capt. Gordon W. Cammell is flying an RAF Lancaster bomber back over the English Channel when he and his entire crew see a “huge orange ball on or near the sea” 7,000–8,000 feet below them. Over the next 10 minutes, they watch it project a bright and constant light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_594

Event 1499 (4C2BE8A8)

Date: 5/12/1943
End date: 5/13/1943
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Description: Object like meteor; reddish orange in color; emitted a burst giving off a green star. (Ref. 1 Page 39) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_154

Event 1500 (1DDA3E56)

Date: 5/19/1943
Locations: Muroc Army Air Base; Edwards AFB; California
Description: The Northrop N-9M flying wing bomber prototype crashes 12 miles west of Muroc Army Air Base [now Edwards AFB], California, killing its pilot Max Constant .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop N-9M”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_595

Event 1501 (09480ACE)

Date: 5/23/1943
End date: 5/24/1943
Location: Dortmund, Germany
Description: Large number of so-called rockets (Page 39-40 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_155

Event 1502 (93885D62)

Date: 5/26/1943
Location: Essen, Germany
Description: Late night. Capt. Ray Smith and copilot Sgt. Gordon N. Cockcroft are flying at 18,000 feet in a Halifax bomber on a run near Essen, Germany, when they see a silvery-gold cylindrical object, larger than their aircraft, on the port side. It has several evenly spaced portholes. It is hovering at a 45° angle. After 20–30 seconds it climbs away at high speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Correspondence,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 Oct./Nov. 1982: 4–6; Strange Company 40; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1943”; John Hanson and Dawn Holloway, Haunted Skies: The Encyclopaedia of British UFOs: Volume 1, 1940–1959, Fortean Words, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_596

Event 1503 (D25815F2)

Date: 5/27/1943
Location: ESSEN, GERM
Description: Numerous bomber crews. Giant cigarette shape seen. No further details. / BFJ 9'77+AFU Swdn.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_476

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ESSEN,GERM:NMRS BOMBER CREWS:GIANT CIGARETTE SHAPE SEEN:NFD:/BFJ 9'77+AFU Swdn", LatLong: "51.416669 7.000000", LatLongDMS: "51:25:00 N 07:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NRW", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1504 (2C79D6E9)

Date: 5/27/1943
End date: 5/28/1943
Location: Essen, Germany
Description: Cylindrical object, silvery-gold in color, with several portholes evenly spaced along its side; motionless until speeding away at several thousand miles per hour. (Page 40-41 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_156

Event 1505 (D863C8E9)

Date: 5/27/1943
Description: USAAF bomber crews flying over Essen, Germany encountered a giant, cigarrette shaped UFO.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3111

Event 1506 (AAA56F37)

Date: 6/1943
Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_73

Event 1507 (EC2A298D)

Date: 6/1943
Location: Burbank, California
Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command meets with Lockheed Aircraft Corporation in Burbank, California, to ask them to develop a jet fighter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Skunk Works”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_597

Event 1508 (09890B4A)

Date: 6/2/1943
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Construction begins on K-25, the gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “K-25”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_598

Event 1509 (5DAF5E00)

Date: 6/4/1943
Location: CHAUNY, FR
Description: 12 brilliant stars maneuver / all directions. Absolute(ly) silent. High altitude. Also others / 13 April and 10 JUN'43.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_477

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "CHAUNY,FR:12 BRILL.STARS MNVR/ALL DIRS:ABS.SLNT:HI ALT:+others/13APR+10JUN'43", LatLong: "49.650002 3.150000", LatLongDMS: "49:39:00 N 03:09:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Aisne", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1510 (E97713D0)

Date: 6/4/1943
Description: On this day in 1943, 12 brilliant star-like lights were seen maneuvering in all directions over Chauny, France. They flew at a high altitude, and were absolutely silent.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, Vol. 338
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3266

Event 1511 (BD4738EF)

Date: 6/15/1943
Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News Bulletin
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_74

Attributes: Einstein

Event 1512 (0A79B14C)

Date: 6/25/1943
Description: The USAAF First Air Division was flying over the Elbe Estuary in Germany on this day when they saw twelve flat objects, approximately six-feet square, fall like dead leaves. No "flack" or other explosions were noted at the time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3647

Event 1513 (70C0086C)

Date: 7/1943
Location: Burbank, CA
Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_75

Event 1514 (1A974D04)

Date: 7/1943?
Location: TOMBROEK, BELGIUM
Description: Nurse. Metallic-domed saucer passes. Moon-size. Going east with slight buzz.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 96)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_478

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "TOMBROEK,BELGIUM:NURSE:MTLC-DOMED SCR PASSES:MOONSIZE:>E with SLIGHT BUZZ", LatLong: "50.750002 3.250000", LatLongDMS: "50:45:00 N 03:15:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1515 (0A903B90)

Date: 7/1943
Location: Burbank, California
Description: Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson and other associate engineers hand-deliver a proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter to the Air Tactical Service Command. Two days later, the go-ahead is given to Lockheed to start development, and the Skunk Works is born in Burbank, California, with Johnson at the helm. The name supposedly comes from the L’il Abner comic strip, which has a place called “Skonk Works” where a strong beverage is brewed from skunks, old shoes, and other ingredients.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Skunk Works”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_599

Event 1516 (A82D9D68)

Date: 7/1/1943
End date: 3/31/1944
Description: Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National Archives.
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_76

Attributes: Einstein

Event 1517 (D05124A3)

Date: 7/18/1943
End date: 10/15/1944
Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_77

Attributes: Einstein

Event 1518 (CE277093)

Date: 7/18/1943
Locations: Gdynia, Poland; Baltic Sea
Description: A French prisoner in a German labor camp near Gdynia, Poland, is walking to work along the Baltic Sea when he sees a flat, metallic object embedded in the sand. A human figure is standing next to it, apparently trying to dig it up. When he passes by, the figure, apparently an Asian woman with long blonde hair and dressed in a tight- fitting overall, turns in his direction. The witness assumes she is the famous German aviator Hanna Reitsch and helps her dig the experimental aircraft out of the sand. The object is 20 feet in diameter and looks like two metallic saucers put together. The woman touches the witness’s chest with her hand and points to the sky. She touches her belt and a door in the object opens. She crawls inside, the door closes, and the object ascends and departs at a tremendous speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jean Sider, Ultra Top-Secret: Ces OVNIs qui font peur, Axis Mundi, 1990
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_600

Event 1519 (70C37E42)

Date: 8/1943
Location: OITTI, FINLAND
Description: M. Mustapa. 5 silver disks seen. No further details. / Margit Mustapa 1960+/ AFU Sweden.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_479

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "OITTI,FINLAND:M.Mustapa:5 SLVR DISKS SEEN:NFD:/Margit Mustapa 1960+/AFU Sweden", LatLong: "60.783336 25.033335", LatLongDMS: "60:47:00 N 25:02:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1520 (DF8E5531)

Date: 9/1943
Location: PUSHKINO, RUSSIA
Description: Saucers over German and Russian planes watch dogfights. Away incredibly fast. / LDLN#204.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 281)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_480

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "PUSHKINO,RUS:SCRs ovr GERMAN+RUSS PLANES WATCH DOGFIGHTS:away XXfast:/LDLN#204", LatLong: "56.016669 37.850002", LatLongDMS: "56:01:00 N 37:51:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MSC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1521 (2C3B7F76)

Date: 9/1943
Time: 04:00
Location: NEAR ONCATIVO, ARG
Description: Large saucer / road. Whistles and quickly going up [to] extremely fast. Odd metal object found. / r215p28+/ r8.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_481

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "268", HatchDesc: "nr ONCATIVO,ARG:LRG SCR/ROAD:WHISTLES+↑↑XFAST:ODD MTL OBJ FOUND:/r215p28+/r8", LatLong: "-31.916668 -63.666670", LatLongDMS: "31:55:00 S 63:40:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CRD", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1522 (7B24A7AB)

Date: 9/1943
Time: 19:00
Location: QUING XIAN EAST / TIANJIN, CHINA
Description: Several observer(s). Saucer spins. Going quickly [to] 5M overhead. Glows white. Skims roofs.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_482

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "QUING XIAN E/TIANJIN,CHINA:SVRL OBS:SCR SPINS:>>5M OVHD:GLOWS WHT:SKIMS ROOFS", LatLong: "39.133335 117.300006", LatLongDMS: "39:08:00 N 117:18:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1523 (298E7E86)

Date: 9/1943
Location: Oncativo, Argentina
Description: 4:00 a.m. Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot. (Magonia #50, GEPA Dec., 68) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_158

Event 1524 (88576D01)

Date: 9/1943
Time: 0400
Location: Oncativo, Argentina
Description: Navarro Ocampo, driving between Rosario and Cordoba, saw a large, saucer-shaped object on the ground 500 m to the left of the road. It glowed with a bluish-green light, made a whistling sound, rose to 100 m altitude, then left at fantastic speed. A strange metal block is said to have been found at the spot.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: GEPA Dec., 68 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_50

Event 1525 (D4604A7A)

Date: 9/1943
Locations: Pushkin; Leningrad; Saint Petersburg; Russia
Description: During an air battle between the Germans and Russians, a member of the Spanish Blue Division fighting with the Germans near Pushkin outside Leningrad [now Saint Petersburg], Russia, notices a disc-shaped object above the planes. It appears to be observing the battle, then disappears at a fantastic speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Antonio Ribera, Platillos Volantes en Iberoamerica y España, Santiago Pomaire, 1968, pp. 411–412
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_601

Event 1526 (548D0D73)

Date: 9/1943
Description: Ray Palmer, editor of Amazing Stories magazine, receives a letter from a reader named Richard S. Shaver, who claims to have discovered “Mantong,” a proto-language that is the source of all earthly languages. In Mantong, each sound has a hidden meaning, and by applying this formula to any word in any language, one can decode the secret meaning. Palmer applies the formula to several words and realizes Shaver might be onto something.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard Sharpe Shaver”; Clark III 609; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, p. 136
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_602

Event 1527 (975B1ED5)

Date: 9/6/1943
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Description: Objects resembling silver discs. (Page 43 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_160

Event 1528 (663DC169)

Date: 9/6/1943
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Description: 9:50 a.m. During an aerial fight over Stuttgart, Germany, the crews of two aircraft of the 384th Bomb Group, commanded by Capt. Raymond P. Ketelson, observe two round objects “resembling silvery discs” floating downward through the aircraft formation. One hits the wing of a B-17 bomber, setting it on fire. The bomber does not return from the mission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_603

Event 1529 (97433594)

Date: Fall 1943
Location: Unknown City, Holland
Description: Light moving high in night sky. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_204

Event 1530 (28F80A35)

Date: Autumn 1943
Locations: England; Peenemünde, Germany
Description: A Polish bomber unit based in England claims that silver-blue balls of fire appeared near their wing on six missions when they raided the Nazi V-1 weapons plant in Peenemünde, Germany. RAF intelligence officer Michael Bentine debriefs them later and asks, “But what did it do to you?” They reply, “Nothing.” Bentine points out, “Well it was not a very effective weapon, was it?”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, p. 20; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, “The Foo Fighters: The RAF Experience,” The Real UFO Project, January 2003
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_604

Event 1531 (1B8D6F51)

Date: 10/1943
Locations: Santa Barbara, California; Goleta Valley
Description: 9:00 p.m. Wilberta Finley, an air spotter for the Civil Air Patrol, notices a “huge dark aerial object approaching” her home in Santa Barbara, California, facing the Goleta Valley. Moving low and soundlessly, it barely skims over a nearby hill. From its front a beam of light shoots down, and at intervals it swings from side to side as if scanning the hills and homes below.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 11, no. 11 November 1958: 116–118; Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_605

Event 1532 (3C369CF3)

Date: 10/1943
Alternate date: 11/1943
Locations: Camp Ibis; Dead Mountains Wilderness; Needles, California
Description: 11:00 p.m. 2Lt Thomas J. Duzynski is stationed at Camp Ibis on the west side of the Dead Mountains Wilderness northwest of Needles, California. Taking a stroll outside his tent, he notices an elliptical- shaped object traveling to the south at high speed parallel to the ground between himself and the mountains. It banks sharply, almost on edge, and gains altitude, disappearing in seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 22–23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_608

Event 1533 (F7990250)

Date: 10/10/1943
Locations: Hanford site; Washington
Description: Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford site in Washington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources, “Hanford Becomes Operational,” August 7, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_606

Event 1534 (1AA33C5F)

Date: 10/14/1943
Location: SCHWEINFURT, GRM
Description: Many 8cm silver disks seen / British B17s. Chaff? flak? / LDLN#338.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_483

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "2", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "SCHWEINFURT,GRM:MANY 8cm SLVR DISKS SEEN/BRIT.B17s:chaff? flak?:/LDLN#338", LatLong: "50.050002 10.233334", LatLongDMS: "50:03:00 N 10:14:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "4"

Event 1535 (12D59BD6)

Date: 10/14/1943
Location: Schweinfurt, Germany
Description: During a bombing run a B-17 crews of the 384th Group noticed, as fighter attacks suddenly fell off, they encountered a cluster of small discs, described as 3" wide by 1" thick. (Martin Caiden/Andy Roberts) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 431014
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_161

Event 1536 (37B5699C)

Date: 10/14/1943
Location: Germany
Description: Night. A group of B-17s from the 384th Bombardment Group are returning from a mission over Germany when they see a cluster of silver-colored discs in the path of their formation and closing with the bombers. The crews talk back and forth, discussing and confirming the sight before them. They describe the objects as “about one inch thick and three inches in diameter…gliding down slowly in a very uniform cluster.” One of the bombers goes directly through the cluster “with absolutely no effect on engines or plane surface,” even though one is heard to strike the tail assembly. A mass of black debris about 3-4 feet long is also observed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 502; Martin Caidin, Black Thursday, Dell, 1962, pp. 188–190; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers—Here and Now! Lyle Stuart, 1967, pp. 77–78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_607

Event 1537 (D104FC4F)

Date: 10/24/1943
Location: Schweinfurt, Germany
Description: Discs Put Up Protective Shield Around B-17 Formation ??? (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 431024
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_162

Event 1538 (24D32F7B)

Date: 11/1943
Time: 20:30
Location: N160 / TREMERET NORTH / AMBON, 56, FR
Description: Teen. Luminous/glowing yellow ball takes off. Arcs slowly going south. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_484

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "N160/TREMERET N/AMBON,56,FR:TEEN:LUMn YLW BALL TAKES OFF:ARCS SLOWLY >S:NFD", LatLong: "47.566669 -2.561111", LatLongDMS: "47:34:00 N 02:33:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Morbihan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1539 (3C24A56F)

Date: 11/1943
Time: 22:30
Location: ESCONDIDO, CA
Description: Family. Domed disk hovers over house. Figure(s) / windows. Soft humming. Blink and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_485

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "202", HatchDesc: "ESCONDIDO,CA:FAMILY:DOMED DISK HVRS ovr HOUSE:FIGS/WINDOWS:SOFT HUM:BLINK+GONE", LatLong: "33.100002 -117.083339", LatLongDMS: "33:06:00 N 117:05:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1540 (D075F43D)

Date: 11/1943
Location: Escondido, CA
Description: On a dark moonless night a family heard a soft humming sound and saw a disc with dome and square windows hovering about 15 feet above the roof of their house. Human-like silhouettes were visible through the windows. When the woman shone a flashlight, the object blinked out and disappeared. (Ref. 3; Greenwood, UFO Historical Revue, June 1998.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_163

Event 1541 (EE73B27A)

Date: 11/1943
Location: Mantong
Description: Ray Palmer publishes an article, “An Ancient Language?” on the language of Mantong in the January 1944 issue of Amazing Stories and enters into correspondence with Richard S. Shaver, who responds with a 10,000- word document titled “A Warning to Future Man.” Shaver writes of advanced prehistoric races who built underground cities before abandoning Earth for another planet because of damaging radiation from the Sun. Those ancients also abandoned some of their own offspring here, a minority of whom remained noble and human “Teros,” while most degenerate over time into a population of mentally impaired sadists known as “Deros”— short for “detrimental robots.” Shaver’s robots are not mechanical constructs, but robot-like due to their savage behavior. These Deros still live in the cave cities, according to Shaver, kidnapping surface-dwelling people by the thousands for meat or torture. Deros can be blamed for nearly all misfortunes, from minor “accidental” injuries or illnesses to airplane crashes and catastrophic natural disasters. Though generally confined to their caves, the Deros sometimes travel in spaceships or rockets, and have dealings with equally evil extraterrestrials. Shaver claims to possess first-hand knowledge of the Deros and their caves, insisting he had been their prisoner for several years. The article stirs considerable reader interest, and the pages of Amazing Stories are soon filled with stories and articles about the “Shaver mystery.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard Sharpe Shaver”; [Richard] S. Shaver, [Letter], “An Ancient Language?” Amazing Stories 18, no. 1 January 1944: 206–207; [Ray Palmer,] “Mantong: The Language of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 March 1945: 71, 206; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 136–137; Clark III 872; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_609

Event 1542 (B77E07BE)

Date: 11/4/1943
Locations: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Y-12 plant
Description: The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, goes critical. The Y-12 plant is separating uranium- 235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagnetic isotope separation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “X-10 Graphite Reactor”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_610

Event 1543 (20974C88)

Date: 11/26/1943
Description: Approximate year. During World War Two, on a bombing mission over Bremen, Germany crew members of the United States 8th Air Force reported that green "rings of flame 2 or 3 feet in diameter" corkscrewed through their formation, as if floating.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website on aerial encounters
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7932

Event 1544 (213B4118)

Date: 12/1943 (approximate)
Time: ~20:00
Location: WEST / TARAWA, GILBERT ISLANDS
Description: Series / 3 RADAR blips going quickly south / 750mph. Same / several nights running.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: On file here as TARAWA43.TXT from Jan Aldrich.
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_486

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "W/TARAWA,GILBERT Isls:SERIES/3 RDR BLIPS >>S/750mph:SAME/SVRL NITES RUNNING.", LatLong: "1.316667 172.333342", LatLongDMS: "01:19:00 N 172:20:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KRB", Strangeness: "4"

Event 1545 (FFDE5232)

Date: 12/1943
Time: 22:30
Location: OSLO FJORD, NRW
Description: 4 observer(s). Orange bell going up. 3 cars electro-magnetic effect (EME). Hovers and away. 1.5M dent / snow. / r65p22.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 5)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_487

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "OSLO FJORD,NRW:4 OBS:ORG BELL ↑:3 CARS EME:HVRS+AWAY:1.5M DENT/SNOW:/r65p22", LatLong: "59.666670 10.583334", LatLongDMS: "59:40:00 N 10:35:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1546 (145CCD01)

Date: 12/1943 (approximate)
Time: 23:00
Location: CONCHES, 15, FR
Description: 2 observer(s) on foot. Small red light just over road. Floats northwest. Going quickly southwest. Low altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_488

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CONCHES,15,FR:2 OBS ON FOOT:SML RED LITE JUST OVR ROAD:FLOATS NW:>>SW:lo alt", LatLong: "45.255558 3.022222", LatLongDMS: "45:15:20 N 03:01:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Cantal", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1547 (4CF9528C)

Date: 12/1943
Location: Oslo, Norway
Description: At 10:30 p.m. four women in a car saw an orange bell-shaped object ascending. Three automobiles in the vicinity experienced EM effects and the engines stalled. A 1.5-meter diameter area of melted snow was found on the ground. (Ref. 3; Australian Flying Saucer Review, No. 7, 1967; cited by Project 1947.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_165

Event 1548 (D601D598)

Date: 12/1943?
Location: Mullinix Field [now Bonriki International Airport] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean
Description: Matt P. Dillingham is on evening duty adjacent to Mullinix Field [now Bonriki International Airport] on Tarawa Atoll in the Pacific Ocean. He begins receiving radar plots showing a north-south track to the west moving at 750 mph. It disappears, but two other targets on the same trajectory appear, moving at the same speed. The same targets are repeated for several nights following.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Out of the Past,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 4, no. 6 Dec. 1983/Jan. 1984: 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_611

Event 1549 (DC467B86)

Date: 12/2/1943
Location: Bari, Italy
Description: Night. Some 105 German Junkers Ju 888 bombers attack the port of Bari, Italy, a key supply center for Allied forces. 28 Allied ships are sunk, including the US Liberty ship SS John Harvey , which is carrying mustard gas intended for retaliation in case German forces use chemical warfare. Liquid sulfur mustard from the bombs spills into waters already contaminated by oil from the other damaged vessels. The many sailors who abandoned their ships into the water become covered with the oily mixture. The wounded are pulled from the water and sent to medical facilities whose personnel are unaware of the mustard gas. Medical staff focus on personnel with blast or fire injuries. Within a day, the first symptoms of mustard poisoning appear in 628 patients and medical staff, including blindness and chemical burns. That puzzling development is further complicated by the arrival of hundreds of Italian civilians also seeking treatment, who have been poisoned by a cloud of sulfur mustard vapor that blows over the city when some of John Harvey’s cargo exploded. As the medical crisis worsens, little information is available about what is causing the symptoms, because US military command want to keep the presence of chemical munitions secret from the Germans. By the end of the month, 83 of the 628 hospitalized military victims have died. The number of civilian casualties, thought to have been even greater, cannot be accurately gauged since most have left the city to seek shelter with relatives.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air raid on Bari”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_612

Event 1550 (200996A7)

Date: 12/11/1943
Location: Edmen, Germany
Description: Unidentified object; size of thunderbolt aircraft; streak-like vapor trail. (Page 51 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_167

Event 1551 (13C72F7B)

Date: 12/11/1943
Locations: US; Emden, Germany
Description: US bombers conduct a daylight raid on Emden, Germany, and observe an unknown object about the size of a Thunderbolt aircraft over the target area. It passes below the bombers in a straight line and at terrific speed, leaving a vapor trail that persists.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 51–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_613

Event 1552 (8237419B)

Date: 12/14/1943
Location: Naples, Italy
Description: Small round bright light. (Page 52 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_168

Event 1553 (9A76C382)

Date: 12/14/1943
Location: Naples, Italy
Description: Night. British 255 Night Fighter Squadron leader Patrick Hardy Vesey Wells is flying his Bristol Beaufighter on a patrol mission around Naples, Italy, when he and his navigator notice a small bright light behind them. It stays on their tail, moving from side to side. After 1–2 minutes it goes off in another direction.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_614

Event 1554 (4AA896D5)

Date: 12/14/1943
Description: A pilot over Naples, Italy had a dogfight with a bright light that climbed much faster than his aircraft, a RAF Beaufighter with the 255th fighter squadron.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website, citing A. Roberts
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8387

Event 1555 (022CB8C3)

Date: Winter 1943
Locations: central Germany; Phyllis Marie
Description: Day. While on a bombing mission over central Germany, Sgt. Louis Kiss, a tail gunner on the Phyllis Marie, a B-17 of the 390th Bombardment Group, sees an odd-looking sphere approach the plane from behind and below. It seems to be the size of a basketball and shimmery gold. The object hovers just above one wing, then passes over the top to the other wing where it hovers again. Soon it moves to the rear and gets caught in the B-17’s backwash and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “First Official Foo-Fighter Records Discovered,” Just Cause, no. 32 June 1992: 4–5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_615

Event 1556 (7A14264D)

Date: Winter 1943
Locations: Washington, D.C.; No. 1 Precinct
Description: 3:00 p.m. Harry G. Barnes, a member of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department stationed at No. 1 Precinct, sees three oval-shaped objects in V-formation speeding eastward across the northeast sky. The objects have pulsating, greenish-red exhausts that occasionally flare and curl around them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 64; Clark III 1177
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_616

Year: 1944 (Back to Top)

Event 1557 (C628641A)

Date: 1944
Description: During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like device spinning inside.
Type: scientist
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_78

Event 1558 (BB2910D3)

Date: 1944
Description: Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO
Type: paranormal phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_79

Event 1559 (80A17942)

Date: 1944
Locations: Romania; southwest Ukraine
Description: During a mission to bomb oil fields in Romania, a Russian Tupolev Tu-2 piloted by Maj. Bajenov and Boris Surikov are flying over southwest Ukraine at an altitude of 3 miles when a large, elliptical object approaches them. The bomber starts shaking, the oil pressure rises, and Surikov feels a strong electrostatic charge. Even after the object passes, the bomber’s wings are covered with glowing discharges.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, pp. 21–22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_617

Event 1560 (FF928F45)

Date: 1944
Locations: Palomar Mountain, California; Palomar Gardens
Description: George Adamski and his followers move closer to Palomar Mountain, California, along the Road to the Stars where his long-time associate Alice K. Wells sets up a roadside café, Palomar Gardens. According to coworker Charlotte Blodget, “Each member of the group shared in the manual labor that went into this effort, and since heavy restrictions were still in effect regarding materials [in the war’s aftermath], anything available had to serve.” Adamski builds a “small observatory” to house his 15-inch telescope to study the skies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019; George M. Eberhart, “Palomar Gardens Café,” IUR 30, no. 3 May 2006: 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_618

Event 1561 (DD02A759)

Date: 1/2/1944
End date: 1/3/1944
Location: Halberstadt, Germany
Description: Two rockets; altered course; fiery head and blazing stern. (Page 54 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_170

Event 1562 (84BB438A)

Date: 1/5/1944
Location: Kiel, Germany
Description: Black plate-sized discs. (Page 55 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_171

Event 1563 (83F2325B)

Date: 1/15/1944
Description: The Materiel Command becomes the AAF Materiel Command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_619

Event 1564 (5B57AFA9)

Date: 1/28/1944
Location: Somewhere over France, In Air
Description: Airborne red light. (Page 56 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_172

Event 1565 (3D2AE375)

Date: 1/29/1944
Location: Location Unknown, Unknown
Description: Red ball; yellow/red flames followed aircraft through evasive action. (Page 56 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_173

Event 1566 (01AB121F)

Date: 1/30/1944
Location: SOUTHWEST / LANDAU, GERM
Description: 415th Sqd. 30-cm amber balls follow US fighters. Going quickly [to] chased away..
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_489

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SW/LANDAU,GERM:415th SQD:30-cm AMBER BALLS FOLO US FIGHTERS:>> CHASED AWAY..", LatLong: "49.133336 8.000000", LatLongDMS: "49:08:00 N 08:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1567 (D4C5EAF5)

Date: 1/30/1944
Description: On this day several 30-cm amber "foo-fighter" balls followed some US fighter planes of the 415th Squadron flying southwest of Landau, Germany. They were chased away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: SOS-OVNI France, Phenomena, issue 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_596

Event 1568 (FC83F78A)

Date: 2/1944
Time: 02:30
Location: BASS STRAIT, AUSTR
Description: Object tails bomber / 20 minute(s). Instruments electro-magnetic effect (EME). Away / 700mph. / APRO v30#10.
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 35)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_490

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "BASS STRAIT,AUSTR:OBJ TAILS BOMBER/20min:INSTRUMs EME:AWAY/700mph:/APRO v30#10", LatLong: "-39.666669 145.666674", LatLongDMS: "39:40:00 S 145:40:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1569 (F0FBF232)

Date: 2/1944
Location: Bass Strait, AU
Description: At 2:30 a.m. a bomber crew at 4,500 feet altitude saw a dark shape pull alongside the plane and pace it at a distance of about 100 feet for about 18-20 minutes. (Ref. 3; Bill Chalker, The Oz Files, 1996, pp. 35-36.) (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_174

Event 1570 (21D929FC)

Date: 2/1944
Location: Bass Strait, Australia
Description: 2:30 a.m. An Australian Beaufort bomber is flying at 4,500 feet over Bass Strait, Australia, when it is joined by an object like a “dark shadow” with a flickering flame coming out of its rear. It appears only 100–150 feet away and stays with the bomber for 18–20 minutes, during which time its radio and direction-finding instruments fail. It shoots away at 700 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bill Chalker, “Australian A.F. UFO Report Files,” APRO Bulletin 30, no. 10 October 1982: 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_620

Event 1571 (626CFE44)

Date: 2/9/1944
Description: RAF No. 5 Group issues a report of its investigation on “Rocket Phenomena,” concluding that the air crews are seeing either rockets fired from aircraft, parachute rockets, or high-explosive projectiles at maximum altitudes of 18,000 feet. Reports of objects changing their course are either defects causing erratic flight or light flak tracers reaching their highest point and descending.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 57–58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_621

Event 1572 (45843154)

Date: 2/12/1944
Time: 13:00?
Location: KUMMERSDORF AIR FORCE BASE, GER
Description: Rocket launch. Film shows sphere circle and follow rocket later.
Type: sighting
Reference: CUFON UFO Network Site (former BBS) various downloads. http://www.cufon.org (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_491

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KUMMERSDORF AFB,GER:ROCKET LAUNCH:FILM SHOWS SPHERE CCL+FOLLOW ROCKET later", LatLong: "52.166669 13.350001", LatLongDMS: "52:10:00 N 13:21:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRN", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1573 (A2F2963F)

Date: 2/12/1944
Description: The test launch of a Nazi rocket from Kummerdorf Airfield in Bremen, Germany with both of the top Nazi leaders Goebbels and Himmler present, occurred at 1:00 p.m. on this day. The tracking film showed an unidentified sphere that circled and followed the rocket.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Claude Poher, Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag, case 419; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 498
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_860

Event 1574 (88C61D18)

Date: 2/19/1944
End date: 2/20/1944
Location: Leipzig-Berlin area, Germany
Description: Two objects: glowing balls; snake-like motion. (Page 59-60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_176

Event 1575 (91D255E5)

Date: 2/19/1944
End date: 2/20/1944
Location: Coblence and Aachen, Germany
Description: Silvery cigar-shaped object like an airship; appeared to be a line of windows along the bottom of the object. (Page 60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_177

Event 1576 (974871EC)

Date: 2/20/1944
Locations: Guadalcanal; Solomon Islands
Description: 2:30 a.m. Two guards of the 3rd Marine Division on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands see what they first assume are the headlight beams of a truck coming from a swamp about three-quarters of a mile from their position. It moves laterally about 50 feet and they see it is a circular light about 50–60 feet long and 20 feet high. It then rises into the air about 25 feet and heads in the direction of the guards at about 45 mph. It makes a 45° turn and passes about 100 feet above the trees of a coconut grove. Several days later, a 200-foot cut in the reeds is discovered in the approximate spot where the light originated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Alvin G. McNish, “Letter,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 5 Oct./Nov. 1984: 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_622

Event 1577 (B2466175)

Date: 2/23/1944
Locations: Germany; Japan
Description: Brig. Gen. George C. McDonald is appointed assistant chief of staff for intelligence for the newly created US Strategic Air Forces in Europe. “Many months preceding the collapse of Germany, McDonald recognized the imperative need for the creation of a new type of intelligence activity to investigate and exploit air intelligence objectives in Germany and liberated countries. This unique system was established and consisted of a great number of highly qualified technical and scientific personnel to exploit all the worldwide aeronautical research developments of Germany. This resulted in the collection of priority intelligence information of value in the prosecution of the war against Japan; technical and non-technical information of immediate operational significance and value; as well as a substantial portion of important documents and personnel of the German Air Ministry that enabled the US Army Air Forces to undertake long-range research with respect to many valuable- phases of air doctrine, research, employment, organization, procedure, and plans of the German air force.” Among the personalities involved in the operation are some who will become involved in UFO investigations in the future: Col. John A. O’Mara, Col. Howard H. McCoy , Col. Harold E. Watson, and Col. Malcolm D. Seashore.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_623

Event 1578 (07530AC1)

Date: 2/24/1944
End date: 2/25/1944
Location: St. Quentin, France
Description: Three silver objects & resembling zeppelins & moving independently of the wind & not interconnected. (Page 60 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_178

Event 1579 (2E719B9E)

Date: 2/24/1944
Locations: Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France; Schweinfurt, Germany
Description: Night. Southwest of Saint-Quentin, Aisne, France, three silver objects are seen by an RAF bomber returning from a mission over Schweinfurt, Germany. They resemble Zeppelins but move independently of the wind.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_624

Event 1580 (B1C23D1C)

Date: 3/1944
Location: CARLSBAD, NM
Description: B17 pilot. Fast sphere with halo. Brusk maneuvers. Shoots going [to] horizon. / LDLN#303+330.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_492

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "948", HatchDesc: "CARLSBAD,NM:B17 PILOT:FAST SPHERE W/HALO:BRUSK MNVRS:SHOOTS>HRZN:/LDLN#303+330", LatLong: "32.416668 -104.233338", LatLongDMS: "32:25:00 N 104:14:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1581 (1700BEED)

Date: 3/1944
Location: YAKIMA, WA
Description: Pilot. 7 pebble-shaped 3M objects in V-formation. / Haines pilot files.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 178)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_493

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "320", HatchDesc: "YAKIMA,WA:PILOT:7 PEBBLE-SHAPED 3M OBJs in V-FORMn:/HAINES PILOT FILES", LatLong: "46.600002 -120.516672", LatLongDMS: "46:36:00 N 120:31:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1582 (347C9258)

Date: 3/1944
Time: 22:00?
Location: KLIETZ, GERMANY
Description: Fr. prisoners of war. 3 silent luminous silver objects follow allied bombers. Bigger / planes.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_494

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KLIETZ,GERMANY:Fr.POWs:3 SLNT LUMn.SLVR OBJS FOLO ALLIED BOMBERS:bigger/planes", LatLong: "52.683336 12.550001", LatLongDMS: "52:41:00 N 12:33:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SXA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1583 (4804FBAB)

Date: 3/1944
Location: Carlsbad, NM
Description: Air Force pilot saw fast-moving UFO speed out of sight over horizon. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_179

Event 1584 (6B962F37)

Date: 3/1944
Location: Carlsbad, New Mexico
Description: An Army Air Force pilot flying a B-17 sees a fast-moving, glowing green object light up the cockpit and speed out of sight over the horizon at Carlsbad, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_625

Event 1585 (E5A0D2AE)

Date: 3/1/1944
Location: Germany
Description: The first prototype H.IX V1, an unpowered glider with fixed tricycle landing gear, is tested in Germany, but there is an accident when the pilot attempts to land without first retracting an instrument-carrying pole extending from the aircraft. The design is taken from the Horten brothers and given to Gothaer Waggonfabrik.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horten Ho 229”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_626

Event 1586 (3371EC9F)

Date: Spring 1944
Alternate date: 1945
Location: mountains near Auberry, California
Description: Two grammar school teachers are driving in the mountains near Auberry, California, when their car stalls and they see a cigar-shaped object with lighted portholes along the side hovering in a nearby ravine. They watch it for several minutes until it begins moving slowly out of the ravine, ascends, and shoots away to the west at a tremendous speed. The car engine remains stalled for a while, then starts by itself.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Past Sightings Come to Light,” APRO Bulletin, Jan./Feb. 1968, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_627

Event 1587 (D60FEAEE)

Date: 4/1944
Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_80

Event 1588 (8B79ED23)

Date: 4/1944
Location: Eastern front in western Slovakia
Description: Late afternoon. Near the Eastern front in western Slovakia, a man is standing on a hill near his home when he sees a dark round object moving at high speed to his right for less than one minute. It moves at a steady speed and is followed by another object about 20 seconds later. As many as 6 others appear, and five are visible at one time, each beginning as a pinpoint of light, growing bigger, then decreasing back to a pinpoint. The display lasts for about 5 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Correspondence,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 3, no. 5 Oct./Nov. 1982: 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_628

Event 1589 (B73CD897)

Date: 4/5/1944
Locations: Oak Ridge; Los Alamos
Description: The Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge has sent 200 grams of enriched uranium to Los Alamos. Italian-American physicist Emilio Segrè receives the first sample and within 10 days discovers that the spontaneous fission rate is too high for use in a gun-type fission weapon because of pu-240 isotope present as an impurity in the pu-239.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_629

Event 1590 (F147F5A6)

Date: 4/11/1944
Location: Location unknown, probably, Germany
Description: Projectiles resembling glider bombs; a large orange glow & smoke trail. (Page 66 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_180

Event 1591 (D3E3E182)

Date: 4/25/1944
Location: Unknown City, France
Description: Black tear-dropped craft; probable Me-163. (Page 63 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_181

Event 1592 (96366109)

Date: 4/26/1944
Location: Essen, Germany
Description: Things; four orange glows; short stubby wings; football-sized¬; looking like large oranges. (Page 64-65 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_182

Event 1593 (1048D696)

Date: 4/26/1944
Locations: Essen, Germany; Holland
Description: Night. RAF pilot Arthur Horton of the 622 Squadron is returning from a bombing mission to Essen, Germany, when he is followed by four orange balls of light with “short stubby wings” and emitting sparks, two on each side of the aircraft. He takes evasive action with his Lancaster, but the objects follow all his maneuvers for 10 minutes. When they reach the coast of Holland, they seem to “burn themselves out.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 64–65; UFOFiles2, pp. 16, 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_630

Event 1594 (1A76FE62)

Date: 4/30/1944
Description: On this night at 9:00 p.m. a reddish orange glowing light followed an RAF Beaufighter from the 600th Squadron flying over Anzio, Italy during World War II. The two members of the crew reported that the light appeared to be doing evasive maneuvers.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, case 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2416

Event 1595 (FEE74EF5)

Date: 5/28/1944 (approximate)
Location: PINCOTA, ROMANIA
Description: Low-flying German plane stops midair. Hovers silent / 2 minute(s). Flies on.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 227)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_495

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "PINCOTA,ROMANIA:LO-FLYING GERMAN PLANE STOPS MIDAIR:HVRS SLNT/2min:FLIES ON.", LatLong: "46.333336 21.700001", LatLongDMS: "46:20:00 N 21:42:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ARD", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1596 (14E01F0E)

Date: 5/29/1944
Description: The Aircraft Warning Service is deactivated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aircraft Warning Service”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_631

Event 1597 (64BEA88D)

Date: 6/1944
Location: Palmyra Atoll
Description: A Coast Guard ship receives a message that a Navy plane has been lost at sea, and they were requested to join the search. They searched for almost 24 hours and found nothing. The following night, Ed Ludwig (of Stockton, CA) while on watch notices a brilliant, globalar light in the sky that was absolutely silent. It was about three times brighter than the brightest star or planet, and large enough that he made out its roundness. It appeared stationary for a minute or so, then began to move in slow, slight movements. The witness had the feeling they were being watched, as if the ball was observing the island. It covered an area of the sky approx. 100 degrees. It speeded up and traveled away from the island towards the direction where the plane was lost.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BSRA Round Robin - Sept 1945 Edition, article by John P. Bessor
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_905

Event 1598 (0AB16B28)

Date: 6/1944
Location: Normandy, France
Description: Luminescent discus-shaped object. (Page 67-68 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_183

Event 1599 (D46E42C9)

Date: 6/1944
Location: Adriatic Sea, At Sea
Description: At 11:00 a.m. a flight of three P-38 fighters at 33,000 feet saw above them, at an estimated altitude of 50,000 feet, a silver disc. The object descended to about 40,000 feet and paced the fighters for 3 minutes, then accelerated and sped away. (Ref. 3; Jan Aldrich, Project ACUFOE, from CUFOS report form.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_184

Event 1600 (FAACB11E)

Date: 6/1944
Alternate date: 7/1944
Location: Normandy, France
Description: Spheres approximately the size of a football. (Page 70 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_186

Event 1601 (40B8899C)

Date: 6/1944
Location: Torokina Beach, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea
Description: 12:30 p.m. David A. K. Morris, a fitter with Service Unit 10 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force, takes a swim with a friend at Torokina Beach, Bougainville Island, Papua New Guinea. They see “a huge, dark-gray, seemingly metallic, bulbous mass hanging out of a large cumulus cloud.” It moves silently, its outline fading into the cloud and out of sight. It resembles a Zeppelin or the R101 airship, only bigger.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: D. Morris, “RNZAF Camp UFO Sighting of 1944,” Ufocus NZ, July 22, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_632

Event 1602 (0C2AF591)

Date: 6/1944
Location: Palmyra Atoll
Description: Edward W. Ludwig is commanding a small, Coast Guard–manned cargo vessel near Palmyra Atoll. While looking for a lost Navy patrol plane, he observes a bright aerial sphere that alternately moves and stops for 30 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 3, no. 8 December 1950: 82–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_633

Event 1603 (347F1B2A)

Date: 6/5/1944?
Time: 11:00
Location: ADRIATIC NORTHEAST / BARI, ITL
Description: 3 P38 crews. Silver disk / 50k'. Going down [to] and paces / 3 minutes. Going quickly north. / r65p22.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_496

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ADRIATIC NE/BARI,ITL:3 P38 CREWS:SLVR DISK/50k':↓+PACES/3mins:>>N:/r65p22", LatLong: "41.333335 17.166667", LatLongDMS: "41:20:00 N 17:10:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "15000", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1604 (8EA84DCB)

Date: 6/6/1944
Location: Normandy Coast, France
Description: Dark ellipsoidal object & blunted on each end like sausage. (Page 67 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_185

Event 1605 (2CD48154)

Date: 6/10/1944?
Locations: Omaha Beach; Normandy, France
Description: The Liberty ship SS George E. Badger is off Omaha Beach in Normandy, France, when gunner Edward Breckel sees a “dark ellipsoidal object” on the horizon about 5 miles away. “Blunted on each end like a sausage,” the silent craft remains in view for 3 minutes, moving slowly at about 15 feet above the surface of the water.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 67; “The Case for the ‘Sea-Saucer,’” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 10 January 7, 1955: 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_634

Event 1606 (77DAC7A3)

Date: 6/18/1944
Description: A man by the name of Langer gave a dramatic account of his encounter with seven belligerent dwarves, 4.5 feet tall, who came from a spherical UFO that had landed on the beach in Oahu near Kaneohe, Hawaii in the morning around 9 a.m. They wore green coveralls.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0120, citing Donald Worley
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3530

Event 1607 (A42A129F)

Date: Summer 1944
Location: Normandy, France
Description: Los Angeles columnist George Todt, in a party of four Army officers including a Lt. Col., watched a pulsating red fireball sail up to the front lines, hover for 15 minutes, then move away. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_189

Event 1608 (0611A489)

Date: Summer 1944
Location: Unknown City, Italy
Description: Egg-shaped, metallically glistening motionless object. (Page 78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_190

Event 1609 (E785C25A)

Date: Summer 1944
Locations: Kamensko Forest; Blovice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
Description: 5:00 p.m. François Panes watches a cigar-shaped object at an altitude of about 5,000 feet above the Kamensko Forest north of Blovice, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic], glittering brightly with no wings, no rudder, and no propeller. It is about 150 feet in diameter and 300–400 feet long. The object is lit up from underneath. It slowly descends, after which it rises up again and vanishes into the blue sky after 10–15 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 215–216
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_641

Event 1610 (9174A567)

Date: Summer 1944
Location: Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York City
Description: Fred Wieland and some friends are riding their bicycles on a footpath adjacent to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens, New York City. As they climb a hill, they look up and see a cigar-shaped object “broadside” to them. It is of smooth metallic construction with no windows or openings. They race to the top of the hill for a better look, but by then the object has completely disappeared.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_642

Event 1611 (A1CD377E)

Date: Summer 1944
Locations: Camp McCain; Grenada, Mississippi
Description: Mid-day. Franceen Andron is at Camp McCain, southeast of Grenada, Mississippi, when she sees a large, fat, cigar-shaped object that changes from dull black to gray to “fog blue.” It is joined by three smaller discs that appear below it after emerging from a cloud. The large object disappears first, followed by the discs, which race away in different directions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_643

Event 1612 (E76EB066)

Date: Summer 1944
Locations: RAF Molesworth; Cambridgeshire, England
Description: Day. Asa Howard Jr. is outside the barracks at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, England, when he and other airmen see a pencil-shaped, metallic object moving faster than a jet about a mile away. While watching it for about 2 minutes, they see it pass behind a small cloud before it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_644

Event 1613 (57AAD55C)

Date: 6/22/1944
Description: An object was allegedly shot down by the U.S. military as it attempted to depart from the island of Oahu, Hawaii near Kaneohe. One female occupant was captured and flown to Washington, DC.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0122
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3595

Event 1614 (6CE868A4)

Date: 7/1944
Location: BREST, FR
Description: 2 Army. Boxy object going [to] over front lines. No obvious support. Goes going southwest to sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_497

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BREST,FR:2 ARMY:BOXY OBJ >OVR FRONT LINES:NO OBVIOUS SUPPORT:GOES >SW to SEA", LatLong: "48.416669 -4.483334", LatLongDMS: "48:25:00 N 04:29:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finistère", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1615 (1A8FE96F)

Date: 7/1944
Location: Brest, France
Description: Two men of the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, saw a large rectangular object with no apparent source of propulsion move steadily over the front lines and out to sea. The UFO at one point passed in front of the moon, briefly obscuring it from view. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_187

Event 1616 (9833208A)

Date: 7/1944
Location: Normandy, France
Description: Targets flying at extremely high altitudes. (Page 81 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_188

Event 1617 (A6CA9851)

Date: Early 7/1944
Locations: Loreto; Castelfidardo; Osimo; Ancona province, Italy
Description: 10:30 a.m. During Allied operations in the area around Loreto, Castelfidardo, and Osimo, in Ancona province, Italy, Antoni Szachnowsky, of the 2nd Polish Artillery Regiment, notices an egg-shaped, glistening, metallic, motionless object. The Polish Army anti-aircraft gun fires on it, then the German batteries join in. Eventually both sides stop, and the object remains motionless for a minute. Then it tilts at a 45° angle, moves rapidly upward, and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “1944: An Italian Foo-Fighter?” UFO Sightings Italia, no. 2, March 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_635

Event 1618 (07114068)

Date: 7/4/1944
Location: Los Alamos
Description: Oppenheimer reveals Segrè’s final measurements to the Los Alamos staff, and the development of the gun-type plutonium weapon “Thin Man” is abandoned. Designing a workable implosion design Fat Man becomes the top priority of the laboratory, and design of the uranium gun-type weapon Little Boy continues.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_636

Event 1619 (C362D26D)

Date: 7/5/1944 (approximate)
Time: 10:30
Location: LORETO, ITL AND MORE/OTHERS
Description: Allied and German troops. Metallic ovoid hovers / battle lines / strong wind. Quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: Book: PAGET, Peter: The Welsh Triangle. Panther PB, Granada Publishing London 1979.
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_498

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "125", HatchDesc: "LORETO,ITL++:ALLIED+GERMAN TROOPS:MTLC OVOID HVRS/BATTLE LINES/STRONG WIND:↑↑", LatLong: "43.433335 13.600001", LatLongDMS: "43:26:00 N 13:36:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MRC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1620 (A1374D89)

Date: 7/6/1944
Location: Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany
Description: German test pilot Heini Dittmar attains an unofficial airspeed record of 702 mph in a rocket-powered Messerschmidt Me 163B at Lagerlechfeld, Bavaria, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Heini Dittmar”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_637

Event 1621 (F3BD0F4E)

Date: 7/9/1944
Location: Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești, Romania
Description: Afternoon. After a successful air strike by the US 449th Bombardment Group against the Concordia-Vega refinery at Ploești, Romania, witness Grigore Zmeuranu sees a round, yellowish object flying from the north at a speed about 3-4 times that of an aircraft. It leaves a short vapor trail, moves over the bombed area, and returns silently in the same direction.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hobana and Weverbergh 226–227; Strange Company 71
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_638

Event 1622 (01E120A4)

Date: 7/17/1944
Description: The Air Service Command and the AAF Materiel Command are placed under AAF Materiel and Services.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_639

Event 1623 (43A87842)

Date: Late 7/1944
Locations: Impilahti, Karelia [now Russia]; Lake Ladoga
Description: Evening. Jaakku Kivistö is serving in the Finnish Army as a noncommissioned medical officer stationed on a farm near Impilahti, Karelia [now Russia], by Lake Ladoga. He notices a large object next to the corn-drying building on a steep hillside that he at first takes for a military truck. As he walks closer, he sees it is reddish in color, moving slowly about 150–230 feet in the air, 100 feet long, and has a row of black windows. It moves off quickly in the direction of the lake and vanishes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Close Encounter from the Year 1944,” Nordic UFO Newsletter, 1985, no. 1, pp. 3–5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_640

Event 1624 (90D1589B)

Date: 8/1944
Description: Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195, which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_81

Event 1625 (E2CD8F58)

Date: 8/1944 (approximate)
Location: MERIDEN, CT
Description: Summer / 44. Boy / 5 abduction. Telepathy "we visit others. You'll understand.. forget.
Type: sighting
Reference: FOWLER, Raymond E.: The WATCHERS; Bantam PB, NY 1990 (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_499

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", ABD: Human or animal abduction, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "60", Elev: "57", HatchDesc: "MERIDEN,CT:SUMMER/44:BOY/5 ABD:TLP "WE VISIT OTHERS:YOU'LL UNDERSTAND..FORGET.", LatLong: "41.538891 -72.805559", LatLongDMS: "41:32:20 N 72:48:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1626 (12E67D14)

Date: 8/1944 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: PLOESTI, ROM
Description: Engineer. Pointed object going quickly south. Stops over burning oil refinery. Zigzags going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 60)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_500

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "PLOESTI,ROM:ENGINEER:POINTED OBJ >>S:STOPS OVR BURNING OIL REFINERY:ZIGZAGS>>N", LatLong: "44.950002 26.016668", LatLongDMS: "44:57:00 N 26:01:00 E", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PRH", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1627 (EE88FEB1)

Date: 8/1944 (approximate)
Time: 15:30
Location: WEST / TOULON-SOUTH-ARROUX, FR
Description: Grey metal dome going down / dirt road. 3 small humanoids (or Greys) / brown colored suits outside. / r30p47.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_501

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "W/TOULON-s-ARROUX,FR:GRY MTL DOME↓/DIRT ROAD:3 OIDS/BRN SUITS OUTSIDE:/r30p47", LatLong: "46.700002 4.116667", LatLongDMS: "46:42:00 N 04:07:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Saône-et-Loire", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1628 (8863A283)

Date: 8/1944
Time: 16:20
Location: CHRISTCHURCH, NZ
Description: Saucer by train station/depot/facility. Nurse sees small humanoids (or Greys) / portholes. 1 outside sees her and goes.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_502

Extra Data: Country: "New Zealand", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "CHRISTCHURCH,NZ:SCR by TRAIN STN:NURSE SEES OIDS/PORTS:1 OUTSIDE SEES HER+GOES", LatLong: "-43.483335 172.633342", LatLongDMS: "43:29:00 S 172:38:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SI", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1629 (46F4717D)

Date: 8/1944 (approximate)
Time: 16:30
Location: CHAMPIGNY-SUR-MARNE, FR
Description: Perfect oval cloud hovers. Shoots quickly going up. Lower part round and black.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_503

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "CHAMPIGNY-sur-MARNE,FR:PERFECT OVAL CLOUD HVRS:SHOOTS ↑↑:lower part round+blk", LatLong: "48.800002 2.516667", LatLongDMS: "48:48:00 N 02:31:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Val-de-Marne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1630 (3C8F8560)

Date: 8/1944
Time: 17:20
Location: MONT-DE-MARSAN, FR
Description: 30cm ball enters building. Stops over 5 workers. Passes through 6TH!
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 168)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_504

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "MONT-de-MARSAN,FR:30cm BALL ENTERS BLDG:STOPS OVR 5 WORKERS:PASSES THRU 6TH!", LatLong: "43.916669 -0.500000", LatLongDMS: "43:55:00 N 00:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Landes", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1631 (B2071B34)

Date: 8/1944
Time: 21:30
Location: GARDOUCH, FR
Description: Man / farm. Big orange moon going [to] overhead / low altitude. Great heat. Turns white. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_507

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "GARDOUCH,FR:MAN/FARM:BIG ORG.MOON >OVHD/LO ALT:GREAT HEAT:TURNS WHT:>N", LatLong: "43.383335 1.683333", LatLongDMS: "43:23:00 N 01:41:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1632 (C3545157)

Date: 8/1944
Location: Bt. St. Lo and Vire, France
Description: Cherry-red light; size of large star; sat motionless in sky before disappearing into clouds. (Page 79-80 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_191

Event 1633 (C0D380C2)

Date: 8/1944
Locations: Saint-Lô; Vire; Normandy; France; Omaha Beach
Description: Night. Officer George Todt of the 38th Regiment, Second Infantry Division, is between Saint-Lô and Vire, Normandy, France, when he sees a cherry-red light one-fifth the size of the moon moving silently west at 120 mph towards Omaha Beach. It stops over the American lines and hovers for 14 minutes. It expands and contracts regularly every few seconds. Col. Francis Henry Boos and another officer also observe it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 78– 79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_645

Event 1634 (F8076095)

Date: 8/1/1944
Location: Ploesti, Rumania
Description: Reddish orange balls, about the size of a baseball; spherical object, probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color. (Page 71-74 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_192

Event 1635 (3F9F783C)

Date: 8/8/1944
Location: MATTOON, IL
Description: Pseudo-human/entity looks through windows. Aims device and people pass out. Odd smell.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_505

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NFO: No craft seen, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MIB: Men in Black, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "220", HatchDesc: "MATTOON,IL:PSH LOOKS THRU WINDOWS:AIMS DEVICE+PEOPLE PASS OUT:ODD SMELL", LatLong: "39.483335 -88.372226", LatLongDMS: "39:29:00 N 88:22:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "9"

Event 1636 (A2918EBF)

Date: 8/10/1944
Time: 00:10
Location: CEYLON TO/FROM SUMATRA
Description: B29 / bombing run paced. 2M sphere/orb/globe. 90° turns. Goes quickly going up. / r242p23+/ r65.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_506

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "12", HatchDesc: "CEYLON><SUMATRA:B29/BOMBING RUN PACED:2M ORB:90°TURNS:GOES↑↑:/r242p23+/r65", LatLong: "9.750000 96.000005", LatLongDMS: "09:45:00 N 96:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MLC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1637 (334DC7F9)

Date: 8/10/1944
Location: Unknown City, Sumatra
Description: Sighting of maneuvering UFO which paced B-29 (Reida case) during mission. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_193

Event 1638 (5CF4643F)

Date: 8/10/1944
End date: 8/11/1944
Location: Palembang, Sumatra
Description: Reida Case (M) Reddish orange balls, about the size of a baseball; spherical object, probably 5 or 6 feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color. (Page 71-74 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_194

Event 1639 (1AE2CB5D)

Date: 8/10/1944
Description: At a few minutes after midnight a bright reddish-orange, pulsing, maneuvering ball of light paced a U.S. Army Air Force B-29 bomber over the ocean between Palembang, Indonesia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at a location about 100 miles northwest of Palembang off the island of Sumatra. There were three witnesses on board the aircraft. The sighting lasted less than eight minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume 1), p. 23; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 83; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 396
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4815

Event 1640 (5E0ADBC7)

Date: 8/11/1944
Locations: Kharagpur, India; Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia
Description: Shortly after midnight. Capt. Alvah M. Reida is piloting a B-29 bomber based at Kharagpur, India, on a bombing mission over Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia, when his right gunner and copilot notice a sphere “probably five or six feet in diameter, of a very bright and intense red or orange in color” that constantly throbs, at about 12,500 feet, pacing them about 1,500 feet off the starboard wing. It keeps up with the B-29, then flying at 210 mph. Reida tries to shake it off his plane, but it stays in the same relative position until, after 8 minutes, it makes an abrupt 90° turn and accelerates rapidly, disappearing in the overcast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 23; Strange Company 71–75; Good Above, p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_646

Event 1641 (F8023608)

Date: 8/11/1944
Locations: France; La Pallice; La Rochelle; Charente-Maritime
Description: Night. RAF Warrant Officer Ronald R. Claridge is over France aboard a No. 7 Squadron Lancaster bomber returning from a bombing run on La Pallice, La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France, when his radar screen goes blank. Another crewman shouts to look at a vast disc-shaped object with a long row of lights on their starboard side. They watch it for 3 minutes, then it shoots away in a flash of light. Later he draws a watercolor painting to show how the UFO dwarfed the bomber.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, pp. 26–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_647

Event 1642 (FD66F166)

Date: 8/12/1944
Location: Pelice, France
Description: Enormous disc; circular lights (changing from bright yellow top white) like portholes in a ship; motionless. (Page 75 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_195

Event 1643 (5A0B31EF)

Date: 8/13/1944
Location: Kaoe Bay, Indonesia
Description: Very brilliant light appearing to hover in air for at least five minutes. (Page 76 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_196

Event 1644 (A36B7504)

Date: Mid 8/1944
Description: 11:00 a.m. During the Warsaw Uprising in Poland, Zenon Sergisz notices a German bomber passing by, as well as three bright points of light that descend as the bomber moves away. The lights are flattened spheres that move low behind some buildings then rise up at an angle and disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_648

Event 1645 (D0395706)

Date: 8/17/1944
Description: The Allied command creates the Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee CIOS, charged in part with investigating the strange balls of fire.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_649

Event 1646 (A2B54396)

Date: Late 8/1944
Location: Brest, Brittany, France
Description: Sgt. Ness and another man of the mine-laying platoon of the 175th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, see a large rectangular object “like a railroad boxcar” with no apparent source of propulsion move steadily at about 90 mph over the front lines near Brest, Brittany, France, and out to sea. At one point the object passes in front of the moon, briefly obscuring it from view.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, pp. 120–121
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_650

Event 1647 (3DE9B012)

Date: Late 8/1944
Location: Christchurch, New Zealand
Description: 4:20 p.m. A nurse, Mrs. E. M. Church, on her way to a tram station in Christchurch, New Zealand, sees an object like an “upturned saucer” resting on the ground near the road. It seems to be 20 feet across and 9 feet high. Two beings, not quite 4 feet tall, are inside, visible through a rectangular window. A third stands motionless, just outside an open door. All three seem to be looking toward the lights of a nearby fairground. The nurse cannot decide if their skin color is green or they are dressed in green, but all are encased in a transparent oblong box. The head takes up half of their bodies and there are no apparent legs or arms. She inadvertently makes a noise, and the outside figure notices her. Its helmet flips over automatically, and it drifts inside the object, which rises up and disappears in the clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1940–1949, p. 12; Clark III 265
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_651

Event 1648 (006D82DC)

Date: End of 8/1944
Location: Mattoon, IL
Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind (Magonia #51, FSR 61, 3) (Needs to be checked. This did not check out, no newspaper reports could be found. Apparently the entire story was made up many years later. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_197

Event 1649 (BFC4487A)

Date: End of 8/1944
Location: Mattoon, Illinois
Description: A mysterious man appeared at windows, as if in search of someone. He stunned witnesses by pointing at them a device that "made consciousness dissolve" and left a strange cloying smell behind
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 61, 3; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_51

Event 1650 (2BEDEC0C)

Date: 8/30/1944
Time: 21:50
Location: SAINT JEAN, FR
Description: Girl. White helmet-saucer in field. Turns orange. Going up [to] with great heat. Going quickly west. / r65.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 315)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_508

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "SAINT JEAN,FR:GIRL:WHT HELMET-SCR IN FIELD:TURNS ORG:↑ W/GREAT HEAT:>>W:/r65", LatLong: "43.666669 1.500000", LatLongDMS: "43:40:00 N 01:30:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Haute Garonne", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1651 (832874DC)

Date: 8/30/1944
Description: At 9:30 p.m. a big orange moon-shaped object flew overhead at low altitude in Gardouch, Haute-Garronne, France. Great heat was felt when the object turned white. It flew off to the north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 165; Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 23
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5484

Event 1652 (0F24A173)

Date: 8/31/1944
Description: The Army Air Forces Air Technical Service Command is formed as the result of the merging of the Materiel and Air Service Commands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_652

Event 1653 (86066F80)

Date: 9/1944
Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
Description: 1 observer. Transparent ovoid crosses sky west going east / steady altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_509

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BRUSSELS,BELGIUM:1 OBS:TRANSPARENT OVOID CROSSES SKY W>E/STEADY ALTITUDE.", LatLong: "50.833336 4.366667", LatLongDMS: "50:50:00 N 04:22:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1654 (BC3CBCE6)

Date: 9/1944
Location: NEAR ANTWERP, BELGIUM
Description: Canadian soldiers. Glowing 3' cloudy-glass sphere/orb/globe going southwest over front lines.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 55)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_510

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr ANTWERP,BELG:CANADIAN GIs:GLOWING 3' CLOUDY-GLASS ORB >SW OVR FRONT LINES", LatLong: "51.250002 4.416667", LatLongDMS: "51:15:00 N 04:25:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1655 (BE0AF1B7)

Date: 9/1944
Time: 12:00?
Location: NEAR EPINAL, FR
Description: 500 troops. 6' aluminum saucer over railroad/railway tracks. Flames and vanishes when shot at.
Type: sighting
Reference: FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 48)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_511

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr EPINAL,FR:500 TROOPS:6'ALUM.SCR OVR RR TRACKS:FLAMES+VANISHES WHEN SHOT AT", LatLong: "48.183336 6.433334", LatLongDMS: "48:11:00 N 06:26:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vosges", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1656 (D26BC33D)

Date: 9/1944 (approximate)
Time: 17:00
Location: KAMENSKO FOREST, CZK
Description: Silent silver 120M blimp-cylinder/cigar-shape going down. No propeller. / r84p215.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_512

Extra Data: Country: "Czech and Slovak Republics", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "KAMENSKO FOREST,CZK:SLNT SLVR 120M BLIMP-CGR ↓:no propeller:/r84p215", LatLong: "49.500002 13.500001", LatLongDMS: "49:30:00 N 13:30:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ZPD", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1657 (46FA1B11)

Date: 9/1944
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: Oak Ridge, TN. Metal tube hovers over gaseous diffusion plant (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 440900
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_198

Event 1658 (E1A2E25C)

Date: 9/1944
Location: Unknown Island, Japan
Description: White object & egg-shaped & very brilliant. (Page 76 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_199

Event 1659 (BCF8C1AC)

Date: 9/1944
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Description: Around 9 p.m. in the evening a Canadian soldier, stationed near the front lines close to Antwerp, observed "a glowing globe traveling from the direction of the front line towards Antwerp. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_200

Event 1660 (D4E01EDB)

Date: 9/1944
Location: Unknown City, UK
Description: Bright spherical object & like a rolling ball. (Page 83 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_201

Event 1661 (D958AA88)

Date: 9/1944
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Description: Glowing globe, cloudy gas with a light inside; & three to four feet in diameter. (Page 82-83 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_202

Event 1662 (BDA7CE86)

Date: 9/1944
Locations: Oak Ridge; Oliver Springs, Tennessee; Black Oak Ridge
Description: Dusk. Three Oak Ridge workers a man named Nelson, A. C. Butler, and Albert Profitt are driving 2 miles southeast of Oliver Springs, Tennessee, when a strange object appears about 50 feet ahead of them at the level of their windshield. It is glossy white in color and about 30 feet long and 4 feet wide. Nelson eases the car up to the object, but it withdraws; when he stops, it also stops. Soon the light rises high in the air and disappears over Black Oak Ridge.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp, 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_653

Event 1663 (E0D3DB02)

Date: 9/1944
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Description: 9:00 p.m. Canadian Army Lance Cpl. Carson Yorke is just outside Antwerp, Belgium, during a German bombardment. He steps out of his vehicle and sees a glowing globe traveling at about 30 mph and 40 feet altitude from the front lines toward the city in the same course that the German V-2s are following. It seems to be 3–4 feet in diameter and looks “as though it was cloudy glass with a light inside.” It disappears from view, then is followed by another, then five others in succession.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jerome Clark and Lucius Farish, “The Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ of WW II,” Saga UFO Report, Spring 1975
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_654

Event 1664 (ED25C4ED)

Date: 9/2/1944
Location: Philadelphia Navy Yard
Description: Two chemists are killed, and Arnold Kramish almost killed, after being sprayed with highly corrosive hydrofluoric acid while attempting to unclog a uranium enrichment device that is part of the pilot thermal diffusion plant at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Arnold Kramish”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_655

Event 1665 (EF75F659)

Date: 9/6/1944
Location: London, England
Description: The Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee holds its first meeting in London, England. Present are Air Commodore K. C. Buss Air Ministry, Gen. George C. McDonald AAF Director of Intelligence, Lt. Col. Lewis F. Powell Jr., Col. Howard McCoy chief of the Air Technical Section, Howard P. Robertson CalTech physicist, and Cmdr. Ian Fleming Admiralty.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 80
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_656

Event 1666 (6F7C3DA0)

Date: 9/7/1944
Location: Germany
Description: First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris. V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces, initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_82

Event 1667 (799A4BF8)

Date: 9/18/1944 (approximate)
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: Metal tube hovers / atomic plant days after opening. Goes when crowd gathers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 56)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_513

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:MTL TUBE HVRS/A-PLANT DAYS AFTER OPENING:GOES WHEN CROWD GATHERS", LatLong: "36.027779 -84.255560", LatLongDMS: "36:01:40 N 84:15:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1668 (8B08625B)

Date: Late 9/1944
Location: Dover, UK
Description: Solid black cylindrical-shaped; red glow emitting from rear. (Page 81-82 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_203

Event 1669 (3FD2216C)

Date: 9/29/1944
Time: 10:50
Location: ACHMER AIR FORCE BASE?, GER
Description: ME252 pilot. 100M cylinder/cigar-shape. Openings / side. Long antennas. Going quickly [to] 1900kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: CUFON UFO Network Site (former BBS) various downloads. http://www.cufon.org (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_514

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ACHMER AFB?,GER:ME252 PILOT:100M CGR:OPENINGS/SIDE:LONG ANTENNAS:>>1900kph", LatLong: "52.366669 7.900000", LatLongDMS: "52:22:00 N 07:54:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LSX", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1670 (2CE52569)

Date: 9/29/1944
Description: At 10:45 a.m. a German Me-262 jet pilot, while in flight over Rechlin Goggenthin, Lower Saxony, Germany sighted a 100 meter long cigar-shaped object with openings on the side and a long antennae. The UFO shot off at a speed in excess of 1,900 km/h.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dale Goudie, CUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, Claude Poher, case # 420
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6409

Event 1671 (61406D28)

Date: 9/29/1944
Description: At 6:00 p.m. Soviet forces in Ukraine reported that they had sighted a "German aircraft" that stood still in the air for two minutes and made no noise.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ion Hobana & Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 227
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6410

Event 1672 (36385D44)

Date: 10/1944
Location: Southeast, Holland
Description: Field Artillery officer and men saw a brilliant object moving from NW to SW, crossing an arc of about 90 degrees in about 45 minutes. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_205

Event 1673 (EB1CE3C0)

Date: 10/1944
Locations: Rochester, Pennsylvania; outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania
Description: Late night. Members of a family who live in an isolated area on the outskirts of Rochester, Pennsylvania, are awakened by a loud noise and flash of light. The father goes to the door, where he sees a 4.5-foot-tall figure dressed in a brown robe. Fifteen feet to its left are five other figures dressed in luminous brown metallic suits. Their heads seem large, with only a slit for a mouth. The arms are long, with long thin fingers. Three of them enter the house and the father accompanies them to a landed craft nearby. He remembers nothing else when he wakes up in the morning. A round, burned circle 20 feet from the house and 25 feet in diameter is found the next day.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 265–266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_657

Event 1674 (4352EB6F)

Date: 10/1944
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Description: Nellie Carlin and another woman are about to drive to work in St. Paul, Minnesota, when they see what seems to be an airplane about to crash. It abruptly stops 20 feet above their heads, revealing itself to be a brown, bullet- shaped object with a flat end “like frosted glass with a bright light behind it.” It makes a crackling noise, turns right, and ascends at great speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_658

Event 1675 (78EB6FC8)

Date: 10/10/1944
Time: 20:00
Location: ALGHULT, SWD
Description: Bicycle generator hit / beam. Moonlike sphere going up / woods. Hovers. Vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_515

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ALGHULT,SWD:BICYCLE GENERATOR HIT/BEAM:MOONLIKE SPHERE ↑/WOODS:HVRS:vanishes", LatLong: "57.016669 15.566667", LatLongDMS: "57:01:00 N 15:34:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1676 (69D3300D)

Date: 10/10/1944
Location: Alghut, Sweden
Description: At 8:00 p.m. a man on a bicycle was suddenly illuminated by a light beam from the woods, then he saw a large shining sphere rise rapidly from the ground and hover at treetop height. It appeared moon-like; golden in color, and made no sound. After about 5 minutes the object abruptly disappeared. (Ref. 3; Anders Liljegren AFU archives.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_206

Event 1677 (D0C155FA)

Date: 10/10/1944
Description: A bicyclist in Alghult, Sweden reported that on this evening a beam of light from a luminous flying sphere struck the small generator used on the bicycle to generate electricity for the headlamp. The UFO hovered over some nearby woods, then vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century, p. 24
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6696

Event 1678 (A0EE6D4A)

Date: 10/16/1944
Location: Formosa, Taiwan
Description: Small black dot; hanging stationary. (Page Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_207

Event 1679 (F6725E94)

Date: 10/20/1944
Location: Po Valley, Italy
Description: Red light appearance of an aircraft light. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_208

Event 1680 (402DDAC6)

Date: 10/20/1944
Location: N. Florence, Italy
Description: Two orange balls diving into the hills. (Page 84 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_209

Event 1681 (A767810B)

Date: 10/25/1944
Location: Omura, Japan
Description: Multiple sightings of possible balloons. (Page 78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_210

Event 1682 (A86724C1)

Date: Late 10/1944
Location: Strasbourg, Germany
Description: Eight to ten lights in a row, glowing orange, and moving at terrific speed. (Page 95 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_219

Event 1683 (B77DBA14)

Date: Late 10/1944
Location: Lingayen Gulf, Philippines
Description: Bright green globe. (Page 95-96 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_220

Event 1684 (BD500790)

Date: Late 10/1944
Location: Weert, Netherlands
Description: 9:30 p.m. 1Lt. J. B. Douglas Jr. and other soldiers of the 489th Armored Field Artillery near Weert, Netherlands, watch a bright silvery object through field glasses moving silently from northwest to southwest through an arc of 90° in about 30–45 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, pp. 30, 129
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_659

Event 1685 (6A1F8886)

Date: 10/28/1944
Locations: Europe; Pacific Theater
Description: Physicist David T. Griggs , a civilian adviser on radar to the War Department, is asked by Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold to look into incidents of unusual aerial phenomena in Europe and interview pilots. He later moves his investigation to the Pacific Theater. His report to Arnold at the end of the war has never been located. He was interviewed by James E. McDonald on April 10, 1969.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “David Griggs and the Foo Fighters,” IUR 31, no. 1 January 2007: 17–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_660

Event 1686 (66B8C5CB)

Date: 10/29/1944
Location: Munich, Germany
Description: Light blue colored ball of fire approximately three feet in diameter. (Page 85-86 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_211

Event 1687 (AA001602)

Date: 10/30/1944
End date: 10/31/1944
Location: Cologne, Germany
Description: A ball of fire; circular, pale orange, clean edged light. (Page 86 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_212

Event 1688 (5E869C81)

Date: 10/30/1944
Location: Köln, Germany
Description: Late night. RAF Flight Engineer Maurice Juberley of the 640 Squadron is returning from a bombing mission over Köln, Germany. His Halifax III is flying at 19,000 feet above the clouds when the rear gunner reports a ball of orange fire closing in on them. He orders an evasive maneuver and loses the light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_661

Event 1689 (A8EB8949)

Date: 11/1944
Location: Unknown City, France
Description: 415th Night Fighter Squadron pilot saw formation of round objects. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_213

Event 1690 (F68CF85D)

Date: Early 11/1944
Location: Germany
Description: Night. Lieut. Col. Oris B. Johnson’s 422d Night Fighter Squadron, equipped with P-61 Black Widow fighters, reports seeing 15–20 mystery objects every night over Germany, either alone or in formations of four. Johnson says he could accept that the reports are rocket planes or night fighter jets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_662

Event 1691 (47C0ED66)

Date: 11/3/1944
Locations: San Pedro, Los Angeles, California; Wyoming; Montana
Description: The Japanese Army launches the first of some 9,300 Fu-Go bomb-bearing fire balloons intended to land in North America to instill fear and terror. About 300 are found or seen in America. It is likely that more of them land in unpopulated areas. On November 4, a US Navy patrol craft discovers one of the first Fu-Go balloons floating off San Pedro, Los Angeles, California. National and state agencies are placed on heightened alert status when balloons are found in Wyoming and Montana before the end of the month.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Fu-Go balloon bomb”; Franklin Matthias, “Japanese Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_663

Event 1692 (40B71FED)

Date: 11/4/1944
Locations: RAF Lancaster bombers; Solingen, Germany
Description: Night. RAF Lancaster bombers over Solingen, Germany, report what they call “scarecrow” dummy airplanes that explode with a sheet of flame and dense black smoke.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “German Dummy Planes Explode Amid Our Own,” New York Times, November 6, 1944, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_664

Event 1693 (4E53C700)

Date: 11/5/1944
Location: Singapore, Malaya
Description: A long purple-blue parabolic trail. (Page 77-78 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_214

Event 1694 (98ABB0B1)

Date: 11/5/1944
End date: 11/6/1944
Location: Aachen/Bonn/Cologne, Germany
Description: Possible jet; single light; 5 free lance visuals on jets, no A.I. or G.C.I. contacts; several flares similar to jets. (Page 86-87 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_215

Event 1695 (A8D14C5B)

Date: 11/8/1944
Location: Germany
Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_83

Event 1696 (DB32A730)

Date: 11/12/1944
Locations: Santiago, Chile; Puente Alto; Valparaíso
Description: 9:30 p.m. A radio station in Santiago, Chile, broadcasts a version of The War of the Worlds in Spanish in which Martians land in Puente Alto, causing a panic and the death by heart attack of at least one person in Valparaíso.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds: A History of the 1938 Radio Broadcast and Resulting Panic, Including the Original Script, McFarland, 2009, pp. 99–102
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_665

Event 1697 (C23634CF)

Date: 11/16/1944
Locations: Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea; Leyte Gulf, Philippines
Description: 11:55 p.m. Lt. J. L. Besmond, officer of the day on the USS Gilliam, enroute from Oro Bay, Papua New Guinea, to Leyte Gulf, Philippines, observes an unusual object at a distance of 21 miles. Fire Control Officer P. Kendall Bruce describes it as a bright green globe that rises from behind the ship and moves in a “perfect parabola at great speed, finally disappearing behind the horizon to the north.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “UFO Observed from USS Gilliam”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_666

Event 1698 (40CAC8C9)

Date: 11/22/1944
Time: 22:00
Location: NEAR TRONDHEIM, NORW
Description: 3 / RAF 9th Squadron. Sphere paces plane. Speeds and slows. No further details. / r150.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 24)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_516

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr TRONDHEIM,NORW:3/RAF 9th Sqdrn:SPHERE PACES PLANE:SPEEDS+SLOWS:NFD:/r150", LatLong: "63.416670 10.366667", LatLongDMS: "63:25:00 N 10:22:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1699 (B7998E8B)

Date: 11/22/1944
Location: Unknown City, Germany
Description: Spherical object, fluctuating in brightness, pyrotechnic pink in color, changing speeds violently, swift and jerking movements. (Page 89 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_216

Event 1700 (5DFC21EF)

Date: 11/22/1944
Description: At 10:00 p.m. a spherical object followed a plane from the RAF IX Squadron west-southwest of Trondheim, Norway for three minutes. It made a violent acceleration and deceleration.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website; Richard H. Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 24; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7791

Event 1701 (299CF652)

Date: 11/23/1944
Location: BELGIUM LOCATION UNKNOWN
Description: British Anti-Aircraft guns/teams gunners. US B17 lands. No crew! All 10 parachutes aboard.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 56)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_517

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BELGIUM loc.unk:BRIT.AA GUNNERS:US B17 LANDS:NO CREW!:ALL 10 PARACHUTES ABOARD", LatLong: "50.333336 4.833334", LatLongDMS: "50:20:00 N 04:50:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "10"

Event 1702 (C680EB65)

Date: 11/23/1944
Time: 22:00
Location: 20 MI NORTHEAST / STRASBOURG, FR
Description: US planes paced / 8-10 fast red Foo-Fighters. / LDLN#330p13.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_518

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "20mi NE/STRASBOURG,FR:US PLANES PACED/8-10 FAST RED FOO-FIGHTERS:/LDLN#330p13", LatLong: "48.883336 7.816667", LatLongDMS: "48:53:00 N 07:49:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bas-Rhin", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1703 (1E75C74B)

Date: 11/24/1944
Time: ~22:00
Location: B17 / KLAGENFURT, AUSTRIA
Description: Light and heat. Orange saucer paces going quickly southwest. No flak. / r46p193+/ r25p197.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 379)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_519

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "9", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "B17/KLAGENFURT,AUSTRIA:LITE+HEAT:ORG.SCR PACES >>SW:NO FLAK:/r46p193+/r25p197", LatLong: "46.633336 14.300001", LatLongDMS: "46:38:00 N 14:18:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1704 (56637217)

Date: 11/24/1944
Location: Unknown City, Italy
Description: Round amber light, luminous orange-yellow, blinding light; felt unbearable heat. (Page 89-93 Ref.1) (NICAP: 05 - Medical Incidents)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_217

Event 1705 (EAD9681C)

Date: 11/24/1944
Locations: Klagenfurt, Austria; Trieste, Italy; Adriatic Sea
Description: Capt. William D. Leet’s B-17 crew part of the 2nd Bombardment Group, 5th Wing of the Fifteenth Air Force is returning from bombing a target at Klagenfurt, Austria. While flying over northeastern Italy near Trieste, Leet notices a blinding light and feels an intense heat. It goes away quickly, but seconds later he sees a “round amber light” sitting off the left wingtip of the B-17. It is bright and perfectly circular. Leet orders the gunners not to shoot at it. Sgt. Harris, the upper gunner, thinks it is 10 feet in diameter and 150–300 feet away. The object stays with them over the Adriatic Sea for 50 minutes, until it “just turned off” like a light bulb.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 90–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_667

Event 1706 (1FDEB9F3)

Date: 11/26/1944
Location: Mannheim, Germany
Description: Red light that disappeared in long red streak. (Page 93-94 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_218

Event 1707 (E9CDD05B)

Date: 11/27/1944
Location: SPEYER, GERM
Description: 2 / fighter crew. Huge orange sphere. Instruments electro-magnetic effect (EME). 250mph / 450M altitude. / r2p33.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_520

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SPEYER,GERM:2/FIGHTER CREW:HUGE ORG.SPHERE:INSTR'S EME:250mph/450M alt:/r2p33", LatLong: "49.300002 8.433334", LatLongDMS: "49:18:00 N 08:26:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1708 (B095261C)

Date: 11/27/1944
Description: Two Lieutenants, Giblin and Cleary, pilots of the U.S. Army Air Force 415TH NFS, saw a huge orange sphere while flying a P-70 over Speyer, Germany on this night.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7 citing Aeronautical Magazine, February 1986
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7950

Event 1709 (1A5ED72D)

Date: 11/29/1944
Locations: Bruce Peninsula; Lake Huron; Georgian Bay, Ontario
Description: 3:00 p.m. Reginald Herbert Mortimer and his daughter Frances are on the Bruce Peninsula between Lake Huron and Georgian Bay, Ontario, when they hear a hissing sound behind them and see 9 disc-shaped objects pass overhead at approximately 2,000 feet. Moving three abreast in a square configuration, they are lost to sight over the lake.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_668

Event 1710 (3405068C)

Date: 11/29/1944
Locations: Bristol Beaufighter; Rhine River; Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France; Mannheim, Germany
Description: Night. A Bristol Beaufighter crew pilot Lieut. Edward A. Schlueter and radar observer Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron, and intelligence officer Capt. [Fred B. Ringwald](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135104859/fred-bertrand-ringwald) as observer is on a bombing mission and flying above the Rhine River north of Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, France. They see “eight to 10 bright orange lights off the left wing…flying through the air at high speed.” Neither the airborne radar nor ground control registers anything nearby. Schlueter and Meiers also see red lights on November 26 above Mannheim, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Zoe Crasney, “What Were the Mysterious ‘Foo Fighters’ Sighted by WWII Night Flyers?” Smithsonian Air and Space Magazine, August 2016; Strange Company 93–95
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_669

Event 1711 (103AE7FB)

Date: 11/30/1944?
Locations: Leyte Gulf; Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines
Description: As the USS Gilliam is transporting troops from Leyte Gulf to Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippines, Lieut. JG Kendall Bruce, fire control officer on the ship, observes a bright green, globe-shaped object rising out of the nearby headlands and disappears to the north, It is too slow for a missile. [Same event as November 16?]
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “UFO Observed from USS Gilliam”; Strange Company 95–96
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_670

Event 1712 (66886EA2)

Date: 12/1944
Location: Austria, Austria
Description: B-17 pilot (William D. Leet) and crew, on a lone wolf mission, were followed by an amber-colored disc. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_221

Event 1713 (411F013E)

Date: 12/1944
Location: Ardennes offensive, Germany
Description: Amorphous reddish-glow that at times appeared cigar-shaped. (Page 97-98 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_222

Event 1714 (390F3F86)

Date: 12/1944
Location: Strasbourg and Manheim Btn., Germany
Description: Bright fuzzy round ball, twice the size of full moon; yellow, white, red tint that was not solid color; no radar return. (Page 118-119 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_237

Event 1715 (24B9EA7F)

Date: 12/1944
Location: Frankfurt and Karlsrhue btn., Germany
Description: Three to four very bright balls, completely illuminated red, yellow, white and blue in color; size of tennis ball at arms length. (Page 119 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_238

Event 1716 (7EC668C3)

Date: 12/1944
Location: Somewhere bt. eastern France and Western Germany, Europe
Description: String of lights, twelve to fifteen in number, orange to yellow in color, approximately four feet in diameter, stretching twice the length of crews aircraft; no radar contact. (Page 120 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_239

Event 1717 (55D89486)

Date: 12/2/1944
Location: Villafranca, Italy
Description: A steady, seemingly hanging light. (Page 96 Ref.1) Ghedi Airdrome area (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_223

Event 1718 (78B4A677)

Date: 12/5/1944
Location: Rhine River area, Germany
Description: Alleged aircraft that climbed out of range in nothing flat. (Page 96 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_224

Event 1719 (163F0CDF)

Date: 12/13/1944
Location: Paris, France
Description: SHAEF in Paris, France, issues a press release identifying the fireballs as a “new German weapon” and that the Ninth Air Force has reported seeing “many silver balls floating in the air above enemy territory.” An Army Air Force spokesman says on December 20 that the silver balls have “no detectable effects” on Allied planes. He does not know whether or not they are metallic.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 96, 101
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_671

Event 1720 (1F695089)

Date: 12/14/1944
End date: 12/15/1944
Location: Erstein, Germany
Description: Brilliant red light & appeared to be 4 or 5 times larger than a star going 200 mph. (Page 96,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_225

Event 1721 (A74C0089)

Date: 12/14/1944
End date: 12/28/1944
Location: Germany
Description: Numerous balls of light are reported by the Night Fighter Squadrons during bombing raids over Germany. Pilot and operations officer Charlie Horne of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron suggests calling the objects “foo fighters,” a name gleaned from the men’s favorite comic strip, “Smokey Stover” by cartoonist Bill Holman . The comic follows the escapades of a madcap fire fighter who calls his fire truck the “Foomobile.” Smokey Stover often states, “where there’s foo, there’s fire.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More Foo-Fighter Records Released,” Just Cause, new ser., no. 33 September 1992: 2–6; Strange Company 96–111; Swords 3–5; “The Foo Fighters of World War II, Part One,” Saturday Night UFOria; Clas Svahn, “The Origin of the Expression ‘Foo Fighter,’” IUR 25, no. 3 Fall 2000: 18; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Hunneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 47–49; Barry Greenwood, “Foo Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 December 2015: 2–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_672

Event 1722 (BD96ABD5)

Date: 12/15/1944
Location: ERNSTEIN, GERMANY
Description: 415th Bomber Squadron. Brilliant fireball / 2K' altitude. 200mph. RADAR malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). / r153p16.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_521

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ERNSTEIN,GERMANY:415th BOMBER SQDR:BRILL.FBL/2K'alt:200mph:RDR EMEs:/r153p16", LatLong: "49.316669 9.350000", LatLongDMS: "49:19:00 N 09:21:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1723 (D8408A6C)

Date: 12/16/1944
End date: 12/24/1944
Location: Unknown City, Germany
Description: Amorphous reddish-glow that at times appeared cigar-shaped. (Page 103-104 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_226

Event 1724 (DC8287E5)

Date: 12/17/1944
Location: Breisach, Germany
Description: 5 or 6 flashing red and green lights in T-shape. (Page 100,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_227

Event 1725 (923954D4)

Date: 12/18/1944
Location: NEAR RASTATT, GERM
Description: 415th Bombers. 5-6 red and green night lights / T-formation. Sharp turns. Follow planes.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENA Revue / SOS-OVNI, France; Perry Petrakis ed. B.P 324; 13611 Aix-Cedex 1, Fr. sosovni at pacwan.mm-soft.fr (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_522

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "nr RASTATT,GERM:415th BOMBERS:5-6 RED+GRN NLTS/T-FORMn:SHARP TURNS:FOLO PLANES", LatLong: "48.800002 8.216667", LatLongDMS: "48:48:00 N 08:13:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1726 (0B0A2A20)

Date: 12/22/1944
Time: 17:30
Location: HAGUENAU, 67, FR
Description: Orange night lights pace USAF fighters. RADAR malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects). Going up [to] and gone. / r150+/ r226#12p18.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_523

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "HAGUENAU,67,FR:ORG NLTS PACE USAF FIGHTERS:RDR EMEs:↑+GONE:/r150+/r226#12p18", LatLong: "48.783336 7.766667", LatLongDMS: "48:47:00 N 07:46:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bas-Rhin", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1727 (A60CB006)

Date: 12/22/1944
End date: 12/23/1944
Location: Hagenau, Germany
Description: Two lights that appeared to be a large orange glow coming from ground - followed plane - appeared to be under perfect control (Page 102,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_228

Event 1728 (E88C596E)

Date: 12/22/1944
Description: Two huge orange glowing spheres followed a U.S. Army Air Force warplane from the 415th NFS at 10,000 feet altitude over Hagenau, France in the Bas-Rhine region. The pilots names were McFalls and Baker.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 126; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 23; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. & Harold H. Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 116
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8560

Event 1729 (32AB3432)

Date: 12/23/1944
End date: 12/24/1944
Location: Unknown City, Germany
Description: Red streak in sky. (Page 103,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_229

Event 1730 (943A858F)

Date: 12/23/1944
End date: 12/24/1944
Location: Unknown City, Germany
Description: Glowing red object shooting straight up; appeared to be aircraft doing a wingover and going into a dive and disappearing. (Page 103,130 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_230

Event 1731 (F9D14D95)

Date: 12/23/1944
Locations: Blackstone; Richmond, Virginia; Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington
Description: Night. Navy Lt. George Arents III and copilot Lt. Elon Forster are flying a military DC-3 at 9,000 feet between Blackstone and Richmond, Virginia, when they notice a cigar-shaped object hovering below them at about 4,000 feet. It appears to be 200 feet long and has two horizontal rows of blue-lighted windows and a flaming exhaust coming out of its tail. Jan Aldrich Late December through February 1945 — Radar operators at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, report unusual blips that appear out of nowhere and proceed from northwest to southeast. A Grumman F6F Hellcat fighter is scrambled on at least two occasions with orders to shoot down anything that appears to be hostile, but nothing is seen. In another incident, Lt. JG Clarence R. Clem accompanies Lt. Commander Richard Brown and Ensign C. T. Neal to a waiting aircraft and Brown takes off in pursuit of a ball of fire that quickly leaves him behind as it speeds off to the northwest and is lost to radar. On another occasion, naval officer R. W. Hendershot, flying an SNJ aircraft, is asked by ground radar to make contact with two high-altitude blips flying at the speed of a single- engine Piper Cub. Though he can see nothing, he is convinced the blips are real.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 142; Nukes 43–44; Project 1947, “UFOs over Hanford: Cdr. R. W. Hendershot,” June 22, 2014; Robert L. Hastings, “Reports Confirm UFO Activity at the Hanford Nuclear Weapons Plant during World War II,” UFOs & Nukes, August 9, 2015; Headquarters Fourth Air Force, “Air Defense Measures at Hanford Engineering Company,” January 23, 1945; Robert L. Hastings, “Former US Navy Pilot Says Huge Fireball Maneuvered above the Hanford Atomic Plant during World War II,” UFOs & Nukes, October 5, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_673

Event 1732 (4FF4F62E)

Date: 12/24/1944
Time: 22:00?
Location: KARLSRUHE, GERM
Description: Red ball going up [to] and paces US fighters. Can't shake it. Rises and away. News item.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_524

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KARLSRUHE,GERM:RED BALL ↑+PACES US FIGHTERS:CANT SHAKE IT:RISES+AWAY:news item", LatLong: "49.000002 8.383334", LatLongDMS: "49:00:00 N 08:23:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1733 (D6DB790C)

Date: 12/24/1944
Description: A red ball of light climbed to the altitude of a Beaufighter from the 415TH NFS squadron while it was flying over Karisruhe, Germany on this night. The two man crew, Baker and McFalls, watched the light pace their aircraft for awhile and then climb away from them.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p 126; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 117
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8584

Event 1734 (F7D98973)

Date: 12/26/1944
End date: 12/27/1944
Location: Unknown City, Germany
Description: Multiple sightings: red balls of fire; two yellow streaks of flame & disappeared from view; the crew thought they felt prop wash; a group of lights that made distinct lines, somewhat like arrows; row of vertical white lights. (Page 103,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_231

Event 1735 (E730D003)

Date: 12/26/1944
End date: 12/27/1944
Location: Worms, Germany
Description: Circular, fiery ball; triangle of ovals three circular, reddish-blue in color, vivid lights, looking like flames, in a tight inverted triangle formation. (Page 104-106 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_232

Event 1736 (77437B3E)

Date: 12/27/1944
Location: Luneville, France
Description: Two sets of three red and white lights. (Page 107-108,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_233

Event 1737 (ECDAE633)

Date: 12/27/1944
Location: Unknown City, France
Description: Orange lights, singly and in pairs, suspended in air, moving slowly before disappearing. (Page 108 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_234

Event 1738 (D8643659)

Date: 12/28/1944
Location: Neuwied / Koblenz, Germany
Description: A green ball about six inches in diameter; motionless and did not appear to have anything supporting it. (Page 108 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_235

Event 1739 (1930813E)

Date: 12/28/1944
Location: Ardennes, Belgium
Description: Large white light; no radar contact; went straight up at a tremendous speed; disappeared. (Page 108-110 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_236

Year: 1945 (Back to Top)

Event 1740 (5BE54D44)

Date: 1945
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_84

Event 1741 (49621FA4)

Date: 1945
Location: New Jersey
Description: (Approximate date.) Radar signals secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2 according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. Lee.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_85

Event 1742 (EB070EC9)

Date: 1945
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
Description: Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using 70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the “Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_208
See also: 1947

Event 1743 (40EB14EE)

Date: 1945
Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town. (Magonia #52, Atic) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_240

Event 1744 (B92BD63F)

Date: 1945
Location: Hanford Nuclear Plant, WA
Description: Hanford Nuclear Plant, Washington, (M) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 450000
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_241

Event 1745 (B7B5A718)

Date: 1945
Location: Okinawa (near), Guam
Description: Nr. Okinawa, G (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 450000
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_242

Event 1746 (7ABBB44E)

Date: 1945
Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
Description: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_52

Event 1747 (963FD17C)

Date: 1/1945
Location: Unknown City, Germany
Description: Another 415th Night Fighter Squadron pilot was followed by three red and white lighted objects over Germany. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_243

Event 1748 (986301D4)

Date: 1/1945
Location: Lemuria
Description: Ray Palmer edits, rewrites, and publishes Richard S. Shaver’s description of the cave-dwelling Dero for the March 1945 issue of Amazing Stories under the title “I Remember Lemuria.” The issue sells out and generates quite a response. Between 1945 and 1949, many letters arrive attesting to the truth of Shaver’s claims tens of thousands of letters, according to Palmer. The correspondents claim that they, too, have heard strange voices or encountered denizens of the Hollow Earth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard Sharpe Shaver”; Richard S. Shaver, “‘I Remember Lemuria,’” Amazing Stories 19, no. 1 March 1945: 12–70; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 137–144; Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “The Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria Part 1,” July 4, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_674

Event 1749 (F831EA99)

Date: 1/1/1945
Location: Ardennes, Belgium
Description: Pair of fog lights; bright yellowish orange; flying in tandem; three feet in diameter. (Page 114-117 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_244

Event 1750 (9A553517)

Date: 1/1/1945
End date: 1/2/1945
Location: Strasbourg (north of), France
Description: Foo fighters. (Page 131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_245

Event 1751 (B23091BB)

Date: 1/2/1945
Locations: Netherlands; Northern Germany
Description: 2:30 a.m. USAAF Lieut. Jack Green and navigator Lieut. Warren Barber, 653rd Bombardment Squadron, are conducting a reconnaissance flight in a Mosquito over the Netherlands and northern Germany when they encounter two balls of fire on three occasions pacing their plane. Barber describes them as a “pair of fog lights, shooting up to 60 or 70,000 feet.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 114–116, 208–209
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_675

Event 1752 (FB76EEE0)

Date: 1/2/1945
Locations: New York Times; Rhine Valley [Germany]
Description: The New York Times publishes an article stating that the foo fighters are German weapons. Lieut. Donald J. Meiers of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron says he has been followed by foo-fighters twice. “A foo-fighter picked me up at 700 feet and chased me 20 miles down the Rhine Valley [Germany]. I turned to starboard and two balls of fire turned with me. I turned to the port side and they turned with me. We were going 260 miles an hour and the balls were keeping right up with us.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Balls of Fire Stalk U.S. Fighters in Night Assaults over Germany,” New York Times, January 2, 1945, pp. 1, 4; Strange Company 117–118
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_676

Event 1753 (7E0EA851)

Date: 1/2/1945
Locations: Pentagon; Paris
Description: Col. Clayton Lawrence Bissell, in the Pentagon’s Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence, sends SHAEF in Paris a classified message seeking an explanation for the red balls of fire pacing planes. No response has been located to date.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Clayton Lawrence] Bissell, [message], January 2, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_677

Event 1754 (A35D1684)

Date: 1/10/1945
Location: Iwo Jima, Japan
Description: An amber light pass parallel and at same altitude. (Page 125 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_246

Event 1755 (C8590DE0)

Date: 1/12/1945?
Time: 13:00?
Location: RHINE VALLEY, GERM
Description: J. Thompson / P51. 4-5 silvery football shapes. A common sight.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_525

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "200", HatchDesc: "RHINE VLY,GERM:J.THOMPSON/P51:4-5 SLVRY FOOTBALL SHAPES:a common sight", LatLong: "50.000002 8.000000", LatLongDMS: "50:00:00 N 08:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1756 (4A2C7622)

Date: 1/14/1945
End date: 1/15/1945
Location: Ingweiller, Germany
Description: A large orange glow in sky approx. 5 ft. in diameter. (Page 131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_247

Event 1757 (A58EE8CD)

Date: 1/16/1945
Description: Lt. Col. Leavitt Corning Jr. of the XII Tactical Air Command sends a secret memo to the assistant chief of air intelligence requesting further information on the “Night Phenomenon.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 126–127
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_678

Event 1758 (0119BBC8)

Date: 1/18/1945
Location: Vancouver Island, CAN
Description: Large silvery cylinder or balloon that appeared to discharge another balloon or object, each traveling in separate directions. (Page 132 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_248

Event 1759 (D12FBF2F)

Date: 1/20/1945
Location: Corning
Description: First Tactical Air Force Executive Officer Maj. Samuel V. Boykin responds to Corning asking for more particulars about the reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 127
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_679

Event 1760 (C7CA4C52)

Date: 1/22/1945
Time: 15:00
Location: NEAR HEYDEBRECK = KEDZIERZYN, POLAND
Description: Allied prisoners of war / ground. White football follows bomber / 18K'.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_526

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Poland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "nr HEYDEBRECK=KEDZIERZYN,POLAND:ALLIED POWS/GND:WHT FOOTBALL FOLOS BOMBER/18K'", LatLong: "50.350002 18.177779", LatLongDMS: "50:21:00 N 18:10:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "UPS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1761 (64B99645)

Date: 1/22/1945
Locations: German Heydebreck labor camp; Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland
Description: British prisoners being force-marched out of the German Heydebreck labor camp near modern Kędzierzyn-Koźle, Poland see a four-engine bomber overhead. Behind it is a “brilliant light” that is following it closely.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_680

Event 1762 (C15E66B7)

Date: 1/22/1945
Description: On this afternoon Allied POWs on the ground watched a white, football-shaped object following a bomber at 18,000 feet between Heydebreck and Kedzierzyn, Poland. On the same day there was an unexplained skyquake in Louisville, Kentucky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Jenny Randles, Science and the UFOs, p. 9; (2) George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 510, citing Tiffany Thayer, Doubt magazine, 1945, p. 172
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_405

Event 1763 (C29D9238)

Date: 1/29/1945
Location: Wissembourg and Landau bt., Germany
Description: Two amber colored lights about one foot in diameter. (Page 129,131 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_249

Event 1764 (4634D328)

Date: 1/30/1945
Locations: Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France; Landau, Germany
Description: 12:10 a.m. A 415th Night Fighter Squadron crew observes two amber-colored “lights in the air at 2,000 feet” between Wissembourg, Bas-Rhin, France, and Landau, Germany. They seem to be about a foot in diameter and 20–50 feet apart. The lights follow their Bristol Beaufighter, closing in to about 1,000 feet before disappearing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 129
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_681

Event 1765 (439B028F)

Date: 1/30/1945
Description: Capt. Fred B. Ringwald , intelligence officer for the 415 Night Fighter Squadron, responds to Corning’s January 16 request by offering a summary of 14 foo fighter reports from December 14, 1944, to January 29, 1945.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 129–132
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_682

Event 1766 (782C554E)

Date: 2/1945
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto: "Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945".
Type: ufological event
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_162

Event 1767 (C8AEF773)

Date: 2/1945
Location: Chemnitz, Germany
Description: Flying wing, giving off a yellowish-red intermittent glow. (Page 149 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_250

Event 1768 (A00EEDB2)

Date: 2/1945
Location: San Diego, California
Description: Meade Layne founds the Borderland Sciences Research Associates in San Diego, California, and publishes the first issue of its newsletter, The Round Robin. Working with local medium Mark A. Probert, who channels “etheric” entities from discarnates with advanced knowledge of spirit and cosmos, Layne and BSRA seek to explore the mysteries of the invisible world.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Borderland Sciences Research Associates, [History]; Clark III 876; Håkan Blomqvist, “Round Robin and Contactee History,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, March 30, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_683

Event 1769 (4036A93A)

Date: 2/1/1945
Location: Colmar, France
Description: Unusual green light & moving rapidly. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_251

Event 1770 (A791C6E6)

Date: 2/2/1945
Locations: Hanford; Los Alamos
Description: The first Hanford plutonium arrives at Los Alamos.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Atomic Heritage Foundation, “Atomic Timeline”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_684

Event 1771 (A16C2D50)

Date: 2/2/1945
Locations: Oranienburg, Germany; Gotha
Description: The first flight of the H.IX V2 is made in Oranienburg, Germany. All subsequent test flights and development are done by Gothaer Waggonfabrik in Gotha. By this time, the Horten brothers are working on a turbojet-powered design for the Amerika Bomber contract competition and do not attend the first test flight. The test pilot is Leutnant Erwin Ziller. Two further test flights are made in February. There are reports that during one of these test flights, the H.IX V2 undertook a simulated dogfight with a Messerschmitt Me 262, the first operational jet fighter, and that the H.IX V2 outperformed the Me 262. However, the Me 262 is considered by many as unsuitable for fighter missions, being slow in turning.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horton Ho 229”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_685

Event 1772 (7DEFB409)

Date: 2/4/1945
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Description: Two sightings: stationary object of tear-drop shape, resembling a balloon; shiny silver ball looking like a very bright weather balloon with a metal sheen. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_252

Event 1773 (09A8372F)

Date: 2/4/1945
Location: Dutch Coast, Holland
Description: One long black stationary object, similar to a small flak burst floating. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_253

Event 1774 (1E5FAABC)

Date: 2/7/1945
Locations: Ulithi Atoll; Caroline Islands
Description: Afternoon. Several F6F fighters on patrol one piloted by Ensign [Norman P. Stark](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50418180/norman-paul%5Fnorm%5F-stark) from the USS Wasp aircraft carrier anchored at Ulithi Atoll in the Caroline Islands are told to investigate a radar target at 30,000 feet some 10 miles west of the fleet. Before they can reach altitude, the object moves back to the west at high speed. They catch a brief visual glimpse of it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: LCDR Norman P. Stark, “A WWII F6F Navy Fighter Pilot’s Experiences in the Pacific,” Battle of Saipan, January 1, 2000
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_686

Event 1775 (C29FDE01)

Date: 2/8/1945
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Description: Silver-colored ball-like object changing stationary. (Page 59 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_254

Event 1776 (57EF819C)

Date: 2/8/1945
Location: Strasbourg (near), France
Description: Yellow light. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_255

Event 1777 (43466DA0)

Date: 2/9/1945
End date: 2/10/1945
Location: Riegel, Germany
Description: Very bright light moving slowly. (Page 133 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_256

Event 1778 (4DE3F439)

Date: 2/10/1945
Locations: Chicago; Washington
Description: The Chicago Tribune and Washington Times-Herald reveal Bill Donovan’s plans for a postwar intelligence agency and publishes a secret memo he has sent to Roosevelt proposing its creation. The article compares the proposed agency to the Gestapo. Knowing that Americans want a smaller federal government after the war, Roosevelt is not entirely sold on Donovan’s proposal, although Donovan feels reasonably confident that he can talk the president into the idea. J. Edgar Hoover disapproves of Donovan’s plan, which he sees as a direct threat to FBI authority, even though Donovan has stressed that his agency will operate only abroad, not domestically.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Walter Trohan, “Super-Spy Idea Denounced As New Deal OGPU,” Chicago Tribune, February 10, 1945, p. 1; Central Intelligence Agency, “Origins of CIA,” August 3, 2005; Mark Riebling, Wedge: From Pearl Harbor to 9/11, Simon & Schuster, 2002, pp. 59–61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_687

Event 1779 (04B368BC)

Date: 2/11/1945
Description: Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson, RAF assistant chief of staff A2, refers Ringwald’s report to the Air Ministry.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 133–134
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_688

Event 1780 (118107ED)

Date: 2/13/1945
Time: 19:10
Location: NEAR RASTATT, GERM
Description: Several USAAF pilots see 3 groups / night lights at 700M altitude. / Don Berliner and more/others.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_527

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr RASTATT,GERM:SVRL USAAF PILOTS see 3 GROUPS/NLTS @ 700M alt:/D.BERLINER++", LatLong: "48.850002 8.250000", LatLongDMS: "48:51:00 N 08:15:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "4"

Event 1781 (7388533D)

Date: 2/13/1945
End date: 2/14/1945
Location: Rastatt and Bishwiller bt., Germany
Description: Two sets of lights; separated after being attacked and then returned to original position. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_257

Event 1782 (6CF8AF1A)

Date: 2/14/1945
End date: 2/15/1945
Location: Freiburg, Germany
Description: String of lights & (1 red one in center, 4 white ones on each side) blinking off and on. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_258

Event 1783 (E45DE132)

Date: 2/15/1945
End date: 2/16/1945
Location: Pisa, Italy
Description: Multiple sightings: flare; flare that seemed to spiral. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_259

Event 1784 (84C07AD2)

Date: 2/15/1945
End date: 2/16/1945
Location: Viareggio, Italy
Description: Alleged jet; multiple spurts of flame; no radar return. (Page 136 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_260

Event 1785 (36E9DC14)

Date: Mid 2/1945
Locations: Biggs Field; Fort Bliss; El Paso, Texas
Description: As their C-47 prepares to land at Biggs Field, Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, S/Sgt Ralph Bayer is alarmed to see an aircraft approaching from the left and only 900 feet below them. The object is about 30 feet long and a dull, flat gray in color, and it travels in a straight course 500 feet above the ground until it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1178
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_689

Event 1786 (D24FAF81)

Date: 2/16/1945
Location: La Spezia, Italy
Description: Possible jet: dropped what looked like white flares; no radar contact. (Page 136- (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_261

Event 1787 (8DD4244A)

Date: 2/17/1945
Location: Po Valley (Central), Italy
Description: Observed two very bright lights appear directly in front of aircraft; fired upon without result. (Page 137 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_262

Event 1788 (2913863C)

Date: 2/17/1945
Location: Massa and Po Valley (Central), Italy
Description: Red ball of fire that did not appear to be Jet A/C. (Page 137 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_263

Event 1789 (B9E93E94)

Date: 2/17/1945
End date: 2/18/1945
Location: La Spezia, Italy
Description: Multiple sightings:(1) blinking light; (2) reddish white light going off and on in spurts, faded out during chase; (3) light, a glow alternating between weak and (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_264

Event 1790 (3B90E9E5)

Date: 2/18/1945
Location: Gotha, Germany
Description: Disaster strikes during the third test flight of the H.IX V2 in Gotha, Germany. Erwin Ziller takes off without any problems to perform a series of flight tests. After about 45 minutes, at an altitude of around 800 meters, one of the Jumo 004 turbojet engines develops a problem, catches fire and stops. Ziller is seen putting the aircraft into a dive and pulling up several times in an attempt to restart the engine and save the precious prototype. He undertakes a series of four complete turns at a 20° angle. Ziller does not use his radio or eject from the aircraft. He already is unconscious as a result of the fumes from the burning engine. The aircraft crashes just outside the boundary of the airfield. Ziller is thrown from the aircraft on impact and dies from his injuries two weeks later. The prototype aircraft is completely destroyed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horton Ho 229”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_690

Event 1791 (757D4E03)

Date: 2/21/1945
Location: Po Valley, Italy
Description: Alleged flares: cluster of 11 or more colored flares that remained motionless; cluster of 15 orange balls of fire. (Page 139-140 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_265

Event 1792 (BA1128F4)

Date: 2/21/1945
Location: Piacenza, Italy
Description: Two large red balls of fire; hovering. (Page 140 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_266

Event 1793 (26077B9E)

Date: 2/22/1945
Location: Leghorn (near), Italy
Description: Three lights red-orange in color that did not appear to be flares. (Page 141 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_267

Event 1794 (136672AA)

Date: 2/22/1945
Locations: Chichijima; Ogasawara (Bonin) Archipelago, Japan
Description: Night. A B-24 bomber flying near Chichijima in the Ogasawara Bonin Archipelago, Japan, sees an object trailing exhaust. It is also picked up on radar and follows the plane for about 20 miles before disappearing off the screen.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_691

Event 1795 (9F0E7493)

Date: 2/27/1945
Location: Bologna, Italy
Description: Chased three lights in shape of triangle observed; no radar contact. (Page 141-142 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_268

Event 1796 (10BE0AE4)

Date: 3/1945
Location: BRENNER PASS, AUSTR-ITL
Description: Small extremely fast white night light attaches / wing / military plane. Matches maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_528

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BRENNER PASS,AUSTR-ITL:SML XFAST WHT NLT ATTACHES/WING/MIL.PLANE:MATCHES MNVRS", LatLong: "47.000002 11.516667", LatLongDMS: "47:00:00 N 11:31:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TRL", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1797 (FC1CB2BA)

Date: 3/1945
Location: BELFAST, ME
Description: Saucer flies slow / tilt. Hits trees. Lands. Hums on takeoff. Silvery threads.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_529

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "31", HatchDesc: "BELFAST,ME:SCR FLIES SLO/TILT:HITS TREES:LANDS:HUMS ON TAKEOFF:SLVRY THREADS", LatLong: "44.422224 -69.016670", LatLongDMS: "44:25:20 N 69:01:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1798 (3850BA6D)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Admiralty Islands (near), At Sea
Description: (IFO-Venus) Sailors and Marines on the Battleship U.S.S. New York near the Admiralty Islands at 1:00 p.m. saw through binoculars and radar detected an object hovering overhead at about 20,000 feet. (Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 203, March 1985.) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0)
Reference: NICAP: 450300
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_269

Event 1799 (4657BC01)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Belfast, ME
Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. (Magonia #53, FS May., 59) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_270

Event 1800 (96A10260)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Unknown City, NM
Description: Object aluminum colored, 12 to 14 feet off ground, motionless ,swept away like dragonfly. (Page 142-143 Ref.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_271

Event 1801 (C94D123B)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Aleutian Islands, At Sea
Description: Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship. (Magonia #54, Evidence 30) [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, IV] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_272

Event 1802 (4C892457)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Belfast, Maine
Description: A man out hunting observed an elongated object flying very slowly, tilted toward the earth. It crashed into some trees at the end of a clearing. The enormous craft seemed undamaged as it rested briefly on the ground, then lifted again with a humming sound, started to spin, released a shower of fine silvery threads, and rose straight up, disappearing in seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS May., 59 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_53

Event 1803 (DEAD8729)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Aleutian Islands
Description: Aboard the US attack transport "Delarof," 14 sailors saw a dark sphere rise out of the ocean, follow a curved trajectory, and fly away after circling their ship.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Evidence 30 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_54

Event 1804 (C2D578F0)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: The K-25 gaseous diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, begins production.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “K-25”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_692

Event 1805 (431BD4F1)

Date: 3/1945
Location: wooded area near Belfast, Maine
Description: A man is squirrel hunting in a wooded area near Belfast, Maine, when he sees a huge, elongated object just above the trees. He runs after it, thinking it is a dirigible about to crash. The object crashes into the trees at the far edge of a clearing, splitting a huge pine tree down the middle. He smells burned rubber. The object seems to be as big as several B-36 bombers. As he stands there stunned, the lowest end of the craft begins to rise and he hears a humming sound of increasing intensity. After it rises to a horizontal position, it begins to spin faster and faster and the hum becomes very intense. Suddenly one end spews a shower of fine, silvery threads that glint in the sunlight. The object begins to change to a white metallic color and it takes off straight up at fantastic speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “I Saw a Flying Saucer,” Flying Saucers, May 1959, pp. 6–18, 78; Clark III 1178–1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_693

Event 1806 (B8E6CB38)

Date: 3/1945
Location: Barto, Pennsylvania
Description: Ray Palmer travels to Barto, Pennsylvania, and spends a weekend with Richard Shaver and his wife. He witnesses Shaver’s channeling trances and the different voices describing the cavern world that he generates during his sleep.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Richard Sharpe Shaver”; Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 137–144; Clark III 872, 1069; Richard Toronto, War over Lemuria: Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Strangest Chapter of 1940s Science Fiction, McFarland, 2013; David Halperin, “The Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria Part 1,” July 4, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_694

Event 1807 (F364A4F0)

Date: 3/3/1945
Location: Misburg, Germany
Description: Two balloon-like silver balls. (Page 143 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_273

Event 1808 (853FD063)

Date: 3/5/1945
Location: Either Holland or North Germany, Germany
Description: Two sightings: (1) large orange ball hanging in air; (2) similar ball that was moving horizontally at same altitude. (Page 145 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_274

Event 1809 (5A84DBCB)

Date: 3/9/1945
Location: North Fresian Islands, Germany
Description: Three lights; had the appearance of white flares dropped in air; called foo fighters. (Page 145-146 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_275

Event 1810 (3F75AE7F)

Date: 3/10/1945
Locations: Washington State; Hanford site of the Manhattan Project
Description: A Japanese Fu-Go balloon strikes a high-tension wire on the Bonneville Power Administration in Washington State. The balloon causes sparks and a fireball that results in the power being cut. Coincidentally, the largest consumer of energy on this power grid is the Hanford site of the Manhattan Project, which suddenly loses power. The officer in charge at Hanford, Col. Franklin Matthias, says “it shut down the plant cold, and it took us about three days to get it back up to full power again.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Franklin Matthias, “Japanese Balloon Bombs Fu-Go,” Atomic Heritage Foundation, August 10, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_695

Event 1811 (D643ADE8)

Date: 3/12/1945
Locations: Rhine River; Friedrichroda, Germany; Gothaer Waggonfabrik (Gotha)
Description: Nearly a week after the US Army launches Operation Lumberjack to cross the Rhine River, the Ho 229 is included in the Jäger-Notprogramm Emergency Fighter Program for accelerated production of inexpensive “wonder weapons.” The prototype workshop is moved to the Gothaer Waggonfabrik Gotha in Friedrichroda, Germany. In the same month, work commences on the third prototype, the Ho 229 V3.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Horton Ho 229”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_696

Event 1812 (47CF2DD7)

Date: 3/13/1945
Location: Bologna, Italy
Description: Two sightings: (1) 100 hundred balls of orange fire; (2) two balls of foo fire. (Page 147 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_276

Event 1813 (3895E373)

Date: Mid 3/1945
Location: Unknown City, New Guinea
Description: Object, silver in color, very shiny & much larger than the brightest star; unaffected by gunfire; departed upward at a fantastic rate of speed . (Page 151-152 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_281

Event 1814 (3C15164B)

Date: 3/17/1945
Location: Germany
Description: Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a German target during the war
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_164

Event 1815 (059D7408)

Date: 3/18/1945
Location: Florence, Italy
Description: Chased light, no radar contact, then light disappeared. (Page 148 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_277

Event 1816 (B720EE02)

Date: 3/18/1945
Description: Grierson writes to Samuel V. Boykin that the Air Ministry thinks the fireballs are either Me-262’s or flak rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 147
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_697

Event 1817 (E043B915)

Date: 3/18/1945
Location: 25 miles northwest of Florence, Italy
Description: Night. A 416th NFS crew is flying a Mosquito 25 miles northwest of Florence, Italy. Suddenly a light is flying alongside them at 13,000 feet. It doesn’t appear on the radar screen. The pilot turns the plane toward the light, keeping on its tail, pursuing at 260 mph and climbing to 16,000 feet. Suddenly the light disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 148
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_698

Event 1818 (5607BB85)

Date: 3/19/1945
End date: 3/20/1945
Location: Speyer, Germany
Description: Saw 2 Foo fighters; one orange and one greenballl. (Page 148 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_278

Event 1819 (FEEBF953)

Date: 3/20/1945
Time: 00:50
Location: NEAR SPEYER, GERMANY
Description: Several USAAF pilots. 2 spheres. 1 orange and 1 green. / Don Berliner and Huneeus rp.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_530

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr SPEYER,GERMANY:SVRL USAAF PILOTS:2 SPHERES:1 ORG+1 GRN:/BERLINER+HUNEEUS rp", LatLong: "49.333336 8.416667", LatLongDMS: "49:20:00 N 08:25:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1820 (4ADD4923)

Date: 3/22/1945
Location: New Guinea
Description: 1:00 p.m. The USS New York is off New Guinea preparing to rejoin the Seventh Fleet. Gunner Cpl. Donald Pratt is preparing for a Japanese attack when he sees a shiny silver object hovering directly over the battleship. It remains stationary over the ship for 30 minutes and is tracked on ship radar. Two antiaircraft guns fire on the object, but it does not move or seem affected. Capt. Kemp C. Christian Sr. orders the guns to stop. Immediately the object shoots up and away at a fantastic rate of speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 151–152
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_700

Event 1821 (2099FB21)

Date: 3/23/1945
Location: Bergamo/Ghedi, Italy
Description: 2 balls of foo fire. (Page 150 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_279

Event 1822 (19575812)

Date: 3/23/1945
Location: Germersheim, Germany
Description: Stationary airborne object. (Page 150 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_280

Event 1823 (C910FA91)

Date: 3/24/1945
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Description: Multiple sightings: yellow ball of fire about 6 inches in diameter; orange and red flashes; six white balls of fire; grayish ball of fire about size of soccer ball; red ball of fire. (Page 152-153 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_282

Event 1824 (49217BAF)

Date: 3/25/1945
Time: ~22:00
Location: SOUTH / DARMSTADT, GERM
Description: 30 soldiers. 6-7 orange 1M disks maneuver / trees by camp. Slow and silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 48)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_531

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "6", HatchDesc: "S/DARMSTADT,GERM:30 GIs:6-7 ORG.1M DISKS MNVR/TREES by CAMP:SLOW+SLNT:", LatLong: "49.833336 8.666667", LatLongDMS: "49:50:00 N 08:40:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HSS", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1825 (6C16458C)

Date: 3/25/1945
Location: Mannheim and Darmstadt bt., Germany
Description: Six or seven circular, yellowish-orange objects, solid color, and brightness; apparently individually controlled. (Page 153-154 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_283

Event 1826 (5310F4E3)

Date: Late 3/1945
Location: Dresden, Germany
Description: At least two residents of Dresden, Germany, see a round, flat, silver-colored object without propellors or wings hovering silently in the air. It suddenly disappears like a “burst soap bubble.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Weltrundschau,” Weltraumbote, no. 32/22 July/Aug. 1958: 14–15; Clark III 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_699

Event 1827 (EE5D79DE)

Date: 3/25/1945
Locations: Mannheim; Darmstadt, Germany
Description: Around 10:30 p.m. Company A of the US 44th Armored Infantry Battalion is bivouacked on a hill along the Autobahn between Mannheim and Darmstadt, Germany, when 6–7 circular, glowing, yellow-orange objects approach at 150 feet, roughly following the road. They are not in strict formation and seem individually controlled. John G. Norris recalled that after 5–6 minutes they are hidden by the trees.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 153– 154
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_701

Event 1828 (CDD8092C)

Date: 3/26/1945
Time: 22:00?
Location: IWO JIMA, JPN
Description: Night lights follow fighter. 200+RADAR blips going southwest / 650 kts. Chase. Nothing seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: http://www.project1947.com/fig/1945a.htm
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_532

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "IWO JIMA,JPN:NLTS FOLO FIGHTER:200+RDR BLIPS >SW/650 kts:CHASE:nothing seen", LatLong: "26.500001 128.000006", LatLongDMS: "26:30:00 N 128:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RYU", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1829 (F8A72DFE)

Date: 3/26/1945
Location: Iwo Jima, Japan
Description: During an air operation, Lieut. Calvin P. Lamb pilot, Lieut. James G. Holmes radar observer, and Sgt. John W. McIsaac gunner notice lights on an airborne object. The lights follow them through a few turns but move away as the crew orbits north of Iwo Jima, Japan. They give chase, obtaining a slight target on the aircraft radar, then the object pulls out of sight. A similar lighted object is again seen March 28 by Lieut. William F. Sill pilot, Flight Officer George W. Hayden radar observer, and PFC William Brasvell gunner.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_702

Event 1830 (A58E2A23)

Date: 3/26/1945
Description: On this evening several lights followed a night fighter aircraft from the 549th NFS squadron over Iwo Jima, Japan, made a few turns, and had slight radar returns.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947, citing the 549th NFS History
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1669

Event 1831 (B26F67F8)

Date: 3/26/1945
Description: In the Ruhr Valley, Germany a pink sphere (3' in diameter) passed a RAF Spitfire XI fighter from the 541th Squadron at 340 mph at 11:00 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 7, citing Jan Aldrich, Project 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1670

Event 1832 (A52E606F)

Date: 3/27/1945
Location: Germany
Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_165

Event 1833 (5561B986)

Date: 4/1945
Time: 08:00?
Location: OVER LINZ, AUSTRIA
Description: Solid crystal ball paces B24 12M from gunner's window.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_533

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "ovr LINZ,AUSTRIA:SOLID CRYSTAL BALL PACES B24 12M from GUNNER'S WINDOW", LatLong: "48.316669 14.300001", LatLongDMS: "48:19:00 N 14:18:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "UPA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1834 (97671209)

Date: 4/1945
Locations: Okinawa, Japan; Ryukyu Islands
Description: During operations around Okinawa, Japan, the radar crew on the aircraft carrier USS Independence frequently notices strange radar returns that move at slow speeds 30–70 mph. Aircraft and destroyers sent to search for them never find anything. These radar ghosts are usually detected 25–30 miles away at an altitude of 1,500 feet, but occasionally 3,500 feet. The primary diagnostic for these false returns is their speed. The Navy nicknames them the “ghost of Nansei-shoto” after the Japanese name for the Ryukyu Islands, of which Okinawa is one.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 183–186
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_703

Event 1835 (216EB3C2)

Date: 4/1945
Location: Lemuria
Description: Ray Palmer publishes a second story by Richard Shaver , “Thought Records of Lemuria,” in the June issue of Amazing Stories. Here it is revealed that Shaver’s knowledge of the cave world and Lemuria isn’t really a “racial memory,” as the first story had asserted. Shaver, working in a factory, heard voices speaking to him, apparently through his welding gun.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard S. Shaver, “Thought Records of Lemuria,” Amazing Stories 19, no 2 June 1945: 16–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_704

Event 1836 (40B5F17C)

Date: 4/3/1945
Location: Kawasaki, Japan
Description: The records of the 20th Air Force reveal that as early as this date, flying from the Marianas on a night incendiary mission, some crews reported "Balls of Fire followed our aircraft." (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_284

Event 1837 (2C9F3E64)

Date: 4/3/1945
End date: 4/4/1945
Location: Honshu, Japan
Description: Multiple balls of fire sightings: size of basketball; streamer of light behind the ball of fire; ball of fire emitting a steady phosphorescent glow; wing in connection with ball of fire &; amber colored searchlight; stream of fire emanating from object, twelve inches in diameter, followed through evasive action. (Page 157-158 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_285

Event 1838 (91B3A1DA)

Date: 4/3/1945
End date: 4/4/1945
Locations: US; Honshu, Japan
Description: US B-29 bombers over Honshu, Japan, encounter numerous balls of light tagging along with them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 157–159
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_705

Event 1839 (3C35332C)

Date: 4/7/1945
Time: 10:00
Location: NORTH SEA
Description: Bombing raid. Fuselage dives / 1000 planes. Stops / midair. Shoots going up / 2000mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 250)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_534

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "12", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "NORTH SEA:BOMBING RAID:FUSELAGE DIVES/1000 PLANES:STOPS/MIDAIR:SHOOTS↑/2000mph", LatLong: "52.000002 2.500000", LatLongDMS: "52:00:00 N 02:30:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSE", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1840 (E860A652)

Date: 4/7/1945
Location: North Sea, At Sea
Description: A wingless object, able to stop in mid-flight and travel thousands of miles per hour. (Page 158-159 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_286

Event 1841 (3C2B4A6F)

Date: 4/7/1945
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Description: Ball of fire changing colors; orange to red. (Page 161 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_287

Event 1842 (4FB5F318)

Date: 4/7/1945
Location: Göttingen, Germany
Description: Walter and Reimar Horten, German designers associated with wingless aircraft, are arrested by US troops near Göttingen, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lance Cole, Secret Wings of World War II: Nazi Technology and the Allied Arms Race, Pen & Sword, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_706

Event 1843 (03BB0D96)

Date: 4/10/1945
Locations: Jeffersontown, Kentucky; Fisherville
Description: 11:00 p.m. James L. Hendry sees from his porch in Jeffersontown, Kentucky, a bright light that seems to be directly above Fisherville, 3 miles to the east. Its brightness fluctuates and it seems to be moving directly toward his location, casting a light beam downward. After 10 minutes, it goes out “like a snuffed candle.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Meteor?” Louisville Times, April 14, 1945; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_707

Event 1844 (79E961FB)

Date: 4/10/1945
Locations: Manhattan Project; US
Description: As part of the Manhattan Project, 18 people in the US are injected with plutonium in doses ranging from 95 to 5,900 nanocuries without their knowledge or consent. The intent is to study how plutonium is absorbed into the digestive tract. The last experiment is conducted on July 18, 1947.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Unethical human experimentation in the United States”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_708

Event 1845 (67845251)

Date: 4/12/1945
End date: 1/20/1953
Location: Washington DC
Description: President Harry S. Truman in office
Type: historical event
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_163

Event 1846 (1B0E9C5D)

Date: 4/12/1945
Location: Warm Springs, Georgia
Description: Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry S. Truman is sworn in as president.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_709

Event 1847 (F365F0A2)

Date: 4/17/1945
Location: Pacific
Description: Maj. Gen. James P. Hodges writes a memorandum to Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, saying that infrared devices are now available to take photographs of “balls of fire” in the Pacific.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_710

Event 1848 (6E9BCB76)

Date: 4/18/1945
Description: There were two radar-visual UFO reports on this day from the Far East near Iwo Jima. At three o'clock in the morning ground control radar made radar contact with an unknown radar target over the Pacific Ocean at a distance of 18 to 8 miles from the island. The gunner in a P-61B "Black Widow" aircraft attached to the 549th NFS squadron saw a yellow, star-like light approach and lose altitude. Radar contact was then lost. The gunner saw a second light, but no radar contact was made with it. At 4:15 a.m. Ground control again made radar contact with a target. The gunner of a P-61B plane saw a reddish, round light. Contact on the radar screen showed two blips engaging in evasive action, which soon outdistanced the P-61, one of the fastest propeller driven aircraft of its time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2103

Event 1849 (431AD26A)

Date: 4/20/1945 (approximate)
Time: 18:00
Location: RENEVE, FR
Description: Priest. 17cm perfect midget / grey hair and beard runs into forest. / r30p48.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_535

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NFO: No craft seen, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "RENEVE,FR:PRIEST:17cm PERFECT MIDGET/GRY HAIR+BEARD RUNS into FOREST:/r30p48", LatLong: "47.405558 5.416667", LatLongDMS: "47:24:20 N 05:25:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Côte-d'Or", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1850 (ED260FF5)

Date: 4/20/1945
Time: 21:30
Location: DAXIAN, SICHUAN, CH
Description: 30cm white fireball flies east going west. Slow enough to run outside and see..
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_536

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "DAXIAN,SICHUAN,CH:30cm WHT FBL FLIES E>W:slow enough to run outside+see..", LatLong: "31.366668 107.450005", LatLongDMS: "31:22:00 N 107:27:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SCH", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1851 (202DABDD)

Date: 4/20/1945
Description: A priest gathering mushrooms near Reneve, France around 6 p.m. saw a 17 cm tall midget with gray hair and a gray beard. It popped up less than a foot away and ran off into the forest. The tiny being wore dark-red coveralls with a pointed helmet.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Henry-Jean Besset, Phenomenes Spatiaux, September 1975, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2150

Event 1852 (AC2C8AD5)

Date: 4/22/1945
Locations: Okinawa, Japan; Two miles
Description: The USS Lewis Hancock is northeast of Okinawa, Japan, when the SG radar picks up an unidentified target at 6 miles heading their way at 70–115 mph. Its movements are erratic. Two miles out, the ship identifies a “tight formation of more than fifty birds.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 184
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_711

Event 1853 (6F906CAA)

Date: 4/24/1945
Location: Okinawa, Japan
Description: The USS Audubon is headed for Okinawa, Japan, with US Army passengers and equipment. Radar operators pick up “unidentified aeroplanes” heading their way. The screens show a blip, alternately fuzzy and strong, some 8 miles away headed down the starboard side at 25 mph. Still, nothing can be seen visually, and the radar operator suggests that it is a flock of birds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 184–186
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_712

Event 1854 (B9CAF60F)

Date: 4/25/1945
Locations: Berchtesgaden, Germany; Kaiserslautern, Germany; Bavarian Alps; England
Description: 9:45 a.m. Acting Squadron Leader Kit Francis Williams of the RAF 617 Bomber Squadron is flying a Lancaster with 25 other aircraft to bomb Hitler’s headquarters at Berchtesgaden, Germany, in the Bavarian Alps. Just after a turn near Kaiserslautern, Germany, at 16,500 feet, Williams witnesses an object like a large woolly blanket that takes up his entire windshield. He thinks it could be as much as 4–5 miles wide. It moves vertically and is gone in an instant. Suddenly his aircraft loses its electrical power and loses one of its bombs. He and his bomber and engineer get severe headaches. They return to base in England after regaining power.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keith Basterfield, “Observation by Pilot over Germany, 1945,” Unidentified Aerial Phenomena—Scientific Research, November 14, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_713

Event 1855 (125E8092)

Date: 4/26/1945
Description: Gen. Curtis LeMay’s XXI Bomber Command’s Air Intelligence staff produces a 5-page report representing the most up-to-date information and theories on the balls of fire but cannot find a good explanation for them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 162–163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_714

Event 1856 (FF1C9124)

Date: 5/1945 (approximate)
Time: 10:30
Location: ST. JAMES, MO
Description: 10M metallic disk over garage. Pseudo-human/entity / dome! Hums. Follows terrain going away.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 26)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_537

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "332", HatchDesc: "St.JAMES,MO:10M MTLC DISK ovr GARAGE:PSH/DOME!:HUMS:folos terrain going away", LatLong: "37.994446 -91.616671", LatLongDMS: "37:59:40 N 91:37:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1857 (C4EE8C87)

Date: 5/1945
Location: EVERY US B29 BASE IN MARIANAS ISLANDS
Description: Fireballs maneuver and follow bombers. Often far out to sea.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 184)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_538

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "12", Duration: "3", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "EVERY US B29 BASE in MARIANAS Isls:FBLS MNVR+FOLO BOMBERS:often far out to sea", LatLong: "15.000001 145.000007", LatLongDMS: "15:00:00 N 145:00:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SPC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1858 (690FEE18)

Date: 5/1945
Locations: Leonstein, Austria; Linz, Austria
Description: German scientist Viktor Schauberger , who has been using inmates from the Mauthausen concentration camp to help him develop new aircraft and submarine engines, is captured by Allied forces in Leonstein, Austria. Supposedly his devices and documents, which allegedly include a prototype flying saucer, are kept under lock and key. He is released in March 1946 and moves to Linz, Austria, but the Americans do not confiscate his workshop and laboratory materials, although they prohibit him from further military experimentation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Nazi UFOs”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_715

Event 1859 (34CA7E92)

Date: 5/2/1945
Location: Fala Island, Truk Atoll
Description: Two airborne objects & red circles of light (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 450502
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_288

Event 1860 (E40854EE)

Date: 5/3/1945
Time: ~03:00
Location: FALA ISLAND, TRUK
Description: B29 crew. 2 red circles pace B24 through complex maneuvers going [to] Guam. 1 turns back.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_539

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "44", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "FALA Isl,TRUK:B29 CREW:2 RED CCLs pace B24 THRU CMPLX MNVRS>GUAM:1 turns back:", LatLong: "7.500000 151.783341", LatLongDMS: "07:30:00 N 151:47:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SPC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1861 (311F2BD6)

Date: 5/3/1945 (approximate)
Time: ~19:00
Location: EASTERN PFALZERWALD, GER
Description: Pilot / 415th Squadron. 5 orange fireballs / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation. No further details. / r168p84.
Type: sighting
Reference: Book: De TURRIS, G. & FUSCO, S.: OBIETTIVO sugli UFO (1975) pg. 37. per Edoardo Russo. Gives 03MAY45 date for Eastern Pfalzerwald FBL incident.
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_540

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "EASTERN PFALZERWALD,GER:PILOT/415th SQDrn:5 ORG FBLS/DLT-FORMn:NFD:/r168p84", LatLong: "49.250002 8.000000", LatLongDMS: "49:15:00 N 08:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RHP", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1862 (32B97558)

Date: 5/3/1945
Locations: Truk Atoll; Micronesia; Fala Island
Description: Early morning. Nine B-24’s with the 11th Bombardment Group’s 431st Squadron are heading out on a bombing mission against Japanese air installations on Truk [now Chuuk] Atoll in Micronesia. One plane over Fala Island sees two objects at their altitude of 11,000 feet, changing from cherry red to orange then white, then dying out and turning cherry red again. Both follow the B-24 through all sorts of evasive actions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “B-24 Sights Circles of Light,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 2 September 1998: 8; Strange Company 163–165; NICAP, “May 2, Truk Atoll Sighting”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_716

Event 1863 (B3508E55)

Date: 5/3/1945
Description: In the predawn hours a US Army Air Force B-24 bomber flying over Fala Island in the Truk Atoll, the Pacific Ocean encountered two objects with red circles of light, changing color from cherry-red to orange to white lights, and then back to cherry again; they followed aircraft for over an hour while the bomber performed evasive maneuvers; there were no airborne radar returns picked up from the objects. On this evening five orange spheres flying in a triangular formation were sighted by a 415th NFS fighter pilot east of Pfalzerwald, Germany.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 8; (2) Richard Hall, From Airships to Arnold: A Preliminary Catalogue of UFO Reports in the Early 20th Century (1900-1946), p. 25: Keith Chester, Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in World War II, p. 163
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2463

Event 1864 (F29F199C)

Date: 5/5/1945
Locations: Gearhart Mountain; Bly; Southern Oregon; Tokyo, Japan
Description: A pregnant woman, Elsie Mitchell, and five children are killed when they discover a Japanese Fu-Go balloon bomb that has landed in the forest of Gearhart Mountain near Bly in southern Oregon. Wikipedia, “[Fu-Go](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb\#Single%5Flethal%5Fattack) [balloon bomb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go%5Fballoon%5Fbomb\#Single%5Flethal%5Fattack)” May 23 and 25 — Night. In the wake of two B-29 raids on Tokyo, Japan, both nights, businessman Iomoyo Okado looks up from his air raid shelter and sees slow-moving “roundish objects, like hot cakes, about 20 square yards” in diameter, and silent. They are blue or gray in color.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Hot Cakes’ over Tokyo in 1945,” St. Joseph Mo. News-Press, July 12, 1947, p. 6; Clark III 503
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_717

Event 1865 (EC389D28)

Date: 5/7/1945
Time: ~07:00
Location: B17 / PORT LYAUTTEY GOING QUICKLY [TO] DAKAR, SINGLE
Description: Several observer(s). Shiny metal saucer seen several times. Hovers.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUTLEDGE, Harley D. Ph.D.: PROJECT IDENTIFICATION; Prentice-Hall, NJ 1981. (Index 250)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_541

Extra Data: Country: "Sahara", Credibility: "9", Duration: "44", HatchDesc: "B17/PORT LYAUTTEY>>DAKAR,SNGL:SVRL OBS:SHINY MTL SCR SEEN SVRL TIMES:HVRS", LatLong: "24.500001 -12.000001", LatLongDMS: "24:30:00 N 12:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MAU", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1866 (3EF1966F)

Date: 5/7/1945
Description: Several observers on a morning flight on a B-17 between Port Lyauttey, Mauritania and Dakar, Senegal sighted a shiny metallic saucer seen several times; it hovered.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, p. 250
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2611

Event 1867 (9017AA70)

Date: 5/14/1945
Location: Nagoya, Japan
Description: Red or flame-colored light, constant position, same size as B-29 landing light. (Page 166 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_289

Event 1868 (D78789D6)

Date: 5/23/1945
Time: 23:40?
Location: TOKYO, JP
Description: Japanese and USAF. 15' grey metal saucers chase B29s / bombing raids. Fast and maneuverable.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 60)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_542

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "TOKYO,JP:JAPANESE+USAF:15'GRY MTL SCRS CHASE B29s/BOMBING RAIDS:FAST+MNVRBLE", LatLong: "35.700002 139.766673", LatLongDMS: "35:42:00 N 139:46:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1869 (92319CFE)

Date: 5/25/1945
Location: Atlantic Ocean, At Sea
Description: In early morning on a sunny day with intermittent clouds, a B-17 bomber was en route from Morocco to Dakar, Senegal. A silvery disc or ellipse was observed opposite the sun position, estimated to be 5 to 10 miles distant. The object paced the aircraft, hovering at times. (Ref. 3; Harley D. Rutledge, Project Identification, 1981, p. 251.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_290

Event 1870 (AEE34960)

Date: 5/25/1945
End date: 5/26/1945
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Description: Fireball follows a B-29 of the 39th Bombardment Group for 50 miles (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 450525-26
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_291

Event 1871 (5B1F9FC0)

Date: 6/1945 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: OKINAWA
Description: Plane crew. 3 disks orbit large cylinder/cylindrical object. Enter cylinder/cylindrical object and cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly [to] going [to] away. / Letter going [to] NICAP.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_543

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "OKINAWA:PLANE CREW:3 DISKS ORBIT LRG CYL:ENTER CYL+CYL >>> away:/Letter>NICAP", LatLong: "26.683335 127.733339", LatLongDMS: "26:41:00 N 127:44:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OKN", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1872 (2F562D1B)

Date: 6/1/1945
Description: The Army Air Force approves a Northrop-recommended change for installing eight jet engines in each of two modified YB-35 piston-driven flying wings, which are redesignated YB-49s.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-49”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_721

Event 1873 (98095E86)

Date: 6/1/1945
Locations: Morganton, North Carolina; Lake James
Description: 7:30 p.m. A shiny, tubular object, 5–6 feet long, is observed over Morganton, North Carolina. It streaks toward the northwest, blue flame shooting from the rear. After it vanishes in the mountains near Lake James, witnesses hear an explosion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Mystery of Unidentified Flying Objects—A Prelude, 1896–1949 , The author, 1971, p. 156
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_722

Event 1874 (41F0DD88)

Date: 6/5/1945 (approximate)
Time: 14:00
Location: MARSHALL TO/FROM/BETWEEN CAROLINE ISLANDS
Description: 25+observer(s). 60M silver balloon follows military V-ship / 5 hours. 35k' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 185)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_544

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "11", Duration: "44", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "MARSHALL<>CAROLINE Isls:25+OBS:60M SLVR BALLOON FOLOS MIL. V-SHIP/5hrs:35k'alt", LatLong: "9.000000 -160.000008", LatLongDMS: "09:00:00 N 160:00:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ISL", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1875 (9C3D728D)

Date: 6/9/1945
Locations: Pacific Theatre; Truk
Description: XXI Bomber Command Air Intelligence issues an Air Intelligence Report on the balls of fire in the Pacific Theatre. The Truk sighting is attributed to an unknown Japanese experimental aircraft, though not a jet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 177–180
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_723

Event 1876 (5AE1B868)

Date: 6/18/1945
Location: Unknown City, Japan
Description: A fluctuating light round in shape that changed from bright red, to dim orange. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_292

Event 1877 (5ACB9ACD)

Date: 6/19/1945
Location: Unknown City, Japan
Description: B-29 followed by strong white light. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_293

Event 1878 (35713161)

Date: 6/19/1945
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: One bright ball of fire; no fuselage or any wings. (Page 180 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_294

Event 1879 (817C7A9F)

Date: Summer 1945
Location: Hanford, WA
Description: Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers. These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above 42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the unknown craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: "Alien Base", Timothy Good, page 152 (photos)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_86

Event 1880 (2721DCB5)

Date: Summer 1945
Location: Aleutian Islands, At Sea
Description: Crew saw large round object emerging from sea; 150-20 feet in diameter; object circled ship; three white flashes observed in direction object departed. (Page 188- 189 Ref.1) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_295

Event 1881 (499B6068)

Date: Summer 1945
Location: Long Beach, California
Description: After 5:00 p.m. Future ufologist Ann Druffel is on a bus returning from her summer job in Long Beach, California, when she sees out of the left-hand window a bright, stationary, yellowish-white light in the northeastern sky. It looks like Venus but has a yellow color. She gets off the bus and still watches it, walking home. Soon she sees it is moving slowly to the northwest. She gets her mother to view it as well. Druffel thinks it is too high to be a coastal defense balloon. Druffel watches it for 90 minutes, after which it takes on some “activity.” Some 10–15 pieces of light begin separating from it, fading from view after moving several diameters away from the large object.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ann Druffel, “UFO Sightings by UFO Researchers: The ‘Inaccessible Cases,’” MUFON UFO Journal, no. 139 September 1979, pp. 14–15; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 Summer 2004: 3–4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_718

Event 1882 (031DCEE4)

Date: Summer 1945
Location: Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Description: Future ufologist Illobrand von Ludwiger sees an object like a black plate, whose diameter is one-eighth that of the Moon, flying against the wind below the clouds, in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, p. 357
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_719

Event 1883 (9FA002DE)

Date: Summer 1945
Locations: Adak; Aleutian Islands; Alaska
Description: Radioman Robert S. Crawford and 13 other sailors aboard the US Army Transport Delarof see a large, dark sphere rise out of the ocean east of Adak in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. The UFO, showing darkly against the setting sun, climbs almost straight up for a few moments, then it arcs into level flight, and circles the ship two or three times. All the observers are convinced it is a large object. Crawford estimates the UFO is 150–250 feet in diameter. The gun crews hold their fire. After several minutes, it disappears to the south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Large Object Emerges from Sea near the Delarof”; “The Question of Submerging UFO’s,” UFO Investigator 4, o. 5 March 1968: 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_720

Event 1884 (5C4CFC09)

Date: 6/26/1945
Location: New York City
Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on 10/24/1945
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_166

Event 1885 (0EFD3B4C)

Date: 7/1945
Location: Hanford AEC Plant, WA
Description: UFO over AEC plant tracked by radar, F84's scrambled (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 450700
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_296

Event 1886 (E67905C8)

Date: 7/1945
Locations: Tinian; Northern Marianas; Japan; Iwo Jima
Description: The 9th Bombardment Group on Tinian in the Northern Marianas: “During our night missions in June and July a UFO phenomenon was reported. Our air crews started sighting balls of fire, i.e., glowing objects about the size of a full moon which flew around in the vicinity of our flying patterns over Japan. One of our crews reported that one of the objects followed their airplane halfway to Iwo Jima. I saw them on two missions. I don’t remember any reports of any hostile action by these objects and the reports of sightings stopped after a couple of months. The object of these reports was dismissed by some experts as the planet Venus. And, after these reports started coming in, some crews did mistake the rising full moon as one of these balls of fire. Some reports speculated that these balls of fire were exhausts from a Japanese development called a Baka Bomb, but exhaust flames can only be seen from the rear; and these objects appeared to have the same size and intensity in whatever direction they were traveling. I have never heard of any official assessment as to what these objects were. I had an occasion to ask General LeMay about them several years after the war and he had no explanation. I am sure that what I saw was neither Venus nor the moon nor a Baka Bomb.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p. 24; Henry C. Huglin, “Group Commander’s Reminiscences,” in Lawrence S. Smith, et al., History of the 9th Bombardment Group VH, 9th Bomb Group Association, 1995, pp. 27–28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_724

Event 1887 (1E075738)

Date: 7/1945
Locations: northern Okinawa, Japan; South China Sea
Description: In northern Okinawa, Japan, on a bluff looking toward the South China Sea, Artillery Capt. William A. Mandel sees a cigar-shaped object with a lighted tail moving at eye level at about 200 –300 mph at an elevation of no more than 400 feet. He estimates its length at 30–40 feet and its diameter at 6–8 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_725

Event 1888 (EC614E20)

Date: 7/1945
Locations: Selfridge Field; Selfridge Air National Guard Base; Mount Clemens, Michigan
Description: When several balloon-shaped objects appear above Selfridge Field [now Selfridge Air National Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, the base commander asks for a volunteer to attack them as possible Japanese balloon bombs. Jean Kisling, serving with a Free French Air Force detachment as an instructor on P-47 Thunderbolts, accepts the challenge. He chases one “well beyond the service ceiling of the P-47D” and opens fire with 8 machine guns. The object shoots away sideways on edge, leaving a contrail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, p. 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_726

Event 1889 (07A4F14A)

Date: 7/1/1945
Description: The Air Technical Service Command is moved into T-2 Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_727

Event 1890 (9381FCA2)

Date: 7/2/1945
Location: Unknown City, Japan
Description: Several balls of fire much larger than supercharger glow, but of somewhat the same color. (Page 182-183 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_297

Event 1891 (C1795BC1)

Date: 7/4/1945
Location: Yokohama (near), Japan
Description: "After coming away from our bomb drop, we saw the UFO's. I especially recall seeing two groups of them in single file. One group of six were lower than we were and coming towards us from the front, their heading taking them off to or left. The other group was more distant and headed in the opposite direction, but were at about our level. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 450704
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_298

Event 1892 (705BECA8)

Date: 7/7/1945
Location: Sasebo, Japan
Description: Foo fighter; a big ball of fuzzy orange-red light; B-29 fired on object, appearing to hit with no affect. (Page 186 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_299

Event 1893 (C704EC28)

Date: 7/12/1945
Location: Honshu, Japan
Description: Light Phenomenon.Spotted enemy aircraft apparently trailed by large orange light traveling with it at same speed. (Page 186-187 Ref.1) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_300

Event 1894 (5FF2598F)

Date: 7/15/1945?
Time: ~12:00
Location: HANFORD, WA
Description: RADAR-visual (observation). Huge red saucer / RADAR / 20km altitude. 6 6F6s can't reach. / LDLN#343+/ r150.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 344)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_545

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "74", HatchDesc: "HANFORD,WA:RDR-VIS:HUGE RED SCR/RDR/20km alt:6 6F6s CANT REACH:/LDLN#343+/r150", LatLong: "46.583336 -119.400006", LatLongDMS: "46:35:00 N 119:24:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1895 (621B1E99)

Date: Mid 7/1945
Location: Unknown City, WA
Description: Object was very bright and had saucer-like appearance; was the size of three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color; Hovered in fixed position and then went straight-up and disappeared. (Page 188 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_301

Event 1896 (73A9E855)

Date: Mid 7/1945
Locations: Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington; Hanford facility
Description: Noon. Pilot Rolan D. Powell and five other F6F Hellcat pilots at Naval Air Station Pasco, Washington, are scrambled after radar reports a fast-moving object over the nearby Hanford facility. They see a bright object with a saucer-like appearance at. It is the size of three aircraft carriers, side-by side, oval shaped, very streamlined like a stretched-out egg and, and pinkish in color. It hovers in a fixed position at 65,000 feet and then goes straight up and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Huge Saucer over Nuclear Reactor—Radar/Visual”; Strange Company 188; Patrick Gross, “Alleged UFO Intercept Attempt at Hanford Nuclear Plant, July 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_729

Event 1897 (8C5D5995)

Date: 7/16/1945
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile Range)
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_167
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 18.6

Event 1898 (A90E9A2D)

Date: 7/16/1945
Time: 05:40
Location: TRINITY SITE, NM (WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS)
Description: 1st a-bomb test successful.
Type: sighting
Reference: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ( various, unreferenced. ) (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_546

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "15", Duration: "15", Elev: "1409", HatchDesc: "TRINITY SITE,NM (WHITE SANDS Prv Gnds):1ST A-BOMB TEST SUCCESSFUL. ", LatLong: "33.694446 -106.472227", LatLongDMS: "33:41:40 N 106:28:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1899 (07FB2A07)

Date: 7/16/1945
Time: 11:29:21.0
Location: 33.6753 -106.4747
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Trinity” Yield: 21KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_0

Extra Data: LatLong: "33.6753 -106.4747", LatLongDMS: "33:40:31 N 106:28:29 W", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.03", NukeName: "Trinity", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "21"

Event 1900 (0E75F973)

Date: 7/16/1945
Locations: Trinity site; White Sands Missile Range; Alamogordo, New Mexico
Description: The first detonation of a nuclear weapon an implosion-style plutonium-based bomb takes place at the Trinity site on what is now the White Sands Missile Range near Alamogordo, New Mexico. At this time, the bomb’s price tag, adjusted for inflation, is $28 billion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Trinity (nuclear test)”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_728

Event 1901 (772B2B68)

Date: 7/20/1945
Time: 10:50
Location: HOUDAIN, FR
Description: Fast silent metallic cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast. Shoots flames / front. No trail. Surface glows.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 156)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_547

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "HOUDAIN,FR:FAST SLNT MTLC CGR>>SE:SHOOTS FLAMES/FRONT:NO TRAIL:SURFACE GLOWS", LatLong: "50.450002 2.550000", LatLongDMS: "50:27:00 N 02:33:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pas-de-Calais", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1902 (C181CD12)

Date: 7/20/1945?
Time: 17:00
Location: LONG BEACH, CA
Description: Ann Druffel. Night lights exit large object / high altitude. Finally going west. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v37#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 140)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_548

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "LONG BEACH,CA:ANN DRUFFEL:NLTS EXIT LRG OBJ/hi alt:FINALLY >W:/FSR v37#4", LatLong: "33.800002 -118.183339", LatLongDMS: "33:48:00 N 118:11:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1903 (19C0EFA6)

Date: 7/20/1945
Description: The Joint Chiefs of Staff establish Operation Overcast, a forerunner to Project Paperclip, a secret recruitment program to aid in postwar military research. The Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency is established to conduct the operation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Paperclip”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_730

Event 1904 (5D19F8DE)

Date: 7/20/1945
Description: At 10:50 a.m. a fast moving, silent cigar-shaped object flew over Houdain, France. Its surface was glowing, it had flames shooting from its front, and it left no contrail.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, p. 156
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4219

Event 1905 (2A7A89DA)

Date: 7/24/1945
Description: President Truman discloses to Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that the United States has atomic weapons. Stalin feigns little surprise, since he already knows this through espionage.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Gene Dannen, “Truman Tells Stalin, July 24, 1945”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_731

Event 1906 (CDCBBD80)

Date: 8/1945 (approximate)
Time: ~22:00
Location: SOUTHEAST / ADAK ISLAND, AK
Description: 60M sphere/orb/globe going up / sea. Circles ammunition ship Delarof. Going quickly south. 3 flashes. / r242p129.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_549

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SE/ADAK Isl,AK:60M ORB ↑/SEA:CCLS AMMO SHIP DELAROF:>>S:3 FLASHES:/r242p129", LatLong: "51.666669 -176.000008", LatLongDMS: "51:40:00 N 176:00:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1907 (3CBB2099)

Date: 8/1945 (approximate)
Time: 22:00?
Location: VETIS, ROMANIA
Description: Farmers. 1M glowing-clouds follow farm fences by border / Hungary.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 228)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_550

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "7", Duration: "174", HatchDesc: "VETIS,ROMANIA:FARMERS:1M GLOW-CLOUDS FOLO FARM FENCES by BORDER/HUNGARY", LatLong: "47.816669 22.750001", LatLongDMS: "47:49:00 N 22:45:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STM", Strangeness: "6"

Event 1908 (34F1F9FB)

Date: 8/1945
Time: ~23:50
Location: VILCANESTI, ROMANIA
Description: Train stops. Big sphere/orb/globe lights whole station area. Going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOBANA Ion & WEVERBERGH,Julien: UFO'S from BEHIND the IRON CURTAIN; Bantam Books,1975. 308pp. (Index 228)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_551

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Romania", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "VILCANESTI,ROMANIA:TRAIN STOPS:BIG ORB LITES WHOLE STATION AREA:>W", LatLong: "44.350002 23.950001", LatLongDMS: "44:21:00 N 23:57:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OLT", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1909 (FE3E230E)

Date: 8/1945
Location: Okinawa, Japan
Description: Cigar-shaped, metallic, and without markings or visible openings, and 35 to 50 feet in length. (Page 189-190 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_302

Event 1910 (513A1514)

Date: 8/1945
Description: The Army Signal Security Agency persuades ITT, RCA, and Western Union to continue the wartime cable intercept program, both foreign and domestic, now called Project SHAMROCK. No courts, no warrants. It remains secret from Congress and the President.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Project SHAMROCK”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_732

Event 1911 (D2776CD2)

Date: 8/1945
Location: lake Längelmävesi, Finland
Description: 5:00 a.m. Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, staying in a sauna along lake Längelmävesi, Finland, wakes up and sees a 35-foot dazzling ball of fire streaking in her direction along the opposite shore. She throws herself to the floor, but when nothing happens she looks outside and sees a big dog, frozen in terror, its gaze fixed on the lake and a dark log-like object, 6 feet long, gliding through the water with a tall, slender man at the prow. He is dressed in a green coverall. On the other side another man sits steering an engine enclosed within a big glass bulb.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ilona Johansson- Paasonen, “Humanoideja Längelmävedellä?” Vimana 1970, no. 3/4, pp. 22–24; Ilona Johansson-Paasonen, “Humanoids at Längelmävesi,” FSR Case Histories 13 February 1973: 3–4; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_733

Event 1912 (266169CA)

Date: 8/5/1945
Time: 23:16:02.0
Location: 34.3947114 132.4543816
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “littleboy” Yield: 15KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1

Extra Data: LatLong: "34.3947114 132.4543816", LatLongDMS: "34:23:41 N 132:27:16 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "littleboy", NukeSource: "TCARTER", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "15"

Event 1913 (E16B69BF)

Date: 8/6/1945
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_168
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 16

Event 1914 (468C2247)

Date: 8/6/1945
Time: 08:10
Location: HIROSHIMA, JAPAN
Description: 1st a-bomb in warfare destroys city.
Type: sighting
Reference: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ( various, unreferenced. ) (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_552

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDR: Radar traces/blips, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "15", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "HIROSHIMA,JAPAN:1ST A-BOMB IN WARFARE DESTROYS CITY:", LatLong: "34.400002 132.450006", LatLongDMS: "34:24:00 N 132:27:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1915 (E84BB529)

Date: 8/6/1945
Locations: Hiroshima, Japan; Enola Gay
Description: 8:15 a.m. An atomic bomb a fission weapon containing 64 kilograms of Uranium-235, Little Boy is detonated 1,900 feet above Hiroshima, Japan, by the Enola Gay. The weapon is considered very inefficient, with only 1.7% of its material fissioning, but it is enough to obliterate the city. Some 78,000 people die instantly or immediately afterward in the firestorm. By the end of the year, another 25,000 will also sicken and die from radiation exposure.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_734

Event 1916 (2E755083)

Date: 8/7/1945
Location: Hanford Engineer Works in Washington
Description: During a press conference with the Seattle Times, Col. Franklin Matthias, officer in charge at the Hanford Engineer Works in Washington, admits the plant has had problems with aerial intrusions, but that radar has been installed and an arrangement made with the Navy to intercept any unidentified aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “UFOs over Hanford: Commander R. W. Hendershot”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_735

Event 1917 (25C19C0D)

Date: 8/9/1945
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_169
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 21

Event 1918 (7BC53FE5)

Date: 8/9/1945
Time: 11:00
Location: NAGASAKI, JAPAN
Description: Plutonium bomb destroys city. 2nd of 2.
Type: sighting
Reference: GENERAL KNOWLEDGE ( various, unreferenced. ) (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_553

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "15", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "NAGASAKI,JAPAN:PLUTONIUM BOMB DESTROYS CITY:2nd OF 2:", LatLong: "32.800002 129.883340", LatLongDMS: "32:48:00 N 129:53:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1919 (285D14A1)

Date: 8/9/1945
Time: 01:58:00.0
Location: 32.7731273 129.8617014
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “fatman” Yield: 21KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_2

Extra Data: LatLong: "32.7731273 129.8617014", LatLongDMS: "32:46:23 N 129:51:42 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "fatman", NukeSource: "TCARTER", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "21"

Event 1920 (38210C24)

Date: 8/9/1945
Locations: Nagasaki, Japan; Urakami Valley
Description: 11:01 a.m. Another atomic bomb an implosion-type plutonium weapon, Fat Man is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, by Bockscar . Although the bomb is more powerful than the one used on Hiroshima, its effects are confined by hillsides to the narrow Urakami Valley. At least 35,000–40,000 people are killed, and 60,000 others are injured.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_736

Event 1921 (B983D886)

Date: 8/10/1945?
Time: 22:00?
Location: 950KM ESE / KYUSHU, JPN
Description: USS Bradford. Red-white glowing-object going quickly south / 5000kph. 90° turn going quickly west and quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_554

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "950km ESE/KYUSHU,JPN:USS BRADFORD:RED-WHT GLOW-OBJ >>S/5000kph:90°TURN>>W+↑↑", LatLong: "28.000001 141.500007", LatLongDMS: "28:00:00 N 141:30:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1922 (C69A6446)

Date: 8/10/1945
Locations: East Paterson [now Elmwood Park], New Jersey; Clifton, New Jersey
Description: 3:00 a.m. Pianist Doris La Fountain is driving home along Market Street after finishing a concert at a night club in East Paterson [now Elmwood Park], New Jersey. She is accompanied by music store proprietor Thomas Brino and James Shaw of Clifton, New Jersey. For about 5 minutes they watch a brilliant red and green rectangular object maneuver at ground level about 70 feet away. It shoots off into the sky and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Seeing Saucer Sweet Music to a Pianist,” New York Daily News, September 8, 1957, Passaic-Bergen Sec., p. 22; Lore and Deneault, p. 145
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_737

Event 1923 (621CC3CC)

Date: 8/16/1945
Location: San Antonio, NM
Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_170

Event 1924 (0BC9BE56)

Date: 8/16/1945
Location: San Antonio, New Mexico
Description: A UFO allegedly crashes near San Antonio, New Mexico, and is discovered by Jose Padilla, 9, and Remigio Baca, 7, when they are looking for a cow. The crashed saucer has created a gouge, and they can see entities moving around inside. They collect two shiny metal parts from the periphery of the crash site. A recent analysis shows that the metal is of terrestrial origin.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Paola Leopizzi Harris, “The Reme Baca and Jose Padilla Witness Case,” The UFO Chronicles, November 30, 2010; John Greenewald, “Analysis of Two Metallic Parts Purportedly from a Crashed Unidentified Aerial Object San Antonio, New Mexico, August 16, 1945,” The Black Vault, February 1, 2017; Jacques Vallee and Paola Leopizzi Harris, Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret, StarWorksUSA, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “Trinity: The Best Kept Secret —A Critique,” A Different Perspective, June 2, 2021; Jacques Vallée, “The Other Lessons of Trinity,” Trinity blog, December 6, 2021; Kevin D. Randle, “Jacques Vallée and Ten Unexplained UFO Cases and Metallic Debris,” A Different Perspective, December 16, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_738

Event 1925 (83DBBAF9)

Date: 8/21/1945
Locations: Manhattan Project; Omega Site; Los Alamos Laboratory; New Mexico
Description: Manhattan Project physicist Harry Daghlian is conducting an after-hours experiment at the remote Omega Site of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico when his hand slips. The test assembly he has built—a ball of plutonium surrounded by tungsten carbide bricks—goes critical. He sees a momentary blue flash and is struck by a wave of gamma and neutron radiation amounting to more than 500 rem. He disassembles the experiment, walks away, and admits himself to medical care. He falls into a coma and dies on September 15, the first person to die accidentally from close exposure to nuclear fission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Adam Higginbotham, Midnight at Chernobyl, Simon & Schuster, 2019, pp. 30–31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_739

Event 1926 (44F46E41)

Date: 8/22/1945
Location: Moscow, Russia
Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic bomb effort
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_171

Event 1927 (45376E36)

Date: 8/28/1945
Location: NEAR IWO JIMA, JAPAN
Description: L. Stringfield and 12 observer(s). 3 white teardrops pace Army Air Force (AAF) C46. / r215p52.
Type: sighting
Reference: STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_555

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr IWO JIMA,JAPAN:L.STRINGFIELD+12 OBS:3 WHT TEARDROPS PACE AAF C46:/r215p52", LatLong: "33.000002 139.833340", LatLongDMS: "33:00:00 N 139:50:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "IWJ", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1928 (402F6769)

Date: 8/28/1945 (approximate)
Time: 05:00
Location: LANGELMAYESI, FINL
Description: 10M fireball going [to] lake toward(s) pier. Observer(s) hides. Strange boat and 2 men land.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 138)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_556

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "LANGELMAYESI,FINL:10M FBL > LAKE twrd PIER:OBS HIDES:STRANGE BOAT+2 MEN LAND", LatLong: "61.500003 24.250001", LatLongDMS: "61:30:00 N 24:15:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1929 (8A226031)

Date: 8/28/1945
Location: Iwo Jima (near), At Sea
Description: C-46 had engine trouble, lost altitude, as three UFOs were observed from plane. [2.] (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_303

Event 1930 (EF9C8E70)

Date: 8/28/1945
Locations: Iwo Jima; Ogasawara Islands, Japan
Description: Twelve 5th Air Force intelligence specialists flying on a C-46 approaching Iwo Jima in the Ogasawara Islands, Japan see three white, teardrop-shaped objects paralleling the plane. Navigational needles go wild, the engine sputters, and the plane falters until the objects speed away. One of the passengers is future UFO investigator Leonard Stringfield.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stringfield, Situation Red, Fawcett Crest, 1977, pp. 9–10; Strange Company 191–193, 209–211; NICAP, “C-46 Encounters Objects / Magnetic Compasses ‘West Wild’”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_740

Event 1931 (B1DDBBE7)

Date: 8/28/1945
Description: On this day Leonard H. Stringfield was flying to Iwo Jima island onboard a U.S. Army Air Force C-46 shortly after the end of the war with Japan. Three luminous lights began to follow his C-46 transport plane as they approached the island in the Pacific. The plane's engines faltered, its magnetic compass failed, and its engines temporarily stopped. There were thirteen military witnesses on board. Len Stringfield became a life long UFO investigator as a result of this encounter.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 7; NICAP UFO Investigator, December 1965, p. 3; Leonard H. Stringfield, Situation Red: The UFO Siege, p. 9; J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5404

Event 1932 (83A307EA)

Date: 8/28/1945
Description: At five o'clock in the morning two women in Langelmayesi, Finland noticed a dark cylindrical object. Inside the prow of object stood a slender man in green coveralls, and another man who was apparently steering the craft inside a glass dome. Their Black Labrador dog reacted in terror.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 138
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5405

Event 1933 (1FA884CA)

Date: 9/1945
Location: Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan
Description: A stationary bluish-whitelight, about the size of a dime at arms length, move and then return to original position. (Page 195-196 Ref.1) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_304

Event 1934 (20101CB7)

Date: 9/1945
Locations: Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts; Fort Bliss, Texas; White Sands, New Mexico
Description: The first group of seven German rocket scientists arrive at Fort Strong in Boston harbor, Massachusetts, through Operation Overcast: Wernher von Braun , Erich W. Neubert, Theodor A. Poppel, August Schultze, Eberhard Rees , Wilhelm Jungert, and Walter Schwidetzky. By the end of the year, they and two other groups are moved to Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands, New Mexico, as “War Department Special Employees.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Paperclip”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_741

Event 1935 (3C6C7B6A)

Date: 9/1945
Locations: Los Alamos, New Mexico; Oxnard Field, New Mexico; Wendover Field [now Airport], Utah; Sandia Base [now part of Kirtland AFB]; Kirtland Field
Description: The US Army atomic bomb production unit, Z Division, named for its director, Jerrold R. Zacharias from Los Alamos, New Mexico, moves to Oxnard Field, New Mexico, from Wendover Field [now Airport], Utah, to be closer to Los Alamos. This marks the beginning of Sandia Base [now part of Kirtland AFB]. Nearby Kirtland Field is used as a B-29 base for aircraft compatibility and drop tests. By October, all the staff and facilities at Wendover are transferred to Sandia. As reservist officers are demobilized, they are replaced by about 50 hand- picked regular officers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Manhattan Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_742

Event 1936 (9603EFB9)

Date: 9/1945
Description: Policy adviser Ferdinand Eberstadt writes for Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal a report recommending a complete realignment of national security organizations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Eberstadt Report”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_743

Event 1937 (514F37D2)

Date: 9/2/1945
Description: End of WW2
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_172

Event 1938 (665BA570)

Date: 9/20/1945
Description: The OSS is dissolved by Executive Order, effective October 1, scattering personnel through the Departments of State and War. The Research and Analysis Branch is transferred to the State Department. The War Department takes over Secret Intelligence SI and Counter Espionage X2, which are rolled up into the Strategic Services Unit SSU headed by Brig. Gen. John Magruder, the former OSS Deputy Director of Intelligence who oversees the OSS liquidation. Most of the other personnel are cashiered.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office of Strategic Services”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_744

Event 1939 (327261B3)

Date: 9/24/1945 (approximate)
Time: 04:00
Location: DRAGUIGNAN, FR
Description: Glowing saucer near ground. Beams light / ground. Observer(s) dizzy. Sheep run. / r156#13.
Type: sighting
Reference: LDLN CONTACT LECTEURS: by Series and #. May'68 -JAN'72 (Entire set of 18 issues) LDLN local chapters & individual members' UFO reports. (Index 52)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_557

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "DRAGUIGNAN,FR:GLOWING SCR nr GND:BEAMS LITE/GND:OBS DIZZY:SHEEP RUN:/r156#13", LatLong: "43.533335 6.483334", LatLongDMS: "43:32:00 N 06:29:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Var", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1940 (29B2BF2A)

Date: 9/26/1945?
Location: Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan
Description: Night. Machinist Mate First Class George M. Reynolds, attached to the submarine tender USS Beaver with Submarine Squadron 45, anchored in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. He is on the main deck when he sees a bluish light move to the south, turn right, go over to the west, stop, and stand still. When it moves again, it goes back to the general area it started from.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Strange Company 195–196
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_745

Event 1941 (609683B4)

Date: 10/1945
Location: Langley, VA
Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_173

Event 1942 (FCE5160E)

Date: 10/1945
Locations: Bryan; Stryker, Ohio
Description: 8:00 p.m. While driving a car between Bryan and Stryker, Ohio, Gerald M. Kryling and his wife Thelma approach a bright light about 50 feet in the air and 20 feet from the road near some high-tension wires. It appears to be a 35-foot oval object with an amber-colored opening like a window that has shadows moving around inside. It takes off horizontally at great speed and then moves straight up.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: CUFOS case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_746

Event 1943 (539336C1)

Date: 10/2/1945
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_174
Rocket type: V-2

Event 1944 (CE140A6C)

Date: 10/9/1945
Description: Brig. Gen. George C. McDonald, AAF director of intelligence, writes to Maj. Gen. Elwood Richard Quesada in answer to a request for the investigation into wartime “balls of fire.” Exhaustive investigations of German technical personnel and US and UK sources reveal no confirmation of German involvement with the phenomena.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Macdonald–Quesada correspondence , October 1945
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_747

Event 1945 (A1F9EE1C)

Date: 10/15/1945
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_175
Rocket type: V-2

Event 1946 (3A5E95A6)

Date: 10/24/1945
Location: New York City, New York
Description: United Nations charter in full force
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_176

Event 1947 (668B6611)

Date: 11/1945
Description: Operation Overcast is renamed Project Paperclip.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Paperclip”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_748

Event 1948 (20BADD12)

Date: 12/1945
Description: Lt. Col. Jo Chamberlin’s article on foo fighters appears in American Legion Magazine. Intelligence officers have ordered him not to state his military rank or position, but he is a special aide to Gen. Henry H. “Hap” Arnold .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jo Chamberlin, “The Foo Fighter Mystery,” American Legion Magazine 39, no. 6 December 1945: 9, 43–47; “Foo Fighter Archive Donated to UHR,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 17 December 2015: 2–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_749

Event 1949 (F80B73E4)

Date: 12/5/1945
Time: 15:50
Location: EAST / FT LAUDERDALE, FL
Description: 6 Army Air Force (AAF) planes disoriented. Frantic radio. Huge search loses more.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY; Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 293)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_558

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "30", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "E/Ft LAUDERDALE,FL:6 AAF PLANES DISORIENTED:FRANTIC RDO:HUGE SEARCH LOSES MORE", LatLong: "26.000001 -79.500004", LatLongDMS: "26:00:00 N 79:30:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1950 (91ADF844)

Date: 12/5/1945
Locations: Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Atlantic Ocean; Florida Keys; off the coast of Florida
Description: A training flight Flight 19 of five TBM Avenger torpedo bombers disappears while over the Atlantic Ocean. The squadron’s flight plan is scheduled to take them due east from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for 141 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 140-mile leg to complete the exercise. The flight never returns to base. A report by Navy investigators concludes that flight leader Lt. Charles C. Taylor mistook small islands offshore for the Florida Keys after his compasses stopped working, resulting in the flight heading over open sea and away from land. The report is later amended by the Navy to read “cause unknown” to avoid blaming Taylor for the loss of five aircraft and 14 men. One of the search-and-rescue aircraft deployed to look for them, a PBM Mariner with a 13-man crew, also disappears. The report attributes the loss of the PBM aircraft to an explosion in midair while searching for the flight. According to contemporaneous sources, the Mariner has a history of explosions due to vapor leaks when heavily loaded with fuel, as it might have been for a potentially long search-and-rescue operation. A tanker off the coast of Florida sees an explosion and a widespread oil slick when fruitlessly searching for survivors. The weather is becoming stormy by the end of the incident. None of the Avenger bombers have been found.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Flight 19”; Larry Kusche, The Bermuda Triangle Mystery— Solved, Harper & Row, 1975, pp. 97–122; Larry Kusche, The Disappearance of Flight 19 , Harper & Row, 1980
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_750

Event 1951 (64AD50EC)

Date: 12/5/1945
Description: On this fateful day six U.S. Army Air Force planes, which took off from Fort Lauderdale Naval Air Station, Florida disappeared into the Atlantic Ocean Bermuda Triangle. Flight 19, a formation of five TBM avengers became disoriented while flying northeast from Fort Lauderdale, and made increasingly frantic radio calls announcing they were lost and calling for assistance. A huge rescue search operation caused more aboard a Martin Mariner sea rescue plane to be lost.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Miami Herald, December 6, 1945; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 293; Ivan T. Sanderson, Invisible Residents, p. 125; Vincent H. Gaddis, Invisible Horizons, p. 175
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8192

Event 1952 (197F61CC)

Date: 12/25/1945
Time: 06:00?
Location: FAYETTEVILLE, NC
Description: Fireballs land / roof. House burns down. 2 escape. 5 kids gone without trace.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 261)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_559

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ABD: Human or animal abduction, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "73", HatchDesc: "FAYETTEVILLE,NC:FBLS LAND/ROOF:HOUSE BURNS DOWN:2 ESCAPE:5 KIDS GONE W/O TRACE", LatLong: "35.050002 -78.877782", LatLongDMS: "35:03:00 N 78:52:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "8", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "4"

Event 1953 (A973C97D)

Date: 12/25/1945
Description: During a blizzard a silver, domed object with a square base landed on the sea off the coast of Ireland. It was surrounded by purple lights, and made a whirring noise. Two beings with squarish shaped feet and wearing diver suits were seen walking on the surface of the water. The craft rose off the surface of the sea and landed in a field on a nearby island, crushing two cows when it came down.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0129, citing Northern Network News, December 1976
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8597

Year: 1946 (Back to Top)

Event 1954 (C9F8F9F5)

Date: 1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_87

Event 1955 (EA5F9030)

Date: 1946
Location: Antarctica
Description: Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition (Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost 1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won an Academy Award for best documentary.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_177

Event 1956 (1B774BFF)

Date: 1946
Location: Soviet Union
Description: Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the Soviet "Los Alamos" (Weapons design and research, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_178

Event 1957 (1ECDD46B)

Date: 1946
Location: Soviet Union
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_179

Event 1958 (E49B678A)

Date: 1946
End date: 1951
Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_180

Event 1959 (3E69235F)

Date: 1946
Description: The US nuclear stockpile consists of 9 atomic bombs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ryan Crierie, “U.S. Nuclear Stockpile, 1945–2009”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_751

Event 1960 (082DC687)

Date: 1946
Location: Istanbul, Turkey
Description: Dancers on the roof of a nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey, watch the rapid passage of four square-shaped lights, reddish in color and aligned side by side, moving from the east and disappearing in the west in less than 60 seconds. One witness, meteorologist and RAF pilot George Raymond Leatherbarrow, estimates their altitude at 50,000 feet based on reflections on cirrus clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: G. R. Leatherbarrow, “Two Early UFO Cases from the Middle East,” Awareness 5, no. 3 Autumn 1976: 4–5; Clark III 1177
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_752

Event 1961 (856F639A)

Date: 1946
Description: American astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot writes that he thinks Earth might make contact with Venusians, coming into “fluent communication by wireless with a race brought up completely separate, having their own systems of government, social usages, religions, and surrounded by vegetation and animals entirely unrelated to any here on earth.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Charles Greeley Abbot, The Earth and the Stars, Van Nostrand, 1946, p. 110; Roger D. Launius, “Venus-Earth-Mars: Comparative Climatology and the Search for Life in the Solar System,” Life 2, no. 3 2012: 255–273
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_753

Event 1962 (503FD69F)

Date: 1946
Locations: Westerham, Kent, England; Croydon
Description: A farmer named Gunyon in Westerham, Kent, England, calls the British Technical Intelligence staff asking that the Air Ministry come and remove one of these “darned contraptions” which has fallen on his farm. The intelligence officers ask for directions and are told to drive from Croydon to Westerham, turning onto a lane when they reach a pub called The White Dog. Amid great security, two staff cars are dispatched, but fail to find the farm. They locate a pub called The White Hart and a farmer named Bunyan, who strenuously denies having made the call. Although the incident appears to be a hoax, few people can reach the Technical Intelligence staff and convince them to make a field visit. Indeed, the intelligence officers believe that former Air Intelligence scientist Reginald Victor Jones, who has been skeptical of foo fighters and ghost rockets, is behind the affair. Jones writes that a signal is received from Gen. Douglas MacArthur’s staff in Tokyo, asking for confirmation of a report that a Russian flying bomb had recently crashed in England. The other Director of Intelligence on the Air Staff, Air Commodore Roland Eugene Vintras, suggests to Jones that this might tie in with the “Westerham Incident.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: R. V. Jones, Most Secret War, Hamish Hamilton, 1978, pp. 507–513; “UFO Britannia: Part 2—World War Foo and Post War Cover Ups,” Above Top Secret forum, December 19, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_754

Event 1963 (7F3C4264)

Date: 1/10/1946
Location: New Jersey
Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off Moon
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_181

Event 1964 (8407FD20)

Date: 1/10/1946
Location: Wright Field, Ohio
Description: The Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, issues a restricted-access document, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers by Capt. N. LeBlanc, detailing the drawings, photos, models, and documents relating to aircraft designed by Nazi aircraft designers the Horten brothers that were recovered in Germany by Allied forces.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: N. LeBlanc, German Flying Wings Designed by Horten Brothers, Air Material Command, Technical Intelligence summary report no, F-SU-1110-ND, January 10, 1946; H. P. Dabrowski, The Horten Flying Wing in World War II: The History and Development of the Ho 229, Schiffer, 1991; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Roswell and the Flying Wing,” IUR 18, no. 4 July/Aug. 1993: 3; John Powell, “The Horten Flying Wings,” War Bird Forum, July 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_755

Event 1965 (15926050)

Date: 1/16/1946
Time: 23:00
Location: NEAR CHERBOURG, FR
Description: Air Force C54 transport pilot. Odd meteor going down. Rebounds going up [to] and descends again.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 132)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_560

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr CHERBOURG,FR:AF C54 XPORT PILOT:ODD METEOR ↓:REBOUNDS ↑ +DESCENDS AGAIN.", LatLong: "49.633336 -1.616667", LatLongDMS: "49:38:00 N 01:37:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manche", Strangeness: "5"

Event 1966 (075D65B7)

Date: 1/18/1946
Locations: US; Paris, France
Description: 11:00 p.m. A US C-54 transport plane is at 7,000 feet over the French countryside on its way to Paris, France. Suddenly the pilot sees a brilliant “shooting star” about 35° above the horizon. It streaks down below the eastern horizon, then reappears and moves in a hyperbola before falling again.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_756

Event 1967 (BC7E4E80)

Date: 1/22/1946
Description: President Truman creates a National Intelligence Authority State, War, Navy, Chief of Staff, and a presidential representative with the DCI as a non-voting member for policy and coordination and a Central Intelligence Group for operations under it. Rear Adm. Sidney Souers heads the CIG as Director of Central Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “National Intelligence Authority”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_757

Event 1968 (A2257A93)

Date: 2/1946 (approximate)
Time: 00:20
Location: JOHANNESBURG, RSA
Description: 2 observer(s). Sphere/orb/globe passes through disk / 15M altitude. 2 pseudo-human/entity in dome. / r244#17.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 293)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_561

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death

Extra Data: Country: "Republic of South Africa", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "JOHANNESBURG,RSA:2 OBS:ORB PASSES THRU DISK/15M alt:2 PSH in DOME:/r244#17", LatLong: "-26.116668 27.916668", LatLongDMS: "26:07:00 S 27:55:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TRV", Strangeness: "8"

Event 1969 (A6396D49)

Date: 2/21/1946
Locations: west Finland; Västerbotten; Västernorrland; Kopparberg [now Dalarna]; Gävleborg; Uppsala; Östergötland; Skaraborg [now Västra Götaland]; Vaasa province, Finland
Description: 8:30 p.m. One or more meteors are seen in west Finland and the counties of Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Kopparberg [now Dalarna], Gävleborg, Uppsala, Östergötland, and Skaraborg [now Västra Götaland] in Sweden. It supposedly sets a farmhouse on fire in Vaasa province, Finland. It leaves a long trail of smoke in the sky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Archives for the Unexplained, “Case XXX: The Meteor That Did Not Start a Fire”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_758

Event 1970 (5AFB0C98)

Date: 2/26/1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_182

Event 1971 (EED55EE2)

Date: 3/1946
Description: The Air Technical Service Command becomes the Air Materiel Command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Materiel Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_759

Event 1972 (6C9C6577)

Date: 3/5/1946
Time: 19:30
Location: ARACARIGUAMA, BRZ
Description: Night light zaps man / beam. Flesh falls off! Dies. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v19#2+/ LDLN#138.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_562

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "902", HatchDesc: "ARACARIGUAMA,BRZ:NLT ZAPS MAN/BEAM:FLESH FALLS OFF!:DIES:/FSR v19#2+/LDLN#138", LatLong: "-23.433334 -47.066669", LatLongDMS: "23:26:00 S 47:04:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "São Paulo", Strangeness: "12"

Event 1973 (CA637E62)

Date: 3/5/1946
Locations: Tietê River; Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil; Santana di Parnaíba
Description: 6:00 p.m. João Prestes is returning on foot from a fishery on the banks of the Tietê River to his sister’s home in Araçariguama, São Paulo, Brazil. As he is entering the house, a light from outside strikes and envelopes him. He becomes dizzy and confused but manages to get up and go inside. He summons Araci Gomide, a nurse who has served in the military with him. Gomide describes his friend as being literally cooked, with his flesh detaching from his bones, injuries on his feet and ankles, and his feet clenched like the claws of a bird. His arms are burned and the flesh on his fingers is falling off. His chest, neck, and face also seem to be burned but not charred or red. Prestes dies on the way to a hospital in Santana di Parnaíba at 3:00 a.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 166–167; Brazil 17–21; Pablo Villarubia Mauso, “The Incredible Saga of João Prestes,” UFO Casebook
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_760

Event 1974 (1088081B)

Date: 3/5/1946
Description: Sr. Joao Prestes Filho, age 40, had anticipated an uneventful day of fishing in Aracariguama, Sao Paulo State, Brazil but he returned home at 7:30 p.m., terrified by his encounter with a beam of light that came from the sky and struck him without warning nor any noise. He went into his house saying that he had been hit by a silent beam of light, which stunned him and knocked him to the ground. A little while later his flesh looked like it had been cooked, as if it had been exposed to intense microwave energy, and started a rapid deterioration. He died from the effects.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Felipe Machado Carrion, FSR, March-April 1973, p. 14; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 124
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1307

Event 1975 (1300D3AB)

Date: 3/6/1946
Location: Pacific Coast Region, US
Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is deactivated
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_183

Event 1976 (E587E036)

Date: 3/6/1946
Description: The Western Defense Command is deactivated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Western Defense Command”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_761

Event 1977 (A151A25E)

Date: 3/14/1946
Locations: US Highway 136; Havana, Illinois
Description: Dusk. Paul Cummings Jr. is driving east on US Highway 136 about 10 miles east of Havana, Illinois, with Douglas Gowdy. A bright orange ball appears in the road about 1 mile ahead, gliding down the highway only one foot above the pavement and possibly touching both shoulders of the road. When it is within 2,000 feet, Cummings pulls the car over and stops, and they rush out to lie down in a ditch, fearing an explosion. When they look up again, the object is nowhere in sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, pp. 26–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_762

Event 1978 (22E68EFC)

Date: 3/14/1946
Description: Two men, Cummings and Gowdy, driving on a road in Havana, Illinois had a close encounter with a flying saucer at 5:00 a.m. The object buzzed their car ten miles east of town on Highway 136.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 26; Peter Rogerson, World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, case 157
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1468

Event 1979 (E069C90B)

Date: 3/15/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad 33
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_184

Event 1980 (6AE1A727)

Date: 4/1946
Alternate date: 5/1946
Locations: Country Club Road; Lafayette, New York
Description: Around 12:00 noon. Richard R. Hill and Stanley Ogdrzyiak are driving in an open convertible on the Country Club Road near Lafayette, New York. Suddenly they see a gleaming, metallic, cigar-shaped object in the sky. It remains motionless at 5,000–10,000 feet altitude, which at that height would make it 300–400 feet long. After 2 minutes, it disappears instantaneously.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Case 84,” CRIFO Newsletter 2, no. 3 June 3, 1955: 4; Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_765

Event 1981 (E029933A)

Date: 4/2/1946
Description: The Strategic Services Unit is transferred to the new Central Intelligence Group and becomes the Office of Special Operations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Strategic Services Unit”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_763

Event 1982 (EE0E97DA)

Date: 4/16/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching 5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to cutoff)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_185
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km

Event 1983 (E406C651)

Date: 4/20/1946
Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United Nations (UN)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_186

Event 1984 (B3A893FA)

Date: 4/25/1946
Location: Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario
Description: While ice fishing at Anima Nipissing Lake, Ontario, Don Cameron and his family watch 12–14 small disc- shaped objects descend at a 45° angle about 75 feet away. They come spinning down on the ice, rise 2 feet into the air, then come down again. Cameron walks toward them, and they ascend and shoot away at the same angle and direction. They find black marks on the snow and ice.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_764

Event 1985 (A640F40E)

Date: 5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_187

Event 1986 (EC57F7C6)

Date: 5/1946
Location: Angelholm, Sweden
Description: At twilight while walking home, a prominent industrialist saw a light in the woods and went to investigate. He saw a disc with dome and oval windows on the ground. Around it were about 11 beings with transparent helmets and uniform-like clothing apparently working on the craft. Later he saw the craft take off emitting bright red light, then speed away. Burned grass and other trace marks were found at the site. (Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1972.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_305

Event 1987 (27F82745)

Date: 5/1946
Location: LaGrange, FL
Description: A Navy gunnery and radar officer observed a dark elliptical object which moved slowly overhead, disappearing in a cloud bank. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, I] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_308

Event 1988 (9C779548)

Date: 5/1946
Locations: La Grange; Titusville, Florida
Description: Day. Navy Lieutenant Andrew A. Titcomb is on leave and picking oranges at his wife’s family home at La Grange, north of Titusville, Florida, when he hears a whistling noise and sees a dark “flying football” directly overhead at about 1,000 feet elevation moving at 125 mph. It appears 15–20 feet in diameter and flies in an arc to the southeast. It disappears in a cloudbank.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 6; Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_766

Event 1989 (EBEFB9A4)

Date: 5/10/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.6km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_188
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km

Event 1990 (BDFBC957)

Date: 5/13/1946
Location: Astrakhan Oblast
Description: Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_189

Event 1991 (06638ADB)

Date: 5/13/1946
Locations: Kaliningrad; Korolyov; Moscow; Russia
Description: The Soviets establish a rocket center called NII-88 [now TsNIIMash] at Kaliningrad [now Korolyov], Russia, northeast of Moscow. Missile designer Sergei Korolev is appointed chief designer of Section 3 on long-range missiles. Stalin declares Korolev’s name a secret, which it remains until his death in 1966. Russia keeps dozens of its captured German scientists here, working on special projects until 1955.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “TsNIIMash”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_767

Event 1992 (936918B6)

Date: 5/13/1946
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Description: A rocket is seen traveling over Helsinki, Finland, in a southwesterly direction at 1,000 feet. It supposedly moves at supersonic speed, emitting a magnesium-like light and a trail of smoke.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The Ghost Rocket File , Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_768

Event 1993 (98F8B73D)

Date: 5/18/1946
Time: 18:00?
Location: ANGELHOLM, SWD
Description: Domed saucer / ground. 11 pseudo-human/entity fix window. Observer(s) halted / gestures. / FSRv18#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_563

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, OPR: Operations on humans/animal mutilation/surgery, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "ANGELHOLM,SWD:DOMED SCR/GND:11 PSH FIX WINDOW:OBS HALTED/GESTURES:/FSRv18#2", LatLong: "56.244447 12.855556", LatLongDMS: "56:14:40 N 12:51:20 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "10"

Event 1994 (011B1968)

Date: 5/18/1946
Locations: Kronoskagen; Ängelholm, Sweden
Description: 10:45 p.m. Gösta Carlsson , later to become founder and owner of Cernelle AB, is walking in the forested area of Kronoskagen near Ängelholm, Sweden, when he sees a disc-shaped machine more than 50 feet in diameter. On the top is a cupola with oval windows, and beneath it are an oblong “fan,” two legs, a small ladder, and openings. A man dressed in a white, one-piece outfit gestures to Carlsson to stop. Two other occupants, three of them women, all wearing suits and transparent helmets, are nearby. One of the males points a boxlike device at the witness, who leaves the scene but returns by a different route 30 minutes later, just in time to see the UFO depart. A concrete model of the UFO is dedicated in 1963 as a memorial.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “UFO-Memorial Ängelholm”; Sven-Olof Fredrickson, “The Ängelholm Landing Report,” Flying Saucer Review 18, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1972: 15– 17; Anders Liljegren, “High-Quality Investigation of 1946 CEIII Case,” AFU Newsletter, no. 38 March 1995: 2–3; Clark III 528–529; Clas Svahn, “Gösta Carlssons möte,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, July 10, 2018; Håkan Blomqvist, “UFO-Sweden Memories: Ängelholm 1996,” Håkan Blomqvist’s Blog, July 1, 2020; Clas Svahn and Gösta Carlsson, Mötet i gläntan: Sveriges mest kända närkontakt med UFO, 3rd ed., Parthenon, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_769

Event 1995 (82506FD6)

Date: 5/21/1946
Location: Stora Mellösa, Sweden
Description: Two motorists report an elongated craft resembling a rocket or Zeppelin over Stora Mellösa, Sweden. One of the witnesses sees two short wings, although the other cannot see any despite watching the object for 5 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_770

Event 1996 (CDD50E50)

Date: 5/24/1946
Time: 02:20
Location: LANDSKRONA, SWD
Description: 3+observer(s). Fireball = 6M wingless cylinder/cigar-shape / 90M altitude shoots bursts / sparks. Going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_564

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "LANDSKRONA,SWD:3+OBS:FBL=6M WINGLESS CGR/90M alt SHOOTS BURSTS/SPARKS:>>SW", LatLong: "55.883336 12.833334", LatLongDMS: "55:53:00 N 12:50:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1997 (2B1C4E96)

Date: 5/24/1946
Location: Landskrona, Sweden
Description: 2:20 a.m. Witnesses in Landskrona, Sweden, see a wingless, cigar-shaped object, spurting sparks from its tail. About 300 feet above the ground, it is moving at airplane speed toward the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 1; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_771

Event 1998 (D43492D7)

Date: 5/25/1946 (approximate)
Location: KARLSKRONA AND HUDDINGS AND HAGALUND, SWD
Description: Wave / silent fireballs and wingless cigars mystify all.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_565

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "208", HatchDesc: "KARLSKRONA+HUDDINGS+HAGALUND,SWD:WAVE/SILENT FBLS+WINGLESS CGRS MYSTIFY ALL", LatLong: "56.205558 15.633334", LatLongDMS: "56:12:20 N 15:38:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 1999 (60C07784)

Date: 5/28/1946
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: The Aftonbladet newspaper in Stockholm, Sweden, is the first to use the term “Spökraket” ghost rocket in a headline.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_772

Event 2000 (C394C6B0)

Date: 5/29/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_190
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km

Event 2001 (5D073CA6)

Date: 5/31/1946
Time: 11:40
Location: KATRINEHOLM, SWD
Description: Several observer(s). Plain cylinder/cigar-shape faster / any fighter. Slight rumble. Turns going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_566

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KATRINEHOLM,SWD:SVRL OBS:PLAIN CGR FASTER/ANY FIGHTER:SLIGHT RUMBLE:TURNS >>W", LatLong: "58.988892 16.194445", LatLongDMS: "58:59:20 N 16:11:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2002 (458A7424)

Date: 5/31/1946
Location: Katrineholm, Sweden
Description: 11:43 a.m. A huge, metallic, wingless cigar moves rapidly at 1,000 feet altitude over Katrineholm, Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 2–3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_773

Event 2003 (57C54A73)

Date: 6/6/1946
Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is created by the Secretaries of War and the Navy to coordinate research efforts.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joint Research and Development Board, Organization Authority Record, June 6, 1946
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_776

Event 2004 (E2D84957)

Date: 6/9/1946
Location: Sala, Sweden
Description: Night. An enormous light drops earthward over Sala, Sweden, leaving a long, fiery trail. An explosion is heard.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_777

Event 2005 (56BBBBDE)

Date: 6/9/1946
Location: Helsinki, Finland
Description: 10:17 p.m. A rocket-like light passes over Helsinki, Finland, at 10,000 feet leaving a smoke trail and making a distant rumble. A luminous afterglow lasts 10 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_778

Event 2006 (A5AFD9C0)

Date: 6/10/1946
Time: 21:00?
Location: HELSINKI, FINL
Description: Ghost rocket going northwest to Tammerfors. Returns over Helsinki going quickly southeast / Baltic.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_567

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "HELSINKI,FINL:GHOST ROCKET> NW to TAMMERFORS:RETURNS OVR HELSINKI >>SE/BALTIC", LatLong: "60.200003 24.933335", LatLongDMS: "60:12:00 N 24:56:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2007 (A4D541EF)

Date: 6/10/1946
Location: Latin America
Description: Lieut. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg replaces Souers as director of the CIG. He expands it and wins the right to collect intelligence in Latin America.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: CIA Historical Staff, Chronology 1946–65 , vol. 1, 1946–1955, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_779

Event 2008 (39F65B1D)

Date: 6/10/1946
Description: Mystery "ghost rockets" were seen over Tampere and Helsinki, Finland.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: H. Edward Hill
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3403

Event 2009 (19D35127)

Date: 6/12/1946
Time: 20:00?
Location: ESKILSTUNA, SWEDEN
Description: 'Ghost-bomb' exits cloud. Descends going quickly north. Intermittent exhaust.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_568

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ESKILSTUNA,SWEDEN:'GHOST-BOMB' EXITS CLOUD:DESCENDS>>N:INTERMITTENT EXHAUST", LatLong: "59.350003 16.500001", LatLongDMS: "59:21:00 N 16:30:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2010 (64305094)

Date: 6/12/1946
Location: Sweden
Description: The Swedish Defense staff secretly orders reports of unknown rockets to be collected by military and civilian defense units in Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_780

Event 2011 (88950FAD)

Date: 6/13/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_191
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 117.2km

Event 2012 (F6CA09F1)

Date: 6/18/1946
Locations: Moscow; Caucasus; Middle East
Description: A first-strike scenario, the Pincher war plan, is created by the US military to strike Moscow and the Caucasus with 50 nuclear weapons if the Soviets invade the Middle East. It is never officially approved, but the Joint Chiefs agree to use it for planning purposes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Phillip S. Meilinger, “The Early War Plans,” Air Force Magazine, December 1, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_781

Event 2013 (130B818A)

Date: Summer 1946
Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
Description: Late evening. Two women on a walk in Johannesburg, South Africa, see an aerial object hovering 5 feet above the roof of a nearby hotel. It is shaped like a saucer with a round, golden ball in the center, evenly split between the top and bottom sections. They hear a clicking noise, and the ball drops through the saucer until it is level with the roof. More clicks are heard, and the ball rises through and above the saucer 8–9 feet. In the space between the ball and the disc the witnesses see two figures larger than normal height 7 feet, fair-complexioned and broad-shouldered, with short wavy hair. They are wearing white uniforms with stiff collars and stand motionless until the object floats away and is lost to view.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John Judge, “Near-Landing in 1946 in Johannesburg,” Flying Saucer Review 24, no. 5 March 1979: 14–16; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_774

Event 2014 (13DD82BF)

Date: Summer 1946
Locations: Colorado Springs, Colorado; Cheyenne Mountain; Escarpment
Description: Day. Eleanor Hancock is in Colorado Springs, Colorado, looking southwest toward Cheyenne Mountain when two shining silver objects appear, moving rapidly in tandem from east to west toward the escarpment. Just before they reach the mountain, they turn sharply upward, still in formation, and disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_775

Event 2015 (3B51EAD8)

Date: 6/25/1946
Locations: Jack Northrop Field; Hawthorne Municipal Airport; Muroc Army Air Field; Edwards AFB
Description: A four-engine Northrop XB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first test flight from Jack Northrop Field [now Hawthorne Municipal Airport] to Muroc Army Air Field [now Edwards AFB] in California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_782

Event 2016 (52E54DF2)

Date: 6/26/1946
Location: Morjärv, Sweden
Description: The commander of the military district in Morjärv, Sweden, issues instructions on how to report incidents with “certain kind of light phenomena’ that might be associated with “tests made by foreign powers with guided weapons.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 12.
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_783

Event 2017 (762E3E33)

Date: 6/28/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude (nose separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_192
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 107.8km

Event 2018 (FA73E47C)

Date: 6/30/1946
Time: 21:01:00.0
Location: 11.5900 165.5000
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Able” Yield: 21KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_3

Extra Data: LatLong: "11.5900 165.5000", LatLongDMS: "11:35:24 N 165:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.16", NukeName: "Able", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "21"

Event 2019 (0E0E87A4)

Date: 7/1946
Time: 14:00
Location: JYDERUP TO/FROM KALUNDBORG, DK
Description: Several observer(s). 2 silent silver saucers tilt and wobble. Fly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_569

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "JYDERUP><KALUNDBORG,DK:SVRL OBS:2 SILENT SLVR SCRS TILT+WOBBLE:FLY ↑", LatLong: "55.650003 11.233334", LatLongDMS: "55:39:00 N 11:14:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2020 (69C3C101)

Date: 7/1946
Alternate date: 8/1946
Location: Unknown City, Sweden
Description: "Ghost rocket" sightings. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, X] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_310

Event 2021 (C95253A3)

Date: 7/1946
Locations: Tibet; Antarctica
Description: Amazing Stories publishes four short articles in its September 1945 issue by William C. Hefferlin, each describing a wonderful new invention that has come to the author, according to editor Ray Palmer , “from Tibet by mental telepathy.” One of the inventions is a “circle-winged airplane.” In later issues, Hefferlin and his wife Gladys go on to describe the Rainbow City, an underground Martian city beneath Antarctica where the flying saucers originate.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “A Description of Rainbow City from the Hefferlin Manuscript (Hollow Earth)”; Walter Kafton- Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 160–167; Clark III 610
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_784

Event 2022 (D1716287)

Date: 7/1946
Location: Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts
Description: Day. A long, silver-colored cigar appears suddenly out of the haze over Crane Beach, Ipswich, Massachusetts, moves noiselessly over the water, then disappears suddenly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lore and Deneault, p. 148; Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_785

Event 2023 (14FD6BDD)

Date: 7/1946
Location: Viskinge, Denmark
Description: 2:00 p.m. Hans Sorensen is cycling near Viskinge, Denmark, when he sees three discs flying silently overhead. The underside is uneven and dull gray, but they are like “polished mirrors” on top.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_786

Event 2024 (466D5DF4)

Date: 7/1/1946
Locations: Bikini Atoll; Marshall Islands
Description: Able nuclear test, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Radio-controlled autopilots are installed in eight B-17 bombers, converting them into remote-controlled drones that are then loaded with automatic cameras, radiation detectors, and air sample collectors. Their pilots operate them from mother planes at a safe distance from the detonation. The drones can fly into Able’s mushroom cloud, which would have been lethal to crew members.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Crossroads”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_787

Event 2025 (A4D77572)

Date: 7/3/1946
Location: Carnegie Institution of Washington
Description: The Joint Research and Development Board is established. Essentially it is Vannevar Bush’s existing cadre of brain trust from the still active Office of Scientific Research and the postwar Joint New Weapons Committee. Added to this are other reconstituted R&D committees and advisers like Lloyd Berkner of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The original founding members are physicist Alfred Lee Loomis, biologist Caryl Parker Haskins, physicist Luis Walter Alvarez , physicist William Shockley, and George Doriot. Two military representatives each from the Army, Navy, and Air Force complete the board’s membership. Counting Bush, this makes a board of 12.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_788

Event 2026 (C511E485)

Date: 7/5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Description: Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled.
Type: Newspaper Article
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_193

Event 2027 (3C98563D)

Date: 7/6/1946
Locations: Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration; Air Administration
Description: A special ghost rocket investigations committee is formed with Col. Bengt Jacobsson from the Royal Swedish Air Force Materiel Administration as chairman. Other members are Henry Kjellson and Eric Malmberg from the Air Administration; Maj. Nils Ahlgren and Capt. Gerdt Stangenberg from the Air Defense department; chemist Gustaf Ljunggren; physicist Martin Fehrm; and Olof Kempe from the Defense Radio Institute. They hold at least 12 meetings, beginning on July 10.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 13; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33; Swords 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_789

Event 2028 (11BBF607)

Date: 7/6/1946
Description: Astronomer Bertil Lindblad , after consulting with the Swedish Defense staff on ghost rocket reports, remarks that the “adjective ‘cigar-shaped’ is something new.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_790

Event 2029 (19E054FC)

Date: 7/7/1946
Time: 19:50
Location: GAVLE, SWEDEN
Description: Several observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape east going quickly west / 28K' altitude. Clear outline. Vibrant bright light / rear. FSRv15#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_570

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GAVLE,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS:CGR E>>W/28K'alt:CLEAR OUTLINE:VBRITE LITE/REAR:FSRv15#2", LatLong: "60.666670 17.116667", LatLongDMS: "60:40:00 N 17:07:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2030 (D80954C4)

Date: 7/7/1946
Description: A cigar-shaped object flew over Gavle, Sweden from the east to the west at 28,000 feet altitude at 7:45 p.m. and was seen by several townspeople. It had a clearly distinguishable outline, and a very bright light at the rear.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3896

Event 2031 (FA39811A)

Date: 7/8/1946
Location: NORRKOPING, SWEDEN
Description: J. B. strand. Fast silent grey 50cm ball flies going quickly east. / news / r130p05.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 182)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_571

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NORRKOPING,SWEDEN:J.B.STRAND:FAST SILENT GRY 50cm BALL FLIES>>E:/NEWS/r130p05", LatLong: "58.616669 16.183334", LatLongDMS: "58:37:00 N 16:11:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2032 (542F114E)

Date: 7/9/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_194
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 134.4km

Event 2033 (CCAA4F03)

Date: 7/9/1946
Time: 15:30
Location: TURKU, FINLAND
Description: Numerous observer(s). Fast bright-red 'rocket' casts shadows. South going quickly north. / r232'76#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_572

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "TURKU,FINLAND:NMRS OBS:FAST BRITE-RED 'ROCKET' CASTS SHADOWS:S>>N:/r232'76#4", LatLong: "60.416670 22.216668", LatLongDMS: "60:25:00 N 22:13:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2034 (B94149F8)

Date: 7/9/1946
Location: Njurunda, Sweden
Description: A journalist finds three dubious fist-size fragments, one of iron and the other two slag-like, after a bright projectile is seen over a beach at Njurunda, Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, p. 12; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_791

Event 2035 (DCDB0265)

Date: 7/9/1946
Locations: Guldsmedshyttan; Lindesberg; Sweden
Description: 2:30 p.m. Erik and Asa Reuterswärd take a photo of a greenish-white daylight meteor by a lake at Guldsmedshyttan, northwest of Lindesberg, Sweden. They are atop a forest watchtower and have a good view of the object. The image is circulated to newspapers throughout Sweden; however, the photo probably shows an unusual daylight meteor, not a ghost rocket.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 12–13; Clas Svahn, “The 1946 Ghost Rocket Photo,” `IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 12–14, 23; Swords 13–14; Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna: Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_792

Event 2036 (A7CA645E)

Date: 7/9/1946
Locations: Vaxön, Sweden; Järna Station in Södertälje
Description: 2:30 p.m. Two people on the north side of Vaxön, Sweden, watch a glowing white object with a blue-white tail streak across the sky in about 2 seconds, disappearing to the southeast. Around the same time, a witness at Järna Station in Södertälje sees an object “like a glass flask in a thermos” descending from a high altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_793

Event 2037 (5872AEAA)

Date: 7/9/1946
Locations: Stockholm, Sweden; Washington, D.C.; Central Sweden
Description: 2:30 p.m. A member of the US legation sees a silent ghost rocket falling rapidly over Stockholm, Sweden, according to a July 11 telegram from State Department official Christian M. Ravndal to Washington, D.C. Hundreds of other observations take place over central Sweden. Ravndal suggests that the Soviets are trying to intimidate the Swedes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, p.11; Clark III 524, 527; Good Above, p. 20; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p.p. 6, betw. 12–13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_794

Event 2038 (5A30418D)

Date: 7/9/1946
Location: Ockelbo, Sweden
Description: 2:35 p.m. Efrain Johnson sees a strange, cigar- or sugarloaf-shaped object to the east of Ockelbo, Sweden. It shines like silver and appears “like some glistening mass.” It falls to the ground and is gone in a few moments.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_795

Event 2039 (508E2CDD)

Date: 7/9/1946
Locations: Sörbo, Sweden; Södra Barken
Description: About 3:00 p.m. A housewife near Sörbo, Sweden, is washing on the shore of Södra Barken when she sees a falling object coming from the northeast. It changes color from blue to green and has a long tail. It tumbles into the lake about 320 feet away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_796

Event 2040 (BDB7A4D3)

Date: 7/9/1946
Locations: Mockfjärd, Sweden; Mt. Landholm
Description: 3:30 p.m. A young man in Mockfjärd, Sweden, sees a silver-colored star diving toward the ground with a whistling noise. It comes down about 490 feet away from him, and he is blinded by the intense light. He thinks it crashes into Mt. Landholm. A powerful burning smell lingers for 15 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_797

Event 2041 (150B4A27)

Date: 7/9/1946
Location: Turku, Finland
Description: 3:35 p.m. Many people see a bright red, rocket-like object moving swiftly over Turku, Finland, and leaving a short trail. It casts shadows on the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_798

Event 2042 (76B1222A)

Date: 7/9/1946
Description: At 2:30 p.m. a UFO that looked like a silvery thermos bottle flew over Jarna, Sweden. There were six more reports of cigar-shaped objects and eleven reports of fireballs rocketing over Sweden at about this time.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3938

Event 2043 (3F9B9B71)

Date: 7/9/1946
Description: At 3:35 p.m. a fast, bright red, cigar-shaped 'rocket' cast shadows as it flew over Turku, Finland from south to north.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3939

Event 2044 (32426719)

Date: 7/10/1946
Time: 14:30
Location: OREBRO, SWD
Description: Green fireball trails red smoke going quickly northeast. Large bullet shoots going down / Kumla. / r130p12.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 182)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_573

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "OREBRO,SWD:GRN FBL TRAILS RED SMOKE >>NE:LRG BULLET SHOOTS ↓/KUMLA:/r130p12 ", LatLong: "59.250003 15.250001", LatLongDMS: "59:15:00 N 15:15:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2045 (887F67EE)

Date: 7/10/1946
Time: 23:00
Location: LINKOPING, SWEDEN
Description: Numerous observer(s). Rocket-like object tows coppery sphere/orb/globe on a cable?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_574

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LINKOPING,SWEDEN:NMRS OBS:ROCKET-LIKE OBJ TOWS COPPERY ORB ON A CABLE?", LatLong: "58.405558 15.666667", LatLongDMS: "58:24:20 N 15:40:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2046 (920DCF9B)

Date: 7/10/1946
Locations: Norrvikssand, Sweden; Kubikenborg
Description: A brilliantly glowing projectile trailing luminous smoke crashes into a beach near Norrvikssand, Sweden. Airline pilot Torvald Linden and other witnesses find a shallow crater a little more than 3 feet in diameter. A mass of slag-like material, some of it reduced to powder which burns the hands when touched is found at the site and collected into bags. A journalist from Svenska Dagbladet on July 11 finds a “burnt-brown object with a hollow cylinder” with a diameter of about 1–2 inches. Military authorities take over the site. The debris is taken to Dr. B. Backlund at a laboratory in Kubikenborg, who finds it contains paper with microscopic black-and-white squares like a screen. Some porous, rust-colored fragments are also present. The same day, the beach is visited by Lt. Col. Rudberg, Capt. C. Ljungdahl, and Capt. R. Westlin, who conclude that the material has been in the area for a long time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 10–12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_799

Event 2047 (CF2120EF)

Date: 7/10/1946
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: 2:30 p.m. A bluish flying cigar 10–12 times the diameter of the full moon in length passes over Stockholm, Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_800

Event 2048 (84001D70)

Date: 7/11/1946
Location: SOUTH / GOTEBORG, SWEDEN
Description: Sunbather. Long silent silver object flies going quickly south slowly. / news release.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_575

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "S/GOTEBORG,SWEDEN:SUNBATHER:LONG SILENT SLVR OBJ FLIES>>S SLOWLY:/NEWS RELEASE", LatLong: "57.633336 12.000001", LatLongDMS: "57:38:00 N 12:00:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2049 (81DA7381)

Date: 7/11/1946
Time: 01:30
Location: KOPINGSVIK, OLAND, SWD
Description: Fast bright green sphere/orb/globe going quickly east. Trailing spiral / light just vanishes!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_576

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KOPINGSVIK,OLAND,SWD:FAST BRITE GRN ORB>>E:TRAILING SPIRAL/LITE JUST VANISHES!", LatLong: "56.866669 16.722223", LatLongDMS: "56:52:00 N 16:43:20 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2050 (21051975)

Date: 7/11/1946
Time: 14:30
Location: RAMSJO, SWD
Description: 3+observer(s). 20cm fireball / treetops. Going quickly east. 2M crater / dark acrid gunk. / FSRv15#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHILLIPS, Ted: Study of PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED with UFO SIGHTINGS; CUFOS 1975. (Index 5)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_577

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "RAMSJO,SWD:3+OBS:20cm FBL/TREETOPS:>>E:2M CRATER/DRK ACRID GUNK:/FSRv15#2", LatLong: "62.166670 15.666667", LatLongDMS: "62:10:00 N 15:40:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2051 (9C5DF86E)

Date: 7/12/1946
Time: 19:00
Location: RAGUNDA, SWEDEN
Description: Strange "soap bubble" with "drops on brim". Goes going quickly northwest slowly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_578

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "RAGUNDA,SWEDEN:STRANGE "SOAP BUBBLE" WITH "DROPS ON BRIM":GOES>>NW SLOWLY", LatLong: "63.055559 16.383334", LatLongDMS: "63:03:20 N 16:23:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2052 (620FD3AE)

Date: 7/12/1946
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: Swedish Intelligence agrees to cooperate in sharing ghost rocket information with the British military attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, Maj. de Salis.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_801

Event 2053 (565D0C1C)

Date: 7/12/1946
Location: Gryon, Vaud, Switzerland
Description: Day. The railway station master at Gryon, Vaud, Switzerland, is watching a B-24 Liberator flying overhead at 15,000 feet when he also sees a “flying bomb” looking like a big star traveling northeast at about 250 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_802

Event 2054 (D2DBE666)

Date: 7/12/1946
Location: Usta, Örebro, Sweden
Description: 10:00 p.m. Inga Eriksson is in her garden in Usta, Örebro, Sweden, when she hears a sharp, sizzling sound in the air and sees three silvery triangular objects traveling horizontally from east to west. They are visible only for 2 seconds, but her mother notes that the electrical power has gone out in their home.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: AFU case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_803

Event 2055 (8158B718)

Date: 7/13/1946
Time: 12:00
Location: HAGERSTEN / MALARHOJDEN, SWD
Description: Silent 20cm ball / treetop level flies going quickly north. Glows blue-green.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_579

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "HAGERSTEN/MALARHOJDEN,SWD:SILENT 20cm BALL/TREETOP LVL FLIES>>N:GLOWS BLU-GRN", LatLong: "59.288892 17.950001", LatLongDMS: "59:17:20 N 17:57:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2056 (54BD11D8)

Date: 7/13/1946
Time: 23:00
Location: ROGALAND PROVINCE, NORWAY
Description: 4 observer(s). Vibrant bright yellow-red object / steady high altitude. Southeast going quickly northwest. No meteor.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_580

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ROGALAND PROV.,NORWAY:4 OBS:VBRITE YEL-RED OBJ/STEADY HI ALT:SE>>NW:NO METEOR", LatLong: "59.000003 6.000000", LatLongDMS: "59:00:00 N 06:00:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2057 (A9F17B7A)

Date: 7/15/1946
Description: The Swedes provide the British attaché with analytical reports of all observations to date.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_804

Event 2058 (DF503B83)

Date: 7/16/1946
Time: 22:00
Location: MATFORS, SWD
Description: 2 / motorcycle. Glowing silver cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly east over town toward(s) Sundvall and coast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_581

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MATFORS,SWD:2/MOTORCYCLE:GLOWING SLVR CYL >>E OVR TOWN TWRD SUNDVALL+COAST", LatLong: "62.355559 17.005556", LatLongDMS: "62:21:20 N 17:00:20 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2059 (7D1F0F3B)

Date: 7/16/1946
End date: 7/18/1946
Locations: US; Stockholm, Sweden
Description: US Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal makes an unexpected visit to Stockholm, Sweden, to meet with the Swedish Defense Minister Allan Vougt and two members of the special committee on ghost rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_805

Event 2060 (3C3C3382)

Date: 7/18/1946
Time: 12:00
Location: LAKE MJOSA, NORW
Description: 2+2 observer(s). 2 fast low 8' cylinders dive / lake. Short wings flap! / r189p179.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 182)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_582

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LAKE MJOSA,NORW:2+2 OBS:2 FAST LO 8'CYLS DIVE/LAKE:SHORT WINGS FLAP!:/r189p179", LatLong: "60.750003 11.000001", LatLongDMS: "60:45:00 N 11:00:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2061 (01C4B140)

Date: 7/18/1946
Location: Stockholm
Description: Two British intelligence officers arrive in Stockholm to meet with their counterparts in Sweden. One is from the Air Ministry Squadron Leader Barrie Heath and the other Maj. Malone is from MI10(a), a branch of the Directorate of Military Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_806

Event 2062 (94C983A8)

Date: 7/18/1946
Locations: Lake Mjøsa in southeastern Norway; Minnesund
Description: 12:00 noon. Sigvat Skaug and his son, who live along Lake Mjøsa in southeastern Norway, and his sister Åse Tandberg watch two rocket-like objects about 7 feet long pass over their heads at a very low altitude. They fall simultaneously into the lake, throwing the water several feet into the air. The objects look like V-1 rockets and come in low from the west at about 150 feet, causing the trees to sway. They fall into the lake about 1.2 miles from the western shore and 4.3 miles from Minnesund.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes into Lake”; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 18–19; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, pp. 19–20; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27 Jan./Dec. 1984: 1–5; Swords 16; Clark III 526
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_807

Event 2063 (DFB01E48)

Date: 7/18/1946
Locations: Ortviken, Sweden; Sundsvall
Description: Three workers see a ghost rocket above Ortviken, Sweden. Shortly afterward, Gunnar Falck watches a silvery cylinder moving over the northern part of Sundsvall.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_808

Event 2064 (94C79084)

Date: 7/18/1946
Description: Two fast, low-flying eight-foot long cylinders dove into Lake Mjosa, Norway. They had short wing flaps. There were four witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4154

Event 2065 (5725C7C7)

Date: 7/19/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (oxygen pump explodes)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_195
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km

Event 2066 (3F0D7402)

Date: 7/19/1946
Time: 11:30
Location: NEAR PITEA, SWD
Description: 4 observer(s). Shiny 'flying milk can' glides going northwest / 15 minute(s)!
Type: sighting
Reference: AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_583

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "nr PITEA,SWD:4 OBS:SHINY 'FLYING MILK CAN' GLIDES >NW/15min!", LatLong: "65.311114 21.483334", LatLongDMS: "65:18:40 N 21:29:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2067 (F2AC3A00)

Date: 7/19/1946
Time: 11:40
Location: LK KATTISTJARN, SWD
Description: 1 observer. Big roar / no wind. Unseen object dives / lake. Big splash!
Type: sighting
Reference: AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_584

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "Lk KATTISTJARN,SWD:1 OBS:BIG ROAR/NO WIND:UNSEEN OBJ DIVES/LAKE:BIG SPLASH!", LatLong: "66.455559 23.205557", LatLongDMS: "66:27:20 N 23:12:20 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2068 (91EA83C4)

Date: 7/19/1946
Time: 11:50
Location: KOLMJARV LAKE, SWD
Description: 2+2 observer(s). Humming. 2M cone dives / lake backwards. 0 found. / r10p57.
Type: sighting
Reference: AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_585

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "KOLMJARV LAKE,SWD:2+2 OBS:HUM:2M CONE DIVES/LAKE BACKWARDS:0 FOUND:/r10p57", LatLong: "66.316670 22.900001", LatLongDMS: "66:19:00 N 22:54:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2069 (109A69FD)

Date: 7/19/1946
Location: Bölebyn, Sweden
Description: 11:15 a.m. In the village of Bölebyn, Sweden, Leonard Danielsson and his sons Kjell, Dan, and Hans see an “aeroplane” moving against the wind to the southwest. The boys say it looks like a large, metallic milk canister. It travels from horizon to horizon in about 20 minutes before disappearing in the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_809

Event 2070 (7DBC6896)

Date: 7/19/1946
Locations: Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden; Boden
Description: 11:30 a.m. Kurt Larsson, 11, is fishing at the north end of Lake Kattisträsket, Sweden, when he hears a roaring sound. A huge column of water rises out of the lake as if a mine has detonated. Military officers from Boden investigate, but the lake is too muddy to send in a diver. They conclude that whatever fell is buried in 15 feet of mud.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_810

Event 2071 (B1E6BDD4)

Date: 7/19/1946
Location: Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden
Description: 11:45 a.m. Many witnesses see a gray, winged rocket crash into Lake Kölmjärv, Sweden, with a loud bang close to the southwest bank. Knut Lindbäck says it generates a high plume of water when it hits the surface, “followed by another cascade as if something had detonated.” Water lilies and other aquatic plants are torn up and thrown on the shore. Lieut. Karl-Gösta Bartoll from the Boden engineer corps arrives the next day to supervise the salvage operation. Engineers Roland Rynniger and lab technician Torsten Wilner from the Defense Research Department also arrive with a Geiger counter. A three-week search turns up no traces of metal, even though the evidence points to an underwater explosion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “‘Ghost Rocket’ Crashes into Lake”; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, pp. 20–26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 20, 76; Clas Svahn and Anders Liljegren, “The Kölmjärv Ghost Rocket Crash Revisited,” AFU Newsletter 27 Jan./Dec. 1984: 1–5; Swords 17–20, 24; Clark III 525, 526
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_811

Event 2072 (FE94B27E)

Date: 7/19/1946
Locations: Lake Vassarajärvi; Norrbotten County, Sweden
Description: 3:00 p.m. Karl and Tyra Axberg are sitting on the porch of their cabin on Lake Vassarajärvi in Norrbotten County, Sweden, when they hear a loud noise. A projectile comes in at a very low angle and hits the water at a 30° angle, continuing underwater for about 600 feet. A military team led by Karl-Gösta Bartoll can find no trace of a “ghost bomb.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 24–25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_812

Event 2073 (7904E930)

Date: 7/19/1946
Locations: Lake Marmen; Sunnanå, Sweden
Description: 3:40 p.m. Ingrid Hansson is sunbathing with her father on a floating jetty at the northern end of Lake Marmen, near Sunnanå, Sweden. She hears a violent roaring over the water and looks up to see an object bouncing along the surface, stirring up a wake. The object has created a water column 66 feet high upon impact.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_813

Event 2074 (D9C904A4)

Date: 7/19/1946
Location: Scandinavian countries
Description: Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald prepares a memorandum for the Commander of the Army Air Forces Gen. Carl Spaatz on reports of “rockets” over Scandinavian countries.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 9–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_814

Event 2075 (B29D0D99)

Date: 7/19/1946
Description: During the mystery ghost rocket wave of sightings over Scandinavia this year, at 11:55 a.m. a two-meter long cone-shaped object fell into Kolmjarv Lake, Sweden. An underwater search was attempted but nothing was found.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: AFU Sweden
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4188

Event 2076 (6EA2DC2C)

Date: 7/22/1946
Time: 01:00
Location: GARDERMOEN AIRFIELD, NORWAY
Description: Military observer(s). Very fast silent cylinder/cigar-shape / 900M altitude. Fire and sparks / tail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_586

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GARDERMOEN AIRFIELD,NORWAY:MIL OBS:VFAST SLNT CGR/900M alt:FIRE+SPARKS/TAIL", LatLong: "60.216670 11.133334", LatLongDMS: "60:13:00 N 11:08:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2077 (CE3E1C25)

Date: 7/24/1946
Time: 21:34:59.8
Location: 11.5900 165.5000
Description: Nuclear test: Water, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Baker” Yield: 21KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_4

Extra Data: LatLong: "11.5900 165.5000", LatLongDMS: "11:35:24 N 165:30:00 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "Baker", NukeSource: "G+R", NukeType: "NWCU", NukeY: "21"

Event 2078 (1762F42C)

Date: 7/24/1946
Locations: Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden; Norway; Vänern lake
Description: 1:20 p.m. Engineer Tennlund sees a small cigar-shaped object with a pair of small wings south of Vålberg, Värmland, Sweden. It comes from the direction of Norway west at great speed with no sound. Tennlund thinks it crashes into Vänern lake.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_815

Event 2079 (7CC5CDF9)

Date: 7/25/1946
Description: The Swedish military states that ghost rockets are not meteors.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_816

Event 2080 (83BF61EC)

Date: 7/25/1946
Locations: Baker nuclear test; Bikini Atoll; Marshall Islands
Description: Baker nuclear test, Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Crossroads”; Fran Ridge, “The Baker Blast: Cause for Alarm?” May 4, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_817

Event 2081 (3079227F)

Date: 7/27/1946
Time: ~15:00
Location: HONG, DK
Description: Numerous observer(s). Shiny silver cylinder/cigar-shape crosses sky southeast going quickly northwest / 10 second(s). No fire / smoke.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_587

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "HONG,DK:NMRS OBS:SHINY SLVR CGR CROSSES SKY SE>>NW/10sec:NO FIRE/SMOKE", LatLong: "55.500003 11.283334", LatLongDMS: "55:30:00 N 11:17:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2082 (08E20506)

Date: 7/27/1946
Locations: London, England; Sweden
Description: British Air Attaché Capt. Henderson informs the Foreign Office in London, England, that cooperation with Swedish Air Staff should be kept from the Americans.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus, 2002; Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_818

Event 2083 (5D8ECD1F)

Date: 7/28/1946
Location: Oslo, Norway
Description: Night. Sections of Oslo, Norway, are shaken by two violent aerial explosions. An “intense white light” accompanies the blasts.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Daily Telegraph, July 29, 1946; Clark III 526
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_819

Event 2084 (AEDFCEBA)

Date: 7/29/1946
Locations: Norway; Sweden
Description: Norway begins censoring ghost rocket reports just as Sweden is doing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_820

Event 2085 (DA805B02)

Date: 7/30/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_196
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 161.5km

Event 2086 (2ADFEABB)

Date: 7/30/1946
Location: Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden
Description: 1:15 p.m. Two objects shaped like dark crosses are seen in the sky over Filipstad, Värmland, Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_821

Event 2087 (A4EB34ED)

Date: 7/30/1946
Location: Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden
Description: 3:12 p.m. William Jorgensen, a soldier at the fort at Oskar-Fredriksborg, Stockholm, Sweden, sees a silent flying object with short wings at a distance of about 6,560 feet. It is moving faster than a jet aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_822

Event 2088 (701A3DA7)

Date: 7/30/1946
Location: Norway-Sweden border
Description: 5:00 p.m. A customs officer on the Norway-Sweden border watches a silvery torpedo with short wings. The object moves in from the south but changes direction with a sharp turn and continues east with a whining sound.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_823

Event 2089 (8D433DAF)

Date: 8/1946 (approximate)
Time: 14:00
Location: VISKINGE, DENMARK
Description: 1 / bicycle. 3 metallic disks going [to] overhead. Mirror-tops and dull grey / bottom/underside. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_588

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "VISKINGE,DENMARK:1/BICYCLE:3 MTLC DISKS > OVHD:MIRROR-TOPS+DULL GRY/BTM:SLNT", LatLong: "55.666669 11.266667", LatLongDMS: "55:40:00 N 11:16:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2090 (91497447)

Date: 8/1946
Time: 20:30
Location: ST. NIKLAAS, BELGIUM
Description: Pan-shaped object / roadside. Small humanoid (or Grey) outside holds tree-branch. Burn physical trace(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: The UFO REGISTER. CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK. (annual sightings catalog.) (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_589

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "St.NIKLAAS,BELG:PAN-SHAPED OBJ/ROADSIDE:OID OUTSIDE HOLDS TREE-BRANCH:BURN TRC", LatLong: "51.133336 4.133334", LatLongDMS: "51:08:00 N 04:08:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2091 (503E1B28)

Date: 8/1946 (approximate)
Time: 21:00
Location: POUNTA, SAMOS, GRC
Description: Orange teardrop shape southeast going northwest. Sound like wind / trees. / FSRv24#6.
Type: sighting
Reference: Von LUDVIGER, Illobrand ed. UFO's-SEUGEN UND ZEICHEN. Berlin 1995 edition q-Verlags GmbH ISBN 3-86124-300-8. (Index 142)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_590

Extra Data: Country: "Greece and Island nations", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "POUNTA,SAMOS,GRC:ORG TEARDROP SHAPE SE>NW:sound like wind/trees:/FSRv24#6", LatLong: "37.883335 26.583335", LatLongDMS: "37:53:00 N 26:35:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2092 (79DD5535)

Date: 8/1946
Locations: US Highway 41; Lake Michigan; Chicago, Illinois
Description: Day. Charles A. Johnson is driving on US Highway 41 along Lake Michigan north of Chicago, Illinois, when he sees three silver discs going from east to west in a triangular formation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1179
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_824

Event 2093 (AD0B2497)

Date: 8/1946
Location: Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Description: 8:30 p.m. A young man sees a pan-shaped object near a road in Sint-Niklaas, Belgium. A small entity holding an acacia branch is nearby. The being enters the object through an opening on the underside. Afterward, traces of burning on the ground are detected.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1940–1949, p. 20; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_825

Event 2094 (BE8A16EF)

Date: 8/1/1946
Time: 18:00
Location: 30 MI NORTHEAST / TAMPA, FL
Description: 3 C47 crew / 30K' altitude. 60M cylinder/cigar-shape with row / lit portholes going quickly northeast. / r65p28.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_591

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "18", HatchDesc: "30mi NE/TAMPA,FL:3 C47 CREW/30K'alt:60M CGR W/ROW/LIT PORTHOLES >>NE:/r65p28", LatLong: "28.350001 -82.133337", LatLongDMS: "28:21:00 N 82:08:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2095 (1BE87D2E)

Date: 8/1/1946
Location: Unknown City, FL
Description: Observation of cigar-shaped UFO by Air Corps transport pilot. [NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_309

Event 2096 (75C6B35E)

Date: 8/1/1946
Location: Tampa (near), FL
Description: Puckett Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_313

Event 2097 (FEEA3E58)

Date: 8/1/1946
Description: President Truman signs the Atomic Energy Act, transferring the control of atomic energy from military to civilian hands, effective on January 1, 1947. It categorizes information on atomic energy as “born classified,” even if it is not created by any US government agency. “Restricted Data” is not a level of classification; rather, a document can be classified as Confidential, Secret, or Top Secret, while also containing Restricted Data. In addition, a document containing Restricted Data can also contain Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. In this way, a document can be classified as Secret S, Secret//Restricted Data S//RD, or Secret//Restricted Data- Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information S//RD-CNWDI, depending on the type of information it contains.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Atomic Energy Commission”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_827

Event 2098 (0B1FF5FE)

Date: 8/1/1946
Description: Truman approves the establishment of the Office of Naval Research for “planning, fostering, and encouraging scientific research” in relation to naval power and national security.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office of Naval Research”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_828

Event 2099 (2FB8A9CC)

Date: 8/1/1946
Locations: USSR; Sweden
Description: Col. Edwin Kennedy Wright, Vandenberg’s executive assistant at the Central Intelligence Group, sends a memorandum to President Truman saying the ghost rockets conform to a V-1 shape and seem to be launched from the USSR. The report notes that the missiles can turn and fly circular courses, seemingly indicating radio control. Most information comes from the military attaché in Sweden and the conclusions are from the director of intelligence for the War Department general staff.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 21–23; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 10, 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_829

Event 2100 (2F4CEA53)

Date: 8/1/1946
Location: Tampa, Florida
Description: 6:00 p.m. AF Capt. Jack E. Puckett is flying over Tampa, Florida, in a C-47 transport and sees a long cylinder twice the size of a B-29 with luminous portholes. After 3 minutes, it disappears at a speed of 1,500 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Rocket Craft Encounter Revealed by World War 2 Pilot,” UFO Investigator 1, no. 2 Aug./Sept. 1957: 15; UFOEv, p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_830

Event 2101 (7AB1690B)

Date: 8/1/1946
Description: At 6:00 p.m. three military witnesses including the pilot named Puckett, flying in a twin engine C-47 transport 40 miles north of Tampa, Florida at 4,000 feet altitude, sighted a cylinder-shaped UFO with luminous portholes that flew in front of the plane. The cylinder was about twice the size of a B-29, and approached to within 1,000 yards. It covered 75 miles in three minutes and appeared on a collision course with the aircraft. The stream of fiery exhaust from the craft was about half the length of the unknown object.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP files, report dated July 24, 1957; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 102; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 23; UNICAT, case # 669
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4553

Event 2102 (58A423C3)

Date: Early 8/1946
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Description: An astronomer and meteorologist is looking at some clouds through a telescope in Stockholm, Sweden, and sees a luminous object that he estimates is about 90 feet long, torpedo-shaped, and metallic. It has a “tapered tail that spewed glowing blue and green smoke and a series of fire balls.” The object explodes with a terrific flash.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sweden Plans Radar Fight on ‘Rockets,’” Los Angeles Times, August 13, 1946, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 39
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_826

Event 2103 (AED771EB)

Date: 8/3/1946
Description: A cigar-shaped object flew over central Norrland, Sweden this evening.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bjorn Overbye, FSR, May-June 1969, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4621

Event 2104 (3279A895)

Date: 8/5/1946
Time: 23:00
Location: SKENE, SWEDEN
Description: Circular silver object glitters / sun. Going quickly southwest fast. / Goteborg News. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v15#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_592

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SKENE,SWEDEN:CIRC.SLVR OBJ GLITTERS/SUN:>>SW FAST:/GOTEBORG NEWS:/FSR v15#3", LatLong: "57.483336 12.633334", LatLongDMS: "57:29:00 N 12:38:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2105 (0C4477EF)

Date: 8/5/1946
Location: Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden
Description: 6:26 p.m. A luminous object is seen by a motorist near Landskrona, Skåne, Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_831

Event 2106 (FC6673B9)

Date: 8/5/1946
Location: Skåne, Sweden
Description: 11:00 p.m. A fast-moving, silent, circular object glitters in the sun over Skåne, Sweden, as it heads toward the south-southwest at a high altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_832

Event 2107 (D7FC4E13)

Date: 8/6/1946
Locations: US; Budapest, Hungary; Germany; Russia
Description: The US delegation in Budapest, Hungary, reports that a German scientist now working for the Russians has revealed that the Soviets have developed guided rockets called V-3 and V-4 that are able to fly a round trip of 700 miles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_833

Event 2108 (5B4A4888)

Date: 8/7/1946
Location: GOTTLAND ISLAND, SWEDEN
Description: Teacher. Object / 800kph. 500M altitude. Faint blue glow / nose. / FSRv15#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_593

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GOTTLAND ISL,SWEDEN:TEACHER:OBJ/800kph:500M alt:FAINT BLU GLOW/NOSE:/FSRv15#3", LatLong: "57.583336 18.333334", LatLongDMS: "57:35:00 N 18:20:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2109 (17A93FCB)

Date: 8/7/1946
Location: Northern Japan
Description: A Top Secret message from the Commander-in-Chief Air Forces, Pacific, to Gen. Lauris Norstad, War Department Operations, requests guidance on the current classification of the substitute code word “Majestic” for Operational Plan Olympic the invasion of Northern Japan. The plan has been downgraded to Restricted Message CM1472 IN. The answer is that both code words had been declassified by the JCS on October 8, 1945 Message CM96908 OUT 8 Aug 1946.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich; Murray Bott, “Military Codenames ‘Olympic’ and ‘Majestic,’” UFO UpDates, April 4, 2002
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_834

Event 2110 (57DE8CC1)

Date: 8/7/1946
Location: Sweden
Description: Swedish Lt. Lennart Neckman of the Defense Staff’s Air Defense Division sees a clear, yellow flame passing low and slow over the countryside.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_835

Event 2111 (4108302E)

Date: 8/8/1946
Location: Sweden
Description: Chief of Swedish Air Defense Maj. Nils Ahlgren says that some of the rockets are seen at low altitude, maneuver in half circles, and appear to come from the south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_836

Event 2112 (F195D7FC)

Date: 8/9/1946
Location: GAVLE, SWEDEN
Description: Yellow fireball going quickly east. Same seen / N. Sweden going quickly east. Also Stockholm direction unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_594

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GAVLE,SWEDEN:YELLOW FBL >>E:SAME SEEN/N.SWEDEN >>E:also Stockholm dir.unk", LatLong: "60.666670 17.133334", LatLongDMS: "60:40:00 N 17:08:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2113 (6B9865D3)

Date: 8/11/1946
Location: CHATILLON-SUR-SEINE, FR
Description: Whistle-rockets with glowing-trails. 1 / week going [to] 18 August. / r130p52.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_595

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "10", Duration: "248", HatchDesc: "CHATILLON-sur-SEINE,FR:WHISTLE-ROCKETS W/GLOW-TRAILS:1/WEEK>18AUG:/r130p52", LatLong: "48.800002 2.283333", LatLongDMS: "48:48:00 N 02:17:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Paris", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2114 (10E6D087)

Date: 8/11/1946
Time: 20:50
Location: HUNDREDS / TOWNS / EAST AND CENTRAL SWEDEN
Description: Huge wave / fireballs rockets cigars. 1 offloads night lights. 300 report(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 35)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_596

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "13", Duration: "70", HatchDesc: "100s/TOWNS/E+CNTRL SWEDEN:HUGE WAVE/FBLS ROCKETS CGRS:1 OFFLOADS NLTS:300 RPTS", LatLong: "58.000003 16.000001", LatLongDMS: "58:00:00 N 16:00:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2115 (A85EEFB3)

Date: 8/11/1946
Time: 21:00
Location: STOCKHOLM, SWD AND AREA
Description: Many objects. 1 lands / farm? 1 scouts harbor and going southeast. Flaming torpedo.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 37)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_597

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "11", Duration: "40", HatchDesc: "STOCKHOLM,SWD+AREA:MANY OBJs:1 LANDS/FARM?:1 SCOUTS HARBOR+>SE:FLAMING TORPEDO", LatLong: "59.383336 17.983334", LatLongDMS: "59:23:00 N 17:59:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2116 (CFEDAD56)

Date: 8/11/1946
Locations: Ljugarn; Gotland; Sweden
Description: 8:47 p.m. Astronomer Bertil Lindblad sees an exploding fireball in Ljugarn on Gotland, Sweden.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, p. 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_837

Event 2117 (AC1B8E7D)

Date: 8/11/1946
Locations: central Sweden; southern Sweden; Stockholm
Description: 9:00–10:00 p.m. Hundreds of people in central and southern Sweden see “ghost bombs” that fly from south to north, giving off a brilliant blue-white light. Sometimes two of the objects are seen flying together. Some witnesses see smaller silver balls come out of the larger objects, which are variously described as cylinders and torpedoes with a “wide nose” and “fire-spurting tail.” Stockholm is said to be “near the boiling point” with ghost rocket speculation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 33– 39; Göran Jansson, “Spökraketerna 1947,” January 2005, pp. 38–40; Clark III 525; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 37; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 50–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_838

Event 2118 (65CBF02F)

Date: 8/11/1946
Description: On this evening a UFO crashed into the sea in a fjord on the western coast of Sweden. At 10:45 p.m. a procession of objects passed over the Mariestad area of Sweden, and a cylindrical object was sighted five minutes later in the sky over southern Norrland province. At Chatillon-sur-Seine, France whistling rockets with glowing contrails were seen on this night and subsequent nights until August 18.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: AFU Sweden, case G101; Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 52
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4855

Event 2119 (626E801E)

Date: 8/12/1946 (approximate)
Location: GRANTS PASS, OR
Description: Intense red and green flares sway between mountain-tops / 30 minute(s). Not aircraft.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_598

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "289", HatchDesc: "GRANTS PASS,OR:INTENSE RED+GRN FLARES SWAY BTWN MTN-TOPS/30min:NOT AIRCRAFT", LatLong: "42.450002 -123.316673", LatLongDMS: "42:27:00 N 123:19:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2120 (E94E4507)

Date: 8/12/1946
Time: 21:00
Location: SODERTALJE, SWD
Description: Spool-shape 'rocket-bomb'. Magnesium flare exhaust going quickly north. / FSRv15#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_599

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SODERTALJE,SWD:SPOOL-SHAPE 'ROCKET-BOMB':MAGNESIUM FLARE EXHAUST >>N:/FSRv15#3", LatLong: "59.205558 17.577779", LatLongDMS: "59:12:20 N 17:34:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2121 (FCDC2684)

Date: 8/12/1946
Time: 21:00
Location: GOTEBORG, SWEDEN
Description: 5' fish-shaped cylinder/cigar-shape north going quickly south. Drops & lands / small island / news. / FSRv15#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin D.: A HISTORY of UFO CRASHES; Avon Books, Dresden, TN 1995 (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_600

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GOTEBORG,SWEDEN:5'FISH-SHAPED CGR N>>S:DROPS & LANDS/SML ISLAND/NEWS:/FSRv15#3", LatLong: "57.666669 11.966667", LatLongDMS: "57:40:00 N 11:58:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2122 (043A563C)

Date: 8/12/1946
Location: Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden
Description: 10:00 a.m. A twin-engine Saab 18 Swedish Air Force bomber crashes and explodes near Valdshult, Jönköping, Sweden, killing three airmen. Rumors circulate that it collided with a ghost rocket, but an investigation indicates that the pilot lost control.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, pp. 39–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_839

Event 2123 (FD1D1708)

Date: 8/12/1946
Location: seaport town in southern Sweden
Description: 8:15 p.m. A torpedo-shaped ghost rocket moves slowly over a seaport town in southern Sweden, barely grazing the roofs and trailing smoke. It continues out to sea and seems to come down on a small island. Two men go out to investigate, but the island is too overgrown to allow a search.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 40–41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_840

Event 2124 (63CF80E2)

Date: 8/12/1946
Description: A spool-shaped "rocket bomb" was sighted flying rapidly to the north over the town of Sodertalje, Sweden at 9:00 p.m. It had a magnesium colored flare for an exhaust.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Mystery of the Ghost Rockets, p. 39
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4929

Event 2125 (6FCEF89B)

Date: 8/12/1946
Description: Over Grants Pass, Oregon an intense red and green object, flaring in intensity, swayed back and forth in a rocking motion between mountain tops for 30 minutes on this night.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, Charles Fort, the Fortean Society, and UFOs, p. 67
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4930

Event 2126 (12C43D7D)

Date: 8/13/1946
Time: 20:00
Location: KARLSKRONA, SWD
Description: 5' cylinder/cigar-shape passes 50M from observer(s). Faint green glow. Smokes / rear. / FSRv15#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 43)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_601

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KARLSKRONA,SWD:5'CGR PASSES 50M FROM OBS:FAINT GRN GLOW:SMOKES/REAR:/FSRv15#3", LatLong: "56.205558 15.616667", LatLongDMS: "56:12:20 N 15:37:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2127 (CF404DFC)

Date: 8/13/1946
Locations: Paris; Scandinavia; Leningrad; St. Petersburg; Russia
Description: Capt. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, US naval attaché in Paris, forwards as top secret a report by the French government on ghost rocket activity in Scandinavia. It states that “a good number of these projectiles are of the V- 1 type in the form of a torpedo with two small wings.” A map shows them originating in the Leningrad [now St. Petersburg] area, Russia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 21; Good Need, pp. 38–39; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_841

Event 2128 (CD3E2259)

Date: 8/13/1946
Locations: Budapest; London; Stockholm; Oslo; Helsinki; Copenhagen; Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea; Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; Peenemünde, Germany; Parikkala in Finland; Łeba, Poland
Description: The Hungarian report of August 6 causes Maj. Gen. Stephen J. Chamberlin , Army assistant chief of staff for intelligence, to ask Budapest for further information. Top-secret requests are sent to military attachés in London, Stockholm, Oslo, Helsinki, and Copenhagen asking for listings of all ghost rocket reports, as well as V-3 and V-4 missiles. The military attaché in Oslo reports that a Soviet ship in the north Baltic Sea has been transmitting code to shore stations regarding the ghost rockets. The military attaché in Moscow asks other European officials about where the rockets originate and gets several answers, which he forwards on to Chamberlin: Hiiumaa island, Estonia; Latvia; or Peenemünde, Germany. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney of the US Forces in Europe Theater replies that Peenemünde is a likely origin, since the site has been refurbished. The military attaché in Stockholm suspects Hiiumaa, Peenemünde, or Parikkala in Finland, while the naval attaché in Stockholm thinks that Łeba, Poland, is the launch site.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 10–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_842

Event 2129 (E9455EC9)

Date: 8/13/1946
Locations: New York; Sweden
Description: The New York Times says the ghost rocket situation is extremely dangerous and that Sweden will not tolerate such violations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Swedes Use Radar in Fight on Missiles,” New York Times. August 13, 1946, p. 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_843

Event 2130 (D130F698)

Date: 8/13/1946
Locations: US; Stockholm; Sweden
Description: The US naval attaché and the Assistant US military attaché in Stockholm interview three Swedish Air Force officers assigned to the General Staff who say that they believe the objects are rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_844

Event 2131 (2A3E0B5D)

Date: 8/13/1946
Location: Denmark
Description: Afternoon. A troop of Boy Scouts in Denmark see a rocket-like object moving quickly at an altitude of 1,600 feet. They can see small side wings and fins. A blue-white light streams from the bottom, and it diverges from a straight course to a 35° curve.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_845

Event 2132 (AFA0171F)

Date: 8/13/1946
Location: Karlskrona, Sweden
Description: 8:00 p.m. A cigar-shaped object flies past a witness at Karlskrona, Sweden, at a distance of only 150 feet. Only 5 feet long, it emits a faint green light and trails smoke from the rear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_846

Event 2133 (DC8D7461)

Date: 8/14/1946
Location: Bt. Malingsbo and Krylbo, Sweden
Description: 10:02 a.m. Two witnesses flying a SAAB B-18 bomber on a navigational training flight at 200 meter altitude observed a cigar-shaped object described as 1 meter wide by 15 meters long. (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 460814
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_314

Event 2134 (A8C8FE63)

Date: 8/14/1946
Location: New York
Description: The New York Times reports that Secretary of State Dean Acheson is “very much interested” in the ghost rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 46; “2 Swedes Escape a ‘Ghost Rocket,’” New York Times, August 14, 1946, p. 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_847

Event 2135 (A49F5E9A)

Date: 8/14/1946
Locations: Sweden; Malingsbo; central Sweden
Description: 10:02 a.m. Swedish Air Force pilot Lieut. Gunnar Irholm and his signaler, Cpl. Möller, are flying a B-18A bomber at 650 feet 4 miles northeast of Malingsbo in central Sweden when they see a dark cigar-shaped object approaching on their left. It has no visible wings, rudders, lights, flame or projections of any type. It appears to follow the terrain at 370–430 mph, maintaining the same height, then vanishes into a storm cloud.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, pp. 33–35; Swords 15–16; “Cigar Sighted from B-19 Bomber,” AFU Newsletter, no. 44 September 2002: 1–4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_848

Event 2136 (2897858C)

Date: 8/15/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude (Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_197
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 6.4km

Event 2137 (E5027F0E)

Date: 8/15/1946
Time: 21:50
Location: COPENHAGEN, DK AND AREA
Description: Several report(s) / slow silent rockets. 1 going quickly east. 1 going quickly north. Back 18 August / N. side.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 47)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_602

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "COPENHAGEN,DK+AREA:SVRL RPTS/SLOW SLNT ROCKETS:1>>E:1>>N::BACK 18AUG/N.SIDE", LatLong: "55.700003 12.416667", LatLongDMS: "55:42:00 N 12:25:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2138 (1FED2CFA)

Date: 8/15/1946
Location: east side of Waterloo, Iowa
Description: Night. Several residents of the east side of Waterloo, Iowa, see an object buzzing rapidly around some trees. It gradually ascends, surrounded by a cloud of white vapor, and disappears high in the sky. One person calls it “a great white bird; another, a bomb.” Mrs. Russell Lampman says that the object is “6 feet, 3 inches tall, like a large man, and rather rectangular in shape.” She and her husband watch it for an hour after it starts hovering about 20– 25 feet above a nearby alley.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Al Starr, “Street Scene,” Waterloo Iowa Sunday Times, August 18, 1946, p. II-1; “Well, We Saw It First!” Waterloo Daily Courier, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Project 1947, “UFO Reports: 1946”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_849

Event 2139 (7E73A39B)

Date: 8/16/1946
Location: MALMO, SWEDEN
Description: Missile flies over. Explosion breaks many windows. No traces found.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin D.: A HISTORY of UFO CRASHES; Avon Books, Dresden, TN 1995 (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_603

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MALMO,SWEDEN:MISSILE FLIES OVR:EXPLOSION BREAKS MANY WINDOWS:NO TRACES FOUND", LatLong: "55.600003 13.000001", LatLongDMS: "55:36:00 N 13:00:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2140 (8CDC6019)

Date: 8/16/1946
Locations: Stockholm; Sweden
Description: Col. L. H. Johnson, US naval attaché in Stockholm, transmits a “Top Secret Report R334-46 of 13 August 1946 Subject: SWEDEN Guided Missiles Rocket Sightings Over Sweden.” It concludes: “No tangible evidence to date as to nature or origin of rockets reported over Sweden, although Swedish Defense Staff insists that they are rockets.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, pp. 32–35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_850

Event 2141 (35D34EA3)

Date: 8/16/1946
Location: Malmö, Sweden
Description: A missile produces an enormous explosion over Malmö, Sweden, that shakes or breaks many windows. Some witnesses think they can see fragments of the object falling to earth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Windows Broken by Rocket Bomb,” Manchester Guardian, August 17, 1946, p. 6; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_851

Event 2142 (69C92C84)

Date: 8/17/1946
Time: 20:00
Location: SNEKKERSTEN, DK
Description: Numerous observer(s). 2 cigars north going quickly south over Oresund. Slow. Glow. Emit clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 51)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_604

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SNEKKERSTEN,DK:NMRS OBS:2 CGRS N>>S ovr ORESUND:SLOW:GLOW:EMIT CLOUDS", LatLong: "56.016669 12.583334", LatLongDMS: "56:01:00 N 12:35:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2143 (CAAD6A8D)

Date: 8/18/1946
Location: Copenhagen, Denmark
Description: 8:00 or 10:00 p.m. An aerial object like a 9-foot cigar is seen moving slowly on the north side of Copenhagen, Denmark. It explodes with extraordinary force.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_853

Event 2144 (C7DFB52E)

Date: 8/19/1946
Locations: Moscow; Peenemünde, Germany
Description: The US military attaché in Moscow reports on the visit of Maj. Stig Wennerström of the Swedish Air Force, who reveals that radar indicates the ghost rocket launch site is at Peenemünde, Germany. The rockets appear to be radio-controlled, carry no warheads, are self-destructive, and are plotted over a range of 620 miles. Sometimes they follow zigzag courses.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_854

Event 2145 (944A94E1)

Date: 8/19/1946
Locations: US; Stockholm, Sweden; Europe; London; Sweden
Description: Two US experts on aerial warfare, aviation legend General Jimmy Doolittle and British Group Captain Douglas Bader , and General David Sarnoff , president of RCA, arrive in Stockholm, Sweden, ostensibly on private business, and independently of each other. The official explanation is that Doolittle, who is now vice-president of the Shell Oil Company, is inspecting Shell branch offices in Europe, while Sarnoff, a former member of General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s London staff, is studying the market for radio equipment. However, the story indicates that the Chief of the Swedish Defense Staff, Col. C. R. Kempf, makes no secret that he “was extremely interested in asking the two generals advice and, if possible, would place all available reports before them.” However, Doolittle denies the correlation to Barry Greenwood in 1984, and researchers have found no evidence to support a collaboration.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 53–54; Clark III 527; Swords 21, 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_855

Event 2146 (D32269D1)

Date: 8/21/1946
Locations: Norway; Sweden
Description: The General Staff in Norway issues a memorandum to the press asking it not to mention any ghost rockets seen over the country and to pass on all reports to the military Intelligence Department. In Sweden, the ban is limited to any mention of where the rockets are seen to land or explode.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: London Daily Telegraph, August 22, 1946; Good Above, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_856

Event 2147 (20A6FAEE)

Date: 8/22/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude (Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_198
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km

Event 2148 (1A34B290)

Date: 8/22/1946
Time: 12:00?
Location: NORRKOPING, SWD
Description: Movies taken / ghost rocket. Clearly visible. Film going [to] military. Shows blank.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John & EVANS, Hillary (ed): PHENOMENON - 40 YEARS of F.S.; BUFORA/Avon Books, NY 1988 (Index 60)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_605

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "NORRKOPING,SWD:MOVIES TAKEN/GHOST ROCKET:CLEARLY VISIBLE:FILM>MIL:SHOWS BLANK", LatLong: "58.616669 16.166667", LatLongDMS: "58:37:00 N 16:10:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2149 (08373D82)

Date: 8/22/1946
Locations: Getå; Stockholm, Sweden
Description: 3:00 p.m. Photographer Gösta Skog takes a color film of a ghost rocket at Getå, 100 miles south of Stockholm, Sweden. The cigar-shaped object appears out of a cloud at 3,000 feet, trailing exhaust. The film turns out to be overexposed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clas Svahn, “Spökraketerna: Den Största Gåtan,” Riksorganisationen UFO-Sverige, March 7, 2017; Swords 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_857

Event 2150 (AC6CE0DD)

Date: 8/22/1946
Locations: Peenemünde; East Germany; Moscow; Gulf of Bothnia
Description: Director of the Central Intelligence Group CIG Lt. Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg writes a top secret memo to President Truman via Adm. William D. Leahy , stating that the “weight of evidence” points to Peenemünde which has become a Soviet naval base, East Germany, as the origin of the ghost rockets, and that a US military attaché in Moscow has been told by a “key Swedish Air Officer” [Wennerström] that radar course-plotting leads to the conclusion that Peenemünde is the launch site. CIG speculates that the missiles are extended-range developments of V-1s being aimed for the Gulf of Bothnia for test purposes and “do not overfly Swedish territory specifically for intimidation; self-destruct by small demolition charge or burning.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Barry Greenwood, “Significant Ghost Rocket Documents Available,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 15 June 2015: 1–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_858

Event 2151 (6E753825)

Date: 8/23/1946
Locations: Sweden; British
Description: The British Foreign Office states that English radar experts, including Reginald Victor Jones , having returned from Sweden, had “submitted secret reports to the British government on the origin of the rockets.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_859

Event 2152 (7EF8996C)

Date: 8/24/1946
Time: 04:30
Location: BOURGES, FR
Description: Big noise. Huge 'projectiles' whistle going quickly [to] overhead. Many wakened. No further details [in].
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_606

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BOURGES,FR:BIG NOISE:HUGE 'PROJECTILES' WHISTLE >> OVHD:MANY WAKENED:nfd", LatLong: "47.100002 2.366667", LatLongDMS: "47:06:00 N 02:22:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Cher", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2153 (4989CCF2)

Date: 8/24/1946
Time: 19:30
Location: WILMINGTON, NC
Description: Fireball passes slowly going quickly northeast. 1940hrs same / similar going quickly southeast over Durham, NC.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_607

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,NC:FBL PASSES SLOWLY >>NE::1940hrs SAME/SIMILAR >>SE ovr DURHAM,NC", LatLong: "34.216668 -77.933337", LatLongDMS: "34:13:00 N 77:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2154 (EA3288F0)

Date: 8/24/1946
Location: Stockholm
Description: Stockholm Air Attaché Maj. Gen. Alfred A. Kessler Jr. informs the War Department that the Ghost Rockets are an “unintentional hoax which developed naturally but which exploited by Defense staff by implication and lack of frankness possibly interest defense budget and to alert west against east.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_860

Event 2155 (34840589)

Date: 8/24/1946
Locations: Europe; Oslo, Norway; Norway; Sweden; Lake near Oslo
Description: Admiral Henry Kent Hewitt, Commander of US Naval Forces in Europe, writes a letter to the US naval attaché in Oslo, Norway, on “Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden.” Two “missiles” have fallen into a lake near Oslo, and the US Navy is “very interested.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Adm. Henry Kent Hewitt], Letter to US Naval Attaché, Oslo, “Rocket Bombs or Guided Missiles over Norway and Sweden,” August 24, 1946
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_861

Event 2156 (7F2717EB)

Date: 8/24/1946
Locations: Norway; Sweden
Description: Evening. A Norwegian student and a Swedish engineer are boating on a small river “somewhere in Sweden” when a light approaches them from the southeast. It resembles a full moon and emits an intense light: “As it passed immediately overhead, it grew so bright you could see a well as on a sunny day.” The object, about 10 feet long, releases four stars that fall silently to the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 58–59
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_862

Event 2157 (ACEE13F5)

Date: 8/24/1946
Description: A big noise was heard at 4:30 a.m. Huge "'projectiles" like rockets made a whistling sound as several of them flew overhead in the town of Bourges, Cher Department, France. Many people were awakened by the noise.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 151
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5282

Event 2158 (97516CE5)

Date: 8/25/1946 (approximate)
Time: 17:20
Location: TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, OK
Description: Saucer / 60M altitude. 12 portholes / lower part. 1 head looks out each port.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard H: From AIRSHIPS to ARNOLD (1900-1946) UFO Research Coalition; Fairfax, VA 2000. (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_608

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "394", HatchDesc: "TINKER AFB,OK:SCR/60M alt:12 PORTHOLES/LOWER PART:1 HEAD LOOKS OUT EACH PORT", LatLong: "35.433335 -97.366671", LatLongDMS: "35:26:00 N 97:22:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2159 (09C25CE5)

Date: Late 8/1946
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Description: Disc-shaped craft with windows, humanoid figures visible inside, hovered at low altitude. After about 1-1/2 minutes the object rotated, then sped away disappearig in seconds. (Ref. 3; Case summary by Ted Bloecher, 14 pages. Interviews by Bloecher, Lucius Farish, and Mildred Higgins.) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_311

Event 2160 (8E783A76)

Date: Late 8/1946
Location: Tinker AFB near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Description: Margaret Sprankle, a civilian employee at Tinker AFB near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, is returning from work when she sees, about 300 feet away, a large, metallic, lens-shaped structure about 75 feet in diameter. On the lower right side are 12–14 square windows; in each, visible from the shoulders up, is a figure. Their heads are very round. The object rotates 90° on its vertical axis and silently flies northwest and disappears in seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1940–1949, p. 22; Clark III 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_852

Event 2161 (CEFCDE3E)

Date: 8/26/1946
Locations: US; Stockholm; Sweden; UN; British
Description: The US military attaché in Stockholm reports that the Swedes, possibly worried about a Soviet veto of their application for UN membership, have canceled their request for British radar equipment.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_863

Event 2162 (AAC0D72F)

Date: 8/29/1946
Location: American embassy in Stockholm
Description: The American embassy in Stockholm tells the State Department that the ghost rockets are probably Soviet missiles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 63A; [Memo on telegram of August 27, 1946]; Good Above, pp. 22, 447
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_864

Event 2163 (2B5109A9)

Date: 9/1946
Time: 19:10
Location: ST. LEGER-DE-FOUGERET, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). Odd whistle. Red-orange lens-disk going up. Spins. Absolute(ly) silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_609

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "St.LEGER-de-FOUGERET,FR:2 OBS:ODD WHISTLE:RED-ORG.LENS-DISK ↑:SPINS:ABS.SLNT", LatLong: "47.016669 3.905556", LatLongDMS: "47:01:00 N 03:54:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nièvre", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2164 (721F515F)

Date: 9/1946
Locations: Munich, Germany; Moscow, Russia; Kubischew
Description: German rocket engineer Walter Ziegler tells Army CIC that 400 men from his former rocket group at Bayerische Motoren Werke BMW in Munich, Germany, are invited by Russian military officers to a fancy dinner, wined and dined, then taken home. Several hours later, all 400 are woken up by the Russians and forced to take a trip. Ziegler is not among them. They are transported by train to a small town “Kubischew” outside Moscow, Russia, where they remain and work on secret military rocket projects under terrible conditions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_865

Event 2165 (9F1FB872)

Date: 9/1/1946 (approximate)
Location: DRAMA, GREECE
Description: Military report(s). Ghost rockets here also. 15K-30K' altitude north going quickly south. / LDLN#342.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 62)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_610

Extra Data: Country: "Greece and Island nations", Credibility: "9", Duration: "232", HatchDesc: "DRAMA,GREECE:MIL RPTS:GHOST ROCKETS HERE ALSO:15K-30K'alt N>>S:/LDLN#342", LatLong: "41.150002 24.166668", LatLongDMS: "41:09:00 N 24:10:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2166 (B0F45963)

Date: 9/1/1946
Location: SALONIKA AND MACEDONIA, GRC
Description: Wave / ghost projectiles / Greek Prime Minister. / LDLN#342.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_611

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "Greece and Island nations", Credibility: "10", Duration: "100", HatchDesc: "SALONIKA+MACEDONIA,GRC:WAVE/GHOST PROJECTILES/GREEK PRIME MINISTER:/LDLN#342", LatLong: "40.666669 22.000001", LatLongDMS: "40:40:00 N 22:00:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2167 (C331974D)

Date: 9/1/1946
End date: 9/2/1946
Location: Northern Greece
Description: Late night and early morning. Rocket-shaped objects are seen over northern Greece, according to Prime Minister Konstantinos Tsaldaris . Physicist Paul Santorinis is placed in charge of an investigation. He rules out Russian missiles, but the Army ends the investigation in 1947.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 525; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 62–63; Good Above, p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_866

Event 2168 (64ECDDF7)

Date: 9/2/1946
Location: OFF ANCONA, ITALY
Description: Fishermen. Ghost-bomb falls / sea. Big vapor cloud. Yugo rocket?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_612

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off ANCONA,ITALY:FISHERMEN:GHOST-BOMB FALLS/SEA:BIG VAPOR CLOUD:YUGO ROCKET?", LatLong: "43.666669 13.583334", LatLongDMS: "43:40:00 N 13:35:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ancona", Strangeness: "2"

Event 2169 (8F133776)

Date: 9/4/1946
Location: Sweden
Description: Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800 UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C. by our Military and Naval Attaches
Type: top secret memo
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p22,447)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_199

Event 2170 (C5D5EDB2)

Date: 9/6/1946
Location: PHILOMATH, OR
Description: Purple fireball cruises going quickly east over town. Also red fireball low and slow over New Orleans.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_613

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "85", HatchDesc: "PHILOMATH,OR:PURPLE FBL CRUISES >>E ovr TOWN::+RED FBL LO+SLO ovr NEW ORLEANS", LatLong: "44.538891 -123.366673", LatLongDMS: "44:32:20 N 123:22:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2171 (A3AE160F)

Date: 9/7/1946
Location: Littlehampton, England
Description: British pilot Edward Mortlock Donaldson attains an airspeed record of 616 mph in a Gloster Meteor F Mk 4 at Littlehampton, England.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Edward Donaldson (RAF officer)”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_867

Event 2172 (98D9AD4B)

Date: 9/9/1946
Location: Scandinavia
Description: The scientific advisor to MI6, English physicist Reginald Victor Jones, considers the ghost rockets a social panic phenomenon. An RAF Intelligence report, “Investigation of Reported Missile Activity over Scandinavia,” identifies eight types of ghost rocket sightings: iron cylinder, magnesium-like light, white core surrounded by blue-green, shining ball with tail, torpedo-shape, black object with flame, small rocket, small missile. It takes the daytime reports seriously but concludes are probably only a few genuine reports of actual missiles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; Swords 26–27; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 63–64
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_868

Event 2173 (05E9068B)

Date: 9/10/1946
Time: 22:00
Location: KOZANI AND SALONIKA, GREECE
Description: 'Ghost rocket' north going quickly south. / L'Espoir and Journal du Centre.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 341)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_614

Extra Data: Country: "Greece and Island nations", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KOZANI+SALONIKA,GREECE:'GHOST ROCKET' N>>S:/L'Espoir+Journal du Centre", LatLong: "40.266669 21.850001", LatLongDMS: "40:16:00 N 21:51:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GRC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2174 (72C26DB2)

Date: 9/11/1946
Time: 14:00
Location: ENGLE, NM
Description: 3' black cylinder/cigar-shape with fins moves trees. No trace found / Albuquerque Journal 29 Jun. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_615

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1455", HatchDesc: "ENGLE,NM:3'BLACK CGR W/FINS MOVES TREES:NO TRACE FOUND/ALBQQ JRNL 29JUN47", LatLong: "33.061113 -107.027783", LatLongDMS: "33:03:40 N 107:01:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2175 (9D9BC869)

Date: 9/11/1946
Description: The Chief of Naval Intelligence requires naval attachés to forward information on Soviet rocket research and operations including launches from submarines.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NARA, US Naval Intelligence files; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_869

Event 2176 (23CFDBE2)

Date: 9/11/1946
Description: Jack Northrop grounds the XB-35, which has suffered gearbox and propeller control problems, until the Army Air Force can fix its propulsion system.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_870

Event 2177 (D30B5170)

Date: 9/11/1946
Location: Engle, New Mexico
Description: 2:00 p.m. Justin B. Rinaldi is standing in a friend’s backyard in Engle, New Mexico, when he hears a loud whirring sound and sees a black object whiz by. It is pointed at one end, has a narrow body, and what appear to be fins on the tail. It is traveling fast at an altitude of 75 feet. Rinaldi sees it hit a clump of trees at a ranch house and the “branches parted like a great force had struck.” He and friends go to the site but can find nothing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Disc Tales Bring 2 Reports from Engle Area,” Albuquerque Journal, June 29, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 530
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_871

Event 2178 (B3588542)

Date: 9/11/1946
Description: In Oak Lawn, Illinois a V-shaped formation of five silver disks, with one trailing behind, were seen heading northeast to Indiana, bypassing Chicago. They were the size of small peas at arms length, traveling high and fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (Source: Peter Davenport, National UFO Reporting Center, Seattle, September 1946 archived webpage, report uploaded April 16, 2005
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5848

Event 2179 (831C382C)

Date: 9/12/1946
Time: 23:00?
Location: LONGWY, FR
Description: Newsman and several. 2 fireballs connected / bar north going south / plane speed. Absolute(ly) silent. 6km altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_616

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LONGWY,FR:NEWSMAN+SVRL:2 FBLS CONNECTED/BAR N>S/PLANE SPEED:ABS.SLNT:6km alt", LatLong: "49.533336 5.766667", LatLongDMS: "49:32:00 N 05:46:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Meurthe-et-Moselle", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2180 (2A7091AC)

Date: 9/12/1946
Locations: Stockholm, Sweden; London
Description: Cmdr. Robert A. Winston, acting naval attaché in Stockholm, Sweden, writes to the London naval attaché in a secret air mailgram that he suspects there is a secret British-Swedish collaboration on ghost rocket information designed to keep the US from learning the truth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_872

Event 2181 (B496624A)

Date: 9/14/1946
Location: ALENTEJO AREA, PORTUGAL
Description: Odd bluish ball / light seen / 5 minute(s). Luminous rockets / Oporto / 16th.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_617

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "ALENTEJO AREA,PORTUGAL:ODD BLUISH BALL/LITE SEEN/5min::LUM ROCKETS/OPORTO/16th", LatLong: "38.666669 -7.750000", LatLongDMS: "38:40:00 N 07:45:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "AAL", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2182 (ADEC91F6)

Date: Mid 9/1946
Location: Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Description: Two luminous globes that shine “like an electric arc” are seen flying in a straight line over Longwy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 66
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_873

Event 2183 (C1322938)

Date: 9/16/1946 (approximate)
Location: PIC / MIDI D'OSSAU, FR
Description: 'Rocket' from Spain south going quickly north over mountain peak. / L'Espoir 18 Sep. '46.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_618

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "PIC/MIDI d'OSSAU,FR:'ROCKET' FROM SPAIN S>>N OVR MTN PEAK:/L'Espoir 18SEP46", LatLong: "42.838891 -0.422222", LatLongDMS: "42:50:20 N 00:25:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "PYA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2184 (E8BFB184)

Date: 9/18/1946
Location: Castanheira, Portugal
Description: Two greenish globes, one following close behind the other, zoom over Castanheira, Portugal.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. 67
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_874

Event 2185 (6728F1D0)

Date: 9/21/1946
Location: Swedish National Defense Research Institute
Description: Chemist Gustaf Ljunggren of the Swedish National Defense Research Institute summarizes for the Swedish Defense staff his analysis of 27 finds of mysterious substances, allegedly from ghost rockets. None are radioactive and all have mundane explanations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 33–34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_875

Event 2186 (9EC5BA8C)

Date: 9/22/1946
Time: 03:20
Location: FIRENZE, ITALY
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape turns / sky going quickly [to] Rome. Also Turin and Bologna and Bari and Vercelli and Imola and Modena and more/others.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_619

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "11", Duration: "2", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "FIRENZE,ITALY:CGR TURNS/SKY >>ROME:+TURIN+BOLOGNA+BARI+VERCELLI+IMOLA+MODENA++", LatLong: "43.800002 11.250001", LatLongDMS: "43:48:00 N 11:15:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Firenze", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2187 (0D190416)

Date: 9/22/1946
Locations: Florence, Italy; Rome
Description: 3:15 a.m. A rocket-shaped object is seen for 90 seconds over Florence, Italy. It makes an abrupt turn, then speeds south toward Rome.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., p. 69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_876

Event 2188 (5601BE98)

Date: 9/23/1946 (approximate)
Location: FES, MOROCCO
Description: Fireball-rocket going quickly west. Turns going quickly north. Faster / plane. Low altitude. / L'Espoir 24 SEPT46.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_620

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Morocco", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "FES,MOROCCO:FBL-ROCKET >> W:TURNS >>N:FASTER/PLANE:LOW ALT:/L'Espoir 24SEPT46", LatLong: "34.083335 -5.000000", LatLongDMS: "34:05:00 N 05:00:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "FES", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2189 (DE3E4CA4)

Date: Fall 1946
Locations: O'Neill, Nebraska; farm 8 miles north of O'Neill, Nebraska
Description: 9:00 p.m. Gladys McCage and her 4-year-old son see a yellowish-orange light coming from the northwest at a “terrific speed” toward their farm 8 miles north of O’Neill, Nebraska. Its color changes to red as it approaches, and soon it is hovering above the witnesses. They run toward the house and the cigar-shaped object swings up to the northeast. McCage says it is as big as a football field, has windows, and is making a loud noise. A yellowish- blue-green flame is shooting out near the back, and it is traveling too fast for any plane at the time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 530
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_878

Event 2190 (F11AD54D)

Date: 9/25/1946
Location: JYVASKYLA, FINLAND
Description: Several hundreds / observer(s). Slow cylinder/cigar-shape southeast going quickly northwest 'explodes'. Fragments go / all directions.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_621

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "JYVASKYLA,FINLAND:SVRL 100s/OBS:SLOW CGR SE>>NW 'EXPLODES':FRAGS GO/ALL DIRs", LatLong: "62.244447 25.750001", LatLongDMS: "62:14:40 N 25:45:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2191 (198C50F0)

Date: 9/25/1946
Time: 02:40
Location: VILLEFAUX, FR
Description: Blinding fireball follows mail truck / 15 minute(s). 2nd east going quickly west overhead. / Dijon papers.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 342)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_622

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", HatchDesc: "VILLEFAUX,FR:BLINDING FBL FOLOS MAIL TRUCK/15min:2nd E>>W OVHD:/Dijon papers", LatLong: "47.550002 6.133334", LatLongDMS: "47:33:00 N 06:08:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Doubs", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2192 (E9D0C3E1)

Date: 9/26/1946
Location: LINGEN AND MEPPEN, GERMANY
Description: British Army observer(s). 'Missiles' pass overhead going quickly west. / London papers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY 1946 The Ghost Rockets. 1972,82,88. (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_623

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LINGEN+MEPPEN,GERMANY:BRIT.ARMY OBS:'MISSILES' PASS OVHD >>W:/LONDON PAPERS", LatLong: "52.583336 7.316667", LatLongDMS: "52:35:00 N 07:19:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LSX", Strangeness: "2"

Event 2193 (CBEC0E56)

Date: 9/30/1946
Location: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City
Description: David Sarnoff, in a speech at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, says that the “ghost bombs are no myth but real missiles.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Two”; “Sarnoff Predicts Weather Control and Delivery of the Mail by Radio,” New York Times, October 1, 1946, p. 1, 48
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_877

Event 2194 (6EC7DB10)

Date: 10/1946
Location: Paterson, NJ
Description: Horse reacts to circular light (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP: 461000
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_315

Event 2195 (C0FD5FB1)

Date: 10/1946
Locations: Denver, Colorado; Mount Shasta, California
Description: Ray Palmer publishes a letter from Maurice Doreal pseudonym of Claude D. Dodgin of the Brotherhood of the White Temple in Denver, Colorado, regarding the “Shaver mystery.” Doreal claims intimate knowledge of the subterranean realms, which he claims are inhabited by the Black Brotherhood and protected by “space-warps.” In 1949 Doreal claims to have visited caves inside Mount Shasta, California, inhabited by Atlantean masters. He equates Shaver’s Dero with an evil group of Lemurians.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Walter Kafton-Minkel, Subterranean Worlds, Loompanics, 1989, pp. 154–160; Charmaine Ortega Getz, “The Sort of Amazing Story of Maurice Doreal and the Brotherhood of the White Temple Revealed at Last,” Weird Colorado, September 6, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_879

Event 2196 (29E4C62F)

Date: 10/1/1946
Locations: London, England; Scandinavia
Description: The US Military Attaché in London, England, writes a top-secret memo to the War Department complaining that the British “may not have given us all information on reported rockets over Scandinavia.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, comp., The Ghost Rocket File, Fund for UFO Research, 2000, p. 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_880

Event 2197 (7BD34DC6)

Date: 10/9/1946
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established contact and reported it would return
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: rg
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_200

Event 2198 (5452CF9E)

Date: 10/9/1946
Time: 19:20
Location: SAN DIEGO, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Large batlike object hovers and maneuvers during meteor shower. Unidentified.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_624

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "95", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "SAN DIEGO,CA:SVRL OBS:LRG BATLIKE OBJ HVRS+MNVRS DURING METEOR SHOWER:UID", LatLong: "32.716668 -117.150006", LatLongDMS: "32:43:00 N 117:09:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2199 (7ADA4CA4)

Date: 10/9/1946
Locations: Mount Palomar, California; San Diego
Description: Evening. George Adamski and some associates are watching a meteor shower associated with Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner when they see a “gigantic spacecraft” hovering above the mountain ridge south of Mount Palomar, California. He claims to meet a military officer a few weeks later who assures him that the object was indeed from another world. Others in San Diego see an object with a long, tube-shaped fuselage, giant wings, and two red lights. The medium Mark Probert later tells the press that he has established psychic communication with the occupants and the object is called the Kareeta.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sparks Fly As Comet Passes Earth,” Los Angeles Daily News, October 10, 1946, p. 3; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 28–29; Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, Citadel, 1954, pp. 41–48; Curt Collins, “1946, Before Saucers, Kareeta: UFO Contact in California,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, August 8, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_881

Event 2200 (DF1619F3)

Date: 10/10/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_201
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 173.8km

Event 2201 (60CE9639)

Date: 10/10/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_202
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km

Event 2202 (4F4B3719)

Date: 10/10/1946
Location: Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany
Description: 4:00 a.m. Waltraut Anlauf, a telephone operator in Friedland Refugee Camp, Lower Saxony, Germany, sees small, elongated flashes at a great height in the sky. They look like cigars and are luminescent white in front and bluish-white in back. She sees about 10 objects pass per minute. Sometimes there is an interruption of about 10 minutes, and then new groups appear. The sighting lasts one hour. Possibly these are part of the Taurid meteor shower.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 529
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_882

Event 2203 (EAB8E055)

Date: 10/10/1946
Description: The defense staff in Sweden admits it cannot explain the ghost rockets because reports are too vague. About 80% appear to be meteors “celestial phenomena”, although radar has tracked a few unusual targets. The report concludes that they are not V-type bombs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Swedish Inquiry Fails to Solve Rocket Case,” New York Times, October 11, 1946, p. 3; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 71–72; Good Above, p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_883

Event 2204 (B2D5B5A0)

Date: 10/21/1946
Location: shore of a lake in southern Sweden
Description: Two persons on the shore of a lake in southern Sweden hear a whistling sound in the air, like a “flock of birds.” They see an object moving over the trees at a low altitude. It is dart-shaped and has short wings and a “ball-shaped tip.” It falls into the lake and possibly explodes on impact.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets , The Author, 1988 ed., p. p. 74
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_884

Event 2205 (BA760FA6)

Date: 11/1946
Location: Wright Field, Ohio
Description: The War Department issues a press release on how German scientists are helping out at Wright Field, Ohio.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Dolan, p. 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_885

Event 2206 (3D549FA4)

Date: 11/7/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude (Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_203
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: .32km

Event 2207 (EF2607D0)

Date: 11/21/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude (Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_204
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.4km

Event 2208 (85DC3868)

Date: 11/29/1946
Locations: Russia; Halle, Germany
Description: A top secret Air Intelligence report, “Significant Developments of Scientific Warfare in Russia,” designates the ghost rockets as “V-5” weapons produced by the Siebel Works in Halle, Germany.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_886

Event 2209 (2D7D25AC)

Date: 12/3/1946
Description: The Swedish military reports that about 100 impacts were investigated by the Defense Research Institution and not found to be rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter, “Guided Missiles and UFOs: A Tangle of Fear, 1937–53, Part Three”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_887

Event 2210 (129E24D4)

Date: 12/5/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude (Control system failed at altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_205
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 152.9km

Event 2211 (20BB0755)

Date: 12/10/1946
Description: Gen. Curtis LeMay answers an inquiry from Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart Symington about establishing interim projects at the Air Materiel Center AMC. LeMay’s answer: The Commander of AMC on his own volition may establish an interim project; however, to continue the project it must be approved for the next budget cycle.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB; Jan Aldrich, “Secret Twining Letter: ‘The Reported Phenomena Are Real,’” October 11, 2008
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_888

Event 2212 (9030A1C9)

Date: 12/17/1946
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude (Rocket exploded at 440s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_206
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 184.4km

Event 2213 (94C871D2)

Date: 12/23/1946
Description: Jacobsson’s ghost rocket committee issues its final report on 987 ghost rocket cases, stating that 225 reports had been made in full daylight. More than 100 reports describe spool-shaped objects with or without wings. It concludes: “Despite the extensive effort, which has been carried out with the means available, and seven months after the first observations, no actual proof that a test of rocket projectiles has taken place over Sweden has been found.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 26; Loren E. Gross, UFO’s, a History: 1946, the Ghost Rockets, The Author, 1988 ed., pp. 75–76; Anders Liljegren and Clas Svahn, “The Ghost Rockets,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_889

Event 2214 (37F3D5AF)

Date: 12/30/1946
Time: 17:40
Location: MORRO BAY, CA
Description: Bat-saucer hovers / minutes. Drops behind cloud. Sea lit up in great color.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_625

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "6", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "MORRO BAY,CA:BAT-SCR HOVRS/MINUTES:DROPS BHND CLOUD:SEA LIT UP IN GREAT COLOR", LatLong: "35.400002 -120.966672", LatLongDMS: "35:24:00 N 120:58:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Year: 1947 (Back to Top)

Event 2215 (0C97700F)

Date: 1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Einstein sees "Greys" for the first time
Type: rumor
Reference: anonymous information (R.G.)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_207

Attributes: Einstein, gallant

Event 2216 (6D735D78)

Date: 1947
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_209

Event 2217 (5CF173F9)

Date: 1947
Location: N 58 39 E 59 47
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_212

Event 2218 (A2D1123C)

Date: 1947
End date: 1949
Location: US
Description: USAF Investigation Summary: Serious investigation, conclusions UFOs real and interplanetary.
Type: investigation
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_896

Event 2219 (A3F58EEC)

Date: 1947
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Cmdr. Bernard Baruch Jr. makes 44 trips at his own expense to lobby for the implementation of the peacetime Communication Instruction for Reporting Enemy Sightings CIRES message system. He meets with DCI Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg , Rear Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter, Secretary of the Air Force Stuart Symington , Rear Adm. Earl E. Stone, Vice Adm. Arthur W. Radford, Rear Adm. John E. Gingrich, Adm. DeWitt Clinton Ramsey, Maj. Gen. Robert W. Harper , Lieut. Gen Idwal H. Edwards, Vice Adm. Ralph Riggs, Capt. Richard Burke USCG, and about 20 other officials.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Capt. Bernard Baruch, Jr.”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_890

Event 2220 (2E2C75A6)

Date: 1947
Locations: Sacramento, California; Roseville
Description: 11:00 p.m. Air Force pilot Edwin T. Yeoman is returning home with his wife Eva after going to a movie in Sacramento, California. As they drive northeast, they see a stationary light hovering at an altitude of 3,000–4,000 feet above Roseville. After watching it for 5 minutes, the light gets brighter, rises vertically for several thousand feet, makes an abrupt 90° turn, and shoots across the horizon from east to west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: CUFOS case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_891

Event 2221 (D8A7D736)

Date: 1/1947
Location: Papago Indian Reservation
Description: W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or heavy equipment.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_213

Event 2222 (D3F66589)

Date: 1/1/1947
Description: The civilian US Atomic Energy Commission assumes responsibility for nuclear energy from the wartime Manhattan Project. The Armed Forces Special Weapons Project assumes responsibility for all aspects of nuclear weapons remaining under military control.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Atomic Energy Commission”; Wikipedia, “Armed Forces Special Weapons Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_892

Event 2223 (69746B35)

Date: 1/7/1947
Location: Portland, OR
Description: SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky established presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon department of geology and mineral industries, said it gives reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. Largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice shower occurred Saturday confined to a fifteen foot square area of Hill Military Academy.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_214

Event 2224 (17843C4E)

Date: 1/9/1947
Location: US
Description: The US Defense Department’s Intelligence Review, no. 49, contains a four-page summary of ghost rocket sightings and suggests some may have been Soviet test missiles or jet airplanes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Ghost Rockets over Scandinavia,” Intelligence Review, no. 49, January 9, 1947, US Department of Defense; Don Berliner, Marie Galbraith, and Antonio Huneeus, Unidentified Flying Objects Briefing Document, UFO Research Coalition, December 1995, pp. 33–35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_893

Event 2225 (39ABB183)

Date: 1/10/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_215
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 116.2km

Event 2226 (14999E28)

Date: 1/16/1947
Time: 20:10
Location: 50 MI WITH DUTCH COAST
Description: Project Bluebook Case #54. RAF Mosquito chases RADAR blip 22K' altitude going quickly west to Norfolk.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_626

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "108", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "50mi W/DUTCH COAST:BBK#54:RAF MOSQUITO CHASES RDR BLIP 22K'alt >>W to NORFOLK", LatLong: "52.866669 2.616667", LatLongDMS: "52:52:00 N 02:37:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSE", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2227 (AB6C60F9)

Date: 1/16/1947
Location: North Sea, 50 miles from Holland, At Sea
Description: 10:30 p.m. (GMT). RAF pilot of Mosquito pursued unidentified radar target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470116
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_316

Event 2228 (B8EACC83)

Date: 1/16/1947
Locations: RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station; Felixstowe, Suffolk, England; North Sea; Netherlands coast; Norfolk coast
Description: 11:30 p.m. An RAF Mosquito plane chases an unidentified target detected on radar at RAF Trimley Heath Radar Station [now closed] near Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, moving at a speed calculated to be faster than sound at an altitude of 38,000 feet over the North Sea, 50 miles north of the Netherlands acoast. It descends to 17,000 feet and takes controlled, evasive action. The plane pursues it for 40 minutes, even though the pilot cannot see it visually, until he loses it over the Norfolk coast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, p. 29; ClearIntent, p. 151; Sparks, p. 16; David Clarke, “Operation Charlie,” 2002; Martin L. Shough, “A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_894

Event 2229 (D7774464)

Date: 1/16/1947
Description: At 11:30 at night in the North Sea an RAF Mosquito pilot picked up a strange object on radar 50 miles north of the coast of Holland. The UFO seemed to be taking evasive maneuvers when approached by the fighter aircraft. The UFO was pursued for 30 minutes until over the Norfolk, England coast, at which point the object darted away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_344

Event 2230 (13D0079C)

Date: 1/17/1947
Location: North Sea, 50 miles from Holland, At Sea
Description: 10:30 p.m. (GMT). RAF pilot of Mosquito pursued unidentified radar target (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470117
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_317

Event 2231 (4F8C2D21)

Date: 1/17/1947
Locations: Neatishead, northeast of Norwich, England; North Sea
Description: 11:37 p.m. After two unidentified targets similar to yesterday’s are reported by RAF Neatishead, northeast of Norwich, England, over the North Sea, another radar track enters the Eastern Sector area, and an RAF Mosquito piloted by Flight Lt. William Kent is scrambled to 18,000 feet. Kent attempts to close in, but his onboard radar is unable to keep it on track because the target is “jerking violently” and taking evasive action. After 20 minutes, the target descends below 2,000 feet and is lost from ground radar. Unofficially the radar operators give the intruder a name—Charlie—and when the Air Ministry later begins a concerted effort to solve the mystery, its code name is “Operation Charlie.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Martin L. Shough, “A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_895

Event 2232 (62ADCFD1)

Date: 1/20/1947
Locations: London; England
Description: In London, Ben Lockspeiser , chief scientist for the UK Ministry of Supply, after meeting with Swedish scientists and air force authorities, informs the American naval attaché in London, England, Cmdr. Jenkins, that the Swedes doubt the rockets are from Russia but prefer that the US and UK continue to think so. Natural phenomena and popular imagination are considered the causes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 3–5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_896

Event 2233 (D6F9F5C1)

Date: 1/23/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_216
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km

Event 2234 (13EBE90C)

Date: 1/23/1947
Locations: Neatishead, Norfolk, England; Yorkshire
Description: Night. Three senior RAF officers are visiting RAF Neatishead in Norfolk, England, for an interception exercise when an unidentified radar target makes another appearance at 28,000 feet. RAF Mosquitos from Yorkshire are scrambled, but by the time the aircraft reach the area, the target is gone.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Martin L. Shough, “A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_897

Event 2235 (4FA3C4BC)

Date: 1/27/1947
Locations: RAF Neatishead, England; Downham Market, Norfolk
Description: RAF Flying Officer Stewart of the Northern Signals Area, after investigating the Operation Charlie radar incidents at RAF Neatishead, England, issues a report, no longer extant, that suggests that some of the targets are radiosonde balloons released by the USAAF’s 8th Weather Squadron in Downham Market, Norfolk. However, RAF and Air Ministry sources continue to refer to the sightings as unexplained over the following months.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Martin L. Shough, “A New Study of the British ‘Ghost Airplanes’ of 1947,” April 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_898

Event 2236 (5039D38E)

Date: 1/29/1947
Locations: Los Alamos Laboratory; Sandia Base, New Mexico
Description: Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal issue a memorandum that formally establishes the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, a new agency to take over responsibility for the aspects of nuclear weapons that still remain under the military. It is to be jointly staffed by the Army and Navy. Los Alamos Laboratory’s ordnance engineering Z Division and AFSWP establish themselves at Sandia Base, New Mexico, bringing the strict secrecy that has prevails at Los Alamos.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Armed Forces Special Weapons Project”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_899

Event 2237 (799BF159)

Date: 2/3/1947
Time: 12:00?
Location: FRANKFURT, GERM
Description: 3 US WACs / base. 3 big fireballs maneuver / 30 minute(s). Vanish in place. Back twice.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 55)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_627

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "FRANKFURT,GERM:3 US WACs/BASE:3 BIG FBLS MNVR/30min:VANISH IN PLACE:back twice", LatLong: "50.116669 8.700000", LatLongDMS: "50:07:00 N 08:42:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HSS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2238 (6227F58B)

Date: 2/6/1947
Locations: Lock, South Australia; Port Augusta, South Australia
Description: Around 7:30 a.m., Frederick Walter Flavel and his wife Emma are walking to their house in Lock, South Australia, when they see five gray, oblong objects rise apparently from the sea and move from northwest to southeast. At 9:00 a.m., Ronald Ernest Ellis and two other railroad workers in Port Augusta, South Australia, watch five white or light-pink egg-shaped objects moving across the sky from north to south at about 6,000 feet. They quiver, cast shadows on the ground, and move out of sight in a few seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Five Objects Cast Shadows”; Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough, Return to Magonia: Investigating UFOs in History, Anomalist, 2015, pp. 329–350
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_900

Event 2239 (0360DC9C)

Date: 2/8/1947
Locations: US; Sweden
Description: A US Navy Privateer bomber flying over Sweden picks up signals that might be directing rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Letter from US Naval Forces Europe, London, to Chief of Naval Operations; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_901

Event 2240 (098CF434)

Date: 2/9/1947
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins writing essay competition
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_217

Attributes: Einstein

Event 2241 (D2EA353F)

Date: 2/17/1947
Locations: London, England; Peenemünde, Germany; Finland
Description: Capt. J. B. Pearson Jr., US naval attaché in London, England, sends an intelligence report to the Chief of Naval Intelligence about his conversation with Col. Westergard, head of the Airplane Design Section for the Swedish Air Ministry. Westergard tells him some 40% of the 1,000 ghost rocket sightings are “reliable.” They seem to originate in Peenemünde, Germany, and fly toward Finland. The best observation is from an artillery officer who sees an object in his optical range finder and follows it for about 90 seconds. It is in level flight at 4.5 miles distance and is about 36 feet long and torpedo shaped.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_902

Event 2242 (E9CE41C0)

Date: 2/20/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude (Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_218
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 109.4km

Event 2243 (32E965F0)

Date: 2/28/1947
Location: Lima, Peru
Description: Three "Figures" Near Disc (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470228
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_318

Event 2244 (6EF93EBD)

Date: 2/28/1947
Locations: Sweden; USAF Office of Air Intelligence
Description: Capt. Emmet O’Beirne , Chief of the Defensive Air Branch, writes a memorandum to the chief of the USAF Office of Air Intelligence about the branch’s interview with H. W. Flickinger, vice president for exports at Republic Aircraft Corp. after his return from Sweden: “He stated that he had seen one of the Swedish ‘spook rockets’ in flight, which resembled the V-1 buzz bomb but was somewhat smaller. The noise of this missile was more that of a rocket than like a V-1.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_903

Event 2245 (D0E6B450)

Date: 3/1947
Time: 03:00
Location: PUTNAM, CT
Description: 1 observer. Luminous disk crosses sky / 4 second(s) going quickly west. Back 3 weeks later. / local news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 57)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_628

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "88", HatchDesc: "PUTNAM,CT:1 OBS:LUMn.DISK CROSSES SKY/4 sec >>W:BACK 3 WEEKS LATER:/local news", LatLong: "41.900002 -71.916670", LatLongDMS: "41:54:00 N 71:55:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2246 (9E67AF6B)

Date: 3/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: ALAMOSA, CO
Description: 2 teens. Meteor = silent glowing triangle. Levels off going south over town / 15 second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 56)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_629

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "2499", HatchDesc: "ALAMOSA,CO:2 TEENS:METEOR=SLNT GLOWING TRIANGLE:LEVELS OFF >S ovr TOWN/15sec", LatLong: "37.466668 -105.872227", LatLongDMS: "37:28:00 N 105:52:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2247 (F3F2A02B)

Date: 3/7/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_219
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.2km

Event 2248 (6AD8531A)

Date: 3/17/1947
Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young students to find their directions”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_220

Attributes: Einstein

Event 2249 (818BC922)

Date: 3/21/1947
Location: southern Sweden
Description: A cigar-shaped object with smoke coming from its tail is seen flying from east to west at considerable height over southern Sweden by several witnesses. It looks metallic and is about 60 feet long, flying slowly. The object seems to turn around and fly back eastward briefly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Phantom Bomb’ Returns to Skies over Sweden,” New York Times, March 22, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_904

Event 2250 (87AE130A)

Date: 3/30/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: OCALA TO/FROM ORLANDO, FL
Description: 3 / car. Several silver disks. Appear and disappear. No further details. (AP) / 6 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 57)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_630

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "OCALA><ORLANDO,FL:3/CAR:SVRL SLVR DISKS:APPEAR+DISAPPEAR:NFD:(AP)/6JLY47", LatLong: "28.866668 -81.766671", LatLongDMS: "28:52:00 N 81:46:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2251 (4FD86E92)

Date: 3/30/1947
Description: In 1947 at 11:00 a.m., Mrs. J. E. Harp of Lutz, Florida her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and her mother Mrs. W. H. Brown saw several flying discs while driving. The discs were silvery colored and seemed to appear and disappear. They did not have time to count the number, and could not estimate the altitude, size or speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, UFO Research Coalition, 1997, p. 57, quoting the Orlando Sentinel Star, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1725

Event 2252 (1AEEEBD2)

Date: 4/1947
Location: PORT ALBERNI, BC
Description: 2 observer(s). Ducks and chickens act up. Bright metal saucers going quickly east on edge. / r129p98.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 57)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_631

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "59", HatchDesc: "PORT ALBERNI,BC:2 OBS:DUCKS+CHICKENS ACT UP:BRITE MTL SCRS>>E ON EDGE:/r129p98", LatLong: "49.233336 -124.800006", LatLongDMS: "49:14:00 N 124:48:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2253 (796746D0)

Date: 4/1947
Time: 08:20
Location: COL.-DE-SERRE, FR
Description: Silent 30M domed saucer hovers over car. Trees bend. Very fast quickly going up. / LDLN#249.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: CHALLENGE to SCIENCE, The UFO ENIGMA; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine Books, NY 1974. PB (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_632

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "COL-DE-SERRE,FR:SLNT 30M DOMED SCR HVRS OVR CAR:TREES BEND:VFAST ↑↑:/LDLN#249", LatLong: "45.133335 2.705556", LatLongDMS: "45:08:00 N 02:42:20 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Cantal", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2254 (0B3E3BD4)

Date: 4/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: LA ROCHE-SUR-YONNE, FR
Description: Silent metallic Saturn-sphere/orb/globe. Small antenna. Spins. Going [to] over roof. / r171.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_633

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "La ROCHE-sur-YONNE,FR:SLNT MTLC SATURN-ORB:SML ANTENNA:SPINS:> OVR ROOF:/r171", LatLong: "46.633336 -1.466667", LatLongDMS: "46:38:00 N 01:28:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vendée", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2255 (46EA4C43)

Date: 4/1947
Location: Richmond, VA
Description: Silvery Disc Seen Through Theodolite (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 4704xx
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_319

Event 2256 (C9306475)

Date: 4/1947
Description: The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories is devoted in its entirety to “proofs” of Richard Shaver’s claims and includes four of his novellas. Vincent Gaddis has written a prescient article on UFOs, titled “Visitors from the Void.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Halperin, “The Shaver Mystery—Richard Shaver, Ray Palmer, and the Quest for Lemuria Part](https://www.davidhalperin.net/the-shaver-mystery-richard-shaver-ray-palmer-and-the-quest-for-lemuria-part-2/) [2,” July 11, 2014; Richard S. Shaver, “Formula from the Underworld,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 June 1947: 10–29; Vincent H. Gaddis, “Visitors from the Void,” Amazing Stories 21, no. 6 June 1947: 159–161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_905

Event 2257 (EBC495D0)

Date: 4/1947
Locations: US Weather Bureau; Richmond, Virginia
Description: 11:00 a.m. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. Minczewski watches a silvery disc through a theodolite while tracking a ceiling balloon in Richmond, Virginia. It is traveling east to west at less than 15,000 feet and has a flat bottom and a dome on top.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Silvery Disc Seen through Theodolite”; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 62; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 17–21; Sparks , p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_906

Event 2258 (C2A026C9)

Date: 4/1/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_221
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129.2km

Event 2259 (3881FDCC)

Date: 4/5/1947
Location: SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Description: Odd B-shaped object. 2 compartments. Lights flash. See Des Moines.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 110)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_634

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1280", HatchDesc: "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:ODD B-SHAPED OBJ:2 COMPARTMENTS:LITES FLASH:see Des Moines", LatLong: "40.750002 -111.883339", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 111:53:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2260 (C5CE9F85)

Date: 4/8/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_222
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.2km

Event 2261 (DC2429E8)

Date: 4/11/1947 (approximate)
Time: 15:00
Location: BRADSHAW, WV
Description: Round silent silver object crosses sky slow and straight. / letter to airport.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 58)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_635

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "362", HatchDesc: "BRADSHAW,WV:RND SLNT SLVR OBJ CROSSES SKY SLOW+STRAIGHT:/letter to airport", LatLong: "37.350002 -81.800004", LatLongDMS: "37:21:00 N 81:48:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2262 (533C6E9F)

Date: 4/15/1947?
Time: 10:30
Location: RICHMOND, VA
Description: 2 weathermen / theodolite. Domed metallic flat-bottom/underside saucer going quickly northwest. / r2p69.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 218)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_636

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "58", HatchDesc: "RICHMOND,VA:2 WEATHERMEN/THEODOLITE:DOMED MTLC FLAT-BTM SCR >>NW:/r2p69", LatLong: "37.550002 -77.466670", LatLongDMS: "37:33:00 N 77:28:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2263 (2A8C074A)

Date: 4/15/1947
Locations: US; Stockholm; Sweden
Description: The US Naval Attaché in Stockholm issues a secret intelligence report, “Sweden: Guided Missiles, Alleged Rockets over Sweden.” Both the naval and military attachés agree that there is nothing to the ghost rocket episode. No foreign missiles have overflown or landed in Sweden, according to the evidence a, vailable. “Swedish officials prefer to dismiss it as an unexplained press sensation.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_907

Event 2264 (3917A6F6)

Date: 4/17/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_223
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 142.4km

Event 2265 (E4BD8C91)

Date: 4/17/1947
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Col. Oliver G. Haywood Jr. of the Atomic Energy Commission writes a memorndum to Harold A. Fidler at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, saying: “It is desired that no document be released which refers to experiments with humans and might have adverse effect on public opinion or result in legal suits. Documents covering such work should be classified ‘secret.’”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Advisory Committtee on Human Radiation Experiments, memo, “Documents Retrieved from Oak Ridge Operations: The Atomic Energy Commission’s Declassification Review of Reports on Human Experiments and the Public Relations and Legal Liability Consequences,” December 6, 1994; Wikipedia, “Unethical human experimentation in the United States”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_908

Event 2266 (6EE76A74)

Date: Late 4/1947
Alternate date: Early 5/1947
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Description: 12:05 p.m. Mrs. William Down and Mrs. H. G. Olavick of Tucson, Arizona, see an unusual, fleecy cloud in an otherwise cloudless sky. Moving around it in “yo-yo fashion” are a number of small discs with a dull-white finish. They move up and down and sideways, occasionally disappearing into or behind the cloud. They watch the objects for 5–7 minutes, then all the discs disappear above the cloud, while a larger object emerges from the cloud and moves eastward. Behind it comes a V-formation of nine of the smaller discs, which then climbs at high speed toward the northeast and disappears in 2–3 seconds. The witnesses assume the objects are some new type of aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. ix; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects and Cloud Cigars,” IUR 29, no. 1 Spring 2004: 4
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_909

Event 2267 (4D1B1A4C)

Date: 4/26/1947 (approximate)
Time: ~21:30
Location: NEAR ROTHOIS, FR
Description: 2+1 observer(s). 60cm glowing-balls follow girls / curving road. Vanish at home.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 326)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_637

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "nr ROTHOIS,FR:2+1 OBS:60cm GLOW-BALLS FOLO GIRLS/CURVING ROAD:VANISH AT HOME", LatLong: "49.583336 1.988889", LatLongDMS: "49:35:00 N 01:59:20 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oise", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2268 (D4967F20)

Date: 4/29/1947
Time: 12:10
Location: TUCSON, AZ
Description: 2 observer(s). Odd lone cloud. 9 white saucers exit and play. Away / V formation going quickly northeast. / MJ#288.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_638

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "717", HatchDesc: "TUCSON,AZ:2 OBS:ODD LONE CLOUD:9 WHT SCRS EXIT+PLAY:AWAY/VFORM >>NE:/MJ#288", LatLong: "32.233335 -110.883339", LatLongDMS: "32:14:00 N 110:53:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2269 (480F73F4)

Date: 4/29/1947
Description: On this day two women, Mrs. Olavick and Mrs. Down of Tucson, Arizona watched nine white discs and another object behind a steamy cloud in a completely clear sky, arranged in a V-shaped formation. The ten objects moved up and down in an erratic manner, and in and out of the unnatural cloud for 5-6 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 9; George Kocher, Rand Corporation: UFO's: What to Do?, p. 15; Kenneth Larson, Flying Saucers, October 1968, p. 40; UNICAT database, case 819, citing James E. McDonald
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2402

Event 2270 (0574583F)

Date: 5/1947 (approximate)
Time: 05:30
Location: TRAIN #8 EAST / ANTELOPE, SSK
Description: 90M cylinder/cigar-shape with 2 rows / windows going quickly south. CP Rail News V8#2 Feb'78.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 59)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_639

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "790", HatchDesc: "TRAIN #8 E/ANTELOPE,SSK:90M CGR W/2 ROWS/WINDOWS >>S:CP Rail News V8#2 Feb'78", LatLong: "50.166669 -108.300005", LatLongDMS: "50:10:00 N 108:18:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2271 (8602A5A9)

Date: 5/1947 (approximate)
Time: 09:00
Location: SOUTH / SALINAS, CA
Description: 3 / farm. 9' saucer found / carrot patch. USAF truck and men cart object away!
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 156)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_640

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", Elev: "25", HatchDesc: "S/SALINAS,CA:3/FARM:9'SCR FOUND/CARROT PATCH:USAF TRUCK+MEN CART OBJ AWAY!", LatLong: "36.616668 -121.650006", LatLongDMS: "36:37:00 N 121:39:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2272 (B908ECC6)

Date: 5/1947
Location: Jennings, Missouri
Description: 9:00 p.m. Harry Bentrup Jr. is on his porch in Jennings, Missouri, when a circular object surrounded by a ring of luminous green lights swoops in quickly from the east, hovers above him for 15 seconds, then takes off to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: MUFON case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_910

Event 2273 (4612F639)

Date: 5/1/1947
Location: Washington DC
Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the actual beginning of the CIA in 1961.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_224

Event 2274 (9DBFCB38)

Date: 5/1/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: MEMPHIS, TN
Description: Mrs. Clark. 2 flying "tennis-balls" go over yard. / commercial appeal.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_641

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "MEMPHIS,TN:Mrs CLARK:2 FLYING "TENNIS-BALLS" GO OVER YARD:/COMMERCIAL APPEAL", LatLong: "35.133335 -90.033338", LatLongDMS: "35:08:00 N 90:02:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2275 (696FE9FF)

Date: 5/1/1947?
Location: Memphis, Tennessee
Description: Mrs. W. C. Clark of Memphis, Tennessee, watches two objects “like tennis balls” fly over her yard.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Three Memphians Say They Saw Objects,” Memphis Tenn. Commercial Appeal, July 7, 1947, p. 2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_911

Event 2276 (054A4C26)

Date: 5/1/1947
Description: Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_912

Event 2277 (FFFC476A)

Date: 5/3/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: BOULDER, CO
Description: Amateur astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. Dark object passes moons face. Straight and level. / Life Magazine.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 61)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_642

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1629", HatchDesc: "BOULDER,CO:AM.ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:DARK OBJ PASSES MOONS FACE:S/L:/Life Magazine", LatLong: "40.050002 -105.283338", LatLongDMS: "40:03:00 N 105:17:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2278 (F560E1BA)

Date: 5/5/1947
Description: Hillenkoetter writes to Baruch, saying that his CIRES plan is “on the verge of being put into effect.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_913

Event 2279 (235248AA)

Date: 5/10/1947
Location: NEWARK, NJ
Description: 1+1 observer(s). Shiny ovoid with gold band / center west going quickly east. Back 6 July / Case#385.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_643

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "29", HatchDesc: "NEWARK,NJ:1+1 OBS:SHINY OVOID W/GOLD BAND/CENTER W>>E::BACK 6JLY/CASE#385", LatLong: "40.733335 -74.172226", LatLongDMS: "40:44:00 N 74:10:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2280 (54D89F64)

Date: 5/10/1947
Location: Newark, New Jersey
Description: Rose Slawuta of Newark, New Jersey, sees a shining, elliptical object with a gold band around it approaching fron the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Newark N.J. Star-Ledger, July 7, 1947; Bloecher, p. I-2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_914

Event 2281 (C2A265BF)

Date: 5/14/1947
Location: Budapest, Hungary
Description: 8:30 p.m. A spherical object 3-4 feet in diameter is seen over Budapest, Hungary, passing southeast to northwest at about 3,000 feet altitude in a flat trajectory.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Allied Control Commission for Hungary; George Mitrovic, The Gateways to the Gods , Kindle, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_915

Event 2282 (9C8C794B)

Date: 5/15/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches 135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failure.
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_225
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 135.2km

Event 2283 (49E85BE0)

Date: 5/15/1947
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly 5/21/1947)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_226

Event 2284 (3B6288A4)

Date: 5/15/1947
Locations: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; Alamogordo; New Mexico
Description: 4:11 p.m. A Hermes test missile V-2 at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, goes off course and lands 6 miles east of Alamogordo five and a half minutes after launch. Commanding Officer Lt. Col. Harold R. Turner blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. The official explanation is that the V-2 had a defective fin. Trade consultant and former state representative Jon Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failed test.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “V-2 Goes Astray, Lands in Six Miles of Alamogordo,” Las Cruces N.Mex. Sun-News, May 16, 1947, p. 1; Good Need, pp. 55–57; Wikipedia, “Hermes program”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_916

Event 2285 (58D3D311)

Date: 5/17/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Description: Pilot B. Savage. Large silent silver pie-pan saucer going northwest. / r171p61+/ MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 227)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_644

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "360", HatchDesc: "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:PILOT B.SAVAGE:LRG SLNT SLVR PIE-PAN SCR >NW:/r171p61+/MJ#121", LatLong: "35.450002 -97.533338", LatLongDMS: "35:27:00 N 97:32:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2286 (A9C7070F)

Date: 5/17/1947
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Description: 8:30-9 p.m Field Engineer Savage saw a frosty white round and flat objectRound & Flat Object Observed By Field Engineer (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470517
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_320

Event 2287 (3B8DAF04)

Date: 5/17/1947
Alternate date: 5/19/1947
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Description: 8:30 p.m. Byron B. Savage, an RCA field engineer, sees a frosty-white or silvery elliptical object about the size of a B-29 heading northwest at 10,000 feet over Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at three times the speed of a jet about 1,800 mph. As it noiselessly passes overhead, it appears to be circular.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Round and Flat Object Observed by Field Engineer”; Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 27–28; Sparks , p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_917

Event 2288 (C643A3CA)

Date: 5/17/1947
Description: Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. Field Engineer Savage in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma saw a frosty white, round and flat object, with a diameter to thickness ratio of 10:1. It was estimated to be the size of a B-29 (140 feet wingspan) traveling north at a 350° heading at between 10,000 to 18,000 feet moving at three times the speed of a jet, making a slight swishing sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Oklahoma City Times, June 26, 1947; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2914

Event 2289 (4F646F83)

Date: 5/19/1947
Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_227

Event 2290 (46E86DC8)

Date: 5/19/1947
Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_228

Event 2291 (A04276B9)

Date: 5/19/1947
Location: SANTIAGO, CHILE
Description: Astronomers. Odd slow meteor puffs smoke. Hovers. Shoots away. / r129p75.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_645

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Chile", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "521", HatchDesc: "SANTIAGO,CHILE:ASTRONOMRS:ODD SLO METEOR PUFFS SMOKE:HVRS:shoots away:/r129p75", LatLong: "-33.450002 -70.633337", LatLongDMS: "33:27:00 S 70:38:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SNT", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2292 (48811163)

Date: 5/19/1947
Time: 12:20
Location: MANITOU SPRINGS, CO
Description: 7 railroad/railway men. Silver saucer / acrobatics / 20 mn. Going quickly [to] WNW into wind. / r26p154.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 229)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_646

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "1926", HatchDesc: "MANITOU SPRINGS,CO:7 RR MEN:SLVR SCR/ACROBATICS/20mn:>>WNW into wind:/r26p154", LatLong: "38.850002 -104.916672", LatLongDMS: "38:51:00 N 104:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2293 (6DF56BB5)

Date: 5/19/1947
Location: Manitou Springs, CO
Description: Silver Object Gyrates Then Heads WNW (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470519
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_321

Event 2294 (E1D1EDA9)

Date: 5/19/1947
Locations: Pike’s Peak Railway; Manitou Springs, Colorado
Description: Around 12:30 p.m. Navy veteran Dean A. Hauser and six other Pike’s Peak Railway workers including Ted Weigand, Marion Hisshouse, T. J. Smith, L. D. Jamison at Manitou Springs, Colorado, are taking a lunch break when they watch a silver object come in from the northwest, hover overhead, and gyrate at 1,000 feet. The UFO is moving “erratically in wide circles” and reflects light like it is made of metal. After 20 minutes it disappears in a straight line to the west-northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Manitou Vets Relate Story: Another ‘Disk’ Seen,” Denver Post, June 28, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p. I-1; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 January 1st–June 23rd, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 29–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_918

Event 2295 (3D48C23F)

Date: 5/19/1947
Description: At 12:15 p.m. seven railroad workers in Manitou Springs, Colorado watched a silver saucer do acrobatics for 20 minutes. The object flew away quickly to the west-northwest into the wind.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Denver Post, June 28, 1947; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 66; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, May 1992, p. 19
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2969

Event 2296 (69D606F6)

Date: 5/25/1947?
Location: HEALY, AK
Description: 1 observer. Glittering silver disk over rail line here. Trails teardrop cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_647

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "394", HatchDesc: "HEALY,AK:1 OBS:GLITTERING SLVR DISK OVR RAIL LINE HERE:TRAILS TEARDROP CLOUD", LatLong: "63.861114 -148.966674", LatLongDMS: "63:51:40 N 148:58:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2297 (78D1FFAC)

Date: Late 5/1947
Location: Beaufort (near), SC
Description: Four Discs Flying Overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 4705Late
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_322

Event 2298 (62418B81)

Date: Late 5/1947
Locations: Augusta, Georgia; St. Helena Sound; Beaufort, South Carolina
Description: 11:00 a.m. Colden R. Battey, a physician from Augusta, Georgia, is fishing 10 miles off St. Helena Sound, near Beaufort, South Carolina. He notices a formation of four disc-like objects flying overhead in a southeasterly direction at a terrific rate of speed. The discs appear to be spinning on their axes and are at an estimated altitude of 20,000 feet. They are silvery and appear highly polished, and on their undersides Battey can see a circular rim or projection, about one-quarter of the way from the edges. No sound is heard as they fly overhead. The formation speeds out of view in less than 20 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Four Discs Flying Overhead”; Bloecher, p. I-2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_919

Event 2299 (0510E45A)

Date: 5/28/1947 (approximate)
Time: 11:00
Location: OFF ST. HELENA SOUND, SC
Description: Men / boat. 4 silent silver saucers spin going quickly southeast / terrific speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 289)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_648

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "OFF St HELENA SOUND,SC:MEN/BOAT:4 SILENT SLVR SCRS SPIN>>SE/TERRIFIC SPEED:", LatLong: "32.400002 -80.300004", LatLongDMS: "32:24:00 N 80:18:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2300 (8CD81B09)

Date: 5/29/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude (Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico.
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_229
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 79.3km

Event 2301 (6A21EB76)

Date: 5/29/1947
Locations: White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico; Tepeyac Cemetery; Juárez, Mexico
Description: 7:30 p.m. A Hermes II test missile a modified V-2 is launched from White Sands Proving Ground in New Mexico to test the “Organ,” a series of ramjet air intakes designed to take pressure measurements. The missile travels south instead of north and lands in the Tepeyac Cemetery, 3 miles south of Juárez, Mexico, creating an international incident. It leaves a crater 50 feet wide and 24 feet deep. German scientists Wernher Von Braun and Ernst Steinhoff are conducting the test.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Hermes program”; J. Terry White, “The Hermes II Incident,” White Eagle Aerospace, May 2, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_920

Event 2302 (70DD9E20)

Date: 5/31/1947
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class photo in newspaper
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_230

Attributes: Einstein

Event 2303 (1D012C65)

Date: 5/31/1947
Description: A former military photographer claimed that a UFO, 30-40 feet in diameter and about 15 feet in height, crashed near the area of Socorro, New Mexico and was recovered on this day. One occupant of the craft was killed in the crash, while three others allegedly emerged alive. When they were found by the U.S. military, the survivors reportedly made crying-like sounds and clutched box-like devices to their chests. One of them appeared to be injured. The occupants were of small height and had copper based blood. This object was reportedly eventually sent to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, and ended up at the "Hangar 18" facility.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Phillip L Rife, It Didn't Start With Roswell; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3174

Event 2304 (E9F5E61F)

Date: 6/1947
Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
Type: majestic document
Reference: Majestic Document
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_231

Attributes: Einstein, majestic

Event 2305 (EFCB56BA)

Date: 6/1947
Time: ~10:00
Location: SODRA HAMMARBY, SWD
Description: Plain tube-cylinder/cylindrical object going north. Fast 90° turn and instant acceleration going quickly east. / r171p131.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 231)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_649

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SODRA HAMMARBY,SWD:PLAIN TUBE-CYL > N:FAST 90°TURN+INSTANT ACCEL >>E:/r171p131", LatLong: "59.305558 18.133334", LatLongDMS: "59:18:20 N 18:08:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2306 (7045E0C8)

Date: 6/1947
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: AMC civilian engineer W. R. Presley takes a muddy photo of a UFO at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is most likely a photographic flaw.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hynek UFO Report, p. 142
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_921

Event 2307 (9F95D03F)

Date: 6/2/1947
Location: OVER LEWES, DE
Description: Pilot. Fast "mayo jar" crosses nose / light plane. Going quickly east / 12Kmph. / MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_650

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "ovr LEWES,DE:PILOT:FAST "MAYO JAR" CROSSES NOSE/LITE PLANE:>>E/12Kmph:/MJ#121", LatLong: "38.772224 -75.138892", LatLongDMS: "38:46:20 N 75:08:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Delaware", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2308 (489D2A3F)

Date: 6/2/1947
Location: Rehoboth Beach, DE
Description: Pilot in aircraft saw a silvery jar-shaped object (Project 1947; McDonald list; FOIA; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470602
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_323

Event 2309 (2004B2FA)

Date: 6/2/1947
Location: Rehoboth Beach, Delaware
Description: Private pilot Forrest Wenyon is flying over Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, and sees a silvery, jar-shaped object cross in front of his plane. It has a silver-white, fiery exhaust.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Jar-Shaped Object Crosses in Front of Aircraft”; Bloecher, p. III-9; Sparks, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_922

Event 2310 (04750111)

Date: 6/2/1947
Description: Pilot Wenyon reported that a silver, "mayo-jar" shaped UFO crossed in front of his light plane while flying at between 10,000 and 12,000 feet near Lewes, Delaware on this day.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher investigation files, clipping dated July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3218

Event 2311 (E5D93F3A)

Date: 6/2/1947
Description: At 1:30 p.m. an inverted saucer-shaped disc of brilliant metal was sighted by John Laube and Fred Platte in Waverly, Iowa. It flew just above the top of a 180-foot grain elevator at Waverly Sugar Manufacturing Plant. They had it in sight for five minutes before it was obscured by trees as it flew away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes, Bordentown, New Jersey, April 16, 2005, citing Waterloo Courier, July 10, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3219

Event 2312 (F27AA942)

Date: 6/4/1947
Location: Alamogordo Army Air Field
Description: Project Mogul flight number 4 is allegedly launched from Alamogordo Army Air Field.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1994: 6–7, 23; Robert J. Durant, “Project Mogul Still a Flight of Fancy,” IUR 26, no. 1 Spring 2001: 17–27; David Rudiak, “The Phony Mogul Balloon Trajectory,” 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Mogul and Roswell,” A Different Perspective,” July 11, 2013; Kevin D. Randle, “A Few Facts about Project Mogul,” A Different Perspective, August 12, 2013; Kevin D. Randle, “Truth about Mogul,” A Different Perspective, April 4, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_923

Event 2313 (592F91AD)

Date: 6/6/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: BOMBAY, INDIA
Description: Dazzling fireball then round blue night light with small objects orbiting. / r129p95+/ news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 236)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_651

Extra Data: Country: "India", Credibility: "10", Duration: "18", HatchDesc: "BOMBAY,INDIA:DAZZLING FBL then RND BLU NLT w/SML OBJs ORBITING:/r129p95+/news", LatLong: "18.983334 72.850003", LatLongDMS: "18:59:00 N 72:51:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maharashtra", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2314 (FC6191F8)

Date: 6/6/1947
Description: On this evening around 9 p.m. a dazzling fireball was seen over Bombay, India. Then a round blue ball of light appeared, surrounded by smaller objects orbiting it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 652, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (2nd edition), p. 36
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3316

Event 2315 (6B7098CC)

Date: 6/9/1947
Locations: eastern Siberia; U.S.
Description: A still-unlocated air intelligence summary is released, alleging that the Soviets in eastern Siberia are producing or may be able to produce 1,400 or 1,800 aircraft based on the Horten brothers’ VIII-type, low-aspect, disc- shaped design by 1952. A Russian aviation historian thinks that the factories in question are at the time producing copies of the German Messerschmidt Me 262 jet fighter. A correct, more detailed summary of the intelligence report is published in December 1948 in Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_924

Event 2316 (EC11BAFF)

Date: 6/10/1947
Time: 15:30
Location: BUDAPEST, HUNG
Description: Approximate 50 report(s) / silver balls. 14 May. '1947. Silent 4' saucer going quickly northwest / 400mph / USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC.)
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_652

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Hungary", Credibility: "7", Duration: "232", HatchDesc: "BUDAPEST,HUNG:APRX 50 RPTS/SLVR BALLS::14MAY1947:SLNT 4'SCR >>NW/400mph/ATIC", LatLong: "47.500002 19.050001", LatLongDMS: "47:30:00 N 19:03:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BDB", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2317 (314D9FC9)

Date: 6/10/1947
Time: 23:00
Location: AGUA PRIETA, MEXICO
Description: Night light-sphere rises / ground. Flies going up [to] stars. Seen / Douglas, AZ / C Lorenzen.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 365)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_653

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1170", HatchDesc: "AGUA PRIETA,MEX:NLT-SPHERE RISES/GND:FLIES ↑ STARS:SEEN/DOUGLAS,AZ/C LORENZEN", LatLong: "31.300001 -109.566672", LatLongDMS: "31:18:00 N 109:34:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sonora", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2318 (D99F6AA1)

Date: 6/10/1947
Time: 2300
Location: Douglas, Arizona
Description: Coral Lorenzen saw a light rise from the ground in Mexican territory. It took a definite spherical shape and vanished in less than ten seconds among the stars.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 4 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_55

Event 2319 (5305ABC9)

Date: 6/10/1947
Location: Arena Street [modern Dózsa György út] in Budapest, Hungary
Description: 3:30 p.m. Gyorik Ferenc and others on Arena Street [modern Dózsa György út] in Budapest, Hungary, watch four yellow-red discs moving toward the northwest in a straight-line formation for about 30 seconds. They are about 165 feet apart. The objects make a small arc around a corner of a park before disappearing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project Blue Book record; Joe Brill, “UFOs behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 76, March 1974, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_925

Event 2320 (31351304)

Date: 6/10/1947
Description: At 11:00 p.m. in Agua Prieta, Mexico a glowing sphere was seen as it rose from the ground and flew up into the night sky. At the same time in Douglas, Arizona Coral Lorenzen, the co-founder of the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization in 1952 and future author of seven books on the UFO phenomenon, witnessed an unidentified light land remotely, take on a definite spherical shape, then shoot up rapidly from the ground and vanish in less than ten seconds among the stars. According to the Air Force files there were more than fifty reports of UFOs seen during the daytime over Budapest, Hungary.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of the Phenomenon, p. 50; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 191
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3404

Event 2321 (C152B180)

Date: 6/11/1947 (estimated)
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day of high school
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_232

Attributes: Einstein

Event 2322 (DEF73841)

Date: 6/12/1947
Time: 18:20
Location: WEISER, ID
Description: 2 tiny shiny objects drift. Going up and down [to] 2X fast. CC away going quickly southeast. Contrail. / r187#8.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 232)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_654

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "649", HatchDesc: "WEISER,ID:2 TINY SHNY OBJS DRIFT:↑+↓ 2X FAST:CC AWAY>>SE:CONTRAIL:/r187#8", LatLong: "44.250002 -116.966672", LatLongDMS: "44:15:00 N 116:58:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2323 (6E48832F)

Date: 6/12/1947
Location: Weiser, ID
Description: 6:15 p.m. 2 high speed round objects glistening in the sun at high altitude (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470612
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_324

Event 2324 (F7DA5A53)

Date: 6/12/1947
Location: Weiser, Idaho
Description: 6:15 p.m. Lovena Erickson sees two high-speed, round objects at a high altitude over Weiser, Idaho. They move up and down twice and leave a vapor trail that persists for more than an hour.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “June 12, 1947, Weiser, Idaho”; Bloecher, p. II-8 ; Sparks, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_926

Event 2325 (6896DFA3)

Date: 6/12/1947
Description: A bright metallic ovoid object was seen from the highway in Weiser, Idaho by a Mrs. Erickson and her daughter at 6:15 p.m. The UFO zigzagged to the southwest. It and a second object were in view for three minutes before vanishing.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 24
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3432

Event 2326 (AB145276)

Date: 6/13/1947
Time: 23:30
Location: WEST / FLEURE, FR
Description: 6M orange-glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape with bright halo. Lands / 5 minute(s) in storm. Going up [to] and away. / r171p162.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 198)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_655

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "W/FLEURE,FR:6M ORG-GLOW-CGR W/BRITE HALO:LANDS/5min in STORM:↑+AWAY:/r171p162", LatLong: "46.472224 0.466667", LatLongDMS: "46:28:20 N 00:28:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vienne", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2327 (EBF94B18)

Date: 6/13/1947
Description: At 11:30 p.m. west of Fleure, France a six-meter long, glowing orange cigar-shaped object surrounded by a bright halo landed in a storm. It stayed on the ground for five minutes, ascended quickly and shot away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #198
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3453

Event 2328 (2D4AF785)

Date: 6/14/1947
Location: Bakersfield, CA
Description: Ten "Almost Round" Objects In Formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470614
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_325

Event 2329 (5B2BD393)

Date: 6/14/1947
Description: At noon in Bakersfield, California a man saw 10 flying saucers fly over in a triangular formation. Their speed was estimated to be 900 kilometers per hour. The report was one of the early cases investigated by the FBI.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3471

Event 2330 (A9B26EC4)

Date: 6/15/1947 (approximate)
Time: 21:30
Location: LANSING, MI
Description: 2 observer(s). Fireballs shoot to and fro between clouds like clay pigeons. / r171p64.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 237)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_656

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "250", HatchDesc: "LANSING,MI:2 OBS:FBLS SHOOT TO+FRO BTWN CLOUDS LIKE CLAY PIGEONS:/r171p64", LatLong: "42.705558 -84.516671", LatLongDMS: "42:42:20 N 84:31:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2331 (844E9367)

Date: 6/15/1947 (approximate)
Time: 22:10
Location: NORTH / DECLO, ID
Description: Night light zigzags. Shines cone / light going down. Flies going quickly north over lava desert / no towns.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 81)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_657

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc.

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "1292", HatchDesc: "N/DECLO,ID:NLT ZIGZAGS:SHINES CONE/LITE ↓:FLIES>>N OVR LAVA DESERT/NO TOWNS", LatLong: "42.750002 -113.655561", LatLongDMS: "42:45:00 N 113:39:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2332 (05549DCC)

Date: 6/16/1947 (approximate)
Time: 21:00
Location: VALLEY CITY, ND
Description: Fireman. Bright red 40cm ball going quickly west / ~20M altitude. Extremely fast. No further details. / r171p64.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 237)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_658

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "372", HatchDesc: "VALLEY CITY,ND:FIREMAN:BRITE RED 40cm BALL >>W/~20M alt:XFAST:NFD:/r171p64", LatLong: "46.916669 -98.005560", LatLongDMS: "46:55:00 N 98:00:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2333 (58B48B44)

Date: 6/17/1947
Time: 14:00?
Location: MURTAUGH, ID
Description: 2 observer(s). Flat silver-white disk going down. Levels off and away. Bright rays. Exudes vapor.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 460)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_659

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", Elev: "1244", HatchDesc: "MURTAUGH,ID:2 OBS:FLAT SLVR-WHT DISK ↓:LEVELS OFF+AWAY:BRITE RAYS:EXUDES VAPOR", LatLong: "42.494446 -114.161117", LatLongDMS: "42:29:40 N 114:09:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2334 (D44CDF7C)

Date: 6/17/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: BREMERTON, WA
Description: 2+1 separate observer(s). Platter disks since afternoon. Extreme speeds going quickly west. Waver.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_660

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "180", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "BREMERTON,WA:2+1 SEP.OBS:PLATTER DISKS SINCE AFTERNOON:XTREME SPEEDS>>W:WAVER", LatLong: "47.566669 -122.616673", LatLongDMS: "47:34:00 N 122:37:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2335 (1BBDFBAC)

Date: 6/17/1947 (approximate)
Time: 23:00?
Location: MADISON, WI
Description: E. McGilvery PhD. Bright round self-Illum.obj 2 / 3 moon-size southwest going quickly northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_661

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "MADISON,WI:E.McGILVERY PhD:BRITE ROUND SELF-ILLUM.OBJ 2/3 MOONSIZE SW>>NE:", LatLong: "43.083335 -89.383338", LatLongDMS: "43:05:00 N 89:23:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2336 (05430AD5)

Date: 6/17/1947
Time: 1030
Location: Bisbee, Arizona
Description: John A. Petsche, electrical worker and another witness independently saw a disk-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. I 6 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_58

Event 2337 (A92D2DF8)

Date: 6/17/1947
Description: On this day in 1947 three platter-shaped discs were seen hovering in the sky for a period of three hours over Bremerton, Washington from late in the afternoon until evening. The objects wavered as they flew, and shot off at extreme speeds toward the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 26, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3524

Event 2338 (7EE8AAA7)

Date: 6/18/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: NEAR EUGENE, OR
Description: E. Sprinkle and 5. 7 round objects going quickly northeast overhead / X-formation. Poor photograph taken.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_662

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "130", HatchDesc: "nr EUGENE,OR:E.SPRINKLE+5:7 ROUND OBJS >>NE OVHD/X-FORMATION:POOR FOTO TAKEN:", LatLong: "44.133335 -123.083339", LatLongDMS: "44:08:00 N 123:05:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2339 (5A3A1F78)

Date: 6/18/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: PRINCETON UNIVERSITY/UNIVERSE(AL), NJ
Description: Ex-registrar. Moon-size fiery ring going [to] over high school / minutes.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: Princeton Herald [NJ] for 11JLY47, on file here as 18JUNE47.txt cr: Joel Carpenter.
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_663

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "66", HatchDesc: "PRINCETON UNIV,NJ:EX-REGISTRAR:MOONSIZE FIERY RING >OVR HIGH SCHOOL/MINUTES.", LatLong: "40.350002 -74.650004", LatLongDMS: "40:21:00 N 74:39:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2340 (E8C10E02)

Date: 6/18/1947
Locations: Eugene, Oregon; Skinner's Butte
Description: Day. E. H. Sprinkle is one of a half-dozen Eugene, Oregon, residents who spot a formation of round objects “racing overhead” on a course to the northeast. Watching from Skinner’s Butte outside town. Sprinkle takes a snapshot of the objects with an inexpensive camera as they race over. Enlargements of the photograph show “seven dots” in a formation “shaped like an X or a Y, lined up across the sky.” Newspaper photographers say the dots “might be a fault in the developing process” that sometimes appears on a negative that has not been agitated properly in the developer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Local Man Asserts Flights Seen Here,” Eugene Oreg. Guard, June 26, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p. IV-3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_927

Event 2341 (413D88FE)

Date: 6/19/1947
Location: Webster, MA
Description: Unidentified woman who saw an occupant inside an object who looked like "a Navy officer." (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_326

Event 2342 (C580CB9D)

Date: 6/19/1947
Locations: Muroc AFB; Edwards AFB; California
Description: USAAF Col. Albert Boyd reaches a world airspeed record of 624 mph in a Lockheed P-80R Shooting Star at Muroc AFB [later Edwards AFB], California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Albert Boyd”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_928

Event 2343 (2545C7E2)

Date: 6/19/1947
Locations: Baltic Sea; Sweden
Description: Maj. Gen. Stephen Chamberlin , head of War Department Intelligence, authorizes three electronic signals intelligence flights between July 1 and August 1 to look for radio signals over the Baltic Sea. The Swedish military is told that they are training flights.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_929

Event 2344 (04DEB269)

Date: 6/20/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: HOT SPRINGS, NM
Description: 2 observer(s). 3 groups / 3 saucers each going northeast. Turn / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. / ABQJ2JLY47+/ r187#17.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_664

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "1293", HatchDesc: "HOT SPRINGS,NM:2 OBS:3 GRPS/3 SCRS EACH>NE:TURN/DLT FORMN:/ABQJ2JLY47+/r187#17", LatLong: "33.133335 -107.250005", LatLongDMS: "33:08:00 N 107:15:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2345 (C12339B5)

Date: 6/20/1947
Location: Hot Springs, NM
Description: 8:00 PM MST. Woman and her daughter observed three revolving groups of three discs in trianglular formation , straight course, S-NE (Bloecher,17,II-9) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_327

Event 2346 (3C82EB2D)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Maury Island, WA
Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops metal residue.
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_88

Attributes: metals

Event 2347 (8957AA9F)

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Maury Island Incident
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Medium
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_233

Attributes: metals

Event 2348 (CB6035E3)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: YUKON, OKLA
Description: Salesman. 6 "washtubs" fly over in formation. Very high. 2nd hand report.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 63)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_665

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "392", HatchDesc: "YUKON,OKLA:SALESMAN:6 "WASHTUBS" FLY OVR IN FORMATION:VERY HI:2nd HAND Rpt", LatLong: "35.505557 -97.761116", LatLongDMS: "35:30:20 N 97:45:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2349 (FC30D7A5)

Date: 6/21/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: 8 observer(s). 8 house-size saucers going quickly southwest / 600mph and more. Dead leaf descent / Idaho side.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 56)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_666

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:8 OBS:8 HOUSE-SIZE SCRS >>SW/600mph+:DEAD LEAF DESCENT/IDAHO SIDE ", LatLong: "47.666669 -117.433339", LatLongDMS: "47:40:00 N 117:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2350 (A132C9CA)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Spokane, WA
Description: Eight Disc-Shaped Objects Big As A House (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470621
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_328

Event 2351 (2554125B)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Maury Island, WA
Description: Maury Island Incident (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470621
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_329

Event 2352 (6ECB1F0E)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Richland, WA
Description: Three Flat Objects Faster Than P-38's (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470621
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_330

Event 2353 (16BCF475)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Maury Island, near Tacoma, Washington
Description: Harold A. Dahl and others allegedly saw six tire-shaped objects, 30 m in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over Puget Sound. One of the objects exploded, showering the witnesses with metal. Officially regarded as hoax.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Ruppelt (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_56

Event 2354 (AF76579E)

Date: 6/21/1947
Time: 1150
Location: Spokane, Washington
Description: Eight disk-shaped objects the size of a house, were seen flying at 1000 km/h. A civilian woman stated that the objects fell with a deadleaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_57

Event 2355 (FA3E0927)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Spokane, Washington
Description: 11:55 a.m. Guy R. Overman watches several silvery objects moving below a plane at Spokane, Washington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Eight Disc-Shaped Objects As Big As a House”; Bloecher, p. II-18; Sparks, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_930

Event 2356 (A4618487)

Date: 6/21/1947
Location: Maury Island, Washington
Description: Log salvager Harold A. Dahl is patrolling east of Maury Island, Washington, with his 15-year-old son Charles and two crewmen when he allegedly sees six doughnut-shaped objects. Five of them are circling the sixth, which seems distressed. When it is directly above the boat at 500 feet, it supposedly spews some hot slag-like material that breaks Charles’s arm and kills his dog. Dahl claims he filmed the objects.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 721; John A. Keel, “The Maury Island Caper,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 40–43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_931

Event 2357 (98797055)

Date: Summer 1947
Location: Pittsburg, Kansas
Description: Naval Cmdr. L. H. Witherspoon sees a disc-shaped UFO flash over the airport at Pittsburg, Kansas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_959

Event 2358 (D643C924)

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Harold A. Dahl, his son, and others on board a boat allegedly saw six donut-shaped objects, 30 meters in diameter, metallic with dark openings, over a bay next to Maury Island on Puget Sound, Washington. One of the UFOs exploded, showered the witnesses with a slag-like metal. This case has been widely regarded as a hoax because of some deliberate deception of UFO investigator Kenneth Arnold by a shadowy con man named Chrisman who claimed to have been involved, but there are still unexplained elements to this case.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 47
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3565

Event 2359 (8A482004)

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Eight disc-shaped objects the size of a house were seen flying at 1,000 kph at 11:55 a.m. in Spokane, Washington. A woman stated that the objects fell with a falling leaf motion and landed before ten witnesses on the shore of the Saint Joe River, in Idaho.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 16; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3566

Event 2360 (FD24AD05)

Date: 6/22/1947
Time: 11:30
Location: GREENFIELD, MASS
Description: Fast irregular round silver-white metallic object going quickly northwest. / MJ#121+/ r171p65.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_667

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "GREENFIELD,MASS:FAST IRREGULAR ROUND SLVR-WHT MTLC OBJ >>NW:/MJ#121+/r171p65", LatLong: "42.350002 -72.600003", LatLongDMS: "42:21:00 N 72:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2361 (60583409)

Date: 6/22/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: NORTHEAST / BAKER, OR
Description: 2 observer(s). Pie-tin saucer flies over baths at 'radium springs'. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 65)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_668

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1050", HatchDesc: "NE/BAKER,OR:2 OBS:PIE-TIN SCR FLIES OVR BATHS at 'RADIUM SPRINGS':NFD ", LatLong: "45.033335 -117.533339", LatLongDMS: "45:02:00 N 117:32:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2362 (5B79F402)

Date: 6/22/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: EL PASO, TX
Description: 1 observer. Shiny 12 Mx2M metal blimp / 150mph over mountain-top. / Albuquerque Journal 29 Jun. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_669

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1110", HatchDesc: "EL PASO,TX:1 OBS:SHINY 12Mx2M MTL BLIMP/150mph OVR MTN-TOP:/ALBQQ JRNL 29JUN47", LatLong: "31.783335 -106.500005", LatLongDMS: "31:47:00 N 106:30:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2363 (74043889)

Date: 6/22/1947
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Dahl claims he is visited by a mysterious dark-suited man who knows all about the sighting. He tells his associate Fred L. Crisman , and they allegedly go to the beach to pick up fragments. Dahl mails Ray Palmer in Chicago, Illinois, some fragments.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 721; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “The Maury Island UFO Incident,” February 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_932

Event 2364 (D721262A)

Date: 6/22/1947
Location: Greenfield, Massachusetts
Description: Edward Louis DeRose in Greenfield, Massachusetts, sees a small, round-shaped, silvery-white object moving in a northwesterly direction faster than a speeding plane at an estimated altitude of 1,000 feet. The object stays in view for 8–10 seconds until obscured by a cloud bank. It reflects the sunlight strongly as if is made of polished aluminum or silver.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_933

Event 2365 (95DFC405)

Date: 6/22/1947
Locations: Mount Franklin; El Paso, Texas
Description: 3:30 p.m. G. Oliver Dickson sees a shiny disc “a little like a blimp” flying north to south about 3,000 feet above Mount Franklin just north of El Paso, Texas. He estimates it is about 40 feet across and 5 feet thick.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More El Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso Tex. Times, June 29, 1947, pp. 1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_934

Event 2366 (B5DFCF9B)

Date: 6/22/1947
Locations: Yale University; Hartford, Connecticut
Description: Evening. Yale University astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer is speaking on WTIC radio in Hartford, Connecticut, and speculates that if life on Mars developed a bit earlier than on earth, it is possible that Martians have been civilized for millions of years. “Unless they had spent some time in a large city or had landed sufficiently recently to be photographed, we would have no record of their being here,” he says, and that “any few men who had seen them would probably not be believed by anyone else.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mars May Be Peopled, Says Yale Speaker,” Hartford Conn. Courant, June 23, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 455
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_935

Event 2367 (FC18F588)

Date: 6/22/1947
Description: In 1947 during the beginning days of the great UFO wave of 1947, a rapidly moving, round, silvery-white object was seen at 11:30 a.m. in the town of Greenfield, Massachusetts. It was one of the early cases secretly investigated by the FBI. Later that same day, at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, Mr. Hammond and his son were vacationing in Radium Springs, New Mexico and saw a "flying pie-plate" disc while swimming.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, UFO Related Information from the FBI File, APRO Bulletin, December 1977, pg. 8; Baker, Oregon Democrat Herald, June 27, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3596

Event 2368 (FBD116D0)

Date: 6/23/1947
Location: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Description: In the afternoon, a railroad engineer sees something very strange in the sky and reports it to the local newspaper. "They looked like ten shiny, disc-shaped things. They were very, very high, fluttering along in a string and pretty soon they vanished toward the northwest." He guessed they were travelling at 500mph - faster than any plane he ever saw.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank Edwards, "My First 10,000,000 Sponsors", page 111 (paperback)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_89

Event 2369 (26E5D4DB)

Date: 6/23/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: BAKERSFIELD, CA
Description: Pilot Rankin and 1+2. 10 30M saucers going north / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. Back / 1415h going south. / r171p66.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_670

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "135", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "BAKERSFIELD,CA:PILOT RANKIN+1+2:10 30M SCRS> N/DLT FORMn:BACK/1415h>S:/r171p66", LatLong: "35.366668 -119.016672", LatLongDMS: "35:22:00 N 119:01:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2370 (3CED7FE0)

Date: 6/23/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: NEAR CLAYTON, GA
Description: 2 / car / mountains. Big shiny silver ball hovers / several minutes. Then zooms away..
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_671

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "587", HatchDesc: "nr CLAYTON,GA:2/CAR/Mtns:BIG SHINY SLVR BALL HVRS/SVRL MINs:then zooms away..", LatLong: "34.877779 -83.400004", LatLongDMS: "34:52:40 N 83:24:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2371 (64DBB77C)

Date: 6/23/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: BRIDGEPORT, NE
Description: Chickens panic. 2 platters going southeast / 3km altitude. Odd dips reflect sun. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 238)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_672

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1117", HatchDesc: "BRIDGEPORT,NE:CHICKENS PANIC:2 PLATTERS >SE/3km alt:ODD DIPS REFLECT SUN:/news", LatLong: "41.666669 -103.100005", LatLongDMS: "41:40:00 N 103:06:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2372 (653D72AF)

Date: 6/23/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: WAPAKONETA AND MORE/OTHERS, OH
Description: 2+2 separate observer(s). Saucer flies uneven course. Leaves (something behind) luminous trail. / r187p27.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 238)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_673

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "275", HatchDesc: "WAPAKONETA++,OH:2+2 SEP.OBS:SCR FLIES UNEVEN COURSE:LVS LUMN.TRAIL:/r187p27", LatLong: "40.566669 -84.194448", LatLongDMS: "40:34:00 N 84:11:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2373 (326BD8C3)

Date: 6/23/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: NEAR CEDAR RAPIDS, IA
Description: Railroad/railway engineer. 10 silver saucers flutter / high string formation going quickly northwest. / r28p428.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_674

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "222", HatchDesc: "nr CEDAR RAPIDS,IA:RR ENG:10 SLVR SCRS FLUTTER/HIGH STRING FORMn >>NW:/r28p428", LatLong: "41.966669 -91.666671", LatLongDMS: "41:58:00 N 91:40:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2374 (AC50F583)

Date: 6/23/1947
Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
Description: Railroad engineer saw 10 shiny disc-shaped objects, very high, fluttering along in a string toward NW. [UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_331

Event 2375 (9A30535F)

Date: 6/23/1947
Location: Bakersfield, California
Description: Afternoon. Disabled stunt pilot Richard Rankin views 10 flat, circular objects flying in a V-formation over his house in Bakersfield, California. About two hours later, 7 of the objects are seen flying in the opposite direction.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. II-3; Sparks , p. 17; Kevin D. Randle, “More Pre-Arnold UFO Sightings,” A Different Perspective, June 30, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_936

Event 2376 (C593636B)

Date: 6/23/1947
Location: Wapakoneta, Ohio
Description: 9:30 p.m. Richard L. Bitters and his wife Martha are returning from a movie in Wapakoneta, Ohio, when they see a saucer-like object flying an uneven course in the sky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Saucer Just Didn’t Fit Editor’s Idea of a ‘Scoop,’” Madison Wisconsin State Journal, July 7, 1947, p. 2; Bloecher, p. III-6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_937

Event 2377 (B593EE55)

Date: 6/23/1947
Description: A large shiny silver ball hovered for several minutes over a mountain in Clayton, Georgia and then zoomed away. There were two witnesses named Cantrell and Pepper.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3612

Event 2378 (6637E2B4)

Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Mt. Rainer, WA
Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, Washington
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_90

Event 2379 (70E93434)

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost 1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and between 45 to 50feet long
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_234

Event 2380 (B1FC70DD)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: BELLINGHAM, WA
Description: 2 observer(s). Kite-like triangular object speeds going quickly south. Sound "unlike plane".
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_675

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "BELLINGHAM,WA:2 OBS:KITE-LIKE TRIANGULAR OBJ SPEEDS>>S:SOUND "UNLIKE PLANE"", LatLong: "48.750002 -122.466673", LatLongDMS: "48:45:00 N 122:28:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2381 (27210CBF)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 12:20
Location: VANCOUVER, WA
Description: 1 observer. Saucer going quickly north over town. No further details. See 04 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: FARISH, Jucius: UFO NEWSCLIPPING SERVICE: $5/Monthly. Plumerville, AR. (Index 288)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_676

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "VANCOUVER,WA:1 OBS:SCR >>N OVR TOWN:NFD:see 04JLY47", LatLong: "45.683336 -122.666673", LatLongDMS: "45:41:00 N 122:40:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2382 (E9325182)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 13:50
Location: 10 MI EAST / JOLIET, IL
Description: Railroad/railway engineer. 9 saucers / linear formation flip / sequence. North going quickly south / 1500m altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_677

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "200", HatchDesc: "10mi E/JOLIET,IL:RR ENGINEER:9 SCRS/LINEAR FORMn FLIP/SEQUENCE:N>>S/1500m alt", LatLong: "41.533335 -87.916671", LatLongDMS: "41:32:00 N 87:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2383 (B9151E4D)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: ~14:00
Location: NORTH / CORVALLIS, OR
Description: Series of several groups / bright shiny silver objects going quickly east. Fast and distant.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 305)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_678

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "68", HatchDesc: "N/CORVALLIS,OR:SERIES of SVRL GRPS/BRITE SHINY SLVR OBJS >>E:fast+distant", LatLong: "44.600002 -123.266673", LatLongDMS: "44:36:00 N 123:16:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2384 (D4F167A6)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 14:00?
Location: NORTH / PENDLETON, OR
Description: Farmer. Silver sphere hovers / 5' altitude. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) enter. Going northwest and circles going quickly northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 307)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_679

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "330", HatchDesc: "N/PENDLETON,OR:FARMER:SLVR SPHERE HVRS/5'alt:2 OIDS ENTER:> NW+CCLs >>NE", LatLong: "45.916669 -118.916672", LatLongDMS: "45:55:00 N 118:55:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OER", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2385 (50812CEF)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: RICHLAND, WA
Description: 1 observer. 3 saucers going quickly [to] WSW straight & level flight. Faster / planes. 'Tilted disk shape'. / r187#37.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_680

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "109", HatchDesc: "RICHLAND,WA:1 OBS:3 SCRS >>WSW S&L:FASTER/PLANES:'TILTED DISK SHAPE':/r187#37", LatLong: "46.283336 -119.333339", LatLongDMS: "46:17:00 N 119:20:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2386 (432C3AEE)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: 10 MI SOUTH / MINERAL, WA
Description: Sidney Gallagher. 9 shiny flashing ovoids going quickly north. / r187#40.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 460)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_681

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "553", HatchDesc: "10mi S/MINERAL,WA:SIDNEY GALLAGHER:9 SHINY FLASHING OVOIDS >>N:/r187#40", LatLong: "46.566669 -122.177784", LatLongDMS: "46:34:00 N 122:10:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2387 (EA944955)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: NEAR MINERAL, WA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #12. Kenneth Arnold. 9 saucers at 9000' going quickly SSE / 1300MPH! One is [a] crescent. / r149p26.
Type: sighting
Reference: CLARK, Jerome: UFO ENCOUNTERS & BEYOND; Signet Books 1993. 192pp. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_682

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "539", HatchDesc: "nr MINERAL,WA:BBK#12:K.ARNOLD:9 SCRS @9000'>>SSE/1300MPH!:1=CRESCENT:/r149p26", LatLong: "46.716669 -122.177784", LatLongDMS: "46:43:00 N 122:10:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2388 (3EA5C8B7)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: NORTH / LONE JACK, MO
Description: 2+observer(s). 7-8 disks / loose formation going quickly northwest. White vapor trails. Bright and high and fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_683

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "326", HatchDesc: "N/LONE JACK,MO:2+OBS:7-8 DISKS/LOOSE FORMn>>NW:WHT VAPOR TRAILS:BRITE+HI+FAST", LatLong: "38.900002 -94.172227", LatLongDMS: "38:54:00 N 94:10:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2389 (1CE716B4)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: MT. ADAMS, WA
Description: Prospector / (seen thru) telescope. Cylinder/cigar-shape and 5 10M saucers going southeast / 300M altitude. Compass spins / r15p14.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_684

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "3700", HatchDesc: "Mt ADAMS,WA:PROSPECTOR/TSCOPE:CGR+5 10M SCRS>SE/300M alt:COMPASS SPINS/r15p14", LatLong: "46.205558 -121.488895", LatLongDMS: "46:12:20 N 121:29:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2390 (F25FE0AF)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 15:00?
Location: UKIAH, CA
Description: Unidentified pilot. Saucers similar to Arnold objects over mountains near here / H. Arnold.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_685

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "190", HatchDesc: "UKIAH,CA:UID PILOT:SCRS SIMILAR TO ARNOLD OBJs OVR MTNS NEAR HERE/H.ARNOLD", LatLong: "39.150002 -123.205561", LatLongDMS: "39:09:00 N 123:12:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2391 (CFD618A2)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 15:30
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: Lt. Governor and 3. "Daytime comet" hovers / 20 minute(s). Drops going west below horizon.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_686

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "819", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:Lt.GOVERNOR+3:"DAYTIME COMET" HVRS/20min:DROPS >W BELOW HORIZON.", LatLong: "43.600002 -116.166672", LatLongDMS: "43:36:00 N 116:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "3"

Event 2392 (3A3FC995)

Date: 6/24/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: ROSEVILLE, CA
Description: Mrs. Wendt. Bright shiny disk turns and dips / moderate speed going quickly northwest / 2 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 43)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_687

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "ROSEVILLE,CA:Mrs WENDT:BRITE SHINY DISK TURNS+DIPS/MODERATE SPEED >>NW/2min", LatLong: "38.750002 -121.316672", LatLongDMS: "38:45:00 N 121:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2393 (A0FBD5F9)

Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Mt. Adams, WA
Description: Prospector Compass Incident (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, Code: E, Rating: 5, BB: 12)
Reference: NICAP: 470624
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_332

Event 2394 (84698993)

Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Mt. Ranier, WA
Description: Arnold Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470624
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_333

Event 2395 (48FA8C9F)

Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Pendelton, OR
Description: A humanoid report on the same day Arnold had his sighting (Bloecher). (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_334

Event 2396 (50820BF1)

Date: 6/24/1947
Alternate date: 6/30/1947
Locations: 25 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon; Columbia River
Description: Afternoon. Bill Schuening , a farmer, is driving his pickup truck down a remote rural road 25 miles north of Pendleton, Oregon, when he hears a loud humming sound. Coming over a rise, he sees in a nearby field a large disc-shaped object hovering 5–6 feet off the ground. He can also see two short 3 feet tall figures wearing green suits and white helmets standing underneath the object. The figures suddenly vanish, and the craft then shoots towards the Columbia River, makes a big circle, and flies towards the mountains.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Man Sees Figures Standing near Disc”; Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT , November 7, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_938

Event 2397 (ADF05F02)

Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Joliet, Illinois
Description: 1:50 p.m. Railroad engineer Charles Kastl sees 9 or 10 spinning discs in the air about 12 miles east of Joliet, Illinois. They are a string of flat circular objects “going faster than anything I’ve ever seen.” Kastl can see no connecting link between them, but they act as though the leading disc has a motor in it to power the others, because when it flips, the others do as well. When it rights itself, the others also right themselves.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Discs Seen by Railroad Man,” Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette, June 28, 1947, p. 2; Schopick , pp. 1–2; NICAP, “Engineer Reports 10 Shiny Flat Discs”; Kevin D. Randle, “The June 23, 1947 UFO Sighting,” A Different Perspective, March 20, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_939

Event 2398 (8A22ECD2)

Date: 6/24/1947
Locations: Boise, Idaho; Chehalis, Washington; Yakima, Washington; Mount Rainier, Washington; Mount Adams, Washington; Pendleton, Oregon
Description: 3:00 p.m. Boise, Idaho, businessman Kenneth Arnold, flying his CallAir Model A-2 from Chehalis to Yakima, Washington, sees a string of nine objects flying in an echelon formation past Mount Rainier, Washington. At first he assumes they are jets, but he can see no trails. They cover the 50-mile distance between Rainier and another peak in 1 minute 42 seconds. He estimates their speed to be at least 1,200 mph. The objects swerve in and out of the smaller peaks, flipping from side to side in unison, dipping, and presenting their lateral surfaces, which reflect the bright sunlight and cause the flashes he saw earlier. They are in view for about two and a half minutes and are last seen heading south over the last high peak of Mount Adams. Arnold tells the airport staff about it in Yakima at 4:00 p.m. and they call ahead to Pendleton, Oregon, to alert them of Arnold’s arrival at an air show and his story. A large crowd awaits him, and a discussion follows. The consensus is that Arnold has seen guided missiles. But no such technology exists at the time that can match the objects’ description and performance, and the late 1990s explanation that Arnold observed a flight of white pelicans is equally improbable. Researcher Martin Shough concludes in 2010: “Examination of the sighting report in detail improves its evident internal consistency, rather than degrading it, and study of the principal contending explanations reveals that they are each very much less attractive when tried out in quantitative detail against the best information than they may appear at first sight.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting”; [Project Blue Book file]; NICAP, “Kenneth Arnold Sighting”; Center for UFO Studies, [clippings and reports]; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 9–13; Bloecher, p. I-2–3; Patrick Gross, “The Kenneth Arnold Sighting, June 24, 1947”; Kim Hansen, “UFO Casebook,” UFOs 1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 48–53; John A. Keel, “Kenneth Arnold and the F.B.I.,” Flying Saucer Review 32, no. 5 August 1987: 2–12; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, pp. 5–9; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part One,” IUR 20, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1995: 14–17; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Two,” IUR 20, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1995: 10–13, 24; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, pp. 14–22; Don Berliner, with Marie Galbreath and Antonio Huneeus, UFO Briefing Document: The Best Available Evidence, Dell, 2000, pp. 54–59; Martin Shough, “The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010; Bruce Maccabee, Three Minutes in June: The UFO Sighting That Changed the World, The Author, 2017; Nigel Watson, “Was It a Bird? Was It a Plane?” Fortean Times 355 July 2017: 46–49; Clark III 169
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_940

Event 2399 (38462D9B)

Date: 6/24/1947
Locations: Idaho; Boise, Idaho
Description: 3:30 p.m. Idaho Lieutenant Governor Donald S. Whitehead and Justice of the Peace Jacob M. Lampert see an object with a brilliant head and a smoky tail from an office window in downtown Boise, Idaho. It dips from view after about 20 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Whitehead, Lampert, Join ‘Disc List,’” Boise Idaho Statesman, July 3, 1947, p. 9; Bloecher, pp. III-18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_941

Event 2400 (33547966)

Date: 6/24/1947
Location: Mount Adams, Oregon
Description: Afternoon. Fred M. Johnson, a prospector in the Mount Adams, Oregon, area, sees 5-6 oval objects with tails about 30 feet in diameter. He watches one through a telescope. They are not flying in any sort of formation and as they bank in a turn, the sunlight flashes off them. As they approach, Johnson notices that his compass begins to spin wildly. When the objects finally vanish in the distance, the compass returns to normal. Johnson’s report is the very first “unidentified” case in the Project Sign files.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Prospector Compass Incident”; Bloecher, p. IV- 3; Clark III 170–171; Bruce Maccabee, “The Arnold Phenomenon: Part Three,” IUR 20, no. 3 May/June 1995: 6–7; Martin Shough, “The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010, pp. 106, 109–110; Randle, Levelland, 2021, pp. 58–59
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_942

Event 2401 (59C99A5F)

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: On this morning a prospector named Johnson in the Hood River region of the Cascade Mountains of Oregon sighted five or six discs flying silently overhead, heading toward the southeast. He noticed that his compass began spinning when the discs passed over. His watch also stopped running.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Phoenix Arizona Republic, June 26, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 30; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3635

Event 2402 (4DC73B4B)

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: At 2:58 p.m. Kenneth Arnold, flying his private plane near Mount Rainier, Washington was attracted by reflected sunlight from nine distant metallic flying objects. He watched as they flashed across the sky, one behind the other, "skipping as saucers upon water." They tilted back and forth as they flew. One object was definitely crescent shaped, the others may have been disc shaped or crescent shaped with a 10 to 1 width to thickness ratio. He clocked them as they flew past Mount Adams, and calculated that they were flying at a speed of 1,500 miles per hour and at an altitude of 9,500 feet. When he landed in Pendleton, Oregon he was interviewed at the local radio station where the term "flying saucer" was first coined, despite the fact that the objects he sighted may not have been discs.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 9; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; The Oregonian, June 26, 1947; Kevin Randle, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 87; UNICAT database, case 354, citing Bruce Maccabee
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3636

Event 2403 (16500E80)

Date: 6/25/1947 (approximate)
Time: 03:00
Location: NEAR CONNELLSVILLE, PA
Description: Mrs. Hart. 13 23cm glowing-plates hover in formation over orchard / 10 second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 50)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_688

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "280", HatchDesc: "nr CONNELLSVILLE,PA:Mrs HART:13 23cm GLOW-PLATES HVR/FORMn OVR ORCHARD/10sec", LatLong: "40.016669 -79.588893", LatLongDMS: "40:01:00 N 79:35:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2404 (B3E10B15)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: 12:30
Location: KANSAS CITY, MO
Description: 9 metallic objects / loose formation going quickly west very high and very fast. "Engine noise" and contrails.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 52)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_689

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "224", HatchDesc: "KANSAS CITY,MO:9 MTLC OBJS/LOOSE FORMn >>W VHI+VFAST:"ENGINE NOISE"+CONTRAILS", LatLong: "39.100002 -94.566671", LatLongDMS: "39:06:00 N 94:34:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2405 (53D35D87)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: NEAR PUEBLO, CO
Description: Lowry and 1. 2 ovoids buzz car / sequence. Spin fast. 90-turn going quickly south and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_690

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1400", HatchDesc: "nr PUEBLO,CO:LOWRY+1:2 OVOIDS BUZZ CAR/SEQUENCE:SPIN FAST:90-TURN>>S+GONE", LatLong: "38.250002 -104.600005", LatLongDMS: "38:15:00 N 104:36:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "4", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2406 (EED9B0A2)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: ~16:00
Location: SALEM, OR
Description: William A. Bond. 2 disks northwest going southeast / plane speed in succession. High altitude. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 54)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_691

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "46", HatchDesc: "SALEM,OR:WILLIAM A.BOND:2 DISKS NW>SE/PLANE SPEED IN SUCCESSION:HI ALT:NFD", LatLong: "44.950002 -123.033339", LatLongDMS: "44:57:00 N 123:02:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2407 (16ED6B0B)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: NEWCOMB, NM
Description: 2 / trading post. Saucer straight and level going quickly southeast across sky. / Gallup and Albuquerque Journal 20 Jun. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_692

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1695", HatchDesc: "NEWCOMB,NM:2/TRADING POST:SCR S/L >>SE ACRS SKY:/GALLUP+ALBQQ JRNL 20JUN47", LatLong: "36.283335 -108.705561", LatLongDMS: "36:17:00 N 108:42:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2408 (D14B409E)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Description: 2 / 10 th Ave. 2 metallic 'exclamation marks' going quickly east in unison. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 58)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_693

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1280", HatchDesc: "SALT LAKE CITY,UT:2/10th Ave:2 MTLC 'EXCLAMATION MARKS' >>E IN UNISON:NFD", LatLong: "40.766669 -111.883339", LatLongDMS: "40:46:00 N 111:53:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2409 (D3175E07)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: SILVER CITY, NM
Description: Dentist. Saucer 1/2 diameter / moon over town going quickly south. / Albuquerque Journal-27 Jun. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 60)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_694

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "1810", HatchDesc: "SILVER CITY,NM:DENTIST:SCR 1/2 DIAM/MOON OVR TOWN >>S:/ALBUQQ JOURNAL-27JUN47", LatLong: "32.783335 -108.233338", LatLongDMS: "32:47:00 N 108:14:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2410 (46A14897)

Date: 6/25/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: WALTERS, OK
Description: 1 observer. 2 saucers play around sky / 30+min. Observer(s) gets bored and goes to bed!
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_695

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", Elev: "322", HatchDesc: "WALTERS,OK:1 OBS:2 SCRS PLAY AROUND SKY/30+min:OBS GETS BORED+GOES TO BED!", LatLong: "34.361113 -98.305560", LatLongDMS: "34:21:40 N 98:18:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2411 (E51E40F5)

Date: 6/25/1947
Locations: East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon; Cascade Mountains
Description: Kenneth Arnold goes to the East Oregonian office in Pendleton, Oregon, and speaks with reporters Nolan Skiff and William C. Bequette . Arnold says the “saucer-like” objects were racing over the Cascade Mountains with a peculiar weaving motion “like the tail of a Chinese kite.” Bill Bequette writes the first saucer news story for the newspaper. He does not use the term “flying saucer,” but headline writers in other papers use it such as the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 26, and reporters start picking it up.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Impossible! Maybe, But Seein’ Is Believin’, Says Flier,” Pendleton East Oregonian, June 25, 1947, p. 1; “Flying Saucers Puzzle Pilot,” Philadelphia Inquirer, June 26, 1947, p. 1; Clark III 170; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 13–15; Pierre Lagrange, “A Moment in History: An Interview with Bill Bequette,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 15, 20; “Saturday Night Uforia: ‘It Seems Impossible—But There It Is,’” Daily Kos, April 18, 2009; Phil Wright, “The Sighting,” Portland East Oregonian, June 16, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_943

Event 2412 (F4CF7EB9)

Date: 6/25/1947
Location: 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri
Description: Shortly after 12:00 noon. W. I. Davenport is working on the roof of a house at 82nd Street and Holmes Road in Kansas City, Missouri, when he hears the sound of a motor. Looking up, he sees 9 objects approaching from the east. They are aluminum-colored and leave vapor trails.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Puzzle in Sky Whiz,” Kansas City Mo. Star, June 26, 1947, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_944

Event 2413 (31593533)

Date: 6/26/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: GRAND CANYON, AZ
Description: Doctor and 3. Big silver ball passes north rim fast. / r22p19.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 65)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_696

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", Elev: "2515", HatchDesc: "GRAND CANYON,AZ:DOCTOR+3:BIG SLVR BALL PASSES NORTH RIM FAST:/r22p19", LatLong: "36.050002 -112.133339", LatLongDMS: "36:03:00 N 112:08:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2414 (945D8EEF)

Date: 6/26/1947 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: LA GRANDE, OR
Description: 1+2 nuns. 9 shiny saucers with fins weave in and out in formation. / r171p68.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 94)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_697

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "845", HatchDesc: "La GRANDE,OR:1+2 NUNS:9 SHINY SCRS W/FINS WEAVE IN+OUT/FORMn:/r171p68", LatLong: "45.333335 -118.100006", LatLongDMS: "45:20:00 N 118:06:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2415 (96C0F432)

Date: 6/26/1947
Time: 19:40
Location: NORTHEAST / CEDAR CITY, UT
Description: Airport manager and aviators. Saucer going quickly east / seconds. Straight and level trajectory. Extremely fast. No maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_698

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1782", HatchDesc: "NE/CEDAR CITY,UT:AIRPT MGR+AVIATORS:SCR >>E/SECONDS:S/L TRAJ:XFAST:NO MNVRS.", LatLong: "37.716668 -113.000005", LatLongDMS: "37:43:00 N 113:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2416 (937D9A4C)

Date: 6/26/1947
Time: 19:40
Location: NEAR LOGAN, UT
Description: Teacher and 2 separate hunters. Silver disk going quickly east. Reported / newspaper. / r15p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_699

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1365", HatchDesc: "nr LOGAN,UT:TEACHER+2 SEP.HUNTERS:SLVR DISK >>E:REPORTED/NEWSPAPER:/r15p15", LatLong: "41.733335 -111.833339", LatLongDMS: "41:44:00 N 111:50:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2417 (EF90A4DB)

Date: 6/26/1947
Location: 4639 South Oakenwald, Chicago, Illinois
Description: 2:00 a.m. Mrs. J. M. Harrison watches a large fireball pass toward the northwest from her residence at 4639 South Oakenwald, Chicago, Illinois. It breaks up into two dozen small discs that whirl around rapidly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Dr. Urey Scoffs at ‘Atom Angle’ to Flying Disks,” Chicago Tribune, July 6, 1947, p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_945

Event 2418 (E712F5F7)

Date: 6/26/1947
Location: Pendleton, Oregon
Description: Kenneth Arnold is interviewed live on KWRC radio in Pendleton, Oregon, by broadcaster Theodore A. “Ted” Smith .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Patrick Gross, “About the June 25, 1947, Interview on WKPG Radio by Bill Bequette”; “Kenneth Arnold Interviewed by Bill Bequette [actually Ted Smith],” Nutsandbolts UFO YouTube channel, December 12, 2010
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_946

Event 2419 (270D36D9)

Date: 6/26/1947
Location: Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California
Description: Northrop delivers a second four-engine XB-35 flying wing aircraft to Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_947

Event 2420 (699E7733)

Date: 6/26/1947
Description: In the afternoon on this day, nine shiny discs with fins flew over La Grande, Oregon, weaving in-and-out of formation. There were also four separate daylight disc sightings in Utah between 7:00 and 8:00 p.m. in the following locations: Cedar City, Logan, and Diamond Fork Canyon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database: Salt Lake City Tribune, June 28, 1947; Salt Lake City Deseret News, June 30, 1947; Salt Lake City Tribune, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3665

Event 2421 (A379498F)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: CAPITAN, NM
Description: 3 observer(s). Shiny object streaks by. Lands on hill. / Albuquerque Journal 2 Jul. '47. / r15p15.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 345)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_700

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "8", Elev: "1936", HatchDesc: "CAPITAN,NM:3 OBS:SHINY OBJ STREAKS BY:LANDS ON HILL:/ABQ JRNL 2JLY47:/r15p15", LatLong: "33.588890 -105.572227", LatLongDMS: "33:35:20 N 105:34:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "2"

Event 2422 (F09B08A0)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: WARREN, AZ
Description: Maj. Wilcox. 8+disks going east overhead / 3 second(s) intervals. 1K' over mountain tops. / r187#78.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_701

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1700", HatchDesc: "WARREN,AZ:Maj.WILCOX:8+DISKS >E OVHD/3sec INTERVALS:1K'ovr Mtn.TOPS:/r187#78.", LatLong: "31.416668 -109.883339", LatLongDMS: "31:25:00 N 109:53:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2423 (5D21CCAE)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: BISBEE, AZ
Description: 3 observer(s). Saucer lands / Tintown. 9 saucers / single file going southeast over mountains according to others.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_702

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "1682", HatchDesc: "BISBEE,AZ:3 OBS:SCR LANDS/TINTOWN::9 SCRS/SINGLE FILE >SE OVR MTNS per OTHERS", LatLong: "31.433335 -109.916672", LatLongDMS: "31:26:00 N 109:55:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2424 (8A981FC5)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: MOUNTAIN HOME, ARK
Description: Glistening flashing round object northeast going quickly south. Similar / Fayetteville, AR.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_703

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "250", HatchDesc: "MOUNTAIN HOME,ARK:GLISTENING FLASHING ROUND OBJ NE>>S::SIMILAR/FAYETTEVILLE,AR", LatLong: "36.350002 -92.383338", LatLongDMS: "36:21:00 N 92:23:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2425 (77D71131)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: SOUTH / WOODLAND, WA
Description: PhD and 1. 2 groups / 4-5 silent shiny thin disks cross road and river. Veer going quickly southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 311)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_704

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "S/WOODLAND,WA:PHD+1:2 GRPS/4-5 SLNT SHINY THIN DISKS CROSS ROAD+RIVER:VEER>>SE", LatLong: "45.877780 -122.744450", LatLongDMS: "45:52:40 N 122:44:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2426 (217BD915)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 20:00?
Location: GALLUP, NM
Description: Barber. Saucer northwest going quickly southeast. / Gallup Ind and Albuquerque Journal 01 Jul. '47. / r187#87.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_705

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1952", HatchDesc: "GALLUP,NM:BARBER:SCR NW>>SE:/GALLUP IND+ALBQQ JRNL 01JLY47:/r187#87", LatLong: "35.500002 -108.766672", LatLongDMS: "35:30:00 N 108:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2427 (D74DA02C)

Date: 6/27/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: VICTORIA, BC
Description: 2 separate observer(s). Silver saucer goes over horizon. Also saucer late May / Vancouver Sun 28 Jun. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_706

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "VICTORIA,BC:2 SEP.OBS:SLVR SCR GOES OVR HORIZON:+SCR LATE MAY/VCVR SUN 28JUN47", LatLong: "48.500002 -123.400006", LatLongDMS: "48:30:00 N 123:24:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2428 (A94E12B8)

Date: 6/27/1947 (approximate)
Time: 21:00
Location: BONDI BEACH, NSW
Description: 1 observer. Humming or drone. Pale blue blimp-cylinder/cigar-shape overhead. Away into dark sky.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 169)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_707

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "BONDI BEACH,NSW:1 OBS:HUM or DRONE:PALE BLUE BLIMP-CGR OVHD:AWAY into DARK SKY", LatLong: "-33.900002 151.283341", LatLongDMS: "33:54:00 S 151:17:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2429 (6E0C887F)

Date: 6/27/1947
Locations: San Antonio, New Mexico; White Sands
Description: 9:50 a.m. Mrs. W. B. Cummings is driving about 5 miles southeast of San Antonio, New Mexico, when she sees a bright silver object descending quickly in the east. It leaves a short white trail. White Sands officials say there has been no missile testing since June 12.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More El Pasoans Report Seeing ‘Flying Discs’ in Southwest,” El Paso Tex. Times, June 29, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_948

Event 2430 (5E178FFF)

Date: 6/27/1947
Location: Pentagon
Description: Pentagon Army AF Public Relations Officer Capt. Tom Brown says the army has no idea what the discs are.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_949

Event 2431 (0AB7CAAF)

Date: 6/27/1947
Locations: Pendleton, Oregon; Texas; Idaho
Description: In a United Press dispatch from Pendleton, Oregon, Kenneth Arnold expresses frustration over the furor that his saucer sighting has caused. A preacher has called him from Texas to say that the flying discs are “harbinger of doomsday.” A woman recognizes Arnold in a Pendleton café and runs out shrieking that he is “the man who saw the men from Mars.” He says the whole thing has gotten out of hand: “Half the people I see look at me as a combination Einstein, Flash Gordon, and screwball. I wonder what my wife back in Idaho thinks.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report of ‘Flying Saucers’ Causes Furor; Texas Preacher Calls Flock for World’s End,” Medford Oreg. Mail Tribune, June 27, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_950

Event 2432 (EFDFF094)

Date: 6/27/1947
Locations: Alamogordo Army Air Field; Holloman AFB; New Mexico; Engle, New Mexico
Description: Day. Capt. Robert D. Dwan , a pilot out of Alamogordo Army Air Field [now Holloman AFB], New Mexico, is flying a private plane near Engle, New Mexico, at 3,000 feet, when he looks down and sees a “ball of fire, with a fiery blue tail behind it.” The object is about 2,000 feet below him, and he is “certain it is a meteorite.” The object disintegrates as he watches it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, pp. III-9–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_951

Event 2433 (A9949B7B)

Date: 6/27/1947
Location: Woodland, Washington
Description: Afternoon. Clyde Homan sees two groups of loosely bunched objects, rocking back and forth as they fly noiselessly above Woodland, Washington. The objects are bright, flat, and moving at an estimated 600 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, pp. II-1–2
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_952

Event 2434 (80447F99)

Date: 6/27/1947
Description: At 10:00 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object streaked by Capitan, New Mexico and landed on a nearby hill. At 10:30 a.m. John A. Petsche, an electrical worker, and another person independently witnessed a disc-shaped object, which seemed to land near Tintown, Arizona. The disc had a mirror-like surface.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; (2) Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 17; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3690

Event 2435 (AC6A92C7)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 01:30
Location: WATERLOO, IA
Description: Fast flat 3M saucer going quickly [to] 8M away. Loud swish. Observer(s) numb. / r187#304+/ r171p68.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 310)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_708

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "255", HatchDesc: "WATERLOO,IA:FAST FLAT 3M SCR >>8M away:LOUD SWISH:OBS NUMB:/r187#304+/r171p68", LatLong: "42.483335 -92.350004", LatLongDMS: "42:29:00 N 92:21:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "8", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2436 (EF380E35)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: DETROIT, MI
Description: 3+1 separate observer(s). Daytime-hour unknown. Cake-pan saucer south going quickly north. High and fast. Glows.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 90)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_709

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "176", HatchDesc: "DETROIT,MI:3+1 SEP.OBS:DAYTIME-HOUR unk:CAKE-PAN SCR S>>N:HI+FAST:GLOWS", LatLong: "42.350002 -83.033337", LatLongDMS: "42:21:00 N 83:02:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2437 (E4607573)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: APPLETON, CO
Description: 1 observer. 2' dull aluminum disk going east low over roof. Follows US6. Turns going quickly southeast and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 93)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_710

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1400", HatchDesc: "APPLETON,CO:1 OBS:2'DULL ALUM.DISK > E LOW OVR ROOF:FOLOS US6:TURNS>>SE+AWAY", LatLong: "39.138891 -108.594450", LatLongDMS: "39:08:20 N 108:35:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2438 (8C4AA05C)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 15:20
Location: 30 MI NORTHWEST / LAKE MEAD, NV
Description: F51 pilot Armstrong. 6 3' white saucers / 6K' altitude going quickly southeast / 250knots.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_711

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "500", HatchDesc: "30 mi NW/LAKE MEAD,NV:F51 PILOT ARMSTRONG:6 3' WHT SCRS/6K'alt >>SE/250knots", LatLong: "36.583335 -114.433339", LatLongDMS: "36:35:00 N 114:26:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2439 (54E153AF)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 15:30
Location: NORTH / CALDWELL, ID
Description: 2 observer(s). 9 domed saucers maneuver and jiggle in formation east going quickly west. Going [to] 2400M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_712

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "723", HatchDesc: "N/CALDWELL,ID:2 OBS:9 DOMED SCRS MNVR+JIGGLE/FORMn E>>W:>2400M alt:", LatLong: "43.750002 -116.688894", LatLongDMS: "43:45:00 N 116:41:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2400", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2440 (1DD6988A)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 15:50
Location: ROCKFIELD, WI
Description: Blue Book. M. Beusher and 1. 7-10 silent blue saucers going quickly south fast over farm. / r2p70.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 96)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_713

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "271", HatchDesc: "ROCKFIELD,WI:BBK:M.BEUSHER+1:7-10 SLNT BLU SCRS >>S FAST OVER FARM:/r2p70", LatLong: "43.155558 -88.133338", LatLongDMS: "43:09:20 N 88:08:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2441 (A408CB2C)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: ~16:00
Location: ROCKFORD, IL
Description: Farmer. 7 blue disks over farm. 2 hours later same seen / S. Wisconsin.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_714

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "ROCKFORD,IL:FARMER:7 BLUE DISKS OVR FARM:2hrs LATER SAME SEEN/S.WISCONSIN", LatLong: "42.266669 -89.083338", LatLongDMS: "42:16:00 N 89:05:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2442 (3AB4C07A)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 17:10
Location: EAST / SEASIDE, OR
Description: Woman and daughter age 8. Round object very fast and high. Bright and dim going quickly south / 3 min.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 99)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_715

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "22", HatchDesc: "E/SEASIDE,OR:WOMAN+DAUGHTER age 8:ROUND OBJ VFAST+HIGH:BRITE+DIM >>S/3MIN:", LatLong: "45.994447 -123.900006", LatLongDMS: "45:59:40 N 123:54:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2443 (984FFBD8)

Date: 6/28/1947
Time: 21:20
Location: MAXWELL AIR FORCE BASE, AL
Description: 4 observer(s). Night light zigzags. Wild accelerations. Sharp 90° turn going quickly south and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_716

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "25", Elev: "52", HatchDesc: "MAXWELL AFB,AL:4 OBS:NLT ZIGZAGS:WILD ACCELs:SHARP 90°TURN>>S+AWAY", LatLong: "32.400002 -86.316671", LatLongDMS: "32:24:00 N 86:19:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2444 (2A52FEC9)

Date: 6/28/1947
Location: Rockfield, WI
Description: 3:43 [3:45 CST?] p.m. saw 7-10 saucer-shaped objects fly overhead heading S at high speed (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470628
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_335

Event 2445 (86A44C24)

Date: 6/28/1947
Location: Fort Mead (30 miles NW of), NV
Description: 3:15 [1:15 PST?] p.m. Pilot saw a tight formation of 5-6 white circular 3 ft objects (Ruppelt p. 19; FOIA; FUFOR Index; Bloecher 1967). (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470628
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_336

Event 2446 (9DEAC763)

Date: 6/28/1947
Location: Maxwell AFB, Montgomery, AL
Description: Object Zig-Zags With Bursts of Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470628
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_337

Event 2447 (E2620BB5)

Date: 6/28/1947
Location: 30 miles north of Lake Mead, Nevada
Description: 1:15 p.m. Lieut. Eric B. Armstrong, flying an F-51 at 6,000 feet 30 miles north of Lake Mead, Nevada, sees a formation of 5–6 objects streak by his plane. They are in close formation at an estimated speed of 285 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Formation of 5–6 Objects Head toward P-51”; Bloecher, p. III-10; Sparks, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_953

Event 2448 (F578757A)

Date: 6/28/1947
Locations: Maxwell Field; Maxwell AFB; Montgomery, Alabama
Description: 9:20 p.m. Two pilots and two intelligence officers Capt. [Wilson H. Kayko](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102557048/wilson-harold-kayko), Capt. John H. Cantrell, 1st Lt. Theodore Dewey, and Capt. Redman at Maxwell Field [now Maxwell AFB] in Montgomery, Alabama, see a bright light zigzagging across the sky for 25 minutes. When it is directly overhead, the UFO makes a sharp 90° turn and disappears to the south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Zig-Zags with Bursts of Speed”; Bloecher, p. III-3; Sparks, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_954

Event 2449 (7B74E697)

Date: 6/28/1947
Description: At 1:30 a.m. a shiny disc-shaped object descended into the backyard of a Mr. Johnston in Waterloo, Iowa and hovered less than 25 feet away from him. He experienced a number of physical complaints as the result of his close encounter, including numbness, chest pain, and difficulty breathing. The UFO made a swishing sound as it flew away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Waterloo (Iowa) Courier, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3706

Event 2450 (21BE57E9)

Date: 6/28/1947
Description: At around 2 p.m. a formation of 5-6 white circular objects approached an F-51 aircraft being piloted by an airman named Armstrong while he was flying thirty miles northwest of Lake Mead, Nevada. This case was also investigated by the FBI at the time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 95; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3707

Event 2451 (6CE767AA)

Date: 6/28/1947
Description: Four US Air Force officers saw a fast moving, bright, zigzagging light in the sky over Maxwell AFB, Alabama as 9:20 p.m. The light made quick accelerations and 90 degree turns, and flew off toward the south. Their sighting lasted at least five minutes, and was investigated by the FBI.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 102; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 3; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; Richard M. Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State, p. 396
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3708

Event 2452 (BBC51898)

Date: 6/29/1947
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C. J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see UFO's 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which would probably be Pad 33).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_235

Event 2453 (DEDE66BA)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: ~10:00
Location: CLIFF, NM
Description: Rancher. Round silver object falls / hills. Army Air Force (AAF) men find stinky odor only.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_717

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1374", HatchDesc: "CLIFF,NM:RANCHER:ROUND SLVR OBJ FALLS/HILLS:AAF MEN FIND STINKY ODOR ONLY", LatLong: "32.966668 -108.666672", LatLongDMS: "32:58:00 N 108:40:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2454 (DD38CCDA)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: MCKAY CREEK, OR
Description: 1 observer. 7 round 'umbrella tops' going quickly northwest fast. Humming like musical top!
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 107)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_718

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "400", HatchDesc: "McKAY CREEK,OR:1 OBS:7 ROUND 'UMBRELLA TOPS' >>NW FAST:HUM LIKE MUSICAL TOP!", LatLong: "45.605558 -118.794450", LatLongDMS: "45:36:20 N 118:47:40 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2455 (19168D0E)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: NEAR MEDFORD, OR
Description: 10+observer(s). 9 white saucers / V-formation / 120mph. Spiral over airport. Make cloud!
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 103)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_719

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "117", HatchDesc: "nr MEDFORD,OR:10+OBS:9 WHT SCRS/V-FORMn/120mph:SPIRAL OVR AIRPORT:MAKE CLOUD!", LatLong: "42.333335 -122.916673", LatLongDMS: "42:20:00 N 122:55:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2456 (42465D31)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: LAC DESCHENES, ON
Description: 3 observer(s). Fast silent extremely bright-white stovepipe here and going south / Ottawa / 5 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 104)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_720

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "75", HatchDesc: "LAC DESCHENES,ON:3 OBS:FAST SLNT XBRITE-WHT STOVEPIPE HERE+>S/OTTAWA/5min:", LatLong: "45.366669 -75.900004", LatLongDMS: "45:22:00 N 75:54:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2457 (FDB0DF95)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: US70 NEAR ORGAN, NM
Description: Rocket experts and 2. Silver saucer / northwest sky going quickly north. 9K' altitude. / r15p17.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 109)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_721

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1565", HatchDesc: "US70 nr ORGAN,NM:ROCKET EXPERTS+2:SLVR SCR/NW SKY>>N:9K'alt:/r15p17", LatLong: "32.400002 -106.583338", LatLongDMS: "32:24:00 N 106:35:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2458 (13653A65)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 13:30
Location: MOSCOW, ID
Description: 5+2 kids. Large shiny flat disk oscillates going quickly southeast / cloud level. / r187#111.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 515)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_722

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "787", HatchDesc: "MOSCOW,ID:5+2 KIDS:LRG SHINY FLAT DISK OSCILLATES >>SE/CLOUD Lvl:/r187#111", LatLong: "46.750002 -116.966672", LatLongDMS: "46:45:00 N 116:58:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2459 (1E6E5C12)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: NOGALES, AZ
Description: Numerous observer(s). ~6 disks west going quickly east / low altitude. Maneuver / circles. "Size and shape / dinner plate".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 315)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_723

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "1173", HatchDesc: "NOGALES,AZ:NMRS OBS:~6 DISKS W>>E/lo alt:MNVR/CCLS:"SIZE+SHAPE/DINNER PLATE"", LatLong: "31.366668 -110.933339", LatLongDMS: "31:22:00 N 110:56:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2460 (67AC0CDB)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 16:50
Location: US69 EAST / CLARION, IA
Description: Bus driver. 17 white saucers. At 1200'. Dynamo sounds. 4 going SSE. 13 going quickly NNW.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_724

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "354", HatchDesc: "US69 E/CLARION,IA:BUS DRIVER:17 WHT SCRS:@1200':DYNAMO SOUNDS:4> SSE:13>>NNW", LatLong: "42.733335 -93.683338", LatLongDMS: "42:44:00 N 93:41:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2461 (533B3783)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: SR141 SOUTHEAST / SIOUX CITY, IA
Description: 2 observer(s). Silver disk high and fast going quickly south. 'Size of pieplate'. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 113)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_725

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "332", HatchDesc: "SR141 SE/SIOUX CITY,IA:2 OBS:SLVR DISK HI+FAST >>S:'size of pieplate':NFD", LatLong: "42.250002 -96.083338", LatLongDMS: "42:15:00 N 96:05:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2462 (D5AE51BE)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 19:30
Location: LINDA, CA
Description: Several observer(s)? Saucer going [to] overhead. Door opens / bottom/underside. Blue-white light comes out. Buzz and whirr.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 316)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_726

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "LINDA,CA:SVRL OBS?:SCR >OHVD:DOOR OPENS/Btm:BLU-WHT LITE COMES OUT:BUZZ+WHIRR", LatLong: "39.133335 -121.533339", LatLongDMS: "39:08:00 N 121:32:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2463 (88BFB69F)

Date: 6/29/1947
Time: 21:10
Location: SAN LEANDRO, CA
Description: 5 observer(s). 25' flat oval disk / 5K' altitude and tremendous speed/velocity going quickly north. Seen / moonlight.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 114)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_727

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "SAN LEANDRO,CA:5 OBS:25'FLAT OVAL DISK/5K'alt+TREMENDOUS SPD>>N:SEEN/MOONLITE ", LatLong: "37.700002 -122.133339", LatLongDMS: "37:42:00 N 122:08:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2464 (C4D69EBF)

Date: 6/29/1947
Location: Des Moines, IA
Description: Line Of Saucers Headed SSE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470629
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_338

Event 2465 (2A05AB56)

Date: 6/29/1947
Location: Jacksonville, OR
Description: V-formation of nine UFOs seen by a group of people west of Medford (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 470629
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_339

Event 2466 (608E1CC1)

Date: 6/29/1947
Location: Las Cruces, NM
Description: Naval Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470629
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_340

Event 2467 (A0426B0B)

Date: 6/29/1947
Location: 20 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico
Description: 1:15 p.m. Carl J. Zohn , a guided missile expert with the Naval Research Laboratory, is 20 miles east-northeast of Las Cruces, New Mexico, to observe a V-2 rocket launch scheduled for July 3. Between 1:00 and 1:30 p.m., he is riding out to the testing grounds with John R. Kauke and NRL scientist Curtis C. Rockwood and his wife Nancy when they see a silvery disc flying at 8,000–10,000 feet. It has no appendages, wings, tail, or propellers. After about 60 seconds it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Naval Research Lab Rocket Scientists See Silver Discs”; Bloecher, p. III-18; Sparks , p. 18; Evelyne Tsezana, “Grandpa Zohn Saw UFOs in New Mexico,” Geni, April 6, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_955

Event 2468 (3E3B02E5)

Date: 6/29/1947
Description: A 1:15 p.m. four rocket experts saw a silver saucer in the sky over Organ, New Mexico. It flew off to the north at 9,000 feet altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 109
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3723

Event 2469 (508E63DA)

Date: 6/29/1947
Description: About 45 minutes later nine white saucers flying in V-formation flew over Medford, Oregon at a speed of 120 mph. They flew in a spiral over the airport, and appeared to make a cloud.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 729
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3724

Event 2470 (1EA3B2DD)

Date: 6/29/1947
Description: Between 13 and 18 white oval and disc-shaped objects flew over Clarion, Iowa at 4:45 p.m. They made a noise like that of a dynamo.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 178
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3725

Event 2471 (CDC6B6ED)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: ~04:00
Location: ROGERS, ARK
Description: J. P. Crumpler. Fast bright metallic disk northwest going quickly southwest in storm clouds. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 128)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_728

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "418", HatchDesc: "ROGERS,ARK:J.P.CRUMPLER:FAST BRITE MTLC DISK NW>>SW IN STORM CLOUDS:NFD", LatLong: "36.333335 -94.116671", LatLongDMS: "36:20:00 N 94:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2472 (F5F309F8)

Date: 6/30/1947 (approximate)
Time: 05:00?
Location: NEAR ARKADELPHIA, ARK
Description: Farm worker. 3 thin disks 'phonograph records' going quickly southwest fast / ~100m altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 129)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_729

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "nr ARKADELPHIA,ARK:FARM WORKER:3 THIN DISKS 'phono.records'>>SW FAST/~100m alt", LatLong: "34.116668 -93.050004", LatLongDMS: "34:07:00 N 93:03:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2473 (A94CFB63)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 09:10
Location: SOUTH / GRAND CANYON, AZ
Description: Navy pilot. 2 12' grey saucers maneuver / crazy speed and land. / r187#115.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 59)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_730

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "2000", HatchDesc: "S/GRAND CANYON,AZ:NAVY PILOT:2 12'GRY SCRS MNVR/CRAZY SPEED+LAND:/r187#115", LatLong: "36.033335 -112.200005", LatLongDMS: "36:02:00 N 112:12:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2474 (C629850F)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: 12 MI NORTHWEST / PROVO, UT
Description: 1 observer. 2 then 12 shiny metal disks going quickly southeast / great height. Seen / 2 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 116)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_731

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1365", HatchDesc: "12mi NW/PROVO,UT:1 OBS:2 then 12 SHINY MTL DISKS >>SE/GREAT HEIGHT:SEEN/2min", LatLong: "40.350002 -111.750005", LatLongDMS: "40:21:00 N 111:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2475 (826651BB)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: NORTHEAST / HAILEY, ID
Description: 2 observer(s). 8-9 extremely bright saucers / V-formation going quickly northwest. Very high and very fast. No planes. / r187#120.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 318)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_732

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1640", HatchDesc: "NE/HAILEY,ID:2 OBS:8-9 XBRITE SCRS/V-FORM>>NW:VHIGH+VFAST:NO PLANES:/r187#120", LatLong: "43.855558 -114.638894", LatLongDMS: "43:51:20 N 114:38:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2476 (3E75A1D3)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: Jailer and separate observer(s). Bright shiny silent "silver dollar" going quickly east faster / jet plane.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_733

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:JAILER+SEP.OBS:BRITE SHINY SLNT "SLVR DOLLAR" >>E FASTER/JET PLANE", LatLong: "47.633336 -117.433339", LatLongDMS: "47:38:00 N 117:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2477 (2EF2DABE)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: WEST / BOISE, ID
Description: 2 / car. Silvery half-dome clings to edge of cloud. "Sun-dog" / USAF.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 123)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_734

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", Elev: "825", HatchDesc: "W/BOISE,ID:2/CAR:SLVRY HALF-DOME CLINGS TO EDGE OF CLOUD:"SUN-DOG"/USAF", LatLong: "43.600002 -116.233339", LatLongDMS: "43:36:00 N 116:14:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2478 (92CD06EA)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: TUPELO, ARK
Description: Postmaster and 2. 4' diameter silver object going quickly northeast. High fast and silent. Brief sighting.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_735

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "66", HatchDesc: "TUPELO,ARK:POSTMASTER+2:4'diam.SLVR OBJ >>NE:HIGH FAST+SLNT:brief sighting", LatLong: "35.383335 -91.250004", LatLongDMS: "35:23:00 N 91:15:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2479 (FD221B4F)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 19:30
Location: ALBANY, GA
Description: 4 observer(s). Big bright plain metallic top-saucer hovers 5-10 minutes. Observer(s) drive away.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_736

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "8", Elev: "63", HatchDesc: "ALBANY,GA:4 OBS:BIG BRITE PLAIN MTLC TOP-SCR HVRS 5-10 mins:obs drive away.", LatLong: "31.577779 -84.155560", LatLongDMS: "31:34:40 N 84:09:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2480 (12D3696B)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: ASTORIA, OR
Description: Jack Hayes / hospital. 2 fast disks going quickly southwest. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 117)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_737

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "ASTORIA,OR:JACK HAYES/HOSPITAL:2 FAST DISKS >>SW:NFD", LatLong: "46.166669 -123.816673", LatLongDMS: "46:10:00 N 123:49:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2481 (AB6BFB57)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: KNOXVILLE, TN
Description: College president and 1+1. Long saucer-cylinder/cylindrical object going west overhead. Trail / sparks. Whistles.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 125)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_738

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "267", HatchDesc: "KNOXVILLE,TN:COLLEGE PRESIDENT+1+1:LONG SCR-CYL >W OVHD:TRAIL/SPARKS:WHISTLES", LatLong: "35.950002 -83.933337", LatLongDMS: "35:57:00 N 83:56:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2482 (90397A60)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: NORWOOD, OH
Description: Several separate observer(s). Huge saucer. 6 small disks orbit. / news. No further details. / r171p79.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_739

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "201", HatchDesc: "NORWOOD,OH:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE SCR:6 SML DISKS ORBIT:/NEWS:NFD:/r171p79", LatLong: "39.150002 -84.450004", LatLongDMS: "39:09:00 N 84:27:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2483 (C10890C3)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: ~23:00
Location: TUCUMCARI, NM
Description: Mrs. Hardin. Saucer east going quickly west / high speed / 6 second(s). ".. not a meteor!".
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_740

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "1245", HatchDesc: "TUCUMCARI,NM:MRS HARDIN:SCR E>>W/HI SPEED/6 sec:"..NOT A METEOR!"", LatLong: "35.166668 -103.700005", LatLongDMS: "35:10:00 N 103:42:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2484 (25E41308)

Date: 6/30/1947
Location: Grand Canyon (Near S rim of), AZ
Description: 9:10 a.m. (MST?). 2 gray, circular objects about 8 or 10 ft diameter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470630
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_341

Event 2485 (6D8C70A3)

Date: 6/30/1947
Time: 0910
Location: Grand Canyon, near Williams Field, Arizona
Description: A Navy lieutenant was flying at 9000 m toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about 3 m in diameter, and appeared to land 40 km south of the Grand Canyon.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_59

Event 2486 (3EBC6DD7)

Date: 6/30/1947
Locations: Williams AFB [now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport], Arizona; Grand Canyon
Description: 9:10 a.m. Naval Lt. William G. McGinty is flying a P-80 from Williams AFB [now Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport], Arizona, near the Grand Canyon when he observes two circular objects diving at inconceivable speed and landing 25 miles south of the canyon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “P-80 Pilot Sees Circular Objects Dive and Land”; Bloecher, p. II-12 ; Sparks , p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_956

Event 2487 (B7CA50AE)

Date: 6/30/1947
Locations: Eighth Air Force; Fort Worth, Texas
Description: Eighth Air Force Brig. Gen. Roger M. Ramey and intelligence officer Col. Alfred Kalberer hold a press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, on the flying discs. Ramey thinks people are “seeing heat waves.” Kalberer labels the sightings as “Buck Rogers stuff.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes , The Author, 2000, p. 17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_957

Event 2488 (43D0EC13)

Date: 6/30/1947
Locations: Wright Field; Dayton, Ohio
Description: Around this time the Air Force Research and Development office of the Air Materiel Command organizes an informal project at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio, to collect UFO reports in the interests of national security. The project officer at Wright Field is Lt. Col. Edward G. Nabell Jr.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_958

Event 2489 (E8A9177B)

Date: 6/30/1947
Description: A Navy Lieutenant named McGinty was flying in a P-80 fighter aircraft near Williams Field, Arizona at 9000 meters altitude when toward the south when he saw two circular objects diving at an "unconceivable" speed. They were gray, about three meters in diameter, and appeared to land 40 kilometers south of the Grand Canyon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #78; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3740

Event 2490 (757622BE)

Date: 7/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein
Type: scientist
Reference: Bragalia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_236

Attributes: Einstein

Event 2491 (88178279)

Date: 7/1947
Description: Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12 group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area.
Type: majestic document
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_265

Attributes: Majestic
See also: 9/24/1947

Event 2492 (888A0102)

Date: 7/1947
Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/1947) and 15 other UFO encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.)
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_266
See also: 6/24/1947
See also: 9/23/1947

Event 2493 (9EFEB465)

Date: 7/1947
Location: US
Description: The Air Force began investigating UFO reports seriously after sightings by airline pilots, other qualified observers.
Type: investigation
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_854

Event 2494 (B1E4B202)

Date: 7/1947
Time: ~00:30
Location: JYVASKYLA, FINL
Description: Amateur astronomer and more. Metallic cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southeast. Faster / planes. Going quickly south / separate observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 164)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_741

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "JYVASKYLA,FINL:AM.ASTRON+:MTLC CGR >>SE:FASTER/PLANES::>>S/SEP.OBS", LatLong: "62.233336 25.750001", LatLongDMS: "62:14:00 N 25:45:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2495 (D4C419B6)

Date: 7/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: JAMSA, FINL
Description: Girl / 11. Brown cylinder/cigar-shape exits cloud. Hovers / 2-3 minute(s). Departure not seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 164)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_742

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "JAMSA,FINL:GIRL/11:BROWN CGR EXITS CLOUD:HVRS/2-3min:departure not seen", LatLong: "61.866670 25.183335", LatLongDMS: "61:52:00 N 25:11:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2496 (5BD11022)

Date: 7/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: NEAR VASTERAS, SWD
Description: 2 observer(s). Round silver metallic silent ovoid. Instant 90° turn going west. / AFU Sweden.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 134)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_743

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr VASTERAS,SWD:2 OBS:RND SLVR MTLC SLNT OVOID:INSTANT 90° TURN >W:/AFU Sweden", LatLong: "59.616670 16.550001", LatLongDMS: "59:37:00 N 16:33:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2497 (2267B296)

Date: 7/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: WEST / BLYTHE, CA
Description: Bill Lear / P38 plane. 2 near collision with wingless fuselage.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ALIEN CONTACT, Top-Secret UFO Files Revealed; William Morrow, NY 1993. 288pp. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_744

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "150", HatchDesc: "W/BLYTHE,CA:BILL LEAR/P38 PLANE:2 NEAR COLLISION WITH WINGLESS FUSELAGE:", LatLong: "33.616668 -114.750005", LatLongDMS: "33:37:00 N 114:45:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2498 (1318E05E)

Date: 7/1947
Location: Nashville, TN
Description: Area of a sighting of a landed disc and two occupants. (Bloecher) (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_342

Event 2499 (07AE61C7)

Date: 7/1947
Location: Near Malta, Mediterrian Sea, At Sea
Description: 2:30 p.m. (EDT). Fishermen rep "little men" on "sub". (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470700
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_343

Event 2500 (095E25C6)

Date: 7/1/1947
Locations: White Sands, NM; Alamogordo, NM; Roswell, NM
Description: Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three facilities go on full alert.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_237

Event 2501 (A64C4884)

Date: 7/1/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell NM; White Sands, NM
Description: Military officials, both officers and the enlisted technicians had been tracking, on their radar, an unidentified object in flight over southern New Mexico since July 1. The object had first appeared over the highly restricted areas near the White Sands Proving Grounds. On July 2, Steve MacKenzie (a pseudonym, actually Frank Kaufmann), stationed at Roswell Army Air Field, had received a call from Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon of the Air Defense Command, ordering him to report to the radar sites at White Sands. MacKenzie was to monitor the object's movements and report them directly to the general. MacKenzie could not leave the scope unattended for even the shortest of times. In fact, once he had his watch established, he set up a system of mirrors so that he could see the screen even when he needed to use the latrine. MacKenzie stayed at his post for twenty-four hours straight, but nothing changed. The object appeared periodically over southern New Mexico, but usually just "flitting from one location to another." When MacKenzie reported that nothing had changed significantly during his twenty-four-hour watch, Scanlon decided to end MacKenzie's part of the operation. Although MacKenzie was ordered back to Roswell, the operators at White Sands were told to continue to monitor the object, as were the radarmen at Roswell and Albuquerque. (R.G.: Interestingly, this case was deleted and "declared a hoax" in NICAP's records and by K. Randle, but after re-reading all the relevant research I don't believe at all that this is a matter of a simple hoax. It fits into the historical timeline well and should be re-examined.)
Type: radar sightings
Reference: Radar Tracks Object - nipcap.org
Reference: Frank Kaufmann (aka Steve McKenzie) - roswellfiles.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_929

Event 2502 (BE32EE66)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 09:30
Location: NEAR CHANDLER, AZ
Description: 1 observer. Silver discus-saucer going quickly north / great speed over Indian reservation. 5K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_745

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "370", HatchDesc: "nr CHANDLER,AZ:1 OBS:SLVR DISCUS-SCR >>N/GREAT SPEED ovr INDIAN RSVN:5K'alt", LatLong: "33.300002 -111.833339", LatLongDMS: "33:18:00 N 111:50:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2503 (26F834B3)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: NORTHEAST / PORTLAND, OR
Description: 2 observer(s). 3 then 10-12 silent disks tip side to side. Follow river going quickly [to] WNW.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 322)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_746

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "18", HatchDesc: "NE/PORTLAND,OR:2 OBS:3 then 10-12 SLNT DISKS TIP SIDE to SIDE:FOLO RVR >>WNW", LatLong: "45.583336 -122.588895", LatLongDMS: "45:35:00 N 122:35:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2504 (3388EAEE)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 12:50
Location: FT. STEVENS ANNEX, OR
Description: Several observer(s). Extremely bright disk maneuvers / 15 minute(s). Going north toward(s) river. / r187#138.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_747

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "Ft.STEVENS ANNEX,OR:SVRL OBS:XBRITE DISK MNVRS/15min:>N twrd RIVER:/r187#138", LatLong: "46.200002 -123.950006", LatLongDMS: "46:12:00 N 123:57:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2505 (4E5E1340)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 12:50
Location: SR183 WITH DALLAS, TX
Description: 2+girl. Flat-balloon disk going quickly southwest / cloud level / 14 second(s). Fast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 134)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_748

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "200", HatchDesc: "SR183 W/DALLAS,TX:2+GIRL:FLAT-BALLOON DISK >>SW/CLOUD LEVEL/14sec:FAST:NFD", LatLong: "32.833335 -97.050005", LatLongDMS: "32:50:00 N 97:03:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2506 (A136F82A)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: PENDLETON, OR
Description: Several observer(s). 6-9 shiny platters whiz overhead going quickly south / 4-5 minute(s). Straight and level flight. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_749

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "326", HatchDesc: "PENDLETON,OR:SVRL OBS:6-9 SHINY PLATTERS WHIZ OVHD >>S/4-5min:S/L FLITE:NFD", LatLong: "45.672224 -118.788895", LatLongDMS: "45:40:20 N 118:47:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2507 (874A43E7)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: EDMONTON, ALTA
Description: Mrs. Olsen. 1M silver object going quickly southeast fast. Wavers and sparkles. Not a globe.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 70)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_750

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "642", HatchDesc: "EDMONTON,ALTA:Mrs.OLSEN:1M SLVR OBJ >>SE FAST:WAVERS+SPARKLES:not a globe", LatLong: "53.533336 -113.433339", LatLongDMS: "53:32:00 N 113:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2508 (C06A30BA)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: NORTH BEDEQUE, PEI
Description: Farmer and separate observer(s). Fast high fireball going quickly south straight and level for 90 second(s). / r187#133.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_751

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "0", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "N.BEDEQUE,PEI:FARMER+SEP.OBS:FAST HI FBL >>S S/L for 90sec:/r187#133", LatLong: "46.366669 -63.766670", LatLongDMS: "46:22:00 N 63:46:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2509 (98E34103)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 20:40
Location: LOUISVILLE, KY
Description: Weatherman and 3 separate report(s). Silent saucer going southeast / 100mph. Back going northwest / 2200h. / r131#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 146)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_752

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "90", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "LOUISVILLE,KY:WEATHERMAN+3 SEP.RPTS:SLNT SCR> SE/100mph::BACK>NW/2200h:/r131#3", LatLong: "38.233335 -85.733337", LatLongDMS: "38:14:00 N 85:44:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2510 (FE7A084A)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 20:50
Location: WALLACEBURG, ON
Description: R. Stevens. Moon-size disk north going south. 3 bright flashes. Maneuvers just over horizon.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 141)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_753

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "175", HatchDesc: "WALLACEBURG,ON:R.STEVENS:MOONSIZE DISK N>S:3 BRITE FLASHES:MNVRS JUST OVR HRZN", LatLong: "42.583335 -82.433337", LatLongDMS: "42:35:00 N 82:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2511 (DB859557)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: ~21:00
Location: PHOENIX, AZ
Description: 2+2 separate observer(s). Large object going quickly east. Stops / 1 second(s). Shoots going quickly east again. / r22p21.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 324)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_754

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "310", HatchDesc: "PHOENIX,AZ:2+2 SEP.OBS:LRG OBJ >>E:STOPS/1 sec:SHOOTS >>E again:/r22p21", LatLong: "33.450002 -112.066672", LatLongDMS: "33:27:00 N 112:04:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2512 (6B41D9A9)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: WILMINGTON, NC
Description: 3 separate observer(s). Silent cone disk with grill high and fast. Descends going quickly south over horizon.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 143)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_755

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,NC:3 SEP.OBS:SLNT CONE DISK W/GRILL HIGH+FAST:DESCENDS >>S OVR HRZN", LatLong: "34.216668 -77.916670", LatLongDMS: "34:13:00 N 77:55:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2513 (85BE21DD)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: SULLIVANS ISLAND, SC
Description: 4 observer(s). Red disk north going quickly south / extremely fast. 1st seen / Wilmington NC / 2130hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_756

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "SULLIVANS ISLAND,SC:4 OBS:RED DISK N>>S/XFAST:1st SEEN/WILMINGTON.NC/2130hrs", LatLong: "32.800002 -79.833337", LatLongDMS: "32:48:00 N 79:50:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2514 (66BDCF7A)

Date: 7/1/1947
Time: 23:00?
Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Description: Many observer(s). 13 silver saucers going south, east then going west. Blue disk zigzags / northwest sky. / r22p20.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 323)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_757

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "15", Elev: "1486", HatchDesc: "ALBQQ,NM:MANY OBS:13 SLVR SCRS> S,E THEN >W:BLUE DISK ZIGZAGS/NW SKY:/r22p20", LatLong: "35.083335 -106.650005", LatLongDMS: "35:05:00 N 106:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2515 (5E230AC2)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: This alleged incident is listed for-the-record only and has been declared a hoax. (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470701
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_344

Event 2516 (F366AA42)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Chitose AAB, Hokkaido, Japan
Description: GCA Unit Tracks UFOs (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470701
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_345

Event 2517 (401F7860)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: North Bedeque, Prince Edward Island
Description: Day. Animal ecologist Charles K. Gunn , his wife, and two passengers are driving near North Bedeque, Prince Edward Island, when they see a bright, shapeless object speeding along in the sky for 30 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_961

Event 2518 (2509C4B6)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Chitose Air Base, Hokkaido, Japan
Description: A target is picked up on radar at Chitose Air Base, Hokkaido, Japan, moving 16 miles north at speeds in excess of 500 mph. The blip instantly reverses course four times, breaks into two objects, then merges into one again.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_962

Event 2519 (EC2B586E)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Description: Col. Alfred Kalberer holds another press conference in Fort Worth, Texas, and brings astronomer Oscar Monnig along to comment that the discs are “an interesting study in human psychology.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_963

Event 2520 (6647C931)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: Night. Albuquerque, New Mexico, Chamber of Commerce official Max Hood sees a bluish disc zigzagging for about 30 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-17; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes , The Author, 2000, pp. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_964

Event 2521 (4B08E5A4)

Date: 7/1/1947
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Description: 10:10 p.m. Meteorologist Ellwood E. Unger and his wife watch a round, orange, luminous object going about 100 mph after they leave a movie theater in Louisville, Kentucky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-2; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 June 24th–July 6th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_965

Event 2522 (0BBAF624)

Date: 7/1/1947?
Locations: Mozambique Channel; Union-Castle Mail SS Llandovery Castle
Description: 11:00 p.m. Mrs. A. M. King is with another passenger on the deck of the Union-Castle Mail SS Llandovery Castle as it is steaming through the Mozambique Channel. They notice a star-like object traveling fast toward the ship. It shines a strong beam of light on the water within 150 feet of the ship, then descends, the beam shortening and becoming brighter as it nears the water. Soon the light switches off and they can see a metallic object that looks like a cigar with the end cut off. It remains about 20 feet above the sea, moving parallel with the ship. King estimates it is about four times the length of the ship and four times as tall. After a few seconds, a large flame erupts from the rear of the object. It vanishes soundlessly in the darkness.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp. 18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_966

Event 2523 (E9A199B6)

Date: 7/1/1947
End date: 7/3/1947?
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; Washington, D.C.; New Mexico desert
Description: According to Annie Jacobsen’s informant, EG&G engineer Alfred O’Donnell, the upcoming Roswell, New Mexico, crashes are the result of a psychological warfare operation by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to fly into US airspace two disc- or wing-shaped aircraft based on a Horton brothers design obtained at the end of World War II. One craft allegedly contains living dwarves or children human guinea pigs who had been surgically altered using similar methods to those used in Auschwitz concentration camp by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. This aircraft is remotely controlled by the crew of the second craft. The idea is to land the first aircraft in a visible location in the US, perhaps in Washington, D.C. The children would exit the craft and present themselves to the highest echelons of the government. However, the two aircraft crash in the New Mexico desert and, he claims, the Atomic Energy Commission is put in charge of the remains.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 367–374; Kremlin 30–36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_967

Event 2524 (320E4D90)

Date: 7/1/1947
End date: 7/3/1947
Locations: Southern New Mexico; Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque; Alamogordo; White Sands Missile Range
Description: US Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico and one at Kirtland Air Force Base near Albuquerque allegedly track an object “flitting around” the sky, frequently returning but finally disappearing on the night of July 4. Much of this story originates with now-discredited Roswell witness Frank Kaufmann, who claims he was ordered to bring a group of radar experts to Alamogordo to evaluate unexplained radar targets at White Sands Missile Range.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 159; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p. 8; Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 July 1997: 48–53; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 9–11, 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_968

Event 2525 (C95FC859)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: Radar operators at Chitose Army Air Base on Hokkaido, Japan picked up an unidentified target 16 miles north of the base on course of 180 degrees and a speed in excess of 500 mph. The target reversed course, broke up into two responses, then merged back together again into one large response.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3760

Event 2526 (87F281E8)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: At 11:45 a.m. three discs were spotted over Portland, Oregon, then another 10-12 discs showed up, silently tipping from side to side as they followed the river to the west-northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 135; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3761

Event 2527 (BE4D345E)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: At noon Mrs. Hunt saw saw six discs maneuvering in the sky over Madras, Oregon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: The Oregonian, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 136
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3762

Event 2528 (BBB3C6E1)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: At 12:45 p.m. over Fort Stevens Annex, Oregon an extremely bright disc-shaped object maneuvered for 15 minutes. It then flew north toward the Columbia River.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ashland Budget, July 1, 1947; Oregon Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3763

Event 2529 (A2FC4A22)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: At 3:00 p.m. a woman in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada saw a small silver colored, disc-shaped object three feet in diameter. It flew off toward the southeast with a wavering motion.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edmonton Journal, July 2, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 70
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3764

Event 2530 (BEBAA01F)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: In mid-afternoon in Pendleton, Oregon six to nine shiny platter-shaped objects whizzed overhead heading quickly toward the south.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Oregon Journal, July 3, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 139
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3765

Event 2531 (86FB44CF)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: Dr. G. Oliver Doctor saw a 'flying disc' zip over the city of El Paso, Texas on this day. It was shaped like two pie pans rim-to-rim, and was estimated to be 30 feet in diameter. It hurtled over Mount Franklin and then flew off towards Mexico.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005, p. 4, citing the Norman (OK) Transcript, July 2, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3766

Event 2532 (8BB646C7)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: At 9:58 p.m a red disc-shaped object flew north to south at an extremely fast speed over Charleston, South Carolina. It had been seen earlier at Wilmington, North Carolina at 9:30 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charleston (SC) News Courier, July 6, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 147
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3767

Event 2533 (B7D832F9)

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: Late in the evening at around 11:00 p.m. thirteen silver disc-shaped objects flew over Albuquerque, New Mexico. They flew first toward the south, then turned to the east, and finally flew off to the west. A blue disc was also seen zig-zagging in the northwestern sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Albuquerque Journal, July 2, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 152; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 157
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3768

Event 2534 (5FF6B02C)

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_238

Event 2535 (5FF6B02C)

Date: 7/2/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_239

Event 2536 (6C03E0A8)

Date: 7/2/1947
Location: Magdalena, N.M.
Description: Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_240

Event 2537 (2EF82885)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 07:00
Location: LEWISTON, ID
Description: 3+2 kids. 3 shiny white saucers dip and roll / high altitude. Going quickly east on edge. / r187#155.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 326)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_758

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "230", HatchDesc: "LEWISTON,ID:3+2 KIDS:3 SHINY WHT SCRS DIP+ROLL/hi alt:>>E on edge:/r187#155", LatLong: "46.400002 -116.966672", LatLongDMS: "46:24:00 N 116:58:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2538 (26A58A94)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 14:20
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Description: Highway Patrolman and 1. 6 25cm silver balls plummet going down / bay at GG bridge!
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 158)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_759

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:HWY PATROLMAN+1:6 25cm SLVR BALLS PLUMMET↓/BAY at GG BRIDGE!", LatLong: "37.800002 -122.483339", LatLongDMS: "37:48:00 N 122:29:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2539 (0031D2E0)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: ROYAL OAK, MI
Description: Sid Trezise. 5cm silver ball going quickly southeast fast. Whizzing sound. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 157)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_760

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "216", HatchDesc: "ROYAL OAK,MI:SID TREZISE:5cm SLVR BALL >>SE FAST:WHIZZING SOUND:NFD", LatLong: "42.500002 -83.144448", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 83:08:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2540 (0B5A5F60)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 16:30
Location: US10 ESE / NORTH BEND, WA
Description: Private investigator and 1. 24 washtub saucers going south. Turn going quickly west. Glisten.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 159)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_761

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "200", HatchDesc: "US10 ESE/NORTH BEND,WA:Pvt INVESTIGATOR+1:24 WASHTUB SCRS> S:TURN>>W:GLISTEN", LatLong: "47.450002 -121.583339", LatLongDMS: "47:27:00 N 121:35:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2541 (843D11EE)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: GREEN BAY, WI
Description: Eugene LaPlante and son. Disk or sphere going quickly northwest fast. Seen 3-4 minute(s). No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 160)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_762

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "GREEN BAY,WI:EUGENE LaPLANTE+SON:DISK or SPHERE >>NW FAST:SEEN 3-4min:NFD", LatLong: "44.500002 -88.011115", LatLongDMS: "44:30:00 N 88:00:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2542 (2CE48ABD)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: DENVER, CO
Description: 2 / car. Several bright thin disks / 5000' altitude going quickly southwest fast straight and level. 3 objects back 3 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_763

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1578", HatchDesc: "DENVER,CO:2/CAR:SVRL BRITE THIN DISKS/5000'alt >>SW FAST S/L:3 OBJS BACK 3JLY", LatLong: "39.744446 -104.988894", LatLongDMS: "39:44:40 N 104:59:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2543 (E4308219)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: DE KALB, TX
Description: 2+1 separate observer(s). Shiny saucer 30m over tomato patch and house. Local wave TX and ark.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_764

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "124", HatchDesc: "De KALB,TX:2+1 SEP.OBS:SHINY SCR 30m OVR TOMATO PATCH+HOUSE:LOCAL WAVE TX+ARK", LatLong: "33.500002 -94.616671", LatLongDMS: "33:30:00 N 94:37:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2544 (A547BD32)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: CINCINNATI, OH
Description: 100 / ballpark. 2 shiny 30cm silver saucers hover and go slowly. / r187#161.
Type: sighting
Reference: INFORESPACE Journal. SOBEPS Group, Belgium; bimonthly (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_765

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "10", Elev: "205", HatchDesc: "CINCINNATI,OH:100/BALLPARK:2 SHINY 30cm SLVR SCRS HVR+GO SLOWLY:/r187#161", LatLong: "39.133335 -84.516671", LatLongDMS: "39:08:00 N 84:31:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2545 (F6B64425)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 20:50
Location: EAST / LAUREL, OR
Description: 3 metallic disks play tag and circle fast. Plane-size. High-altitude. Going quickly east. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 461)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_766

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "59", HatchDesc: "E/LAUREL,OR:3 MTLC DISKS PLAY TAG AND CCL FAST:PLANE-SIZE:HI-ALT:>>E:NFD", LatLong: "45.416669 -122.950006", LatLongDMS: "45:25:00 N 122:57:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2546 (1F14D4FC)

Date: 7/2/1947
Time: 21:50
Location: ROSWELL, NM
Description: Wilmots. Large glowing-tub-saucer going quickly northwest overhead. 800kph / 450M altitude. / MJ#275+281.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 347)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_767

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1089", HatchDesc: "ROSWELL,NM:WILMOTS:LRG GLO-TUB-SCR >>NW OVHD:800kph/450M alt:/MJ#275+281", LatLong: "33.400002 -104.533338", LatLongDMS: "33:24:00 N 104:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "450", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2547 (34E238AA)

Date: Early 7/1947
Location: Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime, France
Description: A cyclist near Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime, France, encounters an oval object, 10 feet long and 5 feet high, resting on the road 100 feet in front of her. Two small beings dressed in outfits and headgear are busy around it. When she honks her horn, the entities scurry into the object, entering it through a 20-inch opening. The UFO rises, oscillates, and streaks away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 267; Patrick Gross, URECAT , August 81, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_960

Event 2548 (8C7D1720)

Date: 7/2/1947
Locations: Cincinnati (Ohio); Milling Machine Company
Description: 8:00 p.m. Spectators at a baseball game at the Cincinnati Ohio Milling Machine Company watch two slow- moving discs hovering above the field for 10 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “100 at Ball Game Tell of Seeing Two Mystery Saucers,” Cincinnati Ohio Post, July 7, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_969

Event 2549 (0B5EA373)

Date: 7/2/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: 9:50 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot see an oval object like two inverted saucers pass over their house moving northwest in Roswell, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 19; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 159; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1994: 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_970

Event 2550 (18666192)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Magdalena, NM
Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_241

Event 2551 (34284CEC)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: San Francisco, CA
Description: The first instance of the ET hypothesis to appear in the media, in a letter by Ole Johannes Sneide 1886-8/31/1947. His letter first appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. The flying discs were “oblate spheroid space ships from the older planets.” “Usually they travel in outer space with speeds approximating that of light by use of anti-gravity devices and hyperspace. In our space they travel much slower, and, of course, become visible either by intent or by accident, for in their travels they use the invisibility screen.” “This space navigation has been going on for millions of years, these ‘nova’ having come into our galaxy originally from the Great Magellanic Cloud via the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, 47 Tucanae, Omega and Alpha Centauri clusters.” “Their masters planted the original humanities here and which did not develop sui generis. They have been absent from our planet since before the fall of the Roman Empire when the Great Master left earth for the outer galaxy by fohatic teleportation.” “He is now back and what is going to be done depends upon mankind, but my advice is that physical man set up no belligerence, for a small concentration of those disks just beyond the range of our atmosphere could clean the surface of our planet completely in a matter of less than 24 hours. “Their present local headquarters is on the unseen side of our moon. I discovered this by teleportation visits hither and yon in and between our galaxy.” “Mankind,” he concluded, “will just have to learn their physics all over again, someday, if they live. Ah! If they live!”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: The Saucers That Time Forgot - blogspot.com
Reference: Jason Colavito - Saucer Mystery Solved?
Reference: Stockton Evening and Sunday Record, 7/3/1947, newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_928

Event 2552 (EF126249)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: REDDING, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). Large bright fast silent triangle going quickly north. 7 saucers north / Alturas same day.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 176)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_768

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "168", HatchDesc: "REDDING,CA:2 OBS:LRG BRITE FAST SLNT TRIANGLE>>N::7 SCRS N/ALTURAS SAME DAY", LatLong: "40.583335 -122.383339", LatLongDMS: "40:35:00 N 122:23:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2553 (02CEEEA5)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 03:30
Location: OMAHA, NE
Description: Mrs. Nelson. 2 white-glow saucers going quickly south. Instant 90° turn going quickly east. / r187#179.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 333)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_769

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "312", HatchDesc: "OMAHA,NE:Mrs.NELSON:2 WHT-GLOW SCRS >> S:INSTANT 90°TURN >>E:/r187#179", LatLong: "41.283335 -95.916671", LatLongDMS: "41:17:00 N 95:55:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2554 (8E4B9E26)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 06:00
Location: TEXARKANA, ARK
Description: 2 observer(s). Silver saucer going quickly east overhead / 400' altitude. Ditto / 4 July / 2100h. / r187#180+273.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_770

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "99", HatchDesc: "TEXARKANA,ARK:2 OBS:SLVR SCR >>E OVHD/400'alt:DITTO/4JLY/2100h:/r187#180+273", LatLong: "33.433335 -94.000004", LatLongDMS: "33:26:00 N 94:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2555 (57378E43)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: ~07:00
Location: GAINESVILLE, GA
Description: Man and boy. 3 shiny silver saucers going [to] fast in formation. / Gainesville Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_771

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "381", HatchDesc: "GAINESVILLE,GA:MAN+BOY:3 SHINY SLVR SCRS > FAST/FORMATION:/Gainesville Times", LatLong: "34.300002 -83.822226", LatLongDMS: "34:18:00 N 83:49:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2556 (C86AFD48)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 09:00?
Location: SOUTHEAST / CORONA, NM
Description: WW Brazel finds much weird wreckage. Unknown symbols. Many references.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER,Don & FRIEDMAN, Stanton: CRASH at CORONA 1992 1997 Marlowe & Co. NY ISBN 1-56924-863-X. (Index 71)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_772

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "90", Elev: "1900", HatchDesc: "SE/CORONA,NM:WW BRAZEL FINDS MUCH WEIRD WRECKAGE:UNKNOWN SYMBOLS:many refs", LatLong: "33.944446 -105.305561", LatLongDMS: "33:56:40 N 105:18:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2557 (5254852D)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 09:30
Location: CONOWINGO DAM, MD
Description: 2+100 observer(s). 8 disks / string formation hover and maneuver. Some shoot away.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_773

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "18", Elev: "111", HatchDesc: "CONOWINGO DAM,MD:2+100 OBS:8 DISKS/STRING FORMn HVR+MNVR:some shoot away", LatLong: "39.661113 -76.172226", LatLongDMS: "39:39:40 N 76:10:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2558 (EFE32437)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: LOCKLAND AND GREEN HILLS, OH
Description: 1+1 observer(s). Silver football / high altitude. Going south. Engine sound. Going north / 1730h.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_774

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "175", HatchDesc: "LOCKLAND+GREEN HILLS,OH:1+1 OBS:SLVR FOOTBALL/HI ALT:>S:ENGINE SOUND:>N/1730h", LatLong: "39.227780 -84.461115", LatLongDMS: "39:13:40 N 84:27:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2559 (BE73FDA4)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: KEOKUK, IA
Description: 3 flight instructors. 3 fast bright silver disks straight going quickly east over airport.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_775

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "203", HatchDesc: "KEOKUK,IA:3 FLITE INSTRUCTORS:3 FAST BRITE SLVR DISKS STRAIGHT>>E OVR AIRPORT", LatLong: "40.416669 -91.400004", LatLongDMS: "40:25:00 N 91:24:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2560 (29EC798A)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 12:40
Location: NAMPA, ID
Description: C. Hughes and C. Faust. Silent circular object undulates west going quickly east / great speed. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 188)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_776

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "759", HatchDesc: "NAMPA,ID:C.HUGHES+C.FAUST:SLNT CIRC.OBJ UNDULATES W>>E/GREAT SPEED:NFD", LatLong: "43.533335 -116.561117", LatLongDMS: "43:32:00 N 116:33:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2561 (C90CF795)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: 20 MI WITH SAN DIEGO, CA
Description: 3 disks going east / 400mph. Circle and fly back going quickly west. / wire service report.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 194)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_777

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "20mi W/SAN DIEGO,CA:3 DISKS > E/400mph:CIRCLE+FLY BACK>>W:/WIRE SERVICE RPT", LatLong: "32.666668 -117.500006", LatLongDMS: "32:40:00 N 117:30:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2562 (8CD80F2D)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: HARBORSIDE, ME
Description: Project Bluebook Case #77. Astronomer Cole. Series / 10 100' saucers going quickly northwest. Loud roar. Very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 71)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_778

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "26", HatchDesc: "HARBORSIDE,ME:BBK#77:ASTRONOMER COLE:SERIES/10 100'SCRs >>NW:LOUD ROAR:VFAST", LatLong: "44.366669 -68.811114", LatLongDMS: "44:22:00 N 68:48:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2563 (E125F61F)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 16:50
Location: SANTA ROSA NAS, CA
Description: 2 separate observations. 50' silver saucer going north 1K' over runway. Turns going quickly east toward(s) town.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 81)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_779

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "25", HatchDesc: "SANTA ROSA NAS,CA:2 SEP OVS:50'SLVR SCR > N 1K' ovr RUNWAY:TURNS >>E twrd TOWN", LatLong: "38.450002 -122.700006", LatLongDMS: "38:27:00 N 122:42:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2564 (E5DE721C)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: AUGUSTINE COVE, PEI
Description: Farmer. Bright round "apple-shape" north going quickly south fast. Straight and level and makes dips.
Type: sighting
Reference: LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_780

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "AUGUSTINE COVE,PEI:FARMER:BRITE ROUND "APPLE-SHAPE" N>>S FAST:S/L+MAKES DIPS", LatLong: "46.222224 -63.605559", LatLongDMS: "46:13:20 N 63:36:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2565 (44F62BE7)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: SHERBROOKE, PEI
Description: 2 observer(s). Fireball northwest going quickly southeast / 5 second(s). RCAF investigating. / J. Aldrich p6+Internet.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 190)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_781

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "SHERBROOKE,PEI:2 OBS:FBL NW>>SE/5sec:RCAF INVSTGn:/J.ALDRICH p6+Internet", LatLong: "46.416669 -63.833336", LatLongDMS: "46:25:00 N 63:50:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2566 (352A7B5E)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: VILLAGE GREEN, PEI
Description: Farmer. Black cylinder/cigar-shape with flame and contrail / rear. Going quickly south / 3 km.alt. / r171p73.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 189)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_782

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "VILLAGE GREEN,PEI:FARMER:BLK CGR W/FLAME+CONTRAIL/REAR:>>S/3 km.alt:/r171p73", LatLong: "46.200002 -62.922225", LatLongDMS: "46:12:00 N 62:55:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Prince Edward Island", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2567 (C191F636)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: NEAR ST. MARIES, ID
Description: 15 observer(s). 8 large washtub saucers going north land / mountainside. / r106p65+/ r187#200.
Type: sighting
Reference: KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_783

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "675", HatchDesc: "nr St.MARIES,ID:15 OBS:8 LRG WASHTUB SCRS >N LAND/MTNSIDE:/r106p65+/r187#200", LatLong: "47.316669 -116.561117", LatLongDMS: "47:19:00 N 116:33:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2568 (EBD4486E)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: MENDON, VT
Description: 1 observer. Green tube with white 'head' low and slow over meadow. Leaves going southwest. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 201)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_784

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "317", HatchDesc: "MENDON,VT:1 OBS:GRN TUBE W/WHT 'HEAD' LOW+SLOW OVR MEADOW:LEAVES >SW:NFD", LatLong: "43.655558 -72.933337", LatLongDMS: "43:39:20 N 72:56:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2569 (8D6CE2EE)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: SPRINGFIELD, IL
Description: Cop and several motorists. 4 disks shoot across sky. Later in Decatur, IL.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 202)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_785

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "SPRINGFIELD,IL:COP+SVRL MOTORISTS:4 DISKS SHOOT ACRS SKY::LATER in DECATUR,IL", LatLong: "39.800002 -89.633338", LatLongDMS: "39:48:00 N 89:38:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2570 (E036AE78)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: OAKLAND, CA
Description: Mrs. Devaughn. String / pearly luminous disk-orbs going quickly east fast. Revolve rapidly.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_786

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "OAKLAND,CA:Mrs.DeVAUGHN:STRING/PEARLY LUMN.DISK-ORBS >>E FAST:REVOLVE RAPIDLY", LatLong: "37.816668 -122.250006", LatLongDMS: "37:49:00 N 122:15:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2571 (A6E2E3E4)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: SIOUX CITY, IA
Description: Jacob Kriv and 2 teens. Luminous/glowing disk going quickly east quite fast. Straight and level course. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 206)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_787

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "335", HatchDesc: "SIOUX CITY,IA:JACOB KRIV+2 TEENS:LUMn DISK >>E QUITE FAST:S/L COURSE:NFD", LatLong: "42.500002 -96.433338", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 96:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2572 (95827816)

Date: 7/3/1947 (approximate)
Time: 23:00
Location: STRTS / MADAGASCAR
Description: 1600' silent cylinder/cigar-shape paces ship. Spotlights going down / sea. No portholes. Shoots going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 325)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_788

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "STRTS/MADAGASCAR:1600'SLNT CGR PACES SHIP:SPOTLITES↓/SEA:NO PORTS:SHOOTS >>S", LatLong: "-16.166667 42.000002", LatLongDMS: "16:10:00 S 42:00:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MDG", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2573 (116090C4)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: ~23:00
Location: OFF FT ROSS, CA
Description: Forest lookout. Ship burns and sinks / 30 minute(s). None missing. Not a trace.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_789

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off Ft ROSS,CA:FOREST LOOKOUT:SHIP BURNS+SINKS/30min:NONE MISSING:NOT A TRACE", LatLong: "38.416668 -123.416673", LatLongDMS: "38:25:00 N 123:25:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2574 (F60BB8EC)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Famous alleged UFO crash (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470703
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_346

Event 2575 (BA2714D2)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Famous alleged UFO crash and bodies recovered (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470703
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_347

Event 2576 (B667C291)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: South Brooksville-Harborside, ME
Description: Astronomer Observes Ten Large Objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 27)
Reference: NICAP: 470703
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_348

Event 2577 (4FAD223A)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: St. Maries (near), ID
Description: Landing, seen by a family of ten in Northern Idaho, of eight huge objects (Bloecher) (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470703
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_349

Event 2578 (02C001A9)

Date: 7/3/1947
Time: 2:30 PM EDT
Location: Harborside, Maine
Description: Witness: astronomer John Cole of South Brooksville, Me. Watched 10-15 seconds while ten very light objects, with two dark forms to their left, moved like a swarm of bees to the northwest. A loud roar was heard.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_0

Event 2579 (74705BA7)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado
Description: 8:55 a.m. William F. LeFevre watches a shiny, mirror-like disc zoom over River Drive near West 8th Street in Denver, Colorado, at several thousand feet and make a 45° turn before vanishing toward the southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Denver Post, July 5, 1947; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, p. 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_971

Event 2580 (4CA0C0DA)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: Morning. Project Mogul Flight number 8, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1994: 6–7, 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_972

Event 2581 (B364DFCC)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Harborside, Maine
Description: 2:30 p.m. Amateur astronomer John F. Cole watches a group of 10 objects moving northwest near Harborside, Maine, at 600–1,200 mph. Each is 50–150 feet wide. The objects are milling about in loose formation like a “swarm of bees” for 10–15 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Astronomer Observes Ten Large Objects”; Bloecher, p. III-18; Sparks , p. 19; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_973

Event 2582 (97EEA70D)

Date: 7/3/1947
Locations: St. Louis; Wright Field, Ohio; Wright Field
Description: The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Air Research Center at Wright Field, Ohio, and the army intelligence service are looking into the flying discs. An INS dispatch states that Commander of the Army Air Force Gen. Carl Spaatz has asked Wright Field to look into such reports. Air Materiel Command’s Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining tells Idaho Evening Statesman reporter David N. Johnson that officials are indeed looking into the discs and that Wright Field has no comparable technology. Lieut. William C. Anderson, Wright Field public relations officer, says there is no confirmation that the discs exist. Maj. Paul Gaynor says the Army Air Force needs more concrete information. German scientists working at Wright Field are asked about the discs, but they say they have heard nothing about any such experiments in Europe.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Army Gets Around to Checking ‘Flying Discs’ and Is Mystified,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 3, 1947, p. 1; Dave Johnson, “AAF Investigates Reports of Mysterious Air Objects,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 3, 1947, pp. 1, 9; “Military Says ‘No Results’ in Disc Probe,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 4, 1947, p. 2; “Weird ‘Flying Saucers’ Seen over 10 States,” New York Daily News, July 4, 1947, Final ed., p. 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_974

Event 2583 (6E436F4A)

Date: 7/3/1947
Locations: Village Green; Charlottetown; Prince Edward Island; Augustine Cove
Description: 5:45 p.m. Farmer Ewen McNeill in Village Green, east of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, sees a black, rocket-shaped projectile trailing a blindingly white flame and a smoke trail pass overhead as he is working his fields. It seems to be flying at 10,000 feet and is visible for 15 seconds. Around the same time, a resident of Augustine Cove watches an “object the size of an apple” traveling south at high speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. II-17; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_975

Event 2584 (EA425CAA)

Date: 7/3/1947
Locations: Saint Maries, Idaho; St. Joe River; Spokane Army Air Base; Fairchild AFB
Description: 6:30 p.m. Mrs. Walter Johnson and her family see 8–9 discs flying out of the southern sky 6 miles west of Saint Maries, Idaho, over the St. Joe River. The objects came in “very fast, slow down jerkily, then flutter to the ground like leaves.” Mrs. Johnson thinks the objects are about the size of a “five-room house.” When they reach a clearing in the timber, they appear to “settle Down” a few at a time. Mrs. Johnson reports the sighting to intelligence officers at the Spokane Army Air Base [now Fairchild AFB], and an intensive air search is carried out by two missions of the National Guard’s 116th Fighter Group. Local sheriff’s deputies also make a ground search, but no traces of alanding can be found.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Saucer’ Reports Increase As Sky Is Searched in Vain,” Spokane Wash. Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, pp. 1, 6; “Dishman Residents Saw ‘Flying Saucers’ Land,” Spokane Wash. Spokesman-Review, July 7, 1947, p. 6; Bloecher, p. II-12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_976

Event 2585 (3A04498E)

Date: 7/3/1947
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: 7:30 p.m. Project Mogul Flight number 9, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1994: 6–7, 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_977

Event 2586 (5705E49A)

Date: 7/3/1947
Description: There are 35 unexplained UFO, USO (unidentified submarine object), and humanoid reports for this day in UFOCAT, including the alleged discovery of the famous Roswell debris field by Mac Brazel on a ranch near Corona, New Mexico and the discovery of a crashed disc by Barney Barnett in an arroyo near Magdelena, New Mexico. A cluster of three reports came from around Cincinnati, Ohio between 10:30 a.m. and 5:30 p.m. A cluster of another three reports came from Prince Edward Island, Canada at 5:45 p.m. including the sighting of a black cigar-shaped object in Charlottetown. There was a third cluster of sightings from Sonoma County, California where a forest fire lookout in Fort Ross saw what looked like a burning ship sink slowly into the Pacific Ocean where no ship was reported missing. There was a fourth cluster of three sightings between Baltimore, Maryland and Washington, DC.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U Computer database, case 782; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT, case A2038; Cincinnati (OH) Post, July 3, 1947; Cincinnati (OH) Enquirer, July 9, 1947; Windsor (ON) Daily Star, July 5, 1947; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 6); Baltimore Sun, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3796

Event 2587 (3C0684EF)

Date: 7/3/1947
Description: Harborside, Maine - John F. Cole, an astronomer, watched a series of objects that gave off a roaring noise at 2:30 in the afternoon from Harborside, south of Brooksville, Maine. The objects were in the north and were proceeding northwest at a high speed. He estimated their diameter at 100 feet. Calling the report an "unusually well-supported incident," the Air Force had no explanation. However, years later the Air Materiel Command publicly explained the event as "birds or insects". This sighting was also one of the 1947 cases investigated by the FBI.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pg. 51; Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, pg. 89
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3797

Event 2588 (A1A658F9)

Date: 7/3/1947
Description: In the village of Mendon, Vermont at 9:00 p.m. Mrs. Spieski sighted a cylindrical UFO, shaped like a flashlight with a white head and green body. It flew at a moderate speed over a meadow at low altitude, heading toward the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher; Rutland (VT) Herald, July 9, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3798

Event 2589 (C4CF87EB)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Magdalena, NM
Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one heavily injured, one surviving
Type: ufo crash
Reference: anonymous information (R.G.)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_242

Attributes: gallant

Event 2590 (1C987AA5)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue Book Report includes state and local police witnesses
Type: mass ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_243

Event 2591 (079E32D9)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Pacific Northwest
Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in PNW
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_244

Event 2592 (0DDDB7B0)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: OTTAWA, ON
Description: Bright green saucer here. Translucent 30cm luminous plates over Sarnia same day.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 84)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_790

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "115", HatchDesc: "OTTAWA,ON:BRITE GRN SCR HERE::TRANSLUCENT 30cm LUMn.PLATES OVR SARNIA same day", LatLong: "45.400002 -75.700004", LatLongDMS: "45:24:00 N 75:42:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2593 (56193152)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 01:00
Location: EAST ORANGE AND ESSEX FALLS, NJ
Description: 3 separate observer(s). Fireball and disks and saucers hover and going [to] all directions. / r151+/ r187p212.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_791

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", Elev: "51", HatchDesc: "E.ORANGE+ESSEX FALLS,NJ:3 SEP.OBS:FBL+DISKS+SCRS HVR+>ALL DIRS:/r151+/r187p212", LatLong: "40.772224 -74.233337", LatLongDMS: "40:46:20 N 74:14:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2594 (4D15411C)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 01:10
Location: VANCOUVER, WA
Description: 3 deputies. 20-30 round objects going west and going south / linear formations. Low humming heard.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_792

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "VANCOUVER,WA:3 DEPUTIES:20-30 ROUND OBJs >W and >S/LINEAR FORMns:low hum heard", LatLong: "45.683336 -122.650006", LatLongDMS: "45:41:00 N 122:39:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2595 (512997CC)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 04:10
Location: ALEXANDRIA, VA
Description: Ray / light / window wakes 1 observer(s). Sun-size blazing sphere/orb/globe hovers outside.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 215)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_793

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "ALEXANDRIA,VA:RAY/LITE/WINDOW WAKES 1 OBS:SUN-SIZE BLAZING ORB HVRS OUTSIDE", LatLong: "38.805557 -77.050004", LatLongDMS: "38:48:20 N 77:03:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2596 (61D561C4)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: DANVERS, MA AND AREA
Description: Ray Fowler and many. White ovoid seen / daytime. / Salem news / r155p5.
Type: sighting
Reference: FOWLER, Raymond E.: The WATCHERS; Bantam PB, NY 1990 (Index 243)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_794

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "DANVERS,MA+AREA:RAY FOWLER+MANY:WHT OVOID SEEN/DAYTIME:/SALEM NEWS/r155p5.", LatLong: "42.583335 -70.933337", LatLongDMS: "42:35:00 N 70:56:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2597 (F539282A)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: EAST / MOSCOW, ID
Description: 2 / light plane. Very white disk wavers going quickly north / flight path. Larger / any plane.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 217)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_795

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "790", HatchDesc: "E/MOSCOW,ID:2/LITE PLANE:VERY WHT DISK WAVERS >>N/FLITEPATH:LARGER/ANY PLANE", LatLong: "46.733336 -116.933339", LatLongDMS: "46:44:00 N 116:56:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2598 (944BD122)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: SAN PEDRO AND REDONDO BEACH, CA
Description: 3+1 separate observer(s). 6 saucers going quickly southeast. 500mph / high altitude. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 221)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_796

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "37", HatchDesc: "SAN PEDRO+REDONDO BEACH,CA:3+1 SEP.OBS:6 SCRS >>SE:500mph/HI ALTITUDE:NFD", LatLong: "33.733335 -118.266672", LatLongDMS: "33:44:00 N 118:16:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2599 (48B15021)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: MT. JEFFERSON, OR
Description: Several / car. 4 fast silent saucers pass summit. / r187#220+/ International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v23#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_797

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "915", HatchDesc: "Mt.JEFFERSON,OR:SVRL/CAR:4 FAST SLNT SCRS PASS SUMMIT:/r187#220+/IUR v23#4", LatLong: "44.266669 -121.233339", LatLongDMS: "44:16:00 N 121:14:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2600 (A157E98E)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: CLIFTON, CO
Description: 3+9 kids. 3 flat shiny metal saucers maneuver 2-5K' altitude. 1 goes up. 2 going quickly east. Trails.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 218)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_798

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "1439", HatchDesc: "CLIFTON,CO:3+9 KIDS:3 FLAT SHINY MTL SCRS MNVR 2-5K'alt:1 GOES UP:2>>E:TRAILS", LatLong: "39.077780 -108.483339", LatLongDMS: "39:04:40 N 108:29:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2601 (7AF5765A)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 12:00?
Location: TONOPAH TO/FROM AUSTIN, NV
Description: 2 / private plane. 5 brilliant disks going quickly southwest / 3000M altitude. Too fast to catch.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_799

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1900", HatchDesc: "TONOPAH><AUSTIN,NV:2/Pvt.PLANE:5 BRILL.DISKS >>SW/3000M alt:too fast to catch", LatLong: "38.783335 -117.200006", LatLongDMS: "38:47:00 N 117:12:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2602 (A9D3D5D8)

Date: 7/4/1947 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: OROVILLE, CA
Description: 1 observer. 2 saucers 30cm apart circle and bob going up and down [to] over school. Very fast. Keep moving.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_800

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "53", HatchDesc: "OROVILLE,CA:1 OBS:2 SCRS 30cm APART CCL+BOB ↑+↓ ovr SCHOOL:VFAST:KEEP MOVING", LatLong: "39.516669 -121.222228", LatLongDMS: "39:31:00 N 121:13:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2603 (95EE2730)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: BAKERSFIELD, CA
Description: Several observer(s). Shiny pie-pan flips over several times crossing sky.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_801

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "122", HatchDesc: "BAKERSFIELD,CA:SVRL OBS:SHINY PIE-PAN FLIPS OVR SVRL TIMES CROSSING SKY", LatLong: "35.383335 -119.033339", LatLongDMS: "35:23:00 N 119:02:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2604 (A81FB782)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: RICHLAND, WA
Description: Several observer(s). Bright disk flips over and over. Straight up / high altitude. Going quickly northeast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 78)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_802

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "109", HatchDesc: "RICHLAND,WA:SVRL OBS:BRITE DISK FLIPS OVR+OVR:STRAIGHT UP/HIGH ALT:>>NE:NFD", LatLong: "46.300002 -119.333339", LatLongDMS: "46:18:00 N 119:20:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2605 (F9C5035D)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: TROUTDALE, OR
Description: 3 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. V-shaped observer(s) going quickly northeast over Columbia River. Dips during flight.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 227)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_803

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "TROUTDALE,OR:3 OBS/BINOCS:V-SHAPED OBS >>NE OVR COLUMBIA RVR:DIPS DURING FLITE", LatLong: "45.583336 -122.366673", LatLongDMS: "45:35:00 N 122:22:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2606 (95DF2CB1)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: Cops and more/others. Pigeons scared. 5 large disks wobble. 2 going quickly east. 2 going quickly south. / r106p50+/ r171.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_804

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:COPS++:PIGEONS SCARED:5 LRG DISKS WOBBLE:2>>E:2 >>S:/r106p50+/r171", LatLong: "45.516669 -122.683339", LatLongDMS: "45:31:00 N 122:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2607 (4A702C42)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:10
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: 2 cops / car#82+separate observer(s). 3 disks overhead. Going quickly east. / r131#3p35-37.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_805

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:2 COPS/CAR#82+SEP.OBS:3 DISKS OVHD:>>E:/r131#3p35-37", LatLong: "45.516669 -122.666673", LatLongDMS: "45:31:00 N 122:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2608 (B56BF110)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:10
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: Hundreds include/including police. 1 saucer then groups. All over Oregon and Wash. Extremely fast maneuvers. Going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 20)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_806

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "200", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:100s INCL POLICE:1 SCR THEN GRPS:ALL OVR ORE+WASH:XFAST MNVRS:>S", LatLong: "45.500002 -122.683339", LatLongDMS: "45:30:00 N 122:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2609 (A05D185E)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: 3 harbor patrolmen. 3-6 shiny disks going quickly south fast. Oscillating. / r55p101.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 335)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_807

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:3 HARBOR PATROLMEN:3-6 SHINY DISKS >>S FAST:OSCILLATING:/r55p101", LatLong: "45.533336 -122.683339", LatLongDMS: "45:32:00 N 122:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2610 (ACA05B6D)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: MILWAUKIE, OR
Description: Highway Patrolman C. Cross. 2-3 shiny white saucers going quickly northwest. / r187#236+/ r15p19.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_808

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "91", HatchDesc: "MILWAUKIE,OR:HWY PATROLMAN C.CROSS:2-3 SHINY WHT SCRS >>NW:/r187#236+/r15p19", LatLong: "45.450002 -122.633339", LatLongDMS: "45:27:00 N 122:38:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2611 (D9916869)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: NEW ORLEANS, LA
Description: Saleslady. Silver-chrome disk going quickly northeast. Extremely fast / very high altitude. Straight and level trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 223)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_809

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "NEW ORLEANS,LA:SALESLADY:SLVR-CHROME DISK >>NE:XFAST/VHI ALT:S/L TRAJ.", LatLong: "29.966668 -90.050004", LatLongDMS: "29:58:00 N 90:03:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2612 (F0BA8F14)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 14:50
Location: TWIN FALLS, ID
Description: 60 / picnic. 3 groups / saucers in V formation and loose. Circle and dive. Going west. / r131#1p83.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 237)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_810

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "20", Elev: "1137", HatchDesc: "TWIN FALLS,ID:60/PICNIC:3 GRPS/SCRS in VFORM+LOOSE:CCL+DIVE:>W:/r131#1p83", LatLong: "42.566669 -114.450005", LatLongDMS: "42:34:00 N 114:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2613 (868EA28E)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: NORTHEAST / CRAIG, MT
Description: Flash. Series / silver plates. Tumble / waver going quickly northwest. / r187#240+/ r171p75.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 350)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_811

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1050", HatchDesc: "NE/CRAIG,MT:FLASH:SERIES/SLVR PLATES:TUMBLE/WAVER>>NW:/r187#240+/r171p75", LatLong: "47.188891 -111.805561", LatLongDMS: "47:11:20 N 111:48:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2614 (9AAB69BB)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: 2 separate police report(s) and newsmen. Shiny saucers flip. Finally going quickly east. / r15p19.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 335)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_812

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:2 SEP.POLICE RPTS+NEWSMEN:SHINY SCRS FLIP:FINALLY>>E:/r15p19", LatLong: "45.500002 -122.611117", LatLongDMS: "45:30:00 N 122:36:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2615 (C6119ABC)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: ~16:00
Location: COLORADO SPRS, CO
Description: Air Force pilot. Extremely large disk rises into clouds at 20K' altitude. No report made.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 250)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_813

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1802", HatchDesc: "COLORADO Sprs,CO:AF PILOT:XLARGE DISK RISES INTO CLOUDS AT 20K'alt:NO RPT MADE", LatLong: "38.850002 -104.800005", LatLongDMS: "38:51:00 N 104:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5000", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2616 (54797D5F)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: SOUTHEAST / ST. CHARLES, MO
Description: Aircraft spotter and 13. Silent 25' saucer with propeller? Tilts and going northwest / 300' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 242)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_814

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "135", HatchDesc: "SE/St.CHARLES,MO:ACRFT SPOTTER+13:SLNT 25'SCR W/PROPELLER?:TILTS+>NW/300'alt", LatLong: "38.700002 -90.333338", LatLongDMS: "38:42:00 N 90:20:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2617 (1632DB83)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: LAKE JACKSON, TX
Description: Mrs. Jacobs. Disk going quickly southeast fast toward(s) Gulf. 'Bigger than a saucer'.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 245)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_815

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "LAKE JACKSON,TX:Mrs.JACOBS:DISK >>SE FAST TWRD GULF:'bigger than a saucer'", LatLong: "29.033335 -95.433338", LatLongDMS: "29:02:00 N 95:26:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2618 (03E9C568)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: WEST / LONG BEACH, CA
Description: 2 / private plane. 50' skeet-saucer / 7000' altitude going quickly NNW / 500mph overhead. Observer(s) scared.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 254)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_816

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "11", HatchDesc: "W/LONG BEACH,CA:2/Pvt PLANE:50'SKEET-SCR/7000'alt >>NNW/500mph OVHD:OBS SCARED", LatLong: "33.766668 -118.250006", LatLongDMS: "33:46:00 N 118:15:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2619 (5C10F189)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Description: USCG man and more/others. Photographs saucer / front porch. Several disks going quickly west. (AP)5JLY. / r187#253.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_817

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "SEATTLE,WA:USCG MAN++:FOTOS SCR/FRONT PORCH:SVRL DISKS >>W:(AP)5JLY:/r187#253", LatLong: "47.633336 -122.333339", LatLongDMS: "47:38:00 N 122:20:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2620 (ACF9DDE8)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: LAKE CITY, WA
Description: 20+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 1 photographs silver saucer going quickly north / 500mph after Seattle sightings.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_818

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "82", HatchDesc: "LAKE CITY,WA:20+OBS/BINOCS:1 FOTOS SLVR SCR>>N/500mph AFTER SEATTLE SIGHTINGS", LatLong: "47.150002 -122.550006", LatLongDMS: "47:09:00 N 122:33:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2621 (67A916BB)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: SALEM, OR
Description: G. Graen and wife. Ovoid / 10K' altitude going quickly south / terrific speed. Lost in the distance. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_819

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "47", HatchDesc: "SALEM,OR:G.GRAEN+WIFE:OVOID/10K'alt >>S/TERRIFIC SPEED:LOST/DISTANCE:NFD", LatLong: "44.950002 -123.050006", LatLongDMS: "44:57:00 N 123:03:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2622 (2C0DC910)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: NORTHEAST / ELLIOTT, ND
Description: Navy veteran and 2 / farm. 25cm fast green disk passes close / 35' altitude. Going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 255)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_820

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "399", HatchDesc: "NE/ELLIOTT,ND:NAVY VET.+2/FARM:25cm FAST GRN DISK PASSES CLOSE/35'alt:>S", LatLong: "46.411113 -97.788894", LatLongDMS: "46:24:40 N 97:47:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "11", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2623 (3F5FA263)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: United Press International newsman and 3. White disk crosses sky going quickly southeast / insane speed. Absolute(ly) silent. 10K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_821

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "820", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:UPI NEWSMAN+3:WHT DISK CROSSES SKY >>SE/INSANE SPEED:ABS SLNT:10K'alt", LatLong: "43.616669 -116.200006", LatLongDMS: "43:37:00 N 116:12:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2624 (9E8D59C5)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: HAUSER LAKE, ID
Description: Many / fireworks. Metal 30' disk / 20K' altitude. Extremely quickly going up [to] when plane nears. / r187.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 352)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_822

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "30", Elev: "667", HatchDesc: "HAUSER LAKE,ID:MANY/FIREWORKS:MTL 30'DISK/20K'alt:↑↑↑ when plane nears:/r187", LatLong: "47.750002 -116.983339", LatLongDMS: "47:45:00 N 116:59:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "6000", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2625 (73E0FF29)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: ~20:00
Location: KANSAS CITY, KS
Description: 3 observer(s). Several glowing disks seen going quickly north. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 399)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_823

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "225", HatchDesc: "KANSAS CITY,KS:3 OBS:SVRL GLOWING DISKS SEEN >>N:NFD", LatLong: "39.100002 -94.616671", LatLongDMS: "39:06:00 N 94:37:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2626 (5F5C6811)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: CASPER, WY
Description: Mrs. McLeod. Silver disk races southeast going quickly northwest into clouds. 1 brief red flash.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 272)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_824

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1567", HatchDesc: "CASPER,WY:Mrs.McLEOD:SLVR DISK RACES SE>>NW INTO CLOUDS:1 BRIEF RED FLASH:", LatLong: "42.850002 -106.316672", LatLongDMS: "42:51:00 N 106:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2627 (53C8ADC0)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: Doctor and more/others. Round object with halo and whirling jets. Slow. Going SSE into clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 249)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_825

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:DOCTOR++:ROUND OBJ W/HALO+WHIRLING JETS:SLOW:>SSE into CLOUDS", LatLong: "39.983335 -75.150004", LatLongDMS: "39:59:00 N 75:09:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2628 (67212FEE)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: AKRON, OH
Description: 2 BF Goodrich executives and families. Round silver object going quickly east. Self illuminated.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 259)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_826

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "AKRON,OH:2 BF GOODRICH EXECs+FAMILIES:ROUND SLVR OBJ >>E:SELF ILLUMINATED", LatLong: "41.083335 -81.500004", LatLongDMS: "41:05:00 N 81:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2629 (E4AD5A44)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: MALIBU BEACH, CA
Description: 1 observer. Several disks going quickly southwest to sea / 350mph. 1000' altitude. 'Crackling noise'.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 284)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_827

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "MALIBU BEACH,CA:1 OBS:SVRL DISKS >>SW to SEA/350mph:1000'alt:'CRACKLING NOISE'", LatLong: "34.050002 -118.683339", LatLongDMS: "34:03:00 N 118:41:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2630 (718F5C6A)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: LOS ANGELES, CA
Description: Aircraft inspector. "Lima-bean" flies over Elysian Park. Clear dome.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 287)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_828

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "LOS ANGELES,CA:AIRCRAFT INSPECTOR:"LIMA-BEAN" FLIES OVR ELYSIAN PARK:CLR DOME", LatLong: "34.083335 -118.233339", LatLongDMS: "34:05:00 N 118:14:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2631 (F7B45C0B)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: 2 MILES NORTH / FAYETTEVILLE, AR
Description: Farmer. 3 yellow saucers circle and scare livestock. Going southwest. Back next night.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_829

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "430", HatchDesc: "2mi N/FAYETTEVILLE,AR:FARMER:3 YEL.SCRS CCL+SCARE LIVESTOCK:>SW:BACK NEXT NITE", LatLong: "36.100002 -94.166671", LatLongDMS: "36:06:00 N 94:10:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2632 (C1682FEA)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: DELAWARE, OH
Description: Farmer and AAA official. 5 reddish saucers going quickly west fast. Straight and level trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 266)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_830

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "268", HatchDesc: "DELAWARE,OH:FARMER+AAA OFFICIAL:5 REDDISH SCRS >>W FAST:S/L TRAJ:", LatLong: "40.300002 -83.066671", LatLongDMS: "40:18:00 N 83:04:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2633 (C4C3FD6E)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: ELMIRA, MO
Description: 3 observer(s). 8 disks southwest going quickly northeast. Fairly bright. Straight and level course. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 270)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_831

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "292", HatchDesc: "ELMIRA,MO:3 OBS:8 DISKS SW>>NE:FAIRLY BRITE:S/L COURSE:NFD", LatLong: "39.516669 -94.166671", LatLongDMS: "39:31:00 N 94:10:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2634 (E9F0AF27)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 21:20
Location: EMMETT, ID
Description: Project Bluebook Case #34. United Airlines (UAL) DC3 flight 105. 1 big and 4 small saucers going northwest. Also 2nd group. / r187+/ r26p151.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_832

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "19", Elev: "724", HatchDesc: "EMMETT,ID:BBK#34:UAL DC3 FLT 105:1 BIG+4 SM SCRS >NW:+2nd GROUP:/r187+/r26p151", LatLong: "43.872224 -116.500006", LatLongDMS: "43:52:20 N 116:30:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2635 (2C59F0D1)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: MADISON, WI
Description: 2 observer(s). Bright saucer circle town. Out and back 3X. Hovers. Going quickly south. Back 7 July going south again.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 277)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_833

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "MADISON,WI:2 OBS:BRITE SCR CCL TOWN:OUT+BACK 3X:HVRS:>>S::BACK 7JLY >S AGAIN.", LatLong: "43.066669 -89.400004", LatLongDMS: "43:04:00 N 89:24:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2636 (F180F975)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: ~22:00
Location: ST. PAUL, MN
Description: 1 / grand Ave. 8cm disk! Low and slow. Glows. Going ESE toward(s) Holman Airport.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 282)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_834

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "St.PAUL,MN:1/GRAND Ave.:8cm DISK!:LOW+SLOW:GLOWS:>ESE twrd HOLMAN AIRPORT", LatLong: "44.933335 -93.094449", LatLongDMS: "44:56:00 N 93:05:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2637 (CCFDEA78)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: SIOUX FALLS, SD
Description: R. Jordan. Long narrow light-colored object straight and level going quickly west under dark clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 283)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_835

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "433", HatchDesc: "SIOUX FALLS,SD:R.JORDAN:LONG NARROW LIGHT-CLRD OBJ S/L >>W UNDER DRK CLOUDS", LatLong: "43.533335 -96.733338", LatLongDMS: "43:32:00 N 96:44:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2638 (F8756DAD)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: ALHAMBRA, CA
Description: 2 / car. Ovoids cavort. Gyrate. Do figure-8s. Circle. Faster / planes.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 296)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_836

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "152", HatchDesc: "ALHAMBRA,CA:2/CAR:OVOIDS CAVORT:GYRATE:DO FIGURE-8s:CIRCLE:FASTER/PLANES", LatLong: "34.100002 -118.133339", LatLongDMS: "34:06:00 N 118:08:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2639 (882AC2E1)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: 4 MILES EAST / UTICA, MI
Description: 1+boy / 9. Bright white round object / jerks going up and down [to] and sideways / terrible speeds. Going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 274)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_837

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "188", HatchDesc: "4mi E/UTICA,MI:1+BOY/9:BRITE WHT ROUND OBJ/JERKS ↑+↓+SIDEWAYS/TERRIBLE SPDS:>S", LatLong: "42.616669 -82.966671", LatLongDMS: "42:37:00 N 82:58:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2640 (2C3D8B99)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 23:00
Location: DENVER, CO
Description: 1 observer. Metallic domed saucer flips over railroad/railway station/depot/facility. Several shiny disks / V-formation going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 294)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_838

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1578", HatchDesc: "DENVER,CO:1 OBS:MTLC DOMED SCR FLIPS OVR RR STn::SVRL SHINY DISKS/VFORMn >>N", LatLong: "39.733335 -105.016672", LatLongDMS: "39:44:00 N 105:01:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2641 (DA446CE6)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 23:30
Location: SOUTHEAST / DATIL, NM
Description: 5 observer(s). Silver disk crashed / Arroyo. 3 alien bodies. (Controversial.)
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER,Don & FRIEDMAN, Stanton: CRASH at CORONA 1992 1997 Marlowe & Co. NY ISBN 1-56924-863-X. (Index 90)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_839

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "3", Duration: "1", Elev: "2240", HatchDesc: "SE/DATIL,NM:5 OBS:SLVR DISK CRASHED/ARROYO:3 ALIEN BODIES:(controversial)", LatLong: "34.000002 -107.500005", LatLongDMS: "34:00:00 N 107:30:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "11"

Event 2642 (69FE376D)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 23:50
Location: WEST TRENTON, NJ
Description: Ms. Marshall. Bright luminous silent disk high and fast going quickly east. Straight and level trajectory. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 279)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_840

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "18", HatchDesc: "W.TRENTON,NJ:Ms.MARSHALL:BRITE LUMn.SLNT DISK HI+FAST >>E:S/L TRAJ.:NFD", LatLong: "40.266669 -74.794448", LatLongDMS: "40:16:00 N 74:47:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2643 (EBB0FC35)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 23:50
Location: BETHESDA, MD
Description: Writer. 3-4 bright blue disks going north very fast. Domed saucer west antenna / 5 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 306)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_841

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "93", HatchDesc: "BETHESDA,MD:WRITER:3-4 BRITE BLU DISKS >N VFAST::DOMED SCR W ANTENNA/5JLY", LatLong: "39.000002 -77.100004", LatLongDMS: "39:00:00 N 77:06:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2644 (62B3F3A7)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Redmond (near), OR
Description: 11 a.m. witnesses in a car near Redmond saw 4 discs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_350

Event 2645 (6769BC0A)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Portland and Milwaukie, OR, Vancouver, WA, various
Description: Many over a wide area saw 5 large discs moving at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470704
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_351

Event 2646 (FE8CA53C)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Portland, OR
Description: 3 metallic discs glinting sunlight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_352

Event 2647 (95F870B8)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Portland, OR
Description: A silvery disc-shaped object flipping in an erratic path (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_353

Event 2648 (AF0951C6)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Portland and Milwaukie, OR, Vancouver, WA, various
Description: Seven Discs Observed By Many Witnesses (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470704
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_354

Event 2649 (C91C2982)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Seattle, WA
Description: Frank Ryman-1st known photo of Circular obj which moved across the wind [UFOE, VII, XII] (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470704
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_355

Event 2650 (3ACEC2F8)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Emmett, ID
Description: 5 disc-shaped objects with flat bottoms and rough tops. Smith/Stevens Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 34)
Reference: NICAP: 470704
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_356

Event 2651 (23A3B9A7)

Date: 7/4/1947
Time: 8:17 PM PDT
Location: over Emmet, Idaho
Description: Witnesses: United Air Lines Capt. E.J. Smith, First Officer Ralph Stevens, Stewardess Marty Morrow. Watched for 12-15 minutes while four objects with flat bottoms and rough tops moved at varying speeds, with one high and to the right of the others.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_1

Event 2652 (EF22BA46)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: 184 S. Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey
Description: 3:00 a.m. Lenora Woodruff wakes up in her home at 184 S. Arlington Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey, when several airplanes fly overhead. She looks out and sees a “strange goldenish platter” moving swiftly across the sky. It disappears in a second.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “South Plainfield Woman Reports Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ Formation,” Bridgewater N.J. Courier-News, July 5, 1947, p.1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_978

Event 2653 (C5470B5A)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Alexandria, Virginia
Description: After 4:00 a.m. Mrs. Martin Kole is awakened in her home in Alexandria, Virginia, by something shining through her bedroom window. She sees a large, roiund object hovering in the southwestern sky. She watches it for a few minutes, then goes back to bed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. II-6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_979

Event 2654 (85927C81)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: San Francisco, California
Description: The United Press service rounds up theories about the flying discs. It quotes Army Air Force “experts” saying that the sightings might be caused by weather conditions, or meteorites, or foreign aircraft that it is “our responsibility to know about it and take proper action.” Occultist Ole J. Sneide from San Francisco, California, thinks they are “oblate spheroid space ships from other planets” with hidden bases on the dark side of the moon. This is apparently the first public mention of an extraterrestrial origin for flying saucers in the media.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “U.S. Stops ‘Laughing Off’ Stories of Flying Disks,” Hollywood Calif. Citizen-News, July 3, 1947, p. 1; “Flying Disks Said ‘Space Ships’ from Other Solar Systems,” Bryan Tex. Eagle, July 3, 1947, p. 8; “Buck Rogers Special,” Santa Rosa Calif. Press Democrat, July 4, 1947, p. 2; Curt Collins, “A 1947 Pioneer of the UFO Extraterrestrial Hypothesis,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, December 16, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_980

Event 2655 (6A93B5C9)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Moscow, Idaho
Description: 10:30 a.m. CAA official Irving C. Allen is flying a small aircraft near Moscow, Idaho, when he sees a white disc moving north for 5 minutes as it crosses his path several miles in front of him.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_981

Event 2656 (0A16A7E4)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Redmond, Oregon
Description: 11:00 a.m. C. J. Bogne and other witnesses in a car near Redmond, Oregon, see four discs flying past Mt. Jefferson on a straight course at high speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, p. 20; Bloecher, p. II-9; Sparks , p. 19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_982

Event 2657 (D2C57CC1)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Portland Oregonian; Beaverton, Oregon
Description: 11:00 a.m. Harry Hale, production manager of the Portland Oregonian, sees one shiny disc moving swiftly just west of Beaverton, Oregon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Disks over State; Many Seen during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1947”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_983

Event 2658 (3B973914)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Portland, Oregon; Clark County; Oregon
Description: 1:05–5:30 p.m. Many people in Portland, Oregon—including KOIN newsman Frank Cooley, deputy Clark County Sheriff Fred Krives , Portland police officer Kenneth A. McDowell, and Oregon highway patrol Sgt. Claude Cross—view five large discs moving at high speed to the east, two flying south and three to the east, with an oscillating or wobbling motion, sudden 90° turns or zigzagging. Radio reports alert other officers including [Walter Lissy](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36301214/walter-arnold-lissy)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36301214/walter-arnold-lissy) [Robert Ellis](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/621613/robert-clark-ellis)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/621613/robert-clark-ellis) and [Earl Patterson](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3922233/earl-f-patterson)[,](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/3922233/earl-f-patterson) all WWII veterans who see the metallic objects that look like a disc or hubcap or pie-pan or half-moon flashing in the sun. No vapor trail or noise except possible humming is reported.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Seven Discs Observed by Many Witnesses”; Bloecher, pp. II-9 , III-15; Sparks, p. 20; “Air Liner Crew Confirms Flying Discs over State; Many Seen during Day over City,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1947”; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 58; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_984

Event 2659 (2447AE96)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Twin Falls Park; Twin Falls, Idaho
Description: 2:50 p.m. Seven people at Twin Falls Park, seven miles east of Twin Falls, Idaho, watch a group of discs in a rough V-formation flying at great speed. A second flight of 9–10 objects circle overhead in a loose formation. They gain altitude rapidly and move to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Saucer Mystery Grows,” Tucson Ariz. Daily Citizen, July 5, 1947, p. 4; Bloecher, p. II-5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_985

Event 2660 (82A0C23F)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Old Saint Charles Road; Pattonville, Missouri
Description: 5:00 p.m. Nova Hart and his wife Marveline are picnicing off Old Saint Charles Road west of Pattonville, Missouri. They see a saucer-shaped object, ribbed like a “parachute canopy,” gliding slowly 50–60 mph and silently from south to north about 300 feet off the ground. It seems to have a propellor attached to a red conical structure on its underside and is about 20–25 feet in diameter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. II-14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_986

Event 2661 (DB4E6DCD)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Long Beach, California
Description: After 5:00 p.m. Private pilot Dan Whelan and passenger Duncan Underhill are flying at 5,000 feet west of Long Beach, California, when they see a disc about 2,000 feet above them, traveling at 400–500 mph. They estimate it is 40–50 feet in diameter and flying north-northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Air Disc’ Mystery Grows, Baffles U.S.,” Hollywood Calif. Citizen-News, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, p. III-10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_987

Event 2662 (3A2E3CEB)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: 12321 22nd Street NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington
Description: 5:45 p.m. Coast Guard Yeoman Frank Ryman photographs a round disc over his home at 12321 22nd Street NE, Lake City, Seattle, Washington. The object is in sight for 4–5 minutes and is seen by at least 20 others, traveling 500 mph. The photo shows a small, blurred white oval against a background of sky, but when enlarged the object is quite distinct. The Air Force explains it as a weather balloon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Observers Report Discs over Entire Western Area,” Salt Lake City Deseret News, July 5, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. IV-3–4; London UFO Research Unit, “Seattle, Washington, America, North America”; Michael D. Swords, “Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Kenneth Lloyd Larson, “A Summer 1947 Sighting,” IUR 20, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1995: 19–20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_988

Event 2663 (4DD0E347)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Boise, Idaho
Description: 6:30 p.m. United Press correspondent John C. Corlett, along with artist V. H. Selby and their wives, see a white disc speeding over Boise, Idaho, at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. It takes about 3 seconds to disappear.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1947”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_989

Event 2664 (AA53DBD3)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Hauser Lake, Idaho
Description: 7:00 p.m. George Aster and others at Hauser Lake, Idaho, watch a flying disc for 30 minutes as it hovers with a lateral oscillation about 30° above the horizon at an estimated 20,000 feet. It shoots straight up and vanishes when a small aircraft approaches it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Disks Seen Here Today, Is Report,” Spokane Wash, Spokesman- Review, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. II-6–7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_990

Event 2665 (6A6813CF)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Fayetteville, Arkansas; 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas
Description: Sunset. Henry Seay , a farmer living 2 miles north of Fayetteville, Arkansas, watches three yellow discs flying overhead to the southwest, dropping sparks, and frightening his cattle and horses. The following night it happens again and the cows go into a panic, running off to the other side of the pasture. Some kind of dust falls on Seay, although it does not burn. After several seconds, the object rises up vertically 30–40 feet and shoots off horizontally at 50 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. IV-1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_991

Event 2666 (F3183D60)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital; Philadelphia
Description: Sunset. M. K. Leisy, a junior intern at the Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital at 44th and Market streets in Philadelphia, is reading on the porch of the hospital when he hears a loud roar. A large transport plane passes overhead, but he also sees a dark sphere with a luminous halo around it moving below the clouds at a moderate speed. It disappears into the clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Discs Seen over City,” Philadelphia Inquirer, July 5, 1947, pp. 1, 3; Bloecher, pp. II-14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_992

Event 2667 (0964B64B)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Boise, Idaho; Seattle, Washington; Emmett, Idaho
Description: 9:12 p.m. United Air Lines Flight 105 pilots Capt. Emil J. Smith and First Officer Ralph Stevens are flying from Boise, Idaho, to Seattle, Washington, when they see a formation of five discs over Emmett, Idaho, silhouetted against the sunset. Stewardess Marty Morrow sees them as well. The objects appear to merge and speed away to the northwest. Another group appears and arranges itself in a straight line. The nine objects are seen at least 12 minutes over a distance of 45 miles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “View of ‘Flying Saucers’ over Ontario Dumbfounds Veteran Pilot, Other Crew Member of Airliner,” Portland Oregonian, July 5, 1947; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1947”; NICAP, “5 Discs Sighted by United Flight”; Bloecher, pp. III-10–11; Sparks, p. 20; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 18–19; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 41–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_993

Event 2668 (18545DFA)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: Washington, D.C.; Roswell Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico
Description: The first of the special flights from Washington, D.C., arrives at Roswell Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico presumably to investigate the radar reports claimed by [Frank Kaufmann](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13371870/frank-j-kaufmann). On the plane is Warrant Officer Robert Thomas. Thomas and his companions are in uniform upon arrival, but quickly change to civilian clothes. Thomas wants an on-site briefing as soon as it can be arranged. These men remain at RAAF throughout the later retrieval.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 160–161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_994

Event 2669 (9035E6F8)

Date: 7/4/1947
Location: Corona, New Mexico
Description: During a thunderstorm near Corona, New Mexico, W. W. “Mack” Brazel hears a tremendous thunderclap that sounds like an explosion but is somehow different from the rest of the thunder. Others in the area report the same phenomenon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 160
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_995

Event 2670 (6B294463)

Date: 7/4/1947
Locations: southern New Mexico; Kirtland AFB
Description: 11:27 p.m. Army Signal Corps radar sites in southern New Mexico supposedly continue to track a mysterious object. Kirtland AFB’s commander scrambles a fighter jet piloted by Kenny Chandler to locate the object, but he cannot find it. Before midnight, Frank Kaufmann allegedly sees a brilliant glow on the radar display, pulsates a number of times, then explode in a starburst. The belief is that the object has now crashed. Jim Ragsdale and “Trudy Truelove” supposedly see a bright flash of light and hear a roaring sound that passes overhead. Ragsdale knows that something has struck the ground close to their campsite.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 160; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 36; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “When and Where Did the Roswell Object Crash?” IUR 19, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1994: 14; Kevin D. Randle, “The Truth about the Jim Ragsdale Story,” IUR 21, no. 3 Fall 1996: 13–16, 29–30; Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 July 1997: 48–53; The Roswell Files, “Jim Ragsdale,” April 11, 1998; Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 9–11, 26; Kevin D. Randle, “Jim Ragsdale’s Roswell Tale,” A Different Perspective, April 22, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_996

Event 2671 (F9137C90)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: There are 73 UFO reports from across the United States and one report from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The majority of the reports fall in a swath from the Pacific Northwest down through the Mississippi River Valley. Most of these sightings were of flyovers by daylight discs, although there was one humanoid report from Fort Worth, Texas.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3808

Event 2672 (C65A8D9B)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: The retrieval of UFO wreckage and bodies allegedly occurred on this day from a crash site near Corona, New Mexico. The bodies were taken later to Roswell AFB, New Mexico and then flown to Carswell AFB in Texas. According to the relatives of witnesses who shared details about the alien humanoid bodies, they had baldheads, small sunken eyes, small noses, no ears, long forearms, and only four long slender fingers on each hand.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Patrick Huyghe, Field Guide to Extraterrestrials: A complete overview of alien life forms based on actual accounts and sightings, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3809

Event 2673 (F198F00C)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: At noon while flying between Tonopah and Austin, Nevada and cruising at an estimated 10,000 feet altitude, Mr. Harris and his passenger sighted five circular objects flying below his airplane. They were shiny and reflected sunlight. He tried to catch up to them but could not.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Nevada Daily Free Press, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3810

Event 2674 (F8F00AB1)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: A young woman driving in the afternoon on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas saw a 25-foot diameter flying disc. She got out of her car and waved. The object tipped and the human-appearing occupants waved back to her, and then the disc flew away in silence.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Brinsley Le Poer Trench, Mysterious Visitors, p. 91
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3811

Event 2675 (C84BAD01)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: At 1:05 p.m. a police officer at police headquarters in Portland, Oregon saw five flying discs, two going south, three flying to the east at high speed. They were oscillating around a central vertical axis. Minutes later two police, both pilots, saw three more discs trailing one another. Then four patrolmen reported seeing 3-6 "chrome hubcaps" flying over the city. At about the same time a highway patrolman in Milwaukee, Oregon watched two or three shiny white saucers fly quickly toward the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Thomas Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, p. 2; Oregon Journal, July 5, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3812

Event 2676 (FB564AC6)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Also that day four silent discs passed the summit of Mount Jefferson in Oregon flying at a high rate of speed. In Troutdale, Oregon a V-shaped object flew toward the northeast over the Columbia River. It made dipping motions during its flight, and was observed through binoculars by three men. In Vancouver, Washington 20-30 round objects flew toward the west and south in straight-line formations. A low humming sound was heard. North of Craig, Montana a string of twelve plate-shaped objects flew over a couple while they were out fishing on a bridge at 3:00 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; The Oregonian, July 5 & 6, 1947; International UFO Reporter, Winter 1998; Wyoming State Tribune, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3813

Event 2677 (3EA069DF)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: At 5:30 p.m. at the residential area of Greenwood Lake in north Seattle, Washington Mr. Larson sighted a round white object descend vertically, then make a ninety-degree turn and proceed horizontally flying toward the south. Two more people at the nearby University of Washington campus also saw the UFO, as did 21 more in the Lake City area of the city. One of the witnesses in the Lake City area took a photograph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 82; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, p. 257; Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3814

Event 2678 (12AD457F)

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: At 11:00 p.m. an orange ball of light, "as big around as a barrel," which resolved itself into a disc, frightened Ms. M. Voigt of Edgerton, Wisconsin. The UFO flew fast across the sky but was back again for ten minutes, when it then suddenly vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Madison Capital-Times, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3815

Event 2679 (473C66D7)

Date: 7/5/1947
Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM
Description: Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_245

Event 2680 (9C4EF994)

Date: 7/5/1947
Location: Portland, OR
Description: Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at 20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned and maneuverable.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_246

Event 2681 (A2C11E50)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 08:00
Location: SACRAMENTO, CA
Description: 2 / (seen thru) binoculars and more/others. White saucer going east turn sharp going quickly north. Also 8 disks / airport. / r187#308.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 81)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_842

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "SACRAMENTO,CA:2/BINOCS++:WHT SCR > E TURN SHARP>>N:+8 DISKS/AIRPORT:/r187#308", LatLong: "38.577780 -121.472228", LatLongDMS: "38:34:40 N 121:28:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2682 (48FF8CDE)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 08:30
Location: DANA POINT, CA
Description: 2+1 observer(s). 2 saucers going north up canyon toward(s) mission. Also going quickly NNW / eagle rock.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 309)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_843

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "49", HatchDesc: "DANA POINT,CA:2+1 OBS:2 SCRS > N UP CANYON TWRD MISSION:also>>NNW/EAGLE ROCK:", LatLong: "33.466668 -117.700006", LatLongDMS: "33:28:00 N 117:42:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2683 (BE2B08BD)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~09:00
Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Description: 1 observer. 5 saucers going east. 1 circles city. 5 observer(s) / pm. Sphere/orb/globe in and out / clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_844

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", Elev: "1480", HatchDesc: "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:1 OBS:5 SCRS >E:1 CIRCLES CITY::5 OBS/PM:ORB IN+OUT/CLOUDS", LatLong: "35.083335 -106.683338", LatLongDMS: "35:05:00 N 106:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2684 (AA40B2C7)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~10:00
Location: HOLLYWOOD, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). 6+disks / fast erratic trajectories. 10K' altitude. 1 flew going quickly east. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 316)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_845

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "HOLLYWOOD,CA:2 OBS:6+DISKS/FAST ERRATIC TRAJS:10K'alt:1 FLEW >>E:NFD", LatLong: "34.083335 -118.316672", LatLongDMS: "34:05:00 N 118:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2685 (E1849427)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~10:00
Location: DENVER, CO
Description: 1 observer. Dull aluminum 20'DOMED disk 5K' over capitol building. 1100MPH going quickly northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_846

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1578", HatchDesc: "DENVER,CO:1 OBS:DULL ALUM.20'DOMED DISK 5K'OVR CAPITOL BLDG:1100MPH >>NE", LatLong: "39.727780 -104.988894", LatLongDMS: "39:43:40 N 104:59:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2686 (E3896DE1)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 10:50
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: 2 observer(s). 2 aluminum disks straight and level going quickly south fast. Another does same / 1100h / same observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 317)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_847

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:2 OBS:2 ALUM.DISKS S/L >>S FAST:ANOTHER DOES SAME/1100h/SAME OBS", LatLong: "47.666669 -117.450006", LatLongDMS: "47:40:00 N 117:27:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2687 (6D82DD0A)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 10:50
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Description: 3 separate observer(s). Brilliant saucer going north. Also 2 ovoids / 1240h 1 banks and shoots going up. 1 wobbles going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 319)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_848

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "170", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "SEATTLE,WA:3 SEP.OBS:BRILL.SCR>N:+2 OVOIDS/1240h 1 BANKS+SHOOTS ↑:1 WOBBLES>N", LatLong: "47.605558 -122.322228", LatLongDMS: "47:36:20 N 122:19:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2688 (43D18D75)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA
Description: Air Force Sgt. and 2. Silent silver disk 5000' over home. Circles Black Mountain. Going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 320)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_849

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "MOUNTAIN VIEW,CA:AF Sgt+2:SLNT SLVR DISK 5000'OVR HOME:CRCLs BLACK Mtn:>>W", LatLong: "37.400002 -122.100006", LatLongDMS: "37:24:00 N 122:06:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2689 (53183F5C)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: TACOMA, WA
Description: 2 observer(s). 2 "spools" connected by rod. Going quickly / plane speed. Absolute(ly) silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 330)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_850

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "114", HatchDesc: "TACOMA,WA:2 OBS:2 "SPOOLS" CONNECTED BY ROD:>>/PLANE SPEED:ABS SILENT", LatLong: "47.216669 -122.433339", LatLongDMS: "47:13:00 N 122:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2690 (74055A2F)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: FORT COLLINS, CO
Description: Mrs. Mason. Reflective silver disk / extreme height. Going west / steady course.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 323)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_851

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1525", HatchDesc: "FORT COLLINS,CO:Mrs.MASON:REFLECTIVE SLVR DISK/XTREME HEIGHT:>W/STEADY COURSE", LatLong: "40.583335 -105.083338", LatLongDMS: "40:35:00 N 105:05:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2691 (D24135FB)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: PAYETTE, ID
Description: 3 surveyors. 4 silver saucers with dark line / center. Going quickly northwest / 800kph. Lost in clouds / 8K'.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 462)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_852

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "655", HatchDesc: "PAYETTE,ID:3 SURVEYORS:4 SLVR SCRS W/DRK LINE/CTR:>>NW/800kph:LOST/CLOUDS/8K'", LatLong: "44.077780 -116.933339", LatLongDMS: "44:04:40 N 116:56:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2692 (F598AA13)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: AUGUSTA, ME
Description: Newsman and 1. 12 grey disks very fast going quickly northeast / single file. / CAA report.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 315)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_853

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "AUGUSTA,ME:NEWSMAN+1:12 GRY DISKS VFAST >>NE/SINGLE FILE:/CAA REPORT", LatLong: "44.300002 -69.766670", LatLongDMS: "44:18:00 N 69:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2693 (ABBE223B)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 13:50
Location: SHREVEPORT, LA
Description: Trucker. 2 spinning disks / succession. Going quickly north fast. Seen briefly. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 321)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_854

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "63", HatchDesc: "SHREVEPORT,LA:TRUCKER:2 SPINNING DISKS/SUCCESSION:>>N FAST:SEEN BRIEFLY:NFD", LatLong: "32.466668 -93.800004", LatLongDMS: "32:28:00 N 93:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2694 (42B67EE0)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: AUBURN, CA
Description: 50+observer(s). Several large silver saucers / V-formation. Extreme altitude going quickly south / 1000+MPH.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 332)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_855

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "4", Elev: "384", HatchDesc: "AUBURN,CA:50+OBS:SVRL LARGE SLVR SCRS/V-FORMn:EXTREME ALTITUDE >>S/1000+MPH", LatLong: "38.883335 -121.066672", LatLongDMS: "38:53:00 N 121:04:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2695 (7D20EF83)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: ANACONDA, MT
Description: 2 separate observer(s). 3 or 6 fast silver objects flutter going quickly east. Type unknown. / police report.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 80)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_856

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1604", HatchDesc: "ANACONDA,MT:2 SEP.OBS:3 or 6 FAST SLVR OBJS FLUTTER >>E:type unk:/POLICE RPT", LatLong: "46.116669 -112.933339", LatLongDMS: "46:07:00 N 112:56:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2696 (8CCDAE20)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: COVINGTON, KY
Description: 2 observer(s). Circular object with legs / underside going quickly [to] overhead. Same / Chicago. Back 6 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 322)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_857

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "156", HatchDesc: "COVINGTON,KY:2 OBS:CIRC.OBJ W/LEGS/UNDERSIDE>>OVHD::SAME/CHICAGO::BACK 6JULY", LatLong: "39.066669 -84.516671", LatLongDMS: "39:04:00 N 84:31:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2697 (AD42A9A2)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: Group / teens. Orange disk follows transport plane going east across river. Going quickly west / 2230hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 325)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_858

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:GRP/TEENS:ORG.DISK FOLOS XPORT PLANE >E ACRS RIVER:>>W/2230hrs", LatLong: "39.933335 -75.150004", LatLongDMS: "39:56:00 N 75:09:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2698 (BC50BC26)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~15:10
Location: CAMDEN, NJ
Description: 1 observer. Dull aluminum disk / cloud level going east. 20cm / arms length. Slow. Weaves and jumps.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 324)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_859

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "CAMDEN,NJ:1 OBS:DULL ALUM.DISK/CLOUD LVL >E:20cm/ARMS LENGTH:SLOW:WEAVES+JUMPS", LatLong: "39.927780 -75.122226", LatLongDMS: "39:55:40 N 75:07:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2699 (A356AF19)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 15:20
Location: ALBANY, OR
Description: 2 observer(s). Silver disk going south. Slows and stops. Going quickly north again into cloud. / r171p79.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_860

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "ALBANY,OR:2 OBS:SLVR DISK> S:SLOWS+STOPS:>>N AGAIN into CLOUD:/r171p79", LatLong: "44.650002 -123.116673", LatLongDMS: "44:39:00 N 123:07:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2700 (ADEBEB0D)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 16:10
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: Retired airman and several. 3 silver saucers / violent maneuvers. Shoot going quickly northwest. / r187#335.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 353)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_861

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "821", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:Retd.AIRMAN+SVRL:3 SLVR SCRS/VIOLENT MNVRS:SHOOT>>NW:/r187#335", LatLong: "43.583335 -116.200006", LatLongDMS: "43:35:00 N 116:12:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2701 (54F70C2F)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 16:50
Location: ELIZABETH, NJ
Description: Cop. 2 silver disks dive and maneuver. Erratic going quickly northeast / 400mph. = 12 July / r131#5p16.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 425)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_862

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "11", HatchDesc: "ELIZABETH,NJ:COP:2 SLVR DISKS DIVE+MNVR:ERRATIC >>NE/400mph:=12JLY/r131#5p16", LatLong: "40.683335 -74.216670", LatLongDMS: "40:41:00 N 74:13:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2702 (D6859DC5)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 17:40
Location: SOUTH / REDWOOD CITY, CA
Description: Retired airman. A. Fernandez. 6' disk going quickly southwest. Seen briefly. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 345)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_863

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "S/REDWOOD CITY,CA:RETd AIRMAN:A.FERNANDEZ:6'DISK >>SW:SEEN BRIEFLY:NFD", LatLong: "37.466668 -122.216672", LatLongDMS: "37:28:00 N 122:13:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2703 (95A177EB)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: NEAR MONCKS CORNER, SC
Description: 2 observer(s). Shiny 10' flying clam going quickly east faster / plane. Straight and level trajectory. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 334)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_864

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "17", HatchDesc: "nr MONCKS CORNER,SC:2 OBS:SHINY 10'FLYING CLAM >>E FASTER/PLANE:S/L TRAJ:NFD", LatLong: "33.194446 -80.000004", LatLongDMS: "33:11:40 N 80:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2704 (62318FBB)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 18:20
Location: CHARLESTON, SC
Description: Several separate observer(s). Silent silver saucer going quickly east over Navy yards. High fast and steady.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 337)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_865

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "36", HatchDesc: "CHARLESTON,SC:SVRL SEP.OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR >>E OVR NAVY YARDS:HIGH FAST+STEADY", LatLong: "32.750002 -79.933337", LatLongDMS: "32:45:00 N 79:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2705 (64F7B704)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: NEAR DELL RAPIDS, SD
Description: Dahl and Rutherford / car. Round silver 'dinner plate' going quickly north. High and fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 342)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_866

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "457", HatchDesc: "nr DELL RAPIDS,SD:DAHL+RUTHERFORD/CAR:ROUND SLVR 'DINNER PLATE'>>N:HIGH+FAST:", LatLong: "43.827780 -96.711116", LatLongDMS: "43:49:40 N 96:42:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2706 (7E5C0784)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: SAN LEANDRO, CA
Description: Several / police and fire Departments and many calls. White disk circles / 30 minute(s) / 5K' altitude. Going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 360)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_867

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "SAN LEANDRO,CA:SVRL/POLICE+FIRE DEPTS+MANY CALLS:WHT DISK CCLs/30min/5K'alt:>S", LatLong: "37.700002 -122.150006", LatLongDMS: "37:42:00 N 122:09:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2707 (D9FB0136)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: SOUTH OAKLAND, CA
Description: Several / Birch St. Large round very shiny object high and fast going quickly east overhead / 15 second(s). No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 359)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_868

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "S.OAKLAND,CA:SVRL/BIRCH St:LRG ROUND VERY SHINY OBJ HI+FAST >>E OVHD/15sec:NFD", LatLong: "37.744446 -122.161117", LatLongDMS: "37:44:40 N 122:09:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2708 (6FB2A6A6)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: NEAPOLIS, OH
Description: TWA crew. Propeller-shape rotates slowly beneath airliner. 200mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 340)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_869

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "203", HatchDesc: "NEAPOLIS,OH:TWA CREW:PROPELLER-SHAPE ROTATES SLOWLY BENEATH AIRLINER:200mph", LatLong: "41.494446 -83.872226", LatLongDMS: "41:29:40 N 83:52:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2709 (F82AE168)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~19:00
Location: ALLEGAN, MI
Description: 27 observer(s). 20 8m silver disks in procession east going quickly west. High and fast. Straight and level trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 341)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_870

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "2", Elev: "216", HatchDesc: "ALLEGAN,MI:27 OBS:20 8m SLVR DISKS in PROCESSION E>>W:HIGH+FAST:S/L TRAJ", LatLong: "42.527780 -85.855560", LatLongDMS: "42:31:40 N 85:51:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2710 (2B743B2D)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 19:30
Location: SHREWSBURY, MA
Description: Series / blue disks going quickly north high and fast in rainstorm. / Bloecher notes.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 80)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_871

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "204", HatchDesc: "SHREWSBURY,MA:SERIES/BLUE DISKS >>N HIGH+FAST in rainstorm:/Bloecher notes", LatLong: "42.283335 -71.700003", LatLongDMS: "42:17:00 N 71:42:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2711 (2E663C26)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: OMAHA, NE
Description: 1+several kids. Moon-size silent silver disk going southwest / 3 minute(s). Rather high. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 346)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_872

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "313", HatchDesc: "OMAHA,NE:1+SVRL KIDS:MOONSIZE SLNT SLVR DISK >SW/3min:RATHER HIGH:NFD", LatLong: "41.266669 -95.900005", LatLongDMS: "41:16:00 N 95:54:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2712 (7E864A97)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: ~20:00
Location: MEEKER, OK
Description: Bert Hall and wife. Small white washtub-sized disk southwest going northeast. Bobs going up and down / 6500' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 348)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_873

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "309", HatchDesc: "MEEKER,OK:BERT HALL+WIFE:SML WHT WASHTUB-SIZED DISK SW>NE: BOBS ↑+↓/6500'alt", LatLong: "35.505557 -96.900005", LatLongDMS: "35:30:20 N 96:54:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2713 (C9A8E4B2)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 20:50
Location: ZANESVILLE, OH
Description: Airport tower. 2 silent ovoid disks just under clouds going quickly northeast fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 347)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_874

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "213", HatchDesc: "ZANESVILLE,OH:AIRPORT TOWER:2 SLNT OVOID DISKS JUST UNDER CLOUDS >>NE FAST", LatLong: "39.938891 -82.011115", LatLongDMS: "39:56:20 N 82:00:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2714 (AA52E64C)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 20:50
Location: FAYETTEVILLE, AR
Description: Disk lands / farm. Yellow glow. Going up / sparks. Cows bolt. Going quickly southwest. / r187#350.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 354)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_875

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "427", HatchDesc: "FAYETTEVILLE,AR:DISK LANDS/FARM:YLW GLOW:↑/SPARKS:COWS BOLT:>>SW:/r187#350", LatLong: "36.094446 -94.166671", LatLongDMS: "36:05:40 N 94:10:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2715 (D01EE5E8)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: VALDOSTA, GA
Description: Woman. Small aluminum plate flies behind treeline. No further details / V. Daily Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_876

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "70", HatchDesc: "VALDOSTA,GA:WOMAN:SML ALUMINUM PLATE FLIES BHND TREELINE:NFD/V.Daily Times", LatLong: "30.833335 -83.283337", LatLongDMS: "30:50:00 N 83:17:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "15", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2716 (E25C27B9)

Date: 7/5/1947
Time: 23:40
Location: JANESVILLE, WI
Description: 4 observer(s). Disk circles counterclockwise. Going [to] out and back. Hovers and flutters and circles again. Going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 373)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_877

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "246", HatchDesc: "JANESVILLE,WI:4 OBS:DISK CCLs CCW:> OUT+BACK:HVRS+FLUTTERS+CIRCLES AGAIN:>>NW", LatLong: "42.683335 -89.016671", LatLongDMS: "42:41:00 N 89:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2717 (0CF99547)

Date: 7/5/1947
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: 9:00 AM. Five discs flew toward the east over the city; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_357

Event 2718 (D1444099)

Date: 7/5/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; Alamogordo
Description: 3:00 a.m. Acting on what he claims are orders from Brig. Gen. Martin F. Scanlon of the Army's Air Defense Command, discredited Roswell witness Frank Kaufmann returns to Roswell Army Air Field from Alamogordo to alert Colonel William H. Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, about a potential crash.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 July 1997: 48–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_997

Event 2719 (280AEBAA)

Date: 7/5/1947
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; Pine Lodge Road northwest of Roswell
Description: 5:00 a.m. Archaeologists, including William Curry Holden, working the sites around Roswell, New Mexico, stumble across an impact site where an object has crashed. One of them heads to the closest phone to tell Sheriff George A. Wilcox of the discovery of the remains of a crashed aircraft of some kind. Wilcox calls the local fire department to alert them about the crash. One truck, with Dan Dwyer on it, responds to the call. The site is about 35–40 miles north of Roswell. The Roswell Fire Department, escorted by members of the Roswell Police Department, makes a run along Pine Lodge Road northwest of Roswell. They are among the first civilians to stumble across the impact site.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 33–36; Thomas J. Carey, “The Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Casting the Net,” IUR 18, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1993: 3–8, 23–24; Thomas J. Carey, “The Continuing Search for the Roswell Archaeologists: Closing the Circle,” IUR 19, no. 1 Jan./Feb. 1994: 4–12; Kevin D. Randle and Anthony Bragalia, “Two Roswell Witnesses, Reconsidered,” IUR 32, no. 3 July 2009: 6–8, 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_998

Event 2720 (3AEF92AA)

Date: 7/5/1947
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: 5:01 a.m. Project Mogul Flight number 10, a cluster of plastic balloons, is launched from Holloman AFB, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “The Project Mogul Flights and Roswell,” IUR 19, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1994: 6–7, 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_999

Event 2721 (FBC8D283)

Date: 7/5/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico; US Highway 285; Frankfurt, Germany
Description: 5:30 a.m. According to discredited Roswell witness Frank Kaufmann, a small contingent of men from Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico drive north on what is now US Highway 285. Near mile marker 132, they turn off the road and began driving across the desert, stopping from time to time to cut the barbed-wire fencing. They discover a heel-shaped craft measuring about 25 feet long and 12 feet wide embedded in a cliff. The soldiers find civilians on the site already. Besides the archaeologists, a local man named Larry Campbell later called Jack Armstrong or Cactus Jack also claims to have been there. They escort them off while others secure the area. Five bodies are allegedly found on the site. The impact site is cleaned and secured by 11:30 a.m. Annie Jacobsen has interviewed Alfred O’Donnell, later an engineer at EG&G, who tells her that one of the objects crashed and was recovered by the Joint Chiefs, including the airframe, propulsion equipment, and the power plant. It has no wings or tail. The fuselage is round and there is a dome on top. Inside there are Cyrillic letters stamped or embossed in a ring running around the inside. Army intelligence officers suspect that the craft is the brainchild of German airplane engineers, Walter and Reimar Horten, working for the Russian military. A frantic search to find what happened to the brothers allegedly takes place; informants like Austrian physicist Adolf Smekal of Frankfurt, Germany, provide leads, with confusing results for several months.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161; Thomas J. Carey, “The Strange Saga of ‘Cactus Jack,’” IUR 22, no. 1 Spring 1997: 3–11; Jim Wilson, “Roswell Plus 50,” Popular Mechanics 174 July 1997: 48–53; Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 36–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1000

Event 2722 (8A5A954F)

Date: 7/5/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; Fort Stanton; Lincoln, New Mexico; Albuquerque; Fort Stanton cemetery
Description: 10:00 a.m. W/O Robert Thomas and his crew proceed to the impact site. The bodies, originally covered by sheets, are now in lead-lined body bags. Only those with the highest clearance are allowed close to the center of the impact. Guards are posted, facing out, to keep the curious away. According to researcher Kathy Kasten, the dead bodies are taken to Roswell Army Air Field, but one is still alive and taken to Fort Stanton [now closed] in Lincoln, New Mexico, whose Marine Hospital was used to confine troublesome German and Japanese detainees during World War II. Allegedly, aerospace physician William Randolph Lovelace II travels there from Albuquerque to examine the survivor, who reportedly dies one week later and is buried in the Fort Stanton cemetery.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 161; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 204–221
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1001

Event 2723 (2DD935BB)

Date: 7/5/1947
Location: J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of Corona, New Mexico
Description: Following the rain the night before, Brazel inspects the pastures surrounding the J. B. Foster ranch house southeast of Corona, New Mexico. Riding with him is the young son of the Proctors, William D. Proctor. During the inspection, Brazel discovers a large debris field. Scattered on the slopes and into the sinkhole and depressions are plastic-like beams, pieces of lightweight balsawood-like material only stronger, light metallic foil which doesn’t stay bent or folded, resumes its original shape, and won’t tear, and heavy-gauge monofilament. The debris is thick enough that the sheep refuse to cross the field and are driven around it to water more than a mile away. Brazel, taking a few scraps of the material, heads to the home of his closest neighbors, Floyd and Loretta Proctor . He shows them “a little sliver” of material that he can neither burn nor cut. Some of the beams have symbols on them that reminds Brazel of Chinese ideograms. The Proctors suggest he take it into town to show the sheriff.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Did a Balloon Crash at Roswell?” IUR 15, no. 4 July/Aug. 1990: 4–5; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 27– 32 , 161; Michael D. Swords, “Roswell: Clashing Visions of the Possible,” IUR 22, no. 3 Fall 1997: 11–13, 33– 35; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 Winter 2000–2001: 14–19, 30; Donald R. Burleson, “Roswell Trajectory Feasibility,” Center for UFO Studies; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 125–127
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1002

Event 2724 (ADAD17DB)

Date: 7/5/1947
Location: Auburn, California
Description: 2:30 p.m. Automobile dealer Kjell Qvale and dozens of others see a triangular formation of silvery discs flying south near Auburn, California. They appear directly overhead and are in view for 3–4 minutes, disappearing one at a time, but not over the hdorizon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Skeptical Experts Call Disc Reports ‘Mass Illusion,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 8, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p. II-5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1003

Event 2725 (5FEF37C1)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: Later that evening, Brazel removes the large, circular piece of the debris from the range. Brazel either loads it into the back of his truck or drags it along behind. He stores it in a livestock shed about three miles north of the crash site.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 163
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1004

Event 2726 (2DA913BF)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: There are 59 UFO reports from across the United States and one from Canada recorded for this day in UFOCAT. The geographical distribution of the UFO sightings is similar to the day before, but with many more reports from California and the Great Lakes. The majority of these reports were of flyovers by daylight discs.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3835

Event 2727 (31AE4D83)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: At 8:00 a.m. two discs zoomed in from the west over Sacramento, California. One banked sharply and headed north. According to one witness, it "seemed to stand on one edge as it turned." Both objects left vapor trails.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, citing the Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3836

Event 2728 (5CE86DDC)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: Albuquerque, New Mexico - Five discs flew toward the east over the city at 9 o'clock in the morning; one circled back over the city. In the afternoon five witnesses saw a sphere maneuver in-and-out of clouds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave; Albuquerque Journal, July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3837

Event 2729 (F0D544B9)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: In Augusta, Maine at 1:15 p.m. local time, two witnesses, including the program director of WRDO Radio, saw twelve discs flying rapidly in a straight line toward Bangor in a north-northeasterly direction.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Daily Kennebec Journal, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3838

Event 2730 (B2491682)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: At 1:00 p.m. in 1947 a party of surveyors in Payette, Idaho saw four silvery discs that each had a dark line in the center fly toward the northwest at an estimated speed of 800 km per hour. They were lost in the clouds at an estimated altitude of 8,000 feet.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 862
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3839

Event 2731 (EBEFFA2E)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: In clear sky at 3:00 p.m. in Anaconda, Montana a man saw six silvery objects fluttering as they flew toward the east. A woman, an independent witness, also saw the same three fluttering objects disappear over the horizon. Both witnesses called the police.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 80
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3840

Event 2732 (010944FB)

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: at 7:00 p.m. in daylight skies over Neapolis, Ohio a TWA flight crew saw a propeller-shaped object rotating slowly as it flew beneath the airliner. It was flying at an estimated speed of 200 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, newspaper clipping dated July 6, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3841

Event 2733 (60BA9092)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: KANSAS CITY, KS
Description: 1 observer? 13cm grey disk circles observer several times at 60cm altitude!
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 399)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_878

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "225", HatchDesc: "KANSAS CITY,KS:1 OBS?:13cm GRY DISK CIRCLES OBSERVER SVRL TIMES @ 60cm ALT!", LatLong: "39.083335 -94.633338", LatLongDMS: "39:05:00 N 94:38:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2734 (9C655E8C)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 00:20
Location: PATERSON, NJ
Description: Observer(s) = Barton Walker. Moon-size sphere/orb/globe skims along southwest going northwest. No further details / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_879

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "21", HatchDesc: "PATERSON,NJ:OBS=Barton Walker:MOONSIZE ORB SKIMS ALONG SW>NW:NFD/NEWS", LatLong: "40.916669 -74.183337", LatLongDMS: "40:55:00 N 74:11:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2735 (4F7C1B44)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 00:30
Location: EUGENE, OR
Description: 3 / car. Big bright shiny disk going [to] slow. Lines radiate outward. Cloudy night.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_880

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "127", HatchDesc: "EUGENE,OR:3/CAR:BIG BRITE SHINY DISK > SLOW:lines radiate outward:cloudy nite", LatLong: "44.050002 -123.100006", LatLongDMS: "44:03:00 N 123:06:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2736 (E4930BA6)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 03:00
Location: NEW ORLEANS, LA
Description: Soldier. 4 pink-silver saucers / uneven V-formation whirl over Canal Street.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 387)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_881

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "NEW ORLEANS,LA:SOLDIER:4 PINK-SLVR SCRS/UNEVEN VFORMn WHIRL OVR CANAL STREET", LatLong: "29.950001 -90.050004", LatLongDMS: "29:57:00 N 90:03:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2737 (E6019DA0)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: ~05:00
Location: LODI, CA
Description: Farmer. 60cm grey saucer 6m over ground. Nearly hits Pumphouse. Straight and level going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 91)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_882

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "16", HatchDesc: "LODI,CA:FARMER:60cm GRY SCR 6m OVR GND:NEARLY HITS PUMPHOUSE:STRAIGHT+LVL >>S", LatLong: "38.127780 -121.272228", LatLongDMS: "38:07:40 N 121:16:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "6", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2738 (05F0BBA5)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 05:00
Location: POCATELLO, ID
Description: 2 / car. 3' disk with dome and funnel. Going down [to] by meat market. Jerky maneuvers. / r187#383.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_883

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1340", HatchDesc: "POCATELLO,ID:2/CAR:3'DISK W/DOME+FUNNEL:↓ by MEAT MARKET:JERKY MNVRS:/r187#383", LatLong: "42.866669 -112.433339", LatLongDMS: "42:52:00 N 112:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2739 (B15F1631)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 06:00
Location: NORTH / MIAMI SPRS, FL
Description: 2 fishing. 2+1 4M saucers going up / everglades to 1800M and going quickly south fast. / r187#382.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_884

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "N/MIAMI SPRs,FL:2 FISHING:2+1 4M SCRS ↑/EVERGLADES to 1800M+>>S FAST:/r187#382", LatLong: "25.816668 -80.288893", LatLongDMS: "25:49:00 N 80:17:20 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2740 (17415006)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 06:40
Location: ASHLAND, OR
Description: Doctor and 2 families camping / McKee Bridge. Silver disk / 7K' altitude overhead straight and level.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 389)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_885

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "595", HatchDesc: "ASHLAND,OR:DOCTOR+2 FAMILIES CAMPING/McKEE BRIDGE:SLVR DISK/7K'alt OVHD S/L", LatLong: "42.183335 -122.700006", LatLongDMS: "42:11:00 N 122:42:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2741 (AE5CE086)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 07:10
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: 1 observer. 2 objects like aluminum toy propellers going south. Stops. Rise until gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 391)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_886

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:1 OBS:2 OBJS LIKE ALUM.TOY PROPELLERS >S:STOPS:RISE UNTIL GONE", LatLong: "47.650002 -117.450006", LatLongDMS: "47:39:00 N 117:27:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2742 (3E77DBF7)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 08:20
Location: NEAR PITTSBURG, CA
Description: Pilot-engineer and 1. Silent silver disk going quickly south. Rotates counterclockwise. / r187#395.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 462)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_887

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "nr PITTSBURG,CA:PILOT-ENGINEER+1:SLNT SLVR DISK >>S:ROTATES CCW:/r187#395", LatLong: "38.000002 -121.883339", LatLongDMS: "38:00:00 N 121:53:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2743 (78685C32)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: TUCSON, AZ
Description: 3+1 separate observer(s). White object wobble. Shoots going quickly northeast. Also saucer going quickly south. 24hr series. / r187#393.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 357)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_888

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "717", HatchDesc: "TUCSON,AZ:3+1 SEP.OBS:WHT OBJ WOBBLE:SHOOTS>>NE:+SCR>>S:24hr SERIES:/r187#393", LatLong: "32.200002 -110.866672", LatLongDMS: "32:12:00 N 110:52:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2744 (87E83C10)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: LAKE LOTAWANA, MO
Description: Physician sailing. 7 saucers going quickly north fast overhead in formation. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 394)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_889

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "320", HatchDesc: "LAKE LOTAWANA,MO:PHYSICIAN SAILING:7 SCRS>>N FAST OVHD in FORMATION:NFD", LatLong: "39.000002 -94.433338", LatLongDMS: "39:00:00 N 94:26:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2745 (1B97C4B9)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: ALEXANDRIA, LA
Description: 4 observer(s). Saucer going quickly northwest. Delta airline(s)/airliner questions all pilots on Ft. Worth route.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_890

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "25", HatchDesc: "ALEXANDRIA,LA:4 OBS:SCR >>NW:DELTA AL QUESTIONS ALL PILOTS on Ft.WORTH ROUTE", LatLong: "31.311113 -92.433338", LatLongDMS: "31:18:40 N 92:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2746 (34AD4249)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 11:00?
Location: FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #36. Air Force pilot. Saucer wobbles 3X. Going quickly southeast. / r187#423+/ r29p21.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_891

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "FAIRFIELD-SUISUN,CA:BBK#36:AF PILOT:SCR WOBBLES 3X:>>SE:/r187#423+/r29p21", LatLong: "38.233335 -122.000006", LatLongDMS: "38:14:00 N 122:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2747 (E187201B)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: NEW WESTMINSTER, BC
Description: 6 observer(s). Shiny 100M metallic disk going [to] sky / 25km altitude. 3 saucers / dust cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO ROUNDUP weekly email of UFO news: Joseph Trainor. http://www.digiserve.com/ufoinfo/roundup/ .. (Index 131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_892

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "NEW WESTMINSTER,BC:6 OBS:SHINY 100M MTLC DISK > SKY/25km alt:3 SCRS/DUST CLOUD", LatLong: "49.233336 -122.966673", LatLongDMS: "49:14:00 N 122:58:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "25000", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2748 (67505806)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: BUCKLEY NAS, CO
Description: 2 military observer(s). Silent silver saucer shoots going up and down / several min. Shoots away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 403)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_893

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "6", Elev: "1726", HatchDesc: "BUCKLEY NAS,CO:2 MIL.OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR SHOOTS ↑+↓/SVRL MIN:SHOOTS AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "39.733335 -104.800005", LatLongDMS: "39:44:00 N 104:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2749 (BA610CC8)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: 16KM SOUTHEAST / BOISE, ID
Description: Airline(s)/airliner passenger. Saucer flashes by going quickly southwest. Stewardess rushes to look.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_894

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "850", HatchDesc: "16km SE/BOISE,ID:AL PASSENGER:SCR FLASHES BY >>SW:stewardess rushes to look", LatLong: "43.483335 -116.116672", LatLongDMS: "43:29:00 N 116:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2750 (7D81E46F)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: LOGANSPORT, IN
Description: Farmer. Whining roar. Grey saucer going down. Hovers and spins. Rises to clouds and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 400)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_895

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "222", HatchDesc: "LOGANSPORT,IN:FARMER:WHINING ROAR:GRY SCR ↓:HVRS+SPINS:RISES to CLOUDS+GONE", LatLong: "40.750002 -86.350004", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 86:21:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2751 (A8448692)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: LONG BEACH, CA
Description: Veteran pilot and teacher. Large silver plate going north veers going quickly west out to sea again.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 424)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_896

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "LONG BEACH,CA:VET.PILOT+TEACHER:LRG SLVR PLATE > N VEERS>>W OUT TO SEA AGAIN", LatLong: "33.783335 -118.133339", LatLongDMS: "33:47:00 N 118:08:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2752 (E4DCD4AF)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 13:50
Location: OVER CLAY CENTER, KS
Description: Army Air Force (AAF) Major / B-25. Bright silver 40' saucer / 10K' altitude. Shoots going quickly east. / FBI.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 402)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_897

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "370", HatchDesc: "ovr CLAY CENTER,KS:AAF MAJOR/B-25:BRITE SLVR 40'SCR/10K'alt:SHOOTS >>E:/FBI ", LatLong: "39.383335 -97.116671", LatLongDMS: "39:23:00 N 97:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2753 (AB964F35)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Description: 2+2 separate observer(s). Ovoid going quickly northwest. Saucer flies over GG bridge / 600mph / 1452h.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 434)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_898

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "22", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:2+2 SEP.OBS:OVOID >>NW::SCR FLIES OVR GG BRIDGE/600mph/1452h", LatLong: "37.800002 -122.466673", LatLongDMS: "37:48:00 N 122:28:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2754 (19CF8F0B)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 14:50
Location: ENCAMPMENT, WY
Description: Aviation engineer and 2. Silent ovoid going north sideways. Very large and high. / r242p55.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 428)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_899

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "2243", HatchDesc: "ENCAMPMENT,WY:AVIATION ENGINEER+2:SLNT OVOID>N SIDEWAYS:VLARGE+HIGH:/r242p55", LatLong: "41.211113 -106.788894", LatLongDMS: "41:12:40 N 106:47:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2755 (1B52B0F1)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: CASPER, WY
Description: 2 observer(s). Glittering disk going quickly east / high altitude. Straight and level flight. (See encampment, WY.)
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 430)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_900

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1567", HatchDesc: "CASPER,WY:2 OBS:GLITTERING DISK >>E/HIGH ALT:S/L FLITE:(see ENCAMPMENT,WY)", LatLong: "42.866669 -106.300005", LatLongDMS: "42:52:00 N 106:18:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2756 (391C9788)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: CLEARWATER, FL
Description: 1 observer. Shiny pie-tin disks flip over and over. Fast and high going quickly southeast. / r187#609.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_901

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "CLEARWATER,FL:1 OBS:SHINY PIE-TIN DISKS FLIP OVR+OVR:FAST+HIGH >>SE:/r187#609", LatLong: "27.966668 -82.800004", LatLongDMS: "27:58:00 N 82:48:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2757 (3E5BEFAB)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: EAST / CASA GRANDE, AZ
Description: 2 disks converge here. 1 from west and 2nd from northeast. Play tag. Going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Highly doubtful: http://www.cseti.org/crashes/070.htm
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_902

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "2", Duration: "2", Elev: "425", HatchDesc: "E/CASA GRANDE,AZ:2 DISKS CONVERGE HERE:1 from W+2nd from NE:PLAY TAG:>>S:", LatLong: "32.877779 -111.733339", LatLongDMS: "32:52:40 N 111:44:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2758 (D9D6F2CE)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: SANTA ROSA, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). White disk going quickly northeast extremely fast. 4 observer(s). 10 saucers going quickly east / 1000h / 07 July / r187#585.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 84)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_903

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "16", HatchDesc: "SANTA ROSA,CA:2 OBS:WHT DISK >>NE XFAST::4 OBS:10 SCRS>>E/1000h/07JLY/r187#585", LatLong: "38.433335 -122.716673", LatLongDMS: "38:26:00 N 122:43:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2759 (A09AE870)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: VANCOUVER, BC
Description: 3 observer(s). Dust cloud / hill. 3 saucers rise from trees. 2 hover. 1 shoots away.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_904

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "72", HatchDesc: "VANCOUVER,BC:3 OBS:DUST CLOUD/HILL:3 SCRS RISE FROM TREES:2 HVR:1 SHOOTS AWAY", LatLong: "49.250002 -123.100006", LatLongDMS: "49:15:00 N 123:06:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2760 (1637C85C)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: SAVANNAH, GA
Description: 5 separate observer(s). 1+2 metallic ovoids going ESE. Descriptions differ. / S. Evening Press.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_905

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "50", Elev: "13", HatchDesc: "SAVANNAH,GA:5 SEP.OBS:1+2 MTLC OVOIDS >ESE:descripts differ:/S.Evening Press", LatLong: "32.066668 -81.100004", LatLongDMS: "32:04:00 N 81:06:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2761 (FF1B3494)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: EAST / GREENWOOD, MO
Description: 3 / farm. Large silver plate going north. Turns on edge. Turns 180° back going south and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 441)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_906

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "295", HatchDesc: "E/GREENWOOD,MO:3/FARM:LRG SLVR PLATE > N:TURNS ON EDGE:TURNS 180°BACK>S+AWAY", LatLong: "38.850002 -94.361116", LatLongDMS: "38:51:00 N 94:21:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2762 (B291309E)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: ~17:00
Location: MT. VERNON, WA
Description: 4 car / US99. Shiny disk going quickly southeast. Big fast steady and brief. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 473)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_907

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "55", HatchDesc: "Mt.VERNON,WA:4 CAR/US99:SHINY DISK >>SE:BIG FAST STEADY+BRIEF:NFD", LatLong: "48.422225 -122.333339", LatLongDMS: "48:25:20 N 122:20:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2763 (12B4693C)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 17:10
Location: LAKE PONCHARTRAIN, LA
Description: 5 / boat. 3 shiny saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation high and fast going quickly north. Enter cloud..
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 451)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_908

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "LAKE PONCHARTRAIN,LA:5/BOAT:3 SHINY SCRS/DLT-FORMn HIGH+FAST>>N:ENTER CLOUD..", LatLong: "30.000001 -90.066671", LatLongDMS: "30:00:00 N 90:04:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2764 (42DE0273)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: SIOUX FALLS, SD
Description: 1 observer. Silver sphere/orb/globe going quickly southwest faster / any plane. 10K' altitude. Rod sticks going down / center.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 452)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_909

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "433", HatchDesc: "SIOUX FALLS,SD:1 OBS:SLVR ORB>>SW FASTER/ANY PLANE:10K'alt:ROD STICKS↓/CENTER", LatLong: "43.550002 -96.733338", LatLongDMS: "43:33:00 N 96:44:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2765 (61EB6E84)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: EMPORIA, KS
Description: 3 / observer(s). Silent shiny saucer going north low and slow over wheat field. Veers going southwest. Skims hills.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_910

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "368", HatchDesc: "EMPORIA,KS:3/OBS:SLNT SHINY SCR > N LO+SLO ovr WHEAT FLD:VEERS >SW:SKIMS HILLS", LatLong: "38.405557 -96.183338", LatLongDMS: "38:24:20 N 96:11:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2766 (5C233247)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: DARLINGTON, SC
Description: FBI wire / 12 saucers( = boomerangs) / 200mph. Army plane follows. / r187#444.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 108)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_911

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "48", HatchDesc: "DARLINGTON,SC:FBI WIRE/12 SCRS(=BOOMERANGS)/200mph:ARMY PLANE FOLOS:/r187#444", LatLong: "34.300002 -79.877782", LatLongDMS: "34:18:00 N 79:52:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2767 (56CB0B43)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: MILWAUKEE, WI
Description: 1+2 observer(s). 3 saucers going northwest. Change color(s). 1 back from northwest / 2025hrs veers going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 455)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_912

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "191", HatchDesc: "MILWAUKEE,WI:1+2 OBS:3 SCRS > NW:CHANGE CLRS::1 BACK fm NW/2025hrs VEERS >>S", LatLong: "43.033335 -87.950004", LatLongDMS: "43:02:00 N 87:57:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2768 (63F385DE)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: NORTHWEST / RICHMOND, VA
Description: 3 / car. 12 shiny silent 25' metal saucers wave and flip going quickly north / 500' altitude below clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 359)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_913

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "60", HatchDesc: "NW/RICHMOND,VA:3/CAR:12 SHINY SLNT 25'MTL SCRS WAVE+FLIP>>N/500'alt BLW CLOUDS", LatLong: "37.583335 -77.500004", LatLongDMS: "37:35:00 N 77:30:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2769 (1B6A228E)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: NORMAN, OK
Description: University Dean / engineering and 4. 1+2 objects going quickly west / incredible speed. 20K' altitude. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 456)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_914

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "360", HatchDesc: "NORMAN,OK:UNIV.DEAN/ENGINEERING+4:1+2 OBJs >>W/INCRED.SPEED:20K'alt:TYPE UNK", LatLong: "35.250002 -97.433338", LatLongDMS: "35:15:00 N 97:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "2"

Event 2770 (F8747294)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: MORA, NM
Description: 2 observer(s). 1 classic saucer north going quickly south fast. / letter to Albuquerque Journal 9 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_915

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "2188", HatchDesc: "MORA,NM:2 OBS:1 CLASSIC SCR N>>S FAST:/LETTER to ALBUQQ JOURNAL 9JLY47:", LatLong: "35.966668 -105.327783", LatLongDMS: "35:58:00 N 105:19:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2771 (D8CDFBAF)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: ~18:00
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: 21+observer(s). Silver disk whirls and changes direction several X / several min. Going quickly northwest. Searching?
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 476)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_916

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "822", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:21+OBS:SLVR DISK WHIRLS+CHANGES DIRn SVRL X/SVRL min:>>NW:searching?", LatLong: "43.583335 -116.216672", LatLongDMS: "43:35:00 N 116:13:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2772 (3098AC16)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: TERRACE PARK, OH
Description: 1 observer. 2 shiny silver plates going north under overcast. Straight & level flight. / r187#445.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 85)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_917

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "170", HatchDesc: "TERRACE PARK,OH:1 OBS:2 SHINY SLVR PLATES >N UNDER OVERCAST:S&L:/r187#445", LatLong: "39.161113 -84.305560", LatLongDMS: "39:09:40 N 84:18:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2773 (1C200ED5)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: ANADARKO, OK
Description: 5 observer(s). 1 round object going west "awfully fast". No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 458)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_918

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "392", HatchDesc: "ANADARKO,OK:5 OBS:1 ROUND OBJ >W "AWFULLY FAST":NFD:", LatLong: "35.050002 -98.238894", LatLongDMS: "35:03:00 N 98:14:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2774 (3C4F4C48)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: WEST / SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Description: 2 observer(s). 3 saucer north going quickly south / high altitude. Change formations. Going quickly southwest. / r187#291+/ r171.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 360)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_919

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1280", HatchDesc: "W/SALT LAKE CITY,UT:2 OBS:3 SCR N>>S/HI ALT:CHANGE FORMns:>>SW:/r187#291+/r171", LatLong: "40.750002 -111.916672", LatLongDMS: "40:45:00 N 111:55:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2775 (DA79D9C7)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: US71 SOUTH / FAUCETT, MO
Description: 5+observer(s). Star-like silver disk dips and climbs again. Going quickly northeast straight and level. Very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 468)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_920

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "295", HatchDesc: "US71 S/FAUCETT,MO:5+OBS:STARLIKE SLVR DISK DIPS+CLIMBS AGAIN:>>NE S/L:VFAST", LatLong: "39.566669 -94.794449", LatLongDMS: "39:34:00 N 94:47:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2776 (66BCA578)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: LONDONDERRY, NH
Description: H. Healy. 2 big fast disks northeast going quickly southwest / 2500' altitude with whistling sound. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 446)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_921

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "120", HatchDesc: "LONDONDERRY,NH:H.HEALY:2 BIG FAST DISKS NE>>SW/2500'alt W/WHISTLING SOUND:NFD", LatLong: "42.866669 -71.372226", LatLongDMS: "42:52:00 N 71:22:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "750", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2777 (7976767B)

Date: 7/6/1947 (approximate)
Time: 19:00
Location: VALLEY STREAM, NY
Description: Boy / 14. 3 large "aluminum plates" / V-formation going west. Straight and level trajectory / 5 minute(s). No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 449)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_922

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "VALLEY STREAM,NY:BOY/14:3 LRG "ALUMINUM PLATES"/VFORMn >W: S/L TRAJ/5min:NFD", LatLong: "40.666669 -73.711115", LatLongDMS: "40:40:00 N 73:42:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2778 (05D1D2A3)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: PORTSMOUTH, VA
Description: 11 observer(s). Black disk going quickly northwest. Straight and level flight "as if towed". No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 457)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_923

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "PORTSMOUTH,VA:11 OBS:BLACK DISK >>NW:S/L FLITE "AS IF TOWED":NFD", LatLong: "36.833335 -76.316670", LatLongDMS: "36:50:00 N 76:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2779 (CFD9A832)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: WEST HARTFORD, CT
Description: 6+observer(s). Reddish-brown colored disk going quickly northwest fast. Straight and level. "Plane speed or greater".
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 448)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_924

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "W.HARTFORD,CT:6+OBS:REDDISH-BRN DISK >>NW FAST:S/L:"PLANE SPEED OR GREATER"", LatLong: "41.761113 -72.744448", LatLongDMS: "41:45:40 N 72:44:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2780 (0E0E019B)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: ~19:00
Location: EDGEWOOD, TX
Description: 11 observer(s). Light colored 40' disk faster / plane. Just below clouds. Rises going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 477)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_925

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "428", HatchDesc: "EDGEWOOD,TX:11 OBS:LITE CLRD 40'DISK FASTER/PLANE:JUST BLW CLOUDS:RISES >>NW", LatLong: "32.700002 -95.883338", LatLongDMS: "32:42:00 N 95:53:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2781 (3D89C753)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: SAN RAFAEL, CA
Description: Cop and 3. Disk dips and rises / Eastern sky. Humming sound unlike plane.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 506)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_926

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "SAN RAFAEL,CA:COP+3:DISK DIPS+RISES/EASTERN SKY:HUMMING SOUND UNLIKE PLANE", LatLong: "37.966668 -122.533339", LatLongDMS: "37:58:00 N 122:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2782 (4540B55E)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:10
Location: US6 NORTHEAST / GRETNA, NE
Description: Omaha couple. 1 aluminum sphere very high and fast. "Went straight east going quickly [to] W".
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 470)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_927

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "370", HatchDesc: "US6 NE/GRETNA,NE:OMAHA COUPLE:1 ALUM.SPHERE VHI+FAST:"WENT STRAIGHT E>>W"", LatLong: "41.166669 -96.200005", LatLongDMS: "41:10:00 N 96:12:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2783 (17F60456)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: LADUE, MO
Description: 15 observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 3+3 silent saucers going south / high altitude. Kite-like object bobs going up and down / 45 minute(s)!
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 461)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_928

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "45", Elev: "166", HatchDesc: "LADUE,MO:15 OBS/BINOCS:3+3 SLNT SCRS >S/HI ALT:KITELIKE OBJ BOBS ↑+↓/45min!", LatLong: "38.650002 -90.383338", LatLongDMS: "38:39:00 N 90:23:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2784 (7373CCED)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: FERGUSON, MO
Description: William Good and wife at home. Silent disk going quickly east. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 466)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_929

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "175", HatchDesc: "FERGUSON,MO:WILLIAM GOOD+WIFE at home:SLNT DISK >>E:NFD", LatLong: "38.744446 -90.305560", LatLongDMS: "38:44:40 N 90:18:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2785 (59F4E26C)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: SHREWSBURY, MO AND ST. LOUIS
Description: Many separate observer(s). 3+3 shiny silent disks going quickly east. High and fast. / r171p80.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 462)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_930

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "166", HatchDesc: "SHREWSBURY,MO+St.LOUIS:MANY SEP.OBS:3+3 SHINY SLNT DISKS >>E:HI+FAST:/r171p80", LatLong: "38.588891 -90.338893", LatLongDMS: "38:35:20 N 90:20:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2786 (986044E1)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: ROCHESTER, NY
Description: K. Ohley and wife. Fast silent disk going east right over yard / 3-4 second(s). Straight and level trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 459)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_931

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "155", HatchDesc: "ROCHESTER,NY:K.OHLEY+WIFE:FAST SLNT DISK >E RIGHT OVR YARD/3-4sec:S/L TRAJ", LatLong: "43.133335 -77.616670", LatLongDMS: "43:08:00 N 77:37:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2787 (4E4AF42D)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 20:50
Location: BIRMINGHAM, AL
Description: Many separate observer(s). Up to 11 saucers and 40 night lights. Saucers whirl. Going quickly west. Blue Book. / MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 482)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_932

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "BIRMINGHAM,AL:MANY SEP.OBS:UP TO 11 SCRS+40 NLTS:SCRS WHIRL:>>W:BBK:/MJ#121", LatLong: "33.516668 -86.816671", LatLongDMS: "33:31:00 N 86:49:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2788 (A0BC88CF)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: DALLAS, TX
Description: 3+observer(s). Luminous disk very fast / 3K' altitude north going quickly south. Rim glows. No traces / effects.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 500)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_933

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "139", HatchDesc: "DALLAS,TX:3+OBS:LUMn.DISK VFAST/3K'alt N>>S:RIM GLOWS:NO TRACES/EFFECTS", LatLong: "32.783335 -96.766671", LatLongDMS: "32:47:00 N 96:46:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "900", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2789 (EA3CCD42)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 21:00?
Location: COPENHAGEN, DK
Description: 2+observer(s). Saucer seen. No further details. (AP) Stockholm Aftonbladet 7 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_934

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "COPENHAGEN,DK:2+OBS:SCR SEEN:NFD:(AP) STOCKHOLM AFTONBLADET 7JLY47", LatLong: "55.700003 12.450001", LatLongDMS: "55:42:00 N 12:27:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2790 (27D1DAAC)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 21:10
Location: DENVER, CO
Description: 2 separate observer(s). Group / disks shoot going quickly west. 2 minute(s) later 2 silver saucers fly going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 518)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_935

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "1578", HatchDesc: "DENVER,CO:2 SEP.OBS:GROUP/DISKS SHOOT>>W::2min LATER 2 SLVR SCRS FLY>>SW", LatLong: "39.750002 -104.950005", LatLongDMS: "39:45:00 N 104:57:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2791 (3C63A17F)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: KANKAKEE, IL
Description: 2 observer(s). 5 saucers / row roll / edge like string of wheels / sky. Blue glow.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 481)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_936

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "192", HatchDesc: "KANKAKEE,IL:2 OBS:5 SCRS/ROW ROLL/EDGE LIKE STRING OF WHEELS/SKY:BLUE GLOW", LatLong: "41.133335 -87.850004", LatLongDMS: "41:08:00 N 87:51:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2792 (DD68C40F)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: EAST LOS ANGELES, CA
Description: Newsman J. Harris. Blue-luminous wheel-like object wobbles. Straight and level trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 524)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_937

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "102", HatchDesc: "E.LOS ANGELES,CA:NEWSMAN J.HARRIS:BLUE-LUMn.WHEEL-LIKE OBJ WOBBLES:S/L TRAJ.", LatLong: "34.016668 -118.166672", LatLongDMS: "34:01:00 N 118:10:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2793 (809B962C)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: EAST PROVIDENCE, RI
Description: 1 observer. Luminous disk "W / Maltese cross" high and fast straight and level going quickly north. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 502)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_938

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "25", HatchDesc: "E.PROVIDENCE,RI:1 OBS:LUMn.DISK "W/MALTESE CROSS" HI+FAST S/L >>N:NFD", LatLong: "41.816669 -71.366670", LatLongDMS: "41:49:00 N 71:22:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Rhode Island", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2794 (79F62137)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: LAKE GENEVA TO/FROM BURLINGTON, WI
Description: 2 observer(s). Saucer with large propeller outruns light plane. Flash.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 516)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_939

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "246", HatchDesc: "LAKE GENEVA><BURLINGTON,WI:2 OBS:SCR W/LRG PROPELLER OUTRUNS LITE PLANE:FLASH", LatLong: "42.633335 -88.333338", LatLongDMS: "42:38:00 N 88:20:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2795 (98F41260)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: WOODLAWN, MD
Description: 2 separate observer(s). 4 luminous saucers drift going west / cloud altitude. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 508)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_940

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "WOODLAWN,MD:2 SEP.OBS:4 LUMn.SCRS DRIFT >W/CLOUD ALTITUDE:NFD", LatLong: "39.633335 -76.077781", LatLongDMS: "39:38:00 N 76:04:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2796 (A2485B80)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: PRESTON, ON
Description: 1 observer. Fiery red disk 'like washing machine lid' going quickly west over town. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 82)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_941

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "288", HatchDesc: "PRESTON,ON:1 OBS:FIERY RED DISK 'LIKE WASHING MACHINE LID' >>W OVR TOWN:NFD", LatLong: "43.400002 -80.350004", LatLongDMS: "43:24:00 N 80:21:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2797 (57920E06)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 22:40
Location: PALMDALE, CA
Description: 1 observer. Mother saucer with small saucers play / sky. Out and back several X. Going south toward(s) L.A.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 528)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_942

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "775", HatchDesc: "PALMDALE,CA:1 OBS:MOTHER SCR W/SML SCRS PLAY/SKY:OUT+BACK SVRL X:>S twrd L.A.", LatLong: "34.566668 -118.127783", LatLongDMS: "34:34:00 N 118:07:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2798 (F6C5F410)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 23:00?
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: 3+2 separate observer(s). Shiny disk extremely fast going quickly west. "Lobster like with claws" / 1 observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 511)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_943

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "2215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:3+2 SEP.OBS:SHINY DISK XFAST >>W:"LOBSTER LIKE W/CLAWS"/1 OBS", LatLong: "39.783335 -86.200004", LatLongDMS: "39:47:00 N 86:12:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2799 (F7417C89)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 23:00
Location: HOLLYWOOD, CA
Description: 6-8 12' saucers dart to and fro / news and FBI. Possible same / Palmdale objects. / MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 528)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_944

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "HOLLYWOOD,CA:6-8 12'SCRS DART TO+FRO/NEWS+FBI:POSS.SAME/PALMDALE OBJs:/MJ#121", LatLong: "34.116668 -118.316672", LatLongDMS: "34:07:00 N 118:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2800 (D5D39B34)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 23:20
Location: CHICAGO, IL
Description: Dozens / separate observer(s). Large flashy disks going quickly east straight over lake. / r151+The New York Times (NYT.)
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 519)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_945

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "175", HatchDesc: "CHICAGO,IL:DOZENS/SEP.OBS:LRG FLASHY DISKS >>E STRAIGHT OVR LAKE:/r151+NYT", LatLong: "41.850002 -87.616671", LatLongDMS: "41:51:00 N 87:37:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2801 (89773691)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 23:50
Location: MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Description: 1 observer. 25cm plate with propeller / rear flies over home / treetop level.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 526)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_946

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "245", HatchDesc: "MINNEAPOLIS,MN:1 OBS:25cm PLATE W/PROPELLER/REAR FLIES OVR HOME/TREETOP LVL", LatLong: "44.950002 -93.233338", LatLongDMS: "44:57:00 N 93:14:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2802 (DDB8BB7A)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: 23:50
Location: OMAHA, NE
Description: 1 observer. "Rolling" luminous disk south of town going quickly west. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 525)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_947

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "OMAHA,NE:1 OBS:"ROLLING" LUMn.DISK SOUTH OF TOWN >>W:NFD", LatLong: "41.250002 -95.916671", LatLongDMS: "41:15:00 N 95:55:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2803 (57747B24)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, CA
Description: Round Flat Object Size Of C-54 (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 36)
Reference: NICAP: 470706
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_358

Event 2804 (83ADC0D0)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Clay Center, KS
Description: 30-50' Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470706
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_359

Event 2805 (DC036F97)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: S. Central, WY
Description: Aviation engineer saw oval UFO. [UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_360

Event 2806 (CA649AD9)

Date: 7/6/1947
Time: Daytime
Location: Fairfield-Suisan Air Base, California
Description: Witnesses: Army Air Forces Capt. and Mrs. James Burniston. Watched for 1 minute while one object having no wings or tail rolled from side-to-side three times and then flew away very fast to the southeast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_2

Event 2807 (46B3352B)

Date: 7/6/1947
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; Roswell Army Air Field; Brazel's ranch
Description: Brazel gets up early, completes his chores, and then drives into Roswell, New Mexico, about 75 miles away. He stops at the office of Sheriff George A. Wilcox . Contrary to published reports, Wilcox is excited about the find and suggests the military at the Roswell Army Air Field [now closed] be notified. While waiting for the military officers to arrive, Wilcox dispatches two of his deputies to the ranch. They have only the directions given by Brazel, but both men are familiar with the territory; and Wilcox believes they will be able to find the debris field. KGFL reporter Frank Joyce calls Wilcox, who tells him Brazel is in his office with an interesting story. Brazel allegedly gets on the phone with Joyce and mentions debris and a stench from dead bodies.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 163–164
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1005

Event 2808 (A2105D76)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Clay Center, Kansas
Description: 1:45 p.m. Maj. A. B. Browning and the crew of a B-25 flying over Clay Center, Kansas, see a silvery disc about 30–50 feet in diameter slightly lower than their plane. It paces them for a while then shoots off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “30–50ʹ Circular Object Paces B-25, Accelerates”; Bloecher, p. III-11; Sparks, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1006

Event 2809 (B4BB471D)

Date: 7/6/1947
Locations: Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field; Fairfield, California
Description: Day. Army Air Corps Capt. James H. Burniston and his wife watch a round, flat object that oscillates on its lateral axis of travel three quarters of the way across the sky in a few seconds at Fairfield-Suisun Army Air Field [now Travis AFB] near Fairfield, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Round Flat Object Size of C-54”; Bloecher, p. III-3; Sparks , p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1007

Event 2810 (D4CC8687)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Encampment, Wyoming
Description: 2:45 p.m. David A. Kenney, an aircraft instruments engineer, and two others watch an oval-shaped UFO flying at a high altitude for nearly 2 minutes near Encampment, Wyoming.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-17; David Kenney, “Right Place, Right Time,” IUR 30, no. 4 August 2006: 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1008

Event 2811 (0B104169)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: 317 Ash Street, Tempe, Arizona
Description: Afternoon. Francis Howell and his wife are in their yard at 317 Ash Street in Tempe, Arizona, when they see an object floating down to the ground with a kite-like motion. It appears to be about 2 feet across and made of aluminum. It disappears behind some trees. The Howells and some neighbors walk toward the place where it apparently has landed, and they see the disc ascend at a 45° angle and move at high speed toward the northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Tempeans See ‘Disc,’” Phoenix Arizona Republic, July 7, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, p. II-13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1009

Event 2812 (4D3DC3D8)

Date: 7/6/1947
Locations: Roswell AAF; Ranch; Fort Worth Army Air Field; Washington, D.C.
Description: Colonel William H. Blanchard, Roswell AAF commanding officer, entrusted with oversight of the first and only atomic-bomb strike force in the world, the 509th Bomb Group, orders Jesse A. Marcel, the air intelligence officer, to investigate the debris report. Marcel immediately drives to the sheriff’s office. Marcel interviews Brazel , examines the pieces of the material that Brazel brought in, and decides he had better visit the ranch to examine the field for himself. Marcel, taking some of the debris with him, returns to the base and reports to Blanchard on what he has seen. Blanchard, convinced that he is in possession of something highly unusual, perhaps Soviet, alerts the next higher headquarters. Marcel and Blanchard all know this is from not any type of balloon. Marcel returns to the sheriff’s office with the senior counterintelligence agent assigned to the base, CIC Captain Sheridan W. Cavitt . They escort Brazel back to his ranch and examine the debris field. Acting on orders from Major General Clements McMullen , deputy commander of the Strategic Air Command, Blanchard obtains more of the debris from the sheriff’s office. It is sealed in a courier pouch and loaded on an airplane to be flown on to the Fort Worth Army Air Field, where it is given to Colonel Thomas J. DuBose for transport on to Washington, D.C. After Marcel and Cavitt leave with Brazel, the two deputies return to say they did not find the debris field but observed a burned area in one of the pastures. There the sand has been turned to glass and blackened. It looks as if something circular has touched down.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 37–40 , 164; Good Need, p. 89; Nukes 482–483
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1010

Event 2813 (2E6BAA64)

Date: 7/6/1947
Location: Birmingham, Alabama
Description: 8:45 p.m. Army Staff Sgt. Ira L. Livingston watches a procession of glowing round objects moving at 500 mph over Birmingham, Alabama. A new one appears every 5 seconds. Many others report UFOs in the area between 8:00 and 9:00 p.m. Robert Crossland, a copy reader for the Birmingham Age-Herald, takes a photo that shows two round white spots close together.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, pp. III-3–4, IV-4; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, pp. 67–68
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1011

Event 2814 (CE4E2BA2)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: 9:00 p.m. Because of the distance to the ranch over roads that are less than adequate, Brazel, Marcel, and Cavitt do not arrive until after dark. They stay at the “Hines” house an old ranch house close to the debris field, eat cold beans, and wait for daylight. Marcel runs a Geiger counter over the large piece of wreckage Brazel has stored in the cattle shed. He detects no sign of radiation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1012

Event 2815 (235B4777)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: There are 127 UFO reports for this day recorded in the UFOCAT database. Cities with multiple reports include St. Louis, Missouri: Birmingham, Alabama; Tucson, Arizona; Patterson, New Jersey; Chicago, Illinois, Darlington, South Carolina; Boise, Idaho; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Portland, Oregon; and Mount Vernon, Washington.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3855

Event 2816 (6DAE9292)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At five o'clock in the morning, Mr. McLean and his son were driving through Pocatello, Idaho at dawn when they saw a three-foot wide disc with a bulge in the middle land on a city street. It rose up, made some jerky movements, and then shot straight up.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Pocatello Tribune, July 7, 1947; Seattle (WA) Post-Intelligencer, July 8, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3856

Event 2817 (2FC0CBFF)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: Mr. Bates, an airline passenger in a plane flying southeast of Boise, Idaho watched a disc flash by his window at one o'clock in the afternoon. It was heading toward the southwest. A stewardess quickly rushed over to look. That evening over Boise, silver discs whirled and changed directions several times in several minutes, as if searching for something.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, letters received by Civilian Saucer Intelligence, Los Angeles, April 5, 1952; Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3857

Event 2818 (416EB949)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: Three airmen flying aboard an Army Air Force B-25 near Clay Center, Kansas saw a silvery circular object, 10-15 meters in diameter, at 1:45 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 37
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3858

Event 2819 (4FDE525A)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: A Phillips Petroleum aircraft with two men on board, flying near the Kansas-Colorado border, reported that nine metallic, revolving objects came flying at their airplane this afternoon, one-by-one, for 15 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3859

Event 2820 (36ED8F90)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: On this day Mr. Miller, a farmer in Logansport, Indiana heard a whining roar that drew his attention to a gray, spinning saucer-shaped object in the sky. It descended and hovered for several seconds. It then rose up into the clouds and was gone from view.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Indianapolis News, July 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3860

Event 2821 (AE0F506B)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At 4:00 p.m. in Savannah, Georgia a metallic ovoid object, then two more metallic ovoid craft flew in the direction of the ESE; descriptions of the UFO differed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomena 1947-1967, p. 2
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3861

Event 2822 (006EEC85)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: Three shiny discs in a delta formation flew high and fast toward the north across Lake Ponchartrain, Louisiana at 5:10 p.m. They entered a cloud and were gone from sight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 451
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3862

Event 2823 (502897E0)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At 5:15 p.m. in Sioux Falls, South Dakota a silver orb shot toward the southwest "faster than any plane." It flew at an estimated altitude of ten thousand feet. It had what appeared to be a road stuck through the center of the object.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Sioux Falls (SD) Daily Argus-Leader, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3863

Event 2824 (EDED423A)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At 5:30 p.m. a low flying shiny circular object, floated like dirigible near the ground over a wheat field in Emporia, Kansas. It veered slowly to pass over a hill and fly toward the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A preliminary report on the 1947 UFO sighting wave, p. 85
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3864

Event 2825 (5F56BD89)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At 6:00 p.m. Mrs. Stollmaier in Terrace Park, Ohio saw two "shiny silver plates" travel north to south at high rate of speed. They appeared to be gaining altitude as they flew. At the same time northwest of Richmond, Virginia twelve shiny metallic discs wavered and flipped across the sky, just below the clouds at an estimated altitude of 500 feet. At 7:00 p.m. a black disc flew across the sky in Portsmouth, Virginia. It flight was silent, "as if towed."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Cincinnati Enquirer, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, cases 442 & 457
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3865

Event 2826 (5D114DF3)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At six o'clock in the evening in Norman, Oklahoma the University of Oklahoma Dean of Engineering and four others watched one, then two more UFOs shoot to the west at a very high speed. They were estimated to be flying at 20,000 feet altitude. A round object flew across the sky to the west "awfully fast" over Anadarko, Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. That same evening a light colored 40-foot wide disc flew just below the clouds in Edgewood, Texas. It speed was judged to be faster than a plane, and it seemed to be gaining altitude as it flew toward the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Daily Oklahoman, July 8, 1947; Dallas Morning News, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3866

Event 2827 (FE826415)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At 7:00 p.m. three families in West Hartford, Connecticut including a physician, saw a reddish brown disc move at great speed in a straight line flying toward the northwest. At about the same time in New Hampshire two large discs flew over the town of Londonderry, making a whistling noise. That same night a disc with a Maltese cross inscribed on it flew on a straight, northerly course over East Providence, Rhode Island.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Hartford Times, July 7, 1947; Manchester Union-Leader, July 7, 1947; Providence Journal, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3867

Event 2828 (BE0D2CFA)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: At 7:00 p.m. a silver disc dipped down out of the sky and climbed back up again south of St. Joseph, Missouri. It then shot to the northeast very fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 468
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3868

Event 2829 (681B0820)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: A 9:45 p.m. a military witness sighted up to eleven discs and some 40 nocturnal lights over Birmingham, Alabama. The discs whirled through the sky and flew off toward the west. Both the Air Force and the FBI investigated the case.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3869

Event 2830 (FD070A4C)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: Four luminous discs drifted to the west at the same altitude as the clouds at 10:30 p.m. over Woodlawn, Maryland.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Baltimore News-Post, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3870

Event 2831 (62E9A52D)

Date: 7/6/1947
Description: A "rolling" luminous disc was seen flying south of Omaha, Nebraska at 11:45 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Omaha World-Herald, July 7, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3871

Event 2832 (30A454FD)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (crash)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_247

Event 2833 (BCCD5C47)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Description: Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner
Type: anomalous incident
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_248

Event 2834 (25C69D2E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Spokane, CA
Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in Spokane area
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_249

Event 2835 (467364C0)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Medford, OR
Description: OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix, Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford, flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet. It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a bright blue-white light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_250

Event 2836 (BBCAE80E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Description: CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge on against a dark sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_251

Event 2837 (F8265338)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: GLENN, CA
Description: 2 farmers. 25 saucers / 3 rows go left-Rt.-going up [to]-going down. Tip from side-to-side. Going quickly [to] V formation.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_948

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "29", HatchDesc: "GLENN,CA:2 FARMERS:25 SCRS/3 ROWS GO LEFT-RT-↑-↓:TIP FROM SIDE-TO-SIDE:>>VFORM", LatLong: "39.522224 -122.011117", LatLongDMS: "39:31:20 N 122:00:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2838 (A51EDF9F)

Date: 7/7/1947 (approximate)
Location: MEXICALI, MX
Description: 2 saucers reported here. 5 more over Ciudad Juarez, CHH, MX. / Panama News.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 86)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_949

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "8", Duration: "9", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "MEXICALI,MX:2 SCRS REPORTED HERE::5 MORE ovr CIUDAD JUAREZ,CHH,MX:/Panama News", LatLong: "32.650002 -115.500006", LatLongDMS: "32:39:00 N 115:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Baja California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2839 (BFDAB8C0)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: Motorist chases low-flying coppery disk. Gets ticket. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_950

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:MOTORIST CHASES LO-FLYING COPPERY DISK:GETS TICKET:/NEWS", LatLong: "39.783335 -86.166671", LatLongDMS: "39:47:00 N 86:10:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2840 (59EAA51E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: LANCASTER, CA
Description: Observer(s) unknown. Disk going down / ground level. Hits tree. Tree catches fire. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 546)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_951

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "718", HatchDesc: "LANCASTER,CA:OBS UNKN:DISK ↓/GND LEVEL:HITS TREE:TREE CATCHES FIRE:NFD", LatLong: "34.716668 -118.116672", LatLongDMS: "34:43:00 N 118:07:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2841 (2F0D80D5)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: RIVERSIDE, CA
Description: Separate observer(s). Many disks play like school / fish. Going quickly northeast toward(s) Colton. / r187.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_952

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "RIVERSIDE,CA:SEP.OBS:MANY DISKS PLAY LIKE SCHOOL/FISH:>>NE twrd COLTON:/r187", LatLong: "33.950002 -117.400006", LatLongDMS: "33:57:00 N 117:24:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2842 (7FAAA807)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: MARBLE MTS AND YREKA, CA
Description: Many calls / sheriff. Colored saucers and fireballs all over/all about Siskiyou Co.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_953

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "20", Elev: "800", HatchDesc: "MARBLE MTs+YREKA,CA:MANY CALLS/SHERIFF:CLRD SCRS+FBLS allo SISKIYOU co:", LatLong: "41.622224 -123.227784", LatLongDMS: "41:37:20 N 123:13:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2843 (61D6CEFB)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 00:10
Location: HUNTINGTON, WV
Description: 2 separate report(s). 4-6 orange glow saucers zig-zag and going quickly northeast. / Herald Dispatch 7 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 86)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_954

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "173", HatchDesc: "HUNTINGTON,WV:2 SEP.RPTS:4-6 ORG.GLOW SCRS ZIG-ZAG+>>NE:/Herald Dispatch 7JLY", LatLong: "38.400002 -82.466671", LatLongDMS: "38:24:00 N 82:28:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2844 (A86D6FF9)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 00:30
Location: BALTIMORE, MD
Description: Melvin Kearney / 122 Warner Ave. 8 orange disks or balls going east. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 548)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_955

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "BALTIMORE,MD:MELVIN KEARNEY/122 WARNER Ave.:8 ORANGE DISKS or BALLS >E:NFD ", LatLong: "39.277780 -76.622226", LatLongDMS: "39:16:40 N 76:37:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2845 (82AA19AB)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 02:00
Location: WALNUT HILLS, OH
Description: E. Smith. 3-4 disks red / hot coals. Straight and level high and fast north going quickly south. Briefly seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 553)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_956

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "207", HatchDesc: "WALNUT HILLS,OH:E.SMITH:3-4 DISKS RED/HOT COALS:S/L HI+FAST N>>S:briefly seen", LatLong: "39.033335 -82.633337", LatLongDMS: "39:02:00 N 82:38:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2846 (506307D8)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 02:00
Location: COLUMBIA, MO
Description: University student. 50-60 luminous/glowing disks / V-formation. Whirl. Honk like geese. Going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 554)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_957

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "227", HatchDesc: "COLUMBIA,MO:UNIV.STUDENT:50-60 LUMn DISKS/VFORMn:WHIRL:HONK LIKE GEESE:>>N", LatLong: "38.933335 -92.316671", LatLongDMS: "38:56:00 N 92:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "4"

Event 2847 (7EE2EC0C)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 02:10
Location: RUTLAND, VT
Description: 2 observer(s). Brilliant ovoid over gas-plant lights area. Vanishes as rain stops.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 550)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_958

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "198", HatchDesc: "RUTLAND,VT:2 OBS:BRILL.OVOID OVR GAS-PLANT LITES AREA:VANISHES AS RAIN STOPS", LatLong: "43.611113 -72.972226", LatLongDMS: "43:36:40 N 72:58:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2848 (BF6E8932)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 02:30
Location: TACOMA, WA
Description: 2+observer(s). Saucers land / roof. Small humanoids (or Greys) exit! 2 cops. Small saucers orbit large. Going quickly west / r187.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_959

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "30", Elev: "114", HatchDesc: "TACOMA,WA:2+OBS:SCRS LAND/ROOF:OIDS EXIT!::2 COPS:SML SCRS ORBIT LRG:>>W/r187", LatLong: "47.233336 -122.450006", LatLongDMS: "47:14:00 N 122:27:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "9"

Event 2849 (9B0FA8F1)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 06:20
Location: US99 NEAR COLTON, CA
Description: Deliveryman. 8 silver saucers swish overhead going quickly southwest single file. / r171p86.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 563)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_960

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "305", HatchDesc: "US99 nr COLTON,CA:DELIVERYMAN:8 SLVR SCRS SWISH OVHD >>SW SINGLE FILE:/r171p86", LatLong: "34.066668 -117.316672", LatLongDMS: "34:04:00 N 117:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2850 (1BDDA270)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 06:30
Location: GREENSBORO, NC
Description: 2 / car. 3 grey-black saucers / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation. 500mpg going quickly [to] 250' overhead. "Zipping noise".
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 558)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_961

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "232", HatchDesc: "GREENSBORO,NC:2/CAR:3 GRY-BLK SCRS/DLT FORMn:500mpg >>250'OVHD:"ZIPPING NOISE"", LatLong: "36.050002 -79.816670", LatLongDMS: "36:03:00 N 79:49:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "75", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2851 (7C3B5D7F)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~07:00
Location: BRAZEL RANCH, NM
Description: Major J. Marcel and 2 gather 2 carloads / strange debris.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 49)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_962

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "200", Elev: "1900", HatchDesc: "BRAZEL RANCH,NM:Mjr J.MARCEL+2 GATHER 2 CARLOADS/STRANGE DEBRIS:", LatLong: "33.938891 -105.294449", LatLongDMS: "33:56:20 N 105:17:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2852 (DA989674)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 07:50
Location: LOWRY AIR FORCE BASE, CO
Description: Several Army Air Force (AAF) men / (seen thru) binoculars. Silent shiny disk circles north and south. Comes / east. Goes going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 564)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_963

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "6", Elev: "1651", HatchDesc: "LOWRY AFB,CO:SVRL AAF MEN/BINOCS:SLNT SHINY DISK CCLS N+S:COMES/EAST: GOES>>E", LatLong: "39.733335 -104.950005", LatLongDMS: "39:44:00 N 104:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2853 (5C37E839)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 08:00?
Location: 11KM NORTH / SHREVEPORT, LA
Description: Army Air Force (AAF) Sgt. / plane. Bright moon-size silver saucer tilts. Cannot catch.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_964

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "64", HatchDesc: "11km N/SHREVEPORT,LA:AAF Sgt/PLANE:BRITE MOONSIZE SLVR SCR TILTS:cannot catch", LatLong: "32.583335 -93.800004", LatLongDMS: "32:35:00 N 93:48:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2854 (A219F55E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 09:00
Location: LAKEVIEW, OR
Description: 3 / home. 2 then 4 disks weave / sky. All going quickly south. / Lake Co. Examiner 12 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_965

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1462", HatchDesc: "LAKEVIEW,OR:3/HOME:2 then 4 DISKS WEAVE/SKY:ALL >>S:/Lake Co.Examiner 12JLY47", LatLong: "42.188891 -120.344450", LatLongDMS: "42:11:20 N 120:20:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2855 (0D3DE1D9)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 09:30
Location: OKAUCHEE, WI
Description: Ex Ground Observer Corps (GOC)-man and wife. 1 disk going quickly southwest. No further details. Exact time = 0925h CST.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 567)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_966

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "271", HatchDesc: "OKAUCHEE,WI:EX GOC-MAN+WIFE:1 DISK >>SW:NFD:exact time=0925h CST.", LatLong: "43.111113 -88.433338", LatLongDMS: "43:06:40 N 88:26:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2856 (D239CC2B)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 09:50
Location: VERDI AND RENO, NV
Description: Many separate observer(s). Saucer going west / 1000mph. Going east. Going south. Contrails all over/all about. / r187#577.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 360)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_967

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "20", Elev: "1470", HatchDesc: "VERDI+RENO,NV:MANY SEP.OBS:SCR> W/1000mph:> E:>S:CONTRAILS ALLO:/r187#577", LatLong: "39.516669 -119.983339", LatLongDMS: "39:31:00 N 119:59:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2857 (5EB755E8)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: NORTHEAST / SPRINGFIELD, MO
Description: 3 / ground. Saucer with fins follows light plane going northeast. Flips over. Vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_968

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "392", HatchDesc: "NE/SPRINGFIELD,MO:3/GND:SCR W/FINS FOLOS LITE PLANE >NE:FLIPS OVR:VANISHES", LatLong: "37.366668 -93.150004", LatLongDMS: "37:22:00 N 93:09:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2858 (595D0C2F)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: SAN BRUNO, CA
Description: 4+observer(s). Group / 15 disks spin and turn. Generally straight going quickly northeast / several min.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 587)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_969

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "SAN BRUNO,CA:4+OBS:GRP/15 DISKS SPIN+TURN:GENERALLY STRAIGHT>>NE/SVRL min", LatLong: "37.633335 -122.416673", LatLongDMS: "37:38:00 N 122:25:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2859 (A331BC46)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: ELKHORN AND EAGLE, WI
Description: 2 separate private pilots. White ball drops / clouds. Stops. Going east. Turns etc.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 426)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_970

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "310", HatchDesc: "ELKHORN+EAGLE,WI:2 SEP.PVT.PILOTS:WHT BALL DROPS/CLOUDS:STOPS:>E:TURNS etc", LatLong: "42.766669 -88.500004", LatLongDMS: "42:46:00 N 88:30:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2860 (43325644)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: LAWTON, OK
Description: 1 / back yard. Bright aluminum plate going quickly west high and fast. / L. Constitution 8 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_971

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "338", HatchDesc: "LAWTON,OK:1/BACK YARD:BRITE ALUMn.PLATE >>W HIGH+FAST:/L.Constitution 8JLY47", LatLong: "34.600002 -98.383338", LatLongDMS: "34:36:00 N 98:23:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2861 (2937D46E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 10:40
Location: SAN CARLOS, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). 30 car-size silver disks circle overhead / 2K' altitude. / r187#595.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 86)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_972

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "SAN CARLOS,CA:2 OBS:30 CAR-SIZE SLVR DISKS CCL OVHD/2K'alt:/r187#595", LatLong: "37.505557 -122.261117", LatLongDMS: "37:30:20 N 122:15:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2862 (8CF91438)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: KOSHKONONG, WI
Description: 4 observer(s) / 2 / planes. Saucer / 1200M altitude. Away / 9000kph and more. / Army Air Force (AAF) report. / r160#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 409)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_973

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "250", HatchDesc: "KOSHKONONG,WI:4 OBS/2/PLANES:SCR/1200M alt:AWAY/9000kph+:/AAF Rpt:/r160#121", LatLong: "42.883335 -88.966671", LatLongDMS: "42:53:00 N 88:58:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2863 (6AAED571)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: EAST TROY, WI
Description: 2 / 2nd plane and weathermen. Saucer going down [to] edgewise. Stops and levels. Going quickly / 8000kph / r131#4p9.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_974

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "262", HatchDesc: "E.TROY,WI:2/2ND PLANE+WEATHERMEN:SCR↓EDGEWISE:STOPS+LVLs:>>/8000kph/r131#4p9", LatLong: "42.783335 -88.405560", LatLongDMS: "42:47:00 N 88:24:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2864 (19CB064E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 12:00?
Location: TOWANDA, PA
Description: 2 20cm disks / intense light bob and weave 5M from house. Soar up and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 406)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_975

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "225", HatchDesc: "TOWANDA,PA:2 20cm DISKS/INTENSE LITE BOB+WEAVE 5M from HOUSE:SOAR UP+GONE", LatLong: "41.766669 -76.444448", LatLongDMS: "41:46:00 N 76:26:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2865 (D2545447)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: WILLOW SPRINGS, IL
Description: 2 observer(s). 13 house-sized saucers buzz going quickly east / single file. Blue glow.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 573)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_976

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "189", HatchDesc: "WILLOW SPRINGS,IL:2 OBS:13 HOUSE-SIZED SCRS BUZZ >>E/SINGLE FILE:BLUE GLOW", LatLong: "41.738891 -87.861115", LatLongDMS: "41:44:20 N 87:51:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2866 (79D7B53D)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: PHILLIPSBURG, NJ
Description: Teacher and 1. 1 disk going quickly south. Daytime hour unknown. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 581)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_977

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "96", HatchDesc: "PHILLIPSBURG,NJ:TEACHER+1:1 DISK >>S:DAYTIME HOUR UNK:NFD", LatLong: "40.694446 -75.188892", LatLongDMS: "40:41:40 N 75:11:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2867 (9AFCEF5C)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: PITTSBURG, CA
Description: 3 observer(s). Disk hovers over yard briefly. Shoots going quickly east. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 542)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_978

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "PITTSBURG,CA:3 OBS:DISK HVRS OVR YARD BRIEFLY:SHOOTS>>E:NFD", LatLong: "38.033335 -121.883339", LatLongDMS: "38:02:00 N 121:53:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2868 (1F6CDDDF)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: DORCHESTER, MA
Description: John Stewart and 1. 4 silver disks / single file. Fast / 5000' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 580)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_979

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "37", HatchDesc: "DORCHESTER,MA:JOHN STEWART+1:4 SLVR DISKS/SINGLE FILE:FAST/5000'alt:", LatLong: "42.300002 -71.083337", LatLongDMS: "42:18:00 N 71:05:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2869 (8B4CBDD4)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: GLASGOW, IL
Description: Amateur astronomer / (seen thru) telescope. Silver 30' cone moves side to side slow. Shoots going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 598)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_980

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "179", HatchDesc: "GLASGOW,IL:AM.ASTRONOMER/TSCOPE:SLVR 30'CONE MOVES SIDE to SIDE SLOW:SHOOTS>>W", LatLong: "40.572224 -89.811115", LatLongDMS: "40:34:20 N 89:48:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2870 (E771A2CE)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: ENID, OK
Description: Ed Herbig. Aluminum "pancake" / terrific speed. 10-12K' altitude. Straight and level going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 602)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_981

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "374", HatchDesc: "ENID,OK:ED HERBIG:ALUM."PANCAKE"/TERRIFIC SPEED:10-12K'alt: S/L >>S", LatLong: "36.383335 -97.877782", LatLongDMS: "36:23:00 N 97:52:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3300", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2871 (C8CD2E21)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: EAST POINT, GA
Description: 5 / car. Plain bright silver disk going / 10 minute(s). Fades away. / r131#4p11.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_982

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "311", HatchDesc: "EAST POINT,GA:5/CAR:PLAIN BRITE SLVR DISK >/10min:FADES AWAY:/r131#4p11", LatLong: "33.677779 -84.438893", LatLongDMS: "33:40:40 N 84:26:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2872 (E2AF79C9)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: CICERO, IL
Description: 1 observer. Very large silver saucer. 4 small disks trail. Ovoid and disk / Chicago maneuver and going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 597)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_983

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "185", HatchDesc: "CICERO,IL:1 OBS:VLRG SLVR SCR:4 SML DISKS TRAIL::OVOID+DISK/CHICAGO MNVR+>>S", LatLong: "41.844446 -87.755560", LatLongDMS: "41:50:40 N 87:45:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2873 (EE688AB3)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: RENTON AND SEATTLE, WA
Description: Many separate observer(s) all day. Saucers spiral and gyrate and circle and flip. Going west and all directions.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 619)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_984

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "132", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "RENTON+SEATTLE,WA:MANY SEP.OBS ALL DAY:SCRS SPIRAL+GYRATE+CCL+FLIP:>W+all dirs", LatLong: "47.483336 -122.233339", LatLongDMS: "47:29:00 N 122:14:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2874 (14FBCAEF)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:10
Location: HIXSON AND CHATTANOOGA, TN
Description: 2+1 observer(s). 1+4 bright shiny silent disks going quickly northeast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 591)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_985

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "205", HatchDesc: "HIXSON+CHATTANOOGA,TN:2+1 OBS:1+4 BRITE SHINY SLNT DISKS >>NE:NFD", LatLong: "35.138891 -85.233337", LatLongDMS: "35:08:20 N 85:14:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2875 (5917A129)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:30
Location: TAMPA, FL
Description: 1+several separate observer(s). 2 big saucers / high altitude going south. Later 3 disks going northeast / 1830hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 594)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_986

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "TAMPA,FL:1+SVRL SEP.OBS:2 BIG SCRS/HI ALT >S::later 3 DISKS >NE/1830hrs", LatLong: "27.950001 -82.433337", LatLongDMS: "27:57:00 N 82:26:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2876 (AFB9FD15)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 13:30
Location: MALIBU BEACH, CA
Description: 3 teens. 4 gleaming round objects go straight and level going quickly west over coast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 627)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_987

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "MALIBU BEACH,CA:3 TEENS:4 GLEAMING ROUND OBJS GO S/L >>W OVR COAST:NFD", LatLong: "34.050002 -118.700006", LatLongDMS: "34:03:00 N 118:42:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2877 (6C8BE350)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: EAST TROY, WI
Description: Air Force Captain and 1 / plane. Silver object. Calculated / 6000kph. / FBI / MJ#121. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 606)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_988

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "262", HatchDesc: "EAST TROY,WI:AF CAPTAIN+1/PLANE:SLVR OBJ:CALC/6000kph:/FBI/MJ#121:type unkn", LatLong: "42.783335 -88.416671", LatLongDMS: "42:47:00 N 88:25:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2878 (020F69AE)

Date: 7/7/1947 (approximate)
Time: 15:00
Location: AMFREVILLE-LA-MI-VOIE, FR
Description: Saucer landed / banks / Seine. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) reboard. Going up [to] silently going quickly southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: FIGEUT, Michel & RUCHON, Jean-Louis: OVNI - Le Premier Dossier..; Alain LeFeuvre, Paris 1979. (Index 50)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_989

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "AMFREVILLE-la-MI-VOIE,FR:SCR LANDED/BANKS/SEINE:2 OIDS REBOARD:↑ SILENTLY >>SE", LatLong: "49.350002 1.016667", LatLongDMS: "49:21:00 N 01:01:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "9"

Event 2879 (A2577712)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: GMX SOUTH / SARASOTA, FL
Description: 1 / fishing boat. Round flat silver blimp going quickly southwest. Vanishes and reappears.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 88)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_990

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GMX S/SARASOTA,FL:1/FISHING BOAT:ROUND FLAT SLVR BLIMP >>SW:VANISHES+REAPPEARS", LatLong: "27.083335 -82.583337", LatLongDMS: "27:05:00 N 82:35:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2880 (53F712BC)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 15:10
Location: HOLLYWOOD, CA
Description: 2 separate observer(s). 6 silver disks over power lines. Going quickly east. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). Back 8 July 1500h going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 637)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_991

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "HOLLYWOOD,CA:2 SEP.OBS:6 SLVR DISKS OVR PWR LINES:>>E:RFI::BACK 8JLY 1500h >N", LatLong: "34.133335 -118.333339", LatLongDMS: "34:08:00 N 118:20:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2881 (F382347F)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 15:10
Location: FT BRAGG, CA
Description: 2 / beach. Glistening tire-size saucer going quickly east. Lands / surface(s). Rests. Submerges.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 89)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_992

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "Ft BRAGG,CA:2/BEACH:GLISTENING TIRE-SIZE SCR >>E:LANDS/SURF:RESTS:SUBMERGES", LatLong: "39.450002 -123.866673", LatLongDMS: "39:27:00 N 123:52:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2882 (33C43479)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 15:20
Location: MEMPHIS, TN
Description: 2+4 observer(s). 6M coin disks going quickly southwest / diamond formation. Play tag. Stops and starts..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 407)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_993

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "MEMPHIS,TN:2+4 OBS:6M COIN DISKS >>SW/DIAMOND FORMn:PLAY TAG:STOPS+STARTS..", LatLong: "35.133335 -90.066671", LatLongDMS: "35:08:00 N 90:04:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2883 (4224DEEF)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 15:30
Location: PHOENIX, AZ
Description: 80+observer(s)? 2 large silver orbs going quickly east. 1 high and 1 low. No wind. Photograph / grey ovoid. / r131#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 632)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_994

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "PHOENIX,AZ:80+OBS?:2 LRG SLVR ORBS >>E:1hi+1low:NO WIND:FOTO/GRY OVOID:/r131#4", LatLong: "33.450002 -112.033339", LatLongDMS: "33:27:00 N 112:02:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2884 (E6589992)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: BRIGHTON, SUSSEX
Description: 2 observer(s). Too-large moon-disk. Flies going quickly south to sea over black rock cliffs.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_995

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BRIGHTON,SUSSEX:2 OBS:TOO-LARGE MOON-DISK:FLIES>>S to SEA OVR BLK ROCK CLIFFS", LatLong: "50.783336 -0.116667", LatLongDMS: "50:47:00 N 00:07:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2885 (5E8205D6)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 16:30
Location: NEAR BERGSTROM AIR FORCE BASE, TX
Description: Aircrew. 6M glass disk flashes and spins / tilt going quickly southwest / 2300kph. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI.)
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 423)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_996

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "165", HatchDesc: "nr BERGSTROM AFB,TX:AIRCREW:6M GLASS DISK FLASHES+SPINS/TILT >>SW/2300kph:RFI", LatLong: "30.216668 -97.683338", LatLongDMS: "30:13:00 N 97:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2886 (2B968EA0)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 16:50
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: Henry Quin. 3' round silver object whizzes by going quickly SSW toward(s) City Hall..
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 611)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_997

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:HENRY QUIN:3'ROUND SLVR OBJ WHIZZES BY >>SSW TWRD CITY HALL..", LatLong: "39.950002 -75.200004", LatLongDMS: "39:57:00 N 75:12:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2887 (C29FE3A8)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: TEMPE, AZ
Description: Project Bluebook Case #46. Photograph / manta-saucer with small dome. Circles. Going northwest. Also 2' transparent silver saucer / 6 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_998

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "359", HatchDesc: "TEMPE,AZ:BBK#46:FOTO/MANTA-SCR W/SML DOME:CIRCLES:>NW::+2'XPRNT SLVR SCR/6JLY", LatLong: "33.416668 -111.911116", LatLongDMS: "33:25:00 N 111:54:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2888 (A8A94018)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME, ID
Description: Motorist. Huge umbrella-saucer covers US30. Going [to] over gas station.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 419)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_999

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "958", HatchDesc: "nr MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:MOTORIST:HUGE UMBRELLA-SCR COVERS US30:>OVR GAS STATION", LatLong: "43.150002 -115.700006", LatLongDMS: "43:09:00 N 115:42:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2889 (DCBA2253)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: SOUTHEAST / MEDFORD, OR
Description: Radar Tech. Saucer on edge / 650mph. Follows hilly contours going east. Extremely bright.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 655)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1000

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc.

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "130", HatchDesc: "SE/MEDFORD,OR:RADAR TECH:SCR ON EDGE/650mph:FOLOS HILLY CONTOURS>E:XBRITE", LatLong: "42.300002 -122.850006", LatLongDMS: "42:18:00 N 122:51:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2890 (A9A5281F)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: SOUTHEAST / MISSION, TX
Description: Evidence of official coverup and military pilots and ground persons. Fast disk spins / 1200m altitude. Also San Antonio.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1001

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "SE/MISSION,TX:COV+MIL PILOTS+GND PERS:FAST DISK SPINS/1200m alt:+San Antonio", LatLong: "26.200001 -98.300005", LatLongDMS: "26:12:00 N 98:18:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1200", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2891 (444145C6)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: GETTYSBURG, PA
Description: 16 observer(s). 6+6 15cm saucers roll / edge and going east overhead / 2 separate groups. / r131#4p10.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 603)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1002

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "258", HatchDesc: "GETTYSBURG,PA:16 OBS:6+6 15cm SCRS ROLL/EDGE+>E OVHD/2 SEP.GROUPS:/r131#4p10", LatLong: "39.816669 -77.233337", LatLongDMS: "39:49:00 N 77:14:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2892 (2A6117F6)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 17:40
Location: MONTGOMERY, AL
Description: Teen. 7 silver disks like tin-plates in formation. 2X treetop level going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 639)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1003

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "75", HatchDesc: "MONTGOMERY,AL:TEEN:7 SLVR DISKS LIKE TIN-PLATES/FORMn:2X TREETOP LVL >>N", LatLong: "32.383335 -86.333337", LatLongDMS: "32:23:00 N 86:20:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2893 (E94EDD42)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: DES MOINES, IA
Description: 1 teen. 3 silver disks / V formation. High and fast going quickly north. Quite flat when tilted.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 641)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1004

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "241", HatchDesc: "DES MOINES,IA:1 TEEN:3 SLVR DISKS/VFORM:HIGH+FAST>>N:QUITE FLAT WHEN TILTED", LatLong: "41.583335 -93.616671", LatLongDMS: "41:35:00 N 93:37:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2894 (6EF335A4)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 18:10
Location: MILTON, WI
Description: 3 observer(s). 3 metallic saucers / triangle going quickly east. Rotate. Contrails. 1200m altitude. / r131#4p18.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 662)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1005

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "270", HatchDesc: "MILTON,WI:3 OBS:3 MTLC SCRS/TRIANGLE>>E:ROTATE:CONTRAILS:1200m alt:/r131#4p18", LatLong: "42.777780 -88.950004", LatLongDMS: "42:46:40 N 88:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1200", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2895 (F9338C40)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: LAKE BUCKEYE, FL
Description: 2+2 observer(s). 2 gold disks going [to] slow and stop. Bird following scared back.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 419)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1006

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "39", HatchDesc: "LAKE BUCKEYE,FL:2+2 OBS:2 GOLD DISKS >SLOW+STOP:BIRD FOLLOWING SCARED BACK", LatLong: "28.038890 -81.705559", LatLongDMS: "28:02:20 N 81:42:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2896 (962BA851)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 18:50
Location: ROCKFORD, IL
Description: Farmer Luckey. Shiny disk "electric clock" 500mph / 250' altitude. Going quickly south fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 559)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1007

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "ROCKFORD,IL:FARMER LUCKEY:SHINY DISK "ELEC.CLOCK" 500mph/250'alt:>>S FAST", LatLong: "42.283335 -89.100004", LatLongDMS: "42:17:00 N 89:06:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "75", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2897 (DBFFC3B7)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: EAST PEORIA, IL
Description: 1 observer. 25-30 disks hover in straight row over tractor factory. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 642)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1008

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "144", HatchDesc: "E.PEORIA,IL:1 OBS:25-30 DISKS HVR IN STRAIGHT ROW OVR TRACTOR FACTORY:NFD", LatLong: "40.666669 -89.577782", LatLongDMS: "40:40:00 N 89:34:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2898 (82A41C3C)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: NEW HAVEN, CT
Description: John Evans. 2+bluish disks fly on edges straight and level going quickly southeast toward(s) L. I. Sound.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 633)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1009

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "NEW HAVEN,CT:JOHN EVANS:2+BLUISH DISKS FLY ON EDGES S/L >>SE TWRD L.I.SOUND", LatLong: "41.300002 -72.933337", LatLongDMS: "41:18:00 N 72:56:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2899 (E1A2F3F6)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~19:00
Location: PONTIAC, MI
Description: 3 observer(s). Domed disks. Size = 2' or 5'. Photograph see reference. 100mph / 150' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 651)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1010

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "292", HatchDesc: "PONTIAC,MI:3 OBS:DOMED DISKS:SIZE=2'or 5':FOTO see ref:100mph/150'alt", LatLong: "42.633335 -83.300004", LatLongDMS: "42:38:00 N 83:18:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2900 (68113CD0)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: COLUMBUS, OH
Description: 5 students. 3 very fast silent 10' metallic ovoids / delta/triangle/box-like craft formation going east / 1000' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 650)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1011

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "240", HatchDesc: "COLUMBUS,OH:5 STUDENTS:3 VERY FAST SLNT 10'MTLC OVOIDS/DLT FORMn >E/1000'alt", LatLong: "39.950002 -83.033337", LatLongDMS: "39:57:00 N 83:02:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2901 (04837B03)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: GAMBLE VALLEY, TN
Description: 1 observer. 3 gold saucers going northwest. 1 flat and 2 on edge. / Oak Ridge Journal / 10 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 411)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1012

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "GAMBLE VALLEY,TN:1 OBS:3 GOLD SCRS >NW:1 FLAT+2 ON EDGE:/Oak Ridge Jrnl/10Jly", LatLong: "36.000002 -84.266671", LatLongDMS: "36:00:00 N 84:16:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "3"

Event 2902 (C498928C)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: EAST / OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Description: J. P. barnes. 8-9 disks faster than jets. Dip going up and down [to] going quickly northeast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 664)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1013

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "360", HatchDesc: "E/OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:J.P.BARNES:8-9 DISKS FASTER THAN JETS:DIP↑+↓ >>NE:NFD", LatLong: "35.466668 -97.466671", LatLongDMS: "35:28:00 N 97:28:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2903 (D0E3679E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: MARION, AL
Description: 2 observer(s). 5-7 luminous white disks going quickly south. "Lower than stars". One would hope so.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 666)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1014

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "115", HatchDesc: "MARION,AL:2 OBS:5-7 LUMn.WHT DISKS >>S:"LOWER THAN STARS":one would hope so.", LatLong: "32.633335 -87.316671", LatLongDMS: "32:38:00 N 87:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2904 (71A8D7AB)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: WEST / SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Description: Numerous observer(s). Huge fireball maneuvers / high altitude. Going quickly north. Gone fast. / r131#4p10.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 674)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1015

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "4", Elev: "1280", HatchDesc: "W/SALT LAKE CITY,UT:NMRS OBS:HUGE FBL MNVRS/HIGH ALT:>>N:GONE FAST:/r131#4p10", LatLong: "40.766669 -111.933339", LatLongDMS: "40:46:00 N 111:56:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2905 (F4FD7380)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 20:40
Location: LOUISVILLE, KY
Description: 2+1 separate observer(s). Bright fiery disk going quickly northwest. Seems to land in Indiana.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 667)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1016

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "140", HatchDesc: "LOUISVILLE,KY:2+1 SEP.OBS:BRITE FIERY DISK >>NW:SEEMS TO LAND IN INDIANA", LatLong: "38.266668 -85.766671", LatLongDMS: "38:16:00 N 85:46:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "3"

Event 2906 (0D4DB141)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 20:50
Location: JACKSON, MS
Description: 1 observer. 2-3 luminous/glowing plate-saucers going [to] toward(s) Army air base going quickly northwest? Puffs / edges.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 669)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1017

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "JACKSON,MS:1 OBS:2-3 LUMn PLATE-SCRS > TWRD ARMY AIR BASE >>NW?:PUFFS/EDGES", LatLong: "32.316668 -90.200004", LatLongDMS: "32:19:00 N 90:12:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "3"

Event 2907 (4D054B01)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 21:00?
Location: WEST / YORK, OH
Description: 2 / farm. "Brilliant saucers" play / western sky / 1 hour. / Sandusky Register Star.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 88)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1018

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "50", Elev: "199", HatchDesc: "W/YORK,OH:2/FARM:"BRILL.SCRS" PLAY/WESTERN SKY/1 HOUR:/Sandusky Register Star", LatLong: "41.350002 -82.916671", LatLongDMS: "41:21:00 N 82:55:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2908 (49B460E9)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~21:00
Location: DETROIT, MI
Description: 1 observer. 2 saucers collide / flash. Fly / opposite directions. Groups / saucers / 1+8 July. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 671)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1019

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "DETROIT,MI:1 OBS:2 SCRS COLLIDE/FLASH:FLY/OPP.DIRs:GROUPS/SCRS/1+8JULY:NFD", LatLong: "42.350002 -83.016671", LatLongDMS: "42:21:00 N 83:01:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2909 (89E07BD2)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: GREAT POND, ME
Description: 4 observer(s) and more/others. 3 fireballs going west separately. Stop. Join. Hover. 1 goes back going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 653)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1020

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "147", HatchDesc: "GREAT POND,ME:4 OBS++:3 FBLS > W SEPARATELY:STOP:JOIN:HVR:1 GOES BACK >>E:", LatLong: "44.933335 -68.283337", LatLongDMS: "44:56:00 N 68:17:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2910 (5CE0AED1)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: MANCHESTER, NH
Description: 5 reports. 3 bright ovoids / delta/triangle/box-like craft-formation. Fast going quickly northwest. Back 9 Jul. '47 / 0350hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 652)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1021

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "53", HatchDesc: "MANCHESTER,NH:5 REPORTS:3 BRITE OVOIDS/DLT-FORMn:FAST>>NW::BACK 9JLY47/0350hrs", LatLong: "42.983335 -71.450003", LatLongDMS: "42:59:00 N 71:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2911 (F8F52CE7)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: MANCHESTER AND WINTHROP, ME
Description: Several separate observer(s). Cluster / luminous saucers over Lake Cobbosseecontee.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 659)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1022

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", Elev: "72", HatchDesc: "MANCHESTER+WINTHROP,ME:SVRL SEP.OBS:CLUSTER/LUMN.SCRS ovr LAKE COBBOSSEECONTEE", LatLong: "44.266669 -69.866670", LatLongDMS: "44:16:00 N 69:52:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2912 (FCE500EC)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~22:00
Location: KENSINGTON, AUSTR
Description: 2 white shiny saucers going quickly west toward(s) Parramatta. Wave / Sydney. / r171p171.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: BASTERFIELD, KEITH: AUFORN group, with Diane Harrison. http://www.fan.net.au/~tkbnetw/new
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1023

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KENSINGTON,AUSTR:2 WHT SHINY SCRS >>W twrd PARRAMATTA::WAVE/SYDNEY:/r171p171", LatLong: "-33.816668 151.050007", LatLongDMS: "33:49:00 S 151:03:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2913 (3A89AF93)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~22:00
Location: BEVERLY HILLS, CA
Description: 1 observer. "Little sun" altitude / bright and dim. Straight and level fast. Streaks away going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 688)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1024

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "70", HatchDesc: "BEVERLY HILLS,CA:1 OBS:"LITTLE SUN" ALT/BRITE+DIM:S/L FAST:STREAKS AWAY >>N", LatLong: "34.066668 -118.400006", LatLongDMS: "34:04:00 N 118:24:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2914 (6E5F3CEA)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: NORTHEAST / FLORENCE, KY
Description: Teen / car. 30cm red-luminous/glowing globe going northeast / 5 minutes toward(s) Cincinnati. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 432)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1025

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "15", Elev: "250", HatchDesc: "NE/FLORENCE,KY:TEEN/CAR:30cm RED-LUMn GLOBE >NE/5mins twrd Cincinnati:/news", LatLong: "39.000002 -84.600004", LatLongDMS: "39:00:00 N 84:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2915 (70ED31C5)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: ATHENS, GA
Description: Airport swamped / calls. 3 silver saucers over town. / Athens Banner Herald.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1026

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "20", Elev: "231", HatchDesc: "ATHENS,GA:AIRPORT SWAMPED/CALLS:3 SLVR SCRS OVR TOWN:/Athens Banner Herald", LatLong: "33.461113 -83.377782", LatLongDMS: "33:27:40 N 83:22:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2916 (C4823BB8)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 22:50
Location: TACOMA, WA
Description: 2 separate observer(s). 2 saucers / V-formation. Extremely fast. 2 saucers with vapor trails over McChord Air Force Base.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 689)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1027

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "115", HatchDesc: "TACOMA,WA:2 SEP.OBS:2 SCRS/VFORMn:XFAST::2 SCRS W/VAPOR TRAILS OVR McCHORD AFB", LatLong: "47.216669 -122.416673", LatLongDMS: "47:13:00 N 122:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2917 (EA55A67E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: 23:00
Location: WESSINGTON SPRS, SD
Description: Farmer Barta. 1+2 blasts. 2' orange globe hovers over yard. Vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 687)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1028

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "514", HatchDesc: "WESSINGTON Sprs,SD:FARMER BARTA:1+2 BLASTS:2'ORG GLOBE HVRS OVR YARD:VANISHES", LatLong: "44.088891 -98.572227", LatLongDMS: "44:05:20 N 98:34:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2918 (D8586AEE)

Date: 7/7/1947
Time: ~23:00
Location: STOCKHOLM, SWD
Description: Classic flying saucer seen over city. / Aftonbladet Daily. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1029

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "STOCKHOLM,SWD:CLASSIC FLYING SCR SEEN OVR CITY:/AFTONBLADET DAILY:NFD", LatLong: "59.366669 18.000001", LatLongDMS: "59:22:00 N 18:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2919 (AAD00A0D)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Willow Springs, IL
Description: Robert Meegan and his 14 year old son John saw "13 round objects all going east, single file in a straight line (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_361

Event 2920 (A201434A)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Tacoma, WA
Description: Bloecher's case 547, from his book, is a humanoid report. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_362

Event 2921 (6BFD3FB0)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Shreveport (7 miles N of ), LA
Description: Military aircraft pilot Harston saw a bright silver object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_363

Event 2922 (9EA8A2E2)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Lakeland, FL
Description: Five "Turtle-Backed" Objects Headed NE (Sound Heard) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470707
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_364

Event 2923 (D9B79BC6)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Hickam Field, HI
Description: A bright silver object about the angular size of the moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_365

Event 2924 (B8AD0D8D)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Muroc Army Air Field, CA
Description: Oscillating Sphere Observed By Test Pilot & Others (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470707
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_366

Event 2925 (D970CC6C)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Arlington, VA
Description: Bet. 10:30 and 11 p.m. (EDT) "blob," the size of a small airplane, reflecting white light (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470707
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_367

Event 2926 (4D71BF36)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Description: The Rhodes Photo Case (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470707
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_368

Event 2927 (A0E1FA78)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Roswell AAF; Andrews AAF; Washington, D.C.
Description: 2:00 a.m. A special flight the first leaves Roswell AAF for Andrews AAF in Washington, D.C. Some of the debris and the bodies are on that flight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1013

Event 2928 (7D2FD004)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Roswell
Description: Brazel takes Marcel and Cavitt out to the debris field. It is three-quarters of a mile long and 200–300 feet wide. A gouge starting at the northern end of it extends for 400–500 feet toward the other end. It looks as if something has touched down and skipped along. The largest piece of debris is recovered at the southern edge of the gouge. The debris is as thin as newsprint, but incredibly strong. There is foil that, when crumpled, unfolds itself without a sign of a wrinkle, I-beams that flex slightly and have some symbols on them, and material resembling Bakelite. Marcel and Cavitt walk the perimeter of the field and then range out looking for more details or another crash site but find nothing else. Finally, they return and spend the remainder of the day collecting debris. They load the rear of Marcel’s car and then the jeep carryall driven by Cavitt. About dusk they begin the trip back to Roswell.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The Roswell Material,” IUR 16, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1991: 10–11; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 27–29, 165; Kevin D. Randle, “Don’t Bother Me with the Facts…,” IUR 18, no. 3 Jan./Feb. 1993: 16–17, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris: A Quantitative Evaluation of the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 20, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1995: 3–6, 23–24; Charles B. Moore, Robert G. Todd, Mark Rodeghier, and Kevin D. Randle, “Project Mogul and the Roswell Crash: An Exchange,” IUR 20, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1995: 7–9, 19–22; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 May/June 1995: 3–5, 24; Robert A. Galganski, “Roswell: Connecting the Debris Field and the Impact Site,” IUR 21, no. 2 Summer 1996: 11–17; Robert A. Galganski, “The Glue Explanation Just Won’t Stick,” IUR 22, no. 4 Winter 1997–1998: 3–7; Robert A. Galganski, “An Engineer Looks at the Project Mogul Hypothesis,” IUR 23, no. 2 Summer 1998: 3–6, 32; Thomas J. Carey, “Will the Real Sheridan Cavitt Please Stand Up?” IUR 23, no. 3 Fall 1998: 14–21; Kent Jeffrey, “Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 1998: 79–101; Michael D. Swords, “A Different View of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 1998: 103–125; Robert M. Wood, “Critique of ‘Roswell: Anatomy of a Myth,’” Journal of Scientific Exploration 12, no. 1 1998: 127–140; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 Winter 1999: 13–19; Robert A. Galganski, The Roswell Debris Field: An Engineer’s Perspective, Fund for UFO Research, 2002; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective, September 19, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1014

Event 2929 (43E6C9F9)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Alamogordo AAF; Kirtland AAF; New Mexico; Washington State
Description: AMC commander Lieut. Gen Nathan Twining unexpectedly flies to Alamogordo AAF and Kirtland AAF in New Mexico, remaining there until July 11. Army Air Forces Commander Gen. Carl Spaatz is supposedly “vacationing” in Washington State. He tells reporters he knows nothing about the flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 165
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1015

Event 2930 (0C75BA5C)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Shreveport, Louisiana
Description: A hoax in Shreveport, Louisiana. A 16-inch aluminum disc with smoke coming out of it is found. Army investigators find “Made in USA” on the disc. It is one of many homemade gadgets, weather balloon radar targets, circular saws, and other disc-like debris that people find or make in order to have some fun in the press or with gullible saucer-seekers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 21; “Speaking of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,” Life, July 21, 1947, p. 14; ClearIntent, p. 149; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, “Secret Projects and Open Eyes: A Response,” IUR 19, no. 3 May/June 1994: 15–17; Kevin D. Randle, “The Hoover Memo Again,” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015; Maurizio Verga, “Here They Are! Early Crashes of Flying Saucers, a Visual History,” Cielo Insolito, no. 6 March 2018: 8–27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1016

Event 2931 (4F641AD4)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Reno, Nevada
Description: 9:55 a.m. Newspaper editor John Brackett and his wife Wilma see an object streak across the sky in Reno, Nevada, leaving a trail of bluish-white vapor. It is high in the sky and traveling at about 1,000 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Tiny Speck Whizzes across Sky Here at Unbelievable Rate of Speed; Many Reno Persons See Small Object,” Reno Nevada State Journal, July 8, 1947, p. 14; Bloecher, pp. III-7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1017

Event 2932 (A134AAFF)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Elkhart, Wisconsin; Koshkonong
Description: 11:30 a.m. Flight instructor Kenneth Jones out of Elkhart, Wisconsin, is practicing take-offs and landings with a student near Koshkonong. They watch a disc descending vertically on edge through the alto-cumulus clouds at 6,000 feet, stop at 4,000 feet, assume a horizontal orientation, and fly horizontally for 15 seconds, covering 23 miles at 5,500 mph. At one point it heads straight towards them on a course of about 120°, then stops again apparently overhead and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-11; Sparks , p. 22; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1018

Event 2933 (AD47B02E)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Toronto; Shreveport, Louisiana; Ellington Field [now Ellington Airport], Houston, Texas
Description: Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg’s activity log: 1:10 p.m., answers a Toronto Star reporter’s question about possible secret military aircraft. Vandenberg says no AAF planes are looking for discs, but National Guard planes are looking into the discs on their own. 1:50 p.m., Stephen Leo, public relations officer for AF Secretary Stuart Symington , calls concerning the Shreveport, Louisiana, incident. 1:55 p.m. Leo and Gen. Curtis LeMay discuss the discs. Col. Warren, at Ellington Field [now Ellington Airport] in Houston, Texas, calls concerning the Shreveport disc. 4:20 p.m., Col. Warren calls back and says the incident is a hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Rudiak, “Lt. Gen. Hoyt S. Vandenberg and Roswell,” Roswell Proof, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1019

Event 2934 (23CE1C28)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: East Troy, Wisconsin; Eagle; Muskego
Description: 2:30 p.m. Capt. Robert J. Southey and Clem Hackworthy are flying a private aircraft near East Troy, Wisconsin, when they see a fast-moving silver object flying southeast from Eagle to Muskego, covering 17 miles in 20 seconds approximately 3,060 mph. They try to photograph it, but it quickly disappears, then suddenly reappears about 10 miles away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, pp. III-11–12; Sparks, p. 22; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1020

Event 2935 (FBC6F3C4)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Seattle, Washington; Boise, Idaho; Palm Springs, California; Washington State
Description: A meeting is held in the office of Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen , chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence. It is decided to investigate five flying disc incidents with “qualified” observers and obtain detailed statements: two in Seattle, Washington; one in Boise, Idaho; one in Palm Springs, California; and one in Washington State.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1021

Event 2936 (9144F1E3)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Zelienople, Pennsylvania
Description: John Philip Bessor of Zelienople, Pennsylvania, writes to the US Air Force to offer his own theory that UFOs are “a form of space animal, or creature, of a highly attenuated ectoplasmic? substance, capable of materialization and dematerialization, whose propellant is a form of telekinetic energy.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 4, no. 4 May/June 1951: 88; John P. Bessor, “Are the Saucers Space Animals?” Fate 8, no. 12 December 1955: 6–12; Curt Collins, “The 1947 ET Hypothesis of John P. Bessor,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 15, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1022

Event 2937 (56A9B2A3)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Medford, Oregon
Description: 5:20 p.m. Radar technician David W. Chase watches a disc-shaped object passing overhead at Medford, Oregon. It appears to be flying at 600–700 mph on edge at right angles to the surface of the earth, though following its contours at 500–1,000 feet. The object gives off a bright light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-18; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 January 1951: 63–81
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1023

Event 2938 (F24775A7)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio; Olentangy River
Description: 7:45 p.m. Five students on a practice baseball field at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, see three metallic oval objects flying swiftly and silently in a triangular formation overhead. They seem to be about 10 feet in diameter and are flying east over the Olentangy River. They are out of sight within 10 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. II- 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1024

Event 2939 (1600D8AF)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Great Pond near Rome, Maine
Description: 9:00 p.m. Orrin Williams and his wife Albertine , along with Mr, and Mrs. Cecil Grant, are fishing on Great Pond near Rome, Maine, when they see a “spinning rocket” come out of the southern sky and stop abruptly overhead, where it hovers as a ball of fire. A similar object comes from the east, passing close by the first one. A third object approaches from the east and stops by the first object before moving on. The first object then retraces its path to the south at high speed. The display lasts several minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. II-10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1025

Event 2940 (7A4EAC3B)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Phoenix, Arizona; Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California; James E. McDonald
Description: 9:00 p.m. William A. Rhodes , an independent scientist and inventor in Phoenix, Arizona, takes two photos of a dark, heel-shaped disc at his home at 4333 N. 14th Street. The photos are reproduced in the July 9 issue of the Arizona Republic. A few weeks later, an Army Air Corps Intelligence officer from Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California, visits Rhodes and takes the prints and negatives, but Rhodes is unable to get them back. However, Kenneth Arnold obtains them on a later visit to Hamilton, and they wind up with James E. McDonald . Rhodes actually has an informal top-secret clearance because of his invention of a degaussing device for ships. He dies in 2007 at the age of 90.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “The Rhodes Photo Case”; Bloecher, p. IV-4; Michael D. Swords, “Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Swords 53, 54
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1026

Event 2941 (5021CC52)

Date: 7/7/1947
Locations: Western Avenue; Manchester, Maine; Cobboseecontee Lake
Description: 9:30 p.m. Charles Crockett, 15, is walking along Western Avenue in Manchester, Maine, when he sees a cluster of luminous objects to the west, just above the treetops on the north end of Cobboseecontee Lake. They are still visible when he arrives home and alerts his mother and grandmother. Possible searchlight beams.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Saucers’ Still Seen Flitting in N.E. Sky,” Bangor Maine Daily News, July 8, 1947, pp. 1–2; Bloecher, p. II-20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1027

Event 2942 (DE54C373)

Date: 7/7/1947
Location: Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville, Kentucky
Description: 10:15 p.m. Louisville Times photographer Al Hixenbaugh is at Preston Street and Bickels Lane in Louisville, Kentucky, when he notices three “fiery balls” in the sky. He takes a 5-second exposure, capturing two of the objects that show as slightly curved streaks. He estimates they are 1–2 miles away, moving at 200 mph, and at an altitude of 1,000–2,000 feet. Robert Delara of 2745 West Market Street also sees the three objects shooting northward.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Louisville Ky. Times, July 8, 1947; “‘Flying Liver Pills’ over Kentucky,” Cincinnati Enquirer, July 9, 1947, p. 1; Bloecher, pp. IV-4–5; “La Fotografía y la Pélicula Al Hixenbaugh 1,” Marcianitos Verdes, February 5, 2017
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1028

Event 2943 (4E580A6B)

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: The radio announcer at Mexican radio station XEFI, a man named Duran, reported the he had sighted five disc-shaped objects over Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico and that two had been sighted over Ciudad Juarez, Mexico.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 86, citing Panama City Star, July 8, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3897

Event 2944 (449DE2BB)

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: At three o'clock in the afternoon in Amfreville-la-Mi-Voie, Seine-Maritime department, France a small disc-shaped UFO landed on the banks of the Seine River. Two short humanoids, about three feet tall, got out and shortly later reboarded the craft. The UFO lifted off silently, and flew off to the southeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1000, citing Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 50
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3898

Event 2945 (AB6633D6)

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: At 10:35 a.m. in San Carlos, San Mateo County, California 30 round silvery objects circled over one spot for two minutes at 2,000 feet altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Sacramento Bee, July 7, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 595
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3899

Event 2946 (AFBE90F5)

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: During the afternoon in Tacoma, Washington three male witnesses reported that a disc-shaped object landed on their neighbor's roof. Several "little people" emerged, but disappeared when reporters approached.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Tacoma News Tribune, July 8, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 547
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3900

Event 2947 (F39740F8)

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: On this afternoon at around 3:30 p.m. William Rhodes was working in his backyard in Phoenix, Arizona when he heard a whooshing sound and saw an unusual looking, gray flying craft in the sky. He grabbed his camera and took two photographs. The flying object was twenty to thirty feet long, crescent-shaped, and flying at an estimated 1,000 feet altitude. It circled in the east for about 30 seconds. The photograph quality was sharp and clear, although the reproduction below is from the newspaper that first published it and suffers from deterioration in quality due to age and print technique.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Arizona Republic, July 9, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 632; Edward U. Condon (editor), Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 508; APRO Bulletin, December 1977, p. 8; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; Kevin D. Randle & Russ Estes, Spaceships of the Visitors, p. 95
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3901

Event 2948 (8F976BB3)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_252

Event 2949 (E8BFE3DA)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special plane to Wright Field
Type: ufological event
Reference: YouTube
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_253

Event 2950 (E0B2FEA5)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Dallas, TX
Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and was recovered near Roswell NM
Type: teletype
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_254

Event 2951 (B9C28A4E)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, N.M., this date...Information provided this office because of national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources) attempting to break the story of location of disc today...(the recovered disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination...Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise (FBI) results of examination.”
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_255
See also: 7/2/1947
See also: 7/7/1947

Event 2952 (24C516EE)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: “absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_256

Event 2953 (D39C1633)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant metal or alloy not yet known.”
Type: FOIA release
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_257

Event 2954 (0FDCA859)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University
Type: Newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_258

Event 2955 (F6EB318F)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: Sgt. Baker and several. 3 round rolling objects faster / P80 planes.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1030

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "HAMILTON AFB,CA:Sgt BAKER+SVRL:3 ROUND ROLLING OBJs FASTER/P80 PLANES", LatLong: "38.066668 -122.583339", LatLongDMS: "38:04:00 N 122:35:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2956 (F07C3ABB)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: FREMONT, OH
Description: 3 observer(s). Brightly lit orange disk north going quickly south over house. No further details / Register-Star 8 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 94)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1031

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "194", HatchDesc: "FREMONT,OH:3 OBS:BRIGHTLY LIT ORG.DISK N>>S OVER HOUSE:NFD/Register-Star 8JLY", LatLong: "41.350002 -83.122226", LatLongDMS: "41:21:00 N 83:07:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2957 (2A7307CF)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: SAN JUAN, PR
Description: 2+2 saucers / pairs. Northeast going quickly southwest then going quickly south. News Report / Mexico. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1032

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "SAN JUAN,PR:2+2 SCRS/PAIRS:NE >> SW then >>S:NEWS Report/MEXICO:NFD", LatLong: "18.433334 -66.133336", LatLongDMS: "18:26:00 N 66:08:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Puerto Rico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2958 (60F48EE8)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: NEAR BARNSDALL, OK
Description: 2 / car. Soft white 50cm disk scoots along just over ground. Maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 423)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1033

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "nr BARNSDALL,OK:2/CAR:SOFT WHT 50cm DISK SCOOTS ALONG JUST OVR GND:MNVRS", LatLong: "36.566668 -96.166671", LatLongDMS: "36:34:00 N 96:10:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2959 (A662265A)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 02:10
Location: SOUTH / CAMBRIDGE, MA
Description: Salesman. 5 disks straight and level 300mph going quickly north. Thousands / Ft. altitude. Vapor trails.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 718)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1034

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "S/CAMBRIDGE,MA:SALESMAN:5 DISKS S/L 300mph >>N:1000s/FT ALT:VAPOR TRAILS", LatLong: "42.350002 -71.116670", LatLongDMS: "42:21:00 N 71:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2960 (241CE599)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 07:10
Location: COOK SPRINGS, AL
Description: 1 / private plane. Flash. 1M saucer seen against mountain. Lost / haze. / r187#702.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1035

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "169", HatchDesc: "COOK SPRINGS,AL:1/Pvt.PLANE:FLASH:1M SCR SEEN AGAINST MTN:LOST/HAZE:/r187#702", LatLong: "33.583335 -86.416671", LatLongDMS: "33:35:00 N 86:25:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2961 (F8947C5D)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 07:50
Location: 2 MILES NORTH / DE LAMERE, ND
Description: Farmer Miller. Bright shiny circular object going quickly southeast fast. Straight and level trajectory. Brief.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 701)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1036

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "325", HatchDesc: "2mi N/De LAMERE,ND:FARMER MILLER:BRITE SHINY CIRC.OBJ >>SE FAST:S/L TRAJ:brief", LatLong: "46.300002 -97.350005", LatLongDMS: "46:18:00 N 97:21:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2962 (23C57F17)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 08:20
Location: YUMA, AZ
Description: Highway Department men. 2 silver saucers going northeast fast and silent / high altitude. Single file. / r111p20.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1037

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "YUMA,AZ:Hwy.Dept.MEN:2 SLVR SCRS >NE FAST+SLNT/HI ALT:SINGLE FILE:/r111p20", LatLong: "32.716668 -114.616672", LatLongDMS: "32:43:00 N 114:37:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2963 (09EA0B0D)

Date: 7/8/1947?
Time: ~09:00
Location: RED BAY, AL
Description: Private pilot. Near collision with silver disk! Shoots away. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 438)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1038

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "190", HatchDesc: "RED BAY,AL:Pvt.PILOT:nr COLLISION W/SLVR DISK!:SHOOTS AWAY:NFD", LatLong: "34.438891 -88.133338", LatLongDMS: "34:26:20 N 88:08:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2964 (635AD1D5)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 09:10
Location: CHICAGO, IL
Description: 3 separate report(s) to 9 July going southwest. Up to 5 domed saucers. Swish. Hover. Spin and speed away.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1039

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "CHICAGO,IL:3 SEP.RPTS to 9JLY>SW:UP TO 5 DOMED SCRS:SWISH:HVR:SPIN+SPEED AWAY", LatLong: "41.866669 -87.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:52:00 N 87:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2965 (898F5892)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 09:30
Location: MUROC AB, CA
Description: 3 military observer(s). 2+1 saucers / series. Circle. Going quickly west across wind / 300+mph. 8K' altitude. / r55p95.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 433)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1040

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "710", HatchDesc: "MUROC AB,CA:3 MIL OBS:2+1 SCRS/SERIES:CCL:>>W ACRS WIND/300+mph:8K'ALT:/r55p95", LatLong: "34.883335 -117.916672", LatLongDMS: "34:53:00 N 117:55:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2966 (55B0B39A)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: ~10:00
Location: DENVER, CO
Description: Many observer(s). 3 groups / saucer from west scatter all over/all about city center. All going quickly west again.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 671)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1041

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "180", Elev: "1578", HatchDesc: "DENVER,CO:MANY OBS:3 GRPS/SCR fm WEST SCATTER ALLO CITY CENTER:ALL >>W AGAIN", LatLong: "39.738891 -104.983338", LatLongDMS: "39:44:20 N 104:59:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2967 (8D451EBC)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: CARRIZOZO, NM
Description: 5 pilots / field. Saucer feathers down. Shoots up going quickly north. Seen 10 second(s) only.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLITZ, Charles & MOORE, William: The ROSWELL INCIDENT; Putnam 1980 & Berkley Books 1988. (Index 29)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1042

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1654", HatchDesc: "CARRIZOZO,NM:5 PILOTS/FIELD:SCR FEATHERS DOWN:SHOOTS UP >>N:seen 10sec only", LatLong: "33.638890 -105.877783", LatLongDMS: "33:38:20 N 105:52:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2968 (343E0A19)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: CORAPEAKE, NC
Description: Farmer. 8M thin metallic disk going [to] 1200kph / 600M altitude. Windows. Steams / pipes!
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 94)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1043

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "CORAPEAKE,NC:FARMER:8M THIN MTLC DISK >1200kph/600M alt:WINDOWS:STEAMS/PIPES!", LatLong: "36.533335 -76.566670", LatLongDMS: "36:32:00 N 76:34:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2969 (31FF0FED)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 10:20
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: 2 separate observer(s). 1 disk going [to] over railroad/railway yards. Going quickly south. High altitude. Back / 1400-1430h. Going southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 719)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1044

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:2 SEP.OBS:1 DISK > OVR RR YARDS:>>S:HI ALT::BACK/1400-1430h:>SE", LatLong: "45.500002 -122.666673", LatLongDMS: "45:30:00 N 122:40:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2970 (9AB053C8)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 11:00?
Location: DOUGLAS AND TUCSON, AZ
Description: 2+3 observer(s). 25' saucer west going east. Changes shape slow. Reflects sun. / r187#730.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally "The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1045

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "717", HatchDesc: "DOUGLAS+TUCSON,AZ:2+3 OBS:25'SCR W>E:CHANGES SHAPE SLOW:REFLECTS SUN:/r187#730", LatLong: "31.344446 -109.544450", LatLongDMS: "31:20:40 N 109:32:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2971 (43A19869)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 11:20
Location: STEWARTSVILLE, MO
Description: 3 observer(s). 4 metallic disks going west / 150M altitude. Tilt side to side.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 436)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1046

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "292", HatchDesc: "STEWARTSVILLE,MO:3 OBS:4 MTLC DISKS >W/150M alt:TILT SIDE to SIDE:", LatLong: "39.750002 -94.500005", LatLongDMS: "39:45:00 N 94:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2972 (66E1A842)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: ROGERS DRY LAKE, CA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #1. F51 pilot and ground crew. Large silent silver saucer going quickly northwest. Wind going east!
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1047

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "100", Elev: "700", HatchDesc: "ROGERS DRY LAKE,CA:BBK#1:F51 PILOT+GND CREW:LRG SLNT SLVR SCR>>NW:WIND > E!", LatLong: "34.866668 -117.866672", LatLongDMS: "34:52:00 N 117:52:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2973 (E48A3BCB)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 12:00?
Location: HOUSTON, TX
Description: Saucer lands. 2' man / large head shakes hands / mariner and takes off. / r15#21.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 447)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1048

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "2", Duration: "10", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "HOUSTON,TX:SCR LANDS:2'MAN/LRG HEAD SHAKES HANDS/MARINER+TAKES OFF:/r15#21", LatLong: "29.766668 -95.400005", LatLongDMS: "29:46:00 N 95:24:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "10"

Event 2974 (48DE9888)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: 10+observer(s). Group / saucers. 1 breaks away and flips. Black / 1 side and silver / other side.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 732)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1049

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:10+OBS:GROUP/SCRS:1 BREAKS AWAY+FLIPS:BLACK/1 SIDE+SLVR/OTHER SIDE", LatLong: "47.683336 -117.400006", LatLongDMS: "47:41:00 N 117:24:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"

Event 2975 (509B05CE)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: NORFOLK, VA
Description: Ovoid rocks and spins. Small objects follow. Disks going north. Photographs. FBI. / r171p93+MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: George Hebert in Norfolk (VA) Ledger-Dispatch for 9 July1947. On file here: NORFOLK47.TXT
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1050

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "NORFOLK,VA:OVOID ROCKS+SPINS:sml objs folo:DISKS >N:fotos:FBI:/r171p93+MJ#121", LatLong: "36.833335 -76.266670", LatLongDMS: "36:50:00 N 76:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2976 (30962641)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 12:10
Location: ST. LOUIS, MO
Description: Teacher / former skeptic. Pink saucer with dark spot / center. Fast / 5-10K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 711)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1051

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "137", HatchDesc: "St.LOUIS,MO:TEACHER/FORMER SKEPTIC:PINK SCR W/DARK SPOT/CENTER:FAST/5-10K'alt", LatLong: "38.650002 -90.216671", LatLongDMS: "38:39:00 N 90:13:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2977 (C498BA80)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 12:10
Location: PHOENIX, AZ
Description: 30+observer(s). 3 metallic-glassy disks going west against wind. Play in and out / clouds. Spin.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 437)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1052

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "320", HatchDesc: "PHOENIX,AZ:30+OBS:3 MTLC-GLASSY DISKS >W AGAINST WIND:PLAY IN+OUT/CLOUDS:SPIN", LatLong: "33.466668 -112.033339", LatLongDMS: "33:28:00 N 112:02:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2978 (9C6DB56B)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: SHINGLE SPRINGS, CA
Description: Don Barter and wife and others. ~50 disks seen. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 740)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1053

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "433", HatchDesc: "SHINGLE SPRINGS,CA:DON BARTER+WIFE+OTHERS:~50 DISKS SEEN:NFD:", LatLong: "38.666669 -120.900006", LatLongDMS: "38:40:00 N 120:54:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2979 (90ECBCAA)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: Naval student pilot. Shiny 1M disk with hole / center at 500' altitude. Low speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 735)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1054

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:NVL STUDENT PILOT:SHINY 1M DISK W/HOLE/CENTER @500'alt:LO SPEED", LatLong: "47.666669 -117.416672", LatLongDMS: "47:40:00 N 117:25:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2980 (31B580EE)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: AVALON, CA
Description: Hundreds / HIQ. observer(s). 3+3 saucers 850mph going south over island. Photographs going [to] mainland. / r187#734.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 431)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1055

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "AVALON,CA:100s/HIQ.OBS:3+3 SCRS 850mph >S OVR ISLAND:FOTOS>MAINLAND:/r187#734", LatLong: "33.344446 -118.327783", LatLongDMS: "33:20:40 N 118:19:40 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2981 (6DC9A19F)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: LOS ALTOS, CA
Description: Lady and 2 boys. 8 disks / 3 formations going quickly south toward(s) Los Gatos. See Redwood City.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 200)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1056

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "LOS ALTOS,CA:LADY+2 BOYS:8 DISKS/3 FORMns >>S twrd LOS GATOS:see Redwood City", LatLong: "37.383335 -122.116672", LatLongDMS: "37:23:00 N 122:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2982 (231B9EBA)

Date: 7/8/1947 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: COURTENAY, BC
Description: Moon-size semi translucent saucer hovers / edge over airport as clouds pass.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 529)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1057

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "COURTENAY,BC:MOONSIZE SEMI XLUCENT SCR HVRS/EDGE ovr AIRPORT as clouds pass:", LatLong: "49.688891 -124.988895", LatLongDMS: "49:41:20 N 124:59:20 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2983 (D75A53C5)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 13:50
Location: SACRAMENTO, CA
Description: 1+several kids. Shiny disk maneuvers / 1 L'alt going quickly north. Spirals going up. Levels and going quickly north and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 742)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1058

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "SACRAMENTO,CA:1+SVRL KIDS:SHINY DISK MNVRS/1L'alt>>N:SPIRALS↑:LEVELS+>>N+AWAY", LatLong: "38.600002 -121.466672", LatLongDMS: "38:36:00 N 121:28:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2984 (10BC21BD)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: ~14:00
Location: REDWOOD CITY, CA
Description: 3 observer(s). 8 saucers in formation going south / high altitude / groups / 4+3+1. / R. C. Times Gazette.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 200)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1059

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "REDWOOD CITY,CA:3 OBS:8 SCRS/FORMn >S/HIGH ALT/GROUPS/4+3+1:/R.C.Times Gazette", LatLong: "37.472224 -122.233339", LatLongDMS: "37:28:20 N 122:14:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "9999", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2985 (ADFB1971)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Description: 2 observer(s). Very shiny 10' saucer with glass dome. Going up [to] going down [to] motion going quickly northwest over city. / r187#752.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 438)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1060

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "SEATTLE,WA:2 OBS:VSHINY 10' SCR W/GLASS DOME:↑↓ MOTION>>NW OVR CITY:/r187#752", LatLong: "47.633336 -122.350006", LatLongDMS: "47:38:00 N 122:21:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2986 (84754FF9)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 15:10
Location: EAST / WOODBURN, OR
Description: 6 observer(s). Small silver saucer hides / puffs / smoke. Maneuvers / 30 minutes. Going quickly [to] 2 toward(s) Salem.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 438)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1061

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "57", HatchDesc: "E/WOODBURN,OR:6 OBS:SML SLVR SCR HIDES/PUFFS/SMOKE:MNVRS/30mins:>>2 twrd SALEM", LatLong: "45.144447 -122.833339", LatLongDMS: "45:08:40 N 122:50:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2987 (DE54ECC2)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 15:50
Location: 40 MI SOUTH / MUROC ARMY AIR BASE, CA
Description: F51 pilot / 20K' altitude. Flat reflective disk. Can't reach-too high.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1062

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "1500", HatchDesc: "40mi S/MUROC AAB,CA:F51 PILOT/20K'alt:FLAT REFLECTIVE DISK:CANT REACH-TOO HIGH", LatLong: "34.333335 -117.883339", LatLongDMS: "34:20:00 N 117:53:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2988 (66DB9182)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: ROSWELL, NM
Description: Army Air Force (AAF) news release. F.S. recovered! (Later) "only a weather balloon".
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLE, Kevin & SCHMITT,Donald: UFO CRASH at ROSWELL; Avon Books, NY 1991. 327pp. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1063

Attributes: NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "50", Elev: "1089", HatchDesc: "ROSWELL,NM:AAF NEWS RELEASE:F.S. RECOVERED!:(later) "ONLY A WEATHER BALLOON"", LatLong: "33.383335 -104.533338", LatLongDMS: "33:23:00 N 104:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "9"

Event 2989 (1F690D09)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 16:30
Location: NORTH / ALTON, NH
Description: Vet private pilot and 1. 6M metallic saucer veers going quickly northeast / 400M altitude. 1100kph. / r187#733.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 428)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1064

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "N/ALTON,NH:VET Pvt PILOT+1:6M MTLC SCR VEERS >>NE/400M alt:1100kph:/r187#733", LatLong: "43.450002 -71.216670", LatLongDMS: "43:27:00 N 71:13:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "400", State/Prov: "New Hampshire", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2990 (3AB1DC88)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: PEARL HARBOR, HI
Description: 100 Navy men. Silver saucer going quickly east / high altitude. (Balloon earlier went going [to] southwest.)
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 769)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1065

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PEARL HARBOR,HI:100 NAVY MEN:SLVR SCR >>E/HI ALT:(BALLOON EARLIER WENT > SW)", LatLong: "21.366668 -157.966674", LatLongDMS: "21:22:00 N 157:58:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2991 (25CA1C91)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: SIOUX CITY, IA
Description: Several separate observer(s). Shiny aluminum round object going quickly south straight and level / 30 second(s). No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 753)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1066

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "335", HatchDesc: "SIOUX CITY,IA:SVRL SEP.OBS:SHINY ALUM.ROUND OBJ >>S S/L /30sec:NFD", LatLong: "42.516669 -96.433338", LatLongDMS: "42:31:00 N 96:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2992 (A5CDAF61)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: ~18:00
Location: CALDWELL TO/FROM NOTUS, ID
Description: 1 / car. 9-12 dark wiggly 'amoebas' going quickly west fast. Fade into distance.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 421)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1067

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "868", HatchDesc: "CALDWELL><NOTUS,ID:1/CAR:9-12 DRK WIGGLY 'AMOEBAS' >>W FAST:FADE into DISTANCE", LatLong: "43.694447 -116.750006", LatLongDMS: "43:41:40 N 116:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2993 (D4DEA8CE)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 18:20
Location: COLUMBUS, KS
Description: 2 ex-airmen and 3. 6M metallic hemisphere going quickly southwest straight and level. 3km altitude. Slight tilt.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 822)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1068

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "277", HatchDesc: "COLUMBUS,KS:2 EX-AIRMEN+3:6M MTLC HEMISPHERE >>SW S/L:3km alt:SLIGHT TILT", LatLong: "37.166668 -94.844449", LatLongDMS: "37:10:00 N 94:50:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "5"

Event 2994 (DD231503)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: VANCOUVER, BC AND SAANICH AND NEW WESTMINSTER
Description: Many separate observer(s). Flying disks all over area.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1069

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "72", HatchDesc: "VANCOUVER,BC+SAANICH+NEW WESTMINSTER:MANY SEP.OBS:FLYING DISKS ALL OVR AREA", LatLong: "48.250002 -123.066673", LatLongDMS: "48:15:00 N 123:04:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2995 (B08F01E9)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: TOPEKA, KS
Description: 1+3 separate observer(s). Green luminous disk very high and fast. Straight and level going quickly southwest. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 763)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1070

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "TOPEKA,KS:1+3 SEP.OBS:GRN LUMn.DISK VERY HIGH+FAST:S/L >>SW:NFD", LatLong: "39.033335 -95.666671", LatLongDMS: "39:02:00 N 95:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2996 (A008C47A)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: ~19:00
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: Scores / observer(s). Grey truncated-cone saucer seen all over town.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 758)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1071

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "5", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:SCORES/OBS:GRY TRUNCATED-CONE SCR SEEN ALL OVR TOWN", LatLong: "39.966669 -75.183337", LatLongDMS: "39:58:00 N 75:11:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"

Event 2997 (B7CE9B09)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 19:20
Location: SAN LEANDRO, CA
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Silver disk hovers and maneuvers going up and down. Rises. "Explodes / flames".
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 766)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1072

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "5", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "SAN LEANDRO,CA:HUNDREDS/OBS:SLVR DISK HVRS+MNVRS ↑+↓:RISES:"EXPLODES/FLAMES"", LatLong: "37.683335 -122.150006", LatLongDMS: "37:41:00 N 122:09:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2998 (E5C7A0C0)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: BRUSHY CREEK, TX
Description: Numerous observer(s). Row / 12 orbs reforms into circle formation. Going west / Palestine, TX.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 435)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1073

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "142", HatchDesc: "BRUSHY CREEK,TX:NMRS OBS:ROW/12 ORBS REFORMS into CIRCLE FORMn:>W/PALESTINE,TX", LatLong: "31.950002 -95.600005", LatLongDMS: "31:57:00 N 95:36:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 2999 (B713C6B4)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 21:00?
Location: BIG SANDY, TX
Description: Numerous observer(s). Big disk stops cold. 2nd disk catches up. Both circle going southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 453)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1074

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "106", HatchDesc: "BIG SANDY,TX:NMRS OBS:BIG DISK STOPS COLD:2nd DISK CATCHES UP:BOTH CCL >SW", LatLong: "32.583335 -95.111116", LatLongDMS: "32:35:00 N 95:06:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3000 (5C97A9DF)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 21:00?
Location: LONDON, ONT
Description: Steeplejack Ferguson and family. Flying pancake disk skips along going northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 97)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1075

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "263", HatchDesc: "LONDON,ONT:STEEPLEJACK FERGUSON+FAMILY:FLYING PANCAKE DISK SKIPS ALONG >NW: ", LatLong: "43.033335 -81.333337", LatLongDMS: "43:02:00 N 81:20:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3001 (635AE8DF)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 21:50
Location: MADISON, WI
Description: 5 teens camping. Flat brilliant disk close to horizon. Southeast going quickly northwest very fast. Straight and level.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 777)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1076

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "MADISON,WI:5 TEENS CAMPING:FLAT BRILL.DISK CLOSE TO HRZN:SE>>NW VFAST:S/L", LatLong: "43.066669 -89.416671", LatLongDMS: "43:04:00 N 89:25:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3002 (4E192728)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Houston, TX
Description: Bloecher's case 698, from his book, is a humanoid report. (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_369

Event 3003 (563F87A9)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Los Angeles (near), CA
Description: F-51 pilot (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_370

Event 3004 (4D27F293)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Muroc AFB, CA
Description: 9:30 AM: 2 disc-shaped or spherical objects, silver and apparently metallic (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 50)
Reference: NICAP: 470708
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_371

Event 3005 (7B25ED21)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Muroc AFB, CA
Description: 11:50 AM - Noon: Sightings of discs had impact on EOTS. A round silver or aluminum-white object at first thought to be a parachute was seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470708
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_372

Event 3006 (7014F623)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Muroc AFB, CA
Description: Noon. Others witnesses independently, including Muroc CO Col. Signa A. Gilkey and engineer Major Richard R. Shoop and wife saw from a different location 5-8 miles away (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470708
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_373

Event 3007 (CBD72AF9)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Muroc AFB (40 miles S of), CA
Description: 4 PM: a flat reflective object with no vertical fin or wings (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_374

Event 3008 (ECCA463B)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 1200
Location: Muroc Air Field, California
Description: An Air Force major observed a metallic object, reflecting sunlight oscillate, go down to ground level, and rise again. Simultaneously it was observed by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_60

Event 3009 (7009837B)

Date: 7/8/1947
Time: 9:30 AM PDT
Location: Muroc Air Base, California
Description: Witnesses: lst Lt. Joseph McHenry, T/Sgt Ruvolo, S/Sgt Nauman, Miss Janette Scotte. Watched for an unstated length of time while two disc-shaped or spherical objects--silver and apparently metallic--flew a wide circular pattern, and then one of them later flew a tighter circle.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_3

Event 3010 (C50ED7B7)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Roswell; Corona, New Mexico; Roswell AAF
Description: 2:00 a.m. Marcel stops at home in Roswell to show his wife Viaud and son Jesse Jr. some of the Corona, New Mexico, crash debris. Over the next hour they examine it on the kitchen floor. Marcel Sr. says it is a flying saucer. Marcel is not breaking regulations since nothing has yet been classified. With the help of his son, Marcel loads it into the car to be taken to Roswell AAF.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166; Robert J. Durant, “C. B. Moore’s Mogul Tape,” IUR 23, no. 2 Summer 1998: 7–9, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 Fall 1999: 8–12, 30; Karl T. Pflock, et al., “Debris Details,” IUR 24, no. 4 Winter 1999: 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1029

Event 3011 (514EB39B)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: base Provost Marshal; Fort Worth, Texas
Description: 6:00 a.m. Marcel and Cavitt visit with Blanchard in his quarters and tell him what they have seen. Blanchard calls base Provost Marshal Maj. Edwin D. Easley and orders him to post guards on the roads around the debris field. Armed guards encircle the primary areas, denying access to anyone without official business. Easley is directed to locate Brazel and have him escort the MPs to the debris field. Blanchard calls Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, and advises them of the new find.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1030

Event 3012 (E9391A97)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico; Roswell; impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell
Description: 7:30 a.m. The regular 9:00 a.m. Roswell Army Air Field staff meeting is moved up 90 minutes. The main topic for discussion is Marcel and Cavitt reporting an extensive debris field near Corona in Lincoln County, New Mexico, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell. A preliminary briefing is provided by Blanchard about the separate impact site approximately 40 miles north of Roswell. Samples of wreckage are passed around the table. Pieces that resemble metal foil, paper-thin yet extremely strong, and pieces with unusual markings along their length are handed from man to man, each voicing their opinion. No one is able to identify the crash debris.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1031

Event 3013 (7F4C2F75)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Cavitt; Lewis S. Rickett; Carlsbad, New Mexico; Roswell; impact site north of Roswell
Description: 9:00 a.m. Cavitt and Lewis S. Rickett , who has returned from an assignment in Carlsbad, New Mexico, drive a staff car to the impact site north of Roswell, followed by MPs. They are stopped by the guards who are still posted. When they arrive, they see that a small containment of debris remains that Rickett is allowed to examine.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 166
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1032

Event 3014 (AE762C1A)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB]; Rogers Dry Lake
Description: 9:30 a.m.–9:20 p.m. Five separate UFO sightings take place at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB] in southern California, the Air Force’s aircraft testing and development center. Ruppelt says these are the first sightings “that really made the Air Force take a deep interest in UFOs.” At 9:30 a.m., 1st Lt. Joseph C. McHenry and three others see three discs heading in a westerly direction. At 10:10 a.m., XP-84 test pilot Maj. Jowell C. Wise sees a yellowish-white object at 10,000 feet traveling about 200 mph. At 11:50 a.m., Maj. Richard R. Shoop, Col. S. A. Gilkey, and Capt. John P. Stapp are sitting in an observation truck at Rogers Dry Lake and see a round, white aluminum-like object descending from 20,000 feet for about 90 seconds; it has two knobs or thick fins on the top. Around 4:00 p.m., a pilot flying an F-51 some 40 miles south of Muroc sees a “flat object of a light-reflecting nature”; it is flying too high for him to climb up to it. At 9:20 p.m., spherical objects are again seen in the area, this time at 8,000 feet and moving against the wind at 300 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Observers Sight Saucer over Base”; NICAP, “Object Observed by Four Witnesses in Observation”; NICAP, “Object Descends to Ground Level, Rises”; NICAP, “Flat Object with Fin Observed by F-51 Pilot”; Bloecher, pp. III-4, 12; Clark III 783–784; Sparks, pp. 22–23; Patrick Gross, “The Muroc Army Air Field Incidents”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1033

Event 3015 (637B7BD7)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: 11:00 a.m. Col. William Blanchard dictates a press release about the Roswell recovery to Public Information Officer Lt. Walter Haut , who delivers the release to radio stations around noon the first apparently to Frank Joyce at KGFL and the newspapers in Roswell, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1034

Event 3016 (AFB519AF)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: The Army Air Force issues a press release saying that, based on a “preliminary study,” the flying discs are not secret bacteriological weapons designed by a foreign power, experimental army aircraft, or spaceships. However, Army and Navy officials are not certain what they are.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Saucer’ Dept.—All Designs,” Racine Wis. Journal Times, July 8, 1947, p. 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1035

Event 3017 (00959D09)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson D-Tex. requests information on the flying discs from the War Department. Someone from Gen. Carl Spaatz’s office writes back on July 21 to tell him the Army Air Forces are looking into it, but there is “no indication” that the discs are “new or unusual missiles or aircraft.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1036

Event 3018 (E928832F)

Date: 7/8/1947?
Locations: US; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; New Mexico
Description: British radio and TV entertainer Hughie Green is driving across the US. About 250 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he hears an announcement that a flying saucer “had crashed in New Mexico and that the Army were moving in to investigate. Later the program was interrupted again and quite a few details were given.” When he arrives at Philadelphia, there is nothing in the newspapers or on the radio.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Star Puzzled,” Flying Saucer Review 1, no 1 Spring 1955: 3; Clark III 319; “Hughie Green: ‘Peripheral Witness to Roswell?’” Above Top Secret forum, October 20, 2012
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1037

Event 3019 (DEEAD3A6)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Fort Worth Army Air Field, Texas; Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio; Corona, New Mexico; Roswell, New Mexico
Description: 1:00 p.m. Marcel goes on a B-29 special flight the second to Fort Worth Army Air Field, Texas, with the wreckage to report to Gen. Roger M. Ramey. The pilot is Lt. Col. Payne Jennings Jr. with Lt. Col. Robert Barrowclough riding in the bombardier’s seat. Only a few packages are loaded onto the plane. One, a triangular package about two feet long, is wrapped in brown paper. The other three are about the size of shoe boxes. They are so light that it feels as if there is nothing in them. When it lands in Fort Worth, the enlisted soldiers on the plane are ordered to remain aboard until a guard is posted and Marcel gets off taking one of the packages that he has been carrying on his lap. According to Flight Engineer M/Sgt. Robert Porter, the soldiers go to the mess hall once the guard is posted. The remaining debris is transferred to a B-25 that is flying to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. Marcel goes to Ramey’s office and puts the package on his desk. They both go to a map room, where Marcel shows him where the debris was found. When they return to Ramey’s office, Marcel sees that the package he brought has been substituted by a torn-up weather balloon. Ramey proposes a plan that possibly originates from his bosses at the Pentagon. Attention needs to be diverted from the more important impact site north of Roswell by acknowledging the Corona location. Too many civilians are involved, and the press is already alerted.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 167–168; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Flight to Fort Worth: From Complicity to Cover-Up,” IUR 25, no. 2 Summer 2000: 7–13, 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1038

Event 3020 (125C1AD3)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; New Mexico; Chavez County Sheriff's Office
Description: 2:26 p.m. Haut’s press release about the recovered disc reaches the Associated Press wire. The story announces: “The army air forces here today announced a flying disc had been found” the previous week. It says that the disc is recovered by intelligence officers of the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field [now closed], New Mexico, with the help of local ranchers and the Chavez County Sheriff’s Office. It adds that the disc is being loaned by Maj. Marcel “to higher headquarters.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1039

Event 3021 (1C5C7AC5)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Corona, New Mexico
Description: 2:30 p.m. Blanchard decides it is time to “go on leave.” Too many phone callers into the base are asking to speak with him. He, along with a few members of his staff, drive out to the Corona, New Mexico, debris field. Those left at the base are told to inform the reporters that the colonel is now on leave.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 167; Kevin D. Randle, “When a Leave Is Not a Leave: Col. Blanchard and the Roswell Timeline,” IUR 19, no. 4 July/Aug. 1994: 18–20; Karl T. Pflock, “Taking Liberties with a Leave,” IUR 20, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1995: 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1040

Event 3022 (B66D1841)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: 2:41 p.m. The press release is put on the United Press wire.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1041

Event 3023 (5EDCF060)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Mount Baldy, California
Description: 3:50 p.m. An Army National Guard pilot flying near Mount Baldy, California, observes a flat object, reflecting light, about the size of a fighter. He gives chase, attempting to keep it in sight, but is unable to do so.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying Discs,” July 30, 1947; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1042

Event 3024 (727B979C)

Date: 7/8/1947
Location: Alton, New Hampshire
Description: 4:26 p.m. Thomas Dale is flying a small plane at 2,800 feet over Alton, New Hampshire, with passenger Jere Stetson. They see a metallic object some 2 miles away to the east and some 1,500 feet below their aircraft. It approaches them at great speed before veering to the north. They estimate it is 20 feet long and “not exactly round.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1043

Event 3025 (CF3E3961)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Roswell; Fort Worth, Texas
Description: 4:30 p.m. The Roswell Daily Record carries the “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer” story. In Fort Worth, Texas, Ramey issues a statement saying the Roswell officers were fooled and that the material is a Rawin target device suspended by a Neoprene rubber balloon. “Rawin” is a method of determining wind speed and direction by using radar or radio waves to track a balloon carrying either a radar-sensitive target or radio transponder.. The debris is switched for the newspaper photographer, James Bond Johnson, at a press conference held by Ramey and Col. Thomas J. DuBose in late afternoon. Johnson takes six photos of the debris and leaves after 20 minutes. One of the photos shows Ramey holding a piece of paper the “Ramey memo” with words written on it; unfortunately, the resolution is inadequate to decisively “deblur” the text using modern technological methods. A weather officer, Maj. Irving Newton , is called in to identify the debris as from a balloon. A photo of Newton with the debris is taken by another photographer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 41–43, 168; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Fort Worth, July 8, 1947: The Cover-Up Begins,” IUR 15, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1990: 21–23; Donald R. Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “The Fort Worth Press Conference: The J. Bond Johnson Connection,” IUR 15, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1990: 5–16; Robert A. Galganski, “Probing the Roswell Thin-Strut Debris,” IUR 24, no. 3 Fall 1999: 8–12, 30; Donald R. Burleson, “Deciphering the Ramey Memo,” IUR 25, no. 2 Summer 2000: 3–6, 32; Robert A. Galganski, “The Roswell Debris Field: Size Doesn’t Matter,” IUR 25, no. 4 Winter 2000–2001: 14–19, 30; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “Interpreting the Ramey Memo,” IUR 27, no. 2 Summer 2002: 10–14, 26–27; Donald R. Burleson, “On Blobs and Chiaroscuro,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 24; James Houran and Kevin D. Randle, “‘A Message in a Bottle’: Confounds in Deciphering the Ramey Memo from the Roswell UFO Case,” Journal of Scientific Exploration 16, no. 1 2002: 45–66; Barry Greenwood, “An Observation on the Ramey Memo,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 11 March 2004: 1–8; James Houran, A Search for Meaning in the Ramey Document: From the Roswell UFO Case , Fund for UFO Research, 2006; Dennis Balthaser, “Interview: James Bond Johnson Roswell Wreckage Photographer,” The UFO Chronicles, March 27, 2006; Barry Greenwood, “Ramey Memo Redux: Line 5,” UFO Historical Revue, no 13 September 2009: 5–19; Kevin D. Randle, Roswell in the 21st Century, The Author, 2016; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conpsiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 232–238
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1044

Event 3026 (3D0FCA6C)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Dallas, Texas; Cincinnati, Ohio; Fort Worth; Wright Field; Roswell; New Mexico
Description: 5:17 p.m. Special Agent Percy Wyly II in the Dallas, Texas, FBI office sends a teletype headed “Flying Disc, Information Concerning” to J. Edgar Hoover and Strategic Air Command in Cincinnati, Ohio, expressing some doubt about the balloon explanation: “telephonic conversation between [Eighth Air Force] and Wright Field had not borne out this belief. Disc and balloon being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination.” Wyly receives this information from Maj. Edwin M. Kirton at Fort Worth. Roswell mortician Glenn Dennis, intrigued by inquiries from the base about small caskets, visits the base hospital but is turned away forcibly; a nurse friend possibly 1st Lt. [Adeline “Eileen” M. Fanton](https://roswellproof.homestead.com/dennis.html) warns him to leave before he gets into trouble and supposedly tells him that three alien bodies had been found. Other witnesses to recovered bodies include T/Sgt Ernest R. Robbins , Maj. Edwin D. Easley, Ruben and Pete Anaya, New Mexico Lieutenant Governor Joseph Montoya , Sgt. Melvin E. Brown who says the bodies looked Asian, Capt. Oliver “Pappy” W. Henderson, Staff Sgt. Robert A. Slusher, and Charles H. Forgus.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Wyly’s teletype message]; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 168–169; Good Need, pp. 91–93; Mark Rodeghier and Mark Chesney, “Who’s the Dummy Now? The Latest Air Force Report,” IUR 22, no. 3 Fall 1997: 10; Nick Redfern, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy, Lisa Hagan, 2017, pp. 97–100
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1045

Event 3027 (02473602)

Date: 7/8/1947
Locations: Fort Worth Army Air Field; Roswell
Description: 6:29 p.m. An Associated Press story goes out that a Fort Worth Army Air Field officer [Newton](https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sanantonio/obituary.aspx?n=irving-newton&pid=134553090) has identified the Roswell debris as a weather balloon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 46–52 , 168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1046

Event 3028 (80987B71)

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: There are at least 74 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database. At ten o'clock in the morning an aluminum colored, pancake shaped object was sighted by a farmer as it flew over Corapeake, North Carolina. It flew at an estimated 800 mph at 2,000 feet altitude. He described it as having two windows and protruding pipe-like extensions, and emitting vapor and making a slight noise. At 11:45 a.m. Eastern Time an ovoid object was sighted over Norfolk, Virginia. It was seen rocking and spinning, and followed by smaller objects. An Air Force major observed a metallic object at Muroc Field (now Edwards AFB) in California at noon. The object reflected sunlight and oscillated up and down in the sky, going down to ground level then rising again. It was observed simultaneously by a captain in Rodgers Dry Lake Bed. At the same time a student pilot sighted at flying disc that looked like it had a hole in its center, flying at 500 feet altitude over Spokane, Washington. At 5:33 p.m. an object flew in a zigzag pattern over Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii. At 9:47 p.m. five teenagers camping out at a golf course in Madison, Wisconsin saw a flat, brilliant disc close to the horizon. It flew from the southeast to the northwest very quickly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Norfolk (NC) Pilot, July 9, 1947; (2) newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (3) Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; (4) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 9; (5) Ted Bloecher, Report on the 1947 UFO Wave, case 769, citing newspaper clipping dated July 9, 1947; (6) APRO Bulletin, March-April 1971, p. 8
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3923

Event 3029 (86292E67)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Description: 7+observer(s) / cafe. 2 40cm saucers. 1 hovers. 1 shoots up. Both chase away going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1077

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "12", Elev: "1490", HatchDesc: "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:7+OBS/CAFE:2 40cm SCRS:1 HVRS:1 SHOOTS UP:BOTH CHASE AWAY>>S", LatLong: "35.100002 -106.683338", LatLongDMS: "35:06:00 N 106:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3030 (3D62E2FC)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: 14 MI WITH ROSWELL, NM
Description: 2 / car. Saucer rolls over repeatedly / 70 second(s). Drops down south / US70.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1078

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1070", HatchDesc: "14mi W/ROSWELL,NM:2/CAR:SCR ROLLS OVR REPEATEDLY/70sec:DROPS DOWN S/US70:", LatLong: "33.400002 -104.750005", LatLongDMS: "33:24:00 N 104:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3031 (C811741A)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 00:10
Location: KAGOSHIMA, JPN
Description: Cop. Silent hyphen shapes / wavy motion going quickly northwest over bay. 1 km altitude. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1079

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KAGOSHIMA,JPN:COP:SLNT HYPHEN SHAPES/WAVY MOTION >>NW ovr BAY:1 km alt:/NEWS", LatLong: "31.583335 130.516673", LatLongDMS: "31:35:00 N 130:31:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3032 (37B9E941)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 05:30
Location: SOUTHEAST / LAKE KOSHKONING, WI
Description: Farmer. Chickens hide. Half-moon size green-glow object going northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 451)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1080

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "240", HatchDesc: "SE/LAKE KOSHKONING,WI:FARMER:CHICKENS HIDE:HALF-MOON SIZE GRN-GLOW OBJ >NW:", LatLong: "42.850002 -88.950004", LatLongDMS: "42:51:00 N 88:57:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3033 (856B1B1C)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 05:30
Location: SPRINGFIELD, IL
Description: 2 observer(s). Shiny grey disk whizzes going south. 500mph. Dips below trees and back up.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 788)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1081

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "SPRINGFIELD,IL:2 OBS:SHINY GRY DISK WHIZZES >S:500mph:DIPS BLW TREES+BACK UP", LatLong: "39.800002 -89.616671", LatLongDMS: "39:48:00 N 89:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "15", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3034 (0D2D81F5)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 05:40
Location: KINCARDINE, ON
Description: Farmer / plow. 5 saucers criss-cross sky 3x / different formations. Silent. No lights.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 444)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1082

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "197", HatchDesc: "KINCARDINE,ON:FARMER/PLOW:5 SCRS CRISS-CROSS SKY 3x/DIFF.FORMNs:SLNT:NO LITES", LatLong: "44.166669 -81.633337", LatLongDMS: "44:10:00 N 81:38:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3035 (3EA0F319)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 07:00
Location: HOPKINSVILLE, KY
Description: 2 observer(s). Washtub saucer "jet propelled". Makes sput-sput sounds.. (!)
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 789)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1083

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "163", HatchDesc: "HOPKINSVILLE,KY:2 OBS:WASHTUB SCR "JET PROPELLED":MAKES SPUT-SPUT SOUNDS..(!)", LatLong: "36.866668 -87.488893", LatLongDMS: "36:52:00 N 87:29:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3036 (B05B3A61)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: MORRISTOWN, NJ
Description: 1 observer. 4 100' disks / line formation. 3 shiny and 1 dull. Slow and fast. 10K' altitude. Going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 790)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1084

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "MORRISTOWN,NJ:1 OBS:4 100'DISKS/LINE FORMn:3 SHINY+1 DULL:SLO+FAST:10K'alt:>E", LatLong: "40.800002 -74.483337", LatLongDMS: "40:48:00 N 74:29:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3037 (45C11923)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 12:20
Location: BOISE TO/FROM MERIDIAN, ID
Description: United Airlines (UAL) pilot. Flat black saucer / staircase maneuvers. Bad film. / r185p1.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 439)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1085

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "812", HatchDesc: "BOISE><MERIDIAN,ID:UAL PILOT:FLAT BLK SCR/STAIRCASE MNVRS:BAD FILM:/r185p1", LatLong: "43.611113 -116.300006", LatLongDMS: "43:36:40 N 116:18:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3038 (90B28DC7)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: EVERETT, MASS
Description: Mulledy and Arlen. Daytime. 5-6 disks circle. Shoot going quickly east toward(s) Chelsea. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 792)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1086

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "EVERETT,MASS:MULLEDY+ARLEN:DAYTIME:5-6 DISKS CIRCLE:SHOOT >>E twrd CHELSEA:NFD", LatLong: "42.383335 -71.055559", LatLongDMS: "42:23:00 N 71:03:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3039 (34323F8F)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 15:50
Location: GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, MT
Description: 2 private pilots. 7 saucers going quickly northeast. Disintegrate? No further details / local news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 98)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1087

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1980", HatchDesc: "GLACIER Nat'l PARK,MT:2 Pvt.PILOTS:7 SCRS >>NE:disintegrate?:NFD/local news", LatLong: "48.633336 -113.750005", LatLongDMS: "48:38:00 N 113:45:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "3"

Event 3040 (C9664B76)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK
Description: 3 teens. Small white disk faster / fighters. Going quickly south over field / 4K' altitude. Straight and level.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 806)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1088

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:3 TEENS:SML WHT DISK FASTER/FIGHTERS:>>S OVR FIELD/4K'alt:S/L", LatLong: "61.233336 -149.783340", LatLongDMS: "61:14:00 N 149:47:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3041 (F8B64235)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 18:20
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: Work crew. 3 disks spin over flour mill. 1 lands / riverbed. No traces.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 803)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1089

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:WORK CREW:3 DISKS SPIN OVR FLOUR MILL:1 LANDS/RIVERBED:NO TRACES", LatLong: "47.683336 -117.433339", LatLongDMS: "47:41:00 N 117:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3042 (4FBDD718)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: LLANO, TX
Description: Observer(s) = Smith and Owen. 1M disk going quickly southeast. Possible spin. Possible landing. / Austin American.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 98)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1090

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "336", HatchDesc: "LLANO,TX:OBS=SMITH+OWEN:1M DISK >>SE:POSS.SPIN:POSS.LANDING:/Austin American", LatLong: "30.766668 -98.666671", LatLongDMS: "30:46:00 N 98:40:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3043 (51118AAC)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: BLUEFIELD, WV
Description: Several observer(s). Saucers maneuver / low altitude / 30 minute(s). 1 observer fires shotgun. / r171p98.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: CE-5, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS of the 5th KIND. 1999 Sourcebooks Inc. Naperville, IL ISBN 1-57071-427-4. 242 case files. (Index 168)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1091

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "796", HatchDesc: "BLUEFIELD,WV:SVRL OBS:SCRS MNVR/lo alt/30min:1 OBS FIRES SHOTGUN:/r171p98", LatLong: "37.266668 -81.222226", LatLongDMS: "37:16:00 N 81:13:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3044 (5D7E79CA)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: REDWOOD CITY, CA
Description: B. Ballard / 319 Woodside Road and Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct. Luminous disk south going northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 807)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1092

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "REDWOOD CITY,CA:B.BALLARD/319 WOODSIDE Rd+HETCH HETCHY AQUEDUCT:LUMn.DISK S>NW", LatLong: "37.472224 -122.216672", LatLongDMS: "37:28:20 N 122:13:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3045 (9E09F8A8)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 23:30
Location: GRAND FALLS, NFLD
Description: Cop and others. "Flying Barrelhead" and 4 saucers. Phosphorescent aura.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 445)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1093

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "51", HatchDesc: "GRAND FALLS,NFLD:COP+OTHERS:"FLYING BARRELHEAD"+4 SCRS:PHOSPHORESCENT AURA", LatLong: "48.933336 -55.666669", LatLongDMS: "48:56:00 N 55:40:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3046 (D4F05881)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Boise (Bet. Meridian and), ID
Description: A black disc, standing out against the clouds (Johnson Case (P)) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470709
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_375

Event 3047 (E5E92451)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Meridian, ID
Description: Black disc made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_401

Event 3048 (330E5EB3)

Date: 7/9/1947
Time: 12:17 PM PDT
Location: Meridian, Idaho
Description: Witness: Idaho statesman aviation editor and former (AAF) B-29 pilot Dave Johnson. Watched for more than 10 seconds from an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 while a black disc, which stood out against the clouds, made a half-roll and then a stair-step climb.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_4

Event 3049 (3BDB868D)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: 4328 South Emerald Avenue, Chicago, Illinois
Description: 1:00 a.m. William Valetta sees 5–6 domed discs streaking eastward as he stands outside his house at 4328 South Emerald Avenue in Chicago, Illinois. They make a swishing noise and he sees a blue flame underneath each of them. Smoke seems to be coming from the tops.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, pp. II-13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1047

Event 3050 (10CFF270)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Roswell Daily Record; Los Alamos, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB; Roswell; Fort Worth
Description: RAAF officers locate Mack Brazel and take him to the base for questioning, then to the Roswell Daily Record and radio station KGPL for a revised, sanitized version of his story, this time saying he found the debris on June 14. Copies of Haut’s original press release are recovered. Three fully loaded C-54’s carry debris to Los Alamos, New Mexico, via Kirtland AFB, according to Robert E. Smith, First Air Transport Unit. A crate allegedly carrying alien bodies is flown from Roswell to Fort Worth in a B-29, according to Staff Sgt. Robert A. Slusher, who says he was on board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Don Schmitt and Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, July 9, 1947,” IUR 14, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1989: 4–6, 23; Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 53–58 , 169–171; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel’s Story,” IUR 20, no. 3 May/June 1995: 3–5, 24; Thomas J. Carey and Donald R. Schmitt, “Mack Brazel Reconsidered,” IUR 24, no. 4 Winter 1999: 13–19; Kevin D. Randle, “Bessie Brazel Schreiber and the Roswell Crash,” A Different Perspective, September 19, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1048

Event 3051 (668CCFE7)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Boise (Idaho) Municipal Airport
Description: The FBI interviews Capt. Emil J. Smith and copilot Ralph Stevens at Boise Idaho Municipal Airport about their July 4 sighting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 151; Good Above, pp. 253–254
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1049

Event 3052 (12363262)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: US; Idaho
Description: US Sen. Glen H. Taylor D-Idaho says he hopes the saucers will turn out to be space ships from another planet, whose hostility might end all our “petty arguments on earth.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Can’t Laugh Off Saucers,’ Says Senator,” Boston Globe, July 9, 1947, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1050

Event 3053 (64B668B5)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Wright Field, Ohio; Pentagon
Description: The US Army Air Force issues classified orders requiring reports of any “saucer-like” objects to be investigated and passed on to T-2 Technical Intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, with summaries sent to the Pentagon. However, most of the early cases still go directly to the Air Force Office of Intelligence at the Pentagon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1051

Event 3054 (38FAE991)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: 10:30 a.m. President Truman meets with Sen. Carl Hatch
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: D-N.Mex..
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1052

Event 3055 (042499FB)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Lt. Gen. James Doolittle
Description: 10:35 a.m. Assistant Secretary of War for Air Stuart Symington meets with Lt. Gen. James Doolittle and Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg . The conversation is presumably about the flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1053

Event 3056 (5E55724A)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: 10:50 a.m. Doolittle, Vandenberg , and Symington meet in the office of Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower . Maj. Gen. Lauris Norstad, director of the Plans and Operations Department, is also present.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1054

Event 3057 (63A71BA8)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Vandenberg
Description: 11:58 a.m. Vandenberg calls President Truman .
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1055

Event 3058 (183D1405)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Vandenberg; Symington
Description: 12:50 p.m. Vandenberg and Symington meet with the Joint Chiefs.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1056

Event 3059 (5EB595EC)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Gowen Field [now Boise Airport], Boise, Idaho
Description: 12:17 p.m. Idaho Statesman aviation editor and former B-29 pilot David N. Johnson , flying in an Idaho Air National Guard AT-6 Texan, sees a black object standing out against the clouds as he prepares to land at Gowen Field [now Boise Airport], Boise, Idaho. Johnson takes 10 seconds of 8mm motion-picture film but it shows no trace of the object. It makes a slow roll, then makes a stair-step climb, then disappears into the clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AT-6 Encounters Black Disc”; Bloecher, pp. III-12–13; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 39–43, 55; Sparks, p. 23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1057

Event 3060 (BE079D88)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Vandenberg; Symington
Description: 2:30 p.m. Vandenberg and Symington meet again.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1058

Event 3061 (7DE80ACE)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Vandenberg
Description: 4:17 p.m. Vandenberg meets with Maj. Gen. Emmett O’Donnell Jr., director of information for the Army Air Force.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald R. Schmitt, UFO Crash at Roswell II, Moonset, 2001.
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1059

Event 3062 (4633DAB0)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Roswell Army Air Field; New Mexico
Description: Late afternoon. 1Lt Chester P. Barton, stationed at Roswell Army Air Field in New Mexico, is sent by Maj. Edwin D. Easley to go to the crash site and report back to him about what is going on. He gets no closer than about 50 feet from the wreckage, which appears to have burned. He is convinced it is the remains of a B-29 bomber. He remains at the site for about 90 minutes then reports back to Easley.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joseph Stefula, “The Roswell Testimony of Chester P. Barton,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 21–23, 29–31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1060

Event 3063 (29FC7E9C)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen, chief of the Requirements Intelligence branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, requests FBI help with the problem of the flying discs from Special Agent S. Wesley Reynolds. Army intelligence claims they are not Army or Navy craft. He says that Air Corps Intelligence is utilizing all its scientists to study the cases to see whether they are natural or artificial or inspired by “individuals of Communist sympathies with the view to causing hysteria and fear of a secret Russian weapon.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: E. G. Fitch, [FBI memo], July 10, 1947; ClearIntent, p. 148; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1061

Event 3064 (8D15C774)

Date: 7/9/1947
Locations: Midland, Michigan; Dow Chemical Company materials research laboratory in Midland
Description: Shortly after 5:00 p.m. Electrician Raymond Edward Lane and his wife are picking huckleberries near Midland, Michigan, when they hear a kind of “puff” noise nearby. Looking up, they see a ball of white, sparkling fire, like a Fourth of July sparkler, about the size of a bushel basket, no more than 100 feet away. It is hovering several feet above a stretch of sand. After about 10 or 15 seconds, the light goes out and the object vanishes. The only thing that remains is a peculiar dark substance on the sand and some metallic fragments. Lane collects fragments of the material in a tin can and brings them the next morning to Robert S. Spencer, a senior researcher at the Dow Chemical Company materials research laboratory in Midland. Spencer goes to the site with Lane and Dow’s internal security chief Edward Fales. Spencer has the Dow spectroscopy laboratory analyze the fragments and reports that the shiny pellets are largely silver mixed with a bit of silicon. They conclude that it consists of fused sand. By the end of September, the lab has analyzed ashlike powder found at the site. It turns out to be thorite that is slightly radioactive, mixed with magnesium hydroxide and other trace minerals. The conclusion is that the sighting is the result of some kind of home-made fireworks experiment, although Dow chemist John Josef Grebe suspects it might have been a small missile.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Hovers over Sand”; Bloecher, pp. IV-2–3; Joel Carpenter, “The Midland Fireball: Dow Chemical, UFOs, and Evidence,” IUR 23, no. 3 Fall 1998: 28–32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1062

Event 3065 (32BD1C4E)

Date: 7/9/1947
Location: Grand Falls, Newfoundland
Description: 11:30 p.m. Constable Eric Kearsey sees four yellowish discs flying in close formation above Grand Falls, Newfoundland. He calls other people to watch them as well. They are moving at high speed to the east with a dipping motion. At 11:40 p.m., an egg-shaped object “the size of a barrel head” passes overhead in the same direction.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: St. John’s Newf. Evening Telegram, July 9, 1947; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 45–46
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1063

Event 3066 (DE367026)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: There are 24 UFO reports recorded for this date in the UFOCAT database, all from North America. To view a map showing the distribution of these reports, click here.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3940

Event 3067 (CBBBED25)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: At 5:40 a.m. a farmer out plowing his fields in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada saw five disc-shaped objects criss-cross the sky three times in different formations. The objects were silent and had no lights.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1094; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History. 1947, p. 44
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3941

Event 3068 (FFC442E5)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: Two small saucers were seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico on this day. One hovered, the other shot up and than both shot away toward the south.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 27
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3942

Event 3069 (DC1CAD57)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: At 5:30 a.m. a shiny gray disc whizzed through the sky over Springfield, Illinois. Its estimated speed was 500 mph moving in a southerly direction. It dipped below the tree line and came back up again.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 788
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3943

Event 3070 (591AC342)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: At 12:15 p.m. a huge flat black disc over Boise, Idaho executed a series of staircase maneuvers for 45 seconds. Motion picture filming was attempted, but resulted in poor quality images.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 10, 1947, UNICAT, case # 721, Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 794
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3944

Event 3071 (48CB48C7)

Date: 7/9/1947
Description: At eight o'clock in the evening a one-meter diameter disc flew over Llano, Texas heading toward the southwest. It appeared to be spinning, and it possibly landed remotely.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 98, citing Austin American
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3945

Event 3072 (EDF9861C)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude (Early yaw led to termination at 32s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_259
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.25km

Event 3073 (EA7984B7)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 months, 21 days old.
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_260

Attributes: Einstein

Event 3074 (0E6FB370)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p148)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_261

Event 3075 (A762DF1F)

Date: 7/10/1947 (approximate)
Location: CAHERSIVEEN, IRELAND
Description: 5 observer(s). 'Flying saucer'. No further details. / N. China Daily 14 Jul. '74.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1094

Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "81", HatchDesc: "CAHERSIVEEN,IRELAND:5 OBS:'FLYING SAUCER':NFD:/N.CHINA DAILY 14JLY74", LatLong: "51.933336 -10.216667", LatLongDMS: "51:56:00 N 10:13:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ireland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3076 (4EA60097)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 03:00
Location: SULPHUR SPRS, TX
Description: 6M funnel going south. Bursts into small white disks. They hover then going quickly northwest straight and level.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 454)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1095

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "149", HatchDesc: "SULPHUR Sprs,TX:6M FUNNEL >S:BURSTS INTO SML WHT DISKS:THEY HVR THEN >>NW S/L", LatLong: "33.138890 -95.600005", LatLongDMS: "33:08:20 N 95:36:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3077 (04D1CBA0)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 08:30
Location: NORTHEAST / SALT LAKE CITY, UT
Description: 1 observer. Disk hovers 2 / min over mountains. "Odd motion". / Salt Lake Tribune.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 99)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1096

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1500", HatchDesc: "NE/SALT LAKE CITY,UT:1 OBS:DISK HVRS 2/min OVR MTNs:"ODD MOTION":/SLC Tribune", LatLong: "40.866669 -111.750005", LatLongDMS: "40:52:00 N 111:45:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3078 (6DE9C4AE)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 11:00?
Location: VALDOSTA, GA
Description: 2 / light plane. 1M cake pan / 600M altitude 1500M away. (Cake pan missing!)
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1097

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "70", HatchDesc: "VALDOSTA,GA:2/LITE PLANE:1M CAKE PAN/600M alt 1500M away:(cake pan missing!)", LatLong: "30.833335 -83.266671", LatLongDMS: "30:50:00 N 83:16:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3079 (FED02584)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 11:10
Location: BURIEN, WA
Description: Don Reber. Round shiny 3' disk. Not fast. 1 mile altitude? Straight and level going quickly northwest. / r131#4p57.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 811)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1098

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "BURIEN,WA:DON REBER:ROUND SHINY 3'DISK:NOT FAST:1mi alt?:S/L >>NW:/r131#4p57", LatLong: "47.483336 -122.350006", LatLongDMS: "47:29:00 N 122:21:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1600", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3080 (2213C380)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: DOUGLAS, AZ
Description: 1 / home. Bright thick 16CM disk just outside window! Wobbles. / r111p19.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1099

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1220", HatchDesc: "DOUGLAS,AZ:1/HOME:BRITE THICK 16CM DISK JUST OUTSIDE WINDOW!:wobbles:/r111p19", LatLong: "31.333335 -109.550005", LatLongDMS: "31:20:00 N 109:33:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3081 (7938909C)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: SANTIAGO, CHL
Description: Aviation mechanics. Oval silvery saucers / 150M altitude. No further details / News Dispatch.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 454)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1100

Extra Data: Country: "Chile", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "521", HatchDesc: "SANTIAGO,CHL:AVIATION MECHANICS:OVAL SILVERY SCRS/150M alt:NFD/news dispatch", LatLong: "-33.416668 -70.650003", LatLongDMS: "33:25:00 S 70:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "SNT", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3082 (BFD5C667)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: TEMPLE, TX
Description: Ex-Air Force Colonel and more/others. 2 2M disks going quickly south / 350kph into wind. 500M altitude straight & level flight. / r171p99.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 452)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1101

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "208", HatchDesc: "TEMPLE,TX:EX-AF COLONEL++:2 2M DISKS>>S/350kph into wind:500M alt S&L:/r171p99", LatLong: "31.100001 -97.350005", LatLongDMS: "31:06:00 N 97:21:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "500", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3083 (614B24DE)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: WEST / BUHL, ID
Description: 2 / ranch. 7 saucers going [to] over. Break formation and cross sky very fast. / Buhl Herald.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1102

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "120", HatchDesc: "W/BUHL,ID:2/RANCH:7 SCRS > OVER:BREAK FORMATION+CROSS SKY VFAST:/Buhl Herald", LatLong: "42.600002 -114.766672", LatLongDMS: "42:36:00 N 114:46:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3084 (77D5D74B)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 14:30
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: Lester Sherill. 8' silver disk fast / 6000' altitude. Makes steep bank going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 818)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1103

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "820", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:LESTER SHERILL:8'SLVR DISK FAST/6000'alt:MAKES STEEP BANK >>E", LatLong: "43.583335 -116.183339", LatLongDMS: "43:35:00 N 116:11:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3085 (16DE66DA)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 16:20
Location: CARNATION, WA
Description: 2+2 kids. Round flat shiny bluish disk straight and level going quickly north / tremendous speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 820)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1104

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "23", HatchDesc: "CARNATION,WA:2+2 KIDS:ROUND FLAT SHINY BLUISH DISK S/L >>N/TREMENDOUS SPEED", LatLong: "47.650002 -121.911117", LatLongDMS: "47:39:00 N 121:54:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3086 (6690FCA6)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 16:30
Location: LOGAN, WVA
Description: 1 observer. Round object 'W / turtle back' going [to] straight & level flight. Glistens / sunlight. / Logan Banner.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1105

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "207", HatchDesc: "LOGAN,WVa:1 OBS:ROUND OBJ 'W/TURTLE BACK' > S&L:GLISTENS/SUNLITE:/Logan Banner", LatLong: "37.850002 -81.988893", LatLongDMS: "37:51:00 N 81:59:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3087 (18261049)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 16:50
Location: FORT SUMNER, NM
Description: Astronomer LaPaz and 3 / car. Luminous/glowing 300' saucer / clouds. Going up / 600+MPH going north. / r187.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 458)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1106

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "1249", HatchDesc: "FORT SUMNER,NM:ASTRONOMER LaPAZ+3/car:LUMn 300'SCR/clouds:↑/600+MPH>N:/r187", LatLong: "34.583335 -104.200005", LatLongDMS: "34:35:00 N 104:12:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3088 (B30F1329)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: SMYRNA, GA
Description: 1 / car. "Flying tin lid" / incredible speed. Brilliant reflections / sun.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON 1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1107

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "324", HatchDesc: "SMYRNA,GA:1/CAR:"FLYING TIN LID"/INCREDIBLE SPEED:BRILL.REFLECTIONS/SUN", LatLong: "33.883335 -84.516671", LatLongDMS: "33:53:00 N 84:31:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3089 (D1251FF5)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 17:30
Location: HARMON FIELD, NFLD
Description: Air mechanics and more/others. C54-size saucer cuts arc / clouds. Photographs. / r26p154.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1108

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "33", HatchDesc: "HARMON FIELD,NFLD:AIR MECHANICS++:C54-SIZE SCR CUTS ARC/CLOUDS:FOTOS:/r26p154", LatLong: "48.550002 -58.566669", LatLongDMS: "48:33:00 N 58:34:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3090 (C7A22C83)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 19:30
Location: SKOTFOSS, NORWAY
Description: 3 observer(s). Saucer northwest going southeast. Size and speed of plane. Absolute(ly) silent. Flashes / sunlight.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 137)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1109

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SKOTFOSS,NORWAY:3 OBS:SCR NW>SE:SIZE+SPEED of PLANE:ABS SLNT:FLASHES/SUNLITE", LatLong: "59.200003 9.500000", LatLongDMS: "59:12:00 N 09:30:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3091 (030594F1)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: NEAR TULSA, OK
Description: Separate airmen. Perfect ring / light going northeast straight & level flight. Constant speed and altitude..
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 101)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1110

Attributes: MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "242", HatchDesc: "nr TULSA,OK:SEP.AIRMEN:PERFECT RING/LITE >NE S&L:CONSTANT SPEED+ALTITUDE..", LatLong: "36.150002 -95.950005", LatLongDMS: "36:09:00 N 95:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3092 (E1CA1A86)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: MUKDEN, CHN
Description: 2+observer(s). 100+4' disks going west over steel factory / 1 minute(s) intervals. / r171p39.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 501)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1111

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "7", Duration: "80", HatchDesc: "MUKDEN,CHN:2+OBS:100+ 4'DISKS >W OVR STEEL FACTORY/1min INTERVALS:/r171p39", LatLong: "41.833335 123.433339", LatLongDMS: "41:50:00 N 123:26:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LNG", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3093 (7A024754)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN
Description: Harmond Field Photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470710
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_376

Event 3094 (F94D2E95)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Morristown, NJ
Description: 6 DD from aircraft (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470710
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_377

Event 3095 (B9CB92AF)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Ft. Sumner (near), NM
Description: A sharply outlined, white ellipsoidal seemingly luminous 200 ft object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 470710
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_378

Event 3096 (97D5CC11)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN
Description: Disc-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470710
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_402

Event 3097 (17A4AFA3)

Date: 7/10/1947
Time: Between 3 and 5 PM local time
Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, Canada
Description: Witnesses: three ground crewmen, including Mr. Leidy, for Pan American Airways. Watched briefly while one translucent disc- or wheel-shaped object flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail and then ascended and cut a path through the clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_5

Event 3098 (8A577CB1)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: La.
Description: FBI agent E. G. Fitch forwards Schulgen’s request to Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D. Milton “Mickey” Ladd at FBI headquarters in a memo titled “Flying Disks.” Ladd adds a note saying that the “Bureau does not believe it should go into these investigations” because many cases are “pranks.” Associate FBI Director Clyde Tolson adds, “I think we should do this,” while J. Edgar Hoover writes, “I would do it but before agreeing to it we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the La. Case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: E. G. Fitch, [FBI memo], July 10, 1947; RosRept, pp. 25– 26; Good Above, p. 541; Kevin D. Randle, “The Hoover Memo Again,” A Different Perspective, July 29, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1064

Event 3099 (70BE9D19)

Date: 7/10/1947
Locations: Fort Worth; Wright Field, Ohio; Dayton
Description: Roswell debris and bodies have been flown from Fort Worth to Wright Field, according to future Brig. Gen. Arthur Exon , then stationed at Wright Field, Ohio, who says that a special unit is created to study them. The story is slightly corroborated by Jack G. Tiffany Jr., whose father Jack G. Tiffany Sr. is one of the crew members that flies debris from Fort Worth to Dayton.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 61–66; Thomas J. Carey and Donald J. Schmitt, Inside the Real Area 51, New Page, 2013, pp. 165–175; Nukes 483–486
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1065

Event 3100 (E087FD02)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Morristown, New Jersey
Description: 10:00 a.m. John H. Janssen, aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, takes a photo of four luminous objects as he is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 10,000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey. Three of the objects are silvery white, while the fourth is a dull metallic color.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Saucers’ Invade Morristown; 4 Discs Photographed near Airport,” Paterson N.J. Evening News, July 11, 1947, p. 10; NICAP, “07-10-1947 USA, New Jersey, Morristown”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1066

Event 3101 (8205AE43)

Date: 7/10/1947
Locations: Pentagon; Vandenberg
Description: 10:30 a.m. Lt. Gen. Curtis LeMay, deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development at the Pentagon, meets with Vandenberg, Maj. Gen. Leslie Groves, and Lt. Gen. Robert Miller Montague.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1067

Event 3102 (EE5FFD0C)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: 12:15 p.m. Doolittle and Vandenberg meet with Truman.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1068

Event 3103 (5DC9B9F1)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Robert P. Patterson
Description: 2:40 p.m. Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson meets with Groves and Montague.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1069

Event 3104 (B6BA299A)

Date: 7/10/1947
Locations: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; Wright Field, Ohio
Description: 4:25 p.m. A V-2 launch is aborted at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, after 32 seconds due to an early yaw. Gen. Gen. Nathan Twining stops at White Sands before returning to Wright Field, Ohio.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1070

Event 3105 (0CF2F9DB)

Date: 7/10/1947
Locations: University of New Mexico; Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico
Description: 4:47 p.m. University of New Mexico astronomer Lincoln LaPaz , his wife Leota, and two daughters, Jean and Mary, are driving west on Highway 60 near Fort Sumner, New Mexico, when they see a sharply outlined, white ellipsoidal object wobbling in the sky to the west about 25 miles away. They watch it for about 30 seconds, then it disappears behind a cloud, but reappears 5 seconds later further to the right. He estimates its size as 245 feet long and 100 feet thick at the maximum, with a horizontal speed of 120–180 mph and a vertical speed of 600–900 mph. It moves silently with no vapor trail. It resembles no known aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “200ʹ Ellipsoidal Object Sighted by La Paz Family”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 84; Bloecher, p. III-19; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 July 7th–July 10th, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 58; Sparks, p. 24; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, p. 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1071

Event 3106 (B24D601D)

Date: 7/10/1947
Locations: Ernest Harmon AFB [now Stephenville International Airport]; Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland
Description: 5:30 p.m. Three civilian airline mechanics John N. Mehrman Jr., Robert Leidy, and John E. Woodruff at Ernest Harmon AFB [now Stephenville International Airport] are returning from a fishing trip and driving up a mountain road near Stephenville Crossing, Newfoundland. They see a bluish-black exhaust trail that has cut through some clouds leaving a “hole.” Woodruff sees a disc-shaped object the apparent size of a C-54 transport plane coming out of the clouds and traveling at a terrific rate of speed. The hole remains in the cloud for more than an hour. Leidy takes two Kodachrome photos of the exhaust trail. The sighting later impresses Project Sign personnel to the extent that they ask questions about UFO effects on clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Harmon Field Photo”; Sparks , p. 24; Michael D. Swords, “Can You Learn Anything from UFO Photos, Part Two,” The Big Study, July 5, 2012; Swords 38–39; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, pp. 44– 45; Chris Rutkowski, “The Cold, Hard Facts about UFOs in Canada,” IUR 34, no. 1 Sept. 2011: 8–9; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 49–50; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, pp. 167, 264–267
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1072

Event 3107 (8B1DB30A)

Date: 7/10/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: Mac Brazel is still being held at a guest house on the Roswell, New Mexico, base. The officers try to convince him not to say anything about what he has seen. They also try to prevent him talking to reporters. He is given a physical by doctors at the base hospital.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1073

Event 3108 (372B59E4)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: There are 19 UFO reports recorded for this day in the UFOCAT database: two from Europe, one from China, one from Newfoundland, and the remainder in the United States.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3973

Event 3109 (3D1BFB46)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 10 o'clock in the morning GMT a British Vickers Viking aircraft was flying over the Bay of Biscay in the Atlantic off the coast of France when the crew of three sighted a gray flying object, shaped like a tadpole. It was traveling at an estimated 600 mph and leaving a long vapor trail.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3974

Event 3110 (2FC4F842)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 11:00 a.m. EDT in Valdosta, Georgia a one-meter diameter "cake pan" shaped object flew over at 600 meters altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3975

Event 3111 (92F33D19)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 11:00 p.m. PDT (2:00 p.m. EDT) a man in Burien, Washington watched a three-foot diameter round shiny disc-shaped object fly slowly and silently toward the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 11, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3976

Event 3112 (3EE931A1)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 7:30 p.m. European time (1:30 p.m. EDT) in Skotfoss, Norway a disc flew across the sky from the northwest to the southeast. It was estimated to be the size of a small plane and traveling at normal aircraft speeds, but made no sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 137
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3977

Event 3113 (B0B0A47E)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 4:47 p.m. astronomers Dr. Lincoln La Paz, Director of the Institute of Meteoritics and Department Head of the Astronomy Department at the University of New Mexico, and Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, and other family members watched a luminous 300-foot wide saucer ascend at 600 mph near Fort Sumner, New Mexico heading toward the north. In 1948 Dr. La Paz served as a voluntary consultant for the USAF in connection with the "green fireball" investigations.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 819; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947, p. 58
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3978

Event 3114 (D2AC844B)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: Sometime between 3 o'clock in the afternoon and 5:00 p.m., three ground crewman, including Mr. Leidy, a mechanic for Pan American Airways, took photographs of a C-54 sized translucent disc-or wheel-shaped UFO flying below the clouds over Ernest Harmon Air Field in Newfoundland, Canada. They watched briefly while the UFO flew very fast, leaving a dark blue trail. It then ascended and cut a path through the clouds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book; NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1978, p. 4; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3979

Event 3115 (14D97DED)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 5:30 p.m. EDT a "flying tin lid" shaped object flew over Smyrna, Georgia at an incredible speed. It reflected sunlight brilliantly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3980

Event 3116 (62ABC687)

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: At 8:00 p.m. CDT several airmen near Tulsa, Oklahoma saw a perfect ring of light in the sky that flew toward the northeast at a constant speed and altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 101
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3981

Event 3117 (528BEF68)

Date: 7/11/1947
Description: A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in Germany was coming here.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_262

Event 3118 (B40AC8CE)

Date: 7/11/1947 (approximate)
Location: IZTAPA, GUATEMALA
Description: Pan-AM passengers / airport/apartment. Flat-shaped object trails golden vapor.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1112

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Guatemala", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "IZTAPA,GUATEMALA:PAN-AM PASSENGERS/APT:FLAT-SHAPED OBJ TRAILS GOLDEN VAPOR", LatLong: "13.933334 -90.716671", LatLongDMS: "13:56:00 N 90:43:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "IZT", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3119 (D76A24B0)

Date: 7/11/1947
Location: WORTHING, TX
Description: 1 observer. Classic silver saucer. "Brighter than anything seen before / observer(s)".
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 101)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1113

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "70", HatchDesc: "WORTHING,TX:1 OBS:CLASSIC SLVR SCR:"brighter than anything seen before/OBS"", LatLong: "29.416668 -97.033338", LatLongDMS: "29:25:00 N 97:02:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3120 (EAEB5624)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 00:30
Location: CODROY, NFLD
Description: 2 observer(s) fast "dinner-plate" flies straight and level. 2nd object in 2 days.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1114

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "148", HatchDesc: "CODROY,NFLD:2 OBS FAST "DINNER-PLATE" FLIES S/L::2ND OBJ IN 2 DAYS", LatLong: "47.866669 -59.366669", LatLongDMS: "47:52:00 N 59:22:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3121 (7E53C605)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 02:30
Location: YUMA, AZ
Description: 1 observer. Dog barks. Silent white disk spins. Swoops over housetops. / r171p103.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 503)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1115

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "48", HatchDesc: "YUMA,AZ:1 OBS:DOG BARKS:SLNT WHT DISK SPINS:SWOOPS ovr HOUSETOPS:/r171p103", LatLong: "32.700002 -114.633339", LatLongDMS: "32:42:00 N 114:38:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3122 (DC33A8BB)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 08:40
Location: PARAMARAIBO, SURINAM
Description: 3+observer(s). 2+1 large bright disks going quickly east toward(s) river. High and fast. / De West.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1116

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Guyanas (all 3 of them)", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "PARAMARAIBO,SURINAM:3+OBS:2+1 LRG BRITE DISKS >>E twrd Rvr:HIGH+FAST:/De West", LatLong: "5.833334 -55.166669", LatLongDMS: "05:50:00 N 55:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Surinam", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3123 (0066CACC)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: LIVINGSTON, MT
Description: Machinist. 25cm shiny object hovers over store. Going up [to] going quickly [to] going west like a bullet.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1117

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1373", HatchDesc: "LIVINGSTON,MT:MACHINIST:25cm SHINY OBJ HVRS ovr STORE:↑ >>>W like a bullet", LatLong: "45.661113 -110.561116", LatLongDMS: "45:39:40 N 110:33:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3124 (C00F7827)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: OVER BAY OF BISCAY
Description: Airline crew / 1200M altitude. Grey 'flying tadpole' / 2400M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1118

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ovr BAY of BISCAY:AIRLINE CREW/1200M alt:GREY 'FLYING TADPOLE'/2400M alt:", LatLong: "45.000002 -5.000000", LatLongDMS: "45:00:00 N 05:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BSC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3125 (9E4F96CD)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 10:00?
Location: SOUTHEAST / THE DALLES, OR
Description: 2 / ranch. Disk going quickly west / 3km altitude. Faster / any plane. 1500kph. Seen / 30 second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 200)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1119

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "SE/THE DALLES,OR:2/RANCH:DISK >>W/3km alt:FASTER/ANY PLANE:1500kph:seen/30sec", LatLong: "45.500002 -121.083339", LatLongDMS: "45:30:00 N 121:05:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3126 (64356023)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: GARISENDA, ITL
Description: Numerous observer(s). Several luminous disks north going quickly south. Luminous object drops / ground.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 104)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1120

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GARISENDA,ITL:NMRS OBS:SVRL LUMn.DISKS N>>S:LUMn.OBJ DROPS/GND", LatLong: "44.500002 11.344445", LatLongDMS: "44:30:00 N 11:20:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bologna", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3127 (91DBAE99)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 11:50
Location: DOUGLAS, AZ
Description: Bright metallic 15cm disk just outside home window! Wobbles. / r111p20.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 100)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1121

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1220", HatchDesc: "DOUGLAS,AZ:BRITE MTLC 15cm DISK JUST OUTSIDE HOME WINDOW!:WOBBLES:/r111p20", LatLong: "31.350001 -109.533339", LatLongDMS: "31:21:00 N 109:32:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3128 (F9947A73)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: GREYBACK MOUNTAIN, OR
Description: 6 observer(s). 4 disks wobble going south / airplane speed into mountain top.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 504)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1122

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "2150", HatchDesc: "GREYBACK Mtn,OR:6 OBS:4 DISKS WOBBLE >S/AIRPLANE SPEED into Mtn top:", LatLong: "42.111113 -123.311117", LatLongDMS: "42:06:40 N 123:18:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3129 (D40E2F73)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: ~18:00
Location: SILVER CITY, NM
Description: 2 observer(s) / backyards. Brilliant flying disk west going quickly east / incredible speed. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1123

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1810", HatchDesc: "SILVER CITY,NM:2 OBS/BACKYARDS:BRILL.FLYING DISK W>>E/INCREDIBLE SPEED:/NEWS", LatLong: "32.766668 -108.216672", LatLongDMS: "32:46:00 N 108:13:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3130 (380D8801)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: BOCA GRANDE, FL
Description: 3 observer(s). 3 disks wobble going quickly north fast. Low altitude. Humming. Silver trails.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 505)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1124

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "BOCA GRANDE,FL:3 OBS:3 DISKS WOBBLE >>N FAST:LO alt:HUM:SLVR TRAILS:", LatLong: "26.700001 -82.255559", LatLongDMS: "26:42:00 N 82:15:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3131 (75BC6576)

Date: 7/11/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: LONGVIEW, WA
Description: Professor and 4. Several round shiny disks maneuver / 2 groups. Fast. High altitude. Direction unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 501)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1125

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "LONGVIEW,WA:Prof+4:SVRL RND SHINY DISKS MNVR/2 GROUPS:FAST:Hi alt:dir unkn", LatLong: "46.138891 -122.938895", LatLongDMS: "46:08:20 N 122:56:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3132 (720D49E4)

Date: 7/11/1947
Location: Elmendorf AFB, Anchorage, AK
Description: Round 3' Aluminum Object At Great Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470711
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_379

Event 3133 (230BCF87)

Date: 7/11/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: Debriefings of all military participants in the debris recovery operation take place. They are taken into a room in small groups and told that the recovery is highly classified and not to talk about it. Military personnel warn civilians around Roswell, New Mexico, that they are not to talk about what happened.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, pp. 72–76, 172
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1074

Event 3134 (033574ED)

Date: 7/11/1947
Location: Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska
Description: 11:00 a.m. USAAF Col. Bruce H. Perry and Maj. William E. Geyser, 59th AACS Group, see a round 2–3 foot or 10-foot aluminum or silver-metallic sphere traveling at great speed to the south of Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska. Estimated altitude is 3,000–4,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Round 3ʹ Aluminum Object at Great Speed”; Sparks, p. 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1075

Event 3135 (8DF7EA91)

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).”
Type: declassified statement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G, p16)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_263

Event 3136 (2FEED82A)

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July 17th, or the 24th)
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_264

Event 3137 (D9DDE60D)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: ~03:00
Location: GALT, ONT
Description: Observer(s) wakens. 20cm ball / light over head! Observer(s) throws pillow. Object going [to] through wall.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1126

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "283", HatchDesc: "GALT,ONT:OBS WAKENS:20cm BALL/LITE ovr HEAD!:OBS THROWS PILLOW:OBJ > THRU WALL", LatLong: "43.366669 -80.311115", LatLongDMS: "43:22:00 N 80:18:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3138 (029C0A5A)

Date: 7/12/1947 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: DRUMHELLER AND LETHBRIDGE, ALTA
Description: Several observer(s). 3 saucers. 1 hovers others go quickly. Going quickly southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1127

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "700", HatchDesc: "DRUMHELLER+LETHBRIDGE,ALTA:SVRL OBS:3 SCRS:1 HVRS OTHERS GO QUICKLY:>>SE", LatLong: "51.466669 -112.700005", LatLongDMS: "51:28:00 N 112:42:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3139 (9775B7DF)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: SILVER LAKE, WA
Description: Lumberman. Silver ball purrs. Reflects sun. Lost going [to] behind cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 106)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1128

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "158", HatchDesc: "SILVER LAKE,WA:LUMBERMAN:SILVER BALL PURRs:REFLECTS SUN:LOST > BHND CLOUD", LatLong: "46.294447 -122.783339", LatLongDMS: "46:17:40 N 122:47:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3140 (82BE54F3)

Date: 7/12/1947 (approximate)
Time: ~13:00
Location: EAST / LARCH MOUNTAIN, WA
Description: Prospector. 9 silver ovoids going southeast fast. Bob and weave. No smoke or noise.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 512)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1129

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "E/LARCH Mtn,WA:PROSPECTOR:9 SLVR OVOIDS >SE FAST:BOB+WEAVE:no smoke or noise", LatLong: "45.700002 -122.033339", LatLongDMS: "45:42:00 N 122:02:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3141 (AB72743A)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: SPRING COULEE, ALTA
Description: 5 / car. Silent shiny circular object / white center. Going east. Turns going quickly south. Observer(s) chase.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1130

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1040", HatchDesc: "SPRING COULEE,ALTA:5/CAR:SLNT SHINY CIRC.OBJ/WHT CENTER:>E:TURNS >>S:OBS CHASE", LatLong: "49.333336 -113.216672", LatLongDMS: "49:20:00 N 113:13:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3142 (5745256A)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: BRAZIL, IN
Description: 1 observer. Shiny silver 60cm disk rolls going west across sky. Thin rim and thick center.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 512)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1131

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "198", HatchDesc: "BRAZIL,IN:1 OBS:SHINY SLVR 60cm DISK ROLLS >W ACRS SKY:THIN RIM+THICK CTR:", LatLong: "39.522224 -87.127782", LatLongDMS: "39:31:20 N 87:07:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3143 (680FB302)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 13:40
Location: WILMINGTON, NC
Description: 2 observer(s). Brilliant saucer 3 / 4 moon-size going west. Flips / side and enters cloud / rainstorm.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 515)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1132

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,NC:2 OBS:BRILL.SCR 3/4 MOONSIZE >W:FLIPS/SIDE+ENTERS CLOUD/RAINSTRM", LatLong: "34.227779 -77.944448", LatLongDMS: "34:13:40 N 77:56:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3144 (18E237B2)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: GRAND FORKS, ND
Description: Numerous separate observer(s). 12-15 saucers going east. Rotate? Small white disk / 1 observer(s). / r171p106.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 506)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1133

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "254", HatchDesc: "GRAND FORKS,ND:NMRS SEP.OBS:12-15 SCRS >E:ROTATE?:SML WHT DISK/1 OBS:/r171p106", LatLong: "47.933336 -97.033338", LatLongDMS: "47:56:00 N 97:02:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3145 (DC0365AC)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 15:30
Location: OVER UTAH LAKE, UT
Description: Private pilot. 6 silver disks flutter and stabilize several X. Going southwest. / r131#5p7.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 749)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1134

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1350", HatchDesc: "ovr UTAH LAKE,UT:PVT PILOT:6 SLVR DISKS FLUTTER+STABILIZE SVRL X:>SW:/r131#5p7", LatLong: "40.244446 -111.794450", LatLongDMS: "40:14:40 N 111:47:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3146 (0E854824)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 16:30
Location: WEST / RIGBY, ID
Description: 3 / (seen thru) binoculars. Whirr. 3+3+3+1 bright metallic disks going north. Dip and rise. Small plane follows.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 514)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1135

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "1475", HatchDesc: "W/RIGBY,ID:3/BINOCS:WHIRR:3+3+3+1 BRITE MTLC DISKS >N:DIP+RISE:sml plane folos", LatLong: "43.672224 -111.916672", LatLongDMS: "43:40:20 N 111:55:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3147 (E3E9CA26)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK
Description: Several officers. Grey object follows land contours closely / several min.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1136

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "6", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:SVRL OFFICERS:GRY OBJ FOLOS LAND CONTOURS CLOSELY/SVRL MIN.", LatLong: "61.250003 -149.783340", LatLongDMS: "61:15:00 N 149:47:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3148 (A5A494AC)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 18:40
Location: SAND POINT NAS AND SEATTLE, WA
Description: 2+2 separate observer(s). Silent silver saucer swerves going quickly east / 12K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 835)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1137

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "130", HatchDesc: "SAND POINT NAS+SEATTLE,WA:2+2 SEP.OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR SWERVES >>E/12K'alt:", LatLong: "47.633336 -122.283339", LatLongDMS: "47:38:00 N 122:17:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3149 (C3AB8F2C)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 19:20
Location: 16KM SOUTH / HIGH POINT, NC
Description: 2 / private plane. Huge fireball-saucer going north fast. Bottom rotates. / r171p104.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 515)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1138

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "275", HatchDesc: "16km S/HIGH POINT,NC:2/Pvt.PLANE:HUGE FBL-SCR >N FAST:BOTTOM ROTATES:/r171p104", LatLong: "35.816668 -80.005559", LatLongDMS: "35:49:00 N 80:00:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3150 (77F8F03E)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: ~20:00
Location: ELBA TO/FROM ALBION, ID
Description: 5 / car. Dark object going north. Possible landing / mountain peak. "No bird or plane".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 507)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1139

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1508", HatchDesc: "ELBA><ALBION,ID:5/CAR:DRK OBJ >N:POSS.LANDING/Mtn PEAK:"no bird or plane"", LatLong: "42.333335 -113.566672", LatLongDMS: "42:20:00 N 113:34:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3151 (4E46CD7C)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: KASHMERE GARDENS, TX
Description: Silver disk / fireball. Bounces and circles. Dips and soars fast. Kugelblitz?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 507)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1140

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "KASHMERE GARDENS,TX:SLVR DISK/FBL:BOUNCES+CCLS:DIPS+SOARS FAST:kugelblitz?", LatLong: "29.811113 -95.327782", LatLongDMS: "29:48:40 N 95:19:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3152 (3FC896CD)

Date: 7/12/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: WINCHESTER, IN
Description: 7 observer(s). 2 disks going west trailing beams / light. Whirl and shoot up and down. Extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 512)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1141

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "342", HatchDesc: "WINCHESTER,IN:7 OBS:2 DISKS >W TRAILING BEAMS/LITE:WHIRL+SHOOT UP+DOWN:XFAST", LatLong: "40.172224 -84.983337", LatLongDMS: "40:10:20 N 84:59:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3153 (CF077A24)

Date: 7/12/1947
Locations: Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho; Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California; Mt. Rainier, Washington
Description: Kenneth Arnold is interviewed at the Hotel Owyhee in Boise, Idaho, by Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William L. Davidson , who have flown in from Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California. He also submits a written statement to Army Air Force intelligence, referring to the objects as “saucer-like.” At the end of the report he draws a picture of what the objects appeared to look like at their closest approach to Mt. Rainier, Washington. He writes, “They seemed longer than wide, their thickness was about 1/20th their width.” As to motion, Arnold writes, “They flew like many times I have observed geese to fly in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together.” James Easton suggests in 2007 that Arnold may have seen pelicans, based on their movements, but this seems unlikely. While they are at Arnold’s house, Brown and Davidson hear that pilot Emil J. Smith is in Boise on a layover, and all three go to the airport to talk to him.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 21–23; Kenneth Arnold, “Confidential,” Project 1947; Frank M. Brown, “Memorandum for the Officer in Charge,” July 16, 1947; James Easton, “Kenneth Arnold and the Pelicans,” UFO Conjectures, April 4, 2007; Martin Shough, “The Singular Adventure of Mr. Kenneth Arnold,” June 2010; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1076

Event 3154 (E365FC45)

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: The FBI conducts a shorter follow-up interview with Capt. Emil J. Smith.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 153
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1077

Event 3155 (9DD34BE6)

Date: 7/12/1947
Location: Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska
Description: 6:30 p.m. USAAF Maj. Edward Graham and others at Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf- Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska, see a balloon-like grayish object, 10 feet long, flying northwest at 100 mph at an altitude of 1,500 feet and following the contour of mountains 5 miles away. It is paralleling the course of a landing C-47.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1078

Event 3156 (2AB6CAD7)

Date: 7/12/1947
Locations: Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point; Magnuson Park; Seattle, Washington; North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in Seattle
Description: 6:35 p.m. Seamen John C. Kennedy and Ben Bobberly are on duty at Naval Air Station Seattle at Sand Point [now closed and redeveloped as Magnuson Park], Seattle, Washington. They notice a silvery disc-shaped object flying overhead to the east at 12,000 feet. At about the same time, Arnold Bergh and James Calahan watch three silvery discs flying quickly north from their location near North 82nd Street and 11th Avenue in Seattle.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-6
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1079

Event 3157 (7D44D343)

Date: 7/13/1947
Location: BEIJING, CHINA
Description: Many observer(s). Huge sausage with dazzling rays / colored light near summer palace.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1142

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "11", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "BEIJING,CHINA:MANY OBS:HUGE SAUSAGE W/DAZZLING RAYS/CLRD LITE nr SUMMER PALACE", LatLong: "39.900002 116.366672", LatLongDMS: "39:54:00 N 116:22:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Beijing", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3158 (A6D81D9F)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 09:30
Location: PONCA CITY, OK
Description: 20+observer(s). 40+disks going north. Dull / 1 side and silver. 120kph / 300M altitude into cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 519)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1143

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "307", HatchDesc: "PONCA CITY,OK:20+OBS:40+DISKS >N:DULL/1 SIDE+SLVR:120kph/300M alt into cloud", LatLong: "36.705557 -97.083338", LatLongDMS: "36:42:20 N 97:05:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3159 (A933E71F)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 10:00
Location: BAY OF BISCAY
Description: T = GMT. 3 / aircrew. Grey flying tadpole / 4800M altitude. / Arg. papers.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 162)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1144

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BAY of BISCAY:t=GMT:3/AIRCREW:GRY FLYING TADPOLE/4800M alt:/Arg.papers", LatLong: "45.000002 -7.500000", LatLongDMS: "45:00:00 N 07:30:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BSC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3160 (31B24267)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: MUSSELSHELL, MT
Description: 1+3 men / railroad/railway platform. Round white object going northwest / irregular path.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 106)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1145

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "913", HatchDesc: "MUSSELSHELL,MT:1+3 MEN/RR PLATFORM:ROUND WHT OBJ >NW/IRREGULAR PATH:", LatLong: "46.516669 -108.088894", LatLongDMS: "46:31:00 N 108:05:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3161 (9A9C5341)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: GARDNER, MA
Description: 2 observer(s). Large coin-disk going quickly west over road. Tilts going down. Going quickly [to] WNW. Edge clear. / r187#838.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1146

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "335", HatchDesc: "GARDNER,MA:2 OBS:LRG COIN-DISK >>W OVR ROAD:TILTS↓:>>WNW:EDGE CLEAR:/r187#838", LatLong: "42.577780 -72.000003", LatLongDMS: "42:34:40 N 72:00:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3162 (8A2CD738)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: NEAR GRESHAM, OR
Description: 3 / car. 2M thin metallic disk swoops and flips. 400 kph / 750M altitude. Turns going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 518)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1147

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "98", HatchDesc: "nr GRESHAM,OR:3/CAR:2M THIN MTLC DISK SWOOPS+FLIPS:400 kph/750M alt:TURNS >S", LatLong: "45.500002 -122.377784", LatLongDMS: "45:30:00 N 122:22:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "750", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3163 (D4BE012B)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 18:10
Location: GRESHAM, OR
Description: Separate observer(s) / home. 4 metallic disks going north. Change positions in formation. 2000M altitude?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 518)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1148

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "98", HatchDesc: "GRESHAM,OR:SEP.OBS/HOME:4 MTLC DISKS >N:CHANGE POSITIONS/FORMn:2000M alt?", LatLong: "45.500002 -122.416673", LatLongDMS: "45:30:00 N 122:25:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3164 (22180114)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: WINGVILLE, OR
Description: 4 / dairy farm. Round object going up and down [to] going west toward(s) mountains. 2 private planes follow. / r131#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 107)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1149

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "1036", HatchDesc: "WINGVILLE,OR:4/DAIRY FARM:ROUND OBJ ↑+↓ >W twrd Mtns:2 Pvt PLANES FOLO:/r131#5", LatLong: "44.850002 -117.916672", LatLongDMS: "44:51:00 N 117:55:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3165 (9689E7ED)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: NEW CUMBERLAND, WV
Description: 3 observer(s). 4-5 bright white 1M disks going quickly south / 15 minute(s) intervals. Meteors?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 521)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1150

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "207", HatchDesc: "NEW CUMBERLAND,WV:3 OBS:4-5 BRITE WHT 1M DISKS >>S/15min intervals:meteors?", LatLong: "40.494446 -80.605559", LatLongDMS: "40:29:40 N 80:36:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3166 (0A0383FC)

Date: 7/13/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: TOPEKA, KS
Description: 1 / porch. Disk from northeast stops and circles. 2 more from southwest and southeast join. All going quickly west. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 521)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1151

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "TOPEKA,KS:1/PORCH:DISK frm NE STOPS+CCLS:2 MORE frm SW+SE JOIN:ALL >>W:SLNT", LatLong: "39.050002 -95.677782", LatLongDMS: "39:03:00 N 95:40:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3167 (0B75C532)

Date: 7/13/1947
Locations: State Highway 2; Gardner, Massachusetts
Description: 5:48 p.m. Warren Baker Eames is driving with his wife Alice on State Highway 2 near Gardner, Massachusetts, when they see a large, silvery, disc-shaped object in the sky ahead, moving west. As they watch, its nearest edge dips down toward them and it accelerates in a sudden burst of speed to the west-northwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1080

Event 3168 (15B4DDF7)

Date: 7/13/1947
Description: At 9:30 p.m. four or five bright white, one-meter wide discs flew over New Cumberland, West Virginia one after the other at 15-minute intervals. They flew away to the south. At 10:30 in Topeka, Kansas a disc-shaped object flew in from the northwest, stopped in midair, and circled. Two more discs, one each from the southwest and southeast fly in and join the first one. All three fly away silently toward the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases 1163 & 1164
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4025

Event 3169 (5E78CA68)

Date: 7/14/1947
Location: TEMUCO AND CALDERA, CHL
Description: 2 separate UFO report(s) / news. Type unknown. No further details. Also 13 July / Puyehue, Chile.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 96)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1152

Extra Data: Country: "Chile", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "103", HatchDesc: "TEMUCO+CALDERA,CHL:2 SEP UFO RPTs/NEWS:TYPE UNK:NFD::+13JLY/PUYEHUE,CHILE", LatLong: "-38.716669 -72.600003", LatLongDMS: "38:43:00 S 72:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CTN", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3170 (4EF70AB0)

Date: 7/14/1947 (approximate)
Location: 4 MILES NORTH / LE GRAND, CA
Description: 1 / car. Sent shiny metal Saturn-saucer bobs going up and down [to] while crossing road.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: CHARLES FORT & UFO'S. Self published, 1976 (Index 100)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1153

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "4mi N/Le GRAND,CA:1/CAR:SENT SHINY MTL SATURN-SCR BOBS ↑+↓ while CROSSING ROAD", LatLong: "37.283335 -120.250006", LatLongDMS: "37:17:00 N 120:15:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3171 (48EC525C)

Date: 7/14/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: SYRACUSE, NY
Description: Boy / 13. Featureless 60M cylinder/cigar-shape hovers over orchard 100M away. / NUFORC.
Type: sighting
Reference: Newspaper account: NUFORC Report: Syracuse, NY: 14JLY47: archive.org
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1154

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "120", HatchDesc: "SYRACUSE,NY:BOY/13:FEATURELESS 60M CGR HVRS OVR ORCHARD 100M away:/NUFORC", LatLong: "43.016669 -76.150004", LatLongDMS: "43:01:00 N 76:09:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3172 (3D5D2AC9)

Date: 7/14/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: SOUTHWEST / WILKESBORO, NC
Description: Blast-buzzing noise. Disk going quickly [to] Cfast / 1500M altitude. No further details / Daily News.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 525)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1155

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "SW/WILKESBORO,NC:BLAST-BUZZING NOISE:DISK >> CFAST/1500M alt:NFD/Daily News", LatLong: "36.083335 -81.233337", LatLongDMS: "36:05:00 N 81:14:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3173 (98472630)

Date: 7/14/1947
Time: 19:20
Location: SOUTH / IDAHO FALLS, ID
Description: 1 / farm. Small disk / irregular course low and slow overhead. Tilts. Going southwest. Odd sound.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 107)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1156

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1430", HatchDesc: "S/IDAHO FALLS,ID:1/FARM:SML DISK/IRREG.COURSE LO+SLOW OVHD:TILTS:>SW:ODD SOUND", LatLong: "43.416669 -112.033339", LatLongDMS: "43:25:00 N 112:02:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3174 (073AB637)

Date: 7/14/1947
Time: 19:30
Location: NAMPA, ID
Description: 2 observer(s). 12 disks circle / W. sky. Join / various formations / 10 minute(s). Going quickly west. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 107)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1157

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "759", HatchDesc: "NAMPA,ID:2 OBS:12 DISKS CCL/W.SKY:JOIN/VARIOUS FORMns/10min:>>W:/news", LatLong: "43.550002 -116.561117", LatLongDMS: "43:33:00 N 116:33:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3175 (A35A4C45)

Date: 7/14/1947
Time: ~21:30
Location: TIANJIN, CH
Description: Many observer(s). 1+2 blue-glowing saucers shoot rays all over/all about. / r208p33+/ r131#5p26.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1158

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "11", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "TIANJIN,CH:MANY OBS:1+2 BLU-GLO SCRS SHOOT RAYS ALLO:/r208p33+/r131#5p26", LatLong: "39.116669 117.216672", LatLongDMS: "39:07:00 N 117:13:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TNJ", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3176 (8AA39BE7)

Date: 7/14/1947
Description: At 10:30 a.m. in Syracuse, New York a 13-year-old boy saw a long, featureless cigar-shaped object hovering over an orchard only 100 meters away. At 1:00 p.m. in Wilkesboro, North Carolina a buzzing noise was heard and then a disc shot through the sky fast at an altitude of 1500 meters. At 7:20 p.m. a small disc flew over a farm south of Idaho Falls, Idaho flying on an irregular course, low and slow. It tilted, then flew away to the southwest making an odd sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1167, citing the National UFO Reporting Center; (2) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 25; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 107
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4045

Event 3177 (113D4BB1)

Date: Mid 7/1947
Description: In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he stated: “...the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers were real and not manmade...the technology represented by the (recovered) disc...was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood immediately...Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a military secret. This would mean containing all information about it within some small group.”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_267
See also: 1/31/1949

Event 3178 (D0623119)

Date: 7/15/1947
Description: Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”...before agreeing (to the investigation of crashed saucers)...we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good, p541, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_268

Event 3179 (F03E255A)

Date: 7/15/1947
Time: 08:40
Location: TUCUMCARI, NM
Description: 4 observer(s). Luminous saucer wobbles going SSE on edge. Fast. No sparks no trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 525)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1159

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1245", HatchDesc: "TUCUMCARI,NM:4 OBS:LUMn.SCR WOBBLES >SSE on edge:FAST:no sparks no trail", LatLong: "35.172224 -103.722227", LatLongDMS: "35:10:20 N 103:43:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3180 (E8BA4951)

Date: 7/15/1947
Time: 12:20
Location: CONCORD, CA
Description: CAA pilot. 12-15 5M objects / groups. 200mph going west. Odd boomerang / SF news.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 841)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1160

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "61", HatchDesc: "CONCORD,CA:CAA PILOT:12-15 5M OBJS/GROUPS:200mph >W::ODD BOOMERANG/SF NEWS", LatLong: "37.966668 -122.033339", LatLongDMS: "37:58:00 N 122:02:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3181 (B6CBDB1F)

Date: 7/15/1947?
Time: 13:00?
Location: GRANGESBERG, SWD
Description: 2 14M cigars / low / 70kph. 2 rows / portholes. Face / large window. 1M antenna.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 134)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1161

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "4", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GRANGESBERG,SWD:2 14M CGRS/LOW/70kph:2 ROWS/PORTS:FACE/LRG WINDOW:1M ANTENNA", LatLong: "60.066670 15.000001", LatLongDMS: "60:04:00 N 15:00:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3182 (90C25905)

Date: 7/15/1947
Location: Roswell AAF, New Mexico
Description: Mack Brazel is returned home after an extensive interrogation at Roswell AAF, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell, Evans, 1994, p. 173
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1081

Event 3183 (25EE1C0B)

Date: 7/15/1947
Location: Concord, California
Description: 12:15 p.m. Col. Frank A. Flynn is flying a Vultee BT-13 Valiant over Concord, California, when a group of 12–15 objects approaches and passes him. At first he takes them for birds, but he can see no necks or wings and they are moving in excess of 200 mph. They are moving in a see-saw fashion at three different altitudes about 200 feet apart, and they appear to be about 15 feet across, white on the top and gray and black on the bottom. At their closest point, they are about one mile away. Flynn turns his plane around to pursue them, but they outdistance him quickly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1082

Event 3184 (3013E80C)

Date: 7/15/1947
Description: At 12:15 p.m. Colonel Frank A. Flynn, who was flying over over Concord, California, reported that at least a dozen oval-shaped UFOs in three groups that hung in the sky, swinging back and forth in a pendulum motion. They were white on top, grey and black for the rest, and about 15 feet wide.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: San Francisco News, July 18, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 841
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4064

Event 3185 (621C64D8)

Date: 7/16/1947
Time: ~02:00
Location: OSLO, NORWAY
Description: 1 observer. Flying saucepan with handle. Very fast. 'Resembles S. sea island'(??)
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1162

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "OSLO,NORWAY:1 OBS:FLYING SAUCEPAN W/HANDLE:VFAST:'RESEMBLES S.SEA ISLAND'(??)", LatLong: "59.866670 10.700001", LatLongDMS: "59:52:00 N 10:42:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3186 (69AEE60C)

Date: 7/16/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: SALEM, OR
Description: Disk going south 500kph / 1200M altitude. Brisk 30° turn going quickly southeast. Shiny then grey color.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 528)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1163

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "47", HatchDesc: "SALEM,OR:DISK > S 500kph/1200M alt:BRISK 30°TURN >>SE:SHINY THEN GRY CLR", LatLong: "44.944447 -123.033339", LatLongDMS: "44:56:40 N 123:02:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3187 (217BC850)

Date: 7/16/1947
Time: 16:20
Location: MOUNTAIN HOME, ID
Description: 2 / car. 1M saucer slowly circles Air Force Base. Brown colored-grey / one side. Silver / other.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 529)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1164

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "958", HatchDesc: "MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:2/CAR:1M SCR SLOWLY CCLS AFB:BRN-GRY/ONE SIDE:SLVR/OTHER:", LatLong: "43.155558 -115.727783", LatLongDMS: "43:09:20 N 115:43:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3188 (8E73FF2F)

Date: 7/16/1947
Locations: Ernest Harmon AFB; Newfoundland
Description: An initial report on the Ernest Harmon AFB case in Newfoundland is written up by a base intelligence officer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1083

Event 3189 (A821EB44)

Date: 7/17/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: FT. COLLINS, CO
Description: Ex-Army man and 4. 8 perfect-round shiny silver disks going quickly south extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 530)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1165

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "1525", HatchDesc: "Ft.COLLINS,CO:EX-ARMY MAN+4:8 PERFECT-ROUND SHINY SLVR DISKS >>S XFAST:", LatLong: "40.600002 -105.100005", LatLongDMS: "40:36:00 N 105:06:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3190 (A3BBCB0C)

Date: 7/17/1947
Time: 17:50
Location: OKLA, CITY, OK
Description: 1M disk drops / cloud. Back up / cloud when plane passes. Very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 530)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1166

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "360", HatchDesc: "OKLA,CITY,OK:1M DISK DROPS/CLOUD:BACK UP/CLOUD when plane passes:VFAST", LatLong: "35.500002 -97.516671", LatLongDMS: "35:30:00 N 97:31:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3191 (C1C7DD77)

Date: 7/18/1947?
Time: 13:00?
Location: GOLDFIELD, NV
Description: Miner. Odd round object spins slowly. Spins fast and object going quickly northeast over mountain.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 531)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1167

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1731", HatchDesc: "GOLDFIELD,NV:MINER:ODD RND OBJ SPINS SLOWLY:SPINS FAST+OBJ >>NE ovr MOUNTAIN", LatLong: "37.711113 -117.233339", LatLongDMS: "37:42:40 N 117:14:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3192 (CF80FA43)

Date: 7/18/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: NORTH / ARLEE, MT
Description: 2 observer(s). 2 saucers play hide and seek / clouds / 30 minutes. Dip and arc all over/all about. Bright and dim.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 531)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1168

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", Elev: "940", HatchDesc: "N/ARLEE,MT:2 OBS:2 SCRS PLAY HIDE+SEEK/CLOUDS/30mins:DIP+ARC ALLO:BRITE+DIM", LatLong: "47.200002 -114.083339", LatLongDMS: "47:12:00 N 114:05:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3193 (23684A81)

Date: 7/18/1947
Time: 23:30
Location: JOPLIN, MO
Description: 1 observer. Bright shiny 50cm ovoid going quickly southeast over railroad/railway freight house. / Sunday Globe.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 109)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1169

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "297", HatchDesc: "JOPLIN,MO:1 OBS:BRITE SHINY 50cm OVOID >>SE OVR RR FREIGHT HOUSE:/Sunday Globe", LatLong: "37.083335 -94.516671", LatLongDMS: "37:05:00 N 94:31:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3194 (06CDEB8C)

Date: 7/18/1947
Description: In Joplin, Missouri a bright, shiny ovoid object, half a meter in length, flew over the railroad freight house at 11:30 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 109
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4155

Event 3195 (BB6D7A96)

Date: 7/19/1947
Location: HATZIC ISLAND, BC
Description: 1 observer. Shiny disk going quickly southeast straight & level flight / 120M altitude directly overhead. Vancouver Sun.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 97)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1170

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "HATZIC Isl,BC:1 OBS:SHINY DISK >>SE S&L/120M alt DIRECTLY OVHD:Vancouver Sun", LatLong: "49.150002 -122.266672", LatLongDMS: "49:09:00 N 122:16:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3196 (6B64F0FE)

Date: 7/19/1947
Time: 06:10
Location: BALCARCE, ARG
Description: 100 saucers north going quickly south. 1 paces car. 2 good photos. / r192p321+/ r129p96.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 532)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1171

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "97", HatchDesc: "BALCARCE,ARG:100 SCRS N>>S:1 PACES CAR:2 GOOD PHOTOS:/r192p321+/r129p96", LatLong: "-37.850002 -58.266669", LatLongDMS: "37:51:00 S 58:16:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3197 (13E3D172)

Date: 7/19/1947
Locations: Lanzhou City, Gansu, China; Gansu province
Description: The antiaircraft command base of the Chinese Nationalist Government Air Force spots a UFO over Lanzhou City, Gansu, China. It is 50 feet long and has an apparent rudder and two jet pipes in the back. About 8:00 p.m., witnesses in Gansu province watch a red object cross the sky in 2 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Paul Dong, The Four Major Mysteries of Mainland China, Prentice-Hall, 1984, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1084

Event 3198 (64EB71E1)

Date: 7/20/1947
Time: 09:20
Location: FROSTBURG, MD
Description: White circular object above broken clouds. Audible sounds-type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1172

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "632", HatchDesc: "FROSTBURG,MD:WHT CIRC. OBJ ABOVE BROKEN CLOUDS:AUDIBLE SOUNDS-TYPE UNKNOWN", LatLong: "39.666669 -78.916670", LatLongDMS: "39:40:00 N 78:55:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3199 (E545CB04)

Date: 7/20/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: NEAR OLAVARRIA, ARG
Description: Several / farm. "Saucer" drops / 20M altitude. Fast spin. Blue light. Finally going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 532)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1173

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "163", HatchDesc: "nr OLAVARRIA,ARG:SVRL/FARM:"SCR" DROPS/20M alt:FAST SPIN:BLUE LITE:FINALLY >S", LatLong: "-36.883335 -60.300003", LatLongDMS: "36:53:00 S 60:18:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3200 (6E7D36FE)

Date: 7/20/1947
Time: 18:30
Location: EKOLN LAKE, UPPLAND, SWEDEN
Description: Air Force man. Metallic football going quickly NNW / 250kph. 550M altitude 1 km away.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1174

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "6", HatchDesc: "EKOLN Lake,UPPLAND,SWEDEN:AF MAN:MTLC FOOTBALL >>NNW/250kph:550M alt 1 km away", LatLong: "59.750003 17.616668", LatLongDMS: "59:45:00 N 17:37:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3201 (B7008B6F)

Date: 7/20/1947
Time: 18:50
Location: SINGAPORE
Description: UK Army Sgt. "Saucer" dips and spirals slowly. Balloon? / Straits Times 23 July.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 532)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1175

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "?", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SINGAPORE:UK ARMY SGT:"SCR" DIPS+SPIRALS SLOWLY:balloon?:/Straits Times 23Jly", LatLong: "1.283333 103.850005", LatLongDMS: "01:17:00 N 103:51:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SNG", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3202 (72B095A6)

Date: 7/20/1947
Time: 20:00?
Location: NANJING, CHINA
Description: 3 separate military-air observer(s) and more. "Flying saucer". Headquarters collecting reports..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 533)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1176

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "NANJING,CHINA:3 SEP.MIL-AIR OBS+:"FLYING SAUCER":HQ collecting reports..", LatLong: "32.050002 118.783339", LatLongDMS: "32:03:00 N 118:47:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Jiangsu", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3203 (AAD77E8A)

Date: 7/20/1947
Description: At 2:30 a.m. in Idaho Falls, Idaho Mr. Denton saw a UFO swing back and forth in a pendulum motion.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Idaho Daily Statesman, July 21, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 842
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4220

Event 3204 (6B461EF7)

Date: 7/21/1947
Time: 10:20
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: Ex-airman / ground. Brilliant silver ovoid going quickly NNE / 2000M altitude. 1000kph. No tail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 534)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1177

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "820", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:EX-AIRMAN/GND:BRILL.SLVR OVOID >>NNE/2000M alt:1000kph:NO TAIL", LatLong: "43.616669 -116.216672", LatLongDMS: "43:37:00 N 116:13:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3205 (5A4D838A)

Date: 7/21/1947
Locations: Ernest Harmon AFB; Pentagon
Description: A more detailed report on the Ernest Harmon AFB incident is sent to the Pentagon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1085

Event 3206 (F50D77DE)

Date: 7/21/1947
Description: Life magazine publishes a pictorial news story on the flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Speaking of Pictures: A Rash of Flying Disks Breaks Out over the U.S.,” Life, July 21, 1947, pp. 14–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1086

Event 3207 (5D8EA6AB)

Date: 7/21/1947
Description: At 10:15 a.m. Mr. James E. Petteway of Boise, Idaho briefly sighted an oval object flying on a straight steady course to the north-northeast. It was bright, like polished silver, and flew at an estimated speed of 600 miles per hour, at 7000 feet altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case # 844, citing the Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 22, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4258

Event 3208 (3F3DDF18)

Date: 7/22/1947 (approximate)
Location: WILLIMANTIC, CT
Description: "Man photographs flying metallic hexagon!". Tilts. No further details [in] local papers.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 111)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1178

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "20", Elev: "81", HatchDesc: "WILLIMANTIC,CT:"MAN FOTOS FLYING MTLC HEXAGON!":TILTS:NFD local papers", LatLong: "41.711113 -72.211115", LatLongDMS: "41:42:40 N 72:12:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3209 (6365B7FC)

Date: 7/22/1947
Location: Maury Island, Washington
Description: Ray Palmer writes to Kenneth Arnold and tells him about the Maury Island, Washington, case, asking him to look into it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1947”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, p. 21
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1087

Event 3210 (8D7A1B0E)

Date: 7/23/1947
Time: 12:00?
Location: BAURU, BRZ
Description: Grey 30M saucer going down. 3 2M men / in space-suits draw starmap / dirt. / r108p31+Flying Saucer Review (FSR) v7#6.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 737)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1179

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, MON: Monster: Life form fits no category, GNT: Giant: Large/tall alien, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, CVS: Conversation/communication, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "3", Duration: "22", Elev: "535", HatchDesc: "BAURU,BRZ:GRY 30M SCR ↓:3 2M MEN/SPC-SUITS DRAW STARMAP/DIRT:/r108p31+FSR v7#6", LatLong: "-22.316668 -49.066669", LatLongDMS: "22:19:00 S 49:04:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "São Paulo", Strangeness: "10"

Event 3211 (425F5DEC)

Date: 7/23/1947
Time: 17:00
Location: ODENSALA, SWEDEN
Description: Several observer(s). Silent silver saucer going east / 400M altitude. Airplane speed. / AFU Sweden.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 140)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1180

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ODENSALA,SWEDEN:SVRL OBS:SLNT SLVR SCR >E/400M alt:AIRPLANE SPEED:/AFU Sweden", LatLong: "63.150003 14.683334", LatLongDMS: "63:09:00 N 14:41:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3212 (22D8584A)

Date: 7/23/1947
Location: Bauru, near Pitanga, Brazil
Description: A group of survey workers ran away as they heard a hissing noise and saw a disk land 50 m away. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through, a window. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized bald heads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over 2 m. tall. They drew the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Round-up 163; FSR 61, 6 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_61

Event 3213 (DCE447A9)

Date: 7/23/1947
Locations: Morristown Airport; New Jersey
Description: Day. John H. Janssen, aviation editor of the Morristown Daily Record, is flying his Piper J-3 Cub at 6,000 feet near the Morristown Airport in New Jersey. He sees a flash of light, the engine gives out, and the plane seems to be motionless. Then he sees two UFOs this time with portholes and manages to get the propeller going again. This is one of the first cases of “vehicle interference” UFO cases involving an airplane.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “07-10-1947 USA, New Jersey, Morristown”; John H. Janssen, “My Encounter with Flying Disks,” Fate 2, no. 3 September 1949: 12–16
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1088

Event 3214 (48FBF0E8)

Date: 7/23/1947
Locations: Campina do Amoral; Colônia Goio-Bang; Luiziana; Mamboré; Paraná; Brazil
Description: José C. Higgens and some assistants are surveying a field in Campina do Amoral in the Colônia Goio-Bang, located between Luiziana and Mamboré, Paraná, Brazil. On hearing a sharp sound, they see a grayish-white disc- shaped object about 100 feet in diameter, which soon lands and rests on curved metal feet. His assistants flee, but Higgens goes up to examine it. He sees a small, glass window, then two odd-looking beings observing him curiously. A door opens in the craft, and three other hairless beings dressed in transparent overalls. They have large, round eyes with eyebrows and pronounced eyelashes. Their legs are disproportionately long and they are about 7 feet tall. One points a small tube at Higgens. They are speaking in an unknown, sonorous language. He walks toward the door and can see only a small cubicle, bordered by another door, and several portholes. Higgens by gestures asks where they are from and the leader draws a map in the dirt, indicating a seventh planet, presumably Uranus. He eludes them by pretending to look for his wife and goes into a hidden spot in the woods. After 30 minutes the beings climb into the object and take off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Caso José Higgens”; Clark III 576– 577; Brazil 21–23; Mark Cashman, “Behavioral Classification System for UFO Occupants,” IUR 24, no. 1 Spring 1999: 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1089

Event 3215 (B80C9B07)

Date: 7/23/1947
Description: A group of survey workers working northeast of Pitanga, Parana State, Brazil ran away when they heard a hissing noise and saw a disc-shaped object land only 50 meters away from them. Jose C. Higgins saw two figures through a window inside the craft. Later three beings in shiny clothes and translucent suits, with oversized baldheads, huge round eyes, no eyelashes or eyebrows, and a metal box on their back, emerged from the craft. They were over two meters (6.6 feet) tall. They drew a sketch of the solar system and pointed to Uranus as if to suggest that was their point of origin.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Flying Saucer Review, November-December 1961; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 191; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, citing O Cruzeiro, November 13, 1954
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4311

Event 3216 (F9A18EC6)

Date: 7/23/1947
Description: On this day a private pilot named Jenssen, flying at 6000 feet over Morristown, New Jersey encountered a shaft of light from above. The aircraft's engine faltered, then died, but the plane maintained its altitude. He felt a prickling sensation and saw a metallic disc above and ahead of him. He was able to re-start the plane by putting the nose down when he got control back.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 70; Leonard G. Cramp, Piece for a Jig-Saw, p. 318
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4312

Event 3217 (F0B97F66)

Date: 7/24/1947
Description: Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_269

Event 3218 (CD63D6C8)

Date: 7/24/1947
Time: 00:10
Location: WOLF POINT, MT
Description: Grey 60cm dishpan-saucer going quickly east fast / 30M altitude. Lady report(s) dishpan missing!
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 112)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1181

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "609", HatchDesc: "WOLF POINT,MT:GRY 60cm DISHPAN-SCR >>E FAST/30M alt:lady rpts dishpan missing!", LatLong: "48.088891 -105.638894", LatLongDMS: "48:05:20 N 105:38:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3219 (A50CFE42)

Date: 7/24/1947
Time: 07:00
Location: WEST / SQUANTUM NAS, MA
Description: 2 air observer(s). Shiny silver ball going quickly northwest rising over Milton. Gone / 10 seconds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 540)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1182

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "W/SQUANTUM NAS,MA:2 AIR OBS:SHINY SLVR BALL >>NW RISING OVR MILTON:gone/10secs", LatLong: "42.266669 -71.066670", LatLongDMS: "42:16:00 N 71:04:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3220 (9B5220E6)

Date: 7/24/1947
Time: 10:30
Location: SOUTH / ARVADA, WYO
Description: 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. 2 metallic disks fly on a tilt. Turn to smoke rings. Dissolve!
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 111)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1183

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1120", HatchDesc: "S/ARVADA,WYo:1/BINOCS:2 MTLC DISKS FLY on a TILT:TURN TO SMOKE RINGS:dissolve!", LatLong: "44.616669 -106.133338", LatLongDMS: "44:37:00 N 106:08:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3221 (B20F9774)

Date: 7/24/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: PEHUAJO, ARG
Description: J. Arigues sees saucer / 60-70M altitude near home. No further details / B. A. Standard / 26 Jul. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 539)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1184

Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "85", HatchDesc: "PEHUAJO,ARG:J.ARIGUES SEES SCR/60-70M alt NR HOME:NFD/B.A.Standard/26Jly47", LatLong: "-35.816668 -61.900003", LatLongDMS: "35:49:00 S 61:54:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "65", State/Prov: "Buenos Aires", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3222 (FF9EA369)

Date: 7/24/1947
Time: 21:00
Location: CHILLIWACK, BC
Description: 4 observer(s). Large shiny oval disk going quickly southwest through clouds 500' over mountains. Straight and level.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 847)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1185

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "CHILLIWACK,BC:4 OBS:LRG SHINY OVAL DISK >>SW THRU CLOUDS 500'OVR MTNS:S/L", LatLong: "49.166669 -121.950006", LatLongDMS: "49:10:00 N 121:57:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3223 (363257E8)

Date: 7/24/1947
Time: 22:00?
Location: OREGON CITY, OR
Description: Cabbie. Green-glow "pear-shaped tube" going south slow / 240M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 539)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1186

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "107", HatchDesc: "OREGON CITY,OR:CABBIE:GRN-GLOW "PEAR-SHAPED TUBE" >S SLOW/240M alt:", LatLong: "45.350002 -122.600006", LatLongDMS: "45:21:00 N 122:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "240", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3224 (48F24EBC)

Date: 7/25/1947
Time: 16:50
Location: EL PASO, TX
Description: Several observer(s). Silver-aluminum disk wobbles like tossed plate / 5 minutes. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 541)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1187

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1109", HatchDesc: "EL PASO,TX:SVRL OBS:SLVR-ALUM.DISK WOBBLES like tossed plate/5mins:>N", LatLong: "31.766668 -106.433338", LatLongDMS: "31:46:00 N 106:26:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3225 (87385714)

Date: 7/25/1947
Location: Boise, Idaho
Description: Intelligence agents from the Fourth Air Force, Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William L. Davidson , visit Kenneth Arnold in Boise, Idaho, and tell him to contact them if he runs across any interesting UFO evidence.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1090

Event 3226 (7D7B08D4)

Date: 7/25/1947
Locations: Roswell, New Mexico; China
Description: A memorandum over the signature of Maj. Lester M. Garrigues states that by order of Col. Blanchard, the nine men who had been assigned duties in the recovery of the Roswell, New Mexico, crash are relieved from duty on that project. However, it is now largely considered a forgery by Frank Kaufmann. Garrigues has assumed duties in China prior to this and is no longer in Roswell.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 9–11, 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1091

Event 3227 (752361AF)

Date: 7/25/1947
Location: Dumas, Texas
Description: Day. Leonard Robertson is riding his motorcycle northeast of Dumas, Texas, when he sees a flash of light to his left. An oval object like a bubble is floating over a field about one mile away. Suddenly the object explodes, so Robertson takes a side road to the field where he retrieves a piece of metal “lighter than aluminum foil” about 30 inches long and 24 inches wide. There are two small holes in it and the center seems to be burned.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Perryton Man Displays Proof of Saucer Story,” Amarillo Tex. Daily News, August 6, 1947, p. 1; “Salvage from Mystery Blast,” Amarillo Tex. Daily News, August 9, 1947, p. 5; Curt Collins, “The Texas UFO Crash Debris Photo from July 1947,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, May 21, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1092

Event 3228 (D6087DFB)

Date: 7/26/1947
Time: ~21:00
Location: LIGNY-LE-RIBAULT, FR
Description: Several observer(s). Blue-glowing sphere/orb/globe smokes and flames. Going quickly northwest. Also seen / Orleans.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 42)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1188

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LIGNY-le-RIBAULT,FR:SVRL OBS:BLU-GLO ORB SMOKES+FLAMES:>>NW:ALSO SEEN/ORLEANS:", LatLong: "47.700002 1.783333", LatLongDMS: "47:42:00 N 01:47:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Loiret", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3229 (E0E9C86A)

Date: 7/26/1947
Location: Joint Research and Development Board
Description: President Truman signs the National Security Act, a major restructuring of the military and intelligence agencies. It creates a unified National Military Establishment Army and Navy and a Department of the Air Force, both under the new Secretary of Defense. The Joint Research and Development Board becomes the R&D brain center. Each of the three service secretaries maintains quasi-cabinet status. It establishes the National Security Council to advise the president and the Central Intelligence Agency, the first peacetime intelligence agency in the US. The CIA is prohibited from conducting domestic surveillance, but Allen Dulles ensures it can handle “other functions” affecting “national security” without scrutiny from Congress or sometimes the president. Much of the CIA’s funding initially comes from wealthy Americans. The act creates the first black military and intelligence budget.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “National Security Act of 1947”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1093

Event 3230 (8E0674EB)

Date: 7/27/1947
Location: Maury Island, Washington
Description: Ray Palmer wires Kenneth Arnold $200 to investigate the Maury Island, Washington, case.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, 1952, Palmer, pp. 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1094

Event 3231 (4140D5B0)

Date: 7/27/1947
Locations: Portland Oregonian; Boise Stateman
Description: Capt. Davidson and Lt. Brown interview Richard Rankin. The FBI finds that the CIC agents have also interviewed Kenneth Arnold , Capt. Emil J. Smith, Flight Officer Ralph Stevens, and Boise Stateman Editor David N. Johnson about their UFO sightings. Leverett G. Richards , aviation editor of the Portland Oregonian, informs the FBI of this information. He also calls Lieut. Gen. Nathan Twining, who leaves “the impression that the AAF instituted this investigation to wash out the disc reports since they are definitely not of AAF origin.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1095

Event 3232 (87B17C6C)

Date: 7/28/1947
Time: 12:10
Location: NORWOOD, MBA
Description: 1 observer. Shiny silver disk going west / very high altitude. Leaves (something behind) puffs / smoke / regular intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 543)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1189

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "229", HatchDesc: "NORWOOD,MBa:1 OBS:SHINY SLVR DISK >W/VHI alt:LVS PUFFS/SMOKE/REGULAR INTERVALS", LatLong: "49.877780 -97.116671", LatLongDMS: "49:52:40 N 97:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3233 (FE7DBBAE)

Date: 7/28/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: NORTHWEST / MOUNTAIN HOME, ID
Description: 2 pilots / United Airlines (UAL) flight-105. Saucer weaves / 2 minute(s). Turns going quickly northwest and away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 544)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1190

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "955", HatchDesc: "NW/MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:2 PILOTS/UAL FLT-105:SCR WEAVES/2min:TURNS>>NW+AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "43.200002 -115.833339", LatLongDMS: "43:12:00 N 115:50:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3234 (2D660759)

Date: 7/28/1947
Location: Bt. Mountain Home & Boise, ID
Description: DC-3 Crew Observes Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470728
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_380

Event 3235 (62E8FD2C)

Date: 7/28/1947
Locations: Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland; Wright Field, Ohio; Stephenville; Pentagon
Description: After assessing the Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, report, Gen. Schulgen orders Col. Howard M. McCoy , deputy commander of T-2 intelligence at Wright Field, Ohio, to send a top-level assessment team possibly [Alfred Loedding](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/209268646/alfred-christian-loedding) or Col. [William R. Clingerman Jr.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/113944251/william-r%5F-clingerman) to Stephenville “immediately” and report directly to the Pentagon afterwards. McCoy suspects German or Russian technology.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 33–34; Swords 39
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1096

Event 3236 (B8065690)

Date: 7/28/1947
Locations: Mountain Home, Idaho; Boise
Description: 8:34 p.m. Capt. Charles F. Gibian and First Officer Jack Harvey are piloting United Air Lines Flight 105 and descending above Mountain Home, Idaho, in preparation for landing in Boise. Harvey sees an object that seems to be another aircraft ahead of them and to the south, but it rapidly moves to the northwest in a weaving fashion, diminishing in size and vanishing from view.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “United Air Lines Crew Reports Sighting Flying Saucer between Mountain Home and Boise,” Boise Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947, pp. 1–2; Bloecher, pp. III-13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1097

Event 3237 (26E5DDBD)

Date: 7/28/1947
Description: At 12:10 p.m. a shiny silver disc was seen flying toward the west at a high altitude In Norwood, Manitoba. If left behind puffs of smoke at regular intervals.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 5), p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4446

Event 3238 (72D4E4A4)

Date: 7/28/1947
Description: United Airlines flight 105 flying between Mountain Home and Boise, Idaho had a near collision with a flying disc at 10:34 p.m. The cockpit crew members were named Gibian and Harvey.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Idaho Daily Statesman, July 29, 1947; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 849; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4447

Event 3239 (D91CAB58)

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern Oregon area.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_270

Event 3240 (BAF6F59E)

Date: 7/29/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude (Near vertical trajectory.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_271
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 160.7km

Event 3241 (DCB6F85D)

Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 06:30
Location: OVER UNION, OR
Description: Ken Arnold / light plane again. 20-25 brassy disks flip and veer going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 850)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1191

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "850", HatchDesc: "ovr UNION,OR:KEN ARNOLD/LITE PLANE AGAIN:20-25 BRASSY DISKS FLIP+VEER >>SW", LatLong: "45.205558 -117.866672", LatLongDMS: "45:12:20 N 117:52:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3242 (116C57AB)

Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 12:10
Location: NORTHWEST / CANYON FERRY, MT
Description: 2 / car. 1M saucer / 3km altitude. Flutters. Going up and down. Lost / clear sky. / MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 545)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1192

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "1190", HatchDesc: "NW/CANYON FERRY,MT:2/CAR:1M SCR/3km alt:FLUTTERS:↑+↓:lost/clr sky:/MJ#121", LatLong: "46.683336 -111.750005", LatLongDMS: "46:41:00 N 111:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3243 (48282F3A)

Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: NORTH / WENDELL, ID
Description: 2 / car. 2 round silver objects going [to] extremely fast. Seen / 2 minutes. Very high altitude. No further details / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 547)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1193

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1055", HatchDesc: "N/WENDELL,ID:2/CAR:2 RND SLVR OBJs > XFAST:SEEN/2 mins:VHI alt:NFD/news", LatLong: "42.850002 -114.716672", LatLongDMS: "42:51:00 N 114:43:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3244 (CFFA8BE1)

Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: PORT ORCHARD, WA
Description: Coroner. Large silver ovoid going down [to] going quickly southeast / 150M altitude. 12' x5'. Silent. Landing?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 543)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1194

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "43", HatchDesc: "PORT ORCHARD,WA:CORONER:LRG SLVR OVOID ↓ >>SE/150M alt:12'x5':SLNT:LANDING?", LatLong: "47.527780 -122.638895", LatLongDMS: "47:31:40 N 122:38:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3245 (9A14FD3D)

Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 14:50
Location: HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: 2 Air Force Officers. 2 saucers pace P80 landing. Others maneuver and going quickly SSW. / MJ#121.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 546)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1195

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "4", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "HAMILTON AFB,CA:2 AF OFCRS:2 SCRS PACE P80 LANDING:OTHERS MNVR+>>SSW:/MJ#121", LatLong: "38.061113 -122.505561", LatLongDMS: "38:03:40 N 122:30:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3246 (FE3ED24C)

Date: 7/29/1947
Location: Canyon Ferry (Helena?), MT
Description: 3' Bright Disc Maneuvers At High Speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470729
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_381

Event 3247 (78D66FEC)

Date: 7/29/1947
Location: Hamilton Field, CA
Description: Two 15-25' Spheres Observed By AF Men (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 69)
Reference: NICAP: 470729
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_382

Event 3248 (80D07259)

Date: 7/29/1947
Time: 2:50 PM PDT
Location: Hamilton Air Base, California
Description: Witnesses: Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William Rhyerd, ex-AAF B-29 pilot Ward Stewart. Watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_6

Event 3249 (C26CDF2F)

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: A memo from FBI agent E. G. Fitch says that Special Agent Reynolds has met with Gen. Schulgen again, who assures him that “all discs recovered would be made available for the examination by the FBI agents.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, pp. 149–150
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1098

Event 3250 (1D8F58CB)

Date: 7/29/1947
Locations: Tacoma, Washington; Union, Oregon; La Grande; Winthrop Hotel
Description: 6:55 a.m. Kenneth Arnold is flying to Tacoma, Washington, to investigate the Maury Island mystery. As he is over Union, Oregon, preparing to land at La Grande to refuel, he sees a cluster of 25 small 24–30 inches brass- colored discs with a spot in the middle moving at a terrific speed. They come within 1,200 feet of his aircraft before veering away. At La Grande, he phones aviation editor David N. Johnson about his sighting, then reaches Tacoma at dusk. He gets a room 502 at the Winthrop Hotel, where a room and a bath have already been mysteriously reserved for him. Harold A. Dahl visits Arnold that night, then takes him to Fred Crisman’s place to see some Maury Island fragments. Arnold thinks it looks like lava.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 25–38; Bloecher, pp. I-15–16 , III-14; Clark III 720–721
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1099

Event 3251 (378DF9B2)

Date: 7/29/1947
Locations: Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California
Description: 2:50 p.m. Assistant Base Operations Officer Capt. William H. Ryherd and ex-AAF B-29 pilot 1Lt Ward Stewart see two round, shiny, white objects near Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California. The objects are 15–25 feet in diameter and are flying at about 750 mph at an altitude of 6,000–10,000 feet heading south. One object flies straight and level; the other weaves from side-to-side like an escort fighter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bloecher, p. III-5 ; Sparks , p. 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1100

Event 3252 (1837E42C)

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: Hamilton Air Base, California At 2:50 p.m. PDT the Assistant Base Operations Officer, Capt. William Rhyerd, and Ward Steward, an ex-B-29 pilot, watched for unknown length of time while two round, shiny, white objects with estimated 15-25 foot diameters, flew 3-4 times the apparent speed of a P-80, also in sight. One object flew straight and level; the other weaved from side-to-side like an escort fighter.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4469

Event 3253 (FF5E7415)

Date: 7/30/1947
Time: 06:00
Location: NEAR ESTEVAN, SSK
Description: 1 / car. Silent 2M glowing-disk 30cm thick. Going down / clouds. Going quickly southeast overhead fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 112)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1196

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "549", HatchDesc: "nr ESTEVAN,SSK:1/CAR:SLNT 2M GLOW-DISK 30cm THICK:↓/CLOUDS:>>SE OVHD FAST:", LatLong: "49.116669 -103.083338", LatLongDMS: "49:07:00 N 103:05:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sasketchewan", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3254 (8A7F2679)

Date: 7/30/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: SOUTH / TAMARACK, ID
Description: 1 observer. Blinding silver fireball dives / Army surplus truck. Hits cab. Very hot.
Type: sighting
Reference: BLOECHER, Ted: REPORT / the UFO WAVE of 1947; Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson 1967. (Index 853)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1197

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1249", HatchDesc: "S/TAMARACK,ID:1 OBS:BLINDING SLVR FBL DIVES/ARMY SURPLUS TRUCK:HITS CAB:VHOT", LatLong: "44.950002 -116.350006", LatLongDMS: "44:57:00 N 116:21:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3255 (D25CD506)

Date: 7/30/1947
Locations: Maury Island, Washington; Tacoma; Winthrop Hotel
Description: Arnold calls United Airlines pilot Capt. Emil J. Smith and asks him to come listen to the Maury Island, Washington, story. Smith arrives in Tacoma in the afternoon and cross-examines Dahl and Crisman. Smith stays with Arnold at the Winthrop Hotel. Journalist Ted Morello of United Press calls Arnold and says that a crackpot has been calling him, explaining everything that is going on in the hotel room, including conversations with Smith when they are alone. They try but fail to locate a listening device in the room.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 38–46; Clark III 721
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1101

Event 3256 (E06E6786)

Date: 7/30/1947
Description: The FBI issues a policy statement on “Flying Discs,” saying that sightings should be investigated to see whether an “individual might be desirous of seeking personal publicity, causing hysteria, or playing a prank.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Disks,” Section B, Bureau Bulletin no. 42, Series 1947, in Black Vault FBI documents compilation, p. 48; ClearIntent, p. 150
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1102

Event 3257 (891F7971)

Date: 7/30/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: A memo with the subject line, “Recovery ‘Flying Discs,’” purportedly written by Maj. Edwin D. Easley, acknowledges that the Roswell, New Mexico, crash could “represent an interplanetary craft of some kind.” However, it is now largely considered a forgery by Frank Kaufmann .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 9–11, 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1103

Event 3258 (D6E910A3)

Date: 7/30/1947
Description: The Garrett Estimate, an Air Force Base Intelligence Report on “Flying Discs”—an informal estimate of the situation based on 16 reports selected by Collections Officer Lt. Col. George D. Garrett—says that the “flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomena. Something is really flying around.” Also, “Lack of topside inquiries . . . give more than ordinary weight to the possibility that this is a domestic project, about which the President, etc., know.” The study is passed up the line to Gen. George Schulgen and Hoover at the FBI for comment, subtly indicating that investigating a domestic project is a waste of time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Air Force Base Intelligence Report, “Flying Discs,” July 30, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 32–33, 57–61; Swords 39, 474–475; Kevin D. Randle, “Roswell, Nathan Twining, and the Mini-EOTS,” A Different Perspective, October 6, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1104

Event 3259 (77722B08)

Date: 7/30/1947
Description: Mr. Ostrom, a 66-year-old man driving an Army truck on Route 95 one mile north of Tamarack, Idaho a 4:00 p.m. when he saw a silver sphere approach and hit the roof of his truck, and then bounce off. At the point of contact a small surface area of the metal roof, about the size of a silver dollar, had melted.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 168; Ted Bloecher, Report on the UFO Wave of 1947, case 853
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4499

Event 3260 (A56C6233)

Date: 7/31/1947
Locations: Maury Island; Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington; Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California
Description: Crisman and Dahl bring heavy fragments and white metal from the Maury Island case to the Winthrop Hotel room in Tacoma, Washington. They cannot locate the photos. Arnold calls Brown and Davidson at Hamilton Army Airfield in Novato, California. They quickly depart for Tacoma. Morello calls Arnold and says his informant knows that Brown and Davidson are on their way in a B-25. They arrive in the late afternoon. The five men talk until 11:00 p.m., when Crisman offers to go home and get more Maury Island fragments. He returns with slightly different, more slag-like rock stuffed in a large cereal box, which is loaded into Brown’s army vehicle. Brown and Davidson leave to go back to Hamilton for Air Force Day the next day. Morello calls again and says his informant told him everything about what has just taken place.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 46–57; [FBI teletype, August 6, 1947], pp. 87–88
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1105

Event 3261 (3BF5DBB2)

Date: 7/31/1947
Description: Capt. Edward Ruppelt: “By the end of July 1947, the UFO security lid was down tight. The few members of the press who did inquire about what the Air Force was doing got the same treatment that you would get today if you inquired about the number of thermonuclear weapons stock-piled in the U.S.’s atomic arsenal. . . [At T-2 there was] confusion almost to the point of panic."
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, p. 22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1106

Event 3262 (BF801998)

Date: 8/1947 (approximate)
Location: MAFFRA, VCT
Description: 2 / car near collision. Gold sphere over road jumps aside. High wind stops.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 168)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1198

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MAFFRA,VCT:2/CAR NR COLLISION:GOLD SPHERE OVR ROAD JUMPS ASIDE:HIGH WIND STOPS", LatLong: "-37.938891 146.955563", LatLongDMS: "37:56:20 S 146:57:20 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3263 (8A69228E)

Date: 8/1947
Location: JALHAY, BELGIUM
Description: 2 / farm. Large object quickly going down. Type unknown. 50M circle / burnt grass. Sharply defined.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 115)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1199

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "JALHAY,BELG:2/FARM:LRG OBJ ↓↓:type unk:50M CIRCLE/BURNT GRASS:sharply defined", LatLong: "50.550002 5.966667", LatLongDMS: "50:33:00 N 05:58:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Belgium", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3264 (DA6E4E8B)

Date: 8/1947 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: FONTAINEBLEU, FR
Description: 3 observer(s) / woods. 3 disks southeast going quickly northwest. 3 more follow after. / Contact Lecteurs.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1200

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "FONTAINEBLEU,FR:3 OBS/WOODS:3 DISKS SE>>NW:3 MORE FOLO AFTER:/Contact Lecteurs", LatLong: "48.450002 2.616667", LatLongDMS: "48:27:00 N 02:37:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine-et-Marne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3265 (3957F11F)

Date: 8/1947 (approximate)
Time: ~14:00
Location: VASSOURAS, BRAZIL
Description: Shiny 38cm metallic saucer wavers / 25M altitude. Indents / dome. Follows railroad/railway tracks.
Type: sighting
Reference: GRANCHI, Irene: UFO's and ABDUCTIONS in BRAZIL: Horus House Press, Madison, WI: 1992 (English translation 1994) ISBN 1-881852-09-1 (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1201

Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "611", HatchDesc: "VASSOURAS,BRZL:SHINY 38cm MTLC SCR WAVERS/25M alt:INDENTS/DOME:FOLOS RR TRACKS", LatLong: "-22.416668 -43.633335", LatLongDMS: "22:25:00 S 43:38:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "25", State/Prov: "RDJ", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3266 (8AC011EF)

Date: 8/1947
Time: ~15:00
Location: NEAR PUDASJARVI, FNL
Description: 2 / woods. Brown bullet shape hovers / N. sky. Blue-green tail.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1202

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "nr PUDASJARVI,FNL:2/WOODS:BROWN BULLET SHAPE HVRS/N.SKY:BLU-GRN TAIL", LatLong: "65.300003 26.833335", LatLongDMS: "65:18:00 N 26:50:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3267 (DAC137A5)

Date: 8/1947
Time: 19:00
Location: PAOLA, MALTA
Description: Many observer(s). Brilliant cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly northwest. Too fast for a blimp. / UFOIC Sydney NSW.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1203

Extra Data: Country: "Greece and Island nations", Credibility: "11", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "PAOLA,MALTA:MANY OBS:BRILL.CGR >>NW:too fast for a blimp:/UFOIC Sydney NSW", LatLong: "35.883335 14.516667", LatLongDMS: "35:53:00 N 14:31:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MLT", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3268 (4A1D950E)

Date: 8/1947
Location: Danforth, IL
Description: Specimens of an alleged “Flying Saucer” were brought to AMC by Col. H. M. McCoy (NICAP: 06 - Trace Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 470800
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_383

Event 3269 (1D28A3F1)

Date: 8/1947
Location: Media, PA
Description: Boyce Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_384

Event 3270 (F98C3831)

Date: 8/1947
Location: Media, Pennsylvania
Description: USAF fighter pilot W. Boyce sees a hovering disc above Media, Pennsylvania.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1107

Event 3271 (AF0E6175)

Date: 8/1947
Description: T-2 Intelligence and Army Air Force Intelligence hold meetings over the next two months and prepare documents requesting an authorized project to investigate UFOs, per General LeMay’s 1946 instructions.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1108

Event 3272 (E2D12E7E)

Date: 8/1947
Description: The Air Materiel Command headquarters replaces T-2 Intelligence with the Technical Intelligence Department, tasked with producing reports and estimates on foreign air weapons. It begins to develop a photoanalysis capability.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1109

Event 3273 (BB77AB1A)

Date: 8/1947
Locations: Denver Post; Manzano Mountains; Sandia Base; New Mexico
Description: The Denver Post runs a story that claims the military is building a secret base consisting of huge caverns for atomic weapons defense purposes. The article says the new base is in the Manzano Mountains southeast of Sandia Base, New Mexico. The military responds by issuing a statement that operations and construction near Sandia Base are top secret. In fact, however, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project is building one of several bases around the country that will be used for nuclear weapons storage. The AFSWP code-names the base “Site Able.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Sandia Base”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1110

Event 3274 (BFB13F4F)

Date: 8/1/1947
Description: A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_272

Event 3275 (CBC4E480)

Date: 8/1/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: NEAR WINNEMUCCA, NV
Description: Mayor / Boise and 1. 12 disks / V formation / 300M altitude below airliner.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 608)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1204

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1313", HatchDesc: "nr WINNEMUCCA,NV:MAYOR/BOISE+1:12 DISKS/VFORM/300M alt BLW AIRLINER:", LatLong: "40.916669 -117.750006", LatLongDMS: "40:55:00 N 117:45:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3276 (28DC5299)

Date: 8/1/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: ARECHES, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). 3 dark silent metallic domed-saucer going [to] east-northeast. Rims rotate only. / r171p163.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M. Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1205

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ARECHES,FR:2 OBS:3 DRK SLNT MTLC DOMED-SCR >ENE:RIMS ROTATE only:/r171p163", LatLong: "45.688891 6.572223", LatLongDMS: "45:41:20 N 06:34:20 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVO", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3277 (3BDA625D)

Date: 8/1/1947
Locations: McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington; Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California; Kelso, Washington
Description: Brown and Davidson make a stop at McChord Field near Tacoma, Washington, to speak with intelligence officer Maj. George Sander , then board the B-25 for Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California. It explodes and crashes near Kelso, Washington, at 1:30 a.m., 20 minutes after taking off, when the left engine catches fire. An army hitchhiker and engineer parachute to safety. Brown and Davidson fail to signal distress or bail out. After hearing the news, Arnold calls Palmer and offers to return his money. Palmer says to just mail him some fragments. Arnold and Smith visit Morello and Dahl and Crisman. They talk to Tacoma Times reporter Paul Lantz in the hotel lobby, who writes the article “Sabotage Hinted in Crash of Army Bomber at Kelso.” Debris from the crash is not discovered until 2007.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Force Day Marred As B-26 Crashes Here,” Longview Wash. Daily News, August 1, 1947, p. 1; “‘Flying Saucers’ Figure in Two Air Crash Deaths,” Galveston Tex. Daily News, August 3, 1947, pp. 1, 5; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 57–72; Charlette LeFevre and Philip Lipson, “The Maury Island UFO Incident,” February 2014; Leslie Slape, “Marker Placed near Kelso to Honor Pilots in ‘47 Crash,” Longview Wash. Daily News, August 3, 2007, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1111

Event 3278 (7CB71298)

Date: 8/1/1947
Description: At 8:30 p.m. three dark metallic domed discs flew over the mountains of Areches, Savoie, France heading east-northeast. They made no sound, and had rotating rims.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Phenomenes Spatiaux, June 1968
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4554

Event 3279 (F20A7EEE)

Date: 8/3/1947
Description: Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying ‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_273

Event 3280 (0C560B54)

Date: 8/3/1947
Time: 19:50
Location: HACKENSACK, NJ
Description: Multiple observer(s). Round black object "too fast for a balloon. / FBI files.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1206

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "HACKENSACK,NJ:MULTIPLE OBS:ROUND BLACK OBJ "TOO FAST FOR A BALLOON:/FBI FILES", LatLong: "40.883335 -74.050004", LatLongDMS: "40:53:00 N 74:03:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3281 (F802C75D)

Date: 8/3/1947
Locations: Tacoma, Washington; Winthrop Hotel
Description: Smith contacts Maj. Sander , who relieves Arnold and Smith of all their fragments. He shows them a smelting lot where he finds similar pieces of slag. Smith and Arnold check out of the Winthrop Hotel in Tacoma, Washington.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 73–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1112

Event 3282 (C4C51D0E)

Date: 8/4/1947 (approximate)
Location: FT. RICHARDSON, AK
Description: 2 Army officers. 3m sphere extremely fast. No contrail. Report to FBI.
Type: sighting
Reference: KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index 5)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1207

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "115", HatchDesc: "Ft.RICHARDSON,AK:2 ARMY OFFICERS:3m SPHERE XFAST:NO CONTRAIL:report to FBI", LatLong: "64.300003 -146.166674", LatLongDMS: "64:18:00 N 146:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3283 (F6F5034B)

Date: 8/4/1947
Time: 16:00
Location: NEAR EVERETT, MASS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #73. Pilot and navigator. 15' glowing gold cylinder/cylindrical object / glaring jet exhaust.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 54)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1208

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "nr EVERETT,MASS:BBK#73:PILOT+NAVGR:15' GLOWING GOLD CYL/GLARING JET EXHAUST", LatLong: "42.416669 -71.055559", LatLongDMS: "42:25:00 N 71:03:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3284 (D11233BB)

Date: 8/4/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: NEAR BETHEL, AK
Description: Project Bluebook Case #58. Local pilots. Very large dark fuselage hovers. Away / 500mph when neared.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 232)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1209

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "38", HatchDesc: "nr BETHEL,AK:BBK#58:LOCAL PILOTS:VLRG DRK FSLG HVRS:AWAY/500mph WHEN NEARED", LatLong: "60.794447 -161.750008", LatLongDMS: "60:47:40 N 161:45:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3285 (65A8D9DB)

Date: 8/4/1947
Location: Bethel, AK
Description: Smooth surfaced black object larger than a DC-3 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470804
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_385

Event 3286 (30DF7D0B)

Date: 8/4/1947
Location: Everett, MA
Description: A bright orange or deep-gold colored cigarette-shaped (Project 1947; McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470804
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_386

Event 3287 (F0623DA3)

Date: 8/4/1947
Location: Bethel, Alaska
Description: Pilots Capt. Jack Peck and Vince Daly see a smooth UFO northwest of Bethel, Alaska, dead ahead as they are flying a DC-3 for Al Jones Flying Service. Peck hauls back on his controls to bring his plane up to safer altitude. Now 1,000 feet higher, the pilots glance downward and spot the UFO closer but on a changed course. Still dark against the sky, it looks to be as large as a C-54. Intrigued, Peck dives on the object as it pulls away, doing his best to get a better view, but it speeds up to an estimated 500 mph and is lost to view in four minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Smooth Black Object Crosses Path of DC-3”; Harold D. Johnston, “Matters of National Interest,” August 5, 1947; Sparks, p. 25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1113

Event 3288 (9425D47F)

Date: 8/4/1947
Description: The pilot and co-pilot of an airliner flying over Everett, Massachusetts at 4:00 p.m. sighted a bright glowing orange cylindrical object, 15 feet long and shaped like a cigarette, flying at 150 mph. It had a glaring jet exhaust. At dusk two more pilots on a civilian cargo plane saw another UFO that looked like a fuselage without wings while flying over Bethel, Alaska. This second UFO outdistanced their airplane.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Bob Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, August 19, 1987
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4640

Event 3289 (92FC7893)

Date: 8/5/1947
Time: 06:30
Location: NORTHWEST / ONTARIO, OR
Description: 3 / ranch. 2 disks going quickly north. Not planes. / r171p200+Ontario Argus 7 Aug. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 609)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1210

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "700", HatchDesc: "NW/ONTARIO,OR:3/RANCH:2 DISKS >>N:not planes:/r171p200+Ontario Argus 7AUG47", LatLong: "44.050002 -116.983339", LatLongDMS: "44:03:00 N 116:59:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3290 (47D0F8F4)

Date: 8/5/1947 (approximate)
Time: 19:00
Location: NORTHEAST / PHILOMATH, OR
Description: Ex Anti-Aircraft guns/teams-gunner and 2. 3 large disks going quickly northeast abreast / 2500M altitude. Rise and dip.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 609)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1211

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "NE/PHILOMATH,OR:EX AA-GUNNER+2:3 LRG DISKS >>NE ABREAST/2500M alt:RISE+DIP:", LatLong: "44.561113 -123.300006", LatLongDMS: "44:33:40 N 123:18:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2500", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3291 (A7BE4455)

Date: 8/6/1947
Location: ROBERT LEE, TX
Description: 5 observer(s). Saucer maneuvers. Away and back / 15 minute(s). Maneuvers / 30 minute(s). Changes shape going quickly [to] cylinder/cigar-shape.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 55)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1212

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "50", Elev: "5556", HatchDesc: "ROBERT LEE,TX:5 OBS:SCR MNVRS:AWAY+BACK/15min:MNVRS/30min:CHANGES SHAPE>>CGR", LatLong: "31.888890 -100.483338", LatLongDMS: "31:53:20 N 100:29:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3292 (AFE6719C)

Date: 8/6/1947
Time: 18:00
Location: MEDIA, PA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #70. Ex Air Force-pilot and 2. Saucer hovers. Away / 725kph. Slight hiss and flames. / r131p55.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1213

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "101", HatchDesc: "MEDIA,PA:BBK#70:EX AF-PILOT+2:SCR HVRS:AWAY/725kph:SLIGHT HISS+FLAMES:/r131p55", LatLong: "39.916669 -75.383337", LatLongDMS: "39:55:00 N 75:23:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3293 (AC835602)

Date: 8/6/1947
Time: 18:20
Location: MYRTLE CREEK, OR
Description: Airport manager chases round metallic object / light plane. Seen twice / 10 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1214

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "195", HatchDesc: "MYRTLE CREEK,OR:AIRPORT MGR CHASES ROUND MTLC OBJ/LITE PLANE:SEEN TWICE/10min", LatLong: "43.022224 -123.272228", LatLongDMS: "43:01:20 N 123:16:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3294 (8F84ECE0)

Date: 8/6/1947
Time: 22:00
Location: LANDER, WY
Description: Separate observer(s). Several silver objects / 2 formations going quickly southwest. Tip side-side. Saucer / building site.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 610)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1215

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1632", HatchDesc: "LANDER,WY:SEP.OBS:SVRL SLVR OBJS/2 FORMns >>SW:TIP SIDE-SIDE:SCR/BUILDING SITE", LatLong: "42.833335 -108.733339", LatLongDMS: "42:50:00 N 108:44:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3295 (5D7F2FB2)

Date: 8/6/1947
Time: 22:30
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: Many observer(s). "Giant firecracker". Several hundred mph. / FBI interviews.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1216

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:MANY OBS:"GIANT FIRECRACKER":SVRL HUNDRED mph:/FBI INTERVIEWS", LatLong: "39.950002 -75.183337", LatLongDMS: "39:57:00 N 75:11:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3296 (58116022)

Date: 8/6/1947
Description: An FBI memo from E. G. Fitch to D. Milton Ladd identifies either Brown or Davidson as a CIC agent on a top secret mission.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1947”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1114

Event 3297 (6D3C80DD)

Date: 8/6/1947
Description: In Media, Pennsylvania at 6:00 p.m. an ex-U.S. Air Force pilot and two others saw a hovering saucer-shaped object. It shot away at an estimated 725 km/h, emitting a slight hiss and flames. Many observers in nearby Philadelphia, Pennsylvania sighted a "giant firecracker" in the sky at 10:30 p.m. flying at several hundred mph. The FBI inverviewed many of these witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 33; (2) Bruce S, Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, December 1977, p. 10; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4, citing FBI files
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4714

Event 3298 (C8F008CB)

Date: 8/6/1947
Description: In Robert Lee, Texas a disc maneuvered in the sky at 10:00 p.m, then flew away. It came back 15 minutes and maneuvered for another 30 minutes, changing its shape to the appearance of a cigar.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 137
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4715

Event 3299 (E417DC9D)

Date: 8/7/1947
Location: EAST / RED MOUNTAIN, CA
Description: Judge and Mrs. A. Turner / US395. 7 silver saucers hover / 15-20 minute(s). No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 56)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1217

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "18", Elev: "700", HatchDesc: "E/RED MOUNTAIN,CA:JUDGE+MRS A.TURNER/US395:7 SLVR SCRS HVR/15-20min:NFD", LatLong: "35.355557 -117.533339", LatLongDMS: "35:21:20 N 117:32:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3300 (B1F5551E)

Date: 8/7/1947 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: NEAR TYGH VALLEY, OR
Description: Oibs / (seen thru) binoculars. Domed disk seen. No further details. / Dalles Optimist 15 Aug. '47.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 610)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1218

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "305", HatchDesc: "nr TYGH VALLEY,OR:OIBS/BINOCS:DOMED DISK SEEN:NFD:/DALLES OPTIMIST 15AUG47", LatLong: "45.250002 -121.166672", LatLongDMS: "45:15:00 N 121:10:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3301 (C866DA5B)

Date: 8/7/1947 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: EIGHTMILE CREEK, OR
Description: Disk sweeps low over wheat field. Near vertical takeoff. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 610)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1219

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "404", HatchDesc: "EIGHTMILE CREEK,OR:DISK SWEEPS LO OVR WHEAT FIELD:NEAR VERTICAL TAKEOFF:NFD", LatLong: "45.600002 -121.100006", LatLongDMS: "45:36:00 N 121:06:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3302 (EFA910E7)

Date: 8/7/1947
Locations: Seattle, Washington; Maury Island
Description: The Seattle, Washington, FBI office interrogates Crisman and Dahl and announces the Maury Island incident is a hoax. The FBI file notes that Dahl stated that “if questioned by the authorities he was going to say it was a hoax because he did not want any further trouble over the matter.” Dahl’s daughter Louise admits in 2007 that the whole story was made up, as did her brother Charles in the late 1960s, who called Crisman a “smooth-talking con artist.” The affair had started as a joke and blossomed into something worse. Associated Press reporter Elmer Vogel says that Dahl’s wife had compelled him to tell Vogel the truth. Morello also speaks to Crisman, who admits the story is baseless.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 721; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 105–111; Jason Colavito, ed., “Inquiry into Richard Shaver and Ray Palmer, Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1947”; Kenn Thomas, Maury Island UFO: The Crisman Conspiracy, IllumiNet, 1999; Anthony Bragalia, “Maury Island No Longer a Mystery: A UFO Hoax Exposed!” UFO Digest, July 8, 2010; Brian J. Robb, “Conspiracy Central: The Life and Lies of Fred Lee Crisman,” Fortean Times 355 July 2017: 32–39
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1115

Event 3303 (078329E5)

Date: 8/8/1947
Locations: Hamilton Army Airfield; Novato, California; Tacoma, Washington
Description: Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer, assistant chief of staff for army intelligence at the Fourth Air Force, who has just returned to Hamilton Army Airfield [now closed] in Novato, California, from Tacoma, Washington, says “there is not sufficient evidence or testimony available to this headquarters to conclude whether or not the reports of so- called flying disks in the Tacoma area or any other area have any basis of fact.” He adds that the Maury Island crash “did not occur.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Fourth Air Force Drops Disc Inquiry; Search Held Futile,” San Francisco Examiner, August 9, 1947, p. 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1116

Event 3304 (AF58FB0C)

Date: 8/9/1947
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: John Derry , serving as acting general manager of the Atomic Energy Commission, proposes a set of guidelines that restate the proposition that secrecy can be based on reasons other than national security. The definition of Confidential that he proposes goes beyond the Army and Manhattan Project rules: “CONFIDENTIAL: Documents, information or material, the unauthorized disclosure of which, while not endangering the National security, would be prejudicial to the interests or prestige of the Nation or any Governmental activity, or individual, or would cause administrative embarrassment, or be of advantage to a foreign nation shall be classified CONFIDENTIAL.” The Derry memo calls for review by a classification board assembled from the AEC’s regional sites. In September, this board assembles in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The available documentation does not show that Derry’s proposed rules go into effect, but it does show that the Classification Board blesses the illustrations of matter that “should be graded” Secret or Confidential. The former category includes “certain selected human administration experiments performed under MED [Manhattan Engineer District].”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, “Final Report,” October 1995, chapter 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1117

Event 3305 (86146A71)

Date: 8/10/1947?
Time: 00:00
Location: NEAR FORREST, MBA
Description: 7 / car. 8M domed metallic saucer follows car. Hovers / power lines. Blinks out.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 607)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1220

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "433", HatchDesc: "nr FORREST,MBa:7/CAR:8M DOMED MTLC SCR FOLOS CAR:HVRS/POWER LINES:BLINKS OUT", LatLong: "49.916669 -99.950005", LatLongDMS: "49:55:00 N 99:57:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3306 (DB1820F8)

Date: 8/10/1947
Description: An eight meter diameter domed metallic disc followed a car near Forrest Station, Manitoba, Canada on this day. It hovered over some power lines, then blinked out.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 113; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (volume 6), p. 7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4816

Event 3307 (8FEBFA18)

Date: 8/11/1947
Time: 11:00?
Location: ST. LOUIS, MO
Description: 50+aero-types / ballgame. 9 saucers / vertical V formation / 25K' altitude. Going quickly north / 1000mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 59)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1221

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "3", Elev: "137", HatchDesc: "ST LOUIS,MO:50+AERO-TYPES/BALLGAME:9 SCRS/VERTICAL VFORM/25K'alt:>>N/1000mph", LatLong: "38.633335 -90.183338", LatLongDMS: "38:38:00 N 90:11:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "7500", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3308 (31A34F38)

Date: 8/13/1947
Time: 09:00
Location: REDMOND, WA
Description: Observer(s) = Brummond and Decker. 2 bright objects. Very fast. Seen 8 second(s). No further details. / FBI.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1222

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "REDMOND,WA:OBS=BRUMMOND+DECKER:2 BRIGHT OBJS:VFAST:SEEN 8sec:NFD:/FBI", LatLong: "47.666669 -122.133339", LatLongDMS: "47:40:00 N 122:08:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "3"

Event 3309 (649713A5)

Date: 8/13/1947
Time: 09:30
Location: SALMON DAM, ID
Description: County officials. 2 saucers very high. Roaring noise. / FBI. / r50p35.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1223

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1495", HatchDesc: "SALMON DAM,ID:COUNTY OFFICIALS:2 SCRS VHIGH:ROARING NOISE:/FBI:/r50p35", LatLong: "42.227780 -114.416672", LatLongDMS: "42:13:40 N 114:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3310 (2F9FD971)

Date: 8/13/1947?
Time: 13:00?
Location: COFFEYVILLE, KS
Description: Many / Navy air-show. 60M disk going quickly east extremely fast. Definite clockwise spin. No trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 114)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1224

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "230", HatchDesc: "COFFEYVILLE,KS:MANY/NAVY AIR-SHOW:60M DISK >>E XFAST:DEFINITE CW SPIN:no trail", LatLong: "37.038891 -95.616671", LatLongDMS: "37:02:20 N 95:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3311 (C0AF7429)

Date: 8/13/1947
Time: 13:00
Location: AUGER FALLS, ID
Description: 3 observer(s). Sky blue 7M saucer / 1000mph east going quickly west / Snake River Canyon. Trees twist.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1225

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1100", HatchDesc: "AUGER FALLS,ID:3 OBS:SKY BLU 7M SCR/1000mph E>>W/SNAKE RVR CANYON:TREES TWIST", LatLong: "42.661113 -114.538894", LatLongDMS: "42:39:40 N 114:32:20 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3312 (4C00F621)

Date: 8/13/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: VICTORIA, BC
Description: Several 30cm disks hover 100M over house. Dart away very fast. / Daily Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 617)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1226

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "VICTORIA,BC:SVRL 30cm DISKS HVR 100M ovr HOUSE:DART AWAY VFAST:/Daily Times", LatLong: "48.466669 -123.416673", LatLongDMS: "48:28:00 N 123:25:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3313 (9ECA9599)

Date: 8/13/1947
Location: Twin Falls, ID
Description: Two Discs 6' In Diameter Near Dam (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470813
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_387

Event 3314 (8F821028)

Date: 8/13/1947
Location: Snake River, ID
Description: Snake River Case (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, Code: C, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470813
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_388

Event 3315 (105B3B33)

Date: 8/13/1947
Time: 1300
Location: Twin Falls, Smoke River Canyon, Idaho
Description: Two boys and their father saw a sky-blue object 100 m away and 25 m above ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not spin. It made a swishing sound. Shape: inverted plate, 7 m diameter and 3.5 m thick. There was a red flame on one side of the top.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_62

Event 3316 (99C24BA4)

Date: 8/13/1947
Locations: Snake River Canyon; Blue Lakes Ranch; Twin Falls, Idaho
Description: 1:00 p.m. Albert Clarence Urie and his two sons Billy and Kenneth see a straw hat–shaped, sky-blue object about 10 wide, 10 feet high, and 20 feet long. It has “pods” on the side emitting flames and is flying along the Snake River Canyon six miles west of Blue Lakes Ranch near Twin Falls, Idaho. The UFO is moving up and down towards them at 1,000 mph and an altitude of 75 feet about 1/2 mile away. Urie is about 300 feet from the object, which is about level with him and silhouetted against the canyon wall. It disappears behind a hill about one mile away. Hynek , for Project Blue Book, later identifies it as an “atmospheric eddy.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Saucer Reported Flashing Down Canyon at 1,000 Miles Per Hour; Two Others Seen,” Twin Falls Idaho Times-News, August 15, 1947, pp. 1, 8; NICAP, “Snake River Case”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 34; Sparks, p. 26; Story, pp. 337–338; Patrick Gross, “Snake River, August 13, 1947”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1118

Event 3317 (88283FA9)

Date: 8/13/1947
Locations: San Francisco; Washington; US; Kremlin
Description: The San Francisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau hears a rumor from a US intelligence source that Soviet agents have been ordered to solve the mystery of flying saucers. It reports that the Kremlin believes that the discs are connected with Army experiments in anti-radar weaponry.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: San Francisco Calif. Examiner, August 14, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1119

Event 3318 (18D0F82F)

Date: 8/13/1947
Description: Mr. A. C. Urie and his two sons were fishing in the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho at about one p.m. when they saw a sky blue, seven-meter wide inverted plate-shaped flying object 100 meters away and 25 meters above the ground. Treetops under it were spinning wildly, although the object itself did not appear to spin. It made a swishing sound. There was a red flame visible on one side of the top. According to the FBI investigative report of this case, at about 1:00 p.m. Mr. Urie "sent his boys to the (Salmon) river to get some rope from his boat. When he thought they were overdue he went outside to his tool shed to look for them. He noticed them about 300 feet away looking in the sky and he glanced up to see what he called the flying disc. This strange object was flying at high speed along the canyon which is about 400 feet deep and 1,200 feet across at that point. It was about seventy-five feet above the floor of the canyon (and so more than 300 feet below the edge of the canyon) and moving up and down as it flew. It seemed to be following the contours of the hilly ground beneath it. Urie, who said he was at about the same level as the UFO, so that he had a side view, estimated it was about twenty feet long, ten feet wide and ten feet high, with what appeared to be exhaust ports on the sides. It was almost hat shaped with a flat bottom and a dome on top.

Its pale blue color made Urie think that it would be very difficult to see against the sky, although he had no trouble seeing it silhouetted against the opposite wall of the canyon. On each side there was a tubular shaped fiery glow, like some sort of exhaust. He said that when it went over trees they didn't sway back and forth, but rather the treetops twisted around, which suggests that the air under the object was being swirled into a vortex. He and his sons had an excellent view of the object for a few seconds before it disappeared over the trees about a mile away. He thought it was going 1,000 miles an hour.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4960

Event 3319 (EFC60AA0)

Date: 8/14/1947
Time: 09:10
Location: NEAR RAVEO, ITL
Description: 10M domed saucer. Observer(s) faints. Small humanoids (or Greys) take observer(s) rock-pick. Missing time. / r39p30.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 188)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1227

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, MST: Missing time or time anomaly, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "4", Duration: "35", HatchDesc: "nr RAVEO,ITL:10M DOMED SCR:OBS FAINTS:OIDS TAKE OBS ROCK-PICK:MST:/r39p30", LatLong: "46.288891 12.877778", LatLongDMS: "46:17:20 N 12:52:40 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "UD", Strangeness: "9"

Event 3320 (58D12149)

Date: 8/14/1947
Time: 10:40
Location: GUAM
Description: Enlisted men. Several crescents zigzag / twice plane-speed. / FBI files / APRO.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1228

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "GUAM:ENLISTED MEN:SVRL CRESCENTS ZIGZAG/TWICE PLANE-SPEED:/FBI FILES/APRO", LatLong: "14.433334 144.750007", LatLongDMS: "14:26:00 N 144:45:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GUA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3321 (E213A979)

Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Harmon Field, Newfoundland, CAN
Description: 2 small crescent-shaped objects pass over them on a zigzag path (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_389

Event 3322 (76623226)

Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Friuli, Italy
Description: Professor Encounters "Lens" & Creatures (NICAP: 07 - Entity Cases, Code: En, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470814
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_390

Event 3323 (BC689538)

Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Placerville, CA
Description: Metallic highly polished chromium surface obj 4-6 ft wide(McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470814
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_391

Event 3324 (47FA2496)

Date: 8/14/1947
Time: 0900
Location: Raveo, Italy
Description: R. L. Johannis saw a disk on the ground and two dwarfs less than 1 m tall, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads, greenish faces, huge, salient dark eyes without eyelashes or eyebrows, but surrounded by a ringlike muscle. They wore something similar to crash helmets. The center of their belts projected a "vapor," and the witness suffocated, feeling a strong electrical discharge. The creature had greenish hands with eight talonlike fingers.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 2; Magonia; FRS 67, 1 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_63

Event 3325 (35A5C400)

Date: 8/14/1947
Description: The first Gallup poll on UFOs shows that 90% of Americans have heard of flying saucers; 33% don’t know what they are, 39% consider them hoaxes or misidentifications, 16% consider them US or Russian secret weapons. The ETH is not mentioned.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947, “August 1947 Gallup Poll”; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1993: 9–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1120

Event 3326 (DABA15CD)

Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy
Description: Shortly after 9:00 a.m. Italian artist and author Luigi Rapuzzi who uses the pseudonym L. R. Johannis is hiking along the left bank of the Torrente Chiarzò near Raveo, Udine, Italy, when he sees a vivid red, metallic, domed disc on the riverbank about 165 feet ahead. It is about 33 feet wide and embedded in a cleft in the rock about 20 feet above thqwe stream. Looking around, he sees two “boys” on the edge of a grove of trees. He shouts at them and points to the object, walking toward them, but notices they are actually odd-looking dwarfs who are approaching him stiffly. They are about 3 feet tall and wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars, cuffs, and belts. Their greenish heads are covered in tight-fitting, brownish caps. He looks at them in astonishment for 2–3 minutes, then waves his geologist’s pick at them and asks where they come from. One of the entities raises its right hand to its belt, which emits a puff of smoke that knocks Rapuzzi to the ground as if from an electric shock. As he is lying there, one of them grabs his pick and he notices its green hand has 8 claws. They climb up the rock and into the disc, which soon shoots straight out and into the air, hovering briefly at an angle, then vanishes. Rapuzzi feels a blast of wind that blows him across the ground. His pick is missing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Professor Encounters ‘Lens’ and Creatures”; “The Villa Santina Case,” in Charles Bowen, ed., The Humanoids, special issue of FSR, Oct./Dec. 1966, p. 2; 1Pinotti 19–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1121

Event 3327 (5CEB6866)

Date: 8/14/1947
Location: Harmon Field, Guam
Description: 10:40 a.m. Three men of the 147th Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron at Harmon Field, Guam, see two small crescent-shaped objects zigzagging at 1,200 feet. They disappear in the clouds and another object emerges and proceeds west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lt. Col. Donald L. Springer, “Flying Disc,” August 27, 1947; Sparks, p. 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1122

Event 3328 (8451BAA2)

Date: 8/14/1947
Description: The FBI concludes that the plane carrying Davidson and Brown was not sabotaged, nor was it carrying actual flying disc parts.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memo for FBI Director from Mr. D. M. Ladd, August 14, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1123

Event 3329 (53291638)

Date: 8/14/1947
Description: According to files released by the FBI through FOIA requests in the 1970s, at 10:40 a.m. at least two crescent-shaped objects zig-zagged past a military aircraft twice while the plane was flying near Guam over the Pacific Ocean.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: APRO Bulletin, December 1977; NICAP UFO Investigator, February 1978, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4997

Event 3330 (45331514)

Date: 8/14/1947
Description: At around nine o'clock in the morning R. L. Johannis of Raveo, Italy saw a 10 meter wide, red domed, disc-shaped object with an antenna on top, on the ground across an ice field. There were two dwarfs less than three feet tall near the craft, wearing dark blue coveralls with red collars and belts. They had oversized heads and greenish toned faces. Their eyes were huge, without eyelashes or eyebrows but surrounded by some kind of ring-like muscle. The beings had greenish hands with eight talon-like fingers. They wore something similar to crash helmets. When he waved his ice axe at them in a friendly gesture, one of the beings discharged a thin puff of smoke or "vapor" at him which knocked him down, and the witness started to suffocate, feeling at the same time a strong electrical discharge.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I, (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 82; Gordon Creighton, Flying Saucer Review, January-February 1967, p. 3; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4998

Event 3331 (797AEDEA)

Date: 8/15/1947
End date: 8/20/1947
Location: Rapid City AFB, SD
Description: 12 B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470815-20
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_392

Event 3332 (A27E1BE4)

Date: 8/15/1947
Location: San Francisco
Description: In response to the August 13 San Francisco Examiner report, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover asks the agency to look into whether Soviet spies are looking into whether the flying discs are a secret US technology. Assistant Director of the Domestic Intelligence Division D. Milton “Mickey” Ladd at FBI headquarters assures FBI Deputy Director Edward Allen Tamm that he is unaware of any such effort.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memo to Assistant FBI Director E. A. Tamm from Agent D. M. Ladd, August 15, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1124

Event 3333 (B57A7E27)

Date: 8/15/1947?
Locations: Rapid City Army Air Base; Ellsworth AFB; Box Elder, South Dakota
Description: 9:30 p.m. Maj. Elmer H. Hammer of the 28th Bombardment Wing at Rapid City Army Air Base [now Ellsworth AFB] near Box Elder, South Dakota, sees 12 objects flying at 6,000–10,000 feet in a tight diamond formation at 300–400 mph. The objects level off at approximately 5,000 feet and make a gentle large-radius turn of about 110° to the right about 4 miles away. They start climbing at an angle of 30–40° and appear to accelerate rapidly in the climb. The objects are approximately 100 feet long and have a brilliant yellow-white luminous glow.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “12 B-29-Sized Elliptical Objects Seen”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 40; Sparks, p. 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1125

Event 3334 (DA4F4907)

Date: 8/16/1947
Location: TIMMINS, ONT
Description: Globe of purplish light seen. Car stalls passing. No further details. / M. Persinger.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 116)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1229

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "TIMMINS,ONT:GLOBE of PURPLISH LITE SEEN:CAR STALLS PASSING:NFD:/M.PERSINGER", LatLong: "48.400002 -81.366671", LatLongDMS: "48:24:00 N 81:22:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3335 (AA631298)

Date: 8/16/1947
Description: At 9:00 p.m. a globe of purplish light was seen in Timmins, Ontario, causing a car to stall.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 116; Michael Persinger, Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, p. 59
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5070

Event 3336 (4F0FD653)

Date: 8/17/1947
Location: CROW LAKE, ONT
Description: Saucers circle small lake in town. Photographs. Car malfunctions due to EME (electro-magnetic effects) / fireball passes / r171.
Type: sighting
Reference: HUNT, Gerry: BIZARRE AMERICA; Berkley Books, NY. PB 1988. [ inexpensive ] (Index 62)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1230

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "328", HatchDesc: "CROW LAKE,ONT:SCRs CIRCLE SML LAKE IN TOWN:FOTOS::CAR EMEs/FBL PASSES/r171", LatLong: "49.183336 -93.955560", LatLongDMS: "49:11:00 N 93:57:20 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3337 (32189893)

Date: 8/17/1947
Location: MT. JOSEPHINE, WA
Description: Ranger lookout. Clam-shape going down. Tips. Levels. Hovers. Going quickly southeast. / r171 / r131p16.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 336)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1231

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1200", HatchDesc: "Mt.JOSEPHINE,WA:RANGER LOOKOUT:CLAM-SHAPE↓:TIPS:LEVELS:HVRS:>>SE:/r171/r131p16", LatLong: "48.500002 -121.166672", LatLongDMS: "48:30:00 N 121:10:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3338 (9D9F9E93)

Date: 8/17/1947
Time: ~21:00
Location: RAPID CITY, SD
Description: 12 100' saucers / diamond formation. 350 mph and climb going quickly southwest. Birds / Blue Book. / r131#6p21.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 40)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1232

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "975", HatchDesc: "RAPID CITY,SD:12 100'SCRS/DIAMOND FRMN:350 mph+CLIMB >>SW:BIRDS/BBK:/r131#6p21", LatLong: "44.083335 -103.216672", LatLongDMS: "44:05:00 N 103:13:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3339 (159FE8F5)

Date: 8/17/1947
Location: Mt. Josephine, Skagit County, Washington
Description: A forest ranger at a fire lookout tower on Mt. Josephine, Skagit County, Washington, observes an object shaped like a huge clam that appears to fall tipped at an angle northeast of the fire tower. It slows to a stop, levels off, and floats “leisurely as if suspended by a cord” for a few minutes and finally moves off to the southeast with ever increasing speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1126

Event 3340 (7DE078C7)

Date: 8/18/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: NEAR MOUNTAIN HOME, ID
Description: Pilots / United Airlines (UAL) flight 147. 2 skeet-saucers going [to] under airliner / 1500kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 623)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1233

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "960", HatchDesc: "nr MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:PILOTS/UAL FLT 147:2 SKEET-SCRS >UNDER AIRLINER/1500kph", LatLong: "43.166669 -115.666672", LatLongDMS: "43:10:00 N 115:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3341 (FDA57610)

Date: 8/18/1947
Time: 20:20
Location: SORRENTO, LA
Description: 78 silent glowing 'torpedos' going [to] low over trees and roads. Photographs taken. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 73)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1234

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "40", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "SORRENTO,LA:78 SLNT GLOWING 'TORPEDOS' > LOW OVR TREES+ROADS:FOTOS TAKEN:NFD", LatLong: "30.183335 -90.861115", LatLongDMS: "30:11:00 N 90:51:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3342 (A4EA53E6)

Date: 8/18/1947
Location: Mountain Home (near), ID
Description: 2 "skeet target" shaped objects flying under the plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_393

Event 3343 (F188C9AB)

Date: 8/18/1947
Description: Two silver round flat disc-shaped objects, described as looking like "skeet targets", passed beneath a United Airlines transport plane flying at 8,000 feet near Mountain Home Army Air Base, Idaho at around noon. The objects flew off to the south, at a speed estimated at 900 miles per hour. There were two witnesses on board the aircraft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Boise (Idaho) Statesman, August 20, 1947; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, New Jersey talk, April 16, 2005
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5117

Event 3344 (58518856)

Date: 8/18/1947
Description: At 8:15 p.m. in Sorrento, Louisiana a photograph was taken by a Mr. Hofard of at least 78 torpedo-shaped UFOs, glowing brightly and moving silently low over the trees.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 73
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5118

Event 3345 (B16DF047)

Date: 8/19/1947
Time: 21:30
Location: TWIN FALLS, ID
Description: 5 observer(s). Several groups / 1 to 35 saucers pass / formation. Going quickly northeast or southwest / 5 minute(s) intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1235

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "1137", HatchDesc: "TWIN FALLS,ID:5 OBS:SVRL GRPS/1 to 35 SCRS PASS/FRMN:>>NE or SW/5min INTERVALS", LatLong: "42.550002 -114.450005", LatLongDMS: "42:33:00 N 114:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3346 (5FA0DE78)

Date: 8/19/1947
Location: Twin Falls, ID
Description: 55 [?] [luminous?] objects in horizontal flight looking like electric lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470819
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_395

Event 3347 (5E52E543)

Date: 8/19/1947
Description: FBI memo to D. M. Ladd from E. G. Fitch on “Flying Discs” mentions SAC Reynolds’s conversation with Lt. Col. George Garrett , who strongly suspects the Army or Navy is testing some new technology, condluding that “there were objects seen which somebody in the Government knows all about.” However Gen. Stephen Chamberlin and the War Department claim to have no involvement.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Memorandum from E. G. Fitch, “Flying Discs,” August 19, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1127

Event 3348 (77D6EACF)

Date: 8/19/1947
Location: Twin Falls, Idaho
Description: 9:30 p.m. H. H. Hedstrom executive director of the Twin Falls Housing Authority and three policemen Richard A. Frazier, H. E. Roundtree, and Richard Scott in Twin Falls, Idaho, see a formation of 12 objects flying in diamond formation at terrific speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “August 19, 1947, Twin Falls, Idaho”; Hynek UFO Report, p. 39; Sparks, p. 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1128

Event 3349 (D8ED166F)

Date: 8/20/1947
Description: An Anglo-American intelligence team releases a report on secret German weapons. Foo fighters are said to be caused by a rocket-propelled plane launched straight up from the ground, intercepting Allied bomber formations by firing a spray of rocket shells from the nose. The pilot then parachutes back to the ground, a chute opens on the rocket, and it is recovered for re-use.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: New London Conn. Day, August 20, 1947; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1129

Event 3350 (E053A343)

Date: 8/21/1947
Time: 08:30
Location: CORTES BAY, BC
Description: Lumbermen. Big roar. 20 disks twist and maneuver going quickly west fast over bay. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 625)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1236

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "CORTES BAY,BC:LUMBERMEN:BIG ROAR:20 DISKS TWIST+MNVR >>W FAST ovr BAY:NFD", LatLong: "50.066669 -124.933339", LatLongDMS: "50:04:00 N 124:56:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3351 (73BFE1DC)

Date: 8/21/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: WEST / BASALT, NV
Description: 4 observer(s). Large disk going south. Flutter motion. Drops and rises over peak. Turns going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 625)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1237

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1950", HatchDesc: "W/BASALT,NV:4 OBS:LRG DISK >S:FLUTTER MOTION:DROPS+RISES OVR PEAK:TURNS >W:", LatLong: "38.000002 -118.333339", LatLongDMS: "38:00:00 N 118:20:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3352 (1B210D6D)

Date: 8/21/1947
Time: 12:30
Location: BRADLEY FIELD, ID
Description: 2 pilots / ground. 2 silver domed saucers going quickly NNE. 1 / sharp turn going quickly SSE.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 625)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1238

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "800", HatchDesc: "BRADLEY FLD,ID:2 PILOTS/GND:2 SLVR DOMED SCRS >> NNE:1/SHARP TURN >>SSE", LatLong: "43.644447 -116.266672", LatLongDMS: "43:38:40 N 116:16:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3353 (1585D7A2)

Date: 8/22/1947
Time: 23:00?
Location: SEMMERING, AUSTRIA
Description: Astronomers and weathermen. Big bright disk turns going quickly northeast. / Wash.Post.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1239

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "SEMMERING,AUSTRIA:ASTRONOMERS+WEATHERMEN:BIG BRITE DISK TURNS >>NE:/Wash.Post", LatLong: "47.633336 15.833334", LatLongDMS: "47:38:00 N 15:50:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3354 (FAA594F9)

Date: 8/22/1947
Description: Col. Robert Taylor III , Collection Branch of Army Air Force Intelligence, summarizes the findings of Lt. Col. Garrett’s investigations of UFOs in a letter to Gen. Curtis LeMay, Deputy Chief of Air Staff for Research and Development. Taylor requests any information on AAF projects that might give rise to such UFO reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 27; Swords 39–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1130

Event 3355 (DAACB788)

Date: 8/23/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: LIVINGSTON, MT
Description: 3 boys. Saucers going quickly north. Railroad/railway men clearly see saucers going quickly south. Smooth and silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 630)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1240

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1373", HatchDesc: "LIVINGSTON,MT:3 BOYS:SCRS >> N:RR MEN CLEARLY SEE SCRS >>S:SMOOTH+SLNT", LatLong: "45.650002 -110.550005", LatLongDMS: "45:39:00 N 110:33:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3356 (E5990AB7)

Date: 8/23/1947
Description: Two railway men, J. A. Martin and Kenneth Smith, working near Livingston, Montana saw disc-shaped machines traveling to the south in the sky just before sundown. Their speed was 40-60 mph; they glided smoothly and made no sound. They were plainly visible.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown, NJ talk April 16, 2005, p. 25
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5245

Event 3357 (0E50C17C)

Date: 8/24/1947
Location: NEAR SNOQUALMIE PASS, WA
Description: 3 mountain climbers. Semi transparent saucer. Buzzsaw sound. Very fast and near.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 62)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1241

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "900", HatchDesc: "nr SNOQUALMIE PASS,WA:3 MTN CLIMBERS:SEMI XPARENT SCR:BUZZSAW SOUND:VFAST+NEAR", LatLong: "47.433336 -121.400006", LatLongDMS: "47:26:00 N 121:24:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3358 (462CEE66)

Date: 8/24/1947
Description: The name Joint Research and Development Board is changed to simply Research and Development Board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1131

Event 3359 (FF230C7A)

Date: 8/24/1947
Description: On this day three mountain climbers on Snoqualmie Pass, Washington saw a semi-transparent saucer-shaped object that made a buzzsaw sound. Very fast and near witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1250, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History 1947, p. 62
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5283

Event 3360 (9CF70963)

Date: Late 8/1947
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Tracked stationary target at 200 miles altitude using a modified CPS-4 radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 4708Late
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_396

Event 3361 (CF1C452E)

Date: Late 8/1947
Location: Vaughn (near), NM
Description: AFOSI Case 2: approx 20:00 - Basketball-Sized Object Explodes Near Colonel (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 4708Late
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_397

Event 3362 (E4002732)

Date: 8/25/1947
Locations: Muroc AFB; Edwards AFB; California
Description: USMC Maj. Marion Eugene Carl attains a world airspeed record of 651 mph in a Douglas Skystreak at Muroc AFB [now Edwards AFB], California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Marion Eugene Carl”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1132

Event 3363 (2B5563B3)

Date: Late 8/1947
Location: Garrett Estimate
Description: Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen passes the updated Garrett Estimate on to Air Materiel Command head Gen. Nathan Twining with a request for a statement on the discs so an authorized UFO project can be requested. Col. Howard McCoy asks for a meeting between Alfred Loedding aeronautics engineer at T-3, Lt. Col. George Garrett Collections, and Charles Carroll a math and missiles expert who has been correlating UFO sightings with approaches of planetary bodies “in order to set up a system for evaluating the information being received.” These four will later form the core of the ETH-friendly faction at Project Sign.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: RosRept, p. 13; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 33–35; Letter to T-2 from Executive Air Intelligence Requirement Division, September 3, 1947; Sparks , p. 13; Swords 42, 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1135

Event 3364 (FA8F887B)

Date: 8/26/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: SANTA ROSA, NM
Description: 4 observer(s) / train depot. 60cm metallic disk going NNW slowly. Balloon?
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1242

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1402", HatchDesc: "SANTA ROSA,NM:4 OBS/TRAIN DEPOT:60cm MTLC DISK >NNW SLOWLY:balloon?", LatLong: "34.933335 -104.700005", LatLongDMS: "34:56:00 N 104:42:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3365 (905ADADB)

Date: 8/26/1947
Time: 20:30
Location: NORTHWEST / MEXICO, MO
Description: 2 experience airmen / BT-13 plane. 3 grey disks going northwest / 9000' altitude. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 631)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1243

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "260", HatchDesc: "NW/MEXICO,MO:2 EXPERIENCE AIRMEN/BT-13 PLANE:3 GRY DISKS >NW/9000'alt:NFD", LatLong: "39.166669 -91.866671", LatLongDMS: "39:10:00 N 91:52:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3366 (C6AF3FD3)

Date: 8/26/1947
Description: At 12:30 a.m. ten kilometers southwest of Fkenberg, Sweden the pilot and co-pilot of a DC-3 Swedish postal plane saw a UFO that looked like a green parallelogram. They watched it for 8-10 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: K. Gosta Rehn, UFOs Here and Now, p. 62; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 144
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5351

Event 3367 (D72641C8)

Date: 8/26/1947
Description: Late in the day two private pilots flying over Mexico, Missouri sighted three gray discs flying rapidly toward the northwest. They tried to chase them in their plane, but were quickly outdistanced.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, citing the Mexico Weekly Ledger, August 28, 1947; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1256, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1947 (Volume 6), p. 31.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5352

Event 3368 (D1D037A8)

Date: 8/28/1947
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: Target Tracked In A Climb (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470828
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_398

Event 3369 (ACC02C95)

Date: 8/28/1947
Location: Shika Island off Fukuoka, Japan
Description: Microwave Early Warning radar on Shika Island off Fukuoka, Japan, picks up a target moving 450–478 mph at an altitude of 1,500 feet. It changes course, climbs, and is tracked to a distance of 62 miles.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Target Tracked in a Climb”; Sparks, p. 27
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1133

Event 3370 (BF3497B8)

Date: 8/28/1947
Description: In Fukuoka, Japan at the U.S. Air Force Mew Radar Station there was a target picked up (radar only) in orbit at a range of 26-30 nautical miles and a bearing of 20-30 degrees. The target changed to a heading of 23 degrees and was tracked to a range of 54 nautical miles where it faded. The UFO was climbing on an outbound course.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5406

Event 3371 (8A14E99E)

Date: 8/29/1947
Description: Gen. LeMay answers Col. Taylor’s August 22 request stating that there is no such project as described.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1134

Event 3372 (5952F7A2)

Date: 9/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: Astronomer Lincoln LaPaz arrives in Roswell, New Mexico, and rediscovers the area of blackened ground earlier found by two of Wilcox’s deputies. He speaks to some witnesses and determines there might have been more than one object.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1136

Event 3373 (886DC48C)

Date: 9/2/1947
Time: 13:00?
Location: NANAIMO, BC
Description: Bird fancier. Aluminum disk scatters pigeons. No further details / 2 news items.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 632)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1244

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "NANAIMO,BC:BIRD FANCIER:ALUM.DISK SCATTERS PIGEONS:NFD/2 news items", LatLong: "49.166669 -123.916673", LatLongDMS: "49:10:00 N 123:55:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3374 (7839F4A3)

Date: 9/3/1947
Time: 12:20
Location: LAKE OSWEGO, OR
Description: Project Bluebook Case #51. 1 observer. 12-15 silver saucers over town. FBI investigation/investigators = brushoff.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1245

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "LAKE OSWEGO,OR:BBK#51:1 OBS:12-15 SLVR SCRS OVR TOWN:FBI INV=BRUSHOFF", LatLong: "45.427780 -122.672228", LatLongDMS: "45:25:40 N 122:40:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3375 (1455DA4A)

Date: 9/3/1947
Location: Lake Oswego, OR
Description: Housewife saw 12-15 round, silver objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 85)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_399

Event 3376 (914FFE4E)

Date: 9/3/1947
Time: 12:15 PM PDT
Location: Oswego, Oregon
Description: Witness: housewife Mrs. Raymond Dupui. Watched for unknown length of time as 12-15 round, silver objects flew an unstated pattern.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_7

Event 3377 (3D7AC496)

Date: 9/3/1947
Locations: Mitchel Field; Long Island; New York
Description: A memo from Col. R. H. Smith at Air Defense Command headquarters at Mitchel Field on Long Island, New York, states that the intent of USAF cooperation with the FBI was to “relieve the numbered Air Forces of the task of tracking down all the many instances which turned out to be ash-can covers, toilet seats, and whatnot.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 156; Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 66
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1137

Event 3378 (E4865E7C)

Date: 9/3/1947
Location: Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California
Description: Dale Edwards and three friends are camping out in the Desolation Wilderness area west of Lake Tahoe, California, when one of them spots a huge gray UFO accompanied by a rush of warm air. The next day they encounter a circle, 40 feet in diameter, of recently burned grass and skunk cabbage.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 3 September 1949: 74–82
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1138

Event 3379 (EE406F16)

Date: 9/5/1947
Description: In response to the Garrett Estimate, Gen. Curtis LeMay states in a memo, copied to the FBI, that “a complete survey of research activities discloses that the Army Air Force has no project with the characteristics similar to those which have been associated with the Flying Discs.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Hall and Wendy A. Connors, Alfred Loedding and the Great Flying Saucer Wave of 1947, Rose Press, 1998, p. 83
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1139

Event 3380 (21369138)

Date: 9/5/1947
Locations: Washington, D.C.; Wright Field, Ohio
Description: In Washington, D.C., Alfred Loedding as Wright Field T-2’s liaison with the Pentagon meets with Garrett and Carroll. Flying disk reports at the Pentagon are transferred to Wright Field, Ohio, shortly afterwards.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1140

Event 3381 (93C2FADD)

Date: 9/6/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_274
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.5km

Event 3382 (C6EDD3F2)

Date: 9/6/1947
Location: SHOUNS, TN
Description: 2 observer(s). Football-shaped object flips end over end. Seen below overcast sky.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1246

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "703", HatchDesc: "SHOUNS,TN:2 OBS:FOOTBALL-SHAPED OBJ FLIPS END OVR END:SEEN BELOW OVERCAST SKY", LatLong: "36.444446 -81.800004", LatLongDMS: "36:26:40 N 81:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3383 (E16E3907)

Date: 9/6/1947
Time: 21:40
Location: PERSIAN GULF
Description: Crew / tanker Chipola. 8 blue-white ovoids climb / echelon formation. / MJ#235.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1247

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Arabian Peninsula", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PERSIAN GULF:CREW/TANKER CHIPOLA:8 BLU-WHT OVOIDS CLIMB/ECHELON FORMn:/MJ#235", LatLong: "27.333335 49.833336", LatLongDMS: "27:20:00 N 49:50:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SEA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3384 (FA5E4F79)

Date: 9/6/1947
Description: Four sailors, including a Richard Cruthers, onboard the US Navy oiler Chipola in the Persian Gulf spotted eight round spots of light flying in a group. They passed within half of a mile of the ship, made a climbing turn in echelon formation, and then went out of sight. They were a white or blue color.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 120; Project 1947 Research Notes from Bordentown NJ talk April 16, 2005; Astorian Budgeteer, November 4, 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5672

Event 3385 (D93512CA)

Date: 9/8/1947
Time: 22:40
Location: LOGAN, UT
Description: Project Bluebook Case #62. Several separate observer(s). 5 groups / 30-60 colored objects each circle town. / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1248

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "1358", HatchDesc: "LOGAN,UT:BBK#62:SVRL SEP.OBS:5 GROUPS/30-60 CLRD OBJS each CIRCLE TOWN:/NEWS", LatLong: "41.738891 -111.333339", LatLongDMS: "41:44:20 N 111:20:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3386 (37BC7BF4)

Date: 9/8/1947
Location: Logan, UT
Description: 5 groups of a total of 12 [?] white or yellowish objects traveling at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470908
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_400

Event 3387 (74C0E55C)

Date: 9/11/1947
Time: 17:20
Location: PORTLAND, OR
Description: Police and many. Silver object circles city fast. No description. / FBI interviews.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1249

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PORTLAND,OR:POLICE+MANY:SLVR OBJ CCLS CITY FAST:no description:/FBI INTERVIEWS", LatLong: "45.550002 -122.700006", LatLongDMS: "45:33:00 N 122:42:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3388 (7469EE77)

Date: 9/13/1947
Location: NECKER ISLAND, HI
Description: Project Bluebook Case #59. PAA crew. Night light splits / 2. Turn toward(s) airliner. Wink out and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 64)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1250

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "84", HatchDesc: "NECKER ISL,HI:BBK#59:PAA CREW:NLT SPLITS/2:TURN TWRD AIRLINER:WINK OUT+GONE", LatLong: "23.583334 -164.700008", LatLongDMS: "23:35:00 N 164:42:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3389 (91AC8297)

Date: 9/13/1947
Location: Midway Island to Oahu, Hawaii, in airspace
Description: A bright light with no blue or red tinge split in 2 (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470913
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_403

Event 3390 (AD1334AB)

Date: Mid 9/1947
Location: Garrett Estimate
Description: Twining passes the Garrett Estimate on to Col. Howard McCoy , Maj. Gen. Alden Crawford chief of T-3, Gen. Franklin O. Carroll director of research and development, Col. C. K. Moore aircraft laboratory chief, Col. Russell Minty power-plant laboratory chief, and Brig. Gen. Edgar P. Sorenson Air Institute of Technology commander. They each study Garrett’s report and hold a conference on the discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1141

Event 3391 (7D8D0050)

Date: 9/16/1947
Time: 14:20
Location: NORTHEAST / FUKUOKA RS#1, JP
Description: RADAR blip going quickly southeast / 1400kph! 4500M altitude. Passes airliner.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 5)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1251

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NUC: Nuclear facility related, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NE/FUKUOKA RS#1,JP:RDR BLIP >>SE/1400kph!:4500M alt:PASSES AIRLINER:", LatLong: "34.966668 131.316673", LatLongDMS: "34:58:00 N 131:19:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KYS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3392 (C27C6038)

Date: 9/16/1947
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: Radar Tracks Incoming Object (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 470916
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_404

Event 3393 (FD390F90)

Date: 9/16/1947
Locations: Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport]; Fukuoka, Japan
Description: An incoming radar target is picked up at Itazuke Air Base [now Fukuoka Airport], Fukuoka, Japan, moving 840–900 mph, then fading out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “Radar Pick-Ups of High-Speed Targets in the Far East,” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1142

Event 3394 (9F3C7410)

Date: 9/17/1947
Location: Ft. Richardson, AK
Description: A 2-3 ft silver sphere traveling S at tremendous speed (McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 470917
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_405

Event 3395 (EAAB37DD)

Date: 9/17/1947
Description: The US Senate confirms James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1143

Event 3396 (4E8E8AAD)

Date: 9/18/1947
Location: Langley, Virginia
Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_275

Event 3397 (DB1A69CC)

Date: 9/18/1947
Description: The reorganization of military and intelligence agencies under the National Security Act takes effect. The US Army Air Forces is disbanded and becomes the US Air Force.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1144

Event 3398 (E13D1F88)

Date: 9/19/1947
Description: Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_276

Attributes: Majestic
See also: 11/30/1947

Event 3399 (D8F3789B)

Date: 9/19/1947
Time: 05:30
Location: HOUSTON, TX
Description: Geophysicist. RADAR blip going quickly southwest / 1600kph and more / bad weather. No visual observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 43)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1252

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "25", HatchDesc: "HOUSTON,TX:GEOPHYSICIST:RDR BLIP >>SW/1600kph+/BAD WEATHER:no visual obs", LatLong: "29.733335 -95.400005", LatLongDMS: "29:44:00 N 95:24:00 W", Locale: "Wetlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3400 (6D6C7E88)

Date: 9/19/1947
Location: San Francisco
Description: FBI Special Agent Harry M. Kimball in San Francisco passes Col. R. H. Smith’s memo up the chain to Hoover .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 156
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1145

Event 3401 (5E0923CE)

Date: 9/19/1947
Location: State of New Mexico
Description: A dubious document, allegedly written on this date by DCI Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter and titled “Examination of Unidentified Disc-Like Aircraft near Military Installations in the State of New Mexico: A Preliminary Report,” has been circulated by Timothy S. Cooper. It purports to verify the “recovery of unidentified planform aircraft” in two locations on July 6.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, p. 95
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1146

Event 3402 (487CEA6F)

Date: 9/19/1947
Location: Grand Isle, Louisiana
Description: 5:30 p.m. A geophysicist employed by the Humble Oil and Refining Company is testing a weather radar at Grand Isle, Louisiana, when the radar detects an object moving in a southwesterly direction at about 1,000 mph. It persists for about one minute, so he records it in his notebook and discusses the sighting with other scientists. No visual sighting is made.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Houston Press, March 24, 1950; Jan L. Aldrich, “Project 1947: A Progress Report,” March/April 1996
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1147

Event 3403 (B915D75C)

Date: 9/19/1947
Description: A Humble Oil geophysicist in Grand Isle, Louisiana was testing radar to detect bad weather at 5:30 p.m. when his radar detected a UFO shooting to the southwest at a speed greater than 1,000 mph for less than a minute.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 43, citing Houston Press, March 24, 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6078

Event 3404 (F04D1663)

Date: 9/20/1947
Description: A flaming object fell into the sea off the shore of San Diego, California. An investigation by the U.S. Coast Guard found no missing aircraft nor floating debris.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 72
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6115

Event 3405 (A3A00666)

Date: 9/21/1947
Location: Pentagon
Description: Arrangements are made to transfer UFO files from Garrett’s office in the Pentagon to Alfred Loedding at AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1148

Event 3406 (D6E406ED)

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by Fred Johnson
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_91

Event 3407 (542BF702)

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: USAF project "SIGN" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_92

Event 3408 (D8A52958)

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552)
Type: secret briefing
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_277
See also: 7/1947
See also: 9/15/1950
See also: 8/1954

Event 3409 (9A473341)

Date: 9/23/1947
Location: US
Description: The Chief of Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) sent a letter to the Air Force Commanding General stating the conclusion of ATIC that UFOs were real, and urging the establishment of a permanent project to analyze future reports.
Type: letter
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 31
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_855

Event 3410 (44D8AE0F)

Date: 9/23/1947
Location: Oak Ridge
Description: Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. Nathan Twining responds to Schulgen’s request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. McCoy with the assistance of Alfred Loedding, “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Disks.’” Twining notes the discs are “real and not visionary or fictitious.” Reports based on the cases in the Garrett Estimate include “extreme rates of climb, maneuverability particularly in roll, and action which must be considered evasive.” Twining gives three reasons to study the discs: They might represent a deep-black domestic project; to pick up physical evidence; and to find out if they are nuclear- propulsion devices from Russia or elsewhere. The letter lists common descriptions of the objects and recommends that USAF “issue a directive assigning a priority, security classification, and code name for a detailed study of the matter.” This will ultimately result in Project Sign. Henceforth all disc reports are to be sent to the Army and Navy Research and Development Board, the USAF Scientific Advisory Group, the Atomic Energy Commission, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Project RAND, and the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge. Twining promises a detailed “Essential Elements of Information” EEI to be formulated immediately so that all agencies will have guidance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lt. Gen. Nathan Twining, “AMC Opinion Concerning ‘Flying Disks,’” September 23, 1947; RosRept, p. 14; Swords 42, 476–478; Good Above, pp. 260– 262 , 476–478
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1149

Event 3411 (C63DCEC7)

Date: Fall 1947
Description: Claude Degler , under the pseudonym John Chrisman, publishes a single issue of the first flying saucer fanzine, Weird Unsolved Mysteries.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, pp. 56–69; Curt Collins, “Claude Degler, One of the Ufologists That Time Forgot,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, July 15, 2021
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1158

Event 3412 (FCEBDB15)

Date: 9/24/1947
Description: A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons selected to control all branches of government, both military and non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses, confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_278

Attributes: Majestic
See also: 2/15/1987
See also: 9/4/1987
See also: 7/1947

Event 3413 (4F4E9272)

Date: 9/24/1947
Description: DCI Hillenkoetter , in a letter to AMC, designates T-2 and the Air Intelligence branch of the US Navy Bureau of Aeronautics as National Assets. He indicates that he does not plan to duplicate air technical intelligence assets within the CIA.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1150

Event 3414 (9D75ADF4)

Date: 9/24/1947
Location: White House
Description: President Truman meets with Vannevar Bush, chairman of the Research and Development Board, at the White House. Secretary of Defense James Forrestal is also present.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Stanton T. Friedman, Top Secret / MAJIC, Marlowe, 1996, pp. 68–69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1151

Event 3415 (CA84C344)

Date: 9/24/1947
Description: A fake memo from President Truman to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal allegedly establishes a top-secret control group, Operation Majestic Twelve MJ-12, to deal with the UFO problem.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 360; Joe Nickell and John R. Fischer, “The Crashed-Saucer Forgeries,” IUR 15, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1990: 4–20; Ted R. Spickler, “The Truman MJ-12 Letter,” IUR 16, no. 3 May/June 1991: 12–13; Good Above, p. 551
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1152

Event 3416 (92C3B289)

Date: 9/24/1947
Location: Japan
Description: Col. Miles E. Goll , in a memo signed for Col. McCoy, asks about a radar case in Japan that Charles Carroll had mentioned to Alfred Loedding in their meeting of September 5.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Dr. Carroll’s UFO files; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1153

Event 3417 (F5C665EB)

Date: 9/25/1947 (approximate)
Time: 19:00
Location: KUNGSHOLMEN, SWD
Description: 12M blue-grey ball with 12M antenna passes cloud to cloud / 200M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 146)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1253

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "KUNGSHOLMEN,SWD:12M BLU-GRY BALL W/12M ANTENNA PASSES CLOUD to CLOUD/200M alt", LatLong: "59.311114 18.000001", LatLongDMS: "59:18:40 N 18:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3418 (D70A58E9)

Date: 9/25/1947
Location: Roswell, New Mexico
Description: A memorandum from Maj. Robert J. Thomas lists the names of nine military personnel in charge of events in the aftermath of the Roswell, New Mexico, recovery. However, it is now largely considered a forgery by Frank Kaufmann.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kevin D. Randle, “Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Witness,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 8, 17–19; Mark Rodeghier, “Frank Kaufmann Exposed,” IUR 27, no. 3 Fall 2002: 9–11, 26
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1154

Event 3419 (73773D69)

Date: 9/26/1947
Locations: Japan; Chitose Air Base; MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka
Description: A memorandum from Col. James F. Olive Jr., Chief of Air Intelligence Division, to the Assistant Chief of the Air Staff, A-2, summarizes three radar trackings of high-speed targets in Japan Chitose Air Base, July 1; and MEW Radar Station, Fukuoka, August 28 and September 16. It concludes that there is insufficient information to state that they involved aircraft or missiles but supports the conclusion that they were not natural phenomena. The report is forwarded to T-2 on September 29.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. James F. Olive Jr., “[Radar Pick-Ups of High-](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf) [Speed Targets in the Far East,](http://www.nicap.org/docs/26sept1947letter.pdf)” Memorandum for Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Washington, D.C., September 26, 1947.
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1155

Event 3420 (5DBB349B)

Date: 9/27/1947
Description: Hoover notifies USAF Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald, assistant chief of air staff, that he is advising all FBI agents to discontinue all flying disc investigations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Letter, J. Edgar Hoover to Gen. George C. McDonald, September 27, 1947; ClearIntent, p. 158; Michael Hesemann and Philip Mantle, Beyond Roswell, Marlowe, 1997, p. 67
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1156

Event 3421 (652DA331)

Date: 9/28/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_279

Attributes: Einstein

Event 3422 (14D139BE)

Date: 9/30/1947
Description: Vannevar Bush is appointed head of the new Research and Development Board in the National Military Establishment.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Research and Development Board: History and Functions , US National Military Establishment, June 1, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1157

Event 3423 (E16CFB9D)

Date: 10/1947
Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_280

Attributes: Einstein

Event 3424 (65020C80)

Date: 10/1947 (approximate)
Time: ~13:00
Location: URJALA, FINL
Description: Teenage girl. Grey cylinder/cigar-shape 60M away over lake. 2nd cylinder/cigar-shape / W. sky. Zigzags going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1254

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "URJALA,FINL:TEENAGE GIRL:GRY CGR 60M away ovr LAKE:2nd CGR/W.SKY:ZIGZAGS >>SW", LatLong: "61.088892 23.583334", LatLongDMS: "61:05:20 N 23:35:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3425 (1B17A4ED)

Date: 10/1947?
Time: ~18:00
Location: PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, MB
Description: Railroad/railway man. Big glowing-cylinder/cigar-shape going south. Beams going down. Fades away.. / r171p119.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 629)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1255

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "PORTAGE la PRAIRIE,MB:RR MAN:BIG GLO-CGR >S:BEAMS↓:fades away..:/r171p119", LatLong: "49.966669 -98.300005", LatLongDMS: "49:58:00 N 98:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Manitoba", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3426 (25693530)

Date: 10/1947 (approximate)
Time: ~18:00
Location: US-66, NM
Description: 15 Mx6M object going west over car. Turns north. Returns. Hovers / 6M altitude. Going up [to] and going quickly west. Observer(s) very close.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 603)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1256

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "8", Elev: "1770", HatchDesc: "US-66,NM:15Mx6M OBJ >W OVR CAR:TURNS N:RETURNS:HVRS/6M alt:↑+>>W:OBS VCLOSE", LatLong: "35.000002 -107.166672", LatLongDMS: "35:00:00 N 107:10:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3427 (29677AEA)

Date: 10/1947 (approximate)
Time: ~19:00
Location: BOURGET-LE-LAC, FR
Description: Airman. Disk 2km overhead. 6 jets / tangent. Rotates 1 / second(s). Going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: ROUSSEL, Robert: OVNI, les Verites Cachees. Ed. Albin Michel,Paris 1994 ISBN 2-226-06646-2. 346 pp softback (Index 343)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1257

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BOURGET-le-LAC,FR:AIRMAN:DISK 2km OVHD:6 JETS/TANGENT:ROTATES 1/sec:>>NW", LatLong: "45.650002 5.866667", LatLongDMS: "45:39:00 N 05:52:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVO", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3428 (A8B8F7B7)

Date: 10/1947 (approximate)
Time: 20:00
Location: TANGZHOU, TAIHE, JIANXI, CHINA
Description: 2 observer(s). Brilliant orange coil southeast going quickly northwest ascending until gone..
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1258

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "TANGZHOU,TAIHE,JIANXI,CHINA:2 OBS:BRILL.ORG COIL SE>>NW ASCENDING UNTIL GONE..", LatLong: "26.816668 114.916672", LatLongDMS: "26:49:00 N 114:55:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Jianxi", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3429 (3278E95E)

Date: 10/1947 (approximate)
Time: 21:00
Location: JUNSELE, SWD
Description: 15M disk going quickly south. Concentric colored rings with black spot / center. To horizon / 15 second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1259

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "JUNSELE,SWD:15M DISK >>S:CONCENTRIC CLRD RINGS W/BLK SPOT/CENTER:to HRZN/15sec", LatLong: "63.700003 16.877779", LatLongDMS: "63:42:00 N 16:52:40 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3430 (813026B9)

Date: 10/1947
Time: 11 PM CDT
Location: Dodgeville, Wisconsin
Description: Witness: one unnamed civilian man. Watched for 1 hour while an undescribed object flew counterclockwise circles.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_8

Event 3431 (B0DB17C9)

Date: 10/1/1947
Description: First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_281

Event 3432 (FDA70A11)

Date: 10/1/1947
Location: Dodgeville, WI
Description: Man saw an undescribed object fly counterclockwise circles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 91)
Reference: NICAP: 471001
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_406

Event 3433 (0C35A25E)

Date: 10/1/1947
Description: Bureau Bulletin 59 ends all FBI cooperation with the Air Force on UFO investigation, although the FBI continues its own inquiries.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 159
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1160

Event 3434 (76449512)

Date: 10/1/1947
Description: A letter from Truman to Vannevar Bush appears to bear the original Truman signature used in the MJ-12 fake memo.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1161

Event 3435 (0DCF7FE2)

Date: Early 10/1947
Location: Paradise Valley, Arizona
Description: Private pilot Selman E. Graves claims to have witnessed part of the recovery of a crashed UFO in Paradise Valley, Arizona, on property owned by his friend, Walt Salyer.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, pp. 394–397
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1159

Event 3436 (731827E0)

Date: 10/7/1947
Time: 11:00
Location: HUDIKSVALL, SWD
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Pole-shapes going southwest slow. Engine sounds. Fiery tails. Planes?
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 152)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1260

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "12", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "HUDIKSVALL,SWD:100s/OBS:POLE-SHAPES >SW SLOW:ENGINE SOUNDs:FIERY TAILS:planes?", LatLong: "61.733336 17.083334", LatLongDMS: "61:44:00 N 17:05:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3437 (561D21B4)

Date: 10/7/1947
Location: USAF headquarters
Description: Capt. R. V. A. Therien of the Royal Swedish Navy states at USAF headquarters that some ghost rockets have been observed making 180° turns, and about 33 of the incidents are considered factual.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes , The Author, 2001, p. 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1162

Event 3438 (E4578896)

Date: 10/8/1947
Location: LAS VEGAS, NV
Description: Project Bluebook Case #71. Ex-USAF pilot and more/others. Contrail makes 140° turn. Source invisible.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1261

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "LAS VEGAS,NV:BBK#71:EX-USAF PILOT++:CONTRAIL MAKES 140°TURN:SOURCE INVISIBLE", LatLong: "36.150002 -115.116672", LatLongDMS: "36:09:00 N 115:07:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3439 (0017222E)

Date: 10/8/1947
End date: 10/9/1947
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: AAF reserve Capt. Moore saw object traveling at 700 mph (McDonald list; FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 471008-09
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_407

Event 3440 (9884A40C)

Date: 10/9/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude (Internal explosion at 83.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_282
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 156.1km

Event 3441 (E28DA04B)

Date: 10/10/1947
Time: 15:00
Location: FUKUSHIMA, JPN
Description: Cop and 2. 1M saucer going east / 200M altitude. Tail like a rocket. No further details / Kyodo News Agency.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 120)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1262

Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "FUKUSHIMA,JPN:COP+2:1M SCR >E/200M alt:TAIL LIKE A ROCKET:NFD/Kyodo News Agcy", LatLong: "37.750002 140.483340", LatLongDMS: "37:45:00 N 140:29:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3442 (7755AE32)

Date: 10/14/1947
Location: EDWARDS / MUROC AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: Chuck Yeager / USAF. 1st supersonic flight in history!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 429)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1263

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HST: Historical account

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "15", Duration: "20", Elev: "702", HatchDesc: "EDWARDS/MUROC AFB,CA:CHUCK YEAGER/USAF:1ST SUPERSONIC FLIGHT IN HISTORY!", LatLong: "34.900002 -117.900006", LatLongDMS: "34:54:00 N 117:54:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3443 (F785EFCA)

Date: 10/14/1947
Time: 12:00
Location: 11 MI NNE / CAVE CREEK, AZ
Description: 2 pilots and 1. 3' flying-wing 380mph northwest going quickly southeast / 8-10K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1264

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "500", HatchDesc: "11mi NNE/CAVE CREEK,AZ:2 PILOTS+1:3' FLYING-WING 380mph NW>>SE/8-10K'alt", LatLong: "33.983335 -111.916672", LatLongDMS: "33:59:00 N 111:55:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3444 (15D06C6A)

Date: 10/14/1947
Location: Cave Creek (11 miles NNE of ), AZ
Description: 3-foot “flying wing,” black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky (Berliner) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 95)
Reference: NICAP: 471014
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_408

Event 3445 (5F5E637A)

Date: 10/14/1947
Time: Noon MDT
Location: 11 mi. NNE of Cave Creek, Arizona
Description: Witnesses: ex-AAF fighter pilot J.L. Clark, civilian pilot Anderson, third man. Watched 45-60 seconds while one 3-foot "flying wing"-shaped object, which looked black against the white clouds and red against the blue sky, flew straight at an estimated 380 m.p.h., at 8-10,000 feet, from NW to SE.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_9

Event 3446 (E24FC573)

Date: 10/14/1947
Locations: USAF headquarters; Petsamo region (Pechengsky District) of Finland; Russia
Description: Bernt Balchen , Norwegian Airline director and former USAF Colonel, gives USAF headquarters information about two radar locations and a rocket firing incident observed in the Petsamo region Pechengsky District of Finland, recently ceded to Russia. Gen. Alfred A. Kessler Jr., former US military attaché in Sweden, disputes Therien’s information. He says only two ghost rocket sightings are possibly factual, but there is no evidence to authenticate them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1947 August 1st–December 31st, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2001, p. 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1163

Event 3447 (8DA87863)

Date: 10/14/1947
Locations: Muroc; Edwards AFB, California
Description: Test pilot Chuck Yeager unofficially breaks the sound barrier 670 mph for the first time in an experimental rocket-powered Bell X-1 at Muroc [now Edwards] AFB, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chuck Yeager”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1164

Event 3448 (AC40DBCE)

Date: 10/18/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km (Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_283
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 207km

Event 3449 (5F70F7DB)

Date: 10/20/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated 181 kilometres from intended flight path)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_284
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 231km

Event 3450 (CE2889A0)

Date: 10/20/1947
Time: 13:20
Location: VAN BUREN, OH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #019. 2 observer(s). 2 shiny fish-cigars going quickly east very fast. / r46p89+newspapers. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 646)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1265

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "VAN BUREN,OH:BBK#019:2 OBS:2 SHINY FISH-CGRS >>E VFAST:/r46p89+newspapers:NFD", LatLong: "41.138891 -83.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:08:20 N 83:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3451 (8AA56661)

Date: 10/20/1947
Location: Xenia, OH
Description: Saw a round 1 ft object at 1,500 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 471020
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_409

Event 3452 (03D01D76)

Date: 10/20/1947
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: 2 cigar-shaped objects reflecting brilliant sunlight (McDonald list; FOIA; Mary Castner/CUFOS) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 471020
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_410

Event 3453 (D133DB05)

Date: 10/20/1947
Location: Dayton, Ohio
Description: A farmer named Britton sees two cigar-shaped UFOs traveling a straight course at high speed about one mile in height in trail formation near Dayton, Ohio. They leave a slight vapor trail then disappear suddenly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Farmers Observes Two Cigars”; Keyhoe, FSTS, p. 89; Sparks, p. 29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1165

Event 3454 (E7FCDF4A)

Date: 10/21/1947
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: A preliminary EEI document, indicating that the radar detection of UFOs near Fukuoka, Japan, on September 16 has played a role in concerns about disc maneuverability, is circulated to the European Command by Lieut. Col. Malcolm D. Seashore , former acting chief of the Analysis Section at AMC under McCoy. It expresses concern about German/Russian technology and adds disc characteristics of hovering, disappearance, quick grouping, and sudden appearance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Disc’ Information Request to European Command, October 1947”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 35; Swords 43, 479–484
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1166

Event 3455 (DED1406C)

Date: 10/21/1947
Locations: Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California; Muroc AFB
Description: The jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 makes its first test flight from Jack Northrop Field in Hawthorne, California, reaching Muroc AFB in 32 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-49”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1167

Event 3456 (C136C26C)

Date: 10/23/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated, possibly due to the warhead failure.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_285
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km

Event 3457 (8CB93887)

Date: 10/28/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_286
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km

Event 3458 (9EEF10C6)

Date: 10/28/1947
Description: Brig. Gen. George F. Schulgen , Chief of USAF Intelligence Requirements Division, writes a five-page report based on the characteristics listed in the September 23 Twining letter though in greater detail and the preliminary EEI of October 21. Titled “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” it lists things investigators should try to determine about UFO propulsion, control, construction, arrangement, landing gear, and power plant. It considers the objects “to be a manned aircraft, of Russian origin, and based on the perspective thinking and actual accomplishments of the Germans” page 5, paragraph 4. [However, a fake version of this document has the phrase “it is the considered opinion of some elements that the object may in fact represent an interplanetary craft of some kind…. The presence of an unconventional or unusual type of propulsion system cannot be ruled out and should be considered of great interest.” Other deletions and additions are present in the fake document.]
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George F. Schulgen, “Intelligence Requirements on Flying Saucer Type Aircraft: Draft of Collection Memorandum,” October 30, 1947 [PDF of real memo, pp. 1–6, PDF of fake memo, pp. 7–12]; RosRept, p. 35; Good Above, p. 262; Robert G. Todd, “Fake Air Force Memo Exposed,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “Fake Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 2,” The Roswell Files; Robert G. Todd, “Fake Air Force Memo Exposed, Part 3,” The Roswell Files; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 35–36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1168

Event 3459 (1AB1261A)

Date: 10/31/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started rolling after lift-off and crashed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_287
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 2km

Event 3460 (ADFB6D01)

Date: 11/1947 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: KARKKILA, FINL
Description: 4 teens. Cylinder/cigar-shape with greenish tail seen / 2 minute(s). No further details. / UFO-Finl / Ilkka Serra.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1266

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "KARKKILA,FINL:4 TEENS:CGR W/GREENISH TAIL SEEN/2min:NFD:/UFO-Finl/Ilkka Serra", LatLong: "60.527781 24.188890", LatLongDMS: "60:31:40 N 24:11:20 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3461 (55A798BD)

Date: 11/1947 (approximate)
Time: 18:30
Location: NEAR SOSPEL, FR
Description: Yellow saucer going northeast toward(s) Italy. Antenna and 3 black spots / center. 120kph / 800M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1267

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr SOSPEL,FR:YLW SCR >NE twrd ITALY:ANTENNA+3 BLK SPOTS/CENTER:120kph/800M alt", LatLong: "43.866669 7.466667", LatLongDMS: "43:52:00 N 07:28:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alpes Maritimes", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3462 (35586248)

Date: 11/1947
Time: 20:00
Location: TORONTO, ON
Description: 3 observer(s). Gold cloud rotates. 10-12 gold disks exit! Soon gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1268

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "5", Duration: "5", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "TORONTO,ON:3 OBS:GOLD CLOUD ROTATES:10-12 GOLD DISKS EXIT!:soon gone:", LatLong: "43.666669 -79.416670", LatLongDMS: "43:40:00 N 79:25:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3463 (484561B8)

Date: 11/1947
Locations: Heiligenbeil, East Prussia; Mamonovo, Russia
Description: Former Messerschmidt test pilot Fritz Wendel tells US Army CIC that the Horten brothers were working on an advanced aircraft in Heiligenbeil, East Prussia [now Mamonovo, Russia] right after the war. The airplane is 33 feet long, shaped like a half-moon, and has no tail. It can fly to 12,000 feet. Wendel’s story is corroborated by a German informant named Prof. George, who describes a later Horten craft as able to fly at 1,200 mph because it is propelled by rockets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, pp. 41–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1169

Event 3464 (80649490)

Date: 11/2/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_288
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km

Event 3465 (5702F537)

Date: 11/2/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), 260km (Lost fins after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_289
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km

Event 3466 (F888CA59)

Date: 11/2/1947
Location: SEINAJOKI, FINL
Description: 1 observer. Red-yellow ball / light. Row / windows / turn off. Lights dim / houses.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1269

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SEINAJOKI,FINL:1 OBS:RED-YLW BALL/LITE:ROW/WINDOWS/turn off:lites dim/houses", LatLong: "62.783336 22.855557", LatLongDMS: "62:47:00 N 22:51:20 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3467 (DA51B2BF)

Date: 11/2/1947
Location: Houston, TX
Description: An almost round or oval or saucer-shaped object with bright light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_411

Event 3468 (890458FB)

Date: 11/4/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_290
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 268km

Event 3469 (C48AB03A)

Date: 11/6/1947
Location: Muroc AFB, California
Description: Chuck Yeager again makes an unofficial airspeed record of 891 mph in a Bell X-1 at Muroc AFB, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chuck Yeager”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1170

Event 3470 (6ADE4E5E)

Date: 11/10/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_291
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 24km

Event 3471 (F8DDCCFC)

Date: 11/10/1947
Location: Germany
Description: Lt. Col. Walker sends a memo to his field commands in Germany in response to the September 23 Twining letter. It calls for a discreet canvass into finding German engineers who might know of similar technology.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Walker Memo,” The Roswell Files
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1171

Event 3472 (CCDABD41)

Date: 11/11/1947 (approximate)
Location: 120MI WITH OREGON
Description: Steamship Ticonderoga. Project Bluebook Case #35. 36' saucers going [to] horizon going [to] horizon / 45 second(s). Low-arc / 800mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1947: 1988 book and recent Supplements. (Index 73)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1270

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "120mi W/OREGON:SS TICONDEROGA:BBK#35:36'SCRS > HRZN>HRZN/45sec:LO-ARC/800mph", LatLong: "43.000002 -126.500006", LatLongDMS: "43:00:00 N 126:30:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3473 (F85D1197)

Date: 11/12/1947
Location: Cape Blanco (40 miles from), OR
Description: 2 balls of fire with a fiery trail headed NW at 700-900 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_412

Event 3474 (92D80B00)

Date: 11/12/1947
Location: Cape Blanco, Oregon
Description: Early morning. US Navy Second Officer Williamson on the USS Ticonderoga 40 miles north or south of Cape Blanco, Oregon, sees two fireballs with fiery tails heading northwest at 700–900 mps. Possible meteors.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1172

Event 3475 (1046857B)

Date: 11/13/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_292
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km

Event 3476 (BFEE4154)

Date: 11/13/1947
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_293
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km

Event 3477 (1C196B85)

Date: 11/15/1947 (approximate)
Time: 11:30
Location: MANAGUA, NICARAGUA
Description: 47000 / new stadium. Several silver saucers going down [to] and spin and hover / seconds. Quickly going up [to] and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1271

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "Nicaragua", Credibility: "13", Duration: "1", Elev: "86", HatchDesc: "MANAGUA,NICARAGUA:47000/NEW STADIUM:SVRL SLVR SCRS ↓+SPIN+HVR/secs:↑↑+AWAY", LatLong: "12.150001 -86.283337", LatLongDMS: "12:09:00 N 86:17:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MNG", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3478 (934D015A)

Date: 11/15/1947
Location: Wichita, KS
Description: Man watched an orange object varied in shape, as it made jerky upward sweeps with 10-15 sec pauses. 3-5 mins. (Berliner) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 2224)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_413

Event 3479 (05CB8B68)

Date: 11/15/1947
Location: Wichita, KS
Description: 8:25 p.m. USAF B¬47 crew and passengers saw an elliptical blue-white object with orange or red tail, moving erratically. (BB Status Rpt?) [Same case as above??] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_414

Event 3480 (CCB2E45D)

Date: 11/15/1947
Description: At 11:30 a.m. 47,000 people in a new football stadium in Managua, Nicaragua saw several silver saucers descend, spin and hover for several seconds; then they shot straight up and away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, p. 121
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7682

Event 3481 (5F0E6756)

Date: 11/18/1947
Locations: Boise Idaho; Mitchel Field, New York
Description: Boise Idaho Statesman Aviation Editor David N. Johnson, having heard of the USS Ticonderoga sighting, writes to Gen. George E. Stratemeyer at Mitchel Field, New York, for information and asking eight questions about the Army’s investigation. Stratemeyer passes the query on to Garrett and Taylor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1173

Event 3482 (128557B4)

Date: 11/20/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE technology proving flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_294
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 26.7km

Event 3483 (4D73B899)

Date: 11/30/1947
Description: In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities).
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_295

Attributes: Majestic

Event 3484 (95246C50)

Date: 12/1947 (approximate)
Time: 00:00
Location: BLIDA AIR FORCE BASE, ALGERIA
Description: Sentry. Red round object rises over town to 70° elevation. Vanishes.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1272

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Algeria", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BLIDA AFB,ALGERIA:SENTRY:RED ROUND OBJ RISES OVR TOWN to 70°ELEVATION:vanishes", LatLong: "36.433335 2.850000", LatLongDMS: "36:26:00 N 02:51:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alger", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3485 (282E2E8D)

Date: 12/1947
Location: USAF Aeromedical Laboratory
Description: By now, ATIC has received 156 UFO reports. Aerodynamicists at ATIC and AMC agree that no German design can match UFO performance. The USAF Aeromedical Laboratory says that even if such a craft can be built, the human body cannot withstand the maneuvers, and USAF materials specialists say that no known material can withstand them either, as well as the heat of high speeds. Ruppelt later writes, “Why couldn’t these people, whoever they might be, stand these horrible maneuver forces? Why judge them by earthly standards? I found a memo to this effect was in the old Project Sign files.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, p. 28
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1183

Event 3486 (FAC14E59)

Date: 12/8/1947
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (Stable flight but less than planned altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_296
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km

Event 3487 (C1794B20)

Date: 12/8/1947
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Description: Moving reddish UFO emitted flash of light, shot upwards out of sight. [XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_415

Event 3488 (C97D0E3B)

Date: 12/8/1947
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Description: Pilots observe a reddish light moving at moderate speed over Las Vegas, Nevada. It emits a flash of green light and shoots upwards at a “tremendous speed.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 149
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1174

Event 3489 (C350BA38)

Date: 12/11/1947
Description: Garrett and Taylor write a memorandum to the USAF Public Relations Office outlining the proper answers to questions such as Johnson has asked.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1175

Event 3490 (032CB463)

Date: 12/13/1947
Time: ~00:00
Location: OSLO, NORWAY
Description: Luminous objects and 'falling stars' subject of USAF Tech. Intel. Center. (ATIC) query / Blue Book files. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1273

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "OSLO,NORWAY:LUM OBJs+'FALLING STARS' SUBJECT OF ATIC QUERY/BBK FILES:NFD", LatLong: "59.916670 10.700001", LatLongDMS: "59:55:00 N 10:42:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Norway", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3491 (4A72EDE2)

Date: 12/14/1947
Location: Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Description: 12:20 a.m. Six staff sergeants at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, watch a domed disc with a glowing green corona surrounding it moving slowly at a slightly tilted angle. It skims the treeline causing the tops of the trees to wave slightly and takes off to the northwest. They estimate it is 50–75 feet in diameter and flying at 200 feet altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project 1947 case file
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1176

Event 3492 (F786636A)

Date: 12/16/1947
Locations: Berlin; Göttingen, Germany
Description: Army Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty in Berlin writes a memo to the Deputy Director of Intelligence in Berlin stating that the Horten brothers Reimer and Walter have been located in Göttingen, Germany. He says they are eccentric and quarrelsome. Though they were responsible for the Horten Ho 299 a prototype fighter/bomber flying wing design, his investigation concludes that no saucer design “ever existed nor was projected by any of the German air research institutions.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lt. Col. Harry H. Pretty, “Horten Brothers Flying Saucers,” December 16, 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1177

Event 3493 (DDAAFFE0)

Date: 12/17/1947
Locations: US; Idaho
Description: US Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Carl Spaatz tells the Idaho Statesman he does not rule out the possibility of the flying disks being “foreign experimentation.” He adds that the Air Force is still investigating and he still wants people to report their sightings.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Spaatz Leaves Door open on Chance ‘Flying Discs’ Are of Foreign Origin,” Boise Idaho Statesman, December 17, 1947, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1178

Event 3494 (956C324F)

Date: 12/18/1947
Locations: Pentagon; Wright-Patterson
Description: Pentagon Col. James F. Olive Jr. chief of AFOAI and Lieut. Col. J. E. Thomas of the Offensive Air section AFOAI-OA respond to a request by deputy chief of Air Staff for Research and Development Gen. Curtis LeMay on the status of flying disc analysis. They complete their reanalysis of the earlier documents from the Pentagon and Wright-Patterson, rewrite a new EEI indicating a potentially serious but puzzling phenomenon, and turn this over to Chief of Air Force Intelligence McDonald for his signature.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 36; Swords 43, 485–491
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1179

Event 3495 (7D5B4F13)

Date: 12/19/1947
Description: The Research and Development Board has its first meeting.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1180

Event 3496 (B3BD681B)

Date: 12/20/1947
Location: UTSJOKI, FINLAND
Description: Numerous observer(s). Flying saucer / news report(s). No further details / brief note / Blue Book files.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1274

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "UTSJOKI,FINLAND:NMRS OBS:FLYING SCR/NEWS RPTS:NFD/BRIEF NOTE/BBK FILES", LatLong: "69.833337 27.000001", LatLongDMS: "69:50:00 N 27:00:00 E", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3497 (F0C782DC)

Date: 12/22/1947
Description: The final EEI, called “Analysis of Flying Disc Reports,” is issued by Chief of USAF Intelligence George C. McDonald , who concurs with AMC’s recommendation of September 23 and forwards it to director of USAF Research and Development Gen. Laurence Cardee Craigie for a reply. Gen. Charles Cabell, the new chief of AFOIR, signs off on this.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Analysis of ‘Flying Disc’ Reports,” December 18, 1947; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1181

Event 3498 (26A89251)

Date: 12/23/1947
Location: Muray Hill, NJ
Description: First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_297

Event 3499 (4C221B85)

Date: 12/26/1947
Locations: Chicago, Illinois; University of Iowa
Description: At the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago, Illinois, University of Iowa astronomer Charles C. Wylie proposes a coast-to-coast sky patrol to report on rockets, meteors, or flying saucers. He says that “mass hysteria” about saucers could have been prevented with a sky patrol in place.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Sky Patrol Recommended by Scientist,” Richmond Va. Times Dispatch, December 27, 1947, p. 8; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 1, 1947, The Author, February 1991, p. 76
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1182

Event 3500 (4655B8C1)

Date: 12/30/1947
Description: USAF project "Saucer" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_93

Event 3501 (4F8066D5)

Date: 12/30/1947
Location: Washington DC
Description: Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with "2A" Security Classification at Wright-Patterson)
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, B1-G p23)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_298

Event 3502 (434B1B54)

Date: 12/30/1947
Location: Pilot Hill (1 mile W of), CA
Description: High speed low altitude object trailing red, green and other colored flames (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 471230
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_416

Event 3503 (6EBC6933)

Date: 12/30/1947
Location: Sawtooth National Forest, ID
Description: A high speed object trailing green and blue flames (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 471230
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_417

Event 3504 (D671F1DF)

Date: 12/30/1947
Location: Europe
Description: Gen. Laurence C. Craigie, director of USAF R&D and successor to Gen. Curtis LeMay who has returned to Europe, advises the AMC commanding general that USAF policy is not to ignore UFO reports, but to collect, evaluate, and act on the information. He establishes Project Sign Project HT-304 under USAF Technical Instruction no. TI-2185 in a memo titled “Flying Discs.” Alfred Loedding, who is convinced that the flying discs are extraterrestrial, may have come up with the “Sign” designation. It carries a 2A restricted classification. Gen. Laurence C. Craigie, “Flying Discs,” Memorandum to Commanding General, Air Materiel Command, December 30, 1947; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf)[,](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf) p. 11; Condon, [p. 896](https://archive.org/details/scientificstudyo0000unse%5Fl5t2/page/896/mode/2up); “[Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf) [Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,](http://www.project1947.com/fig/DI%5FJIC%5FApril%5F28%5F1949.pdf)” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 \(Winter 1998: 24). Craigie, after his retirement from the Air Force in 1955, indicates that he believes UFOs are a waste of time and only approved Project Sign because of internal USAF politics.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Joel Carpenter
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1184

Year: 1948 (Back to Top)

Event 3505 (0F905C5A)

Date: 1948
Location: Europe
Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_95

Event 3506 (CAD6E0DB)

Date: 1948
Location: Washington DC
Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_299

Event 3507 (0FFFE288)

Date: 1948
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air, received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta, directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft. ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4 ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft landed inside the secure area of White Sands.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_310
See also: 3/25/1948
See also: 2/13/1948

Event 3508 (CDF23F6E)

Date: 1948
Location: Swastika, Canada
Description: Mr. Galbraith twice saw an object land. The first time, it was a disk-shaped craft with a humanoid figure-the second time, cigar shape with three figures.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_64

Event 3509 (92C05B4B)

Date: 1948
Locations: Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio; Ohio River
Description: David T. Keating, an employee of the USAF Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft group, is flying with the 166th Fighter Squadron of the Ohio National Guard out of Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio. While executing a flip of his P-51 at 18,000 feet, he sees a silvery disc zoom above his plane. He goes in pursuit of it at 325 mph and closes to within 240 feet of it. It seems to be 40 feet in diameter and 6 feet thick, with a vertical stabilizer rudder on the end. He keeps flying after it even when he loses sight of it. “About 10 miles south of the Ohio River,” he claims, “I spotted litter on a hillside and a path that had obviously been ripped up by a crashing plane.” Short on fuel, he returns to Lockbourne. He persuades his major to fly over the crash scene, and they send a truck to retrieve the remains.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Helen Knox, “Ridge Newcomer Tells of Game of Tag with ‘Saucer,’” The Oak Ridger, September 18, 1950; Clark III 325
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1185

Event 3510 (00187DDE)

Date: 1948
Locations: Arizona; Taos, New Mexico
Description: An airman stationed in Arizona is called out with a scientific team to examine a flying saucer that has crashed near Taos, New Mexico. When he arrives, the area is roped off and under military guard. The object is metallic with a flat circular airfoil. The cabin at the top center is too small for a normal-sized human. He is told by workers on the scene that bodies of “little men” have been removed from the craft. They discover that the ship is constructed of interlocking sections pinned together, but they cannot locate a power plant, except possibly some electromagnets below the cabin.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: L. J[ames] Lorenzen, “Aimé Michel’s Orthotenic Lines,” APRO Bulletin, July 1958, pp. 6–7; Clark III 325
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1186

Event 3511 (D5560561)

Date: 1948
Locations: New Mexico; Russia; UK
Description: British author and ex-MI5 operative Bernard Newman publishes a novel titled The Flying Saucer, the first book to use that phrase in its title. The story revolves around a group of scientists who create a fake Martian threat in order to bring the world together. Plot elements include a trio of staged saucer crashes in New Mexico, Russia, and the UK, propaganda, and even an alien autopsy.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bernard Newman, The Flying Saucer, Gollancz, 1948; Andrew May, “The Flying Saucer,” Retro-Forteana, June 30, 2013; Kremlin 43–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1187

Event 3512 (24B13825)

Date: 1948?
Locations: Riggs Road; Lateral 1 Road; Yakima, Washington
Description: Sylvia Hall, 11, wakes up at her home on the corner of Riggs Road and Lateral 1 Road south of Yakima, Washington, when her bedroom fills with bluish-white light pouring in through the closed west window. Some 100 feet above the ground is a huge bright cloud. Gliding down from it in groups of four on something like a ramp are tall people with bluish-silvery robes. She watches them for 10 minutes, then she has an overpowering desire to go back to bed. She tells no one about the experience until she is an adult.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Greg Long, “Strangeness at Yakima,” IUR 19, no. 4 July/Aug. 1994: 16–17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1188

Event 3513 (425B09C7)

Date: 1/1948
Description: Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide metal”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_300

Event 3514 (CC644933)

Date: 1/1948?
Time: 23:00?
Location: YUSTE MONASTERY, SP
Description: Small humanoid (or Grey) has feet like a goat. Observer(s) screams. Small humanoid (or Grey) leaves. Fireball rises!
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of 200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1275

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "YUSTE MONASTERY,SP:OID HAS FEET LIKE A GOAT:OBS SCREAMS:OID LEAVES:FBL RISES!", LatLong: "40.116669 -5.750000", LatLongDMS: "40:07:00 N 05:45:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CCR", Strangeness: "11"

Event 3515 (01714B4E)

Date: 1/3/1948
Location: VAASA, FINL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #99 / news. Saucer west going quickly east / 30 second(s). 5 Jan saucer north going quickly south / tens / Jakobstad-Pietersaari.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1276

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "VAASA,FINL:BBK#99/NEWS:SCR W>>E/30sec::5JAN SCR N>>S/10s/JAKOBSTAD-PIETERSAARI", LatLong: "63.094447 21.650001", LatLongDMS: "63:05:40 N 21:39:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3516 (0F26EB2A)

Date: 1/3/1948
Description: A disc-shaped object shot across the sky from west to east in 30 seconds over the coast of Vaasa, Finland.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files, case 99; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1289; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_48

Event 3517 (1194D435)

Date: 1/6/1948
Location: CHEHALIS, WA
Description: Bird-man hovers over barn. Retracts wings and shoots going up / USAF report.
Type: sighting
Reference: HOLZER, Hans: THE UFO-NAUTS; Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Greenwich, CT 1976. (Index 117)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1277

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, MON: Monster: Life form fits no category, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "3", Duration: "4", Elev: "69", HatchDesc: "CHEHALIS,WA:BIRD-MAN HVRS OVR BARN:RETRACTS WINGS+SHOOTS↑/USAF Rpt.", LatLong: "46.661113 -122.961117", LatLongDMS: "46:39:40 N 122:57:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "10"

Event 3518 (6D19D2F6)

Date: 1/6/1948
Location: Chehalis, Washington
Description: 3:00 p.m. Bernice Zaikowski, 61, of Chehalis, Washington, hears a “sizzling and whizzing” sound and looks up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watches “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings do not flap; instead they retract close to his body during ascent, and are extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Zaikowski says five other adult witnesses and a number of children also see the birdman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Man’ Is Chehalis Report,” Coos Bay Oreg. World, January 21, 1948, p. 2; Lyle Zapato, “The Birdmen of Cascadia,” ZPi blog, March 24, 2007; Clark III 270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1189

Event 3519 (CCDCB108)

Date: 1/6/1948
Description: Mrs Bernice Zaikowski of Chehalis, Washington heard a “sizzling and whizzing” sound at three o'clock in the afternoon, and looked up to see a “birdman” hovering 200 feet above her barn. She watched “a man equipped with long silver wings fastened over the shoulders with a strap” ascend rapidly, hover, bank, then fly away. “He flew in an upright position and appeared to be manipulating controls strapped to his chest.” The wings did not flap, instead they retracted close to his body during ascent, and were extended to hover or proceed in horizontal flight. Mrs Zaikowski said five other adult witnesses and a number of children also saw the birdman.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-05, citing The Portland (Oregon) Journal, April 30, 1950; Hans Holzer, The UFOnauts, p. 117; John A. Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 206
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_161

Event 3520 (A050ABFE)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky
Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
Type: UFO encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_94

Event 3521 (B7960D71)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Maysville, KN
Description: Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of the sighting...At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the skies south of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4 National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell in one of the F-51s.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_301

Event 3522 (E74EFA9C)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Maysville, KN
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to 30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic object....of tremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above....I am trying to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded in mid-air and disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam. (On Mantell's online obituary, Jim Marrs added: A man by the name of Richard T. Miller claims he was in the Scott AFB operations room in Belleville, Illinois during the chase and he states that Capt. Mantell's last words were, "My God, I see people in this thing!")
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Reference: [Grave][(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_302

Event 3523 (D08A6A3F)

Date: 1/7/1948
Time: 19:50
Location: WILMINGTON, OH
Description: Several / (seen thru) binoculars and Lockbourne Air Traffic Controllers. Very large saucer going up and down. Shoots going quickly southwest. Possible landing.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1278

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "22", Elev: "310", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,OH:SVRL/BINOCS+LOCKBOURNE ATCs:VLRG SCR ↑+↓:SHOOTS>>SW:POSS.LANDING", LatLong: "39.444446 -83.833337", LatLongDMS: "39:26:40 N 83:50:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3524 (CD82EF7D)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Fort Knox, KY
Description: Mantell Case (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 480107
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_418

Event 3525 (0CAD96D2)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Wilmington, OH
Description: Appearance of a flaming red cone in the skies of Wilmington, Ohio, on January 7, 1948, at between 7:20 and 7:55 P.M. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 480107
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_419

Event 3526 (7F8B00E7)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Columbus (Lockbourne AFB), OH
Description: Object Circles Base At High Speed / Touches Down (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480107
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_420

Event 3527 (B9136BC4)

Date: 1/7/1948
Locations: Kentucky State Police; Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky; Elizabethtown, Kentucky; Madisonville, Kentucky; Lexington; Mannsville, Kentucky
Description: 1:00 p.m. Kentucky State Police telephone Commanding Officer Col. Guy F. Hix’s office at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, reporting an unidentified object near Elizabethtown, Kentucky. Another call to Hix comes from state police at about 1:10 p.m. of an observation by a civilian in Madisonville, Kentucky, through a Finch telescope of a cone-shaped object about 100 feet tall by 43 feet wide, at an altitude of 4 miles and moving at 10 mph. This is apparently General Mills Skyhook balloon Flight B, which passes about 40 miles to the southwest of Madisonville. Other reports come in from Lexington and Mannsville, Kentucky.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1190

Event 3528 (B8C412BF)

Date: 1/7/1948
Locations: Irvington; Owensboro, Kentucky; Godman Army Airfield
Description: 1:20–2:10 p.m. Army Flight Service reports to Godman Army Airfield control tower that the object is over Irvington then Owensboro, Kentucky. Godman Tower Operator Tech/Sgt Quinton A. Blackwell, Capt. James F. Duesler Jr., Base Air Inspector Lt. Col. E. Garrison Wood, and other USAF personnel see a round or ice-cream- cone-shaped white or silver object with a revolving red streamer toward the south beginning at 1:50 p.m. Many others see it as well after 2:07 p.m., such as Operations Officer Capt. Cary W. Carter and Col. Guy F. Hix.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1191

Event 3529 (79A0A62C)

Date: 1/7/1948
Locations: Louisville, Kentucky; Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox; Bowling Green, Kentucky; Franklin, Kentucky; Ohio State University; Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota
Description: 2:50 p.m. Capt. Thomas F. Mantell Jr., a 25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, and three others are flying F-51D fighters to Louisville, Kentucky. After Mantell reports his position to Standiford Field in Louisville, Tech/Sgt. Quinton A. Blackwell at Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox breaks in over the radio to request Mantell to intercept and identify the object. The object maintains a constant angular position as seen from Godman as it apparently moves away at about 240–300 mph at an altitude of 50,000–60,000 feet during most of Mantell’s pursuit. Flying at 300 mph and gradually climbing to about 22,000–23,000 feet, Mantell gradually overtakes the UFO from below, past Bowling Green, Kentucky, at about 3:10 p.m. In one of his last radio reports, Mantell says the UFO “appears to be a metallic object or possibly reflection of sun from a metallic object, and it is of tremendous size.” At 3:15 p.m., at 22,500 feet with oxygen running low, two other F-51Ds quit the chase. Mantell continues to 25,000, blacks out, and crashes at 3:18 p.m. about 4 miles south-southwest of Franklin, Kentucky. The UFO disappears from view behind a cloud at Godman at 3:50 p.m. The Project Sign staff, still not yet formally organized, are under pressure to come up with some kind of answer, so they quickly float Venus offhandedly suggested by Ohio State University astronomer [J. Allen Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%5FAllen%5FHynek) as an explanation. This implausible explanation is not even believed by the Air Force, but it remains unchallenged for several years. In 1952, Ruppelt reopens the case and identifies the object as a secret Skyhook balloon, although he cannot confirm a launch that day. Army veteran Clifford Stone finds later that there had been no Skyhook launches since late December. However, Barry J. Greenwood and Robert Todd tentatively identify the balloon as one launched from Camp Ripley near Little Falls, Minnesota, on January 6.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mantell UFO incident”; NICAP, “The Mantell Case”; Clark III 706–710; Ruppelt, p. 31; Good Above, pp. 262–263; Good Need, pp. 104–105; Sparks, pp. 30– 31; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 37; “The Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe!” Just Cause, no. 39 March 1994: 9–10; “The Mantell UFO: A Smoking Gun, Maybe! Part Two” Just Cause, no. 40 June 1994: 8–12; Christopher D. Allan, “The Mantell Case—50 Years Later,” IUR 23, no. 1 Spring 1998: 7–9, 31–32; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 137–138; Kevin D. Randle, “The Mantell Analyses,” A Different Perspective, September 21, 2017; Center for UFO Studies, [clippings and documents on Mantell case]; Swords 51–52; Francis Ridge, The Mantell Incident: An Anatomy of a Re-Investigation, The Author, 2010; Flight Handbook, USAF Series F-51D Aircraft , January 20, 1954
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1192

Event 3530 (AD9F35BB)

Date: 1/7/1948
Locations: Godman Army Airfield; Fort Knox, Kentucky
Description: 4:45–7:06 p.m. USAF 1Lt. Paul I. Orner tracks an unidentified white light with red coloration in a weather theodolite at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, for more than 2 hours.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 31
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1193

Event 3531 (A70735A9)

Date: 1/7/1948
Locations: Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio; Commercial Point; Lockbourne AFB runway
Description: 7:15 p.m. Air Traffic Controller and pilot Alex A. Boudreaux and VHF Direction-Finding DF Operator and amateur astronomer Frank M. Eisele , 103rd AACS Squadron, at Lockbourne AFB [now Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base] in Lockbourne, Ohio, spot a bright object to the southwest of the airfield that appears and disappears intermittently. Fighter pilot USAF Capt. Charles E. McGee sees the object on runway 23 landing approach when he is at about 1,800 feet. The light seems to be at about 3,000 feet to the southwest about 4–5 miles away, then later on the ground to the west about 6–7 miles away. USAF VHF DF Operator and pilot Albert R. Pickering, Detachment 733, 103rd AACS Squadron, is awakened by the sudden emergence of a lighted amber- colored round or oval object about the size of a C-47 or larger [60+ feet] dropping out of the overcast bank 10,000 feet overhead. Lockbourne Control Tower at the same time radios a report of the object, which then maneuvers over to Commercial Point about 3–5 miles away to the west-southwest, then makes three full 360° circles over one spot in 30-40 seconds per turn over the runway, at a speed of more than 500 mph, leaving a luminous, amber- colored trail or exhaust about 5 times its length. Then the UFO goes to another location and does more 360° turns. At one point, it disappears into the overcast for one minute, then reappears. Just before departing, it hovers or “appeared to touch down” on the grass extension past the end of the Lockbourne AFB runway for 10 seconds then leaves at 120° ESE heading into the overcast. It is also sighted by the pilot of a C-45 at 5,000 feet off the right wing at 7:53 p.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; Sparks , p. 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1194

Event 3532 (07485F70)

Date: 1/7/1948
Location: Clinton County AFB [now Wilmington Air Park] near Wilmington, Ohio
Description: 7:35 p.m. Base personnel at Clinton County AFB [now Wilmington Air Park] near Wilmington, Ohio, where Skyhooks are launched a couple years later, watch a quickly maneuvering object. It dances up and down and changes from red to green before speeding to the southwest. Sgt. LeRoy Ziegler thinks he can detect a faint exhaust trail. Project Sign calls it Venus, because it disappears about the time Venus does.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Circles Base at High Speed / Touches Down”; NICAP, “Part 2-11: ‘…Was Not the Planet Venus,” June 4, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1195

Event 3533 (3E17579A)

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: A very large saucer-shaped object descended over the Clinton County, Ohio Air Force Base at 7:20 p.m. It was witnessed by several including the control tower staff, who viewed it through binoculars. It came so close to the ground that it may have landed. It then ascended and shot away to the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Wilmington (OH) News Journal, January 8, 1948
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_178

Event 3534 (6F510886)

Date: 1/9/1948
Time: 19:20
Location: CLINTON, NC
Description: Red and green cone dances in sky. Vibrant bright even behind clouds. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 72)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1279

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "46", HatchDesc: "CLINTON,NC:RED+GRN CONE DANCES IN SKY:VBRITE EVEN BEHIND CLOUDS:NFD", LatLong: "34.966668 -78.333337", LatLongDMS: "34:58:00 N 78:20:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3535 (F0C3124E)

Date: 1/9/1948
Time: 23:50
Location: ACWORTH, GA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #121. Eastern Airlines DC3. Circular blue-flame passes airliner. Turns going down [to] and winks out.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 12)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1280

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "278", HatchDesc: "ACWORTH,GA:BBK#121:EAL DC3:CIRC.BLU-FLAME PASSES AIRLINER:TURNS ↓ + WINKS OUT", LatLong: "34.066668 -84.677782", LatLongDMS: "34:04:00 N 84:40:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3536 (DA973AC6)

Date: 1/9/1948
Location: Cartersville (near), GA
Description: A blue circular flame pass the plane, turn, then blink [out?] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480109
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_421

Event 3537 (3F6042F6)

Date: 1/9/1948
Location: Cartersville, Georgia
Description: 11:30 p.m. Eastern Airlines pilot Hugh DuBose, flying a DC-3 aircraft at 3,000 feet altitude near Cartersville, Georgia, observes a circular object with a flat top cross his flight path at the same altitude and then turn earthward. The object is light sky-blue in color and is traveling at an estimated speed of 400 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Passes DC-3, Turns”; Sparks , p. 32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1196

Event 3538 (090A76BA)

Date: 1/10/1948
Location: Wildwood, NJ
Description: Saw a "saucer" or "queer light" approach from the ocean (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_422

Event 3539 (B3801B44)

Date: 1/11/1948
Time: 13:00?
Location: HARTFORD, CT
Description: USAF transport pilots. Red saucer dives down / 45 degree angle. Blue center. Very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1281

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "HARTFORD,CT:USAF XPORT PILOTS:RED SCR DIVES DOWN/45dgr ANGLE:BLUE CENTER:VFAST", LatLong: "41.766669 -72.666670", LatLongDMS: "41:46:00 N 72:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3540 (86CEED23)

Date: 1/11/1948
Location: Hartford, CT
Description: Transport Crew Sees Diving Disc (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480111
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_423

Event 3541 (5D8D38D8)

Date: 1/11/1948
Description: Two U.S. Air Force transport pilots, Helton and Pargoe, flying over Hartford, Connecticut in the afternoon observed a red disc-shaped object that flew at high speed, dove at a 45 degree angle, and had a blue center. The Air Force explained the report as a daytime meteor.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1294; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History, 1948, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_248

Event 3542 (37CB00E5)

Date: 1/15/1948
Location: Washington DC
Description: USAF officially a separate service
Type: history
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_303

Event 3543 (B1A2BFA8)

Date: 1/19/1948
Location: HJORRING, DK
Description: Project Bluebook Case #149. 'Rockets' in blue-glow soar. 1 stops and 'explodes'.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1282

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "HJORRING,DK:BBK#149:'ROCKETS' IN BLUE-GLOW SOAR:1 STOPS+ 'EXPLODES'", LatLong: "57.444447 10.000000", LatLongDMS: "57:26:40 N 10:00:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3544 (65182AC2)

Date: 1/21/1948
Location: VEJLE, DK
Description: 3 farmhands. Silver object going [to] by / 600' altitude. Type unknown. / Col. Ewert going [to] Pentagon going [to] Blue Book.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1283

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "VEJLE,DK:3 FARMHANDS:SLVR OBJ >BY/600'alt:TYPE UNK:/Col EWERT>PENTAGON>BBK", LatLong: "55.700003 9.500000", LatLongDMS: "55:42:00 N 09:30:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3545 (B3F0CC9A)

Date: 1/21/1948
Description: Col. Riley F. Ennis, chief of the Army Intelligence Division, in a memo reiterates the Schulgen Draft of Collection Memorandum and stresses the need to investigate Soviet development of a jet-propelled flying wing aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Department of the Army, “Unconventional Aircraft,” Intelligence Collection Memorandum number 7, January 21, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1197

Event 3546 (43701D95)

Date: 1/22/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude (Payload separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_305
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 159.3km

Event 3547 (6055A9A0)

Date: 1/22/1948
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH
Description: Project "Sign" (popular name "Saucer") established at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to investigate UFO reports.
Type: project established
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_856

Event 3548 (4E4A7026)

Date: 1/22/1948
Location: Wright Field
Description: Project Sign officially launches at Wright Field. The primary investigators are Capt. Robert R. Sneider project chief, Alfred Loedding T-3 engineer, Lawrence Truettner T-2 engineer, and Col. Albert Deyarmond analyst in Intelligence Analysis Division. Also involved are Maj. Raymond Llewellyn chief of special projects branch, Lt. Howard W. Smith, George W. Towles, and others as assigned. How much interest Col. Howard McCoy takes in the project is unknown. Its task is to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute information on sightings in the atmosphere “which can be considered of concern to national security.” Ruppelt later says that to be considered an “unknown,” it has to come from a competent observer and contain a reasonable amount of data.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 36–37; Sparks , p. 11; Ruppelt, p. 10; NICAP, “Project Sign Begins, 22 Jan 1948”; Michael David Hall and Wendy Ann Connors, “Alfred Loedding: New Insight on the Man behind Project Sign,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1198

Event 3549 (8A655F05)

Date: 1/23/1948
Location: Wright Field
Description: Col. William E. Clingerman , writing for Col. Howard McCoy at Wright Field, asks Lt. Col. George Garrett of Air Force Intelligence for all files on “Swedish incidents” in 1946 and 1947. He receives at least 44 documents, none of which have been released.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 13; Swords 30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1199

Event 3550 (369E8EED)

Date: 1/26/1948
Description: Project Sign becomes formally operational as Project HT-304. Lt. Col. James C. Beam becomes its first project director.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1200

Event 3551 (0D4B21FA)

Date: 1/28/1948 (approximate)
Location: ROUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Description: White balls / light and 'planes dropping parachutes' cause Air Force query.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1284

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "ROUEN-sur-SEINE,FR:WHT BALLS/LITE+'PLANES DROPPING PARACHUTES' CAUSE AF QUERY", LatLong: "49.400002 1.050000", LatLongDMS: "49:24:00 N 01:03:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3552 (052491C4)

Date: 1/31/1948
Description: The Research and Development Board dismisses flying saucers as “a mirage induced by mass self- hypnosis” in stories that appear in newspapers of this day.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Flying Discs’ Book Declared Closed,” Pendleton East Oregonian, January 31, 1948; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1948”; Swords 52–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1201

Event 3553 (54E31059)

Date: 2/1948
Time: 22:00?
Location: BAGNEUX, FR
Description: M. Compard. Large luminous/glowing-orange round object hovers. Going southwest slow. No further details. Balloon trick?
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1285

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "BAGNEUX,FR:M.COMPARD:LRG LUMn-ORG.ROUND OBJ HVRS:>SW SLOW:NFD:balloon trick?", LatLong: "48.800002 2.300000", LatLongDMS: "48:48:00 N 02:18:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HDS", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3554 (48A4CB10)

Date: 2/1948
Locations: Circleville, Ohio; farmer C. Bruce Stevenson's farm
Description: 2:00 a.m. Glancing out his window while getting a drink of water, farmer C. Bruce Stevenson notices a bight orange-amber glow near his farm buildings a few miles from Circleville, Ohio. He expects to find the buildings on fire, but instead there is a large, domed flying saucer gliding silently over the roof of his pig house about 100 feet away. The UFO, about 60 feet in diameter, maintains a slow speed and low altitude until it disappears from sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Bruce Stevenson Reveals Close-Up View of Saucer,” Circleville Ohio Herald, August 2, 1952, pp. 1–2; “Bruce Stevenson Certain Saucer Wasn’t Reflection,” Circleville Ohio Herald, August 7, 1952, p. 1; Project 1947, “UFO Reports, 1948”; Pete Hartinger, “America’s First Classic Close Encounter,” Pickaway Quarterly, Fall 1996, pp. 11–13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1202

Event 3555 (BD495C64)

Date: 2/1/1948
Time: 02:10
Location: NORTHWEST / CIRCLEVILLE, OH
Description: 18M domed saucer hovers 6M / hog barn. Going [to] over shed. / MJ#238+/ r46p144.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 217)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1286

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "214", HatchDesc: "NW/CIRCLEVILLE,OH:18M DOMED SCR HVRS 6M/HOG BARN:> OVR SHED:/MJ#238+/r46p144", LatLong: "39.633335 -82.983337", LatLongDMS: "39:38:00 N 82:59:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "6", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3556 (8981BA41)

Date: 2/1/1948
Location: Circleville, OH
Description: Large 60 ft domed disc, with bright orange-amber glow from within (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_424

Event 3557 (94808578)

Date: 2/1/1948
Description: At shortly after two a.m. in Circleville, Ohio a Mr. Stevenson, a hog farmer, witnessed an 18 meter in diameter domed disc that hovered six meters above his hog barn, then flew over a shed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Ed McCann, Circleville Herald, August 3, 1952
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_650

Event 3558 (F26B8301)

Date: 2/4/1948
Description: Capt. Richard W. Geuss, acting assistant adjutant general, writes a memo on behalf of Lieut. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer , to ADC and USAF commanding generals on “Investigation and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents.” It specifies that Air Force commanders are charged with evaluating military UFO incidents, in cooperation with CIC personnel and local FBI offices. Even hoaxes are to be passed on to the FBI.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Capt. Richard W. Geuss, “Investigation and Reporting of ‘Flying Disc’ Incidents,” February 4, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1203

Event 3559 (A63F12B9)

Date: 2/6/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude (Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_306
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 111km

Event 3560 (A4578AFB)

Date: 2/12/1948
Location: Plans and Operations
Description: Brig. Gen. Charles P. Cabell , chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division, sends a secret memo to Maj. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson. director of Plans and Operations, stating that the Commanding General of AMC feels that the responsibility for collecting information on “flying disks” should be complemented by a requirement that all USAF installations “provide a minimum of one each aircraft, with necessary crews, on a continuous alert basis. These aircraft should be equipped with gun camera, and such armament as deemed advisable, in order to secure photographs necessary to the obtainment of all possible data on any reported and sighted unusual phenomena, of the ‘flying disk’ type, in the atmosphere.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p. 263
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1204

Event 3561 (BC5BF77C)

Date: 2/13/1948
Location: Aztec, NM
Description: Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research, ALIENS
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_304
See also: 3/25,1948

Event 3562 (77011DB0)

Date: 2/18/1948
Time: 17:00
Location: WEST / STOCKTON, KS
Description: 4' saucer aims pipe / farmer 6' away! Wobbles and flames. Going quickly [to] going northwest. / MJ#238+205.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 16)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1287

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "605", HatchDesc: "W/STOCKTON,KS:4'SCR AIMS PIPE/FARMER 6'AWAY!:WOBBLES+FLAMES:>>>NW:/MJ#238+205", LatLong: "39.461113 -99.500005", LatLongDMS: "39:27:40 N 99:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3563 (52598B4B)

Date: 2/18/1948
Locations: Nebraska; Norcatur, Kansas; Kansas; Oklahoma; Norton County, Kansas; Furnas County, Nebraska; Stockton, Kansas
Description: 5:00 p.m. A smoke trail begins over Nebraska and runs south. A bolide explodes over Norcatur, Kansas, and the concussion from the blast breaks windows and rocks buildings over a wide area of Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. A huge shower of meteoritic stones fall over a large area of Norton County, Kansas, and Furnas County, Nebraska. Two Army B-29 bombers circle the area until nightfall. A farmer near Stockton, Kansas, sees a hovering object that leaves a bare spot in the ground. Kenneth Arnold is persuaded that reports of the Norton County meteorite fall might actually have been UFO-related. Astronomer Lincoln LaPaz directs the recovery of the massive achondritic meteorite in 1948. More than 100 stones are recovered, including one weighing about one ton.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Norton County (meteorite)”; “Norton County,” Meteorite Recon, October 8, 2015; Luna Meteorite Hunters, “Norton County, KS Fall 18FEB1948 More Than 60 Years Ago,” February 26, 2009; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1948 , The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 37–40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1205

Event 3564 (1021B168)

Date: 2/18/1948
Description: At 4:56 p.m. a farmer in Stockton, Kansas saw a 4-foot wide disc that approached to within six feet and appeared to aim some type of tube or pipe at him. The UFO then wobbled and emitted some flames. It shot away flying toward the northwest. At 5:05 p.m. a Mr. Wray took a photograph of an irregular-shaped UFO north of Norton, Kansas.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 91, Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, Coming of the Saucers, p. 179
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_976

Event 3565 (D345669A)

Date: 2/20/1948
Time: 13:20
Location: BOISE, ID
Description: Group / surveyors. 15' saucer going [to] below clouds / 3000'. Fuzzy front edge.
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 69)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1288

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "825", HatchDesc: "BOISE,ID:GROUP/SURVEYORS:15'SCR > BELOW CLOUDS/3000':FUZZY FRONT EDGE", LatLong: "43.600002 -116.200006", LatLongDMS: "43:36:00 N 116:12:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "800", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3566 (47EC8415)

Date: 2/20/1948
Location: Palm Beach, Florida
Description: 2:00 a.m. In Palm Beach, Florida, lawyer and writer Charles Francis Coe and his son Alan see a globe of light shooting across the sky to the northeast at terrific speed. Coe calls it a “ray or blob of light” and insists it is not a meteor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Mystery ‘Globe’ Seen by Editor,” Palm Beach Fla. Post, February 21, 1948, p. 1; “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 1, no. 3 Fall 1948: 105–113; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, p. 139
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1206

Event 3567 (B2CA8B6D)

Date: 2/20/1948
Location: Emmett, Idaho
Description: 1:15 p.m. Six surveyors, including Idaho Power Company surveyor E. G. Hall, see a small flat, heart- shaped UFO flying in the sky at Emmett, Idaho. Through his theodolite it looks fuzzy across its back edge as if “dipped in cream.” He says it was about the size of a Piper Cub airplane and flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Emmett Idaho Messenger, February 26, 1948; Kenneth Arnold, “Are Space Visitors Here?” Fate 1, no. 2 Summer 1948: 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1207

Event 3568 (75EC85E3)

Date: 2/20/1948
Description: Six surveyors working in Emmett, Idaho saw a small flat, heart-shaped UFO flying in the sky at 1:15 p.m. It was fuzzy across its back edge as if "dipped in cream", and was flying point first below the cloud level at between 2,000 and 4,000 feet.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Emmett (ID) Messenger, February 26, 1948; Aime Michel, The Truth About Flying Saucers, p. 69; UNICAT database, case # 206, citing Kenneth Arnold, Fate Magazine, July 1948, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1020

Event 3569 (D6DB6B2A)

Date: 2/21/1948 (approximate)
Time: 09:30
Location: OFF SKAGEN, DK
Description: 2 pilots. Missile / 22K' altitude. Many such southeast going quickly northwest / days. Always at 0930h.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 19)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1289

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off SKAGEN,DK:2 PILOTS:MISSILE/22K'alt::MANY SUCH SE>>NW/DAYS:ALWAYS @0930h", LatLong: "57.833336 10.561112", LatLongDMS: "57:50:00 N 10:33:40 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3570 (B7413C79)

Date: 3/1/1948
Location: Coast of, Sweden
Description: A missile-like object flying at 20,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_425

Event 3571 (45B5770C)

Date: 3/3/1948
Locations: Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio
Description: Maj. Gen. Samuel E. Anderson, USAF Director of Plans and Operations at the Pentagon, rejects a proposal by Col. Howard McCoy and Brig. Gen. Charles P. Cabell for stationing fighter aircraft at all bases on continuous alert for UFOs. It costs too much and proper interceptions are unlikely. He orders all bases to send UFO information to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. S. E. Anderson, “Flying Discs,” March 3, 1948; Good Above, pp. 263–264
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1208

Event 3572 (A32D230F)

Date: 3/12/1948
Locations: Germany; Russia; Argentina
Description: Maj. Earl S. Browning Jr., in a memo to the European command of the 970th CIC, writes that the Horten brothers have been located and interrogated by US officials. Walter Horten has remained in Germany as an officer in the German Air Force. He thinks that sufficient types of flying wing prototypes existed when the Russians invaded Germany and may have served as models for flying discs. Reimar Horten had emigrated to Argentina when the war ended.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1209

Event 3573 (635B3716)

Date: 3/17/1948
Description: Memo on “Flying Discs” from Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald , director of USAF intelligence, to the AMC commander, considers Col. McCoy’s proposal to maintain fighters on alert for UFOs “unfeasible.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. George C. McDonald, “Flying Discs,” March 17, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1210

Event 3574 (8D30004C)

Date: 3/17/1948
End date: 3/18/1948
Location: Room 3E-869 of the Pentagon
Description: The USAF Scientific Advisory Board meets in Room 3E-869 of the Pentagon, with physicist Theodore von Kármán presiding. Col. McCoy is present and speaks briefly about Project Sign, saying it has over 300 reports, many of them from experienced observers: “I can’t even tell you how much we would give to have one of those crash in an area so that we could recover whatever they are.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Howard McCoy, “Scientific Advisory Board Conference Held 17–18 March 1948, Room 3E-869, the Pentagon, Washington, D.C.”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1211

Event 3575 (C8326E0F)

Date: 3/19/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low altitude flight prevented any data recovery)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_307
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km

Event 3576 (4052A2B0)

Date: Spring 1948
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Description: Ray Palmer and Flying magazine editor Curtis Fuller publish the first issue of Fate magazine at Clark Publishing Company in Chicago, Illinois. It features a first-hand story and a 30-page UFO roundup by Kenneth Arnold , as well as a history of unconventional aircraft by Curtis Fuller. Palmer and Fuller use the shared pseudonym “Robert N. Webster.” The issue sells a healthy 50,000 copies. It is still being published in 2022.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kenneth Arnold, “I Did See the Flying Disks!” Fate 1, no. 1 Spring 1948: 4–10; Kenneth Arnold, “The Mystery of the Flying Disks,” Fate 1, no. 1 Spring 1948: 18–48; Robert N. Webster [Curtis Fuller], “What Were the ‘Doughnuts’?” Fate 1, no. 1 Spring 1948: 12–17; Clark III 872
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1214

Event 3577 (145292F2)

Date: Spring 1948
Location: Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata, California
Description: Kenneth Arnold visits the Landing Aids Experiment Station in Arcata, California, and interviews Kenneth W. Ehlers , a radar technician and later physicist working on airport operational systems, including radar. He has been accumulating information on unidentified radar targets he calls them “gizmos” that cannot be seen with the naked eye and sending reports on their flight paths to Navy meteorologist Florence Van Straten and Luis Walter Alvarez , the inventor of Ground Control Approach System radar. In many cases, the target indicates a small solid target flying around 30 mph. The targets always fly in the same path from northwest to southeast, along the coast. Sometimes they come to a complete halt; at other times they split into two objects, merging later. Ehlers notes that the targets have been attributed to insects, but he is skeptical. Later, he suspects they might be plasmas occurring at the inversion layer, but that does not explain their behavior.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wesley Price, “The Sky Is Haunted,” Saturday Evening Post 220, no. 36 March 6, 1948: 13; Ray Palmer, “New Report on the Flying Saucers,” Fate 4, no. 1 January 1951: 63–81; “Landing Aids Experiment Station,” Transocean Air Lines; Greg Long, “In Search of Gizmos: A 1947 Radar Case,” IUR 19, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1994: 15–20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1215

Event 3578 (09D1F5EE)

Date: Spring 1948?
Description: President Truman asks Col. Robert B. Landry , his USAF aide, to provide him with quarterly verbal reports on the state of UFO information and research. He does so to the end of 1952, with possibly 18 briefings in all.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: James R. Fuchs, “Oral History Interview with Robert B. Landry,” Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, February 28, 1974
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1216

Event 3579 (2B8DC8BB)

Date: 3/23/1948
Description: RAF pilot John Cunningham reaches an altitude of 59,430 feet in a de Havilland Vampire turbojet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “John Cunningham (RAF officer)”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1212

Event 3580 (CB00DA4C)

Date: 3/25/1948
Location: Aztec, NM
Description: Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest, including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy. Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by Virgil Armstrong.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
Reference: book link
Reference: book link
Reference: book link
Reference: Robert Spencer Carr
Reference: Robert Spencer Carr
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_308
See also: 2/13/1948

Event 3581 (80BEEDD0)

Date: 3/25/1948
Location: Aztec, NM
Description: IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM, radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation, Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_309

Event 3582 (D2B58BAD)

Date: 3/25/1948
Locations: Hart Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico; Wright Field in Ohio; Arizona; Phoenix; North Carolina
Description: 5:00 a.m. According to writer Frank Scully, who hears the tale from a scientist he refers to as “Dr. Gee” and a Texas oilman, a UFO crashes on a rocky plateau off Hart Canyon Road east of Aztec, New Mexico. When Air Force investigators and government scientists arrive on the scene, they crawl through a broken porthole and find the bodies of 16 small humanlike beings 3–3.5 feet tall dressed in the “style of 1890.” Their skin is charred a chocolate color, apparently as a result of the rush of terrestrial air through the shattered window. After a thorough study, the scientists conclude that the “vehicle probably flew on magnetic lines of force.” Segments of the craft, as well as the bodies, are supposedly transported to Wright Field in Ohio. Dr. Gee, who claims to have been on the scene, said the UFO is likely from Venus, as Martians “would probably be three or four times as large as human beings.” Soon afterward, a crash occurs in Arizona and 16 bodies are taken from the wreckage. A third spaceship goes down near Phoenix with 2 dead occupants. The story turns out to be a hoax dreamed up by two con men named Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer “Dr. Gee,” although Scully claims this was a composite character incorporating 8 informants, one of whom is said to be geophysicist [Carl A. Heiland](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/205437488/carl-a%5F-heiland). The hoax is loosely based on a 1949 science fiction film titled The Flying Saucer. GeBauer and especially Newton are in later years involved in various swindles and fraudulent mining claims. In 1987, William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens release UFO Crash at Aztec, which draws on speculation, rumor, unnamed informants, and paranoia to defend and embellish the original story. The latest to champion the Aztec crash is a North Carolina man named Scott Ramsey , who with his wife Suzanne has spent thousands of dollars looking for and interviewing witnesses and trying to prove it involves a real UFO crash and coverup in his 2015 book The Aztec UFO Incident. Ramsey thinks the object was tracked on radar by Air Force Station P-8 near El Vado Dam.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Aztec, New Mexico UFO hoax”; Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers , Holt, 1950; J. P. Cahn, “Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men,” True, September 1952, pp. 17–19, 102–112; J. P. Cahn, “Flying Saucer Swindlers,” True, August 1956, pp. 36–37, 69–72; William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1987; Clark III 1044–1047; William E. Jones and Rebecca D. Minshall, “Aztec, New Mexico—A Crash Story Reexamined,” IUR 16, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1991: 11–15, 23; Good Above, pp. 388–394; Good Need, pp. 117–123; Jerome Clark, review of The Aztec Incident , in Journal of Scientific Exploration 26, no. 3 2012: 709–716; Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey, and Frank Thayer, The Aztec UFO Incident, New Page, 2015; Curt Collins, “Flying Saucer Swindlers: Silas Newton and the UFO Crash,” The Saucers That Time Forgot, April 5, 2020
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1213

Event 3583 (9500FB60)

Date: 4/1948 (estimated)
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies.
Type: witness statement
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_311

Event 3584 (87E3B65C)

Date: 4/1948
Locations: US Weather Bureau; Richmond, Virginia
Description: Morning. US Weather Bureau meteorologist Walter A. Minozewski at the Richmond, Virginia, weather station and his staff catch sight of a bright metallic, elliptical disc while they are tracking a small ceiling balloon at 15,000 feet. He checks his observation through a theodolite telescope. The disc flies just below the balloon and remains in sight for 15 seconds, appearing much bigger than the balloon. It has a flat, level bottom and a dome on top. It remains on a westward heading at high speed, then vanishes off into the distance.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, p. 41; Bloecher, p. I-1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1217

Event 3585 (CFA23897)

Date: 4/1/1948
Time: 09:50
Location: SOUTHEAST LUZON, PI
Description: 3 F47S and more/others. 10M silver saucer maneuvers. 90° turns. Small fin. Radio Frequency Interference (RFI). / r2p73+/ r151p6.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly. CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1290

Extra Data: Country: "Philippines", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "SE LUZON,PI:3 F47S++:10M SLVR SCR MNVRS:90°TURNS:SML FIN:RFI:/r2p73+/r151p6", LatLong: "12.866667 124.050006", LatLongDMS: "12:52:00 N 124:03:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3586 (9A344CB3)

Date: 4/1/1948
Location: Luzon Island, Philippines
Description: Pilot saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" about 30 ft wide 20 ft long (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_426

Event 3587 (4412E489)

Date: 4/1/1948
Location: Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines
Description: 9:55 a.m. USAF 1st Lt. Robert W. Meyers is leading a flight of four P-47s from the 67th Fighter Group about 9 miles southeast of Sorsogon City, Luzon, Philippines. At 1,500 feet, he notices an unusual silvery object about 3 miles to the east. Shaped like a flying wing or half-moon with a “turtle back,” it resembles no military craft in use at the time. The object flies below the squadron at 200 mph and an altitude of about 1,000 feet. Meyers estimates it is about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long. When he attempts to contact the other three P-47s, he realizes his radio is dead. As he makes a 270° left turn to get a closer look, the object makes a 90° left turn and moves away at tremendous speed. It is only visible for about 5 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “P-47 Flight Encounters Half-Moon Object”; Sparks , p. 33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1218

Event 3588 (0A86D325)

Date: 4/1/1948
Description: At 9:55 a.m. a ten meter wide silver half disc maneuvered in the sky over Manila in the Philippines and made a number of ninety-degree turns. Lt. Meyers of the U.S. Air Force was leading a flight of four F-47S Thunderbolt fighters of the 67th Fighter Squadron and was flying south at 1,500 ft altitude when he saw a half-moon shaped "flying wing" or crescent about 30 feet wide and 20 feet long, with a small dorsal fin. It was flying on a northerly heading at about 1,000 feet three miles to his east. It made a 90° left turn and leveled out on a westerly heading accelerating rapidly to vanish in five seconds. There was no trail. Estimated terminal velocity was about 11 miles per second or 39,000 mph. Radio interference was reported at the time.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Bluebook files counted in official statistics; International UFO Reporter, December 1998; Fund for UFO Research
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1778

Event 3589 (6D68364C)

Date: 4/2/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude (Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_312
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 144km

Event 3590 (743566EF)

Date: 4/3/1948
Time: 06:40
Location: FARA DI CIGNO, ITALY
Description: Orange domed saucer going east. Stops 12M away. White heat-ray. Small humanoid (or Grey) inside.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 30)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1291

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "FARA di CIGNO,ITALY:ORG DOMED SCR >E:STOPS 12M away:WHT HEAT-RAY:OID INSIDE", LatLong: "41.866669 15.000001", LatLongDMS: "41:52:00 N 15:00:00 E", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CB", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3591 (CA7C50E2)

Date: 4/3/1948
Description: At 6:35 a.m. in San Martino, Lombardy, Italy bus driver Guiseppe Langiano and railway stationmaster Sr. Bavota saw a luminous orange domed disc hovering about 10 meters above the ground at Fara Di Cigno which stopped 12 meters away from them. It was shaped like an inverted bowl, about 10-15 meters in diameter, and surmounted by a transparent looking dome or “upside-down cup.” It was also emitting a very bright beam of white light. A humanoid being floated down to the ground from the object. He wore a stiff, metallic looking one-piece garment with heavy metallic gauntlets. He looked like a "big puppet" about 1.5 meters (5 feet) in height. He had "two round holes in place of eyes.” When Sr. Langiano approached, it re-entered the UFO, which then took off.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Solas Boncompgni, UFO in Italia, p. 94; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1948-06 (A0145), citing Solas Boncompgni; Verga Maurizio, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1811

Event 3592 (067DF342)

Date: 4/5/1948
Location: Holloman AFB
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB
Type: top secret report
Reference: NICAP — Air Intelligence Report — ONI
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_313

Event 3593 (58C22DD4)

Date: 4/5/1948
Time: ~15:00
Location: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: 5 / theodolite. 2 silent 35M saucers / fast TURNs. 1 quickly going up. Going quickly west. / International UFO Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) v23#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 71)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1292

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1248", HatchDesc: "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:5/THEODOLITE:2 SLNT 35M SCRs/FAST TURNs:1 ↑↑:>>W:/IUR v23#4", LatLong: "32.850002 -106.066672", LatLongDMS: "32:51:00 N 106:04:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3594 (268BF113)

Date: 4/5/1948
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Team watches 35 meter disc executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 139, NC) (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 480405
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_427

Event 3595 (0A0214DF)

Date: 4/5/1948
Time: Afternoon
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: Witnesses: Geophysics Lab balloon observers Alsen, Johnson, Chance. Two irregular, round, white or golden objects. One made three loops then rose and disappeared rapidly; the other flew in a fast arc to the west during the 3O^second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_10

Event 3596 (883076D1)

Date: 4/5/1948
Locations: Holloman AFB; Alamogordo, New Mexico; Watson Laboratories; New Mexico; Red Bank, New Jersey; Watson Laboratory complex
Description: Afternoon. At Holloman AFB, near Alamogordo, New Mexico, three highly trained balloon observers Joseph Olson, Johnson, and Chance are working on a secret project for the Air Force’s Watson Laboratories. They see two objects. One observer follows one object, and the others follow the second as they diverge. All are certain that the objects aren’t balloons. They are large, whitish, roundish, very high, faster than any aircraft, and perform rapid, erratic motions. One object is lost at a low altitude. The other goes up quickly and seems to just disappear. The observation lasts about 30 seconds. The case is deemed important enough to send Alfred Loedding and one of Clingerman’s assistants, Lt. Col. James C. Beam the head of Project Sign, to New Mexico to interview Project Mogul scientist James W. Peoples and the other witnesses. Unfortunately, they are gone when Sign arrives. They are later interviewed at the USAF Watson Laboratory complex in Red Bank, New Jersey. The witnesses are very sure of themselves and the case is classed as “Unidentified.” While at Holloman, Loedding and Beam talk with Lt. Herbert G. Markley, who has worked with the Watson team. Markley remembers one of them speaking of unusual radar returns from their equipment, but later the Watson personnel say that these were probably just “angels” spurious echoes due to atmospheric microstructures, insects, equipment malfunction, or other stimuli. Markley does report that UFOs are seen around Holloman often. He himself has seen a disc in late August 1947 and flat, round aeroforms on at least two further occasions.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Team Watches 35-Meter Disc”; Ruppelt, p. 71; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 40–41; Sparks , p. 33; Project 1947, “Holloman AFB UFO Sightings”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1219

Event 3597 (B84D62E3)

Date: 4/5/1948
Description: At 2:00 in the afternoon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico three base personnel reported having witnessed two silent disc-shaped objects, 35 meters in diameter, executing a series of violent turns and maneuvers. The discs made no noise during the 30 seconds they were in view, and were viewed through a theodolite. One of the discs shot up vertically. Project Blue Book listed this as an "unidentified" case.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, pp. 52-53; R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 79
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1841

Event 3598 (BD3E4ABD)

Date: 4/7/1948
Description: Three men in dark drab flight suits were seen flying through the air at 250 feet altitude over Longview, Washington in the middle of the afternoon. They circled the city as fast as a freight train. They had apparatus on their sides that looked like they may have been wearing guns in holsters. They were seen briefly by three witnesses with the last names of Johnson and Pittman.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Longview (WA) News, April 8, 1948; John Keel, Operation Trojan Horse, p. 207; APRO Bulletin, June 1980, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1877

Event 3599 (22206DA6)

Date: 4/8/1948
Location: DELAWARE, OH
Description: 30 meter Oblong silver streak does acrobatics over town. Opalescent.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 92)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1293

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "268", HatchDesc: "DELAWARE,OH:30 METER OBLONG SLVR STREAK DOES ACROBATICS OVER TOWN:OPALESCENT", LatLong: "40.283335 -83.066671", LatLongDMS: "40:17:00 N 83:04:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3600 (3111E40E)

Date: 4/8/1948
Location: Ashley, OH
Description: At 1400 to 1430 hours, witnesses at Ashley and Delaware, Ohio, observed a long and narrow cylinder-shaped object moving slowly to the southwest. The object was silver in color and one witness described the object as leaning and then right itself and move along perpendicular. The object was clearly outlined. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480408
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_429

Event 3601 (95847B1A)

Date: 4/9/1948
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: 2:06 p.m. (MST). (Trakowski GRUDGE rpt) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_430

Event 3602 (F02B0A7D)

Date: 4/9/1948
Location: Montgomery, AL
Description: A silver parachute-shaped 8 ft disc with a 5 ft long cable (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480409
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_431

Event 3603 (14C68C10)

Date: 4/9/1948
Location: Longview, Washington
Description: Viola Johnson of Longview, Washington, and another witness see three “flying men” circling the town. She says they are “dressed in khaki-colored flying suits with helmets over their faces.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 777
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1220

Event 3604 (38A43F85)

Date: 4/11/1948
Location: Alton, IL
Description: (38.90° N, 90.17° W). Siegmund. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_432

Event 3605 (C7216EAB)

Date: 4/12/1948
Time: 11:00?
Location: ASHLEY, OH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #112. Several observer(s). Large vertical cylinder/cylindrical object flies against wind. Streamers trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1294

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "301", HatchDesc: "ASHLEY,OH:BBK#112:SVRL OBS:LRG VERTICAL CYL FLIES AGAINST WIND:STREAMERS TRAIL", LatLong: "40.411113 -82.955560", LatLongDMS: "40:24:40 N 82:57:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3606 (A510506A)

Date: 4/14/1948
Time: 18:16:59.0
Location: 11.66276 162.23785
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “X-ray” Yield: 37KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_5

Extra Data: LatLong: "11.66276 162.23785", LatLongDMS: "11:39:46 N 162:14:16 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.06", NukeName: "X-ray", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "37"

Event 3607 (51137E56)

Date: 4/15/1948
Locations: Enewetak Atoll; Marshall Islands
Description: 6:17 a.m. The X-Ray nuclear device is detonated near Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. B-17 pilotless drone aircraft are flown through the cloud, and a drone light tank is used to recover soil samples from the crater. Unfortunately, it becomes bogged and must be towed out 10 days later.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Sandstone”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1221

Event 3608 (1EC96545)

Date: 4/18/1948
Location: North Atlantic, At Sea
Description: N Atlantic bet. Iceland and Greenland (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_433

Event 3609 (8A4128B8)

Date: 4/18/1948
Location: Fairbanks, AK
Description: A noiseless object with a flat discus shaped object 8 inches in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_434

Event 3610 (769AD464)

Date: 4/19/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude (Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight termination)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_314
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 56km

Event 3611 (173D7354)

Date: 4/19/1948
Location: Greenville AFB, SC
Description: A stationary silvery or white sphere directly overhead. Size estimated at slightly smaller than a 42 ft AT-6 at the indicated altitude. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480419
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_435

Event 3612 (FB656931)

Date: 4/23/1948
Description: A preliminary 25-page report, written by Project Sign’s Col. Howard McCoy and Lt. Col. James C. Beam, summarizes UFO reports received through February 1, with attached memos and documents. It is addressed to Chief of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg and Director of Intelligence Charles P. Cabell. The Rhodes photos and 99 other cases are listed. A comment by chemist Irving Langmuir is appended, noting his doubts about the reality of flying discs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. Howard M. McCoy, “Project Sign,” April 23, 1948; Swords 54–55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1222

Event 3613 (9ACE5AEE)

Date: 4/26/1948
Description: A flying humanoid was spotted on this morning in St. Louis, Missouri and reported to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch newspaper by a Mrs. Dolezal.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 26, 1948; Kansas City Star, April 29, 1948
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2330

Event 3614 (F82EB689)

Date: 4/27/1948
End date: 4/28/1948
Locations: Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations; AEC’s Sandia Base; Los Alamos in New Mexico
Description: Physicist Joseph Kaplan, a member of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, visits the Kirtland AFB Office of Special Investigations, AEC’s Sandia Base, and Los Alamos in New Mexico, under orders from Theodore Von Kármán , chairman of the USAF Scientific Advisory Board, to review UFO reports and investigations from the area. Kaplan and Lincoln LaPaz meet with security personnel at Los Alamos. Kaplan reports that “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States” and should be investigated scientifically.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p. 266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1223

Event 3615 (88EE5900)

Date: 4/30/1948
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr. Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against wind
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_315

Event 3616 (50342684)

Date: 4/30/1948
Location: ANACOSTIA NAS, DC
Description: United States Navy (USN) pilot. 30+'sphere. 4500' altitude. Going quickly south / 100mph against wind.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 240)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1295

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "ANACOSTIA NAS,DC:USN PILOT:30+'SPHERE:4500'alt:>>S/100mph AGAINST WIND:", LatLong: "38.900002 -76.950004", LatLongDMS: "38:54:00 N 76:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WDC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3617 (99E312F2)

Date: 4/30/1948
Location: Anacostia NAS, MD
Description: Yellow sphere in opposite course S to N at constant altitude (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480430
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_436

Event 3618 (55C1508E)

Date: 4/30/1948
Time: 18:08:59.0
Location: 11.61569 162.3194
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Yoke” Yield: 49KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_6

Extra Data: LatLong: "11.61569 162.3194", LatLongDMS: "11:36:56 N 162:19:10 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.06", NukeName: "Yoke", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "49"

Event 3619 (AEB9B813)

Date: 4/30/1948
Description: At 10:15 a.m. at the Anacostia Naval Air Station on the Potomac River in Washington, D. C. a yellow sphere was spotted moving from the south to north at a constant altitude, 1000 feet below an aircraft. It flew in the opposite direction of the wind, and crossed over the no-fly zone over the nation's Capitol.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich Jan, Project 1947 website, citing USAF Office of Defense Intelligence 1948
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2417

Event 3620 (62F46E28)

Date: 5/1948
Location: Oxford/Bicester, England
Description: 100' Oval with Three Bumps Tracked By Radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R)
Reference: NICAP: 480500
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_437

Event 3621 (70F97647)

Date: 5/1948
Description: An article on secret Skyhook balloons without mentioning the project name by Devon Francis is published in Popular Science.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Devon Francis, “New Balloons Explore Roof of the Airways,” Popular Science, May 1948, pp. 98–104
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1224

Event 3622 (75E53A0A)

Date: 5/5/1948
Location: Adapasari, Turkey
Description: [or Adapazari], Turkey (40°45' N, 30°23' E). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_438

Event 3623 (D9C59E91)

Date: 5/5/1948
Description: An Efficiency Rating report is written up for Alfred Loedding from Miles E. Goll, which mentions his work as a monitor for Project Sign.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Miles E. Goll, “Efficiency Rating of Mr. Alfred C. Loedding,” May 5, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1225

Event 3624 (C0256E55)

Date: 5/6/1948
Location: Wake Island (near), At Sea
Description: A ball of fire explode like a shell (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_439

Event 3625 (8E1C5440)

Date: 5/7/1948
Time: 02:00
Location: MEMPHIS, TN
Description: Blue Book and FBI document. 50+night lights / sharp turns / 3 hours. East going west. Not meteors / Astronomer.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 241)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1296

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "180", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "MEMPHIS,TN:BBK+FBI DOC:50+NLTS/SHARP TURNS/3hrs:E>W:NOT METEORS/Astronomer", LatLong: "35.150002 -90.050004", LatLongDMS: "35:09:00 N 90:03:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3626 (F9C60421)

Date: 5/7/1948
Location: Memphis, TN
Description: (35.14° N, 90.03° W) Bray and Kaiser (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480507
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_440

Event 3627 (1FB69003)

Date: 5/7/1948
Locations: 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee; Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Cincinnati Observatory, Ohio
Description: Afternoon. Mr. and Mrs . Fordyce J. Kaiser and their housekeeper Jean Bray, at 251 W. Waldorf Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, see 50–60 unusual objects, apparently moving very high and fast, traveling in straight lines with slight zigzagging. They are shiny like bright aluminum with silvery trails. Lt. Col. James C. Beam of Project Sign goes to investigate. On the way back, he consults with astronomer Paul Herget of the Cincinnati Observatory in Ohio, who thinks the objects are meteors and recommends Ohio State University astronomer J. Allen Hynek in Columbus as a project consultant. Loren E. Gross, [UFOs, a History: 1948](https://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1948.pdf), The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29; [Sparks](https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB%5FUnknowns.pdf), p. 34; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 \(2000: 41; Swords 55–56) May 12 — European Command HQ sends the director of intelligence at the US Forces in Austria a memo alleging that Walter Horten has admitted he has been in contact with the Russians.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1226

Event 3628 (B6FA5602)

Date: 5/7/1948
Description: At 3:45 p.m. several witnesses including Kaiser and Bray in Memphis, Tennessee saw 50 or more lights make sharp turns in the sky for three hours. They flew from east to west. Not meteors, according to astronomer.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Memphis Commercial Advertiser, May 8, 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1309, citing MUFON UFO Journal, issue # 241, citing FBI
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2612

Event 3629 (7DB644E7)

Date: 5/8/1948
Location: MIDDLEPORT, OH
Description: Several observer(s). Several glowing "clock faces" cross sky / 2 minute(s) intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: KLOIAN, Richard: UFO's in the New York TIMES, 1947-1987 1994 Document Research Services, Berkeley, CA (Index 7)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1297

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "175", HatchDesc: "MIDDLEPORT,OH:SVRL OBS:SVRL GLOWING "CLOCK FACES" CROSS SKY/2min INTERVALS", LatLong: "39.000002 -82.050004", LatLongDMS: "39:00:00 N 82:03:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3630 (74E88A47)

Date: 5/12/1948
Location: NEAR WESTFIELD, IN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #129. Private pilot. Small "Graf-Zeppelin" zooms away / jet-speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1298

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "283", HatchDesc: "nr WESTFIELD,IN:BBK#129:PVT PILOT:SMALL "GRAF-ZEPPELIN" ZOOMS AWAY/JET-SPEED", LatLong: "40.033335 -86.116671", LatLongDMS: "40:02:00 N 86:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3631 (57C0CBDA)

Date: 5/12/1948
Description: A private pilot flying over Westfield, Indiana reporting seeing a small "Graf-Zeppelin" that zoomed away at jet speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2753

Event 3632 (A7BA6174)

Date: 5/13/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude (Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_316
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 127.3m

Event 3633 (BFAC2606)

Date: 5/14/1948
Time: 18:04:00.0
Location: 11.5352 162.36063
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USA Name: “Zebra” Yield: 18KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_7

Extra Data: LatLong: "11.5352 162.36063", LatLongDMS: "11:32:07 N 162:21:38 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USA", NukeDepth: "-0.06", NukeName: "Zebra", NukeSource: "G+P", NukeType: "NACU", NukeY: "18"

Event 3634 (FFF67844)

Date: 5/14/1948
Description: Douglas Aircraft Company creates the RAND Corporation, a global think tank to offer research and analysis to the US military. It is financed by the US government, endowments, corporations, universities, and private individuals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “RAND Corporation”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1227

Event 3635 (27BE206D)

Date: 5/15/1948
Locations: Enewetak Atoll; Marshall Islands; Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: During the Zebra nuclear detonation at Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, a manned aircraft accidentally flies through the mushroom cloud. Because the pilot and crew “suffered no ill effects,” the Air Force decides that piloted aircraft could collect samples. The Los Alamos, New Mexico, personnel assigned to remove the filters from the B-17 drones have apparently carried out the same procedure on X-Ray and Yoke without problems, but this time three of them suffer radiation burns on their hands serious enough to be hospitalized and need skin grafting. One of the men who carries out the procedure for Yoke is then also found to have burns on his hands and is also hospitalized but is discharged on May 28. Once again, the drone tank gives trouble and bogs in the crater, but the soil samples are retrieved by the backup drone tank. Both tanks are subsequently dumped in the ocean.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Operation Sandstone”; Jacobsen, Area 51, p. 224
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1228

Event 3636 (6A5B4A33)

Date: 5/15/1948
Locations: Edwards AFB; California
Description: A piston-driven YB-35 flying wing bomber makes its first and only flight at Edwards AFB in California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-35”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1229

Event 3637 (F8FE9884)

Date: 5/17/1948
Locations: Plevna; Miles City, Montana
Description: Day. William A. Bonneville sees a bright white ball, three times as bright as a locomotive headlight, sail over the hills to the northwest between Plevna and Miles City, Montana. It moves south, then west, repeating these maneuvers for 20 minutes until it flies into a dark cloud. It is silent, and a long, bright light shoots out from beneath.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 41–44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1230

Event 3638 (2313B3D5)

Date: Late 5/1948
Locations: Oxford/Bicester area in England; RAF Acklington
Description: 11:40 a.m. Sgt. T. G. Jones and three other officers and two crew are aboard a York transport aircraft, accompanied by a formation of six Meteor jets, cruising at 10,000 feet above the Oxford/Bicester area in England, bound for RAF Acklington. Visiting US Maj. Robin Olds is in one of the jets. They encounter a 100-foot oval object with three bumps or protrusions on the bottom, as Jones describes it through binoculars. Ground radar tracks the object, which is stationary and above 25,000 feet. Two jets go up to try to get a better look and get within a few thousand feet. The object departs vertically at a speed of 1,500 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jenny Randles, UFO Conspiracy, Cassell, 1987, pp. 92–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1231

Event 3639 (DA97E3D6)

Date: 5/25/1948
Description: Jumping from a coal train at night in post-war Wesserbillig, Luxemborg 45-year-old Mr. Klotzbach suffered severe leg injuries and experienced a lot of bleeding. He fainted, but surprisingly when he woke up he found himself inside a UFO. The UFO occupants spoke to him in German. They shared with him some undisclosed messages, and he next experienced a further loss of time. He awoke again four days later in Luxemborg, legs fully healed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 59; Gordon Creighton, FSR, September-October 1969, p. 20; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0148
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3079

Event 3640 (E553857B)

Date: 5/27/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_317
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7

Event 3641 (E553857B)

Event 3642 (2394BFD3)

Date: 5/28/1948
Location: BERLIN, GERMANY
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Unidentified. USAF C-47 transport buzzed / 3 objects. Type unknown. No further details in available sources.
Type: sighting
Reference: LOFTIN, Robert: IDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS: D. McKay, NY 1968 (Index 155)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1299

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BERLIN,GERMANY:BBK#UNK:UID:USAF C-47 TRANSPORT BUZZED/3 OBJS:TYPE UNK:NFD.", LatLong: "52.516669 13.383334", LatLongDMS: "52:31:00 N 13:23:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3643 (71AA08A8)

Date: 5/28/1948
Location: Monroe, MI
Description: 3 objects seen - 300 to 400 feet in size, silvery-gold in color, and traveling at well over 500 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 480528
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_441

Event 3644 (E7A0788E)

Date: 5/28/1948
Location: Monroe, Michigan
Description: 3:00 p.m. USAF Reserve 1st Lt. Alexander Kokolonis is flying a C-47 at 6,000 feet six miles east of Monroe, Michigan, when he sees out of the navigator’s window three discs 2 miles to the left. He estimates they are 300– 400 feet in diameter, silvery-gold, and traveling well over 500 mph. They are seen for only 10–15 seconds. Shortly afterwards, Kokolonis sees two similar objects and he alerts M/Sgt Ernest Davis Jr., who also sees them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Air Force Transport Buzzed by 3 UFOs”; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1232

Event 3645 (B363D067)

Date: 5/31/1948
Location: WILMINGTON, NC
Description: 1 observer. Project Bluebook Case #129. Cylinder/cigar-shape / terrific speed. Smokes. Veers. Slows. Speeds going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1300

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "WILMINGTON,NC:1 OBS:BBK#129:CGR/TERRIFIC SPEED:SMOKES:VEERS:SLOWS:SPEEDS >>E", LatLong: "34.233335 -77.933337", LatLongDMS: "34:14:00 N 77:56:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3646 (57075610)

Date: 5/31/1948
Location: Wilmington, NC
Description: (34.23° N, 77.94° W). Alspach and Colvin (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_442

Event 3647 (13B31DFB)

Date: 5/31/1948
Locations: Wilmington, North Carolina; Cape Fear River
Description: 1:20 p.m. A cigar-shaped object moves through the sky from the northwest at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach, Mrs. Charles Colvin, and Mrs. Isabell Hufham see the object emit smoke. It appears about 3 feet long. It slows down over the Cape Fear River, veers off to the east, and then speeds away at a high altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Cigar Slows Down Then Speeds Up”; Sparks, p. 34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1233

Event 3648 (7315C574)

Date: 5/31/1948
Description: In 1948 at 1:20 in the afternoon, a cigar-shaped object moved through the sky at terrific speed over Wilmington, North Carolina. Mrs. H. D. Alspach reported that the object emitted smoke, appeared about three feet long, veered, slowed down, and then speed away toward the east at a high altitude.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Wilmington, North Carolina Morning Star, June 1, 1948; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 129
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3175

Event 3649 (3C42852A)

Date: 6/1948 (approximate)
Location: US
Description: “Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the crash retrieval program.
Type: historical event
Reference: Amazon
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_319

Event 3650 (2BB02B27)

Date: 6/1948
Time: 06:30
Location: SOUTHEAST / BERGERAC, FR
Description: 2 / yard. Luminous/glowing disk spins and going up. Stops. Going [to] turns horizontal follows river.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 95)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1301

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "SE/BERGERAC,FR:2/YARD:LUMN DISK SPINS+↑:STOPS:> TURNS HORIZONTAL folos river", LatLong: "44.750002 0.583333", LatLongDMS: "44:45:00 N 00:35:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Dordogne", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3651 (539BB9E0)

Date: 6/5/1948
Locations: Muroc; Edwards AFB; California; Forbes AFB; Topeka, Kansas
Description: A jet-propelled Northrop YB-49 crashes north of Muroc [now Edwards] AFB in California after completing a number of maximum forward center-of-gravity tests, killing its pilot, Maj. Daniel Forbes for whom Forbes AFB in Topeka, Kansas, is named, copilot Capt. Glen Edwards for whom Edwards AFB is named, and three other crew members. The aircraft suffers structural failure, with both outer wing sections becoming detached from the center section.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Northrop YB-49”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1236

Event 3652 (DFB754A4)

Date: 6/11/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude (Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_320
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 62.3

Event 3653 (1AC7FD18)

Date: 6/15/1948
Location: Miles City, MT
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of conventional aircraft
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good, p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_321

Event 3654 (C8EDF8BC)

Date: 6/16/1948 (approximate)
Location: LAKE BASKUNCHAK, RS
Description: Pilot Apraksin chases banana. Hit / cones / light. Crash lands. / r23.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 137)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1302

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "Lk.BASKUNCHAK,RS:PILOT APRAKSIN CHASES BANANA:HIT/CONES/LITE:CRASH LANDS:/r23", LatLong: "48.333336 46.666669", LatLongDMS: "48:20:00 N 46:40:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "AST", Strangeness: "9"

Event 3655 (FF79E6C6)

Date: 6/16/1948
Location: Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia
Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin is flying at an altitude of 6.5 miles above a solid layer of clouds south of the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. He sees an unconventional aircraft in the shape of a cucumber with cones of light radiating from it descending across his path. The base tells him it has tracked the object on radar and given it instructions to land, but it does not respond. Apraksin is ordered to intercept it and open fire if it refuses to land. When he closes to within 6 miles, the light beams open up like a fan and shine into his aircraft, blinding him. The plane’s electrical systems malfunction. He glides the plane to a safe landing after the UFO disappears. Apraksin is interrogated heavily.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, p. 221; Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February 1975, pp. 14–15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1237

Event 3656 (0929825B)

Date: 6/16/1948
Description: A banana or cucumber-shaped object with beams of light was tracked on radar when it descended across the course of Russian test pilot Aprasksin flying over the Kapustin Yar test flight facility in Astrakhan, Soviet Union. The experimental aircraft he was flying experienced a total electrical failure when it was hit by a cone of light, with the engine and controls failing. Although temporarily blinded, he was able to glide the plane to a landing.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, p. 124; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project, p. 004; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 137
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3510

Event 3657 (591ED556)

Date: 6/18/1948
Location: USSR
Description: The National Security Council issues Directive 10/2, calling for covert action against the USSR, and granting the authority to carry out covert operations against “hostile foreign states or groups” that could, if needed, be denied by the US government. To this end, the Office of Policy Coordination OPC is created inside the new CIA. Frank Wisner , the head of the OPC, answers not to the CIA director, but to the secretaries of defense, state, and the NSC, and the OPC’s actions are a secret even from the head of the CIA. Most CIA stations have two station chiefs, one working for the OSO, and one working for the OPC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Note on U.S. Covert Actions,” from Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XII, Western Europe, Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, US Department of State
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1238

Event 3658 (268FF329)

Date: 6/19/1948
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they could attract attention.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_322

Event 3659 (B419A9AE)

Date: 6/20/1948
Location: Belleville, IL
Description: Scott AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_446

Event 3660 (EC6B0155)

Date: Summer 1948
Location: Erie, PA
Description: Engineer saw elliptical UFO which flew horizontally, then ascended rapidly. [UFOE, VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_443

Event 3661 (47213479)

Date: Summer 1948
Location: Easton, PA
Description: Physicist watched 3 luminescent greenish discs cross sky. [UFOE,VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_444

Event 3662 (18C7E657)

Date: Summer 1948
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, CAN
Description: UFO tracked on radar at 9,000 m.p.h. [UFOE,VIII] (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 48Summer
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_445

Event 3663 (AE4731F2)

Date: Summer 1948
Locations: Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador; Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania
Description: USAF Maj. Edwin A. Jerome reports that a high-speed radar target appears during an inspection visit at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador. It is calculated at going 9,000 mph at an altitude of 60,000 feet. The commanders assume that the US equipment is faulty, but the Canadians have tracked the same target. The following day, an object hovers over the base at 45,000 feet and moving only 10 mph. NICAP, “[Edwin](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm) [Jerome Radar Case](http://www.nicap.org/48XXXXgoosedir.htm)”; UFOEv, [pp. 83–84](https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015006091691&view=1up&seq=95&skin=2021); Yurko Bondarchuk, UFO Sightings, Landings, and Abductions, Methuen, 1979, pp. 151–152; Chris Rutkowski and Geoff Dittman, The Canadian UFO Report, Dundurn Press, 2006, pp. 51–52; Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs: Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 264 Summer [possibly 1958] — Early afternoon. Aircraft instrumentation engineer Victor G. Didelot watches an elliptical UFO moving rapidly west to east roughly parallel to the shoreline of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It suddenly and silently ascends vertically at three times its horizontal speed and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, pp. 55–56
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1234

Event 3664 (5CA3913C)

Date: Summer 1948
Location: Easton, Pennsylvania
Description: Physicist Carl A. Mitchell sees three luminescent greenish discs, one second apart, passing across the sky above Easton, Pennsylvania, from north to south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1235

Event 3665 (BEE508C3)

Date: 6/29/1948
Time: 23:00
Location: UNIONTOWN, PA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #164. Several observer(s). 3 silent luminous saucers southwest going quickly northeast / sequence. 1K' altitude. / MJ#242.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 33)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1303

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "11", Elev: "298", HatchDesc: "UNIONTOWN,PA:BBK#164:SVRL OBS:3 SLNT LUM.SCRS SW>>NE/SEQUENCE:1K'alt:/MJ#242", LatLong: "39.900002 -79.716670", LatLongDMS: "39:54:00 N 79:43:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3666 (36F60D9D)

Date: 6/29/1948
Location: W. Uniontown, PA
Description: An oval luminous object "rolling" vertically on its edge (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480629
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_447

Event 3667 (C82A15CA)

Date: 6/29/1948
Locations: Norway; Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB
Description: ATIC’s chief of operations, C. A. Griffith, writes to a military representative in Norway to send all UFO reports to Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1948 , The Author, 1988, pp. 32–33
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1239

Event 3668 (F4FCD184)

Date: 6/30/1948
Location: Knoxville, TN
Description: (35.98* N, 83.92° W) Whitehouse (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_448

Event 3669 (B9C54106)

Date: 6/30/1948
Location: Hecla, SD
Description: Pfutzenreuter. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_449

Event 3670 (26D399B8)

Date: 6/30/1948
Location: Hecla, South Dakota
Description: A couple are driving near Hecla, South Dakota, when they see an unusual star. They stop the car and get out, but it is not moving. They drive on and stop again. A few pieces break off the original star and arrange themselves in a triangle formation. They all now look like polished aluminum; they rise to a great height and vanish.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 45–46; Sparks, p. 35; Swords 57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1240

Event 3671 (FF2D2798)

Date: 7/1948
Location: PASCO, WA
Description: Near nuclear facility. Private pilot. Black saucer dives. Climbs away fast. / MJ#205 p12.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1304

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "125", HatchDesc: "PASCO,WA:nr NUCL FCLTY:PVT PILOT:BLK SCR DIVES:CLIMBS AWAY FAST:/MJ#205 p12", LatLong: "46.227780 -119.100006", LatLongDMS: "46:13:40 N 119:06:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3672 (2B9AB1F5)

Date: 7/1948?
Location: SWASTIKA, ONT
Description: Saucer lands. Entity takes vegetation samples. Force field pushes observer(s) to ground.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS & CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1305

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "298", HatchDesc: "SWASTIKA,ONT:SCR LANDS:ENTITY TAKES VEG SAMPLES:FORCE FIELD PUSHES OBS TO GND", LatLong: "48.122225 -80.088893", LatLongDMS: "48:07:20 N 80:05:20 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "10"

Event 3673 (4E725954)

Date: 7/1948
Location: Pasco, WA
Description: Pilot reports domed disc near AEC area (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 480700
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_450

Event 3674 (6E6952F3)

Date: 7/1948
Time: Shortly after sunset
Location: vicinity of Marion, Virginia
Description: Or August, 1948. Witness: Max Abbott, flying a Bellanca Cruisair four-passenger private airplane. A single bright white light accelerated and turned up a valley.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_13

Event 3675 (CDFB0871)

Date: 7/1948
Location: Pasco, Washington
Description: 1:00 p.m. Former Air Force pilot Don Newman and three friends watch a disc-shaped, domed UFO, about 100 feet in diameter, maneuvering over Pasco, Washington. “The exterior finish appears to be spun or burnished aluminum.” The object slows, then accelerates rapidly, dives, and climbs over the area.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p. 38; NICAP, “Summary of letter from Witness to Major Keyhoe, dated March 10, 1958”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1241

Event 3676 (794BC9E9)

Date: 7/1/1948
Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer, Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph. Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of sight
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_323

Event 3677 (A883FEF8)

Date: 7/1/1948
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #152. 20' saucer / 7' dome seen. No further details. See reference drawing / Loren Gross.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 49)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1306

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:BBK#152:20'SCR/7'DOME SEEN:NFD:see ref.drawing/LOREN GROSS", LatLong: "39.766669 -86.166671", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 86:10:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3678 (E8219059)

Date: 7/1/1948
Location: Rapid City AFB [now Ellsworth AFB], South Dakota
Description: A Maj. Hammer is flying above Rapid City AFB [now Ellsworth AFB], South Dakota, when he sees 21 brilliant, yellow-white, oval-shaped objects. They are about 100 feet in diameter and flying in a tight diamond formation. They make a high-speed dive, level, make a perfect turn in formation, angle upwards at 30°–40°, and accelerate out of sight. He estimates their cruising speed at 500 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 57–58; Sparks, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1242

Event 3679 (89F3729E)

Date: 7/4/1948
Location: LONGMONT, CO
Description: Revolving silver saucer soars upward / terrific speed. No further details. / r78p155.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 130)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1307

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1506", HatchDesc: "LONGMONT,CO:REVOLVING SLVR SCR SOARS UPWARD/TERRIFIC SPEED:NFD:/r78p155", LatLong: "40.166669 -105.100005", LatLongDMS: "40:10:00 N 105:06:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3680 (6DB447A8)

Date: 7/4/1948
Location: Dravesburg, PA
Description: Jannicky. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_451

Event 3681 (B453CA6F)

Date: 7/4/1948
Location: Nr. Longmont, CO
Description: Revolving silver circular object soared upward at ''terrific speed." [UFOE, XII] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_452

Event 3682 (EB44DB26)

Date: 7/4/1948
Locations: Johnson Park; Camden, New Jersey; Cooper Free Public Library
Description: Day. Edward E. Thompson watches a brilliant spherical UFO for five minutes while sitting in Johnson Park in Camden, New Jersey, across from the Cooper Free Public Library.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report from the Readers,” Fate 1, no. 4 Winter 1949: 93–94
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1243

Event 3683 (A3D4B79A)

Date: 7/7/1948
Locations: 30 miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas; San Antonio, Texas
Description: A silver, disc-shaped object allegedly crashes some 30 miles south-southwest of Laredo, Texas. US servicemen are reportedly dispatched from a nearby military base to cordon off the UFO crash site until a special US retrieval team arrives to examine the wreckage and carry it away to a military base in San Antonio, Texas. Supposedly the badly burned body of a nonhuman entity is recovered from the crash site. Ufologist Leonard Stringfield hears rumors of the crash in 1977, but few further details emerge. Early in 1978, Stringfield describes the humanoid found at the crash site as “about 4 feet, 6 inches tall, completely hairless, with hands that had no thumbs.” That description seems to fit the body shown in two photographs that are mailed to Willard F. McIntyre in December 1978. The body depicted in the photos sent to McIntyre has come to be known as the “Tomato Man” due to its large, roundish head. Many UFO researchers, including Ron Schaffner and Kevin Randle, believe the body is that of a human pilot who is badly disfigured by intense heat following a plane crash. They argue that one of the photos shows a pair of eyeglasses, such as a human pilot would wear, near the body.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: William S. Steinman and Wendelle C. Stevens, UFO Crash at Aztec, UFO Photo Archives, 1986, pp. 402–422; Kevin D. Randle, A History of UFO Crashes, Avon, 1995, p. 188; Good Above, pp. 397–398; “Laredo 1948,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, March 8, 2009; Noe Torres and Ruben Uriarte, The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas– Mexico Border, Roswell Books, 2008
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1244

Event 3684 (6AF1DD16)

Date: 7/8/1948
Location: McKeesport, PA
Description: Veway and Geltz. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_453

Event 3685 (DE5290B9)

Date: 7/9/1948
Location: Fielding Lake, WA
Description: Caramia. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_454

Event 3686 (655F4255)

Date: 7/9/1948
Location: Unknown City, AK
Description: Two Air Force officers reported approximately 20 discs or spheres milling around in formation and making a jet-like sound. (Fund Report * C-7; 2 pp.) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_455

Event 3687 (5FBEF3C4)

Date: 7/9/1948
Location: Osborn, OH
Description: Luminous yellowish-white object traveling E to W (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_456

Event 3688 (A01D079A)

Date: 7/9/1948
Locations: Fielding Lake, Alaska; West-Northwest; East-Southeast
Description: Caramia and Carpenter, two officers of the USAF 72nd Reconnaissance Group, are fishing at Fielding Lake, Alaska, when they hear a loud roar and notice about 20 gray discs or spheres moving at 500 mph in loose formation from west-northwest to east-southeast at about 5,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Barry Greenwood, “The Estimate of the Situation: Well, Not Exactly!” UFO Historical Revue, no. 16 July 2015: 5–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1245

Event 3689 (69ECC8E3)

Date: 7/9/1948
Location: Osborn, Ohio
Description: 9:47 p.m. While on the ground in Osborn, Ohio, the USAF Project Sign officer who had flown to investigate the Hecla case, sees a self-luminous, yellow-white object flying at 500–600 mph. It seems to pulse its lights at 3- second intervals as it moves away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 58; Sparks , p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1246

Event 3690 (78869F87)

Date: 7/10/1948
Location: STA.MARIA AIRPORT/APARTMENT, AZORES
Description: Numerous observer(s). White cylinder/cylindrical object maneuvers / 12km altitude / 45 minute(s). All clocks stop!
Type: sighting
Reference: GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES, Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN 2-250-00464-1 (Index 101)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1308

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "10", Duration: "45", HatchDesc: "Sta.MARIA Apt.,AZORES:NMRS OBS:WHT CYL MNVRS/12km alt/45min:ALL CLOCKS STOP!", LatLong: "37.083335 -25.116668", LatLongDMS: "37:05:00 N 25:07:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Azores", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3691 (27C8C3B1)

Date: 7/11/1948
Description: Burlington, Vermont -- A fresh wave of UFO reports started Sunday, July 11, 1948 when Robert H. Streeten of West Bolton, Vermont notified authorities that he had sighted a "flying saucer" at 4:40 p.m. Three hours later Mrs. Ralph Holmes, wife of a University of Vermont physics professor, said she observed a fiery object whizzing through the sky. Miss Alice Giroux, a University of Vermont coed, and Miss Irene Audette of Hartford, Connecticut, a visiting skier, both reported seeing a flying saucer. One Vermonter, Dr. C. H. Vaughn of Burlington, said he saw a bluish-white flying saucer land in Massachusetts between Concord and Lexington. He was driving his car when he saw the object. Altogether, 20 people reported sighting flying saucers--round ones, square ones, and a few with handsome flue tails--in Chittenden and Franklin Counties.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, July 14, 1948.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3990

Event 3692 (E1C25300)

Date: 7/14/1948
Location: Boise, Idaho
Description: Day. Charles W. Shangle Jr. watches two groups of about 16 UFOs maneuvering at 300–600 mph over Boise, Idaho. Two of the objects exhibit a “falling leaf” motion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 2, no. 1 May 1949: 75–79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1247

Event 3693 (9DB9D40B)

Date: 7/15/1948?
Time: 21:30
Location: NEAR ALAJARVI, FINL
Description: Army Major and 1. Large silent glowing metallic cylinder/cigar-shape west going quickly east. No wings etc.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1309

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr ALAJARVI,FINL:ARMY MAJOR+1:LRG SLNT GLOWING MTLC CGR W>>E:NO WINGS etc", LatLong: "63.000003 23.833334", LatLongDMS: "63:00:00 N 23:50:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Finland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3694 (BF0A652E)

Date: 7/15/1948
Description: An Army Major and a second witness reported seeing a large, silent, glowing metallic cigar-shaped object that flew from west to east over Alajarvi, Finland. The craft had no wings.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1322, citing Awareness, 1976
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4065

Event 3695 (AD6DF743)

Date: 7/17/1948
Location: Kirtland Air Force Base
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O” after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_324

Event 3696 (2277D3D5)

Date: 7/17/1948
Time: 16:50
Location: SOUTH / SAN ACACIA DAM, NM
Description: 2 / USAF. Several round objects going quickly north / 20K' altitude. Shift position. 1500MPH.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 251)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1310

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1420", HatchDesc: "S/SAN ACACIA DAM,NM:2/USAF:SVRL RND OBJS >>N/20K'alt:SHIFT POSITION:1500MPH", LatLong: "34.200002 -106.916672", LatLongDMS: "34:12:00 N 106:55:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3697 (0978DD70)

Date: 7/17/1948
Location: San Acacia Dam, NM
Description: Group of 7 aluminum circular possibly spherical objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 480717
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_457

Event 3698 (A86200A6)

Date: 7/17/1948
Locations: Kirtland AFB; San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico
Description: 4:50 p.m. Two Kirtland AFB sergeants on a fishing trip with their families five miles south of San Acacia Diversion Dam, New Mexico, see a group of 7 aluminum-like, spherical objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They first appear like snub-nosed jet fighters of an unknown type, shifting from V -ormation to L-formation to circular formation to no regular formation. A regular pulsating flashing light appears in the group at 30° from zenith to the north, and at this oblique angle the objects do not appear circular. There is no noise or trail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Two Military Families Report Seven Objects”; Swords 58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1248

Event 3699 (0BC09787)

Date: 7/17/1948
Description: At 4:50 p.m. two Kirtland Air Force Base Sergeants on a fishing trip with their families to San Acacia Dam, New Mexico saw a group of seven aluminum circular, possibly spherical, objects approach from the south at 20,000 feet and pass overhead at 1,500 mph. They shifted from a V formation to an L formation, and then to a circular formation and finally to no regular formation, at which point a regular pulsating flashing light appeared amidst the group at 30° from zenith to the north. At this oblique angle the objects no longer appeared circular. They made no noise nor did they leave a trail.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 146; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 53
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4116

Event 3700 (67CE637C)

Date: 7/20/1948
Location: Netherlands
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_325
See also: 7/25/1948

Event 3701 (E66FEB68)

Date: 7/20/1948
Time: 13:30
Location: ARNHEM, NETH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #168. 2 observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape west 2 rows / windows. Seen 4 times. Very fast. / r120p476.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLAMMONDE, Paris: UFO EXIST!; Ballentine Books, NY 1976. PB 480pp. (Index 249)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1311

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Belgium, Netherlandsand Luxembourg", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ARNHEM,NETH:BBK#168:2 OBS:CGR W 2 ROWS/WINDOWS:SEEN 4 TIMES:VFAST:/r120p476", LatLong: "52.000002 5.916667", LatLongDMS: "52:00:00 N 05:55:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Netherlands", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3702 (D547E000)

Date: 7/20/1948
Location: Arnhem, Netherlands
Description: Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported having seen a huge flying craft similar to a V2 pass their aircraft in flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_458

Event 3703 (7F1D8402)

Date: 7/20/1948
Locations: The Netherlands; The Hague; Arnhem
Description: The Netherlands government reports that a wingless, cigar-shaped object with two decks of windows is seen flying rapidly on four separate occasions by two Dutch citizens over The Hague and/or Arnhem.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “High V-2-Like Craft Observed”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1948, The Author, 1988, p. 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1249

Event 3704 (26890A3D)

Date: 7/20/1948
Description: A cigar-shaped object with two rows of windows was seen four times in Arnhem, Holland around 1:30 in the afternoon. It moved through the sky very fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1948; Paris Flammonde, UFO Exist! p. 249
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4221

Event 3705 (6355A7DE)

Date: 7/21/1948
Location: Van Nuys, CA
Description: (34.18° N, 118.45° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_459

Event 3706 (80DC7FE4)

Date: 7/21/1948
Description: The USAF Research and Development division sends a formal letter to the RAND Corporation authorizing them to select scientists to evaluate the possibility that the flying discs might be human-built spaceships. RAND’s reply is not known.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1250

Event 3707 (5A3290BA)

Date: 7/24/1948
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_96

Event 3708 (8C44B19C)

Date: 7/24/1948
Location: Montgomery, Alabama
Description: Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July 24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed to have observed a "glowing object" pass by their plane before it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed before it pulled "up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds." They observed the object for a total of ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object "looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_326

Event 3709 (A2BC1AEF)

Date: 7/24/1948
Time: 01:40
Location: ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #165. 1 military observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape with jet / rear. Weird glowing. North going quickly south / 700mph. / MJ#243.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1312

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "ROBINS AFB,GA:BBK#165:1 MIL OBS:CGR W/JET/REAR:WEIRD GLO:N>>S/700mph:/MJ#243", LatLong: "32.633335 -83.616671", LatLongDMS: "32:38:00 N 83:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3710 (4EF32DD3)

Date: 7/24/1948
Time: 02:20
Location: BLACKSTONE, VA
Description: Pilot. Glowing cylindrical object leaves (something behind) trail. Terrific speed going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: EMENEGGER, Robert: UFO'S PAST PRESENT & FUTURE; Ballentine Books 1974. (Index 39)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1313

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "130", HatchDesc: "BLACKSTONE,VA:PILOT:GLOWING CYLINDRICAL OBJ LVS TRAIL:TERRIFIC SPEED >>SW", LatLong: "37.077780 -78.000004", LatLongDMS: "37:04:40 N 78:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3711 (D489984E)

Date: 7/24/1948
Time: 03:40
Location: SOUTHWEST / MONTGOMERY, AL
Description: Chiles and Whitted. Jet-cylinder/cigar-shape. Rows / windows. Close and silent. Going quickly southwest. / r29p40.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1314

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "SW/MONTGOMERY,AL:CHILES+WHITTED:JET-CGR:ROWS/WINDOWS:CLOSE+SLNT:>>SW:/r29p40", LatLong: "32.100002 -86.583337", LatLongDMS: "32:06:00 N 86:35:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3712 (6450958A)

Date: 7/24/1948
Time: 20:00
Location: RAYNE, LA
Description: Teacher and 1. Wingless box with windows goes east going west. / letter to Bluebook.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1315

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "RAYNE,LA:TEACHER+1:WINGLESS BOX W/WINDOWS GOES E>W:/LETTER to BLUEBOOK", LatLong: "30.233335 -92.316671", LatLongDMS: "30:14:00 N 92:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3713 (AC4253F0)

Date: 7/24/1948
Location: btn Blackstone, Va and Greensboro, N.C., Various
Description: Aircraft observed what they thought was an unusual meteor traveling in a southerly direction (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 480724
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_460

Event 3714 (364269B2)

Date: 7/24/1948
Location: Altoona, PA
Description: Griebel. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_461

Event 3715 (D999257E)

Date: 7/24/1948
Location: Robbins AFB, GA
Description: Massey, a member of civilian alert, observed a squash-shaped object with flaming exhaust (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 480724
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_462

Event 3716 (CCEEEDB1)

Date: 7/24/1948
Location: Montgomery (near), AL
Description: Chiles/Whitted Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480724
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_463

Event 3717 (A19014E6)

Date: 7/24/1948
Locations: Robins AFB; Houston County, Georgia
Description: 1:45 a.m. A bright object is seen at Robins AFB in Houston County, Georgia, by ground maintenance crewman Walter Massey, who sees a “stream of fire” in the north. As it moves overhead, it seems more cylindrical. It moves off to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “July 24, 1948, 0250E, Warner Robins AFB, Georgia”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1251

Event 3718 (70A3446B)

Date: 7/24/1948
Locations: Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio
Description: 2:45 a.m. Capt. Clarence S. Chiles and copilot John B. Whitted are flying an Eastern Airlines DC-3 at 5,000 feet, 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama, when they see an object about 100 feet long moving rapidly toward them on their right. Torpedo-shaped and wingless, the object has flames jetting 50 feet from its rear. There are two rows of square windows through which a bright light is glowing. They only see it for 5–10 seconds. It is half a mile away and moving at about 700 mph. After it passes the plane it swoops into a cloud bank at 6,000 feet. One passenger, Clarence L. McKelvie of Columbus, Ohio, also sees it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter”; NICAP, “Chiles-Whitted Case”; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, Palmer, 1952, pp. 90–91; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 42–43; Clark III 234–236; UFOEv, p. 48; Sparks, p. 36; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 46–47; Swords 58–60; Good Above, pp. 264 , 479; Joel Carpenter, “Watershed: The Chiles-Whitted ‘Rocketship’ Sighting,” 2002; Martin Shough, “Analysis of the Chiles-Whitted Sightings, July 24, 1948,” February 2011; Kevin D. Randle, “Chiles/Whitted and Skepticism,” A Different Perspective, January 21, 2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1252

Event 3719 (3F02C036)

Date: 7/24/1948
Description: At 2:45 a.m. the captain and co-pilot of an Eastern Airlines DC-3, Chiles and Whitted, while flying over Montgomery, Alabama reported seeing a torpedo-shaped UFO with two rows of lighted windows and a red exhaust. It buzzed them head on, veered to the right, and then shot straight up.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -Serious Business, p. 90; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 44; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr. and Harold Dennault, Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, p. 164
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4341

Event 3720 (B4652449)

Date: 7/25/1948
Location: US
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description: Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a V-2.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_327
See also: 7/20/1948
See also: 8/3/1948
See also: 1/31/1950

Event 3721 (7EA7F2D1)

Date: 7/25/1948
Location: Yakima, WA
Description: At 2:00 P.M. and at 4:20 P.M., a silvery moon-sized flying blob was seen by hundreds of witnesses over the city of Yakima. Hundreds of calls flooded into the CAA office concernig the flying object. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 480725
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_464

Event 3722 (226A810C)

Date: 7/25/1948
Locations: Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia
Description: Chief of Air Force Intelligence Gen. Charles Cabell phones McCoy’s office at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. Sign is ordered to get into the field immediately and investigate the Chiles-Whitted case. By that afternoon, Loedding , Deyarmond , and Llewellyn now apparently director of Project Sign are flown by Capt. Clarence Groseclose to Atlanta, Georgia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 13; Swords 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1253

Event 3723 (68A720A6)

Date: 7/26/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude (Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll began at 70s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_328
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 86.9

Event 3724 (BE7F515E)

Date: 7/26/1948
Time: 21:00
Location: CHAMBLEE AND AUGUSTA, GA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #165. 6 observer(s). Football glows bobs weaves and maneuvers going quickly south. 5K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 43)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1316

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "9", Elev: "305", HatchDesc: "CHAMBLEE+AUGUSTA,GA:BBK#165:6 OBS:FOOTBALL GLOWS BOBS WEAVES+MNVRS >>S:5K'alt", LatLong: "33.894446 -84.300004", LatLongDMS: "33:53:40 N 84:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3725 (88C33E5C)

Date: 7/26/1948
Location: Chamblee, GA
Description: Green light with a silver tail about the size of a football (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480726
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_465

Event 3726 (2F618B03)

Date: 7/26/1948
Location: Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia
Description: Loedding , Deyarmond , and Llewellyn interview Chiles and Whitted in the Henry Grady Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia. They are impressed with their account. Mulling the case through September, Project Sign is disturbed even more than the Mantell incident, according to Ruppelt . Capt. Sneider considers the shape aerodynamically feasible; consultant J. Allen Hynek says it might be a fireball but considers that “far-fetched.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 60
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1254

Event 3727 (526B0F28)

Date: 7/26/1948
Description: Aeronautical engineer Molt Taylor speculates to the Associated Press that “If we can build such craft, what is to prevent others from doing so, assuming that a similar order of intelligence exists on other planets? You and I may see the day when we will be united with Russia defending this planet against attack from space.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “It May Be Men from Mars, Expert Says of ‘Saucers,’” San Francisco Examiner, July 28, 1948, p. 32; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1948, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1255

Event 3728 (0FE01EC9)

Date: 7/26/1948
Description: Six people in Chamblee, Georgia briefly saw a luminous football-shaped UFO that glowed, bobbed, weaved, and maneuvered over the town at 9:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly toward the south at an estimated 5,000 feet altitude. The Air Force explanation was that they saw a meteor.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #00165; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 43
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4406

Event 3729 (912D358C)

Date: 7/27/1948
Time: 08:40
Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Description: Scientist / university of NM. Flat metallic disk motionless in sky. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1317

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "1490", HatchDesc: "ALBUQQ,NM:SCIENTIST/Univ.of NM:FLAT MTLC DISK MOTIONLESS IN SKY:NFD", LatLong: "35.066668 -106.666672", LatLongDMS: "35:04:00 N 106:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3730 (2663A903)

Date: 7/27/1948
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 3: 08:33-08:45 - Flat, round obj reflecting light, stationary at times (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_466

Event 3731 (425A3F9F)

Date: 7/27/1948
Description: Air Intelligence Memorandum on “Pattern of Flying Saucers” requires that a study be made by the Air Intelligence Division to examine the pattern of tactics of reported UFOs and develop conclusions as to their probability. This leads to the EEI “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States” 100-203-79 of December 10. The JIC report gives the incorrect date as August 6.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. Brooke E. Allen, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.,” October 11, 1948; “Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949, p. 2; Jan L. Aldrich, “New Top Secret Document Revealed,” Project 1947
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1256

Event 3732 (C9DB191D)

Date: 7/27/1948
Description: At 8:35 a.m. a University of New Mexico scientist in Albuquerque, New Mexico saw a flat metallic disc-shaped object that hung motionless in the sky for ten minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4423

Event 3733 (8E710C59)

Date: 7/29/1948
Time: 09:50
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: Blue Book. 2 observer(s). 8' metal propeller shape going [to] 30' altitude into woods. Dwg / r48p40.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 1)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1318

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:BBK:2 OBS:8'MTL PROPELLER SHAPE>30'alt INTO WOODS:dwg/r48p40", LatLong: "39.766669 -86.133337", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 86:08:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "9", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3734 (6A968226)

Date: 7/29/1948
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Description: Shiny propeller-shaped aluminum object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 185)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_467

Event 3735 (3C853B1E)

Date: 7/29/1948
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: An object swept over a road at 10 m altitude.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_65

Event 3736 (C2AAA4E5)

Date: 7/29/1948
Time: 9:55 AM
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: Witnesses: James Toney, Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm. One shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade. Estimated size 6-8' long, 1.5-2' wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently went down in a wooded area. Sighting lasted a few seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_11

Event 3737 (37714514)

Date: 7/29/1948
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: 9:18 a.m. James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of an Indianapolis, Indiana, rug cleaning firm, are in a truck headed west when they see a shiny, propeller-shaped, aluminum object with 10–12 small cups protruding from either blade. It is 6–8 feet long and flying silently above the trees at 30 feet altitude some 300 feet away heading south. It approaches to about 100 feet at its closest. The object glides across the road at 25–30 mph in a slight descent then makes a 20° bank to the east and goes down in a wooded area. Toney and Huggins stop the truck and get out to look, but the object has disappeared behind trees. A later search finds no traces.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Close Encounter with ‘Propeller-Shaped’ Object”; Sparks, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1257

Event 3738 (E5747422)

Date: 7/29/1948
Description: James Toney and Robert Huggins, both employees of a rug cleaning firm in Indianapolis, Indiana saw a shiny aluminum object, shaped something like an airplane's propeller, with 10-12 small cups protruding from either blade, at 9:38 a.m. Its estimated size was 6-8 feet long and 1.5-2 feet wide. The object glided across the road a few hundred feet in front of their vehicle and apparently came down in a wooded area. The sighting lasted a few seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case no. 185; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4470

Event 3739 (01011C1D)

Date: 7/31/1948
Location: COLUMBUS, OH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Unidentified. 1+2 separate observer(s). 30' saucer with transparent center. Slow and silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 98)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1319

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "240", HatchDesc: "COLUMBUS,OH:BBK#UNK:UID:1+2 SEP.OBS:30' SCR W/TRANSPARENT CENTER:SLOW+SLNT:", LatLong: "40.000002 -83.000004", LatLongDMS: "40:00:00 N 83:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3740 (8FC9DF2F)

Date: 7/31/1948
Time: 08:30
Location: INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Description: 2 / home. 20' domed cymbal-saucer. Going quickly east to horizon / 10 second(s). Shimmers. / r185p1.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1320

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "215", HatchDesc: "INDIANAPOLIS,IN:2/HOME:20'DOMED CYMBAL-SCR:>>E to HRZN/10sec:SHIMMERS:/r185p1", LatLong: "39.750002 -86.133337", LatLongDMS: "39:45:00 N 86:08:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3741 (B7146793)

Date: 7/31/1948
Location: Indianapolis (central), IN
Description: Cymbal shaped or domed disc object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 190)
Reference: NICAP: 480731
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_468

Event 3742 (46FA1FB6)

Date: 7/31/1948
Location: Marion, VA
Description: Light Spotted By Pilot (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 191)
Reference: NICAP: 480731
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_469

Event 3743 (32D5F1D0)

Date: 7/31/1948
Time: 8:25 AM
Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert; he was an electrician. Object was shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20' across and 6-8' thick, and was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_12

Event 3744 (21EC76DF)

Date: 7/31/1948
Location: south-central Indianapolis, Indiana
Description: 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert of south-central Indianapolis, Indiana, see a cymbal-shaped or domed- disc object to the west of their home. It is about 20 feet across, 6–8 feet thick, white without any shine but shadowing on upper right. It flies straight and level from horizon to horizon, west to east heading 90°. They estimate its altitude as 2,000 feet covering a distance of 5 miles in 10 seconds. It shimmers in the sun as if spinning, is silent, and has no trail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Cymbal-Shaped Object Observed by Couple”; Sparks, p. 37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1258

Event 3745 (25FD6A63)

Date: 7/31/1948
Description: In Indianapolis, Indiana at 8:25 a.m. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Swigert sighted a UFO shaped like a cymbal, or domed disc; about 20 feet in diameter and 6-8 feet thick. It was white without any shine. It flew straight and level from horizon to horizon in about 10 seconds, shimmering in the sun as if spinning.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: NICAP UFO Investigator, January 1958, p. 24; UNICAT, case # 632, citing Project Blue Book Special Report # 14, p. 84; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4518

Event 3746 (0285C28B)

Date: 7/31/1948
Description: On that evening a 30-foot in diameter disc-shaped object with a transparent center flew slowly and silently over Columbus, Ohio. There were separate, independent witnesses, including one named Geshorn.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 98
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4519

Event 3747 (29CF27FA)

Date: 8/1948
Location: HONG KONG TO/FROM SAIGON
Description: All / airliner. Huge metallic cylinder/cigar-shape going south. 90° turn into clouds. / r2p75.
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index 57)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1321

Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "HONG KONG><SAIGON:ALL/AIRLINER:HUGE MTLC CGR >S:90°TURN into CLOUDS:/r2p75", LatLong: "16.000001 112.000005", LatLongDMS: "16:00:00 N 112:00:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SCS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3748 (DCEBCD41)

Date: 8/1948 (approximate)
Time: 06:00
Location: SR22 AT SR59, IL
Description: 2 truckers. 12M ovoid lands. 1M windows. Glow and sparkle. Going southeast going [to] Chicago.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 247)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1322

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "255", HatchDesc: "SR22 @ SR59,IL:2 TRUCKERS:12M OVOID LANDS:1M WINDOWS:GLOW+SPARKLE:>SE>CHICAGO", LatLong: "42.200002 -88.150004", LatLongDMS: "42:12:00 N 88:09:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3749 (7314973D)

Date: 8/1948 (approximate)
Time: 18:30
Location: MARTIGUES, FR
Description: Numerous observer(s). Luminous cylinder/cigar-shape. Lights flash / sides. Stops. Going quickly southeast fast. / police inv.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Personal investigation by Dominique Weinstein. Filed here as Martigues48.txt
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1323

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "MARTIGUES,FR:NMRS OBS:LUMn.CGR:LITES FLASH/SIDES:STOPS:>>SE FAST:/police inv.", LatLong: "43.400002 5.050000", LatLongDMS: "43:24:00 N 05:03:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bouches-du-Rhône", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3750 (6B419CAC)

Date: 8/1/1948 (approximate)
Time: 12:00?
Location: CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, LUZON, PHL
Description: Wingless cylinder/cigar-shape with row of lights. Wave all over/all about southeast Asia to Saigon.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1324

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "Philippines", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "CLARK AFB,LUZON,PHL:WINGLESS CGR w/ROW of LITES::WAVE ALLO SE ASIA to SAIGON", LatLong: "15.033334 120.127784", LatLongDMS: "15:02:00 N 120:07:40 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3751 (724BA045)

Date: 8/1/1948
Description: On this morning everyone on a Air France airliner flying over the South China Sea from Hong Kong to Saigon, Vietnam saw a huge metallic cigar-shaped object flying south, and then make a 90-degree turn into the clouds. Later that day at Clark Field in the Philippines American military observers also sighted a wingless cigar-shaped object with a row of lights.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 54; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers are Real, p. 72
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4555

Event 3752 (7F9E2131)

Date: 8/2/1948
Location: Columbus, OH
Description: (39.98° N, 82.99° W). Saunders (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_470

Event 3753 (9F7EC2C9)

Date: 8/3/1948
Location: Moscow
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_329
See also: 7/25/1948

Event 3754 (98A49CFB)

Date: 8/3/1948
Time: ~08:00
Location: 25KM NORTHWEST / MOSCOW, RS
Description: 2 observer(s). Long silent metal cylinder/cylindrical object going quickly northeast. No wings. Very high and very fast. / Blue Book file.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 48)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1325

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "25km NW/MOSCOW,RS:2 OBS:LONG SILENT MTL CYL>>NE:NO WINGS:VHIGH+VFAST:/BBK FILE", LatLong: "55.916669 37.416668", LatLongDMS: "55:55:00 N 37:25:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MSC", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3755 (42C99969)

Date: 8/3/1948
Location: Moscow, USSR
Description: (55°45' N, 37°42' E). (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_471

Event 3756 (6AEA787A)

Date: 8/3/1948
Description: At 8 a.m. a long metallic cylinder with no wings flew at a very high altitude and was seen in the skies 25 kilometers northwest of Moscow in Russia. It moved silently and very fast towards the northeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book, August 1948; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1338, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 48
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4622

Event 3757 (5EFD348E)

Date: 8/4/1948
Location: North Powder, OR
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_472

Event 3758 (982A6601)

Date: 8/5/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_330
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.7km

Event 3759 (AB14E6B0)

Date: 8/5/1948
Description: This date given by Edward Ruppelt for the lost “Estimate of the Situation,” in which Project Sign concludes that UFOs are interplanetary, is probably too early. See September 30.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1259

Event 3760 (B117A94C)

Date: 8/11/1948
Time: 12:00
Location: HAMEL, MN
Description: 2 boys. 2' saucer lands. Going up [to] and maneuvers. Going quickly northwest. Dent / dirt. FBI soil test nil. / MJ#244.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 66)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1326

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "272", HatchDesc: "HAMEL,MN:2 BOYS:2'SCR LANDS:↑+MNVRS:>>NW:DENT/DIRT:FBI SOIL TEST NIL:/MJ#244", LatLong: "45.038891 -93.527782", LatLongDMS: "45:02:20 N 93:31:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Minnesota", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3761 (8B3156DB)

Date: 8/11/1948
Location: Hamel, MN
Description: A round, dull gray or silver object 2 ft diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_473

Event 3762 (10264240)

Date: 8/11/1948
Time: 1200
Location: Hamel, Minnesota
Description: Two boys were playing outside when a round dull gray object 70 cm in diameter, 30 cm thick, landed near them like a balloon with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid Phone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_66

Event 3763 (1B4307FF)

Date: 8/11/1948
Description: Two boys were playing outside at noon in Hamel, Minnesota when a dull gray, round object 70 cm in diameter landed near them with a metallic noise. It spun, went up, hovered, maneuvered to avoid telephone lines and trees, and flew away to the northeast. An FBI man from St. Paul found an area 70 cm in diameter where the ground showed signs of extreme pressure.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 192; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4856

Event 3764 (937F623F)

Date: 8/15/1948 (approximate)
Location: MUHLVIERTEL, AUSTRIA
Description: Numerous observer(s). Several "saucers" going quickly south extremely fast. Turn back going quickly north. / J. Aldrich.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 274)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1327

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MUHLVIERTEL,AUSTRIA:NMRS OBS:SVRL "SCRS" >>S XFAST:TURN BACK >>N:/J.Aldrich", LatLong: "48.500002 14.166667", LatLongDMS: "48:30:00 N 14:10:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Upper Austria", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3765 (FD3DBCCF)

Date: 8/15/1948
Time: 13:00
Location: PHOENIX, AZ
Description: W. Andrus and many. 4 silver saucers east going quickly west. Flip in sequence. 3 reappear. / MJ#197.
Type: sighting
Reference: STORY, Ronald (ed.) : ENCYLOPEDIA of UFO'S: Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1980 (Index 17)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1328

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "11", Elev: "325", HatchDesc: "PHOENIX,AZ:W.ANDRUS+MANY:4 SLVR SCRS E>>W:FLIP in SEQUENCE:3 REAPPEAR:/MJ#197", LatLong: "33.466668 -112.050005", LatLongDMS: "33:28:00 N 112:03:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "99", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3766 (193EA1DC)

Date: 8/15/1948
Location: downtown Phoenix, Arizona
Description: Morning. Future ufologist Walter H. Andrus Jr., his wife Genevieve, and son Donald see four UFOs flying in formation east to west over downtown, Phoenix, Arizona. They simply vanish in sequence, then the first three reappear one at a time in the northwest where they pass out of sight to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Story, pp. 17–18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1260

Event 3767 (6C60D4C3)

Date: 8/15/1948
Description: In the early afternoon many people in Phoenix, Arizona witnessed four silver disc-shaped objects that flew fast from east to west, then flipped in sequence. Three of the objects were seen again later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: George Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, p. 208, citing MUFON; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1341, citing Ronald D. Story, Encyclopedia of UFOs, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5028

Event 3768 (03A89EC3)

Date: 8/19/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude (Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_332
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 13.4km

Event 3769 (67645FEA)

Date: 8/21/1948
Locations: Katrineholm, Sweden; Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia; Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel
Description: A possible Russian rocket trail is seen over Katrineholm, Sweden, that remains visible for three hours “resembling a brilliant star surrounded by streamers of fire like the tentacles of an octopus.” However, there is no known record of a launch on this date of a V-2 or R-1 missile from the Russian base at Kapustin Yar, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. It may be the same object viewed by Swedish Armed Forces Supreme Commander Helge Jung of an “aerial explosion considered to be some form of guided missile originating from Estonian islands, possibly Dagö or Osel.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Sky Octopus’ Seen above Swedish Town,” Richmond Ind. Palladium-Item, August 23, 1948, p. 2; “Sky Octopus over Sweden,” Fate 2, no. 1 May 1949: 35; Jan Aldrich, “Investigating the Ghost Rockets,” IUR 23, no. 4 Winter 1998: 14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1261

Event 3770 (85E3E022)

Date: 8/29/1948
Time: 05:00
Location: MAPLEWOOD, OH
Description: Large silvery sphere rises / woods. Hovers / farm. Silvery crud drops.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H. Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp. (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1329

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "315", HatchDesc: "MAPLEWOOD,OH:LARGE SILVERY SPHERE RISES/WOODS:HOVERS/FARM:SILVERY CRUD DROPS", LatLong: "40.377780 -84.027782", LatLongDMS: "40:22:40 N 84:01:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3771 (DB8CBF16)

Date: 8/29/1948
Time: 05:30
Location: INDIAN LAKE, OH
Description: 1 observer. Large silver sphere/orb/globe rises / woods. Flies across farm. Vanishes / midair!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 56)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1330

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "304", HatchDesc: "INDIAN LAKE,OH:1 OBS:LRG SLVR ORB RISES/WOODS:FLIES ACRS FARM:VANISHES/MIDAIR!", LatLong: "40.466669 -83.866671", LatLongDMS: "40:28:00 N 83:52:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "9"

Event 3772 (EB6B78AB)

Date: 8/29/1948
Location: Maplewood, OH
Description: Farmer Niswenger saw a large silvery sphere rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground. (Vallée Magonia 67; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480829
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_474

Event 3773 (8308F3DF)

Date: 8/29/1948
Time: 0503
Location: Maplewood, Ohio
Description: A farmer observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm, dropping a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_67

Event 3774 (F4CE9CB3)

Date: 8/29/1948
Description: At 5:03 a.m. a farmer in Maplewood, Ohio observed a silvery sphere of large dimension rise from a wooded area and hover above his farm. It dropped a silvery substance that disintegrated before touching the ground.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case #169; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5454

Event 3775 (818E5C45)

Date: 8/31/1948
Description: At 12:20 a.m. a large unknown object was sighted flying at 50,000 feet altitude over Mint Canyon, California. It trailed a column of flames. It was also reportedly seen at Muroc Field, now Edwards AFB.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1344, citing Charles Berlitz and William Moore, The Roswell Incident, p. 139
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5515

Event 3776 (B3D25A33)

Date: 9/1948
Location: US
Description: Top Secret "Estimate of the Situation", concluding UFOs were interplanetary, sent from ATIC to Air Force Chief of Staff, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. (Report was kicked back for additional proof; later declassified and burned).
Type: top secret report
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 62-63, 67
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_857

Event 3777 (97D925E1)

Date: 9/1948
Description: About this time Capt. Robert R. Sneider becomes a co-chief of Project Sign with Lt. Howard W. Smith.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , pp. 13–14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1262

Event 3778 (93F5449B)

Date: 9/1/1948
Description: The CIA Office of Policy Coordination is formally established with the responsibility to engage in “propaganda, economic warfare, preventive direct action, including sabotage, antisabotage, demolition and evacuation procedures; subversion against hostile states, including assistance to underground resistance groups, guerrillas and refugee liberation groups, and support of indigenous anti-communist elements in threatened countries of the free world.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Office of Policy Coordination”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1263

Event 3779 (74C96A70)

Date: 9/2/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude (Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_333
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.6km

Event 3780 (DFD6950C)

Date: 9/11/1948
Time: 23:30
Location: TWIN PEAKS, SF, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). Yellow-glow teardrop going quickly west / 800 MPH against wind. Lost / fog.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 275)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1331

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "276", HatchDesc: "TWIN PEAKS,SF,CA:2 OBS:YLW-GLOW TEARDROP >>W/800 MPH AGAINST WIND:LOST/FOG", LatLong: "37.750002 -122.444450", LatLongDMS: "37:45:00 N 122:26:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3781 (F11A2C77)

Date: 9/11/1948
Description: At 3:20 p.m. a U.S. Air Force pilot and copilot flying a C-45 transport ten miles southeast of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania saw a round white object moving at high speed on a SW heading.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5849

Event 3782 (09957601)

Date: 9/12/1948
Location: Midway
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_331

Event 3783 (63867EF6)

Date: 9/12/1948
Location: Pittsburgh (8-12 miles SE of), PA
Description: Round white object moving at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_475

Event 3784 (A6C707FB)

Date: 9/13/1948
Time: 19:00
Location: ORISTANO, SARDINIA
Description: Seminarian. Saucer tilts. 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / transparent dome. Going quickly northeast toward(s) Madau.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1332

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ORISTANO,SARDINIA:SEMINARIAN:SCR TILTS:2 OIDS/XPRNT DOME:>>NE twrd MADAU", LatLong: "39.900002 8.600000", LatLongDMS: "39:54:00 N 08:36:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OR", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3785 (04648CF1)

Date: 9/13/1948
Description: At seven o'clock in the evening a seminarian in Oristano, Sardegna, Italy watched as a domed disc-shaped object tilted in the air, so that two humanoid beings were visible inside its transparent dome. The object flew off to the east toward Madau.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1346, citing a website
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5906

Event 3786 (587065B4)

Date: 9/15/1948
Location: Muroc [now Edwards] AFB, California
Description: USAF Maj. Dick Johnson reaches an official airspeed record of 671 mph slightly more than [Yeager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck%5FYeager)’s first record in a North American F-86A-3 Sabre at Muroc [now Edwards] AFB, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “North American F-86 Sabre”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1264

Event 3787 (59ACBE02)

Date: 9/16/1948
Locations: Grassy Mountain; Malheur County; Oregon
Description: Before dawn. Fred Scott, 63, is walking around Grassy Mountain, Malheur County, Oregon, when he looks up and sees two “flying persons” to the south. They are 150–250 feet up, one following the other at a distance of 8–10 feet. Their wings are narrow and rounded at the tip and do not flap. Their legs are unusually short. They remain visible while Scott walks for at least another mile.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT Index 1940–1949, p. 43; Clark III 270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1265

Event 3788 (0CB0FC11)

Date: 9/18/1948
Location: Shreveport, LA
Description: Bright white aluminum half-spherical object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_476

Event 3789 (2A32B905)

Date: 9/22/1948
Location: Albany (near Turner AFB), GA
Description: Co-Pilot in C-47 Sees Wingless Metallic Object (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 480922
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_477

Event 3790 (2448460E)

Date: 9/23/1948
Time: 09:40
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: Group / airport see tilted silver disk. Size = dime / 15M away. / Jerry Clark.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1333

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:Grp/AIRPORT SEE TILTED SLVR DISK:SIZE=DIME/15M away:/Jerry Clark", LatLong: "35.883335 -106.288894", LatLongDMS: "35:53:00 N 106:17:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3791 (CDAD42DB)

Date: 9/23/1948
Time: 12:00
Location: SAN PABLO, CA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #176. 2 observer(s). Grey rectangle and translucent amoeba / waving arms. Fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 90)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1334

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "SAN PABLO,CA:BBK#176:2 OBS:GRY RECTANGLE+TRANSLUCENT AMOEBA/WAVING ARMS:FAST", LatLong: "37.966668 -122.366673", LatLongDMS: "37:58:00 N 122:22:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3792 (8085347C)

Date: 9/23/1948
Location: San Pablo, CA
Description: Fast-flying irregularly shaped translucent white “amoeba” (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 208)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_478

Event 3793 (7C730C66)

Date: 9/23/1948
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Sun-reflecting glint in the sky from a flat circular metallic object (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, Code: M, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 480923
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_479

Event 3794 (49B9D2AB)

Date: 9/23/1948
Time: 12 noon
Location: San Pablo, California
Description: Witnesses: Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Col. Horace Eakins. Two objects: one, a buff or grey rectangle with vertical lines; the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects travelled very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_14

Event 3795 (2F07A1F0)

Date: 9/23/1948
Location: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Description: 9:40 a.m. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, a group of people are waiting for an airplane at the landing strip when one of them notices something glint in the sun. It is a flat, circular object, high in the northern sky. The appearance and relative size is the same as a dime held edgewise and slightly tipped, about 50 feet away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Flat Dime On-Edge Observed by Lab Personnel”; Sparks, p. 38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1266

Event 3796 (D943733A)

Date: 9/23/1948
Description: At 9:40 a.m. a group at the Los Alamos, New Mexico airport saw a tilted, silver disc-shaped UFO with the apparent diameter of a dime at arm's length. Its estimated distance was 15 miles.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1347, citing Jerome Clark
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6243

Event 3797 (0D61DDEE)

Date: 9/23/1948
Description: San Pablo, California. At twelve noon Sylvester Bentham and retired U.S. Army Colonel Horace Eakins observed two daylight UFOs: one a buff or gray rectangle with vertical lines, the other a translucent "amoeba" with a dark spot near the center. The arms of the "amoeba" undulated. Both objects traveled very fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 90
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6244

Event 3798 (49FEF676)

Date: 9/26/1948
Location: Port Hope, Ontario
Description: 2:00 p.m. P. L. Lewis sees a white object moving rapidly across the sky at Port Hope, Ontario, then disappear when it is nearly overhead. Other white objects follow at about 50 mph in a northeasterly direction, accompanied by strands of spider web. Lewis speculates that the objects are balls of spiders’ threads, held together by thistledown.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: P. R. Bishop, “Cobwebs or Flying Saucers?” Weather 4 1949: 121–122; Philip J. Imbrogno, Files from the Edge: A Paranormal Investigator’s Explorations into High Strangeness, Llewellyn, 2010, p. 54
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1267

Event 3799 (11A21DB5)

Date: 9/28/1948
Location: San Simeon, CA
Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_480

Event 3800 (C1E0BE5F)

Date: 9/30/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude (Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_334
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.3km

Event 3801 (720BF3C0)

Date: 9/30/1948?
Locations: New Mexico; Fargo, North Dakota
Description: Project Sign officer Capt. Robert R. Sneider has decided that the time has come to climax Project Sign’s task and write the required “Estimate of the Situation.” Every intelligence operation’s task is ultimately to present such a best-guess summary, strongly backed with as much fact as possible. Using the Chiles-Whitted case as the core and collecting around it many cases from the summer of 1947 to September 1948, Sneider composes the document. The most recent case known to have been listed in the document is the September 23 Los Alamos National Laboratory sighting in New Mexico. Two prominent USAF intelligence officers [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt) and [Dewey J.](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8653239/dewey-j%5F-fournet) [Fournet](https://www.nicap.org/ufochop2.htm) Jr. see the document in 1952. “It was a rather thick document with a black cover and it was printed on legal-sized paper. Stamped across the front were the words TOP SECRET.” Ruppelt says the Estimate concludes that the best evidence indicated an extraterrestrial origin for UFOs. Sneider is probably the primary author. Deyarmond , Loedding , and Truettner almost certainly are part of the writing. Llewellyn certainly looks in. All these people, as well as higher-ups in Clingerman’s and McCoy’s offices, must approve it, at least in some sense. And an Estimate of UFOs as extraterrestrial is no small thing to assent to. The Estimate is probably addressed to Chief of Staff Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg, but it really is meant for Director of Intelligence Gen. Charles Cabell . It is probably sent near the end of September, just before the George Gorman “UFO dogfight” in Fargo, North Dakota, on October 1. It probably lands in Garrett’s Collections office and is hand-carried to Cabell. Cabell may or may not be shocked. With a pro-ETH Wright-Patterson intelligence group on one side, an anti-ETH Pentagon Intelligence Requirements Office on the other, and open-minded collections officers and the powerful Research and Development chief Gen. [Donald L. Putt](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105883/lieutenant-general-donald-leander-putt/) in between, Cabell doesn’t want to decide this on his own. He hands the Estimate further upstairs to Vandenberg himself, who rejects it and bats it back to Cabell with a strong sense of disapproval. Ruppelt adds that some months later the Estimate is completely declassified and “all but a few copies” are destroyed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, p. 45; Clark III 436–437; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 48–51; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 13–14; Michael D. Swords, “The Lost Words of Edward Ruppelt,” IUR 20, no. 2 Mar./Apr. 1995: 14–15; Swords 62
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1268

Event 3802 (10F36AB9)

Date: 10/1948 (approximate)
Time: 09:40
Location: QINDAO, SHANDONG, CH
Description: Fall / 48. Moon-size saucer glows. Spins. Vertical exit. / r208p36.
Type: sighting
Reference: DONG, Paul: UFO's Over MODERN CHINA. 1983 UFO Photo Archives; P. O. Box 17206; Tucson, AZ 85710. (Index 36)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1335

Extra Data: Country: "China", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "QINDAO,SHANDONG,CH:FALL/48:MOON-SIZE SCR GLOWS:SPINS:VERTICAL EXIT:/r208p36", LatLong: "36.083335 120.166672", LatLongDMS: "36:05:00 N 120:10:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Shandong", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3803 (EE8352F7)

Date: 10/1948
Time: 16:30
Location: BENTON, WI
Description: Farmer. Classic silver saucer hovers / 300M altitude? 30M diameter? Shoots away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1336

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "284", HatchDesc: "BENTON,WI:FARMER:CLASSIC SLVR SCR HVRS/300M alt?:30M diam?:SHOOTS AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "42.572224 -90.383338", LatLongDMS: "42:34:20 N 90:23:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3804 (455E3F9E)

Date: 10/1948
Description: Vannevar Bush resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board, passing the job on to Karl Taylor Compton .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1269

Event 3805 (564E0B80)

Date: 10/1/1948
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_97

Event 3806 (A1E59844)

Date: 10/1/1948
Location: North Dakota
Description: Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_335

Event 3807 (4880DAB1)

Date: 10/1/1948
Time: 05:40
Location: ASCENSION PR, LA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #174. 1 observer. Silent cone going quickly [to] 300mph over woods. Wide-end first. / p104.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 104)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1337

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "ASCENSION pr,LA:BBK#174:1 OBS:SLNT CONE>>300mph OVR WOODS:WIDE-END FIRST:/p104", LatLong: "30.216668 -90.900004", LatLongDMS: "30:13:00 N 90:54:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3808 (D6A9A8AA)

Date: 10/1/1948
Time: 20:30
Location: FARGO, ND
Description: USAF F51 / long complex dogfight / saucer. Separate ground and air observer(s). / MJ#246+/ r242p34.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1338

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "28", Elev: "270", HatchDesc: "FARGO,ND:USAF F51/LONG COMPLEX DOGFIGHT/SCR:SEP.GND+AIR OBS:/MJ#246+/r242p34", LatLong: "46.866669 -96.800005", LatLongDMS: "46:52:00 N 96:48:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Dakota", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3809 (0041471A)

Date: 10/1/1948
Location: Fargo, ND
Description: Small 6-8-inch round white ball of light with a flat, no-depth disc-like appearance Gorman "Dogfight" (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481001
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_481

Event 3810 (5763B92C)

Date: 10/1/1948
Description: The first Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication JANAP 146, based on Bernard Baruch Jr.’s CIRES system, is issued. It consists of instructions for military and civilian personnel on how to report sightings of enemy aircraft, missiles, submarines, and surface vessels. This version does not include UFOs. It is tabled shortly afterward by Maj. Gen. Cabell .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Antonio F. Rullán, “Blue Book UFO Reports at Sea by Ships: Analysis of the Blue Book Ship Database,” December 10, 2002, pp. 8–9; Swords 122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1270

Event 3811 (8C7732D7)

Date: 10/1/1948
Location: Fargo, North Dakota
Description: 8:30 p.m. 2d Lieut. George F. Gorman of the North Dakota National Guard, flying an F-51 near Fargo, North Dakota, spots an object traveling east to west. He describes it as a light 6–8 inches in diameter displaying incredible movements. He repeatedly gives chase beginning at 9:07 p.m., but each time is outmaneuvered by the light, which moves up to 600 mph. On his first pass he gets as close as 500 feet from the light at about 5,000 feet altitude. Gorman climbs to 14,000 feet but stalled out, unable to intercept the light, which is at about 16,000 feet. The light makes evasive and aggressive maneuvers, such as seeming to try to ram the F-51. When it drops to 11,000 feet, Gorman attempts to dive at it, but the light pulls up, rises vertically, and disappears at high speed. The light is also seen by airport control tower operators Lloyd D. Jensen and Manuel E. Johnson, as well as others on the ground and pilot Arthur E. Cannon flying a Piper Cub at 1,600 feet. Jensen watches the dogfight through 6x30 binoculars, the UFO appearing perfectly round with sharp edges and no fuzzy outline. Project Sign personnel arrive within hours and interview the witnesses. Eventually they conclude the object was a balloon, with evasive maneuvers the product of Gorman’s imagination, since ground observers do not see anything comparable. Some ufologists, among them Aimé Michel and James E. McDonald, have rejected the balloon explanation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Gorman dogfight”; NICAP, “Gorman Fargo Case”; Ruppelt, pp. 41–43; Sparks, p. 39; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 138; Clark III 536–537
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1271

Event 3812 (DA450AB9)

Date: 10/1/1948
Description: At 9:00 p.m. an aerial encounter occurred on this day over Fargo, North Dakota between an F-51 fighter plane and a somewhat flattened white circular unidentified object, blinking on and off. The UFO made a head-on approach toward the F-51, then veered off, next made a 180 degree turn, then out climbed the performance aircraft, rising straight up until out of sight. Its close turns were tighter than could be made by the fighter plane. The encounter lasted 27 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward J. Ruppelt, True Magazine, May 1954; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; UNICAT, case # 532
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6459

Event 3813 (1AFF1C25)

Date: 10/7/1948
Locations: Garrett; Cabell; Gorman
Description: A document from Project Sign to Garrett and Cabell is an upbeat Sneider report on the initial investigation of the Gorman dogfight, making the object sound extremely unusual and intelligent in behavior. This is almost like a supplement to the Estimate.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1272

Event 3814 (9D07824B)

Date: 10/7/1948
Description: A set of letters, composed not by Sneider but actually by Samuel Z. Hunnicutt, a member of T-2 and the Sign team, and approved by MCI heavyweights McCoy , Clingerman , and Leland Money, goes out to the CIA, US Army Intelligence, and the Office of Naval Intelligence. The query: What domestic technological developments do you know of that might explain UFOs and help us differentiate them from inimical Soviet foreign developments?
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1273

Event 3815 (7162AF1D)

Date: 10/11/1948
Location: Munich, West Germany
Description: Neubiberg AFB (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_482

Event 3816 (53EEC148)

Date: 10/12/1948
Alternate date: 10/22/1948
Location: United States
Description: Project Sign’s Col. William R. Clingerman writes a letter to USAF Chiefs of Staff requesting a study of UFOs by the RAND Corporation, similar to the one made by USAF R&D in July, especially the possibility that “some of the unidentified aerial objects that have been reported both in the United States and in foreign lands may have been experimental spaceships. it is believed more likely that they represent the effort of a foreign nation, rather than a product from beyond the Earth.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. W. R. Clingerman, “Request for Study by Rand Project,” October 12(?), 1948; Swords 58, 492–493
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1274

Event 3817 (77C2BCFD)

Date: 10/13/1948
Location: South Bend, IN
Description: (41.68° N, 86.26° W). Brooke and Thompson (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_483

Event 3818 (52154B4F)

Date: 10/14/1948
Location: Between Dayton, Ohio, and Indianapolis, Ind, various
Description: Air Force pilot, major, saw a UFO flying in an oscillatory path, up and down motions. Intelligence report missing. (Fund Report * C-13; 2 pp.) (Project GRUDGE Report Case No. 181) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_484

Event 3819 (C581501E)

Date: 10/15/1948
Location: Japan
Description: An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from 200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p235)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_336

Event 3820 (71735C97)

Date: 10/15/1948 (approximate)
Time: 16:00
Location: LE HAVRE, FR
Description: M. Loisin and 2 / car. Classic domed saucer hovers. Away slowly then very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 123)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1339

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "Le HAVRE,FR:M.LOISIN+2/CAR:CLASSIC DOMED SCR HVRS:AWAY SLOWLY THEN VFAST:", LatLong: "49.516669 0.116667", LatLongDMS: "49:31:00 N 00:07:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine Maritime", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3821 (02834001)

Date: 10/15/1948
Time: 23:00
Location: NORTHWEST / FUKUOKA, JP
Description: F61 chases bullet-object. 180-turns. Going up and down. Cat and mouse. 6 RADAR's to 1200mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT; Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 135)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1340

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "NW/FUKUOKA,JP:F61 CHASES BULLET-OBJ:180-TURNS:↑+↓:CAT+MOUSE:6 RDRs TO 1200mph", LatLong: "34.333335 129.666673", LatLongDMS: "34:20:00 N 129:40:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kyushu", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3822 (EB59C486)

Date: 10/15/1948
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: Japan, A,V 6 interceptions of objects tracked on airborne radar (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 218)
Reference: NICAP: 481015
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_485

Event 3823 (27C4E5EC)

Date: 10/15/1948
Location: 50 miles E of Virginia coast, At Sea
Description: Bright nearly moon-shaped object with distinct bright center (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_486

Event 3824 (974A27F0)

Date: 10/15/1948
Time: 11:05 PM
Location: Fusuoka, Japan
Description: Witnesses: pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill of a P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter. Up to six objects tracked on radar, only one seen visually. Dull or dark object shaped like a dirigible with a flat bottom and clipped tail end. Six seen on radar separately Pilot attempted to close on visual object, but it dove away fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_15

Event 3825 (647C2079)

Date: 10/15/1948
Location: Fukuoka, Japan
Description: 11:05 p.m. On night patrol, 1st Lt. Oliver “Bud” Hemphill Jr. of the 68th Fighter Squadron is flying a Northrup F-61 Black Widow some 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, Japan, when the crew picks up an object on radar going 200 mph. As he closes to intercept, the object speeds up to 1,200 mph then slows down again. The plane tries closing in six times, but each time the object speeds away. On one pass the crew sees the object’s silhouette, which looks like a “rifle bullet” 20–30 feet long. The object “seems cognizant of the whereabouts of the F-61 at all times.” Radar operator Barton Halter thinks it is a “new type of aircraft.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “F-61 ‘Black Widow’ Radar Case”; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 69–70; Hynek UFO Report, pp. 134–137; Sparks, p. 40
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1275

Event 3826 (AB111F8F)

Date: Late 1948
Locations: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka; Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range; Pamlico Sound area off the coast of North Carolina
Description: The search for a suitable US location for nuclear testing, codenamed “Project Nutmeg,” commences under the direction of expert meteorologist and Navy Captain Howard B. Hutchinson. The government is looking for a place where nuclear tests would have little impact on the American people or the American economy. Five primary sites are considered: Dugway Proving Ground, Utah; Alamogordo–White Sands Guided Missile Range, New Mexico; an area in Nevada between Fallon and Eureka; the Tonopah–Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range the site finally chosen in 1950, now part of Nellis Air Force Base; and the Pamlico Sound area off the coast of North Carolina.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Project Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear Security Administration, June 2004; Philip Howard, “Project Nutmeg,” Village Craftsmen, April 21, 2012; Diane Tennant, “How Outer Banks Almost Became a Nuclear Test Site,” Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, January 27, 2013
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1278

Event 3827 (2EE8F5CD)

Date: 10/15/1948
Description: At 11:05 p.m. U.S. Air Force pilot Halter and radar operator Hemphill in a propeller driven P-61 "Black Widow" night fighter tracked up to six objects on radar over Fusuoka, Japan. The six bogeys were seen on the radar by Hemphill, and his radar picked up the targets five miles ahead of the plane. Only one of the bogeys was seen visually. It was a dull or dark object, shaped like a bullet or dirigible with a flat bottom and with a heel-shaped clipped tail end. Pilot Halter attempted to close on the visual object, but it dove below the F-61, then reappeared, and finally took off with a burst of speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 218; J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 135; UNICAT, case # 273; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6843

Event 3828 (D94C8616)

Date: 10/16/1948
Location: Sterling, UT
Description: A flattened football or lozenge shaped black object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_487

Event 3829 (89C56B9A)

Date: 10/17/1948
Location: Crescent City, CA
Description: Blimplike object much too fast and maneuverable for a blimp (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_488

Event 3830 (EA241D1A)

Date: 10/18/1948
Location: Pacific Heights, Oahu, HI
Description: Bright Silver Object Cruises Across Sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481018
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_394

Event 3831 (1550C03B)

Date: 10/18/1948
Location: Pacific Heights, Oahu, HI
Description: Round or elliptical bright silver object 10-15 ft in size (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_489

Event 3832 (E6409C00)

Date: 10/20/1948
Locations: Arlington Hall; Washington, D.C.
Description: The US Air Force Security Service is activated at Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., with the mission of cryptology and communications security.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Air Force Security Service”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1276

Event 3833 (07CE8256)

Date: 10/24/1948
Location: Junction City (10 miles SW of), KS
Description: Huber. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_490

Event 3834 (86E9A395)

Date: 10/24/1948
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Description: Peterson. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_491

Event 3835 (34912A16)

Date: 10/24/1948
Location: Moorhead (4 miles SE of), MN
Description: Brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_492

Event 3836 (A9EB740E)

Date: 10/24/1948
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Sanders were driving northwest on Highway 52 towards Moorhead, Minnesota (46.88° N, 96.78° W) when they saw a brilliant golden-white round object suddenly appear as if a light had been switched on. It was about three miles away to the northeast at 1,000 feet altitude in a gradual climb traveling at an estimated 600-1,000 mph and heading west towards Moorhead. It made no sound, and was about half the size of a full moon in angular size. When they reached the northern outskirts of Moorhead the object suddenly made a right turn and one second later disappeared by suddenly switching off. The Air Force said they had seen a meteor.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 192; Fund for UFO Research index of cases
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7067

Event 3837 (F3996097)

Date: 10/28/1948
Time: 13:00?
Location: NEUBIBERG AB, GERM
Description: USAF observer(s). Saucer seen / 30 minutes. Away extremely fast. Military report CC going [to] CIA. / r132#2.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: PROJECT 1947: www.project1947.com/fig/usaf14.htm Special page, June,2000
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1341

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "6", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "NEUBIBERG AB,GERM:USAF OBS:SCR SEEN/30mins:AWAY XFAST:MIL RPT CC>CIA:/r132#2", LatLong: "48.116669 11.583334", LatLongDMS: "48:07:00 N 11:35:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3838 (F367B8A7)

Date: 10/29/1948
Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN
Description: Slow moving unidentified targets were tracked at low altitude (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481029
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_493

Event 3839 (F217CFE0)

Date: 10/29/1948
Location: Neubiberg Air Base [now closed] near Munich, Germany
Description: Five US Air Force pilots observe a silvery object over Neubiberg Air Base [now closed] near Munich, Germany. The object disappears at a terrific speed after having remained over the air base more than 30 minutes. A similar object is seen days before by another group of American pilots.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich, “Early Top Secret UFO Document Discovered,” 2000
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1277

Event 3840 (56AA9AC1)

Date: 10/30/1948
Location: Gray's Harbor, WA
Description: Kunsman. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) ADC Directs F-82 to 10-20 EggShaped Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481030
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_494

Event 3841 (334EC930)

Date: 10/31/1948
Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN
Description: (53.33° N, 60.41° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481031
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_495

Event 3842 (B6C64A8E)

Date: 10/31/1948
Location: Unknown Location, Azores
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_496

Event 3843 (56B47A79)

Date: 11/1948
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_98

Event 3844 (583DB18B)

Date: 11/1/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_337
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km

Event 3845 (46F22EE0)

Date: 11/1/1948
Location: GOOSE BAY, NFL
Description: Military RADAR's track blip / 9000mph. Type unknown. Also 29+31 October. / r28p323-326.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE; NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books ( only $7.98! ) (Index 83)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1342

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "GOOSE BAY,NFL:MIL RDRS TRACK BLIP/9000mph:TYPE UNK::also 29+31OCT:/r28p323-326", LatLong: "53.333336 -60.416670", LatLongDMS: "53:20:00 N 60:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "4"

Event 3846 (7DDDA225)

Date: 11/1/1948
Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN
Description: (53.33° N, 60.41° W). (Ruppelt manuscript) G 600 MPH Track (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481101
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_497

Event 3847 (DA406AE0)

Date: 11/1/1948
Location: Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador
Description: Radar operator M/Sgt Francis H. Mills at Goose Bay AFB [now CFB Goose Bay], Labrador, tracks an object too large for a bird, too small for a plane, flying at 60 mph. Not confirmed visually.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “600 MPH Track at Goose Bay”; NICAP, “October 29, October 30, and November 1, 1948, Incident Nos. 188, 195, and 196: Goose Bay, Labrador,” June 28, 2009; Sparks , p. 42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1279

Event 3848 (5635A491)

Date: 11/1/1948
Description: A UFO was tracked by U.S. Army radar at Goose Bay Base, Labrador, Canada on this day. It was moving at a high rate of speed, in excess of 600 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 33; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 83
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7364

Event 3849 (DF68B923)

Date: 11/3/1948
End date: 11/4/1948
Location: Vaughn, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 6; app 22;00 - white round obj larger than basketball (McDonald list, FUFOR index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481103-04
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_498

Event 3850 (A50685B5)

Date: 11/3/1948
Location: US
Description: Against most predictions, Harry S. Truman wins the US presidential election against Republican Thomas E. Dewey . Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, like everyone else, expects to have a new boss in January. His relationship with Air Force Secretary Stuart Symington has deteriorated, and he has not obtained a budget consensus from the Joint Chiefs. His mental health, physical condition, and authority are deteriorating. He is convinced that “foreign-looking men” are following him and that Symington is spying on him. Secret Service Chief Urbanus E. Baughman begins to think Forrestal is suffering from a “total psychotic breakdown.”
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1280

Event 3851 (11E1CD24)

Date: 11/3/1948
Location: Wright Field, Ohio
Description: Gen. Charles Cabell writes a firm letter to Wright Field in Ohio, asking Project Sign for another Estimate. It is possibly composed by Maj. Aaron “Jere” Boggs or Col. Edward H. Porter at the USAF Defensive Air Branch. While admitting that the objects seem real, it also cautions that they are not identified. Read: You may not identify them as extraterrestrial craft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” November 3, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 50– 51, 62; Swords 62, 64
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1281

Event 3852 (66E19D86)

Date: 11/4/1948
Locations: USAF Europe; Sweden; Armament Intelligence Branch
Description: A USAF Europe document transmits some information on the Swedish ghost rockets. “They have been reported by so many sources and from such a variety of places that we are convinced that they cannot be disregarded and must be explained on some basis which is perhaps slightly beyond the scope of our present intelligence thinking.” One of the objects was observed crashing into a lake by Swedish Gen. Helge Jung and his party. A salvage operation was unsuccessful. USAF officers visit Swedish Air Intelligence officials who have reached the conclusion that “these phenomena are obviously the result of a high technical skill which cannot be credited to any presently known culture on earth.” The document is distributed to the CIA which in response to a FOIA request claims no record, Armament Intelligence Branch, and AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “USAFE 14, TT 1524, Top Secret,” November 4, 1948; Jan Aldrich, “Early Top Secret UFO Document Discovered,” 2000; Swords 62–63; Good Need, p. 115
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1282

Event 3853 (C01E6811)

Date: 11/6/1948
Location: Wakkanai, Japan
Description: (45°26' N, 141°43' E). (McDonald list) Target Circles Radar Site (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481106
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_499

Event 3854 (03EAAC70)

Date: 11/6/1948
Location: Wakkanai, Japan
Description: Two UFOs, maneuvering like planes in a dogfight, are tracked on USAF radar over Wakkanai, Japan.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Target Circles Radar Site”; Keyhoe, FS from OS, p. 34; Sparks , p. 42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1283

Event 3855 (CADEACF9)

Date: 11/8/1948
Locations: Pentagon; Chiles-Whitted
Description: A letter is sent with Col. McCoy’s signature to Gen. Cabell . Written by Sign operative Albert Deyarmond , it is overtly submissive but covertly rebellious. It contains several comments agreeing with Cabell that the UFO phenomenon is not identifiable and that no concrete physical proof exists to identify it. At the same time it drops all sorts of hints, doubtless the same arguments used in the original Estimate, that the objects really are extra- terrestrial whether the Pentagon thinks so or not: It mentions the ETH; it mentions plotting waves against planetary approaches and finding a correlation; it mentions the books of Charles Fort as indicating that this has been going on for at least a century; it mentions that odd shapes like the Chiles-Whitted case can fly but require more advanced power plants than we have.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. H. M. McCoy, “Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” November 8, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “The McCoy Letter,” IUR 22, no. 1 Spring 1997: 12–17, 27; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 51, 63–64; Swords 62, 65, 494– 496
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1284

Event 3856 (AD122B3D)

Date: 11/10/1948
Time: 22:20
Location: ERVALLA, SWEDEN
Description: Farmer caught / 40M cone of light. Gets UV burns. No object seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: AFU NEWSLETTER (English). Anders Liljegren (ed). Archives for UFO Research; PO Box 11027; S-600 11 Norrkoping, SWEDEN (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1343

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations

Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ERVALLA,SWEDEN:FARMER CAUGHT/40M CONE OF LITE:GETS UV BURNS:no obj seen", LatLong: "59.366669 15.250001", LatLongDMS: "59:22:00 N 15:15:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sweden", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3857 (146973B2)

Date: 11/12/1948
Location: Clark AFB, Manila, Philippines
Description: Very large 300 ft long 140 ft wingspan snow-white aircraft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_500

Event 3858 (E2DF3590)

Date: 11/12/1948
Locations: National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C.; Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio; Pentagon; MIT
Description: Project Sign personnel travel to the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, D.C., to attempt to convince Cabell and Vandenberg on the ETH. It includes Sneider, and perhaps Deyarmond , Loedding, Truettner, and McCoy . On the Pentagon side, Boggs and Cabell are there and perhaps Vandenberg, and they are having none of the ETH. Back at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, Deyarmond and Truettner begin writing a sanitized Project Sign report. More scientific oversight is requested for Sign personnel. The Scientific Advisory Board and George Valley of MIT are to be made aware of all cases. So too are Boggs’s office, ONI, and maybe even the NBS. Hynek is to be formally commissioned for an assessment, as well as Irving Langmuir and Project Rand.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. H. M. McCoy, “Transmittal of Project ‘SIGN’ Incident Summaries,” November 12, 1948; Swords 65; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 51–52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1285

Event 3859 (FA78D6D3)

Date: 11/15/1948 (approximate)
Time: 16:00
Location: SOUTH / NEVADA, MO
Description: 1 / farm. Whirr! Large disk hovers. 2 small objects drop / disk and going quickly southwest. Disk going northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 295)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1344

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "272", HatchDesc: "S/NEVADA,MO:1/FARM:WHIRR!:LRG DISK HVRS:2 SML OBJS DROP/DISK+>>SW:DISK >NE", LatLong: "37.750002 -94.355560", LatLongDMS: "37:45:00 N 94:21:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3860 (DF29F2D0)

Date: Mid 11/1948
Location: Nevada, Missouri
Description: Late afternoon. Clifford DeWitt Fife hears a whirring in the air near Nevada, Missouri. He looks up and sees a hovering, disc-like object. Two bright objects drop down out of the disc about 200–300 feet, then speed off to the southwest. The large object moves off to the northeast.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Nevada Mo. Daily Mail, November 30, 1948; Herbert S. Taylor, “Satellite Objects: A Further Look,” IUR 29, no. 2 Summer 2004: 7
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1286

Event 3861 (DD24C290)

Date: 11/15/1948
Description: South of Nevada, Missouri a witness first heard a whirring sound at 4 p.m., then saw a large disc-shaped object hovering. Two small objects dropped from the disc and flew away to the southwest. The disc then flew off toward the northeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1358, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1948, p. 95
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7683

Event 3862 (E1BE6EF9)

Date: 11/17/1948
Location: Peace River, Alberta, CAN
Description: Bright orange flaming egg-shaped object flying (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_501

Event 3863 (B97E58A5)

Date: 11/18/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude (First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section. Nominal performance.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_338
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 145.3km

Event 3864 (F35FB254)

Date: 11/18/1948
Location: Andrews AFB
Description: Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files: at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes. The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and evasive movements.”
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_339

Event 3865 (11C0120E)

Date: 11/18/1948
Time: 21:50
Location: ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD
Description: Project Bluebook Case #207. Unidentified. Saucer and AT6 jet / 10 minute(s) dogfight! Extremely fast exit going quickly east. / MJ#247.
Type: sighting
Reference: RUPPELT, Edward J.: The REPORT ON UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS; Doubleday, NY 1956 HC.243pp. (Index 67)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1345

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, HST: Historical account, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "11", Elev: "85", HatchDesc: "ANDREWS AFB,MD:BBK#207:UID:SCR+AT6 JET/10min DOGFIGHT!:XFAST EXIT >>E:/MJ#247", LatLong: "38.800002 -76.866670", LatLongDMS: "38:48:00 N 76:52:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MRL", Strangeness: "8"

Event 3866 (728AC8E7)

Date: 11/18/1948
Location: Camp Springs, MD
Description: The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481118
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_502

Event 3867 (3DEAFE6B)

Date: 11/18/1948
Location: Andrews AFB, Maryland
Description: 10:00 p.m. USAF Reserve pilot Lt. Henry G. Combs is flying a T-6 Texas combat trainer when he sees an object flying west to east over Andrews AFB, Maryland. It has one continuously glowing white light. He makes a pass to check on it, but it takes evasive action and he duels with it for 10 minutes. The object performs very tight curves and quick accelerations to 600 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “The Lt. Combs / T-6 Encounter”; Sparks, p. 42; Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 236–237
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1287

Event 3868 (4BB284DF)

Date: 11/23/1948
Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany
Description: Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000 ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p237)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_341

Event 3869 (0D1639D3)

Date: 11/23/1948
Time: 22:00
Location: FURSTEN-FELDBRUCK, GERM
Description: USAF F80. RADAR-visual (observation). 1500kph. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. / r242p123+/ LDLN#330.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: UNINVITED GUESTS; Aurora Press, Santa Fe, NM 1988. 381pp. (Index 237)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1346

Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "9", Duration: "18", HatchDesc: "FURSTEN-FELDBRUCK,GERM:USAF F80:RDR-VIS:1500kph:↑↑ XFAST:/r242p123+/LDLN#330", LatLong: "48.183336 11.266667", LatLongDMS: "48:11:00 N 11:16:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3870 (0B5D2106)

Date: 11/23/1948
Location: Vaughn, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 7; app 22;00 - Colonel Hayes obs ball of light, descending vertically, which burst 100-200 feet from the ground (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481123
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_503

Event 3871 (CF7100CA)

Date: 11/23/1948
Location: Munich, West Germany
Description: Furstenfeldbruck AFB reddish star-like object G,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 481123
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_504

Event 3872 (6057C91B)

Date: 11/23/1948
Location: Vaughan, New Mexico
Description: 10:00 p.m. US Army Col. William P. Hayes sees a bright white, round light “larger than a basketball” descend slowly as he is driving 10 miles east of Vaughan, New Mexico. It explodes without a sound some 400– 500 feet above the ground.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Another Object in Vertical Descent Explodes near Colonel”; Sparks, p. 43; Clark III 539
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1288

Event 3873 (88F9B33D)

Date: 11/23/1948
Location: Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Bavaria, Germany
Description: 10:20 p.m. The first [although see October 15] documented radar-visual UFO case takes place at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base in Bavaria, Germany. A UFO is seen circling at 27,000 feet. An F-80 pilot sent to intercept it describes it as bright red. It climbs abruptly to 50,000 feet at 900 mph. A second F-80 pilot verifies the report.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Grnd Visual / Grnd Radar Track Object at 27,000ʹ”; Ruppelt, p. 46; Sparks, p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1289

Event 3874 (EF12AE7F)

Date: 11/23/1948
Description: An aerial encounter with a red UFO involving radar and visual confirmation occurred over Germany on this night at 10:20 p.m. Two U.S. Air Force Captains flying in a F-80 fighter, and a 1st Lt. from the 23rd Fighter Squadron on the ground at Furstenfeldbruck AFB saw the reddish star-like object to the east moving south over Munich at 200-500 mph, turning slightly southwest and then southeast. Captain Slater in the F-80 called the Racecard DF Radar Station which tracked the unidentified target at 27,000 feet and 30 miles to the south of Munich, climbing to 40,000 feet at 40 miles south of Munich, then circling around in a high speed ascent.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers Are Real, p. 162; Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 68; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 237; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7833

Event 3875 (52EC31A3)

Date: 11/24/1948
Description: Writer Sidney Shalett has asked for USAF cooperation in writing an article on UFOs for the Saturday Evening Post. In a “Memorandum for the Record,” the USAF Directorate of Intelligence indicates that “publicity of this nature is undesirable but, if such articles are written, they will be less harmful to the national interest if a degree of guidance in their preparation is exercised.” Signed November 24 by Cabell , Director of Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: [Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell], “Memorandum for Record,” November 24, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1290

Event 3876 (BA6B227F)

Date: 11/26/1948
Location: Washington and Oregon, various
Description: Young. (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_505

Event 3877 (A7E0B127)

Date: 11/30/1948
Description: Maj. Gen. Charles P. Cabell , in an Air Staff Summary Sheet, admits that he has tried to dissuade the press from publishing articles like Shalett’s. Cabell has asked Secretary Forrestal for permission to feed Shalett some statistics, but the memo is apparently never sent.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Publicity on Flying Saucer Incidents,” Air Staff Summary Sheet, November 30, 1948; “Memorandum for Mr. Forrestal” [unsent]
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1291

Event 3878 (9FF6EB15)

Date: 11/30/1948
Locations: AMC Dayton; Mitchel AFB [now closed]; Long Island, New York
Description: Letter from Howard McCoy at AMC Dayton to Commanding General, Air Defense Command, Mitchel AFB [now closed], Long Island, New York. “It is requested that all reports of unusual sightings by radar stations of your command be made directly to this Headquarters by the most expeditious means.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “1948 UFO Chronology”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1292

Event 3879 (5DA740C8)

Date: 11/30/1948
Locations: Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB; National Archives
Description: An interim report by Project Sign, one that apparently takes seriously the possibility that UFOs represent interplanetary probes, is accidentally destroyed. USAF Intelligence later requests a replacement copy from TID at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio. A recent FOIA to the National Archives answers that such a document would be in Project Blue Book files, but it is not.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1293

Event 3880 (F601C173)

Date: 12/1948
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK. (Capt. Ruppelt?)
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_342
See also: 3/1952

Event 3881 (4BC36660)

Date: 12/1948
Location: MOSCOW, RUSSIA
Description: Pilots and ground observer(s). Long fish-shaped objects seen. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1347

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MOSCOW,RUSS:PILOTS+GND.OBS:LONG FISH-SHAPED OBJs SEEN:NFD ", LatLong: "55.783336 37.600002", LatLongDMS: "55:47:00 N 37:36:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "MOS", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3882 (048E8F50)

Date: 12/1948
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Dec. 5 - 8,11,13,14,20 & 28, 1948; Los Alamos, NM. OSI, pilots, Los Alamos (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 481200
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_506

Event 3883 (FD70A240)

Date: 12/1948
Location: USSR
Description: A first-strike war plan Sizzle is developed to use 133 nuclear aerial bombs against 70 cities of the USSR.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Nuclear ‘Pincher’: The START II Treaty, the American ‘Escalation of Superiority’ Strategy, and Russia’s Strategic Nuclear Forces,” from Sovetskaya Rossiya, April 8, 1995
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1294

Event 3884 (D0E03CC4)

Date: 12/3/1948
Time: 20:20
Location: TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: Air Traffic Controller. Fireball climbs toward(s) plane. Erratic motion. Still rising at 30K Ft.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1348

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "19", HatchDesc: "TRAVIS AFB,CA:ATC:FBL CLIMBS TWRD PLANE:ERRATIC MOTION:STILL RISING @ 30K FT", LatLong: "38.233335 -122.016672", LatLongDMS: "38:14:00 N 122:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3885 (3B6FE1C4)

Date: 12/3/1948
Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, CA
Description: Round, white light fly with varying speed, bouncing motion (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 257)
Reference: NICAP: 481203
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_507

Event 3886 (B3EEA937)

Date: 12/3/1948
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: (39.75° N, 84.18° W). Hoffman (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_508

Event 3887 (C2E1528A)

Date: 12/3/1948
Time: 8:15 PM
Location: Fairfield-Suisan AFB, California
Description: Witness: USAF Sgt., control tower operator. One round, white light flew for 25 seconds with varying speed, bouncing motion, and finally a rapid erratic climb.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_16

Event 3888 (7865A95A)

Date: 12/3/1948
Locations: Fairfield-Suisun AFB; Fairfield, California; Travis AFB
Description: 8:15 p.m. Sgt. Bruce Earlin McFarland , control tower operator at Fairfield-Suisun AFB [now Travis AFB] at Fairfield, California, watches for 25 seconds a round, white light fly with variable speed 200–400 mph and a bouncing motion, finally disappearing after a rapid, erratic climb to 20,000 feet.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Fairfield-Suisun AFB, Dec. 3, 1948, UFO Report”; Sparks, p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1295

Event 3889 (3ECC79A3)

Date: 12/5/1948 (approximate)
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: FBI report. Green fireballs or saucers seen 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 13, 14, 20+28 DEC'48.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 160)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1349

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "96", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:FBI Rpt:GRN FBLS or SCRS seen 5,6,7,8,11,13,14,20+28 DEC'48", LatLong: "35.877779 -106.294450", LatLongDMS: "35:52:40 N 106:17:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3890 (2213B6F6)

Date: 12/5/1948
Time: 21:30
Location: LAS VEGAS, NM
Description: Air Force C47+airliner crew. Flash. Huge orange fireball / collision course. Dives.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1350

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1960", HatchDesc: "LAS VEGAS,NM:AF C47+AIRLINER CREW:FLASH:HUGE ORG FBL/COLLISION COURSE:DIVES", LatLong: "35.600002 -105.216672", LatLongDMS: "35:36:00 N 105:13:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3891 (CE65AD1D)

Date: 12/5/1948
Location: Las Vegas (W of), NM
Description: AFOSI Case 8; AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar To Green Flare (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481205
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_509

Event 3892 (E55911DA)

Date: 12/5/1948
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 9; Commercial Pilot Reports Green Flare (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481205
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_510

Event 3893 (8F2B971A)

Date: 12/5/1948
Locations: Denver; Phoenix; Las Vegas, New Mexico; Sandia Peak; Albuquerque; Pioneer Airlines Flight 63
Description: 9:05 p.m. Pilot Capt. William R. Goade is flying a USAF C-47 from Denver to Phoenix. Just west of Las Vegas, New Mexico, he and his copilot Maj. Roger Carter spot a bright green flash. Some 22 minutes later, an identical flash rises from the east slope of Sandia Peak and follows a parabolic curve as the C-47 passes 20 miles northeast of Albuquerque. Capt. Ernest Van Lloyd and the crew of Pioneer Airlines Flight 63 also see the second object, described as first orange, then green.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 8: AF C-47 Pilot Observes UFO Similar to Green Flare”; Clark III 539; Sparks, p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1296

Event 3894 (212749FB)

Date: 12/5/1948
Description: Flying east of Las Vegas, New Mexico a C-47 pilot and two others saw a huge luminous green fireball at 9:27 p.m., which appeared to maneuver. The same night 12 green fireballs seen traveling rapidly north to south by security guards at military installations from 1930 to 2330 hours, including guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico where atomic bombs were being assembled.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 73; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398; (2) Edward J. Ruppelt, Report on Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 48; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection: The Secret History of the Government's Cover-Up, p. 70
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8193

Event 3895 (C36FC41E)

Date: 12/6/1948
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 10; AESS Observed Green Flare Directly Over Sandia Base (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481206
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_511

Event 3896 (A1512EA4)

Date: 12/6/1948
Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
Description: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees , commander of the Seventeenth District AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, orders an investigation into the previous night’s green fireball.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 539
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1297

Event 3897 (A170AF84)

Date: 12/6/1948
Location: USAF Scientific Advisory Board
Description: Project Sign is ordered to send copies of all its future cases and analyses to Maj. Boggs of the Office of Defensive Air, the ONI, and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1298

Event 3898 (353A6C34)

Date: 12/6/1948
Locations: Sandia Base; Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: 10:55 p.m. Atomic Energy Security Service Officer Joseph Toulouse sees a greenish flare one-third the apparent size of the moon at Sandia Base outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is visible for 3 seconds before it arcs downward and vanishes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 10: AESS Observed Green Flare Directly over Sandia Base”; Clark III 539; Sparks , p. 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1299

Event 3899 (C3D84655)

Date: 12/8/1948
Time: 18:30
Location: ESE / LAS VEGAS, NM
Description: 2 OSI agents / T7 plane. Very big green fireball northeast going quickly southwest straight and level. Then going down. Project Bluebook Case #223.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1948: 2 books: 1988 & 2000 Supplement. (Index 75)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1351

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1630", HatchDesc: "ESE/LAS VEGAS,NM:2 OSI AGENTS/T7 PLANE:VBIG GRN FBL NE>>SW S/L:THEN ↓:BBK#223", LatLong: "35.516668 -104.850005", LatLongDMS: "35:31:00 N 104:51:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "3"

Event 3900 (5FF1A904)

Date: 12/8/1948
Location: Las Vegas (20 miles E of), NM
Description: AFOSI Case 11; Agents In T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball At 13,000' (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481208
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_512

Event 3901 (8639D319)

Date: 12/8/1948
Location: Chanute AFB, IL
Description: (McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_513

Event 3902 (B7B16FF3)

Date: 12/8/1948
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: Two AFOSI officers, Capts. Melvin E. Neef and John J. Stahl Jr., interview every agency that might know something about green-flare operations but come up short. That evening, they are flying a T-7 out of Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico, at 5,000 feet when they see a brilliant green light, larger and more brilliant than a meteor or flare, traveling a flat trajectory 2,000 feet above them. They see it for 2 seconds before it burns out.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 11: Agents in T-7 Observe Intense Green Fireball at 13,000ʹ”; Clark III 539; Sparks , p. 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1300

Event 3903 (8C65F746)

Date: 12/9/1948
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude (Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_340
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 108.4km

Event 3904 (E5CACA5D)

Date: 12/9/1948
Location: Pittsburgh (near), PA
Description: USAF officers saw round object tothe N on converging course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_514

Event 3905 (2C03423C)

Date: 12/9/1948
Location: University of New Mexico
Description: Capt. Neef informs Lincoln LaPaz , director of meteoritics at the University of New Mexico, about the green fireball sightings. He says they do not sound like any meteors he is familiar with.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 539
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1301

Event 3906 (A73E725E)

Date: 12/10/1948
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_343
See also: 1/7/1948
See also: 11/1/1948

Event 3907 (66DAB13E)

Date: 12/10/1948
Location: U.S.
Description: The revised Project Sign report is issued, Air Intelligence Report Number 100-203-79, “Analysis of Fly- ing Object Incidents in the U.S.” AIR 203 [Some copies are confusingly dated April 28, 1949.] This is the cul- mination of Sign’s work since early August, augmented by ONI collaboration over the past two months. UFOs are not extraterrestrial the idea is hardly noticed. UFOs are probably real, but if so, there is a small chance that they are Soviet and therefore dangerous. All in all, the word “Soviet” dominates the commentary.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy , dated April 28, 1949; Bruce Maccabee, “Hiding the Hardware,” IUR 16, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1991: 7–8; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 52; Swords 65–66; Good Above, pp. 265 , 480–481
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1302

Event 3908 (3602E020)

Date: 12/12/1948
Time: 21:00
Location: BERNAL, NM
Description: L. LaPaz and 2 / car. Green fireball east going west / 2.2sec straight and level. Then going down. "No meteor". / r120p266.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO - Rivista di informazione Ufologica; 2 issues/year CISU. Giovanni Settimo ed.; C.P.82, 10100 Torino, ITALY. (Index 21)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1352

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "1540", HatchDesc: "BERNAL,NM:L.LAPAZ+2/CAR:GRN FBL E>W /2.2sec S/L:then ↓:"NO METEOR":/r120p266", LatLong: "35.394446 -105.316672", LatLongDMS: "35:23:40 N 105:19:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3909 (790193EE)

Date: 12/12/1948
Location: Starvation Peak (near Bernal), NM
Description: AFOSI Case 13; LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481212
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_515

Event 3910 (B1623C0C)

Date: 12/12/1948
Locations: Bernal, New Mexico; Los Alamos National Laboratory
Description: 9:02 p.m. Lincoln LaPaz and two USAF officers Sandia Base Intelligence Officer Lt. Allan B. Clark and Sandia’s AF-Civil Air Patrol Liaison Officer Maj. Charles L. Phillips see a green fireball near Bernal, New Mexico. He calculates that it is flying directly over Los Alamos National Laboratory, and it maintains its horizontal flight at the low altitude for a meteor of 8–10 miles. LaPaz arranges with the Atomic Energy Security Service to set up a patrol with Speed Graphic cameras to try to photograph the fireballs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 13: LaPaz, Captain, CAP Intel Officer Observed Green Fireball”; Clark III 539–540; Good Above, p. 266; Joel Carpenter, “Green Fireball Chronology,” October 6, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1303

Event 3911 (19F914EF)

Date: 12/12/1948
Description: A silent green fireball flew over Bernal, New Mexico toward the west for 2.2 seconds at a low altitude, then ascended. It was seen by Dr. La Paz, a meteor expert who later prepared a report on these anomalous green fireballs. He concluded that what he saw was not a meteor.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, December 1948; Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a cover-up 1941-1973, p. 398
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8351

Event 3912 (66DC1579)

Date: 12/13/1948
Description: Project Sign files are sent to the Navy by Col. William R. Clingerman.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Project ‘SIGN’ Files Sent Directly to the Navy,” December 13, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1304

Event 3913 (24469EC2)

Date: 12/13/1948
Description: Aeronautical engineer James E. Lipp writes an 8-page memo to Brig. Gen. Donald Putt on “Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish Spaceships.” Rejecting out of hand any links between UFO sightings and space travelers, it later appears as an appendix in the Project Grudge report.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: James E. Lipp, “Special Design and Performance Characteristics That Are Believed to Distinguish Spaceships,” December 13, 1948
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1305

Event 3914 (B5C9D077)

Date: 12/16/1948
Description: Astronomer J. Allen Hynek is officially tasked by Project Sign with studying UFO cases for astronomical explanations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: AMC contract W33-038-1118.
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1306

Event 3915 (62E27308)

Date: 12/16/1948
Description: Brig. Gen. Donald Putt , Director of USAF Research and Development, orders that the code word Sign be changed to Grudge since the Air Force bears a grudge against UFO reports, according to [Ruppelt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FJ.%5FRuppelt), effective in February. Morale plummets.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects ,” April 28, 1949; Sparks , p. 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1307

Event 3916 (DAE6D03C)

Date: 12/17/1948
Location: North Ambridge, PA
Description: Formation of 8 white luminescent rotating spherical objects (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_516

Event 3917 (3A38EE50)

Date: 12/20/1948
Location: Los Alamos (W of), NM
Description: AFOSI Case 14; AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball With Triangulation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481220
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_517

Event 3918 (A32402A6)

Date: 12/20/1948
Description: Sneider sends his summary of the Chiles-Whitted case, Air Intelligence Report number 102-122-79, to Cabell . It is later called “The Ghost of the Estimate” by some researchers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Capt. Robert R. Sneider, [untitled memorandum], December 20, 1948; Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1308

Event 3919 (F74CB75D)

Date: 12/20/1948
Locations: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees; Los Alamos
Description: In a confidential memo to Lt. Col. Doyle Rees , LaPaz argues that the green fireball he saw on December 12 was no meteor he has ever studied. He writes that the object moved far too slowly to have been a meteor and left no “trail of sparks or dust cloud” as would be typical of meteors flying at low altitudes. Other anomalous characteristics were the intense lime-green color, low altitude of only 8–10 miles yet exhibiting no sound, flat rather than arced trajectory, and turning on and off like a light switch. The interest in green fireballs inspires the creation of an informal group, the Los Alamos Astrophysical Association, whose members, all scientists and engineers with security clearances, are permitted to examine some classified Project Sign reports. This is essentially the beginning of Project Twinkle.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 540; World History Project, “Project Twinkle Established to Monitor Green Fireball Sightings”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1309

Event 3920 (5C3D60FB)

Date: 12/20/1948
Locations: west of Los Alamos, New Mexico; Los Alamos
Description: 8:54 p.m. Shortly after they have packed up their Speed Graphic cameras provided by LaPaz to try to photograph the green fireballs, personnel William D. Wilson, [Buford G. Truett](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41035455/buford-glenn-truett), [Clifford E. Strang](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49358793/clifford-e-strang), and George S. Skipper at an Atomic Energy Security Service post west of Los Alamos, New Mexico, spot a blue-white fireball moving in a nearly flat trajectory. Two objects separate from the main body and trail behind it. Thanks to an independent observation at another site, LaPaz is able to triangulate its flight path as 7–8 miles, west to east toward Los Alamos.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 14: AESS OP Sighted Green Fireball with Triangulation”; Sparks , p. 46
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1310

Event 3921 (EA742127)

Date: 12/28/1948
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 15: 04:31 - white obj disappeared w/greenish flash (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 481228
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_518

Event 3922 (34435E17)

Date: 12/29/1948
Location: New Mexico
Description: The Fourth Army sums up the UFO situation in the southwest in a statement. In December 5–28, there were 23 reports of “flares or moving lights.” All but two are in New Mexico and are an intense white or greenish- white light.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 540
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1311

Event 3923 (C815246C)

Date: 12/30/1948
Location: Unknown Location, Sweden
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_519

Year: 1949 (Back to Top)

Event 3924 (627A80D1)

Date: 1949
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86 Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S. air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of the first three production models seeing combat.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_344

Event 3925 (3ECB517E)

Date: 1949
Location: Bishop, CA
Description: Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_346

Event 3926 (5B05C20E)

Date: 1949
End date: 1990
Location: Soviet Union
Description: Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_347

Event 3927 (6697B08E)

Date: 1949
Location: Siberia
Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_348

Event 3928 (A4AA1A1D)

Date: 1949?
Locations: Mather AFB; Sacramento, California; Sacramento Mather Airport
Description: Evening. USAF Brig. Gen. William M. Garland is stationed at Mather AFB [now Sacramento Mather Airport] in Sacramento, California. He and a few other people, including some command pilots, are sitting in their yard when they see a “bright, silvery, round object” going too fast for an airplane.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan L. Aldrich, “Brigadier General William Madison Garland, USAF”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1312

Event 3929 (69BD2A44)

Date: 1949
Location: Fort Hood, Texas
Description: 1:00 a.m. A group of soldiers of the 2nd Armored Division stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, are tasked with standing guard over a plateau in a remote, fenced-off part of the base. After a few weeks, they see bright lights in the sky. They approach the plateau and descend slowly and silently. Suddenly, part of the plateau opens up and they can see light coming from inside. The lights descend into the opening, which closes over them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Timmermania: A Step Too Far into the Timmerman Files?” IUR 27, no. 4 Winter 2002–2003: 9; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, p. 146
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1313

Event 3930 (20204327)

Date: 1949
Location: Los Angeles, California
Description: Day. A student pilot is flying a two-seat Taylorcraft over Los Angeles, California. Just as he turns to a westerly flight heading, he sees an object speeding across the sky from north to south. Suddenly it stops abruptly, and the pilot heads toward the object climbing to within a few hundred feet. An intense flash of white comes from its tail and in less than a minute it is completely out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Recently Reported,” CUFOS Associate Newsletter 2, no. 10 October 1981: 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1314

Event 3931 (D112E17F)

Date: Early 1949
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Leon Davidson
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_345

Event 3932 (99977E55)

Date: 1/1949
Time: 23:00?
Location: CINCINNATI, OH
Description: Huge white ball / light circles airport tower. Both Air Traffic Controllers flee in panic!
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 249)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1353

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "220", HatchDesc: "CINCINNATI,OH:HUGE WHT BALL/LITE CIRCLES AIRPORT TWR:BOTH ATCs FLEE IN PANIC!", LatLong: "39.116669 -84.516671", LatLongDMS: "39:07:00 N 84:31:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3933 (E3B158AA)

Date: 1/1949
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Project Sign personnel begin to be reassigned. Loedding disappears from project records. Deyarmond’s attention goes elsewhere. Truettner makes one last serious attempt at interviewing about nuclear propulsion at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and is given a negative opinion on UFOs by Col. Ralph L. Wassell. He, too, disappears from the project. The civilian members are relieved of their duties and reassigned to other intelligence tasks within T-2. For Loedding in particular, his role and prestige are never the same. After a few further years of intelligence work, both he and Truettner leave AMC. For the higher military ranks [Llewelyn](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/124634808/raymond-anderson-llewellyn) and [Sneider](https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49319130/robert-raphael-sneider), all we know is that they are soon no longer involved, perhaps not even assigned to the same base. Even Clingerman and McCoy become less involved, perhaps because they have also heard that their tenures will soon be up and they will be sent to school and then transferred. The only persons left active on the project are two of the lower ranks: Lieut. Howard W. Smith and civilian George W. Towles . Their job is reduced basically to collection and filing. In this condition, or worse, the Air Force commitment to a UFO investigation project will remain until the summer of 1951.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael D. Swords, “Project Sign and the Estimate of the Situation,” JUFOS 7 2000: 52–53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1315

Event 3934 (D756160D)

Date: 1/1949
Location: Beatty, Nevada
Description: Early morning. Sarah Elizabeth Lampe watches an odd, disc-like electrical discharge, about 3 feet in diameter, that persists for “fully two minutes” during the Big Snow, 8 miles from Beatty, Nevada.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “True Mystic Experiences,” Fate 4, no. 2 March 1951: 84–89
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1316

Event 3935 (2DF08633)

Date: 1/1/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: JACKSON, MS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #233. 2 pilots / private plane. Near crash / 20m cylinder/cigar-shape. Going quickly southwest / 500mph. / r242p044.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 101)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1354

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "JACKSON,MS:BBK#233:2 PILOTS/PVT PLANE:nr CRASH/20m CGR:>>SW/500mph:/r242p044", LatLong: "32.300002 -90.183338", LatLongDMS: "32:18:00 N 90:11:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3936 (DB358EFF)

Date: 1/1/1949
Location: Jackson, MS
Description: Cigar-shaped object cross the sky in front of his plane (Project 1947; McDonald list; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490101
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_520

Event 3937 (4D477765)

Date: 1/1/1949
Description: The CIA Office of Scientific Intelligence is established. Willard Machle becomes assistant director for scientific intelligence. Problems almost immediately involve recruitment and filling positions with competent professionals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Rear Adm. R. H. Hillenkoetter, “Scientific Intelligence,” January 4, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1317

Event 3938 (2231B96A)

Date: 1/1/1949
Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Description: 5:00 p.m. Pilot Thomas A. Rush and his wife are in a private plane flying east of Jackson, Mississippi. They see a cigar-shaped object, 60 feet long and 10 feet wide, cross their path at an altitude of 1,500–1,600 feet. It is only about 500 feet distant. The speed is approximately 200 mph, and it accelerates to 400–500 mph. The object makes a 50° turn and is visible for 10–12 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped Object Encountered by Bush Pilot”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June , The Author, 1988, pp. 1–2; Sparks, p. 46
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1318

Event 3939 (57A3C377)

Date: 1/4/1949
Time: 14:00
Location: HICKAM FIELD, HI
Description: Project Bluebook Case #275. 1 observer. Silent saucer circles field. Blinks 1 / second(s). Going quickly NNE climbing.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1355

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "HICKAM FIELD,HI:BBK#275:1 OBS:SLNT SCR CCLS FIELD:BLINKS 1/sec:>>NNE CLIMBING", LatLong: "21.333334 -157.900008", LatLongDMS: "21:20:00 N 157:54:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3940 (D983ABEB)

Date: 1/4/1949
Location: Hickam Field, HI
Description: A flat white, elliptical object, with a matte top (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 275)
Reference: NICAP: 490104
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_521

Event 3941 (78941C5F)

Date: 1/4/1949
Time: 2 PM
Location: Hickam Field, Hawaii
Description: Witness: USAF pilot Capt. Paul Stoney, on ground. one flat white, elliptical object with a matte top circled while oscillating to the right and left, and then sped away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_17

Event 3942 (13F14C1D)

Date: 1/4/1949
Locations: Hickam Field; Honolulu, Hawaii; Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam
Description: 2:00 p.m. USAF pilot Capt. Paul R. Stoney , on the ground at Hickam Field [now part of Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam] near Honolulu, Hawaii, sees a flat, white, elliptical object about the size of a T-6 aircraft, circle at about 3,000 feet while oscillating to the right and left. It is apparently several miles off the base and slowly circling. It is bright white on the underside and darker on top and possesses no other structures. It proceeds for 15 minutes to make “rhythmical undulation” maneuvers in a cyclical manner. The “object seemed to maneuver under control at all times completing 360° turns and 90° turns.” The object then “departed climbing into the northeast at accelerated speed out of sight.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Disc Circles, Maneuvers, Climbs into the NE”; Sparks , p. 47
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1319

Event 3943 (DD3015B8)

Date: 1/4/1949
Description: At 2:07 p.m. in Hickham Field, Honolulu, Hawaii Captain Paul Storey sighted a large, round, flat disc-shaped object that "blinked" and flew silently with a type of whitish reflection. The top of the craft looked dark. It flew at 3,000 feet altitude and circled the airfield, blinking once per second, finally flying away climbing into the northeast sky. The sighting is listed by the Air Force as an “unknown.”
Reference: Johnson
Reference: US Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 275; Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings, p. 4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_81

Event 3944 (EF35E632)

Date: 1/5/1949
Location: Sea of Japan, Japan
Description: Unknown Object On Radar in Far East (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 490105
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_522

Event 3945 (3B2BF7B3)

Date: 1/5/1949
Locations: Wright-Patterson AFB; Dayton, Ohio
Description: The USAF Technical Information Division at Wright-Patterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio, transmits Project Sign’s list of UFO incidents to the Air Weather Service for analysis and recommendations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1320

Event 3946 (0C39FA92)

Date: 1/6/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_349
See also: 1/31/1949
See also: 7/25/1948

Event 3947 (52692158)

Date: 1/6/1949
Time: 17:30
Location: KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: Project Bluebook Case #242. Military guard. White 2' diamond / 1500' altitude. Crosses sky very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 105)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1356

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1495", HatchDesc: "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:BBK#242:MIL GUARD:WHT 2' DIAMOND/1500'alt:CROSSES SKY VFAST:", LatLong: "35.033335 -106.616672", LatLongDMS: "35:02:00 N 106:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "450", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3948 (BE689ED2)

Date: 1/6/1949
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 16: 17:50 - bright white diamond shaped obj faster than jet disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490106
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_523

Event 3949 (EDCE8513)

Date: 1/6/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 17: 03:10 - brilliant green obj at high speed disappeared behind mountainous horizon - Mexico (35.89° N, 106.31° W). (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490106
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_524

Event 3950 (7A64F84E)

Date: 1/6/1949
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: 5:30 p.m. PFC Everitt sees a bright-white, diamond-shaped light in horizontal flight from southeast to northwest above the Ordnance section at Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is about 1,500–2,000 feet altitude and flying faster than a jet. Possible meteor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Diamond-Shaped Light”; Sparks, p. 47
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1321

Event 3951 (CFB48E38)

Date: 1/7/1949
Description: The Research and Development Board writes a memo to USAF Intelligence on the green fireballs. It is signed by David Z. Beckley, chief of the R&DB Technical Intelligence Branch.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1322

Event 3952 (20D6BD5A)

Date: 1/10/1949
Locations: Tennessee; Oak Ridge National Laboratories; Russia
Description: FBI special agent Charlton C. McSwain sends a memo to J. Edgar Hoover enumerating the views of an AMC resident engineer identified only as “Mr. E” with the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft project at Oak Ridge National Laboratories in Tennessee that the flying discs are human-made nuclear missiles originating in Russia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 6–10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1323

Event 3953 (3DE143A2)

Date: 1/11/1949
Description: Angered over his opposition to defense economization policies and meeting secretly with Thomas Dewey’s Republicans, Truman tells Forrestal that Louis A. Johnson will soon replace him as Secretary of Defense.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1324

Event 3954 (5D027EBC)

Date: 1/13/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_350
Rocket type: V-2

Event 3955 (EFCE06A0)

Date: 1/13/1949
Location: NM
Description: CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be self-disintegrating.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p482)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_351

Event 3956 (510AC293)

Date: 1/13/1949
Location: Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas
Description: Col. Eustis L. Poland of US Army Intelligence G-2 sends a memo on behalf of the Commander of Fourth Army at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to the Director of Army Intelligence concerning the green fireballs. It recommends a scientific study because “these incidents are of such great importance, especially as they are occurring in the vicinity of sensitive installations.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. Eustis L. Poland, “Unconventional Aircraft,” January 13, 1949; Good Above, pp. 265 , 482
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1325

Event 3957 (FDF75FF9)

Date: 1/23/1949
Location: Tillamook (4 miles S of), OR
Description: Shiny, silvery, round stationary object about 10-15 ft size (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490123
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_525

Event 3958 (ED367611)

Date: 1/24/1949
Time: 23:50
Location: NEAR BERMUDA
Description: B29 rescue team. 1 mile / red glowing sea! Clouds lit. White beams going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 111)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1357

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr BERMUDA:B29 RESCUE TEAM:1 MILE/RED GLOWING SEA!:CLOUDS LIT:WHT BEAMS↑:", LatLong: "32.333335 -65.000003", LatLongDMS: "32:20:00 N 65:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bermuda", Strangeness: "6"

Event 3959 (C741B997)

Date: 1/24/1949
Location: Bermuda (About 250 miles SW of), At Sea
Description: Pilots saw a red glow on the ocean 1 mile in size emitting beams of light. (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490124
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_526

Event 3960 (29A923D2)

Date: 1/24/1949
Locations: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; North Pole
Description: An FBI memo from D. M. Ladd to Hoover documents speculation on a Soviet nuclear-powered disc by USAF Col. Clyde D. Gasser of the Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft NEPA project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Gasser reports rumors coming from Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio that nuclear-powered disc-shaped planes might be making incursions into US airspace and returning to the USSR over the North Pole.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: D. M. Ladd, “Flying Discs ,” January 24, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1326

Event 3961 (E3FEDCFA)

Date: 1/27/1949
Time: 22:20
Location: NEAR CORTEZ, FL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #252. Cucumber with row square windows. Spurts sparks / 250ms intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1358

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "nr CORTEZ,FL:BBK#252:CUCUMBER W/ROW SQR WINDOWS:SPURTS SPARKS/250ms INTERVALS", LatLong: "27.466668 -82.683337", LatLongDMS: "27:28:00 N 82:41:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3962 (9EA8DCD8)

Date: 1/27/1949
Location: Cortez-Bradenton, FL
Description: A cigar shaped object as long as 2 pullman cars with 7 lighted square windows and throwing sparks (Berliner; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 284)
Reference: NICAP: 490127
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_527

Event 3963 (206EA0F3)

Date: 1/27/1949
Time: 10:20 PM
Location: Cortez-Bradenton, Florida
Description: Witnesses: Capt. Sames, acting chief of the Aircraft Branch, Eglin AFB, and Mrs. Sames. They watched for 25 minutes while a cigar-shaped object as long as two Pullman cars and having seven lighted square windows and throwing sparks, descended and then climbed with a bouncing motion at an estimated 400 m.p.h.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_18

Event 3964 (1FADAE16)

Date: 1/27/1949
Locations: Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida; Cortez Road between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida
Description: 10:20–11:20 p.m. Capt. Eckerman Sannes, acting chief of the Aircraft Branch at Eglin AFB near Valparaiso, Florida, and his wife are driving slowly on Cortez Road between Bradenton and Cortez, Florida, when they observe a “cucumber-shaped” object. The object, seen through binoculars, seems as long as two Pullman cars, with 7 lighted, square windows. It is throwing sparks and approximately 8–10 miles away. In the first sighting at 10:20 p.m., the object approaches from the south going north, moving from an altitude of 8,000 feet in a gradual descent until lost behind trees. In the second sighting at 11:20 p.m., the object is seen in the north, heading south and making a gradual turn to the west. It descends then climbs with a bouncing motion up 4,000 feet, down 2,000 feet at about 400–500 mph, resulting in an overall climb and loss to view at an altitude of around 40,000 feet. The bouncing appears to start after the final 270° course change to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Two Sightings of Object with Lighted Windows”; Sparks, p. 49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1327

Event 3965 (666C600B)

Date: 1/28/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km attitude (Defective performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_352
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 59.9km

Event 3966 (4A678C27)

Date: 1/30/1949
Location: El Paso (Near Amarillo and Lamesa), TX
Description: AFOSI Case 18; 20: 17:54 - green ball shaped obj broke into pieces (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490130
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_528

Event 3967 (3ECB0121)

Date: 1/30/1949
Location: Roswell, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 19: 200 observers. W-E, 2000', horizontal flight, blue green, moving slowly, disappeared in shower of lighted fragments (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490130
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_529

Event 3968 (E43870D7)

Date: 1/30/1949
Location: southwest of Roswell, New Mexico
Description: 5:54 p.m. Hundreds of people see a green meteor come out of the northwest and vanish southwest of Roswell, New Mexico. It is completely silent.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 18: Green Fireball Event Witnessed in New Mexico”; Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr. OSI-1-90,” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 15–16; Sparks , p. 49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1328

Event 3969 (ADCCD58D)

Date: 1/31/1949
Location: NM
Description: Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any. (Possible search teams in UFOs.)
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p53, CRASH)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_353

Event 3970 (C2F488DE)

Date: 1/31/1949
Location: NM
Description: MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/1948 and 01/06/1949, sightings of UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M. (Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City)
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research ("Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good p483, B1-G p30)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_354
See also: 7/25/1948
See also: 7/1947
See also: 8/4/1950

Event 3971 (0E26D413)

Date: 1/31/1949
Locations: Kirtland AFB in New Mexico; Amarillo; Lamesa, Texas
Description: Kirtland AFB in New Mexico notifies the Pentagon that it will launch an immediate investigation of the green fireballs, noting that “local commanders [are] perturbed by implications of phenomena.” LaPaz speaks to dozens of witnesses of the January 30 fireball and manages a rough triangulation of the fireball’s 143-mile path from Amarillo to Lamesa, Texas. He estimates its speed at 25,000–50,000 mph, with a beginning altitude of 60,000 feet and a final altitude around 40,000 feet. LaPaz accompanies search teams to bring back any fragments. They end up in the area of Lamesa but give up after a few days of fruitless search. He later tells AFOSI agent Paul Ryan that the fireballs are artificial, perhaps radio-controlled missiles directed by enemy agents in the Southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Commanding Officer, Kirtland AFB, “Nr. OSI-1-90,” January 31, 1949; Clark III 540
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1329

Event 3972 (D6037CEF)

Date: 1/31/1949
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Description: The FBI field office in San Antonio, Texas, issues a memo on UFOs, “Protection of Vital Installations.” It is sent to Hoover , G-2, ONI, OSI, and mentions a meeting among these groups on UFOs, “considered top secret by intelligence officers of both the army and the air forces.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File #65-58300,” January 31, 1949; ClearIntent, p. 149; Good Above, pp. 267 , 483
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1330

Event 3973 (F8822AD8)

Date: 2/1949
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.”
Type: final report
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_355

Event 3974 (C84C262F)

Date: 2/1949
Time: 22:30
Location: GRIFFISS AIR FORCE BASE, NY
Description: Many observer(s). White sphere/orb/globe 1K' over runway. Jet scrambles and collides. Going up [to] and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 191)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1359

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "15", Elev: "154", HatchDesc: "GRIFFISS AFB,NY:MANY OBS:WHT ORB 1K'OVR RUNWAY:JET SCRAMBLES+COLLIDES:↑ + away", LatLong: "43.266669 -75.366670", LatLongDMS: "43:16:00 N 75:22:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "7"

Event 3975 (48A7E39D)

Date: 2/1949
Time: 1630
Location: Pucusana, Peru
Description: C. A. V. an oil company employee, 30, was driving to Lima when he saw a shiny disk at ground level. He walked toward it for 10 min. Three figures came out as he was 20 m away. They looked like mummies, had joined legs and one large foot. They "slid" along the ground. They were covered with a strange "towely" skin, asked the witness where they were, had a lengthy discussion with him, and took him for a trip in their craft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Lor. III 122 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_68

Event 3976 (6E2C613F)

Date: 2/1949
Location: New York
Description: Chemist H. Marshall Chadwell, from the New York office of the Atomic Energy Commission, is appointed assistant director of scientific intelligence at the CIA.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1331

Event 3977 (CC48D5B1)

Date: 2/1949
Alternate date: 3/1949
Locations: Standard Oil of New Jersey; Pan-American Highway; Lima, Peru
Description: 4:30 p.m. A representative of the International Petroleum Company, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, is driving noth along the Pan-American Highway about 6 miles south of Lima, Peru, when he sees a metallic disc hovering low above the desert on his right. He walks over to it, and three mummy-like creatures about 5 feet tall emerge. They speak to him in both English and Spanish, explaining to him that they come from another star system, are concerned about our use of atomic energy, use solar power, no longer have sex, and reproduce by subdividing. They invite him inside the disc, which from the inside has transparent walls. He sees no instruments, only a padded ledge.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs over the Americas, Signet, 1968, pp. 122–148
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1346

Event 3978 (FEFAE01E)

Date: 2/1/1949
Location: Wright-Patterson
Description: Col. Hanna ?, assistant chief of the Power Plant Laboratory at Wright-Patterson? and project engineer for Project Sign, meets with other Project Sign personnel and concludes that nuclear-powered UFOs are improbable.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Project Status Report on Project Sign, February 4, 1949; Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1333

Event 3979 (F76DCF98)

Date: Early 2/1949
Locations: Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB
Description: Writer Sidney Shalett is given a guided tour of AMC at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, a glimpse of low-interest UFO cases, and a few conservative opinions by Air Force personnel.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1332

Event 3980 (21F16B2A)

Date: 2/4/1949
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.”
Type: confidential message
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_356

Event 3981 (5E13B70F)

Date: 2/8/1949
Locations: UCLA; University of New Mexico in Albuquerque; Sandia Base
Description: UCLA geophysicist Joseph Kaplan meets with LaPaz at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. He finds LaPaz’s understanding of the green fireball reports unsettling. He discusses the matter with Capt. Melvin Neef and Maj. William Godsoe Fourth Army Intelligence liaison officer at Sandia Base. He promises to alert Scientific Advisory Board chairman Von Kármán and urge an investigation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 540
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1334

Event 3982 (86D0BBDC)

Date: 2/10/1949
Location: Dayton (North of), OH
Description: Meteor or UFO Observed By Air Crew (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 1)
Reference: NICAP: 490210
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_530

Event 3983 (FE111204)

Date: 2/11/1949
Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH
Description: USAF Project "GRUDGE" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_99

Event 3984 (8B6E9EA0)

Date: 2/11/1949
Location: US
Description: Project name changed to "Grudge." Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were then "evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist."
Type: project name change
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 85-88
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_858

Event 3985 (5375F7C6)

Date: 2/11/1949
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: Kaplan meets in Washington, D.C., with Von Kármán , who is impressed enough to write Gen. Charles P. Cabell that the green fireballs look like a serious issue that needs to be addressed, perhaps by LaPaz .
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 79, 497
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1335

Event 3986 (D5EE0B9E)

Date: 2/11/1949
Locations: Ohio State University; USAF Intelligence Directorate; Cambridge Labs
Description: Project Sign releases a final sanitized report, “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project ‘Sign,’” Technical Report F-TR-2274-1A, authored by Lawrence Truettner and Albert B. Deyarmond and approved by Col. Clingerman chief of USAF Technical Intelligence Division and Col. Howard McCoy chief of the Intelligence Department. 72 pages are visible in the NICAP copy and 1,537 pages some illegible are available on the Blue Book microfilm. Its conclusions are based on 273 reports 243 US and 30 foreign and it summarizes the characteristics of four types of UFOs: flying discs, cigar-shaped objects, spherical objects, and balls of light. It acknowledges the possibility that “these aerial objects are visitors from another planet” and refers to commentary in Appendix D by James Lipp of the RAND project. “No definite and conclusive evidence is yet available that would prove or disprove the existence of these unidentified objects as real aircraft of unknown and unconventional configuration. It is unlikely that positive proof of their existence will be obtained without examination of the remains of crashed objects. Evaluation of reports of unidentified objects is a necessary activity of military intelligence agencies. Such sightings are inevitable, and under wartime conditions rapid and convincing solutions of such occurrences are necessary to maintain morale of military and civilian personnel. In this respect, it is considered that the establishment of procedures and training of personnel is in itself worth the effort expended on this project.” Truettner and Deyarmond, in a between-the-lines rebuke of Cabell’s order not to consider the ETH, recommend that if enough cases are examined and proven to have no security risks, then the project should be terminated. The report is distributed to AMC, USAF Intelligence Directorate, ONR, Cambridge Labs, Air Weather Services, Hynek at Ohio State University, the RAND Project, and the USAF Scientific Advisory Board.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: L. H. Truettner and A. B. Deyarmond, Unidentified Aerial Objects: Project “Sign,” Air Materiel Command Technical Report no. F-TR-2274-IA, February 1949; Sparks, p. 12; Swords 72
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1336

Event 3987 (914F6A62)

Date: 2/12/1949
Description: Project Sign officially becomes Project Grudge.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1337

Event 3988 (B5E75E1B)

Date: 2/12/1949
Location: Quito, Ecuador
Description: Another realistic Spanish-language radio version of The War of the Worlds is broadcast in Quito, Ecuador, causing panic, a riot, and a major fire.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John Gosling, Waging the War of the Worlds, McFarland, 2009, pp. 102– 113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1338

Event 3989 (F4914F1E)

Date: 2/14/1949
Time: 18:40
Location: EAST / GANADO, AZ
Description: US191. Project Bluebook Case #262. Salsbury and 1 / car. Green-white fireball hovers. Arcs downward going west.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1360

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1946", HatchDesc: "E/GANADO,AZ:US191:BBK#262:SALSBURY+1/CAR:GRN-WHT FBL HVRS:ARCs DOWNWARD >W", LatLong: "35.711113 -109.511116", LatLongDMS: "35:42:40 N 109:30:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "5"

Event 3990 (12430BAF)

Date: 2/14/1949
Location: Canado, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 22: 18:40 - brilliant white, slightly green stationary obj fell to the west (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_531

Event 3991 (D3558F68)

Date: 2/14/1949
Description: At 18:40 p.m. two people driving near East Ganado Mission, Arizona saw a greenish white fireball hover, then arc downward toward the west.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_912

Event 3992 (86BCEB76)

Date: 2/15/1949
Description: Maj. Gen. Cabell sets out a revised list of Air Intelligence reporting requirements for “unconventional aircraft.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Unconventional Aircraft,” Air Intelligence Requirements Memorandum no. 5, February 15, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1339

Event 3993 (87155BA0)

Date: 2/16/1949
Location: Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico
Description: A Conference on Aerial Phenomena is held at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico with military representatives Lincoln LaPaz, Norris E. Bradbury, Marshall Holloway, Frederick Reines, and Edward Teller in attendance. Representatives from Project Grudge are noticeably absent. LaPaz tells the attendees that while most meteors are blue-green, the green fireballs are described as pale green or yellow-green. Normal meteors rarely move in long, horizontal paths with nearly constant velocities. He says there are 10 incidents that strongly fit the pattern and 20 others that might. The scientists agree to set up a series of instrument stations to photograph and analyze the fireballs. Teller thinks the fireballs might be electrical-optical phenomena. Navy Commander Richard S. Mandelkorn , who is in attendance, writes in his report that “there is cause for concern of the continued occurrences of unexplainable phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sensitive installations.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Cmdr. Richard S. Mandelkorn, Report of a Trip to Los Alamos, New Mexico, 16 February 1949, February 18, 1949; Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, [Minutes of February 16 Conference on Aerial Phenomena, Los Alamos], March 29, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June , The Author, 1988, pp. 23–53; Swords 79–80; Good Above, pp. 265–266
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1340

Event 3994 (F7EFDC30)

Date: 2/17/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 100.6km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_357
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 100.6km

Event 3995 (B7EAE766)

Date: 2/17/1949
Location: Grants, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 23: 10:00 - oval orange luminous object moving south in vertical climb (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490217
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_532

Event 3996 (9B7A51B0)

Date: 2/17/1949
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 24; time unknown - Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490217
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_533

Event 3997 (CE20DE5A)

Date: 2/17/1949
Time: night
Location: France, exact location unknown
Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm with a green lightning flash. It became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Oltre il Cielo, Vol. I (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_69

Event 3998 (9927E26A)

Date: 2/17/1949
Locations: University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Sandia Base, New Mexico
Description: 5:57 p.m. University of New Mexico Professor of Civil Engineering Marvin May sees a brilliant white object in the west at 6° elevation for less than 6 minutes in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The object is first round then shifts to an ellipse as it approaches, then it appears to be elongated like a bent pipe with corners, one full moon in length. It makes a slight climbing turn to the north, shifts to peach color as it makes a rapid sharp turning climb to the south, disappearing in cloudless sky by diminishing in size and brightness. At the same time, 100 guards at Sandia Base, New Mexico, including the officer of the guard, see a yellow-orange cigar-shaped object for seven minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 24: Vertical Climb, Then Leveled Off”; Sparks, p. 50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1341

Event 3999 (77973387)

Date: 2/17/1949
Description: Alain Berard saw a large, bright object land near his farm in France with a flash of green lightning. It then became dark. As he approached the craft, the witness saw three figures with stocky short legs, apparently without heads. Frightened, he fired a gun at them three times. A moment later the object took off vertically.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193, citing Oltre il Cielo, Volume I
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_957

Event 4000 (175F878D)

Date: 2/18/1949
Location: Los Alamos
Description: Cabell writes Von Kármán and says he has a transcript of the Los Alamos meeting and that Hynek is studying the green fireballs topic. He adds: “It seems unlikely that domestic incidents can be attributed to the activity of a foreign power or a science unknown to our specialists.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June , The Author, 1988, pp. 12–13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1342

Event 4001 (C939BFF0)

Date: 2/18/1949
Locations: Continental Air Command; McCoy
Description: A Fourth Air Force letter quotes Project Sign’s requirements for radar reporting, as stated by the Continental Air Command NORAD’s predecessor on February 4. The USAF Air Defense Command is subordinate to ConAC at this time. The requirements admit that a “large number of targets appearing on radar screens remain unidentified.” It refers to McCoy’s November 30, 1948, letter on Sign’s preference for radar tracks of aerial objects that show extremely fast or slow speeds, vertical or near vertical ascent or descent, extraordinary maneuverability, and extreme altitudes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 810
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1343

Event 4002 (D99D39E0)

Date: 2/23/1949 (approximate)
Location: CHILEAN ARTURO PRAT ANTARCTIC STATION/DEPOT/FACILITY
Description: Photographs. 3 saucers maneuver. / r134#1p26 / Diego Zuniga.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA; BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 233)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1361

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "Antarctic below 70 degrees South", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "Chilean Arturo PRAT ANTARCTIC STn:FOTOS:3 SCRS MNVR:/r134#1p26 /Diego Zuniga", LatLong: "-62.483336 -59.650003", LatLongDMS: "62:29:00 S 59:39:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CHL", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4003 (220144D5)

Date: 2/23/1949
Location: Sanberg Pass, CA
Description: "Sausage" Circles T-11 At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490223
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_534

Event 4004 (319364C4)

Date: 2/23/1949
Location: Kirtland AFB’s Office of Special Investigations
Description: McCoy sends Capt. Roger Groseclose and Lt. Howard Smith to Kirtland AFB’s Office of Special Investigations to discuss the green fireballs with LaPaz and Neef and to mollify them for not showing up at the February 16 conference.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 541
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1344

Event 4005 (7C104D74)

Date: 2/24/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 km)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_358
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129km

Event 4006 (0B966CDE)

Date: 2/24/1949
Locations: Neef; Agent Jack Boling
Description: Groseclose and Smith have an unpleasant exchange with Neef , LaPaz , Agent Jack Boling, and Army Maj. Godsoe , who says it’s not worth AFOSI’s time to conduct investigations for AMC. The AMC officers retort that the fireballs are not an Army concern. Groseclose and Smith say they are concerned with all anomalous aerial phenomena. Disgusted, Godsoe leaves the room. Groseclose and Smith then turn on LaPaz, criticizing him for only sending AMC raw data and not finished analyses. LaPaz says he is on leave as a volunteer and must go back to the University of New Mexico, unless he sees a contract. However, AMC agrees to set up a network of observation posts with cameras, transits, and trained personnel.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June , The Author, 1988, pp. 11, 14–15; Clark III 541
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1345

Event 4007 (1B48EF66)

Date: 2/25/1949
Time: 03:00
Location: LITTLE ROCK, AR
Description: 50' glowing-saucer. Silent. Fast stops and maneuvers. Going up [to] thousands' / second(s). Beam going down / ground. / MJ#250.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 154)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1362

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "LITTLE ROCK,AR:50'GLO-SCR:SLNT:FAST STOPS+MNVRS:↑1000s'/SEC:BEAM↓/GND:/MJ#250", LatLong: "34.733335 -92.283338", LatLongDMS: "34:44:00 N 92:17:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4008 (014AF0A9)

Date: 2/27/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 25; 19:05 - Green-white fireball in horizaontal flight low in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490227
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_535

Event 4009 (ADB85FD0)

Date: 2/28/1949
Time: 20:30
Location: SANDBURG PASS, CA
Description: Large jet-blimp glows. Going south. Circles USAF T11 / 40 second(s) / 10K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 153)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1363

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1070", HatchDesc: "SANDBURG PASS,CA:LRG JET-BLIMP GLOWS:>S:CCLS USAF T11/40sec/10K'alt:", LatLong: "34.733335 -118.850006", LatLongDMS: "34:44:00 N 118:51:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4010 (C4AFBAC4)

Date: 3/1949
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_359

Event 4011 (57215126)

Date: 3/1949 (approximate)
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Description: City park. Beam zaps man's arm. Arm goes limp. No source seen.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1364

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "18", HatchDesc: "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:CITY PARK:BEAM ZAPS MAN'S ARM:ARM GOES LIMP:no source seen", LatLong: "37.783335 -122.466673", LatLongDMS: "37:47:00 N 122:28:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4012 (1264F328)

Date: 3/1949
Time: 10:00?
Location: NORTH / NEWMAN, NM
Description: 2 soldiers. Large domed saucer stops over US54 / 15 minute(s). Going east then 90° turn quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Mark Cashman email: Website: http://www.temporaldoorway.com
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1365

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "1220", HatchDesc: "N/NEWMAN,NM:2 GIs:LRG DOMED SCR STOPS OVR US54/15min:>E then 90° TURN ↑↑", LatLong: "32.016668 -106.322227", LatLongDMS: "32:01:00 N 106:19:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4013 (4C4FF7BA)

Date: 3/1949
Locations: Strategic Air Command; USSR
Description: Strategic Air Command head Gen. Curtis LeMay delivers the first SAC Emergency War Plan, which calls for dropping 133 atomic bombs on 70 cities in the USSR within 30 days. LeMay predicts that World War III will last no longer than 30 days.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Curtis LeMay”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1347

Event 4014 (660BB84E)

Date: 3/2/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 26; 00:10 - AESS Inspector Reports High Speed Light (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490302
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_536

Event 4015 (8C10C65B)

Date: 3/2/1949
Description: Sidney Shalett provides the USAF Directorate of Intelligence a draft of his upcoming article for review. The Air Force is not pleased, objecting to Shalett stating an “official” USAF position, his claim that the Air Force is his sole source of information although it is, a quote by Irving Langmuir criticizing Project Sign, and any inference that the Air Force and Navy are not cooperating.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1348

Event 4016 (453EB069)

Date: 3/3/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 27; 01:59 - bright green obj went straight down and disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490303
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_537

Event 4017 (B7AC8C25)

Date: 3/6/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: Blue-white object about 2 ft x 1 ft in size (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490306
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_538

Event 4018 (068FEF31)

Date: 3/6/1949
End date: 3/7/1949
Location: Killeen Base [now West Fort Hood], Texas
Description: 8:30 p.m. Army Pvts. Martin Fensterman and Frank Luisi, on security patrol near Killeen Base [now West Fort Hood], Texas, a nuclear weapons storage site, see a flash of pale blue light in the sky to the northeast. At 8:55 p.m., a quarter mile away, Pvt. Harold Moore sees a white light with an orange trail flash across the western horizon. At 9:00 p.m., from inside the base boundary, Sgt. Hubert Vickery and Pfc. John Ransom notice a pale blue-white light streaking across the western sky low over the horizon. Between 1:15 and 2:00 a.m., four more security patrols report burst of lights like a flash bulb.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark III 541–542; Sparks, pp. 50–51; “Fort Hood Sightings, 1949,” Texas UFO Museum and Research Library, February 5, 2014
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1349

Event 4019 (7E8D78C8)

Date: 3/7/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 32-34; PFC. Max Eugene Manlove, 1st Provost Squadron, Camp Hood, Texas, observed a teardrop-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_539

Event 4020 (7586740C)

Date: 3/8/1949
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: Blue Book. Guard stations 103+106. Silent green-white object going southeast / cloud-altitude. / r133#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 157)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1366

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:BBK:GUARD STNs 103+106:SLNT GRN-WHT OBJ >SE/CLOUD-alt:/r133#3", LatLong: "35.872224 -106.300005", LatLongDMS: "35:52:20 N 106:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4021 (9754BE09)

Date: 3/8/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 36; 18:36 - bright white w/greenish tint went out or disappeared behind cloud (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490308
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_540

Event 4022 (C4A08F40)

Date: 3/8/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 37; 18:35 - white aluminum colored elliptical obj disappeared behind trees (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_541

Event 4023 (052703E4)

Date: 3/8/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: One white and one yellowish-red light in level flight (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490308
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_542

Event 4024 (F56FA4FD)

Date: 3/8/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Texas
Description: 1:03 a.m. Two infantrymen half a mile apart at Killeen Base, Texas, see apparently separate streaking bright lights one white, the other yellowish red. The latter one covers 60° of sky, appearing and disappearing at about the same angle above the horizon. Cpl. Luke Sims is able to run 10 paces to a field telephone before it vanishes. All observers insist these are not meteors and are more like flares.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas, OSI Case 39”; SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949; Clark III 542; Sparks , p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1350

Event 4025 (ED12D29D)

Date: 3/8/1949
Description: A silent greenish-white object was sighted in the sky near the Los Alamos Atomic Energy research facility in New Mexico. It flew toward the southeast at the altitude of the cloud layer, and was seen by guards Patterson and Lang from two guard stations: 103 and 106.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs a History - 1949 (volume 1), p. 57; Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, March 1949 report
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1374

Event 4026 (A7371C16)

Date: 3/13/1949
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 40; 21:55 - Bluish-greenish white obj 1/2 diameter of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490313
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_543

Event 4027 (429E1A7E)

Date: 3/13/1949
Location: Sandia Base, New Mexico
Description: 9:53 p.m. Two MPs guarding the Technical Area at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see a silent, spherical object, bluish- or greenish-white, with a flaming blue tail twice as long as the body, which is apparently half the size of the full moon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “March 13, 1949, Sandia Base, NM, OSI Case 40”; Sparks , p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1351

Event 4028 (B18E05A1)

Date: 3/15/1949
Description: A memo on UFOs to Willard Machle by a Dr. Stone from the CIA Office of Scientific Investigation dismisses the idea of UFOs as foreign aircraft and suggests they are misidentifications of other phenomena.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, p. 113
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1352

Event 4029 (4348E773)

Date: 3/17/1949
Time: 19:50
Location: FORT HOOD, TX
Description: Project Bluebook Case #319. Fireballs etc. mimic actual flare tests one hour later? / r185p2.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 330)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1367

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "60", Elev: "283", HatchDesc: "FORT HOOD,TX:BBK#319:FBLS etc MIMIC ACTUAL FLARE TESTS 1hr LATER?/r185p2", LatLong: "31.183335 -97.766671", LatLongDMS: "31:11:00 N 97:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "4"

Event 4030 (04E8A181)

Date: 3/17/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: 7 separate sightings by trained artillery observers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 319)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_544

Event 4031 (02FCA20D)

Date: 3/17/1949
Time: 7:52 PM
Location: Camp Hood, Texas
Description: Witnesses: guards of the 2nd Armored Division. While awaiting the start of a flare firing, they watched, for an hour, while eight large, green, red and white flare-like objects flew in generally straight lines.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_19

Event 4032 (A4DFDA88)

Date: 3/17/1949
Locations: Killeen Base, Texas; Camp Hood
Description: Seven sightings of large, green, red, and white flares take place at Killeen Base, Texas, including the previously skeptical Capt. Horace McCulloch, assistant G-2 of the Second Armored Division at Camp Hood, who is driving between Camp Hood and Killeen Base to prepare a test firing of some flares to prove that recent sightings are not anomalous. McCulloch puts the entire base on alert.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 542; Sparks, p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1353

Event 4033 (0AA69B3C)

Date: 3/18/1949
Location: Fort Chimo, Quebec, CAN
Description: Red light like an aircraft light traveling W to E at high altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_545

Event 4034 (CB2EDD74)

Date: 3/21/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_360
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km

Event 4035 (38F046F7)

Date: 3/22/1949
Locations: SAC San Antonio, Texas; ATIC's office
Description: SAC San Antonio, Texas, sends a memo to FBI headquarters regarding the January 31 communication on Protection of Vital Installations, emphasizing that USAF and the Army consider the matter “secret.” Fourth Army Intelligence is now calling UFOs “unconventional aircraft” and ATIC’s office is now Project Grudge. It also discusses green fireball cases.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: SAC, San Antonio, “Protection of Vital Installations, Bureau File 65-58300,” March 22, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1354

Event 4036 (FB210268)

Date: 3/25/1949
Description: J. Edgar Hoover sends a memo to a large number of FBI offices indicating that “flying discs are believed to be man-made missiles rather than natural phenomenon,” probably made in Russia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: John Edgar Hoover, “Flying Discs,” March 25, 1949; ClearIntent, p. 161
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1355

Event 4037 (54279B17)

Date: 3/27/1949
Location: Tucumcari, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 42; 18:00-18:05 - amber colored, long and narrow obj faded out in distance (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490327
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_546

Event 4038 (8AB7887C)

Date: 3/27/1949
Location: Montoya, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 43; 18:00 - a contrail-like yellow-amber-orange object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490327
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_547

Event 4039 (FFD886B9)

Date: 3/27/1949
Location: Tucumcari, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 44; 10:15 - bright orange, long and narrow obj faded in distance (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490327
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_548

Event 4040 (E166EC8A)

Date: 3/27/1949
Location: Tucumcari, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 45; 18:00 - orange obj about the size of C-47 at 10,000 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490327
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_549

Event 4041 (E8E64557)

Date: 3/28/1949
Location: Pentagon
Description: James Forrestal leaves office in a formal ceremony. He rides back to the Pentagon with his opponent Stuart Symington , who talks to him about something troubling. Forrestal appears traumatized. Forrestal sits in his office, dazed and incoherent, repeating, “You are a loyal fellow.”
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1356

Event 4042 (CE914081)

Date: 3/29/1949
Location: Shemya AFB - Aleutian Islands, AK
Description: Bombers see a dull-yellowish light flying at 2,400 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_550

Event 4043 (75395CC4)

Date: 3/31/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood (east of), TX
Description: A reddish white ball of fire pass horizontally over the base airstrip (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_551

Event 4044 (A0F57394)

Date: 3/31/1949
Locations: Hobe Beach, Florida; Bethesda, Maryland
Description: Forrestal is flown to Hobe Beach, Florida, to stay with his friend Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett, where his wife is vacationing. He meets with psychiatrist William C. Menninger who diagnoses “severe depression” of the type “seen in operational fatigue during the war” and psychologist Capt. George N. Raines from the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Maryland. Forrestal has several hysterical episodes when they are there, ranting about Communists following him, and perhaps one suicide attempt.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1357

Event 4045 (7D5F5C76)

Date: 3/31/1949
Description: CIA’s H. L. Bowers writes a memo to Dr. Machle , “Notes and Comments on Unidentified Aerial Objects-- Project Sign,” stating that Deyarmond thinks UFOs will turn out to be another “sea serpent.” Nonetheless, they must be investigated.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Document released to Brad Sparks but not in subsequent CIA FOIA releases; Good Above, p. 330
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1358

Event 4046 (09E146AA)

Date: 3/31/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Texas
Description: 11:50 p.m. Lieut. Frederick Davis, on patrol east of Killeen Base, Texas, sees a reddish-white ball of fire passing horizontally above the base airstrip. After 10–15 seconds it disappears without descending. He notes interference on the telephone line when he calls the report in.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Field Telephone Affected by BOL”; Clark III 542; Sparks , p. 53
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1359

Event 4047 (607FBCF6)

Date: 4/1949
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico
Description: 2 UFO's tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_101

Event 4048 (082E3725)

Date: 4/2/1949
Locations: National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland; White House
Description: Menninger and Raines fly Forrestal to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, where he can be treated quietly. On the drive to the hospital from the airport, Forrestal attempts to jump out of the car but is restrained. Forrestal declares he does not expect to leave the hospital alive. He is admitted under the care of Raines, who diagnoses him with involutional melancholia and places him in a VIP suite on the 16th floor. Forrestal’s personal diaries are removed from his old office and taken to the White House, where they remain for a year.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1360

Event 4049 (7945615C)

Date: 4/3/1949
Time: 11:50
Location: DILLON, MT
Description: Project Bluebook Case #304. 4 observer(s). Classic 20' metal saucer. Rocks 6x. Going [to] over airport. Shoots going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 160)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1368

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "4", Elev: "1553", HatchDesc: "DILLON,MT:BBK#304:4 OBS:CLASSIC 20'MTL SCR:ROCKS 6x:> ovr AIRPORT:SHOOTS >>E", LatLong: "45.216669 -112.638894", LatLongDMS: "45:13:00 N 112:38:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4050 (805AC795)

Date: 4/3/1949
Location: Dillon (1 mile SE of), MT
Description: Object like 2 inverted plates-matte blue-grey non-reflected bottom (Berliner; cf. FOIA; Jan Aldrich) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490403
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_552

Event 4051 (56EF902A)

Date: 4/3/1949
Time: 11:55 AM
Location: Dillon, Montana
Description: Witnesses: construction company owner Gosta Miller and three other unnamed persons. One object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face; matte bottom, bright aluminum top; 20' diameter, 4-5' thickness. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, rocked; all this was very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_20

Event 4052 (16586673)

Date: 4/3/1949
Location: Russia
Description: Broadcaster Walter Winchell announces on his radio program that the “flying saucers, never explained by anyone in authority are now definitely known to have been guided missiles shot all the way from Russia.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Two,” Saturday Night Uforia
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1361

Event 4053 (658C6431)

Date: 4/3/1949
Description: In Dillon, Montana construction company owner Gosta Miller and three others watched an unidentified flying object shaped like two plates attached face-to-face at 11:55 a.m. The object had a matte bottom and a bright aluminum top. The dimensions of the object were estimated to be 20-feet in diameter by 4-5 feet thick. It rocked or rotated in six cycles, descended, rocked, flew, and rocked. All of these maneuvers happened very fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 60
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1812

Event 4054 (BED357EE)

Date: 4/4/1949
Time: 22:20
Location: CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: USAF man. Saucer with clicking sound going west. Arcs going southwest. USAF and FBI investigation.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 162)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1369

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, COV: Indication of coverup

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "57", HatchDesc: "CASTLE AFB,CA:USAF MAN:SCR W/CLICKING SOUND > W:ARCS >SW:USAF+FBI INVESTIGATn", LatLong: "37.416668 -120.533339", LatLongDMS: "37:25:00 N 120:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4055 (DBE02A45)

Date: 4/4/1949
Location: Merced, CA
Description: Witness and dog heard an intense clicking sound coming from the sky and saw a dark object (NICAP: 04 - Animal Reactions, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490404
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_553

Event 4056 (9DE2F515)

Date: 4/4/1949
Time: 10:20 PM
Location: Merced, California
Description: Witness: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and major. One generally round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted. 35 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_21

Event 4057 (5AB2FEE2)

Date: 4/4/1949
Description: William Parrott, former Air Force pilot and Major, sighted a round object with a curved bottom and dull coloring at 10:20 p.m. in Merced, California. The object gave off a clicking sound until overhead. Parrott's dog reacted by barking and running around while the UFO was in sight, about 35 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1829

Event 4058 (C29C5CAF)

Date: 4/5/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 47; 22:00 - green w/red afterglow obj of tremendous speed disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_554

Event 4059 (B1283BEE)

Date: 4/5/1949
Locations: Los Alamos, New Mexico; Fejarito Mountain
Description: 10:00 p.m. A huge green fireball with a red afterglow is seen streaking approximately 300 feet above the southern slope of Fejarito Mountain, near Los Alamos, New Mexico. It disappears behind the mountain. Another fireball is seen at 11:00 p.m., and the next two nights.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “1949 UFO Chronology”; Sparks , p. 54
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1362

Event 4060 (9B1D500C)

Date: 4/6/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 48; 12:05 - btwn light and dark green object traveling very fast (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_555

Event 4061 (148AA3DF)

Date: 4/6/1949
End date: 4/7/1949
Location: Memphis, TN
Description: 6-9 climbing, diving, whirling yellow or silvery oval objects which avoided 3-4 airplanes (FOIA) 2-4 hrs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490406-07
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_558

Event 4062 (F1780EBA)

Date: 4/7/1949
Time: 04:30
Location: DES MOINES, IA
Description: Huge vertical metallic column with colored plasma-glow lights. "Dreadful..".
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index 77)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1370

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "242", HatchDesc: "DES MOINES,IA:HUGE VERTICAL MTLC COLUMN W/CLRD PLASMA-GLOW LITES:"dreadful.."", LatLong: "41.583335 -93.600004", LatLongDMS: "41:35:00 N 93:36:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4063 (93A0EBDF)

Date: 4/7/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 49; 01:35 - green obj sighted about 200 yds from top of hill moved slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_556

Event 4064 (C92C5BAE)

Date: 4/7/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 50; 01:00 - green obj going S to N moving slowly (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_557

Event 4065 (1F58899C)

Date: 4/7/1949
Location: March AFB, Riverside, CA
Description: Four Dome-Shaped Objects Separate From Tank-Shape (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490407
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_559

Event 4066 (C70EE5FD)

Date: 4/8/1949
Description: In response to Winchell’s claim, the Air Force admits it is impossible to “deny categorically” that the flying saucers originate in Russia. A spokesman says that some unknown incidents are placed in a classified category, denied to everyone except authorized military personnel.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Air Force Isn’t Committing Self on Flying Disks,” Cedar Rapids Iowa Gazette, April 8, 1949, p. 22
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1363

Event 4067 (166B7011)

Date: 4/9/1949
Location: National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland
Description: Forrestal has been treated for one week at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland,with narcosis through sodium amytal. For the next 30 days, he undergoes a regimen of insulin sub-shock combined with psycho-therapeutic interviews. Raines says the treatment occasionally throws Forrestal into a confused state with a great deal of agitation and confusion.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1364

Event 4068 (82F5DE2B)

Date: 4/9/1949
Description: At 4:30 p.m. an orange colored UFO was seen over some telephone lines by J. Bova at the Davis Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. The object suddenly moved from right to left, then moved again passing behind the telephone pole. It then returned to its original position, finally engaging in some erratic movements and ascending into a cloud. It changed color as it did so, from orange to white.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI Los Angeles case files, citing letter from J. Bova in 1952; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I), p. 155
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1917

Event 4069 (EC07AF2D)

Date: 4/11/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_361
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 87.2km

Event 4070 (C6921D22)

Date: 4/12/1949
Time: 20:50
Location: EAU CLAIRE, WI
Description: Numerous observer(s). 2+2 red orbs going northeast slowly near moon during eclipse.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 340)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1371

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "255", HatchDesc: "EAU CLAIRE,WI:NMRS OBS:2+2 RED ORBS >NE SLOWLY nr MOON during eclipse: ", LatLong: "44.811113 -91.500004", LatLongDMS: "44:48:40 N 91:30:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wisconsin", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4071 (DA16B83F)

Date: 4/12/1949
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 51; 19:30 - white round obj 1/8 size of moon just extinguished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490412
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_560

Event 4072 (EE8B4592)

Date: 4/12/1949
Location: El Paso, TX
Description: AFOSI Case 52; Witness reported grayish object rose straight up leaving smoke trail, 15 minutes duration (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_561

Event 4073 (08B4501C)

Date: 4/14/1949
Locations: Kelly AFB; Kelly Field Annex; San Antonio, Texas; Killeen Base, Texas
Description: Col. Reid Lumsden , commander of the AFOSI district office at Kelly AFB [now Kelly Field Annex] in San Antonio, Texas, hands the Army reports of flares at Killeen Base to Col. William Carpenter, deputy director of special investigations at the Pentagon. Carpenter promises to investigate. Clark III 542 April 16 and 18 — Mysterious flares are again observed at Killeen Base, Texas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 10; Clark III 542
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1365

Event 4074 (E33244ED)

Date: 4/15/1949
Time: 13:30
Location: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO
Description: Project Bluebook Case #294. 2 frosty-color objects zip over B25 at Peterson Airfield.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1372

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1802", HatchDesc: "COLORADO SPRINGS,CO:BBK#294:2 FROSTY-CLR OBJS ZIP OVR B25 at PETERSON AIRFIELD", LatLong: "38.816669 -104.816672", LatLongDMS: "38:49:00 N 104:49:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4075 (8EC7E0E0)

Date: 4/15/1949
Time: 22:00
Location: PESSAC, FR
Description: Girl / 18. Silent ovoid crosses sky. No further details. Same again decades later here.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris. Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index 289)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1373

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "PESSAC,FR:GIRL/18:SLNT OVOID CROSSES SKY:NFD:same again decades later here", LatLong: "44.816669 -0.650000", LatLongDMS: "44:49:00 N 00:39:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Gironde", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4076 (9B383C2C)

Date: 4/18/1949
Locations: Arlington Hall, Washington, D.C.; Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
Description: The US Air Force Security Service moves its headquarters from Arlington Hall in Washington, D.C., to Brooks Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1366

Event 4077 (75891D99)

Date: 4/19/1949
Locations: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico; USAF headquarters
Description: AFOSI at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, sends to USAF headquarters a list of all green fireball reports it has investigated 39 in all from December 5 to April 12. The common characteristics of most of the incidents are: “a. Green color, sometimes described as greenish-white, bright green, yellow-green, or blue green. b. Horizontal path, sometimes with minor variations. c. Speed less than that of a meteor, but more than any known type of aircraft. d. No sound associated with observation. e. No persistent trail or dust cloud. f. Period of visibility from one to five seconds.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “The Scientific Advisory Board to the Chief of Staff, United States Air Force, Conference,” November 3, 1949; Clark III 541; Swords 133–135
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1367

Event 4078 (9E66FA8B)

Date: 4/20/1949
Location: Ludington, MI
Description: Fast-moving "comet with a tail" cross the sky disappearing over lake Michigan (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_562

Event 4079 (F2DD07E6)

Date: 4/21/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_362
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km

Event 4080 (168AC9B3)

Date: 4/22/1949
Location: Cliff, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 54; 09:05 - round, flat thin disc-shaped aluminum obj disappeared behind mtns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490422
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_563

Event 4081 (C7D9DD3C)

Date: 4/22/1949
Location: Cliff, New Mexico
Description: 9:05 a.m. A round, flat, thin, metallic disc is seen traveling west to east, dropping slowly, over Cliff, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 55
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1368

Event 4082 (051CCA88)

Date: 4/24/1949
Location: Arrey, NM
Description: Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_363

Event 4083 (EE86D51B)

Date: 4/24/1949
Time: 10:20
Location: ARREY, NM
Description: Scientists / theodolite and separate observer(s). Saucers / 30k kph. 1 paces balloon going east. / MJ#252+/ r29p70.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1374

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "1273", HatchDesc: "ARREY,NM:SCIs/THEODLT+SEP.OBS:SCRS/30k kph:1 PACES BALLOON >E:/MJ#252+/r29p70", LatLong: "32.877779 -107.322227", LatLongDMS: "32:52:40 N 107:19:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4084 (0E9045A7)

Date: 4/24/1949
Time: 13:20
Location: EL CAJON, CA
Description: Air Force pilot and many. 4 10M silver disks going south / box formation. Bank and maneuver. XX accelerations.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 350)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1375

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", Elev: "112", HatchDesc: "EL CAJON,CA:AF PILOT+MANY:4 10M SLVR DISKS >S/BOX FORMn:BANK+MNVR:XX ACCELs", LatLong: "32.811113 -116.961117", LatLongDMS: "32:48:40 N 116:57:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4085 (FDC4C276)

Date: 4/24/1949
Location: Arrey (3 miles N of), NM
Description: AFOSI Case 55; 10:33 - white-yellow ellipsoid obj disappeared at tremendous rate of speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 358, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490424
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_564

Event 4086 (73E86282)

Date: 4/24/1949
Time: l0:30 AM
Location: Arrey, New Mexico
Description: Witnesses: General Mills meteorologist and balloon expert C.B. Moore and others on a balloon launch crew. One white, round ellipsoid, about 2.5 times as long as wide.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_22

Event 4087 (DCB0D85A)

Date: 4/24/1949
Location: Arrey, New Mexico
Description: 10:30 a.m. General Mills meteorologist Charles B. Moore and four Navy Skyhook balloon launch crewmen Navy Chief Fire Controlman William Akers, Davidson, Fitzsimmons, Moorman see a white, round object, shadowed yellowish on one side, cross the sky from the south to the east, three miles north of Arrey, New Mexico. Joseph Gordon Vaeth is present as the Navy representative in charge of ground handling. Moore tracks it for 60 seconds on a theodolite. The distance is unknown, but assuming the object is 57 miles away, it would have a velocity of 18,000 mph, a width of 40 feet, and a length of 100 feet; but this is speculative.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “White Sands Incident / C. B. Moore Case”; R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; J. Gordon Vaeth, 200 Miles Up: The Conquest of the Upper Air, Ronald Press, 1951; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 63–64; ClearIntent, pp. 114–115; UFOEv, pp. 2–3; Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 72–73; Sparks , pp. 56–57; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 8–9; Kevin D. Randle, “Charles Moore, New Mexico UFOs, and the Air Force,” IUR 20, no. 5 Winter 1995: 3–4; Michael D. Swords, “1952: Ruppelt’s Big Year,” IUR 28, no. 4 Winter 2003–2004: 10; Michael D. Swords, “Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 Spring 2004:16–17; Swords 84–85; Clark III 541
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1369

Event 4088 (9DEB1616)

Date: 4/24/1949
Description: A high speed, maneuvering object was tracked with a theodolite by five government contractors from General Mills as it sped through the sky. They were at a missile range near Arrey, New Mexico at 10:20 a.m. It looked like a featureless, whitish featureless ellipse, and its length was 2.5 times its width. After 60 seconds it disappeared in a sharp vertical climb.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2271

Event 4089 (1EBA8B2F)

Date: 4/25/1949
Time: 06:30
Location: SPRINGER LAKE, NM
Description: 2 observer(s). Many silver orbs going [to] overhead very fast. Seen / one hour and more. / r209#21.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1376

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "65", Elev: "1808", HatchDesc: "SPRINGER LAKE,NM:2 OBS:MANY SLVR ORBS > OVHD VFAST:SEEN/1hr+:/r209#21", LatLong: "36.394446 -104.627783", LatLongDMS: "36:23:40 N 104:37:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4090 (AC3B78DA)

Date: 4/25/1949
Location: Springer Lake, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 56; 00:50 - silvery spherical objects over a lake at high speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490425
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_565

Event 4091 (C0E69C1B)

Date: 4/25/1949
Locations: Springer Lake; Springer, New Mexico
Description: 6:30 a.m. A man named Abreu and a friend are fishing at Springer Lake, northwest of Springer, New Mexico, when they hear a high-pitched whistle and see a number of silvery-white balls passing overhead quickly. They reappear repeatedly over the next hour.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Various Formations Observed”; Clark III 541; Sparks , p. 57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1370

Event 4092 (A2BAEEA1)

Date: 4/25/1949
Locations: AFOSI headquarters; Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees wires AFOSI headquarters to ask if he can send two of his men to AMC to find out if Project Grudge plans to do anything about the green fireballs. Before Rees has a response, Joseph Kaplan arrives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, having been directed there by AF Intelligence Director Maj. Gen. Charles Cabell and Scientific Advisory Board Chairman Theodore Von Kármán, who wants Kaplan to set up a field investigation. They emphasize that Grudge is not to be informed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 542; Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June , The Author, 1988, p. 52
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1371

Event 4093 (0535B3F3)

Date: 4/26/1949
Time: 00:20
Location: AMBRIDGE, PA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #272. Railroad/railway men. 40 saucers / 3 V-forms east going quickly west. 1 cuts out and scouts foundry.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 162)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1377

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "244", HatchDesc: "AMBRIDGE,PA:BBK#272:RR MEN:40 SCRS/3 V-FORMS E>>W:1 CUTS OUT+SCOUTS FOUNDRY", LatLong: "40.588891 -80.227782", LatLongDMS: "40:35:20 N 80:13:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4094 (29557873)

Date: 4/27/1949
Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_100

Event 4095 (8C5C9E9C)

Date: 4/27/1949
Location: US
Description: Project Saucer report released: About 30% of the sightings investigated to date were said to be explained as conventional objects. An equal number, the report said, probably would be explainable after further probing.
Type: report released
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_859

Event 4096 (C1E8E118)

Date: 4/27/1949
Time: 21:20
Location: FT HOOD, TX
Description: Project Bluebook Case #315. Many report(s) since February. Saucers. Cigars. Small night lights pass through trees etc.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1378

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "170", Elev: "283", HatchDesc: "Ft HOOD,TX:BBK#315:MANY RPTs SINCE FEB:SCRS:CGRS:SML NLTS PASS THRU TREES etc", LatLong: "31.166668 -97.750005", LatLongDMS: "31:10:00 N 97:45:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4097 (FE639C2A)

Date: 4/27/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood (SE of), TX
Description: Blinking violet object passing through branches of a tree (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490427
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_566

Event 4098 (6158D651)

Date: 4/27/1949
Locations: Sandia Base, New Mexico; Los Alamos, Sandia, and White Sands; Killeen Base in Texas; New Mexico School of Mines
Description: Rees , Kaplan , and LaPaz brief Armed Forces Special Weapons Project personnel at Sandia Base, New Mexico. LaPaz outlines plans for a network of visual, photographic, spectrographic, and radar observations covering Los Alamos, Sandia, and White Sands. Scientist William D. Crozier of the New Mexico School of Mines offers to handle air sampling. Rees urges that the Killeen Base in Texas be included. Kaplan, who says the project is “of extreme importance” because “these occurrences relate to the National Defense of the United States,” recommends LaPaz to handle the project.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lt. Col. Doyle Rees, “Unknown Aerial Phenomena,” May 12, 1949; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, pp. 60–62; Clark III 542
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1372

Event 4099 (4685B2D8)

Date: 4/27/1949
Description: USAF Directorate of Intelligence briefs the USAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations on UFOs. “Investigations continue in an effort to find definite explanations for the many unidentified aerial objects which have been reported during the past two years.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Unidentified Aerial Objects,” Air Brief, Special Study Part Two, April 27, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1373

Event 4100 (2337BAA7)

Date: 4/27/1949
Location: Pentagon Office of Public Information
Description: A 22-page memorandum for the press 629-49 on “Project Saucer” is released by the Pentagon Office of Public Information, scheduled deliberately to coincide with part one of Shalett’s article in the Saturday Evening Post. The writer is unknown, but it is more pro-ETH than the current Project Grudge mentality, listing several solid and dramatic cases. It concludes: “The ‘saucers’ are not a joke. Neither are they a cause for alarm to the population.” The discrepancy between Shalett’s mostly dismissive tone and the positivity of the Project Saucer statement causes Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe to wonder if there is a major disagreement about UFOs within the Air Force.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: National Military Establishment, Office of Public Information, “Project ‘Saucer,’” April 27, 1949; Swords 74–75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1374

Event 4101 (4C0CE51D)

Date: 4/27/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Texas
Description: 9:20 p.m. Two Army patrolmen southeast of Killeen Base, Texas, see a blinking violet light no more than 1.5 inches in diameter and only 10–12 feet from them, 6–7 feet above the ground. During the 60-second observation, the light passes through the branches of a tree. At 9:25 p.m., 2 miles away, four Army soldiers see a 4-inch light with a 2–4-inch metallic cone attached to the back. It silently approaches them in a level flight at 60–70 mph. It disappears to the southwest at a distance of 150 feet. At about 9:37 p.m., a 2-inch-wide white light appears 100 feet away to the northwest, flying in a zig-zag fashion in a level path 6 feet above the ground. It vanishes abruptly. A third light shows up at 9:39 p.m. in the west-southwest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Close Encounters with Drones/Probes at Weapons Storage Site”; Sparks , pp. 57–58; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 10; Clark III 542
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1375

Event 4102 (ED461800)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: HOMER, MICH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #313. 2 men / factory. 6 silver disks in wide circle going west / 65kph. 150m altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1379

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "303", HatchDesc: "HOMER,MICH:BBK#313:2 MEN/FACTORY:6 SLVR DISKS in WIDE CIRCLE >W/65kph:150m alt", LatLong: "42.144446 -84.811115", LatLongDMS: "42:08:40 N 84:48:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4103 (7B9FFA1B)

Date: 4/28/1949
Time: 17:50
Location: CATALINA MOUNTAINS, AZ
Description: Project Bluebook Case #332. 700' metal cylinder/cigar-shape / 5mi altitude. 500mph estimated. Rolls and soars. Going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 165)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1380

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "40", Elev: "960", HatchDesc: "CATALINA MTNs,AZ:BBK#332:700'MTL CGR/5mi ALT:500mph estm:ROLLS+SOARS:>>SW", LatLong: "32.416668 -110.666672", LatLongDMS: "32:25:00 N 110:40:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "8000", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4104 (3B97C801)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Homer, MI
Description: Pursued 6 flying discs 10 inches diameter by car (FOIA) (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490428
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_567

Event 4105 (A802A2BF)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Tucson, AZ
Description: AFOSI Case 57; app 17:45 - a very large bright, sausage-shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 361, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490428
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_568

Event 4106 (8E944DBF)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood (SE of), TX
Description: A variety of strange lights, mostly slow-moving changing color from white to red to green (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_569

Event 4107 (5B8A2F86)

Date: 4/28/1949
Time: 5:45 PM
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Description: Witnesses: Howard Hann, Mr. Hubert, Tex Keahey. One bright, sausage-shaped object was observed for 40 minutes while it rolled and flew fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_23

Event 4108 (A007846D)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Joint Intelligence Committee
Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Charles Cabell sends a report on “Unidentified Aerial Objects” to the Joint Intelligence Committee. It summarizes the history of Project Sign up to its redesignation as Grudge and adds an appendix on “Unidentified Aerial Objects: Fact and Discussion,” which is basically a short version of the sanitized February 11 Sign report, with some green fireball information added. It recommends sending reports of unidentified “light phenomena” to the scientific community and reports of “atomic powered craft of unusual design” to the AEC. It concludes that “There are numerous reports from reliable and competent observers for which a conclusive explanation has not been made” and that some “involve configurations and described performance which might conceivably represent an advanced aerodynamical development. A few unexplained incidents surpass these limits of credulity. It is unlikely that a foreign power would expose a superior aerial weapon by a prolonged ineffectual penetration of the United States.” This essentially resurrects the ETH as a possibility, without clearly stating it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Report by the Director of Intelligence, USAF, to the Joint Intelligence Committee on Unidentified Aerial Objects,” April 28, 1949; Jan Aldrich, “Top-Secret 1949 Document,” IUR 23, no. 1 Spring 1998: 3–6, 31; Swords 76–77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1376

Event 4109 (B0A961A3)

Date: 4/28/1949
Description: Some printed copies of Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, “Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the United States,” bear this date, although it was originally released December 10, 1948.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Air Force, Directorate of Intelligence, Analysis of Flying Object Incidents in the U.S.: Summary and Conclusions, Air Intelligence Report 100-203-79, December 10, 1948; copy, dated April 28, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1377

Event 4110 (2F3186B6)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico
Description: Kaplan , LaPaz , Rees , and Neef meet with security officers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico to discuss green fireball observations at that facility.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: 1949 January–June, Supplemental Notes , The Author, 2000, pp. 62–63
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1378

Event 4111 (45A3F1FE)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana
Description: 8:00 a.m. Businessman and private pilot Leon A. Faber is flying at 3,000 feet near the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City, Indiana, when he sees a metallic disc moving east about 10,000 feet away. He is chatting with some ham radio operators on the ground during the 5 minutes the object is in sight before it disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Flying Saucer Observed from Aircraft”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1379

Event 4112 (EC421315)

Date: 4/28/1949
Locations: Tucson, Arizona; Catalina Mountains
Description: 5:45 p.m. Howard Hann [Hamm?], a Mr. Hubert [Huber?], and Tex Keahey see a very large, bright, sausage- shaped object travel from northeast to southwest over the rim of the Catalina Mountains near Tucson, Arizona, over a period of 12 minutes. The object is shiny metallic and reflects the sun, apparently revolving as it moves like the “slow roll of an airplane.” There is no noise, nor is there exhaust or a vapor trail. There are no wings or engines or “protuberances of any sort.” It appears to be traveling at 300–600 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Cigar-Shaped Object Observed in Daylight”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1380

Event 4113 (244AE965)

Date: 4/28/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Texas
Description: 8:30 p.m. Several security patrols at Killeen Base, Texas, report nine separate sightings of lights southeast of the base. Most change color from white to red to green. On one occasion, four lights appear together; on another, 8–10 show up in each other’s company. No debris or evidence of flares are found.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 10; Clark III 543; Sparks, p. 58
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1381

Event 4114 (4E17F452)

Date: 4/28/1949
Description: Six silver discs flew in a wide circle over Homer, Michigan toward the west at 40 mph and at an estimated 500 feet altitude. At 5:45 p.m. a 700 foot long metallic cigar-shaped object flew over Tucson, Arizona at an estimated altitude of five miles. It rolled and soared off toward the southwest at an estimated speed of 500 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, April 1949, case 361; Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 1392 & 1393
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2388

Event 4115 (3564C8E4)

Date: 4/29/1949
Description: The April 30 issue of the Saturday Evening Post with part one of Sidney Shalett’s “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers” hits the newsstands. The USAF Public Relations Office has cooperated fully with Shalett, who sets out a fairly even-handed introduction to the phenomenon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sidney Shalett, “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part One,” Saturday Evening Post, April 30, 1949, pp. 20–21, 136–139; Swords 73
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1382

Event 4116 (1ED85B74)

Date: 4/30/1949
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 58; 22:15 - Blue-green round obj abt 10th size of moon just went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_570

Event 4117 (E14C8F6E)

Date: 4/30/1949
Description: Hynek turns in his astronomical analysis of Sign’s 237 cases. His contract with Sign is over.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The UFO Experience, Ballantine ed., 1974, pp. 199–200; Hynek UFO Report, p. 17; O’Connell 45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1383

Event 4118 (84DCF938)

Date: 5/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Saw 13 saucer shaped objects in a perfect straight line formation (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 490500
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_571

Event 4119 (A4DFF4A5)

Date: 5/2/1949
Time: 10:20
Location: NORTH / ELKO, NV
Description: 3 10M metallic disks going southwest / 400kph. 4200 M altitude. Silent. Veer going south / precise tilt.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 364)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1381

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1550", HatchDesc: "N/ELKO,NV:3 10M MTLC DISKS >SW/400kph:4200 M alt:SLNT:VEER > S/precise tilt", LatLong: "40.905558 -115.755561", LatLongDMS: "40:54:20 N 115:45:20 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4120 (F8F15B72)

Date: 5/2/1949
Location: Elko, NV
Description: 3 flying discs 30 ft diameter at 14,000 ft make a left turn and depart ahead of a United airliner taking off from Elko airport. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490502
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_572

Event 4121 (ECA45954)

Date: 5/2/1949
Description: At 10:20 a.m. north of Elko, Nevada three metallic discs with an estimated diameter of 10 meters flew over the desert to the southwest at 400 kph and an altitude of 4200 meters. They were silent, and all three veered to the south with the same precise tilt.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1394; citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 3), p. 64
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2452

Event 4122 (FDE1455A)

Date: 5/3/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 59; 21:43 - bright white obj went very fast (up to 1,000 mph) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_573

Event 4123 (B6609C7C)

Date: 5/3/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 60; 21:26;21:43;22:05 - Large white size like airplane landing lights obj (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_574

Event 4124 (1ED7BD74)

Date: 5/3/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 61; 21:26-white baseball diamond lights; 21:40 - slightly larger than firebox lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_575

Event 4125 (BAAB42FC)

Date: 5/3/1949
Location: Sidney, OH
Description: Bright shiny disc high overhead wavering, climbing and descending slightly on a straight path. (FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490503
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_576

Event 4126 (864CE5F4)

Date: 5/4/1949
Location: Maplewood (4.5 Miles W of), OH
Description: Bright silver flat circular object to the SE traveling NE (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_577

Event 4127 (459BE22F)

Date: 5/4/1949
Locations: Killeen Base; Camp Hood, Texas
Description: The US Fourth Army creates an operational plan for a green fireball observation and tracking network at Killeen Base in Camp Hood, Texas. Although it lacks cameras, it has four six-man observation posts equipped with instruments to obtain directional bearings. One of the posts serves as the plotting center to coordinate and triangulate UFO sightings. Each day, a roving patrol gets new orders.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 \(Sept./Oct. 1985: 10–12; Clark III 543; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44).
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1384

Event 4128 (3436A4C2)

Date: 5/5/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_364
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8.85km

Event 4129 (3E7AB4E9)

Date: 5/5/1949
Time: 11:40
Location: FT BLISS, TX
Description: 3 military observer(s). White saucers / 250mph. Project Bluebook Case #311-military observer(s). 100' saucer-cigars / 48 Apr. '49.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 168)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1382

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1160", HatchDesc: "Ft BLISS,TX:3 MIL OBS:WHT SCRS/250mph::BBK#311-MIL OBS:100'SCR-CGRS/48APR49", LatLong: "31.833335 -106.300005", LatLongDMS: "31:50:00 N 106:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4130 (B0E597DA)

Date: 5/5/1949
Location: Fort Bliss, TX
Description: 2 oblong white discs, flying at about 200-250 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 376)
Reference: NICAP: 490505
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_578

Event 4131 (4D7F1D0F)

Date: 5/5/1949
Time: 11:40 AM
Location: Ft. Bliss, Texas
Description: Witnesses: Army officers Maj. Day, Maj. Olhausen, Capt. Vaughn. Two oblong white discs, flying at an estimated 200-250 m.p.h., made a shallow turn during the 30-50 second observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_24

Event 4132 (B04E1CE5)

Date: 5/5/1949
Locations: San Antonio; Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas
Description: 10:00 a.m. The Fourth US Army has approached AFOSI in San Antonio to offer assistance in investigating green fireballs and the Killeen lights. They arrange a meeting with AFOSI, ONI, CIC, the FBI, and the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project at Camp Hood, Killeen, Texas, the first of several weekly meetings. Army and Navy officials agree that the fireballs remain unexplained. AFSWP personnel believe they are natural phenomena; AFOSI and FBI give no opinion. The Fourth Army urges AFOSI to create an observation system, even though it had just secretly created one of its own on May 4.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 10–11; Clark III 543
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1385

Event 4133 (83BC37AE)

Date: 5/5/1949
Locations: Fort Bliss, Texas; Waco no. 4 firing range
Description: 11:40 a.m. Army officers Maj. Charles D. May Jr., Maj. James N. Olhausen, and Capt. Molloy C. Vaughn on the Waco no. 4 firing range at Fort Bliss, Texas, watch for 30–50 seconds two oblong white discs pass through a field of fire. They are flying at about 200–250 mph at an altitude of 1,000 feet. The objects make a shallow turn.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “May 5, 1949, 1140 MST, Fort Bliss, Texas”; Sparks, p. 59
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1386

Event 4134 (406BAE0F)

Date: 5/6/1949
Location: SARATOV, RUSSIA
Description: Test Pilot Apraksin. Cylinder/cigar-shape zaps plane. Partly melted. / F. Zigel and more / r27p4.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick & Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index 221)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1383

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "4", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "SARATOV,RUS:TEST PILOT APRAKSIN:CGR ZAPS PLANE:PARTLY MELTED:/F.Zigel+/r27p4", LatLong: "51.500002 45.500002", LatLongDMS: "51:30:00 N 45:30:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VOL", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4135 (98C827CA)

Date: 5/6/1949
Time: 09:40
Location: LIVERMORE, CA
Description: 1 observer. 2 shiny saucers circle each other and bank. 1 shoots up and rejoins going down.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1384

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "166", HatchDesc: "LIVERMORE,CA:1 OBS:2 SHINY SCRS CIRCLE EACH OTHER+BANK:1 SHOOTS UP+REJOINS↓", LatLong: "37.700002 -121.783339", LatLongDMS: "37:42:00 N 121:47:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4136 (C8A554E8)

Date: 5/6/1949
Location: Sidney, OH
Description: Object with no trail or sound-too bright to see the shape (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_579

Event 4137 (815B4666)

Date: 5/6/1949
Location: Livermore, CA
Description: 2 shiny, disc-like objects rotate around each other (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 379)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_580

Event 4138 (CE43384A)

Date: 5/6/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: AFOSI Case 62; 21:40 - 21:30 - Army artillery observers est 2 days earlier, tracks its first object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP: 490506
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_581

Event 4139 (9975FB1C)

Date: 5/6/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 63; 01:05 - round green obj 1/8 sz of moon disappeared W of Jamez mtns (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_582

Event 4140 (D83C9251)

Date: 5/6/1949
Time: 9:35 AM
Location: Livermore, California
Description: Witness: C. G. Green. Two shiny, disc-like objects rotated around each other and banked. Then one shot upwards with a grey trail and rejoined the other. The sighting lasted 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_25

Event 4141 (D90409A7)

Date: 5/6/1949
Locations: Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia; Volga River; Saratov
Description: Soviet test pilot Arkady Ivanovich Apraksin takes a new airplane for a flight at the Kapustin Yar site, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia. At its maximum ceiling of 9.3 miles, he encounters a cucumber-shaped object, similar to the one he encountered on June 16, 1948, that directs cones of light at his aircraft from a distance of 6–7 miles. The lights cause his communications equipment to fail and damage part of his plexiglass cockpit canopy that results in a loss of air pressure. He manages to land on the banks of the Volga River 30 miles from Saratov. He wakes up in a hospital in Saratov. He again undergoes intense interrogation, psychotherapy, and medical procedures.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Above, pp. 221–223; Joe Brill, “UFO’s behind the Iron Curtain,” Skylook, no. 87, February 1975, p. 15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1387

Event 4142 (C09F217D)

Date: 5/6/1949
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Description: Col. Lumsden of the San Antonio, Texas, AFOSI office informs headquarters that the “matter has reached a fairly serious stage and some positive action is necessary.” He does not send this message to Project Grudge. Headquarters responds quickly and orders him to investigate all sightings but reminds him to inform AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 11; Clark III 543
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1388

Event 4143 (3DC7F383)

Date: 5/6/1949
Description: Part two of Shalett’s article on UFOs appears in the May 7 issue of the Saturday Evening Post, which takes a more skeptical tone than the first part, with the Gorman case receiving a particularly harsh thrashing. However, he treats Chiles-Whitted favorably and ends with some hints on how to make good observations. Within a few days, the frequency of UFO reports hits an all-time high. USAF issues another long press release completely debunking UFOs, but it has no effect.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sidney Shalett, “What You Can Believe about Flying Saucers, Part Two,” Saturday Evening Post, May 7, 1949, pp. 36, 184–186; Swords 74; Ruppelt, p. 63
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1389

Event 4144 (ED5A84C9)

Date: 5/6/1949
Description: On this day, a decorated Soviet test pilot named Apraksin was flying over the Volga River in Russia, 40 kilometers north of the city of Saratov, when his aircraft's electrical system was knocked out of operation by a cone of light from a cucumber-shaped UFO after he attempted to approach it. He was blinded by the light, but managed to land the crippled aircraft despite his incapacitation in an abrupt emergency landing. He then lost consciousness and was confined to hospital to recuperate.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Felix Zigel, unpublished manuscript, pp. 124-126; Jacques Vallee, UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union: A Cosmic Samizdat, p. 138, citing Felix Zigel; Geoffrey Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Project Report, p. 4; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2574

Event 4145 (73E081A0)

Date: 5/6/1949
Description: At 8:30 a.m. EDT witnesses Stump, Herman and Quinn in Sidney, Ohio saw a bright object about half a mile to the west moving south at high speed. It left no trail and made no sound. One of the witnesses said it was too bright to tell what shape it had, but the others said it had a flat, circular shape. It was in sight for two minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2575

Event 4146 (2B105108)

Date: 5/6/1949
Description: At 9:35 a.m. a witness named C. G. Green reported to the U.S. Air Force that two shiny disc-shaped objects circled each other and banked over a field in Livermore, California. One of the objects shot straight up with a gray trail. The sighting lasted five minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 379; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1397; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2576

Event 4147 (61AE5914)

Date: 5/6/1949
Description: At Killeen Base, Camp Hood, Texas a UFO observation network set up two days earlier, employing Army artillery observers, tracked their first object. They sighted and triangulated on a brilliant light 4000 yards in the distance. It moved very slowly, dropping from an altitude of 1200 feet to 440 feet. It was the apparent size of a half dollar at arm's length. Its color was pinkish to green, and was in sight for 50 minutes. The main witness was Lt. Mardell E. Ward.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jan Aldrich, FOIA, http://www.nicap.org/hood490506dir.htm
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2577

Event 4148 (AEE5207F)

Date: 5/7/1949
Time: 19:40
Location: FT HOOD, TX
Description: 100+military observer(s). 15' diamond. UFO's all over restricted areas / months.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 156)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1385

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "85", Elev: "283", HatchDesc: "Ft HOOD,TX:100+MIL OBS:15' DIAMOND:UFOS ALL OVR RESTRICTED AREAS/MONTHS", LatLong: "31.200001 -97.766671", LatLongDMS: "31:12:00 N 97:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4149 (C78A6B18)

Date: 5/7/1949
Location: St. Louis, MO
Description: Sun glinting off a flat reddish-brown object "somewhat triangular" shaped (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_583

Event 4150 (DF929C63)

Date: 5/7/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: AFOSI Case 64; 20:25-21:05 - brilliant white diamond-shaped obj at triangulated location (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_584

Event 4151 (5212F526)

Date: 5/7/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: AFOSI Case 65; 19:40 - reddish greenish white diamond shaped obj dimmed and went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_585

Event 4152 (08EAC669)

Date: 5/8/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: AFOSI Case 66; 20:08-20:17 - brilliant white diamond-shaped object caused severe radio interference (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_586

Event 4153 (BF639113)

Date: 5/8/1949
Location: Tucson, AZ
Description: AFOSI Case 67; 09:30-11:00 - white metallic circular obj from motionless to faster than jet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_587

Event 4154 (C771A099)

Date: 5/9/1949
Time: 14:30
Location: TUCSON, AZ
Description: Sgt. Putnam. 2 flat 25' silver saucers. 750+mph in smooth steady banked trajectory.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS; (FUFOR). (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1386

Attributes: MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "717", HatchDesc: "TUCSON,AZ:Sgt PUTNAM:2 FLAT 25'SLVR SCRS:750+mph in SMOOTH STEADY BANKED TRAJ", LatLong: "32.200002 -110.933339", LatLongDMS: "32:12:00 N 110:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4155 (467D33C4)

Date: 5/9/1949
Location: Tucson, AZ
Description: AFOSI Case 68; app 14:30 - silvery, round and flat obj at 750-1000 mph faded from view (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 384, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_588

Event 4156 (37887B09)

Date: 5/9/1949
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Troy Putnam. Two round, flat silvery objects, estimated to be 25' in diameter, flew 750-1,000 m.p.h. in a banked but steady manner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_26

Event 4157 (A5D81E9F)

Date: 5/9/1949
Description: An article in Time magazine reports on the Air Force press release, remarking that “Spinners of yarns about flying saucers, including a score or so of Air Force pilots, stuck stoutly to their stories.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Things That Go Whiz,” Time, May 9, 1949; “Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Six,” Saturday Night Uforia
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1390

Event 4158 (586EEA8D)

Date: 5/9/1949
Description: Editor Ken Purdy asks Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe to investigate the flying saucer mystery for True magazine, warning him to watch out for “fake tips” from the Pentagon. Keyhoe is initially skeptical, but after talking to his old friends Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney and Adm. Calvin M. Bolster , his opinion changes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. 18–22, 44
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1391

Event 4159 (7859079D)

Date: 5/9/1949
Location: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Description: Naval Unit Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, with several other officers, witnesses a white object overhead during the launch of a WAC Corporal B rocket at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico. It disappears “in a blinding burst of speed to the west.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949; Sparks, p. 61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1392

Event 4160 (CC024396)

Date: 5/9/1949
Description: Sgt. Putnam sighted two flat 25-foot diameter silver discs in the sky over Tucson, Arizona at 2:30 p.m. They flew at a speed in excess of 750 mph in a smooth and steady banked trajectory. A Project Blue Book "unknown."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 384
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2673

Event 4161 (FD8B6413)

Date: 5/11/1949
Location: New York City
Description: Israel admitted to the UN
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_365

Event 4162 (CC22787B)

Date: 5/11/1949
Description: At 10:30 a.m. four gray discs flew over Houston, Alaska heading north. According to witness George Mertz, they had thicker tops, and flew with a "decided list to the port side" at a speed in excess of 1000 mph. Their diameter was estimated to be from 80-100 feet.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, letter from witness in 1952 to the Civilian Saucer Intelligence office, Los Angeles
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2733

Event 4163 (7574416C)

Date: 5/12/1949
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Donald H. Menzel sighting (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_589

Event 4164 (0D52E54B)

Date: 5/12/1949
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 69; 21:15-21:30 - white w/greenish twinge 1/4 diameter of full moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_590

Event 4165 (78D97A4B)

Date: 5/12/1949
Description: Commander McLaughlin writes to his friend, atmospheric physicist James Van Allen, describing the Moore theodolite case and his own sighting a few days earlier. He thinks they must involve technology because they have been seen accelerating and maneuvering.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, [Letter to J. A. VanAllen], May 12, 1949
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1393

Event 4166 (C3FD9458)

Date: 5/12/1949
Locations: Holloman AFB; Highway 70; Alamogordo, New Mexico
Description: 9:30 p.m. Astronomer Donald H. Menzel leaves Holloman AFB on Highway 70 for Alamogordo, New Mexico. Shortly after noticing the star Antares, he sees another fuzzy object in the sky nearer to the horizon. A second object appears three degrees to the south. Determining that the objects are not Castor and Pollux or reflections, Menzel watches them another 4 minutes. Both objects vanish abruptly.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald H. Menzel, Flying Saucers, Harvard University, 1953, pp. 3–4 , 99–100; Sparks , p. 62; J. Allen Hynek, “Vignettes of UFO History: Dr. Menzel Reports a UFO!” IUR 7, no. 6 Nov./Dec. 1982: 11; Clark III 741–742
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1394

Event 4167 (0298F023)

Date: 5/13/1949
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA's “second memorandum of importance” on flying discs.
Type: publication
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_366

Event 4168 (94461304)

Date: 5/13/1949
Time: 11:10
Location: WEST / BOISE, ID
Description: Air Force man / US20. 1+5 silver disks / V formation spiral going down. Then shoot up and going quickly southwest. 700kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 385)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1387

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "840", HatchDesc: "W/BOISE,ID:AF MAN/US20:1+5 SLVR DISKS/Vfrmn SPIRAL ↓:THEN SHOOT UP+>>SW:700kph", LatLong: "43.633335 -116.433339", LatLongDMS: "43:38:00 N 116:26:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4169 (3D489055)

Date: 5/13/1949
Description: In 1949 on this day at 11:05 a.m. a U.S. Air Force Airman Smith, driving along Highway 20 west of Boise, Idaho spotted first one disc, then five more silver discs flying in a V formation. The objects spiralled down, then shot out and away to the southwest at an estimated 700 kilometers per hour.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 85
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2789

Event 4170 (69AEB88F)

Date: 5/14/1949
Time: 00:00
Location: STEPHENVILLE, NFLD
Description: "USAF photographs UFO's here". Type unknown. No further details. / Walter Winchell.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1388

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "33", HatchDesc: "STEPHENVILLE,NFLD:"USAF FOTOS UFOS HERE":type unk:NFD:/Walter Winchell", LatLong: "48.550002 -58.566669", LatLongDMS: "48:33:00 N 58:34:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4171 (90A8954D)

Date: 5/16/1949
Location: Davis Monthan AFB, AZ
Description: Object was described as black, round and flat in shape, similar to a washtub. It maintained the same altitude, fluttering as it disappeared behind an obstacle. Ground/visual from a military source. 8-10 seconds (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490516
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_591

Event 4172 (D918C29E)

Date: 5/16/1949
Location: Tucson, AZ
Description: AFOSI Case 70; app 17:00 - black round solid flat obj at 800-1000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_592

Event 4173 (7FB15CD9)

Date: 5/18/1949
Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH
Description: Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at the AFU in Sweden.
Type: memorandum
Reference: Twitter
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_367

Event 4174 (9F7C7FF5)

Date: 5/18/1949
Time: 15:00?
Location: NEW ORLEANS, LA
Description: 18, 19+23 May. 20' saucer going quickly north each date. 20 May. USAF Lt. Col. 5 saucers!
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1389

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "23", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "NEW ORLEANS,LA:18,19+23 MAY:20' SCR >>N EACH DATE::20MAY:USAF Lt COL:5 SCRS!", LatLong: "29.933335 -90.083338", LatLongDMS: "29:56:00 N 90:05:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4175 (C285F828)

Date: 5/18/1949
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: George N. Raines leaves Washington, D.C., for four days to attend a meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. He says Forrestal seems “somewhat better,” having regained 12 pounds.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1395

Event 4176 (CB749487)

Date: 5/18/1949
Locations: Newfoundland; Stephenville
Description: Walter Winchell , in his “On Broadway” syndicated column, writes: “The N.Y. World-Telegram on Saturday [May 14] confirmed this reporter’s exclusive report of several weeks before—which newspapermen have denied—about the Flying Saucers . . . Said the front-page piece in the W-T: ‘Air Force people are convinced the flying disc is real. The clincher came when the air force got a picture recently of three discs flying formation over Stephenville, Newfoundland. [The July 10, 1947, hole-in-the-cloud case?] They outdistanced our fastest ships. Some air force men believe the discs are a new type flying machine utilizing gyroscopic principles’ . . . At the time we added that the reality of the flying discs or saucers could not be denied truthfully.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Anatomy of a Hoax, Part Two,” Saturday Night Uforia
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1396

Event 4177 (ABABA177)

Date: 5/19/1949
Location: Fort Bliss, TX
Description: Numerous military witnesses observed a round silver thin object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 490519
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_593

Event 4178 (FC0E50EB)

Date: 5/19/1949
Location: Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence
Description: Wright-Patterson Air Material Intelligence Commander Col. Howard McCoy forwards a copy of the Project Sign final report to the Research and Development Board, along with some appendices that later find their way into the Project Grudge final report.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1397

Event 4179 (4E6DE00D)

Date: 5/19/1949
Locations: Killeen Base, Texas; Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: The Fourth Army’s observation system near Killeen Base, Texas without cameras, but with four 6-man observation posts equipped with instruments, is revealed to the intelligence community at one of its weekly meetings. Two trucks serve as a roving Artillery Patrol observation post linked to the Killeen plotting center by radio. AFOSI Lt. Col. Doyle Rees has meanwhile set up a 24-hour visual observation post in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque, New Mexico. It is equipped with a wide-angle-lens camera fitted with a spectrographic grating.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 12; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001, pp. 43–44; Clark III 543
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1398

Event 4180 (7E84BDF3)

Date: 5/19/1949
Description: A 20-foot diameter disc flew over New Orleans, Louisiana going north at 4:15 p.m., again on this date.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2970

Event 4181 (027B47E0)

Date: 5/21/1949
Time: 13:30
Location: EAST / HANFORD, WA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #331. RADAR and telescopes. Disk 18K' over E. grounds. Going quickly southeast. F82 too late.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 176)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1390

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "E/HANFORD,WA:BBK#331:RDR+TSCOPES:DISK 18K' OVR E.GROUNDS:>>SE:F82 TOO LATE", LatLong: "46.583336 -119.316672", LatLongDMS: "46:35:00 N 119:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5486", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4182 (547293CF)

Date: 5/21/1949
Location: Hanford AEC plant, WA
Description: Silvery disc-shaped object hovering over Hanford - F-82/RV Case (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 490521
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_594

Event 4183 (FD1902A9)

Date: 5/21/1949
Locations: Moses Lake AFB; Grant County International Airport; Washington State; Hanford Atomic Works
Description: 1:30 p.m. An F-82 is dispatched from Moses Lake AFB [now Grant County International Airport] in Washington State to intercept a UFO that is hovering in restricted air space over the Hanford Atomic Works at an altitude of 17,000–20,000 feet. The silvery disc is seen from the ground at Hanford and on radar. Before the F-82 can take off, the disc speeds away faster than a jet fighter. It disappears from ground radar and the F-82 cannot locate it.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Hanford AEC Plant / F-82/RV Case”; Sparks , p. 63; Hynek UFO Report, p. 141
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1399

Event 4184 (7D054A11)

Date: 5/21/1949
Description: On this afternoon a silvery disc was spotted hovering over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission radar station outside of Moses Lake, Washington by a US Air Force F-82 pilot flying over the area.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: J. Allen Hynek, The Hynek UFO Report, p. 141
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3013

Event 4185 (E684054D)

Date: 5/22/1949
Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland
Description: Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16 floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to silence him.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_368

Event 4186 (EDBF6D08)

Date: 5/22/1949
Location: National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland
Description: 1:45 a.m. At the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, Forrestal is awake and refuses a sedative. Five minutes later, the Navy corpsman guarding him finds the room empty. Forrestal’s body is found on a third-floor roof below the 16th-floor kitchen, No suicide note is found other than part of a translation of Sophocles’s tragedy Ajax that he is copying.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “James Forrestal”; J. C. Hawkins, Betrayal at Bethesda: The Intertwined Fates of James Forrestal, Joseph McCarthy, and John F. Kennedy, The Author, 2017; David Martin, The Assassination of James Forrestal, McCabe, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1400

Event 4187 (FF9E6BBD)

Date: 5/24/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: NORTHEAST / GOLD BEACH, OR
Description: 5 scientists fishing. 35' metal saucer / jet speed. Fin / rear. Going quickly SSE. / r133#1p76.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 15)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1391

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "3", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "NE/GOLD BEACH,OR:5 SCIs FISHING:35'MTL SCR/JET SPEED:FIN/REAR:>>SSE:/r133#1p76", LatLong: "42.450002 -124.383339", LatLongDMS: "42:27:00 N 124:23:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4188 (C0872DE9)

Date: 5/24/1949
Location: Bend, OR
Description: Rogue River Incident (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490524
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_595

Event 4189 (F089E415)

Date: 5/24/1949
Location: Gold Beach, OR
Description: Hamburger-shaped metallic disc about 25-35 ft to 100 ft wide (1-1/2 miles E of Rogue River ) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490524
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_596

Event 4190 (C7440161)

Date: 5/24/1949
Locations: NACA Ames Research Lab; Rogue River, Oregon; Elephant Rock
Description: 5:00 p.m. Five witnesses NACA Ames Research Lab employees Don Heaphy, Gilbert Rivera and his wife, Mrs. Roy L. McBeth, and Mrs. William McBeth on a fishing boat on the Rogue River, Oregon, near Elephant Rock, see a round, silvery object the size of a transport aircraft. It comes from the east, then turns southwest and leaves no exhaust trail. The disc appears flattened and has a wrinkled surface with a vertical stabilizer fin. The time of observation is less than 3 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “The Rogue River Incident”; Sparks, p. 64; Swords 83–84; Bruce Maccabee, “An Assessment of the UFO Sighting at Rogue River, Oregon May 24, 1949,” December 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1401

Event 4191 (1778C9C8)

Date: 5/24/1949
Description: A metallic disc with a tail fin was viewed through binoculars as it moved on a horizontal flight course in Rogue River, Oregon at 5:00 p.m. It gradually increased its speed until it reached that of a jet aircraft. No propulsion method was apparent.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue files counted in official statistics, May 1949
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3059

Event 4192 (FF0521A0)

Date: 5/25/1949
Time: 12:00?
Location: LOUDON, TN
Description: 5 locals. Flat metallic object makes "flapping noise". No further details. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry: The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp. (Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1392

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "244", HatchDesc: "LOUDON,TN:5 LOCALS:FLAT METALLIC OBJ MAKES "FLAPPING NOISE":NFD:type unk", LatLong: "35.733335 -84.333337", LatLongDMS: "35:44:00 N 84:20:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4193 (BF8C997F)

Date: 5/25/1949
Description: A flat, metallic object flew ove a farm in Loudon, Tennessee on this day, making a "flapping noise."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Larry Fawcett, UFO Coverup, p. 172
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3080

Event 4194 (E3DF5876)

Date: 5/27/1949
Time: 14:30
Location: HART MOUNTAIN, OR
Description: Project Bluebook Case #392. 1 / private plane. 7 20' ovoids / row. 200mph. 3k' altitude. Turn going north. / MJ#253.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 178)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1393

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "2318", HatchDesc: "HART MTn,OR:BBK#392:1/Pvt PLANE:7 20'OVOIDS/ROW:200mph:3k'alt:TURN>N:/MJ#253", LatLong: "42.400002 -119.783339", LatLongDMS: "42:24:00 N 119:47:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4195 (E8805F8D)

Date: 5/27/1949
Location: Hart Mtn (near), OR
Description: Pilot Encounters 5-8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 404)
Reference: NICAP: 490527
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_597

Event 4196 (9B2A1BAA)

Date: 5/27/1949
Time: 2:25 PM
Location: South-central Oregon
Description: Witness: Joseph Shell, ferrying SNJ trainer for North American Aviation, from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon. Five to eight oval objects, twice as long as wide, and 1/5 as thick. They flew in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3-4 times their length, except that the second and third were closer together.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_27

Event 4197 (1F69C1A0)

Date: 5/27/1949
Locations: Red Bluff, California; Burns, Oregon; Hart Mountain, Oregon
Description: 2:25 p.m. Pilot and businessman Joseph Shell, ferrying an SNJ trainer for North American Aviation from Red Bluff, California, to Burns, Oregon, sees 5–8 oval objects, twice as long as wide and one-fifth as thick, around Hart Mountain, Oregon. They fly in trail formation, with an interval equal to 3–4 times their length, except that the second and third are closer together.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Pilot Encounters 5–8 Egg-Shaped Metallic Objects”; Sparks, p. 65
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1402

Event 4198 (9DB1A3BB)

Date: 5/27/1949
Description: Joseph Shell, flying over Hart Mountain, Oregon at 2:25 p.m., witnessed 5-8 metallic, oval-shaped objects flying in single file. They were each 20 feet long and 10 feet wide, and followed the contour of the terrain. Their estimated speed was 230 mph, and they were observed to change course. This case is listed as a Project Blue Book "unknown" case.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 404; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11; UNICAT database, case 625, citing Loren E. Gross; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 78; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; APRO Bulletin, April 1978
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3112

Event 4199 (592DA882)

Date: 5/29/1949
Time: 02:00
Location: ELKO, NV
Description: Man / railroad/railway yard. 5 amber window-like night lights / V formation going west / 600+kph. Attached?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 389)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1394

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1540", HatchDesc: "ELKO,NV:MAN/RR YARD:5 AMBER WINDOW-LIKE NLTS/Vform >W/600+kph:attached?", LatLong: "40.816669 -115.750006", LatLongDMS: "40:49:00 N 115:45:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4200 (7C36F96E)

Date: 5/31/1949
Location: Misawa AFB, Honshu, Japan
Description: F-80 Pilot Sees Circular Object At High Speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490531
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_598

Event 4201 (37D38CD2)

Date: 5/31/1949
Description: The Air Force Office of Special Investigations sends Project Grudge a copy of Rees’s report on Kaplan’s visit on April 28, the trip that USAF Intelligence had arranged to explore the possibility of a clandestine investigation separate from Grudge. Thus AMC learns of the conspiracy to keep it in the dark, but Rees fails to mention the involvement of USAF Intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1403

Event 4202 (84A7C519)

Date: 5/31/1949
Description: The Navy review board, convened by Adm. Morton D. Willcutts, completes hearings on James Forrestal’s death. The cause of death is remarkably inconclusive, and the investigation leaves many questions unanswered.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1404

Event 4203 (808D6D2A)

Date: 6/1949 (approximate)
Location: KLAMATH FALLS, OR
Description: Project Bluebook Case #497. CAA technician. 6 silent metal plates pass overhead in a row.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1395

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1323", HatchDesc: "KLAMATH FALLS,OR:BBK#497:CAA TECHn:6 SILENT MTL PLATES PASS OVHD IN A ROW", LatLong: "42.216669 -121.766672", LatLongDMS: "42:13:00 N 121:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4204 (4E9EDE3B)

Date: 6/1/1949
Location: Stewart Field, Newburgh, NY
Description: Yellow oblong soundless object appear and disappear every few mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_599

Event 4205 (826A1A69)

Date: 6/2/1949
Time: ~12:00
Location: GLENDALE, CA
Description: 2 women. Silvery disk going quickly northwest into little Tujunga Canyon. Very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1396

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "155", HatchDesc: "GLENDALE,CA:2 WOMEN:SILVERY DISK >>NW INTO LITTLE TUJUNGA CANYON:VFAST", LatLong: "34.150002 -118.250006", LatLongDMS: "34:09:00 N 118:15:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4206 (8770BBC9)

Date: 6/2/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 71; 00:40 - green ball of light with no sound (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_600

Event 4207 (D29662E3)

Date: 6/2/1949
Description: A silver disc-shaped object flew toward the northwest into Little Tujunga Canyon near Glendale, California at around noon. It traveled very fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #1409, citing Ann Druffel
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3220

Event 4208 (D9608056)

Date: 6/5/1949
Location: KEY WEST, FL TO GA
Description: Huge silent fireball zigzags 800mi going quickly northeast across sky / 10 minute(s). / MJ#254.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1397

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "10", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "KEY WEST,FL to GA:HUGE SLNT FBL ZIGZAGS 800mi >>NE ACROSS SKY/10min:/MJ#254", LatLong: "24.550001 -81.750004", LatLongDMS: "24:33:00 N 81:45:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4209 (E57CAB18)

Date: 6/5/1949
Description: On this night in 1949 a huge fireball zigzagged 800 miles toward the northeast from the southern tip of Florida to Georgia. There were several reports along the west coast of Florida as it flew across the sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1410.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3290

Event 4210 (28DF609E)

Date: 6/6/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: 9:05-9:08 p.m. Williams, Jones and others in UFO observation and triangulation network tracked a hovering orange object about 30-70 ft in diameter, 2 mils angular size, 1 mile above ground, 3 miles S of the observation post, 4-1/2 miles S of the Plotting Center, which suddenly started moving in level flight then exploded in a shower of particles. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_601

Event 4211 (ACD044B4)

Date: 6/6/1949
Locations: Killeen Base, Fort Hood, Texas; 3 miles south of one observation post
Description: 9:05 p.m. Two observation posts at Killeen Base, Fort Hood, Texas, spot a hovering orange light. Lts. Virgil Williams and Marvin L. Jones are at one site and Lts. Bernard G. Raferty and Alfred H. Jones are at the other. When they triangulate its location, they find it is 3 miles south of one observation post and 4.5 miles south of the plotting center, hovering 5,280 feet in the air. It is 30–70 feet in diameter. Suddenly it starts moving in level flight, then bursts into small particles. The duration is less than 3 minutes. This observation involves the first real- time triangulation of a UFO sighting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 12; Clark III 543; Sparks , p. 66; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical Group, November 2001, p. 43
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1407

Event 4212 (268090D3)

Date: 6/10/1949
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p238)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_369

Event 4213 (2E8CBD31)

Date: 6/10/1949
Time: 15:40
Location: WHITE SANDS, NM
Description: HIQ United States Navy (USN) crew and more/others. 2 white saucers pace V2 rocket. 1 passes through exhaust.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 182)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1398

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "15", Elev: "1200", HatchDesc: "WHITE SANDS,NM:HIQ USN CREW++:2 WHT SCRS PACE V2 ROCKET:1 PASSES THRU EXHAUST", LatLong: "33.000002 -106.500005", LatLongDMS: "33:00:00 N 106:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4214 (51F22F19)

Date: 6/10/1949
Location: Boston (20 miles SW of), MA
Description: T-6 Chases / Loses 100' Tubular UFO (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490610
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_602

Event 4215 (BD964B9F)

Date: 6/10/1949
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Two round white UFOs maneuvered around a missile in flight. (Confirmed by Capt. R. B. McLaughlin, USN) [II] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_603

Event 4216 (0819C3A1)

Date: 6/10/1949
Description: A team of Navy engineers and technicians under the command of Robert B. McLaughlin watched two white discs pace a V-2 rocket during its test launch from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. One of the discs passed through the rocket's exhaust and then shot straight up. The event was witnessed by at least five U.S. Navy rocket scientists and engineers.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers on the Attack, p. 112; Donald E. Keyhoe, True Magazine, March 1950, p. 25; Richard Hall, Uninvited Guests, p. 238
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3405

Event 4217 (951EBDF3)

Date: 6/11/1949
Time: 13:00?
Location: NEAR LIMA, OH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #381. Metal ovoid going down [to] highway. Makes square turn. Flippers / underside. 1 observer.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 184)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1399

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "263", HatchDesc: "nr LIMA,OH:BBK#381:MTL OVOID ↓HWY:MAKES SQR TURN:FLIPPERS/UNDERSIDE:1 OBS", LatLong: "40.733335 -84.100004", LatLongDMS: "40:44:00 N 84:06:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4218 (E79D88B5)

Date: 6/11/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 72; 20:57 - obj green then red at end of flight - about the size of a star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_604

Event 4219 (F47F7F03)

Date: 6/14/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_370
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km

Event 4220 (08796B22)

Date: 6/14/1949
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: McLaughlin crew sights UFO pacing Navy missile (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 490614
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_605

Event 4221 (604B6EE5)

Date: 6/14/1949
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 490614
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_606

Event 4222 (289E3A70)

Date: 6/14/1949
Location: Killeen Base, Camp Hood, TX
Description: Hovering orange object about 30-70 ft in diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_607

Event 4223 (1349E348)

Date: 6/14/1949
Location: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Description: 3:35 p.m. A crew of Navy engineers under Capt. Robert Bright McLaughlin is testing an Air Force V-2 rocket at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. When the V-2 attains a speed of 2,000 feet per second in its upward flight, it is joined by two smaller circular objects that pace it, one on each side. One then passes through the rocket’s exhaust, joins the other, and together accelerate upwards leaving the V-2 behind. Five other missile observation crews also see the objects.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Two UFOs Pace V-2 Rocket”; Robert McLaughlin, “How Scientists Tracked a Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Sparks , p. 66; Swords 92–93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1408

Event 4224 (73587D43)

Date: 6/18/1949
Location: GUNTER AIR FORCE BASE, AL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #397. Saucers going down [to] and going up [to] big dark cloud over base. 1 dives at observer(s) / car.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 184)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1400

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "71", HatchDesc: "GUNTER AFB,AL:BBK#397:SCRS ↓+↑ BIG DARK CLOUD OVR BASE:1 DIVES AT OBS/CAR:", LatLong: "32.388890 -86.216671", LatLongDMS: "32:23:20 N 86:13:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4225 (62E45089)

Date: 6/20/1949
Location: GLENDALE, CA
Description: 18 observer(s). Semi-transparent object hovers flips and disappears. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1401

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "15", Elev: "155", HatchDesc: "GLENDALE,CA:18 OBS:SEMI-TRANSPARENT OBJ HVRS FLIPS+DISAPPEARS:NFD", LatLong: "34.133335 -118.250006", LatLongDMS: "34:08:00 N 118:15:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4226 (5FA3D027)

Date: 6/20/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 73; 20:10 - round, green obj turned red before vanishing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_608

Event 4227 (170A0BFD)

Date: 6/20/1949
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 74; 20:10 - blue-green obj directly overhead vanished (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_609

Event 4228 (1C484FAF)

Date: Summer 1949
Description: USAF Project "Twinkle" started
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_102

Event 4229 (BC016809)

Date: Summer 1949
Locations: Corona, New Mexico; Roswell Army Air Field
Description: The gouge is said to be still visible in the debris field near Corona, New Mexico. Mack Brazel, having found various scraps and bits for the past two years, mentions to someone in a bar in Corona that he has some material. The next day, a Capt. Armstrong and three others from Roswell Army Air Field supposedly confiscate the pieces.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1405

Event 4230 (B0D8D749)

Date: Summer 1949
Location: Casablanca, Morocco
Description: 4:00 p.m. The French Navy patrol boat La Rusé formerly the USS PC-472 encounters a cigar-shaped bluish object about one mile away off Casablanca, Morocco. The crew watches it for 1 minute until it shoots toward the horizon and out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, Signet, 1969, p, 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1406

Event 4231 (9252AE05)

Date: 6/22/1949
Time: 19:00
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #380. Teacher and scientist/science and 1. 2 delta/triangle/box-like crafts and 1 saucer seen / 15 minute(s). Slow and metallic. Going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1402

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:BBK#380:TEACHER+SCI.+1:2 DLTS+1 SCR SEEN/15min:SLOW+MTLC:>>NW", LatLong: "36.033335 -84.266671", LatLongDMS: "36:02:00 N 84:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4232 (4AB05FBC)

Date: 6/22/1949
Locations: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; center of Oak Ridge
Description: Three women one a schoolteacher, another a biologist working at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and a third who is the wife of a member of the Security Division, AEC, Oak Ridge observe an odd trio of “flying saucers” for about 15 minutes: “It was described as consisting of two identical rectangular-shaped objects which appeared to be coordinated in movement and which moved in wave-like motion. The third object was circular in shape and appeared to be in level flight between and above the two rectangular objects. The rectangular objects appeared to be bright metal on top but dark underneath, while the color of the circular object was the same as that of frosted glass. The ‘flying saucer,’ when last sighted, was in level flight and was flying in a northwesterly direction. The weather was clear with high cumulus clouds. The ‘flying saucer’ flew at speed of from 10 to 15 mph over an area just about the center of Oak Ridge.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949, January–June, The Author, 1988, pp. 83–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1409

Event 4233 (387E6B3A)

Date: 6/22/1949
Description: In Oak Ridge, Tennessee on this evening in 1949, a teacher, a scientist, and one other watched two delta-shaped UFOs and a disc fly over the US government nuclear research facility around 7 p.m.. The objects appeared to be metallic, and flew slowly toward the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1415
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3597

Event 4234 (18DAE271)

Date: 6/24/1949
Location: Mesa, AZ
Description: Five objects observed by two witnesses. One object moved vertical. Described as steel gray and at least one was a disc with two flanges (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490624
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_610

Event 4235 (63ED2CF3)

Date: 6/27/1949
Time: 20:20
Location: ALBERA LIGURE, ITL
Description: 2 observer(s). Brassy disk with glassy top / 10M altitude. Blows gas. Going [to] over hill.
Type: sighting
Reference: Database/website: Maurizio VERGA: ITACAT Catalog online: http://www.ufo.it/english/main.htm
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1403

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ALBERA LIGURE,ITL:2 OBS:BRASSY DISK W/GLASSY TOP/10M alt:BLOWS GAS:>OVR HILL", LatLong: "44.700002 9.066667", LatLongDMS: "44:42:00 N 09:04:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alessandria", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4236 (DA097D4D)

Date: 6/27/1949
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 76; 01:38 - round obj slightly more orange than star went behind building (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_611

Event 4237 (F9079D2A)

Date: 6/27/1949
Description: A brass domed-disc with a transparent clear dome was seen at only 10 meters altitude in Albera Ligure, Italy at 8:20 p.m. It emitted a gaseous cloud of vapor, then flew away over a hill.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1416
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3691

Event 4238 (C7C589BD)

Date: 6/29/1949
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Naval rocket expert observed a silvery disc (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_612

Event 4239 (4F2C2618)

Date: 6/29/1949
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Description: 6:30 p.m. A former US Air Force tech sergeant observes three separate flights of three V-shaped or triangular objects from his front porch in Baltimore, Maryland. The objects veer sharply into a cloud at 2,500 feet altitude and then fly around it repeatedly. They have the ability to reverse their course 180° instantaneously. Through binoculars, they look like black, open boomerangs. More objects join them until there are 15–20, and he watches them for two hours. The formation moves from southeast to northeast and disappears. Fifteen other witness also see the display.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Marler 126–128
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1410

Event 4240 (3C459EBB)

Date: 7/1949
Time: 12:00
Location: ALEXANDRIA, KY
Description: Retired teacher. 5 classic metallic saucers going south / file. Last 2 turn sharply going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 415)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1404

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "251", HatchDesc: "ALEXANDRIA,KY:Ret.TEACHER:5 CLASSIC MTLC SCRS >S/FILE:LAST 2 TURN SHARPLY >>E", LatLong: "38.950002 -84.388893", LatLongDMS: "38:57:00 N 84:23:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4241 (EFE81B9B)

Date: 7/3/1949
Time: 10:40
Location: LONGVIEW, WA
Description: 150 aero-types and pilots. Series / 3 saucers over air-show! / MJ#255+/ r46p86.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD & Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI 48106 (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1405

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "45", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "LONGVIEW,WA:150 AERO-TYPES+PILOTS:SERIES/3 SCRS ovr AIR-SHOW!:/MJ#255+/r46p86", LatLong: "46.150002 -122.933339", LatLongDMS: "46:09:00 N 122:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4242 (A30D52BF)

Date: 7/3/1949 (approximate)
Time: 14:00
Location: LOWRY AIR FORCE BASE, CO
Description: 1+1 observer(s). 6 classic saucers going quickly east to horizon / 1 hr. 6th zigzags / 90° turns.
Type: sighting
Reference: PERSONAL INTERVIEW or Experience. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1406

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "1651", HatchDesc: "LOWRY AFB,CO:1+1 OBS:6 CLASSIC SCRS >>E TO HRZN/1 hr:6th ZIGZAGS/90°TURNS ", LatLong: "39.716669 -104.950005", LatLongDMS: "39:43:00 N 104:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4243 (5D9ADDE4)

Date: 7/3/1949
Location: Longview, WA
Description: Metallic Discus Object Observed By 150-200 Observers (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490703
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_613

Event 4244 (8341095B)

Date: 7/3/1949
Location: Longview, Washington
Description: 10:40 a.m. Aeronautical engineer Molt Taylor, airport manager at Longview, Washington, is preparing for an air show when someone points out an object in the sky to the northwest. He announces it over the PA system to the crowd of 150–200 observers, including pilots, who watch a metallic disc cross to the southeast with a falling-leaf motion. Estimated altitude is 30,000 feet at 300 mph, with the approximate size of 100 feet. A second object is seen at 10:49 a.m. for 2 minutes. A third sighting takes place at 11:25 a.m. An object approaches from the west at about the same altitude, oscillating at 48 per minute, and disappears into the sun.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Metallic Discus Object Observed by 150–200 Observers”; Sparks , p. 67; Swords 82–83; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 48–49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1411

Event 4245 (6B3D3A47)

Date: 7/3/1949
Description: A blue-green fireball was sighted at dawn north of Vaughn, Montana. It lit up the sky from horizon to horizon. At 10:40 a.m. 200 spectators watched three identical disc-shaped objects fly over an air show being held in Longview, Washington. Another disc-shaped flying object was sighted in Astoria, Oregon at 1:00 p.m. At 3:00 p.m. in Sterling State Park on the shore of Lake Erie in Michigan, Mr. D. Swarz was watching 2 AT6 airplanes when his attention was drawn to a metallic disc high above moving rapidly in opposite direction. The object went south over the western end of Lake Erie and was gone in 11 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles letters from witnesses; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 86; newspaper clipping datelined Astoria, OR July 5, 1949.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3799

Event 4246 (548FDEAA)

Date: 7/7/1949
Time: 10:10
Location: ASTORIA, OR
Description: Blue Book. "Venus" crosses sky 3X / 8.5 minutes. Saucer seen / 6th. Sketch / r133#4p10.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 206)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1407

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "9", Elev: "6", HatchDesc: "ASTORIA,OR:BBK:"VENUS" CROSSES SKY 3X/8.5 MINs:SCR SEEN/6th:sketch/r133#4p10.", LatLong: "46.183336 -123.816673", LatLongDMS: "46:11:00 N 123:49:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4247 (00977B05)

Date: 7/8/1949
Time: 07:00
Location: SHOSHONE LAKE, WY
Description: 2 fishing. 8 metal saucers 300m over boat / lake. Absolute(ly) silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 205)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1408

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "2375", HatchDesc: "SHOSHONE LAKE,WY:2 FISHING:8 MTL SCRS 300m OVR BOAT/LAKE:ABS SILENT", LatLong: "44.383335 -110.683339", LatLongDMS: "44:23:00 N 110:41:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4248 (FBF1B669)

Date: 7/8/1949
Description: Eight metallic discs flew 300 meters over a boat in a lake at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming at seven o'clock in the morning. They were completely silent.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, July 1949 summary
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3924

Event 4249 (1ACA9AB0)

Date: 7/9/1949
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: Scores / observer(s). Silver disks cross sky going northeast. 9 dull night lights seen / 10 th.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 234)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1409

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:SCORES/OBS:SLVR DISKS CROSS SKY >NE::9 DULL NLTS SEEN/10th", LatLong: "39.950002 -75.166670", LatLongDMS: "39:57:00 N 75:10:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4250 (70F0EB05)

Date: 7/10/1949
Location: TACONY, PA
Description: 2 observer(s). 9 discs cross sky going quickly northeast / 1 minute(s) intervals. Fly under cloud layers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 207)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1410

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "18", HatchDesc: "TACONY,PA:2 OBS:9 DISCS CROSS SKY >>NE/1min INTERVALS:FLY UNDER CLOUD LAYERS", LatLong: "40.033335 -75.044448", LatLongDMS: "40:02:00 N 75:02:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4251 (72ECA7F3)

Date: 7/13/1949
Time: 14:30
Location: 10 MI NORTH / PULLMAN, WA
Description: 4 observer(s) / railroad/railway tracks. 3 silver 10' saucers. 1 cuts going east. 2 going southeast then going northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 209)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1411

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "8", Elev: "750", HatchDesc: "10mi N/PULLMAN,WA:4 OBS/RR TRACKS:3 SLVR 10' SCRS:1 CUTS > E:2 > SE THEN >NE", LatLong: "46.866669 -117.188894", LatLongDMS: "46:52:00 N 117:11:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4252 (0D43DE95)

Date: 7/13/1949
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: Kaplan responds to a July 1 letter from Gen. Charles P. Cabell inquiring about his April visit to Los Alamos, New Mexico. He explains that he has deliberately waited two months to report because he wanted to have a cooling off period from the deep impression the New Mexico witnesses had on him. Moreover, he wants to see if the green fireballs are still reported they are before he recommends a full-scale instrumented program. He says that Norris Bradbury , the Los Alamos lab director, has urged that a classified scientific conference be held to discuss the phenomena. Kaplan suspects that the fireballs are an auroral phenomenon, but concedes that their horizontal motion and southern appearance are “difficult to explain.” He recommends a photographic and spectrographic patrol that would stay on to look out for the fireballs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 15
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1412

Event 4253 (1D4BF6BC)

Date: 7/17/1949
Time: ~00:20
Location: BROWNWOOD, TX
Description: 30cm fireball 10M over house. Sparks when touches tree. Going south. Rumble and flash.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1412

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "423", HatchDesc: "BROWNWOOD,TX:30cm FBL 10M OVR HOUSE:SPARKS WHEN TOUCHES TREE:>S:RUMBLE+FLASH", LatLong: "31.722224 -98.983338", LatLongDMS: "31:43:20 N 98:59:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4254 (8A38486C)

Date: 7/18/1949
Location: GALVESTON, TX
Description: Night light going west over town. Type unknown. Stops and continues / fantastic speed/velocity. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1413

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "GALVESTON,TX:NLT >W OVR TOWN:TYPE UNK:STOPS+CONTINUES/FANTASTIC SPD:NFD", LatLong: "29.316668 -94.794449", LatLongDMS: "29:19:00 N 94:47:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4255 (3C8E899B)

Date: 7/18/1949
Time: 09:00?
Location: TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: 4 military observer(s). Project Bluebook Case #404. 2 white round objects hurl going east. O / O / south in 5 seconds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1414

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "19", HatchDesc: "TRAVIS AFB,CA:4 MIL OBS:BBK#404:2 WHT ROUND OBJs HURL >E:O/O/S in 5 SECONDS", LatLong: "38.250002 -122.016672", LatLongDMS: "38:15:00 N 122:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4256 (B17F93CE)

Date: 7/18/1949
Description: An unidentified nocturnal light flew over the city of Galveston, Texas this night. It stopped, and then shot continued on at a fantastic speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1426
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4156

Event 4257 (C93314A2)

Date: 7/21/1949
Location: Mount Pleasant, UT
Description: Two Silver Objects On Headon Course (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490721
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_614

Event 4258 (C46F708A)

Date: 7/23/1949
Time: 11:40
Location: NORTH / DELPHI, IN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #408. 2 fishing / quarry and 1. 12m metal objects circle and play / 450m altitude. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 212)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1415

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "180", Elev: "206", HatchDesc: "N/DELPHI,IN:BBK#408:2 FISHING/QUARRY+1:12m MTL OBJS CCL+PLAY/450m alt:TYPE UNK", LatLong: "40.616669 -86.677782", LatLongDMS: "40:37:00 N 86:40:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "450", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4259 (F59F7C47)

Date: 7/23/1949
Location: Delphi (north of), IN
Description: 2 observers fishing saw some 12-meter objects circle and play in the sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490723
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_615

Event 4260 (A6CB2040)

Date: 7/23/1949
Description: At 11:40 a.m. two people fishing in a flooded quarry north of Delphi, Indiana saw two 40-foot long metallic UFOs circle and maneuver at 1500 feet altitude for three hours. There was also a third witness.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book, July 1949; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1428; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4313

Event 4261 (A72BF1F8)

Date: 7/24/1949
Time: 12:00
Location: MOUNTAIN HOME, ID
Description: Pilot. 7 dark delta/triangle/box-like crafts / V formation. 800kph. 2500M altitude. Engine electro-magnetic effect (EME). / MJ#183.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994, LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 179)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1416

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "958", HatchDesc: "MOUNTAIN HOME,ID:PILOT:7 DARK DLTS/VFORM:800kph:2500M alt:ENGINE EME:/MJ#183", LatLong: "43.133335 -115.683339", LatLongDMS: "43:08:00 N 115:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2500", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4262 (F4525077)

Date: 7/24/1949
Time: 20:30
Location: FORT WORTH, TX
Description: Project Bluebook Case #411. Air Force Captain and Major. 7 dull night lights / V formation north going quickly south. Possible delta/triangle/box-like craft structure?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 213)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1417

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "202", HatchDesc: "FORT WORTH,TX:BBK#411:AF CAPT+MAJOR:7 DULL NLTS/VFORM N>>S:POSS.DLT STRUCTURE?", LatLong: "32.716668 -97.316671", LatLongDMS: "32:43:00 N 97:19:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4263 (E3D9D8E8)

Date: 7/24/1949
Location: Mountain Home, ID
Description: Piper Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 483)
Reference: NICAP: 490724
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_616

Event 4264 (48E4ED83)

Date: 7/24/1949
Location: Socorro (near), NM
Description: Green fireball sighting-left possible copper particles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_617

Event 4265 (0AC34ED3)

Date: 7/24/1949
Time: 12 noon
Location: Mountain Home, Idaho
Description: Witness: Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, flying a Piper Clipper. Seven delta-shaped objects, 35-55' in span, 20-30' long, 2-5' thick; light colored except for a 12' diameter dark circle at the rear of each. They flew in a tight formation of twos with one behind, and made a perfect, but unbanked, turn. During the 10 minute sighting, they displayed decreasing smooth oscillations. Clark's engine ran rough during the sighting, and upon landing was found to have all its spark plugs burned out.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_28

Event 4266 (4DB9C900)

Date: 7/24/1949
Locations: Mountain Home, Idaho; 10 miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho
Description: 12:03 p.m. Henry Clark, manager of a flying service, is flying a Piper PA-16 Clipper at 19,000 feet 10 miles northwest of Mountain Home, Idaho, when he sees a tight formation of 7 delta-shaped objects, 35–55 feet in diameter near his plane. They make a perfect and unbanked right turn 1,500 feet ahead of his plane, then they turn right again, passing the aircraft at about 450–500 mph. Clark’s engine runs rough during the sighting, which lasts 10 minutes. After he lands, he finds all his spark plugs burned out. When Blue Book investigates the case, they confiscate the spark plugs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Piper Clipper Encounters Seven Delta-Shaped Objects”; Sparks, p. 68
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1413

Event 4267 (701EBDD8)

Date: 7/24/1949
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Description: 8:30 p.m. An Air Force major and captain watch seven bluish-white lights pass over Fort Worth, Texas, in a V formation, moving rapidly from south to north. The distance between the lights does not vary during the 4–5 seconds they are visible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949 July–December, The Author, 1988, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1414

Event 4268 (785CF14A)

Date: 7/24/1949
Locations: Socorro, New Mexico; School of Mines campus at Socorro
Description: A green fireball is seen falling close to Socorro, New Mexico. The next day, scientist William D. Crozier collects dust samples from the School of Mines campus at Socorro. The samples contain copper particles of unusually large size.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 543–544; Sparks , p. 68
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1415

Event 4269 (34CBB1EB)

Date: 7/24/1949
Description: A pilot flying a twin engine plane over Mountain Home, Idaho at 12:03 p.m. encountered seven dark delta-wing objects flying in a V formation at a speed of 600 mph and an altitude of 8500 feet. They executed a sharp turn without banking. His plane experienced engine difficulty with one engine.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 49; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; newspaper clipping dated July 25, 1949
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4342

Event 4270 (F2BD25E0)

Date: 7/25/1949 (approximate)
Time: 18:00
Location: ELSMERE, DE
Description: Boy and mom. Large CLSC metallic saucer / treetops / power station/depot/facility 300M away. Suddenly gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 415)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1418

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "24", HatchDesc: "ELSMERE,DE:BOY+MOM:LRG CLSC MTLC SCR/TREETOPS/PWR STN 300M away:suddenly gone", LatLong: "39.738891 -75.600004", LatLongDMS: "39:44:20 N 75:36:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "20", State/Prov: "Delaware", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4271 (3A5A163E)

Date: 7/26/1949
Location: MITCHELL, NEBR
Description: Doctor. 7M saucer whirls across sky. 6K' altitude. Passes through clouds. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 213)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1419

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1244", HatchDesc: "MITCHELL,NEBR:DOCTOR:7M SCR WHIRLS ACRS SKY:6K'alt:PASSES THRU CLOUDS:NFD", LatLong: "41.938891 -103.805561", LatLongDMS: "41:56:20 N 103:48:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1800", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4272 (17386CB0)

Date: 7/26/1949
Location: REDMOND, OR
Description: "Flat aluminum sheet" soars overhead / tremendous speed. Flashes in the sun.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1420

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "913", HatchDesc: "REDMOND,OR:"FLAT ALUM.SHEET" SOARS OVHD/TREMENDOUS SPEED:FLASHES IN THE SUN", LatLong: "44.283335 -121.183339", LatLongDMS: "44:17:00 N 121:11:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "4"

Event 4273 (25E94FEB)

Date: 7/26/1949
Location: 6MI NORTH / BELLINGHAM, WA
Description: Motorist. Red-orange ovoid silent and stationary. Sharp outlines. Blue Book.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1421

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "31", HatchDesc: "6mi N/BELLINGHAM,WA:MOTORIST:RED-ORG OVOID SILENT+STATIONRY:SHARP OUTLINES:BBK", LatLong: "48.833336 -122.488895", LatLongDMS: "48:50:00 N 122:29:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4274 (9563CB8C)

Date: 7/26/1949
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #413. Man / ground. 8 disks 1000' over B29. Outpace bomber / same direction.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1422

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:BBK#413:MAN/GND:8 DISKS 1000' OVR B29:OUTPACE BOMBER/SAME DIRECTION", LatLong: "47.683336 -117.416672", LatLongDMS: "47:41:00 N 117:25:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4275 (850D2B46)

Date: 7/26/1949
Description: At 10:30 a.m. in Redmond, Oregon a disc-shaped object described as looking like a "flat aluminum sheet" soared overhead at tremendous speed. It flashed brightly as it reflected the sunlight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Newspaper clipping, July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4407

Event 4276 (1FB846D6)

Date: 7/26/1949
Description: At 3:10 p.m. a doctor named Laubach sighted a seven meter diameter disc in Mitchell, Nebraska that whirled across the sky at 6,000 feet altitude, passing through some clouds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clipping dated July 27, 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (Volume 2), p. 13; Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 143
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4408

Event 4277 (040975E4)

Date: 7/27/1949
Description: A cropduster in Puyallup, Washington named Sagmiller saw a disc pass overhead at 9:40 a.m. It reflected the sunlight brilliantly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 28, 1949
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4424

Event 4278 (0E5A457D)

Date: 7/28/1949
Location: PUYALLUP VALLEY, WA
Description: Crop duster. Saucer passes overhead. Brilliantly reflects sunlight.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1423

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PUYALLUP VALLEY,WA:CROP DUSTER:SCR PASSES OVHD:BRILLIANTLY REFLECTS SUNLITE:", LatLong: "47.200002 -122.283339", LatLongDMS: "47:12:00 N 122:17:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4279 (B24245C5)

Date: 7/30/1949
Time: 21:50
Location: TROUTDALE, OR
Description: Project Bluebook Case #416. Airliner and Portland Air Traffic Controller and cops and more/others. Night lights / 7000' altitude over high tension power lines lines.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1424

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "22", HatchDesc: "TROUTDALE,OR:BBK#416:AIRLINER+PORTLAND ATC+COPS++:NLTS/7000'alt OVR HIV LINES", LatLong: "45.588891 -122.400006", LatLongDMS: "45:35:20 N 122:24:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "3"

Event 4280 (31962AB3)

Date: 7/30/1949
Time: 22:40
Location: SEATTLE, WA
Description: Flat saucer / bright center. Halo / edges. Burien, WA similar object hours before.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 214)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1425

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "SEATTLE,WA:FLAT SCR/BRITE CENTER:HALO/EDGES::BURIEN,WA SIMILAR OBJ HRS BEFORE", LatLong: "47.600002 -122.300006", LatLongDMS: "47:36:00 N 122:18:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4281 (7F26E50D)

Date: 7/30/1949
Location: Mount Hood, OR
Description: Object with 1 white light and 2 red lights (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 496)
Reference: NICAP: 490730
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_618

Event 4282 (BFB04210)

Date: 7/30/1949
Time: 9 PM
Location: Mt. Hood, Oregon
Description: Witnesses: Northwest Airlines Capt. Thrush, two Portland control tower operators, and one flying instructor. One object with one white light and two red lights, maneuvered and hovered.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID: BerlinerBBU_29

Event 4283 (2DFC12F2)

Date: 8/1949
Locations: Moon; Mars
Description: George Adamski publishes Pioneers of Space, detailing his out-of-body visits to the Moon, Mars, and Venus. In private correspondence he later explains “how one may venture from one place to another, while his physical is in one place and he is in another. That is the way I have written this book. I actually have gone to the places I speak of.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: George Adamski [ghost-written by Lucy McGinnis], Pioneers of Space, Leonard-Freefield, 1949; “Palomar Mountain, 1940–1960: From Obscurity to World Fame,” The Adamski Case, September 22, 2019
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1416

Event 4284 (57390669)

Date: 8/1949
Location: Alaska
Description: Actor, producer, and director Mikel Conrad, in promoting his soon-to-be-released film The Flying Saucer, claims that the movie contains actual footage of a spaceship recovered in Alaska by government agents. He produces a bogus FBI agent to “confirm” the story. The Air Force Office of Special Investigations interviews Conrad, who admits to perpetrating a publicity hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jerome Clark, “A Catalog of Early Crash Claims,” IUR 18, no. 4 July/Aug. 1993: 16; Internet Movie Database, “The Flying Saucer”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1417

Event 4285 (B3C2252B)

Date: 8/1/1949
Location: TAMPICO, MEXICO
Description: Torpedo object zips over countryside. "Like 4 / July sparkler".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 218)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1426

Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "TAMPICO,MEXICO:TORPEDO OBJ ZIPS OVR COUNTRYSIDE:"LIKE 4/JULY SPARKLER"", LatLong: "22.216668 -97.900005", LatLongDMS: "22:13:00 N 97:54:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VRC", Strangeness: "4"

Event 4286 (1450DC33)

Date: 8/1/1949
Description: In Tampico, Mexico in the State of Veracruz a torpedo-shaped UFO zipped over the countryside. It was described as looking like a "4th of July sparkler."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 18
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4556

Event 4287 (63A3868F)

Date: 8/3/1949
Time: 17:20
Location: WEST LOS ANGELES, CA
Description: Silver 7M saucer 600M over intersection. Jerks. Flips. Smokes. Going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 418)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1427

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "80", HatchDesc: "W.Los ANGELES,CA:SLVR 7M SCR 600M ovr INTERSECTION:JERKS:FLIPS:SMOKES:>>N", LatLong: "34.038891 -118.255561", LatLongDMS: "34:02:20 N 118:15:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4288 (85FEB614)

Date: 8/6/1949
Location: Las Cruses, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 85; 20:00 - round bluish green obj disappeared behind building (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_620

Event 4289 (69243E28)

Date: 8/6/1949
Location: Las Cruses, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 86; 20:00 - reddish blue/green round obj app 6" in diameter disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_621

Event 4290 (B564069F)

Date: 8/6/1949
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 87; 20:00 - round, bright white w/slight reddish cast 1/2 size of moon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_622

Event 4291 (BBF6A45B)

Date: 8/6/1949
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 88; 20:00-20:05 - white obj large as auto at arm's length disappeared (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_623

Event 4292 (4291071D)

Date: 8/6/1949
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 89; 20:15 - round, whitish yellow w/red tail obj twice as fast as falling star (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_624

Event 4293 (1D6F6AD1)

Date: 8/6/1949
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Description: AFOSI Case 90; 20:30 - round, white/bluish obj similar to falling star went out (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC, LC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_625

Event 4294 (D69AE668)

Date: 8/8/1949
Time: 13:00
Location: MEDFORD, OR
Description: 3 / USAF. 5 luminous 35' saucers / V formation going ESE / 10K' altitude. 150mph. Glow. Plane chases.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1428

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "117", HatchDesc: "MEDFORD,OR:3/USAF:5 LUM 35' SCRS/VFORM >ESE/10K'alt:150mph:GLOW:PLANE CHASES", LatLong: "42.316669 -122.866673", LatLongDMS: "42:19:00 N 122:52:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4295 (447C3D1F)

Date: 8/8/1949
Location: Medford, OR
Description: Objects, varying from 1 to 7, traveling slow to very fast. Air Force Conclusion: Balls of thistle (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490808
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_626

Event 4296 (6F663F34)

Date: 8/8/1949
Locations: Medford Municipal Airport; Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport; Oregon
Description: 11:30 p.m. Six airmen and tower operators at Medford Municipal Airport [now the Rogue Valley International–Medford Airport] in Oregon see 1–7 shiny objects traveling at variable speeds at an estimated altitude of 30,000 feet. They fly in formation for a while, then break off and return to formation again. Control tower operators using binoculars seem to distinguish wings on the objects. They remain visible until around 12:30 a.m.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Winged Objects Cavort over Airport”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1418

Event 4297 (9FA8CB73)

Date: 8/8/1949
Description: On this afternoon five luminous disc-shaped objects flew in V-formation over Medford, Oregon and were sighted by three witnesses in flight aboard a military aircraft. The discs were estimated to be 35 feet in diameter, and were flying to the east-southeast at 10,000 feet altitude at a speed of 150 mph. The pilot attempted to chase them, but they outflew his airplane.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 179; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. Volume 2: 1949, p. 22
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4769

Event 4298 (991C4A7C)

Date: 8/10/1949
Description: USAF’s AMC issues a final 600-page report, “Unidentified Flying Objects—Project Grudge,” Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100, or “The Grudge Report,” authored by Lt. Howard W. Smith and George W. Towles. Hynek’s April analysis is included as an appendix. Based on 237 cases, Hynek finds that 32% can be explained astronomically. Others say 12% are balloons, 33% are other misidentifications, hoaxes, or insufficient information. That leaves 23% 55 classed as unknowns. Despite this, witnesses are mostly deluded, hysterical, lying, or crazy, and “further study along present lines would only confirm the findings presented herein.” The report concludes there is little evidence to prove UFOs are real and do not represent a security threat. It recommends that press releases be created to “aid in dispelling public apprehension.” On the other hand, it suggests that military and government agencies interested in “psychological warfare” be informed of the findings. Appendix D is written by USAF Scientific Advisory Board member George E. Valley, who writes that extraterrestrial civilizations “might observe that on Earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they should be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.” Project Grudge enters a period of dormancy until July 1950. The report is classified Secret until August 1, 1952.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lt. Howard W. Smith and George W. Towles, “Unidentified Flying Objects—Project Grudge,” Air Materiel Command Technical Report 102-AC-49/15-100; Hynek UFO Report, p. 18; Sparks, p. 12
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1419

Event 4299 (55CB902C)

Date: 8/10/1949
Description: The National Military Establishment is renamed the Department of Defense to unify the Army, Navy, and Air Force under the Secretary of Defense. It establishes the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United States Department of Defense”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1420

Event 4300 (B6735295)

Date: 8/15/1949 (approximate)
Time: 11:00
Location: NEAR CIRCLEVILLE, UT
Description: 5 / farm. Odd whine. 3 25M saucers going north / V formation. 15M altitude. Tilt and veer going northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: ENCOUNTERS with UFO OCCUPANTS; APRO/Berkley Medallion Books 1976. 424pp (Index 424)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1429

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1848", HatchDesc: "nr CIRCLEVILLE,UT:5/FARM:ODD WHINE:3 25M SCRS > N/VForm:15M alt:TILT+VEER >NW", LatLong: "38.172224 -112.022228", LatLongDMS: "38:10:20 N 112:01:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4301 (7792A92D)

Date: 8/16/1949
Location: Wola Drzewiecka, Poland
Description: A young girl in Wola Drzewiecka, Poland, sees a dark green object nearby like two bowls put together and about 5 feet in diameter. She walks right up to it and touches its metallic surface with her index finger, getting a mild electric vibration and making her fingertip turn red. The object begins rotating, then rises up and disappears to the south at an altitude of 50 feet. In the distance she sees another object that she says remained in the same spot for several days.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Poland 18–19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1422

Event 4302 (C9D8F4D5)

Date: 8/17/1949
Location: New Mexico
Description: Lincoln LaPaz submits the fifth of a series of reports on “anomalous luminous phenomena.” He notes that “Many of the green fireballs now appearing descend in nearly vertical paths, whereas, in earlier months almost all of the green fireballs observed moved almost horizontally. There appears to be a concentration of New Mexico incidents near weekends, especially on Sunday and near the hour of 8:00.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: 1949 July–December , The Author, 1988, pp. 28–29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1421

Event 4303 (833E6C91)

Date: 8/18/1949
Location: Socorro, New Mexico
Description: LaPaz and USAF scientists meet with William D. Crozier to find out about his July 25 dust collection in Socorro, New Mexico. Crozier says he thinks the copper particles may have come from a campus building, although samples from the open country contain the same particles. LaPaz notes that copper is extremely rare in meteorites, although it might explain the yellow-green color of the fireballs. He suggests that further air and ground samples be taken in areas where the fireballs are seen.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 543–544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1423

Event 4304 (1BCB066A)

Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_103

Event 4305 (0BE039ED)

Date: 8/19/1949 (approximate)
Location: DEATH VALLEY, CA
Description: 8M saucer going down. Prospectors chase 2 small humanoids (or Greys) / dunes. All vanish. / r6p23.
Type: sighting
Reference: BOWEN, Charles (ed.) The HUMANOIDS: HB Henry Regnery, Chicago 1969. 256pp. PB 1977 Futura, London (Index 142)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1430

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "15", Elev: "-50", HatchDesc: "DEATH VLY,CA:8M SCR ↓:PROSPECTORS CHASE 2 OIDS/DUNES:ALL VANISH:/r6p23", LatLong: "36.500002 -117.000006", LatLongDMS: "36:30:00 N 117:00:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "9"

Event 4306 (7DA0507C)

Date: 8/19/1949
Time: 20:00
Location: NORWOOD, OH
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). Searchlight hits round object / 4 miles altitude. Glows. Same to 10 Mar. '50.
Type: sighting
Reference: STRINGFIELD, Leonard: SITUATION RED - The UFO Siege. Fawcett Crest, NY 1977 (Index 201)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1431

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "180", Elev: "201", HatchDesc: "NORWOOD,OH:100s/OBS:SEARCHLITE HITS RND OBJ/4mi ALT:GLOWS:same to 10MAR50", LatLong: "39.166669 -84.466671", LatLongDMS: "39:10:00 N 84:28:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "3"

Event 4307 (12404D2A)

Date: 8/19/1949
Location: Norwood, OH
Description: UFO in searchlight (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 490819
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_627

Event 4308 (EF3A44F1)

Date: 8/19/1949
Location: Death Valley, California
Description: Two prospectors are said to have observed a disk-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 52 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_70

Event 4309 (E7287441)

Date: 8/19/1949
Location: Death Valley, California
Description: Two prospectors, Buck Fitzgerald and Mase Garney, report that a flying saucer crashed near them in Death Valley, California. Two little men jump out and start running. The prospectors chase them over a sand dune, but lose them.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Little Men’ in Flying Disc,” San Francisco Examiner, August 20, 1949, p. 2; Clark III 269; Patrick Gross, URECAT , August 22, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1424

Event 4310 (BB7AC81F)

Date: 8/19/1949
Locations: Norwood, Ohio; University of Cincinnati; Cincinnati Post; Cincinnati Enquirer
Description: 8:15–11:00 p.m. Rev. Gregory Miller , pastor of the St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio, has purchased from Army surplus an 8-million-candlepower searchlight for his church carnival. Sgt. Donald R. Berger of ROTC of the University of Cincinnati is to operate it. During the festivities, Berger’s sweeping searchlight suddenly flashes across a stationary circular object in the sky. Miller and others join in and observe. When Berger moves the searchlight away, the disc continues to glow. Hundreds of calls are received by Cincinnati Post and Cincinnati Enquirer offices regarding fireballs and comet-like objects all across the Cincinnati area this first night. The searchlight picks up the same or similar objects on nine further occasions, the last being on March 10, 1950.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 August 6, 1954: 1–2; NICAP, “The Ohio Searchlight Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The Norwood Searchlight Incident”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1425

Event 4311 (F458D965)

Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Two prospectors in Death Valley, California allegedly observed a disc-shaped object land. Two dwarfs emerged but were lost in the sand dunes when pursued. The object disappeared.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 193
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5152

Event 4312 (A61755C4)

Date: 8/20/1949
Time: 22:50
Location: LAS CRUCES, NM
Description: Astronomer Tombaugh. Row / square windows going southeast as if attached. / FSRv15#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: EDWARDS, Frank: FLYING SAUCERS-SERIOUS BUSINESS; Lyle Stewart & Bantam Books 1966. (Index 23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1432

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "1191", HatchDesc: "LAS CRUCES,NM:ASTRONOMER TOMBAUGH:ROW/SQR WINDOWS >SE as if ATTACHED:/FSRv15#3", LatLong: "32.311113 -106.783338", LatLongDMS: "32:18:40 N 106:47:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4313 (EDA63F59)

Date: 8/20/1949
Location: Las Cruses, NM
Description: A rigid formation of faint bluish-green rectangles (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_628

Event 4314 (6B8CFB17)

Date: 8/20/1949
Location: Las Cruces, New Mexico
Description: 10:45 p.m. Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, his wife, and mother-in-law see a formation of rectangular bluish- green lights at Las Cruces, New Mexico, for about 3 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Tombaugh Observes UFO Formation”; H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89; “Dr. Clyde Tombaugh Provides Details on His Own Famous Sighting,” CSI News Letter, no. 10 December 15, 1957: 27; UFOEv, p. 53; Sparks , p. 70; James E. McDonald, “Statement on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 59–60; Clark III 1129–1130; Swords 81–82
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1426

Event 4315 (E40422A5)

Date: 8/20/1949
Description: At 10:15 p.m. in Las Cruces, New Mexico Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of the planet Pluto, reported sighting six to eight green, rectangular UFOs flying in a symmetrical formation. He had a second sighting 30 minutes later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 130, citing letter from Tombaugh dated August 7, 1957; UNICAT, case # 530, citing Dr. James E. McDonald
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5164

Event 4316 (15CDC3C2)

Date: 8/22/1949 (approximate)
Location: TIGVARIAK ISLAND, AK
Description: Project Bluebook Case #428. Geodetic scientist/science. Whine. 6 saucers / circular form. 7th weaves. Northeast going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 242)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1433

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "TIGVARIAK ISL,AK:BBK#428:GEODETIC SCI:WHINE:6 SCRS/CIRC.FORM:7th WEAVES:NE>>SW", LatLong: "70.222226 -147.216674", LatLongDMS: "70:13:20 N 147:13:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4317 (E10DD7B8)

Date: 8/22/1949
Description: In Alaska, a scientist on Tigvariak Island sighted six disc-shaped object flying in a circular formation, making a whining sound. A seventh disc then was seen weaving through the sky. They went from the northeast to the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 42
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5215

Event 4318 (A12565E0)

Date: 8/29/1949
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Description: First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1)
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_371
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 22

Event 4319 (FCB1508E)

Date: 8/29/1949
Location: SEMIPALATINSK, KAZAK
Description: 1st Soviet atom bomb test detected by USA seismographs.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 241)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1434

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NFO: No craft seen, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies

Extra Data: Country: "Kazakh Republic", Credibility: "13", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SEMIPALATINSK,KAZAK:1st SOVIET ATOM BOMB TEST DETECTED by USA SEISMOGRAPHS", LatLong: "50.433336 80.266670", LatLongDMS: "50:26:00 N 80:16:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SMP", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4320 (30E08974)

Date: 8/29/1949
Time: 07:00:00.0
Location: 50.4375 77.814167
Description: Nuclear test: Air, confirmed. Country: USSR Name: “joe1” Yield: 22KT
Type: atomic
Reference: "columbia.edu: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Reference: "archive.org: Worldwide Nuclear Explositions", by Yang, North, Romney, and Richards
Source: NukeExplosions, ID: NukeExplosions_1032

Extra Data: LatLong: "50.4375 77.814167", LatLongDMS: "50:26:15 N 77:48:51 E", LocationLink: "Google Maps", NukeCountry: "USSR", NukeDepth: "0.00", NukeName: "joe1", NukeSource: "RFAE", NukeType: "NACS", NukeY: "22"

Event 4321 (227AA2E8)

Date: 8/29/1949
Locations: Kazakhstan; Semipalatinsk Test Site
Description: 7:00 a.m. The Soviet Union secretly conducts its first successful nuclear weapon test First Lightning at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. The design is very similar to the first US “Fat Man” plutonium bomb. The project is led by physicist Igor Kurchatov.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “RDS-1”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1427

Event 4322 (CB92FC7E)

Date: 9/1949
Time: 22:00?
Location: 15 MI NORTH / SUSDAL, RUSSIA
Description: Numerous observer(s). "Headlight" maneuvers over town. Came near / ground once. Spins.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO CHRONICLES of the SOVIET UNION; Ballentine Books HB 1992. 212pp. (Index 183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1435

Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "15mi N/SUSDAL,RUSS:NMRS OBS:"HEADLITE" MNVRS OVR TOWN:CAME NEAR/GND ONCE:SPINS", LatLong: "56.433336 40.483335", LatLongDMS: "56:26:00 N 40:29:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VLA", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4323 (6CA447B6)

Date: 9/1949
Alternate date: 10/1949
Location: Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland
Description: A Swiss Air Force officer sees a silvery disc 20 feet in diameter with jagged edges above Payerne, Vaud, Switzerland. He observes it flying at about 700 mph for 12 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, [Payerne case file]
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1433

Event 4324 (D0E36D5E)

Date: 9/1/1949
Location: USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts
Description: Col. John W. Schweizer of AFOIN writes to the director of USAF Intelligence: “reports that fall in the ‘fireball’ category will no longer be included in HQ Air Materiel Command and Directorate of Intelligence, HQ USAF, investigative activity on unidentified aerial incidents.” AMC hands green fireball reports over to the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts. AFOIN rejects an Army request for further facilities to study the green fireballs from field locations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 543
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1428

Event 4325 (6085BB0C)

Date: 9/3/1949
Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL
Description: USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_372

Event 4326 (7CD50030)

Date: 9/5/1949
Time: 12:10
Location: NEAR LEBEC, CA
Description: 2 pilots. 35' ovoid rises / foothills / terrific rate. Going quickly south to Los Angeles.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 238)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1436

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1100", HatchDesc: "nr LEBEC,CA:2 PILOTS:35'OVOID RISES/FOOTHILLS/TERRIFIC RATE:>>S to LOS ANGELES", LatLong: "34.838891 -118.861117", LatLongDMS: "34:50:20 N 118:51:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4327 (7317ACDF)

Date: 9/5/1949
Location: Reno (east of), NV
Description: Perfectly round, silver object with curved sides coming to a smooth round edge, about the size of a P-38 wingspan (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 490905
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_629

Event 4328 (D10D58EB)

Date: 9/5/1949
Location: Lebec, CA
Description: 2 USAF pilots flying military aircraft saw an oval object climb at tremendous speed to the S. (Project 1947) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490905
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_630

Event 4329 (2F551345)

Date: 9/6/1949
Time: 10:10
Location: NEAR PAYERNE, SWZ
Description: Military flight instruction. Metallic saucer going southeast. 2km altitude / 1200+Kph. / r93 #2.
Type: sighting
Reference: ZINSTAG, Lou & ALLEMANN, Dr. T; UFO-SICHTUNGEN uber der SCHWEIZ; UFO-Verlag, Basel/Zurich 1958 (via Bruno Mancusi) (Index 6)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1437

Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr PAYERNE,SWZ:MIL.FLITE INSTRUCTR:MTLC SCR >SE:2km ALT/1200+KPH:/r93 #2.", LatLong: "46.833336 6.933334", LatLongDMS: "46:50:00 N 06:56:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vaud", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4330 (4A5D9352)

Date: 9/6/1949
Description: At 10:12 a.m. a military flight instructor flying over Payerne, Switzerland watched a metallic disc-shaped object at 2 km altitude fly to the southeast at a speed in excess of 1200 km/h.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5673

Event 4331 (47E6DBF9)

Date: 9/8/1949
Location: RADKERSBURG, AUSTRIA
Description: Police report 2 'flying saucers' near Yugoslav border here.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 245)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1438

Extra Data: Country: "Austria", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "RADKERSBURG,AUSTRIA:POLICE REPORT 2 'FLYING SCRS' nr YUGOSLAV BORDER HERE", LatLong: "46.705558 15.983334", LatLongDMS: "46:42:20 N 15:59:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STY", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4332 (5AAF39FC)

Date: 9/8/1949
Time: 12:00
Location: CLARK AIR FORCE BASE, PHIL
Description: 3 planes. Object climbs 800mph going [to] 15K' altitude going north. Contrail doesn't disperse.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 240)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1439

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Philippines", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "CLARK AFB,PHIL:3 PLANES:OBJ CLIMBS 800mph>15K'alt >N:CONTRAIL DOESN'T DISPERSE", LatLong: "15.050001 120.133339", LatLongDMS: "15:03:00 N 120:08:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4333 (E4161752)

Date: 9/9/1949
Location: Washington DC
Description: DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic explosion on the continent of Asia.”
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_373

Event 4334 (6C0CD680)

Date: 9/9/1949
Location: Goose Bay AFB, Labrador, CAN
Description: High-Speed Egg-Shaped Object Goes Into Clouds (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 490909
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_631

Event 4335 (B1C08893)

Date: 9/11/1949
Time: 22:00?
Location: MADEIRA, OH
Description: Thousands / observer(s). Searchlight finds sphere/orb/globe / 17K' altitude. Rises to avoid beam?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 240)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1440

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "13", Duration: "2", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "MADEIRA,OH:1000s/OBS:SEARCHLITE FINDS ORB/17K'alt:RISES TO AVOID BEAM?", LatLong: "39.188891 -84.355560", LatLongDMS: "39:11:20 N 84:21:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5200", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4336 (AFFE8C8D)

Date: 9/14/1949
Time: 21:30
Location: LUBBOCK, TX
Description: Several observer(s). Many small round silver objects going south in several groups / 3-50. Not birds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2 booklets) Self published. (Index 53)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1441

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "959", HatchDesc: "LUBBOCK,TX:SVRL OBS:MANY SML ROUND SLVR OBJS >S IN SVRL GROUPS/3-50:NOT BIRDS", LatLong: "33.600002 -101.866672", LatLongDMS: "33:36:00 N 101:52:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4337 (8408168E)

Date: 9/14/1949
Locations: Massachusetts; New Mexico; Texas; Boston
Description: The Geophysical Sciences Branch of the Air Force Research and Development orders the new AMC commander Lt. Gen. Benjamin Chidlaw to have the Cambridge Research Laboratory in Massachusetts evaluate the New Mexico and Texas green fireball cases and consider the creation of an instrumented network. AMC is directed to send representatives from Boston to a meeting in New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lt. Col. John McK. Tucker, “Light Phenomena,” September 14, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 16; Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1429

Event 4338 (BB375C52)

Date: 9/14/1949
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Description: 9:30–10:00 p.m. Two residents of Lubbock, Texas, see 9 clusters of objects “similar to ducks flying in formation,” bright silver and roughly round in shape. There are as many as 50 objects in all the formations except one. They seem to be traveling at 5,000 feet altitude, going north to south. Each light is visible for about 10 seconds, but it takes 30 minutes for all the objects to pass overhead. One witness is convinced the objects are ducks.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 692–693
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1430

Event 4339 (D5DFC4DC)

Date: 9/14/1949
Description: Over a 30-minute period starting at 9:30 p.m. several small round silver objects, that were not birds, flew over Lubbock, Texas in groups of 3 to 50.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1454; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 53
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5939

Event 4340 (9A88CC03)

Date: 9/16/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early termination)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_374
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.2km

Event 4341 (5297D377)

Date: 9/18/1949
Time: 19:00
Location: MILFORD, OH
Description: Many observer(s). Sgt. Berger catches white sphere/orb/globe / searchlight / one hour. Never moves.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 244)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1442

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "195", HatchDesc: "MILFORD,OH:MANY OBS:Sgt BERGER CATCHES WHT ORB/SEARCHLITE/1hr:NEVER MOVES", LatLong: "39.177780 -84.288893", LatLongDMS: "39:10:40 N 84:17:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4342 (6F347501)

Date: 9/20/1949
Time: 09:10
Location: NORTHEAST / ROME, NY
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. Lt. Col. Silver cylinder/cylindrical object spouts orange-white exhaust. Also separate pilot / 1000hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1443

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", Elev: "154", HatchDesc: "NE/ROME,NY:BBK#UNK:Lt COL:SLVR CYL SPOUTS ORG-WHT EXHAUST:+SEP PILOT/1000hrs", LatLong: "43.233335 -75.416670", LatLongDMS: "43:14:00 N 75:25:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4343 (C9DCEAA3)

Date: 9/20/1949
Description: A silvery cylindrical object with an orange-white exhaust was seen by a U.S. Air Force C-54 pilot flying northeast of Rome, New York at 9:06 a.m. It was seen again by another pilot at 10:00 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1989, p. 13; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6116

Event 4344 (06C0DB8C)

Date: 9/23/1949
Location: Washington DC
Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_375

Event 4345 (FB396C8E)

Date: Fall 1949
Location: Key Atomic Base, NM
Description: Five Objects Cross Radarscope At Key Atomic Base (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 49Fall
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_619

Event 4346 (CEDD8D2E)

Date: Fall 1949
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Description: Don Bushnell, plant superintendent with Southwestern Porcelain Steel Corp., saw an object fall in front of his car as his radio was blocked. He applied the brakes; object vanished.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: KeyhoeS (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagnonia, ID: Magnonia_71

Event 4347 (6A6C2113)

Date: Fall 1949
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: A radar-tracking UFO case takes place at a key atomic base probably Los Alamos, New Mexico. The base radar scope covers 200 miles of sky up to 100,000 feet. A legitimate radar contact tracks five apparently metallic objects at a great height moving south and crossing the radar scope in less than 4 minutes an average of about 4,500 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: H. B. Darrach Jr. and Robert Ginna, “Have We Visitors from Space?” Life, April 7, 1952, p. 89
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1434

Event 4348 (AFB410A5)

Date: Fall 1949
Location: New Mexico
Description: Night. Donald Bushwell and his wife are traveling along a straight highway in New Mexico. Suddenly a disc about 50–60 feet across comes straight down the road toward them about 4 feet off the ground. It raises up a little before reaching the car and passes overhead. As it does so, his radio turns to static.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Tulsa Okla. Tribune, December 10, 1957; Schopick , p. 77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1435

Event 4349 (172A6591)

Date: 9/25/1949
Time: 14:50
Location: OVER LUBECK, WV
Description: Pilot. Bright-yellow 50cm fuselage going [to] 100' under plane. Fins. / MJ#124.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index 941)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1444

Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, MID: Likely mis-identification, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), GSA: Covert Security Agency

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "230", HatchDesc: "ovr LUBECK,WV:PILOT:BRITE-YEL 50cm FUSELAGE > 100'UNDER PLANE:FINS:/MJ#124", LatLong: "39.233335 -81.633337", LatLongDMS: "39:14:00 N 81:38:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Western Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4350 (650FC65C)

Date: 9/25/1949
Description: A yellow, rocket-shaped object flew within 100 feet under an airplane that was flying four miles southwest of Parkersburg, West Virginia at 2:45 p.m. The rocket had what looked to be fins.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bruce S. Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, March 1978, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6308

Event 4351 (0A5DE230)

Date: 9/26/1949
Location: WINCHENDON, MASS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #513. Many observer(s). Cylinder/cigar-shape puffs smoke. Northwest going quickly southeast slowly. Vanishes!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 244)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1445

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "15", Elev: "305", HatchDesc: "WINCHENDON,MASS:BBK#513:MANY OBS:CGR PUFFS SMOKE:NW>>SE SLOWLY:VANISHES!", LatLong: "42.688891 -72.044448", LatLongDMS: "42:41:20 N 72:02:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4352 (DC996913)

Date: 9/26/1949
Time: 18:40
Location: SOUTHEAST / LEXINGTON, NE
Description: 5 / farm. 3 4M ovoids going northeast. Turn up. 2 leave trail / sparks. See drawings.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 438)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1446

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "736", HatchDesc: "SE/LEXINGTON,NE:5/FARM:3 4M OVOIDS >NE:TURN UP:2 LV TRAIL/SPARKS:see dwgs", LatLong: "40.716669 -99.683338", LatLongDMS: "40:43:00 N 99:41:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4353 (4E98DA28)

Date: 9/26/1949
Locations: Lexington, Nebraska; 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska
Description: 6:30 p.m. Lester Wolfe and five others 5 miles southeast of Lexington, Nebraska, are threshing wheat when they see three objects coming from the general direction of the sun southwest. As the objects move, they give off a dazzling brilliance. They maintain a level flight with two of the objects changing positions as they fly. The power of the illumination remains constant throughout the incident no pulses or flashes. Once the objects reach a direction northwest of the observers, they make a smooth 90° turn straight upwards and climb rapidly out of sight. Dean Wolfe is a recent graduate of a two-year course in aeronautical design and thinks the objects look like domed discs when viewed face forward, but are more like stubby, wingless, tailless fuselages when seen from the side. About 5 miles away, Don , Minnie , Elmer and Irene Ballheim see two fast-moving objects flying in the distance at level flight before abruptly turning straight up and flying upward. This group of people does not know their distant neighbors.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “90-Degree Turn Straight Up”; Swords 83–84
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1431

Event 4354 (68F6A238)

Date: 9/26/1949
Description: Over the town of Winchendon, Massachusetts a cigar-shaped UFO emitted a cloud of smoke. It flew from the northwest to the southeast slowly, and then disappeared. The sighting lasted 15 minutes and the report was made by two men named Peckham and Clements.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 2, p. 44
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6340

Event 4355 (599A1EA3)

Date: 9/26/1949
Description: Southeast of Lexington, Nebraska three ovoid objects, about four meters in size, flew toward the northeast at 6:40 p.m. Two of the objects left trails of sparks. There were five witnesses, and the report was made by someone named Wolfe.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, September 1949; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, Volume 4, p. 38
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6341

Event 4356 (FE40D3A4)

Date: 9/27/1949
Location: Sandia Base, New Mexico
Description: 1:30 and 3:00 a.m. At least five observers at Sandia Base, New Mexico, see fireballs of various colors traveling either in an arc or in tangent to the Earth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005; Sparks, p. 71
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1432

Event 4357 (8DAE6134)

Date: 9/29/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 150.8km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_376
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.8km

Event 4358 (D406E5D8)

Date: 9/29/1949
Location: HUMBOLDT, NEBR
Description: Project Bluebook Case #475. Observer(s) = Nemechek. Ovoid made of luminous/glowing translucent rings going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 247)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1447

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "302", HatchDesc: "HUMBOLDT,NEBR:BBK#475:OBS=NEMECHEK:OVOID MADE of LUMn XLUCENT RINGS >>S", LatLong: "40.166669 -95.944449", LatLongDMS: "40:10:00 N 95:56:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4359 (50F1E44B)

Date: 9/29/1949
Description: An ovoid object composed of luminous, translucent rings flew quickly to the south over Humboldt, Nebraska.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949, p. 47
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6411

Event 4360 (EAE96382)

Date: 10/1949
Time: 13:00?
Location: OFF PALM ISL., AUSTRALIA
Description: 2 fishing. Plain shiny 100' metallic cylinder/cigar-shape hovers / 80' altitude. Vanishes!
Type: sighting
Reference: CHALKER,Bill: The OZ FILES. Australian Sightings. 1996 Duffy & Snellgrove. NSW,Australia. ISBN 1-875989-04-8 (Index 49)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1448

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects

Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off PALM Isl.,AUSTRL:2 FISHING:PLAIN SHINY 100'MTLC CGR HVRS/80'alt:VANISHES!", LatLong: "-18.633334 146.666674", LatLongDMS: "18:38:00 S 146:40:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "80", State/Prov: "Queensland", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4361 (64D8F4AD)

Date: 10/1/1949
Location: Jackson, MS
Description: Rush Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_632

Event 4362 (5C19DFCD)

Date: 10/2/1949
Location: HOLLAND, MICH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #473. Vibrant bright saucer going west into cloud. Then exits / same point going quickly east!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 248)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1449

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "203", HatchDesc: "HOLLAND,MICH:BBK#473:VBRITE SCR > W INTO CLOUD:then EXITS/SAME POINT >>E!", LatLong: "42.794446 -86.111115", LatLongDMS: "42:47:40 N 86:06:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4363 (ED4EC185)

Date: 10/2/1949
Time: 21:30
Location: NEW YORK, NY
Description: Scientist/science writer / (seen thru) telescope for eclipse. Dark ovoid crosses moon. / r133#2p49.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 442)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1450

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "NEW YORK,NY:Sci.WRITER/TSCOPE for ECLIPSE:DRK OVOID CROSSES MOON:/r133#2p49", LatLong: "40.716669 -74.005559", LatLongDMS: "40:43:00 N 74:00:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4364 (E34B44C9)

Date: 10/2/1949
Description: On this day in Holland, Michigan a very bright disc flew into a cloud heading west, then exited the cloud from the same point and flew off rapidly to the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 473
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6481

Event 4365 (C7F01CB6)

Date: 10/6/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_377
Rocket type: V-2

Event 4366 (D40FA755)

Date: 10/10/1949
Location: Sandia Base, New Mexico
Description: 1:07 a.m. A bluish-green fireball is seen moving to the northeast at 45° above the horizon at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Duration is from 4 to 15 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1436

Event 4367 (3C918462)

Date: 10/11/1949
Description: The Navy releases only a brief summary of its findings in the death of James Forrestal. The complete transcript is not released until 2004.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ayn Rand Institute Watch, “The Willcutts Report on the Death of James Forrestal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1437

Event 4368 (40467C04)

Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_378

Event 4369 (FAEA4FC5)

Date: 10/12/1949
Time: 11:20
Location: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: Blue Book. 3 military. Silver sphere/orb/globe / 35' altitude. Fantastic speed. Silent. Going quickly northeast going [to] Alamogordo.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 249)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1451

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1248", HatchDesc: "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:BBK:3 MIL:SLVR ORB/35'alt:FANT.SPEED:SILENT:>>NE>ALAMOGORDO", LatLong: "32.866668 -106.083338", LatLongDMS: "32:52:00 N 106:05:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4370 (085EA520)

Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ
Description: Four Airman View Metallic Craft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 491012
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_633

Event 4371 (4F3B6D1F)

Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Holloman AFB, CA
Description: H. S. Object Observed By Flight Engineer & Mechanics (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB)
Reference: NICAP: 491012
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_634

Event 4372 (BB4F3A8A)

Date: 10/12/1949
Location: southwestern desert
Description: Columnist Frank Scully writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank Scully, “Scully’s Scrapbook,” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1438

Event 4373 (58BE6992)

Date: 10/14/1949
Time: 13:20
Location: MT. PALOMAR, CA
Description: Astronomers and more. 18 night lights / V formation. Geiger-center chart-recorder offscale.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1452

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "4", Duration: "1", Elev: "1871", HatchDesc: "Mt PALOMAR,CA:ASTRONOMERS+:18 NLTS/VFORM:GEIGER-CTR CHART-RECORDER OFFSCALE", LatLong: "33.366668 -116.850006", LatLongDMS: "33:22:00 N 116:51:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4374 (11270C79)

Date: 10/14/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA
Description: Perfect "V of V's" formation of about 16-18 silver [round?] objects (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 491014
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_635

Event 4375 (1CB44F66)

Date: 10/14/1949
Locations: Los Alamos, New Mexico; Bedford, Massachusetts
Description: At another conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico, attended by 16 representatives of AFOSI, AMC [Joseph Kaplan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%5FKaplan) and Maj. [Frederic C. E. Oder](https://www.nap.edu/read/12473/chapter/39), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists [Edward Teller](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%5FTeller) [George Gamow](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow)[,](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%5FGamow) and [Stanislaw Ulam](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaw%5FUlam), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in origin, but more observational data is needed. LaPaz and Neef speak at length. Oder’s Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts, is selected for a field project, under LaPaz’s supervision.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 16; Clark III 544; Swords 81; Good Above, pp. 266–267
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1439

Event 4376 (1FAB3C11)

Date: 10/14/1949
Locations: San Diego County, California; Point Loma, California; Palomar Gardens Café
Description: 1:15 p.m. Harley C. Marshall , manager of public relations at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, is driving away from the observatory when he sees a perfect “V of V’s” formation of about 16–18 silver objects without tails or wings overhead traveling at high speed to the northwest and emitting a sound like jets. He stops and watches them disappear behind the cloud cover. Returning to the observatory, he phones electrician Benjamin B. Traxler , who at 1:20 p.m. sees one dark UFO traveling to the southwest. Marshall checks the Navy Electronics Laboratory Geiger counter on site and sees that the needle has jumped off the scale for several seconds. For the next 10 days, another 21 incidents of off-scale cosmic-ray detector incidents occur at scattered times, fitting a periodic 1.5-hour time schedule, a phenomenon not seen before or after, and unexplainable by equipment failure or radio interference from aircraft. Two representatives of the Office of Naval Research and two from the Naval Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, California [Joseph P. Maxfield](http://maxfieldgenealogy.com/maxfieldjs9001.html) and G. L. Bloom, visit the observatory to investigate the readings, but not before they stop in at Alice Wells’s Palomar Gardens Café on the way in. After George Adamski claims he has seen increased UFO activity in the area including a sighting about the same time as another observation by Traxler on October 21, they ask him if he would send them any photos he might take with one of his telescopes. He gives them a copy of a telescopic photo he took in February 1949 with his 15-inch reflector. The Naval Electronics Lab later attributes the photo to “electric discharge which frequently occurs in cameras during film pulling in dry or cold climates.” Several Navy aircraft of differing prop and jet types are flown near the observatory using radio, altimeter, and radars on October 21 and November 2 in an unsuccessful effort to trigger the Geiger counter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Geiger Counters Detect UFO Presence”; Clark III 38, 949–950; Sparks , pp. 74–75; Swords 86–87; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 September 1950: 56–59; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 29–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1440

Event 4377 (3AE5FEC5)

Date: 10/17/1949
Time: 07:20
Location: MT. PALOMAR, CA
Description: Small black dot zips along below 7K' altitude clouds. Geiger center offscale!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 251)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1453

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1871", HatchDesc: "Mt PALOMAR,CA:SML BLK DOT ZIPS ALONG BELOW 7K'alt CLOUDS:GEIGER CTR OFFSCALE!", LatLong: "33.350002 -116.850006", LatLongDMS: "33:21:00 N 116:51:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4378 (C330DA29)

Date: 10/17/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory and Palomar Gardens, CA
Description: Observatory Asst. Superintendent-Electrical B. B. Traxler saw a small black object without apparent projections moving at high speed (Sparks) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_636

Event 4379 (DFAD0B9B)

Date: 10/21/1949 (approximate)
Time: 14:30
Location: MT. PALOMAR, CA
Description: Banana-object nearby. No Geiger radiation/radioactivity recorded this time. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 254)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1454

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1871", HatchDesc: "Mt PALOMAR,CA:BANANA-OBJ NEARBY:NO GEIGER RDA RECORDED THIS TIME:NFD", LatLong: "33.366668 -116.833339", LatLongDMS: "33:22:00 N 116:50:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4380 (BE922665)

Date: 10/21/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA
Description: Elongated slightly curved or banana shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_637

Event 4381 (93159AA4)

Date: 10/23/1949
Time: 21:20
Location: NORWOOD, OH
Description: Many and press. Saucer with searchlight. Delta/triangle/box-like crafts exit. Objects back 24 October and 20 December and 11 Jan. '50.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 253)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1455

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "96", Elev: "201", HatchDesc: "NORWOOD,OH:MANY+PRESS:SCR W/SEARCHLITE:DLTS EXIT:OBJS BACK 24OCT+20DEC+11JAN50", LatLong: "39.150002 -84.466671", LatLongDMS: "39:09:00 N 84:28:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "4"

Event 4382 (D62EB202)

Date: 10/23/1949
Location: St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio
Description: 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. Gregory Miller has set up his searchlight once again at St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio. Sgt. Berger turns on the light and picks up a large object in the beam. At about 10:00 p.m., the searchlight picks up two distinct groups of five triangular objects that seem to emerge from the main disc. They descend on the beam then turn out of it. The same performance is repeated 30 minutes later. About 50 persons, including newspaper reporters observe the objects. Miller takes several photographs and asks Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood police department to film the display. He uses three rolls, 25 feet each, and a Hugo-Meyer F-19- 3" camera with telephoto lens. Davidson also takes 10 still photographs of the large disc-shaped object that flies in and out of the searchlight beam, using a Speed-Graphic camera with a 14-inch Wallensach telephoto lens. Two of these are exceptional shots, showing both the parent object and the smaller group. These two pictures are last seen by Time-Life correspondent Harry Mayo, who has prepared a feature story for Time, which was to include them. But Mayo’s story and Miller’s photos were not used in Time or Life and, in spite of requests by Miller, these two photos are never returned.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Harry Mayo, “What Glows on Here? Norwood Muses,” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1; “More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 August 6, 1954: 1–2; NICAP, “The Ohio Searchlight Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The Norwood Searchlight Incident”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1441

Event 4383 (1CC1804A)

Date: 10/23/1949
Description: In Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio outside of Cincinnati a black-and-white motion picture film was made showing a large disc-shaped craft hovering in a searchlight beam; it emitted five triangular or delta-shaped objects. The entire event began at 7:15 p.m., lasted over 210 minutes, and was witnessed by more than 50 people.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7033

Event 4384 (34A967FE)

Date: 10/24/1949
Location: FT WILLIAM AND HYMERS, ONT
Description: Huge streak / fire. Does neat loop and vanishes / newspapers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 254)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1456

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "Ft WILLIAM+HYMERS,ONT:HUGE STREAK/FIRE:DOES NEAT LOOP AND VANISHES/NEWSPAPERS", LatLong: "48.400002 -89.233338", LatLongDMS: "48:24:00 N 89:14:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "5"

Event 4385 (7D0BCC63)

Date: 10/28/1949 (approximate)
Time: 06:30
Location: MONTECAROTTO, IT
Description: Several separate observer(s). 8M cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly NNE 200M overhead. Oak branches thrash. / r39p31.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 243)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1457

Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MONTECAROTTO,IT:SVRL SEP.OBS:8M CGR>>NNE 200M OVHD:OAK BRANCHES THRASH:/r39p31", LatLong: "43.527780 13.066667", LatLongDMS: "43:31:40 N 13:04:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ancona", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4386 (CB774326)

Date: 10/28/1949
Description: At six o'clock in the morning several independent observers in Montecarotto, Italy watched an eight meter long cigar-shaped object as it flew 100 meters overhead towards the north-northeast. Tree branches thrashed about as it passed by.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 103
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7214

Event 4387 (AEEF938B)

Date: 10/30/1949
Location: Novato (10 miles N of), CA
Description: Observed a white round solid disc-shaped object that was approximately 50 feet in diameter. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 491030
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_638

Event 4388 (514EECFF)

Date: 11/1949
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object.
Type: witness statement
Reference: book "The UFO Crash at Aztec" by Steinman and Stevens
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_379
See also: 3/25/1948
See also: 4/1948

Event 4389 (464A4A81)

Date: 11/3/1949
Location: Baja (near), CA
Description: Donnelly Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_639

Event 4390 (25C7C4AA)

Date: 11/3/1949
Locations: Pentagon; Los Alamos
Description: Joseph Kaplan brings the green fireball plan to the USAF Scientific Advisory Board at the Pentagon. By this time, he is convinced the fireballs are a rare type of meteor. But others are puzzled by the brightness, trajectories, and soundlessness, Kaplan says, “This high selectivity of direction seems to indicate that some group was trying to pinpoint Los Alamos with a new sort of weapon.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1442

Event 4391 (2192E226)

Date: 11/3/1949
Description: Karl Taylor Compton resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board around the same time that Lawrence R. Hafstad succeeds Lloyd Berkner as executive secretary.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 Summer 2001: 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1443

Event 4392 (4758ACFA)

Date: 11/3/1949
Location: Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico
Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Capt. William H. Donnelly is driving south about 2 miles north of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with a friend when he sees four objects to the east at a high altitude. All are oval and a metallic white color. They are constantly changing formation, moving up and down, back and forth. The objects continue to fly south rapidly and move in a horizontal line and disappear from sight in 20–40 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1444

Event 4393 (722AA289)

Date: 11/3/1949
Description: U.S. Air Force Captain W. Donnelly sighted a flight of four disc-shaped object north of Rosarita Beach, Baja California, Mexico. The objects had a cavorting flight formation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI/LA investigation files, letter dated April 6, 1952; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7422

Event 4394 (98948C34)

Date: 11/11/1949
Locations: Strait of Hormuz; Persian Gulf; Gulf of Oman
Description: 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander J. R. Bodler is in charge of a merchant vessel possibly the [USS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHemminger) [Hemminger](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS%5FHemminger) in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. He observes a huge, pulsating submarine light wheel, some 1,000–1,500 feet in diameter, one mile from his ship. It is revolving around an ill-defined center with streaks of light like searchlight beams moving counterclockwise “like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.” He thinks it is caused by natural phosphorescence, stimulated by some marine life.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. R. Bodler, “An Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,” US Naval Institute Proceedings 72 January 1952: 66–67; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1445

Event 4395 (075543D5)

Date: 11/14/1949
Location: GULF OF OMAN
Description: 1200' circle / light nears ship. Spokes / light turn. 3 smaller ones after.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: UFO's OVER THE AMERICAS; Signet Books, NY 1968. 243p. (Index 49)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1458

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues

Extra Data: Country: "Indian Ocean + islands", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GULF of OMAN:1200' CCL/LITE NEARS SHIP:SPOKES/LITE TURN:3 SMALLER ONES AFTER", LatLong: "25.000001 57.500003", LatLongDMS: "25:00:00 N 57:30:00 E", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GOM", Strangeness: "8"

Event 4396 (B2F5D312)

Date: 11/16/1949
Time: 09:30
Location: OXFORD, MS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #510. Several farmers and more. Silent upright cylinder/cigar-shape makes 2 90-turns. 2' diameter. 40mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 259)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1459

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "127", HatchDesc: "OXFORD,MS:BBK#510:SVRL FARMERS+:SLNT UPRIGHT CGR MAKES 2 90-TURNS:2'diam:40mph", LatLong: "34.366668 -89.500004", LatLongDMS: "34:22:00 N 89:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4397 (DE959BB8)

Date: 11/16/1949
Time: 19:50
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: Kids and Scientist. 2 blue-green night lights stationary. Then curve going north. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1460

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:KIDS+SCIENTIST:2 BLU-GRN NLTS STATIONARY:THEN CURVE>N:SILENT", LatLong: "35.877779 -106.305561", LatLongDMS: "35:52:40 N 106:18:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "3"

Event 4398 (364FB846)

Date: 11/18/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_381
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 123.9km

Event 4399 (85A058CB)

Date: 11/18/1949
Time: 09:30
Location: SOUTH / RACELAND, LA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 4 observer(s). Shiny fuselage-cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southwest. Makes 2 90-turns. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1461

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "S/RACELAND,LA:BBK#UNK:4 OBS:SHINY FUSELAGE-CGR >>SW:MAKES 2 90-TURNS:SILENT", LatLong: "29.727779 -90.600004", LatLongDMS: "29:43:40 N 90:36:00 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4400 (55490D4C)

Date: 11/18/1949
Time: 10:00
Location: BILOXI, MS
Description: Blue Book. 3 observer(s). Silent 200' white cylinder/cigar-shape / 3000' altitude. 50mph by hospital. Straight and level flight.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 259)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1462

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "25", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "BILOXI,MS:BBK:3 OBS:SLNT 200'WHT CGR/3000'alt:50mph BY HOSPITAL:S/L FLIGHT", LatLong: "30.400001 -88.916671", LatLongDMS: "30:24:00 N 88:55:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "900", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4401 (B74B06BE)

Date: 11/21/1949
Location: AKITA, HONSHU, JP
Description: Project Bluebook Case #501. F80 pilot. 60x20' rectangle. 500mph. 30K' altitude. No explanation.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1463

Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "AKITA,HONSHU,JP:BBK#501:F80 PILOT:60x20' RECTANGLE:500mph:30K'alt:NO EXPLAN.", LatLong: "39.733335 140.133340", LatLongDMS: "39:44:00 N 140:08:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Honshu Island", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4402 (B04C3FF1)

Date: 11/21/1949
Location: Akita, Honshu, Japan
Description: Rectangular object flying at 500 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_640

Event 4403 (71B80281)

Date: 11/21/1949
Description: An F-80 fighter pilot flying over Akita, Japan saw a rectangular-shaped UFO flying at 500 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1949 report
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7762

Event 4404 (A677888E)

Date: 11/23/1949
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_380

Event 4405 (93DC5226)

Date: 11/25/1949
Location: INEZ, TX
Description: Several observer(s). Cloud-saucer radiates heat and causes steam. Going quickly south. Seen / Edna, TX also.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1464

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "19", HatchDesc: "INEZ,TX:SVRL OBS:CLOUD-SCR RADIATES HEAT+CAUSES STEAM:>>S:SEEN/EDNA,TX also", LatLong: "28.905557 -96.788894", LatLongDMS: "28:54:20 N 96:47:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4406 (8AFD6885)

Date: 11/25/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar, CA
Description: Flying discs first observed near the observatory at Mt. Palomar. A recording geiger counter was so activated at the times of these sightings, that it went completely off scale (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection)
Reference: NICAP: 491125
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_641

Event 4407 (76C97D64)

Date: 11/25/1949
Description: In 1949 a cloud cigar-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses driving between Edna and Inez, Texas at 2:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly to the south toward Edna.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 145
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7899

Event 4408 (6767640F)

Date: 11/27/1949
Location: Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: 5:49 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration Chief Controller W. W. Jones watches a blue-white fireball moving 5°–7° per second over Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1446

Event 4409 (6355A297)

Date: 11/27/1949
Locations: Kirtland AFB; McIntosh, New Mexico; Albuquerque
Description: 6:00 p.m. Kirtland AFB Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles E. Lancaster Jr. is driving near McIntosh, New Mexico, when he sees a green fireball descend near Albuquerque.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks , p. 77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1447

Event 4410 (16B24909)

Date: 12/1949
Location: WA
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_390

Event 4411 (2EA1286A)

Date: 12/1949
Description: Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg that UFOs be added to JANAP 146 as required reporting subjects and that civilian pilots report UFO sightings according to military chains of command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1448

Event 4412 (566E82F0)

Date: 12/2/1949
End date: 12/3/1949
Locations: Hanford Site plutonium production facility; eastern Washington
Description: The US government releases radioactive fission products at the Hanford Site plutonium production facility in eastern Washington in an operation called Green Run. The radioisotopes are supposed to be detected by US Air Force reconnaissance. Sources cite 5,500–12,000 curies of iodine-131 are released and an even greater amount of xenon-133. The radiation is distributed over 500,000 acres encompassing three small towns and causes the cessation of intentional radioactive releases at Hanford until 1962, when more experiments commence. There are some indications that many other tests are conducted in the 1940s prior to Green Run, although this is a particularly large test. Evidence suggests that filters to remove the iodine are disabled during the test.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Green Run”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1449

Event 4413 (4AE029D4)

Date: 12/4/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: VOLTA REDONDA, BRZ
Description: 15M saucer going down. 2 pseudo-human/entity invite observer(s) / their planet. Returned 14 Apr. '50!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 329)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1465

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CNT: Contactee related, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, RBT: Possible robot or "Grey", mechanical motions, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground

Extra Data: Country: "Brazil", Credibility: "4", Duration: "231", Elev: "298", HatchDesc: "VOLTA REDONDA,BRZ:15M SCR ↓:2 PSH INVITE OBS/THEIR PLANET:RETURNED 14APR50!", LatLong: "-22.533334 -44.116669", LatLongDMS: "22:32:00 S 44:07:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "RDJ", Strangeness: "10"

Event 4414 (ADBBF190)

Date: 12/4/1949
Location: Hammond (bet Covington and), LA
Description: C-47 Crew Encounters 600 MPH+ Silver Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 491204
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_642

Event 4415 (7F81F446)

Date: 12/4/1949
Location: Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Description: 5:00 p.m. Mario Restier is returning home from his father’s place in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he notices a disc land about 32–50 feet from the road. He hears a voice telling him not to be afraid and asking if he wants to know what it’s all about. Two beings about 5 feet 5 inches emerge from the UFO wearing togas and helmets. Restier asks them if they believe in God, and they answer, “God is one.” Encouraged, he enters the craft where he is offered a trip, put in a tub filled with liquid, and taken on a trip to a city on another world. He is shown a screen that depicts human nature, ambitions, and violence. After about 6 hours, he is returned to the spot where he was abducted. Returning to his father’s house, he finds it is April 14, 1950, and has lost nearly four months of earth time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brazil 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1450

Event 4416 (64033C5C)

Date: 12/4/1949
Description: A 23-year-old man named Restier was driving home from Barra Mansa to Volta Redonda, Brazil at around 5:00 a.m. when he saw a 15-meter diameter disc land near the highway. Two beings came out, who looked human and were 1.65 meters tall but acted robotic in many ways. He claimed he went with them on an otherworld journey, during which he was put into a tub of liquid for the duration. After what seemed like three days he was returned, but the elapsed time had actually been four months (the return date was April 14th, 1950).
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0155, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, April 1968, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 157
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8171

Event 4417 (94C300AC)

Date: 12/8/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_382
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 130.3km

Event 4418 (3E2C3BA4)

Date: 12/13/1949
Time: 20:10
Location: ALAMOGORDO, NM
Description: OSI agent. Object / 15km altitude. Stops / 5 minute(s). Changes color(s). Shoots flames. Going quickly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 261)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1466

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "6", Elev: "1351", HatchDesc: "ALAMOGORDO,NM:OSI AGENT:OBJ/15km alt:STOPS/5min:CHANGES CLRS:SHOOTS FLAMES:>>", LatLong: "32.850002 -105.966672", LatLongDMS: "32:51:00 N 105:58:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "15000", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4419 (54B98F03)

Date: 12/13/1949
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Unknown Aerial Phenomenon Sighted (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 491213
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_643

Event 4420 (DD8A24CF)

Date: 12/17/1949 (approximate)
Location: PUGET SOUND, WA
Description: 2 / Seattle to/from/between Victoria ferry. Night light zigzags going northwest. No plane. Spirals going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 261)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1467

Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PUGET SOUND,WA:2/SEATTLE<>VICTORIA FERRY:NLT ZIGZAGS>NW:NO PLANE:SPIRALS ↑", LatLong: "48.000002 -122.666673", LatLongDMS: "48:00:00 N 122:40:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "4"

Event 4421 (DBB935F7)

Date: 12/17/1949
Description: On this evening in 1949 two witnesses aboard a ferry in Puget Sound bound for Victoria, British Columbia from Seattle, Washington saw a nocturnal light zigzagging in the sky toward the northwest. It spiralled up into the night sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. 61
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8456

Event 4422 (2DC3488C)

Date: 12/20/1949
Description: Following consideration by the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board, Joseph Kaplan’s green fireball project is approved by AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. B. G. Holzman, “Light Phenomena,” December 20, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 Sept./Oct. 1985: 16; Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1451

Event 4423 (6B9D6898)

Date: 12/24/1949
Time: 18:00?
Location: ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD
Description: Blue Book. F51 chases / classic domed saucer. F81 crash lands. Saucer departs.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 264)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1468

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "85", HatchDesc: "ANDREWS AFB,MD:BBK:F51 CHASES/CLASSIC DOMED SCR:F81 CRASH LANDS:SCR DEPARTS", LatLong: "38.816669 -76.883337", LatLongDMS: "38:49:00 N 76:53:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4424 (FE9169EB)

Date: 12/24/1949
Description: The January 1950 issue of True magazine is published, with Donald Keyhoe’s article, “The Flying Saucers Are Real.” Keyhoe argues that the Air Force knows UFOs are real, alien, and covering up information from the public in order to avoid panic: “For the past 175 years, the planet Earth has been under systematic close- range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.” The Air Force finds itself buried in letters, telegrams, and phone calls demanding information about flying saucers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “The Flying Saucers Are Real,” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1452

Event 4425 (25726E88)

Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF Project "Saucer" closed
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_104

Event 4426 (2AAA4F05)

Date: 12/27/1949
Location: US
Description: Project Grudge report released: Explained away all reports to date as delusions, hysteria, hoaxes and crackpot reports. Announcement that project had disbanded.
Type: report released
Reference: "The UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_860

Event 4427 (27BD769A)

Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF announces that Project Grudge is terminated. Its files are put into storage. The Grudge report is released again, reiterating that UFOs are the “result of 1 misinterpretations of various conventional objects; 2 a mild form of mass hysteria; or 3 hoaxes.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 932–933
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1453

Event 4428 (1D9D278A)

Date: 12/28/1949
Location: Richmond, VA
Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen
Type: radio show
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_383

Event 4429 (529E7B64)

Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 13:20
Location: LANGLEY FIELD, VA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #520. Military observer(s). White curvy cone. 20' high. Tip slowly oscillates.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1469

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "78", HatchDesc: "LANGLEY FIELD,VA:BBK#520:MIL OBS:WHT CURVY CONE:20'HI:TIP SLOWLY OSCILLATES", LatLong: "37.083335 -76.350004", LatLongDMS: "37:05:00 N 76:21:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4430 (F6E7BF42)

Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 16:30
Location: FAYETTEVILLE, NC
Description: Huge silver saucer dives / sky. Very high and large. Private pilots can't catch up.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1470

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "73", HatchDesc: "FAYETTEVILLE,NC:HUGE SLVR SCR DIVES/SKY:VERY HI+LARGE:PVT PILOTS CANT CATCH UP", LatLong: "35.050002 -78.866670", LatLongDMS: "35:03:00 N 78:52:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4431 (3A5F46A4)

Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: GREENWOOD, SC
Description: Several observer(s). "Fluor-light tube" hovers / 30 minute(s). Changes shape. Terrific speed/velocity.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1471

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "203", HatchDesc: "GREENWOOD,SC:SVRL OBS:"FLUOR-LITE TUBE" HVRS/30min:CHANGES SHAPE:TERRIFIC SPD", LatLong: "34.194446 -82.161115", LatLongDMS: "34:11:40 N 82:09:40 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "7"

Event 4432 (D57C310E)

Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: NEWBERRY, SC
Description: 10+observer(s). Slender shiny cylinder/cigar-shape. Slow level flight. Veers off and gently rises.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 268)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1472

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "153", HatchDesc: "NEWBERRY,SC:10+OBS:SLENDER SHINY CGR:SLOW LEVEL FLITE:VEERS OFF+GENTLY RISES:", LatLong: "34.272224 -81.616671", LatLongDMS: "34:16:20 N 81:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "6"

Event 4433 (F2F8981F)

Date: 12/29/1949
Location: Greenwood (Bet Hamlet and), NC
Description: Blimp-shaped object outdistance the [4?] planes at high speed. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 491229
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_644

Event 4434 (E19D3A3C)

Date: 12/31/1949
Description: Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 months, 23 days between 7/8/1947 and 12/31/1949.
Type: newspaper articles
Reference: link
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Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_384

Event 4435 (48B2A22E)

Date: 12/31/1949
Time: 22:00?
Location: 15 NM NORTH / DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ
Description: Silver saucer hovers / 15 minute(s). Going quickly northeast / 500mph when 3 B29s near.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1473

Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK

Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "16", Elev: "850", HatchDesc: "15nm N/DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB,AZ:SLVR SCR HVRS/15min:>>NE/500mph WHEN 3 B29s NEAR", LatLong: "32.416668 -110.883339", LatLongDMS: "32:25:00 N 110:53:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"

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