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#1920
NORWAY, Oslo
A mother and her daughter heard music, like that produced by a harp and went (to see) towards the window. They saw in the sky a red object becoming smaller and smaller, and the music decreased likewise. When the object had gone, the music was no longer heard. (RAPPORTNYTT, 3/1980, 1.Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1920
FRANCE, Beddes (Berry)
J. Algret, a farmer, clearly remembers that one evening he observed one of these UFOs, one meter in diameter, without any shine, flying close to the ground at a dizzying speed. The phenomenon moved over a distance of about 300 m and according to the witness, it was a "red moon". (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234)

#1920
FRANCE, Brest
An infirmier from Brest was on Rue Traverse when a passerby pointed out to him an enormous red ball, two to three times bigger than the sun, followed by a black cigar-shaped mass. It was 6 pm, it was summer, and the sky was clear. The objects were moving in the direction of the street towards the south. (M. Pierre Gestin, investigator of Gepa) (Jean François BOEDEC: "Les OVNI en Bretagne, Anatomie d'un Phénomène" ed. Fernand Lanore, Paris 1978, p. 29)

#1920
USA, Texas
Ten people watched four discs move in the sky of Texas. These objects moved quickly, one behind the other, emitting a soft orange glow. From time to time blue or green reflections were visible. Each of the discs was composed of two large silver plates about ten meters in diameter and the whole disappeared in the direction of Austin. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234) It was around 3 o'clock in the morning when the fisherman C..B. Alves saw four luminous discs. He said they were less than a hundred yards from his boat and looked like two silver plates placed side by side. Each seemed to measure 25 feet in diameter and in the center they were 10 feet thick. ("Ufo's – A century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15)

#1920
USA, Mount Pleasant (Iowa)
Fishermen saw an egg-shaped UFO, blue in color, descending near Mount Pleasant. (A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor)

#1920
AUSTRALIA, Bass Strait (Victoria)
Two planes were flying over the strait looking for a missing schooner. They saw unusual lights in the sky. One of the planes was approaching to identify them. The plane disappeared into a cloud and never came out. No trace of the schooner either. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310) (note from vog: prelude to the Valentich case…?)

#October 1920
NORWAY, Stavanger
At night, around 7:30-7:33 PM, H.B. Rage observed a light so strong that all the shadows of the trees stretched out on the ground to his feet. He observed a kind of red light ball, about the size of a small pea at arm's length, which came out like a red beam of light towards the ground, as if it were a searchlight looking for something. Finally, everything went out. The sky was quite clear, with some scattered clouds, without wind. The red searchlight had illuminated a very large area on the ground. (UFO REPORT FORM, 27 Dec 1964.UFO-NYT, 5/1966, 188. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne) (following the next case...)

#1921
USA, New Mexico
Paul Villa was born in 1916, and was allegedly instructed by extraterrestrials from his fifth year, that is in 1921 (following 1953) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998).

#1921
FRANCE, between Arleux and Péronne
In the afternoon, M. B.G., 8 years old at the time, on a stroll along the banks of the Canal du Nord, suddenly saw two beings emerge from the willows, wearing a kind of flexible diving suit. They dragged him forcibly towards a kind of "tank" and hoisted him into the machine. He started to cry. An opening appeared in the ceiling of the cabin and in a few moments he was outside, on the ground. He had to walk for part of the afternoon to find his way back. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, premier dossier complet..." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 46, 47)

#February 22, 1922
USA, Hubbell (Nebraska)
Early in the morning William Lamb had gone hunting in the Hubell area. Around 5:00am he suddenly heard a piercing sound at the same time a dark object appeared in the sky, blocking the very bright stars of this winter morning. Just as suddenly the UFO lit up and landed in a hollow in the ground. Just before the craft took off, the witness distinctly saw a man flying about 2.50m high come out and take a few steps in the snow. Lamb followed his footprints but without result. Voices were heard inside the unknown craft. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234)

#1922, May
FRANCE
First flight of the two-seater bomber Breguet 19, max. speed 220 km/h.
ceiling 7000 m; end of production in France in 1928, in other countries in 1930. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1922, September 9
GREAT BRITAIN, Barmouth (Wales)
John Morris, a lifeboat rescuer at Barmouth Life Boat, and William James were on a quay in Barmouth looking out to sea. Suddenly they saw a kind of aeroplane falling into the water. They immediately jumped into a motorboat and raced to the spot, in vain, as they found nothing. The investigation that followed was inconclusive, as no aircraft had been reported missing at the time of the event. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 234)

#1922, exact date unknown
PORTUGAL, Estoraos-Viana do Castello
The witness, then aged 15, saw a strange silhouette coming onto the bridge where he himself was walking. This creature passed barely 4 m away from him: it was about 2 meters tall and walked like a monkey. (collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenco)

#June 1923
USA, Mount Erie, North of Wayne County (Illinois)
(Source: Evansville Courier (Indiana, USA) 12.8.1998) Title: "Illinois Man Convinced He Saw a UFO 75 Years Ago" Byline: Len Wells.
75 years ago Norman Massie was driving a pair of horses in the prairie near his Mount Erie home, when he looked up and saw what he believes today to be a spaceship. (...) Massie, now 85 years old, was ten at the time. He is a retired university math professor today, and he said nothing of the event since his father asked him to keep it to himself. That is what he did until 1990.
"I opened the gate to let the horses into the prairie. I got them through and I was closing the gate and behind me in the field there was an object surrounded by lights," said Massie. I got close to it, about 50 feet. I was there and I watched the five men who were on board." Massie describes them as being about four feet tall, with blond hair. "I was close enough to hear them talking," said Massie. "One of them was sitting in a chair and the others were calling him 'commander'. The other four were going back and forth in the craft. I didn't know what it was until the end, when I heard one of the men shouting to the commander that 'the repairs were done'. "The machine was metallic and it was on three legs. The top part was dome-shaped with holes in it. It looked like melted glass." Massie said the encounter lasted only five minutes. "In one minute they were hovering, the legs telescoped into the body and it went straight up to 200 feet then went west at the speed of a rifle bullet."...

#1923, June
USA,
First flight of the single-seater fighter-bomber Curtiss Hawk, first version 386 km/h, ceiling 8300 m. This family of aircraft will undergo a huge evolution and will be used by the armies outside the USA for more than 20 years. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1923, Summer
BRAZIL, Sao Joa de Porto Alegre.
Four young children, Sextina Guerra, Valter Paiva, Mariana Lopes and Anita Becker were returning home at nightfall when they heard a curious noise in the sky, as if gears were turning up there. The noise got closer and the witnesses then saw a brightness that quickly increased in intensity. Against the starry sky, a triangular shape, like a ship's sail, stood out clearly (its apparent diameter was 1.50 m) passing through all the colors of the rainbow. Nearly ten other people were able to observe the phenomenon until it rose into the sky and disappeared on the horizon. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 235)

#July 1923
USSR, Sosnovka
Mr. Volosnikov, on the steamship sailing on the Vyatka River, near his village, saw in the evening an object resembling a flying moon. He watched it for two or three minutes. The object then turned to the right and disappeared. Comparing his notes and documentation with what he had seen, the witness concluded that it must have been "an evil spirit". (Excerpt: Felix Zigel and FSR) At dawn on the Vyatka River, Mr. Volosnikov, a passenger on the steamship, observed for three minutes an oval object flying above a nearby village before turning at a right angle and disappearing into the distance. ("UFOs - A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15)

#1924, May 13
PORTUGAL, Fatima
During a pilgrimage, "petals of roses were observed falling from the sun in great quantity." As they approached, they vanished.
(Inforespace n° 55 - 1981, p. 4)

#1924, July 24
Iraq, Baghdad
The British headquarters sent Lieutenant Pilot W. T. Day and Co-Pilot Pilot D. R. Stewart on a surveillance mission over the Mesopotamian desert, which was only supposed to last a few hours. The plane did not return. It was discovered the next day in the desert, with enough fuel for the return. It was not damaged. Apart from the landing marks, there were no other tracks leading to or from the plane: no human, animal, or mechanical tracks. The tracks of the two pilots, side by side, were visible for 40 yards and stopped in the sand, without any change of direction or return. (Henry DURRANT: "First Investigations on ET Humanoids" - Laffont 1977 - p. 104, 105)

#1924, late August
USA, Mattoon (Illinois)
An entity was looking through the windows as if it was looking for someone it knew by sight. The witnesses were generally women, some of them said they had fainted when it shone an object on them. It left behind a strange and foul smell. (Jacques VALLEE: "Chronicles of E.T. Appearances" - DENOEL 1972 - coll. J'AI LU p. 121)

#1924
Canada (British Columbia)
Albert Ostman, a prospector, recounts: "It happened in the middle of the night. I was half asleep when, all of a sudden, someone grabbed my sleeping bag and lifted me off the ground. I tried to reach my hunting knife, but I couldn't. The beast - if it was a beast - carried me on its shoulder, like a sack of flour, and it walked on two legs. I was scared to death and I couldn't move." Ostman was thus carried for many hours. It was only at the first light of dawn that he was thrown to the ground and taken out of his bag. That's when he saw an incredible thing: a group of creatures surrounding him and talking in an unintelligible way. (...)
"It was like a cross between a man and a monkey. These hairy creatures, with prominent muscles, were taller and bigger than men. There was even one that was almost 8 feet tall. They kept me prisoner for six days and I could only escape because one of them got terribly sick after swallowing the contents of my snuff box. He caused an awful commotion in the group." (Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.121)

#1925, late summer
USA, near Warren (Ohio)
During the summer of 1925, my mother, who has since passed away, saw on a clear evening two bright objects flying towards each other and collide with a metallic sound. Then the lights went off in opposite directions. She asked my father what it could have been? He replied "wandering stars?" Probably my father had Phil Klass as a teacher! (Patricia Mason: Cleveland Ufology Project, on the Internet in May 1997)

#October 1925
GREAT BRITAIN
First flight of the two-seat acrobatic Armstrong Whitworth Siskin airplane,
maximum speed 251 km/h, ceiling 8230 m; put into service in the army in March 1927, end of production March 1931. It was followed in 1936 by the AW-38 WHITLEY type, and in 1941 by the AW-41 ALBEMARLE type. Last
deliveries in December 1944. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author
Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1925
SPAIN, La Mancha (New Castille)
A man suddenly had the biggest surprise of his life. Returning home he came face to face with a being 1.20 m tall and wearing a green-colored uniform. The character had rigid arms and legs, he had something like a disk in his hands and was standing on a flat object that allowed him to move. The witness approached within two meters of this amazing apparition, but no words were exchanged between him and this entity. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 236)

#1925
AUSTRALIA, near Moorea
Two young men saw an object made of two discs, face to face, connected by feet, in a paddock. The object shone and had oval windows. They returned to the site a few days later, but there was nothing to see anymore. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311)

#1926, January
USA, between Wichita, Kansas and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Acrobatic pilot Bert Anacosta saw "six manhole covers" flying. (Sometimes the date of 1922 is mentioned, but 1926 is the one in all Finch's documents) (Source: PROJECT DELTA, by Dr. Richard Haines, page 152.)

#1926, March 16
USA, Auburn (Massachusetts)
The American physicist Goddard launched a liquid fuel rocket. It travelled 26 metres at 96 km/h. ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 10) This liquid fuel rocket, the first in the world, was only a small engine, which covered a distance of 60 metres in 2.5 seconds, but the fact that the apparatus had taken off constituted a turning point in the history of rocket development. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 46) It was a strange and fragile engine three metres high. The combustion chamber (60 cm) suspended at the top of a kind of lyre made of two thin tubes bringing liquids from two reservoirs located at the lower part of the device, so as to be kept approximately 1.5 m from the nozzle. (...) It took off with a roar, described a high trajectory and travelled a distance of 56 metres in 2.5 seconds. An average speed of 95 km/h, calculated, proudly, its builder. ("Assault on Space" - Georges H. Gallet - ed. of Modern Thought, p. 58)

#July 24th to September 26th, 1926
Berlin-Moscow-Beijing and Back
Two Junkers G.23 from Deutsche Lufthansa. German Pilots: Schnabel and Polid, Russian pilots: Kosloff and Kudrjanzeff, expedition leader R. Knausz, meteorologist: Seikoff. 20,000km in 140 hours of flight. Study trip in view of the creation of an airline. ("The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 176)

#August 5, 1926
USSR - Mongolia, Koukounor
"... something remarkable! We were at our camp, in the Koukounor district, not far from the Humboldt chain. In the morning around 9:30, some of our caravaners saw a remarkably large black eagle flying above us. Seven of us began to observe this unusual bird. At the same time, another of our caravaners noticed "there is something far above the bird". And he expressed his astonishment. We all saw, in a direction from north to south, something big and shiny reflecting the Sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp, this thing changed direction, from south or southwest. And we saw how it disappeared into the intensely blue sky. We even had time to take our field binoculars and clearly see an oval shape with a shiny surface, one side of which shone in the Sun". (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.74); (he cites Nicholas Roerich, Altaï-Himalaya, New York, Frederick A. Stokes, 1929) (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and Eastern Countries", trans. Laffont 1976, p. 273 - they place this in August 1927)

#September, late 1926
USA, near Salt Lake City
Colin Murphy, a pilot providing air mail transport, had a close encounter one night in September, around 11 pm. He was 70 miles from Salt Lake City where he had taken off when a huge, luminous object flew past his small DH-4 biplane, a survivor of the First World War. It was a cylinder-shaped object, without wings or engines, measuring about 90 feet long and 8 to 10 feet in diameter. Three times this strange object approached the small plane. Each time it was less than 50 yards away and the engine of the plane began to sputter. Finally Colin had no other alternative than to make a forced landing in a sheep meadow. Quite frustrated by the turn of events, Colin got out of the cockpit and looked up. The object shot away like a bullet and disappeared in a few seconds. ("UFO's – A Century of Sightings by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 15, 16)

#1926
ROMANIA, Colun (Judetul Sibiu)
Farmer Ian Brunescu, who was leading his horses to a pasture, saw,
around 01:00 in the middle of the night, like a lightning spear as big as
the full moon. The object stayed for about ten minutes above the nearby
meadows, then came to rest vertically in front of the witness. During
this phase, which lasted from 3 to 4 minutes, the witness clearly saw a
boat shape that was 3 m long and one or two meters wide. The center of
the body was darker than its ends. Soon the device took the direction
of Arapasul de Jos, and made a curve above a small wood 3 km from Cirta
and then suddenly went out. The UFO emitted a whistle and when it
passed, the surroundings were lit up like in broad daylight. (Michel
BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 236-237)

#1926, November
ENGLAND, Bolton (Lancashire)
Henry Thomas, the young son of a policeman, had been put to bed early. He wanted to play with his friends who were outside. He sneaked out of the house to join them. They began a game of hide-and-seek in the alleys. Seeing a back door ajar, Henry entered the yard in the hope of finding one of his friends hidden there. In the yard were three normal-sized people, looking through the back window of a house. The trio was dressed in strange costumes, which seemed to be made of gray-silver rubber tubes, and were wearing black boots. They looked like 'skinny' versions of the "Michelin Man". They wore on their heads "transparent dome-shaped helmets". Tubes came out of them to tanks that the creatures carried on their backs. (note from vog: this description really makes me think of people who have put on diving suits for one reason or another...) The men turned to face the boy. They had pale bulb-shaped faces, dark and slanted eyes, almost no nose and no visible mouth. Henry had the impression that they were benevolent despite their frightening appearance. One of them made a gurgling sound and all three began to move towards the terrified boy. ("UFO Files", ed. Marshall Cavendish, Paris 1998, Special Issue, p. 7)

#1927, beginning of the year
GREAT BRITAIN
First flight of the two-seater general purpose Westland Wapiti I,
225 km/h, ceiling 6280m, range 580 km. There will be 512 examples
for the RAF and 500 for other users, including South Africa which
built under license. Metal structure versions, arctic version, ski,
floats, 80 Wapiti flying in India survived in 1945. From 1969 the
WESTLAND company mainly focused on the construction of helicopters
(Sea King, Scout and Wasp, Wessex, Lynx in collaboration with
Aérospatiale of France.) (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author
Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#February 8th to June 16th, 1927
ATLANTIC CIRCUIT
By Pinedo, Del Prete and Zachetti, on the hydroplane Savoia-Machetti S.55 "Santa Maria" from Roosevelt (Texas) to Santa Maria II from New York to Rome. (Summary of the dashboard in the cited book.) ("The Conquest of the Air" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 184)

#February 19, 1927
URUGUAY, SOUTH ATLANTIC CROSSING
The Uruguayan Dornier-Wal takes off from Marina di Pisa to attempt a round-the-world trip. The crew consists of brothers Taddeo and Gianco Larre-Borges, Ibarra and Rigoli. They reach Casablanca for Dakar, but have to land north of Cape Juby. The crew is kidnapped by the Moors. The aircraft is spotted three days later by French pilots Mermoz and Ville. Guillaumet and Riguelle also spot the seaplane, land and examine the wreckage. The prisoners are released a few days later for ransom by two other French pilots, Reine and Antoine. ("The Conquest of the Air" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p. 184)

#1927, May 20
USA (New York) - FRANCE (Paris)
Charles Lindbergh on Ryan "Spirit of St. Louis" first non-stop link from New York to Paris in 33h 30m of flight and record of straight-line distance with 5809 km. He won the Orteig Prize ($25,000). ("The Conquest of the Air" A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout University 1967, p.187)

#1927, July
ROMANIA
A group of children who were tending sheep said that "God was walking in the sky". Nicholae Balcescu received from Gheorge Achimescu, an agronomist engineer, this testimony: "While it was very nice and there was no wind, I saw a cylindrical object 15 to 20 m long and 3 to 4 m in diameter pass over the village at an altitude between 200 and 300 m. It was heading from west to east, standing vertically in the sky. Its color was smoke gray, it was not lit. It moved in total silence. Young shepherds who were tending sheep outside the village followed this strange object with their eyes and were convinced that they had just seen God in the sky..." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 237-238)

#1927, Summer
USSR, Solovyevka
This town is located about 20 km south of Lipetsk. Early in the afternoon, engineer I.V. Surkov saw a milky white disc in the sky to the north. It was twice the size of a full moon, and flew slowly to the east. The weather was warm, and there were many cumulus clouds in the sky. As it approached one of these clouds, the disc "disappeared" into the cloud, which reappeared when the disc had passed through it. This happened with each cloud on the object's trajectory. The observation lasted more than half an hour. (Felix Zigel and FSR)

#July 1927 or 1928
ROMANIA, Piatra-Olt
One evening in the month of July 1927 or 1928 we saw with many other witnesses, a radiating cylinder flying in the direction of the east. It passed over the village at a fantastic speed without emitting the slightest sound. This object was bigger than the full moon. Yellow in color, its light illuminated the streets so brightly that it seemed like the middle of the day. It exploded in the air with a projection of red sparks (Petre Eremencu) (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "UFOs in the USSR and in the Eastern Countries" - trad. Laffont 1976 - p. 293-294)

#1927
FRANCE, Creuse
The airship LZ 127 Zeppelin flew over the region of the Pierres-Jaumâtres for a long time. At the same time, higher up in the sky, there appeared aircrafts of the same shape, which seemed to be escorting it. [note de vog: IN REALITY: this zeppelin was built in ... 1930. It made trips between Germany and Russia in 1931. It therefore does not belong to those that France received in sharing on November 11, 1918: France receives the LZ 113 (LZ 83), LZ 121 Nordstern which will become "Méditerranée", LZ 114 (L 72) which will become "Dixmude"... THEREFORE, the story would be made up from scratch] (Pierre VIEROUDY: "Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme" - Laffont 1979, p. 53)

#1927, Autumn
USSR, near Omsk
A peasant was suddenly awoken in the night by a deafening noise. He jumped out of bed, wondering what could have caused such an infernal racket. The neighing and stamping of hooves on the other side of the wooden partition made him immediately understand where he had to run. The man, thinking of a thief, went out into the courtyard, grabbed his pitchfork and opened the stable door. His two horses, terrified, pushed him, threw him to the ground and galloped off into the fields. Furious, covered in manure, he got up, took a lantern and went back home where he found all the neighbours gathered, alarmed, carrying lights and sticks. The aspect of the stable was astounding. The shack was crossed in all directions by silver wires of various thicknesses, from the ceiling to the walls, from the walls to the floor. And these wires were so strong that it was difficult to cut them, even with an axe, to penetrate the centre of the room. In the middle of the ceiling there was a large hole. It looked as if an enormous rock had gone through the roof, yet looking on the ground there was no trace of stones or pebbles of any kind. But what did all these brave people see when they looked around them? A horrible, terrifying, and undoubtedly living "thing" was hanging from a bundle of hay: a whitish mass the size of a pumpkin. It contracted and expanded in sequence like an open heart. The "thing" started to move, it turned around to advance towards those who, rooted to the spot, were looking at it. As it turned, it showed that its entire mass resembled a human face. From this monster, which was nothing but a head without a body, long tentacles stretched out towards those who were watching it, their teeth chattering. Those who were too scared ran away screaming prayers. The bravest threw themselves on the abominable thing and managed to reduce it to an amorphous, sticky, bluish-white mass. (Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 340, 341)

#November 1927
GERMANY, Obernigk (Silesia)
Tests of model aircraft powered by a powder rocket were carried out from various sides, including by the "Gesellschaft Fur Raketenforschung" in November 1927 in Obernigk. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 69-70)

#1927
AUSTRALIA, near Fernvale (New South Wales)
Two brothers saw a UFO in the shape of a curved disc pass above their heads. It illuminated the entire valley and eventually landed. The next day a circle of scorched grass was found at the spot. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 308)

#1927, December
GERMANY, Erzgebirge
Testing of model airplanes powered by rockets. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70)

#1927
USA, Scottsbluff, Nebraska.
Flying near Scottsbluff, the pilot Barney Oldfield was surrounded by "manhole covers" flying. (A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor)

#1928, March 12
GERMANY, Rüsselsheim
Valier succeeded in interesting the industrialist Fritz von Opel, automobile manufacturer, in his tests. March 12, 1928 is the significant day when, for the first time in history, he made a vehicle propelled by rocket carrying a man (the former racer Kurt c. Volkhart). The test, which passed unnoticed by the public, was undertaken on the special track of the Opel firm in Russelshim near Mainz. (...) The rockets were supplied by the engineer Sander, from Wesermunde. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 66)

#April/May 1928
USA, near Yakima (Washington)
Floyd Dillon, 17 years old, was driving a car on a dirt road about 15 km from Yakima. It was 4 o'clock. As he reached the top of a small hill, he saw the craft appear in the sky. It was flying 20 m above the ground and moving slowly. The object looked like a metal hexagon, topped with a dome of dull olive color. It was about 7 m long and 2 m high. Dillon could see rivets along a vertical section and a window of one meter by 75 cm, embedded in the metal frame. In this window he observed the head and torso of a man dressed in a dark blue uniform who "could pass for an Italian in this world". The object moved slowly, without stopping, while the occupant looked intensely in the direction of the car. Then the object turned on itself, crossed the road and suddenly moved away at a terrifying speed. (Jacques VALLEE: "Confrontations" - Laffont 1991, pp. 185-188)

#June 1928
GREAT BRITAIN
First flight of the first day biplane bomber Hawker, Hart series.
(There will be subsequent series Fury (Biplane and Monoplane), Typhoon,
Tempest, Hurricane, Meteor, and Hawker Siddeley Sea Hawk, Hunter,
Javelin, Vulcan, Sea Vixen, Buccaneer, Harrier, Hawk, Nimrod). The 1928 type had a max. speed of 170 km/h, ceiling around 5000 m.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition
Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#June 25, 1928
USA
First flight of the Boeing F4B/P-12, single-seat pursuit fighter,
cruising speed 241 km/h, ceiling 8320 m, mass production since May 1929, last delivery on February 28, 1933. Remained in service until the end of 1945, and in 1976 some were still flying.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#July 11, 1928
GERMANY, Wasserkuppe (Rhön)
The first world flight with a human on board by rocket, from the top of the Wasserkuppe. The pilot was F. Stamer, an enthusiast of gliding flight. He used a "duck" type glider from the Rhon-Rositten test institute, in which two Sander slow combustion rockets with a thrust of 12 and 15 kilos were mounted. The launch was made at Sandow, in the manner of gliders. The two rockets were then to be electrically ignited one after the other. It was finally the third attempt, the first two having failed, which carried the aircraft to approximately 1300 meters in an approximate time of 60 to 80 seconds. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70)

#1928, August
CHINA, Jonhong (Anhui)
One night in August 1928, I was taking the air outside with the villagers. The moonless sky was starry, there were no flashes of lightning. Around 8 o'clock, we saw above the Dabi mountain range, an enormous and very long white snake heading towards us. Silver, this flying snake, head raised, flew over the mountains and the countryside and came straight towards us. But as it flew just above my head, the snake extinguished all its lights and disappeared mysteriously. My observation lasted five minutes and the witnesses number in the hundreds. The white snake was at a few thousand meters altitude, people were gaping at this phenomenon. The head and tail of the flying object were luminous; it looked very much like a snake standing straight up in the sky. It measured more than 200 m and moved without twisting. Its apparent diameter measured more than one meter. (SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p. 75)

#November 1928
USA, Milton (North Dakota)
A UFO round like an upturned saucer flew over the area emitting powerful light rays that scared the livestock. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 238) Two brothers accompanying the livestock near Milton, saw a craft shaped like an upturned saucer, flying at very high speed, at less than 20 feet altitude. The object had 4 or 5 lights on its belly, bright enough to light up the whole area. The passage of the object was accompanied by a sound resembling the passage of air through a tube. ("Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 16)

#1928
USA, Griffith Park, California
Leo Bentz, a former car manufacturer, stated that he and a friend had witnessed, in 1928, at Griffith Park, a confidential demonstration of an aerial craft model, in the shape of a saucer.
The inventor was George De Bay, who was looking for new principles of aerial propulsion. He had drawn the plans of a craft that was to move through the air like a flat stone, or rather like an overturned saucer, and use the principle of vacuum for its propulsion, which required ten times less energy than was being spent at that time for airplanes. It is thought that De Bay went to the USSR (F. Scully: "The Mystery of Flying Saucers", ed. Del Duca, Paris "Les Editions Mondiales" 1951, p. 171, citing the "Los Angeles Examiner" of July 5, 1947, title "A test of "flying saucer" took place in California in 1928") (to be verified if possible...)

#1928, 1929
Germany
Testing of Aircraft Propulsion by Rocket by the "Rhön-Rositten Company in 1928 and by Engineer Rudolf Kollmorgen from 1929. The latter, with a fully metallic scale model, with a span of 3 meters, reached speeds of 360 km/h during very short tests. Most of the scale models could not withstand the propulsive force of the rockets: they would deteriorate in flight or be destroyed upon landing. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 70)

#June 15, 1929
CANADA, Fermeneuve (200 km from Montreal)
At around 11:00 PM, Lévis Brosseau was returning home. "When I reached the top of the hill, just before the fork in the road, I saw a large blackness on top of the rocky hill you can see there. A kind of black cloud with a yellowish opening inside... like you could see a flash of lightning through it. I thought a storm was coming and I urged my horse on, as I didn't want to get caught in the rain. When I got to the stable, at the bottom of the valley, I quickly unhitched him and led him by the bridle towards the small bridge that crossed the stream at the time, to take him to the pasture that started around here. (..) So I was climbing the hill, when, when I emerged here, I saw on the left my yellowish light in the middle, like dandelions... then blackness all around and I heard a confused noise... At that moment, my horse started to get agitated and to neigh, raising his head. I was still climbing, looking at this black mass with a large yellow circle in the center. And it seemed to be resting on the ground, about 150 feet from me. I said to myself: "tell me... it's stopped!" And I vaguely distinguished in the night four or five little guys who seemed to be running around... in a radius of about twenty feet. I heard their high voices confusedly and I thought "Well! The little Legaults went fishing with the little Browns - it was the time of the bullhead in the lake - That's funny! Why did they pass by here? They always used to pass by the small bridge..." When I opened the gate... my horse took off like an arrow... At that moment I no longer saw the little guys. But the black mass suddenly rose from the ground with a sound of a centrifugal machine, a purring of a cream separator: "iiiii..." It passed over me, at about fifty miles an hour, at the height of the barn, not very high since it caused a displacement of air and a slight trembling of the earth. (...) It seemed round to me and then, passing over me, it spoke inside. It spoke in a small voice, then a loud voice... As if someone was answering themselves ""u... A ...u... A..." (...) It spoke loudly. Then I followed it with my eyes, it was going towards Lac des Journalistes and towards the village. (...) It was round and quite large, about fifty feet, and the luminous circle with the squares about fifteen feet in diameter. (...) In any case it was lighting me up. It was yellowish, a bit like the sun. And then, there were "things" all around. Let's say, every three feet, it was almost like what they show us on television (note from vog: like a lattice of diamonds on the black border) (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 239-241)

#July 17, 1929
USA, Auburn, Massachusetts
Goddard used a new propulsion rocket again. The fuel used was gasoline and liquid oxygen. The rocket carried a camera and a barometer, and both devices returned to the ground unharmed, supported by a parachute. Around this time, Colonel Lindbergh, the famous aviator who first crossed the Atlantic, intervened in favor of Goddard's tests. He obtained a donation from Guggenheim (King of Copper) which allowed Goddard to continue his research near ROSWELL (New Mexico) in more favorable conditions. On the new experimental field an workshop was erected and, in the vicinity, a tower 7 meters high was built to serve as a test bench. About 25 km away was a second tower, 20 m high, serving as a launch tower. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 47)

#1929, August
At sea, Atlantic Ocean, 650 km off the coast of Virginia
The "Coldwater" of the South Atlantic Steamship Line was more than 650 km off the coast of Virginia. One of the sailors of the ship, Thomas Stuart, recounts: "A luminous object appeared in the sky. It seemed very large, like a gigantic airplane. It was moving at a speed that I estimate to be 160 km/h in the direction of the Bermudas". At that time there was no transoceanic flight.. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 239-241) (note from vog: except e.a.... the world tour in 4 stages, with crossing of the North Atlantic, by the airship "Graf Zeppelin" (...) departure on August 8th 1929 at Lakehurst, arrival Friedrichshaven on the 10th, departure on the 15th arrival in Tokyo on the 19th, departure on the 23rd arrival in Los Angeles on the 26th, departure on the 27th and return to Lakehurst on August 29th.... ("La conquête de l'air. Chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, éd. Marabout Université 1967, p. 214, 215)

#1929, September 30
Germany, Frankfurt
Fritz von Opel took off from the airfield to attempt a flight with rockets, causing a great sensation among the public. After two failed preliminary attempts, he succeeded in the afternoon of the same day in a flight of 1500 meters. The take-off already took place with the help of a rocket. The aircraft was driven by a set of rockets ignited two by two and reached a speed of 120 km/h. (...) ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 71)

#1930
GREECE, Mouzaci
An object in the shape of a blue diamond passed slowly through the sky, emitting flashes and moving without sound towards Phici and Larisa. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 242)

#1930, February (approximate date)
SOUTH AFRICA, PieterMaritzburg (Natal)
Summer (so January, February, southern hemisphere) UFO sighting: "a massive plate of shining metal, with each movement, a great flash of light came out from each side." This thing was observed for 40 minutes. At the end of this time it rose up quickly and disappeared. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 351) From 11 january to 24 february the English Greet and board commanding a squadron of 4 Fairey III F, left Cairo for the Cape. On 15 January they participated in manoeuvres at Entebbe, on 21 at Tabora. They arrived at the Cape on 1 February and left again on 4 February accompanied by 4 Fairey of the South African Air Force. Return to Cairo after a journey of 17600 km. ("La conquête de l'air. Chronologie..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 222)

#1930, late autumn
FRANCE, Toulx-Sainte-Croix (Creuse)
(cf: 1906: La Celle sous Gouzon) Jules B. was returning to the village by the road. It was between 9 pm and 10 pm. The witness saw a small being cross the road, about forty meters away from him. The character was walking at the normal pace of a man, but his legs were motionless, vertically stuck together and he was sliding on the ground. When he arrived on the other side of the road, this strange little man instantly vanished in place. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 243)

#1930
USA, High Bridge, (New Jersey)
Howard Menger, aged 8 (born February 17th 1922) often observed disks in the sky with his classmates. (Continued in 1931, June-July)
(Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Enigma of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145)

#1930
AUSTRALIA, Mandurah
Suddenly, in the evening, in the paternal house of Beryl Hickey, appeared a small bald entity, with large ears, a wide slit mouth without lips, globular eyes, shining all over its body as if it was greased, with small hands and well-formed little pink feet, like those of a baby, about 50 cm tall. Her father, who was a very religious man, thought it was the devil. He threw a net over this creature to evacuate it outside. It started to scream like a mouse. It was forbidden to Beryl to talk about this event to anyone, but she nevertheless confided her secret to a friend. This one reminded her of it when they left the movie "ET". (Janet and Colin BORD: Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 147) Small humanoids appear in a farm in Mandurah and ask for water. The terrified farmer shot them with gunfire (A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor)

#1930, May 21
GREAT BRITAIN, Caterham
A child's balloon rises from Caterham. It will be found on June 4, 1930 in New York. ("The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 225).

#1930, December 12
USA, Mescalero, Roswell
R. H. Goddard rocket test, altitude 600 meters. (Ref. GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248)

#1930, end of year
SPAIN, Barcelona
(Source: Ufo Roundup vol. 3 no. 15 of April 12th) The Spanish magazine "Enigmas" published by Iker Jiminez, devotes an article to Ribera. The famous Spanish ufologist Antonio Ribera claims to have had contact with an extraterrestrial at the end of 1930, when he was ten years old. Today, Ribera, 78 years old, claims that it happened in his bedroom in Barcelona. A very powerful green light, coming from nowhere, appeared. The young Antonio Ribera then saw "an entity of small size, corpulent, and quadruped". He could not distinguish arms, chest, or legs. He was not really scared, but was dazed and very curious. This extraterrestrial explained to the boy that space travel had now reached the point of coming to "calm contact" with selected humans. Ribera, who has written more than 40 books, claims that he was chosen, received knowledge, and had to instruct the population....

#1930 or 1932, Summer
FRANCE, Valence "Eperviers"
At the age of 8 or 10, living with his father (his mother having passed away), Mr. J.R. had gone out to attend to a natural need about ten meters from the house, on the other side of the courtyard, behind a hedge of privet, on the edge of a small stream. He was partially hidden by the hedge and when he stood up he saw in the courtyard, 5 or 6 meters away from him, a small man about 50 to 60 cm tall (much smaller than him) who was coming in his direction. He seemed to be wearing some kind of gray uniform. When he saw the young witness, he turned around and ran away at full speed through the vegetable garden and disappeared into the night.
(M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet.." ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 642)

#February 2, 1931
AUSTRIA, Graz (Steiermark)
Oberth in the USA had a project for a transoceanic mail rocket. But it was demonstrated by the Austrian engineer Friedrich Schmiedl that mail rockets could also be used conveniently for short distances, for example for the supply of mountain villages with difficult access. On February 2, the first mail rocket named "V7" left the vicinity of Graz (between Hochtrotz and Semriach) carrying 102 postal shipments. They were franked with regular postage stamps but private "rocket stamps" and special seals were also added. After the rocket landed, the official postal services took charge of the transmission and delivery of the letters to the recipients. (...) But an official and regular postal service by rockets was never organized. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 72, 73) The service lasted for several years and it must be noted that Schmiedl's rockets functioned remarkably. They were only simple powder rockets 1.7 m long and 25 cm in diameter with three stabilizing fins at the rear. The total weight of 30 kg included a bit more than 20 kg of propellant. The mail carried was lodged in the penetration cone at the front. Their parachute never failed to open and not a single letter was lost. ("Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, Ed. de la Pensée Moderne p. 53)

#1931
FRANCE
First flight of the 5-seat reconnaissance bomber, Amiot 143, produced in series from 1935, cruising speed 270 km/h, ceiling 9000 m. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1931, February 21
GERMANY, Dessau
Launch of a Winkler rocket, test failed, altitude 3 meters it was
the first liquid fuel rocket in Europe. (Ley 1958, p. 145)

#1931,
HUNGARY
First flight of Weiss Manfred Solyom's Budapest prototype, 320 km/h,
range 675 km, two-seater tactical reconnaissance aircraft. (Encyclopedia of
Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia
Brussels 1979)

#1931, March 14
Germany, Dessau-Grosskühnau
The first liquid fuel rocket powered by methane and liquid oxygen, designed by engineer Winkler, took off from Dessau. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 78) It deviated from the vertical and remained below 500 meters. (Ley 1958, p. 145)

#1931
end of March in CANNES (France)
in May in SARDINIA (Italy)
in June in MELLE (Belgium, near Ghent)
Various witnesses observed silent luminous balls or grayish ovoid objects. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 243)

#1931, late March
FRANCE, Cannes
The witness, who was driving a bus, suddenly saw on the road a kind of mound with a "luminous cascade" that split in two to reveal the "virgin". She was tall, 1.8 m, and stood in the middle of the road like someone waiting. The clothing was tight, long and white, with a wide blue belt, a panel falling on the side. The apparition had a veil on her head, not covering her eyes. The features of the face did not move, she simply extended her arms towards the witness, then she rose from the ground and merged into a round cloud that was next to her. It left silently and at full speed. It took an ovoid shape and disappeared in less than forty seconds, leaving behind a luminous trail. It was observed during its passage over Nice (Erich ZURCHER: "Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 209)

#April 15, 1931
GERMANY, Osnabruck (Lower Saxony)
The experiments of engineer Teinhold Tiling conducted around 1931 deserve special attention. Tiling built powder rockets in the shape of torpedoes, which were automatically piloted and equipped with wings. During the ascent, the wings were folded into the tail and held in place by a locking device. At the peak of its trajectory, after the propellant charge had been burned, a timed rocket released the locking device. The wings then unfolded and brought the rocket back to the ground in a gliding flight. With his models, Tiling would have reached a maximum altitude of 800 meters. The horizontal range must have been close to 8000 meters. He conducted hundreds of tests with models and organized countless days of rocket flight for the public. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 72)

#April 1931
GERMANY, Berlin (Tempelhof airfield)
Engineer Reinhold Tiling had secretly designed (but with the hidden support of the German government) powder rockets with a pair of retractable wings, in the body of the rocket. An automatic device triggered at the top of the trajectory, which the rocket then extended in a gliding flight, considerably increasing its range. From April 1934 he made numerous successful public demonstrations, notably on a lake near Osnabrück. But in Berlin a gust of wind caused one of the rockets to deviate and fall among the spectators. ("To the Assault of Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 37)

#1931, May 7
Germany, Berlin Reinickendorf
In 1930, the municipal administration made available to the Junkers factories the terrain of an old shooting range, which was converted into the first world rocket launching site (Raketen-Flugplatz). Klaus Riedel built a simpler liquid fuel rocket, of the tractive type, designed for only 1 kilo of fuel. In order to distinguish it from the others, it was called "Repulsor". The first Repulsor took off on May 7 from the Raketenflugplatz. Further work allowed them to soon reach altitudes of a thousand meters. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 75)

#1931, May 23
GERMANY, Berlin, Reinickendorf
Launch of Repulsor No. 2, fuel-oxygen, altitude 60 meters, range 600 m. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 148)

#1931, June
GERMANY, Berlin, Reinickendorf
Launch of Repulsor No. 3, test, altitude 450 meters. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p 150)

#1931, June 10
AUSTRALIA, Tasman Sea
In the afternoon Sir Francis Chichester saw a "flashing" boat when he flew in his "Gypsy Moth" plane. He published his observation for the first time in 1932. (THE OZ FILES, William Chalker; THE LONELY SEA AND THE SKY, Sir Francis Chinchecster ed.Pan, London, 1964, page 185.)

#1931, June or July
USA, High Bridge (New Jersey)
Howard B. Menger, 9 years old and his brother, Alton Menger, 7 years old, saw two flying saucers in broad daylight. "It was in the meadows, one of those hot days of June or July that I began to have different sensations, difficult to explain. It was at this moment that we began to see saucers in the sky. My brother and I saw these bright lights in the sky and one day one of them landed in the field where we were playing. The object had the shape of a disc and measured about 3 meters in diameter. Curious and intrigued, we approached it. Meanwhile, we saw in the sky another bright light hovering as if to observe us. With our hearts pounding but courageous, we kept advancing and when we were about 25 meters from the disc on the ground, the one in the sky suddenly disappeared. We tried to be brave but the disc on the ground began to vibrate and then, in a dazzling flash and at an incredible speed, it flew away." (Howard Menger: "From Outer Space to You" Saucerian Books, Clarksburg, W.V., 1959, pages 20 and 21.)

#1931, August
POLAND
First flight of the single-seater fighter PZL P-11, 360 km/h, ceiling 11000m, and
range (in cruise speed without combat) 810 km. The P-23 series
(three-seater bomber) flew as early as August 1934, and the Karàs series in
June 1936. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston,
edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1931, August
GERMANY, Reinickendorf, Berlin
Launch of Repulsor 1 s, test, altitude 990 meters, assisted landing by parachute. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 150)

#1931
ENGLAND
In 1931, an English pilot reported having seen a strange "object" in the sky. At that time, this isolated phenomenon did not attract the attention of the public... (Jimmy GUIEU: "Les S.V. viennent d'un autre Monde" Fleuve Noir 1954 - Réédition Omnium Littéraire 1972 p. 222) (nor really ours...)

#1931?
FRANCE, St Cirgues en Montagne
"The farmer from Dizonnanches will tell you that once, returning from the fair of Saint Cirgues, on horseback, with his wife on the saddle, between 8 and 9 o'clock, when they arrived at the Devil's stream, not far from Paradise, they saw a light like that of a large lantern descending along the stream, carried by a large cauldron, which ran without noise, but quickly, quickly, like a hare. And suddenly it went to get lost in the Clape of the Loire, not far from there." (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet.." éd. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 642)

#November 19th, 1931
Netherlands, Friesland
One of the rockets launched from Wandergooge on the East Friesland Islands had exceeded 9500 m in altitude. ("A l'Assaut de l'Espace" Georges H. Gallet, éd. de la Pensée Moderne, p. 37)

#1931, end of year
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
First flight of the single-seater fighter Avia 34, maximum speed 400 km/h,
ceiling 10600m. In August 1933 it was followed by the type 534 and remained in
service beyond 1938. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill
Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1932, January
USA
First flight of the 4-5 seat medium bomber Martin 123, 342 km/h,
ceiling 7500m, range with bomb load 1250 km, nose turret, rear gunner's
cockpit. In 1956 152 of these planes were delivered. There were smaller
siblings, the Maryland (three seat bomber), the Baltimore (light four
seat bomber), the Marauder (five seat bomber) the Mariner (patrol and
anti-submarine seaplane with a nine man crew, followed by the Marlin
seaplane (1948) (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill
Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1932, March 20
USA
First flight of the single-seat day fighter Boeing P-26, cruising speed 322 km/h, ceiling 8350m. Some of these planes were still in service with the Guatemalan Air Force until 1955. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1932, April 19
USA, Mescalero, Roswell
R. H. Goddard launched a rocket, testing gyro control by gas pressure, which fell back the same day. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248)

#1932, June 19
FRANCE
First flight of the single-seater fighter Dewoitine Series D-500, 360 km/h and
ceiling at 10790m., entire structure in light alloy and working coating, last deliveries beginning 1938. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1932, July and August
GERMANY
Launch of the "Mirak II" rocket by Germany. ("The Conquest of the Air. Chronology..." A. Van Hoorebeeck, ed. Marabout Université 1967, p. 246)

#1932, October
CANADA, Joliette (Quebec)
Five young Canadians were approaching the entrance of the town around 7:00 PM when they saw a figure of about 3 m tall crossing a nearby cemetery. He was wearing a white suit and walking at a good pace. Taken by panic, the driver of the car immediately accelerated while the being had come within 2 m of the vehicle, not seeming to be at all concerned by the presence of the witnesses. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 244)

#1932, November 29
BELGIUM, Beauraing (Namur)
Beginning of the thirty apparitions. Around 6:45 PM Mrs. Hennicken, Jacquemin, Dubois and Delruche, who were children at the time, observed an elongated object surrounded by stars and emitting no sound. The object, which was white in color, stopped above an embankment of the railway. This phenomenon occurred during the "miracles" (cf. Notre Dame de Beauraing) - which is still a pilgrimage site today. (List by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium) The witness was praying on the spot, when suddenly she saw a red luminous ball 1.5 meters in diameter. It burst and, inside, the Virgin Mary immediately appeared. (Erich ZURCHER: "The Apparitions of Humanoids" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200)

#1932
ITALY, SPANISH LICENSE
First flight of the single-seater fighter Fiat CR 42, 350 km/h, ceiling 9000m,
range 850 km. Last deliveries in October 1939. In the meantime the Fiat
CR-42 FALCO had taken over in 1932, the last ones were delivered in
1942. Etc... (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston,
edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1932
USA, Hogh Bridge (New Jersey)
(cf. 1930, same location, same person) Howard Menger, aged 10,
encounters in the woods a beautiful and luminous woman who indicates his
mission on Earth, making him glimpse future wars and destructions on our planet. (continued in 1942, USA, Juarez, New Mexico)
(Jean-Francis CROLARD: The Enigma of the E.T. - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p.
145) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1932
GREENLAND, east coast
Observation in broad daylight by pilots LTC Peter Grunnet and LT Tage Anderson, of the Royal Danish Air Force. "One of the earliest observations by Danish aviators took place in 1932 when 8 H.E. planes were sent to the east coast of Greenland for a photogrammetric survey. At that time, the planes were not equipped with heating and the aviators did not yet have an insulating suit. So the strongest and bravest were sent. Lt. Col. Peter Grunnet had Lt. Tage Anderson as co-pilot, who later became commander-in-chief of the RDAF and who died in 1961. Wrapped in long parkas and numb from the cold, they saw their breath condense in front of their faces. At that moment they were flying over a glacier, shining like a mirror. Suddenly they saw a second shadow added to that of their plane in this "mirror". "I looked back and saw something incredible," said Anderson. A mile behind them they were followed by a flying object on the same route. Then Grunnet made a turn to get a better view of the unknown plane. "It did not look like anything known at the time," said Grunnet, "it was hexagonal in shape, flat, apparently made of aluminum or another metal, without openings, without anything, all smooth, no bolts or rivets. I had a strange feeling, as if something or someone in this unknown object was hostile to me. I cannot explain this feeling. It was only in the following years that I realized that this object was in the shape of a saucer. ("THE SAGA UFO REPORT" for October 1977, article "UFO Crisis over Greenland" by Rufus Drake.)

#1932-1934
USA, Roswell (New Mexico)
After a period of laboratory work, Goddard continued his rocket launch tests in New Mexico in September 1934. He turned his attention to the development of an automatic guidance device to ensure his rockets an impeccable vertical ascent. His rockets weighed from 26 to 35.5 kg approximately and reached extreme speeds of 1126 meters/second. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 47)

#1932 or 1933
AUSTRALIA, near Nambour (Queensland)
A young boy saw a small disk, about 30 cm in diameter, hovering close to him. The disk made a faint buzzing sound and was surrounded by a white mist. The boy became ill and had huge blisters on his hands. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309) ... The boy grabbed the object but had to let go, he was severely burned on his hands. (A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor) (Does this sound suspiciously like a ball of lightning, or what?)

#1933
USSR
Alert by Tsiolkovsky on the work of the American Goddard, the USSR launches its first liquid fuel rockets. ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11)

#1933
HIMALAYA, MONT EVEREST
Frank Smythe recounts this adventure: "Strange, to say the least. It was, most likely, a hallucination due to the lack of oxygen which affects not only physical faculties, but also mental faculties. I was descending towards Camp IV when chance had me look up. I saw two black objects floating in the blue sky. Their shape was that of observation sausages, except that one of them seemed to have short fins. Gliding, motionless, they seemed to swell and deflate alternately, as if they were breathing. I stared at them, dumbfounded, with extreme interest. I had the feeling that my brain was functioning normally, but to test myself, I looked away. The objects disappeared from my view, but when I looked back, they were still there. A second time I looked elsewhere, but this time, to test my mental faculties, I identified by name various details of the landscape. And yet, when I looked for them again, the objects were still visible. A few minutes later, a fog drifted across the north-east shoulder of Everest, above which they were suspended. It thickened, gradually masking the objects, and they disappeared from my view. A few more minutes passed and the fog dissipated. I looked again, expecting to see them, but they had vanished as mysteriously as they had appeared (...) (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 244-245)

#1933, July 5
ENGLAND, Sussex
In the night, four Hawker Fury I biplanes flying in formation, encountered an enormous circular light above them. It descended into the middle of their formation. The engine of the plane piloted by Capt. Niger Tompkins of the RAF, failed, forcing him to make an emergency landing. Then it was the turn of the plane piloted by Bruce H. Thomas. The light passed so close that not only was he forced to land, but he had his hands and face burned, as if by a radiating heat. ("Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 16 )

#1933, January to March
BELGIUM, Banneux
18 apparitions between January and March, of an entity which the witnesses took to be the Virgin Mary. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 311)

#1933, May
USA, New York
Model of rocket copied from the Germans, but heavier, the Rocket 2 of the Aluminium Company of America, launched towards the sea at the entrance of the Port of New-York, would have approached the speed of sound, a few weeks before those of Dr. Goddard. (...) The Following Tests Were Very Disappointing (Insufficient Cooling e.a.) ("To the Assault of Space" - Georges H. Gallet - Ed. of Modern Thought, p. 62, 63)

#1933, Summer
USA, between Chrysville and Morreston (Pennsylvania)
A man observed a faint violet light in a field between Chrysville and Morreston. Advancing towards it, he realized it was an ovoid object 3 m in diameter and 2 m in height, with an opening resembling a safe door. The witness pushed the door and found a cavity filled with a violet light and various instruments while an ammonia smell filled the air. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 245)

#1933
CANADA, Nipawin (Saskatchewan)
In the northwest of the region made up of hills and marshes, many lights were observed at night. Two men and a woman approached as close as possible to the area around midnight, the rest of the way being done on foot. They then saw that the light came from an oval object topped with a dome, resting on stilts. Through the central door there was a back and forth of about a dozen shapes that went up and down a kind of ladder. These beings were small, dressed in silver uniforms and their activity was carried out in an impressive silence. The orange-tinted light illuminated the entire region. After half an hour of observation, the witnesses returned to the truck. A few nights later, the witnesses had the opportunity to return to the scene. The UFO was not present. But there were traces: 6 squares of 45 cm on each side, spaced 2.5 to 3 m apart, 5 to 7 cm deep, forming a rectangle in the center of which was a circle of burned grass. (John Brent Musgrave in FSR Vol. 22 n° 6 of 1976)

#1933, October
USSR
First flight of the single-seater fighter Polikarpov I-15, 360 km/h, ceiling 10000m, range 720km. The Polikarov I-16 model (seen from the side resembling a large cylinder with a rounded tail) flies from December 1933, 360 km/h, ceiling 9000m, range 800 km. It was originally a single-seater fighter (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979).

#1933, November
GERMANY
First flight of the single-seater fighter Arado AR-68, max. speed 310 km/h,
ceiling 7400m, probably ended production in 1937. (Encyclopedia of
Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia
Brussels 1979)

#1934, January 1
SWEDEN, Umeä
Listeners heard in their speakers conversations giving information about mysterious flying objects (...) The conversations were broadcast on the Umeä radio program's wavelength. This pirate radio was heard by other people in Norbyskar, Hedesunda, Nordmaling and Halsingtuna that month on bands of 230-275m. In some cases the ghost speakers spoke a disjointed Swedish. (J.A. Keel: "Mysterie Aeroplanes of the 1930s" FSR July/August 1970) (this author is not yet devoid of fantasy, he will tell us more...)

#1934, January 23 (28?)
NORWAY (at sea)
The Norwegian cargo ship "Tordenskiold" was leaving the port of Kabelvag to return to Tromsö. On the way, as Captain Sigvard Ulsen confirmed, the crew suddenly saw an aircraft approach with a powerful searchlight that swept the deck. The object was dark gray, without any markings, and on board what could only be interpreted as an airplane, there was a pilot wearing a cape or anorak, he had large glasses and a kind of hood on his head. After making a complete circuit around the ship in about twenty seconds, the aircraft disappeared as suddenly as it had appeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 247-248)

#February 7, 1934
NORWAY, near Tromso
In the evening, an unknown aircraft crashed or made a forced landing in the Fager mountains during a snowstorm. The valley population followed the descent of the aircraft on the mountain. The next morning, the aircraft was motionless on the snow and two men visible next to it. A little later the aircraft attempted to take off twice without success. Eight inhabitants of the valley climbed the slopes with difficulty and discovered two parallel tracks in the snow near the point where the aircraft had been spotted. These tracks were 75 m long and 80 cm wide and were accompanied by footprints. But the aircraft remained untraceable. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 54)

#1934, April 1
SWEDEN, Altenfjord
Five witnesses suddenly saw a very large airplane descend in the moonlight towards the surface of the water, stopping its engines. Instead of landing, it began to make large circles, allowing the spectators to observe the presence of eight propellers. The windows of the cabin were brightly lit. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 54)

#1934, July 14
GREAT BRITAIN, Ringwood (Southampton)
After spending the afternoon of July 14th on various sports activities, Paul Faiveley had returned to his room around 11:30 pm. As he was reading a few pages before going to sleep, he realized he had lost a small wallet containing the remainder of his savings for his stay in Great Britain. He immediately went out, heading towards the nearby swimming pool's bath cabins, in the hope of finding the precious object in the one he had occupied in the late afternoon. Relieved to have recovered his money, he was returning home when suddenly the sky seemed to light up and the witness clearly saw the silhouette of his body outlined on the slope of the terrain. He stopped and turning around, he saw almost vertically a dazzling disc moving slowly in a sky of exceptional purity. After a few seconds the phenomenon stopped, and then he was surrounded by a blue glow. For two minutes he remained thus motionless, then the blue ring began to fade, while the disc changed from white to a golden yellow, then to a bright red. At this moment the object started moving very slowly. It quickly accelerated, keeping this red hue and projecting yellow and bright spots. In about ten seconds the phenomenon had disappeared, rising into the sky towards the south-southwest. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 248)

#1934, Autumn
GERMANY, YUGOSLAV LICENSE
First flight (monoplane) of the three-seat medium bomber Dornier DO-17, 355
km/h, ceiling 5100 m. This aircraft was named "flying pencil". The DORNIER family of aircrafts then gave other types of bombers, fighters and three-engine reconnaissance seaplanes (DO-24 first flight in July 1937) (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircrafts, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1934, October 7
USSR
First flight of the Tupolev Type SB 1, 410 km/h ceiling 9500 m, range with load 1200km, with maximum fuel 1600 km. Built in large quantities in the 1930s. Of the type SB 2, medium bomber three-seater, more than 6000 will be built. The heavy bomber TB 3 has been flying since December 1930, with a crew of 10 men at the start, later reduced to 6 men. The TUPOLEVs will have a long line of series. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1934, end of year
ITALY
First flight of the bomber 4 or 5 seats Savoia-Marchetti S.M.-79
SPARVIERO, 430 km/h, ceiling 7000m, autonomy with bombs 2000 km.
Firing from the glazed nose in front of the cockpit, glazed firing post dorsal
behind the cockpit, glazed firing post at the back. (Encyclopedia of
Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia
Brussels 1979)

#1934
USA, Peoria (Illinois), Cleveland (Ohio)
The Peoria Rocket Association, under the direction of engineer Ernest Loebel, was also involved in the development and testing of liquid propellants. It had a well-equipped test site in Cleveland and was able to develop a reliable rocket engine during numerous tests. For cooling, it was surrounded by a spiral-shaped tubing through which oxygen passed before being injected into the combustion chamber. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 81)

#1934, December
GERMANY, Borkum (island)
Launch of aggregate 2 "Max", first shot, altitude 2000 meters.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 201)

#1934, December
GERMANY, Borkum (island)
Launch of aggregate 2 "Moritz", 2nd shot, altitude 2000 meters. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 201)

#1935
USA, near Rosswel
Guggenheim allowed Goddard to continue his works, at the Mescalero Ranch
where a large workshop was built for him and his four collaborators. In 1935 his rockets reached 2500m in altitude and exceeded 1100 km/h in speed. (...) His devices, 3m to 4.50m long, weighing 30 to 40 kilos, were launched from a 18m high tower. They had a gyroscopic stabilization system for correcting the trajectory. The oscillations disappeared while the rocket gained speed on its trajectory. ("Assault on Space" - Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 63, 64)

#February 1935
GERMANY
First flight of the medium bomber 4 or 5 seats, glider towing and
missile launcher. 415 km/h, ceiling 5000m. Machine gun turret in the
nose fairing, in the dorsal turret, in the ventral gondola. This is a
twin-engine version with elliptical wings, whose bomber version flies
secretly, will make its appearance a year later as a civil aircraft.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier
Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1935, March
BELGIUM, Mechelen
Lucien Aerts was able to observe from his home, at the corner of Koolstraat and Dageraadstraat, an enormous object made of aluminum that shone in the darkness. This device had the shape of an overturned basin and was stationary at 70° elevation above a large neighboring building. What is more extraordinary is that from the back of this disc two dwarfs dressed in metal then appeared, floating in the air. These characters seemed to inspect the perimeter of the object and carry out some repairs. According to the witness they were wearing a kind of cubic-shaped helmet and they moved in jerks like automatons or robots. After a few moments the two beings disappeared behind this windowless craft which flew off to the southeast. (J.G. DOHMEN: "A Identifier et le Cas Adamski" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 153)

#1935, Spring
GERMANY
After the test flights of this bomber Henschel HS-123 Monoplane,
it was presented to the public on May 8th, 345 km/h, ceiling 9000m. The HS-129 version flew early 1939, 408 km/h, ceiling 9000m. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1935, March 28
USA, Mescalero, Roswell
R. H. Goddard's rocket, gyro stabilization test, altitude 1400 meters, range 3900 meters. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 248)

#1935, May 31
USA, Roswell (New Mexico)
The greatest altitude was reached by a rocket launched by Goddard:
IT WAS 2250 METERS. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 48)

#1935, beginning of September?
GERMANY
Flight of the Messerschmitt BF 109, single-seat fighter, but often fighter-bomber, 570 km/h, ceiling 8000m, normal autonomy on internal tanks around 700 km. Many other versions until 1941. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1935
USA
First flight of the consolidated Vultee patrol sea plane Model 28 Catalina, crew of 7 men, maximum speed 134 km/h, ceiling 5550m. The two 825 hp engines are placed very close to each other on the wing, itself placed on a pylon above the fuselage. Last delivery in 1946. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1935, April
USA
First flight of the single-seater with two cockpits and fixed landing gear,
civil training North American NA-16, 341 km/h, ceiling 7338m,
range 1400 km. It will have a numerous family in single-seater, two-seater and in
1940 the fighter bomber Mustang will come out. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#April, early 1935
SPAIN, Aznalcazar (Seville)
As twilight appeared, around 7:30 pm, a certain Mora was in his property in Aznalcazar when he saw a large, round, and very bright object descend towards the ridge of Cerro de Torres, about 500 m away from him. The UFO stopped very close to the ground and some small beings then circled it several times. This strange apparition would forever mark the witness, who saw it as a supernatural vision that God had kindly granted him the favor of, and until his death he often recalled the adventure he had experienced one April evening in 1935. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 250)

#July 28, 1935
USA
First high altitude bomber flight with six to ten men crew, Boeing B-17 Fortress, cruising speed 293 km/h, ceiling 10670 m, final delivery to the army in April 1945, but the B-17E model was the first plane of the 8th Bomber Command and started its day-time strategic bombing missions on Germany or occupied Europe as early as August 17, 1942. It was soon replaced by the B-17F model, built in 3405 copies. The Boeing factory in Seattle alone produced 16 copies per day, the total production of B17 reached 12,731 copies! (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1935, during the summer
NEW ZEALAND, Timaru
Ms. Isabele Walmsley was working as a nurse and one night she was suddenly awoken by a loud noise, like a roar mixed with a whistle, passing over her home. A few days later one of her neighbors told her that he had seen a huge light passing over her house that night. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 250)

#1935
URSS
First flight of the four-seat bomber and torpedo launcher Ilyouchine II-4,
first of a long line of increasingly performing Ilyouchines. The
first one reaches 410 km/h, its operational ceiling is 10,000m.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition
Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1935
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
First flight of the LETOV S-328, two-seat reconnaissance bomber and utility aircraft, max. 280 km/h, ceiling 7200 m, range 700km.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1935, Summer
CANADA, Nipawin (Saskatchewan)
Witnesses saw a UFO land and saw several small entities dressed in silver suits going up and down a ladder. Square imprints and burned areas were discovered the next day and photographed. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 320)

#October 1935
USA
First flight of the first heavy bomber Douglas B-18, with manually retractable nose, dorsal and ventral turrets. It flew at 349 km/h, ceiling 7265m. In December of the same year the military DC 3 (370 km/h, ceiling 7000m) made its first flight. It was followed on October 29, 1938 by the Douglas DB-7 and derivatives up to... today. It had been preceded in July 1935 by the Douglas Dauntless, a two-seat dive bomber, biplane silhouette, with very wide wings.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1935, October
ETHIOPIA, Addis Ababa
In the blue, cloudless sky, shone a kind of motionless silver-colored disk. The camera was soon in position but, upon sighting, Ichac had to admit that the object was too small: only a vague overexposed spot would be seen. (...) The disk was rigorously motionless. It remained so for several tens of minutes. (...) Nobody saw it leave. At one moment it was there, the next it was gone. ("Lueurs sur les Soucoupes volantes" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, page 122) In the chronicles of the French student Pierre Ichac, travelling in Ethiopia, one can read that he observed, together with other witnesses, an object in the shape of a disk hovering above the sands near Addis Ababa. ("Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 17)

#1935
ITALY, Chiarotorre
Theresa-Maria Vanucci was 17 years old when she saw, in a place called "Giuncaia", around 5 o'clock, a globe of light containing a woman. (Erich ZURCHER: "Les apparitions d'Humanoïdes" - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 200)

#1935
GERMANY, Peenemunde Island
Beginning of multiple tests for rocket launching. After the V-1, the V-2 officially emerged on October 3rd, 1942. (see this date)
("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11)

#1936, February
USA, Greenwood (border of N.Y and N.J. states)
Tests of particularly large flying models, equipped with liquid fuel rocket engines, were undertaken by Willy Levy on the frozen Greenwood Lake. The two models were made of aluminium, measured 4 m in length and were called "Gloria". Their wings, slightly V-shaped, were placed in the middle of the rocket body and had a wingspan of 5 meters. A 30° inclined catapult was provided for launching. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 81)

#1936, March 5
GREAT BRITAIN
First flight of the first of the supermarine Spitfire series, 580 km/h,
internal tank range 637km. This is the first fighter aircraft with
working skin built in Great Britain. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1936, April 25
FRANCE
Winner of an Army Air Force three-seat fighter program, the Potez Series 63 is a two-seat day and night fighter, 440 km/h, ceiling 10,000m. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1936, May
JAPAN
First flight of the light attack biplane Misubishi KI-15, 450
km/h, ceiling 8600 m, it was followed in November 1936 by the Ki-21,
heavy bomber with 7 seats while the AM began in 1935, followed by
the A6M Zero-Sen in 1939 and so many others. (Encyclopedia of Combat
Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1936, July 2
USA (McAllen, Texas), Mexico (Reynosa)
Professor Goddard carried out the first international rocket mail link between the USA and Mexico. ("Rockets, vehicles of the future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 86) a rocket was launched from the American side, then another from the Mexican side, each carrying 300 letters. ("Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 54)

#July 15, 1936
CHINA
The night was advanced and the heat was stifling. After midnight, all the members of my family were sleeping, except my father who was still taking the cool air on the balcony. The night was calm and the sky was pitch black. Suddenly the sky, facing my father, became as bright as day and one could even count the tiles of the roof of the kiosk "Sinfengting" perched on the crest of the Yushan mountain, to the west. Between the kiosk and the balcony, there was 400 m. Suddenly, in the northwest sky, a small black ball appeared, heading east at great speed. When the black ball was above Bailangcang Street, 130 m from the balcony, it stopped and remained 20 m from the ground. My father looked at it carefully and he noticed that its diameter was 1.5 m. Then the ball began to open from the bottom, very widely, and to spew out a thick, blood-red liquid. This liquid was going straight down, but my father did not know if it touched the ground because the roofs opposite prevented him from seeing well; The red blood column was very large and measured about 3 m wide. Surprised, my father called my mother, who came out to see this unusual spectacle, but when she arrived on the balcony, the blood column had already shrunk, becoming as thin as a bamboo. Suddenly the red liquid disappeared and the lights went out. Everything sank into darkness. My father's observation lasted three minutes (no trace the next day) (SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.76, 77)

#1936, August
JAPAN
First flight of the two-seater bomber Aichi D3A, average speed 450 km/h,
ceiling 9500 m, production ended in 1944. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1936, October 15
JAPAN
First flight of the single-seat interceptor fighter Nakajima KI-27, 460 km/h,
ceiling approximately 10500m, range 625 km. It was the most maneuverable military aircraft of the time. It was them who shot down 90% of the 1252 Soviet aircraft downed in 1939 after the Nomonham incident. The three-seat bomber Nakajima B5N followed quickly as well as other versions. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1936, Winter
KAZAKHSTAN, Pavlodar
Ms. E. E. Loznaya was 15 years old at the time. One morning, on her way to school
she saw, flying quickly through the air, a humanoid figure dressed in black. It was at mid-height and its clothes covered it completely. In place of the head something like a square helmet, it had massive, square arms, very close to the body. She saw neither hands nor feet, but noticed on its back something oval, like a backpack. In place of the face, the surface was entirely black and as it passed near her it made a rumbling noise. It was less than 30 m away from her. Frightened, she looked around for help. In that short period of time the flying man had disappeared.
(Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 148)

#1936/1937
NORWAY, Gjersjoen;
An object landed on the road, blocking two cars coming in opposite directions. One of the witnesses was 37 years old at the time. Neither of the two drivers ever attempted, either during the incident or afterwards, to make contact with each other. The object on the road eventually rose up and disappeared into the sky. The witnesses were approximately 20 meters away from the phenomenon. (Letter from Eldbjørg Fjeldberg, 16 Nov 1976. Listing from Ole Jonny Braenne) (I would have liked to read what this object was like, its shape, its color, its dimensions...)

#1936 or 1937, late spring
USA, unspecified
Richard Keller and his family saw on a Sunday afternoon, in very cloudy weather, ten or twelve UFOs. At about 5° south they had been watching for 10 minutes the maneuvers of "airplanes" which suddenly converged as if to a signal towards a point below the clouds. They placed themselves one above the other, rose in a spiral through the clouds. During the previous 10 minutes, some had been hovering, motionless, others were flying in all directions in an area of perhaps 150 m in diameter. They were all identical to each other in size, shape and color. (J. Allen HYNEK: "New Report on UFOs" - Belfond 1979, p. 118, 119)

#1937
SOUTH AFRICA, Drakensbergen
(cf: 1917) Elizabeth Klarer flies in a sports plane over the Drakensbergen, when a blue glowing object flies towards her aircraft, turns and moves away. Later Elizabeth Klarer will work for the British secret services in the context of aerial phenomena "Foo-Fighters", "Spirit Hunters and Various Lights. (note from vog: never read this anywhere else, the author "Mitarbeiter" = collaborator (anonymous) seems to be the only one informed of this state of affairs... ) (continued 1954) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1937, January 1
USA, border between North Carolina and Virginia.
At noon, Howard S. Behr, LTC, USAF, was flying south at an altitude of
3000 feet. An object shaped like a gondola and of the appearance of metal from a
revolver or pistol crossed his path. At that time he was making
a private flight in a civilian Curtis Wright Sedan. (CUFOS files.
Credit: Jerry Clark.)

#February 11, 1937
NORWAY, near the port of Kvalsik
At around 9:00 PM the fishing boat "Fram" left the port of Kvalsik. Not far from the port there is a cape covered with high hills that must be circumnavigated to reach the open sea. As the ship was making this maneuver, the crew saw what looked like a giant airplane resting on the water. Believing the craft to be in distress, the captain of the "Fram" headed in its direction. Immediately the red and green lights that illuminated the object went out and a cloud of smoke surrounded it. When it dissipated, the craft had disappeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 251)

#1937, March and April
BRAZIL, region of the Rio Araguaia
In March and April 1937 the telegraph of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo carried strange stories about a huge simian monster, the "mapinguary", emerging from nowhere and spreading terror throughout the regions near the Araguaia River. At Barra do Garcas, 500 km east of Cuiaba, the monster made descents on the fazendas and ranches roaring in the night like the father of a thousand devils coming out of hell. The farmers said "We all stayed inside all night, trembling with fear to find dozens of yellow cows (of Spanish origin) dead in the pampas, their tongues widely out of their mouths. Of course, the jaguars were already there to devour them. But there were large footprints resembling feet of at least 46 cm long." Along the Aracargas River: "Night was falling and again we heard that roar coming from the darkness. Our nerves gave way, and at dawn, a whole band of panicked Brazilians took their gear to go to the nearest civilized post." There were even reports from distant regions 240 km away like Ponte Branca. "No dead animal bore any marks of a possible struggle with what had come out of the dark Mato Grosso to kill them." This wave of terror lasted three weeks making the headlines of the newspapers of Rio and Sao Paulo. Then everything returned to normal. ("O Globo" of Sao Paulo of 28.3.1937; "Secret Cities of Old South America" by Harold T. Wilkins, copyright 1952, reprinted 1998 by Adventures Unlimited Press, Kempton, Illinois, pages 304 and 305.)

#1937, April
ITALY, Naples, San Pietro a Patierno
Two customs security agents were near the Capodichino airport at around 2 o'clock in the morning when a cry was heard: "The guard! Let's run!" probably coming from smugglers who were leaving the area. One of the customs agents G.R. (29 years old) was pointing a beam of light from his electric torch in the direction of the voice to discover a disc-shaped object "like the moon" quickly approaching the ground. It had the shape of two plates overturned one on the other, with a diameter of about 25 m and a height between 4 and 6 meters. The object was heading towards Vesuvius, flying over the airport, and dragging a white-bluish luminous tail accompanied by a kind of low humming. The object was illuminated by itself, with a kind of opaque white-silver luminescence not dazzling. The lower part was more rounded and had a small turret at its base, while the upper part had something dark and hard to define. On the entire surface there were three rows of portholes from which a faint light from white to pink was coming out. The lower part seemed to be the only one rotating. The observation lasted about thirty seconds. (letter from the witness to the CISU, report of the SOLARIS group, cfr CISU, archives D. n° 37001)

#1937, May
ITALY
First flight of the medium bomber CRDA CANT-Z 1007 Alcione, four or five seats, maximum speed 448 km/h, ceiling 8100 m, with 4 machine guns distributed in the dorsal turret, the ventral turret and the two side bays at mid-fuselage. Manufactured in series in 1939 and put into service the same year. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1937, June
FRANCE, Vendée
One evening in June, around 11:00 PM, Mr. and Mrs. Barbot, accompanied by their daughter and son-in-law Mr. Bénéteau, were driving on the road that connects Xanton to Chassenon. Suddenly, coming diagonally from their right, the four witnesses saw an enormous luminous mass, as big as two hay carts and of a yellow-greenish hue. Mr. Barbot stopped the car and the witnesses who got out were then literally blinded by this intense light that surrounded them for a second and continued its route at great speed following a perfectly straight trajectory. The next day Mr. Barbot noticed that his headlights were not working anymore: the bulbs were burned out. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 251-252)

#1937, July 15
GERMANY
First flight of the six-seat reconnaissance seaplane blohm UND VOSS BV-138, maximum speed 275 km/h, ceiling 5,000m, delivery to the Army type A1 in January 1940, type C1 in January 1941. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#July 29, 1937
USA
First flight of the Lockheed Model 414 Hudson, reconnaissance bomber and utility aircraft. Nose gun turret with 4 portholes on each side (2 upper, 2 lower), two dorsal turrets, speed 397 km/h, ceiling 7468 m, range 3150 km. From the same firm, various other models come out one after the other (with variants of the C130 HERCULES..) (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1937, August 1
GREAT BRITAIN
First flight of the two-seater Boulton Paul P-82 Defiant fighter, with dorsal turret, max. speed 488 km/h, ceiling 9300m, series production July 30 1939, delivery December 1939. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1937, August
USA, near Penobscot Bay (Maine)
In the night, the crew of a barge on a route to Deer Island, saw a "pack of electric lights" approach the boat.
Two of the lights came really close, one of them making a tour around the boat, the other remaining stationary in the air for three minutes, before leaving the area. ("Ufo's – A century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p 17)

#1937, August
USSR
First flight of the two-seat tactical bomber Sukhoi SU-2, 455 km/h,
ceiling 8800m, range with 400 kg of bombs: 1200km. (Encyclopedia
of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition Elsevier Séquoia
Brussels 1979)

#1937, Summer
BELGIUM, Anderlues (Hainaut)
Henri Houck recounts his adventure thus: "It was during a beautiful summer night in 1937, I was returning home to the northwest of Anderlues. Taking a shortcut leaving the road behind me, I entered a narrow path bordered on one side by hedges and brambles, and on the other by a barbed wire fence. The difficult path was barely 80 cm wide. Raising my head and looking at the end of the path, I suddenly saw a light shining above the passage... At first I took it for a cigarette butt, but soon I saw that it was not, as it was too big. I was very intrigued and I approached. During my advance, this thing began to swell, reaching the size of a football. I was only one meter away from it when this luminous sphere deformed, lengthened and flattened, completely blocking the passage. It remained motionless about 50 cm from the ground. I could have jumped over this form with well-defined edges, tinted white and orange.. But suddenly, a sudden feeling of insecurity overwhelmed me and I hurried back. " Henri Houck, very tall, of very robust physical constitution, feared neither God nor devil yet... Arriving near the road he turned around, the worrying phenomenon had disappeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 252)

#1937, October
FRANCE
First flight of the single-seater fighter Bloch MB-152C, maximum speed 520 km/h, ceiling 10,000m. 593 Blochs were built until the end of the capitulation in 1918. At that time, the founder of the company changed his name: Marcel Bloch became Marcel Dassault. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels edition 1979)

#1937, end of year
BRAZIL, Galipolis (Rio Grande do Sul)
Mr. Vergani was involved in the construction of a house in Quarta Legua near Galipolis. One day, between 12:00 and 15:00, Vergani, along with six work companions, his wife and their child, had his attention drawn to a group of about ten shapeless objects in the sky. These bodies had the color of samambaia leaves (very light brown), with an apparent size of about one meter and they moved in a wavy motion. At the beginning of the observation the formation was 200 m away from the witnesses. At one point the objects approached the ground, one of them seeming to even land behind a fold in the terrain while the others continued on their way. Vergani and some masons went to the presumed landing site but found nothing. The objects moved silently and were not shiny. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 253)

#1938, January
USA
First flight of the classic single-seater fighter or embarked brewster F-2A Buffalo, with four machine guns: two in the fuselage and two in the wings, max. speed 483 km/h, practical ceiling 9300m. End of production in 1942. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979)

#1938, Summer
USA, Boston (Massachusetts)
When Malcolm B. Perry (22 years old) got off the Metropolitan Transit Authority bus (currently the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority - MBTA) at Somerville Avenue at midnight, he was returning from a date on the other side of the Boston River. The night was beautiful, with the smell of vegetation after a light rain. Some small clouds were being pushed west by a light wind, it was a full moon night. The streets were quiet. As he was walking, Perry suddenly felt a strange chill, as if he was being watched by eyes he could not see. He looked over his shoulder: there were only houses and street lights. He stopped and listened for footsteps: he heard nothing. He started walking again and again this strange feeling came over him. That's when he looked up at the sky, where to his surprise he saw a flying object barely a few meters above him. "At first the object was behind me and near the moon. I was walking east to west and the object was flying in the same direction (from the Bunker Hill monument to Cambridge). I thought it was a Navy dirigible and I kept walking without worrying about it. Looking again to my left, I saw it flying steadily west. I started looking more closely, expecting to see a gondola or propellers, but there were none. This balloon was flying against the wind, always at the same slow pace. Its shape was well defined and it looked like a 50 cm school ruler held at arm's length. The craft seemed much thinner than a conventional dirigible. The two ends were pointed and there were four rectangular portholes on the side that I could see. An orange light was coming from these portholes. That's when I saw the dark silhouette of a person looking out at me. "What a person! Tall, gaunt, almost skeletal, with a long head, drooping shoulders, and thin arms hanging down. The entity seemed to be leaning on the edge of the porthole to look at him. Because of the orange light in the background, Perry could not see the details of the face. "I had a terrible urge to wave to him, but I resisted the temptation, just looking around the street to see if anyone else was there to share this strange vision. Unfortunately, there was no one. Again I looked at the craft and behind the other portholes there must have been people: I could see them changing places and coming to look out the porthole in turn. That's when the craft disappeared into a cloud and I never saw it again. The next day I looked through the newspaper to see if anyone had reported the sighting of this unusual object, but nothing of the kind was published. So I decided not to tell anyone about it." (Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective by Gordon I.R. Lore Jr. and Harold H. Denault Jr., Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1968, pages 135 to 137.)

#February 5, 1938
Spain, Penon de la Mata (Granada)
Militias with orders to defend the position, in the midst of a civil war, saw at around 7 o'clock in the morning, in a clear sky, a kind of object in the shape of a Mexican sombrero clearly defined and having the appearance of matte aluminum. Despite the distance of the object its outline was well defined, and the sun reflected off its surface. It was at an altitude of about 200 meters. All eyes (at least 65 men) were fixed on a row of windows in the center which curved to the sides, following the shape of the object. On its base was like a "photographic lens" which seemed to suggest a certain depth and was darker. A kind of dark vapor was escaping all around the perimeter. (ABC, Seville, 1980, 1981 "UFOs in Andalucia", by Manuel Ramirez, No. 62)

#July 1938
GERMANY
First flight of the three-seat reconnaissance and close support aircraft
Focke-Wulf 189 UHU, 350 km/h, ceiling 7300m. Last deliveries in
August 1944. This aircraft appeared strange, it was the \"flying eye\"
discovered by the Allies in 1941. Already on July 27, 1937 another aircraft
of this brand, the FOCKE-WULF FW 200 CONDOR made its first flight, with
a forward dorsal turret, a ventral gondola. This aircraft established an
impressive series of records on the air routes from New York to
Tokyo. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston,
Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1938, Summer
NORWAY, Herne;
Sverre Brevik was 21 years old at the time. The night was warm and he couldn't sleep, so he went outside for some fresh air. Suddenly he heard a sound like that of a generator spinning faster and faster. The whole area was illuminated. The noise became unbearable, causing him a headache. He then saw, at about twenty meters away, a bluish object rising from the ground. The object was surrounded by a reddish halo and had, around its perimeter, openings from which blue and whitish-bluish light was emitted. He remembers that the smell was horrible: it reminded him of burnt rubber. His eyes and throat were irritated. The object rose without making any noise, then fell back softly. It measured 20 to 25 meters in diameter and 2 to 3 meters in height. The witness felt like he was being watched. The object then rose again, spinning in the sky and illuminating a large part of the area with the lights coming from its perimeter. Suddenly, it disappeared to the north. Ten years later, the witness observed a similar phenomenon. (HJEMMET. UFO-NYT, 4/1970, 159-60. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 2. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1938
SPAIN, Madrid
While the Civil War reigned in Spain, Franco's troops had implemented "propaganda rockets". These were rescue rockets at sea, whose hollow head carried large quantities of propaganda tracts on extremely thin paper. Above the enemy lines, a detonating charge of grain powder caused the explosion of the rocket head and scattered the tracts over a large area. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, ed. Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 93)

#July 25, 1938
SPAIN, Guadalajara
At around 8:30 PM, still in the midst of the civil war, military personnel at the front made an astonishing observation. As they were descending a talwag at night, a lieutenant accompanied by his aide were suddenly illuminated by a dazzling white light. Believing it to be the beam of an enemy projector, they attempted to escape as quickly as possible, but as soon as they did the light went out. It was then that they made out an object about 60 m away from them, dark in color and lenticular in shape, estimated diameter of 10 m, height of 5 m, seeming to be suspended 2 m above the ground. It looked like two plates joined by their edges and separated by a slightly darker line of section. Suddenly, without a sound, from the center of the lower part of the object a column with a platform descended and touched the ground. On this part, the witnesses thought they could make out the presence of small figures. One of these beings raised its arm and a bluish light beam was projected in a circle that reached the witnesses. Immediately, without knowing if it was fear or the action of this new light, the two military personnel felt a sensation of cold. Soon the beam went out, the platform went back up and a few seconds later sparks of various colors shot out from underneath the craft. The witnesses then had the impression that the two plates were spinning in opposite directions. Immediately the object was surrounded by an intense white light and it disappeared, moving away at great speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 254)

#1938, end of year
ITALY,
First flight of the small single-seater fighter I.A.R. 80 with a wingspan of 10m and a length of 8.16m, maximum speed 550 km/h, operational ceiling 10500m, 950 km range. 250 of these aircraft were built, half of which survived until 1949. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, Elsevier Séquoia Brussels 1979 edition)

#1938, October 30
USA
Actor Orson Welles reads and tells on the radio the drama "The War of the Worlds" based on the book by H.G. Wells. It was a total success: for many listeners the imaginary piece became a reality and in panic thousands of Americans fled their homes out of fear of the invasion of extraterrestrials.

#1938, Autumn (or 1939)
ESTONIA, Juminda
Two people reportedly saw at this time an astonishing "frog-man"
one meter tall, with a round head, no neck and some kind of hump on
the front of the body. The mouth was only a straight slit and the
eyes were very narrow, almond-shaped. The skin was olive-colored, tending towards
brown, but the hands were normal. The creature moved by nodding its head up and down, while the legs seemed to hesitate to move. As soon as it felt pursued, the thing accelerated so quickly that its feet became invisible. After 100 m of running, this creature completely disappeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des
OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 254)

#1938
GREAT BRITAIN
In England, an inventor, Harry Grindell Matthews, proposed rockets capable of "launching an aerial minefield in the sky around London and other cities." He envisaged 76 mm rockets, 3.50m to 4.50m long with gyroscopic stabilizer and fins. At a predetermined altitude they were to launch a series of parachutes to each of which would be suspended 300 m of metal wire intended to entangle in the propellers of attacking aircraft. This project was not carried out. ("Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 38)

#1938,
PORTUGAL, Baiao (Alto Duro)
The boy Bonifacio is said to have met several times at the top of a mountain, a "lady". On the day and time set by her for the meeting, small things were seen falling from above, which flew away in the wind. It looked like snow. People ran to catch it, but it disappeared between their fingers. (Inforespace n° 55 - 1981, p. 5)

#1939, January
JAPAN
First flight of the long-range escort aircraft (at first)
Kawasaki KI-45 Toryu, 540 km/h, ceiling 10000m, range 2000 km.
(Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, author Bill Gunston, edition
Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1939, Spring
JAMAICA
The British War Office was preparing a serious war machine which proved to be among the most effective weapons of the war and whose secret was not revealed until 1944. This first rocket was developed after seven years of experimentation by Dr. Alwyn Douglas Crow, director of ballistic research at the Woolwich Arsenal. His tests were carried out in Jamaica. Modestly called UP (Non-Rotating Projectile) it was ready just in time for the Blitz of the summer and autumn of 1940. About 1.20m long and 76mm in diameter, they had the explosive power of an anti-aircraft shell of 94mm. Propelled by a tubular charge of cordite pellets, they were fired in salvos of six, by means of a crude launching device called the "Z Gun" or "Mattress" ("Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 38, 39).

#1939, August 27
GERMANY, Rostock
Since April 1936 working on the construction of a reactor (...) the test flight, at the factory, of this first German reaction aircraft, the HE 178, took place on ASugust 27. The aircraft was only for experimental purposes. ("Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 117, 118)

#1939, Summer
Germany, Essen
A most strange event occurred in the city of Essen. At rush hour, all that was electric or mechanical stopped - cars, buses, trams, motorcycles, clocks. (...) At the most anxious moment of this stoppage which lasted ten minutes, no car could give the slightest honk. (Leonard STRINGFIELD: "General UFO Alert" ed. France - Empire, 1978, p. 105)

#1939, late summer
USA, San Diego (California)
A military transport was leaving the San Diego (California) airbase for a routine flight to Honolulu. Three hours later, various distress calls from the plane were received, then silence. Later the plane was found, having made a forced landing. When the base personnel entered the aircraft, they found the crew dead, including the pilot (having survived long enough to land). Author KEEL continues: "each body showed large gaping wounds and those who touched the outside of the plane were affected by a mysterious skin infection. One of the most unusual aspects was that the charges of the 45 automatic weapons were missing, and the shells were found on the ground. An odor of rotten eggs pervaded the plane. (note from vog: wow! so many shells fired plus the smell of some corpses... Jerome Clark and John Keel, inspired by an old fiction story in a 1939 magazine to establish this incredible story... Flying Saucer Review)

#1939, November 10
CHINA
After the fall of Nanking, a regiment of three thousand men commanded by Colonel Li Fu Sien was sent to stop the advance of the Japanese. The regiment completely disappeared and its radios stopped transmitting. Weapons and traces of campfires were found. (Jacques BERGIER: "Les E.T. dans l'Histoire" - J'AI LU- 1970 - p. 151, 152)

#1939 (1940?) Autumn
NORWAY, Roskeland/Osteroy;
Berit Clemmensen and Dagveig Berntsen - both aged 12 to 13 at the time - were walking home together on a dark and damp evening. A strange light illuminated the area around them for a few seconds. It was a peculiar light, unlike any they had seen before. They felt as if they were "trapped" in the light and could not determine its source or from which direction it was coming. They were both excited and scared, but the phenomenon did not last long. They remember that it was raining and there was a kind of fog. (UFO, 1/1992, 11; 2/1992, 9. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1939
CHINA, Wu T'ai
An English tourist visiting near Wu T'ai, a sacred Chinese mountain near the Himalayas, observed a formation of luminous balls in the sky. John Blofeld saw countless fiery spheres moving a few tens of meters away from him. The inhabitants of the region were not particularly surprised, as such phenomena occurred relatively frequently in the country, most often between midnight and 2:00 a.m. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977, p. 256)

#1939-1940?
GERMANY
German engineer Andreas Epp declares: "I absolutely do not believe in the 'saucers' that come to us from Mars or Venus, but on the other hand, I believe in mine, those that I have built myself, or those that I intend to build. (...) The idea of making engines resembling two overlapping plates, the hollow part inside - was exploited by the military aeronautical offices. (...) Italian, Russian, German, and English technicians built kinds of bombs launched by means of special catapults. These weapons appeared during the Spanish Civil War. They were quickly stopped using because of the lack of precision of their shots. (...) Andreas Epp imagined a plate with eight propellers for suspension and two jet engines for flight, while Schriever and Habermohl built a vehicle consisting of a central pilot cabin, surrounded by a wide and flat ring. This ring rotated at a fantastic speed. It was made up of segments to which the desired inclination was given by maneuvering the device. Miethe and Belluzo invented flying saucers 42 meters in diameter, the edges of which were equipped with adjustable reactors. [continued on February 14, 1945 - Prague] [invention that all this, there were no more German saucers than Congolese rockets...] (Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 323, 324)

#1939
USSR
First flight of the Petlyakov PE-2, attack bomber, speed 504 km/h,
ceiling 8800 m range with normal load of 830kg of armament 1200
KM. (Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft, Author Bill Gunston, Edition
Elsevier Sequoia Brussels 1979)

#1939
USSR
In 1939 the USSR attempted to launch liquid-fueled rockets. These rockets had two stages. ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 11)

#1939
USA, unspecified location
In his book Dana Howard claims to have had a first sighting (of the Venusian extraterrestrial: Diane) in 1939. [followed in 1953, USA, unspecified location] (Jean SIDER: "Ovni, les envahisseurs démasqués", ed. RAMUEL 1999, p 78)