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#1940
FRANCE, Toulx-Sainte-Croix (Creuse)
M. B. was awoken by an intense light that illuminated his room. Going to the window, he saw a luminous globe moving slowly and silently to the north of the village. The size of a full moon, the object then moved in various directions, stopping from time to time. The inside of the globe was dotted with multicolored luminous points. It remained visible for about half an hour. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.257)

#1940, January 8th to 10th
Canada, near Lake Abitibi
(Note from vog: brief summary) L. Hormidas and Damase Landry were around 2:30 in the afternoon and -60° Fahrenheit on an expedition, snowshoeing through the snow. First they saw a nearly white wolf come out of the pine forest, the wolf stopped and sat on the snow looking at the pine forest from where it came. It was less than 35 meters away from the witnesses. Six small men, all the same, dressed in dark green, with slanted eyes and yellowish faces, came out of the woods. The wolf was bristling. The small men didn't seem to see the witnesses. They turned towards the wolf and pointed at it. They spoke very quickly among themselves. One of them advanced, up to a few feet from the wolf, raised his hand while pronouncing words. The wolf threw itself at the small man and tore him apart: limbs, entrails, all of it fell on the snow. No steam or vapor rose from the killed being, the 5 survivors didn't move and watched. Their breath didn't make any vapor either. Damase threw a dead branch towards the wolf which left howling. One of the small men took out a kind of bag from his clothing and started to gather the scattered pieces of the small creature killed. L. Hormidas, unable to take it anymore, vomited from disgust. The 5 small men left towards the pine forest. The two witnesses put on their snowshoes and followed them. It was easy: they left very small marks in the snow. They arrived at a big hollow in the ground, free of snow, and the tracks stopped there. On their way back to the scene of the drama, Damase found a small gelatinous rubber piece of the same color as the creatures' clothing. He wanted to give a piece to Hormidas, but he was unable to, even with an axe, cut it in two. (Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent" éd. Leméac, Ottawa, 19 79, p. 75 à 82)

#May 16, 1940
BELGIUM, Liège
Mr. and Mrs. Delsa, ambulance drivers, returning from a mission, in an ambulance, were driving along Quai St Léonard at around 2:00 a.m. "The night was dark, the blackout being in effect. That's when I saw in the sky a luminous shape like two overturned plates, very large, followed by a long tail of fire. The object must have been about 300 meters high and its diameter was twice that of the full moon. Seeing this thing rushing straight towards us, I screamed in fear and asked my husband to accelerate. At that moment the object deviated from its trajectory, the trail disappeared and it seemed to pause. I didn't know what to think anymore, I was trembling all over. The phenomenon soon resumed its initial trajectory and the luminous trail reappeared. It disappeared in the south, towards the center of Liège. My husband had stopped the ambulance to try to calm me down because I had started to cry out of fear. I beg you to believe that that night I did not close my eyes." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.257-258)

#1940, Summer
DENMARK, Jutland
In the middle of the afternoon, a 15 year old boy was going to the watering hole with some cows, when he suddenly saw three curious characters advancing from the northeast. They were dressed in a dark green one-piece suit that even covered their neck and a good part of their face. The face seemed to be protected by a glass plate. From the shoulders to the feet there were two thick bulges of about ten centimeters. The three beings were of normal size but they were progressing by slightly swinging their arms in the manner of robots, the witness specified. At about thirty meters from the young Dane, they suddenly turned south and disappeared behind a hill. Our witness then rushed to this place and saw a shiny hemispherical object on the ground: near him, the three characters. Suddenly, without seeing any door open, the witness noticed that these characters had disappeared. The object emitted a sharp whistle like the one produced by quickly spinning a metal rod at high speed. The UFO rose slowly and after 6 to 7 seconds it took the direction of the southeast where it disappeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.258)

#1940
CANADA, Dalesville (Québec)
Walter and William Gunn were observing at around 10:30 PM, a luminous object rising from a hill about 350 m away from them. With an apparent size equivalent to a full moon, this body seemed to be the lower part of a much larger dark mass on which two or three small lights were also visible. With a regular noise, it rose at an estimated speed of 80 km/h above the witnesses, brightly illuminated some nearby barns and disappeared between the mountain peaks. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.259)

#November/December 1940
ZAIRE (then Belgian Congo), Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville)
M. Bracoval was suddenly woken from his sleep in the middle of the night. More than two thousand people in the bush were thus awakened by the noise that echoed for 60 km around. For the next half hour, it was as bright as day. What is more curious is that all the clocks and watches stopped at the precise time of the phenomenon and many of them never worked correctly again. The next day, bush runners were dispatched, but nothing abnormal was detected. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977 - p.259)

#1940, Summer
NORWAY, Sandefjord;
Mrs. Edvardsen and her friend saw 3-4 luminous objects in the sky to the northeast. It was late afternoon on a summer day. These objects were as big as barns, and moved like flying insects. Their color was described as that of the head of a lit cigarette. The distance of the witnesses from the phenomenon was about 300 to 400 meters. (Letter from Arne Foss, 22 Oct 1977. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1940
USA, Montana
(Author: Warren P. Aston) Case Udo Wartena, unpublished until 1997.
Landing of a large vessel and conversation of two hours with humanoid beings explaining their mission, personal details, the propulsion system capable of going faster than light. (Mufon Ufo Journal n° 353, p. 16, Sept. 97)

#1941, February
AUSTRALIA, Wearyan River
A nurse went to an isolated village to treat a man who had been shot in the leg. While she was treating the wound, two men appeared, dressed in white robes as if they had come from a theater scene, and assisted her. When she looked up to thank them, they had disappeared. Several Aborigines witnessed this phenomenon. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 309)

#1941, June 22
GERMANY-RUSSIA
The propaganda staffel reported that the Nebelwerfer Batteries (smoke launchers) had fired 800,000 rocket-shells in the first twenty minutes of the German attack on Russia.
However, the advance guard tanks which had reached the terminals of the Moscow Tramways were crushed under a prodigious deluge of rocket-shells from the "Stalin Organs". (Rocket launchers = multi-tube howitzers.) ("Assault on Space" Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 41)

#1941, Spring
Canada, Lac Beauport, Quebec
The beginning of the story of contactee Arthur Matthews, born in 1892, who met Nicola Tesla in the city of Quebec, on St Joachim Street. The extraterrestrials chose him as a friend of Tesla to visit him and take him to their planet. This happened every two years until 1961. (...) (Jean FERGUSON: "Enigmes du temps présent" ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1979, pp.107-115)

#1941 (or 1942) Summer
NORWAY, Maroy/Nordhordland;
Irene Skram and her cousin, and independently the husband of the cousin and a friend, saw a silver disc around 11 o'clock in the morning, while the whole company was outside, admiring the plantations.
The disc was rising from the ground to 300 m from the witnesses, to the northeast of their position. Turning slowly on itself, it was rising gently up to about 100 m, altitude from which it seemed to descend again somewhat. It was followed by three opaque trails in the shape of a thin spiral.<br/><br/>
These things were falling towards the ground, detaching themselves from the disc. The two women then saw the disc disappear. But the two men, being at another point of the property, were heading towards the place where the "trails" had fallen, at about a hundred meters from the house. They found at this place, only three heather cocks, stunned, but still alive. Knowing that their neighbors were raising birds, they went to ask if they were missing three?
It was the case. The witnesses did not talk about the flying saucer with the neighbors. The saucer had been seen for about two minutes, it seemed to have 10 m in diameter. The "trails" each had a length of about 12 to 15 meters, and were separated from each other by 5 to 6 meters. (Ole Jonny Brænne)

#1941, Autumn
NORWAY, Skar/Osteroy;
People had gone to the cinema. The evening was calm, the sky clear and well starred. Suddenly they saw a luminous phenomenon to the west, flying towards the northwest, at very high speed. The phenomenon looked like a huge ball of fire and at first, they thought it was a bolide. But then, the phenomenon slowed down and seemed to hover above Osterfjorden - in reality, from their position, the witnesses overlooked the phenomenon and saw it below them. It was visible for about half a minute, no sound was heard. (UFO, 2/1992, 9. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne) (note from vog: Peenemunde is not so far away, is it?)

#1941
SWITZERLAND, Alps
They found footprints of mountaineers that mysteriously stopped in the center of a triangle of 13 m side formed by three holes in the snow. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.259)

#1941
Spain, between Belmez and Valsequillo (Cordoba)
Mrs. Concepcion Cuenca, widow of Contador from Seville, was 13 years old in 1941. Walking with her father and brother on the road between Belmez and Valsequillo at 5 o'clock in the morning, they were suddenly illuminated by a light that seemed to be in the air. The intensity and brightness exceeded anything she had seen as light since. The phenomenon lasted only a second in total. All three intrigued, yet none made any comment as they continued on their way. (investigation by Ignacio Benvenuty Cabral, Seville)

#1941
Germany
German aviator Hannah Reisch saw a UFO flying at an altitude of 20,000 meters while she was on a test flight with an aircraft that would become the future Messerschmitt 163 Komet. (A CENTURY OF UFO's - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor)

#1941-1942
GERMANY
Austrian inventor, Victor Schauberger, who lived from 1885 to 1958, is said to have built the first saucers for the Third Reich. The first models had a diameter of 1.50 m and weighed 135 kg. More advanced models followed, with a saucer designed for a crew of three as early as 1945-1946. At the liberation (end of the Second World War), the Americans seized both the work and the person of Schauberger, who was forced to work on a military base in Texas until his death. (Nazi Flying Saucers - no named author - document on the Internet in 1996) (note from vog: this is what is called voluntary and anonymous disinformation)

#February 25, 1942
USA, Los Angeles
At precisely 2:00 am, diners at the Trocadero Club in Hollywood were surprised to see all the lights go out while sirens screamed the alarm throughout and around Los Angeles. Searchlights began to scan the sky, anti-aircraft batteries opened fire. In the following hours more than 1400 shots were fired at a single unidentified object, slowly passing through the sky. It resembled a blimp or a balloon. It was the 65th Coast Artillery (Anti-Aircraft) Regiment from Inglewood and the 205th Anti-Aircraft Regiment from Santa Monica that were shooting. The "cigar-shaped white" object received some bullets, but continued its imperturbable flight towards the east. Ground observers would have counted up to 25 silver UFOs.

The editor of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Peter Jenkins, wrote: "I clearly saw the V-formation of 25 'silvery planes' (silver planes) slowly passing through the sky towards Long Beach." The Chief of Police of Long Beach, J.H. McClelland, also looked at the sky. He did not see the "planes" but younger people assured him that they saw them. A veteran of the army was looking through Carl Zeiss binoculars and in the beam of the searchlights, he counted nine. The objects passed from one searchlight beam to another, from one salvo to another, without flinching and continued towards Redondo Beach and Inglewood, then towards Santa Ana and Huntington Beach.

"The shots were so loud that we could not hear the sound of the engines of the 'planes'. At 2:21 a.m., Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt declared a ceasefire. (BEYOND EARTH: MAN'S CONTACT WITH UFOs by Ralph Blum, Bantam Books, New York, April 1974, page 68. The Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner and the Long Beach Press-Telegram for February 25, 1942. All newspaper quotes taken from "The Battle of Los Angeles, 1942" by Terrenz Sword, which appeared in Unsolved UFO Sightings, Spring 1996 issue, pages 57 through 62.)

#1942, February 26 (or 6?)
AUSTRALIA, TIMOR SEA
At around 3:00am, the crew of the Dutch Royal Navy warship "Tromp" could observe "like a large aluminum disc" which was approaching at a great speed - estimated at 6000 km/h - of the ship, it circled around it and then moved away towards the open sea. For three hours it circled at altitude above the cruiser and finally disappeared at a very high speed. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.84). ("UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 18, which places the date at 6.2.42)

#1942, February
HIMALAYAS
Slavomir Rawicz had just escaped from a Siberian camp with six of his companions and was trying to reach India. He crossed the Himalayas between Bhutan and Sikkim. For more than two hours the seven escapees stopped to observe two strange creatures. "They were at least 2.50m tall; one of them was smaller (...) Their heads were rather square without apparent ears. The chest seemed powerful and the arms long reaching down to the knees. In profile, the neck fitted directly into the shoulders (...)". (Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p. 121, 122)

#1942, March 14
NORWAY, Banak (Finnmark)
Report of observation from the secret air base of Banak, addressed to the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe in Berlin. At 5:35 PM the watch post gave the alarm; the men went to their combat posts, the pilots to their aircraft. Through binoculars, the observers saw an engine approaching silently. Hauptman Fischer (an engineer in civilian life) took off in a Messerschmitt 109 (fighter) to intercept it. At 3,500 meters altitude he approached it, observed it, and gave a description by radio: it was an enormous streamlined body, without any support plane, without any visible opening; its length was about 100 meters and its diameter about 15 meters; at one end (front?) a group of rods resembling radar antennas. The aerial whale, as Captain Fischer immediately nicknamed it, maintained itself horizontally; suddenly it rose vertically at great speed and disappeared. The pilot concluded that it could not be a machine made by human hands. Report signed by Captain Fischer, countersigned by the base commander. When Hermann Goering in Berlin took cognizance of it, he concluded that the harsh solitude of the Far North had played a nasty trick on his pilot. [IN REALITY: the whole affair would be nothing but a HOAX for the needs of the author... OVNI PRESENCE, 28/Dec 1983, 30/Jun 1984. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 8. Listing by Ole Johny Braenne] (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.84) 

#1942, March 25
NETHERLANDS, above the Zuiderzee
Commander-pilot Roman Sobinski was returning from a bombing operation above Essen (Germany, Ruhr). Passing above the Zuiderzee north of Holland, his tail gunner signaled him an orange-colored luminous disc that was following them. After various maneuvers to get rid of it, the order was given to the gunner to shoot: several projectiles seemed to penetrate the luminous circle, but without result, although the object was at a good range (about 150 m). Finally, the flying disc disappeared at great speed. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of UFOs" - Laffont 1970 - p.76)

#1942, April 4
ALGERIA, Ouallen (Adrar-En-Ahmet)
One fine morning, the weather station's sub-officer observed an object directly above him, like a small, bright point of aluminum white. About forty people were able to observe the phenomenon. One of the witnesses recounts: "Observed more precisely with our field binoculars and with the theodolite's telescope, the "planet" looked like a small moon or a five franc coin. It had pale, metal white reflections and seemed to be suspended at an altitude of 5 to 6000 m. Apparently it stayed still, but a prolonged examination with the theodolite revealed that it was moving in a slow rotation: we were thus able to observe three rotations in eight hours. The next morning it was still there, always directly above us and we began to get used to it, thinking it was some lost star or a new satellite captured by the Earth's attraction. At dawn of the third day, everything had disappeared..." (the author cites Aimé Michel: ("Glimpses of Flying Saucers" - Aimé Michel, ed. Maison MAME 1954, pages 122, 123) (Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977- p.260-261)

#1942
GERMANY, Peenemunde
Launch of a V-2 No. 1, inert model. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1942
GERMANY, Peenemunde
Launch of V-2 No. 8, for training of the team. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1942, June 13
GERMANY, Peenemunde Island
The first ascent of an "A4" ("V-2"). 14 meters long, diameter of 1.75m, 1000 kilograms of explosives, 3000 kilograms of fuel in the upper tank, 6000 kilograms of liquid oxygen in the lower tank, turbo pump running at 4000 revolutions for a power of 500 to 600 HP, total weight 12,000 kg, launch engine with a thrust of 12,000 kg. The rocket, slightly oscillating, rose up and disappeared into the low cloud layer. For several seconds more the roar of the rocket engine was heard. Then suddenly it stopped and a few moments later the rocket reappeared, without tailfins, swaying horizontally, after which it sank into the sea with a terrific explosion. (Following on from August 16, 1942) (The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, pp. 100 to 108)

#1942, late June 
FRANCE, Cussey-sur-l'Ognon (Haute-Saône)
Or early July (or 1943). On this day it was hot and Mr. and Mrs. Bonardi had taken the afternoon to rest not far from a wheat field where some peasants were busy. Around 4:00 pm, the witnesses suddenly had their attention drawn to a bright light filtering through the foliage of the undergrowth. At the same time they felt a wave of heat. Soon an oval object of dark blue color topped with a dome of silver gray like aluminum appeared. On the dome there were two vertical tubes, in the center of which a more slender antenna could be distinguished. The witnesses clearly saw portholes and a tripod arranged at the base of the object. Astonished by the appearance, the peasants stopped working. The object was then about fifty meters from the Bonardi, hovering a few tens of cm above the ground while emitting a fan noise while turning on itself. Suddenly lights came out of the portholes at a regular rhythm: "as if they were sending us Morse code" said the witnesses. When they were about twenty meters from the strange object, Mrs. Bonardi heard a muffled sound, like murmurs of conversation. The peasants were getting more and more agitated. The UFO continued its slow course at the edge of the grass, then suddenly it took off vertically and disappeared into the sky. At the place of the almost landing a circle of about 1.50 m in diameter was found, where the grass was trampled in all directions. The object must have had dimensions between 2 m and 2.50 m. The duration of the observation was 6 to 10 minutes. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.261-262) (note from vog: I would almost put my hand in the fire that it was a helicopter...)

#1942, Summer
AUSTRALIA, Tasmania
(After the Japanese attack of February 19th 1942.) A major of the Royal Australian Air Force noted in his report: "We were given orders, after the Japanese attack on Darwin, to patrol the Bass Strait where fishermen had reported mysterious nocturnal lights. At around 5:50 PM, at the very beginning of twilight, we were flying a few kilometers east of the Tasmanian peninsula, when suddenly, from a bank of clouds, a strange craft emerged. It was bronze and shining and must have been 45 meters long and 15 meters in diameter. There was something like a beak or a spur at the front and the surface of the object seemed to vibrate. At the top there was a dome or a cupola from which flashes of blue and green light emerged. The other end of the craft ended in a fin. It circled around us, turning very sharply, and I was then surprised to see, at the front of the dome, a white circle inside of which I thought I recognized the image of a grimacing cat. (note of vog: in my opinion, this story should be taken with a grain of salt. The pilot must have known, for example, the Martin Marauder, Martin Mariner and other planes - which had emblems - shark heads, cats and others, on their noses... ) Then this damned craft flew parallel to us for a few minutes. It then suddenly made a U-turn, presenting four fins on its ventral side. It left at an incredible speed and plunged into the Pacific, disappearing under the water which was stirred by regular waves. As if it were a submarine! No, it is not possible that the Japanese could have such craft, nobody could have built such a mysterious amphibious bird!". (See FLYING SAUCERS UNCENSORED by Harold T. Wilkins, Citadel Press, New York, NY 1955, pages 224-255.)

#1942, August 12
Tulagi Island (Solomon Islands) west of Guadalcanal
Around 10 in the morning, with a beautiful sky containing high altitude fluffy clouds, Stephen J. Brickner, Sergeant of the Marine Division, was cleaning his rifle when the alarm was sounded. He immediately entered his foxhole sitting, facing the sky. He heard the formation before he saw it, but did not recognize the sound which resembled some kind of echo in the air. A few seconds later the formation of silver objects passed overhead. The sergeant was very excited, it was only his fifth day at the front in the war against the Japanese and he immediately thought that they were Japanese planes. It was a formation of 150 flying objects not in a V formation, but in straight lines of 10 or 12 objects, one behind the other, their speed slightly higher than that of the usual Japanese planes. This formation quickly disappeared out of sight. None of these objects had wings or a tail and they seemed to sway slowly, shining in the sun like silver. (Jeroen Wierda - Pufori - The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII - 19.5.1997)

#1942, August 16
Germany, Peenemunde 
(cf. June 13, 1942) At the second launch, in very clear weather, the ascending trajectory of the A4 could be clearly followed up to several kilometers in altitude. But this test failed prematurely. The horizontal range was 10 kilometers. (Following October 3, 1942) ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" -Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 108)

#1942, September
GREAT BRITAIN, Newbiggin-on-Sea (Northumberland)
(end of summer) Albert Lancashire was on guard near the radar post. The night was dark and the soldier was standing in front of his guardhouse about thirty meters from the sea. Suddenly a light lit up in the sky at 100 meters altitude and began to move above the water. All around there was a dark cloud and Albert Lancashire wondered what the Germans had invented again. He immediately went back into his guardhouse to try to observe without being spotted. The yellow light seemed to roll over itself. Soon a second light appeared less than a meter above the witness's head. That's when the story becomes "incoherent". Albert Lancashire followed a kind of beam of light and found himself on board an aerial vessel. There he met a crew of people with a human appearance whose captain had jet black hair and wore thick glasses. The witness was invited to lie down on a table above which shone a very soft blue light. He saw one of these beings dressed like a doctor approach him with a smile. Lancashire remains convinced that he must have undergone some medical examination at that moment, but he no longer remembers the details of the events. All he remembers is that he found himself back in his guardhouse shortly after. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p.262-263)

#1942, October 3
Germany, Peenemunde Island 
(cf. August 16, 1942) The rocket that would become the V-2 was officially born this day. Indeed, today was the final test. It presented itself as a steel rod, 14 meters long and 12 tons in weight. Propulsion was obtained not by the ignition of powder, but by that of alcohol mixed with liquid oxygen. The nozzle was fed by a complex system of pumps and turbines, and the rocket, guided on its trajectory by an equally complex set of gyroscopes and electronic devices. This day it rose to an altitude of 92,000 meters before falling 192 km from its point of departure ("Astronautics" Pierre Rousseau, Hachette 1965, p. 12). Meanwhile, series production was also undertaken, which in the end amounted to around 400 examples per month in the underground factory of "Mittelwerk" in Niedersachswerfen near Nordhausen. (...) In the autumn of 1942 two examples of the other rocket (Rheinbote, test model of 800 kilos) were dropped from an airplane at 6,000 m altitude and then automatically directed during their flat flight; the A9, which was to result from these tests (failed) did not reach the stage of its realization. ("The Rockets, Vehicles of the Future" - Hans K. Kaiser, Amiot-Dumont 1954, p. 109 to 113)

#1942, October
GREAT BRITAIN, Radway Green (Cheshire)
At around 8:50 PM, James L. Toft and another person were able to observe a fusiform object topped with a dome. It was equipped with lights at each end and seemed to be heading towards the ground. At the presumed landing site, a circular charred surface and footprints were found. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 263)

#1942, November 9
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 6, TEST, RANGE 14 KM, VERTICAL, HEIGHT 67 KM.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1942, towards mid-November
ITALY, Bergamo
In the middle of the afternoon, 4:00 PM, Adriano Paris, a librarian, was observing along with other witnesses an object the size of a bicycle wheel in the sky of Bergamo. The UFO was not luminous but it emitted an infernal noise. It moved in a zigzag above the city and disappeared towards the village of Seriate 5 km away. On the cloudy sky, the witness clearly saw two pincers at the front of the object. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 263) Adriano and D. Paris were walking in one of the streets of the old city, when they observed a strange flying object, a few centimeters above the ground, passing along the sidewalk in the street at great speed and causing panic among the pedestrians. The thing was round and flat, in the shape of a pincer head and it flew in undulating motion. It seemed to come from the center and head east, disappearing from their view at the end of the street. On the same date there were other observers of the same kind of phenomenon. (CISU, archives dossier 4201 - sources Ufo in Italia I, 73, GDM 10, 114, 8 and Ufo Info 12, 48, 17)

#1942, November
At sea, Gulf of Biscay
C.J.J. (known identity of Leonard Stringfield) was a member of a squadron patrolling the bay as part of submarine defense. The rear gunner, in the plane, suddenly saw a massive, wingless object appear behind the plane. He alerted the crew, as well as C.J.J. who was in the turret. The thing was visible for 15 minutes and Sergeant M.F.B. took photos of it with a K-20 camera. The object gained altitude, made an abrupt 180° turn and disappeared. Only one of the photos was successful and according to C.J.J. it was clear and perfect. To this day, this photo remains classified top secret. (Jeroen Wierda - Pufori - The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII - 19.5.1997)

#1942
YUGOSLAVIA, Rasanac
An object like a flame moved horizontally near the Prentov bridge which spans the Koselska river. A certain Péro Krstanovski who was returning from Bitolj to Ohrid at that time, suddenly saw his team of horses become agitated at the appearance of the phenomenon. As soon as it disappeared, the horses regained their calm. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 263-264)

#1942
USA, South Coast, on a small island offshore
Sergeant Dick Wylie saw a bright object dive into the sea and reappear ten minutes later. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 264)

#1942
USA-MEXICO: Juarez
(cf. 1932, High Bridge - same person) In Juarez Menger meets a man with blond hair, who presents himself as "from his People". Then he sees a man in khaki uniform, who tells him he will have many extraterrestrial contacts (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, Janar 1998) Howard Menger is doing his military service. He sees UFOs in the sky, then is approached successively by two men, one of whom is military. They declare to him, like the woman met in 1932, that they come from another planet whose inhabitants formerly gave to the Aztecs secrets, lost with their civilization, concerning the use of sound and light. (continued 1944)
(Jean-Francis CROLARD: "L'énigme des E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 145, 146)

#1943, January 25
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 11, TEST, RANGE 105 KM, TOO STEEP RANGE, ROLLING. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, February 17
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 No. 12, TEST, RANGE 196 KM, RANGE TOO LOW.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, March 18
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 18, TEST, RANGE 135 KM, TOO STEEP RANGE,
ROTATION (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, May 14
Germany, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 22, TEST, RANGE 250 KM, FAULTY STOP SWITCH. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, May 26
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 25, TEST, RANGE 27 KM, COMBUSTION STOPPED AFTER 40 SECONDS. LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 26, TEST, RANGE 265 KM. ALSO LAUNCH OF F1-103 (V1) TEST, SHORT BALLISTIC SHOT, CRASH (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 227, and Walter Domberger)

#1943, May 27
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 24, TEST, RANGE 138 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley
1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, June 11
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 29, TEST, RANGE 238 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, June 29
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 38, TEST, RANGE 3 KM, FALL ON AIRFIELD.
LAUNCH ALSO OF V2 NO. 40, TEST, RANGE 236 KM, IMPACT NOT OBSERVED
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1943, June or July
CHINA, Kuangsi-Guishou
One afternoon, at 3 or 4 o'clock, it was very nice, no clouds in the sky. Having heard a buzzing, we thought that enemy planes (Japanese) were flying over our depot. We went out to see. In the sky, we saw a square object reflecting the sunlight falling. We thought that this object had been dropped by an airplane, but we saw no plane in the air. The buzzing was getting closer and stronger, and the square object was also getting bigger and brighter. (...) It was 1000 m from the ground and remained suspended for a certain time. We clearly saw that the lower part of this square was flat. Each side measured more than a third of a meter/ The height of the object was about 10 cm. (...) No wing, no rudder, no propeller. The object was made of one piece, without opening or porthole. After a moment of suspension in the air, it began to rise straight up into the sky. The noise diminished as it rose. Finally there was only a bright spot (...) My observation lasted almost two hours. (SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestrials" ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.81, 82)

#1943, Summer
BELGIUM, Herseaux (French-Belgian border)
Mr. Delmeire, 41 years old at the time: "I was coming back from work which ended at 7 pm and I remember it was still light. For more than a minute I saw a very bright, red and round object with a shape of a beer barrel. It had an apparent diameter of one meter. It passed about 1 km from me at an altitude of about twenty meters. At first I thought it was an airplane, but it made no noise. As it passed near the roofs it lit them up with an intense light. It left in the direction of Courtrai, towards Wevelgem (West Flanders) (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 264)

#1943, August (supposed date)
BELGIUM, between Valmeer and Z.Z. Bolder (Limburg)
J.V. and his friend, then aged 12 or 13, were looking for shells (after an air attack, while the adults were still in the shelters) and saw a silent and circular object descending to a hundred meters in altitude and 500 or 600 meters away from them. They ran towards the thing, but the fear of being "shot down" (it was war) made them stop at some distance. Meanwhile, the object that seemed to be on the ground (hidden by a fold in the terrain) rose vertically, silently and in a fraction of second it was at 1000 meters altitude. There, at this altitude, were 6 or 7 other balls, the size of a fist held out, which seemed to be waiting for the object that had descended. Together they then disappeared at a higher altitude. More than 50 years later, the witnesses are still stunned by the silence and speed of these objects. Their color was a dirty gray, their diameter 8 to 10 meters, the total height 2 meters, of which 1 meter for the rounded upper part. (personal doc. of vog - identities of the witnesses known)

#1943, August 15
The Philadelphia Teleportation Affair
Alias Carlos Allende: The Mystery Man Behind the Philadelphia Experiment
The key figure in the bizarre saga of the Philadelphia Experiment is a man known as Carlos Allende, who claimed to witness the teleportation of the USS Eldridge at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard on August 15, 1943. Allende reported his experiences to a UFO book author, and his story became one of the most popular unexplained legends of the 20th century. But who was Carlos Allende? ParaScope is pleased to present this classic article from FATE Magazine, in which Robert A. Goerman revealed the elusive individual to be Carl Allen, a "master leg-puller" from Pennsylvania who single-handedly fabricated the Philadelphia Experiment myth. (in brief: the affair was invented by the author Carl Allen, or Carlos Allende (his pseudonym) and the Philadelphia teleportation affair never took place)
First 'Philadelphia Experiment' Crew Reunion
'It Never Happened' By Lacy McCrary
The truth is out here. It is in a hospitality room of a boardwalk hotel, with some old salts sitting around white-clothed tables laughing at reports that their ship was involved in a top-secret World War II experiment. Sailors who served on the USS Eldridge, the ship that legend says vanished briefly in 1943 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, met here this week for their first reunion in 53 years and spent part of their time joking about the so-called Philadelphia Experiment. The Eldridge, they said yesterday, may well have been invisible to Philadelphia because it was never in Philadelphia.
The ship's log and several veterans who were on the ship from its launching on July 25, 1943, at Port Newark, N.J., say it called on many East Coast ports, but never Philadelphia. Two movies, two books and several Web sites have kept the myth about the Eldridge alive. As the story goes, the destroyer escort was surrounded by a greenish fog, disappeared for a few minutes, then reappeared.
But none of the veterans believes it. (…)
The legend says the ship became invisible on July 22, 1943, but ship records and the veterans say it was not launched until July 25. The second experiment, in which the Eldridge was sent to Norfolk and back to Philadelphia, was supposed to have occurred on October 28, 1943. The ship's log says it was at the Brooklyn Navy Yard on that date, but did spend two days in the Norfolk Navy Yard in November 1943.

#1943, September
ARGENTINA, Oncativa (Laguna Larga)
It was very early, 04:00 this morning when René Navarro Ocampo was driving in his car on the road from Rosario to Cordoba. As he passed near Oncativa he suddenly saw an object on the road about 500 m from his vehicle. The object looked like an immense disk, wider than the road and it emitted a light of a bluish-green color. As soon as René Ocampo's car approached, the object began to whistle a bit like a fan. The disk then rose to an altitude of 1000 m and then, turning abruptly at a right angle, it disappeared quickly behind the horizon. When he arrived at the place where this object had been stationed, the witness saw in the beam of his headlights a small metallic body that sparkled on the ground. It was a kind of "paperweight" about 10 cm long. Curiously, it was cold, while the witness expected to find an object overheated by the presence of the UFO. This amazing unexpected gift was analyzed in various laboratories, but the results of these studies have not filtered down to us. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 264)

#1943, September
CHINA, Qing Nian (Hebei)
A UFO with a dome flew at 5 to 8 meters above the ground. A white light was emanating from it. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 322)

#1943, September
USSR, Pouchkino
A UFO in the shape of a disc was observed near Pouchkino by Spanish volunteers of the Azul Division, who were fighting with the Germans on the German-Russian front. While they were in a fort, sheltered from an air battle between German and Soviet aircraft, soldiers Jésus Aria, Pas and Tomas Carbonell noticed an object discoidal that flew around the area somewhat like a spectator of an air conflict and that had to disappear at a fantastic speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 265) The Spanish troops of the Azul Division saw a UFO in the shape of a "basin" hovering close by during the battle. (A CENTURY OF UFO - UFO Roundup Dec. 1999, ed. Joseph Trainor)

#1943, October 14
GERMANY, Schweinfurt (in flight)
As the 384th Group had just passed the Initial Point, the fighter attacks suddenly ceased. The pilots wondered, as did all the crew members, where they were now and all the men questioned later were categorical in declaring that at that moment there were no enemy aircraft above them. It was then that the pilots and the gunners of the upper turrets, as well as several men of the crews in the Plexiglas nose of the planes, reported on the route they were following like a string of saucers approaching the Fortresses. The exclamations that burst out drew general attention to this phenomenon and everyone on board the aircraft began to discuss it animatedly. The discs in question seemed to be silver, and measured three centimeters thick and nine in diameter. They were easily visible and descended slowly fluttering in a regular string. At that moment the impossible happened: B-17 No. 26 was quickly approaching one of these strings. The pilot tried to avoid hitting it, but his maneuver failed. As he declared at the debriefing, his right wing crossed this string without any effect on the engines or the aircraft body. The intelligence officers tried to learn more and he then added that he had heard one of the discs hit the tail but that no one on board had seen or heard an explosion. He also said that at about 6 meters from the discs, his men and he had seen a number of small bodies of varying sizes in a string from one meter to one meter twenty long. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 265-266)

#1943, December 18
GERMANY, various cities.
A report states that an object was successively reported by the bases of Helgoland, Hamburg, Wittenberg, Neustrelitz. The timing between these bases gives it an average speed of over 3,000 km/h. It was observed above Hamburg by a patrol of two Focke-Wulf 190 fighters, at 12,000 m around 11:15. The object was a cylindrical body with a nose cone at the front, a large hole at the back with a panel. It seemed to be composed of a large number of rings, whose surface seemed convex. Reported on the ground, followed for a few kilometers, it disappeared at great speed. (Henry DURRANT: "Le livre noir des S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.84-85)

#December 1943; Norway, Oslo (Oslofjörden)
At around 10:30 pm, a secretary and three of her friends approached a small fjord. Suddenly, the engines of the cars stopped abruptly and the passengers had to continue the rest of the journey on foot. That's when they saw an orange object with blurred outlines, but resembling a church bell. There was a hissing sound and the UFO rose up, taking on a very dark blue hue. It hovered for a few moments then crossed the fjord at great speed. In the snow bordering the small lake, a depression of 1.50 m in diameter and 1 m deep was found. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 266)
Some friends were at the table when they saw a light appear above the port. Fearing sabotage, they rushed into their cars, in the direction of the phenomenon. At some distance from the port, the three cars stopped and could not be restarted. So they got out of the vehicles and continued on foot towards the light, which seemed to have the shape of a bell, of orange color, blurred. As they approached, the witnesses then heard a whistle, like air escaping from a compressor. A moment later the object descended to 3 to 6 meters above the water, before catapulting itself at a dizzying speed, without acceleration. At the end of the observation the object took on a color of deep blue. The four witnesses, after the disappearance of the phenomenon, discovered depressions in the snow, in the shape of craters, 4.50 m in diameter and 90 cm deep. All around these craters, the snow had melted over an area of 15 to 16 meters. (AUSTRALIAN FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, 7/1968. Phillips: PHYSICAL TRACES ASSOCIATED WITH UFO SIGHTINGS., 1975, 5. RAPPORTNYTT, 4/1979, 4-5. Bertelsen: UFO-80., 1980, 66. Liljegren: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF REFERENCES TO UFO INCIDENTS DURING WORLD WAR II., 1987, 11. Listing of Ole Johnny Braenne)

#1943
BELGIUM, Tombeek (Brabant)
Miss Vandevoorde, a nurse, was leaving the Tombeek sanatorium during the day to enter the Rosière wood. From a clear spot, she saw an aerial object coming from the direction of Brussels, having the shape of a priest's hat. It was moving quickly, going up and down as if it was looking for something. The disc was topped with a dome shining like aluminium. When it was closer, it appeared as big as two full moons. Below it, 4 white lights side by side, and she heard a faint buzzing. It was moving away towards the town of Wavre (J.G. DOHMEN: "To Identify and the Adamski Case" - ed. Guy Dohmen, Biarritz 1972, p. 155).

#1943, unspecified
PORTUGAL, Famalicao-Braga
One evening, around 8 o'clock, a mother and her 6-year-old child were looking out the open window to see the father returning from work. The child saw a figure coming, which seemed to float instead of walk. The mother didn't see anything. But the child, in panic, almost had a nervous breakdown when he saw the figure pass in front of the window. The mother immediately closed the shutter to calm him down. ("Jornal de Noticias" - Joaquim Fernandes)

#1943-1944
GERMANY, Peenemunde
LAUNCHES OF V2s No. 14, 15 and 17: STORAGE TESTS. LAUNCHES OF V2s No. 27, 32, 35, 37 and 39 WITH EXPERIMENTAL EQUIPMENT. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Walter Domberger)

#1944
USA, unspecified location
(cf. 1942 Juarez) Howard Menger meets a being dressed in a pink tunic, who informs him of his upcoming trip to Japan, to Okinawa. He warns him against the experience of an atomic bomb. (continued 1945)
(Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1944, February 12
GERMANY, Kummersdorf
At Kummersdorf Test Center, the launch of an experimental rocket in the presence of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, SS Reichsführer Himmler, Heinz Kammler, SS Gruppenführer and Dr Engineer, and senior officers. The tracking camera records the departure. After development and printing of the film, demonstration and critique screening in front of the authorities. Stupefaction: a spherical body, which nobody had seen on the ground, rises at the same time as the rocket, accompanying it by spinning around it. It was thought to be a new type of enemy device and information was requested; but agents of Admiral Canaris in Great Britain reported that similar phenomena were occurring over British bases, and that the Allies believed that these were new devices coming from Germany. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.85) (note from vog: IN REALITY and to my knowledge there were no launches yet at Kummersdorf, at that date.... )

#1944, February
AUSTRALIA, Bass Strait (Victoria)
The pilot of a RAAF Beaufort bomber flying at 4500 feet, saw
a black shadow flying alongside him, at only 100 to 150 feet away. Flames were coming out of the end of this thing.
For 18 to 20 minutes the radio and other onboard instruments of the
bomber refused to work. This ended when the UFO accelerated and disappeared. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 310)

#1944, 6 June
FRANCE, off the coast of Normandy
The USS George E. Badger is anchored off. Gunner Edward Breckel is on watch and sees in the sky an object of dark cigar-like shape, 5 miles from their position. This UFO visible for 3 minutes flew too slowly at 5 m above the water and had no wings. (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997)

#1944
HAWAII, Oahu
E.L., a First Class Carpenter's Mate in the Headquarters Company of the 112th Construction Battalion, approached a saucer on the ground near Kaneohe Beach on Oahu. Diameter: 50 feet, metallic, igloo-like, with a completely glassed dome above a one-foot high golden-colored screen, inside of which something was rotating. (Ufo Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)

#1944, Summer
FRANCE, Toulon-sur-Arroux (Saône et Loire)
Madeleine Arnoux wrote: "The facts date back to 1944 during the summer. I was then 13 years old and I went by bicycle every week to a farm a few km away to get some "supplies". So I left Toulon-sur-Arroux on the charming RD 42, bordered by woods in the direction of the hamlet called "Verger". Just before arriving there, I got off to pick wild berries that I knew I would find there. At this place, a dirt road leaves the road and goes to the right through the woods. So I advanced on this path, slowly, looking for fruits. Automatically I raised my head... further, a few hundred meters away, the path rises a bit and forms a pronounced curve to the right to disappear from view in the woods. Right at this place "the thing" was stopped. I remember it was very hot, stormy and the sky was quite cloudy. So, there, something was stopped along the woods and beings were standing close by. Now I think the device could have been the size of one of our small current cars (like a Volkswagen) of metallic gray, dull color. I do not remember observing any openings. The beings who were standing next to it must have been less than 1 m tall and were wearing brown jumpsuits. They made no gesture in my direction and for my part I was frozen in place. How long did this mutual observation last? I cannot say but I remember the oppressive atmosphere, further aggravated by the stormy weather and my impression of not being able to move.. Suddenly I could react and wanted to take my bike that lay a few meters away. The time to bend down and, raising my head to look again at the strange apparition, there was nothing left. ... "(Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 267-268)

#1944, August 10
ASIA, between CEYLAN and SUMATRA
Captain Alyanb Reida, in command of his B 29, observed on August 1
during a bombing raid on the oil installations of Sumatra, a strange
gray and oval flying machine that left behind a grayish-bluish trail
and followed him for several minutes. (S. DELLO STROLOGO: "What
Governments Hide About UFOs" - De Vecchi 1975, p. 31, which says
August 1. In fact it is August 10) "Shortly after midnight, we were
returning to Ceylan, after a bombing mission to Palembang in
Sumatra. At that moment my co-pilot signaled me an object passing us
at 500 m, at that distance it appeared as a spherical object, 5 to 6
feet in diameter, and of a very intense and luminous red-orange
color. It seemed to have a halo. This thing seemed to vibrate or
pulse constantly and I thought it was a radio-guided thing to locate
us, so I made evasive maneuvers constantly changing direction at 90°
at 200 feet of altitude. This thing was always behind us, in each
maneuver, for 8 minutes. Finally it left, abruptly turning at an
angle of 90°, accelerating and disappearing from our sight." (The
Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997)

#1944, late August (July?)
FRANCE, in flight, above Brest
During the Battle of Brest, the witnesses were two men from the 175th Infantry Regiment, entrenched a good kilometer outside the city. They waited for the Germans to launch the counterattack, the night was clear and peaceful. "I saw this thing flying at the speed of a Piper Cub, in a straight line, silently. I tapped the sergeant Ness's shoulder, signaling him to look at the sky. Seeing this, the sergeant stood up in the trench, forgetting the war. Me too. We were so shocked that we forgot everything. It looked like a railway wagon, rectangular, but five times as big as a wagon. It had no wings, no propellers, no tail on the three sides we saw. It crossed the sky at less than 90 mph. We could follow it with our eyes for a long time before it disappeared in the distance over the sea. For a brief moment the object obscured the entire surface of the moon. Neither the American nor the German antiaircraft opened fire.." (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997)

#1944, August 31 to September 7
USA, Mattoon (Illinois)
In the early morning hours, a resident woke up feeling ill and went to the bathroom to vomit. He asked his wife if she could give him a glass of water, but the woman was unable to get up, she was like paralyzed. In another block of Mattoon a woman was woken up hearing her daughter coughing. She got up and could barely walk.
The next evening, September 1, Mrs. Bert Kearney, who was sleeping in bed with her three-year-old daughter, was pulled from her sleep by a peculiar smell. "First I smelled a very strong sweat smell that made me nauseous," she said. "I thought it might be coming from the garden. But the smell got stronger and I felt my legs and lower body gradually becoming paralyzed. I was scared and I screamed."
Mrs. Kearney's neighbor searched the garden and the neighborhood to detect the source of the foul gas. Without result. The police did the same with a negative result. But at midnight, when Mr. Kearney returned home from work, he had a fleeting vision of what was called "the Mattoon Mad Gasser". According to Mr. Kearney, the stranger was very tall, dressed in dark clothes and wearing a cape. At the moment Mr. Kearney saw him, the stranger was standing on the window sill, and upon seeing Kearney the stranger fled, pursued by Kearney who could not catch him.
On September 5 the police had received four more calls for "gas attacks". Each time the people said they had first felt something nauseating that paralyzed them for a period ranging from 40 minutes to an hour and a half.
On the night of the 6th there were three new victims. At 10 pm Mrs. Ardell Spangler smelled a fetid odor, felt her throat dry up and had nausea. Shortly after midnight Mrs. Laura Junken experienced something similar and Fred Goble told his neighbor Robert Daniels at 1 am that he had just seen "a man running out of his house". Richard T. Piper, eminent criminologist, told reporters that it was one of the strangest cases in years. The last attack took place at the home of Miss Frances Smith, director of the Columbian Grade School, on September 7. At the moment the smell entered the house, she heard an outside buzzing sound of an engine and she said she thought the madman was using machinery to disperse the noxious gas. This was the last attack, the prankster never showed up again. (MYSTERIOUS AMERICA by Loren Coleman, Faber & Faber Inc., Winchester, Mass. 1983, pages 192 to 200; The Mattoon, Ill. Journal-Gazette for September 2, 1944 and also the Decatur, Ill. Herald for September 8, 1944.)

#1944, September
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Blovice
François Panes saw around 5:00 PM a kind of shining cigar above the Kamensko forest. The witness, who was 18 years old at the time, initially took the object for a German dirigible, but after observing it for nearly 15 minutes, he quickly changed his mind. (Note from vog: the sketch looks like a mushroom seen from the front, with the stem cut off quite close to the cap) (Ion HOBANA/Julien WEVERBERGH: "Les OVNI en URSS et dans les pays de l'Est" - translated by Laffont 1976 - pp. 264-266)

#1944, September
BELGIUM, Antwerp
A soldier from the First Canadian Army, Carson Yorke, was about to observe a UFO phenomenon. At the moment the Germans were sending their V-2 missiles to the city, this soldier recounts: "I had gotten out of my vehicle and was looking at the sky. I then saw a luminous globe heading towards the front. It could have been between 90 cm and 1.20 m in diameter. It was made of a material like smoked glass and let out a very soft white light. It was moving at about ten meters in altitude. As soon as it was out of sight, five other similar objects arrived. So I alerted other people so they could see this strange spectacle. We were not impressed, knowing at the time that the Germans had several new weapons; we thought we had seen one of a particular type that night.." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 270) Carson Yorke, then corporal of the First Canadian Army (...) The object was clearly not pushed by the wind but was directed and was advancing at 30 mph at about 40 feet (15 meters). When it disappeared from view, others emerged from the front line, there were five in total. (...) Later I questioned people and at least five other people also saw these objects. (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997)

#1944, September
FRANCE, Epinal (Vosges)
German soldier Erich Immel was entrenched with five comrades near Epinal. They were waiting for the arrival of the Allied troops when they saw above the railway wagons an object white and silver like aluminum, with a diameter slightly less than 2 m. Approaching the soldiers, the UFO took an oval shape. Feeling threatened (what was this new secret weapon of the Allies?), the soldiers opened fire on the object which became luminous like the sun. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 270)

#1944, October
ITALY, Nago Torbole
Mrs. Carolina Vivaldi was awoken in the early hours of the morning, around 4:10, by a strange noise, a kind of "blap-blap" and a strong red light illuminating the open window of her bedroom. She sat up on the bed and noticed that the whole landscape was illuminated by this light. She had a feeling of warmth. From another part of the village, Mrs. Giuseppina Mazzoldi observed a luminous sphere that was advancing in leaps in the sky on a trajectory that led it from Riva to Lake Loppio, at an altitude of a hundred meters. The ball descended towards the lake, stayed there for a moment motionless, then resumed its leaping route towards the north. (CISU, archive file no. 4401, sources: investigation by the Bolzano UFO group, etc.)

#1944, October 20
USA, Saint-Paul (Minnesota)
At around 6:20 in the morning, Mrs. Helen Paquette and Mrs. Nellie Carlin were terrified when they saw a low-flying, bright brown object approaching them that looked like a saucer. The craft had dark markings like welding marks and on the side a rectangular opening of 30 cm by 15 cm was emitting crackling sparks. Above this part, the witnesses noticed a frosted window that was letting out an orange glow. The disappearance of the phenomenon was sudden, the UFO rising like a bullet into the sky. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 271)

#1944, November 23
Germany, between Hagenau and Neustadt
Lieutenant-pilot Edward Schluter, of the 415th Night Fighter Squadron of the US Air Force, had taken off from the base in Dijon and observed (on a night patrol above the Rhine) a true formation of about ten luminous discs moving together at a frightening speed. The formation, reported from the ground, was tracked on radar by Lieutenant Radarist Donald J. Meiers, and on board by Lieutenant Intelligence Service F. Ringwald, observer. (Henry DURRANT: "The Black Book of S.V." - Laffont 1970 - p.76) FRANCE, Vosges: The sky was clear that night and the American radars had detected no enemy presence in the sky of the Vosges that they were currently flying over. About 30 km from Strassbourg, Lieutenant Ringwald saw towards the west a linear formation of 8 or 10 red fireballs moving at great speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "The Chronicle of UFOs" - Delarge 1977- p. 271) (Charles GARREAU: "Alert in the Sky: The Abduction File" ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1981, p.188)

#1944, November 23
BELGIUM, southeast of Brussels
(Source GESAG, GS 1049) Letter written by John V. Crisp, part of the entourage of a British officer, wrote these notes during his stay at The Cottage, West-End, Essendon, Hertfordshire, England. The notes were transmitted to the authorities through the US Embassy in London: "On November 23, 1944, the men of the British anti-aircraft unit located a B-17 Flying Fortress, a few miles southeast of Brussels, approaching their firing site. It had the landing gear out and was losing speed quickly. The British immediately called the Troop Commander and almost at the same time the B-17 landed in a plowed field, near the machine guns, bouncing on the uneven ground 30 yards from the anti-aircraft position. At the last moment the tip of a wing touched the ground, sinking into it and making the plane spin. The propeller of the nearest engine was thrown into the air, but the other three engines were still running. The shooters waited to see the crew come out and welcome them, but no one came out. They were about to go around the plane and did not notice any sign of life. It was at this point that the Troop Commander called me to the operations room at Erps-Kwerps near Kortenberg. In 20 minutes I was on site and I examined the B-17. I had never had anything to do with planes, but finally I could enter through an entrance under the fuselage. The plane was empty of occupants yet there were signs of presence everywhere. I sat in the pilot's seat to stop the three engines that were still running, which I succeeded in after several attempts. On the navigator's dashboard the logbook was open and the last words written were "Bad Flack" (note of vog: two possible translations "bad flak jacket" or "bad anti-aircraft fire"). With curiosity I traced the route that should have taken the plane from the Ruhr (Germany) to Hertfordshire (England) and I wondered what had happened to the crew. We all started searching systematically and our most extraordinary find was in the fuselage where we found a dozen parachutes neatly folded and ready to use. This made the question about the crew even more mysterious. The Sperry (to follow the bombs) was still in the nose, having suffered no damage and its cover was neatly folded next to it. Behind the navigator's dashboard was the Code book giving the numbers and letters of the day for identification. Several pilot's fur-lined jackets were in the fuselage with some chocolate bars, some of which were partially eaten. No damage could be found on the B-17 except for the landing. So I went straight to the 83rd Tactical Air Force at Everberg to give them my report and the B-17 logbook, several navigation maps, but the story of the landing of an empty B-17 of occupants remained a mystery to this day. The crew was never found. (Martin Cardin, Cape Kennedy, Florida, "Flying Forts" Ballantine Books Inc. Ed. 1968, pages 10-12). .

#1944, November 27
GERMANY, Mannheim
Lieutenants Henry Giblin and Walter Cleary were on a mission above the Mannheim region when, above Speyer, they saw an enormous orange glowing ball moving at a speed of 400 km/h barely 500 m above their aircraft. The radars remained silent.. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 271)

#1944, November
AUSTRIA, Black Forest
(Document from June 8, 1967, declassified by the FBI) This paper concerns an individual born on May 3, 1924 in Austria, who immigrated to the USA on January 7, 1952 and was naturalized as an American in 1958. This person was a member of the Luftwaffe in 1943 on the Russian front. At the end of 1944 he was assigned as a test pilot on a top-secret project in the Austrian Black Forest. He was said to have observed an engine in the shape of a saucer 21 feet in diameter, controlled by radio, with several reactors arranged around the outside. The apparatus had a dome in its center, which did not move. He took a photo of the engine in full flight at 7000 m altitude (copy of the negative is attached to the document). He also took a photo of an engine parked in a hangar (copy attached). This engine was designed and built by a German engineer, Mr. ... (...) He gave the following details regarding the fuel and engine: Mixture of N2H4O in methyl alcohol CH3OH rather than in an oxygenated mixture like H2O2; 2 rocket engines 7 m x 1.3 m, smooth flight, speed 2000 m/second. (UECDDS 1997) (unverifiable, even the supposedly declassified document is not named or reproduced...)

#December 4, 1944
USA, Laredo, Texas
During the night, a U.S. Air Force pilot landed in Laredo. He showed unmistakable signs of fear, let's call him Lieutenant Fogle. He reported that near 20 km from the Laredo airfield, a light blue object had almost collided with his F 51. At the last moment, the object diverted from its course, narrowly avoiding the aircraft, and disappeared at a terrifying speed. Greatly disturbed, Fogle saw the thing shoot vertically, describe a circle as if it was again rushing towards him. The pilot quickly turned off his position lights and made his aircraft descend in a spiral. The mysterious machine descended to nearly 700 meters, circled above the Laredo airfield, gained altitude and finally disappeared into the night. (Donald E. KEYHOE: "Le dossier des Soucoupes Volantes" - ed. Hachette 1952, p.12)

#December 22-24, 1944
GERMANY - Hagenau
Two pilots from the 415th Fighter Squadron based in Dijon, Lieutenants David MacFalls and Edward Baker, were flying over Hagenau at an altitude of 3000 m. When they were 32 km north of Strasbourg and 26 km west of the Rhine, the pilot made this communication: "It is 18:00. Two very bright lights have left the ground and are heading towards us. They are following us for now." They were two orange spheres that remained in the wake of the plane for two minutes. Then suddenly, these lights left the aircraft and disappeared. Two nights later, on the eve of Christmas 1944, MacFalls and Baker made the same encounter again. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272) "December 23. More Foo-Fighters were in the air last night...In the vicinity of Hagenau saw 2 lights coming toward the A/C from ground. After reaching the altitude of the A/C they leveled off and flew on tail of Beau (Beaufighter---their aircraft, Ed.) for 2 minutes and then peeled up and turned away. 8th mission---sighted 2 orange lights. One light sighted at 10,000 feet the other climbed until it disappeared. (Source : microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614. cfr Just Cause)

#1944, December 28
GERMANY
(415th Bombers) The first patrol saw two sets of three red and white lights, one appeared on the right side, the other straight ahead, at an altitude of 1000 to 2000 feet. When (the pilot) Beau put the throttle forward for interception, the lights went out. Nothing on the radar at the moment. Then lights were seen suspended in the sky on a slow erratic trajectory. They were orange in color, appearing singly or in pairs. These lights were observed 4 or 5 times by the patrol. (Greenwood, Barry; Just Cause, no. 32, p. 1, June 1992.:Source: microfilm roll containing the Unit History and War Diary of the 415th was obtained from the U.S. Air Force. Frames 1613 and 1614.)

#1944, December 1 to 16
USA, Barstow, Camp Irwin (California)
FIRING OF 24 PRIVATE "A" ROCKETS BETWEEN 1 AND 16 DECEMBER. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, p. 250, Galcit Report)

#1944
ROMANIA, Ploiesti
The Vega oil refinery had just been destroyed by bombing, when, late in the afternoon, an elongated yellow object came to hover over the devastated region. The UFO was not luminous and left a kind of whitish trail behind it. According to witnesses, the object moved four times faster than the planes they were used to seeing above the city. For 15 minutes various witnesses including engineers Farmacke and Zmeuranu saw this UFO circle the stricken area then depart in the direction it had come from. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 266-267)

#1945, After the War
USA, High Bridge, New Jersey
(cf: 1944, Howard Menger) Howard Menger sees the saucer again with the woman from his very first observation. She tells him she is 500 years old (note from vog: see beginning of April 1946, by another author, who seems to be a bit confused about Menger's itinerary and curriculum) (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#February 14, 1945
CZECHOSLOVAKIA, Prague
(cf: 1939-1940? Germany) We know, with certainty (note from vog: yes? do you swear to tell only the truth without exaggeration?), that Schriever and Habermohl tried their flying saucer for the first time in Prague on 2.14.45 and that in 3 minutes it reached a height of 12400 meters at a horizontal speed of 2000 km/h. According to the engineers, the speed could have been increased to more than 4000 km/h. It is impossible to make any hypotheses about what was said about these saucers after their tests because all the observations, notes etc... that remained in German offices were sequestered by the Allies when they entered Germany. It is not doubtful that much was expected from them because the Reich had not hesitated to unlock the millions necessary to have materials that could withstand extraordinary speeds and staggering temperatures. (...) (continued 1949, north of Mexico) (Peter KOLOSIMO: "Shadows on the Stars" - Albin Michel 1970, p. 324) (note from vog: I have not found any serious documentation on this subject...)

#February 17, 1945
ITALY, Central Po Valley
- Mission No. 560, from 17:55 to 19:15: "West of Massa at 5-6000 feet altitude, a red ball was observed on a curved trajectory. At first it rose, then it went out and was lost from sight in the valley south of Massa. At the beginning the ball emitted sparks. It was not identified by the Mosquito Mark XXX as a Jet A/C. No other air traffic in the La Spezia - Parma area."
- Mission No. 562, from 20:10 to 23:10 hours, GCI patrol Leghorn to La Spezia: "At 20:45 a sparkling light was observed by the Mosquito Mark XXX at a distance, at least 20 miles, too far away to intervene. It seemed to move near La Spezia and was seen for 45 seconds. At 21:30 a white reddish flashing light was seen at a distance of 6 to 8 miles, still near La Spezia, at an altitude of 10,000 feet and traveling towards the NE. It was chased at a speed of 280MPH for a minute and a half. The light took an erratic trajectory and went out. At 21:40, the same light, or another identical one, was observed 10 miles south of La Spezia, flying first towards the north, then towards the east, at 9000 feet altitude. The pilot approached it up to 5 miles, suspecting it to be an Ack Ack trap. At 21:55, 10 miles south of La Spezia another (or the same) one headed towards the city and was chased by the pilot. It went away 10 or 15 miles north of La Spezia, the speed of the plane, 300 MPH, was insufficient to catch up. Information taken: no Ack Ack operation at La Spezia. However, at 22:50, 5 miles south of Pisa, an identical light was seen at a distance of 10 miles. It was chased for about two and a half minutes on its course towards the north. At 10,000 feet, it disappeared beyond the mountains." (source CPT C. S. Miller, A. C., Adjudant. cfr Archives Nationales)

#1945, Summer
AT SEA, near the Aleutian Islands
(or March?) 14 members of the crew of the USAf Delarof saw a dark spherical object emerge from the water. The thing made a turn in the air around the boat before flying away. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) This event is mentioned as dating from the summer of 1945, then again in March 1945, by: (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 169, 306) 1945, Summer: At sea, off Adak. The incident was observed by members of the crew of the U.S. Delarof, loaded with ammunition and supplies for Alaska. The witness, author of the report, recently interviewed was Robert S. Crawford, now geological consultant to the Indiana Soil Testing Laboratory of Griffith, Indiana. Crawford is a graduate of the University of North Dakota and, while he was studying, he reported his observation to Professor N.N. Kohanowski, Department of Geology, also advisor to the NICAP ... The Delarof incident occurred in the summer of 1945 while Crawford was serving on board as a military radio. The boat, returning to Seattle, was off after Adak. The sun was setting and Crawford was standing on the starboard side, near the radio cabin, when he heard crew members shouting. He turned around and saw a large round object that had just emerged from the sea. (Several crew members even saw the UFO appear under the sea, about a mile from the Delarof.) The unknown craft, silhouetted darkly against the setting sun, rose almost vertically for a few moments, then curved its flight to come horizontal and began to circle the boat. All the observers were convinced that it was a very large object. Comparing it to the width of a finger held at arm's length, Crawford estimated that it must have been 45 to 75 m in diameter. Turning around the Delarof, the object was within easy reach of its guns. But the gunners did not shoot, while watching for any sign of hostility. The UFO made two or three turns around the boat, flying regularly and without any noise. All the witnesses estimated that it was self-propelled; otherwise the strong wind would have visibly affected its movements. After several minutes, the flying object disappeared towards the south or south-southwest. Suddenly the crew saw three flashes of light coming from the place where it had disappeared. (Yvan T. SANDERSON: "The Invisibles under the Seas" Albin Michel p.49-50)

#1945, March
USA, Belfast (Maine)
George P. Miller was hunting not far from Belfast when he saw an elongated object flying very slowly, swaying in an inclined position towards the ground. It headed towards a clearing and even broke some branches before landing. The witness found the UFO which had suffered no damage: the object stayed on the ground for a few moments then, with a buzzing sound, it began to spin on itself, releasing a multitude of silver threads. In a few seconds it rose and disappeared into the sky. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 273)

#1945, March
Between AUSTRIA and ITALY
As he was on his 37th mission above the Brenner Pass, the pilot of a B-25 saw a foo-fighter. The object came like a shooting star and stopped one meter away from the right wing of the aircraft. The size of a basketball and with a bright white color, the UFO accompanied the bomber for two to three minutes, then suddenly it left as it had come, speeding through the sky. Coincidentally, the next day, on his 38th mission, this plane was shot down above the Brenner. All the crew perished, except for the pilot, the main witness of this observation. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 273)

#1945, late March or early April
GERMANY, Dresden
I had a clear view of the sky from my position. At first I thought it was an airplane, but as it got closer I saw that it was round and flat, not spherical, and it had neither propeller nor wings. It hovered silently in the sky and suddenly disappeared. Like a soap bubble bursting. The object had a silver color. It's the way it disappeared that I can't forget. It was still war time, so I talked about it with a friend, who confirmed having observed the same phenomenon. (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda Pufori, 19.5.1997)

#1945, April 1-13
USA, Fort Bliss (Hueco Ran.)
FIRING OF 17 PRIVATE "F" ROCKETS BETWEEN APRIL 1 AND 13. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 251, Galcit Report)

#1945, April 20
FRANCE, between Renève and Poyans
While Abbot X. was picking mushrooms around the path connecting Renève (Côte d'Or) to Poyans (Haute Saône), he suddenly saw an astonishing little person of 15 to 17 cm tall pass close to him, completely scared and out of breath. The tiny person had the exact proportions of a human being and was wearing a kind of bordeaux suit that also covered his hands and feet. He seemed to be aged 70 to 75, with grey hair and a sparse beard. A kind of thin, widened at the end, stick was coming out of his back and was exceeding his head by about 2 cm. No words were exchanged, the priest and the humanoid were staring at each other for a few seconds. Then, in the most absolute silence, the person disappeared into the nearby thicket. What or who was it? [IN REALITY: an investigation by the Dijon Association of Ufology and Parapsychology revealed in 1983 that it was a small pet monkey, dressed as a soldier by the soldiers of an African regiment.] (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 274) 

#1945, April
GERMANY
Gunner James V. Byrnes observed a "crystal ball" passing the B-24 bomber at less than 20 meters. Years later he confirmed to NICAP that it was not a hallucination at all. (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda UPORI, 19.5.1997)

#1945, May 16
FRANCE, Saint Mexant (Corrèze)
At 4:30 pm two inhabitants saw an elongated cone-shaped object,
apparently 60 cm long. Of a metallic gray color, the object
was moving at high altitude in a NW to SE direction. At its base two red and green lights could be distinguished. (Jimmy GUIEU: "Black-out
on the S.V." - Fleuve Noir 1956 - p. 34) (in any case this case
is not included in the catalogue of Figuet and Ruchon, who have
done an excellent job)

#1945, May 23rd and 25th
JAPAN, near Tokyo
There were several B-29 raids on Tokyo. A local businessman on the lookout to give the alarm, was able to observe on May 23rd and 25th each time two objects in the shape of discs of gray-blue color. He described them as "circular objects, flat like pancakes, with a diameter of about 20 yards. They passed over the city without emitting the slightest noise". ("UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 21-22)

#1945, May or June
JAPAN, east of Okinawa
The crew of a Navy transport simultaneously observed an object in the shape of a cylinder and discs. This happened a quarter of a mile from their ship, in a clear sky without clouds, where suddenly the elongated object appeared. At first they thought it was a balloon. Then they saw that the cylinder was followed by three small discs of metallic appearance. The discs seemed to enter the cylinder which then took off at lightning speed. ("UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 22)

#1945, July 3-5
USA, Goldstone Range
TEST LAUNCH OF WAC CAPORAL "BABY" (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 251, Galcit Report)

#1945, July 16
ATOMIC BOMB
THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB WAS SUCCESSFULLY TESTED IN THE DESERT OF ALAMOGORDO IN NEW MEXICO. ("UFO's, A Century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 22)

#1945, July 21 or 22
NORWAY, Sorreisa;
E.P.B. heard a kind of whistling and went out to see what was causing it. He saw in the sky five dark objects, which he took for shells. They flew very fast, much faster than an aircraft of 1945 could do. The sky was covered with clouds, and the 5 objects stood out well against them, keeping the same distance between them and staying in the same formation. They were observed for 10 to 15 seconds, constantly moving away, on a wavy trajectory. (Letters from E.P.B., 15 Mar 1983, 18 Apr 1983. Ole Johnny Braenne's UFO REPORT FORM, 18 Apr 1983)

#1945, Summer
JAPAN, Okinawa
William A. Mandell was then a captain of artillery and stationed to the north of Okinawa. From their bivouac they were facing east of the China Sea. One evening, by moonlight, he suddenly saw a patch of light coming from the south, flying parallel to the coast. As it got closer he clearly saw the phenomenon, in the shape of a cigar, with a single light at its end. This object passed about 350 m from him, at an altitude of less than 200 meters relative to the sea, since Mandell was at 200 m altitude and saw the thing at eye level. The object was 10 to 15 meters long, with a diameter of 2 m to 2 m 50. It had no wings, no propellers, no portholes, or other openings. It moved in a gentle and constant manner, and silently. (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 19.5.1997)

#1945, August 6
JAPAN, Hiroshima
AN AMERICAN B-29 SUPERFORTRESS DROPS THE FIRST ATOMIC BOMB. – THERE WILL BE A SECOND ONE

#1945, August 20
CAROLINE ISLANDS, Ulithi Island
The crew of a US Navy ship saw a red light in the sky, like a heated steel bar, with an apparent length of 30 cm. The object moved north towards Japan. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 275)
Andrew Cimbala of Duquesne was on watch. It was just at sunset, and it wasn't dark enough yet to see stars. I saw a red line appear in the east. It passed directly overhead, heading west towards Japan. It was visible for more than 40 seconds. It looked like a heated steel bar, 1.5 cm wide and 25 to 30 cm long. Nothing else was visible. There was no flame. (The Mysterious Foo Fighters of WWII. - Jeroen Wierda PUFORI, 19.5.1997)

#1945, August 28
JAPAN, Iwo Jima
A C 46 transport in difficulty: engine failure and loss of altitude during the observation of 3 UFOs. (Marcel J. Lefèvre - 1968 - Brussels) I was one of the twelve air force specialists of the 5th Army on board a C 46 going from Ie-Shima to Iwo Jima where it was to make a technical stopover... (...) We were approaching, flying at three thousand meters, in a sky of great sunshine, when I saw, to my great astonishment, three pear-shaped objects. They were of a dazzling white, like burning magnesium, and were approaching the C 46 in a parallel course. Suddenly the left engine faltered. I was to learn later that the magnetic needles of the navigation instruments had gone wild. The C 46 was sinking. Oil was spurting from the failing engine. The pilot gave the alarm. The crew and passengers were warned to be ready for the dive. (...) The last fleeting vision I had of the three craft placed them at about 20 degrees in elevation relative to us. However, still in tight formation, they disappeared into a cloud bank. Immediately the failing engine started to run smoothly again. The plane regained altitude (...) (Leonard STRINGFIELD: "General UFO Alert", ed. France - Empire, 1978, pp. 27, 28)

#August 1945
FINLAND, Langelmavesi
Just before 5 o'clock, Ilona Johansson Paasonen was awoken by a strong light. She pulled the curtain to see what it was. From the shore of Shalahti, a dazzling sphere of about 10m in diameter was approaching quickly. She threw herself to the ground, on her back, waiting for the end, as she believed that this ball of fire would destroy everything. Surprised that the collision did not occur, she got up after a few minutes and took a look: the ball of fire had disappeared. But about 300m away, an object shaped like a tree trunk was slowly gliding on the water and approaching the shore. About 2 meters from the jetty stood a strange gray animal that seemed to be in terror. It was standing on its claws, it suddenly turned its head and she saw sharp teeth in the open mouth. Then the tree trunk arrived near the jetty and she saw that it was a narrow boat like a canoe: at the bow stood a tall man of handsome bearing, he was wearing a greenish suit. The boat pivoted a bit and she saw another man operating a motor inside a large transparent bulb. The "Lapp dog" no longer seemed afraid and was leaving. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 56, 57) (...)(Jean FERGUSON: "The Humanoids..." - ed. Leméac, Ottawa, 1977, p.50)

#1945, week of September 20th to 27th
FRANCE, Draguignan (Var)
While he was tending to his sheep near the Lamothe gate, Mr. F. saw, an hour before daybreak, a perfectly circular yellow light of the apparent size of a football. The phenomenon descended vertically, increasing in intensity, and stopped about thirty meters above the witness. A powerful beam shone on Mr. F., illuminating an area of 50 m in diameter around him. Completely dazzled, dizzy, the shepherd was on the verge of panic. The sheep were frantic and running in all directions. After a time he could not determine, the witness heard a buzzing and saw that the object was slowly rising into the sky. After a few seconds the beam went out and the UFO disappeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 275)

#1945, from September 26th to October 25th
USA, White Sands
TEST LAUNCHES OF WAC CAPORAL. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 253, Galcit Report)

#1945, October 15
GREAT BRITAIN, Cuxhaven
TEST LAUNCH OF A V2, FIRST BRITISH SHOT. SECOND SHOT THE SAME DAY (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, Wp. 254)

#1945
USA, Kinsport (Tennessee)
Charles Hamlet and Edward Cate observed one evening a UFO in the shape of a chimney, very colorful, which crossed the sky at great speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272)

#1945
ITALY, Livorno
Luigi Donati saw a large, luminous disc topped with a dome illuminated by a greenish light. The UFO emitted a violet smoke and was heading northeast at an altitude of barely 50 m. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272)

#1945
BELGIUM, Tongres
Jean-Paul Kellens, 10 years old, was in front of his family home, at the crossroads of the road leading from Koninksem, when he saw a luminous rectangular object coming from Saint-Trond, apparently flying at a high altitude. The outlines of the UFO seemed to be surrounded by a halo and its movement from west to east was perfectly silent. As this object arrived directly above the young witness, he was very impressed and immediately went back home. As he ran through a small room, the young boy suddenly began to levitate: he left the ground, rose to the ceiling and immediately fell back onto the floor. This phenomenon took place smoothly, the boy suffering no harm. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 272)

#1945 (or 1946)
FRANCE, Puy-de-Dôme
Mr. Pommier (residing on the Issoire road, Landa Observatory) is a passenger in a truck driven by a German prisoner of war. The driver suddenly sees a dazzling light above his vehicle. At the same time, the engine stalls after a few jerks. The two witnesses then simultaneously see an egg-shaped flattened object landing a few meters from the road. After a few moments, the object takes off and the truck can start again. (M. FIGUET/ J.L. RUCHON: "Ovni, Premier dossier complet..." - ed. Alain Lefeuvre 1979, p. 644)

#1945
JAPAN, Nagasaki
AMERICAN ATOMIC BOMB DROPPED ON NAGASAKI. (Jean-Gabriel GRESLE:
UFO, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.30)

#1945
USA, New Mexico
Two successful atomic bomb tests in the USA. (Jean-Gabriel GRESLE: OVNI, a pilot speaks, ed. Guy Trédaniel, 1993, p.30)

#1946
ITALY, Foligno
The young B., 19 years old, on returning home, saw a hat-shaped craft hovering above the roof of his home, after which it landed on telescopic legs. A door opened in the bell-shaped part of the craft and a kind of dwarf emerged, who seemed to be making signs to the witness. The young man rushed back home to warn his mother, and both of them then saw the strange craft, which had already taken off, fly away. (CISU: archive file 4601, source "Paese sera" 13.8.77, report by Mr. Cestellini)

#February 28, 1946
USA
FIRST FLIGHT OF THE REPUBLIC F-84 (THUNDERJET) SERIES DELIVERED IN MAY 1947,
SINGLE-SEAT, FIGHTER-BOMBER REACTION, THIN FUSELAGE, WINGS AT AN ANGLE
OF 12°, THE FIRST SERIE REACHED MAX 945 KM/H, CEILING 12500 METERS.
(note from vog: isn't this the plane that, according to some, is the object
of Kenneth Arnold's observation?) ("Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" Bill Gunston - Elsevier Sequoia 1979)

#1946, March 5
BRAZIL, Araçariguama, (Sao Roque de Sao Paolo)
Excerpt from the report of Professor Felipe Machado Carrion, president of the Brazilian GGIOANI group: On this March 5, Mardi Gras day, Joao Prestes Filho had invited his 39-year-old friend Salvador dos Santos (still alive in 1971 at the time of the report) to go fishing on the banks of the Tiete. He asked his wife to take his sons to the carnival festivities, telling her to leave one of the windows of the house ajar, through which he could enter upon his return from fishing. Prestes Filho and dos Santos spent the day fishing, joyfully and carefree.
Around 7:00 pm, under a light and uniform mist, in a serene atmosphere, not stormy, they returned from the Rio Tiete. They separated at a fork in the road, each heading towards his own house. An hour later, Prestes Filho burst into his sister Maria's house, shouting and in a disjointed way that when he tried to open the window, he received from outside a silent beam of light, against which he protected his eyes and head with both hands. Dazed, he fell to the ground for a few brief moments, without losing consciousness. He got up and started running towards the center of the village, in search of help. Maria's neighbors were immediately called, and Prestes Filho kept telling his story. One of the neighbors, Aracy Gomide, never left Prestes Filho's side from that moment on. His hair, head, eyes, clothes, nothing showed signs of deep or light burns. His eyes were dilated, in terror, his voice excited. Soon the scene turned to horror: Prestes Filho's flesh began to become visible, taking on the same aspect as if it had been cooked for long hours in boiling water. It began to peel off the bones, falling in pieces from the jaw, chest, arms, hands, fingers, lower legs, feet, toes. Some pieces of flesh remained hanging by the tendons, the witnesses not daring to remove them. Then everything deteriorated in an unpredictable way: the teeth and bones were exposed. Prestes Filho energetically refused the water and food that were offered to him, but at no time did he seem to feel any pain. His nose and ears detached, rolling down his body to the ground. A terrifying specter, dislocating from mutilation to mutilation. Eyes wide open in terror. Words already distorted in a mouth that was disarticulating: only sounds remained, whose meanings were lost. In the general confusion, what remained of Prestes Filho's almost decomposed body was loaded onto a cart that was to take him to Santa Casa de Santana de Parnaiba, the nearest hospital. In the sixth hour after the light attack, a corpse returned to Araçariguama, as Prestes Filho died during the journey without reaching the hospital. Until his last moments, guttural sounds came out of his mouth. Was he still telling his story of horrors? As there was no medical examination, the death certificate said "Death by generalized burns". The police made some inquiries that led to nothing that could be added validly to the content of the death certificate. (...)" (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 276 to 278)

#1946, March 15
USA, White Sands
STATIC TEST OF V2 NO. 1 (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#April, 1946
JAPAN, Okinawa
(cf: 1942, USA, same person) Howard Menger is injured in Okinawa and is in the presence of a man, dressed in military clothing, who tells him that the extraterrestrials continue to prepare him for his mission and predicts the atomic explosion of Hiroshima which took place four months later. (follow-up June 1946, USA, High Bridge) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Mystery of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146) (note from vog: this would have already been told to him in 1944, when he was still in the USA.... ) (follow-up in 1955)

#1946, April 16
USA, White Sands
At 14:47 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 2; ALTITUDE 8 KM. RADIO STOP
(EMERGENCY) (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, May 10
USA, White Sands
TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 3, ALTITUDE 112 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, May 24
SWEDEN, Vasteras and Karlskrona
At Vasteras, around 00:05, a witness observed the phenomenon, the size of a full moon in the sky of the SO, at an estimated altitude of 100-200 m and at a maximum distance of 500 m from the witness. This object was descending. At Karlskrona, at 2:20, a rocket was observed coming from the north and going towards the south, towards Copenhagen (Denmark) at a speed of approximately 400 km/h and at an altitude not exceeding 100 m. It flew horizontally, without wings or tail and was observed for 10 seconds. (Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson)

#1946, May 25
SWEDEN, Huddinge, Hässleholm, Uppsala
In Huddinge people observe an unknown luminous phenomenon in the sky. In Hässleholm it is 2:10 when a ghost rocket flies at low altitude, around 300 m, at a speed of at least 600 km/h, in a straight trajectory. It is observed for 10 seconds. Around 7 pm, a luminous phenomenon in the shape of a drop of water but with a metallic aspect is observed. (Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson)

#1946, May 26
SWEDEN, Helsingborg
At 11 PM an object was seen in the sky. It had all the characteristics, including sound, of a German V1 bomb.
(Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson) (and I wouldn't be surprised if it was one...recovered by the liberators)

#1946, May 28
SWEDEN, Erkilstuna and Mellosa
At 4:30 pm a rocket of aluminum-like appearance passed over Erkilstuna. At Mellosa a cigar-shaped object, on a hesitant trajectory, headed north at an altitude of 300 to 500 meters and passed over the aerodrome. (Spökraketerna 1946, Göran Jansson)

May 29, 1946
USA, White Sands
The US Army invited hundreds of journalists, photographers, filmmakers, even scientists, generals, including some British, to a spectacular show. Safely sheltered in bunkers, the guests could admire from a respectful distance a V2 rocket (...) At exactly 2:13 pm, a jet of flames appeared beneath it. The rocket rose with an impressive slowness before accelerating more and more in an awful roar, dragging behind it a 20 m long flaming tail, until it became a small orange star that finally disappeared, leaving only a thin trail of smoke. (...) Three minutes later, the V2, which had been followed by radars and special optical instruments taken from the Germans, after reaching nearly 100 km in altitude, fell back, signaled by an observation plane, at 4000 km/h, about sixty km from its starting point, burying itself in the desert sand amidst a burst of flames. (...) While tests of the V2, more or less modified, continued at a rate of one per week, in 1947 one of them reached the record altitude of 183 km. ("To the Assault of Space" - Georges H. Gallet, ed. of Modern Thought, p. 85, 86)

#1946, May
SWEDEN, Angelholm
A Swedish industrialist, Gösta Carlsson, told journalist Eugen Semitjov (issue no. 44, Allers, 1971): "It was one evening in May 1946. I had gone out to try to find pollen for my bees and I had taken a flashlight because the darkness was already well established. Suddenly I saw a light between the trees: I then thought that someone had just lit a fire. But when I saw that this light was advancing towards a small clearing, I changed my mind. So I headed in its direction and when I arrived at the edge of this open space, I saw something like a disc topped with a dome and resting on the ground. On the dome there were some kind of oval windows and above it was planted a kind of periscope, like for a submarine. Under the disc one could distinguish a large oblong fin extending from the center to the outside of this lateral part. Two landing feet were also visible and from a door located next to the fin-shaped wing, a ladder descended to the ground. The object had approximately 16 m in diameter for a maximum height of 4 m. On the periphery of the disc there were a series of openings like nozzles and besides, when the object left, jets of gas or vapors came out of it which burned the grass. The light that had attracted my attention was on the kind of mast that I assimilated to a periscope. This rod had a length of 5 m and from its top three antennas were leaving. Lower, it was a kind of lampshade that was suspended there. It was from there that this light seemed to pulsate, of a rather curious purple shade and which illuminated not only the object but also one to two meters all around. On the ground, outside this illuminated zone, a man dressed in a tight white suit was standing. It seemed that he was guarding the machine, because having spotted me he pointed his hand in my direction: I was less than 10 m from him and I stopped dead. The man had my size but he was much thinner than me. I saw that there were other people around the object, but what was strange was that they did not say a word. There were three of them working on one of the portholes and two others standing on the side of the machine. I also saw three women. In total I thus spotted the presence of eleven people. They all had black boots and gloves, a belt of the same color around the waist and a transparent helmet on their head. The women had ash-colored hair, but I could not see the shade of those of the men because they wore a kind of dark cap. Their skin was brownish, as if tanned by the sun. I advanced a few more steps, but the guard stopped me again with a gesture of the hand. This character was wearing a black box suspended from a chain around his neck: it looked like an old camera. He turned this device in my direction and I then thought he wanted to take a picture of me. But nothing happened except that I heard a click in my flashlight. This one did not work anymore afterwards, but this may be only a coincidence: when I returned home I noticed that the new batteries were completely discharged. One of the women came out of the cabin of the object holding something in her hand. She approached the edge of the illuminated zone and, through this kind of luminous curtain, she threw the object she was holding: at the same time she laughed ..." Carlsson found this object which had the shape of a stick. An analysis carried out in 1971 revealed that it was silicone with various impurities. After this episode the witness left the place and did not return until about thirty minutes later. He approached by another path and then felt a strong ozone smell in the atmosphere. Before he reached the clearing, a very bright red light came on. With a kind of plaintive noise the object rose slowly above the treetops. At 500 m it seemed to waver a bit, then suddenly the light became brighter and turned purple. The object accelerated and disappeared at full speed. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 279 to 281) 1946, summer, Angelholm A man saw in a wood outside the town, a swollen disc resting on two crutches and a tailplane. All around there were eleven beings of human appearance, of both sexes, dressed in white overalls and wearing spherical helmets. He approached but one being made him a sign to stop. Believing it to be a military secret, the man moved away and observed from a distance the takeoff and the rapid disappearance of the craft. traces were found. (Inforespace no. 48 of 1979, p. 29)

#1946, Spring
CHINA, Dongliangzihe (Hebei)
My father told us an astonishing story: Around one o'clock in the night, he got up to satisfy a natural need outside. The night was calm and the sky starry. When he returned to his room, he suddenly saw the sky in the northeast lit up like in broad daylight. (...) He discovered an object neither round nor square flying in his direction. The shining object was as wide as two houses and as high as one floor. When the object passed over his head, it was 3 m away from him, but my father heard no sound. The huge flying machine was heading southwest. After about ten seconds, it had completely disappeared. (...) The next day (...) I learned that two teachers had seen in the night, around one o'clock, a huge luminous object advancing in jerks, going up and down. After three or four seconds, the object was only 50 m away from them. As it approached, the object became bigger and brighter. Frightened, they ran away. (..) But then they heard a loud "Peng" and the object rose to 30 m from the ground. It brightly illuminated the whole school with its bluish light. Even more scared, the two teachers shouted and woke up the teachers and all the boarders (...) But at that moment the luminous object had already disappeared. (SHI BO: "China and the Extraterrestres", ed. Mercure de France, 1983, p.84, 85)

#1946, June 13
USA, White Sands
TEST LAUNCH OF V2 NO. 5 AT 16:40. ALTITUDE 117 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, June 28
USA, White Sands
LAUNCH TEST AT 12:25 OF V2 #6, ALTITUDE 107 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, June 29
SWEDEN, Kölmervsjön lake
A military report indicates that a "ghost bomb" fell into the lake.
The object resembled a 3 m long rocket and letters were painted on the side. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that announce the superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 58)

#1946, June
USA, High Bridge (New Jersey)
(Cfr: 1945, early April, Okinawa) Discharged Howard Menger is in High Bridge and goes into the forest. A saucer lands: two blond men and the woman he had already met 14 years earlier in the same place, disembark. She has not changed and appears to be 25 years old, in fact she tells him, she is over 500 years old. But on the planet from which she and her two companions come, the atmosphere and lifestyle slow down aging. She gives him indications about his future mission and asks him not to reveal his story for 10 years. (follow-up March 1956, unspecified location, assumed USA) (Jean-Francis CROLARD: "The Mystery of the E.T." - ed. Guy Trédaniel 1995, p. 146)

#1946, July 8
NORWAY, Vuoremijoki;
At 23:35 two loud detonations were heard, followed by a hissing sound, like those produced by welding machines. An oblong cloud of vapor "seeming to be overheated steam" then rose from behind a hill called Kivitunturi. From this cloud then emerged an object, resembling a rocket, which rose on a trajectory of 30 to 40° in the direction of the southwest. The distance from the witnesses must have been about 5 to 8 km. It was morning, the sun was up, visibility was very good. All the witnesses estimated the length of the "rocket" to be between 10 and 15 meters. (SWEDISH INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 26 Aug 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 9
USA, White Sands
At 12:11, FIRST TEST FIRING: LAUNCH OF V2 #8, IT REACHES 5 KM ALTITUDE AND EXPLODES. At 12:25 SECOND TEST FIRING WITH LAUNCH OF V2 #7, ALTITUDE REACHED 133 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, July 11
SWEDEN, Njurunda
At around 2:30 PM, a spherical object followed by a 30 meter long luminous trail emerged close to the rooftops and crashed near a group of children playing on the beach. Several people rushed to the impact point of the "bomb". A 2 meter long, 10 cm deep mark was found. Some pieces of crystallized and porous, brown sand were collected, which burned the fingertips like acid. Upon analysis, these samples showed a high concentration of organic matter. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "These UFOs that Announce the Superman" - Laffont 1979, p. 57)

#1946, July 13
NORWAY, Stavanger;
At 11 PM a yellow-red luminous object was approaching from the southeast. It looked like a rocket, flying at high altitude and high speed. It disappeared in the northwest, maintaining the same altitude throughout the observed trajectory. (STAVANGEREN, Jul 1946. DAGBLADET, 16 Jul 1946, 8. AFTENPOSTEN, 17 Jul 1946, 4. MORGENPOSTEN, 17 Jul 1946, 8. NATIONEN, 17 Jul 1946, 2. VERDENS GANG, 17 Jul 1946, 1. CIA INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 9 Apr 1947. Liljegren: SPÖKRAKETERNA 1946 - NYHETSBYRÅMATERIALET., 1977, 10. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS., 1982, 12. Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 14
NORWAY, Son;
At around 10:50 PM a man observed an object flying very quickly at an altitude of approximately 1000 meters. He was able to follow it with his eyes for two minutes. During this time the object changed color, becoming blue-green. (AFTENPOSTEN, 15 Jul 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5. BORAS TIDNING, 16 Jul 1946. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 16 Jul 1946, 2. FREMTIDEN, 16 Jul 1946, 1. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 14
NORWAY, Jeloy;
At 22:55 four witnesses observed a bright yellow-white "star" on the southern horizon. They were able to see it for one minute, during its fast and high altitude flight towards the northwest. During the observation the color changed to a bluer tone. (AFTENPOSTEN, 15 Jul 1946, 1; 16 Jul 1946, 5. BORÅS TIDNING, 16 Jul 1946. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 16 Jul 1946, 2. DN, 16 Jul 1946. FREMTIDEN, 16 Jul 1946, 1. VERDENS GANG, 16 Jul 1946, 6. VD, 16 Jul 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 17
NORWAY, Oslo;
An engineer reported having observed at 12:50, a luminous object, coming from the east and going towards the southwest. He observed it through binoculars and saw that the object emitted a rather dense gray smoke. (FREMTIDEN, July 19, 8. MORGENBLADET, July 19, 1. Liljegren: SPÖKRAKETERNA 1946 - NYHETSBYRÅMATERIALET., 1977, 11-2. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS., 1982, 16. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 18
NORWAY, Son
11:35: Bright object, with wings, making noise, emitting smoke. (Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 18
NORWAY, Mjosa
A family of farmers reported that an airplane was making a strange whistling sound at low altitude. Soon the witnesses saw two rocket-shaped objects pass quickly overhead and crash to the ground together. Two other witnesses described the craft as a kind of V1; then two small rockets two meters long fell together into the lake following a parabolic trajectory. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme" - Laffont 1979, p. 58, which dates the incident to June 20, 1946 and locates Mjosa in Sweden...)
Between 12:00 and 12:30, several witnesses observed two objects, resembling V 1s, coming slowly, at low altitude (50 meters) from the west. Their attention had been drawn by a whistling, not resembling the sound of an airplane engine. The two objects flew so low that they almost brushed the tops of the trees. Both of them fell into Lake Mjosa, 2 km from the west beach and 7 km from Minnesund. They had the shape of a rocket, measuring about 2.50 m long and had wings with a total span of 2 meters. The wings were placed a little forward, about 1 m from the nose. The nose and tail shone like metal but the central part, as well as the wings, was very dark. The wings seemed to move slightly. The objects had no lights or fires and they flew one behind the other. Their trajectory was like that of a stone thrown with force. When they fell into Lake Mjosa, they raised a water jet several meters high. There was no sound of explosion. The sky was clear and the water calm. Among the witnesses were the whole family of Sigvart Skaug, and the two brothers Nils & Gustav Tosterud. (AFTENPOSTEN, 19 Jul 1946, 1; 20 Jul 1946, 1+5+14. BUSKERUDS BLAD, 20 Jul 1946, 1. DRAMMENS TIDENDE, 20 Jul 1946, 1. FREMTIDEN, 20 Jul 1946, 1. GÖTEBORGS-TIDNINGEN, Jul 1946. HD, 20 Jul 1946. SVD, 20 Jul 1946. MT, 21 Jul 1946, 18. AFTENPOSTEN, 22 Jul 1946, 1. ARBEIDERBLADET, 22 Jul 1946, 1. FREMTIDEN, 22 Jul 1946, 1. MORGENBLADET, 22 Jul 1946, 1. FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, v 15/n 2 - Mar/Apr 1969, 18. OFFICIAL UFO, Oct 1976, 61. Gross: THE MYSTERY OF THE GHOST ROCKETS, 1982, 14-5. AFU NEWSLETTER, 27 - Jan/Dec 1984, 4.Listing d'Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, July 19
SWEDEN, Kölmjärv Lake
Knut Lindbäck and his servant, working outside, heard a loud buzzing in the sky. Lindbäck looked up and saw a gray rocket-shaped object descending towards the lake. The nose was rounded and the tail pointed and it seemed to have fins. Everything was going very quickly and he didn't have much time to observe it. When it fell into the water, a first huge column of water was raised, then a second. The witness estimated the length of the object to be about 2 meters. After the fall, uprooted algae and water lilies were floating everywhere and the water of the lake was completely muddy. Although the water was only 1.50m to 2m deep, it was impossible to locate the fallen object due to the muddy bottom. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175)

#1946, July 19
SWEDEN, Bölebyn (in the north)
An unusual aerial object was observed: it had the appearance of an illuminated milk jug. The observation lasted a good quarter of an hour: it must not have been flying very fast. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175)

#1946, July 21
BELGIUM, Sint-Niklaas (East Flanders)
At the Vrouweneekhoek quarter, a young cyclist was returning home around 8:30 pm when he saw a disc on the side of the road. Amazed, the witness then saw two figures, no more than a meter tall. Before re-entering the object on the ground, one of the beings broke an acacia branch. Completely scared, it was only the next day that the young boy returned to the spot: he then discovered an irregular trapezoidal surface where the vegetation seemed to be charred. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 282-283 which places this in August; original source Hugo Huis, and GESAG special June 1972 p. 72)

#1946, July 30
USA, White Sands
At 12:36 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #9, REACHED ALTITUDE 167 KM.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#July 1946
CANADA, Oakville (Ontario)
Mr. and Mrs. Brown saw at 10:55 PM the passage of two rocket-shaped bodies perfectly silent. When the objects passed over the farm, the witnesses noticed openings arranged two by two at the front and back. These two UFOs were moving at about fifteen meters from the ground emitting red flames. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 282)

#1946, Summer
NETHERLANDS, Elst (Gelder, Betuwe)
A large elongated and oval object was seen, flying at high speed
above the pastures, at very low altitude. The witness even saw windows on the object which he described "as being made of black glassy material" ((c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief
jaargang 2, nummer 1)

#1946, August 1 (July 24)
USA, northeast of Tampa (Florida)
Transport plane pilot Jack Puckett observed an cylindrical object maneuvering around his aircraft which was flying at an altitude of 1200 m northeast of Tampa. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 282) At 900 m it changed course and crossed their path. (note de vog: ??? isn't that a bit "arranged?") Its size was twice that of a B-29, it disappeared at an estimated speed of 2500 and 3200 km/h. (Johannes von BUTLAR: "Ovni, nous ne sommes pas seuls" - Presses de la Cité 1979 p. 28) On July 24, 1946 at 6 pm the C 47 pilot, Jack E. Puckett and copilot Henry Glass saw above the ocean southeast of their position, a cylindrical flying object with luminous windows. The size was approximately twice that of a B-29. Flying at about 2000mph the object had a tail of flames behind it, half its own length. It disappeared on the horizon. ("UFO's, a century of Sightings" by Michael David Hall, Galde Press Inc. 1999, p. 24: it cites Puckett's letter of July 24, 1957 to Donald Keyhoe, and found in the CUFOS files)

#1946, August 8
SWEDEN
The Daily Graphic of Stockholm published on August 8 that "boomerang bombs" were flying over Sweden towards the north and then crossing the country towards the south. None had fallen..(Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux OVNI" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36) Professor John Persson saw a rocket carrying a dazzling light at the tip. He estimated the altitude to be 500 meters and the speed to be 800 km/h. (Pierre VIEROUDY: "Ces OVNI qui annoncent le surhomme" - Laffont 1979, p. 58)

#1946, August 13
SWEDEN, center of Norrland
An object with small wings falls from the sky into a lake. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 175)

#1946, August 14
SWEDEN, Vaggeryd
A Swedish military plane collided with one of the mysterious projectiles and the three crew members perished. A witness claimed that the "projectile" was making directional changes. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36) (note from vog: Ribera is the only one to mention this, no trace in Swedish archives.... )

#1946, August 14
PORTUGAL, Province of Alentejo and Northern part of the country
The Belgian-Flemish newspaper "Belang Van Limburg" - 19.9.46 published an article saying that the Lisbon Astronomical Observatory had no explanation for the observations made in different provinces regarding strange lights in the sky. These were balls of green light flying at high speed without any noise. (collaboration of Larry Fenwick, CUFORN, Joaquim Fernandes, CNIFO, Willy Smith, UNICAT Project; listing by Victor Lourenço)

#1946, August 15
USA, White Sands
At 11:00 AM, TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #10, REACHING ONLY 3 KM ALTITUDE. RADIO CUT-OFF (EMERGENCY) (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, August 22
FRANCE, Espis (Tarn et Garonne)
Children and adults saw entities appear: the Virgin Mary, other saints, angels. First appearance on August 22, 1946, then these entities appeared punctually on the 13th of each month until 1950. (Janet and Colin BORD: "Modern Mysteries of the World" - Guild Publishing London 1989, p. 330)

#1946, August 24
NORWAY, Russeviksodden;
The witness was on board the ship "Helkkingen" and observed at 20 o'clock, a ball of light rising on the horizon, between Holmengravika and Rodberget. Then it fell back, halfway between the sea and the horizon. After the impact, nothing was observed for the following thirty seconds. Then a fire, of red color, appeared and continued to burn for 3 minutes. The "Hekkingen" was then 3/4 of a nautical mile NE of Russeviksodden and was sailing towards Kirkeness (SSO). The trajectory of the ball of fire was supposed to go from north to west. It was also seen at the port, for 5 seconds, and it seemed to fly very, very fast. The witness, on the ship, estimated its altitude to be about 400 meters, the distance to 2 nautical miles. It was raining, night was falling, but one could still see the outlines of the nearby mountains. The cloud cover was at about 1000 meters. A colleague of the first witness observed the phenomenon with binoculars. He said that the red fire produced white smoke. (Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 Oct 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, August 24
NORWAY, Sande;
At around 9pm, two men saw in the sky an object resembling an airplane, coming from the north and flying at high speed. This object made no noise. It flew at an altitude of barely 200m, and was surrounded by a yellow-green light. When it arrived above Orebergvannet the light went out. (BUSKERUDS BLAD, August 26, 1946, 5. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, August 26
NORWAY, Engerdal;
At 21:00, 2 witnesses saw a rocket above Femundselven. It was going southeast at the speed of an airplane and left a trail of smoke. (HAMAR ARBEIDER-BLAD, Aug 1946. ARBEIDETS RETT, 28 Aug 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, August 26
NORWAY, Arsteinfjellet;
At 23:00, two witnesses in a boat were rowing home. They saw a bright object of an intense green color surrounded by white sparks, coming from the southeast towards the northwest. It flew at an altitude of 300-400 m, on a constant trajectory. The weather was clear, visibility was good. No sound from the object was heard. It was observed for about 3 minutes and then arrived above Arsteinfjellet, where it split into two parts, the head being the smallest. The witnesses assumed that the two parts fell, but they could not see if that was the case, because in the meantime the object was no longer illuminated and it was pitch black. (Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, 1 Oct 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, August 27
NORWAY, Roras;
At 14:30 Rolf Wintervold saw an object that looked like a ring of gray smoke. The object could be at 20-50 m. altitude. At first, it moved slowly, then accelerated to an estimated speed of 800 km/h. First it followed the trajectory of the railway, then that of the RV30 road going full north. (ARBEIDETS RETT, 28 Aug 1946. UFO REPORT FORM, 29 Jul 1973. UFO FORUM, 4/1973, 7. Listing of Ole Jonny Braenne)

#August, 1946
USA, Oklahoma City
In the late afternoon, around 5:15 PM, Margaret Sprankle, 28 years old, an employee at A.F.B. Tinken, was returning home and saw a disk less than 100 m away, flying at low altitude. It hovered, inclined at 45°. At its lower part there were a dozen openings through which Margaret Sprankle thought she could make out shapes with large, bald heads and drooping shoulders. After 90 seconds the UFO moved away to the northwest and then quickly disappeared. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 283)

#1946, September 1
GREECE
Several military units stationed in Greece reported the observation of mysterious rockets in the sky. According to a statement given to AFP by the authorities of the British Embassy in Greece, these objects reached altitudes between 500 m and 10 km. In total, thirteen reports were recorded for that night. The objects had been observed in all parts of the country but particularly in Macedonia and Thessaloniki where the following cities were overflown: Edessa, Ptolemais, Kastora and Grevena, Katerini, Eginion, Thessaloniki, Paranestion and Drama. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 284-285)

#1946, September 2
GREECE, Thessaloniki
A rocket-like projectile flew over the port of Thessaloniki, according to the Greek Prime Minister Tsaldaris. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36)

#1946, September 7
GREECE, Macedonia
A "flying bomb" crossed from north to south the west of Macedonia, 110 km from Thessaloniki. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977 - p. 36)

#1946, September 10
NETHERLANDS, province of Twente
The newspaper "Hengelosch Dagblad" reported on September 12 the events of the 10th as follows: "The rocket passing through our firmament was observed by the population of Hengelo, Almelo and Enschede, probably concerns a test of V6, improved model (by the Americans) of V2. They called it V", since the supposed rockets of Russian manufacture were already designated as V3, V4 or V5. The speed of the object would have been about 12,800 km/h. It flew silently at an altitude of 21 km. This rocket was also observed in Oldenzaal, while a Frisian witness saw it in the sky in the southeast. ((c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1)

#1946, September 13
NORWAY, Nedrevann/Porsangerfjord;
At 21:10 a rocket was observed by 7 witnesses; It was going towards the northwest. The first observation was made at Kalkkavare. The object had a slightly descending trajectory, flew at high speed, and white flames with red stripes coming out of the tail were clearly seen. The night was clear, there was a beautiful moonlight, there were also northern lights, very few clouds. The rocket must have been at about 2000 m altitude. (Swedish Defence Attache, Oslo: INTELLIGENCE REPORT, October 1 1946. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, September 13
FRANCE, Nancy
In the "Tubantia" newspaper of Twente from September 14, a French UFO of the "dumbbell" model was reported: The inhabitants of Nancy saw strange meteors last night, on a north trajectory. It was two luminous balls, connected to each other at the front by a luminous bar and leaving a luminous trail behind, crossing the sky much faster than the fastest plane can do. ((c) 1997 Jeroen Slurf and Jeroen Kümeling.UFO nieuwsbrief jaargang 2, nummer 1)

#1946, September 14th to 21st
PORTUGAL
Mysterious rockets and unexplained aerial phenomena were observed on the 14th of September near Alemtejo, on the 16th above Porto and Douro, objects in the shape of cigars were seen heading south. On the 18th two other UFOs were spotted north of Lisbon: they were greenish globes moving silently southward. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 285)

#1946, around September 15
MOROCCO, Casablanca
The "rocket" phenomenon was observed in Casablanca, leaving a huge greenish trail. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 37)

#1946, September 17
GERMANY, Herfird
A rocket-like projectile flew over the British occupation zone, the news was confirmed by the British Rhine Headquarters, apparently "Top Secret" did not exist yet. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 36, 37)

#1946, September 20th and 24th
ALGERIA, western part of the country
Balls of fire were observed there, leaving behind a long trail of flames and producing a "gray" light (sic). They passed at low altitude, heading from northeast to southwest. (Antonio RIBERA: "Procès aux Ovni" - De Vecchi 1977, p. 37)

#1946, October 1
FROM AUSTRALIA TO USA
THE THIRD LOCKHEED MODEL 26 NEPTUNE, OF THE P2V1 SERIES WITH PISTONS, TOOK OFF THREE DAYS BEFORE FROM PERTH IN AUSTRALIA AND FLEW WITHOUT STOPPING THE 18080 KM TO COLUMBUS (OHIO). IT SET A WORLD RECORD FOR DISTANCE FOR PISTON AIRCRAFT, A PERFORMANCE THAT HAS NEVER BEEN BEATEN. ("Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier Sequoia 1979)

#1946, October 7
NORWAY, As;
The night watchman of Bjornebekk Kursted, saw a luminous object coming from the northwest at 00:10 hours. It had the shape of a cylinder, was going a bit faster than an airplane, at an altitude of about 1000 m. At the back, he observed flames. The conical nose of the object was slightly luminous. He observed the phenomenon for a minute, then suddenly the object fell towards the ground and disappeared from his view. No sound of explosion was heard. (VÅRT LAND, October 8, 1946, 1. Listing by Ole Jonny Braenne)

#1946, October 9
USA, California
George Adamski observed a cigar-shaped object hovering motionless in the sky, and then heading south towards San Diego, where thousands of people (note from vog: see San Diego, same day, where Bougard mentions a dozen witnesses...) saw it. It was then that Adamski decided to build a telescope with the intention of photographing the objects. From 1946 to 1952 he took 500 shots of aerial phenomena of which only about twenty were clear enough to be identified as flying saucers. (Mitarbeiter, "Ufo Geheimnisse", Berlin, January 1998)

#1946, October 10
USA, White Sands
At 11:02 AM TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #12, REACHED ALTITUDE 164 KM.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, October 24
USA, White Sands
At 12:15 PM, TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #13. ALTITUDE REACHED 104 KM.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, October
USA, Preakness (New Jersey)
Dolores Benante, while out riding her horse in a beautiful moonlight, suddenly saw a white-bluish circular UFO appear and hover above her, causing great excitement in her horse. (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 285)

#1946, November 7
USA, White Sands
At 13:31 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #14. RADIO SHUTDOWN (EMERGENCY)
CRASH BEYOND THE RIO GRANDE IN MEXICAN TERRITORY. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958 p. 258, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, November 21
USA, White Sands
9:55 AM - Test launch of V2 #15, altitude reached 100 km.
(GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#November 27, 1946
USA
FIRST FLIGHT OF THE SINGLE-SEAT REACTION FIGHTER NORTH AMERICAN "SABRE" THE
FIRST DELIVERY TO THE SQUADRON WILL TAKE PLACE IN DECEMBER 1948 UNDER THE
NAME F-86A IT IS THE MOST FAMOUS COMBAT AIRCRAFT OF ITS TIME. IN 1945 ALREADY THERE WERE THREE PROTOTYPES ORDERED BY THE NAVY....
("Encyclopedia of Combat Aircraft" - Bill Gunston - Elsevier-Sequoia
1979)

#1946, December 5
USA, White Sands
At 13:08 TEST LAUNCH OF V2 #16, ALTITUDE 167 KM. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, 17 DECEMBER
USA, White Sands
At 10 PM, test launch of V2 #17 which reached 186 km in altitude. (GESAG, Launches, Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1952)

#1946, December 30
USA, Morrow Bay (California)
Ella Young was with a friend: "The sun had just set, it must have been 5:35 pm. Suddenly a dark object appeared in the sky and as it approached us, its shape became more distinct. It looked like a black stick with wings. It remained motionless for a few moments. It then flew off towards the horizon and disappeared behind a cloud. Right after, a bright flash of light illuminated the sky above the ocean." (Michel BOUGARD: "La chronique des OVNI" - Delarge 1977- p. 285-286)

#1946
GRANDE BRETAGNE
The secret Haviland D.H. 108 Swallow aircraft, which was meant to prefigure the DH 110 model, lacked stability for the expected Mach 1 speeds. During its test flight it suffered a terrible crash. This made the Americans working on the X-4 project think: it had the same profile as the English aircraft and, rightly so, the USA feared a destabilization at high speed. (NASA website, 1997 "On the Frontier")