1942c Several photographs exist which reputedly show foo fighters. One of the clearest depicts two of them, right beside a pair of Japanese fighters. It is believed that this photograph dates from around 1942 and was taken in the Pacific. (UFOs and How to See Them, Randles)
Indian Ocean, Africa
1941.09 June 24, 1947 – the date Kenneth Arnold’s Mt Ranier sighting would firmly plant the phrase Unidentified Flying Objects in the public consciousness – was more than five years away when the first known sighting of a “foo” took place. The witnesses were two sailors on the deck of the SS Pulaski, an old […]
Durban-Johannesburg, South Africa, Africa
1937 Name Elizabeth Klarer In 1937 while flying from Durban to Baragwanath with her husband they saw a blue-white UFO approach the plane, pace it for a while and then disappear. (UFOs: The Definitive Casebook)
Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, Europe
1936 But eventually I found myself in possession, holding two documents: one called Project Grudge, another one called Operation Majority. Project Grudge contained the history of alien involvement since around 1936, and it began talking about Germany’s involvement with a crashed disk that they had recovered in 1936 and [of which they] were attempting to […]
Nipawin, Saskatchewan, Canada, North America
1933.08c 00.15c Saskatchewan, 1933: UFO stops for “repairs” Even as late as the mid-1930s, much of the prairie provinces of Canada was still on the frontier of immigrant settlement. Particularly in the northern areas, homesteaders were just beginning to open up the land to commerce and agriculture, and such luxuries as telephones, paved roads and […]
Tasman Sea, Australia
1931 Probably the first air-to-air sighting of a UFO was by Francis Chichester… In 1931, he was piloting a tiny plane from Australia to New Zealand when a strange airship appeared, a dull grey-white colour with brightly flashing lights. The disc followed him for some miles across the Tasman Sea, occasionally vanishing behind clouds, before […]
Bass Strait, Australia, Australia
1930.10c Many top-ranking officials exposed to the UFO phenomenon through their work end up becoming serious and valuable researchers in the UFO community. One such example is Air Marshal Sir George Jones, who was Australian Chief of the Air Staff between 1942 and 1952. In 1930, as a squadron leader of the Royal Australian Air […]
Lancashire, England, Europe
1926.11 “Standing, peering into the house, were three figures – and they did not look human.” This sketch by Henry Thomson depicts his mysterious encounter in November 1926. (The Complete Book of UFOs, Hough and Randles)
Humboldt Mountains, Qinghai, China, Asia
1926.08.05 09.30 High above the Himalayas In his travel diary, published in 1929, Nicholas Roerich relates a very unusual experience. The book, entitled Altai-Himalaya, records his expedition through India, Tibet, Sinkiang and Mongolia. “On August fifth – something remarkable! We were in our camp in the Kukunor district, not far from the Humboldt chain. In […]
Fátima, Centro, Portugal, Europe
1917.10.13 Seeing and communicating with occupants… especially were almost always interpreted in a religious context. A recent example is the repeated appearance of a typical UFO phenomenology at Fatima, Portugal [for] six successive months in 1917. The October 13 phenomenon was the best reported and was witnessed by a crowd of about 70,000 persons, including […]