1970.04.09 15.00 Retired electrician Max Krauss (65) was walking northeast along a country road towards Langenschemmern (now called Schemmerhofen) south of Ulm in south Germany at about 15.00 on 9 April 1970. The sky was almost completely overcast, with a strong west wind. Suddenly two muffled sonic booms caused him to look around (to his […]
Timmendorfer Strand, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
1961.02 Timmensdorfer [sic] Crashed craft (phoenix foundation – now defunct) Date: February, 1961 Location: Timmendorfer, Germany There were pictures of a 100-foot disk that had crashed in Timmendorfer, Germany, near the Baltic Sea in 1961. The British Army, according to the report, got there first and put up a perimeter. The craft had landed in […]
Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, Europe
1952.11.01 FIRST REPORT ON THE CAPTURED FLYING SAUCER! By EW Greenfell On a tiny island in the North Sea off the German coast, a secret investigation is in progress to determine whether hydrogen bomb explosions in the Pacific Ocean knocked a flying saucer to earth. Preliminary findings were revealed recently in Oslo, Norway, by Dr […]
France? Germany?, Europe
1945.02 In September 1992 Greenwood started reading a three-feet-thick file of all the mission records for the 415th between autumn 1944 and spring 1945. He found that sightings continued right up to the end of the war. Intriguingly, among these documents… were the records of American foo fighter sightings during February 1945. There were two […]
France, Germany, Austria, Europe
1945 (The UFO Encyclopaedia, Spencer) (The Complete Book of UFOs, Hough and Randles) Only after the war was it revealed that the balls were not sent up by the Germans. Their forces had seen them too – and thought they were a British or American device. Pilots from either side in both Europe and the […]
France? Germany?, Europe
1945.01 In January 1945 other pilots from [415] Squadron were followed in the same fashion by three of these balls, red and white this time. (UFOs 1947-1987: The 40-Year Search for an Explanation, Evans and Spencer)
Speyer, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany, Europe
1944.11.27 17.00c Lt Henry Giblin, of Santa Rosa, California, pilot, and Lt Walter Cleary, of Worcester, Massachusetts, radar-observer, were flying at 1,000 feet altitude when they saw a huge red light 1,000 feet above them, moving at 200 miles per hour. As the observation was made on an early winter evening, the men decided that […]
Peenemünde, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, Europe
1944.10c Jenny Randles interviewed comedian Michael Bentine, who in late 1944 was an intelligence officer stationed in eastern England dealing with free Polish troops. (The Complete Book of UFOs, Hough and Randles) [Bentine was an] intelligence officer with the bomber wing of 626 Squadron. (UFOs and How to See Them, Randles) He had to debrief […]
Schweinfurt, Bavaria, Germany, Europe
1943.10.14 Moving on to the period of World War Two, we find the most notable event, ufologically speaking, was the widespread appearances of small discs and spheres of unknown origin which were at the time nicknamed “foo-fighters”. Their first official appearance was on 14 October 1943, during a bomber raid on the German industrial complex […]
Pushkino, Russia, Europe
1943.09 Spanish volunteers fighting alongside the Germans in Russia, in the Azul Division, were in a bunker during a battle between German and Russian air forces. The witnesses were astonished to see a disc-shaped UFO stationed above the planes in combat “as if watching the battle”, as one of the witnesses described it. After a […]