1979.08 Mr Z (name withheld) was rowing on a lake at Czluchów in Poland in August 1979 when he saw a dark egg-shaped object moving on the surface. It was apparently making no sound and causing no commotion in the water and shortly after it was first sighted, it moved behind a peninsula and out […]
Węgierska Górka, Silesia, Poland, Europe
1954.07 In 1986 a conversation took place involving the witness (name withheld) in this case, which suddenly awoke in her memories of a strange event that had taken place when she was a child of eleven, in July 1954. She had been on holiday at Węgierska Górka when she and her friends had gone to […]
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 […]
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 […]