1952.11.20 12.05c George Adamski was an amateur astronomer who lived near the Mount Palomar Hale observatory in California. On 20 November 1952 he and six friends [the Williamsons and the Baileys] drove deep into the Californian desert where they believed they had a better chance of seeing and photographing unidentified flying objects which had been […]
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 […]
Drakenstein Mountains, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa, Africa
1951 Spring Juan Benitez published this classic alien encounter report in 1978. The witness, a British engineer working in Cape province, South Africa, had been driving up the Drakensteen Mountains in his car late at night when a man flagged him down and claimed he needed water. The man was under five feet (152 cm) […]
Lago Argentino, Santa Cruz, Argentina, South America
1950.03.18 18.00c In the early evening of 18 March 1950 rancher Wilfredo Arévalo witnessed the landing of a flying saucer while a second companion saucer hovered overhead, as if guarding the first. Arévalo walked to within 400 feet (120 metres) of the craft noticing an intense smell “like burning benzene”. The craft was giving off […]
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel, Asia
1949.12 In Tel Aviv in December 1949, the just four-year-old [Uri] Geller had an encounter with a UFO while playing in an abandoned garden opposite his home. Looking across a pool in the garden, he became aware of a [huge?] bowl-shaped object settling down out of the sky. It did not resemble any of the […]
Hillenkoetter-Joint Intelligence Committee memo
1947.09.19 From Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter to Joint Intelligence Committee CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP 2430 E Street, N. W. Washington 25, D .C. 19 SEP 1947 MEMORANDUM FOR THE MILITARY ASSESSMENT OF THE JOINT INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE SUBJECT: Examination of Unidentified Disc-like Aircraft near Military Installations in the State of New Mexico: A Preliminary Report 1. Pursuant to […]
Raveo, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy, Europe
1947.08 In August 1947 [Professor Johannis Luigi Rapuzzi], an Italian artist, was walking in the mountains between Italy and Yugoslavia. Ahead of him he saw a glowing red saucer-shaped object approximately 30 feet wide attended by two dwarf-like entities. (The UFO Encyclopaedia, Spencer) [The entities were] less than one metre tall, wearing dark blue coveralls […]
Baurú, São Paulo, Brazil, South America
1947.07.23 José Higgins was one of a group of surveyors who witnessed a disc-shaped craft land near them. (The UFO Encyclopaedia, Spencer) On 23 July 1947 José Higgins was one of a group of [surveyors] who witnessed the landing of a 150-foot-wide grey-white flying saucer at Baurú in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Higgins […]
Roswell
Roswell page has yet to be started. Where to begin? Pre-Mac Brazel – the nuns.
America, Canada?, Mexico?, North America
1947.06.25 – 1947.07.16 Hundreds of reports of sightings of similar objects followed [the Arnold incident]. Many of these came from highly credible military and civilian sources. These reports resulted in independent efforts by several different elements of the military to ascertain the nature and purpose of these objects in the interests of national defense. A […]