An automated compilation by Richard Geldreich, Jr. using public data from Dr. Jacques Vallée, Pea Research, George M. Eberhart, Richard H. Hall, Dr. Donald A. Johnson, Fred Keziah, Don Berliner, Larry Hatch, NICAP, Thomas R. Adams, George D. Fawcett, Chris Aubeck, Philip L. Rife, Richard Dolan, and an anonymous individual or group.
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I've split up the timeline into 4 parts, to reduce their sizes: distant past up to 1949, 1950-1959, 1960-1979, and 1980-present.
The majority of the events in this chronology are sighting related, however it's important to be aware that this is a timeline of UFO/UAP related events, not necessarily or exclusively UFO sightings. This is not exclusively a UFO sightings timeline or database.
Some sighting reports or events appear multiple times in this timeline because they appear in more than one data source. I view this as a useful feature.
Currently, the events are not sorted by time of day, only by date. Some sources have separate "time" fields, but most don't. This will be fixed once the event times are automatically extracted from the description fields.
A few events don't have firm dates, for example "Summer of 1947", or "Late July 1952". In these instances the compilation code uses fixed dates I selected for date sorting purposes. (See the code for the specific dates.)
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1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959
Date: 1950's
Location: Area 51
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several
atomic fallout maps.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_385
Date: 1950's
Location: Kapustin Yar
Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were
carried out at the Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all
other launches
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_386
Date: Early 1950's
Location: Carson's Field, New Zealand
Description: Carson’s Field (speculated location), New
Zealand: A New Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected
US researcher who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions
he had just been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a
vast airport. A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a
group of friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they
were scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland
for a meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane
during the conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s
nations were also present.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_387
Date: 1950
Location: Soviet Union
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons
project plant opens (Plutonium production)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_388
Date: 1950
Location: WA
Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the
pamphlet “The Flying Saucer as I Saw It”
Type: publication
Reference: Archive.org
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_389
Date: 1950
End date: 1951
Location: US
Description: This period has been called the "Dark
Ages" of UFO investigation. Following the Project Grudge report, the
project was not disbanded. However, those who believed in a more
positive investigation could not win support for their views--until late
in 1951 when the situation was reviewed partly due to public
protests.
Type: time period
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_861
Date: 1950
End date: 1951
Location: US
Description: USAF Investigation Summary: These
conclusions challenged on basis of lack of proof; "explain-away"
approach adopted by investigators.
Type: investigation
Reference: "The
UFO Evidence" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: "Report
on Unidentified Flying Objects" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J.
Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_897
Date: 1950
End date: 1955
Locations: US; UK
Description: American columinst, journalist, and
television game show panelist Dorothy
Kilgallen (1913-1965) writes about UFO's, saucers and crash
retrievals in her newspaper column. One of her sources was in the UK:
"The British government, I learned, is withholding an official report on
the 'flying saucer' examination at this time, possibly because it does
not wish to frighten the public." "Flying Saucer" Wreckage Assures
Britons of Reality." She was told by Lord Mountbatten tthat at least one
of the crashes took place during WW2. “British scientists and airmen”
have examined the wreckage of a crashed flying saucer. Her informant is
a “British official of Cabinet rank,”, who said “Saucers were staffed by
small men—probably under four feet tall.” "Flying saucers are now
regarded as of such vital importance that they will be the subject of a
special hush-hush meeting of world military heads next summer." "The Air
Force has been ordered to minimize the importance of the 'flying
saucers'. But some of the official reports in locked government files
read like a Buck Rogers comic strip..." The CIA may have made an attempt
to gain Kilgallen as an informant. Kilgallen was a friend of Marilyn
Monroe and was possibly killed.
Type: newspaper articles
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Reference: YouTube
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_955
Date: 1950
Description: N. Meade
Layne publishes The Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, which
identifies UFOs as emanating from the etheric world, which coexists with
and interpenetrates ours. The etherians must lower their “vibrational”
rate in order to enter our realm. UFOs are “thought-constructs” that can
take many forms and densities. He considers the etherians benign.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Meade Layne, The
Ether-Ship Mystery and Its Solution, Borderland
Sciences Research Associates, 1950
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1454
Date: 1950
Location: Colombia
Description: William Ortiz, a deaf-mute, claims to have
the first of three close encounters (the others in 1969 and 1975) with
large-eyed aliens in UFOs in Colombia. After the first two events, he
finds his hearing temporarily restored. The entities communicate to him
using hand signals.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “First
Reported CEIII Alien Communicating with Deaf-Mute,” CUFOS Associate
Newsletter 3, no. 4 (Aug./Sept. 1982): 1, 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1455
Date: 1950
Location: Muroc AFB CA, AFB in NM
Description: Pilot Chet Swital reported that his plane
and another plane were circled by UFOs, which paralyzed the plane motors
and instruments over the Muroc Air Force Base in California and a New
Mexico Air Force Base.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_16
Date: 1950
Location: US
Description: An Air Force Intelligence Analysis showing
"controlled UFO maneuvers", that the “Flying Saucers” were real and
spaceships.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_17
Date: 1950
Description: Source “LH” at Bell Laboratories states a
source of his, a former NASA employee, had access to information
regarding a crash retrieval in 1950. He claims the employee had access
to technical material about a head-band transceiver worn by some UAP
occupants; LH states the source believes he has been under surveillance
and one of his colleagues at NASA involved in security risk related to
UAP “disappeared.”
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_20
Date: Early 1950
Description: Author and military historian Fletcher
Pratt initiated rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had
obtained through confidential channels information that a flying saucer
had crashed to earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and
about 35 inches tall had been found dead in the wreckage.
Type: rumors
Reference: Medium
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_392
Date: 1/1950
Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on
Flying Saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_106
Date: 1/1950
Time: 21:00
Location: NORTHEAST / FT. SUMNER, NM
Description: T6 pilot. Round glowing object going
quickly southwest / 500mph. 600' away. / NICAP 1969.
Type: sighting
Reference: ALDRICH, Jan J.: Private research papers. A
huge mass of hard-won information. (Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1474
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1250", HatchDesc: "NE/Ft.SUMNER,NM:T6 PILOT:ROUND GLOWING OBJ >>SW/500mph:600'AWAY:/NICAP 1969", LatLong: "34.833335 -103.500005", LatLongDMS: "34:50:00 N 103:30:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/1950
Description: The Ground Observer Corps, an organization
of civilians who watch the skies for enemy airplanes, is created by the
US Air Defense Command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Ground
Observer Corps” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1456
Date: 1/1950
Locations: Seattle, Washington; Anchorage, Alaska
Description: On the Seattle, Washington, to Anchorage,
Alaska, route, an air freighter is paced for five minutes by a UFO. When
the pilots try to close in, the craft zooms away at terrific speed.
Later, the airline head reports that intelligence officers quizzed the
pilots for hours. “From their questions,” he said, “I could tell they
had a good idea of what the saucers are. One officer admitted they did,
but he wouldn’t say any more.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p.
10
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1457
Date: 1/1950
Locations: Ohio; Wright-Patterson AFB
Description: Keyhoe meets
with Gen. Sory
Smith, director of public relations for the Air Force; Maj. Jesse
E. Stay and Jack T. Shea, press officers; and Maj. Jere Boggs, Pentagon
liaison to Project Grudge. Most of the interview involves questions for
Boggs. Keyhoe is given two looseleaf notebooks with summaries of
“Project Saucer” cases. His request to visit Wright-Patterson AFB in
Ohio to look at the actual case files is turned down weeks later.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp. 147–154
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1458
Date: 1/1/1950
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed
version of “The Flying Saucers are Real” in Newspapers
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_391
Date: 1/6/1950
Description: Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper:
“Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near
a radar installation, exotic metals, acclimation program, etc.
Type: rumors
Reference: Amazon
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_393
Date: 1/6/1950
Location: HOWARD, KS
Description: Blue Book. C47 Carswell going [to] Offutt
Air Force Base. 45' metal ovoid / SL flight / 2K' altitude.
400mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1475
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "317", HatchDesc: "HOWARD,KS:BBK:C47 CARSWELL>OFFUTT AFB:45'MTL OVOID/SL FLITE/2K'alt:400mph", LatLong: "37.472224 -96.261116", LatLongDMS: "37:28:20 N 96:15:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/6/1950
Location: Howard (near), KS
Description: Crew of C-47 transport saw a 30-60 ft
silver football-shaped object flying in straight level flight. (Project
1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500106
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_645
Date: 1/6/1950
Description: Three military witnesses, including one
named Zimmerman, were flying in a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport plane
near Howard, Kansas on this day when they sighted a silverly metallic,
football-shaped object flying on a straight level flight path. They
estimated the object was between 30 and 60 feet long, was flying at
2,000 feet altitude at a speed of 400 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, January 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 2; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p.
11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_162
Date: 1/7/1950
Time: 22:20
Location: SOUTH / CORONA, NM
Description: Blue Book. 1 Air Force-man / car. Green
fireball maneuvers / tens. Changes course and color. Lands?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 103)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1476
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "2050", HatchDesc: "S/CORONA,NM:BBK:1 AF-MAN/CAR:GRN FBL MNVRS/10s:CHANGES COURSE+COLOR:LANDS?", LatLong: "34.166668 -105.594449", LatLongDMS: "34:10:00 N 105:35:40 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1/7/1950
Location: Corona (south of), NM
Description: OSI Case 161 yellowish-white ball of light
at about 45° elevation changing color to orange with trailing flame
(FOIA; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500107
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_646
Date: 1/7/1950
Locations: Holloman AFB; Corona, New Mexico
Description: 10:15 p.m. The assistant maintenance
officer at Holloman AFB is driving south of Corona, New Mexico, when he
sees a green fireball. It descends at a 60° angle, then levels out and
travels 10° east before dropping out of sight behind a mountain. When
first seen, it is yellowish-white, changes to orange as it descends,
then turns bright blue-green as it levels out and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “January 7, 1950, Corona,
NM, OSI Case 161”: Clark III 544; Sparks, p. 78
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1459
Date: 1/9/1950
Location: New Mexico
Description: Time magazine reports on rumors of crashed
saucers and small humanoids in New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Visitors
from Venus,”
Time, January 9, 1950
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1460
Date: 1/10/1950
Location: Las Vegas AFB, NV
Description: A man and his father stated that an object
was within their vision for approximately twenty five (25) seconds and
that the appearance of the object was pure silver, round "like a
balloon" and apparently constructed of. a solid material, "a metal".
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 500110
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_647
Date: 1/12/1950
Location: Kvalleposten, Malmo, Sweden
Description: MAJORITY BELIEVE IN FLYING
SAUCERS. More than 61 percent of Americans believe in flying
saucers, according to a poll of opinion taken by Galaxy, the
science-fiction magazine. Another 17 percent didn't believe they exist,
while 32 percent were uncertain. The younger age group was more inclined
to believe in saucers than older people.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_46
Date: 1/12/1950
Time: 23:30
Location: GMX NORTHWEST / CUBA
Description: Blue Book. 3 RADAR blips hover and orbit
B29 / 3000mph. RADAR jammed / an extra 10 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 110)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1477
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "9", Duration: "30", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GMX NW/CUBA:BBK:3 RDR BLIPS HVR+ORBIT B29/3000mph:RDR JAMMED/an extra 10min:", LatLong: "24.000001 -85.333337", LatLongDMS: "24:00:00 N 85:20:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GMX", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/12/1950
Location: Gulf of Mexico (SW of Florida), At Sea
Description: At 24° 0' N, 85°20' W. (McDonald list)
B-29 Radar Tracks Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5,
BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500112
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_648
Date: 1/12/1950
Description: The AF Directorate of Intelligence quietly
cancels the special intelligence collection directives to various
government agencies for reporting UFO incidents, though routine
intelligence channels still require UFO reporting, per AFCIR-CC7,
“Reporting of Information on Unconventional Aircraft.” Cancellation is a
follow-up to the widely announced closure of “Project Saucer.” AFOIN
Director Gen. Charles P.
Cabell believes that in fact AMC is taking its UFO project
underground by announcing the closure. Months later Cabell discovers
that AMC Intelligence under Col. Harold
E. Watson is not running a secret UFO investigation, and Cabell is
forced to make up for AMC’s negligence by conducting his own UFO
investigations via his AF Intelligence staff.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. Gen. C. P. Cabell, “Reporting of
Information on Unconventional Aircraft,” January 12, 1950; Swords
498
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1461
Date: 1/12/1950
Location: Gulf of Mexico (southwest of Florida)
Description: 11:25 p.m. A B-29 aircraft is flying over
the Gulf of Mexico (southwest of Florida) on a course of 260° when three
objects are noted on the radar scope orbiting the B-29 from all
quadrants. The objects are noticed by the radar operator, aircraft
commander, navigator, and bombardier. One object is first sighted on a
bearing of 330° traveling south. The objects travel across the scope in
approximately 15–20 seconds on the 100-mile range setting. In a few
minutes this object is joined by two others, which disappear in a few
minutes. At short ranges the object is large and well-defined on the
radar scope. The object goes off for about 100 miles, turns and comes in
as if for an attack, passes through the center of the scope, and emerges
on the other side. The estimated speed of the object is 2,500–3,000 mph.
The one object remains on the radar scope for approximately 30 minutes,
following the B-29 all the time. The radar operator switches ranges on
the scope and picks up the object on the 20- and 50- mile settings.
Twice the object comes to within 20 miles of the aircraft and then
apparently has the ability to hover, because the movement on the radar
scope ceases for 5–15 seconds. After altering course the object no
longer appears, but the radar is jammed for approximately 10 minutes.
The crew makes no visual sighting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “B-29 Radar Tracks
Objects”; Clark III 58; Sparks, p. 79
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1462
Date: 1/12/1950
Description: Flying over the Gulf of Mexico northwest
of Cuba, a USAF B-29 picked up three unidentified radar blips. The
bogeys hovered for awhile, and then orbited the B-29 at 3,000 mph. The
bomber's airborne radar jammed for an additional ten minutes after the
sighting.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_272
Date: 1/13/1950
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Observed a bright white object that
changed color to red and green in northern sky (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500113
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_649
Date: 1/14/1950
Time: 16:50
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: Carload / Fairchild-Nepa workers. Brill
fireball hovers / restricted airspace.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2
booklets) Self published. (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1478
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:CARLOAD/FAIRCHILD-NEPA WORKERS:BRILL FBL HVRS/RESTRICTED AIRSPACE", LatLong: "36.000002 -84.250004", LatLongDMS: "36:00:00 N 84:15:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 1/14/1950
Location: Key West, FL
Description: F6F Picks Up Object Tracked By Gnd Radar
At 480 MPH (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500114
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_659
Date: 1/14/1950
Description: At 4:45 p.m. Fairchild plant workers at
the nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee watched a
brilliant fiery ball of light hover over restricted military airspace
for about two minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950, p.
3
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_307
Date: 1/15/1950
Location: COMECHINGONES MOUNTAINS SOUTHEAST /
V.DOLORES.ARG
Description: Horses spook. Cylinder/cylindrical object
buzzes 4 riders. / r215p81.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1479
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1594", HatchDesc: "COMECHINGONES Mtns SE/V.DOLORES.ARG:HORSES SPOOK:CYL BUZZES 4 RIDERS:/r215p81", LatLong: "-32.500002 -65.000003", LatLongDMS: "32:30:00 S 65:00:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CRD", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/15/1950?
Location: OFF ARGENTIA, NFLD
Description: Pilot. 15M saucer rotates just over sea.
Rotates. Quickly going up / plane passes.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
681)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1480
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off ARGENTIA,NFLD:PILOT:15M SCR ROTATES JUST OVR SEA:ROTATES:↑↑/PLANE PASSES", LatLong: "47.166669 -54.511114", LatLongDMS: "47:10:00 N 54:30:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/15/1950
Location: Key West, FL
Description: UFO Tracked By Gnd Radar Nr. Two F6F
Aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500115
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_660
Date: 1/16/1950
Description: CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar
station near New Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was
badly damaged the other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each
consisted of 2 parts, a cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring
approx. 18 ft. across and 2 ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling
aluminum, but actual metal has defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant.
Two crew members in the damaged ship were charred but in the undamaged
ship the two crew members were perfectly preserved.
Type: classified staff message
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_394
See also: 1/6/1950
See also: 1/30/1950
Date: 1/16/1950
Locations: Offutt AFB in Omaha, Nebraska; Denver,
Colorado
Description: The AFOSI office at Offutt AFB in Omaha,
Nebraska, sends a message that recounts stories from Denver, Colorado,
about crashed saucers in the southwest. The metal allegedly “defied
analysis.” Bodies are said to be 3 feet tall.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Richard H. Hall, Uninvited Guests, Aurora,
1988, p. 74
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1463
Date: 1/16/1950
Locations: Osaka Planetarium in Japan; Mars
Description: Tsuneo
Saheki of the Osaka Planetarium in Japan sees an explosion on Mars,
60 miles high and 900 miles in diameter. Thomas Dobbins and William
Sheehan investigate and find that this and other Martian flashes are
likely caused by solar reflections on patches of ice crystals on the
surface of Mars.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “‘Terrific
Explosion’ on Mars Reported
by Japanese Observers,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 27, 1950,
p. 13; John J. O’Neill, “Mars
Blast Puzzles
Science,” Ottawa \(Ont.) Citizen, July 16, 1952, p. 30; “Some
Curious Objects: Meteoritic Perhaps,” The Strolling Astronomer 4,
no. 5 (May 1, 1950): 8–9; Thomas Dobbins and William Sheehan, “Solving
the Martian Flares
Mystery,” 2002 Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1464
Date: 1/17/1950
Time: 18:30
Location: KAUAI ISLAND, HI
Description: 5 county officials. Silver saucer hovers.
Rises going [to] clouds. 3rd even since Christmas.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2
booklets) Self published. (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1481
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "KAUAI ISL,HI:5 COUNTY OFFICIALS:SLVR SCR HVRS:RISES>CLOUDS:3rd EVEN SINCE XMAS", LatLong: "22.150001 -159.250008", LatLongDMS: "22:09:00 N 159:15:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/18/1950
Location: Denver, CO
Description: T-6 Crews Encounter Object At 15,000'
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500118
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_650
Date: 1/18/1950
Description: A slow moving disc-shaped or spherical UFO
moved through the sky over Summit, New Jersey at 7 p.m. It was
reddish-orange in color, and gave off a steady light.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI-Los Angeles case files,
letter dated 1952 from W. Wilkinson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_363
Date: 1/21/1950
Location: New England
Description: The New York Times.
BOSTON PITCHES FOR MORE INVESTIGATION. The Aero Club of
New England, a 49-year-old organization dating back to the ballooning
days, has asked the Air Force to reopen its investigation into "flying
saucers" and other unknown aircraft. A letter to Thomas K. Finletter,
Air Force Secretary, made public today, termed the discontinuance of the
"saucer" investigation as "premature and regrettable."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_47
Date: 1/22/1950
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
Description: U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith,
was on routine security flight when he picked up a radar track on an
UFO, two times. Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised
that no known traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was
the USS Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3
a.m., “a very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature,
seemed to come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in
the direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally
south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually
leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving
at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a
common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight
formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards
Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off
all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky
colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a
matter of minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_395
Date: 1/22/1950
Location: Kodiak, AK
Description: Multiple radar/visual by Navy personnel;
near collision; electromagnetic effects
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_50
Date: 1/22/1950
Time: 02:40
Location: 32KM NORTH / KODIAK NAS, AK
Description: 1800MPH blip. RADAR / visual
(observation). Buzzes planes and boats. Silent. Going quickly southeast.
/ FBI.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 164)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1482
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RDR: Radar traces/blips, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "32km N/KODIAK NAS,AK:1800MPH BLIP:RDR/VIS:BUZZES PLANES+BOATS:SLNT:>>SE:/FBI", LatLong: "58.133336 -152.383341", LatLongDMS: "58:08:00 N 152:23:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 1/22/1950
Location: Kodiak NAS, AK
Description: USN P2V3 Patrol Plane and USS Tillamook
Encounter "threatening" Radar Target and E-M (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases, BB:
BBU) (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 500122
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_651
Date: 1/22/1950
Location: Kodiak NAS (near), AK
Description: Maneuvering red exhaust-like or orange
ball of fire circle (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500122
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_653
Date: 1/22/1950
Locations: Naval Air Station Kodiak [now Coast Guard
Base Kodiak], Alaska; Kodiak
Description: 2:40 a.m. Navy patrol pilot Lieut. Smith
makes a routine security flight out of Naval Air Station Kodiak [now
Coast Guard Base Kodiak], Alaska. He obtains a radar reading on an
object 20 miles north. It quickly vanishes. At 2:48, he tracks a similar
object 10 miles southeast. Kodiak radar reports no known aircraft in the
vicinity, but they are seeing the same track. At 3:00 a.m., the tug USS
Tillamook is south of Kodiak when one of the men on deck sees a
“very fast-moving red glow light, which appeared to be of exhaust
nature.” The object comes from the southeast, moves clockwise around
Kodiak, and returns to the southeast. Another officer sees it for 30
seconds and describes it as a “large ball of orange fire.” At 4:40 a.m.,
Lieut. Smith picks up another blip moving so fast that it leaves a trail
on his screen. His crew sees the UFO close a five-mile gap in 10
seconds, an apparent speed of 1,800 mph. Witnesses report two orange
lights that rotate around a common center. The object makes a sharp turn
and heads directly towards Smith’s plane. Smith considers this a
threatening situation and turns off his lights; the UFO flies by and
disappears. At least 35 copies of Smith’s report are sent to FBI, CIA,
AFOSI, and the State Department. None are ever officially released or
published.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “USN P2V3
Patrol Plane
and USS Tillamook Encounter”;
ClearIntent, pp.
165–166; Clark III 58; Sparks, p. 80;
Swords 90–91
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1465
Date: 1/22/1950
Description: At around 4:00 a.m. a radar blip was
detected approaching the Kodiak Islands at 1,800 mph over Kodiak,
Alaska, according to airborne radar. It then buzzed several planes and
boats. A U.S. Navy plane failed to intercept the UFO because it was too
highly maneuverable. It had two orange lights rotating about the center,
and made no detectable sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Bruce Maccabee, MUFON UFO Journal, September
1978, p. 7; UNICAT, case # 359; Lawrence Fawcett & Barry J.
Greenwood, UFO Coverup, p. 164; Richard Dolan, UFO's and the National
Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_406
Date: 1/23/1950
Time: 04:40
Location: 100KM SOUTH / KODIAK NAS, AK
Description: 6 Navy airmen can't catch fireball going
quickly west / FBI documents. / r98#243p30.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 130)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1483
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "100km S/KODIAK NAS,AK:6 NAVY AIRMEN CANT CATCH FBL >>W./FBI DOCS:/r98#243p30", LatLong: "56.750003 -152.483341", LatLongDMS: "56:45:00 N 152:29:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 1/23/1950
Description: At 4:40 a.m. a U.S. Navy P2V3 patrol plane
flying from the Kodiak Naval Air Station in Alaska spotted two orange
lights rotating about a common central point, which maneuvered in the
sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: MUFON UFO Journal, September 1978, p.
7
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_437
Date: 1/24/1950
Time: 16:50
Location: OVER HALIFAX CO, NC
Description: 3 / USAF C45. 75M hemisphere maneuvers 5mi
away. Cannot catch. Smoke.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 114)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1484
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", Elev: "78", HatchDesc: "ovr HALIFAX co,NC:3/USAF C45:75M HEMISPHERE MNVRS 5mi AWAY:CANNOT CATCH:SMOKE", LatLong: "36.216668 -77.300004", LatLongDMS: "36:13:00 N 77:18:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 1/24/1950
Location: Blackstone (near), VA
Description: C-45 Transport Crew Encounters Object
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500124
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_654
Date: 1/24/1950
Locations: Pope AFB [now Pope Field], Fayetteville,
North Carolina; Bolling AFB [now Joint Base Anacostia- Bolling],
Washington, D.C.; Blacksburg, Virginia
Description: 4:50 p.m. USAF Capt. G. B. Edwards and
copilot Theron C. Fehrevach are flying a C-45 transport plane from Pope
AFB [now Pope Field], Fayetteville, North Carolina, to Bolling AFB [now
Joint Base Anacostia- Bolling], Washington, D.C. While at 5,000 feet
near Blacksburg, Virginia, Fehrevach notices a dark, 200–250 foot in
diameter, hemispherical parachute-shaped object above them about 5–10
miles away. A large black smoky region is below it, possibly obscuring
the lower portion of a sphere. The UFO is darker than the 50% cloud
cover and “easy to distinguish as not being cloud.” The object moves
smoothly without any noticeable turn radius. Edwards puts the C-45 into
a climb to 7,000 feet so they are at the same altitude as the UFO and
turns to head directly toward it. Army Courier Service passenger 1st Lt.
John
H. Van Santen is alerted by Fehrevach and also sees the object move
right then left again, then they all see the object recede at high speed
and disappear. About 90 seconds later the object reappears about 30°–45°
to the right of their heading, then oscillates right to left. It moves
horizontally to dead ahead again and disappears by receding in the
distance at high speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “C-25 Transport Crew
Encounters Object”; Martin Shough and Wim van Utrecht, “Blackstone,
Virginia, USA: January 24, 1950,”
September 30, 2015; Swords 91
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1466
Date: 1/24/1950
Description: At 4:50 p.m. a UFO shaped like a
hemisphere with a flattened lower part, and estimated to be 70-80 meters
in diameter, maneuvered in the sky five miles away from a C-45 transport
plane flying from Pope AFB in Halifax County, North Carolina. The C-45,
flying at an airspeed of 160 mph, could not catch up with it. The object
oscillated with a pendulum motion. The Air Force explanation was that
the object sighted by military pilots Fehrevach and Edwards was a
balloon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 14;
Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_473
Date: Late 1/1950
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
Description: Gen. Charles
Cabell, possibly inspired by the Kodiak, Alaska, case, sends a
letter to ATIC asking why Project Grudge has ended, because he never
disbanded it. ATIC responds that Grudge is no longer a special project
and that UFO reports will be processed through normal intelligence
channels.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, pp.
69–70
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1467
Date: 1/26/1950
Time: 16:00
Location: ELMENDORF AIR FORCE BASE, AK
Description: Lt. Col. and 1. 3 orange cylinders going
north / 1600kph. Lost / odd small lone thin cloud..
Type: sighting
Reference: Periodical: UFO HISTORICAL REVUE (UHR Qtrly)
Barry Greenwood. Issue #8 Febr, 2001. POB 176, STONEHAM,MA 02180
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1485
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "ELMENDORF AFB,AK:Lt.Col+1:3 ORG CYLS >N/1600kph:LOST/ODD SML LONE THIN CLOUD..", LatLong: "61.250003 -149.766674", LatLongDMS: "61:15:00 N 149:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1/26/1950
Locations: Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base
Elmendorf-Richardson]; Anchorage, Alaska
Description: 4:00 p.m. Lt. Col. Lester
F. Mathison, commanding
officer of the 625th Aircraft and Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB [now
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska, notices three
reddish objects above the cirrus cloud layer at 25,000–30,000 feet. They
are moving to the north in a sightly curled trail fashion and disappear
into some clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Extract: History
of the 57th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, January 1–March 31, 1950 (Elmendorf AFB,
Alaska),” UFO Historical Revue, no. 8 (February 2001): 7–8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1468
Date: 1/26/1950
Description: Three orange cylinders flew to the north
at 1600 km/h over Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. It was witnessed by a
Lieutenant Colonel and another military witness. It was lost from sight
when it disappeared into an odd looking, lone small thin cloud.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1498
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_512
Date: 1/28/1950
Location: ALMANSA, SP
Description: Night lights and fireballs north going
quickly south / 2 days. Radios pick up strange voices / unknown
language.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1486
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "9", Duration: "240", HatchDesc: "ALMANSA,SP:NLTS+FBLS N>>S/2 DAYS:RADIOS PICK UP STRANGE VOICES/UNK LANGUAGE", LatLong: "38.883335 -1.150000", LatLongDMS: "38:53:00 N 01:09:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Albacete", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 1/29/1950
Location: SOUTH TABLE MOUNTAIN, CO
Description: Silver-green 20M ovoid hovers / 15M /
slope. Lands / ravine. Quickly going up [to] extremely fast. Odor.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 72)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1487
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1800", HatchDesc: "S.TABLE Mtn,CO:SLVR-GRN 20M OVOID HVRS/15M/SLOPE:LANDS/RAVINE:↑↑ XFAST:ODOR", LatLong: "39.750002 -105.200005", LatLongDMS: "39:45:00 N 105:12:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 1/29/1950
Location: South Table Mountain, Colorado
Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver saw a silvery-green
ovoid object hovering about 15 m above a slope and landing slowly in a
small ravine. Then it shot upward at very high speed. Its diameter was
about 20 m, and it had a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed
under it, and the witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_72
Date: 1/29/1950
Description: Mr. Quintana of Denver, Colorado saw a
silvery green ovoid object hovering about 15 meters above a slope on
South Table Mountain. It landed slowly in a small ravine. Then it shot
upward at very high speed. Its diameter was about 20 meters, and it had
a revolving middle band. A greenish light flashed under it, and the
witness felt a rush of air and a pungent smell.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 194, citing Flying Saucers, July 1959
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_570
Date: 1/30/1950
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
Description: The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville,
Tennessee, prints article referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City
newspaper article on “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered
saucers, acclimation program.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_396
See also: 1/6/1950
Date: 1/31/1950
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San
Antonio: A UFO resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a
thunderhead of clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and
disappeared into another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no
sound or air disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months
the UFO sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This
UFO was also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_397
See also: 1/6/1950
Date: 1/31/1950
Location: Aleutian Islands (north of), AK
Description: 3 ft red and white elliptical object
flying (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500131
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_655
Date: 2/1950
Location: Korea
Description: Fate Magazine. NAVY DOES
NOT SWALLOW OWN LINE. A few months before the Navy spokesman,
Dr. Brener Liddell issued his report that flying saucers were all
balloons. Naval Aviation News, an official Navy magazine,
reported the sighting of two mysterious smoke-trailing objects by an
American airship off Korea. The incident occurred in December of 1949,
and personnel aboard the seaplane tender Gardiners Bay reported
that the two objects struck the water at tremendous speed off the ship's
port bow while it was steaming up the channel from Inchon. Under the
title "Sighting Flying Disks Again?", the Navy magazine reported: "Two
huge columns of smoke rose to about 100 feet in height at the point of
contact. No aircraft could be sighted by radar, or visually overhead,
although the ceiling was unlimited. Identification remains a great
mystery."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_49
Date: 2/1950
Location: US
Description: Air Force Magazine.
CALLING HERR GENERAL FREUD. "It is concluded," the most
recent official Air Force report states, "that there are sufficient
psychological explanations for the reports of unidentified flying
objects to provide plausible explanations not otherwise explainable.
These errors in identifying real stimuli result chiefly from the
inability to estimate speed, distance, and size."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_51
Date: 2/1/1950
Location: St. John's, Newfoundland
Description: TELEPHONE TROUBLESHOOTER SEES ONE
OFF CANADIAN COAST.. Pat Walsh, telephone company electrician
and Navy veteran, reported seeing a tear-shaped object, bright as a
fluorescent light, for twelve seconds before it headed out to sea in an
arch-like flight at incredible speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_48
Date: 2/1/1950
Location: Tucson, AZ
Description: B-29 pilot follows fireball near Monthan
AFB.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_51
Date: 2/1/1950
Time: ~17:00
Location: TUCSON, AZ
Description: Air Traffic Controllers and many. Fireball
going quickly west / 9km altitude. Heavy smoke trail. Slows and going
quickly west. B29 chases.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 405)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1488
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "717", HatchDesc: "TUCSON,AZ:ATCs+MANY:FBL >>W/9km alt:HEAVY SMOKE TRAIL:SLOWS+>>W:B29 CHASES", LatLong: "32.216668 -110.916672", LatLongDMS: "32:13:00 N 110:55:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 2/1/1950
Description: Harry S.
Truman issues Executive Order 10104 and creates the “Top Secret
classification” designation.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: US Office of the Federal Register, “Executive
Order 10104” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1469
Date: 2/1/1950
Locations: Tucson, Arizona; Davis-Monthan AFB;
University of Arizona
Description: A meteor-like object spewing smoke is seen
by many people over Tucson, Arizona. The radio operator at Davis-Monthan
AFB asks 1st Lieut. Roy L.
Jones Jr. to investigate it in his B-29, but he cannot catch up with
it. Edwin
Francis Carpenter, head
of the University of Arizona astronomy department, says he is certain
the object is not a meteor.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
Real, Gold Medal, 1950, pp.
10–12; Sparks, p.
81
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1470
Date: 2/2/1950
Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ
Description: Saw object trailing smoke (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_656
Date: 2/2/1950
Locations: Falmouth Airport; Frances Crane Wildlife
Management Area north of Hatchville, Massachusetts; Otis AFB; Otis Air
National Guard Base near Mashpee
Description: Lincoln LaPaz, citing the
press of academic duties, withdraws from Project Twinkle. (Clark III
544) February 5 — 5:10 p.m. Four people at Falmouth Airport [now part of
Frances Crane Wildlife Management Area north of Hatchville,
Massachusetts] see two illuminated cylindrical objects in the western
sky. The witnesses include Marvin
R. Odom, owner
of the airport, and Lt. Philip
Foushee Jr. of Otis AFB [now Otis Air National Guard Base] near
Mashpee. As the objects are maneuvering, a fireball drops from one. Five
minutes later they both climb at high speed and disappear from
view.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Feb. 5, 1950;
Teaticket, Mass.”; Hyannis \(Mass.) Cape Cod Standard Times,
February 6, 1950; Sparks, p.
81
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1471
Date: 2/3/1950
Time: 21:00
Location: NORTH BAY, ON
Description: Numerous observer(s). 2 blue 2.5M disks
circle town / several minutes. Desripts vary.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 408)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1489
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "360", HatchDesc: "NORTH BAY,ON:NMRS OBS:2 BLU 2.5M DISKS CCL TOWN/SVRL MINs:desripts vary", LatLong: "46.216669 -79.450004", LatLongDMS: "46:13:00 N 79:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/5/1950
Time: 17:10
Location: TEATICKET, MA
Description: Many / airport. 2 cigars maneuver.
Fireball drops / 1+flies away. Vibrant bright / lights all.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 117)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1490
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "6", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "TEATICKET,MA:MANY/AIRPORT:2 CGRS MNVR:FBL DROPS/1+FLIES AWAY:VBRITE/LITES ALL", LatLong: "41.566669 -70.600003", LatLongDMS: "41:34:00 N 70:36:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/5/1950
Location: Teaticket, MA
Description: 2 thin, illuminated cylinders, one dropped
a fireball, both maneuvered together then disappeared high and fast.
(Berliner) 5 mins (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500205
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_657
Date: 2/5/1950
Time: 5:10 PM
Location: Teaticket, Massachusetts
Description: Witnesses: Marvin Odom, former U.S. Navy
fighter pilot, USAF Lt. Philip Foushee, pilot from Otis AFB, and two
others. Two thin, illuminated cylinders, one of which dropped a
fireball, maneuvered together and then disappeared high and fast after 5
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_30
Date: 2/5/1950
Description: Seven people witnessed two cylindrical
objects maneuvering in the sky at 5:10 p.m. near Falmouth Airport on
Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A fireball dropped from one of them, then they
climbed into the western sky and disappeared. Listed as a Project Blue
Book "unknown" case.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Cape Cod Standard Times, February 6, 1950;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 17; Project
Blue Book, February 1950 summary report
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_696
Date: 2/7/1950
Description: A 30-foot wide cone-shaped object flew in
over the shoreline at Alameda Naval Yard in California. There were six
military witnesses in total, and the sighting lasted several minutes.
One witness reported it as possibly a plane with engine trouble.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clipping dated February 9,
1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_731
Date: 2/8/1950
Location: SAN LEANDRO, CA
Description: 5+observer(s). 30' cone going north over
Alameda Naval Yard. 5K' altitude. Going quickly southeast / 80mph /
Scully.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 118)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1491
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "SAN LEANDRO,CA:5+OBS:30'CONE > N OVR ALAMEDA NVL YARD:5K'alt:>>SE/80mph/SCULLY", LatLong: "37.716668 -122.166672", LatLongDMS: "37:43:00 N 122:10:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/8/1950
Location: Tampa, FL
Description: B-29 Crew, Others, See 300' Object At
2,000 MPH (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500208
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_658
Date: 2/8/1950
Description: AFOSI Letter #85 is issued, directing Air
Force personnel to relay UFO sightings to the Pentagon or AMC only if
they are of “priority Counterintelligence interest.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 5, January– March
1950, The Author, 1983, p. 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1472
Date: 2/13/1950
Time: 21:00?
Location: NORRE NEBEL, DK
Description: Saucer going [to] over farm. Maneuvers.
Vanishes / flash! 2nd saucer passes. / AFU Sweden.
Type: sighting
Reference: VESCO, Renato: INTERCEPT but DON'T SHOOT;
transl. from Italian. Goofy. (Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1492
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Scandanavian and Finland", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", HatchDesc: "NORRE NEBEL,DK:SCR >ovr FARM:MNVRS:VANISHES/FLASH!:2nd SCR PASSES:/AFU Sweden", LatLong: "55.783336 8.300000", LatLongDMS: "55:47:00 N 08:18:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Danemark", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 2/13/1950
Description: In Norre Nebel, Denmark a disc-shaped
object maneuvered over a farm at around 9 p.m. and then vanished in a
flash. A second disc passed over the area eight minutes later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1505
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_890
Date: 2/15/1950
Description: In a newspaper story published in December
1967, a man from Salzburg, Austria claimed that he was abducted by a
five-foot tall Grey humanoid UFOnaut who wore a silver uniform with a
fishbowl style helmet. The incident reportedly occurred in a forest five
miles north of Salzburg at around 11:00 p.m. at night. He was paralyzed
and was floated up to the top of a round craft that had landed in a
nearby field. The UFO had a dark interior, and the experience involved
an off-Earth journey. The encounter lasted about an hour.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Charles Bowen, Flying Saucer Review,
July-August 1967, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_920
Date: 2/17/1950
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving
Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands
Pad 33, Reaches 148.7km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_398
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 148.7km
Date: 2/18/1950
Time: 05:20
Location: SOUTHWEST / DUVALL, WA
Description: Farmer. Bright night light going east.
Blinks on and off slowly. Sudden zigzag departure.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 408)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1493
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "43", HatchDesc: "SW/DUVALL,WA:FARMER:BRITE NLT >E:BLINKS ON+OFF SLOWLY:SUDDEN ZIGZAG DEPARTURE", LatLong: "47.711113 -122.005561", LatLongDMS: "47:42:40 N 122:00:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 2/20/1950
Locations: Massachusetts; USAF Cambridge Research
Laboratories
Description: LaPaz writes to
Peter
H. Wyckoff of the USAF Cambridge Research Laboratories in
Massachusetts that a “fireball project” ought not be pursued because any
objects that are not meteors are probably US test missiles. But he
concedes he might be wrong and says in that case, “intensive, systematic
investigation of these objects should not be delayed.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1473
Date: 2/21/1950
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: Project Twinkle, with the assistance of
Land-Air, Inc., has set up its first operations post, manned by two
observers who scan the sky over Holloman AFB, New Mexico, with
theodolite, telescope, and camera.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 544; Thomas Tulien, ed., Proceedings
of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
Group, November 2001, p. 45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1474
Date: 2/21/1950
Description: At 4:55 a.m. in Durban, South Africa three
men in a truck and several other people witnessed a dark red,
torpedo-shaped object that had a dark center, flying straight and
level.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 896; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1030
Date: 2/22/1950
Description: USAF denies existance of flying
saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_107
Date: 2/22/1950
Location: Boca Chica Naval AS, FL
Description: Radar/visuals of two glowing objects;
failed intercept.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_52
Date: 2/22/1950
Location: PINCKNEYVILLE, IL
Description: 2 / private plane. 20m saucer / 1500m
altitude. Going quickly [to] as plane nears. / r118-Feb. '97.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1494
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "122", HatchDesc: "PINCKNEYVILLE,IL:2/PVT PLANE:20m SCR/1500m alt:>> AS PLANE NEARS:/r118-Feb97", LatLong: "38.077780 -89.383338", LatLongDMS: "38:04:40 N 89:23:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1500", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/22/1950
Location: KEY WEST NAS, FL
Description: Pilots and more/others. 2 objects pause
over town. Type unknown. 50 mile(s) altitude / RADAR. Chase.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Donald: FLYING SAUCERS FROM OUTER
SPACE; Henry Holt, NY 1953 HC. (Index 44)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1495
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "KEY WEST NAS,FL:PILOTS++:2 OBJs PAUSE ovr TOWN:TYPE UNK:50mi alt/RDR:CHASE", LatLong: "24.550001 -81.766671", LatLongDMS: "24:33:00 N 81:46:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "15", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/22/1950
Location: Naval Air Station at Key West, Florida
Description: Navy pilots and others see two glowing
UFOs, confirmed by radar, above the Naval Air Station at Key West,
Florida. A plane is sent to investigate but it is “hopelessly
outdistanced.” After hovering momentarily at a high altitude (50
miles?), they speed away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p.
12; Sparks, p. 81
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1475
Date: 2/23/1950
Location: Santiago, Chile
Description: CHILE STILL HOARDS ITS
PIX.. Commander Augusto Vars Orrego, head of the Chilean
Antarctic Base of Arthur Prat, saw, on several occasions during the
Antarctic night, flying saucers, one above the other, turning at
tremendous speeds. Photographs were taken.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_50
Date: 2/24/1950
Time: 13:20
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: Project Bluebook Case #645. 2+12 Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) inspect. Metal saucer circles base / erratic.
Goes going up. Back / 25 th.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 126)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1496
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:BBK#645:2+12 AEC INSP:MTL SCR CCLS BASE/ERRATIC:GOES↑:BACK/25th", LatLong: "35.888891 -106.305561", LatLongDMS: "35:53:20 N 106:18:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 2/24/1950
Time: 14:00
Location: ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Description: Airport weathermen with theodolite. White
ovoid. Straight and level flight / 90 second(s). No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS;
(FUFOR). (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1497
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1488", HatchDesc: "ALBUQUERQUE,NM:AIRPt WEATHERMEN W/THEODOLITE:WHT OVOID:S/L FLITE/90sec:NFD", LatLong: "35.044446 -106.605561", LatLongDMS: "35:02:40 N 106:36:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/24/1950
Time: ~23:50
Location: DATIL, NMX
Description: USAF man photos disk. Astronomer LA Paz
has no explanation. / FBI.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 167)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1498
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "2238", HatchDesc: "DATIL,NMX:USAF MAN PHOTOS DISK:ASTRONOMER LA PAZ HAS NO EXPLANATION./FBI", LatLong: "34.150002 -107.866672", LatLongDMS: "34:09:00 N 107:52:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/24/1950
Location: Albuquerque, NM
Description: UAO observed over Los Alamos (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, BB: 642, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500224
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_661
Date: 2/24/1950
Location: Datil, NM
Description: Saw and photographed a circular luminous
object (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500224
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_662
Date: 2/24/1950
Time: 1:55 PM
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: Witnesses: Municipal Airport Weather
Observers Luther McDonald, Harrison Manson. One white, slightly
elongated oval was watched for 1.5 minutes through a theodolite while it
flew straight and level.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_31
Date: 2/24/1950
Locations: Holloman AFB; Datil, New Mexico
Description: 7:30 p.m. USAF Cpl. Lertis
E. Stanfield and other Holloman AFB Photographic Branch project
staff at an observation post at Datil, New Mexico, take five photos
(using a Cineflex camera with 3-inch focal length lens) of a circular,
luminous white object that changes to red and green. Its angular
velocity is greater than 0.5°/min in azimuth calculated by Lincoln LaPaz. The object
moves in a smooth straight-line motion from about 8:00–9:30 p.m. to the
west, blinking red and green. It disappears at high altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “AFOSI Case 175;
Datil Observation
Post Photographs Object”; Sparks, p. 82
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1476
Date: 2/24/1950
Description: At 1:15 p.m. 16 A.E.S.S. inspectors
watched an aluminum colored, round UFO hovering over Los Alamos, New
Mexico. It moved around for 20 minutes as if observing the nuclear
facility, zigzagged, and shot straight up in the sky. At 1:55 p.m. two
Albuquerque, New Mexico Municipal Airport Weather Observers, Luther
McDonald and Harrison Manson, watched a white, slightly elongated
oval-shaped UFO for 90 seconds through a theodolite while it flew
straight and level.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 26; (2) Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case 642; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1073
Date: 2/25/1950
Time: 01:20
Location: NEW BEDFORD, MA
Description: 2 observer(s). Silent shiny 1M
glowing-saucer hovers 300M / city incinerator. Going quickly
northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 409)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1499
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "NEW BEDFORD,MA:2 OBS:SLNT SHINY 1M GLO-SCR HVRS 300M/CITY INCINERATOR:>>NW", LatLong: "41.661113 -70.950003", LatLongDMS: "41:39:40 N 70:57:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/25/1950
Location: Los Alamos, NM
Description: AEC Investigators Sighted cylinder with
tapered ends, silver and flashing (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
645, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500225
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_663
Date: 2/25/1950
Time: 3:55 PM
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: Witnesses: Twelve Atomic Energy Commission
security inspectors. One cylinder with tapered ends, silver and
flashing, flew slow and hen fast, fluttered and oscillated, and changed
course. observations by individuals varied from 3 seconds to 2
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_32
Date: 2/25/1950
Description: Los Alamos, New Mexico. Twelve Atomic
Energy Commission security inspectors sighted a cylindrical UFO at 3:55
p.m. while at the Los Alamos nuclear facility. It was silver colored and
was flashing, and had tapered ends. The object flew slowly and then sped
up, fluttered and oscillated, and changed course. The observations by
the various individuals lasted from three seconds up to two
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1095
Date: 2/26/1950
Location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Description: 2:45 p.m. Three witnesses observe a
bronze-colored object that looks like two cigarette ashtrays placed face
to face over Vancouver, British Columbia. It slows down as it passes
overhead and wobbles as it moves along.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Chris Rutkowski, Canada’s UFOs:
Declassified, August Night, 2022, p. 64
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1477
Date: 2/27/1950
Time: 02:30
Location: JAMESBURG, NJ
Description: 2 / car. Metal saucer ringed / lights.
Hovers low. Sudden takeoff / swish.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 409)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1500
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "JAMESBURG,NJ:2/CAR:MTL SCR RINGED/LITES:HVRS LOW:SUDDEN TAKEOFF/SWISH:", LatLong: "40.350002 -74.438892", LatLongDMS: "40:21:00 N 74:26:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 2/27/1950
Location: Coulterville, IL
Description: Object in the shape of a discus
approximately 60 feet in diameter, 10 feet thick in the middle and thin
at the edges seen from private plane (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 500227
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_664
Date: 2/27/1950
Description: In Jamesburg, New Jersey two witnesses
watched a metallic saucer-shaped object ringed with lights hovering at a
low altitude, when it suddenly took off with a swishing sound.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950
(volume 4), p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1148
Date: 3/1950
Description: James J. Rodgers is named a chief of
Project Grudge.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p.
14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1478
Date: 3/1950
Location: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Description: Naval Commander Robert
Bright McLaughlin, in charge of a team of Navy scientists at White
Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, writes about the Charles B.
Moore sighting of April 24, 1949, in a True magazine article and
speculates on saucer propulsion systems. McLaughlin writes that the
saucers are indeed “spaceships from another planet, operated by animate,
intelligent beings.” The Navy, having gotten a preview of the article,
removes him from White Sands and gives him an assignment at sea aboard
the destroyer USS
Bristol.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Robert B. McLaughlin, “How Scientists Tracked a
Flying Saucer,” True, March 1950, pp. 25–27, 96–99; Ruppelt, pp.
70– 72;
Swords 94–95
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1479
Date: 3/1950
Location: Aztec, New Mexico
Description: According to Karl T.
Pflock, two CIA
agents clandestinely visit Aztec, New Mexico, UFO crash storyteller Silas
Newton and tell him that, although they know he is lying, they want
him to continue spreading the tale as disinformation. The two agents
later wind up involved in the Psychological Strategy Board created in
1951.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kremlin 37–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1480
Date: 3/1/1950
Location: CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO
Description: Many observer(s). Metallic disk hovers 5km
over city and airport. Then going quickly south. / r134#1p27.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1501
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "1433", HatchDesc: "CHIHUAHUA,MEX:MANY OBS:MTLC DISK HVRS 5km OVR CITY+AIRPORT:THEN >>S:/r134#1p27", LatLong: "28.616668 -106.100005", LatLongDMS: "28:37:00 N 106:06:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5000", State/Prov: "Chihuahua", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/1/1950
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: 1-6 March. Military and civil RADAR's and
visual. 40k-80k altitude. No planes scheduled / area.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 127)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1502
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "64", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:1-6MAR:MIL+CIV RDRs+VISUAL:40k-80k ALT:NO PLANES SCHEDULED/AREA", LatLong: "36.011113 -84.277782", LatLongDMS: "36:00:40 N 84:16:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/1/1950
Time: 14:00
Location: HANNA, WY
Description: 1 / (seen thru) binoculars. Odd birds
circle area. 1 blows white smoke and streaks going quickly north.
Absolute(ly) silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 411)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1503
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "60", Elev: "2066", HatchDesc: "HANNA,WY:1/BINOCS:ODD BIRDS CCL AREA:1 BLOWS WHT SMOKE+STREAKS >>N:ABS SLNT", LatLong: "41.866669 -106.550005", LatLongDMS: "41:52:00 N 106:33:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/1/1950
Location: Knoxville, TN
Description: Radio amateur tracks UFO with radar
(NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 0)
Reference: NICAP: 500301
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_665
Date: 3/1/1950
Description: A metallic disc hovered over Chihuahua
Airport in Mexico at five kilometers altitude during the day, then shot
off quickly toward the south.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clipping dated March 5, 1950;
Inforespace, December 1975
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1195
Date: 3/1/1950
Description: Military and civilian radars tracked a UFO
flying at between 40,000 and 80,000 feet near Knoxville, Tennessee. At
11:15 a.m. Stuart Adcock, a Knoxville radio amateur with experience in
radar technology, called the local FBI agent, Mr. Robey, to report that
he had detected an object using a surplus military radar set. The object
was circling at at altitude of about 40,000 feet over Oak Ridge nuclear
facility. Mr. Adcock reported another detection the next day. No planes
were scheduled in the area at the time. The US Air Force suggested that
the visual sightings may have been due to a mirage.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics; Bruce Maccabee, UFO-FBI Connection, p. 169
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1196
Date: 3/2/1950
Location: Mexico City
Description: MEXICAN OBSERVATORY PHOTOGRAPHS
ONE. Luis Enrique Erro, head of the Tonantzintla Observatory
near Puebla, reports an object flew through space and crossed the field
of his Schmidt telescope. Luis Munch, fellow astronomer, photographed
the object, which showed as a broad white streak diagonally across a jet
black field. The craft appeared to be about the diameter of the moon and
at least as bright.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_52
Date: 3/3/1950
Time: 23:10
Location: SELFRIDGE AIR FORCE BASE, MI
Description: Project Bluebook Case #650. 2 RADAR's and
visual (observation). Wide swings and abrupt turns. Also unidentified
blips / 08 March.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 128)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1504
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "4", Elev: "177", HatchDesc: "SELFRIDGE AFB,MI:BBK#650:2 RDRs+VIS:WIDE SWINGS+ABRUPT TURNS:+UID BLIPS/08MAR", LatLong: "42.605558 -82.827782", LatLongDMS: "42:36:20 N 82:49:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/3/1950
Location: Selfridge AFB, MI
Description: An intense, dull yellowish light descend
vertically (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 650)
Reference: NICAP: 500303
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_666
Date: 3/3/1950
Time: 11:05 PM
Location: Selfridge AFB, Michigan
Description: Witness: 1st Lt Frank Mattson. One
intense, dull yellowish light descended vertically, then flew straight
and level very fast for 4 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_33
Date: 3/3/1950
Locations: Selfridge AFB; Selfridge Air National Guard
Base; Mount Clemens, Michigan
Description: At Selfridge AFB [now Selfridge Air
National Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, a lone UFO causes
multiple radar trackings and is logged at speeds up to 1,500 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object Descends
Vertically, Levels Out”;
Patrick Gross, “Selfridge
AFB, Michigan, March 3, 1950”; Sparks, p.
83
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1481
Date: 3/3/1950
Description: At Selfridge AFB in Macomb County,
Michigan two radars tracked an unusual object in the sky at 11:10 p.m.
whose presence was confirmed with a visual sighting by a witness named
Mattson. The UFO was visible for four minutes and made wide swings and
abrupt turns.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case 650; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 28
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1268
Date: 3/4/1950
Location: Newburgh (near), IN
Description: A man was driving east approximately two
miles east of the junction of Indiana State Hwy 66 and 261 north of
Newburgh, when he observed an object he believed to be a rocket at a
distance of approximately 50-75 yards in front of his automobile.
(NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 500304
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_667
Date: 3/5/1950 (approximate)
Location: NEAR BLOOMFIELD, NM
Description: Object paces car. Car stops. Dark 5'
saucer circles car / dizzy speeds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 132)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1505
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "1662", HatchDesc: "nr BLOOMFIELD,NM:OBJ PACES CAR:CAR STOPS:DRK 5'SCR CIRCLES CAR/DIZZY SPEEDS", LatLong: "36.711113 -107.983338", LatLongDMS: "36:42:40 N 107:59:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/5/1950
Time: 01:30
Location: SALTSBURG, PA
Description: Ex USAF Officer. 15M turtle saucer hovers
/ low altitude. Keeps away as observer(s) nears.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 411)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1506
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "274", HatchDesc: "SALTSBURG,PA:EX USAF OFCR:15M TURTLE SCR HVRS/LO ALT:KEEPS AWAY AS OBS NEARS", LatLong: "40.483335 -79.450004", LatLongDMS: "40:29:00 N 79:27:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/5/1950
Time: 07:00
Location: GERING, NEBR
Description: 16+cop. 8m night light / 30m altitude.
Changes shape. Extremely bright. Dangles and maneuvers. Going
southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1507
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "6", Elev: "1219", HatchDesc: "GERING,NEBR:16+COP:8m NLT/30m alt:CHANGES SHAPE:XBRITE:DANGLES+MNVRS: >SE", LatLong: "41.822224 -103.661116", LatLongDMS: "41:49:20 N 103:39:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "30", State/Prov: "Nebraska", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/5/1950
Time: ~16:00
Location: HOUSTON, TX
Description: 4+1 observer(s). Metal disk hovers and
darts. Going quickly [to] cloud. Trails ribbon going east. / r134-4 /
13.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1508
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "HOUSTON,TX:4+1 OBS:MTL DISK HVRS+DARTS:>> CLOUD:TRAILS RIBBON >E:/r134-4/13", LatLong: "29.766668 -95.350005", LatLongDMS: "29:46:00 N 95:21:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/5/1950
Location: Bloomfield, NM
Description: Night. A dark, five-foot diameter disc
paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the object circled the car,
then sped away at a high speed. (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_668
Date: 3/5/1950
Description: At 1:30 a.m an ex-Air Force officer
driving on Highway 80 in Saltsburg, Pennsylvania said he watched a
turtle shell-shaped disc hovering at low altitude. The 15 meter wide
object kept away from him when the witness attempted to approach it. At
7:00 a.m. on this same date twenty witnesses watched a 25 foot wide,
extremely bright UFO maneuver in the sky over Gering, Nebraska. It
appeared to change shape as it flew off toward the southeast. In the
afternoon a metallic flying disc trailing some kind of ribbon hovered,
darted about, and jumped into some clouds over Houston, Texas. It left
flying toward the east. That night in Bloomfield, New Mexico a dark,
five-foot diameter disc paced a car. When the driver stopped the car the
object circled the car, then sped away at a high speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clippings, March 10, 1950 and
March 27, 1950; Loren Gross, UFOs: A History, 1950: January-March, pp.
11, 31-32
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1308
Date: 3/7/1950
Location: DURANGO, MEXICO
Description: Passing saucer stops / 2 hours. No further
details. / Los Angeles Times. / r134#1p37.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1509
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "1892", HatchDesc: "DURANGO,MEX:PASSING SCR STOPS/2 hrs:NFD:/Los Angeles Times:/r134#1p37", LatLong: "23.033334 -104.683338", LatLongDMS: "23:02:00 N 104:41:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "DRG", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/7/1950
Description: In 1950, two discs passing over Durango,
Mexico stopped in the sky for two hours.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211, citing the
Los Angeles Times
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1361
Date: 3/8/1950
Description: Mysterious "Silas Newton" speaks at
University of Denver
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_108
Date: 3/8/1950
Location: University of Denver
Description: Tape recorded University of Denver lecture
on three crash retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank
Scully’s papers in Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist
involved in the retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush
during WW2, but was instead given by Silas Newton at the last
minute.
Type: lecture
Reference: YouTube - Part 1
Reference: YouTube - Part 2
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_399
Date: 3/8/1950
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Radar/visuals of bright metallic disc;
failed intercept.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_53
Date: 3/8/1950
Location: MAZATLAN, MEXICO
Description: Naval Commander. Object / sky. Type
unknown. "Artificial device". No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 137)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1510
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "MAZATLAN,MEX:NAVAL COMMANDER:OBJ/SKY:TYPE UNK:"ARTIFICIAL DEVICE":NFD", LatLong: "23.233334 -106.450005", LatLongDMS: "23:14:00 N 106:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Sinaloa", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/8/1950
Time: ~09:00
Location: VANDALIA AIRPORT, OH
Description: 2 airliners and Air Traffic Controller and
many. Jets chase bullet cylinder/cigar-shape. Quickly going up [to] very
fast. / r29p73.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 84)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1511
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "180", Elev: "296", HatchDesc: "VANDALIA AIRPt,OH:2 AIRLINERS+ATC+MANY:JETS CHASE BULLET CGR:↑↑ VFAST:/r29p73", LatLong: "39.766669 -84.183337", LatLongDMS: "39:46:00 N 84:11:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/8/1950
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Three Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar Track At
ATIC (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500308
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_669
Date: 3/8/1950
Location: Dayton, OH
Description: Kerr/Miller/Rabenek Case (AL) Three
Aircraft Spot UFO / Radar Track At ATIC (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 500308
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_670
Date: 3/8/1950
Locations: Dayton, Ohio; Vandalia, Ohio;
Wright-Patterson AFB
Description: Mid-morning. TWA pilot Capt. W. H. Kerr
reports to the CAA that he and two other TWA pilots (D. W. Miller and Malvern
H. Rabeneck) are watching a UFO hovering at high altitude near
Dayton, Ohio. The CAA has already received about 20 other reports about
it from Vandalia, Ohio. ATIC control tower operators at Wright-
Patterson AFB pick it up visually and on radar (“a good, solid target”).
Four F-51 interceptors are sent up. They see it as a huge, round,
metallic object, but clouds move in. The object climbs vertically out of
sight at high speed. ATIC calls it the planet Venus, with radar returns
from ice-laden clouds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Three Aircraft
Spot UFO / Radar Track at
ATIC”; UFOEv, p.
84; Ruppelt, pp.
72–75; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 5, January– March
1950, The Author, 1983, pp. 32–37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1482
Date: 3/8/1950
Description: A Naval commander sighted a UFO in the sky
over Mazatlan, Mexico which he described as an "artificial device." At
five o'clock in the morning the crew of two airliners, the Air Traffic
Controller, and many other ground witnesses at Vandalia Airport, Ohio
sighted a bullet-shaped UFO being chased by military jets. The UFO
ascended very fast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence (Volume I),
p. 84
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1375
Date: 3/9/1950
Location: Selfridge AFB, MI
Description: Multiple radar, no visuals of object at
extreme speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_54
Date: 3/9/1950
Time: 10:00?
Location: SANTIAGO TO/FROM ANTILLA, CUBA
Description: All / airliner and many / ground. Classic
saucer tracked / theodolite.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1512
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "11", Duration: "15", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "SANTIAGO><ANTILLA,CUBA:ALL/AIRLINER+MANY/GND:CLASSIC SCR TRACKED/THEODOLITE:", LatLong: "20.416668 -75.816670", LatLongDMS: "20:25:00 N 75:49:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CUB", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/9/1950
Time: 19:50
Location: SELFRIDGE AIR FORCE BASE, MI
Description: Military Air Traffic Controllers. Blip
paces jets. 4 blips to 2052h. 2500mph vertical!
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT;
Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 295)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1513
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "45", Elev: "177", HatchDesc: "SELFRIDGE AFB,MI:MIL ATCs:BLIP PACES JETS:4 BLIPS TO 2052h:2500mph VERTICAL!", LatLong: "42.594446 -82.827782", LatLongDMS: "42:35:40 N 82:49:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/9/1950
Location: Selfridge AFB, MI
Description: Selfridge AFB, Michigan, G,V,A air defense
ground radar trackings of an object erratically varying height &
speed (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500309
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_671
Date: 3/9/1950
Locations: Selfridge Air Force Base; Mount Clemens,
Michigan
Description: 7:45 p.m. A crew of three radar
controllers at Selfridge Air Force Base [now Selfridge Air National
Guard Base] near Mount Clemens, Michigan, is busy monitoring the night
flying units of the 56th Fighter-Interceptor Group. 1st Lt. Francis
E. Parker, 1st
Lt. Frank
K. Mattson, Sgt.
McCarthy, and Cpl. Melton observe an intermittent target on the height
range indicator (HRI) scope of the CPS-4 radar at 47,000 feet altitude
and higher. Further indications of what Parker describes as a
well-defined, clear target like an aircraft are picked up with
increasing regularity over the next 45–60 minutes. During this time, the
target seems to stay in the area where the F-80s are flying, but 20,000
feet above them. The radar operators are monitoring two different
systems—a CPS-5 radar operating on long-wave frequencies at 40,000 feet,
and a CPS-4 radar operating on short-wave frequencies—and the target
appears on both scopes simultaneously without fade. The speed varies
from a hover in low-density air to nearly 1,500 mph, well in excess of
the fastest operational jet at the time, and a climb rate of up to 7,000
feet per minute.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “The Selfridge AFB
Incident”; Sparks, p. 84;
Hynek UFO Report, pp.
123– 125, 295–297;
Clark III 1047–1049; Martin L. Shough, “Radar and the UFO,” UFOs
1947–1987, Fortean Tomes, 1987, pp. 215–217
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1483
Date: 3/9/1950
Description: At ten o'clock in the morning a
disc-shaped object was sighted by witnesses on the ground as well as by
passengers and crew of an airliner flying from Santiago to Antilla,
Cuba. The ground observers tracked the UFO with a theodolite.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 54
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1389
Date: 3/9/1950
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Description: "Flying Disk" reported to have landed at
Mexico City, Mexico.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_13
Date: 3/10/1950
Location: Edmonton, Alberta
Description: WEST CANADA CATCHES SIGHT OF
THREE. F. Arnold Richards, civic employee, saw objects with a
bluish-white flame shooting out of the wide end. He reported three in
all.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_53
Date: 3/10/1950
Location: CD.JUAREZ, MX
Description: Numerous observer(s). Top-like disk going
quickly north. Big wave all over/all about / MX. / r134#1p46. /
LDLN#211.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 411)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1514
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "12", Duration: "2", Elev: "1143", HatchDesc: "Cd.JUAREZ,MX:NMRS OBS:TOP-LIKE DISK >>N:BIG WAVE ALLO/MX:/r134#1p46:/LDLN#211", LatLong: "31.716668 -106.483338", LatLongDMS: "31:43:00 N 106:29:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "JLS", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/10/1950
Time: ~08:50
Location: LA CRESCENTA, CA
Description: Numerous observer(s). Delta-gondola object
goes going [to] N. toward(s) Tujunga. Altitude = 5000'.
Type: sighting
Reference: DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The
TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1515
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", Elev: "524", HatchDesc: "LA CRESCENTA,CA:NMRS.OBS:DELTA-GONDOLA OBJ GOES >N.TWRD TUJUNGA:ALT=5000'.", LatLong: "34.222224 -118.250006", LatLongDMS: "34:13:20 N 118:15:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/10/1950
Time: ~17:30
Location: BURBANK, CA
Description: Near Lockheed works. Spoked wheel-object
going quickly south from Tujunga.
Type: sighting
Reference: DRUFFEL, Ann & ROGO, D. Scott:The
TUJUNGA CANYON CONTACTS Signet Books PB 1989 (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1516
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "236", HatchDesc: "BURBANK,CA:nr LOCKHEED WORKS:SPOKED WHEEL-OBJ >>S FROM TUJUNGA.", LatLong: "34.183335 -118.316672", LatLongDMS: "34:11:00 N 118:19:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/10/1950
Time: 18:00
Location: SOUTHEAST / PHOENIX, AZ
Description: 7 observer(s). 200' metal ovoid / 45K'
altitude. Silent and still. Then shoots going up / sky / seconds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 145)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1517
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "330", HatchDesc: "SE/PHOENIX,AZ:7 OBS:200'MTL OVOID/45K'alt:SILENT+STILL:THEN SHOOTS↑/SKY/SECs", LatLong: "33.400002 -112.000005", LatLongDMS: "33:24:00 N 112:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "13200", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/10/1950
Time: 18:20
Location: ORANGEBURG, SC AND COLUMBIA AND FLORENCE AND
SALLY, SC
Description: Saucer hovers over towns. Then speeds
away.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 143)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1518
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "75", HatchDesc: "ORANGEBURG,SC+COLUMBIA+FLORENCE+SALLY,SC:SCR HVRS OVR TOWNS:THEN SPEEDS AWAY", LatLong: "33.494446 -80.855559", LatLongDMS: "33:29:40 N 80:51:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Carolina", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/10/1950
Time: 19:00
Location: NORWOOD, OH
Description: 12+observer(s). Huge object in searchlight
again. Rises to avoid beam? Many such.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 136)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1519
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "201", HatchDesc: "NORWOOD,OH:12+OBS:HUGE OBJ IN SEARCHLITE AGAIN:RISES TO AVOID BEAM?:MANY SUCH", LatLong: "39.166669 -84.450004", LatLongDMS: "39:10:00 N 84:27:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/10/1950
Location: Orangeburg, SC
Description: Disc hovered over city, sped away. [XII]
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_672
Date: 3/10/1950
Location: Orangeburg, South Carolina
Description: A publisher and others see a bright disc
hover over Orangeburg, South Carolina, for 15 minutes. It speeds away,
leaving a trail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
149
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1484
Date: 3/10/1950
Description: An oval-shaped, aluminum colored object
hung in sky at 40,000 feet altitude over Indian School Road southeast of
Phoenix, Arizona at 6:00 p.m. It was estimated to be 200 feet in
diameter, tapering to narrower proportions in the rear. It moved
silently through the sky with a red fiery trail one hundred feet long,
but left no vapor trail. It was gone from sight in 4 to 5 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 45
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1401
Date: 3/11/1950
Location: Juarez, Mexico
Description: THREE MEXICAN OFFICIALS SEE
ONE. Robert Antorena, Amilcar Lopez Sousa and Manuel Espejo,
customs and border officials, saw a top-like disk traveling high in the
sky and headed towards El Paso.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_54
Date: 3/11/1950
Location: Juarez, Mexico
Description: NEW AND OLD MEXICO REPORT
SIGHTINGS THE SAME DAY. Luis Herrera, travel agency owner, saw
a strange, disk-shaped object over the city for fifteen minutes. At the
same time, John E. Baird of El Paso saw an object shaped like a globe,
near Deming, New Mexico.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_55
Date: 3/11/1950
Location: CD MEXICO, DF, MX
Description: Airport observer(s) and Cadet with
telescope. Many see several saucers. Others just 1.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 148)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1520
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "10", Duration: "20", Elev: "1143", HatchDesc: "cd MEXICO,DF,MX:AIRPORT OBS+CADET W/TELESCOPE:MANY SEE SVRL SCRS:OTHERS JUST 1", LatLong: "19.450001 -99.133338", LatLongDMS: "19:27:00 N 99:08:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "DF", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/11/1950
Time: 01:00
Location: SOUTHWEST / HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: Huge 5-minute meteor changes color /
Provost Marshall Haynor.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1521
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "1230", HatchDesc: "SW/HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:HUGE 5-MINUTE METEOR CHANGES COLOR/PROVOST MARSHALL HAYNOR", LatLong: "32.750002 -106.100005", LatLongDMS: "32:45:00 N 106:06:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "3"
Date: 3/11/1950
Time: 10:00
Location: PUNTA ARENAS, CHL
Description: 18cm sphere / 5400M altitude / 3 hours.
Crosses sky going west. / Los Angeles Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1522
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Chile", Credibility: "9", Duration: "180", Elev: "35", HatchDesc: "PUNTA ARENAS,CHL:18cm SPHERE/5400M alt/3hrs:CROSSES SKY >W:/Los Angeles Times", LatLong: "-53.133336 -70.916670", LatLongDMS: "53:08:00 S 70:55:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5400", State/Prov: "TDF", Strangeness: "3"
Date: 3/11/1950
Time: ~21:00
Location: CHUALAR AND SALINAS, CA
Description: 4 / car buzzed / saucer. Brill blue-light.
Loops. Going quickly south. Many calls.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 419)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1523
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "32", HatchDesc: "CHUALAR+SALINAS,CA:4/CAR BUZZED/SCR:BRILL BLU-LITE:LOOPS:>>S:MANY CALLS", LatLong: "36.622224 -121.583339", LatLongDMS: "36:37:20 N 121:35:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/11/1950
Location: Punta Arenas, Chile
Description: Silver ping-pong-shaped object at extreme
altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_673
Date: 3/11/1950
Description: A car was buzzed by a brilliant blue disc
at 9:00 p.m. as it was being driven from Chualar to Salinas, California.
The UFO made a loop, then shot off to the south. There were many calls
to the authorities reporting sightings of the object.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 47
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1421
Date: 3/12/1950
Location: MEXICALI, MX AND CALEXICO, CA
Description: Many observer(s). Bright discs tumble /
sky. Crescents zip about.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 148)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1524
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "11", Duration: "20", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "MEXICALI,MX+CALEXICO,CA:MANY OBS:BRITE DISCS TUMBLE/SKY:CRESCENTS ZIP ABOUT", LatLong: "32.450002 -115.483339", LatLongDMS: "32:27:00 N 115:29:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Baja California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/12/1950
Time: ~14:00
Location: PACIFIC CITY, OR
Description: 2 observer(s). Photograph. Turtle-shell
object south going north over sea. 6 holes / bottom. No spin.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 232)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1525
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC CITY,OR:2 OBS:FOTO:TURTLE-SHELL OBJ S>N OVR SEA:6 HOLES/BOTTOM:NO SPIN", LatLong: "45.200002 -123.950006", LatLongDMS: "45:12:00 N 123:57:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/12/1950
Time: 19:10
Location: NEAR COLUMBUS, MT
Description: 3 observer(s). Featureless
cylinder/cigar-shape flames going quickly northwest. Separate weatherman
reports saucer.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 416)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1526
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1097", HatchDesc: "nr COLUMBUS,MT:3 OBS:FEATURELESS CGR FLAMES >>NW:SEP. WEATHERMAN REPORTS SCR", LatLong: "45.633336 -109.250005", LatLongDMS: "45:38:00 N 109:15:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/12/1950
Time: ~22:00
Location: BROOKS CO, TX
Description: 11 observer(s) / 2 separate ranches. Plain
4M disk circles / 300M altitude. Going quickly southwest toward(s)
Mexico.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 417)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1527
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "34", HatchDesc: "BROOKS co,TX:11 OBS/2 SEP.RANCHES:PLAIN 4M DISK CCLs/300M alt:>>SW twrd MEXICO", LatLong: "27.233335 -98.150005", LatLongDMS: "27:14:00 N 98:09:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TSX", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/12/1950
Time: 23:00?
Location: SANTA FE, NM
Description: 2 saucers swoop over highway in front /
car. Observer(s) terrified. (UPI) / WDC.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 148)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1528
Attributes: CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "2100", HatchDesc: "SANTA FE,NM:2 SCRS SWOOP OVR HIGHWAY IN FRONT/CAR:OBS TERRIFIED:(UPI)/WDC", LatLong: "35.666668 -106.038894", LatLongDMS: "35:40:00 N 106:02:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/12/1950
Description: On this night a featureless four-meter
wide disc circled a ranch in Falfurrias, Texas at 300 meters altitude
for a few minutes. It flew off in a southwesterly direction toward
Mexico.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950
Supplement, p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1430
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: Mexico City, D.F.
Description: AIRPORT WEATHER EXPERT SEES FOUR
IN MEXICO. Santiago Smith, chief weather observer for the
Mexico City Airport trained a telescope at an object shaped like a
half-moon, one of four flying bodies crossing the airport at 35,000 to
45,000 feet.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_56
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: Monterey, Mexico
Description: MONTEREY SEES ONE MAKE QUICK
TURNS. Francisco Martinez Soto, government airport inspector,
saw an object moving in a straight line and changing its altitude by one
and a half degrees in three minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_57
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: CLARKSBURG, CA
Description: Big glowing saucer descends. Hovers /
swaying motion. Stays / 15 minute(s). 2 observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 149)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1529
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "CLARKSBURG,CA:BIG GLOWING SCR DESCENDS:HOVERS/SWAYING MOTION:STAYS/15min:2 OBS", LatLong: "38.422224 -121.527784", LatLongDMS: "38:25:20 N 121:31:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/13/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: NORTH / MONTREAL, QB
Description: Pilot sighting. 2 saucers and 2
pear-shapes / 10K' altitude. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994,
LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 179)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1530
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "65", HatchDesc: "N/MONTREAL,QB:PILOT SIGHTING:2 SCRS+2 PEAR-SHAPES/10K'alt:NFD", LatLong: "45.666669 -73.583337", LatLongDMS: "45:40:00 N 73:35:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "Quebec", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/13/1950
Time: 22:00
Location: EUNICE, NM
Description: 2 observer(s). Dull-red glowing-disk going
east / oilfield / 150M altitude. 90° turn going quickly north /
1600kph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 421)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1531
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "1051", HatchDesc: "EUNICE,NM:2 OBS:DULL-RED GLO-DISK > E/OILFIELD/150M alt:90°TURN >>N/1600kph", LatLong: "32.438890 -103.161116", LatLongDMS: "32:26:20 N 103:09:40 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: Clarksburg, CA
Description: Saucer-shaped object descended, hovered
with swaying motion, moved away. [IV] (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_674
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: Mexico City, MX
Description: Airport observers saw 4 UFOs, one through
theodolite. [V, Xl (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_675
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: Clarksburg, California
Description: Early morning. Army Signal Corps (Reserve)
Maj. Taylor in Clarksburg, California, is sleeping when an odd droning
noise wakes him up. Going outside, he notices the noise is coming from a
brilliant light in the sky, one- half the size of the full moon. It
sways for about 15 minutes, then moves away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume
5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, p. 49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1485
Date: 3/13/1950
Location: Central Airport in Mexico City, Mexico
Description: Day. At the Central Airport in Mexico
City, Mexico, Santiago Smith (weather observer for Mexicana de
Aviación), J. de la Vega of the airport commander’s office, and others
see a total of four UFOs passing overhead. Smith observes one of them
through a theodolite, describing it as the shape of a “half-moon.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
44; “‘Saucers’
No Illusion: Hundreds See Shy Visitors,” Oakland \(Calif.) Tribune,
March 14, 1950, p. 9; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, pp.
50–51
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1486
Date: 3/13/1950
Description: A glowing light descended, then hovered
with a swaying motion over farm country in Clarksburg, California at
5:00 a.m. It made a droning sound, and stayed in the area for 15
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: R. B. McLaughlin, True magazine, March 1950,
p. 25; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 49,
citing Civilian Saucer Intelligence Newsletter, October 1958, p.
83
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1445
Date: 3/13/1950
Description: An nine meter in diameter object,
described as a spaceship with a propeller, allegedly landed in Penon de
Los Banos, Mexico on this day. The pilot of the craft conversed in the
Spanish language with the witness. His message was that "they" will
colonize after we destroy ourselves. There was a reported odor of
sulphur accompanying the presence of the UFOnaut.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0157, citing the Durango Herald,
March 19, 1950; El Universal, March 14, 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1446
Date: 3/14/1950
Location: KAILUA, OAHU, HI
Description: Farm worker. Silver saucer trails smaller
shining streaks. Goes southeast going quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1532
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "KAILUA,OAHU,HI:FARM WORKER:SLVR SCR TRAILS SMALLER SHINING STREAKS:GOES SE>>NW", LatLong: "21.366668 -157.783341", LatLongDMS: "21:22:00 N 157:47:00 W", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/14/1950
Location: NEAR MEXICO CITY AIRPORT/APARTMENT, MX
Description: Private pilot. 7M dome with green glow /
bottom. Quickly going up. / r134#1p49.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 44)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1533
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "2230", HatchDesc: "nr MEXICO CITY Apt,MX:PVT PILOT:7M DOME W/GRN GLOW/BOTTOM:↑↑:/r134#1p49", LatLong: "19.466668 -99.100005", LatLongDMS: "19:28:00 N 99:06:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "DF", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/14/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: 16 KM NORTHEAST / SANTA FE, NM
Description: Teen. Huge shiny globe hovers / mountains.
Sudden burst / speed going quickly northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 421)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1534
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", Elev: "2098", HatchDesc: "16 km NE/SANTA FE,NM:TEEN:HUGE SHINY GLOBE HVRS/Mtns:SUDDEN BURST/SPEED >>NE", LatLong: "35.750002 -105.900005", LatLongDMS: "35:45:00 N 105:54:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/14/1950
Time: 23:30
Location: PACIFIC BEACH, WA
Description: Blue Book. Civil observer(s) = Ballieu.
Object / crazy maneuvers / 5 minute(s). Type unknown. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1535
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "8", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "PACIFIC BEACH,WA:BBK:CIV.OBS=BALLIEU:OBJ/CRAZY MNVRS/5min:TYPE UNK:NFD", LatLong: "47.211113 -124.200006", LatLongDMS: "47:12:40 N 124:12:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/14/1950
Description: At 1:00 p.m. in a cemetery in Veghenza,
Emilia-Romagna, Italy a witness witnessed a six-meter in diameter
metallic saucer with legs. Six four-foot tall humanoids climbed ladders,
then gestured. The craft took off and flew to the northeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT:
Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A2046
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1469
Date: 3/14/1950
Description: At around noon a teenager named
Richardson, who was located 16 km northeast of Santa Fe, New Mexico, saw
a huge shiny sphere hovering over the mountains. It made a sudden burst
of speed to the northeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clipping dated March 15, 1950;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950 (Volume 4), p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1470
Date: 3/14/1950
Description: On this day a farmworker in Kailua, island
of Oahu, Hawaii sighted a silver disc; it had trailing it smaller
shining streaks. It flew from the southeast to the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History.
January-March, p. 50
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1471
Date: 3/14/1950
Description: On this night a private pilot at Mexico
City Airport, Mexico witnessed a 7 meter in diameter dome with a green
glow on the bottom. It shot up vertically.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: H. Edward Hill, Catalog Through 1950, case
#315; Frank Scully, Behind the Flying Saucers, p. 209; Richard Hall, The
UFO Evidence, p. 44; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1556
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1472
Date: 3/14/1950
Description: At 11:30 p.m. in Pacific Beach, Washington
civilians watched a UFO maneuver erratically for about five
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book, March 1950; Loren E.
Gross, UFOs: A History. January-March, p. 51
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1473
Date: 3/15/1950
Time: 11:00
Location: GUATEMALA, GUAT
Description: 4 silver saucers / 25K' over
airport/apartment runways. 1Kmph going quickly north. Also Mexico, DF /
same day..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 150)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1536
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Guatemala", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "1500", HatchDesc: "GUATEMALA,GUAT:4 SLVR SCRS/25K' OVR APT RUNWAYS:1Kmph>>N:+MEXICO,DF/SAME DAY..", LatLong: "14.616667 -90.533338", LatLongDMS: "14:37:00 N 90:32:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "7500", State/Prov: "GUA", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/15/1950
Time: 12:50
Location: PRESTONSBURG, KY
Description: 35 kids and more. Terrible roar. 3
star-saucers slow down and maneuver. 2 more later.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 423)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1537
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "50", Elev: "196", HatchDesc: "PRESTONSBURG,KY:35 KIDS+:TERRIBLE ROAR:3 STAR-SCRS SLOW DOWN+MNVR:2 MORE LATER", LatLong: "37.666668 -82.772226", LatLongDMS: "37:40:00 N 82:46:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/15/1950
Time: 18:20
Location: PENFIELD, PA
Description: 2 / car / malfunctions due to EME
(electro-magnetic effects). 30m saucer / 100m altitude trails streamer.
Military investigation/investigators. (AP) news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 152)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1538
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "377", HatchDesc: "PENFIELD,PA:2/CAR/EMEs:30m SCR/100m alt TRAILS STREAMER:MIL INV:(AP) NEWS", LatLong: "41.211113 -78.577782", LatLongDMS: "41:12:40 N 78:34:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/15/1950
Time: 22:00?
Location: BATON ROUGE, LA
Description: 1 observer. 5 ovoids going quickly
southeast fast in formation. White or aluminum color. Seen 10
second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 421)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1539
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "16", HatchDesc: "BATON ROUGE,LA:1 OBS:5 OVOIDS >>SE FAST in FORMn:WHT or ALUMN CLR:seen 10 sec", LatLong: "30.450001 -91.155560", LatLongDMS: "30:27:00 N 91:09:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Louisiana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/15/1950
Locations: Guatemala; Guatemala City; Brookley Air
Force Base; Mobile Aeroplex at Brookley; Mobile, Alabama
Description: An Air Force Captain Hall, flying in
Guatemala, hears from other pilots at La Aurora Airport in Guatemala
City that large, fast, and highly maneuverable objects have flown
directly over the runway. The stories also appear in the local press.
When Hall returns to Brookley Air Force Base [now Mobile Aeroplex at
Brookley] in Mobile, Alabama, he is interrogated by a USAF intelligence
officer and told: “Listen, there is no such thing as a flying saucer.
You won’t discuss them.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 96
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1487
Date: 3/15/1950
Description: At 6:15 p.m. a disc-shaped object circled
a motorist on highway 153 north of Clearfield, Pennsylvania. There were
humanoids inside the craft that were visible through windows, and a
bluish-green ray was shot in the direction of the witness but missed. A
white light lingered in the area for more than 30 seconds, then the UFO
flew off toward the northwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: William Baggs, Miami Daily News, March 15,
1950; St. Louis Post Dispatch, April 2, 1950; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A
History. 1950: January-March, p. 52
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1521
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: Lima, Peru
Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he
spotted a UFO stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post
Special)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: "Behind
the Flying Saucers" by Frank Scully
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_400
Date: 3/16/1950
End date: 3/18/1950
Locations: Farmington, NM; Aztec, NM
Description: Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s
of UFO’s spotted over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared
red colored. Seen by thousands of witnesses over a period of several
days. Local newspapers reportedly censored.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_401
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: Delhi, Ontario
Description: ONTARIO REPORTS ONE PLAYING
TAG. Paul Repai, Mr. and Mrs. Andre Hertal and Steve Fodor saw
a flying saucer at 4 am moving in jerks as if controlled, faster than a
jet. It seemed bigger and duller when moving, smaller and brighter when
still. It swished from side to side and hovered up and down, then it
suddenly rose sharply and disappeared.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_58
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: Miraflores, Peru
Description: SWISS IN PERU REPORTS ONE TAKE
5-MINUTE REST. Julian Guardiola, Swiss Engineer, saw a disk
flying from the south giving off a red and yellow glow. It stopped
directly above them at about 4500 feet and remained for about five
minutes. It then flew southward at tremendous velocity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_59
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: San Jose Purua, Mexico
Description: LANSING M.D. FILMS ONE ONE IN
MEXICO. Dr. W.C. Behen, of Lansing, Michigan, made both
photographs and movies of a double truncated cone, silver in color, and
eight or nine thousand feet in the air. The object disappeared from time
to time, but would reappear to hover over one area for several
minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_60
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: Naval AS, Dallas TX
Description: Disc approaches B-36 from below; hovers,
speeds away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_55
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: MIRAFLORES, PERU
Description: Swiss engineer and family. Glowing saucer
stops overhead / 5 minute(s). Continues going quickly north.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1540
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Peru", Credibility: "8", Duration: "6", Elev: "67", HatchDesc: "MIRAFLORES,PERU:SWISS ENGINEER+FAMILY:GLOWING SCR STOPS OVHD/5min:CONTINUES>>N", LatLong: "-12.133334 -77.050004", LatLongDMS: "12:08:00 S 77:03:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LMA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/16/1950 (approximate)
Location: COCHABAMBA AND LA PAZ, BLV
Description: 2+glowing-disks going northeast overhead
and away. / local paper and more / r134#1p35.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1541
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Bolivia", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "2570", HatchDesc: "COCHABAMBA+La PAZ,BLV:2+GLOW-DISKS >NE OVHD+away:/local paper+/r134#1p35", LatLong: "-17.383334 -66.150003", LatLongDMS: "17:23:00 S 66:09:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LPZ", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: SAN JOSE PURUA, MICH, MEXICO
Description: AM tourist. Double truncated cone.
Photographs (lost). 9000' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1542
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "1450", HatchDesc: "SAN JOSE PURUA,MICH,MEX:AM TOURIST:DBL TRUNCATED CONE:FOTOS(LOST):9000'alt", LatLong: "19.516668 -100.522227", LatLongDMS: "19:31:00 N 100:31:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "2700", State/Prov: "MCH", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/16/1950
Time: 04:00
Location: DELHI, ONT
Description: 3 observer(s). Dull "extra moon" jerks
around sky generally going quickly south. Quite fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 154)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1543
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "233", HatchDesc: "DELHI,ONT:3 OBS:DULL "EXTRA MOON" JERKS AROUND SKY GENERALLY >>S:QUITE FAST", LatLong: "42.866669 -80.500004", LatLongDMS: "42:52:00 N 80:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/16/1950
Time: 11:30
Location: DALLAS NAS, TX
Description: CPO Lewis. 25' saucer stops right under
B36 bomber. Then quickly going up. / r29p75.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 424)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1544
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "125", HatchDesc: "DALLAS NAS,TX:CPO LEWIS:25'SCR STOPS RIGHT UNDER B36 BOMBER:THEN ↑↑:/r29p75", LatLong: "32.733335 -96.966671", LatLongDMS: "32:44:00 N 96:58:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "-1", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/16/1950
Time: 18:10
Location: NEAR TIOGA, TX
Description: 7 / bus. Slow silent flat disk suddenly
flips and speeds away. Featureless.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 424)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1545
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "6", Elev: "212", HatchDesc: "nr TIOGA,TX:7/BUS:SLOW SLNT FLAT DISK SUDDENLY FLIPS+SPEEDS AWAY:FEATURELESS", LatLong: "33.466668 -96.916671", LatLongDMS: "33:28:00 N 96:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/16/1950
Time: ~22:00
Location: PIKES PEAK, CO
Description: Saucer over peak. Newpaper lines jammed /
calls. Also Hobbs and Albuquerque / NM.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 155)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1546
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "30", Elev: "4300", HatchDesc: "PIKES PEAK,CO:SCR OVR PEAK:NEWPAPER LINES JAMMED/CALLS:ALSO HOBBS+ALBUQQ/NM", LatLong: "38.844446 -105.044449", LatLongDMS: "38:50:40 N 105:02:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/16/1950
Location: Dallas, TX
Description: Navy Chief Petty Officer at Naval Air
Station saw a flat oval UFO pass under a B36 bomber. (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_676
Date: 3/16/1950
Locations: White Sands, New Mexico; New Mexico
Description: The efforts of Kaplan and Maj.
Oder to start a
fireball research project come to fruition when the AF Geophysical
Research Directorate headed by Oder issues a letter directive
authorizing Project Twinkle. A $20,000 half-year contract is signed with
Land-Air, Inc. which operates the phototheodolites at White Sands, New
Mexico. Land-Air is to set up a 24-hour watch at a location in New
Mexico to be specified by the Air Force, and the phototheodolite
operators at White Sands are to film any unusual objects that happen to
fly past. The official contract gives April 1 as the starting
date.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1488
Date: 3/16/1950
Locations: Naval Air Station Dallas; Grand Prairie
Armed Forces Reserve Complex; Dallas, Texas
Description: Just before 12:00 noon. Chief Petty
Officer Charles Lewis sees a flying disc streak across the sky at Naval
Air Station Dallas [later Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex]
near Dallas, Texas. It buzzes a high- flying B-36. It hovers under the
bomber for a moment, then flies off and disappears. NAS Commander Capt.
Milton Adolphus
Nation vouches for Lewis and says that the base tower operators had
seen a UFO 10 days before.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Disc Buzzes
B-36”; “‘Flying Saucers’ Sighted by Two,” Dallas Morning News, March
18, 1950; Ruppelt, p.
75
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1489
Date: 3/16/1950
End date: 3/18/1950
Location: Farmington, New Mexico
Description: 11 a.m.–noon. Former Army Engineer Capt.
and Farmington Times business manager Clayton
J. Boddy Jr. and
dozens of others watch 12–15 shiny “saucer-like discs” cavorting around
the sky over Farmington, New Mexico. They hover, then move in great
bursts of speed. The objects appear three days in a row.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “The Farmington
Invasion”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, pp.
56–64; Sparks, p. 84; James E.
McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 47–48
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1490
Date: 3/17/1950
Location: ANKARA, TURKEY
Description: Locals. 6 blue-white disks turn / sky.
Suddenly shoot up and gone. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1547
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Turkey", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ANKARA,TURKEY:LOCALS:6 BLU-WHT DISKS TURN/SKY:SUDDENLY SHOOT UP+GONE:NFD", LatLong: "39.916669 32.833335", LatLongDMS: "39:55:00 N 32:50:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ankara", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/17/1950
Location: MEXICO CITY, MX
Description: Aircrew and 4 pilots / ground and more.
Plane chases 30M saucer / 10km altitude. / r150p11.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1548
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "2221", HatchDesc: "MEXICO CITY,MX:AIRCREW+4 PILOTS/GND+:PLANE CHASES 30M SCR/10km ALT:/r150p11", LatLong: "19.466668 -99.116671", LatLongDMS: "19:28:00 N 99:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10000", State/Prov: "DF", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/17/1950
Time: 09:00
Location: FARMINGTON, NM
Description: Thousands / observer(s). Hundreds /
saucers cones and cigars maneuver. 90° turns. / r212p65+/
r134#4+6.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1549
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "13", Duration: "160", Elev: "1613", HatchDesc: "FARMINGTON,NM:1000s/OBS:100s/SCRS CONES+CGRS MNVR:90°TURNS:/r212p65+/r134#4+6", LatLong: "36.733335 -108.183338", LatLongDMS: "36:44:00 N 108:11:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/17/1950
Time: 15:00
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: Night lights and fireballs zip all over
town to 1645hrs. Drop from sky. Exit going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 155)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1550
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "105", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:NLTS+FBLS ZIP ALL OVR TOWN to 1645hrs:DROP FROM SKY:EXIT >>W.", LatLong: "35.877779 -106.283338", LatLongDMS: "35:52:40 N 106:17:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/17/1950
Time: 15:00
Location: KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: 4 Air Force men. 3 silver saucers tumble /
10K' altitude. 1 shoots going up. 1 going north. 1 going northeast / 15
minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 164)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1551
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "15", Elev: "1500", HatchDesc: "KIRTLAND AFB,NM:4 AF MEN:3 SLVR SCRS TUMBLE/10K'alt:1 SHOOTS ↑:1>N:1>NE/15min", LatLong: "35.016668 -106.600005", LatLongDMS: "35:01:00 N 106:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3000", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/17/1950
Time: 15:00
Location: TUCUMCARI, NM
Description: Daily news swamped / calls. Saucers all
over. 1 larger / rest. Big show..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 163)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1552
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", Elev: "1245", HatchDesc: "TUCUMCARI,NM:DAILY NEWS SWAMPED/CALLS:SCRS ALL OVR:1 LARGER/REST:BIG SHOW..", LatLong: "35.150002 -103.700005", LatLongDMS: "35:09:00 N 103:42:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/17/1950
Time: 16:30
Location: LITTLE ROCK, ARK
Description: Pilot sighting. 6-12 black octagons turn
suddenly going quickly southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994,
LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 179)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1553
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "LITTLE ROCK,ARK:PILOT SIGHTING:6-12 BLACK OCTAGONS TURN SUDDENLY >>SW:", LatLong: "34.733335 -92.300004", LatLongDMS: "34:44:00 N 92:18:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/17/1950
Location: Farmington, NM
Description: Retired Army Captain, others, saw dozens
of discs gyrating in sky. [IV] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_677
Date: 3/17/1950
Description: Six bluish white disc-shaped objects
turned in the sky over Ankara, Turkey on this day. They next shot
straight up into the sky and vanished from sight.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1534
Date: 3/17/1950
Description: Six to twelve black octagon-shaped objects
were seen from the air over Little Rock, Arkansas at 4:30 p.m. The
object made a sharp sudden turn to the southwest.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, March 1950 report; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study
of Multiple UFO, p. 179
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1535
Date: 3/18/1950
Location: Altoona, Pennsylvania
Description: PENNSY M.D. SKETCHES HOW HIS
OPERATED. UP -- Dr. Craig Hunter, 47 of Berkeley Springs, WV,
made a rough sketch of a flying saucer he saw at dusk Wednesday in the
hope that it might help clear up the mysterious phenomena. The object
appeared to be about 50 to 100 feet in diameter and was about 25 to 30
feet thick in the center. A streamer about 200 feet long and 10 inches
wide trailed. The disk seemed to be constructed in three concentric
partitions. The outer edge, which was 10 feet wide, appeared to be
stationary and had slits covering about one-third of the area visible to
him. Immediately in from the leading edge were two apertures about 4 and
a half feet square. The second circle seemed to be the only part of the
thing moving and it rotated with a great hissing whistle. Inner and
largest part of the disk was also stationary. It was a dirty metallic
color and definitely not an airplane.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_61
Date: 3/18/1950 (approximate)
Location: ORLAND PARK, IL
Description: Man photographs 30m pie-plate saucer.
Dives into clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 167)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1554
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "5", Elev: "213", HatchDesc: "ORLAND PARK,IL:MAN FOTOS 30m PIE-PLATE SCR:DIVES into clouds", LatLong: "41.627780 -87.855560", LatLongDMS: "41:37:40 N 87:51:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/18/1950
Time: 08:00?
Location: BURSA, TURKEY
Description: (AP) "Mohammedan Muzzeins / minarets see
flying saucers in sky".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 167)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1555
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Turkey", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "BURSA,TURKEY:(AP) "MOHAMMEDAN MUZZEINS/MINARETS SEE FLYING SAUCERS IN SKY"", LatLong: "40.200002 29.066668", LatLongDMS: "40:12:00 N 29:04:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRS", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/18/1950
Time: 08:40
Location: BRADFORD, IL
Description: Several / private plane. Very fast
metallic glowing-ovoid enters clouds. / r134#1p65.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1556
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "246", HatchDesc: "BRADFORD,IL:SVRL/Pvt.PLANE:VFAST MTLC GLOW-OVOID ENTERS CLOUDS:/r134#1p65", LatLong: "41.166669 -89.650004", LatLongDMS: "41:10:00 N 89:39:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/18/1950
Time: 11:30
Location: ATLANTA AIRPORT/APARTMENT, GA
Description: 6 airline(s)/airliner pilots / ground.
Silent aluminum disk going quickly southwest. 6-7km altitude. Impossible
climb.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON
1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1557
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "320", HatchDesc: "ATLANTA Apt,GA:6 AL PILOTS/GND:SLNT ALUM.DISK >>SW:6-7km alt:IMPOSSIBLE CLIMB", LatLong: "33.750002 -84.416671", LatLongDMS: "33:45:00 N 84:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "6500", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/18/1950
Time: 18:30
Location: LAGO ARGENTINO, ARG
Description: 2 saucers, 1 lands. Pseudo-human/entity /
cabin. Smell and sound / jet engineer. Going quickly west. /
r67p89.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 166)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1558
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, ABD: Human or animal abduction, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, ODR: Odors associated with UFO's
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "4", Duration: "60", Elev: "200", HatchDesc: "LAGO ARGENTINO,ARG:2 SCRS,1 LANDS:PSH/CABIN:SMELL+SOUND/JET ENG:>>W:/r67p89", LatLong: "-50.333336 -72.300003", LatLongDMS: "50:20:00 S 72:18:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "STC", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 3/18/1950
Location: Bradford (near), IL
Description: Fisher Case (P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_678
Date: 3/18/1950
Time: 1830
Location: Lago Argentino, Argentina
Description: A rancher, Wilfredo H. Arevalo, saw two
objects, one of which landed. He walked within 150 m of the
aluminum-looking craft which gave off a greenish-blue vapor and "an
intense smell of burning benzine." A large, flat section on top was
revolving above a glass cabin in which could be seen four tall men,
dressed in something like cellophane, working at various instruments.
They saw him and shone a light in his direction while a blue light
illuminated the craft; the vapor increased and flames (alternately
reddish and greenish) shot out of the base while the object rose with a
faint hum. Both craft flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish
trails.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Humanoids 32 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_73
Date: 3/18/1950
Location: Bradford, Illinois
Description: 8:40 a.m. Private pilot Robert Fisher,
flying a Beechcraft Bonanza over Bradford, Illinois, encounters an oval
object with a metallic sheen. He can still see the object when it flies
behind some thin clouds. It moves away at an estimated speed of
600–1,000 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
38
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1491
Date: 3/18/1950
Description: The USAF publicly denies that UFOs are
secret missiles or space-exploration devices.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers Are
Real, Gold Medal, 1950, p.
13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1492
Date: 3/18/1950
Description: On this day in 1950, several sightings of
daylight discs occurred over the United States, Europe, and South
America.
Reference: Johnson
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1544
Date: 3/18/1950
Description: At the Atlanta Municipal Airport, Georgia
six airline pilots on the tarmac reported sighting an aluminum colored
disc that flew silently toward the southwest at between 6000 and 7000
feet altitude. It then made an "impossible climb."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon,
1947-1987, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1545
Date: 3/18/1950
Description: A large number of saucers, performing
aerobatics, appeared over Farmington, New Mexico around noon, and then
flew away at an estimated 1000 mph. A luminous, metallic appearing disc
was sighted five miles northeast of Bradford, Illinois at 8:40
a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: unnamed newspaper clippings, March 18 and
19, 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1546
Date: 3/18/1950
Description: At a ranch in Lago Argentino, Argentina,
Mr. Wilfredo H. Arevalo, a rancher, saw two objects, one of which landed
at 6:30 p.m. He walked within 150 meters of the aluminum looking craft
that gave off a blue-green vapor with "an intense smell of burning
benzene." A large, flat section on top was revolving above a glass cabin
in which could be seen four tall men with pallid faces, dressed in
something like cellophane, working at various instruments. When they saw
him they shone a light in his direction while a blue light illuminated
the craft. The vapor increased and flames, alternately red and green,
shot out of the base while the object rose with a faint hum. Both craft
flew away toward Chile, leaving bluish trails.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants,
p. 108; The Humanoids, FSR Special Issue #1, p. 32; Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 194
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1547
Date: 3/19/1950
Time: 13:00?
Location: EAST TORONTO, ON
Description: 2 Air Force Vets and 3. 4 silver grey
saucers going east. Circle / 3000M altitude / 300kph. Maneuvers. Going
quickly northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 438)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1559
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "E.TORONTO,ON:2 AF VETS+3:4 SLVR GRY SCRS > E:CCL/3000M alt/300kph:MNVRS:>>NW", LatLong: "43.683335 -79.350004", LatLongDMS: "43:41:00 N 79:21:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/19/1950
Time: 18:20
Location: GUIJUELO, SP
Description: Numerous observer(s). Glowing dark-grey 4M
disk zips / 1 cloud into another.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1560
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GUIJUELO,SP:NMRS OBS:GLOWING DRK-GRY 4M DISK ZIPS/1 CLOUD INTO ANOTHER", LatLong: "40.533335 -5.650000", LatLongDMS: "40:32:00 N 05:39:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SLM", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/19/1950
Description: In 1950 in Sonderborg, Denmark at 2:30
a.m., mechanic J. Matiszewski heard a whistling sound that drew him
outside. He then watched a UFO land in a meadow. When he approached to
within 50 meters he suddenly felt paralyzed, and he observed that birds
and cows in the vicinity were also unable to move. He stood motionless
as four handsome men with brown complexions, wearing shiny black suits
and translucent helmets, emerged from the craft and engaged in repair
activities.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Willy Wegner, UFO-Landinger 1 Danmark, p.
1
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1561
Date: 3/20/1950
Time: 01:20
Location: SOUTH / MULESHOE, TX
Description: USAF T6. White sphere/orb/globe / 2Kmph /
15K' altitude goes by going quickly west / seconds. Leaves (something
behind) contrail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 170)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1561
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "1155", HatchDesc: "S/MULESHOE,TX:USAF T6:WHT ORB/2Kmph/15K'alt GOES BY >>W/SECONDS:LVS CONTRAIL", LatLong: "34.205557 -102.716672", LatLongDMS: "34:12:20 N 102:43:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "4600", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/20/1950
Time: 12:30
Location: NEAR GREENWOOD, MS
Description: Crew and several / airliner. Strange
bright object / 10 minute(s). Vanishes. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 169)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1562
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "nr GREENWOOD,MS:CREW+SVRL/AIRLINER:STRANGE BRITE OBJ/10min:VANISHES:TYPE UNK", LatLong: "33.516668 -90.177782", LatLongDMS: "33:31:00 N 90:10:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Mississippi", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/20/1950
Time: 21:20
Location: OVER HAZEN, ARK
Description: DC3 pilots. 27M saucer going quickly north
/ 900kph. 6-7 lit portholes / bottom/underside. Blue-glow. /
r2p77.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 439)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1563
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "71", HatchDesc: "ovr HAZEN,ARK:DC3 PILOTS:27M SCR >>N/900kph:6-7 LIT PORTS/BTM:BLUE-GLOW:/r2p77", LatLong: "34.783335 -91.583338", LatLongDMS: "34:47:00 N 91:35:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/20/1950
Location: Stuttgart, AR
Description: 100 ft flat cylinder-section circular disc
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: 671)
Reference: NICAP: 500320
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_679
Date: 3/20/1950
Location: Clovis (35 miles SE of), NM
Description: Spherical then elongated object flying at
2,000 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_680
Date: 3/20/1950
Time: 9:26 PM
Location: Stuggart, Arkansas
Description: Witnesses: Chicago & Southern Airlines
Capt. Jack Adams, First Officer G. W. Anderson, Jr. One 100' circular
disc with 9-12 portholes along the lower side emitting a soft purple
light, and a light at the top which flashed 3 times in 9 seconds, flew
at not less than 1,000 m.p.h. It was seen for 25-35 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_34
Date: 3/20/1950
Locations: Chicago; Southern Airlines; Memphis,
Tennessee; Little Rock, Arkansas; Hazen, Arkansas
Description: 9:26 p.m. Chicago and Southern Airlines
Capt. Jack
Adams and First Officer G. W. Anderson Jr., flying a DC-3 at 2,000
feet and heading west from Memphis, Tennessee, to Little Rock, Arkansas,
see a circular disc 100 feet in diameter approximately over Hazen,
Arkansas. In the top center of the object is an extremely bright light
blinking at an estimated 3 flashes per second. The bottom of the object
appears to have 9–12 symmetrical oval or circular portholes in a circle
approximately 75% of the distance from the center to the outer edge. The
object passes directly in front of the airliner at a distance of not
more than 2,640 feet and approximately 1,000 feet higher than the
airliner. They watch the object for 25–35 seconds. Adams estimates its
speed is greater than 1,000 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “DC-3 Encounters
100ʹ Disc”; Little Rock Arkansas Gazette, July 24, 1955; Sparks, p. 85;
Swords 95–96; Tom Howell YouTube channel, “UFO from the
1950s,” October 3, 2006
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1493
Date: Spring 1950
Locations: Antarctica; Chilean Embassy
Description: Commander Augusto Vars Ortega of the
Chilean Navy takes about 1,200 feet of color film of UFOs—one above the
other, turning at tremendous speeds—in Antarctica. When NICAP asks the
Chilean Embassy about the film in 1956, it tells Keyhoe that the
film is classified and not available.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Dan Lloyd, “Things
Are Hotting Up in the
Antarctic,” Flying Saucer Review 2, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1965): 5
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1506
Date: 3/21/1950
Time: 01:30
Location: KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE AND SANDIA, NM
Description: Silent MLT saucers circle / 30 minute(s).
Going quickly east. 22 March. 11 military. Flying wing.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1564
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", Elev: "1500", HatchDesc: "KIRTLAND AFB+SANDIA,NM:SLNT MLT SCRS CCL/30min:>>E::22MAR:11 MIL:FLYING WING", LatLong: "35.033335 -106.600005", LatLongDMS: "35:02:00 N 106:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/21/1950
Time: 10:00?
Location: RAPID CITY, SDAK
Description: Blue Book. 2 observer(s). Metal saucer
makes 1 mile circle / 2 minute(s). Shoots straight going up /
cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 71)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1565
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "974", HatchDesc: "RAPID CITY,SDAK:BBK:2 OBS:MTL SCR MAKES 1mi CIRCLE/2min:SHOOTS STRAIGHT↑/CLOUD", LatLong: "44.066669 -103.216672", LatLongDMS: "44:04:00 N 103:13:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "South Dakota", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/21/1950
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM
Description: 4925th Test Group Sees UFO (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500321
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_681
Date: 3/21/1950
Locations: Sandia Base, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB
Description: 1:00–1:30 p.m. Sergeant Woods at Sandia
Base, New Mexico, reports four round, silvery objects to the northeast.
The objects appear to be more maneuverable than any known aircraft. The
maneuvers are similar to those in dogfights involving two aircraft, but
there seems to be no similarity to a conventional plane. They make
right-angle turns and reverse direction instantaneously. The duration is
about 30 minutes. Other witnesses at Sandia and Kirtland AFB report
similar observations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Base Personnel
Sight Strange Objects”; Sparks, p.
85
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1494
Date: 3/22/1950
Location: Washington DC
Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered
in NM (corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/1950). Description:
Circular with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by
3 bodies, only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like
high-speed flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station
interfered with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, "Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p527, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_402
See also: 3/25/1948
Date: 3/22/1950
Location: Ottawa, CA
Description: Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada,
announces plans to build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also
state that "Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group
in the USA
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A, "Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p464)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_403
Date: 3/22/1950
Location: NORTHWEST / KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: 11 Air Force Sergeants. Tan flying wing
going northwest. Turns going north and gone / fantastic speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO'S a HISTORY 1951 (2
booklets) Self published. (Index 73)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1566
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "1495", HatchDesc: "NW/KIRTLAND AFB,NM:11 AF SGTS:TAN FLYING WING> NW:TURNS>N+GONE/FANTASTIC SPEED", LatLong: "35.150002 -106.500005", LatLongDMS: "35:09:00 N 106:30:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/22/1950
Time: 05:50
Location: VILLARTA DE SAN JUAN, SP
Description: Cloud object hits car / bright light.
Buzzes car repeatedly.
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of
200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1567
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "7", Duration: "12", HatchDesc: "VILLARTA de SAN JUAN,SP:CLOUD OBJ HITS CAR/BRITE LITE:BUZZES CAR REPEATEDLY", LatLong: "39.300002 -3.700000", LatLongDMS: "39:18:00 N 03:42:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CRL", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/22/1950
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, NM
Description: 4925th Test Group Sees UFO (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500322
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_682
Date: 3/22/1950
Location: Kirtland AFB, New Mexico
Description: 11:00 a.m. Eleven sergeants in the 4925th
Test Group watch a UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. The shape
is “similar to a flying wing air craft and tan in color, turning to
brown around the edges.” It first travels northwesterly at 25,000–30,000
feet, then turns north and disappears with a tremendous burst of
speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Atomic Test Group
Witnesses UFO in Broad Daylight”; Sparks, p.
85
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1495
Date: 3/22/1950
Location: New Mexico
Description: FBI agent Guy L. Hottel writes to
FBI headquarters about a rumor that three UFOs have crashed and are
recovered in New Mexico. They are 50 feet in diameter and “each one was
occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in
metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a
manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test
pilots.” It goes on, “According to Mr. [redacted], informant, the
saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government had
a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the
radar interferes with the controlling [sic] mechanism of the saucers."
The informant is probably Silas
M. Newton or Leo
GeBauer. On March 25, 2013, the FBI issues a release saying that the
Hottel memo was simply a second- or third-hand claim “that we never
investigated. Some people believe the memo repeats a hoax that was
circulating at that time, but the Bureau’s files have no information to
verify that theory.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Guy Hottel, “Flying
Saucers, Information Concerning,” March 22, 1950; Richard H. Hall,
Uninvited Guests, Aurora, 1988, pp. 326–327; Good Above, p.
527; Federal Bureau of Investigation, “UFOs
and the Guy Hottel
Memo,” March 25, 2013; Robert L. Hastings, “The
March 22, 1950 FBI Memo on Crashed Flying Saucers,”
UFOs & Nukes, April 18, 2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1496
Date: 3/22/1950
Description: At 5:45 a.m. two industrialists in Spain
saw a bright blue, cloud-like object while driving in Villarta de San
Juan, Ciudad Real Province. It emitted a very bright light that appeared
to collide with the object. The UFO was seen again 20 times during their
drive.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Vicente Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of
200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, citing Stendek, June 1970,
p. 17
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1611
Date: 3/22/1950
Description: At Kirtland AFB, New Mexico eleven USAF
Sergeants watched a tan-colored flying wing head towards the northwest,
turn to the north, and then fly off at a fantastic speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p.
73
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1612
Date: 3/23/1950
Location: Laguna Beach, California
Description: 8 FLYING SAUCERS SPOTTED OVER
LAGUNA. UP -- Flying saucers have been spotted again, this time
along the California coast by Dudley Gourley, 26, an Army aircraft
observer for nearly three years. He said he saw the saucers moving
slowly out to sea as he drove past El Moro on the coast highway.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_62
Date: 3/23/1950
Location: MORRO BAY, CA
Description: Ex-Air Force aircraft-observer(s). 8
metallic ovoids soar going quickly west to sea / 2000' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 175)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1568
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "MORRO BAY,CA:EX-AF AIRCRAFT-OBS:8 MTLC OVOIDS SOAR >>W TO SEA/2000'alt", LatLong: "35.366668 -120.850006", LatLongDMS: "35:22:00 N 120:51:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/23/1950
Location: JALAPA, VERACRUZ, MX
Description: At least 300 saucers circle city. Gone by
sundown. / El Universal.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 178)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1569
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Mexico", Credibility: "12", Duration: "44", Elev: "1381", HatchDesc: "JALAPA,VERACRUZ,MX:AT LEAST 300 SCRS CIRCLE CITY:GONE BY SUNDOWN:/El Universal", LatLong: "19.466668 -96.916671", LatLongDMS: "19:28:00 N 96:55:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VRC", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/23/1950
Location: YUMA, AZ
Description: J. McCullen. Huge saucer hovers / 20K'
altitude. Then goes going quickly east very fast. / LA Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 175)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1570
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "48", HatchDesc: "YUMA,AZ:J.McCULLEN:HUGE SCR HVRS/20K'alt:THEN GOES >>E VFAST:/L.A.TIMES", LatLong: "32.716668 -114.600005", LatLongDMS: "32:43:00 N 114:36:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/23/1950
Location: BARRE, VT
Description: 3+observer(s). Baseball-orbs dive to
ground. Head going quickly northwest. Flying hubcaps pace B36
also.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 176)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1571
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "186", HatchDesc: "BARRE,VT:3+OBS:BASEBALL-ORBS DIVE TO GND:HEAD>>NW:FLYING HUBCAPS PACE B36 ALSO", LatLong: "44.194447 -72.500003", LatLongDMS: "44:11:40 N 72:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/23/1950
Time: 09:00
Location: PENSACOLA, FL
Description: Saufley Field. Group / military and
separate civilians. Metal saucer / 500mph. Flies going quickly east into
wind.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 176)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1572
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "30", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "PENSACOLA,FL:SAUFLEY FIELD:GRP/MIL+SEP CIVS:MTL SCR/500mph:FLIES>>E INTO WIND:", LatLong: "30.422224 -87.216671", LatLongDMS: "30:25:20 N 87:13:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/23/1950
Time: 13:20
Location: OLIVEIRA DO HOSPITAL, PORTUGAL
Description: Numerous observer(s). Disk north going
quickly south. 2nd disk does same / 1845hrs.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1573
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Portugal", Credibility: "9", Duration: "74", HatchDesc: "OLIVEIRA do HOSPITAL,PORTUGAL:NMRS OBS:DISK N>>S:2nd DISK DOES SAME/1845hrs", LatLong: "40.600002 -7.850000", LatLongDMS: "40:36:00 N 07:51:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BXA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/23/1950
Location: Jacksonville, FL
Description: Blue-White Flame Approaches C-47 (NICAP:
11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 2)
Reference: NICAP: 500323
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_683
Date: 3/23/1950
Description: A Mexican newspaper, El Universal,
reported that at least 300 disc-shaped UFOs were sighted zooming around
the sky above the city of Jalapa Enriquez, in the State of Veracruz,
Mexico on this night. In Yuma, Arizona a UFO hovered over the park at
20,000 feet for two minutes during the day, then left at high speed to
the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
January-March, p. 78, citing El Universal, March 24, 1950; (2) Loren E.
Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: January-March, p. 75
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1619
Date: 3/24/1950
Location: GUATEMALA, GUAT
Description: 4 / US include/including fed Judge and big
crowd. Bright silver discs maneuver over city.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 177)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1574
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Guatemala", Credibility: "12", Duration: "3", Elev: "1500", HatchDesc: "GUATEMALA,GUAT:4/US incl FED JUDGE+BIG CROWD:BRIGHT SLVR DISCS MNVR OVR CITY", LatLong: "14.600001 -90.516671", LatLongDMS: "14:36:00 N 90:31:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GUA", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/24/1950
Location: WILLOWS AND CORNING, CA
Description: 2 police chiefs and co deputies. Silvery
discs / 10 minute(s). Headlines.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 177)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1575
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "41", HatchDesc: "WILLOWS+CORNING,CA:2 POLICE CHIEFS+co DEPUTIES:SILVERY DISCS/10min:HEADLINES", LatLong: "39.522224 -122.194450", LatLongDMS: "39:31:20 N 122:11:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/24/1950 (approximate)
Location: TEUGUEGARAO, LUZON, PHL
Description: Flying saucer visible for over 40
minute(s) / Manila bulletin article.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 178)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1576
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Philippines", Credibility: "7", Duration: "45", HatchDesc: "TEUGUEGARAO,LUZON,PHL:FLYING SCR VISIBLE for OVR 40min/MANILA BULLETIN article", LatLong: "17.638890 121.733339", LatLongDMS: "17:38:20 N 121:44:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LZN", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/24/1950
Location: PEARL HARBOR, HI
Description: Brill blue-green fireball passes overhead.
Pauses and continues. Doesn't fall.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 179)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1577
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PEARL HARBOR,HI:BRILL BLUE-GREEN FBL PASSES OVHD:PAUSES+CONTINUES:DOESN'T FALL", LatLong: "21.383334 -157.972230", LatLongDMS: "21:23:00 N 157:58:20 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Hawaii", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/24/1950
Time: 15:10
Location: SANDIA MOUNTAINS, NM
Description: 4 observer(s). Moon-size object loops over
special military facility / 4 minute(s). Shoots going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 177)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1578
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "2000", HatchDesc: "SANDIA Mtns,NM:4 OBS:MOON-SIZE OBJ LOOPS OVR SPECIAL MIL FCLTY/4min:SHOOTS↑", LatLong: "35.200002 -106.433338", LatLongDMS: "35:12:00 N 106:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/25/1950
Location: Minnesota
Description: PICARD FORMS LIDDEL OF BALLOONATIC
FRINGE. Dr. Jean Picard, University of Minnesota scientist and
pioneer in balloon ascent work, suggested in an interview with United
Press that some "flying saucers" may be experimental balloons being sent
up into the stratosphere by General Mills in cooperation with several
universities and under contract with the Navy.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_63
Date: 3/25/1950
Location: Rome, Italy
Description: HITLER STILL FLYING AROUND IN
ONE? Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo, a 73-year-old Italian turbine
engineer, said today that designs for flying saucers were prepared for
Hitler and Mussolini in 1942. Belluzzo said: "It has crossed my mind
that some great power is experimenting with flying disks—without
explosives or atomic bombs. There is nothing supernatural or Martian
about flying disks. It's just the most rational use of recently-evolved
techniques." Belluzzo personally drafted plans for a "flying disk" 32
feet in diameter, but claimed they disappeared with Benito Mussolini
when he fled to northern Italy in 1943.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_67
Date: 3/25/1950
Location: NORTH HOLLYWOOD, CA
Description: Writer. Brilliant undimming ovoid near
home. / LA Times report. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 179)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1579
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "198", HatchDesc: "N.HOLLYWOOD,CA:WRITER:BRILL. UNDIMMING OVOID nr HOME:/L.A.Times rpt:NFD", LatLong: "34.133335 -118.383339", LatLongDMS: "34:08:00 N 118:23:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/25/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: PATERNA, SP
Description: Numerous observer(s). Flying plate east
going quickly west / very high altitude. Brusk turn and disappears. /
news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1580
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "PATERNA,SP:NMRS OBS:FLYING PLATE E>>W/VHI ALT:BRUSK TURN+DISAPPEARS:/NEWS", LatLong: "39.500002 -0.433333", LatLongDMS: "39:30:00 N 00:26:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Valencian", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/25/1950
Time: 12:00
Location: BARCELONA, SP
Description: Several observer(s). 1-2 metallic disks
high and fast north going quickly south. / Noticiera Universal.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1581
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BARCELONA,SP:SVRL OBS:1-2 MTLC DISKS HIGH+FAST N>>S:/Noticiera Universal", LatLong: "41.416669 2.133333", LatLongDMS: "41:25:00 N 02:08:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Barcelone", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/26/1950 (approximate)
Location: OVER ACRE, ISRAEL
Description: Leb. airliner. Objects going quickly west.
Very fast. Others see saucers going quickly north. Very high.
Smoke.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1582
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Israel", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "ovr ACRE,ISRAEL:LEB.AIRLINER:OBJS >>W:VFAST:OTHERS SEE SCRS >>N:VHIGH:SMOKE", LatLong: "32.933335 35.050002", LatLongDMS: "32:56:00 N 35:03:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NRT", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/26/1950
Time: ~10:00
Location: WEST NATIONAL AIRPORT, DC
Description: Man dives private plane / 40' metallic
saucer. Going up / clouds and going quickly east. / r134#4p47.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1583
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "W.NATL AIRPORT,DC:MAN DIVES PVT PLANE/40'MTLC SCR:↑/CLOUDS+>>E:/r134#4p47", LatLong: "38.833335 -77.033337", LatLongDMS: "38:50:00 N 77:02:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maryland", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/26/1950
Time: 11:20
Location: BRUNSWICK, GA
Description: 3 pilots and 2 / (seen thru) binoculars.
3+2 saucers / 25K' altitude. 1800+mph going south. Returns going quickly
north. / r43.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1584
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "15", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "BRUNSWICK,GA:3 PILOTS+2/BINOCS:3+2 SCRS/25K'alt:1800+mph> S:RETURNS >>N:/r43", LatLong: "31.150001 -81.500004", LatLongDMS: "31:09:00 N 81:30:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "7500", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/26/1950
Time: 19:00
Location: NEAR ALGECIRAS, SP
Description: Rancher Jose Ayala. Flying disk east going
quickly west / 1 second(s). No further details. / ABC News /
Spain.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1585
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "nr ALGECIRAS,SP:RANCHER JOSE AYALA:FLYING DISK E>>W/1sec:NFD:/ABC News/Spain", LatLong: "36.133335 -5.416667", LatLongDMS: "36:08:00 N 05:25:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CDZ", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/26/1950
Time: 20:50
Location: RENO AIRPORT, NV
Description: CAA Air Traffic Controller and 2 United
Airlines (UAL) men. Brill night light / northwest. Hovers / 5 minute(s)
then going up / clouds extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 44)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1586
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "7", Elev: "1345", HatchDesc: "RENO AIRPORT,NV:CAA ATC+2 UAL MEN:BRILL NLT/NW:HVRS/5min THEN ↑/CLOUDS XFAST", LatLong: "39.500002 -119.783339", LatLongDMS: "39:30:00 N 119:47:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/26/1950
Location: Reno, NV
Description: CAA control tower operator saw maneuvering
light source. [V] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_684
Date: 3/26/1950
Location: Washington (near), D.C.
Description: Mar 26, 1950; near Washington, DC, Totten
(P) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_685
Date: 3/26/1950
Locations: London; Mars
Description: Vice-Admiral Louis
Mountbatten, in
a letter to his friend Charles Eade, editor of the
London Sunday Dispatch, rejects the idea that flying saucers are secret
weapons, admitting that “they do not come from our Earth…. Maybe it is
the Shackletons or Scotts of Venus or Mars who are making their first
exploration of our Earth.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOFiles2, p.
37
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1497
Date: 3/26/1950
Location: Fairfax County, Virginia
Description: Day. Bertram
A. Totten, a
clerk at the Library of Congress, is flying his plane at 5,000 feet over
Fairfax County, Virginia, when he spots an aluminum-colored disc about
40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick flying 1,000 feet below him. He
dives toward it, but it speeds up into the overcast. It glints when the
sun hits it, and he notices a vapor trail.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, pp.
79–80
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1498
Date: 3/26/1950
Location: Former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
Description: 4:00 p.m. Former First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt interviews airline pilots Jack Adams and G. W. Anderson
about their March 20 UFO sighting on her NBC television program, Today
with Mrs. Roosevelt.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Anatomy
of a Hoax,
Part Five,” Saturday Night Uforia Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1499
Date: 3/26/1950
Locations: Hubbard Field; Reno–Tahoe International
Airport; Reno, Nevada
Description: 8:50 p.m. CAA Tower operator Marie H.
Matthews and United Airlines employees Robert Higbee and Fred Hinkle see
a brilliant light northeast of Hubbard Field [now Reno–Tahoe
International Airport] outside Reno, Nevada. It hangs motionless for 5–6
minutes, then moves slowly across the sky with a green light on either
side of it. It suddenly zooms upward into a cloud bank.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, pp.
44–45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1500
Date: 3/26/1950
Description: Several discs were seen from a Lebanese
airliner off the coast of the ancient city of Acre (now Akko), Israel.
They were travelling north and flying at a high altitude while emitting
trails of smoke. At 11:15 a.m. five disc-shaped UFOs were seen, first
three, then another two, flying over Bruswick, Georgia. They were silver
in color, and flew at 30,000 feet altitude at a speed greater than 1,800
mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1671
Date: 3/27/1950
Location: Washington, D.C.
Description: FLYING SAUCER NEAR
PENTAGON. UP -- A flying saucer has been reported almost in the
backyard of the Air Force, the service that says the mysterious disks
don't exist. Bertram A. Totten, a veteran private pilot, said he sighted
an aluminum-colored disk about 40 feet in diameter and 10 feet thick
while he was flying over Fairfax County, Virginia, on the outskirts of
Washington.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_64
Date: 3/27/1950
Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma
Description: TULSA CHECKS IN WITH 25.
C.W. Hughes, 1338 N. Boston Place, Tulsa, sighted at 6:16 am, 25 flying
saucers. The objects were silver-colored and flying at an elevation of
1000 feet.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_65
Date: 3/27/1950
Location: BERLIN, GERM
Description: Astronomers. Odd new star. Bright. Zigzags
going west. Stops at times..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1587
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "BERLIN,GERM:ASTRONOMERS:ODD NEW STAR:BRITE:ZIGZAGS >W:STOPS AT TIMES.. ", LatLong: "52.500003 13.383334", LatLongDMS: "52:30:00 N 13:23:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BRL", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/27/1950
Time: 06:00
Location: TULSA, OK
Description: 2+3 observer(s). Pie-pans pass /
low-altitude. 1 stops and darts off. Glowing saucers 1 vertical.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 180)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1588
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "60", Elev: "241", HatchDesc: "TULSA,OK:2+3 OBS:PIE-PANS PASS/LO-ALT:1 STOPS+DARTS OFF:GLOWING SCRS 1 VERTICL", LatLong: "36.150002 -96.000005", LatLongDMS: "36:09:00 N 96:00:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/27/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: MOTOBO, OKINAWA, JP
Description: Project Bluebook Case #678. Military
RADAR-visual. 500mph approximate. Stops and starts. Going quickly
southwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 181)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1589
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Japan", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "MOTOBO,OKINAWA,JP:BBK#678:MIL RDR-VISUAL:500mph aprx:STOPS+STARTS:>>SW", LatLong: "26.666668 127.922228", LatLongDMS: "26:40:00 N 127:55:20 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OKN", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/27/1950
Time: 18:30
Location: ALGORTA, SP
Description: 2 military / observer(s) tower. Blue-ovoid
with red glowing east going quickly west / low altitude in nearby
mountains.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1590
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "ALGORTA,SP:2 MIL/OBS.TOWER:BLU-OVOID W/RED GLO E>>W/LO ALT in NEARBY MTNS", LatLong: "43.338891 -3.000000", LatLongDMS: "43:20:20 N 03:00:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VZC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/27/1950 (approximate)
Time: 23:00
Location: NORTH / WORLAND, WY
Description: 5 / car. Saucer hovers over sulfur plant.
Going quickly [to] away / car nears. Row / blue lights.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 450)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1591
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "4", Elev: "1810", HatchDesc: "N/WORLAND,WY:5/CAR:SCR HVRS ovr SULFUR PLANT:>> AWAY/CAR NEARS:ROW/BLUE LITES", LatLong: "44.116669 -107.938894", LatLongDMS: "44:07:00 N 107:56:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/27/1950
Location: Motubu Peninsula, Okinawa
Description: Tracked stationary target on radar at 18
miles range for 10 mins (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5,
BB: 678)
Reference: NICAP: 500327
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_686
Date: 3/27/1950
Time: 10:30 AM
Location: Motobo, Okinawa
Description: Witness: USAF radar operator Cpl.
Bolfango. Tracked on radar for 2 minutes while it was stationary and
then moved at 500 m.p.h.. Visual observation not detailed, only
mentioned in summary.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_35
Date: 3/27/1950
Location: Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan
Description: 10:30 a.m. USAF antiaircraft radar
operator Cpl. Bolfango tracks a stationary target on radar over the
Motobu Peninsula, Okinawa, Japan, at 18 miles range for 10 minutes at
13,000 feet. The object then moves on a 220° heading for 16.9 miles in 2
minutes (about 500 mph) to a point over a mountain, where it is
lost.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Tracked Stationary
Target at 18 Miles”; Sparks, p. 85
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1501
Date: 3/27/1950
Locations: US; Hollywood
Description: Radio broadcaster Henry J.
Taylor, on his
syndicated radio program Your Land and Mine, announces the “wonderful
news” that saucers are in fact US secret weapons, which will reassure
the nation when the US Air Force confirms it. Within days, the story is
twisted to specifically credit the Navy’s alleged “top secret” project
the Flying Flapjack Vought XF5U. The story is apparently disinformation
planted by ex-Hollywood writers in the CIA Office of Policy
Coordination’s Political and Psychological Warfare staff headed by Joseph
Bryan III, a
future president and board chairman of NICAP.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Radio Man Certain U.S.
Is Owner of ‘Flying Saucer’ Missile Secret,” Miami
\(Fla.) News, March 29, 1950, p. 9; NICAP, “1950 UFO
Chronology”; Swords 97; Curt Collins, “1950
Disclosure: UFOs Are Made in the USA,” November 9, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1502
Date: 3/27/1950
Description: Radio broadcaster Henry J. Taylor
announces flying saucers are USAF/Navy secret weapons. It is later
claimed the entire story was disinformation planted by the CIA Office of
Policy Coordination Political and Psychological Warfare Staff headed by
Joseph Bryan III to confuse the American public. Taylor later admitted
to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee he didn’t know the origin of
UAP.
Note: CIA psychological warfare head Joseph Bryan III later became President and Board Chairman of NICAP, a nonprofit supported by payments from U.S. citizens to study UAP. Former DCI VADM Roscoe Hillenkoetter was also a Board member. Bryan III’s background in psyops was not known at the time publicly when he was involved with NICAP.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_21
Date: 3/28/1950
Location: AMARILLO, TX
Description: 3 observer(s). Silver saucer parks / sky /
10 minute(s). Shoots straight up until O / O / sight.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1592
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "11", Elev: "1105", HatchDesc: "AMARILLO,TX:3 OBS:SLVR SCR PARKS/SKY/10min:SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP UNTIL O/O/SIGHT.", LatLong: "35.233335 -101.816672", LatLongDMS: "35:14:00 N 101:49:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/28/1950
Time: 03:20
Location: NEAR EUREKA, CA
Description: Yellow-glowing-cylinder/cylindrical object
hovers overhead. Going quickly west. Night lights maneuver very fast /
1920 hours. / r134#4p52.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1593
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "8", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "nr EUREKA,CA:YLW-GLOW-CYL HVRS OVHD:>>W:NLTs MNVR VFAST/1920 hrs:/r134#4p52", LatLong: "40.800002 -124.133339", LatLongDMS: "40:48:00 N 124:08:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/28/1950
Time: ~21:30
Location: OAKLAND, CA
Description: 5 observer(s). Luminous/glowing white ball
leaves (something behind) white smoke. Fast and slow circles. Going
quickly east. / r134#4p54.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 189)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1594
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "14", HatchDesc: "OAKLAND,CA:5 OBS:LUMN WHT BALL LVS WHT SMOKE:FAST+SLOW CCLs:>>E:/r134#4p54", LatLong: "37.816668 -122.266672", LatLongDMS: "37:49:00 N 122:16:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/28/1950
Time: 22:00?
Location: CEGLIE MESSAPICO, ITL
Description: 80cm wide double-umbrella takes off
vertically. / balloon?
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri
Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1595
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CEGLIE MESSAPICO,ITL:80cm WIDE DOUBLE-UMBRELLA TAKES OFF VERTICALLY:/balloon?", LatLong: "40.650002 17.516668", LatLongDMS: "40:39:00 N 17:31:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BR", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/28/1950
Location: Santiago, Chile
Description: White object through binoculars flying at
extreme altitude and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
680)
Reference: NICAP: 500328
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_687
Date: 3/28/1950
Time: 3:15 PM
Location: Santiago, Chile
Description: Witness: M/Sgt. Patterson, of the office
of the U.S. Air Attache. One white object observed for 5-10 seconds
through binoculars while it flew high and fast, crossing 30 degree of
sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_36
Date: 3/28/1950
Description: In response to a request from J. Edgar
Hoover to his aide D.
Milton (“Mickey”) Ladd on “just what are the facts re ‘flying
saucers,’ agent S.
Wesley Reynolds interviews Maj. Boggs and
Lieut. Col. John
V. Hearn Jr. of Air Force Intelligence, who tell him that most UFOs
are misidentifications and weather balloons.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 95; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 5, January–March 1950, The Author, 1983, pp.
84–85
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1503
Date: 3/28/1950
Locations: Centralia, Washington; Markham; Morton
Description: Samuel
Eaton Thompson is on his way home to Centralia, Washington, from
Markham. He drives through a wooded area between Morton and Mineral and
decides to stop to take a break. On foot, he comes upon a large,
globe-shaped craft hovering above a clearing. Naked children with dark
tans and blond hair are playing on steps that lead from an open door to
the side of the UFO. Several naked adults—humanoid, attractive, and also
deeply tanned—then appear at the ship’s door. After realizing that
Thompson means them no harm, they beckon him closer. The crew consists
of 20 adults and 25 children, the latter from about 5–15 years of age.
Thompson claims to have spent the next 40 hours with the humanoids. They
are from Venus, he learns, and have stopped at Earth despite the fact
that other Venusian saucers have been shot at by Earth-based military
forces. The Venusians further claims that they are vegetarian and that
they never grow ill. Thompson also claims the Venusians are naïve and
childlike; they do not know who has built their flying saucers and seem
to possess little to no curiosity. He goes back to get a camera and
tries to take photos, but the object is too bright to appear on film.
Thompson returns home on March 30.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Centralian Tells Strange Tale of Visiting
Venus Space Ship in Eastern Lewis County,” Centralia (Wash.) Daily
Chronicle, April 1, 1950; Clark III 1127–1129; Jerome Clark, “The Coming
of the Venusians,” Fate 34, no. 1 (January 1981): 49–55; Patrick Gross,
URECAT, November
16, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1504
Date: 3/29/1950
Location: FT WILLIAM AND MORE/OTHERS, ON
Description: Crowds. Brill fireball. No wings. 4 night
lights join. Hover. Going quickly northeast. / r134#4p51.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 187)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1596
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "12", Duration: "5", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "Ft WILLIAM++,ON:CROWDS:BRILL FBL:NO WINGS:4 NLTS JOIN:HOVER:>>NE:/r134#4p51", LatLong: "48.416669 -89.233338", LatLongDMS: "48:25:00 N 89:14:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ontario", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/29/1950
Location: AUSTIN, TX
Description: 3 men. Flat silver featureless "saucer"
hovers / 3 seconds. Then going quickly northeast. No further details /
news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 455)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1597
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "150", HatchDesc: "AUSTIN,TX:3 MEN:FLAT SLVR FEATURELESS "SCR" HVRS/3 secs:THEN >>NE:NFD/news", LatLong: "30.266668 -97.766671", LatLongDMS: "30:16:00 N 97:46:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 03:00
Location: MONTUIRI, MALLORCA, SP
Description: 3 photographs. Flash! Photographs shows
ovoid with glowing-antennas rotate.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1598
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "MONTUIRI,MALLORCA,SP:3 FOTOGs:FLASH!:FOTOS SHOWS OVOID W/GLO-ANTENNAS ROTATE", LatLong: "39.566669 2.966667", LatLongDMS: "39:34:00 N 02:58:00 E", Locale: "Islands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "BLR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 07:00
Location: MARROWBONE LK, TN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #682. 2 fishing. 3
black saucers maneuver / unison / 75m altitude below clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 186)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1599
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "235", HatchDesc: "MARROWBONE Lk,TN:BBK#682:2 FISHING:3 BLK SCRS MNVR/UNISON/75m alt BELOW CLOUDS", LatLong: "36.300002 -86.900004", LatLongDMS: "36:18:00 N 86:54:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "75", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 08:30
Location: LA PALMA DEL CONDADO, SP
Description: Several observer(s). Square object hovers
and makes wild maneuvers. Going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1600
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "La PALMA del CONDADO,SP:SVRL OBS:SQR OBJ HVRS+MAKES WILD MNVRS:>>S", LatLong: "37.394446 -6.550000", LatLongDMS: "37:23:40 N 06:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HLV", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: ALBANY, CA
Description: Teen. White cone saucer spins / 150M
altitude. Blue streaks / bottom/underside. Going quickly east. / Oakland
Tribun.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 454)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1601
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "ALBANY,CA:TEEN:WHT CONE SCR SPINS/150M ALT:BLU STREAKS/BTM:>>E:/Oakland Tribun", LatLong: "37.883335 -122.316672", LatLongDMS: "37:53:00 N 122:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "45", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 11:20
Location: BURGOS, SP
Description: Air Traffic Controllers and more/others.
Sounds / unexpected plane. Saucer buzzes tower. Quickly going up [to]
and going quickly east. 1800kph. / r57.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
218)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1602
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BURGOS,SP:ATCs++:SOUNDS/UNEXPECTED PLANE:SCR BUZZES TOWER:↑↑+>>E:1800kph:/r57", LatLong: "42.333335 -3.733334", LatLongDMS: "42:20:00 N 03:44:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VLD", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 15:00
Location: IRONWOOD, MICH
Description: 6 airline(s)/airliner pilots / ground /
(seen thru) binoculars. Saucer zips going quickly north. Skips and slips
side = to-side.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1603
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", Elev: "458", HatchDesc: "IRONWOOD,MICH:6 AL PILOTS/GND/BINOCS:SCR ZIPS>>N:SKIPS+SLIPS SIDE=TO-SIDE", LatLong: "46.455558 -90.172227", LatLongDMS: "46:27:20 N 90:10:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 21:00
Location: SAN DIEGO, CA
Description: Night light going south. Circles city.
Casts orange light. Speeds away going quickly northeast. / S. D.
union.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 187)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1604
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "20", HatchDesc: "SAN DIEGO,CA:NLT > S:CIRCLES CITY:CASTS ORG LITE:SPEEDS AWAY >>NE:/S.D.UNION", LatLong: "32.716668 -117.166672", LatLongDMS: "32:43:00 N 117:10:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 22:10
Location: UNION POINT, GA
Description: 3 / train crew. Round object hovers / 10
minute(s). Orange glow. No further details / train pulls away.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON
1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 9)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1605
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "209", HatchDesc: "UNION POINT,GA:3/TRAIN CREW:RND OBJ HVRS/10min:ORG.GLOW:NFD/train pulls away", LatLong: "33.616668 -83.072226", LatLongDMS: "33:37:00 N 83:04:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/29/1950
Location: Marrowhode Lake, TN
Description: 6-12 dark objects shaped like 300-lb.
bombs (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 682)
Reference: NICAP: 500329
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_688
Date: 3/29/1950
Time: 7 AM
Location: Marrowbore Lake, Tennessee
Description: Witnesses: real estate salesmen Whiteside
and Williams. Six-twelve dark objects shaped like 300-lb. bombs,
estimated 5 feet long. Flew 500 m.p.h. and descended, making a noise
like wind blowing through the trees.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_37
Date: 3/30/1950
Location: ASTRONOMER H.P.WILKINS
Description: Vibrant bright oval glow lights
Aristarchus-Herotodus crater.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Donald: The FLYING SAUCER CONSPIRACY;
Henry Holt, NY 1955; HC (Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1606
Attributes: HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, HST: Historical account
Extra Data: Country: "The Moon", Credibility: "8", Duration: "99", HatchDesc: "ASTRONOMER H.P.WILKINS:VBRITE OVAL GLOW LITES ARISTARCHUS-HEROTODUS CRATER ", LatLong: "90.000004 -0.000000", LatLongDMS: "90:00:00 N 00:00:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ARH", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/30/1950
Location: SIOUX CITY, IA
Description: 5 National Guardsmen. White saucer follows
plane 300' over plane / rear. (UPI.)
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 189)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1607
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "335", HatchDesc: "SIOUX CITY,IA:5 NATl GUARDSMEN:WHT SCR FOLOS PLANE 300' OVR PLANE/REAR:(UPI)", LatLong: "42.500002 -96.416671", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 96:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "90", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/30/1950
Time: 17:30
Location: NEAR AUTAUGAVILLE, AL
Description: 2 observer(s). 3 saucers in formation. Go
up and down and away. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Maj Donald: FLYING SAUCERS TOP
SECRET; NICAP and G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1960 HB. (Index 88)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1608
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "49", HatchDesc: "nr AUTAUGAVILLE,AL:2 OBS:3 SCRS/FORMATION:GO UP+DOWN+AWAY:NFD", LatLong: "32.433335 -86.655560", LatLongDMS: "32:26:00 N 86:39:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/30/1950
Time: 18:00
Location: SELMA, AL
Description: Radio engineer and 20. 3 saucers zip going
quickly west. Stop / 5 minute(s). 1 goes going up. 2 continue going
west.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 14)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1609
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "7", Elev: "42", HatchDesc: "SELMA,AL:RADIO ENGINEER+20:3 SCRS ZIP>>W:STOP/5min:1 GOES↑:2 CONTINUE >W:", LatLong: "32.405557 -87.022226", LatLongDMS: "32:24:20 N 87:01:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/30/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: OFF ST. IGNACE, MI
Description: 3 separate observer(s). 60cm white disk
over straits. Blue smoky film. Very high.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 452)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1610
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "176", HatchDesc: "off St.IGNACE,MI:3 SEP.OBS:60cm WHT DISK ovr STRAITS:BLUE SMOKY FILM:VHIGH", LatLong: "45.866669 -84.716671", LatLongDMS: "45:52:00 N 84:43:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 3/30/1950
Time: 22:20
Location: CORAOPOLIS, PA
Description: 2 military observer(s). Silent saucer
circles airport/apartment / 50mph. Flat turns. Then goes going up /
60K'.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 87)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1611
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "244", HatchDesc: "CORAOPOLIS,PA:2 MIL OBS:SLNT SCR CCLS APT/50mph:FLAT TURNS:THEN GOES ↑/60K'", LatLong: "40.516669 -80.166670", LatLongDMS: "40:31:00 N 80:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/30/1950
Description: A UFO was seen hovering over Adrian,
Michigan at noon. At 11:00 p.m. that night another UFO was seen hovering
between Worland and Greybull, Wyoming.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1726
Date: 3/30/1950
Description: Three discs flew in formation over
Autaugaville, Alabama at 5:30 p.m. They went up, down, and then flew
away. Thirty-eight minutes later Mr. Townsend, a radio engineer, and 20
others in Selma, Alabama sighted three discs zip across the sky toward
the west. One stopped for five minutes, and then shot up vertically, the
other two continued on westward.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 1623;
newspaper clippings, March 31, 1950; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence
(Volume I), p. 14
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1727
Date: 3/30/1950
Description: On this night astronomer Harold Wilkins
watched a very bright oval glow illuminate the Aristarchus-Herotodus
crater on the Moon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy,
p. 74
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1728
Date: 3/31/1950
Location: Denver, CO
Description: Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of
radio time salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles),
recorded at station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking
for “parts” and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from
the Frank Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item
#17).
Type: tape recording
Reference: YouTube
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_404
Date: 3/31/1950
Location: Washington DC
Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying
saucers. Memo names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess
a UFO radio transmitter.
Type: memo
Reference: YouTube
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_405
Date: 3/31/1950
Location: Little Rock, Arkansas
Description: VETERAN PILOTS RATE THEM
SUPERSONIC. Capt. Jack Adams, and co-pilot G.W. Anderson, Jr.,
veterans of 7000 and 6000 flying hours for the Chicago and Southern Air
Lines, en route in their DC-3 from Memphis to Little Rock were within
forty miles of Little Rock at 2,000 feet, they saw a lighted,
fast-moving object about 1,000 feet above the DC-3 half a mile away and
moving at a terrific speed: 700 to 1,000 m.p.h. They saw no reflection,
exhaust, or vapor trail. It traveled in an arc, flashing a strong
blue-white light.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_66
Date: 3/31/1950
Location: Jalapa, Mexico, El Universal
Description: MEXICO SEES THEM SET AT
SUNDOWN. 300 flying disks were reported flying above the city.
They began to disappear about sundown.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_68
Date: 3/31/1950
Location: ESCANABA, MICH
Description: Fiery blue-glowing disc races over town.
Spews ribbon / blue-fire / news.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 188)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1612
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "182", HatchDesc: "ESCANABA,MICH:FIERY BLU-GLOWING DISC RACES OVR TOWN:SPEWS RIBBON/BLU-FIRE/NEWS", LatLong: "45.744447 -87.066671", LatLongDMS: "45:44:40 N 87:04:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 3/31/1950
Time: 13:30
Location: MCALISTERVILLE, PA
Description: Farm boy. 2 ovoids dive fast. Level off /
600M altitude. Buzz and whirl / 2 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 450)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1613
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "2", Elev: "195", HatchDesc: "McALISTERVILLE,PA:FARM BOY:2 OVOIDS DIVE FAST:LVL OFF/600M alt:BUZZ+WHIRL/2min", LatLong: "40.638891 -77.277781", LatLongDMS: "40:38:20 N 77:16:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/31/1950
Time: 21:30
Location: LITTLE ROCK, AR
Description: Saucer arcs over airliner. Light flashes /
top. 8 10' portholes / underside.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 145)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1614
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "LITTLE ROCK,AR:SCR ARCS OVR AIRLINER:LITE FLASHES/TOP:8 10'PORTHOLES/UNDERSIDE", LatLong: "34.750002 -92.266671", LatLongDMS: "34:45:00 N 92:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 3/31/1950
Location: Pentagon
Description: Syndicated columnist Drew
Pearson publishes “Worried about Flying Saucers?” in which he
sympathizes with the Air Force, which has to reply to groundless public
excitement. His USAF contact has told him, “there ain’t no such animal.”
Pentagon Public Relations Officer Maj. DeWitt
Searles tells the press that all UFO cases are the result of
misinterpretations, mass hysteria, and hoaxes: “As far as the Air Force
goes, there’s no such thing as a flying saucer.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Drew Pearson, “Worried about Flying
Saucers?” Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 31, 1950, p. 5; “Major
Debunker of Flying Saucers, Keeps Saying, ‘No, No, 1,000 Times No,’”
Rock Island \(Ill.) Argus, March 31, 1950, p. 18; Swords 96–99
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1505
Date: 3/31/1950
Description: In 1950 a woman driving at night on
Highway 80 in Jacumba, California reported that she saw a little man
jump out of a landed disc-shaped UFO, and then run down the highway
"faster than Jesse Owens."
Reference: Johnson
Reference: International News Service, March 31, 1950;
David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports,
case A0161
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1757
Date: 4/1950
Location: 60KM NORTH / JUNEAU, AK
Description: M. Konrad takes movies. 8 saucers land and
take off. No further details. / Quincy.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 74)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1615
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "60km N/JUNEAU,AK:M.KONRAD TAKES MOVIES:8 SCRs LAND+TAKE OFF:NFD:/Quincy", LatLong: "58.916669 -134.500006", LatLongDMS: "58:55:00 N 134:30:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/1950
Time: 01:50
Location: OFF BLACKPOOL, ENGL
Description: Several / pier. Luminous silver disk
maneuvers. Halo. Beams going [to] clouds. Away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 505)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1616
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "4", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "off BLACKPOOL,ENGL:SVRL/PIER:LUMN.SLVR DISK MNVRS:HALO:BEAMS>CLOUDS:AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "53.833336 -3.116667", LatLongDMS: "53:50:00 N 03:07:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/1950
Time: 12:00
Location: CHICLAYO, PERU
Description: PAF Commander and engineer chase disk /
light plane. Can't reach / 9km altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 506)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1617
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Peru", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "CHICLAYO,PERU:PAF COMMANDER+ENG CHASE DISK/LITE PLANE:CAN'T REACH/9km alt", LatLong: "-6.766667 -79.850004", LatLongDMS: "06:46:00 S 79:51:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "9000", State/Prov: "LMB", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/1950
Time: 23:00?
Location: 100MI NORTHWEST / KAUAI IS., HI
Description: CAA C54 crew. 6 red night lights. Magnetic
indicators go crazy.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994,
LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 151)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1618
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects
Extra Data: Country: "Pacific Ocean and non - Asian islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "100mi NW/KAUAI Is.,HI:CAA C54 CREW:6 RED NLTS:MAGNETIC INDICATORS GO CRAZY ", LatLong: "23.000001 -161.000008", LatLongDMS: "23:00:00 N 161:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NPC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/1950
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Description: Mikel Konrad made a movie of eight disks
he saw landing and taking off 60 km north of Jun.au.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Quincy (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_74
Date: 4/1950
Location: Canby, Oregon
Description: Daytime. While working on her lawn in
Canby, Oregon, Ellen Jonerson glances over at her neighbor’s yard and
sees a 12-inch-tall man with his back turned to her. When he turns
around, she sees that he has a heavily tanned face, is of stocky build,
and wears overalls and a plaid shirt. There is a skullcap on his head.
She dashes inside to call a friend, then runs outside again in time to
see the figure “waddling” away. He walks under a parked car and
disappears. Kenneth
Arnold, who
interviews her, is convinced of her sincerity.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index, 1950–1951, p. 2; Clark III 270
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1507
Date: 4/1/1950
Time: 19:00?
Location: OFF RICCIONE, ITL
Description: Boat crew. Ovoid dives / sea. Column /
water shoots up. Meteor?
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri
Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 32)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1619
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "off RICCIONE,ITL:BOAT CREW:OVOID DIVES/SEA:COLUMN/WATER SHOOTS UP:meteor?", LatLong: "43.983335 12.650001", LatLongDMS: "43:59:00 N 12:39:00 E", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "FO", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 4/1/1950
Description: Project Twinkle officially begins.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1508
Date: 4/1/1950
Description: At seven o'clock in the evening the crew
of a fishing boat off the coast of Perugia, Italy watched an ovoid
object dive into the sea and a column of water shoot up into the
sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I
(Periodo 1907-1953), p. 117.
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1779
Date: 4/2/1950
Location: NORTHWEST / CARACAS, VNZ
Description: US airliner rocks violently. Huge turtle
passes. "Controlled".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 201)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1620
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "Venezuela", Credibility: "10", Duration: "2", Elev: "260", HatchDesc: "NW/CARACAS,VNZ:US AIRLINER ROCKS VIOLENTLY:HUGE TURTLE PASSES:"CONTROLLED"", LatLong: "10.550001 -67.016670", LatLongDMS: "10:33:00 N 67:01:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "DF", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/2/1950
Location: SR38 NORTHEAST / BUTLER, PA
Description: 4 / car. Silver football flashes going
quickly west. 6K' altitude. No plane insists observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 202)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1621
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "320", HatchDesc: "SR38 NE/BUTLER,PA:4/CAR:SLVR FOOTBALL FLASHES>>W:6K'alt:NO PLANE INSISTS OBS", LatLong: "40.900002 -79.866670", LatLongDMS: "40:54:00 N 79:52:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1800", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/2/1950
Time: 05:00
Location: TIPP CITY, OH
Description: 4+5 separate observer(s). 2 brilliant
night lights hover and maneuver. Going south. Going west. Hover /
wright-Pat Air Force Base and quickly going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 506)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1622
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "65", Elev: "253", HatchDesc: "TIPP CITY,OH:4+5 SEP.OBS:2 BRILL.NLTS HVR+MNVR:>S:>W:HVR/WRIGHT-PAT AFB+↑↑", LatLong: "39.961113 -84.172226", LatLongDMS: "39:57:40 N 84:10:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/3/1950
Location: Mount Diabo, CA
Description: Bay Area Aviation News, San
Francisco. COL FLYNN BELIEVE THEY ARE OURS. A U.S. Air
Force Reserve Colonel, Frank A. Flynn, talked in detail today of his
encounter with a flight of more than a dozen "flying saucers". He said
he is convinced that the objects he saw near Mount Diablo while flying
his own plane from San Francisco to Sacramento in April of 1948, were
controlled, experimental, American aircraft.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_73
Date: 4/4/1950
Time: 21:30
Location: SOUTH / DELANO, CA
Description: Many calls to Edwards Air Force Base. 65cm
round object circles / 200' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 207)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1623
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "10", Elev: "98", HatchDesc: "S/DELANO,CA:MANY CALLS to EDWARDS AFB:65cm ROUND OBJ CIRCLES/200'alt:", LatLong: "35.733335 -119.244450", LatLongDMS: "35:44:00 N 119:14:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/4/1950
Locations: US; Caltech
Description: Presidential press secretary Charlie
Ross states that Truman has
conferred with his two top military advisers, Rear Adm. Robert
Dennison and Brig. Gen. Robert
B. Landry, and that they claim the US has no such technology.
Furthermore, the Air Force study has concluded there are no such things
as flying saucers. Caltech aeronautics professor Clark
Blanchard Millikan agrees, saying: “If anyone should know about such
a project, I should know—and I know of no development in the aircraft or
guided missile field.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 97–99
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1509
Date: 4/5/1950
Location: WHITBY, NORTH YORKS
Description: 3 observer(s). 2 concentric hoops spin.
Going [to] over coast. / London daily express.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 209)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1624
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "7", HatchDesc: "WHITBY,N.YORKS:3 obs:2 CONCENTRIC HOOPS SPIN:>OVR COAST:/LONDON DAILY EXPRESS", LatLong: "54.466669 -0.616667", LatLongDMS: "54:28:00 N 00:37:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/5/1950
Time: 11:20
Location: EAST / SAN JOSE, CA
Description: Mt. Hamilton Road. 1 observer. Dull white
saucer straight and level going quickly northwest / 18 second(s). Lost
behind trees.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1625
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "E/SAN JOSE,CA:Mt HAMILTON Rd:1 OBS:DULL WHT SCR S/L >>NW/18sec:LOST BHND TREES", LatLong: "37.338891 -121.705561", LatLongDMS: "37:20:20 N 121:42:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/5/1950
Time: 14:40
Location: DENVER, CO
Description: 1+5 separate observer(s). Silver saucer
and sphere spin and dip and wobble and maneuver / 10 minutes. Going
west.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 511)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1626
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "1580", HatchDesc: "DENVER,CO:1+5 SEP.OBS:SLVR SCR+SPHERE SPIN+DIP+WOBBLE+MNVR/10mins:>W", LatLong: "39.761113 -104.955561", LatLongDMS: "39:45:40 N 104:57:20 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/5/1950
Time: ~17:00
Location: WOODLAND, NC
Description: Military observer(s). 18' silent white
cylinder/cigar-shape seen / low altitude. Direction unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1627
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "21", HatchDesc: "WOODLAND,NC:MLT.OBS:18' SILENT WHT CGR SEEN/LO alt:DIRECTION UNKNOWN", LatLong: "36.333335 -77.211115", LatLongDMS: "36:20:00 N 77:12:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/5/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: AHOSKIE, NC
Description: Numerous observer(s) / Rhue St. Vibrant
bright red rectangular "neon tube" going north slowly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 208)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1628
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "16", HatchDesc: "AHOSKIE,NC:NMRS OBS/RHUE St:VBRITE RED RECTANGULAR "NEON TUBE" >N SLOWLY", LatLong: "36.288891 -76.983337", LatLongDMS: "36:17:20 N 76:59:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/5/1950
Time: 20:50
Location: SOUTHWEST / WINSLOW, AZ
Description: Several observer(s). White night light
hovers. Sudden extremely fast maneuvers. Quickly going up / lost in
stars.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 543)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1629
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "1480", HatchDesc: "SW/WINSLOW,AZ:SVRL OBS:WHT NLT HVRS:SUDDEN XFAST MNVRS:↑↑/lost in stars", LatLong: "34.916668 -110.783339", LatLongDMS: "34:55:00 N 110:47:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/5/1950
Locations: Ga.; Md.; Mich.; Neb.
Description: Sen. Richard
Russell Jr. (D-Ga.) states to the press that he is “completely
baffled” by flying saucer reports that are made by many pilots who would
not be fooled by hallucinations or clouds. Sen. Millard
Tydings (D-Md.), chair of the Armed Services Committee, says he
thinks saucers might be experimental US aircraft “in embryo stage.” Rep.
Albert J.
Engel (R-Mich.) thinks the same. Sen. Kenneth S.
Wherry (R-Neb.) says the saucers are “like our foreign policy. It is
in a state of confusion and no one seems to know what it is all
about.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Congress Split about Saucers,”
Miami \(Fla.) News, April 5, 1950, pp. 1, 6; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July
1950, The
Author, 1990, pp. 9–10; Swords 98
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1510
Date: 4/6/1950
Time: 13:00?
Location: ASMARA, ERITRIA
Description: Thousands. Double-hoop disk hovers / high
altitude. Small object detaches and away. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 514)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1630
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Ethiopia", Credibility: "13", Duration: "85", HatchDesc: "ASMARA,ERITRIA:1000s:Dbl-HOOP DISK HVRS/hi alt:SML OBJ DETACHES+AWAY:>N", LatLong: "15.333334 38.966669", LatLongDMS: "15:20:00 N 38:58:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "ERT", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/6/1950
Time: 16:50
Location: WESTFIELD AND AGAWAM, MA
Description: Airman and 1. Huge saucer slowly going
west. Roars and sparkles. Separate observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 513)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1631
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "43", HatchDesc: "WESTFIELD+AGAWAM,MA:AIRMAN+1:HUGE SCR SLOWLY >W:ROARS+SPARKLES:sep obs", LatLong: "42.127780 -72.750003", LatLongDMS: "42:07:40 N 72:45:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/6/1950
Location: Springfield, Massachusetts
Description: 4:45 p.m. Lt. John
J. Sevila, a
pilot with the 131st Fighter Squadron, hears a sound like a flight of
jet airplanes and rushes out of his house in Springfield, Massachusetts,
to see them. Instead, he sees a perfectly circular object moving slowly
westward at an altitude of 25,000 feet. He watches it for 5 minutes as
it moves at a speed of 50– 100 mph. When the sun hits it directly, it
shines like a mirror.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: The Thunderbolt 1, no. 12 (April 1950): 5;
Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1511
Date: 4/6/1950
Description: A huge sparkling saucer shaped object
moved across the sky heading west over Westfield, Massachusetts on this
day. It made a roaring sound as it flew.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 9
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1855
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: San Diego, CA
Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_406
See also: 5/16/1950
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: Grenoble and Chambéry, France
Description: FRANCE SIGHTS SAUCERS,
TOO. Flying saucers were reported to have been seen in two
localities of France. Residents of Grenoble reported a metallic object
which appeared to remain stationary high in the sky. Inhabitants of
Chambéry reported a saucer-like object which left a stream of
vapor.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_69
Date: 4/7/1950 (approximate)
Location: LONG BEACH, CA
Description: 2 military observer(s). Pink
pancake-object flips in sky. / Brawley, CA newspapers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 213)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1632
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "LONG BEACH,CA:2 MIL OBS:PINK PANCAKE-OBJ FLIPS IN SKY:/BRAWLEY,CA NEWSPAPERS", LatLong: "33.800002 -118.166672", LatLongDMS: "33:48:00 N 118:10:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: DUNCANNON, PA
Description: 2 railroad/railway men. Saucer is size /
large plane. 3K' over train. No means / propulsion.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 212)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1633
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "110", HatchDesc: "DUNCANNON,PA:2 RR MEN:SCR is SIZE/LRG PLANE:3K' ovr TRAIN:NO MEANS/PROPULSION", LatLong: "40.383335 -77.033337", LatLongDMS: "40:23:00 N 77:02:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "900", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: JERICHO AND RAM ALLAH, PALESTINE
Description: Many observer(s). 2 silver saucers north
going quickly south. Clearly seen. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1634
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Israel", Credibility: "10", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "JERICHO+RAM ALLAH,PALESTINE:MANY OBS:2 SLVR SCRS N>>S:CLEARLY SEEN:NFD", LatLong: "31.850002 35.466668", LatLongDMS: "31:51:00 N 35:28:00 E", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "OCC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: ST. IGNACE, MICH
Description: 2 Ferrymen. Saucer races all over/all
about sky over strait / Mackinac. Plasma-glow.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1635
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "176", HatchDesc: "ST IGNACE,MICH:2 FERRYMEN:SCR RACES ALLO SKY OVR STRAIT/MACKINAC:PLASMA-GLOW", LatLong: "45.861113 -84.727782", LatLongDMS: "45:51:40 N 84:43:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Time: 10:10
Location: MIDDLETOWN, IA
Description: 4 separate observer(s). Silver disk going
[to] over pen factory. 5M cylinder/cigar-shape going southeast over
ammunition plant.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 516)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1636
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "221", HatchDesc: "MIDDLETOWN,IA:4 SEP.OBS:SLVR DISK >OVR PEN FACTORY:5M CGR >SE OVR AMMO PLANT", LatLong: "40.827780 -91.261115", LatLongDMS: "40:49:40 N 91:15:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Iowa", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Time: ~16:30
Location: PITTSBURGH, PA
Description: Kids / baseball. Blue-white object /
lightning tail. All tell parents.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 210)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1637
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "232", HatchDesc: "PITTSBURGH,PA:KIDS/BASEBALL:BLU-WHT OBJ/LIGHTNING TAIL:ALL TELL PARENTS", LatLong: "40.433335 -79.966670", LatLongDMS: "40:26:00 N 79:58:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/7/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: SALAMANCA, SP
Description: Several observer(s). Luminous metallic
ovoid without fuselage going quickly ESE. No further details. / ABC /
Spain.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1638
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SALAMANCA,SP:SVRL OBS:LUMN.MTLC OVOID W/O FUSELAGE >>ESE:NFD:/ABC/Spain", LatLong: "40.900002 -5.700000", LatLongDMS: "40:54:00 N 05:42:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SLM", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Time: 21:50
Location: LOGAN AIRPORT, MASS
Description: 3 Air Traffic Controllers and more. Object
with lights maneuvers. Splits. Play about. Go going quickly
northeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT;
Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 65)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1639
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "4", HatchDesc: "LOGAN Airport,MASS:3 ATCs+:OBJ W/LITES MNVRS:SPLITS:PLAY ABOUT:GO>>NE", LatLong: "42.372224 -71.011114", LatLongDMS: "42:22:20 N 71:00:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Time: 22:00?
Location: EL CENTRO, CA
Description: Many observer(s). Hundreds / night lights
south going quickly north. Some hover. Others dart all over/all about. /
Brawley News.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1640
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "60", Elev: "-14", HatchDesc: "EL CENTRO,CA:MANY OBS:100s/NLTS S>>N:SOME HOVER:OTHERS DART ALLO:/BRAWLEY NEWS", LatLong: "32.794446 -115.561117", LatLongDMS: "32:47:40 N 115:33:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: Boston (Logan Airport), MA
Description: Deep-blue ellipsoid object at 15°
elevation moving SW-NE opposite the winds (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_689
Date: 4/7/1950
Locations: Logan Airport; Boston; Massachusetts
Description: A CAA control tower operator at Logan
Airport in Boston, Massachusetts, watches a blue light split into two
lights that revolve around each other for 10 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hynek UFO Report, pp.
65–68; Sparks, p. 86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1512
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: Muroc AFB
Description: Newsman Edward R.
Murrow produces the first extended TV commentary on UFOs, “The Case
of the Flying Saucer” on CBS. He begins with the Kenneth
Arnold case, mentions Muroc AFB cases and Mantell,
and quotes both True magazine and Donald
Menzel. Also
on the show are Henry J.
Taylor, engineer
Charles
H. Zimmerman, and Charlie
Ross, as
well as people on the street.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Transcript
of Ed Murrow–Kenneth Arnold Telephone Conversation,”
CUFOS Associate Newsletter 5, no. 1 (Feb./March 1984): 3; Edward R.
Murrow, “The Case
of the Flying
Saucer [audio only],” Bryce Zabel YouTube channel, February 24,
2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1513
Date: 4/7/1950
Description: US News and World Report comes out with a
story on saucers that hints they are top-secret, jet-propelled Navy
aircraft “that can outfly other planes.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying
Saucers—the Real Story: U.S. Built First One in 1942,” US News and
World Report 28, no. 14 (April 7, 1950): 13–15; Michael D. Swords,
“Balloons, Missiles, and UFOs,” IUR 29, no. 1 (Spring 2004): 18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1514
Date: 4/7/1950
Location: US
Description: The National Security Council presents
President Truman with
Report 68 (NSC-68), a 56-page top secret policy paper that provides the
“blueprint for the militarization of the Cold War.” It advocates a large
expansion in the military budget, the development of a hydrogen bomb,
and increased military aid to US allies for the containment of Communist
expansion. It essentially warns Truman that the US is losing the Cold
War. Truman does not approve it until 1951.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “NSC-68”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1515
Date: 4/7/1950
Description: Two ferrymen in Saint Ignace, Michigan
watched a flying saucer race all over the sky over the Strait. It gave
off a plasma glow. On the same day two railroad workers saw a flying
saucer the size of a large airplane 3,000 feet over their train. Two
silver discs were seen flying over Jericho and Ramallah in Israel and
Palestine. At eleven o'clock in the morning a silver, rotating disc flew
over a pen factory in Fort Madison, Iowa. It left a shower of sparks
behind it.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clippings, April 11 & 8, 1950;
Loren Gross, UFOs: A History - 1950: April-July, pp. 10 & 12;
Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1878
Date: 4/8/1950
Location: HENDERSON, KY
Description: 3 farmers. Several 10m oil-drums whiz by
in formation. Trail / smoke.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 212)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1641
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "132", HatchDesc: "HENDERSON,KY:3 FARMERS:SVRL 10m OIL-DRUMS WHIZ BY/FORMATION:TRAIL/SMOKE.", LatLong: "37.838891 -87.588893", LatLongDMS: "37:50:20 N 87:35:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/8/1950
Location: SAN FRANCISCO, CA
Description: 2 saucers buzz house. Stop. Go going up
[to] going down [to] and around like a game of tag. 1 observer.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 213)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1642
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "19", HatchDesc: "SAN FRANCISCO,CA:2 SCRS BUZZ HOUSE:STOP:GO↑↓+AROUND LIKE A GAME OF TAG:1 OBS", LatLong: "37.766668 -122.466673", LatLongDMS: "37:46:00 N 122:28:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/8/1950
Location: NEAR TERRA BELLA, CA
Description: Rancher. Group / saucers swoop climb and
circle. Emit black smoke / ascending.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 213)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1643
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "148", HatchDesc: "nr TERRA BELLA,CA:RANCHER:GROUP/SCRS SWOOP CLIMB+CCL:EMIT BLK SMOKE/ASCENDING", LatLong: "35.961113 -119.044450", LatLongDMS: "35:57:40 N 119:02:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 02:00
Location: KOKOMO, IN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #706. 5M domed
saucer 30m from observer(s). 3 portholes / blue light. Going quickly
north very fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 518)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1644
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "253", HatchDesc: "KOKOMO,IN:BBK#706:5M DOMED SCR 30m FROM OBS:3 PORTHOLES/BLU LITE:>>N VFAST", LatLong: "40.488891 -86.133337", LatLongDMS: "40:29:20 N 86:08:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 11:00
Location: AMARILLO, TX
Description: Boys. 3' saucer / ground. Dome turns. Red
sprays cause welts. / APRO 1-63.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 530)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1645
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "2", Duration: "3", Elev: "1105", HatchDesc: "AMARILLO,TX:BOYS:3'SCR/GND:DOME TURNS:RED SPRAYS CAUSE WELTS:/APRO 1-63", LatLong: "35.283335 -101.800005", LatLongDMS: "35:17:00 N 101:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: SHELBY, NC
Description: Blue Book. 5 observer(s). Metal saucer
wobbles going southwest / 2 minute(s). Then shoots straight up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 519)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1646
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "260", HatchDesc: "SHELBY,NC:BBK:5 OBS:MTL SCR WOBBLES>SW/2min:THEN SHOOTS STRAIGHT UP:", LatLong: "35.288891 -81.538893", LatLongDMS: "35:17:20 N 81:32:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/8/1950
Location: Kokomo, IN
Description: Grey metallic disc, 50 ft in diameter, 15
ft thick, top-shaped (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: 706)
Reference: NICAP: 500408
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_690
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 0200
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Description: A metal worker was awakened by his dog and
observed an object 60 m away at low altitude. It was a gray metal disk,
5 m in diameter, shaped like a top with a kind of turret. It was
oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a
blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 min, left toward the north,
very fast.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_75
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: afternoon
Location: River Road near Amarillo, Texas
Description: David, 12, and Charles, 9, Lightfoot saw a
disk land behind a hill and touched it. It was the size of a car tire,
about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that rotated and a pivot between
the base and the top. It took off very fast. The faces and arms of the
boys later became red.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: 200 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_76
Date: 4/8/1950
Time: 2 AM
Location: Kokomo, Indiana
Description: Witness: Earl Baker. One grey metallic
disc, 50' in diameter, 15' thick; top-shaped with a "conning tower" at
the top and three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It hovered
for 2 minutes, then flew away. Baker aroused from sleep by his
dog.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_38
Date: 4/8/1950
Location: Shelby, North Carolina
Description: Paul
Limerick, commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Shelby, North
Carolina, watches a round, aluminum-colored object with four other
people for 2 minutes. It follows a horizontal course toward the
southwest without making a sound, then shoots straight up and
disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July
1950, The
Author, 1990, p. 13
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1516
Date: 4/8/1950
Description: At 2:00 a.m. Mr. Earl Baker, a metal
worker in Kokomo, Indiana was awakened by his dog and observed an object
outside his bedroom window only 60 meters away hovering at a low
altitude. It was a gray metallic disc, five meters in diameter and
15-feet thick. It was shaped like a top with a kind of "conning tower"
turret on top. It had three ports on the rim giving off a blue light. It
was oscillating, spinning slowly, and had three portholes shining with a
blue-white light. It hovered for about 2 minutes and then left toward
the north at high speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case #706; Kenneth Arnold and Ray Palmer, The Coming of the
Saucers, p. 166; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1893
Date: 4/8/1950
Description: Later that day shortly before noon near
Amarillo, Texas, David Lightfoot, age 12, and his brother Charles saw a
disc land behind a hill. They were able to walk up to it and touch it.
It was the size of a car tire, about 30 cm high, with a rounded top that
rotated. It had a pivot between the base and the top. It took off very
fast. The faces and arms of the boys later became red with welts.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 194
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1894
Date: 4/8/1950
Description: On the same day two disc-shaped objects
buzzed a house in San Francisco, California. They stopped in mid-flight,
then went up and around like playing a game of tag.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 13
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1895
Date: 4/9/1950 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: HAPEVILLE, GA
Description: Silent bright red 6M pencil shape going
south. Flickers like neon light.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON
1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 10)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1647
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "305", HatchDesc: "HAPEVILLE,GA:SLNT BRITE RED 6M PENCIL SHAPE >S:FLICKERS like NEON LITE:", LatLong: "33.661113 -84.405560", LatLongDMS: "33:39:40 N 84:24:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/9/1950
Description: A bright red pencil-shaped UFO, about six
meters in length, moved through the sky over Hapeville, Georgia, flying
to the south. It flickered like a neon light.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: M. Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987,
p. 10
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_1918
Date: 4/10/1950
Location: NEAR YORK, PA
Description: 9 / road crew. Whine! 6m saucer 150m
overhead spews fire and smoke. No propellers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 216)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1648
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "120", HatchDesc: "nr YORK,PA:9/ROAD CREW:WHINE!:6m SCR 150m OVHD SPEWS FIRE+SMOKE:NO PROPELLERS", LatLong: "39.950002 -76.722226", LatLongDMS: "39:57:00 N 76:43:20 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/10/1950
Time: 04:00
Location: ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA
Description: Pilot and 1 / ground. Silent flash. 8M top
saucer going north. Neon-red glow. 90° turn going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON
1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 11)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1649
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "ROBINS AFB,GA:PILOT+1/GND:SLNT FLASH:8M TOP SCR >N:NEON-RED GLOW:90°TURN >E", LatLong: "32.600002 -83.600004", LatLongDMS: "32:36:00 N 83:36:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/10/1950
Time: ~08:00
Location: SOUTH / MONTEREY, CA
Description: 7+separate observer(s) and cops. 30'
saucer / 4K' altitude. Stops. Spins. Goes going west / sea. Army
investigation.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 215)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1650
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "S/MONTEREY,CA:7+SEP.OBS+COPS:30'SCR/4K'alt:STOPS:SPINS:GOES>W/SEA:ARMY INVSTn", LatLong: "36.583335 -121.866672", LatLongDMS: "36:35:00 N 121:52:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/10/1950
Time: 11:30
Location: LINDSBORG, KS
Description: P. Patchin. Grey-white clam-shape / 2
miles altitude. Goes going quickly southwest / 650mph. / news?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 217)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1651
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "406", HatchDesc: "LINDSBORG,KS:P.PATCHIN:GRY-WHT CLAM-SHAPE/2mi ALT:GOES >>SW/650mph:/NEWS?", LatLong: "38.572224 -97.672227", LatLongDMS: "38:34:20 N 97:40:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "3200", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/10/1950
Location: Mobile (Brookley AFB & Bates Field),
AL
Description: Object flying to the NE or E over Brookley
AFB at 3,500 ft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_691
Date: 4/10/1950
Locations: University of California, Berkeley;
Berkeley, California; Monterey, California; San Francisco
Description: 7:00 p.m. Several University of
California, Berkeley, graduate students, including Garniss H.
Curtis, Robert Scott
Creely, and Louis
I. Briggs, watch
a bright light moving against the wind at about 10–15 mph at 1,500 feet
altitude about 3–4 miles away from Berkeley, California, for two hours.
It turns slowly to the south then turns around and heads slowly back.
Four high school students in Monterey, California, see a gleaming object
over San Francisco in the early afternoon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP case file; “Saucer Visits San
Francisco, Schoolboys Say,” Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1950, p.
17
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1517
Date: 4/10/1950
Location: Amarillo, Texas
Description: David Lightfoot, 12, reported that he had
touched a landed "flying saucer," but that the object released a gas or
spray of something when it took off, which turned his arms and face
bright red, causing welts. A younger boy confirmed his story.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_14
Date: 4/11/1950 (approximate)
Time: 13:00?
Location: PEPPERWOOD, CA
Description: 3 / farm. Shiny disk circles / 5 minutes.
Then shoots going quickly northeast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 531)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1652
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "34", HatchDesc: "PEPPERWOOD,CA:3/FARM:SHINY DISK CCLS/5mins:THEN SHOOTS >>NE:NFD", LatLong: "40.444446 -123.994450", LatLongDMS: "40:26:40 N 123:59:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/11/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: MONTCLAIR, NJ
Description: 2 women. 6 softly glowing saucers play in
sky. Rise descend and circle.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 218)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1653
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "30", Elev: "91", HatchDesc: "MONTCLAIR,NJ:2 WOMEN:6 SOFTLY GLOWING SCRS PLAY IN SKY:RISE DESCEND+CIRCLE", LatLong: "40.827780 -74.211115", LatLongDMS: "40:49:40 N 74:12:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/12/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: REUS GOING [TO] TARRAGONA, SP
Description: 2 / truck. 1M saucer glows low over trees.
Away fast. / Flying Saucer Review (FSR) Special #4.
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of
200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1654
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "REUS>TARRAGONA,SP:2/TRUCK:1M SCR GLOWS LOW OVR TREES:AWAY FAST:/FSR Special #4", LatLong: "41.183335 1.116667", LatLongDMS: "41:11:00 N 01:07:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TRG", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/13/1950
Location: SALINAS, CA
Description: 5 observer(s). Silent silvery "long-rooted
sweet-potato" dives. Hovers. Maneuvers?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1655
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "23", HatchDesc: "SALINAS,CA:5 OBS:SILENT SILVERY "LONG-ROOTED SWEET-POTATO" DIVES:HVRS:MNVRS?", LatLong: "36.666668 -121.650006", LatLongDMS: "36:40:00 N 121:39:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/13/1950
Location: MOFFETT NAS, CA
Description: Many observer(s). Object hovers. 3 flames
shoot / tail. Swish. Flutters. Type unknown.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 222)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1656
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "MOFFETT NAS,CA:MANY OBS:OBJ HVRS:3 FLAMES SHOOT/TAIL:SWISH:FLUTTERS:TYPE UNK", LatLong: "37.411113 -122.088895", LatLongDMS: "37:24:40 N 122:05:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/13/1950
Location: OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Description: Minister and 1. 2 saucers on edge. Both
right themselves together.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 223)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1657
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "358", HatchDesc: "OKLAHOMA CITY,OK:MINISTER+1:2 SCRS ON EDGE:BOTH RIGHT THEMSELVES TOGETHER:", LatLong: "35.450002 -97.516671", LatLongDMS: "35:27:00 N 97:31:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oklahoma", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/14/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: CAMARASA, SP
Description: Several observer(s). Bright object lands /
reservoir / hydro power station/depot/facility. Floats. Submerges.
Type: sighting
Reference: BALLESTER OLMOS, Vicente-Juan: CATALOG of
200 TYPE-1 EVENTS in SPAIN & PORTUGAL; CUFOS 1976. (Index 2)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1658
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "CAMARASA,SP:SVRL OBS:BRITE OBJ LANDS/RSRVR/hydro power stn:FLOATS:SUBMERGES", LatLong: "41.866669 0.866667", LatLongDMS: "41:52:00 N 00:52:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LRD", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/14/1950
Time: 14:30
Location: PORT MONMOUTH, NJ
Description: Military observer(s). 4 amber rectangles
rise and fall. Fast changes / speed and direction.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS;
(FUFOR). (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1659
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "4", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "PORT MONMOUTH,NJ:MIL OBS:4 AMBER RECTANGLES RISE+FALL:FAST CHANGES/SPEED+DIRn", LatLong: "40.427780 -74.100004", LatLongDMS: "40:25:40 N 74:06:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Jersey", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/14/1950
Location: Fort Monmouth, NJ
Description: 4 rectangular, amber objects (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, BB: 711)
Reference: NICAP: 500414
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_692
Date: 4/14/1950
Time: 2:30 PM
Location: Ft. Monmouth, New Jersey
Description: Witness: Army M/Sgt. James. Four
rectangular, amber objects, about 3' by 4'. changed speed and direction
rapidly; the group of objects rose and fell during the 3-4 minute
sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_39
Date: 4/14/1950
Description: RAND Corporation writer Jean M. Hungerford
writes a 32-page research memorandum for the US Air Force titled “The
Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological Warfare.”
She uses recent examples of religious miracles that were used in Western
propaganda, as well as horoscopes, chain letters, and folklore.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jean M. Hungerford, “The
Exploitation of Superstitions for Purposes of Psychological
Warfare,” USAF Project Rand Research Memorandum, RM-35, April 14,
1950
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1518
Date: 4/14/1950
Description: USAF Project Rand
contracts a white paper on the “Exploitation of Superstitions for
Purposes of Psychological Warfare.” The paper writes that convincing a
population to believe in paranormal and fringe phenomena, or prophesies
concerning future events, could cause them to be non-rational. At scale,
this would negatively affect a society. UFOs and UAP are not mentioned.
Project Rand was a regular recipient of UAP reports
from USAF (see 23 September 1947).
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_22
Date: 4/16/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: LUDLOW, MASS
Description: Silver saucer over Minnechaug Mountain.
Very slow. Gaseous tail. Rises slowly going east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 531)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1660
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "7", Elev: "73", HatchDesc: "LUDLOW,MASS:SLVR SCR OVR MINNECHAUG Mtn:VSLOW:GASEOUS TAIL:RISES SLOWLY >E", LatLong: "42.166669 -72.505559", LatLongDMS: "42:10:00 N 72:30:20 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/17/1950
Location: Glens Falls, NY
Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind
the Flying Sauces” announced coming soon.
Type: announcement
Reference: Newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_407
Date: 4/17/1950
Time: 13:30
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: 15+scientist/science / (seen thru)
telescope. 3 9' metallic saucers / E. horizon. Faster / any jet. /
r95v5#3.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London.
Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index
422)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1661
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "20", Elev: "2231", HatchDesc: "LOS ALAMOS,NM:15+SCI/TSCOPE:3 9'MTLC SCRs/E.HRZN:FASTER/ANY JET:/r95v5#3", LatLong: "35.883335 -106.300005", LatLongDMS: "35:53:00 N 106:18:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/17/1950
Time: 20:20
Location: SPRINGFIELD, MASS
Description: 2 teens. 2 glowing saucers buzz car. Hop
about. Rise going up [to] very fast and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 226)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1662
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "21", HatchDesc: "SPRINGFIELD,MASS:2 TEENS:2 GLOWING SCRS BUZZ CAR:HOP ABOUT:RISE↑ VFAST+GONE", LatLong: "42.100002 -72.583337", LatLongDMS: "42:06:00 N 72:35:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/17/1950
Description: Newsweek publishes an article, “Flying
Saucers Again,” on crashed saucers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Flying Saucers Again,” Newsweek, April 17,
1950, p. 29
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1519
Date: 4/17/1950
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: More than 15 people report seeing a UFO
for 20 minutes at 2,000 feet on the eastern horizon at Los Alamos, New
Mexico. One scientist watches the object through a telescope and says it
looks flat, circular, metallic, and roughly 9 feet in diameter. It moves
faster than any conventional aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume
6, April–July 1950, The
Author, 1990, p. 26; Sparks, p.
86
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1520
Date: 4/17/1950
Description: Three flat, metallic flying objects were
sighted east of the Los Alamos AEC nuclear facility in New Mexico by 15
University of California scientists at 1:30 p.m. The sighting lasted for
20 minutes and the UFO was viewed through a telescope. They estimated
the size of the objects as approximately nine feet in diameter, and they
flew faster than conventional aircraft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, FSR, volume 25, number 2
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2074
Date: 4/17/1950
Description: At 8:15 p.m. EDT two teenagers were
driving in a car in Springfield, Massachusetts when their vehicle was
bussed by two glowing saucers. The objects then hopped about in the sky,
ascend very fast and are gone from sight in about a minute.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 26
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2075
Date: 4/18/1950
Time: 09:00
Location: MEMPHIS, TX
Description: F610 crew and separate ground RADAR's.
Silver sphere tilts. 4 hours / RADAR. B36 scrambles.
Type: sighting
Reference: ACTAEON ADVISOR (qtrly) Actaeon Group;
PO.Box 515123, St. Louis, MO 63151-1290 314/994-1290. (Index 3)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1663
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "240", Elev: "77", HatchDesc: "MEMPHIS,TX:F610 CREW+SEP.GND RDRS:SLVR SPHERE TILTS:4hrs/RDR:B36 SCRAMBLES", LatLong: "34.722224 -100.533338", LatLongDMS: "34:43:20 N 100:32:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/18/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: PULLMAN, WA
Description: 3 observer(s). 2 dark
delta/triangle/box-like crafts going north. Join saucer and circle hill.
Saucer going quickly north. "Kites" going quickly south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 532)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1664
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "7", Elev: "732", HatchDesc: "PULLMAN,WA:3 OBS:2 DRK DLTS >N:JOIN SCR+CCL HILL:SCR >>N:"KITES" >>S", LatLong: "46.733336 -117.172228", LatLongDMS: "46:44:00 N 117:10:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/18/1950
Time: 10:50
Location: SHERMAN, TX
Description: 2 military wives. 18-20 flat silent silver
saucers race going quickly north. Maneuver / 4-5 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 227)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1665
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "227", HatchDesc: "SHERMAN,TX:2 MIL WIVES:18-20 FLAT SLNT SLVR SCRS RACE >>N:MNVR/4-5min", LatLong: "33.633335 -96.600005", LatLongDMS: "33:38:00 N 96:36:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/18/1950
Location: Memphis (near), TX
Description: Object Triangulated, Observed From F-61C
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500418
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_693
Date: 4/18/1950
Description: At 10:30 a.m. three observers in Pullman,
Washington saw two dark delta-shaped objects fly to the north; they
joined a saucer-shaped object and circled a hill. The saucer then flew
off to the north, while the "kites" flew off to the south.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1691; newspaper clipping dated April 21, 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2104
Date: 4/18/1950
Description: CAA observers in Clarendon, Texas saw an
unidentified object to the southeast, while observers in Childress,
Texas about 50 miles to the SE saw the object to the northwest, and
triangulated the stationary object about midway between, near Memphis,
Texas. The sighting began around 9 a.m. and the object was on radar for
four hours. This radar-visual case involved the crew of an F-61C as it
was flying over Memphis around 11:00 a.m. as well as separate ground
radars. A silver sphere that tilted was seen, and it did not move
significantly despite winds aloft. Northrop engineering test pilot Max
Stanley and observers Lloyd Balsam and Sam F. West were asked to
intercept the object when they took off in their F-61C (AF 8357) from
Amarillo on an MX-775 test of a Navaho missile celestial guidance test.
A B-36 was also scrambled and took off from Fort Worth to intercept. On
the same day at 10:50 a.m. two military wives in Sherman, Texas saw
18-20 flat silent silver discs race to the north, then maneuver for 4-5
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, pp. 26-27; Jan Aldrich
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2105
Date: 4/19/1950
Location: St. Paul, Minnesota
Description: St. Paul's Dispatch.
AIRMAN SEES BANANAS WITH SAUCERS. Fort Worth AP: Ira
Maxey, a veteran of 3,600 flying hours in the United States Air Force,
said he saw six flying "bananas" plus a flying saucer. They were moving
slowly and appeared to be six or seven miles away. He described the air
objects as without tails or noses, not like a saucer but more like a
banana. The pictures Maxey took showed they left vapor trails.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_70
Date: 4/19/1950
Location: SOUTH / EDMONTON, ALTA
Description: Thousands / observer(s). Fiery red rod or
light hangs / sky. Same / Dallas, TX.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 230)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1666
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "13", Duration: "10", Elev: "661", HatchDesc: "S/EDMONTON,ALTA:1000s/OBS:FIERY RED ROD OR LITE HANGS/SKY::SAME/DALLAS, TX", LatLong: "53.500003 -113.466672", LatLongDMS: "53:30:00 N 113:28:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 4/19/1950
Time: 03:00
Location: CALEXICO, CA
Description: 2 cops. 3 dark silent 150' saucers slowly
circle town and entire valley in formation.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 230)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1667
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "20", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "CALEXICO,CA:2 COPS:3 DARK SILENT 150'SCRS SLOWLY CCL TOWN+ENTIRE VALLEY/FORMn", LatLong: "32.683335 -115.500006", LatLongDMS: "32:41:00 N 115:30:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/19/1950
Time: ~06:00
Location: ANDERSON, MO
Description: Swarm / 80+4' saucers in 30 minute(s)
traffic jam east / town. Fly going quickly east at sunrise.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 229)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1668
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "30", Elev: "271", HatchDesc: "ANDERSON,MO:SWARM/80+ 4' SCRS in 30min TRAFFIC JAM E/TOWN:FLY>>E AT SUNRISE", LatLong: "36.650002 -94.433338", LatLongDMS: "36:39:00 N 94:26:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/19/1950
Description: A silver, cigar-shaped object was sighted
by a pilot in the morning sky over Clarendon, Texas. It flew slowly and
vertically.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, page 12
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2131
Date: 4/20/1950
Time: 04:20
Location: HOUSTON, TX
Description: 2 observer(s). Dim fake moon hovers /
1800M. Suddenly quickly going up / 45° angle whoosh!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 531)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1669
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "HOUSTON,TX:2 OBS:DIM FAKE MOON HVRS/1800M:SUDDENLY ↑↑/45°ANGLE WHOOSH!", LatLong: "29.738890 -95.333338", LatLongDMS: "29:44:20 N 95:20:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1800", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/20/1950
Time: 18:00
Location: LORIENT, FR
Description: Several observer(s). Saucer going quickly
south to sea fast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1670
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "LORIENT,FR:SVRL OBS:SCR >>S TO SEA FAST:NFD", LatLong: "47.716669 -3.366667", LatLongDMS: "47:43:00 N 03:22:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Morbihan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/20/1950
Time: 21:00
Location: WEST / LUFKIN, TX
Description: 3M saucer follows car. 50° turn. Sparks.
Spins. Observer's face burnt. / LDLN#123+/ r8.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 533)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1671
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TRC: Physical traces, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "90", HatchDesc: "W/LUFKIN,TX:3M SCR FOLOS CAR:50°TURN:SPARKS:SPINS:OBS'FACE BURNT:/LDLN#123+/r8", LatLong: "31.338890 -94.850005", LatLongDMS: "31:20:20 N 94:51:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 4/20/1950
Time: 22:00
Location: STAMFORD, CT
Description: 1+observer(s) / 2 nights. Upside-down
banana like inverted moon. Back next night.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 234)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1672
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "136", Elev: "11", HatchDesc: "STAMFORD,CT:1+obs/2 NITES:UPSIDE-DOWN BANANA LIKE INVERTED MOON:BACK NEXT NITE", LatLong: "41.050002 -73.538892", LatLongDMS: "41:03:00 N 73:32:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/20/1950
Time: night
Location: Lufkin, Texas
Description: Jack Robertson was driviug about 13 km
west of town when he saw a round object about 3 m in diameter hovering
about 7 m above him with a dull red glow. It took off with a "swooshing
roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it. Minutes later the witness
feIt a burning sensation on his face.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FS Jul., 59 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_77
Date: 4/20/1950
Description: Mr. Robertson was driving about 13 km west
of Lufkin, Texas when he saw a round object about three meters in
diameter hovering about 7 meters above him. It had a dull red glow. It
took off with a "swooshing roar" as sparks flew from a slot under it.
Minutes later the witness felt a burning sensation on his face.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Flying Saucers, July 1959; Jacques Vallee,
Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 195
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2151
Date: 4/20/1950
Location: Lufkin, Texas
Description: Pharmacist Jack Robertson reported that a
globe-like UFO, which emitted a red glow, hovered above his car about 20
feet, then made a "whooshing sound” and threw off sparks that burned his
face.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The
Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID:
HostileFawcett_15
Date: 4/22/1950
Location: SOUTHWEST / PRINCETON, MO
Description: Several separate farmers. Flying disk
speeds by trailing white smoke.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 231)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1673
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "262", HatchDesc: "SW/PRINCETON,MO:SVRL SEP FARMERS:FLYING DISK SPEEDS BY TRAILING WHT SMOKE", LatLong: "40.366669 -93.600004", LatLongDMS: "40:22:00 N 93:36:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/22/1950
Description: On this morning in Princeton, Missouri
several farmers, including one named Kincaid, saw a flying disc speed
by, leaving a trail of white smoke.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs, A History: 1950:
April-July, p. 31
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2205
Date: 4/23/1950
Time: 03:00
Location: SOUTH / MORINVILLE, ALTA
Description: 2 / car. Big flash and near collision / 8M
glowing-ovoid. 150kph / low altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 507)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1674
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "691", HatchDesc: "S/MORINVILLE,ALTA:2/CAR:BIG FLASH+nr COLLISION/8M GLO-OVOID:150kph/lo alt:", LatLong: "53.750003 -113.633339", LatLongDMS: "53:45:00 N 113:38:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alberta", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/23/1950
Time: 16:00
Location: RED BUD, IL
Description: Several separate observer(s). Huge red
domed saucer seen several X. Going quickly southeast. Photograph /
r97#52.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 232)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1675
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "44", Elev: "129", HatchDesc: "RED BUD,IL:SVRL SEP.OBS:HUGE RED DOMED SCR SEEN SVRL X:>>SE:FOTO /r97#52", LatLong: "38.211113 -89.994449", LatLongDMS: "38:12:40 N 89:59:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/23/1950
Location: Red Bud, IL
Description: Red Bud, IL (NICAP: 08 - Photographic
Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_694
Date: 4/24/1950 (approximate)
Location: LARAMIE, WY
Description: 4 university/universe(al) students.
Extremely slow round glittering object going west / 3K' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 233)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1676
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "2183", HatchDesc: "LARAMIE,WY:4 UNIV STUDENTS:EXTREMELY SLOW ROUND GLITTERING OBJ >W/3K'alt", LatLong: "41.350002 -105.616672", LatLongDMS: "41:21:00 N 105:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "900", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/24/1950
Time: 00:30
Location: ANSONIA, CT
Description: Cops and more/others. Amber-glow.
Gravy-boat object flies overhead. Back / 0130hrs next day.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 233)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1677
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "196", Elev: "43", HatchDesc: "ANSONIA,CT:COPS++:AMBER-GLOW:GRAVY-BOAT OBJ FLIES OVHD:BACK/0130hrs NEXT DAY", LatLong: "41.344446 -73.077781", LatLongDMS: "41:20:40 N 73:04:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/24/1950
Time: 14:10
Location: DORRIS, CA
Description: 1+2 observer(s). 7 silver round objects
float overhead. Then shoot away extremely fast. 2400M altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 534)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1678
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1292", HatchDesc: "DORRIS,CA:1+2 OBS:7 SLVR RND OBJS FLOAT OVHD:THEN SHOOT AWAY XFAST:2400M alt", LatLong: "41.950002 -121.916672", LatLongDMS: "41:57:00 N 121:55:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/24/1950
Time: 22:00
Location: ABBIATE GUAZZONE, ITL
Description: 3 pseudo-human/entity weld saucer body.
Metal fragments left! Observer(s) zapped. / FSRv32#4.
Type: sighting
Reference: ITACAT, Catalogo Italiano degli Incontri
Ravvicinati. Maurizio Verga, 1989 CISU/Torino, Italy. (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1679
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SIG: Signals/responses to/from/between UFO's/occupants/observers, CVS: Conversation/communication, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "7", Duration: "25", HatchDesc: "ABBIATE GUAZZONE,ITL:3 PSH WELD SCR BODY:MTL FRAGS LEFT!:OBS ZAPPED:/FSRv32#4", LatLong: "45.700002 8.900000", LatLongDMS: "45:42:00 N 08:54:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Varese", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 4/24/1950
Time: 2200
Location: Abbiate Guazzone, Italy
Description: Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming
from a dark, hovering object, near which a man dressed in tight-fitting
clothes and wearing a helmet seemed to be making repairs. Three other
men were seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trap through
which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The
witness had the time to note many details of the machine and its
occupants.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: FSR 63, 2; Magonia (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_78
Date: 4/24/1950
Locations: Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy; outskirts
of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy
Description: 10:00 p.m. Bruno Facchini steps outside
his house on the outskirts of Abbiate Guazzone, Varese, Italy, and
notices something flashing near a power line. He goes to investigate and
encounters a landed disc with an open door and steps leading down. Three
or four men in diving suits and helmets are inside. One seems to be
welding a pipe. Facchini speaks to them, but they respond with growling
sounds. One points a small “camera” at him that emits a beam that knocks
him over. Facchini lies still while the repairs are completed, and the
UFO takes off.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Pino Carminati Ghidelli, “Un
Diaco è Atterrato,” Notiziario UFO, no. 37 (Jan./Feb. 1971): 19–22;
Antonio Giudici, “The
Case of Bruno Facchini,” Flying Saucer Review 20, no. 6 (April
1975): 30–32; Ezio Barnardini, “Facchini:
Un CE3 Rivisitato,” Notiziario UFO, no. 104 (March 1985/Jan. 1986):
4–7; Clark III 267; Marcus Lowth, “Bruno
Facchini’s Extraterrestrial Encounter in Varese, Italy,” UFO
Insight, September 5, 2020; 1Pinotti 30–40; Patrick Gross, “Abbiate
Guazzone, Italy, April 24, 1950” Source:
EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1521
Date: 4/24/1950
Description: At 12:30 a.m. three men watched a
crescent-shaped object maneuver through the sky over Ansonia,
Connecticut. The object looked like a half-moon with a squared off end,
and was sighted by two policemen and a restaurant proprietor. It moved
unevenly thru the sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 33
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2272
Date: 4/24/1950
Description: Later, at 10 p.m. in Abbiate Guazzone,
Italy, Sr. Bruno Facchini heard and saw sparks coming from a dark,
hovering object. Nearby stood a man dressed in tight fitting clothes and
wearing a helmet who seemed to be making repairs. Three other men were
seen near the craft. When the work was finished, a trapdoor through
which light had been shining was closed and the thing took off. The
witness time to note many details about the craft and its
occupants.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Antonio Giudici, Flying Saucer Review,
April-May 1975, p. 30; Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I,
(Periodo 1907-1953), p. 120; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 195
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2273
Date: 4/25/1950
Time: 03:00?
Location: DUGWAY MOUNTAIN, UT
Description: Odd night lights. Beams / light extend /
all directions. 24hr search ordered. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 234)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1680
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "60", Elev: "1955", HatchDesc: "DUGWAY Mtn,UT:ODD NLTS:BEAMS/LITE EXTEND/ALL DIRs:24hr SEARCH ORDERED:NFD", LatLong: "40.166669 -113.166672", LatLongDMS: "40:10:00 N 113:10:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/25/1950
Time: 16:00
Location: VANCOUVER, BC
Description: Thousands / observer(s). 200' cone over
city and airport. 700mph. 15K' altitude. Goes west going quickly
southeast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 235)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1681
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "13", Duration: "1", Elev: "72", HatchDesc: "VANCOUVER,BC:1000s/OBS:200'CONE OVR CITY+AIRPORT:700mph:15K'alt:GOES W>>SE:NFD", LatLong: "49.200002 -123.116673", LatLongDMS: "49:12:00 N 123:07:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "4500", State/Prov: "British Columbia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/25/1950
Time: 19:50
Location: ROCKY HILL, CT
Description: 2 observer(s). Saucer / low altitude.
Erratic flight. Lit windows / edge. Hartford Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 235)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1682
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "ROCKY HILL,CT:2 OBS:SCR/LO ALT:ERRATIC FLITE:LIT WINDOWS/EDGE:Hartford Times", LatLong: "41.666669 -72.650003", LatLongDMS: "41:40:00 N 72:39:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/25/1950
Location: Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah
Description: Early morning. Military security patrols
at the deactivated Dugway Proving Ground in western Utah view a series
of unusual lights and objects moving above an ammunition storage area.
One object is “surrounded by an aura of spears of light jutting
diagonally from the main body.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History, Volume 6: April–July
1950, The
Author, 1990, p. 34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1522
Date: 4/25/1950
Location: Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands,
Spain
Description: 3:00 p.m. Enrique Hausmann Muller takes a
film of a bright, circular UFO with rays of flame spinning off its edge
in a pinwheel fashion in Montuïri, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spain.
Probable hoax.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
88; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 32;
Matías Morey Ripoll, “El
Caso Hausmann:
Una Aproximación desde Ibiza,” UFO Fotocat Blog, September 20, 2019;
Centro Ufologico Nazionale, [Hausmann
photo]
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1523
Date: 4/25/1950
Description: A series of unknown lights and UFOs where
seen near the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah. A "flying icebox,"
surrounded by an aura of spears was seen over the Ammunition Storage
Area near Dougway Mountain at 3:00 a.m. A 24-hour search of the area
ensued.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, Loren E.
Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 34
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2289
Date: 4/25/1950
Description: At 4:00 p.m. a 200 foot long cone-shaped
device flew over the Vancouver, British Columbia airport at 15,000 feet
altitude, and there were many calls to the police and news media. A
white substance hung about the tail of the object but it left no
condensation trail. The sighting lasted one minute.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: The Oregonian, April 26, 1950; Loren E.
Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 35
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2290
Date: 4/27/1950
Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_109
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: South Bend, Indiana
Description: TWA PILOTS SEE ONE GO BY ON
EXPRESS LANE. Capt. Robert Adickes and First Officer Robert
Manning, TWA pilots, saw a round glowing mass in the air as they flew
over South Bend. The object was in sight for six or seven minutes as it
overtook their plane at 2,000 feet. It was round with no irregular
features and about one-tenth as thick as it was round. They gave chase
but were soon outdistanced.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_71
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Inconclusive photograph of object
streaking across sky.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_56
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: WHITE SANDS PG, NM
Description: Theodolite films / missile test. 10M
objects / 150K' altitude. Very fast. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GOOD, Timothy: ABOVE TOP SECRET; Sidgewick
& Jackson, London 1987 & Quill Books, 1988. 592pp. (Index
354)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1683
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "1250", HatchDesc: "WHITE SANDS PG,NM:THEODOLITE FILMS/MISSILE TEST:10M OBJs/150K'alt:VFAST:NFD", LatLong: "32.666668 -106.466672", LatLongDMS: "32:40:00 N 106:28:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: RANGELY, CO
Description: 3 observer(s). Glowing-ball / clouds.
Electric. 2 see metallic 4' saucer / eye-level 60' away.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 239)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1684
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "1594", HatchDesc: "RANGELY,CO:3 OBS:GLO-BALL/CLOUDS:ELECTRIC:2 SEE MTLC 4'SCR/EYE-LEVEL 60' AWAY", LatLong: "40.033335 -108.916672", LatLongDMS: "40:02:00 N 108:55:00 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/27/1950
Time: 09:00
Location: OVER PLYMOUTH, MASS
Description: F86 / Otis Air Force Base. Saucer / 17K'
rises / 28K' very fast. Shoots going quickly north / huge speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 238)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1685
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "15", HatchDesc: "ovr PLYMOUTH,MASS:F86/OTIS AFB:SCR/17K' RISES/28K' VFAST:SHOOTS>>N/HUGE SPEED", LatLong: "41.961113 -70.666670", LatLongDMS: "41:57:40 N 70:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "5200", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/27/1950
Time: 17:30
Location: 25KM ESE / SEVILLE, SPN
Description: Swiss engineer. Saucer going quickly ESE.
Much detail-see reference.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
79)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1686
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "25KM ESE/SEVILLE,SPN:SWISS ENGINEER:SCR >>ESE:MUCH DETAIL-see ref.", LatLong: "37.300002 -5.716667", LatLongDMS: "37:18:00 N 05:43:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/27/1950
Time: ~18:00
Location: OSUNA, SPN
Description: 85KM ESE / Seville. Different observer(s).
Same saucer in dead-leaf motion. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: UFO'S IN SPACE - Anatomy of
a Phenomenon; Henry Regnery 1966 & Ballentine PB 1974 294pp. (Index
79)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1687
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "OSUNA,SPN:85KM ESE/SEVILLE:DIFFERENT OBS:SAME SCR IN DEAD-LEAF MOTION:NFD", LatLong: "37.216668 -5.066667", LatLongDMS: "37:13:00 N 05:04:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SVL", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/27/1950
Time: 20:30
Location: SOUTH / SOUTH BEND, IN
Description: All / TWA DC3 / 2K'. Saucer paces DC3 / 8
minute(s). Veers going north. / r148p59. / r242p38.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1688
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "9", Elev: "220", HatchDesc: "S/SOUTH BEND,IN:ALL/TWA DC3/2K':SCR PACES DC3/8min:VEERS >N:/r148p59:/r242p38", LatLong: "41.633335 -86.250004", LatLongDMS: "41:38:00 N 86:15:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Indiana", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: Hachinohe (NE of Camp Haugen), Japan
Description: Rectangular cream-colored flat object
about 20 ft high, 60 ft long (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_695
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM
Description: Cinetheodolite Film Taken By Tracking
Station (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU,
NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500427
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_696
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: Goshen, IN
Description: Adickes/Manning Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 -
Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500427
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_697
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: Plymouth, MA
Description: Light-brown flat oval object that climbed
to 28,000 ft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500427
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_698
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico
Description: While preparing for an MX-776A Shrike
air-to-ground missile test at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico,
Charles Riggs, a member of the Project Twinkle cinetheodolite camera
crew supplied by Land-Air Inc., sees, tracks, and manages to film four
high-flying objects streaking across the sky. Another station also
tracks the objects. The photos show only a smudgy dark object, but the
triangulation results in a calculation by mathematician Wilbur L.
Mitchell and Capt. Perry Bryant of the objects’ size as 30 feet in
diameter and 150,000 feet in altitude.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Cinetheodolite
Film Taken by Tracking Station”; Ruppelt, p.
88; Clark III 544–545; Sparks, p. 88; Thomas
Tulien, ed., Proceedings
of the Sign Historical Group UFO History Workshop, Sign Historical
Group, November 2001, p. 44; Good Above, pp.
354–355; Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1
(Spring 1996): 22–25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1524
Date: 4/27/1950
Location: Goshen, Indiana
Description: 8:25 p.m. TWA Flight 117 pilot Capt. Robert
Adickes and Flight Officer Robert F. Manning are flying near Goshen,
Indiana, when they see a bright-red disc-shaped UFO behind their DC-3.
It overtakes the plane in about 2 minutes. Stewardess Gloria Henshaw and
11 passengers (including Boeing engineers C. H. Jenkins and Dean
C. Bourland and
executives E. J. Fitzgerald and S. N. Miller) also see the object. It
veers off at 400 mph, drops down to 1,500 feet, and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Adickes TWA DC-3
Case”; Sparks, p. 89;
Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight 117
and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79; James
E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified
Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying Objects,
Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th Cong.,
2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 46–47
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1525
Date: 4/27/1950
Description: At 9:00 a.m. a U.S. Air Force F-86 Sabre
jet had an encounter with a flat oval-shaped object near Plymouth,
Massachusetts. The object was light brown in color, climbed away from
the jet, and at 28,000 feet turned and flew away. At 8:25 p.m. a huge
reddish-orange disc passed a TWA DC-3 airliner being flown over South
Bend, Indiana by the crew named Adickes, Manning, and Hinshaw. The UFO
approached the plane from below and behind, overtaking the aircraft,
then moved rapidly away when the pilot attempted a closer
approach.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: (1) Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 12; (2) True Magazine, August 1950; Donald E. Keyhoe,
Flying Saucers from Outer Space, p. 145; Kenneth Arnold & Ray
Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 150
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2361
Date: 4/28/1950
Time: 09:20
Location: REUS, SP
Description: Several / railroad/railway station.
Brilliant flying cartwheel going quickly ESE vertically.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1689
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "REUS,SP:SVRL/RR STATION:BRILL.FLYING CARTWHEEL >>ESE VERTICALLY:", LatLong: "41.133335 1.083333", LatLongDMS: "41:08:00 N 01:05:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TRG", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/28/1950
Time: 22:00?
Location: NORTH CHICAGO, IL
Description: Several separate observer(s). 2 15M
glowing-disks circle going north / 300kph. 600M altitude. / news
report.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 539)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1690
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "N.CHICAGO,IL:SVRL SEP.OBS:2 15M GLOW-DISKS CCL >N/300kph:600M alt:/news rpt", LatLong: "41.900002 -87.666671", LatLongDMS: "41:54:00 N 87:40:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "600", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/28/1950
Location: Wakkanai (About 2 miles W of), Japan
Description: Unidentified Target Tracked / F-80
Intercepts (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500428
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_699
Date: 4/29/1950
Location: CENTRALIA, WA
Description: Woman. 2 saucers / sky. 6 more join / 1
red. All going quickly south into cloud. / LA Times.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 239)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1691
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", Elev: "58", HatchDesc: "CENTRALIA,WA:WOMAN:2 SCRS/SKY:6 MORE JOIN/1 RED:ALL>>S INTO CLOUD:/L.A.TIMES", LatLong: "46.716669 -122.955561", LatLongDMS: "46:43:00 N 122:57:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/30/1950
Location: Mount Joy, Illinois
Description: IOWA REPORTS ONE
EXPLODING. Louis and Wilfred Wedemyer of Mount Joy saw a round
flat saucer-shaped object spinning across the sky. Suddenly it exploded
in the air like a firework display. It seemed to disintegrate. No noise
for a few seconds, then a low rumble that lasted half a minute. The same
phenomenon was observed in Burlington and Muscatibe, Iowa.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_72
Date: 4/30/1950
Time: 20:00
Location: SAVANNAH, GA
Description: Cops and 5 separate observer(s). 15M
upside down hat-saucer with small fins hovers / seconds. Going quickly
southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: HITT, Michael D: GEORGIA'S AERIAL PHENOMENON
1947-1987 Self published 1999. ref. Jan Aldrich. (Index 11)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1692
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "13", HatchDesc: "SAVANNAH,GA:COPS+5 SEP.OBS:15M UPSIDE DOWN HAT-SCR W/SML FINS HVRS/secs:>>SE", LatLong: "32.066668 -81.083337", LatLongDMS: "32:04:00 N 81:05:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 4/30/1950
Description: At around 8:00 p.m. police and five other
independent witnesses in Savannah, Georgia reported seeing an
upside-down, hat-shaped disc with small fins. It was an estimated 15
meters in diameter. It hovered for a few seconds, then shot off toward
the southeast.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clipping, May 1, 1950; Michael
Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 11
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2418
Date: 5/3/1950
Time: ~15:00
Location: SAVOYEUX-HAUTE, FR
Description: Several girls. Large cylinder/cylindrical
object south going quickly north. Shoots silvery rays. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1693
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "SAVOYEUX-HAUTE,FR:SVRL GIRLS:LRG CYL S>>N:SHOOTS SILVERY RAYS:NFD", LatLong: "47.550002 5.750000", LatLongDMS: "47:33:00 N 05:45:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HSO", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/3/1950
Time: 16:30
Location: NEUVILLE-SUR-SARTHE, FR
Description: Numerous observer(s). 4 saucers / low
altitude. Going [to] horizon slowly. Leave trail / smoke.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1694
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "8", Duration: "30", HatchDesc: "NEUVILLE-sur-SARTHE,FR:NMRS OBS:4 SCRS/LO ALT:> HRZN SLOWLY:LEAVE TRAIL/SMOKE", LatLong: "48.066669 0.200000", LatLongDMS: "48:04:00 N 00:12:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SRT", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 5/3/1950
Description: At 3:00 p.m. several girls in
Savoyeux-Haute, Haute-Saone department, France saw a large cylindrical
object fly rapidly from the south to the north shooting silvery rays. At
4:30 p.m. four discs were sighted by numerous observers in
Neuville-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe department, France flying at a low altitude
slowly toward the the horizon. They left a trail of smoke.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 211
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2464
Date: 5/4/1950
Time: ~22:00
Location: BIRMINGHAM, AL
Description: 2+1 observer(s). Ghostly object grows and
changes shape. Flashes. Suddenly goes going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 241)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1695
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "BIRMINGHAM,AL:2+1 OBS:GHOSTLY OBJ GROWS+CHANGES SHAPE:FLASHES:SUDDENLY GOES ↑", LatLong: "33.500002 -86.816671", LatLongDMS: "33:30:00 N 86:49:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 5/4/1950
Description: At 10:00 p.m. in Birmingham, Alabama a
ghostly object grew and changed shape; it flashes; then suddenly shoots
up and is gone. There were two witnesses together and an additional
independent observer, and the event lasted 10 minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #
1722; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 41
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2500
Date: 5/5/1950
Location: SYDNEY SUBURBS AND ALL AUSTRALIA
Description: Reports pour in. Huge cylinder/cigar-shape
flashes across sky. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 241)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1696
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "12", Duration: "77", HatchDesc: "SYDNEY SUBURBS+ALL AUSTRALIA:REPORTS POUR IN:HUGE CGR FLASHES ACRS SKY:NFD", LatLong: "-33.900002 151.200007", LatLongDMS: "33:54:00 S 151:12:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NSW", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 5/5/1950
Location: Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base
Elmendorf-Richardson], Anchorage, Alaska
Description: 11:30 p.m. Capt. Marcellus D. O’Sullivan,
1Lt. William
J. Reisinger, and three enlisted men of the 625th Aircraft and
Warning Squadron at Elmendorf AFB [now Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson],
Anchorage, Alaska, see a reddish-orange object hovering in the sky for 5
minuites. It puts on a burst of speed and disappears over the
horizon.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “From History:
57th Fighter Interceptor Wing (Alaska), January–June 1950,” UFO
Historical Revue, no. 5 (July 1999): 8
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1526
Date: 5/6/1950
Location: ABINGTON, PA
Description: Squadron / saucers circles all over town.
All see. No further details. / Scranton Tribune.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 242)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1697
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "20", Elev: "104", HatchDesc: "ABINGTON,PA:SQUADRON/SCRS CIRCLES ALL OVR TOWN:ALL SEE:NFD:/SCRANTON TRIBUNE", LatLong: "40.122224 -75.116670", LatLongDMS: "40:07:20 N 75:07:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/6/1950
Time: ~08:00
Location: ROMA, ITL
Description: Crowds / observers. 2 flashing saucers 1
mile over Piazza Colonna. Spin and move slowly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 242)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1698
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Italy", Credibility: "12", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "ROMA,ITL:CROWDS/OBSs:2 FLASHING SCRS 1mi OVR PIAZZA COLONNA:SPIN+MOVE SLOWLY", LatLong: "41.900002 12.483334", LatLongDMS: "41:54:00 N 12:29:00 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Rome", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/6/1950
Description: Crowds of observers in Rome, Italy watched
two flashing saucer-shaped object one mile over the Piazza Colonna at
4:30 p.m. They were spinning and moved slowly.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I,
(Periodo 1907-1953), p. 126; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 42
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2578
Date: 5/6/1950
Description: At 10:00 p.m. a squadron of discs flew in
circles for 20 minutes above the city of Abington, Lackawanna County,
Pennsylvania. There were many witnesses.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Riverside Daily Press, May 8, 1950; Loren E.
Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: April-July, p. 42
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2579
Date: 5/7/1950
Location: Colonna, Rome
Description: Los Angeles Examiner.
WHEN IN ROME THEY FLY AS ROMANS. Hundreds of persons on
their way to work stopped to watch two flashing objects high over Rome's
central piazza, Colonna. The two objects seemed to be a mile or more
high and moved slowly. They appeared to be revolving on an axis and
flashing at regular intervals, like smaller air beacons.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_74
Date: 5/7/1950
Time: 18:50
Location: SOUTHEAST / ELY, NV
Description: 3 observer(s). Silver 100' saucer / 100'
altitude. Hovers 10 minute(s). Oscillates. Goes going up / great
speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: VALLEE, Jacques: PASSPORT TO MAGONIA; H.
Regnery, Chicago HC 1969 & Contemporary Books,Chicago 1993. 372pp.
(Index 79)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1699
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "11", Elev: "2150", HatchDesc: "SE/ELY,NV:3 OBS:SLVR 100' SCR/100'alt:HOVRS 10min:OSCILLATES:GOES↑/GREAT SPEED", LatLong: "39.233335 -114.733339", LatLongDMS: "39:14:00 N 114:44:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/7/1950
Location: Ely (9 miles S of), NV
Description: Silvery white object hover at 100 ft
altitude (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 721)
Reference: NICAP: 500507
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_700
Date: 5/7/1950
Time: 1845
Location: Ely, Nevada
Description: A couple and their grandson were returning
from a picnic when, about 14 km south of Ely, they saw a silvery-white
object at treetop level. It hovered for 10 min, then oscillated "as if
attempting to rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Atic (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_79
Date: 5/7/1950
Time: 6:45 PM
Location: Nine miles sough of Ely, Nevada
Description: Witnesses: Mr. and Mrs. George Smith and
their grandson. One silvery white object hovered at 100' altitude, moved
back and forth for 10 minutes and then flew up and away. Note in case
file: "No investigation."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_40
Date: 5/7/1950
Description: A couple and their grandson were returning
from a picnic at 6:45 p.m. when they saw a silvery white object at
treetop level. They were about nine miles south of Ely, Nevada at the
time. It hovered for ten minutes, then oscillated "as if attempting to
rise" and suddenly flew out of sight at high speed.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 721; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century
of Landings, case # 79
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2613
Date: 5/9/1950
Location: Selfridge AFB, MI
Description: Object with erratically varying height,
position and speed (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_701
Date: 5/10/1950
Time: 23:20
Location: ARLINGTON VA
Description: Man / window. 60 cm Lt. grey disk going
north / 150M altitude. Spins. Light smoke trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 542)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1700
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "74", HatchDesc: "ARLINGTON VA:MAN/WINDOW:60 cm Lt.GRY DISK >N/150M alt:SPINS:LITE SMOKE TRAIL", LatLong: "38.883335 -77.116670", LatLongDMS: "38:53:00 N 77:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/11/1950
Location: McMinnville, OR
Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as
the Trent UFO photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn
Trent near McMinnville, Oregon.
Type: ufo photo
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_408
Date: 5/11/1950
Location: McMinnville, Oregon
Description: OREGONIAN GETS TWO ON
FILM. Paul Trent, Route 3, McMinnville, captured two photos of
flying saucers in the backyard of his farm. The two pictures were taken
about 50 seconds apart.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_75
Date: 5/11/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: MCMINNVILLE, OR
Description: Classic 30' saucer over farm. 1st good
photographs. No spin. Going quickly west. / r221p132.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT;
Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 244)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1701
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", Elev: "49", HatchDesc: "McMINNVILLE,OR:CLASSIC 30'SCR OVR FARM:1st GOOD FOTOS:NO SPIN:>>W:/r221p132", LatLong: "45.233335 -123.200006", LatLongDMS: "45:14:00 N 123:12:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/11/1950
Location: McMinnville (9 miles W of), OR
Description: Paul Trent Photos (NICAP: 08 -
Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500511
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_702
Date: 5/11/1950
Locations: McMinnville, Oregon; Sheridan, Oregon;
Colorado
Description: 7:30 p.m. Evelyn
Trent, who
lives on a farm nine miles from McMinnville, Oregon [near Sheridan,
Oregon], is walking back to her farmhouse after feeding rabbits. Before
reaching the house, she sees a slow-moving, metallic disk-shaped object
heading in her direction from the northeast. She yells for her husband
Paul,
who is inside the house; he comes out and also sees the object. After a
short time, he goes back inside to get a camera and manages to take two
photos of the object before it speeds away to the west. Paul Trent’s
father briefly sees the object before it flies away. The Trents assume
they have seen some exotic military aircraft. They do not develop the
film in the camera until they use it up and show the photos only to a
few friends. Eventually it reaches the cover of Life magazine, but the
Trents show no desire to make any money from the photos. Although the
Colorado project initially thinks the photos seem genuine, three
Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs researchers in
2013–2015 claim to find evidence of a model suspended from a string.
Researcher Brad
Sparks finds major mathematical and scientific errors in IPACO’s
work, which actually supports a UFO conclusion.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “McMinnville
UFO Photographs”; “Farmer
Trent’s Flying Saucer,” Life, June 26, 1950, p. 29; NICAP, “Trent / McMinnville
Photos”; Story, pp.
223–226; Sparks, p. 90; Hynek UFO
Report, pp.
244–245; Condon, pp.
396– 407;
Bruce S. Maccabee, “On
the Possibility that the McMinnville Photos Show a Distant Unidentified
Object (UO),”
Proceedings of the 1976 CUFOS Conference, Center for UFO Studies, 1976,
pp. 152–163; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The
McMinnville Photos,” The Spectrum of UFO Research, CUFOS, 1988, pp.
13–57; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The Trent Farm Photos,”
April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The Trent Farm Photos
Appendix,” April 2000; Bruce S. Maccabee, “The McMinnville Photos,”
May 2000; Michael D. Swords, “Can
We Learn Anything from
UFO Photos? Part Five,” The Big Study, July 15, 2012; Antoine
Cousyn, François Louange, and Geoff Quick, “The McMinnville
Pictures,” Interface Pilote pour l’Analyse de Clichés d’OVNIs, May
2014; Clark III 702–704
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1527
Date: 5/11/1950
Description: Two famous UFO photographs were taken on
this evening by Mr. Paul Trent in McMinnville, Oregon. The UFO was also
witnessed by his wife. The images show a dark metallic, asymmetric
hat-shaped disc. The upper structure was described as like a "parachute
canopy", with slightly off-center triangular post or antenna. It
hovered, rocking slowly like a rowboat riding at anchor, and made no
sound. The photos were published in Life Magazine.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: McMinnville (OR) Telephone Register, June 8,
1950; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 6;
Edward U. Condon, Scientific Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p.
396
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2734
Date: 5/13/1950
Location: SUTTER BUTTES, CA
Description: 2 / farm. Brilliant white objects play
around in sky. ".. here again".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 246)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1702
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "50", HatchDesc: "SUTTER BUTTES,CA:2/FARM:BRILLIANT WHT OBJs PLAY AROUND IN SKY:"..HERE AGAIN"", LatLong: "39.227780 -121.805561", LatLongDMS: "39:13:40 N 121:48:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/13/1950
Time: 20:50
Location: EAST / WILMETTE, IL
Description: 25m meteor-saucer going quickly south.
Glows. 25° elevation. 6mi out over Lake Michigan. Turns going quickly
east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 246)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1703
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "176", HatchDesc: "E/WILMETTE,IL:25m METEOR-SCR >>S:GLOWS:25° ELEV:6mi OUT ovr LAKE Mi:TURNS>>E", LatLong: "42.072224 -87.616671", LatLongDMS: "42:04:20 N 87:37:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/15/1950
Time: 13:00?
Location: LA PAMPA, ARG
Description: Engineer. 10M saucer and 3 dead
pseudo-human/entity inside. Ashes. / APRO Aug'55+Flying Saucer Review
(FSR) 25 / 4.
Type: sighting
Reference: INTERNATIONAL UFO REPORTER (IUR) Bimonthly.
CUFOS, Chicago. Highly regarded. (Index 290)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1704
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "3", Duration: "20", Elev: "700", HatchDesc: "La PAMPA,ARG:ENGINEER:10M SCR+3 DEAD PSH INSIDE:ASHES:/APRO Aug'55+FSR 25/4", LatLong: "-32.000002 -66.000003", LatLongDMS: "32:00:00 S 66:00:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "LPM", Strangeness: "10"
Date: 5/15/1950
Locations: Bahía Blanca Partido; Macachín; Estación
Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento; La Pampa, Argentina
Description: Afternoon. Architect Enrique Carotenuto
Bossa is driving in an isolated region in Bahía Blanca Partido (possibly
between Macachín and Estación Hidalgo Ferrocarril Sarmiento), La Pampa,
Argentina, when he sees a metallic disc resting on the ground to the
left of the highway. He stops the car to investigate, approaches it, and
sees an open door in its side. He goes inside and sees a “curved divan
with three seats, two of which were occupied by small beings covered
from head to foot (except for an opening for the face (in a kind of
tight-fitting overall of a brown color.” The bodies are about 4 feet
tall, and their faces seem charred or burnt. In front of them is a
screen with “rays playing on it,” and on top of the screen is a rotating
globe. The engineer runs out and drives back to his hotel. He returns
the next day with two companions and finds only an ash heap. But they
look up and see three UFOs—one a cigar-shaped object and two discs,
hovering above them at 1,800 feet. The discs merge with the cigar and
speed away.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: El Universal (Caracas, Venezuela), May 7,
1955; “Man
Enters Grounded Disc,” APRO Bulletin, August 1955, pp. 1–3; Clark
III 327–328; Willy Smith, “The Curious Case of the Argentine Crashed
Saucer,” IUR 11, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 1986): 18–19; Roberto E. Banchs and
Richard W. Heiden, “Crash Landing in the Pampas,” IUR 24, no. 2 (Summer
1999): 4–10, 30; Roberto Banchs, “General
Acha (LP): Un Accidentado
Aterrizaje (Priemra Parte),” Marcianitos Verdes, July 4, 2009
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1528
Date: 5/16/1950
Location: Washington DC
Description: Reply letter from White House to
BSRA
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_409
See also: 4/7/1950
Date: 5/17/1950 (approximate)
Location: AMARILLO, TX
Description: 1 military observer(s). Saucer lands /
airport / 5 minute(s). Sets grass afire. Going quickly west. / OSI
investigation/investigators.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 244)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1705
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "7", Elev: "1105", HatchDesc: "AMARILLO,TX:1 MIL.OBS:SCR LANDS/AIRPORT/5min:SETS GRASS AFIRE:>>W:/OSI INV", LatLong: "35.233335 -101.800005", LatLongDMS: "35:14:00 N 101:48:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/17/1950
Location: TIMPERLEY, MANCHESTER
Description: Dark 'absolute(ly) solid smoke-ring'
speeds through clouds. Plane-size.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 247)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1706
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "52", HatchDesc: "TIMPERLEY,MANCHESTER:DARK 'ABS SOLID SMOKE-RING' SPEEDS THRU CLOUDS:PLANE-SIZE", LatLong: "53.383336 -2.333333", LatLongDMS: "53:23:00 N 02:20:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/17/1950
Time: 03:00
Location: HAY CREEK, WY
Description: 4 oilmen. 2 saucers over oil field / 2
hours. Lights and flames / rim. Dives and maneuvers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 545)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1707
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "120", Elev: "1317", HatchDesc: "HAY CREEK,WY:4 OILMEN:2 SCRS OVR OIL FIELD/2hrs:LITES+FLAMES/RIM:DIVES+MNVRS", LatLong: "43.711113 -104.661116", LatLongDMS: "43:42:40 N 104:39:40 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WHY", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/17/1950
Description: At three o'clock in the morning four oil
men in Hay Creek, Wyoming watched two saucers over an oil field for two
hours. The object had lights and flames around its rim. It made dives
and maneuvers.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 45
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2915
Date: 5/17/1950
Description: On this night a military witness reported
that a saucer-shaped object landed at the Amarillo, Texas airport for
five minutes. Its touchdown set the grass on fire. It took off and flew
to the west. There was an OSI investigation. On the same night a dark,
"absolutely solid smoke ring" sped through the clouds of Timperley,
Cheshire, England. It was the size of a plane.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, pp. 44 & 47
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_2916
Date: 5/19/1950
Location: Honshu (100 miles E of), Japan
Description: Triangular Object Tracked By Gnd Radar
& Observed By F-80 (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500519
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_703
Date: 5/20/1950
Time: 12:20
Location: LOWELL OBSERVER(S), AZ
Description: Astronomer S. Hess / (seen thru)
telescope. 4' saucer southeast going quickly northwest across wind /
100mph. / r48p84.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 13)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1708
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "3", Elev: "2130", HatchDesc: "LOWELL OBS,AZ:ASTRONOMER S.HESS/TSCOPE:4'SCR SE>>NW ACRS WIND/100mph:/r48p84", LatLong: "35.333335 -111.616672", LatLongDMS: "35:20:00 N 111:37:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/20/1950
Time: 16:00
Location: COURS-LES-BARRES, FR
Description: Cold hands grab woman. Invisible figure
nears. / LDLN#314+/ MJ#309.
Type: sighting
Reference: GARREAU, Charles: SOUCOUPES VOLANTES,
Vingt-cinq Ans d'Enquetes. 3rd Editn = 1973? Maison Mame ISBN
2-250-00464-1 (Index 106)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1709
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, MON: Monster: Life form fits no category, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, ABD: Human or animal abduction, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles, HUM: Humans affected: Injury/burns/marks/abduction/death, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, INJ: Injuries, illness/death, mutilations, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", HatchDesc: "COURS-les-BARRES,FR:COLD HANDS GRAB WOMAN:INVSBL FIG NEARS:/LDLN#314+/MJ#309", LatLong: "47.033336 3.050000", LatLongDMS: "47:02:00 N 03:03:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Cher", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 5/20/1950
Location: Flagstaff, AZ
Description: Astronomer/meteorologist observed a
"powered" disc-like object from the grounds of Lowell Observatory. [I]
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_704
Date: 5/20/1950
Locations: Lowell Observatory; Flagstaff, Arizona
Description: 12:15 p.m. Meteorologist Seymour L.
Hess is strolling the grounds of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff,
Arizona, when he notices a round, gray-colored object approaching from
the southeast at about 12,000 feet altitude. He follows it with a 4x
spyglass as it passes in front of a small cumulus cloud. Hess estimates
it is about 4 feet in diameter and moving about 100 mph.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
3; Condon, pp.
245–248; James E. McDonald, “Statement
on Unidentified Flying Objects,” in Symposium on Unidentified Flying
Objects, Hearings, US House Committee on Science and Astronautics, 90th
Cong., 2nd Sess., July 29, 1968, pp. 61–62
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1529
Date: 5/21/1950
Time: ~09:00
Location: MONTROSE, CO
Description: 3+16 separate observer(s). Saucer hovers /
town. 2nd saucer joins. Both going quickly north. Then turn going
quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 548)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1710
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1768", HatchDesc: "MONTROSE,CO:3+16 SEP.OBS:SCR HVRS/TOWN:2nd SCR JOINS:BOTH >> N:THEN TURN>>E", LatLong: "38.477780 -107.877783", LatLongDMS: "38:28:40 N 107:52:40 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/21/1950
Time: ~14:00
Location: WARREN AIR FORCE BASE, WY
Description: 7 / Air National Guard. 4 white saucers /
V formation maneuver and regroup. 90° turn going quickly east
inline.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 545)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1711
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "1872", HatchDesc: "WARREN AFB,WY:7/AIR Ntl.GUARD:4 WHT SCRS/VFORM MNVR+REGROUP:90°TURN >>E INLINE", LatLong: "41.183335 -104.900005", LatLongDMS: "41:11:00 N 104:54:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Wyoming", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/21/1950
Description: A second Gallup poll on UFOs is released,
showing that 5% of respondents think “these flying saucers” are “comets,
shooting stars, something from another planet.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The
Author, 1990, pp. 48-49; Robert J. Durant, “Evolution of Public Opinion
on UFOs,” IUR 18, no. 6 (Nov./Dec. 1993): 10–11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1530
Date: 5/21/1950
Location: Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Description: 3:50 p.m. T/Sgt Edward Eles, Earl
DuQuoin, and
four other airmen of the 187th Fighter Squadron of the Wyoming National
Guard are on the airfield at the Municipal Airport in Cheyenne, Wyoming,
when they see a V- shaped formation of four round, pure-white discs
flying in a northerly direction. In a matter of seconds, the objects
change formation and make a sharp right-angle turn, flying single file,
and speed out of sight.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Cheyenne Wyoming State Tribune, May 22,
1950, p. 1
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1531
Date: 5/21/1950
Description: A huge round object hung in the sky over
Montrose, Colorado. It was joined by a second large object. Both started
heading to the north, but turned and flew off to the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 48, citing UPI release, May 22, 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3014
Date: 5/23/1950
Time: 20:00
Location: LOVELAND, CO
Description: 3 observer(s). 2 large flat glowing-disks
make 10 circular orbits / N. sky. / Denver News.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 547)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1712
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "1518", HatchDesc: "LOVELAND,CO:3 OBS:2 LRG FLAT GLOW-DISKS MAKE 10 CIRC.ORBITS/N.SKY:/Denver news", LatLong: "40.416669 -105.072227", LatLongDMS: "40:25:00 N 105:04:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/24/1950
Location: Montrose, Colorado
Description: FIFTEEN WITNESSES CONFIRM MRS.
SEEVERS' SIGHTING. Mrs. Clyde Seevers, one of sixteen Montrose
ranchers who saw two sky objects as broad as large airplane's wings,
said the craft was absolutely round and smooth without windows, motors,
or tail assembly. They flew soundlessly and seemed to float along, then
suddenly soared up swiftly and disappeared. Her report was corroborated
by fifteen other ranchers in the vicinity.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_76
Date: 5/24/1950
Location: VAUGHN, NM
Description: Contractors / Project Twinkle. 8 30'
saucers and green fireballs / FBI. 150k' altitude. / International UFO
Reporter (CUFOS Group, USA) V9#1.
Type: sighting
Reference: RANDLES, Jenny & Warrington, P.: SCIENCE
and the UFO'S; Basil Blackwell, NY 1985 (Index 36)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1713
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "160", Elev: "1806", HatchDesc: "VAUGHN,NM:CONTRACTORS/PROJ TWINKLE:8 30'SCRS+GRN FBLS./FBI:150k'alt:/IUR V9#1", LatLong: "34.616668 -105.216672", LatLongDMS: "34:37:00 N 105:13:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 5/24/1950
Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM
Description: Askania Theodolite Films Objects At
Tracking Station (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5,
BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500524
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_705
Date: 5/24/1950
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: During an MX-674 Tarzon controllable
vertical bomb test at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Floyd Fannon and other
USAF crew members see eight unidentified objects. They separately track
and film two of the objects down the North American Aviation missile
firing range. Project Twinkle cinetheodolite station P-8 films one
object to the northeast for 6 frames (1.0 sec) moving uniformly to the
south. Cinetheodolite station P-10, located 5.7 miles down range to the
north from P-8 and 7 feet higher, films another object, hence no
triangulation is possible.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Cinetheodolite
Film Taken by Tracking Station”; Sparks, p. 91;
Good Above, pp.
354–355; Bruce Maccabee, “The White Sands Films,” IUR 21, no. 1
(Spring 1996): 22–25
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1532
Date: 5/25/1950
Time: 22:00
Location: NORTHEAST / CANON CITY, CO
Description: 2 observer(s). Series / 11 glowing-saucers
pass Pikes Peak / 1 min intervals.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 551)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1714
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "20", Elev: "4300", HatchDesc: "NE/CANON CITY,CO:2 OBS:SERIES/11 GLOW-SCRS PASS PIKES PEAK/1 min intervals", LatLong: "38.833335 -105.050005", LatLongDMS: "38:50:00 N 105:03:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 5/25/1950
Locations: USAF Office of Special Investigations; New
Mexico area
Description: Lt. Col. Doyle
Rees of the USAF Office of Special Investigations writes a
confidential memo to Brig. Gen. Joseph
F. Carroll, Director
of Special Investigations. In part, it states: “In a liaison meeting
with other military and government intelligence and investigative
agencies in December 1948, it was determined that the frequency of
unexplained aerial phenomena in the New Mexico area was such that an
organized plan of reporting these observations should be undertaken. The
organization and physical location of units of this District were most
suitable for collecting these data, therefore, since December 1948, this
District has assumed the responsibility for collecting and reporting
basic information with respect to aerial phenomena in this general
area.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Summary of Observations
of Aerial Phenomena, New Mexico Area, Dec 1949 to May 1950”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1533
Date: 5/29/1950
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Object tracked by two theodolite stations;
movie footage.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_57
Date: 5/29/1950
Time: 06:00?
Location: WHITE SANDS PG, NM
Description: 2 separate theodolites film object just
prior / missile test. / r120p354.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 131)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1715
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "1250", HatchDesc: "WHITE SANDS PG,NM:2 SEP THEODOLITES FILM OBJ JUST PRIOR/MISSILE TEST:/r120p354", LatLong: "33.483335 -106.333338", LatLongDMS: "33:29:00 N 106:20:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 5/29/1950
Time: 21:30
Location: 7MI WITH MT. VERNON, VA
Description: 3 crew. Blue-glowing cylinder/cigar-shape
buzzes DC6. Going quickly [to] ahead. Turns going quickly southwest. /
r29p85.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 38)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1716
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "40", HatchDesc: "7mi W/MT VERNON,VA:3 CREW:BLUE-GLO CGR BUZZES DC6:>> AHEAD:TURNS >>SW:/r29p85", LatLong: "38.716669 -77.200004", LatLongDMS: "38:43:00 N 77:12:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 5/29/1950
Location: Mt. Vernon, VA
Description: Sperry/Gates Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 -
Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP: 500529
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_706
Date: 5/29/1950
Location: White Sands, NM
Description: Theodolite photo (NICAP: 08 - Photographic
Cases, NC)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_707
Date: 5/29/1950
Location: Mt. Vernon (about 7 miles W of), VA
Description: A spindle-shaped 150 ft long metallic
object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_708
Date: 5/29/1950
Locations: Washington, D.C.; Nashville, Tennessee;
Mount Vernon, Virginia
Description: 9:20 p.m. Capt. Willis T.
Sperry, copilot
Bill Gates, flight engineer Robert
Arnholt, a stewardess, and several passengers on an American
Airlines DC-6 airliner headed southwest out of Washington, D.C., en
route to Nashville, Tennessee, are flying at 7,500 feet at 250 mph.
About 7 miles west of Mount Vernon, Virginia, Gates alerts Sperry to a
bright blue or bluish light ahead of them and increasing in size. Sperry
makes an evasive 45° turn to the right and the object passes from 11
o’clock to 7 o’clock position to the left at a slightly higher altitude.
The light very briefly passes between the aircraft and the upper part of
the moon, revealing an object with a long silhouette (somewhat
reminiscent of a submarine) without visible wings or empennage. The blue
light is on the front of the object. Sperry turns left back onto his
original course to get the object back in view, but it apparently stays
stationary for about 30 seconds. Gates then notices the object circling
around to the right side. Sperry banks right again, while the object
paces the airliner about 20–30 seconds before it climbs to the east at a
30° angle at “fantastic” speed and disappears.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Sperry UFO
Case”; NICAP, “Capt. Willis Sperry
Sighting”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The
Author, 1990, pp. 52–53; Project 1947, “UFO Reports 1950”;
Sparks, p. 91
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1534
Date: 5/29/1950
Location: White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
Description: A shiny, bright object streaking across
the sky is spotted by two cine-theodolite stations at White Sands
Missile Range, New Mexico, just before firing a test missile. The object
is tracked and photographed by both stations. After the films are
developed, it turns out that the stations had photographed different
objects. Analysts estimate that the objects were higher than 40,000
feet, traveling more than 2,000 mph, and over 300 feet in
diameter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ruppelt, p.
89; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 36
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1535
Date: 5/29/1950
Description: At 9:15 p.m. an American Airlines DC-6
flying at 8000' altitude, climbing from Washington, D.C. and
approximately over Rappahannock, Virginia encountered a spindle-shaped
UFO. The object changed course to parallel the plane, then circled the
aircraft, and reversed direction before it went out of sight very fast.
It had a blue light on its front end. The sighting lasted approximately
one minute, and the object was not detected on radar. There were three
witnesses among the crew: Sperry, Bates, and Arnholt.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 39;
UNICAT, case # 719, citing Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July; True Magazine, August 1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3144
Date: 6/1950
Description: Many sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_110
Date: 6/1950
Location: GEELONG, VCT, AUS
Description: Saucer going quickly south / 1000mph.
Bronze top and silver bot. Absolute(ly) silent. Trails blue vapor.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 259)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1717
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "GEELONG,VCT,AUS:SCR>>S/1000mph:BRONZE TOP+SLVR BOT:ABS SILENT:TRAILS BLU VAPOR", LatLong: "-38.100002 144.216674", LatLongDMS: "38:06:00 S 144:13:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/1950
Time: 23:00
Location: OFF RIO GRANDE, ARG
Description: Sheep run. Splash! Luminous/glowing ovoid
rises / sea. 90° turn going quickly northwest. / MJ#130.
Type: sighting
Reference: PHENOMENES SPATIAUX: Group GEPA, Gen. M.
Lionel Chassin Paris. Quarterly 1964?-1977. Merged into Grp. GEPAN
(Index 18)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1718
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Argentina", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "off RIO GRANDE,ARG:SHEEP RUN:SPLASH!:LUMn OVOID RISES/SEA:90°TURN>>NW:/MJ#130", LatLong: "-53.333336 -68.000003", LatLongDMS: "53:20:00 S 68:00:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "TDF", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/1/1950
Locations: RAF Tangmere; West Sussex, England; RAF
Wartling; Eastbourne
Description: A pilot on patrol from RAF Tangmere in
West Sussex, England, sights a “bright circular metallic object” that
speeds past his Gloster Meteor jet fighter at 20,000 feet. As he
undergoes a debriefing by squadron intelligence, he finds out that four
RAF controllers at the radar station at RAF Wartling near Eastbourne
have, at the same time, tracked an “unusual response” that vanishes from
their screens, moving at terrific speed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke, “Flying
Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
January 3, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1538
Date: 6/2/1950
Time: 22:00
Location: ONSET, MA
Description: 6 observer(s). 2 small luminous silver
disks circle several X / 60M altitude. Shoot to distance.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 564)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1719
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "40", Elev: "9", HatchDesc: "ONSET,MA:6 OBS:2 SML.LUMN.SLVR DISKS CCL SVRL X/60M alt:SHOOT TO DISTANCE", LatLong: "41.744446 -70.661114", LatLongDMS: "41:44:40 N 70:39:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "60", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/7/1950
Location: London, England
Description: RAF PILOT REPORTS SIGHTING, RADAR
A 'BLIP'. An RAF pilot radioed his base: "Strange object seen.
Looks like a flying saucer." Radar operators at the base picked up a
strong "blip" on their screens. The air ministry withheld all
information.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_77
Date: 6/7/1950
Time: 22:20
Location: OFF DUNKIRK, NY
Description: 2+observer(s) parachute glowing-saucer
going down [to] slow. Stops. 2 lights flash. Going quickly east
fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 565)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1720
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "174", HatchDesc: "off DUNKIRK,NY:2+OBS PARACHUTE GLOW-SCR ↓ SLOW:STOPS:2 LITES FLASH:>>E FAST", LatLong: "42.500002 -79.333337", LatLongDMS: "42:30:00 N 79:20:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/8/1950
Location: Korean Theatre
Description: Gen. Earle E.
Partridge of the Fifth Air Force, responsible for the Korean
Theatre, writes to Commanding Gen. George E.
Stratemeyer, asking
for an analysis of certain UFO cases.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 100–101
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1539
Date: 6/12/1950
Location: Unknown City, CA
Description: Geologist saw disc-shaped object loop
around plane. [VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_709
Date: 6/12/1950
Description: Eastern Airlines executive Eddie
Rickenbacker tells the press that if flying saucers “do exist, you
can rest assured that they are ours.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 100
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1540
Date: 6/12/1950
Location: California
Description: 4:00 p.m. Working in a quarry somewhere in
California, geologist John Zimmerman and civil engineer Charles Fisher
are watching a jet aircraft speeding through the sky and leaving a vapor
trail. Suddenly Zimmerman notices that the vapor trail has been cut.
Looking more closely, he notices a metallic disc making vertical loops
around the jet. Two other discs come into view and perform the same
aerobatics.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wells Alan Webb, Mars, the New Frontier,
Fearon, 1956, p. 124; UFOEv, p.
50
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1541
Date: 6/13/1950
Time: ~16:00
Location: NEAR MILL VALLEY, CA
Description: Many observer(s). Huge disk hovers / high
over bay / 5 minute(s). Going quickly [to] away instantly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1721
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "5", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr MILL VALLEY,CA:MANY OBS:HUGE DISK HVRS/HIGH OVR BAY/5min:>> AWAY INSTANTLY", LatLong: "37.905557 -122.544450", LatLongDMS: "37:54:20 N 122:32:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/14/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: 4:45 PM. Fairchild plant workers at the
nuclear research facilities watched a brilliant fiery ball of light
hover over restricted military airspace for about two minutes. (Source:
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1951, p. 3). (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_710
Date: 6/15/1950
Time: 09:00
Location: PARAMARIBO, SURNM
Description: Many observer(s). Moon-size silver ovoid
going northeast slow. Sudden dips and rises. / Bloe.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 566)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1722
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Guyanas (all 3 of them)", Credibility: "12", Duration: "10", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "PARAMARIBO,SURNM:MANY OBS:MOONSIZE SLVR OVOID >NE SLOW:SUDDEN DIPS+RISES:/Bloe", LatLong: "5.866667 -55.166669", LatLongDMS: "05:52:00 N 55:10:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Surinam", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/16/1950
Location: Tucson, AZ
Description: Triangular Object Passes C-47 At 700 MPH
(NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500616
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_711
Date: 6/17/1950
Time: 02:30
Location: HASELBACH, GERM
Description: 0.Linke and 1. 15M saucer. 2 small
humanoids (or Greys) check ground. Going quickly southwest. Plug / dirt
gone. / MJ#153.
Type: sighting
Reference: The APRO BULLETIN: Monthly. Jim & Coral
Lorenzen: Tucson,AZ (USA. defunct) By volume and number. (Index
25)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1723
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", SMP: Sampling of plant/animal/soil/tissue/specimens, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "4", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "HASELBACH,GERM:0.LINKE+1:15M SCR:2 OIDS CHECK GND:>>SW:PLUG/DIRT GONE:/MJ#153", LatLong: "50.500002 10.350000", LatLongDMS: "50:30:00 N 10:21:00 E", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bavaria", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 6/17/1950
Location: Hasselbach, East Germany
Description: 40-50 ft frying pan-shaped object with two
rows of 1 ft holes (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_712
Date: 6/17/1950
Locations: Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany; West
Berlin; Stockheim
Description: Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter
Gabriele are walking toward Haselbach, Thuringia, East Germany, in the
twilight when she notices something about 420 feet away. It appears to
be two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing who are stooped over and
looking at something on the ground. Linke approaches to 30 feet away,
looks over a small fence, and sees a large object about 40 feet in
diameter that looks like a huge frying pan. It has two rows of holes in
its periphery and a black conical tower about 9 feet high. The two men
suddenly jump inside. The inside lights up, the object starts humming
and rises slowly from the ground, rotating like a top. It rises from the
ground with the aid of a central cylinder and is surrounded by flames,
then takes off in the direction of Stockheim. Later he finds a circular
depression in the ground at the spot. Linke resettles in West Berlin in
1951. He tells his story to a notary there on July 1, 1952, which is how
it turns up in the Western press and explains a confusion in the date of
the sighting.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “CE III by Two
Witnesses / Oskar Linke Case”; Central Intelligence Agency, “‘Flying
Saucers’ in East Germany,” July 9, 1952; Andreas Müller, “Das
Haselbach-UFO von
1950: Die Augenzeugin spricht,” grenzWissenschaft-aktuell.de,
January 26, 2016; Sparks, p. 92; Good
Above, pp.
513–514
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1542
Date: 6/17/1950
Description: Oskar Linke and his 11-year-old daughter
saw two little men in silver suits in a forest outside of Hasselbach,
Germany in 1950. His motorcycle had gotten a flat tire and they were
pushing it toward the village around 2:30 a.m. when his daughter
Gabriele pointed to what she thought was a young deer about 150 yards
away. He approached and realized that what she had seen were apparently
human figures, wearing shimmering metallic clothing. They stood about
1.5 meters (4 feet) in height, and one of them wore a light on its chest
that flashed at regular intervals. He stealthily approached to about 30
feet from them, peering over a small ridge. Next to them was a
pan-shaped disc, approximately 40-50 feet (15-20 meters) in diameter.
The object was metallic and had two rows of holes along the sides each
about a foot in diameter, spaced 1.5 feet apart. Out of the top rose a
ten-foot high black, cylindrical "conning tower."
When his
daughter called to him it apparently alarmed the two figures, for they
rushed back to the object, clambering up the side of the conning tower
and disappearing inside. The outer rim of the disc in which the holes
were sunk began to glow a blue-green color, and a humming sound started.
As the glow and sound increased, the tower was retracted into the center
of the object, and the whole object rose from the ground. From the
swirling effect he got the impression the object was spinning like a
top. The color of the disc turned to red as it took off. A two-meter
circular depression of compressed ground, freshly made, was found at the
landing site, with ground indentations. At the time Mr. Linke lived in
communist controlled East Germany. He told his story to a judge and U.S.
Military intelligence when he was able to cross into West Germany two
years later.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for
Outstanding UFO Sighting Reports, pp. 8-9, citing Leonard Cramp, Piece
for a Jig-Saw, p. 158. This case is often erroneously cited as occurring
in 1952
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3525
Date: 6/20/1950
Location: Oakland, California
Description: The Oakland Tribune. THIS
ONE DUSTS AIR FORCE BASE. The UP said a "disk-shaped object"
roaring at an estimated speed of 1000 to 1500 mph. made five passes near
Hamilton Air Force Base today.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_78
Date: 6/21/1950
Time: 01:30
Location: HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: Blue Book. 2+3 pilots. Saucer / 3000'
altitude. 1200mph. Blue flame. Roars. 3 passes.
Type: sighting
Reference: WILKINS, Harold T.: FLYING SAUCERS ON THE
ATTACK; Ace Books, NY PB 1967. (Index 121)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1724
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "25", Elev: "1", HatchDesc: "HAMILTON AFB,CA:BBK:2+3 PILOTS:SCR/3000'alt:1200mph:BLUE FLAME:ROARS:3 PASSES", LatLong: "38.083335 -122.550006", LatLongDMS: "38:05:00 N 122:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "915", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/21/1950
Location: Misawa AFB, Japan
Description: 30' Disc Seen From Golf Course (NICAP: 01
- Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500621
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_713
Date: 6/21/1950
Location: Hamilton AFB, CA
Description: Disc Makes Five Passes At Control Tower
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500621
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_714
Date: Summer 1950
Location: Los Alamos, New Mexico
Description: Physicist Enrico
Fermi first formulates the “Fermi Paradox” during a casual
conversation (in Los Alamos, New Mexico?) with fellow physicists Edward Teller, Herbert York, and Emil
Konopinski. While
walking to lunch, the men discuss recent UFO reports and the possibility
of faster-than-light travel. The conversation moves on to other topics,
until during lunch Fermi allegedly says suddenly, “But where is
everybody?” (although the exact quote is uncertain).
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Enrico Fermi”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1536
Date: Summer 1950
Location: Beaverdam, Virginia
Description: Evening. An 8- or 10-foot-disc lands in a
field behind Mrs. Mason Vaughan’s house in Beaverdam, Virginia. From an
open cockpit a “man with unusual goggles or headpiece” looks out.
Surprised, the disc takes off abruptly, breaking off a limb from an oak
tree on the way up.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 267; Center for UFO Studies, HUMCAT
Index 1950–1951, p.
20
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1537
Date: 6/21/1950
Locations: Hamilton AFB; Novato, California
Description: 1:35 a.m. Control tower operators Cpl.
Roger G. Pryor and S/Sgt. Ellis
R. Lorimer and airways communications staffer S/Sgt. Virgil Cappuro
watch a flying disc speeding at 1,000–1,500 mph over Hamilton AFB [now
closed] in Novato, California. The object shoots blue flame and makes a
roar like thunder as it makes five passes over the base. They observe it
through binoculars for 25 minutes.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Disc Makes Five
Passes at
Control Tower”; Sparks, p. 92
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1543
Date: 6/23/1950
Location: Gulf of Mexico, At Sea
Description: Huge ball of fire descend slowly in 1-1/2
mins in a wavy spiral path (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_715
Date: 6/24/1950
Location: Near Los Angles, CA
Description: Navy transport plane sees UFO pace
airliner.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_58
Date: 6/24/1950
Location: COMMERCE, TX
Description: 2 / airliner. Saucer seen / 30 km. Sudden
burst speed / 600 kph and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1725
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", Elev: "157", HatchDesc: "COMMERCE,TX:2/AIRLINER:SCR SEEN/30 km:SUDDEN BURST SPEED/600 kph AND AWAY", LatLong: "33.244446 -95.900005", LatLongDMS: "33:14:40 N 95:54:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/24/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: NEAR DAGGETT, CA
Description: Navy transport and all / airliners.
Cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers. Follows liner / 20 mile(s). /
r22p139.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 31)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1726
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "30", Elev: "611", HatchDesc: "nr DAGGETT,CA:NAVY XPORT+ALL/AIRLINERS:CGR MNVRS:FOLOS LINER/20mi:/r22p139", LatLong: "34.866668 -116.900006", LatLongDMS: "34:52:00 N 116:54:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/24/1950
Time: 19:40
Location: GULF OF MEXICO
Description: Military reconnaissance flight. Fireball
maneuvers / 90 second(s). Descends. Leaves contrail..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1727
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "GULF of MEXICO:MIL.RECON FLITE:FBL MNVRS/90sec:DESCENDS:leaves contrail..", LatLong: "26.833335 -86.083337", LatLongDMS: "26:50:00 N 86:05:00 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "GMX", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 6/24/1950
Location: Daggett, CA
Description: Navy transport pilot Case (AL, M) (NICAP:
11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500624
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_716
Date: 6/24/1950
Location: Daggett, California
Description: A cigar-shaped UFO paces a United Airlines
plane (Capt. E. L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart, and observer
Capt. Samuel
B. Wiper) for 20 minutes near Daggett, California. The object is
also seen by the crew of another airliner and a navy transport plane.
The Navy pilot sees for 3 minutes a dark gray object with heat radiation
at the tail end. He estimates altitude as 50,000–100,000 feet and a
speed of 1,000–1,500 mph. The crews discuss the matter with two CAA
ground stations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Three Aircraft Crews
Observe UFO”; UFOEv, p.
31; Sparks, p. 93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1544
Date: 6/25/1950
Location: Korea
Description: Korean War
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_410
Date: 6/25/1950
Location: Baker, New Mexico
Description: UNITED AIRLINES CREW SEES ONE 4
MILES UP. Captain E. L. Remlin, First Officer David Stewart,
and Observer Sam B. Wiper noticed a mysterious object while flying their
UAL Main-liner at 14,000 feet between Las Vegas and Silver Lake about
eight miles north of Baker, New Mexico. The craft had a bluish center
with a bright orange tint and was flying horizontally at about 20,000
feet, faster than the plane, and about 20 miles away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_79
Date: 6/25/1950
Time: 09:30
Location: WASHINGTON, DC
Description: 1 observer. Silver cylinder/cigar-shape
tilts over city. / FBI records. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 132)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1728
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), GSA: Covert Security Agency
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "8", HatchDesc: "WASHINGTON,DC:1 OBS:SLVR CGR TILTS OVR CITY:/FBI RECORDS:NFD", LatLong: "38.866669 -76.983337", LatLongDMS: "38:52:00 N 76:59:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "WDC", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/25/1950
Time: 21:00
Location: NEWBURGH, NY
Description: WW2 plane spotter and more/others. 4 disks
in formation. "Not planes". Maneuver. / The New York Times (NYT) 27 Jun.
'47.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 263)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1729
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "180", Elev: "42", HatchDesc: "NEWBURGH,NY:WW2 PLANE SPOTTER++:4 DISKS/FORMn:"NOT PLANES":MNVR:/NYT 27JUN47", LatLong: "41.500002 -74.005559", LatLongDMS: "41:30:00 N 74:00:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/25/1950
Time: 21:00
Location: BARCELONA, SP
Description: 4 observer(s). Bright long metallic
cylinder south going quickly north / 10 second(s). No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GUASP, Miguel: TEORIA de PROCESOS de los
OVNI; Valencia, Spain, 1973. Self published. Scholarly. Short catalog.
(Index 999)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1730
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Spain", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "BARCELONA,SP:4 OBS:BRITE LONG MTLC CYLINDER S>>N/10sec:NFD", LatLong: "41.400002 2.133333", LatLongDMS: "41:24:00 N 02:08:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Barcelone", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/25/1950
Locations: North Korea; South Korea
Description: North Korea invades South Korea, beginning
the Korean War.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Korean
War”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1545
Date: 6/26/1950
Time: 20:00
Location: LAS VEGAS, NV
Description: Wingless fuselage going quickly [to] MACH1
and more/others / several min. 3 planes and ground observer(s). Bluish
light.
Type: sighting
Reference: MICHEL, Aime: The TRUTH ABOUT FLYING
SAUCERS; S. G. Phillips 1956 & Pyramid Books, NY 1967. (Index
64)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1731
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "8", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "LAS VEGAS,NV:WINGLESS FUSELAGE >>MACH1++/SVRL MIN:3 PLANES+GND OBS:BLUISH LITE", LatLong: "36.166668 -115.133339", LatLongDMS: "36:10:00 N 115:08:00 W", Locale: "Desert", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nevada", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/27/1950
Time: 07:50
Location: TEXARKANA, TX
Description: 2 / truck / Red River Arsenal. Fast
glittering "double-dishpan" zips by.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 264)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1732
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "97", HatchDesc: "TEXARKANA,TX:2/TRUCK/RED RVR ARSENAL:FAST GLITTERING "DOUBLE-DISHPAN" ZIPS BY", LatLong: "33.416668 -94.083338", LatLongDMS: "33:25:00 N 94:05:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Texas", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/27/1950
Time: 11:00?
Location: LOUISVILLE, KY
Description: Newsman shoots 50' / 8mm film. Large
bright saucer near passing plane. Going quickly west.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 264)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1733
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "139", HatchDesc: "LOUISVILLE,KY:NEWSMAN SHOOTS 50'/8mm FILM:LRG BRITE SCR nr PASSING PLANE:>>W", LatLong: "38.250002 -85.766671", LatLongDMS: "38:15:00 N 85:46:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kentucky", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/27/1950
Time: 11:30
Location: OAKLAND, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). Bomber flies over. Shiny
spinning object overtakes plane / rear going quickly east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1734
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "OAKLAND,CA:2 OBS:BOMBER FLIES OVR:SHINY SPINNING OBJ OVERTAKES PLANE/REAR >>E", LatLong: "37.816668 -122.283339", LatLongDMS: "37:49:00 N 122:17:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 6/27/1950
Location: Texarkana, TX
Description: Huge "Dishpan" Flies Over Arsenal (NICAP:
01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 738)
Reference: NICAP: 500627
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_717
Date: 6/27/1950
Location: Louisville, KY
Description: Movie film of UFO taken by newspaper
reporter Al Hixenbaugh (NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_718
Date: 6/27/1950
Time: 7:50 AM
Location: Texarkana, Texas
Description: Witnesses: Terrell and Yates, employees of
Red River Arsenal. One object, bright, shaped like two dishpans
face-to-face, flew straight and level, fast for 4-5 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_41
Date: 6/27/1950
Location: South Korea
Description: President Truman orders
US air and sea forces to help South Korea.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Korean
War”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1546
Date: 6/27/1950
Locations: Louisville, Kentucky; Longest and Everett
avenues
Description: 4:15 p.m. Al Hixenbaugh, a photographer
for the Louisville Times, is at the corner of Longest and Everett
avenues in Louisville, Kentucky, when he hears the sound of a DC-3
airplane overhead. He looks up and sees the plane as well as a large
disc with a slight corona around it. He shoots 50 feet of film with his
16mm movie camera as the object remains motionless for 10 seconds before
it starts getting smaller and disappears to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Louisville (Ky.) Times, June 28, 1950, p. 1;
“How
to Film UFO’s,” Saucers 6, no. 3 (August 1958): 3; Sparks, p. 93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1547
Date: 6/28/1950
Time: 01:00
Location: SAN LEANDRO, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). Thunder-roar. Circular
object 2000' overhead. Jets / flame from edges.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 261)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1735
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "10", HatchDesc: "SAN LEANDRO,CA:2 OBS:THUNDER-ROAR:CIRCULAR OBJ 2000'OVHD:JETS/FLAME FROM EDGES", LatLong: "37.700002 -122.166672", LatLongDMS: "37:42:00 N 122:10:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/28/1950
Time: 04:20
Location: SAVANNAH, GA
Description: 2 observer(s). White fireball / night
light maneuvers erratically / 45 minute(s). Climbs swiftly going quickly
northeast and gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1736
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "45", Elev: "13", HatchDesc: "SAVANNAH,GA:2 OBS:WHT FBL/NLT MNVRS ERRATICALLY/45min:CLIMBS SWIFTLY>>NE+GONE", LatLong: "32.083335 -81.100004", LatLongDMS: "32:05:00 N 81:06:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Georgia", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 6/28/1950
Time: ~13:00
Location: CAIRO, IL
Description: 5 observer(s). Chrome-ovoids maneuver. 1
pauses-then tears off going quickly southwest. / Post Dispatch.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1737
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "98", HatchDesc: "CAIRO,IL:5 OBS:CHROME-OVOIDS MNVR:1 PAUSES-THEN TEARS OFF >>SW:/POST DISPATCH", LatLong: "37.000002 -89.183338", LatLongDMS: "37:00:00 N 89:11:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/29/1950
Location: Fort Collins, Colorado
Description: POSTMAN SPOTS ONE WITH SATERN
RING. Hubert Hutt, a post office worker at Fort Collins, saw an
object in the sky at 9:40 a.m. which appeared simultaneously with an
airliner at about 3,000 feet elevation. It was at about 4,500 feet,
traveling northwest, and resembled a silver snowball, circled by some
kind of a ring. It was extremely maneuverable.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_80
Date: 6/29/1950
Time: ~14:00
Location: DOWAGIAC, MI
Description: Farmer. Military C54 / 150m altitude! 8m
saucer / under plane and zips off / fantastic speed/velocity.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 265)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1738
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "228", HatchDesc: "DOWAGIAC,MI:FARMER:MIL C54/150m alt!:8m SCR/UNDER PLANE+ZIPS OFF/FANTASTIC SPD", LatLong: "41.983335 -86.100004", LatLongDMS: "41:59:00 N 86:06:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 6/30/1950
Time: 00:10
Location: KINGMAN, KS
Description: 4+/ car. 250' domed saucer hovers and
turns over road. Away as car nears. / r78p159.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 149)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1739
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "489", HatchDesc: "KINGMAN,KS:4+/CAR:250'DOMED SCR HVRS+TURNS ovr ROAD:AWAY as CAR NEARS:/r78p159", LatLong: "37.644446 -98.111116", LatLongDMS: "37:38:40 N 98:06:40 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 6/30/1950
Time: 23:20
Location: SOUTHEAST / DARTMOUTH, NS
Description: RADAR blip hovers. Shoots inland. Hovers /
oil refinery. Aims beams.
Type: sighting
Reference: LEDGER, Don: MARITIME UFO FILES: 1998 Nimbus
Publ. Ltd. Halifax, NS. ISBN 1-55109-269-7 162pp. trade paper. (Index
23)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1740
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, RDR: Radar traces/blips
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "8", Duration: "70", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SE/DARTMOUTH,NS:RDR BLIP HVRS:SHOOTS INLAND:HVRS/OIL REFINERY:AIMS BEAMS", LatLong: "44.450002 -63.516670", LatLongDMS: "44:27:00 N 63:31:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Nova Scotia", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 6/30/1950
Location: Dartmouth, NS, CAN
Description: Royal Canadian NAS, G,V Navy Men Report
Radar Contact (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500630
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_719
Date: 6/30/1950
Location: Kingman (near), KS
Description: Rotating disc hovered, sped away when car
approached [XII] (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_720
Date: 6/30/1950
Locations: Kingman, Kansas; Cunningham, Kansas; Meade,
Kansas; US Hwy 54
Description: Midnight. Rev. Ross Vermillion, a former
bomber pilot, and his wife are driving 9 miles west of Kingman, Kansas,
when they see a bright red light hovering over US Hwy 54 near
Cunningham, Kansas. They estimate it to be about 250 feet in diameter
with a small canopy on top. The family of druggist Dwayne Mulnix of
Meade, Kansas, also sees the object and they stop and watch it for about
20 minutes along the highway. They begin to drive closer, but it speeds
away. As seen in the bright moonlight, the object looks made of bright
metal and has an elliptical body “as big as the cross-section of a B-29”
with a rotor turning counterclockwise around its body.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “WWII Pilot Tells
of Seeing Flying Saucer”; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The
Author, 1990, pp. 66–69
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1548
Date: 6/30/1950
Locations: Royal Canadian Naval Air Station Shearwater,
Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; North Dartmouth
Description: 11:15 p.m. Two navy men (Petty Officer
Carter and Able Seaman Connelly) at Royal Canadian Naval Air Station
Shearwater, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, are pulling duty on radar watch from
dusk until dawn. They report four separate radar contacts bearing 160°
at 5 miles over 90 minutes. Visual confirmation of two glowing objects
is made by a chief petty officer in North Dartmouth.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Navy Men Report
Radar Contact” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1549
Date: 7/1950
Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT
OR FICTION?”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_411
Date: 7/1950
Location: AVOCA, AUSTR
Description: Farmer. Huge saucer rises / horizon.
Crosses sky going quickly north. 6 more follow. Very high and very
fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 278)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1741
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Australia", Credibility: "6", Duration: "5", HatchDesc: "AVOCA,AUSTR:FARMER:HUGE SCR RISES/HRZN:CROSSES SKY >>N:6 MORE FOLO:VHI+VFAST", LatLong: "-37.083335 141.516673", LatLongDMS: "37:05:00 S 141:31:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Victoria", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/1950
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Description: CAA flight engineer observed a "wingless,
fuselage-shaped" UFO. [V] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_721
Date: 7/1950
Description: USAF Director of Intelligence Maj. Gen. Charles P.
Cabell orders secret UFO field investigations to be conducted by his
staff Technical Capabilities Branch in the Evaluation Division under
Maj. Milton
D. Willis. These begin this month and last until October 1951 when
Cabell is replaced by Gen. John A.
Samford.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 936
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1550
Date: 7/1950
Description: Editor Curtis
Fuller’s article, “The Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” appears in
Flying magazine.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Curtis Fuller, “The
Flying Saucers: Fact or Fiction?” Flying 47 \(July 1950\): 16–17,
59–61
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1551
Date: 7/1950
Locations: continental US; Las Vegas Bombing and
Gunnery Range in Nevada; Frenchman Flat
Description: Armed Forces Special Weapons Project
concludes a top secret study, named Project Nutmeg, to search for an
atomic weapons site in the continental US. AFSWP concludes that a site
on the Air Force’s Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range in Nevada is the
right place. President Truman approves
the location, known as Frenchman Flat.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Sandia
Base”; “Project
Nutmeg: The Birth of the Nevada Test Site,” National Nuclear
Security Administration, June 2004
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1552
Date: 7/1950
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: Mid-day. Electronics engineer Cliff Booth
is having lunch in his office at a private contractor’s building at
Holloman AFB, New Mexico, when he gets a call that a UFO has been
reported by one of the range stations. Booth and an Askania
cinetheodolite operator are asked to drive to another range station with
a manually operated Askania and look for the object. Through the finders
on the theodolite the object presents a side view to the observers and
appears to be cigar-shaped and metallic, with a straw-colored iridescent
radiance or luster. It also has fins one-third of the way back from the
front of the fuselage and a row of at least three oblong ports extending
to the rear of the object and located above the center line of the
fuselage. The ports are a dark smoky gray but not luminescent. The
object hovers in an almost horizontal position, elevation 20°–25°,
azimuth northeast. Shortly after the men focus the instrument on the
object to take a film, it begins maneuvering. Turning toward the camera,
the object moves in, and the men can see the front—a round shape with
the fins extending out from the sides. It then drops abruptly, as though
beginning to fall, but stops. It moves toward the camera, turns
sideways, then drops as before, but this time it exposes the side view
again. The operator leaves to report the coordinates to headquarters,
and when he returns the object is gone. The men turn over their exposed
film to the Data Reduction Division for development and analysis. A week
or so later they are called in and questioned by a young first
lieutenant unknown to them who asks them over and over again if they
have taken pictures and to describe the object they had seen. Then they
are asked if they can identify the film of the object they photographed.
One of the men becomes angry about the questioning, telling the officer
he had seen what he reported, had photographed the object, and is
convinced it is some sort of a vehicle from outer space. He is shown a
film of 14 frames on a Recordak projector. The black-and-white
presentation shows a blurred ellipsoid with a dark center, but no
details. (Puzzled about the film, he later talks to a
mathematician-analyst employed by Land-Air, Inc.; she conjectured the
object had been oscillating in the air, preventing a stable image.) The
men are then told by their superiors to forget the whole thing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp.
27–29; Project 1947, “APRO Files:
Coral E. Lorenzen,
Holloman Air Force Base UFO Sighting, July, 1950”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1553
Date: 7/1950
Location: Cincinnati, Ohio
Description: 1:45 p.m. A Civil Aviation Authority
flight engineer observes a “wingless, fuselage-shaped” object
maneuvering over Cincinnati, Ohio. The object climbs at a steep angle to
16,000–18,000 feet, hesitates, dives, and speeds away to the west.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
45
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1554
Date: 7/1950
Description: Cliff Booth, a Holloman AFB contractor,
investigates reports of a range station sighting a UAP. Booth and a
camera operator film a cigar shaped metallic object. The men turn the
film over to the Data Reduction Division at Holloman AFB, and an analyst
at Land-Air Inc. states the object was oscillating preventing a stable
image. They are told by their superiors at Holloman to forget the
incident.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_23
Date: 7/2/1950
Location: Steep Rock Lake, Canada
Description: In a story strangely similar to that of
Mr. Kiehl (Aug., 1914) (Case 40) a man and his wife saw a double saucer
with portholes and a rotating antenna come to rest on the surface of the
lake. Ten figures, 1.20 m tall, dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and
walked on deck like robots "changing direction without turning their
bodies." Their faces could not be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had
darker arms and legs and "seemed to be their chief." They immersed a
hose in the lake, then took off. Fishermen later reported a green moss
forming on the lake.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wilkins U (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_80
Date: 7/2/1950
Locations: Sawbill Bay on Marmion Lake, western
Ontario; Scarborough, Ontario
Description: Dusk. While picnicking on the shore of
Sawbill Bay on Marmion Lake, western Ontario, an anonymous employee of
the Steep Rock Iron Mine claims to have seen a UFO resting on the
water’s surface. A hatch opens and 10 figures, 3–4 feet tall, emerge,
wearing shiny, metallic clothing. They seem to be drawing in lake water
with a hose. The object soon rises and hovers, then swiftly takes off.
The story appears in the mine’s house newsletter, then gets picked up by
some Canadian newspapers and Fate magazine in its February/March 1952
issue. However, Robert Badgley, a Scarborough, Ontario, member of APRO,
finds in 1974 that Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards had written the
fictitious tale to entertain readers of the newsletter and to satirize
saucer stories.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Steep
Rock Flying Saucer,” Fate 5, no. 2 (February–March 1952): 68–72; “1950
Steep Rock Lake,
Ontario Case Possible Hoax,” APRO Bulletin 26, no. 5 (November
1977): 5; John Robert Columbo, UFOs over Canada, Hounslow, 1991, pp.
32–41; Patrick Gross, URECAT,
January 31, 2007; Hammerson Peters, “The Little Green Men of Steep Rock
Lake,” Mysteries of Canada, September 7, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1555
Date: 7/2/1950
Description: Steep Rock Lake, Ontario, Canada. A man
and his wife saw a double saucer with portholes and a rotating antenna
come to rest on the surface of the lake. Ten figures, four feet tall,
dressed in shiny clothing, emerged and walked on deck like robots
"changing direction without turning their bodies." Their faces could not
be seen. One of them wore a red cap, had darker arms and legs and seemed
to be their leader. They immersed a hose in the lake, apparently
extracted water, and then took off. Fishermen later reported a green
moss formed on the lake.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 195
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_3784
Date: 7/4/1950
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken
to NYC and back in 30 minutes
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah
Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_111
Date: 7/4/1950
Locations: White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico; New
York
Description: Evening. Aerojet engineer Daniel Fry is
alone during the holiday at White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico, when
a flying saucer appears and hovers just above the ground. Fry approaches
and strokes its surface when a voice booms, “Better not touch the hull,
pal, it’s still hot.” After some conversation with the disembodied
extraterrestrial named Alan, he is invited on board the craft, which
flies him to New York and back in 30 minutes. Fry has further encounters
and becomes a celebrity on the contactee circuit. He finally meets Alan
in person in 1961.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Daniel Fry, The White Sands Incident, New
Age, 1954; Clark III 518–520
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1556
Date: 7/5/1950
Time: 15:40
Location: HILL AIR FORCE BASE, UT
Description: 3 Sergeants. 50' silver saucer / 25K'
altitude going quickly southeast / 600mph / 3 minute(s). RADAR warms up
too late.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 271)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1742
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "1459", HatchDesc: "HILL AFB,UT:3 SGTs:50'SLVR SCR/25K'alt >>SE/600mph/3min:RDR WARMS UP TOO LATE", LatLong: "41.083335 -111.966672", LatLongDMS: "41:05:00 N 111:58:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Utah", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/6/1950
Location: TOPEKA, KS
Description: 3 doctors / clinic. Saucer speeds over
city. 5 more see platter / 7 July. Extremely bright.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 274)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1743
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "TOPEKA,KS:3 MDs/CLINIC:SCR SPEEDS OVR CITY:5 MORE SEE PLATTER/7JLY:XBRITE", LatLong: "39.050002 -95.683338", LatLongDMS: "39:03:00 N 95:41:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Kansas", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/6/1950
Location: LOS ANGELES, CA
Description: 2 good observer(s). 50' saucer / 1000'
altitude. Goes / 50mph then zooms over hills (AP.)
Type: sighting
Reference: STEIGER, Brad (ed.): PROJECT BLUEBOOK;
Ballentine Books 1976. 423pp. (Index 361)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1744
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", Elev: "98", HatchDesc: "LOS ANGELES,CA:2 GOOD OBS:50'SCR/1000'alt:GOES/50mph THEN ZOOMS ovr HILLS (AP)", LatLong: "34.033335 -118.250006", LatLongDMS: "34:02:00 N 118:15:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/6/1950
Description: A memo by Lt. Col. F. D. McGarrachy, USAF
chief of General Investigations Division, expresses strong interest to
acquire motion pictures of UFOs taken by civilians, perhaps in
cooperation with the FBI, but not in a way to arouse public suspicion of
USAF interest.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hynek UFO Report, pp.
54–56
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1557
Date: 7/6/1950
Description: USAF Lt. Col. F. D. McGarrachy states he
wants to collect UAP motion pictures taken by U.S. citizens with
cooperation from the FBI. He does not want the American population to
know of USAF interest in the subject.
Note: This is at a time when USAF public messaging is debunking UAP cases.
Reference: Anonymous 2023
PDF
Source: Anon2023PDF, ID:
Anon2023PDF_24
Date: 7/7/1950
Location: Weisbaden, Germany
Description: GCA Scope Notices Targets Near Aircraft
(NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500707
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_722
Date: 7/7/1950
Description: Gen. Cabell, through
his aide Col. Barber, sends a notice to AMC Intelligence Chief Col. Harold
E. Watson, that despite the official closing of Project Grudge, the
Air Force still desires to receive UFO reports and take them seriously.
Project Grudge begins to be reactivated as Project 10073.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 12;
Swords 101–102, 498–499
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1558
Date: 7/8/1950
Location: PERIL STRAIT, AK
Description: 3 USCG. 2 white saucers connected / strut.
Banks. 350mph going quickly [to] WNW. 1500' altitude.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 274)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1745
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "0", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "PERIL STRAIT,AK:3 USCG:2 WHT SCRS CONNECTED/STRUT:BANKS:350mph>>WNW:1500'alt", LatLong: "57.500003 -135.216673", LatLongDMS: "57:30:00 N 135:13:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 7/9/1950
Time: 14:30
Location: SCHENECTADY, NY
Description: 2 cops and 1. Giant white
cylinder/cylindrical object hangs / sky. National Guard jets circle.
Silence.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 274)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1746
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, TRC: Physical traces, MIL: Military investigation, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "15", Elev: "74", HatchDesc: "SCHENECTADY,NY:2 COPS+1:GIANT WHT CYL HANGS/SKY:NTL GUARD JETS CIRCLE:SILENCE", LatLong: "42.833335 -73.933337", LatLongDMS: "42:50:00 N 73:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New York", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/11/1950
Location: Osceola, AR
Description: Radar/visual of domed disc passing in
front of Navy personnel.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_59
Date: 7/11/1950
Time: 05:00
Location: RIVERSIDE, FL
Description: Fireball brightens and roars every 2
second(s). Another / 0515h. 3rd / 0530h. Going northwest.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 276)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1747
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "35", Elev: "3", HatchDesc: "RIVERSIDE,FL:FBL BRIGHTENS+ROARS EVERY 2sec:ANOTHER/0515h:3rd/0530h:>NW", LatLong: "30.300001 -81.700004", LatLongDMS: "30:18:00 N 81:42:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 7/11/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: OSCEOLA, AR
Description: 2 Navy planes. 25' saucer So close / WW1
helmet shape shows / RADAR! / r242p31.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 275)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1748
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "2", Elev: "73", HatchDesc: "OSCEOLA,AR:2 NAVY PLANES:25'SCR SO CLOSE/WW1 HELMET SHAPE SHOWS/RDR!:/r242p31", LatLong: "35.705557 -89.972227", LatLongDMS: "35:42:20 N 89:58:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 7/11/1950
Location: Osceola (near), AR
Description: USN pilots of 2 planes saw a domed disc
A,V (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500711
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_723
Date: 7/11/1950
Location: Osceola (near), AR
Description: Martin/Moore Case (M) (NICAP: 11 -
Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500711
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_724
Date: 7/11/1950
Locations: NAS Millington; Naval Support Activity
Mid-South; Tennessee; Mississippi River; Osceola, Arkansas
Description: Two Navy aircraft crews from NAS
Millington [now Naval Support Activity Mid-South] in Tennessee, across
the Mississippi River from Osceola, Arkansas, see a domed disc pass in
front of them. Airborne radar confirms it. The object first appears as a
round ball; after it crosses their flight path, it appears like an
upside-down shallow bowl.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Millington
Men Report Seeing ‘Flying Saucer’ and Tracing It,” Memphis \(Tenn.)
Commercial Appeal, July 12, 1950, p. 1; NICAP, “Air, Radar/Visual
over Arkansas”; Sparks, p. 93
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1559
Date: 7/12/1950
Location: ST. LOUIS, MO
Description: Cop and 2. 2 13' silent metal saucers
flutter going quickly northwest / Lambert Field. Pace plane / 13
July.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 277)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1749
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", Elev: "138", HatchDesc: "ST LOUIS,MO:COP+2:2 13'SLNT MTL SCRS FLUTTER >>NW/LAMBERT Fld:PACE PLANE/13JLY", LatLong: "38.616669 -90.183338", LatLongDMS: "38:37:00 N 90:11:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Missouri", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/13/1950
Time: 11:50
Location: OVER FT PECK, MT
Description: USAF photograph-reconnaissance plane. 4
separate groups / 20' metallic saucers. Seen / 13 minute(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 277)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1750
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "13", Elev: "685", HatchDesc: "ovr Ft PECK,MT:USAF FOTO-RECON PLANE:4 SEP GROUPS/20'MTLC SCRS:SEEN/13min:", LatLong: "48.011113 -106.444450", LatLongDMS: "48:00:40 N 106:26:40 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/13/1950
Time: 13:50
Location: CINCINNATI, OH
Description: CAA flight engineer and many. Silent
metallic cylinder/cigar-shape maneuvers. Going up [to] 17K'. Stops / 10
second(s). Going down [to] again.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 45)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1751
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "10", Elev: "210", HatchDesc: "CINCINNATI,OH:CAA FLT ENG+MANY:SLNT MTLC CGR MNVRS:↑17K':STOPS/10sec:↓ AGAIN", LatLong: "39.116669 -84.500004", LatLongDMS: "39:07:00 N 84:30:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 7/13/1950
Time: 17:00
Location: REDSTONE ARSENAL, AL
Description: Project Bluebook Case #758. 2 civil
observer(s). Bowtie object = 2 delta/triangle/box-like crafts. 1
rotates. 90 turn and away.
Type: sighting
Reference: BERLINER, DON: The BLUEBOOK UNKNOWNS;
(FUFOR). (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1752
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "195", HatchDesc: "REDSTONE ARSENAL,AL:BBK#758:2 CIV OBS:BOWTIE OBJ=2 DLTS:1 ROTATES:90 TURN+AWAY", LatLong: "34.750002 -86.583337", LatLongDMS: "34:45:00 N 86:35:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/13/1950
Location: Fort Peck, MT
Description: Weather Recon flight crew saw 4 groups of
round metallic silver objects (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB:
BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_725
Date: 7/13/1950
Location: Huntsville, GA
Description: Polished aluminum object, shaped like a
bowtie (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 758)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_726
Date: 7/13/1950
Time: 5 PM
Location: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama
Description: Witnesses: two skilled Arsenal employees
including Mr. Washburn. one object, shaped like a bowtie, and like
polished aluminum. Flew straight and level, then one triangle rotated
1/4 turn in the opposite direction and returned to its original
position. The object then made a right-angle turn and accelerated away
after at least 30 seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_42
Date: 7/13/1950
Description: USAF weather reconnaissance sighted four
groups of round, metallic silvery objects flying over Fort Peck, Montana
at 11:51 a.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book, July 1950 report
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4026
Date: 7/13/1950
Description: At 1:45 p.m. a CAA flight engineer, flying
over Cincinnati, Ohio sighted a metallic cigar-shaped UFO maneuvering
silently in the sky. It ascended to 17,000 feet and stopped in midair,
hovering in place for ten seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case
1766
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4027
Date: 7/13/1950
Description: Redstone Arsenal, Alabama. At 5:00 p.m.
two skilled Arsenal employees, witnessed a bowtie-shaped object flying
in the sky, appearing like it was made of polished aluminum. It flew
straight and level, then one triangle rotated one-quarter of a turn in
the opposite direction and returned to its original position. The object
then made a ninety-degree turn and accelerated away after at least 30
seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case 758; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4028
Date: 7/14/1950
Time: 20:50
Location: OCALA, FLA
Description: MD. Glowing-orbs play over home. Shrill
sounds (made by UFO's) going quickly southwest / checkmark formation. /
r106p125.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 569)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1753
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "10", Elev: "22", HatchDesc: "OCALA,FLA:MD:GLOW-ORBS PLAY ovr HOME:SHRILL SND >>SW/CHECKMARK FORMn:/r106p125", LatLong: "29.183335 -82.150004", LatLongDMS: "29:11:00 N 82:09:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/16/1950
Location: POMEROY, OH AND AREA
Description: Hundreds / observer(s). White orbs and
disks play / small groups. Very fast (AP.)
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 278)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1754
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "60", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "POMEROY,OH+AREA:100s/OBS:WHT ORBS+DISKS PLAY/SMALL GROUPS:VFAST (AP)", LatLong: "39.027780 -82.033337", LatLongDMS: "39:01:40 N 82:02:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/17/1950
Time: 14:30
Location: CERES HILL, WA
Description: 25' saucer follows road going [to] 100M
from observer(s) / low altitude. Swish sound. Suddenly going quickly
southeast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 570)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1755
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "226", HatchDesc: "CERES HILL,WA:25'SCR FOLOS ROAD > 100M fm OBS/lo alt:SWISH SOUND:SUDDENLY >>SE", LatLong: "46.622224 -123.155561", LatLongDMS: "46:37:20 N 123:09:20 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "100", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/18/1950
Description: Bruce
Bliven summarizes flying saucer news in a Look magazine
article.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Bruce Bliven, “Flying
Saucers: Myth or
Menace?” Look, July 18, 1950, pp. 12–18
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1560
Date: 7/19/1950
Time: 23:30
Location: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: 3 Air Force men. 2 softball-size objects
hover. Change colors. Rise and vanish.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 278)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1756
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "5", Elev: "1248", HatchDesc: "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:3 AF MEN:2 SOFTBALL-SIZE OBJS HVR:CHANGE COLORS:RISE+VANISH", LatLong: "32.866668 -106.066672", LatLongDMS: "32:52:00 N 106:04:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/19/1950
Description: A memo by Col. Bruno W.
Feiling, chief of the
USAF Technical Analysis Division, on “Investigation of Flying Saucer
Reports” says that UFO investigation takes up too much time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Hynek UFO Report, p.
57
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1561
Date: 7/19/1950
Description: At Holloman AFB, New Mexico at 11:30 p.m.
two softball-sized spheres hovered, changed colors, then rose vertically
into the sky and vanished.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History: 1950:
April-July, p. 78
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4189
Date: 7/20/1950
Location: Porto Novo, Brazil
Description: Mr. Campello and several others in a car
saw two large, silvery objects by the side of the road, one on a
hillock, the other on flat ground, about 50 m away from each other. They
came within 600 m of the objects, which went away at "an incredible
speed," causing a rush of air that rocked the car.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: SBEDV 30 (Vallee)
Source: ValléeMagonia, ID:
Magonia_81
Date: 7/20/1950
Description: In Porto Novo, Brazil Mr. Campello and
several others driving together in a car saw two large, silvery objects
by the side of the road, one on a hill, the other on flat ground. They
were about 50 meters away from each other. They drove to within 600
meters of the objects, which flew away at "an incredible speed," causing
a rush of air that rocked the car.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A
Century of Landings, p. 196 (case 81)
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4222
Date: 7/24/1950
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving
Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3,
Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km
range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_412
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km
Date: 7/25/1950
Time: 14:30
Location: NEAR LOS ANGELES, CA
Description: 2 observer(s). 100' saucer hovers / 1K'
altitude. Dashes off. Leaves (something behind) blue = white vapor
trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 279)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1757
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "100", HatchDesc: "nr LOS ANGELES,CA:2 OBS:100'SCR HVRS/1K'alt:DASHES OFF:LVS BLU=WHT VAPOR TRAIL", LatLong: "34.000002 -118.216672", LatLongDMS: "34:00:00 N 118:13:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "300", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/26/1950
Time: 07:30
Location: CESSON, FR
Description: 2 observer(s). Several going east. Turns
going northeast. White beam going down. Vanishes in place as if
erased.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
204)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1758
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "CESSON,FR:2 OBS:SVR > E:TURNS >NE:WHT BEAM ↓:VANISHES IN PLACE as if erased", LatLong: "48.566669 2.600000", LatLongDMS: "48:34:00 N 02:36:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Seine-et-Marne", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/27/1950
Time: 19:20
Location: WIESBADEN, GERM
Description: Blue Book. 2 soldiers. Classic saucer.
Reflects sun / underside. Instant speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 279)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1759
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", HatchDesc: "WIESBADEN,GERM:BBK:2 GIs:CLASSIC SCR:REFLECTS SUN/UNDERSIDE:INSTANT SPEED", LatLong: "50.083336 8.250000", LatLongDMS: "50:05:00 N 08:15:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "HSS", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 7/29/1950
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving
Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3,
Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km
range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_413
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km
Date: 7/29/1950
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Description: CHIEF PILOT COLLIDES WITH ONE,
UNHURT. Jim Graham, chief pilot for Capital Aviation Co. of
Springfield reported his plane was struck by a mysterious object
resembling a blue streak with a tail of red flames. It was soundless and
did not damage his plane."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_81
Date: 7/29/1950
Time: 22:00
Location: OVER WILLIAMSVILLE, IL
Description: Air and ground observers. 3M
glowing-cylinder/cylindrical object explodes in DC3 prop! No
damage!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 280)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1760
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "ovr WILLIAMSVILLE,IL:AIR+GND OBSs:3M GLO-CYL EXPLODES IN DC3 PROP!:NO DAMAGE!", LatLong: "39.955557 -89.550004", LatLongDMS: "39:57:20 N 89:33:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 7/30/1950
Location: Hanford Nuc. Fac., WA
Description: Approx. date. Objects seen over
facility.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_60
Date: 7/30/1950
Location: HANFORD, WA
Description: 1st of many saucers seen over Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) plant. RADAR's. Air Force jets can't
catch.
Type: sighting
Reference: KEHOE, Maj Donald: ALIENS FROM SPACE;
Doubleday, Garden City, NY 1973 HB (Index 4)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1761
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "12", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "HANFORD,WA:1ST OF MANY SCRS SEEN OVR AEC PLANT:RDRs:AF JETS CANT CATCH:", LatLong: "46.500002 -119.516672", LatLongDMS: "46:30:00 N 119:31:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 7/30/1950
Description: USAF jets were scrambled to chase a
disc-shaped UFO seen over the Hanford Atomic Energy Commission plant in
Washington State. The object was tracked on radar.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, Aliens from Space, p. 4;
Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a
cover-up 1941-1973, p. 399
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4500
Date: 7/30/1950
Description: A ten-foot long long glowing cylinder
appeared to explode when it flew into the propeller of DC-3 over
Williamsville, Illinois. There was no damage to the aircraft.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
April-July, p. 80
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4501
Date: 8/1950
Location: US
Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the
Flying Saucers” published
Type: publication
Reference: Amazon
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_414
Date: 8/1950 (approximate)
Location: VILJANDI, ESTONIA
Description: Girl. 6M ovoid / field. Small figure(s)
walk awkwardly. Telepathy! Silent takeoff.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
183)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1762
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, TLP: Telepathy, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OID: Humanoid: Small alien or "Grey", FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: "Estonia, Latvia& Lithuania", Credibility: "5", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "VILJANDI,ESTONIA:GIRL:6M OVOID/FLD:SML FIGs WALK AWKWARDLY:TLP!:SLNT TAKEOFF.", LatLong: "58.400003 25.566668", LatLongDMS: "58:24:00 N 25:34:00 E", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "EST", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/1950
Time: 13:00?
Location: COURS-LES-BARRES, FR
Description: 4 observer(s). Metallic hat-saucer hovers
/ river / 60 minute(s). Animals flee. Going quickly [to] extremely
fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: LUMIERES DANS la NUIT (LDLN), Paris.
Bimonthly since 1957. LDLN B.P.3; 77123 Le Vaudoue, FRANCE. (Index
211)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1763
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks
Extra Data: Country: "France", Credibility: "7", Duration: "60", HatchDesc: "COURS-les-BARRES,FR:4 OBS:MTLC HAT-SCR HVRS/Rvr/60min:ANIMALS FLEE:>> XFAST", LatLong: "47.033336 3.033333", LatLongDMS: "47:02:00 N 03:02:00 E", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Cher", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1950 (approximate)
Time: ~13:00
Location: MEDFORD, OR
Description: Air Traffic Controller and several /
airport/apartment. Shiny silver disks hover and circle / high altitude.
Line up and going quickly southeast. / CUFOS.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 601)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1764
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "180", Elev: "117", HatchDesc: "MEDFORD,OR:ATC+SVRL/Apt:SHINY SLVR DISKS HVR+CCL/HI ALT:LINE UP+>>SE:/CUFOS", LatLong: "42.372224 -122.872228", LatLongDMS: "42:22:20 N 122:52:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1950
Time: 14:00
Location: SOUTHEAST / BIG SUR, CA
Description: Silent cylinder/cigar-shape hovers 5km
offshore. 200+M altitude. Going quickly south. Returns and circles.
Going quickly south again.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 603)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1765
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SE/BIG SUR,CA:SLNT CGR HVRS 5km OFFSHORE:200+M alt:>>S:RETURNS+CCLS:>>S AGAIN", LatLong: "36.150002 -121.716672", LatLongDMS: "36:09:00 N 121:43:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "200", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1950
Time: 15:30
Location: NIZHNE-KOLYMSK, RUSSIA
Description: Disk / extreme-altitude / 3 days. Planes
chase. Zips up and away. / LDLN#204.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 306)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1766
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "Russia", Credibility: "7", Duration: "120", HatchDesc: "NIZHNE-KOLYMSK,RUSS:DISK/XTREME-ALT/3 DAYS:PLANES CHASE:ZIPS UP+AWAY:/LDLN#204", LatLong: "68.533337 160.933341", LatLongDMS: "68:32:00 N 160:56:00 E", Locale: "Tundra", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "YKT", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1950 (approximate)
Time: 18:00
Location: ARLINGTON, VA
Description: Astronomer and 1. 8' glowing lens-disk
hovers near residential power lines.
Type: sighting
Reference: STURROCK, Dr. Peter A: REPORT / SURVEY of
the AMERICAN ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY of the UFO PROBLEM; Stanford, CA 1977.
(Index 147)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1767
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "7", Elev: "76", HatchDesc: "ARLINGTON,VA:ASTRONOMER+1:8' GLOWING LENS-DISK HVRS nr RESIDENTIAL PWR LINES", LatLong: "38.866669 -77.116670", LatLongDMS: "38:52:00 N 77:07:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Virginia", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/1950
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
Description: Engineer Eric
A. Walker becomes executive secretary of the Research and
Development Board. He later refers to a real group called MJ-12 and
admits attending meetings at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio concerning
“recovered UFOs.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The
Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2
(Summer 2001): 11
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1562
Date: 8/1950
Locations: New Mexico; Lincoln LaPaz
Description: A CIA memo sent to FBI headquarters,
“Summary of Aerial Phenomena in New Mexico,” discusses the green
fireballs and notes that OSI is concerned with the phenomena seen over
sensitive installations. It reiterates that Lincoln
LaPaz does not think they are meteors.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, pp.
167–168
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1563
Date: 8/1950
Location: Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek,
California
Description: Keyhoe’s
article on the Adickes case
of April 27, “Flight 117 and the Flying Saucer,” appears in True
magazine. (Donald E. Keyhoe, “Flight
117 and the Flying Saucer,” True, August 1950, pp. 24–25, 75–79)
August — 2:00 p.m. Hugh O’Neill views a cigar-shaped object hovering
silently about 2–5 miles off the Big Sur coast at Anderson Creek,
California, at an elevation of 500–1,000 feet. It moves swiftly away to
the south, then returns less than 2 minutes later and slowly circles
above the ocean twice for 90 seconds, disappearing again to the
south.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Henry Miller, Big Sur and the Oranges of
Hieronymus Bosch, New Directions, 1957, p.
75; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth
Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs a History: 1950 August–December,
Supplemental Notes, The Author, 2000, p. 3
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1564
Date: 8/1/1950
Location: Washington DC
Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3
position.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_416
Date: 8/1/1950
Time: 20:00
Location: AUBURN, ME
Description: 2 pilots / ground. Large dark silent
cylinder/cigar-shape. Several sudden turns. Beams going down.
Vanishes!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 604)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1768
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "91", HatchDesc: "AUBURN,ME:2 PILOTS/GND:LRG DRK SLNT CGR:SVRL SUDDEN TURNS:BEAMS ↓:vanishes!", LatLong: "44.100002 -70.233337", LatLongDMS: "44:06:00 N 70:14:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Maine", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/2/1950
Location: SAN RAFAEL, CA
Description: Mysterious cloud / 15K'. Going [to]
against wind. Radiates green / blue / red / orange..
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 301)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1769
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "60", Elev: "2", HatchDesc: "SAN RAFAEL,CA:MYSTERIOUS CLOUD/15K':>AGAINST WIND:RADIATES GRN/BLU/RED/ORG..", LatLong: "37.966668 -122.550006", LatLongDMS: "37:58:00 N 122:33:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/2/1950
Description: On this day in San Rafael, Marin County,
California a strange cloud was seen over the city at 15,000 feet
altitude for about an hour, moving against the wind. It radiated many
different colors: green, blue, red, and orange.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Gerald Heard, Is Another World Watching?, p.
150
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4588
Date: 8/4/1950
Location: Hanford, WA
Description: CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel
Mildren (G-3) to Maj. U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30,
1950, UFO’s have been sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets
fails to intercept them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and
fighter squadrons alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy
Commission still investigating.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea
Research ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p485)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_417
Date: 8/4/1950
Time: 10:00
Location: ATLANTIC SS MARCALA CREW
Description: Project Bluebook Case #773. 10'
cylinder/cylindrical object / 80' altitude. Churning motion. Going
quickly northeast / 500mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 115)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1770
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "ATLANTIC SS MARCALA CREW:BBK#773:10'CYL/80'alt:CHURNING MOTION:>>NE/500mph", LatLong: "39.583335 -72.405559", LatLongDMS: "39:35:00 N 72:24:20 W", Locale: "High Seas", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NAT", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/4/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: LITTLE ROCK, ARK
Description: 5 observer(s) / power company. Saucer
going northeast reflects sunlight. Turns going quickly east and
gone.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 303)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1771
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "105", HatchDesc: "LITTLE ROCK,ARK:5 OBS/POWER COMPANY:SCR> NE REFLECTS SUNLITE:TURNS>>E AND GONE", LatLong: "34.750002 -92.288893", LatLongDMS: "34:45:00 N 92:17:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arkansas", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/4/1950
Location: North Atlantic, At Sea
Description: Object 100' Above Sea Observed By Ship MV
Marcala (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: U, Rating: 5, BB:
773)
Reference: NICAP: 500804
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_727
Date: 8/4/1950
Time: 10 AM EDT
Location: approx. 100 mi. SE of New York City (39' 35'
N, 72' 24.5' W)
Description: Witnesses: Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate
Jacob Koelwyn, Third Mate, of M/V Marcala. One 10' cylindrical object at
50-100' altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion, accelerated
at end of 15 second sighting.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_43
Date: 8/4/1950
Location: Hanford Site, Washington State
Description: A memo from Army Maj. Ulysses
Grant Carlan states that UFOs since July 30 have been seen at the
Hanford Site in Washington State. They are above 15,000 feet. Jets
attempting interception fail. The AEC says that the investigation is
continuing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Maj. U. G. Carlan, “Flying Discs,” August 4,
1950; Good Above, pp.
267, 485;
Nukes 46; Loren E. Gross, UFOs,
a History: Volume 6, April–July 1950, The Author, 1990, p. 71
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1565
Date: 8/4/1950
Locations: North Atlantic; Nova Scotia
Description: The crew (Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate
Jacob Koelwyn) of the M/V Marcala in the North Atlantic between Nova
Scotia and the US Eastern seaboard watch an aluminum-colored
cylinder-shaped UFO, apparently 10 feet in diameter, 50–100 feet above
the surface. It initially moves 25 mph, makes no noise, wobbles
slightly, disappears over the horizon, then reappears. The ship’s
captain watches the object through binoculars for 90 seconds. One of the
other witnesses describes the sighting as “one of the most frightening
experiences I have ever had.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Object 100ʹ
above Sea Observed by Ship MV Marcala”;
ClearIntent, pp.
115–116; Good Above, pp.
340–341
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1566
Date: 8/4/1950
Description: In the Atlantic Ocean approximately 100
miles southeast of New York City (39.58 degrees N, 72.41 degrees W). At
10:00 a.m. EDT Master Nils Lewring, Chief Mate Jacob Koelwyn, and the
Third Mate of the M/V Marcala sighted a ten-foot long cigar or ovoid
object at 50-100 feet altitude, flying with a churning or rotary motion.
The UFO was shaped like an egg cut lengthwise, and wobbled as it flew.
It also "sparkled in the sunlight." It accelerated away toward the end
of their fifteen-second observation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 773; UNICAT, case # 720; Don Berliner, Project
Bluebook UFO Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4641
Date: 8/5/1950
Time: 11:30
Location: GREAT FALLS, MT
Description: 2 observer(s). 315 16 mm frames / 2
saucers over baseball field. Going quickly southwest. / MJ#223.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 611)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1772
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "1000", HatchDesc: "GREAT FALLS,MT:2 OBS:315 16mm FRAMES/2 SCRS OVR BASEBALL FLD:>>SW:/MJ#223", LatLong: "47.500002 -111.300005", LatLongDMS: "47:30:00 N 111:18:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/5/1950
Description: On this day one of the most famous UFO
movies of all time was shot in Great Falls, Montana. The 16mm film was
shot by Nick Mariana and was witnessed by his secretary, Virginia
Raunig. It shows aluminum colored discs, "like two new dimes", hovering
in the sky at a distance of two miles. It was sent to the U.S. Air Force
for analysis, but when it was returned Mr. Mariana claimed many frames
from the first part of the film, those showing the best closeup images
of the objects, had been deleted. The existing film consists of 280
frames of 16mm film. The UFOs first hovered, then moved smoothly at very
high speed (400 mph) in an arch beind a water tower. The objects
estimated diameter was 50 feet.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of
Multiple UFO, p. 138; UNICAT, case 310; Edward U. Condon, Scientific
Study of Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 407
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4670
Date: 8/6/1950
Location: RIVERDALE, IL
Description: 1 observer. Saucer going [to] overhead.
"Too round to be plane. To fast for balloon".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 303)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1773
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "183", HatchDesc: "RIVERDALE,IL:1 OBS:SCR > OVHD:"TOO ROUND TO BE PLANE:TO FAST FOR BALLOON"", LatLong: "41.633335 -87.633338", LatLongDMS: "41:38:00 N 87:38:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/6/1950
Time: 15:20
Location: LAKE STOREY, IL
Description: 7+observer(s) / (seen thru) binoculars. 2
shiny metallic balls hover and dart and circle. 1100 kph. Going quickly
NNW.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 606)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1774
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "222", HatchDesc: "LAKE STOREY,IL:7+OBS/BINOCS:2 SHINY MTLC BALLS HVR+DART+CCL:1100 kph:>>NNW", LatLong: "40.994446 -90.411115", LatLongDMS: "40:59:40 N 90:24:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/7/1950
Time: 04:00
Location: OVER SANTA FE, NM
Description: Air Force jet / 30K'. C-47 with dark
object below. Jet follows. Can't catch / 620mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 304)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1775
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "3", Elev: "2100", HatchDesc: "ovr SANTA FE,NM:AF JET/30K':C-47 W/DARK OBJ BELOW:JET FOLOS:CANT CATCH/620mph:", LatLong: "35.677779 -105.983338", LatLongDMS: "35:40:40 N 105:59:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/7/1950
Location: Santa Fe, NM
Description: Black Object Chased At 620 MPH (NICAP: 11
- Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500807
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_728
Date: 8/8/1950
Location: North of Orange County, CA
Description: Los Angeles Daily News.
FOUR COUNTIES POLLED ON THIS ONE. A strange, green
light the center of which seemed to be just north of Orange County in
California, was seen over four counties: Los Angeles, San Bernardino,
San Diego, and Riverside. Its light covered the greater part of Southern
California south of the city of Los Angeles and north as far as Santa
Monica Bay. Observers at San Diego reported that the whole sky was
alight like a giant flash bulb. There was no sound.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_82
Date: 8/10/1950
Location: Pacific Coast, US
Description: NORTHWEST JOINS SOUTHWEST ON
SIGHTING. Another huge silent slow lit up the Pacific Coast
from Salem, Oregon to Seattle, Washington today.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_83
Date: 8/10/1950
Location: CAMPELLO, TICINO, SWITZ
Description: 12+observer(s). Saucers leave luminous
wake. Gyrates with 'organ-music' sound.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 305)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1776
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "Switzerland", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "CAMPELLO,TICINO,SWITZ:12+OBS:SCRS LEAVE LUM WAKE:GYRATES W/'ORGAN-MUSIC' SOUND", LatLong: "46.483336 8.816667", LatLongDMS: "46:29:00 N 08:49:00 E", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "VLS", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 8/10/1950
Time: ~06:00
Location: ENUMCLAW, WA
Description: Flat round silver object going west slow.
Turns going north. Then straight up like bullet.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 609)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1777
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "219", HatchDesc: "ENUMCLAW,WA:FLAT RND SLVR OBJ > W SLOW:TURNS > N:THEN STRAIGHT UP LIKE BULLET", LatLong: "47.205558 -121.988895", LatLongDMS: "47:12:20 N 121:59:20 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/10/1950
Time: 12:00?
Location: EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: Navy physicist Wykoff / (seen thru)
binoculars. Large saucer maneuvers. No further details. / r11p328.
Type: sighting
Reference: SPENCER, John: The UFO ENCYCLOPEDIA;
BUFORA/Acon Books, NY. 1991. 340pp. (Index 328)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1778
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", Elev: "702", HatchDesc: "EDWARDS AFB,CA:NAVY PHYSICIST WYKOFF/BINOCS:LRG SCR MNVRS:NFD: /r11p328.", LatLong: "34.883335 -117.900006", LatLongDMS: "34:53:00 N 117:54:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/10/1950
Time: 21:30
Location: TOLOVANA PARK, OR
Description: Domed tank / US101. Lit portholes. Aims
beam / bank / clay. Away fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 607)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1779
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "22", HatchDesc: "TOLOVANA PARK,OR:DOMED TANK/US101:LIT PORTHOLES:AIMS BEAM/BANK/CLAY:AWAY FAST", LatLong: "45.872224 -123.961117", LatLongDMS: "45:52:20 N 123:57:40 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/11/1950
Time: 22:00?
Location: TOLOVANA PK, OR
Description: Saucer back studying clay bank / beam
again. Hides / cars in canyon.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 608)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1780
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, DRT: Dirt/soil traces/marks/footprints etc., TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "10", Elev: "22", HatchDesc: "TOLOVANA Pk,OR:SCR BACK STUDYING CLAY BANK/BEAM AGAIN:HIDES/CARS in canyon", LatLong: "45.872224 -123.966673", LatLongDMS: "45:52:20 N 123:58:00 W", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "10", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/11/1950
Time: 22:00?
Location: TWIN FALLS, ID
Description: 2 observer(s). 10M cube going [to] 400kph.
25 saucers or night lights. Then 25 more. All silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 609)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1781
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "15", Elev: "1137", HatchDesc: "TWIN FALLS,ID:2 OBS:10M CUBE >400kph:25 SCRS or NLTS:THEN 25 more:ALL SLNT", LatLong: "42.550002 -114.466672", LatLongDMS: "42:33:00 N 114:28:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Idaho", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 8/12/1950
Location: Denver, Colorado
Description: YUMA SIGHTING QUITS AT SIGHT OF
DRUGSTORE. William Schocke, Yuma, saw, along with dozens of
others, a dark, disk-shaped object with a dim glow around its rim. When
it reached a point just above a drugstore, it abruptly ceased lateral
flight and slices straight upwards, disappearing behind low-hanging
clouds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_84
Date: 8/12/1950
Location: YUMA, AZ
Description: Many observer(s). Glowing saucer right
over main street. Goes straight going up [to] to clouds.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 304)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1782
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "2", Elev: "48", HatchDesc: "YUMA,AZ:MANY OBS:GLOWING SCR RIGHT OVR MAIN STREET:GOES STRAIGHT ↑ TO CLOUDS", LatLong: "32.700002 -114.616672", LatLongDMS: "32:42:00 N 114:37:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Arizona", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/12/1950
Location: state forestry lookout tower on Round Top
Mountain north of Medford, Oregon
Description: 1:30 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Bud Oliver are at
the state forestry lookout tower on Round Top Mountain north of Medford,
Oregon, when they see two UFOs, one disc-shaped, the other oblong. They
are about 100 feet apart, and the oblong one is tumbling in the air end
over end.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Lookouts Report Seeing
‘Saucers’ North of Medford,” Medford \(Oreg.) Mail-Tribune, August
17, 1950, p. 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1567
Date: 8/12/1950
Description: More than eighty discs maneuvered in the
sky over Campello, Ticino canton, Switzerland, leaving behind luminous
wakes. They gyrated in the sky with a noise that was described as
similar to "organ music".
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Desmond Leslie & George Adamski, Flying
Saucers Have Landed, p. 104
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4931
Date: 8/12/1950
Description: In Yuma, Arizona a disc-shaped object with
a glowing outer edge zoomed to a position directly over Main Street at
5:45 p.m., then shot straight up into the clouds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold, The Coming of the Saucers,
p. 153; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p.
4
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_4932
Date: 8/14/1950
Location: Cromer (10 miles N of), UK
Description: Neatishead radar tracked an unidentified
aircraft (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500814
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_729
Date: 8/14/1950
Location: Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire,
England
Description: 11:27 a.m. Flight Lt. Stan
J. Hubbard and two other officers at Farnborough Airfield,
Hampshire, England, hear a humming noise. Hubbard looks up and sees a
flat gray disc, about 100 feet in diameter, at an altitude of 700–1,000
feet. He watches it for 30 seconds as it flies at a speed of 800–1,000
mph and makes a series of S- turns, oscillating as it moves. The other
two officers see nothing.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke, “Flying
Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
January 3, 2015; Good Need, pp.
149–151; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus,
2002, pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, pp.
40–42
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1568
Date: 8/15/1950
Location: Great Falls, MT
Description: Nick Mariana / Montana UFO Color Film
(NICAP: 08 - Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500815
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_730
Date: 8/15/1950
Location: Great Falls, Montana
Description: 11:30 a.m. Nicholas
Mariana and his secretary Virginia Raunig are inspecting the Great
Falls, Montana, baseball stadium in preparation for a game. He walks up
to the grandstand and notices two fast-moving bright lights “like two
new dimes in the sky.” He rushes to his car, parked 60 feet away, and
gets his 16mm movie camera from the glove compartment. He films the
objects passing behind a water tower, which provides a frame of
reference for measuring distance, size, altitude, azimuth, and speed. In
October he takes it to an Air Force officer for analysis. USAF notes
that two jet interceptors were in the area and might be the objects on
the film, but Mariana and Raunig had seen those too. Controversy soon
arises when Mariana claims that the first 35 frames of his film—which he
says most clearly show the UFOs as rotating disks—are missing. People in
the Great Falls area who view Mariana’s film support him. They claim
that the missing frames clearly show the UFOs as spinning, metallic
disks with a “notch or band” along their outer edges. USAF personnel
deny this accusation and insist that they have removed only a single
frame of film that was damaged in the analysis. In 1952, Blue Book
reviews the film; so does Robert
M. L. Baker Jr. in 1954, and the Colorado project in 1967. All
studies of the film agree that it was not faked and that the objects
appear to be disc-shaped.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Mariana
UFO incident”; NICAP, “Nick Mariana /
Montana UFO Color Film”; “Nick Mariana UFO
Footage 1950 Great Falls Montana,” parkerdonaldmusic YouTube
channel, September 29, 2012; “Air Force Takes over
Films of Flying Disks,” Spokane \(Wash.) Chronicle, October 5, 1950,
p. 8; “Colored Films
on Saucers to Be Shown,” Twin Falls \(Idaho\) Times-News, October
19, 1950, p. 17; Clark III 767–769; UFOs Yes, 81–108; Condon, pp.
407–415; Margaret Sachs, The UFO Encyclopedia, Putnam, 1980, pp.
127–128; Barry Greenwood, “On the Question
of Tampering with the 1950
Great Falls UFO Film,” UFO Historical Revue, no. 7 (September 2000):
1–8; Michael D. Swords, GrassRoots UFOs: Case Reports from the Timmerman
Files, Fund for UFO Research, 2005, pp. 138–139; Michael D. Swords, “Can
You Learn Anything from UFO Photos? Part Three,” The Big Study, July
7, 2012; Patrick Gross, “The Great
Falls, Montana, UFO Color Film, August 15, 1950”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1569
Date: 8/15/1950
Location: Metropole Building on Northumberland Avenue
in London, England
Description: A top secret meeting on UFOs takes place
at the Metropole Building on Northumberland Avenue in London, England.
It is chaired by Hugh Young, deputy director of intelligence, and
attended by representatives of the Secret Intelligence Service and Wing
Commander Myles
Formby of the Air Ministry’s technical intelligence branch. Young
explains that Henry Tizard,
chief scientific advisor to the Ministry of Defence, feels that reports
of flying saucers should not be dismissed without investigation and has
asked that a working party be set up to look into significant reports.
RAF Fighter Command is advised that all future reports of aerial
phenomena should go to the Flying Saucer Working Party.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the
Shadows, Piatkus, 2002, pp. 77– 78; Loren E. Gross, The
Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs, a History: January 1,
1947–December 31, 1959,
Supplemental Notes, The
Author, 2003, p. 35
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1570
Date: 8/20/1950
Time: 13:30
Location: NICOSIA, CYPRUS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #793. 3+USAF. Small
vibrant bright white sphere/orb/globe going quickly west / fantastic
speed. Very high.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 307)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1783
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Cyprus", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NICOSIA,CYPRUS:BBK#793:3+USAF:SML VBRITE WHT ORB >>W/FANTASTIC SPEED:VERY HIGH", LatLong: "35.166668 33.533335", LatLongDMS: "35:10:00 N 33:32:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NIC", Strangeness: "5"
Date: 8/20/1950
Time: 13:30
Location: NORTH PORTLAND, OR
Description: Long "sharpened pencil" paces plane /
higher altitude through turns.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 615)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1784
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "2000", HatchDesc: "N.PORTLAND,OR:LONG "SHARPENED PENCIL" PACES PLANE/HIGHER alt THRU TURNS", LatLong: "45.600002 -122.633339", LatLongDMS: "45:36:00 N 122:38:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/20/1950
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Description: Small, round or elliptical, bright object
overhead (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 793)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_731
Date: 8/20/1950
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Nicosia, Cyprus
Description: Witnesses: USAF MATS liaison officer Lt.
William Ghormley, Col. W. V. Brown, Lt. col. L.w. Brauer. One small,
round, bright object flew fast, straight and level for 15-20
seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_44
Date: 8/20/1950
Locations: Mount Palomar, California; Palomar Gardens
Café
Description: An FBI informant meets with George
Adamski at Alice Wells’s restaurant, the Palomar Gardens Café, south
of Mount Palomar, California. In addition to the standard flying saucer
tales, Adamski mentions that the Federal Communications Commission has
established contact with people from other planets who apparently have a
communist economic system. He also predicts that Russia will dominate
the world for the next 1,000 years.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Kremlin 63–71
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1571
Date: 8/20/1950
Description: On this afternoon in Nicosia, Cyprus at
1:30 p.m., three military officers sighted a small, round, bright white
flying object. MATS liaison officer Lt. William Ghormley, Colonel W. V.
Brown, and Lt. Colonel L.W. Brauer reported that the UFO flew fast,
straight and level for 15-20 seconds.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 793; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5165
Date: 8/21/1950
Location: ECHTERDINGEN ARMY AIR BASE, GERMANY
Description: White ovoid joins balloon / theodolite.
Going up and down. Turns going [to] WSW.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 307)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1785
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "Germany", Credibility: "8", Duration: "2", HatchDesc: "ECHTERDINGEN AAB,GERMANY:WHT OVOID JOINS BALLOON/THEODOLITE:↑+↓:TURNS >WSW", LatLong: "48.733336 9.250000", LatLongDMS: "48:44:00 N 09:15:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bade-Wurtemberg", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/22/1950
Time: 20:00
Location: SOUTHWEST / BERMUDA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #787. 8 civil and US
B29 RADAR. Blip lets B29 pass by. Then zips off / 400knt.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 308)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1786
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "Atlantic Ocean + islands", Credibility: "9", Duration: "20", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "SW/BERMUDA:BBK#787:8 CIV+US B29 RDR:BLIP LETS B29 PASS BY:THEN ZIPS OFF/400knt", LatLong: "29.666668 -67.466670", LatLongDMS: "29:40:00 N 67:28:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Bermuda", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/23/1950
Description: FBI memo from Alan H.
Belmont to D.
Milton Ladd on green fireballs.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: A. H. Belmont, “Summary of Aerial Phenomena in
New Mexico, Miscellaneous—Information Concerning,” August 23,
1950
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1572
Date: 8/24/1950
Location: Bermuda (250 Miles SW of), At Sea
Description: Distinct bright unidentified target travel
at same speed (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: 787)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_732
Date: 8/25/1950
Location: Paris, TX
Description: In The Paris News, an oddly
incomplete article with the title "Grounded Saucer Found by Police" was
published. The article's contents were about the Korean War and has no
reference to saucers or the police. Researcher/author Leonard
Stringfield said that newspapers were heavily censored of UFO crash
retrieval reports or information, making this newspaper article very
curious.
Type: newspaper article
Type: crash retrieval
Type: landed saucer
Reference: newspapers.com
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_997
Date: 8/25/1950
Time: 8 PM
Location: approx. 250 mi. SW of Bermuda (29' 40' N, 67'
28' W)
Description: Witness: B-29 radarman S/Sgt. William
Shaffer. Radar observation, plus possible blue streak 3 minutes later.
B-29 followed unidentified target, then passed it at l/4-mile distance,
target followed for 5 minutes, then passed B-29 and sped away. Total
time of tracking: 20 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_45
Date: 8/25/1950
Description: 250 miles southwest of Bermuda over the
Atlantic Ocean (29.67º N, 67.47º W). At 8:00 p.m. radarman S/Sgt.
William Shaffer, flying in a B-29, picked up an unidentified radar blip.
The B-29 followed the unidentified target, then passed it at
one-quarter-mile distance, whereupon the target followed them for the
next five minutes. It passed the B-29 and sped away. A blue streak was
seen in the sky three minutes later. Total time of tracking: 20
minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5308
Date: 8/27/1950
Location: BROCKTON, MASS
Description: 1 observer. Shiny white 20' sphere speeds
into wind. Air Force says "a balloon".
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 309)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1787
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, COV: Indication of coverup
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "34", HatchDesc: "BROCKTON,MASS:1 OBS:SHINY WHT 20' SPHERE SPEEDS INTO WIND:AF SAYS "A BALLOON"", LatLong: "42.100002 -71.033337", LatLongDMS: "42:06:00 N 71:02:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/27/1950
Location: Brockton (near), MA
Description: Shiny white spherical object about 20 ft
diameter (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_733
Date: 8/27/1950
Description: A shiny white 20-foot wide sphere sped
into the wind over Brockton, Massachusetts. The Air Force explained it
as a balloon.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5387
Date: 8/29/1950
Time: 17:30
Location: HOLLY HILL, FL
Description: 2 observer(s). 60cm disk going down / dark
low cloud. Back up and down again. Going quickly south. Sparks.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 616)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1788
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "5", HatchDesc: "HOLLY HILL,FL:2 OBS:60cm DISK ↓/DRK LOW CLOUD:BACK UP+DOWN AGAIN:>>S:SPARKS", LatLong: "29.244446 -81.038893", LatLongDMS: "29:14:40 N 81:02:20 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Florida", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/30/1950
Time: 10:50
Location: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: Many HIQ observer(s). 2 saucers /
theodolites. Photographs hazy / objects. Back 31 Aug. 5.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral: FLYING SAUCERS, the
Starting Evidence; Signet Books, NY 1962 & 1966. 278pp. Originally
"The Great F. S. Hoax". (Index 27)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1789
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "4", Elev: "1248", HatchDesc: "HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:MANY HIQ OBS:2 SCRS/THEODOLITES:FOTOS HAZY/OBJS:BACK 31AUG5", LatLong: "32.850002 -106.083338", LatLongDMS: "32:51:00 N 106:05:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 8/30/1950
Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, CAN
Description: A black or dark round object (NICAP: 01 -
Distant Encounters, BB: 790)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_734
Date: 8/30/1950
Location: S of Kippens, Newfoundland, CAN
Description: (BB# may be wrong) black or
yellowish-brown object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 790)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_735
Date: 8/30/1950
Location: Ernest Harmon AFB, Newfoundland, CAN
Description: A black or dark round object (NICAP: 09 -
RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 500830
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_736
Date: 8/30/1950
Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM
Description: Two Objects Filmed During Shrike Missile
Test (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BBU,
NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500830
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_737
Date: 8/30/1950
Time: 1:30 PM
Location: Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada
Description: Witnesses: three local employees,
including Kaeel and Alexander, of the Air Force Base. A dark,
barrel-shaped object with a pole down from it into the water, flew at
3-5 m.p.h. and 15-20' altitude for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_46
Date: 8/30/1950
Location: Holloman AFB, New Mexico
Description: 10:45 a.m. During a Bell Aircraft MX-776
Shrike missile test (for the later Rascal air-to-ground strategic
missile) a USAF M/Sgt and eight Bell Aircraft employees at Holloman AFB,
New Mexico, see two glaringly bright circular or elliptical objects
maintaining relative position to each other following the B-50
Superfortress launch aircraft from above on both the dry run and hot run
prior to missile release. The objects give a “strong glare at all times”
(not reflected sunlight), maneuver at high estimated speeds up to 10
times the B-50 (roughly 2,500 mph) for short distances, leave no vapor
trails, hover, accelerate rapidly, and make abrupt “square” turns with
apparent size changing to indicate ascent and descent.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Two Objects Filmed
during Shrike Missile Test”; Sparks, p. 98; Maj. R.
G. Illing, “Aerial
Phenomena,” September 13, 1950; Swords 115
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1573
Date: 8/30/1950
Description: At 1:30 p.m. three local employees of the
Air Force Base at Sandy Point, Newfoundland, Canada including Kaeel and
Alexander sighted a dark, barrel-shaped object with a pole extending
down from it into the water. The object flew very slowly at 3-5 mph just
15-20-feet above the water for five minutes.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5485
Date: 8/31/1950
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving
Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33,
Reaches 136.4km attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_415
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 136.4km
Date: 8/31/1950
Location: Alamogordo (Holloman AFB), NM
Description: Objects Filmed After V-2 Launch (NICAP: 08
- Photographic Cases, Code: I, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 500831
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_738
Date: 8/31/1950
Locations: Holloman AFB, New Mexico; Kirtland AFB
Description: 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m. After V-2 missile
launch no. 51 at Holloman AFB, New Mexico, Project Twinkle
cinetheodolite crews track and film multiple objects sporadically
several times from different directions at very high speeds over the
course of 3 hours. Cinetheodolite station P-5 films an object using a
one-frame-per-second 60 cm focal length camera with 35 mm color film.
Frames 593 and 595 (2 seconds of nearly 10 minutes of film) show its
elevation angle changing. An attempted interception by four F-86 jets
from Kirtland AFB for one hour fails to locate the objects, which
apparently return after the jets leave. Cinetheodolite observers note an
object with definite shape and 3D depth but indistinct edges and no
smoke or trail. The object seems to “rock or oscillate.” It is lost when
the observer looks away to get an angle reading.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Objects Filmed
after V-2 Launch”; Sparks, p. 99
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1574
Date: 9/1950
Location: Venice, California
Description: BOY ASTRONOMER PHOTOGRAPHS ONE BY
ACCIDENT. Ivan Courtright, 14-year-old amateur astronomer set
his camera at a six-hour exposure to photograph sky trails and
accidentally obtained two photos. One of a saucer, when he clicked the
shutter too soon, and the other a saucer trail taken on a longer
exposure. The photo of the saucer coming right at the camera shows
clearly the illuminated cloud surrounding it.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_86
Date: 9/1950
Location: Saw Bill Bay, Minnesota
Description: SAWBILLIES WATCH ONE LAND ON
BAY. F. A. Halstead of Duluth, Minn., and Ben Eyton, Editor of
the Steep Rocket Echo, Ontario, reported the experience of a
miner living in Antikokan who saw a flying saucer and a live crew in a
cove of Sawbill Bay. They gave full details and told that they went back
later with a camera and after a few days caught another saucer which
spotted them and took off in a flash of green. There was There was a
terrific high-pitched whine almost a blast, they explained, and then it
was gone. One little figure that had been near the water's edge was only
about halfway back when it took off. "Our impression was that something
fell off when the saucer was about halfway down the bay. For some
reason, our motor took a fit of not wanting to start. After we did get
it going, it began to run hot, which ruined our chances of pursuing the
object."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_87
Date: 9/1950
Location: DU BOIS, PA
Description: 80 National Guardsmen. 30' rotating metal
saucer / 4K' altitude over airport. Vapor trail.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 321)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1790
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "11", Duration: "1", Elev: "163", HatchDesc: "DU BOIS,PA:80 Natl GUARDSMEN:30'ROTATING MTL SCR/4K'alt ovr AIRPORT:VPR TRAIL", LatLong: "41.116669 -78.761115", LatLongDMS: "41:07:00 N 78:45:40 W", Locale: "Oil & Coal", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1200", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/1950
Time: 07:00
Location: NORTH KOREA
Description: 6 US bombers. 200M saucers jam RADAR /
each frequency in turn. Going quickly northwest. / NICAP v3#5.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: ADVANCED AERIAL
DEVICES REPORTED during the KOREAN WAR; 1990 LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los
Altos, CA 94023 (Index 28)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1791
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Korea(both sides)", Credibility: "9", Duration: "10", HatchDesc: "N.KOREA:6 US BOMBERS:200M SCRS JAM RDR/EACH FREQ.IN TURN:>>NW:/NICAP v3#5", LatLong: "40.000002 126.500006", LatLongDMS: "40:00:00 N 126:30:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "NKR", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 9/1950 (approximate)
Time: 21:00
Location: SAND PATCH, PA
Description: Kids. Huge metallic dome with square
portholes. WHIRRs and maneuvers. Bright yellow light /
bottom/underside.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 617)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1792
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "683", HatchDesc: "SAND PATCH,PA:KIDS:HUGE MTLC DOME W/SQR PORTS:WHIRRs+MNVRS:BRITE YLW LITE/BTM", LatLong: "39.800002 -78.972226", LatLongDMS: "39:48:00 N 78:58:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/1950
Location: City not noted, Korea
Description: Navy planes on mission approached by two
large discs, radar jammed, radio transmitter blocked by buzzing noise
each time new frequency tried (NICAP: 03 - EME Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_739
Date: 9/1950
Location: 100 miles south of the Yalu River in
Korea
Description: 7:00 a.m. Three US Navy planes on a combat
mission 100 miles south of the Yalu River in Korea are approached from
below by two huge discs, at least 600–700 feet in diameter, traveling at
1,000–1,200 mph. The radar shows them as 1.5 miles away. Suddenly the
objects halt, back up, and begin a jittering motion, keeping pace with
them, circling above and below. When one pilot readies his guns, the
aircraft radar goes haywire, apparently jammed. His radio transmitter is
blocked by a buzzing noise. The discs are silvery and shaped like a
“coolie’s hat, with oblong ports from which emanated a copper-green
colored light which gradually shifted to pale pastel-colored lights.” A
shimmering red ring circles the top portion of the disc. The objects
soon speed away in the direction from which they had come.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Haines, Korea, pp. 28–30;
Lorenzen, FS Hoax, pp.
30–32
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1575
Date: 9/1950
Locations: San Francisco Bay Area, California; Norfolk,
Virginia
Description: The first US Army large-scale aerosol
vulnerability test occurs in the San Francisco Bay Area, California,
using two types of bacteria (Bacillus globigii and Serratia marcescens)
and fluorescent particles. Six simulated attacks are conducted, with the
conclusion that it is feasible to attack a seaport city with biological
aerosol agents from a ship offshore. The first open-air tests with
biological simulants are conducted in 1950 in various locales, one of
which is off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “United
States biological weapons program”; David R. Franz, Cheryl D.
Parrott, and Ernest T. Takafuji, “The U.S. Biological Warfare and
Biological Defense Programs,” in Medical Aspects of Chemical and
Biological Warfare, Office of the US Surgeon General, 1997, chap.
19
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1576
Date: 9/1950
Description: George
Adamski first receives national exposure as coauthor of an article
in Fate on his fake UFO photographs. A follow-up article in July 1951
features even more dramatic photos.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 39; Maurice Weekley and George
Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6
(September 1950): 56– 59; George Adamski, “I Photographed Space Ships,”
Fate 4, no. 5 (July 1951): 64–74; George Noory, “Fate Flashback:
‘Flying Saucers’ in the 1950’s,” Coast to Coast AM, August 18,
2016
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1577
Date: 9/1/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: NUNIVAK ISLAND, AK
Description: Aleuts terrorized. Huge fireball / ovoid
at sea. 3 repeats. Going west to Siberia.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1793
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "10", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "NUNIVAK ISL,AK:ALEUTS TERRORIZED:HUGE FBL/OVOID at SEA:3 REPEATS:>W to SIBERIA", LatLong: "60.416670 -167.700008", LatLongDMS: "60:25:00 N 167:42:00 W", Locale: "Offshore", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alaska", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/1/1950
Location: McKorryuk, Nunivak Island, Aleutians,
AK
Description: Strange deep red ball of fire near the
horizon (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_740
Date: 9/2/1950
Time: ~22:00
Location: HARMON AIR FORCE BASE, NFL
Description: Air Force guard. Shadow-man at end of
runway. Vanishes in flash! No UFO.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUSGRAVE, John Brent: UFO OCCUPANTS &
CRITTERS; Global Communications, NY 1979. 8x11 66pp. (Index 41)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1794
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, NFO: No craft seen, FIG: Undefined or poorly seen figure/entity, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "Canada", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "33", HatchDesc: "HARMON AFB,NFL:AF GUARD:SHADOW-MAN at END of RUNWAY:VANISHES in FLASH!:no ufo", LatLong: "48.533336 -58.566669", LatLongDMS: "48:32:00 N 58:34:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Newfoundland", Strangeness: "9"
Date: 9/3/1950
Time: 14:00
Location: SPOKANE, WA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #797. Air Force
Major and 2. 3 30' saucers / erratic motion. Going quickly [to] WSW
going [to] Fairchild Air Force Base.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 313)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1795
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "4", Elev: "600", HatchDesc: "SPOKANE,WA:BBK#797:AF Major+2:3 30'SCRS/ERRATIC MOTION:>>WSW >FAIRCHILD AFB", LatLong: "47.633336 -117.416672", LatLongDMS: "47:38:00 N 117:25:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Washington", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/3/1950
Location: Spokane, WA
Description: Three Pancake-Shaped Objects Observed
(NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: 797)
Reference: NICAP: 500903
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_741
Date: 9/3/1950
Time: 2 PM
Location: Spokane, Washington
Description: Witnesses: Maj R.J. Gardiner, Mrs.
Gardiner and neighbor (former saw three objects, others saw one).
Metallic bronze discs, 20-30' long, 2-6' thick. Moved independently and
erratically for 5 minutes.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_47
Date: 9/5/1950
Time: 10:30
Location: BIG RAPIDS, MI
Description: 2 / farm. 10m silent saucer with large
round portholes floats over barn going southwest. Drawing.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 619)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1796
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "302", HatchDesc: "BIG RAPIDS,MI:2/FARM:10m SLNT SCR W/LRG RND PORTS FLOATS ovr BARN >SW:drawing", LatLong: "43.700002 -85.483337", LatLongDMS: "43:42:00 N 85:29:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Michigan", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/5/1950
Location: Farnborough Airfield, Hampshire,
England
Description: 4:09 p.m. Flight Lt. Stan
J. Hubbard is standing on the watchtower at Farnborough Airfield,
Hampshire, England, with five other officers, one of whom is Wing
Commander Frank Jolliffe. They all see, at a range of 10– 15 miles, a
light gray disc following a rectangular flight path, consisting of a
“falling leaf, horizontal flight, an upward “falling leaf,” then another
horizontal stretch. The Working Party concludes they have imperfectly
viewed some conventional aircraft.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: David Clarke, “Flying
Saucer Working Party,” Dr. David Clarke Folklore and Journalism,
January 3, 2015; Good Need, pp.
150–151; David Clarke and Andy Roberts, Out of the Shadows, Piatkus,
2002, pp. 87–93; UFOFiles2, p.
41
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1578
Date: 9/8/1950
Location: Unkown location, Germany
Description: (McDonald list) (NICAP: 01 - Distant
Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_742
Date: 9/8/1950
Locations: Illinois; Korea
Description: Henry Holt publishes Frank Scully’s
Behind the Flying Saucers, the first book on UFOs. It sensationally
claims that the US government has retrieved a crashed flying saucer and
several dead pilots. Rep. Edward
H. Jenison (R-Ill.)
condemns the book as contributing to mass hysteria during a time of war
in Korea. USAF Public Information Officer Clare Welch estimates that 3–4
million people have heard about saucers, thanks to the book.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank Scully, Behind
the Flying Saucers, Holt,
1950; John L. Cotton, et al., “Flying Saucers
and Frank Scully,” in KNW 2333: The Scientific Method, Critical and
Creative Thinking (Debunking Pseudoscience), Southern Methodist
University; Swords 103; Curt Collins, “Operation
Hush-Hush: The UFO Crash and ET Bodies Cover- Up,”
The Saucers That Time Forgot, February 9, 2018
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1579
Date: 9/8/1950
Locations: The Pentagon; Wright-Patterson AFB
Description: Air Force Intelligence Collection
Division’s Collection Control Branch (AFOIN-CC-1) at the Pentagon issues
a new intelligence reporting directive requiring special handling and
reporting of UFO incidents, “Reporting of Information on Unconventional
Aircraft,” thus reversing the cancellation directive of January 12,
1950. The action reflects the increasing interest by AFOIN Director Gen.
Cabell and
his dissatisfaction with AMC inaction on UFO study at Wright-Patterson
AFB.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “1950 UFO
Chronology” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1580
Date: 9/10/1950
Location: Mitchell Field, New York
Description: TW JET PILOTS LOSE in 30 MILE
CHASE. Lt. Wilbert S. Rogers and Capt. Edward Ballard, Mitchell
Field Air Force jet pilots, chased a mysterious round flying object for
thirty miles and couldn't catch it. They estimated its speed at 900 mph.
They sighted the object over Sandy Hook, New Jersey, while on a routine
flight. It was silvery-white and about the size of a fighter plane
traveling at 20,000 feet.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_85
Date: 9/11/1950
Description: On this day 8 mm motion pictures were shot
with a telescopic lens of a spinning disk at Wickup Reservoir in Oregon
by a man named Murphy. He shot 10 feet of film showing the spinning
disc-shaped object. There was one other witness.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: newspaper clipping, September 12, 1950;
Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950: August-December, p. 21
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_5850
Date: 9/12/1950
Location: WICKIUP RESERVOIR, OR
Description: Fisherman. Telescopic 8mm movies. 10' /
film. Spinning disk-saucer.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 321)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1797
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), PHT: Photos/movies/videos taken
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "480", HatchDesc: "WICKIUP RSVR,OR:FISHERMAN:TELESCOPIC 8mm MOVIES:10'/FILM:SPINNING DISK-SCR", LatLong: "43.688891 -121.700006", LatLongDMS: "43:41:20 N 121:42:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/13/1950
Location: Effingham (5 miles SW of), IL
Description: Red Lights On Collision Course With
Aircraft (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 500913
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_743
Date: 9/13/1950
Location: Howard Hawks
Description: The Air Force responds to producer Howard Hawks’s
request for the use of military locations, personnel, and equipment for
his upcoming film The Thing from Another World by refusing to
participate and objecting to any display of USAF personnel or equipment
on the grounds that “it is our policy not to participate in any proposal
that will perpetuate this hoax.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 103–104
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1581
Date: 9/15/1950
Location: Washington DC
Description: In a conference between Canadian Wilbert
Smith and Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development
Board), scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 "Behind the Flying
Saucers" book is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist,
we haven’t been able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain
they didn’t originate on the earth, the subject is classified more
highly than the H-bomb.
Type: conference
Reference: Pea
Research ("Above
Top Secret" by Timothy Good p519)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_418
See also: 9/23/1947
See also: 1/26/1953
Date: 9/15/1950
Location: Canada
Description: Canadian engineer Wilbert B.
Smith attends a classified briefing with physicist Robert I.
Sarbacher of the US Defense Dept.’s Research and Development Board.
Smith asks if there is any truth to the Scully crash-
and-retrieval story and Sarbacher replies,
“The facts reported in the book are substantially correct.” He says that
UFOs are “classified two points higher even than the H-bomb.” In 1983,
Sarbacher confirms the comment to Stanton T.
Friedman, although
he clarifies that he was speaking about crashed UFOs in general. He
tells UFO researcher William
Steinman in November 1983 that he “was invited to participate in
several discussions associated with the reported recoveries” of UFOs,
but is unable to attend the meetings. He claims Vannevar Bush,
Eric
A. Walker, and
John von
Neumann are “definitely involved” in the program and probably J.
Robert Oppenheimer as
well.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1029–1031; Good Above, pp.
519–521; Northern Ontario UFO Research and Study, “Dr. Robert
Sarbacher,” March 1, 2010; Wilbert B. Smith, [Sarbacher
interview notes], September 15, 1950; Dolan II 320; Robert I.
Sarbacher, [Letter
to William Steinman], November 29, 1983
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1582
Date: 9/17/1950
Time: 15:30
Location: FEEDING HILLS, MA
Description: 2 cone saucers going southwest / rigid
formation. Reverse going northeast with no stop. Separate
observer(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 629)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1798
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "66", HatchDesc: "FEEDING HILLS,MA:2 CONE SCRS > SW/RIGID FORMn:REVERSE >NE with no stop:sep obs", LatLong: "42.066669 -72.677781", LatLongDMS: "42:04:00 N 72:40:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/17/1950
Time: ~17:00
Location: TATUM, NM
Description: Blue Book. Fireball / grey edge going
south. Saucer inside? Separate saucers / Albuquerque and Walker Air
Force Base.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 322)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1799
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "240", Elev: "1218", HatchDesc: "TATUM,NM:BBK:FBL/GREY EDGE >S:SCR INSIDE?::SEP SCRS/ALBUQUERQUE+WALKER AFB", LatLong: "33.261113 -103.316672", LatLongDMS: "33:15:40 N 103:19:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "New Mexico", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/18/1950
Time: 16:00
Location: POPLAR, MT
Description: 2 ANG F51 pilots and Air Traffic
Controllers and ground observer(s). Round object / fast erratic
maneuvers. Then hovers.
Type: sighting
Reference: WEINSTEIN, Dominique; UAP: 80 Years of Pilot
Sightings Privately published. 7 avenue Bartholome. 75015 Paris, FRANCE.
(Index 0)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1800
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "3", Elev: "607", HatchDesc: "POPLAR,MT:2 ANG F51 PILOTS+ATCs+GND.OBS:RND OBJ/FAST ERRATIC MNVRS:then HOVERS", LatLong: "48.111113 -105.200005", LatLongDMS: "48:06:40 N 105:12:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Montana", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/18/1950
Location: Poplar (Bluff?), MT
Description: Round object moving erratically at high
speed then hover (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_744
Date: 9/19/1950
Location: BLACKHEATH, KENT
Description: 18 silver spheres going quickly [to] over.
2 more follow. Direction unknown. No further details. / r171.
Type: sighting
Reference: AWARENESS (Quarterly) CONTACT
INTERNATIONAL/UK: listed by year. (Index 76)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1801
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Great Britain and Ireland", Credibility: "6", Duration: "3", HatchDesc: "BLACKHEATH,KENT:18 SLVR SPHERES>>OVR:2 MORE FOLO:DIRECTION UNK:NFD:/r171", LatLong: "51.461114 0.005556", LatLongDMS: "51:27:40 N 00:00:20 E", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "England", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 9/20/1950
Time: 10:50
Location: US40 EAST / KIT CARSON, CO
Description: 3 small glowing-balls exit 2 large ones.
Hover. Up / 3000kph. / r28p431.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 632)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1802
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "5", Elev: "1280", HatchDesc: "US40 E/KIT CARSON,CO:3 SML GLOW-BALLS EXIT 2 LRG ONES:HVR:UP/3000kph:/r28p431", LatLong: "38.788891 -102.500005", LatLongDMS: "38:47:20 N 102:30:00 W", Locale: "Pasture", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Colorado", Strangeness: "4"
Date: 9/20/1950
Location: Kit Carson, CO
Description: Brilliant white star like object
accelerate and decelerate (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB:
807)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_745
Date: 9/20/1950
Location: Murray, KY
Description: Dog cowers at bolide (IFO) (NICAP: 04 -
Animal Reactions)
Reference: NICAP: 500920
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_746
Date: 9/20/1950
Time: 10:49 AM
Location: Kit Carson, Colorado
Description: Witness identified only as a "reliable
source". Two large, round, glowing objects and three smaller, internally
lit objects. Two hovered for 1 minute, moved, and three smaller ones
came from behind or within the two larger objects, and all sped upward
and away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_48
Date: 9/20/1950
Description: Kit Carson, Colorado at 10:49 a.m. A
witness described by Project Blue Book as a "reliable source" reported
sighting two large, round glowing objects and three smaller, internally
lit objects. The two large objects hovered for one minute and then
moved, while the three smaller objects came from behind or from within
the two larger objects, and all shot upward and away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO
Unknowns
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6117
Date: 9/21/1950
Location: Hollywood, California
Description: Citizens-News. MYSTERY
SHIPS OVER COLORADO. Hundreds of witnesses reported strange
objects which hurtled across Colorado last night just east of the Rocky
Mountains. Astronomy students and Air Force officials said they were not
meteorites. All reports said the objects moved horizontally, unlike
meteorites, and most trained observers placed their altitude at 3,000
feet. The CAA control tower at Peublo estimated their speed at about
1,000 mph. The speed of the objects was so fast that reports along the
200 mile path were almost simultaneous.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_88
Date: 9/21/1950
Location: Near Otis AFB, MA
Description: Object tracked on radar, overtakes two
F-86s; no visuals.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_61
Date: 9/21/1950
Time: 09:50
Location: PROVINCETOWN, MA
Description: Object buzzes F86's. 1200mph. Air and
ground RADAR confirm. 5g acceleration. / r201p105.
Type: sighting
Reference: HYNEK, Dr. J. Allen: THE HYNEK UFO REPORT;
Dell Publ., NY 1977. 298pp. (Index 139)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1803
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "PROVINCETOWN,MA:OBJ BUZZES F86s:1200mph:AIR+GND RDR CONFIRM:5g ACCEL:/r201p105", LatLong: "42.061113 -70.177781", LatLongDMS: "42:03:40 N 70:10:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Massachusetts", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/21/1950
Location: Provincetown, MA
Description: SCR-615B Tracks UFO (BBU 809) (NICAP: 09 -
RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: 809)
Reference: NICAP: 500921
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_747
Date: 9/21/1950
Time: 9:52 AM
Location: Provincetown, Massachusetts
Description: Witness: M.I.T. research associate and Air
National Guard Maj. M.H. Ligda. Radar tracking of one object during
M.I.T tracking of USAF flight of F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. Object speed
was 22 miles/minute (l,200 m.p.h.), made turn of 11-12 gs acceleration
during 1 minute observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_49
Date: 9/21/1950
Locations: MIT; Provincetown, Massachusetts
Description: MIT research associate and Air National
Guard Maj. Myron
Herbert Ligda and Joseph
V. Connelly are testing radar near Provincetown, Massachusetts,
under contract to the US Signal Corps, when they track an unknown object
on a converging course with two F-86s. The clear target passes the
planes at a speed of at least 1,200 mph, makes a right turn, then passes
directly over or under the F-86s.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “SCR-615B Tracks
UFO”; Hynek UFO Report, pp.
139–141; Sparks, p. 100; Swords
104
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1583
Date: 9/21/1950
Description: Provincetown, Massachusetts. At 9:52 a.m.
an M.I.T. research associate and Air National Guard Major M. H. Ligda
observed the radar tracking of a UFO during an M.I.T. tracking of a
flight of two USAF F-84 or F-86 jet fighters. The object's speed was
calculated as 22 miles/minute (1,200 mph), and it executed a turn of
11-12 Gs acceleration during the one-minute observation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 809; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; J.
Allen Hynek, Hynek UFO Report, p. 139; UNICAT, case 275
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6175
Date: 9/25/1950
Time: ~21:00
Location: BIRMINGHAM, AL
Description: Cylinder/cigar-shape drops right over
drive-in movie screen / 15 minute(s) during show.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 324)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1804
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "12", Duration: "15", Elev: "180", HatchDesc: "BIRMINGHAM,AL:CGR DROPS RIGHT OVR DRIVE-IN MOVIE SCREEN/15min DURING SHOW:", LatLong: "33.533335 -86.816671", LatLongDMS: "33:32:00 N 86:49:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Alabama", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/25/1950
Locations: Pentagon; Wright-Patterson
Description: JANAP 146(A) is issued: “Communications
Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from Aircraft,”
the start of CIRVIS reporting for commercial and military pilots. This
adds UFOs to the list of sighting categories. All UFO reports are to be
sent to the Air Defense Command at the Pentagon and to the Secretary of
Defense. AMC at Wright-Patterson is not mentioned.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 123
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1584
Date: 9/25/1950
Description: The Air Force Intelligence office,
apparently at the request of Gen. Hoyt
Vandenberg, orders all copies of the December 10, 1948, revised
Project Sign report destroyed.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Good Need, p.
114
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1585
Date: 9/26/1950
Location: WINDSOR LOCKS, CT
Description: Partly translucent "dinner plate". / doubt
Magzn.v2#43p212.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 325)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1805
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "5", Duration: "1", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "WINDSOR LOCKS,CT:PARTLY TRANSLUCENT "DINNER PLATE":/DOUBT Magzn.v2#43p212", LatLong: "41.927780 -72.627781", LatLongDMS: "41:55:40 N 72:37:40 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 9/26/1950
Time: 20:00?
Location: PHILADELPHIA, PA
Description: 2 cops / car. 6' saucer descends / grass.
Glows. Extremely light. Evaporates.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly.
(Index 132)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1806
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, TRC: Physical traces, GSA: Covert Security Agency, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "5", Elev: "30", HatchDesc: "PHILADELPHIA,PA:2 COPS/CAR:6'SCR DESCENDS/GRASS:GLOWS:XTREMELY LITE:EVAPORATES", LatLong: "39.950002 -75.150004", LatLongDMS: "39:57:00 N 75:09:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 9/26/1950
Location: Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Description: 10:00 p.m. Policemen John Collins and
Joseph Keenan are patrolling on Vare Avenue near 26th Street in South
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when they see something like a parachute
drifting down ahead of them at treetop level. It is about 6 feet in
diameter and settles in an open field. After summoning Sgt. Joseph Cook
and Patrolman James Casper, they go into the field to investigate. When
they turn their flashlights on it, it gives off a purplish glow, “almost
a mist, that looked as though it contained crystals.” Collins touches it
and it dissolves in his hand, leaving an odorless, sticky residue. It
completely evaporates in 25 minutes. This event inspires producer Jack H.
Harris to ask his friend Irvine H. Millgate to come up with a story
for what eventually becomes the 1958 horror film The Blob.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 1102; “Flying ‘Saucer’ Just
Dissolves,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 27, 1950, pp. 1–2; Rebekah
McKendry, “The Supposedly True Story behind the Classic Film The Blob!”
13th Floor, October 21, 2015
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1586
Date: 9/30/1950
Time: 13:00
Location: NORTHWEST SEOUL, KOREA
Description: 7+soldiers. Classic metallic saucer going
west / high altitude. Yellow glow? 1.20M diameter?
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 637)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1807
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "Korea(both sides)", Credibility: "9", Duration: "1", HatchDesc: "NW SEOUL,KOREA:7+GIs:CLASSIC MTLC SCR >W/hi alt:YLW GLOW?:1.20M diam?", LatLong: "37.583335 127.016673", LatLongDMS: "37:35:00 N 127:01:00 E", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "SKR", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/1950
Location: NEAR ABADAH, IRAN
Description: Metallic hour-glass shape spins / axis
near oil tanker. Then shoots away.
Type: sighting
Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR: NICAP: Kensington, MD
& Washington, DC [defunct]. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, MI
48106 (Index 22)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1808
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines
Extra Data: Country: "Iran", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "0", HatchDesc: "nr ABADAH,IRAN:MTLC HOUR-GLASS SHAPE SPINS/AXIS nr OIL TANKER:THEN shoots away", LatLong: "29.966668 48.616669", LatLongDMS: "29:58:00 N 48:37:00 E", Locale: "Coastlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "KHZ", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/1950 (approximate)
Time: ~14:00
Location: CHANUTE AIR FORCE BASE, IL
Description: 30 / 10 theodolites. Large ovoid by
balloon / 30 seconds. Shoots away extremely fast.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 617)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1809
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "228", HatchDesc: "CHANUTE AFB,IL:30/10 THEODOLITES:LRG OVOID by BALLOON/30secs:SHOOTS AWAY XFAST", LatLong: "40.300002 -88.150004", LatLongDMS: "40:18:00 N 88:09:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Illinois", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/1950
Time: ~18:00
Location: NEAR CROWFOOT, OR
Description: 2 observer(s). Brill 8M saucer? going up /
gully. Dogs react. Going northeast. Circles and returns. Going quickly
east.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 638)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1810
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), ANI: Animals affected or injuries/marks, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "116", HatchDesc: "nr CROWFOOT,OR:2 OBS:BRILL 8M SCR? ↑/GULLY:DOGS REACT:> NE:CCLS+RETURNS:>>E", LatLong: "42.633335 -122.700006", LatLongDMS: "42:38:00 N 122:42:00 W", Locale: "Forest", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "1", State/Prov: "Oregon", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/1950
Description: Donald Keyhoe’s
True article is expanded into a paperback book, The Flying Saucers Are
Real, which sells 500,000 copies. It brings many interested civilians
and military people to accept UFO reality, government withholding of
information, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, The Flying Saucers
Are Real, Gold Medal, 1950; Wikipedia, “The
Flying Saucers Are Real” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1587
Date: 10/1950
Description: J[ack?]
L. Rohn is named a chief of Project Grudge.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p.
14
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1588
Date: 10/1950
Location: UK
Description: The Flying Saucer Working Party is created
in the UK by Ministry of Defence Chief Science Adviser Henry Tizard, assisted by Louis
Mountbatten and Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding,
both who have quietly concluded that flying saucers are real. It has
five members, representing UK intelligence branches. Its charge is to
study UFO reports.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Flying
Saucer Working Party”; Mark Rodeghier, “Britain’s Secret UFO Study,”
IUR 26, no. 4 (Winter 2001–2002): 21–23
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1589
Date: 10/3/1950
Location: POMONA, CA
Description: Geochemist. Wobble-disk going quickly [to]
behind mountain-peak. Min. speed = 720mph. / r242p49.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 326)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1811
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "1", Elev: "285", HatchDesc: "POMONA,CA:GEOCHEMIST:WOBBLE-DISK >> BHND MTN-PEAK:MIN.SPEED=720mph:/r242p49", LatLong: "34.050002 -117.750006", LatLongDMS: "34:03:00 N 117:45:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/3/1950
Location: Pomona, CA
Description: Disc-shaped UFO reported by scientist.
[VI] (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_748
Date: 10/3/1950
Location: Pomona, California
Description: Geochemist J. D. Laudermilk watches a disc
moving with a wobbling motion at 750 mph behind a mountain peak near
Pomona, California.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: UFOEv, p.
49
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1590
Date: 10/5/1950
Time: 19:30
Location: SAN FERNANDO, CA
Description: Flying wing / 6-8 lights in near collision
/ airliner. Going north. / r32p150.
Type: sighting
Reference: HALL, Richard: The UFO EVIDENCE;
NICAP,Washington, DC 1964. Reprinted 1997 Barnes & Noble Books (
only $7.98! ) (Index 34)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1812
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "294", HatchDesc: "SAN FERNANDO,CA:FLYING WING/6-8 LITES in NEAR COLLISION/AIRLINER:>N:/r32p150", LatLong: "34.333335 -118.433339", LatLongDMS: "34:20:00 N 118:26:00 W", Locale: "Residential", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/5/1950
Location: San Fernando, CA
Description: California Central Airlines plane buzzed
by wing-like UFO. [V] (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_749
Date: 10/5/1950
Location: San Francisco (near), CA
Description: Hardin/Conroy Case (AL) (NICAP: 11 -
Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_750
Date: 10/5/1950
Locations: California; San Fernando; Van Nuys
Description: A California Central Airlines plane,
piloted by Capt. Cecil Hardin and Flight Officer Jack Conroy, is buzzed
by a wing-like UFO with 8 bright lights between San Fernando and Van
Nuys, California. Bands of blue light are visible across its
width.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: “Now Add This to Saucer
Mysteries,” Los Angeles Daily News, October 6, 1950, p. 2; NICAP,
“Mysterious
Object Buzzes Airliner”; UFOEv, p.
34
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1591
Date: 10/5/1950
Description: While flying over Van Nuys, California at
7:32 p.m., a CAL airliner had a near collision with a luminous object
that looked like a flying wing without a fuselage.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: San Francisco Chronicle, October 7,
1950
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6562
Date: 10/6/1950
Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX
Description: Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army
Division: John de Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near
Aztec, N.M. He said that “army officials” had attempted to take the
photographs away from him but that he had given them another roll of
film. In a further interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux
denied any knowledge of the Aztec crash.
Type: confidental memo
Reference: Pea
Research (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_419
See also: 3/25/1948
Date: 10/7/1950
Location: Denver, Col
Description: 'SAUCER' OVER ATOM
CENTER. UP - A Los Angeles construction worker has reported
that a strange "blinking object" soared over a highly restricted area of
the big atomic energy center last month. The object, which appeared to
be at an altitude of 20,000 feet, flashed alternately bright and then
black at intervals of two seconds. It was visible for three minutes and
forty seconds.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_89
Date: 10/7/1950
Description: Walter
Bedell Smith takes over as director of central intelligence.
Reference: Eberhart
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1592
Date: 10/9/1950
Location: WILLIAMSTOWN, VT
Description: 2 identical cylinders hang vertical. Swing
/ pendulums. 10 / 1 length ratio.
Type: sighting
Reference: HAINES, Richard Ph.D: PROJECT DELTA; 1994,
LDA Press, PO Box 880, Los Altos, CA 94023 USA (Index 91)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1813
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "2", Elev: "259", HatchDesc: "WILLIAMSTOWN,VT:2 IDENT.CYLs HANG VERTICAL:SWING/PENDULUMS:10/1 LENGTH RATIO", LatLong: "44.116669 -72.544448", LatLongDMS: "44:07:00 N 72:32:40 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Vermont", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/11/1950
Location: BUTTE, CA
Description: Hundreds / silvery balls join and part and
fly going quickly north. Webby "gossamer" found. No further
details.
Type: sighting
Reference: HUNT, Gerry: BIZARRE AMERICA; Berkley Books,
NY. PB 1988. [ inexpensive ] (Index 37)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1814
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "15", Elev: "27", HatchDesc: "BUTTE,CA:100S/SLVRY BALLS JOIN+PART+FLY >>N:WEBBY "GOSSAMER" FOUND:NFD", LatLong: "39.466669 -122.000006", LatLongDMS: "39:28:00 N 122:00:00 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/12/1950
Location: Oak Ridge Nuc. Fac., TN
Description: Wave of at least sixteen sightings in
three weeks begins now.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs
and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up,
1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_62
Date: 10/12/1950
Time: 23:30
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: Ground RADAR's direct F82 going [to] 5
blips. Pilot and air.rdr see nothing. / LDLN#331.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1815
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDR: Radar traces/blips, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "44", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:GND RDRS DIRECT F82 >5 BLIPS:PILOT+AIR.RDR SEE NOTHING:/LDLN#331", LatLong: "35.983335 -84.266671", LatLongDMS: "35:59:00 N 84:16:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/12/1950
Location: Knoxville, TN
Description: Military Radar at Knoxville Tracks Eleven
Objects (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501012
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_751
Date: 10/12/1950
Location: Oak Ridger
Description: The Oak Ridger columnist Robert Sharon
Allen reports that the Atomic Energy Commission Security Service has
issued a questionnaire to be used when UFOs are reported at its
installations.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Robert S. Allen, “AEC Wants Info on Flying
Saucers Seen near A-Plants,” The Oak Ridger, October 12, 1950; Project
1947, “Robert
S. Allen
Introduction” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1593
Date: 10/12/1950
End date: 11/5/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Some 15 radar and visual sightings of UFOs
take place over restricted airspace at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the
observation on October 23, an unexplained increase in alpha-beta
background radiation is detected; after the November 29 sighting, an
alpha and gamma ray increase is correlated with unidentified radar
targets in the area.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: ClearIntent, pp.
171–173; Memo from Strategic Air Command Knoxville to Director of
FBI, “‘Flying Saucers’ Observed over Oak Ridge Area,” October 25, 1950;
J. Edgar Hoover, [teletype in
response], December 5, 1950; Bruce S. Maccabee, “NCP-14: Saucers over Oak
Ridge,” from UFO–FBI Connection, Llewellyn, 2000, pp. 163–181;
Francis Ridge, “The Oak Ridge
Sightings including All the Tennessee Blue Book Unknowns,”
September 22, 2005; Sparks, pp. 100–102;
Clark III 950; Swords 106–107; Hynek UFO Report, pp.
142–143
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1594
Date: 10/13/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: Sightings by AEC security patrols (NICAP:
02 - Close Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501013
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_752
Date: 10/13/1950
Location: Los Angeles, California
Description: J. Edgar
Hoover sends a teletype message to the Special Agent in Charge in
Los Angeles, California, asking him to determine whether Frank Scully is
the same man who has been active in communist activities since the
1930s.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Anthony Bragalia, “J.
Edgar Hoover’s Saucer Crash Secrets,” UFO Explorations, April
2011
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1595
Date: 10/14/1950
Time: 03:50
Location: MARCH AIR FORCE BASE, CA
Description: Blue Book. Air Force navigator in-flight.
Night light makes every maneuver known / observer(s). Going south.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1816
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "3", Elev: "467", HatchDesc: "MARCH AFB,CA:BBK:AF NAVIGATOR IN-FLITE:NLT MAKES EVERY MNVR KNOWN/OBS:>S", LatLong: "33.916668 -117.250006", LatLongDMS: "33:55:00 N 117:15:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "California", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/15/1950 (approximate)
Time: 12:30
Location: COLUMBUS, OH
Description: Huge copper saucer hovers / seconds.
Shoots to cloud / incredible speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 338)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1817
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "6", Duration: "1", Elev: "240", HatchDesc: "COLUMBUS,OH:HUGE COPPER SCR HVRS/SECONDS:SHOOTS TO CLOUD/INCREDIBLE SPEED", LatLong: "39.966669 -83.000004", LatLongDMS: "39:58:00 N 83:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Ohio", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: 15:20
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: Project Bluebook Case #819. Several
RADAR's and visual (observation). Guards hear odd noises. Troopers see
saucers.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 171)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1818
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), WAV: Wave/cluster/flap, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency, SND: UFO sounds heard or recorded
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "10", Duration: "44", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:BBK#819:SVRL RDRS+VIS:GUARDS HEAR ODD NOISES:TROOPERS SEE SCRS", LatLong: "35.988891 -84.294448", LatLongDMS: "35:59:20 N 84:17:40 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "8"
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: 16:20
Location: OVER POPE AIR FORCE BASE, NC
Description: Project Bluebook Case #821. 4 shiny 100'
orbs 25' apart. DC4 chases. Gone / burst / speed.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 339)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1819
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "67", HatchDesc: "ovr POPE AFB,NC:BBK#821:4 SHINY 100' ORBS 25'APART:DC4 CHASES:GONE/BURST/SPEED", LatLong: "35.161113 -79.033337", LatLongDMS: "35:09:40 N 79:02:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: 16:30
Location: NEAR POPE AIR FORCE BASE, NC
Description: USAF pilot / ground. Same orbs as DC4
pilots above. Going quickly northwest / 10-12 second(s).
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 340)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1820
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "9", Duration: "5", Elev: "66", HatchDesc: "nr POPE AFB,NC:USAF PILOT/GND:SAME ORBS as DC4 PILOTS ABOVE:>>NW/10-12sec", LatLong: "35.150002 -79.016670", LatLongDMS: "35:09:00 N 79:01:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "North Carolina", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/15/1950
Location: Knoxville, TN
Description: Saw 2 shiny silver objects shaped like
bullet (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: 819)
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_753
Date: 10/15/1950
Location: Pope AFB, NC
Description: 4 round shiny 100 ft objects (NICAP: 11 -
Aviation Cases, BB: 821)
Reference: NICAP: 501015
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_754
Date: 10/15/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: AEC Security Patrol Encounters Object 200'
Away (NICAP: 02 - Close Encounters, BB: BBU, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501015
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_755
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: 3:20 PM
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Description: Atomic Energy Commission Trooper Rymer, J.
Moneymaker, Capt. Zarzecki. Two shiny silver objects shaped like bullet
or bladder. They dove with a smoke trail and one vanished. The other
hovered at 5-6, altitude, 50' away, left and returned several times
somewhat further away.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_50
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: Time unknown
Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
Description: Witness: Daniel. Listed as "unidentified"
in folder index, but no supporting data could be found.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_51
Date: 10/15/1950
Time: Time unknown
Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
Description: Witness: Woodward. Same as previous
observation.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: BlueBook
Unknowns PDF
Source: BerlinerBBUnknowns, ID:
BerlinerBBU_52
Date: 10/15/1950
Locations: Raleigh, North Carolina; Pope AFB; Fort
Bragg; Pope Field
Description: 4:20 p.m. After taking off from Raleigh,
North Carolina, Miami Airlines DC-4 pilot Capt. George A. Woodward and
copilot William Bardsley see four round, metallic objects descending
slowly near Pope AFB [now Pope Field] at Fort Bragg. They look like two
saucers fitted together and are about 100 feet in diameter, flying in a
line about 25 feet apart. The pilots pursue the objects for about 3
minutes, but the objects recede then shoot away at tremendous speed.
Around the same time, a similar object crosses the path of an Air Force
jet near Pope AFB.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Pilots Report 100-Ft
Round Objects”; NICAP, “Aluminum-Like Object
Crosses Path of Jet” Source: EberhartUFOI,
ID: Eberhart_1596
Date: 10/15/1950
Description: In Oak Ridge, Tennessee at 3:20 p.m.
Atomic Energy Commission Troopers Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt.
Zarzecki sighted two shiny silver objects shaped like bullets. They dove
in the sky leaving a smoke trail and one vanished. The other hovered at
a low altitude only 50 feet away, then left and returned several more
times, but somewhat further away.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 819; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns;
Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 1833
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6844
Date: 10/15/1950
Description: At 4:20 p.m. a pilot named Daniel, flying
from Pope Air Force Base, North Carolina sighted four metallic spheres,
100 feet diameter, that flew in a perfect line formation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official
statistics, case # 821; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
August-December, p. 39
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6845
Date: 10/16/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: Oak Ridge Security Guard Reports Spinning
Object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501016
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_756
Date: 10/16/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: Security Guards Report Spinning Object/
Radar Detects UFO (NICAP: 09 - RADAR Cases, Code: R, Rating: 5,
NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501016
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_757
Date: 10/18/1950
Locations: Wright-Patterson AFB; Ohio
Description: USAF Brig. Gen. Ernest
Moore writes a memo to Col. Harold
E. Watson at Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio, advising him of the
standing policy of releasing no details about UFO case investigations. A
form letter is to be used: “We have investigated and evaluated
incident and have found nothing of value and nothing which would
change our previous estimates on this subject.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 102–103, 500
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID:
Eberhart_1597
Date: 10/19/1950
Time: 11:40
Location: SOUTH / ALTOONA, PA
Description: 2 observer(s). Large silent silver ovoid
in 6 10M turns over orchard / 150M altitude. Going north.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 644)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1821
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEG: Plants affected or sampled/crop circles
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "7", Duration: "2", Elev: "357", HatchDesc: "S/ALTOONA,PA:2 OBS:LRG SLNT SLVR OVOID in 6 10M TURNS ovr ORCHARD/150M alt:>N", LatLong: "40.461113 -78.422226", LatLongDMS: "40:27:40 N 78:25:20 W", Locale: "Farmlands", LocationLink: "Google Maps", RelAlt: "150", State/Prov: "Pennsylvania", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/20/1950
Time: 16:50
Location: OAK RIDGE, TN
Description: Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) man. Metal
"balloon" hovers. Changes shape? RADAR confirm. Jets chase.
Type: sighting
Reference: FAWCETT, Lawrence & GREENWOOD, Barry:
The UFO COVERUP (Formerly Clear Intent); Prentice Hall, NJ 1984. 264pp.
(Index 172)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1822
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, RDR: Radar traces/blips, MIL: Military investigation, GSA: Covert Security Agency, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "10", Elev: "300", HatchDesc: "OAK RIDGE,TN:AEC MAN:MTL "BALLOON" HVRS:CHANGES SHAPE?:RDR CONFIRM:JETS CHASE", LatLong: "35.983335 -84.283337", LatLongDMS: "35:59:00 N 84:17:00 W", Locale: "Mountains", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Tennessee", Strangeness: "7"
Date: 10/20/1950
Time: 18:20
Location: NEW HAVEN, CT
Description: 3 observer(s). Huge silent glowing
sphere/orb/globe and night light / high-altitude. Going quickly [to] WSW
/ NYC. / Strategic Air Command (SAC) to FBI.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 342)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1823
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, GSA: Covert Security Agency
Extra Data: Country: "USA", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "12", HatchDesc: "NEW HAVEN,CT:3 OBS:HUGE SILENT GLOWING ORB+NLT/HI-ALT:>>WSW/NYC:/SAC to FBI", LatLong: "41.316669 -72.933337", LatLongDMS: "41:19:00 N 72:56:00 W", Locale: "Town & City", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "Connecticut", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/20/1950
Time: 19:40
Location: CAMAGUEY PROV, CUBA
Description: 4 good observer(s) / plane. 75' saucer
going quickly east / Mach 1. Passes Rt. wing going quickly [to]
cloud.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO's a HISTORY-1950 (4+books)
1989+2000 Self published. (Index 345)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1824
Attributes: AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, OGA: Non-Covert Government Agencies
Extra Data: Country: "Caribbean area", Credibility: "8", Duration: "1", Elev: "95", HatchDesc: "CAMAGUEY Prov,CUBA:4 GOOD OBS/PLANE:75' SCR >>E/Mach 1:PASSES Rt WING>>CLOUD", LatLong: "21.333334 -78.000004", LatLongDMS: "21:20:00 N 78:00:00 W", Locale: "Metropolis", LocationLink: "Google Maps", State/Prov: "CUB", Strangeness: "6"
Date: 10/20/1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Description: UFOs sighted over "Control Zone" (NICAP:
01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501020
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_758
Date: 10/20/1950
Location: Kirtland AFB (and over Camp Hood, TX),
NM
Description: Flying Saucers Observed Over Kirtland AFB
and Camp Hood (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 501020
Reference: NICAP Listing
by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_759
Date: 10/20/1950
Description: Four people flying over Camaguey province,
Cuba in a Beech Bonanza aircraft sighted a circular object with a
diameter of 70-80 feet flying at terrific speed at 7:40 p.m.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO
Encounters, p. 13; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1950:
August-December, p. 45
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6993
Date: 10/23/1950
Location: North of Hancock Field
Description: Syracuse Post-Standard.
TWO SIGHT SAUCER AT AIRPORT. Allen Snyder and a
companion, a city operations employee, who declined the use of his name,
reported sighting a flying saucer three or four miles north of Hancock
Field at an altitude of 2,500 feet. Snyder, a veteran airplane observer
and employee of Northwest Airlines, said it seemed larger than a
conventional plane and was traveling at a good rate. It was colorless,
but the shape was not discernible. No flame or exhaust was
observed.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank
Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_90
