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Every story, 1940s28 stories

Clyde Tombaugh sighting, Las Cruces
August 20, 1949 · Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico
UAP · Formation · 19 sources
22Thinly documented
Rogue River Disc Sighting, Gold Beach, Oregon
May 24, 1949 · Rogue River near Elephant Rock, about 2 to 2.5 miles upstream of the mouth, Gold Beach, Curry County, Oregon
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
36Partially documented
The Charles B. Moore Theodolite Sighting, Arrey, New Mexico
April 24, 1949 · Launch site about 3 miles north of Arrey, Sierra County, New Mexico
UAP · Egg · 26 sources
35Partially documented
The Green Fireballs over New Mexico
December 5, 1948 · Los Alamos, Sandia Base and Kirtland AFB (Albuquerque), northern and eastern New Mexico, and West Texas
UAP · Orb / light · 61 sources
52Partially documented
Munich / Fürstenfeldbruck Radar-Visual Sighting
November 23, 1948 · Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, near Munich, Bavaria
UAP · Orb / light · 17 sources
42Partially documented
The Gorman Dogfight
October 1, 1948 · Hector Airport, Fargo, North Dakota
UAP · Orb / light · 58 sources
47Partially documented
The Chiles-Whitted Encounter
July 24, 1948 · 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, Alabama (near Hayneville, Lowndes County)
UAP · Cigar · 66 sources
41Partially documented
The Beast of 'Busco: Oscar, the Giant Turtle of Fulk Lake
July 1948 · Fulk Lake, near Churubusco, Indiana
Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources
23Thinly documented
The Aztec Crashed Saucer Hoax
March 1948 · Hart Canyon mesa, about 12 miles northeast of Aztec, San Juan County, New Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 74 sources
29Thinly documented
The Mantell UFO Incident
January 7, 1948 · Godman Field, Fort Knox, to the Phillips farm near Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky
UAP · Other · 100 sources · 1 photos
50Partially documented
The Villa Santina Encounter: L. R. Johannis and the Red Disc of Raveo
August 14, 1947 · Chiarsò valley, lower slopes of Col Gentile, near Raveo and Villa Santina, Carnia, province of Udine, Friuli
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
13Thinly documented
Snake River Canyon Disc: The A.C. Urie Sighting
August 13, 1947 · Auger Falls Trout Farm, Snake River Canyon, near Twin Falls, Idaho
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
Twin Falls saucer hoax
July 11, 1947 · T. H. Thompson residence, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources · 1 photos
28Thinly documented
Roswell Incident
July 8, 1947 · Foster ranch, about 30 miles south of Corona, New Mexico (announced from Roswell Army Air Field)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 80 sources · 6 photos
64Well documented
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings
July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
40Partially documented
Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947
July 7, 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona
UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos
41Partially documented
United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho
July 4, 1947 · Over Emmett, Idaho, northwest of Boise
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
June 24, 1947 · Near Mount Rainier and Mineral, Washington
UAP · Other · 67 sources
35Partially documented
The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave
c. 1947 · United States (nationwide, heaviest in the Pacific states: California, Washington and Oregon)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
55Partially documented
The Maury Island Incident
June 21, 1947 · East Passage of Puget Sound, off Maury Island, King County, Washington
UAP · Other · 77 sources
35Partially documented
The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946
July 19, 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Överkalix, Norrbotten, Sweden (wave across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark)
UAP · Cigar · 54 sources · 3 photos
86Well documented
The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)
May 18, 1946 · Clearing in Kronoskogen, south of Ängelholm, Skåne
UAP · Disc / saucer · 41 sources
26Thinly documented
The Man Who Melted: João Prestes Filho, Araçariguama, 1946
March 4, 1946 · Araçariguama, São Paulo state
UAP · Other · 21 sources
16Thinly documented
The Trinity UFO Crash Claim
August 16, 1945 · Padilla ranch, west of San Antonio, Socorro County, New Mexico (near Interstate 25 exit 139)
UAP · Egg · 62 sources
21Thinly documented
Foo Fighters of World War II
November 1944 · Rhine valley north of Strasbourg, Alsace, with reports across the European and Pacific theatres
UAP · Orb / light · 76 sources
50Partially documented
Battle of Los Angeles
February 25, 1942 · Los Angeles coast, Santa Monica to Long Beach, California
UAP · Other · 59 sources · 3 photos
68Well documented
Ruby Creek Incident: The Chapman Family Sasquatch Encounter
September 1941 · Ruby Creek, near Agassiz, British Columbia
Cryptid · Creature · 35 sources
27Thinly documented
The Cape Girardeau Crash Before Roswell (Rev. William Huffman)
c. 1941 · Field west of Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, toward Chaffee, Missouri
Alien · Being / humanoid · 36 sources
17Thinly documented

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