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Every story, 1950s75 stories · page 2

Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept
August 5, 1952 · Haneda Air Force Base, Tokyo (now Tokyo International Airport), Japan
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
61Well documented
Bellefontaine Radar-Visual and Gun-Camera Intercept
August 1, 1952 · Bellefontaine Air Force Station (Campbell Hill) and the Dayton area, Ohio
UAP · Sphere · 19 sources
54Partially documented
The Passaic UFO Photographs (George J. Stock)
July 31, 1952 · 221 Brooks Avenue, Passaic, New Jersey
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources · 2 photos
37Partially documented
The 1952 Washington, D.C. UFO Flap
July 19, 1952 · Washington National Airport and Andrews AFB, Washington, D.C. area
UAP · Orb / light · 97 sources
61Well documented
Salem Coast Guard Air Station UFO Photograph
July 16, 1952 · U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Winter Island, Salem, Massachusetts
UAP · Formation · 22 sources · 3 photos
41Partially documented
The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting over Chesapeake Bay
July 14, 1952 · Over Chesapeake Bay, near Newport News, Virginia
UAP · Disc / saucer · 23 sources
25Thinly documented
The Tremonton UFO Film (The Newhouse Film)
July 2, 1952 · U.S. Highway 30S, about 7 miles from Tremonton, Box Elder County, Utah
UAP · Disc / saucer · 50 sources · 6 photos
47Partially documented
The Barra da Tijuca Flying Disc Photographs
May 7, 1952 · Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
UAP · Disc / saucer · 29 sources · 18 photos
41Partially documented
Wonsan-Sunchon B-29 "Orange Globe" Sightings
January 29, 1952 · Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea
UAP · Sphere · 23 sources
29Thinly documented
Flying Saucers over the Belgian Congo Uranium Mines (Elisabethville, 1952)
c. 1952 · Elisabethville district (now Lubumbashi), over the uranium mines of southern Katanga, Belgian Congo
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
30Partially documented
Shipton and Ward Yeti Footprints, Menlung Glacier, 1951
November 8, 1951 · Menlung Glacier, below the Menlung La, Gauri Sankar group, Nepal-Tibet border
Cryptid · Creature · 49 sources · 5 photos
49Partially documented
Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sightings
September 10, 1951 · Fort Monmouth, Point Pleasant and Sandy Hook, New Jersey
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
49Partially documented
The Lubbock Lights
August 25, 1951 · Lubbock, Texas
UAP · Formation · 38 sources · 4 photos
50Partially documented
The New Delhi Flying Club Cigar
March 15, 1951 · Delhi Flying Club hangar, Safdarjung Aerodrome, New Delhi
UAP · Cigar · 17 sources
32Partially documented
The Bethune Encounter: US Navy Flight 125 off Newfoundland
February 10, 1951 · North Atlantic, about 200 miles northeast of Argentia, Newfoundland (the 'Gander' case)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
33Partially documented
The Sioux City Mystery Plane
January 20, 1951 · Sioux City municipal airport (now Sioux Gateway Airport), Sioux City, Iowa
UAP · Other · 18 sources
38Partially documented
The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap
October 1950 · Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tennessee
UAP · Other · 23 sources
58Partially documented
The Mariana UFO Film
August 15, 1950 · Legion Park, Great Falls, Montana
UAP · Disc / saucer · 63 sources · 3 photos
55Partially documented
Daniel Fry's White Sands Saucer Ride
July 4, 1950 · White Sands Proving Ground, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
Alien · Disc / saucer · 32 sources
22Thinly documented
The Little Green Men of Steep Rock Lake
July 2, 1950 · Sawbill Bay, near Steep Rock Lake, Atikokan, Ontario
UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources
7Thinly documented
The Oskar Linke Landing at Haselbach
June 17, 1950 · Near Haselbach, by Gleimershausen, Thuringia (Soviet Zone)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
37Partially documented
The RAF Tangmere Meteor Flying Saucer and the Wartling Radar Return
June 1, 1950 · Portsmouth area, Hampshire (pilot from RAF Tangmere, radar at RAF Wartling)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 8 sources
42Partially documented
Seymour Hess sighting at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, 1950
May 20, 1950 · Lowell Observatory, Mars Hill, Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona
UAP · Sphere · 15 sources
21Thinly documented
The McMinnville (Trent) UFO Photographs
May 11, 1950 · Trent farm, southwest of McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon
UAP · Disc / saucer · 56 sources · 6 photos
37Partially documented
The Farmington Saucer Armada
March 17, 1950 · Main Street, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources
35Partially documented

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