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The Petare Hairy Dwarf Encounter, Venezuela 1954
November 29, 1954 · Calle Bella Vista, Petare, Miranda State (eastern Caracas)
UAP · Being / humanoid · 20 sources
17Thinly documented
The Day UFOs Stopped Play: Florence Stadium Mass Sighting
October 27, 1954 · Stadio Comunale (now Stadio Artemio Franchi), Campo di Marte, Florence, Tuscany
UAP · Egg · 49 sources
39Partially documented
The Unsmiling Men of Ranton: Jessie Roestenburg's Saucer at Vicarage Farm
October 21, 1954 · Vicarage Farm, Ranton, near Stafford, Staffordshire
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
13Thinly documented
Marius Dewilde landing at Quarouble
September 10, 1954 · Level crossing No. 79, Quarouble, Nord, near Valenciennes
UAP · Other · 30 sources
35Partially documented
The French UFO Wave of 1954 (la vague de 1954)
September 1954 · France, nationwide (Quarouble, Prémanon, Marcilly-sur-Vienne, Biot, Ambleteuse, Bélesta and hundreds of other communes)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources · 1 photos
45Partially documented
The "Sea Fury" Radar-Visual Incident near Goulburn, 1954
August 31, 1954 · Sky above the Goulburn district, near Marulan, west of RAN Air Station Nowra (HMAS Albatross), New South Wales
UAP · Cigar · 17 sources
42Partially documented
Tananarive mass sighting and blackout
August 16, 1954 · Avenue de la Libération, Tananarive (Antananarivo)
UAP · Cigar · 27 sources
33Partially documented
Project Magnet's Shirley's Bay Detection Station: The Gravimeter Reading of August 8, 1954
August 8, 1954 · Shirley's Bay, Ottawa River, west of Ottawa, Ontario
UAP · Unknown · 30 sources
32Partially documented
Walesville F-94C Crash During an Unknown-Aircraft Intercept
July 2, 1954 · Walesville, Oneida County, New York
UAP · Unknown · 20 sources · 1 photos
43Partially documented
The BOAC 'Flying Jellyfish': Captain James Howard and the Stratocruiser Centaurus
June 29, 1954 · Near the Quebec-Labrador border, about 150 nautical miles southwest of Goose Bay, Labrador
UAP · Formation · 16 sources
30Partially documented
Cedric Allingham's Flying Saucer from Mars, Lossiemouth, 1954
February 18, 1954 · Near Lossiemouth, Moray, Scotland
UAP · Disc / saucer · 21 sources
9Thinly documented
The Coniston Saucer Photograph (Stephen Darbishire)
February 15, 1954 · Little Arrow Farm, Torver, below Coniston Old Man, Lake District (then Lancashire, now Cumbria)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 12 sources
14Thinly documented
The Kinross Incident: The Disappearance of Lt. Felix Moncla and Lt. Robert Wilson
November 23, 1953 · Lake Superior, about 70 miles off Keweenaw Point, Michigan (last known position 48°00'N 86°49'W)
UAP · Unknown · 46 sources
42Partially documented
George Van Tassel, Solganda and the Integratron (Giant Rock, 1953)
August 24, 1953 · Giant Rock Airport, near Landers, San Bernardino County, Mojave Desert, California
Alien · Being / humanoid · 36 sources
24Thinly documented
The Drury Film: A Silver Dart over Port Moresby
August 23, 1953 · Port Moresby, Territory of Papua and New Guinea
UAP · Cylinder · 17 sources · 2 photos
34Partially documented
Salvador Villanueva Medina and the Trip to Venus
c. 1953 · Near Ciudad Valles, San Luis Potosí, on the Mexico City to Nuevo Laredo highway
Alien · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
23Thinly documented
Ellsworth AFB Radar-Visual Case and F-84 Pursuit, South Dakota, 1953
August 5, 1953 · Black Hawk Ground Observer Corps post and Ellsworth Air Force Base, near Rapid City, South Dakota
UAP · Other · 24 sources
60Well documented
The Tujunga Canyon Contacts
March 22, 1953 · Big Tujunga Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, California
UAP · Other · 23 sources
18Thinly documented
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review
January 14, 1953 · Washington, D.C. (exact building unresolved; CIA headquarters and the Pentagon both claimed)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos
46Partially documented
George Adamski's Desert Center Contact
November 20, 1952 · Colorado Desert, about 10 miles from Desert Center on the road toward Parker, Arizona, Riverside County, California
Alien · Being / humanoid · 46 sources
39Partially documented
The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace
September 19, 1952 · RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire (approach to RAF Dishforth)
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
33Partially documented
The Flatwoods Monster
September 12, 1952 · G. Bailey Fisher farm, Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia
Cryptid · Creature · 51 sources
43Partially documented
The Florida Scoutmaster Case: Sonny DesVergers and the Palmetto Scrub Encounter
August 19, 1952 · Military Trail, inland from West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
36Partially documented
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
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

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