Two pilots and nine passengers of the regular plane from Nairobi to Mombasi, Africa, saw a large cigar-shaped vessel, at first quite stationary over the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, then, as the plane came closer, rise rapidly at what was estimated to be 1,000 miles per hour and disappear at…
Publisher J. L. Sims and five employees (of the Orangeburg, South Carolina, Times) saw a disk about the size and color of the new moon, only brighter, hovering over the city for 15 minutes, after which it sped away, leaving a vapor trail. It appeared to turn slowly in the…
C. S. Dupree saw a light reflected on the sidewalk, looked up and saw a saucer-shaped object travelling very fast. It was not bright, but quite visible. He watched it for three minutes before it disappeared behind a large pecan tree. At the same time Miss Bobbie Owens saw an…
Charles Francis Coe, editor of the Palm Beach Times, and his son, saw a ray or blob of light sweeping in from the southeast over West Palm Beach, Florida, at 2:00 AM. It curved over the Atlantic and headed northeast in a wide arc as though following the curve of…
The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr). This was the first post-World War II sighting in the United States that garnered…