A Century of UFO Landings (1868-1968)
A Century of UFO Landings (compiled by Jacques Vallée, and published in his ground-breaking book Passport to Magonia)
A Century of UFO Landings (compiled by Jacques Vallée, and published in his ground-breaking book Passport to Magonia)
A dozen witnesses saw a lens-shaped object surrounded with a blue glow, making a noise similar to that of a jet and emitting flashes, which landed in a field briefly. It suddenly took off and was lost to sight at the horizon. References & Sources
On the evening of August 21, 1955, five adults and seven children arrived at the Hopkinsville police station claiming that small alien creatures from a spaceship were attacking their farmhouse, and that they had been holding them off with gunfire “for nearly four hours”. Two of the adults, Elmer Sutton and Billy…
Objects, globe or disk-shaped, bright orange in color and sending off occasional flashes of bluish light, were seen by crew members of two B-29 bombers at widely separated points around midnight. One sighting was over Wonsan, the other over Sunchon. Two crew members in each plane made the sighting and…
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…