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Flying Disc 'Bigger Than Car' Photographed By Youth
July, 9, 1947 - Norfolk , Virginia, United States
The flying disc "was lots bigger then an automobile" and 13-year-old Bill Turrentine of 410 West fourteenth Street doesn't understand why almost everybody in Norfolk didn't see. He saw the large object, "rocking and spinning like a football" and coming from the southwest. View full report
Source: Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch (Norfolk, Virginia), July 9th, 1947 ID: 414
Case Type: PressReport Features: Photo, Children
United Airlines Flight 105 pilots witness formation of disc-shaped objects
July, 4, 1947 - Emmet, Idaho, United States
On the evening of July 4th at Boise, Idaho, Captain Smith was walking up the ramp to board his plane, flight 105, for a trip to Seattle when someone mentioned the massive wave of saucers taking place all day over the northwest. Captain Smith joked: "I'll believe in those discs when I see them." Shortly after takeoff five disc-like objects, one larger than the rest, approached Captain Smith's DC-3 head on. View full report
Source: James McDonald, Statement to US Congressional Hearings/UFO Symposium, 1968 ID: 723
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Interaction/Reaction, Pilot/Aircrew, Witness Photo, Multiple UFOs
Roswell UFO Incident (Crash and Recovery)
July, 3, 1947 - Roswell, New Mexico, United States
In early July 1947 an incident occurred in the desert just outside of Roswell, NM. Many people have heard of the Roswell UFO crash, but very few people know the details of the incident. The following account of the 1947 UFO incident was taken from public records, from information provided by the International UFO Museum and from the press release for UFO Encounter 1997. View full report
Source: Roswell Online ID: 1134
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Crash/Retrieval, Humanoid/Occupant, Military, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo
The 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
June, 24, 1947 - Near Mt. Rainier, Washington, United States
The modern phenomena of UFOs and “flying saucers” began in Washington state on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold spotted nine mysterious, high-speed objects “flying like a saucer would” along the crest of the Cascade Range near Mount Rainier. His report made international headlines and triggered hundreds of similar accounts of “flying saucers” locally and across the nation. View full report
Source: Loy Lawhon, About.com ID: 511
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Pilot/Aircrew, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo, Multiple UFOs
The 'Alien Autopsy' Film (Socorro, NM 1947 UFO Crash)
1947 - Socorro, New Mexico, United States
In 1995 London based businessman Ray Santilli caused what has been arguably the biggest controversy in the entire history of UFO research when he launched his 'Alien Autopsy' film across the front pages of magazines and via the TV screen in over 20 different countries. View full report
Source: Michael Hesemann, Nexus Magazine, 1996 ID: 809
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Alien Photograph, Crash/Retrieval, Humanoid/Occupant, Physical Trace
New Mexico UFO Crash Encounter In 1945
August, 16, 1945 - San Antonio, New Mexico, United States
Reme Baca and Jose Padilla were young boys living in San Antonio, New Mexico in August 1945 when, they say, they literally stumbled across the remains of what they believe to have been an alien spacecraft. Their personal account of the case displays many of the key ingredients of crashed UFO lore. View full report
Source: Ben Moffett, The Mountain Mail, Socorro NM, Nov. 2, 2003 ID: 852
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Crash/Retrieval, Humanoid/Occupant, Children, Witness Photo
The 1942 'Battle of Los Angeles'
February, 25, 1942 - Los Angeles, California, United States
Imagine a visiting spacecraft from another world, or dimension, hovering over a panicked and blacked-out LA in the middle of the night just weeks after Pearl Harbor at the height of WWII fear and paranoia. Imagine how this huge ship, assumed to be some unknown Japanese aircraft, was then attacked as it hung, nearly stationary, over Culver City and Santa Monica by dozens of Army anti-aircraft batteries in full view of hundreds of thousands of residents. Imagine all of that and you have an idea of what was the Battle of Los Angeles. View full report
Source: Jeff Rense, Rense.com ID: 509
Case Type: MajorCase Features: Photo, Mass Sighting
Photo of UFO over busy street in China, 1942
1942 - Tiensten, China
Young Japanese student Masujiro Kiryu, going through his fathers scrapbook of photographs fron the China Campaign, just before World War II, discovered a strange cone-shaped object in the sky above a Tsientsien Street. A number of people in the street are looking up and two are pointing up at the object. View full report
Source: Wendelle Stevens, reposted on UFOArtwork.com ID: 259
Case Type: StandardCase Features: Photo
