Created January 29, 2006; updated 20 July 2022
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The 1954 Chronology_______________________________________________________


1954 - Early 1954 (after Christmas 1953); Cruise from Naples to Malta
Bt. 9-10 p.m. Witnesses: USS Chase County LST 532 (LCDR Lloyd V. Sternberg, Commanding) Frank LucasSummary: Object off port bow. Illuminated with spotlight showed it was above the water. Remained stationary for about 5 minutes, then approached ship, veered off to 200 yards.  Captain turned ship towards object and object backed off.  Ship stopped, then object approached ship.  Boat launched and ran at object which disappeared. Crew questioned by Naval Intel in Malta.Source (Report to CUFOS June, 1976 Malta UFO Research website).

1954; Bankstown NSW (33:53, 151:13) Australia
Two people were working late at the airport, just after dark, when they observed what appeared to be a flying saucer hovering over the control tower.  There were ‘portholes’ around it and shapes inside that seemed to be moving around.  There was a humming sound.  It appeared to change colors then shot up into the air at great speed. (UFO Research NSW)

1954, Date Unknown; Dayton, Ohio.
Air Force Lt. Colonel saw two maneuvering UFOs. [UFOE, III]

Jan. 1,1954; Melbourne, Australia
10:15 hours (EST) Captain Douglas Barker, a pilot with Australian National Airways, reported that he was at his home in East Doncaster, Melbourne, Victoria. He reported a 'metallic, mushroom-shaped object' flying over the Yarra Valley towards Templestowe. He reportedly stated it was travelling at an estimated 700 miles per hour at an estimated height of 2000 feet. It's apparent size was given as four times that of a DC4 aircraft. It was oscillating rapidly in and out of thick cloud. Total duration of the sighting is given as 12 seconds. (Sources: (1) Barrier Miner (Broken Hill) Saturday Jan 2 1954 p.1. (2) The Argus (Melbourne) Saturday Jan 2 1954. (3) The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) Monday Jan 4 1954 p.5., UFOE, V)

Jan. 1, 1954; Toms River, Marlton, Woodbury, and Surf City, New Jersey (BBU)
10:35 p.m, 12:05 a.m. (Jan. 2). Navy pilot Lt. JG George G. Morgan of Lakehurst NAS, police chief (or captain?) Richard Clement, police officer Oliver G. Osborne and other officers, and 20+ other witnesses, saw 3-12 round or oval white objects with fuzzy edges slightly smaller than Full Moon angular size hovering in the sky to the S for 1.5 hours as 2 objects circled around one (in 2-4 secs) (seen to the ESE from Woodbury, SW from Surf City at high elevation), then switched places with each other. Some witnesses (such as Mrs. Worthington and son Norton in Woodbury) attempted to drive towards the objects to investigate. Objects suddenly departed to the SW at extremely high speed growing smaller until disappearance in 1-2 secs covering about 60° of sky. Multiple independent witnesses across a baseline of at least 12 miles resulted in triangulation near Beach Haven, NJ, from distances of about 15 to 40 miles. At least 5 witnesses used binoculars including 7x50 Bausch &Lomb. Hynek calculated speed of 90,000 mph, hovering altitude 4 miles, object diameter 1,500 ft. (Mary Castner/CUFOS)

Jan. 4, 1954; Quantico, Va.
Red revolving or blinking lights, hovering and moving soundlessly at tree-top height reportedly seen for six nights above Marine Corps base. [UFOE, IV]
 
Jan. 4, 1954; Marignane Airfield France


Jan. 7, 1954; Arras, France
4:27 a.m. A fiery disk, followed by a luminous trail, was sighted in Arras, Pas-de-Calais department. An observer stated that the disk remained motionless in the sky for an instant, after which it flew away and disappeared over the horizon. (CIA Information Sheet. Headline: Fiery Disk Seen at Arras, France)


Jan. 10, 1954; 5 mi N of Sonoita (about 25 mi SSE of Tucson), Ariz. (BBU)
5:25-5:40 p.m. (MST). James E. McDonald, two other Univ. of Chicago meteorologists, and another passenger in a car were driving N on Hwy 83 when McDonald spotted a brilliant white stationary object, stellar magnitude was about 5 to 7, in the SW at about 238° azimuth about 1° to 2° above the Santa Rita Mtns. (elev. about 9,400 ft) about 10 miles away, or at a total elevation about 6° to 8° above horizontal. Sun had set below mountains at 243° azimuth, +2° apparent elevation (refraction included), to the right of the UFO. No noticeable parallax with mountains as they drove 8-10 miles further N (with wide swerves W and E by about 1.5 mi), thus distance estimated at >10 miles (size possibly about >15 ft). Lost sight due to mountains as they drove on. (Mary Castner/CUFOS)

Jan. 14, 1954; KellyAFB, Texas (BBU)
10:10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. One to three blips were seen on PPI scope of radar system with speeds from 100 to 6,000 mph over one hour and 50 minute time span. The blips appeared as solid objects. Aircraft scrambled with no contact. Three objects joined together for approximately three minutes then separated with a definite heading and disappeared when local aircraft was in area. The objects returned to area after aircraft departed. (Dan Wilson, Brad Sparks, McDonald list)

Jan. 14, 1954; New York City, New York (BBU)
5:30 p.m. USAF crew of B-47 and passengers saw a fiery object hit the aircraft wing without any damage. (Weinstein; BB files??)

Jan. 15 (?), 1954 Mount Gillen Alice Springs NT, Australia
Hoax? An anonymous photographer reported seeing an enormous round object which appeared from behind Mount Gillen.  It went high, then dropped low.  One black and white photograph was taken which shows a circular object, with another circle in its center.  Six ‘spokes’ radiate from the inner to outer circles.  (Centralian Advocate, Alice Springs, Friday 5 Feb 1954 pages 1-2.)  [Various sources cite the date as 15 Jan, however this appears incorrect.  A re-examination of the original newspaper material cast doubts on the case].

Jan. 18, 1954; Over Three Constantine Department Towns, Algeria
1:30 p.m. Many persons in Saint Arnaud observed an object leaving a double trail of white smoke, describing an immense circle over the town. Several officers at La Remonte Military base nearby even heard a strange sound made by the object which seemed to have come from the north. (A similar observation had been made on January 16, 1954, when the object had come from the west). The meterorological station at Oued Hamimime airport (near Constantine) reported that it had observed a double trail of smoke at 1400 hours but concluded that the smoke came from a plane flying at great altitude. At 1430 hours, inhabitants of Setif saw an object arrive from the east, emitting bluish smoke trails and moving relatively slowly. After circling above the town for several seconds, it suddenly headed back in the direction of Saint Arnaud at great speed. Most of the spectators described it as it being cigar-shape and flying at high altitude. Finally at 1645 hours on the same day, a large, luminous, rectangular-shape object was seen over Ouled Djellal (200 kilometers southwest of Setif) for over 30 minutes following a rectilinear course. The object came from the east and disappeared toward the west. (CIA information sheet. Headlines: Flying Object Reported)

Jan. 27, 1954; Algiers
3:25 p.m. local. According to statements by several persons, a round, luminous, yellow-orange [object?] in the sky was observed. It was moving in the direction of Cap Matifou. The object grew larger until it was two or three times the size of the Sun; then it diminished in size and disappeared on the horizon, sinking, seemingly, into the sea. (UFOs a History-1954/5 Books, Book #1 by Loren Gross, p. 20; Rullan, CIA report on a North African press story.)

Jan. 28, 1954; Blackstone, Virginia (BB)
5:15 p.m. EST. A circular bright light with an apparent bright metallic surface stationary at 30 degrees elevation in the north was observed by Marvin B. Smith, Jr. a former control tower operator in the Air Force, and three CAA employees. A C-47 identified as an USAF Evacuation Plane flew over the CAA station and was notified of the object and the pilot advised that he also saw the object, which he thought was at between 30 and 40 thousand feet in altitude. The object was observed for 31 minutes. (BB files, Dan Wilson)

Jan. 28 (26?), 1954; Cold Bay, Alaska (BBU)
8:36 p.m. local. USAF crew of C-54 transport saw a red fireball that stopped then passed the plane. (Weinstein; BB files??)

Jan. 29, 1954; Rangeley, Maine
Two bright lights moved into valley. (Source: Dr. Wilhelm Reich, while he performed his Orgone/cloud bursting experiments/ I believe he reported them to Blue BookSource unknown - Albert Rosales)

Jan. 29, 1954; 6 mi. south of Santa Ana, Calif.
Afternoon. An adult couple saw a round object with a flat bottom while driving. It was emitting a blurry white light. When it passed over the car at a 25-foot altitude, the radio went dead and the motor coughed. The UFO then rose up vertically and disappeared in seconds, but the motor continued to act up for some time on the way home. (Rodeghier, Schopick)


Feb. 1, 1954; 35 miles SW of Tuscaloosa, Alabama (BBU)
3:15 [2?] p.m. Crew of USN Office of Naval Research aircraft heading E towards a cosmic-ray balloon at 90,000-100,000 ft and 15-30 miles away saw 6 objects fly over and around the balloon, hover then vertically ascend out of sight. (Hynek-CUFOS­ Willy Smith files)

Feb. 3, 1954; near Barquisimeto, Venezuela
At 11:15 a.m. a rotating top-shaped object, with beams of light streaming from its portholes, was seen by several on board an airliner flying near Barquisimet.  Radio contact with the control tower was interrupted when the plane's radio operator tried to tell the airport about the UFO. The UFO was green with a red strip in middle, and descended very rapidly. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 22; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 34; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 65).

Feb. 4, 1954; Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, Texas
At 11:00 p.m. local time, an object was detected by the Carswell AFB Ground Control Approach (GCA) radar, an AN/CPN-4 radar, at a distance of 13 to 15 miles to the SW and was heading directly toward the base. Carswell Weather reported in and said they had the object sighted on radar at approx. same time and location. The object remained on a straight course and the GCA operator notified the Control Tower. Control Tower personnel sighted the object as it moved directly over the Control Tower at an estimated speed of 240 - 250 mph. The object was observed for approximately 6 minutes with standard binoculars during entire observation. The object was at an altitude of approximately 4,000 feet confirmed by GCA, according to the Control Tower operator.  The object was described as larger than a B-36, having a long fuselage, elliptical wings and stabilizer, gray in color, and no visible means of propulsion or exhaust. Nor did the object leave any trail and no sound was heard. The object passed out of sight to the NW. At 11:29 p.m., two targets were picked up on the Carswell GCA radar at 17 miles SW of Carswell. The targets were flying formation at an estimated 5,000 feet altitude at a speed of 200 mph. These two targets merged into one target and when 12 miles from Carswell they separated again and assumed a southerly heading. At approximately 14 miles from the base the target to the rear suddenly reversed its course, flew for two miles, then reversed course again and gradually overtook the lead target. Both targets departed thy area flying in formation to the SSE. The INVESTIGATION OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS report states that the reversal of course was for about two miles or 3.3 seconds. (Dan Wilson)

In a follow-up report from the Feb. 13 article, Scripps-Howard papers said that "the nation's 8500 commercial airline pilots have been seeing a lot of unusual objects while flying at night, here and overseas." Plans for a detailed reporting system were agreed upon so Air Force jets could quickly investigate. Each airline was to have an "internal security specialist" for liaison between civilian and military organizations.)

NARA-PBB1-109 March Sightings Listing

March 1, 1954; Montevideo, Uruguay
Time not given. Numerous bathers at the beaches near Montevideo observed a "flying saucer," a sort of metallic disk emitting yellowish reflections. It remained stationary for 2 minutes at an altitude of several thousand meters. (CIA information sheet. Headline: "Flying Saucer" Over Montevideo) [Swords: My library tells me that the Montevideo case was reported by Coral Lorenzen in UFOs: the whole story. She says that the report was formally released by the "National Airport" of Carrasco, Uruguay.] [Greenwood: The CIA source was likely a French-language newspaper since the dispatch was from AFP. AFP dispatches are almost non-existent in English-language US papers.]

Joint Army Navy Air Publication 146 (C). Communication Instructions for Reporting Vital Intelligence Sightings from airborne and waterborne sources. (CUFON typed version)

NARA-PBB1-110  April Sightings Listing

3 p.m. USN pilot C. R. Allen flying F-6F for Fleet Training Center, Norfolk, Virginia, at 3,000 ft heading W near Fentress saw 2 strange saucer-shaped discs in close formation at 3,500 ft height about 15 miles away at about 2 miles NW of Lake Drummond heading NE, seen below and against cloud base of scattered cumulus clouds at 3,000-3,500 ft. Allen turned right to follow objects as they covered about 140° of arc maintaining about the same distance, disappearing near Cape Henry to the NE about 20 miles, covering 30 miles total in about 25-30 secs [3,600-4,300 mph]. (Jan Aldrich)

April 15, 1954; Saint Mexant
Two residents of Correge Department, observed an elongated, cone-shaped object with two red and green lights at the base, flying at a high altitude from the northwest toward the southwest. (CIA information sheet. Headline: Unidentified Object Over Saint Mexant)

April 26, 1954; Athens, Georgia (BBU 2983)
8:35 p.m. (EDT). Cecil M. Cartey, Howard and Mabel Hopkins and their daughter Betty, saw 15-20 yellow objects in a V­ shaped or check-mark-shaped formation, fly at tremendous speed from low elevation in the south, with a remarkably smooth and soundless motion and straight and level flight, to a higher elevation in the north where they disappeared in about 10 seconds.  Cartey stated that a few seconds after the objects went north, and coming directly from the trail they had taken, a brilliant white object appeared. He described it as a baseball that moved in a "blast of speed" and which went through scattered clouds and disappeared into the SW, and was out of sight before he could call attention to it. The Air Force listed this incident as an official unknown and stated that this was a very reliable report.  (Jan Aldrich) 

April 28, 1954; Sare, France  heading S. towards Spain
Noon. A group of persons taking a walk near Sare in the region close to the Pyrenees border observed a cigar-shaped object traveling rapidly at an altitude of 2,000 meters in the direction of Spain. (CIA information sheet. Headline: Sight Unidentified Object Over Pyrenees)

April 28, 1954; Carswell AFB, Texas

NARA-PBB1-111  May Sightings Listing

"What Our Air Force Found Out About Flying Saucers": by Edward J. Ruppelt, former UFO Project Chief.

May 13, 1954; Norrbotten Province, Sweden
Morning. Three persons in three different areas observed a "brilliant, silver colored sphere with a tail." It was reported from Hammerfest, Norway, that on the same day three bright objects passed over Kautokeino (in northern Norway) at a great speed. They flew in a V-formation and disappeared towards the southwest. A deputy constable who had observed them with binoculars stated that they flew so high that he could not ascertain their shape but that they were not ordinary aircraft. He added that they seemed to be red on one side and white on the other and appeared to be rotating. (CIA information sheet. Headline: Sightings Over Sweden, Northern Norway)

NARA-PBB1-112  June Sightings Listing

June 10, 1954. Estacado [or Llano?], Texas (BBU 3042)
9:09 p.m. Two USAF pilots, in flight, saw a white light descend at 45° from great altitude, pass under his aircraft, make two 360° turns and blink out. (Berliner)

June 11, 1954; bt. Charleston, West Virginia & Atlanta, Georgia
Morning. While flying from Charleston to Atlanta, British astronomer H. Percy Wilkins observed two brilliant, oval shaped objects above the clouds two miles away. They were "sharp edged," bright gold in color, and they "looked exactly like polished metal plates reflecting the sunlight," he wrote. They moved in slow motion northwards as the clouds drifted south. He also noticed a third UFO, this one gray in color. (Source: Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers -- Serious Business, pg. 47).

June 11, 1954; East of Sparks, Nevada
In the morning, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Hoag saw 15 to 20 red cigar shaped objects in the skies moving to the north. The objects were also viewed through 12-power field glasses and they weren't anything recognizable as planes. Mr. Hoag, a newspaper man said he did not know what the objects were. The objects had small silver wis or fins that were seen about three minutes before the objects disappeared to the north at terrific speed. (Reference: Reno Evening Gazette, June 11, 1954, Page 1; Dan Wilson)

June 11, 1954; Nr. Baltimore, Md.
Huge glowing object seen by GOC observers; alternately hovered, moved rapidly. [UFOE, VII]

June 12, 1954; Hyattsville, Maryland (BB)
11:30 p.m. EST, a large bluish-green oval or round shaped object was observed circling and hovering in the sky for at least 45 minutes by W. L Tatspaugk. Two F-86D fighters were scrambled. This may mean that an object was observed on radar. Hyattsville is approximately 2 miles NE of Washington DC. [Docs do not confirm radar, but see newsclipping] (Dan Wilson, BB files).

June 13, 1954; Boston, Massachusetts
8:00 p.m. A sphere was observed hovering. Two lights exited from the sphere and returned to it. The object then vanished, but shortly reappeared, then shrank in size and brightness. (Source: Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. June-August 1954, p. 20).

June 14, 1954; between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland
Jets were scrambled but could not reach a hovering craft at high altitude in the sky  (Source: Richard Dolan, UFOs and the National Security State: A Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407).

June 21, 1954; Delray Beach, Florida (BBU)
9:30 p.m. (EDT). Anne Nekel Brown and John Thomas Brown saw bright round disc-shaped object with dome-like structure on top seen when tilted toward the witnesses after hovering stationary to the S at 45° elevation. Object was spinning and then started moving very slowly E over the ocean with an erratic wobbly motion, straightened out then disappeared at high speed to the E at 8° elevation. (Jan Aldrich)

June 22, 1954. Miami Beach, Florida (BBU 3062)
9 p.m. USMC Maj. E. Buchser and Maj. J. V. Wilkins saw a meteor-like object descend, stop, and become extremely bright.  7 mins.(Sparks; Berliner)

June 22, 1954; Cleveland, Ohio
An eighty-foot long blimp-shaped UFO drifted over Cleveland at 300 feet altitude. The object veered up sharply and shot away after about 5-10 seconds. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).

June 23, 1954. 10 miles SE of Columbus, Ohio (BBU)
9:00 p.m. EST. Pilot Capt. Harry Roe, Jr., flying Ohio Air National Guard F-51 fighter at 240 mph from Dayton to Columbus saw round white object with no exhaust trailing the fighter in the same position a little above and behind him at close range, detected on airborne radar [?]. Roe maneuvered to try to lose the object or collide with it but it remained in relatively the same position to the aircraft until it departed to the SE. Ground controller radar tracked object [?]. (Sparks; Project 1947; NARCAP)

June 23, 1954; Between Dayton and Columbus, Ohio (BBU)

June 25, 1954; Indian Lake, Ohio (BBU)
5:05 p.m. EDST. John Mark ,an experienced private pilot flying a Navion light plane at 6,200 feet altitude, observed one silver or aluminum round object with a flat bottom, raised front edge, inverted cone on top, and a diameter of about 40 feet, at 12,000 to 15,000 feet. The object flew horizontally at approximately 2000 mph, hovered, made a high-G pull up and then a steep climb into an overcast. Radar at Dayton, Ohio airport, tracked a very fast target (1980 mph) at same location. The observation lasted approximately 3-5 minutes. (Don Berliner)

June 26, 1954; Cincinnati - Dayton - Columbus, Ohio (BB)
7:30 a.m. EST. Six reports received of a round silvery object, all but one were received from Cincinnati ARTC. At around 7:30 a.m., a metallic blob was seen high in the sky near Columbus. According to a newspaper article a crew of an airliner was alerted to investigate and the crew circled under the object while the passengers took a look at the strange object. Zanesville Radio advised at 5:55 a.m. sighting round silvery object on azimuth of 80 degrees.  At 1035Z (5:35 a.m. EST) a Air Force charter flight, No. 46 AF 23-24 to Wilmington, Delaware, flying at 3,000 feet observed an object in the Zanesville, Ohio area. The object was at approximately 18,000 to 20,000 feet. (Dan Wilson, BB files).

June 29/30, 1954; E. of Seven Isles, Quebec to Goose Bay, Labrador (BBU)
8:05-8:27 p.m. (AST). Capt. James Howard, FO Boyd, navigator George Allen and passengers of BOAC airliner at 19,000 ft heading NE to Goose Bay, Labrador, saw a large opaque or black object with six smaller satellite objects on a horizontal line, constantly shifting in shape like a mirage, but first seen at roughly 20°-45° depression angle below horizon. Object azimuth about 5° left or S of sun low on horizon, or at about 300° to 305° true as sighting progressed. Disappeared when F-94 interceptor approached. (Sparks)

June 30, 1954; Mobile and Brookley AFB, Alabama (BBU)
6:50 p.m. 4 civilians and a number of military personnel saw a brilliant silver or white object with short stubby wings approach from the S, circle over Mobile, then depart to the NE. Radar contact at 6:30 p.m. with stationary 8-mile object at 55 miles at 60° azimuth is evidently unrelated anomalous propagation. (Hynek-CUFOS Willy Smith files; UFOE, VIII)

June 30, 1954; Nr. Oslo, Norway
Two silvery disks observed and photographed from eclipse expedition planes. [UFOE, VIII]


July 1, 1954; St. Louis, Missouri
Peter Davenport, who currently runs the National UFO Reporting Center in Seattle, Washington,, together with the members of his family, experienced a UAP. He estimate that hundreds, or perhaps thousands, of other people also witnessed the event.  The sighting was very dramatic, and he suspects it is the principal reason he runs a UFO-reporting facility. (NUFORC)

July 2, 1954; Walesville, New York
Jet interceptor(s?) investigated unknown object near Griffiss AFB (Rome), fire in cockpit caused pilots to eject. Jet crashed at Walesville killing several people.

July 3, 1954; Near Bermuda (BBU)
1:45-1:55 a.m.  A B-36 flying over the Atlantic near Bermuda reported receiving peculiar radar returns on an APS-23 radar set. The returns consisted of a clear and well defined circular formation containing 7 and at times 8 objects. The returns were first observed by Capt. Charles C. Spahn, R.O. Spahn had 11 years Air Force service and 3,400 hours flying hours and 1,500 hours as a radar observer. Spahn did not think these returns were ships on the surface. He had tracked a couple of ships just hours before the returns showed up. Spahn says that the shape of the individual returns are not common to ships. (Berliner, Sparks, Wilson)

July 3, 1954; Albuquerque, N.M.
Nine green spheres sighted visually, tracked on radar. [UFOE, VIII]

July 5, 1954; West Berlin, Germany (BBU)
(Jan Aldrich)

July 7, 1954; Garson, Canada
A miner saw a landed object and a giant man with strange, burning eyes. He fainted. When he regained consciousness, the object and entity had vanished. This case was investigated by the Royal Canadian Air Force. (Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 184).

July 8, 1954; Lancashire, England
British astronomer saw a silvery object with 15-20 smaller satellite objects. [NICAP, II]

July 9, 1954; Lowry AFB, Colo.
Six to seven objects appeared to be triangular in shape. Pending evaluation.

July 11, 1954; Hunterdon County, New Jersey (BBU)
USAF crews of 4 bombers saw a disc-shaped object pace their planes. (Weinstein; BB files??; Incorrectly listed in UFOE, III, as Pennsylvania)

July 11, 1954; Bt. Adelaide & Melbourne, Australia
Lubek Vic 2135hrs (1135z)  1 min 1M Roberts. Captain Roberts was flying a C47 aircraft at 10,000 feet from Adelaide to Melbourne.  He sighted a bright red object, ahead, slightly to port, at 10000 feet or above.  After one minute it disappeared to N of track.  No other aircraft were in the area.  Visibility was good.  (NAA file series B5758 control symbol 5/6/Air part 1 p.79 of digital version.)

July 14, 1954; St. Louis, Missouri (BBU)
7:50 a.m. (CDT). McDonnell Aircraft Propulsion Lab employees sighted 1.5-foot sheet-like object maneuvering in company parking lot from distances varying from 4 to 200 feet, first descending from the E at 30 ft altitude stopped on the ground, rose to 4 ft height, made right-angle turn to N, traveled 75 ft and climbed above 8-ft fence to disappear in the overcast sky, under light almost calm wind conditions. One observer followed at 5-ft distance. (Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 150-1)

July 15, 1954; Wegierska Gorka, Cracow, Poland
A woman recalled in 1986, that as an eleven year old girl collecting mushrooms in Poland she had a close encounter and missing time experience with UFOnauts. While walking alone near a cliff she saw a glowing, oval-shaped UFO. She felt drawn to it, and was met by five entities, who had the height, skin and hands of humans. They wore tight-fitting clothes, and had small mouths and no noses. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database).

July 18, 1954; Normandy, Missouri (BBU 3116)
8:40 p.m. A. T. Chamblin saw a greenish-white disc. (Berliner)  The sighting lasted about 30 minutes. (Source: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case 3116; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns).

July 19, 1954; French Equatorial Africa (BBU)
(Jan Aldrich)

Jul. 20, 1954; Oslo, Norway
Time not given. Two men were chased by a UFO near Oslo when they had stopped their car to look at it. After the sighting a watch stopped working and the paint on their car changed color. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 207).

July 21, 1954: Boise, Idaho
A USAF jet interceptor climbed to 20,000 feet to try and identify an unidentified flying object high above. The CAA said the jet was unable to get close enough to see the object clearly. The object appeared to be drifting slowly against prevailing winds at that altitude. (Dan Wilson, Reference: Daily Herald, Utah County, Utah, July 22, 1954, Page 2)

July 22, 1954; Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
At 7:15 p.m. five metallic spheres or ovoid shaped objects flew toward the west in a V formation. They were in sight for 30 seconds, and they reportedly looked like "Christmas tree ornaments." (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 57).

July 25, 1954; Middle Sister Island, U.S.-Canadian border W Lake Erie (BBU)
7:12 p.m. Attorney L. B. Tussing saw a black cylinder, 12:1 length/width ratio, moving fast along the surface of the lake. (Sources: Don Berliner, Project Bluebook Unknowns; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3483).

July 25, 1954, Southern Rhodesia
J. H. Flanagan (a policeman) and some friends recently observed six unidentified objects in the sky over Enkeldoorn, South of Salisbury. The objects, which were almost immobile, were visible for about 20 minutes, but disappeared when night fell. (CIA information sheet. Headline: Unidentified Objects Over Southern Rhodesia)

July 27, 1954; Pepperrell AFB, Newfoundland, Canada (BBU)

July 28, 1954; Atlantic, 80 mi E of NYC, New York
8:15 p.m. A flat, moon-like object shooting straight up at great speed from near sea level to about 5,000 feet was sighted E of New York by officers of the Netherlands’ government vessel, Groote Beer. Jan P. Boshoff, master, said after docking at Hoboken that he observed the phenomenon through powerful binoculars. It disappeared into heavy clouds. (Underwater UFOS/Rullan)

July 28, 1954; Brentwood, Calif.
"Sparking green light" appeared to land in orchard, TV reception interrupted.

July 28, 1954; North Atlantic
Dutch ship observed disc with apparent portholes. [UFOE, XII]

July 29, 1954; Korea (BBU)
(McDonald list)

July 29, 1954; About 3 miles SSE of Carysfort Reef Lighthouse, Key Largo, Florida (BBU)
3:40 a.m. Key West Naval Base USN Chief Quartermaster Milbert James Brown and Helmsman Seaman Sydney J. Martin aboard USS YTB-543 sailing S on 205° true course at 6.5 knots saw a huge, bright pale blue or whitish-blue egg or blimp-shaped 300-500 ft object with 4 pointed cones of light, major/minor axis about 3:1 oriented horizontally, angular size 3x sun, traveling at tremendous speed estimated at about 7,200 mph (better estimate about 5,000 mph) in level horizontal flight from the W through S then E then NE, at 10°­ 12° above the horizon passing in front of mostly cumulus clouds covering 30% up to 15° elevation. Brown first saw the object at about 243° azimuth 10° elevation about 4 miles away moving to the left heading E viewed across the bow of the ship to the SSW at which point he began stopwatch timing (6.3 secs at disappearance, azimuths measured immediately after sighting by reference to 5 ships and a landmark used as sighting fix points). Object passed through point of closest approach at about 160° azimuth 12° elevation 1-1/2 miles away, moving to the left through a gradual-arc flight path of about 8 miles radius of curvature (about 40 g's centripetal acceleration), passed through E along a now straightened path headed to the NE, reaching maximum N position at 70° azimuth about 8 miles away when it curved slightly back as if veering off sharply to the right to head E, disappearing at about 68° azimuth 10° elevation 9 miles away behind a cloud bank. No sound or trail. (Sparks; Jan Aldrich)

July 30, 1954; About 15 miles SE of Los Angeles, Calif. (BBU 3140)
11:15 a.m. (PDT). Hughes Aircraft test pilots Englert and Peterson, flying a B-25 bomber on a maintenance test hop heading ESE airspeed 170 mph [true airspeed about 200 mph] at 7,000 ft, saw a metallic, pencil-shaped object in horizontal orientation hover at above 30,000 ft for an unstated length of time while they climbed to 11,000 ft and made 30° turns to try to get a better view of object [over 4+ mins at max climb rate of about 1,000 ft/min]. Peterson, also a National Guard F-86 jet pilot, attempted to scramble jet intercept from Van Nuys National Guard Ops but could not establish radio contact (EM??). USN aircraft from the S seemed to pass under object without noticing it. (Jan Aldrich)

July 31, 1954;  Durban, Natal province, South Africa
Daytime. A good photograph was taken of a gray elliptical object that moved slowly back and forth over some trees. (Source: J. Bernard Delair, UFO Register, Volume 6, p. 41, article & photo submitted by Barry Greenwood).



Aug. or Sept., 1954; New York State
Round UFO tracked on radar, plotted across state by Ground Observer Corps. [UFOE, VII]

Aug. 2, 1954; Westlake, Ohio (BBU 3149)
5:17 p.m. Ex-AAF B-17 gunner (19 missions) N. E.  Schroeder saw a thin, bright ellipse, like polished metal, about 50-seconds of arc wide or about the size of a shirt button. Object hovered at 5000' for 5-8 secs, dropped down, described as a free-fall. to 2,000 ft in 3 secs and disappeared by fading out. The estimated distance of the object was 6 miles.  (Don Berliner, Dan Wilson)


Aug. 6, 1954; San Antonio, Texas (BBU 3155)
6 p.m. Mechanical engineer L. H. Hormer saw an intensely white elliptical light change to yellow, orange, pink, 4-5 times while flying straight and level. (Berliner)

Aug. 7, 1954;  Kaiserlautern, Rhineland-Palatine, Germany
11:28 p.m. The German military witnessed a UFO that changed shape from an ovoid object to a sphere, and then to a dome. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 66).

Aug. 7, 1954; Hemmingford, Quebec
At 7:30 p.m. Gabriel Coupal, age 13, and another boy were out riding a horse when they saw a luminous, nine foot wide sphere land 150 feet away from them. After landing the sphere turned black. A door opened, and "a big tall man with big round eyes" got out. He was dressed in a skintight black rubber diver suit that covered his entire body except his head, and was carrying what looked like a "machine gun." There was a "buzz like a bee." The man approached and the boys galloped their horse for the house. The UFO rose, passed close by them, and landed again near the horse barn. It "had a black cable with a square thing hanging" from it. In the moonlight the landed UFO looked "like a soap bubble," and three men were seen walking around it. Mrs. Coupal telephoned Hemmingford to get another witness, but when three more people arrived the object took off, glowing orange. It had been present for an hour or more. There was a circle of flattened grass 30 feet in diameter where the object had rested. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-42, citing Dr. Adolph Dittmar, Civilian Saucer Intelligence; newspaper clipping, August 17, 1954).

Aug. 10, 1954; Hemmingford, Quebec, Canada
At 9:30 p.m. 13-year-old Gabriel Coupal and his younger siblings said they saw a brightly lighted object follow them to their farm in . It landed and a figure wearing a black diver suit and with round eyes exited, and appeared to engage in some repair activity. Mr. Coupal and his oldest son went to the field where the children had been playing and saw an orange object rise from the ground and speed off to the west. The grass was flattened down over a 15-meter area, with two tracks about five meters long. (Sources: Harold Wilkins,Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Huntingdon Gleaner, August 18, 1954; Fate, March 1955, p. 19; Albany (NY) Times-Union, November 27, 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 135).

Aug. 11, 1954; Lawrence, Massachusetts
At 1:30 p.m. a flaming object bashed a hole in the side of a house. (Sources: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Blue Book files counted in official statistics)

Aug. 11, 1954; Maxwell Field in Alabama
7:54 p.m., a disc-shaped object glowed and soared around the control tower . It was seen by both ground and air observers, and confirmed on radar. (Sources: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, February 1956, p. 3; Blue Book files counted in official statistics).

Aug. 11, 1954; Lawson AFB, Columbus, Georgia (BBU)
8:54 p.m. (EST).  Lawson AFB Tower Operator AFC Chase E. Lewis, 1926-3 Det. AACS, observed strange stationary object in the W at azimuth 270° at about 2500 ft, varying in brightness, changing color from white to red to orange to white again, with seeming high speed motions [due to autokinesis].  Army helicopter 267 piloted by WO-JG R. T. Wade (506th Helicopter Co., Ft. Benning, Ga.) sent to investigate, heading 270° at 2,500 ft, located object at 20 miles W of Lawson AFB Tower (Ft. Benning) at 2,000 ft, abandoned pursuit due to low fuel after less than 2 mins, at about 8:54-8:56 p.m.  AFC Lewis reported to Base Operations Dispatcher A/2c O. A. Register, Hqs Sq, Lawson AFB.  At 8:56 p.m. Airdrome Officer and driver sighted object at Lawson AFB.  At 9:05 p.m., two additional Lawson Tower operators included AFC William N. Watson, 1926-3 Det AACS.  Second Army helicopter, no. 294, on mission piloted by WO-JG G. [U.?] S. Tarma (506th Helicopter Co., Ft. Benning, Ga.) diverted to object at 9:27 p.m., sighted it then it disappeared still at 270° azimuth (due W) at 9:29 p.m.  (Paul Dean, Mike Tarbell, Sparks;  NICAP website;  BB files;  Weinstein;  Saunders/FUFOR Index) [Probable Venus IFO].

Aug.11, 1954; Yoron Jima, near Okinawa (BBU 3162)
At 8:55 p.m. P. L. Percharde, an electrical engineer and assistant manager of the Moeller Shipwrecker Co., and Kosei Nakamoto sighted a line of blue lights that flew over their ship at the site of the S.S. Docteur Angier shipwreck. When overhead the two men could see that underneath the lights was a blue ring with a black center. After passing over the ship it climbed vertically, illuminating and agitating the clouds. (Sources: UNICAT, case 778, citing Project Blue Book report IR-4-54; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 76; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns).

Aug. 11, 1954; Remiremont, Vosges department, France and two other towns
At three o'clock in the morning a compass started spinning wildly and other types of EM effects occurred  when at least one UFO briefly flew over. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science, the UFO Enigma, p. 129, citing Jimmy Guieu; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 262).

Aug. 12, 1954; Fort Benning, Georgia
At 2:30 a.m. EDT a disc-shaped object hovered to the west of the tower at Fort Benning. It flew away and then came back, but finally vanished when a helicopter approached. (Sources: (1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407).

Aug. 12, 1954; Lawsen AFB, Columbus, Georgia (BBU)
Seen again in the W at 8:15 p.m. for 6 mins lost in two layers of scattered clouds.  [Probable Venus IFO, as Venus was low on W horizon at azimuth 264°-268° and elevation 7° to 0° until setting at about 9:30 p.m. time of object’s disappearance.  BB conclusion of Mars grossly in error, with erroneous astro calc of SW at 20° elevation when Mars in fact was in the S at azimuth 177°-186° elevation 30°-25°, rising not setting, during time of sighting.] 

Aug. 12, 1954; Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama
2:29 a.m. CDT, four military men on U.S. Army helicopters saw a glowing red disc soar around the base tower. There were both ground and air observers to this second sighting, as well as radar-visual confirmation. (Sources: (1) Michael Hitt, Georgia UFO Phenomenon 1947-1987, p. 22; (2) Timothy Good, Above Top Secret, p. 284; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Richard M. Dolan, UFO's and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 407).


Aug. 15, 1954; San Marcos, Texas (BBU 3166)
10:20 p.m. USAF Maj. W. J. Davis and Capt. R. D. Sauers, flying a C-47 transport plane, saw a dark blue oblong object pace the C-47, veer away, then cross in front of it. (Berliner)

Aug. 18, 1954; bt. Coire and Chur, Switzerland
6:30 p.m. A brilliant metallic sphere was observed by a witness while driving . The sphere maneuvered in the W sky toward Ilanz at three kilometers altitude, making sudden turns. It finally shot straight up into the sky and was gone. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954).

Aug. 18, 1954; Stein-Saeckingen,Switzerland
At 8:00 p.m. a reddish yellow disc seene for 12 minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, cases # 3518 & 3519; unsourced newspaper clipping dated August 25, 1954).

Aug. 19, 1954; Dole la-Carondelet, Jura department, France
At 12:45 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Pardon saw a brilliant ball of light near the river in  that changed color from blue to white to a red halo. The shape of the object also changed from circular to oblong, then assumed a vertical position, and became a luminous cigar. Their sighting lasted ten minutes. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 27; Jacques & janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129).

Aug. 20, 1954; Ceydalen, near Mosjoen, Norway
On this afternoon two sisters in Norway claimed they met the pilot of a UFO. While picking blueberries in fields in Norway.  24-year-old Edith Jacobsen and her sister, Asta Solvang, were approached by a man with a tanned complexion and long hair who smiled and made friendly hand gestures. [click on link for detailes] (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-44 (A0243), citing Oddvar J. Larsen; Jacques & Janine Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129).

Aug. 21, 1954: Dietikon, Zurich, Switzerland
Starting at 4:50 a.m. several townspeople of  watched two brilliant red discs that hovered and spun over Zurich for 15 minutes. One flew toward the east over Zurich, then both shot off toward the south-southeast. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case  # 3523).

Aug. 21, 1954; Denver, Colorado
At 9:30 p.m. 12 dim nocturnal lights flew in formation towards the west at 5,000 mph. They stayed in formation, so it is possible there was a huge structure behind the lights. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: June-August, p. 82).

Aug. 22 [23?], 1954; N France [W Germany?] (BBU)
(Jan Aldrich)

Aug. 22, 1954; East Chicago, Indiana
Two refinery workers sighted a crescent-shaped object that darted all over the sky above the oil refinery where they worked for two minutes. It flew at an estimated altitude of 2,500 feet and left going south. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 155).

Aug. 23, 1954; Lugrin, France
Elise Blanc approached an object that looked like an aluminum trailer. Standing close to it were two small beings dressed in silver uniforms. They made grunting sounds like pigs. The object took on a glowing, fiery color and flew away. [Note: the Airstream model of trailer, common for this period, is aluminum in color and somewhat ovoid shaped.] (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 129; Passport to Magonia, p. 208).

Aug. 23, 1954; West_Germany (BBU)
Night.  Family observed reddish round object surrounded by [red?] light, about 3x size of star, no sound [motionless?].  Later, 12 Germans observed greenish light about 3x size of star hovering for 5 mins then took off to the SW disappearing “faster tham a jet.” 15 mins, 14 witnesses (Sparks;  BB files;  Jan Aldrich;  Robert Powell/Fran Ridge)

Aug. 24, 1954; Egilstadir [Lagarfiot or Lagarfljot River?], Iceland (BBU 3180)
8:30 p.m. An unnamed farmer saw a flat cylinder, 2-2.5 ft long, 4-5 ft in diameter, make a loud whizzing sound, fly straight and level, fast, then slow, then fall into sandbar. (Berliner)

Aug. 25, 1954; Greenhills, Ohio
Four teenagers in a car in Greenhills saw a creature with a luminous body, standing near a fireplug. (Source: Leonard Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 64; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 252)

Aug. 26, 1954; Danville, Virginia (BBU 3182)
6:15 a.m. Rev. W. L. Shelton saw 2 domed ellipses, 20 ft long, 8 ft thick, 10 ft at ends, glowing silver or orange, hover, then climb side-by-side while getting brighter. (Don Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Aug. 27, 1954; Dorchester, Mass. (BBU 3185)

Aug. 28, 1954; Tinker AFB, Okla (BBU)
8:30 p.m. Several USAF pilots flying fighters saw a triangular formation of 15 objects, tracked by ground radar. (Weinstein; UFOE, VIII)

Aug. 28, 1954; Quebec, Canada
Two boys in Quebec saw an unidentified craft land and two or three men were seen exiting the object. (Source: Arthur Constance, The Inexplicable Sky, p. 277).

Aug. 29, 1954; Prince Christian, Greenland (BBU 3189)
11:05 a.m. 1st Officer H. G. Gardner and engineer J. V. D. Whitisy [and another witness Namely?] flying on Royal Dutch Airlines DC-4 (PH-DBZ), saw 3-4 dark, lens-shaped objects veer N and change position in formation. (Berliner; FUFOR Index)

Aug. 30, 1954: Paris, France (BBU)
Luminous circular sighted flying over the city.  ATIC Evaluation “UNKNOWN – Insufficient data.”  (Sparks;  BB files;  Jan Aldrich;  Robert Powell/Fran Ridge)

Aug. 30, 1954; North Bay, Ontario, Canada
Sgt. Durdle of the RCAF saw a brilliant, circular object fly across Lake Nipissing toward the Royal Canadian Air Force base. An oblong canister was hung down from the central section, which supported a long cone with a spinning globe on top. When the object tilted he was able to see regulator-looking devices inside the machine through a vertical lighted slit. Six brilliant appendages that looked like necklaces hung from the craft. Sgt. Durdle woke up four other Air Force men, who observed the object spiraling away. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 227).

Aug. 30, 1954; Port Alegre, Brazil
House lights failed as UFO passed. (NICAP list)

Aug. 31, 1954; Nowra, Australia
Radar/Sighting from a/c. O'Farrell Case/Sea Fury Incident (Bill Chalker, Mike Swords, M)

Aug. 31, 1954; Kirkland Lake, Ontario
At 12:25 a.m. in the town of Kirkland Lake Police Constable Grabovski saw a shiny ovoid UFO sail slowly through the sky headed north. It vanished in sparks, which were followed by a blue rain. (Source: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 219).

Aug. 31, 1954; Asnieres-le-Dijon, France
12:50 p.m. A disc travelled through the sky from E to W at great speed without stopping. It changed color from red to orange to silver. It was observed near military aircraft. In Orly, France at 7:30 p.m. two luminous orange objects at high altitude came from the west at high speed and crossed the sky rapidly flying toward the east. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 31, citing C. Garreau).

Aug. 31, 1954; Stafford, England
At 8:50 p.m. a reddish yellow sphere flew very slowly at an estimated 5 mph to the north in Stafford. At 8:55 p.m. a sombrero-shaped saucer was sighted at Stone, Staffordshire, England. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3542, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 58).


Sept., 1954; UK city not noted.
Ground radar.

Sept. 1, 1954; Angers and Anjou, Maine-et-Loire department, France
At 8:20 p.m. a brownish-red colored disc, encircled by green flashes and making a purring sound, was seen. It flew on a rapid course toward the north. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 32-33).

Sept. 2, 1954; Coldwater, Kansas
10:00 p.m. Twelve-year-old John Jacob Swain  had just finished driving a tractor when he saw a dark complexioned little man about the size of a five year old child crouching about 20 feet away. The man had pointed ears and a pointed nose, and wore shiny clothing. He also was carrying two two-foot long cylinders on his back. He ran or glided, apparently floating across the ground, to a 50 foot wide disc-shaped object hovering five feet above the ground. He jumped in and took off without tilting the saucer. Lights shone from windows or the craft as it flew off faster than a jet. At the site were found numerous pear-shaped footprints 2 inches wide x 4.5 inches in length, with very narrow heels. (Sources: Wichita Evening Eagle, September 8, 1954; Ted Phillips, Physical Traces Associated with UFO Sightings, case 677; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-46, citing Sheriff Floyd Hadley & Rev. Albert Baller).

Sept. 3, 1954; Souk-el-Khemis, Tunisia
At 1:00 p.m. many workers in the fields 12 kilometers south of the town saw an object apparently made of transparent plastic fly over the houses, stop on its edge, and swing like a pendulum just a few meters above the ground. It made several erratic jumps, then resumed its horizontal position and flew away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 141).

Sept. 3, 1954; Weston, Staffordshire, England
7:30 p.m. A dazzling cigar-shaped UFO did loops over city. It turned vertical and moved off quickly toward the south. It was absolutely silent during the entire two minutes of the sighting. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3552, citing Gavin Gibbons, The Coming of the Space Ships, p. 60).

Sept. 3, 1954; Dallas, Texas
4:30 p.m. U.S.A.F. Major R. J. Waste and the nine man crew of his B-47 bomber were flying near Dallas when they were directed to investigate a UFO. It was a missile shaped object that dogged them for more than an hour, then disappeared. (Sources: UNICAT, case #3, citing Cerny, International UFO Reporter, September 1983, p. 6; Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24).

Sept. 4, 1954: Obersuessbach, Bavaria, Germany
On this morning between ten and eleven a.m. a schoolteacher and four others sighted a flat circular, silver colored object that had a funny looking rim. The edge of the craft gave them the impression of fringe. It passed over at high speed. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 34).

Sept. 4, 1954; Butler, Missouri (BBU 3196)
3 a.m. CST.  CAA communications specialist J. Faltemeier reported 23-33 lights, as if on a string, flying straight and level. Observed overhead at estimated 40,000 to 50,000 feet heading SW (243 degrees) with no sound. Duration: 1-1/2 minutes. Same or similar objects observed previous evening by two other civilians.  Air Force even listed this one as a unknown.  (Berliner, Sparks, Wilson)

Sept. 5, 1954; Butler, Missouri (BBU 3198)
12:23 a.m. [CST?] CAA communications specialist J. Faltemeier saw a silver or white object with a slightly swept-back leading edge and a following exhaust, fly straight and level, then veer SW to S. (Berliner)

Sept. 5, 1954: Graz, Austria
9:30 a.m. Ten witnesses including three police officers saw a disc-shaped object that flew over the city from east to west. It came back again 90 minutes later, and was also seen in Bavaria, Germany. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 35).

Sept 5, 1954; Rockford, Ill
Bt. 10:35 and 11:15 p.m. As they had done on many occasions, amateur astronomers, Peter Bartkus and Theodore McColm, were watching the moon through a telescope. Bartkus wrotes: “I observed the most unusual phenomena I have ever had the experience of witnessing.” Bartkus continues:“The moon was observed through my 6” cassigrain reflector telescope using a secondary mirror. The total focal length for this setup is over 100”, and with the use of 150 and 200 power oculars we got tremendous power with the least loss of light.“ The moon was in the first quarter and its diameter was 29 feet, 30 inches.We saw a spherical object ascending from the northern section of  Mare Humboldtanum area. It was not glowing or brilliant, but seemed more like a dull reflected light of a planet. Its size we estimated at about the diameter of craters Pitiscus or Vlaco. At the time it disappeared it had travelled more than 29” or 30” of arc in about 40 minutes. We checked out the possibility of atmospheric diffraction in the sky or the scope by traversing the scope, and by changing the oculars. The object must have been a powered body because as the moon was descending at 1081 mph, the object was ascending and not following a true orbit. It was definitely in space, and in the same field as the moon, or near the moon.”(CRIFO Newsletter,Oct 1, 1954, Leonard Stringfield, FBI files)

Sept. 6, 1954: over Ain Khabbeb, Morocco
10:30 p.m. Two spheres hovered over city attached to each other. With green lines dangling from the attached spheres, they flew off quickly toward the west. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 228).

Sept. 7, 1954; Origny, France
Sept.10, 1954; Quarouble, France
A metal worker, Marius Dewilde, age 34, came out of his house when his dog was barking and saw a dark object sitting on the railroad tracks. He then observed two dwarfs walking toward it. When he tried to stop them, he found himself paralyzed as a strong orange beam of light that was projected at him. The beings were under 1 meter (3.3 feet) tall, bulky, and wore dark diving suits. No faces or arms were visible. Imprints were made by an object, that an engineer estimated must have weighed 30 tons. French police and the French Air Force investigated the case. (Sources: Le Parisien, September 13, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 44; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 209).

Sep. 12, 1954: near Quarouble, Nord department, France
On this afternoon a merchant driving a van  saw a domed disc descend vertically, and then hover near a grove of trees. Several human-looking beings were then seen in front of the craft. When the witness walked toward it, he was hit by a luminous beam of light and paralyzed. The object took off going straight up vertically. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-15 (A1688), citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne, p. 131; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 77-78).

Sep. 14, 1954: St.-Prouant, Vendee department, France
At 5:00 p.m. over 200 witnesses watched a cigar or carrot-shaped UFO as it emerged from a cloud, tilted toward the ground, hovered, and then elevated its front end quickly into a vertical position. It emitted vapor from its lower end. Next, a metallic disc-shaped object flew out, spun around the cigar, and then re-entered the mothership. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 23, Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 16; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 44).

Sep. 15, 1954: in Kadori, Bihar, India
On this afternoon  a noisy disc-shaped object approximately 20 feet in diameter was sighted by over 800 people, hovering for a few minutes. (Source: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 26; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 45).

Sep. 15, 1954: of Bois-en-Ardres, Pas-de-Calais, France
At 8:45 p.m. a red cigar-shaped shaped object reappeared over the town  and circled the area, giving off a red and white glow. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79).

Sep. 15, 1954: Feurs, St. Etienne, Loire department, France
11:00 p.m. Driving on a secondary road  the witness's car engine quit. Soon a bright saucer-shaped object descended and landed very close to the car. A small being, described as wearing a Hitler-like uniform, ran by the car and was seen by several observers. It ran away from the group of witnesses when they attempted to approach and communicate with him. The craft soon took off. A dog was supposedly excited during the encounter. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3582; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 79).

Sep. 15, 1954: Feyzin, Rhone department, France
11:30 p.m. A white light suddenly swept the road in front of Roland M., age 19, who was driving. He observed that it came from a large, dark object shaped like an ellipse about ten meters above the ground, 50 meters away. It flew away, making a noise like wet fireworks, and throwing magnesium-like sparks. (Sources: Le Parisien, September 29, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 49; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210).

Sept.16, 1954;  Roanoke, (Marion), Virginia
A radio station transmitter failed as a round shiny UFO passed by the tower. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74).

Sep. 17, 1954: Ciampino Airport, ten miles outside of Rome, Italy
At 4:45 p.m. a silver bullet-shaped object was seen in the sky by over a thousand people including military witnesses near the airport. It rotated from a horizontal orientation to vertical with the point down. It had an estimated altitude of 2500 feet and a speed of 150-180 miles per hour. It left a luminous vapor trail and was tracked on radar. At the same time in Pitigliano, Italy in Tuscany two hunters, Bacherini and Formiconi, heard a series of detonations and then saw a round white craft moving slowly with lateral oscillation as it advanced. It blew toward the southwest. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 55-57; Richard Hall, UFO Reports from the Files of the CIA, p. 21).

Sep. 17, 1954: Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, France
At 7:15 p.m. a cigar-shaped object was seen through a 25x telescope and was witnessed by at least 11 people.  It was black with a luminous tail, and the trail was exceptionally luminous. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 57).

Sep. 17, 1954; Bt. Cenon and Vouneuil, France
A 10:30 p.m. Yves David, age 28, met a being in a diving suit who made friendly gestures. The being was very small and had a voice "inhuman and incomprehensible." The witness could not move throughout the encounter. He saw the creature enter a three-meter wide by one-meter tall object sitting on the road, and it took off "like lightning." It cast a greenish light as it did so. (Sources: Le Figaro, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 58; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-50 (A0249), citing Aime Michel).

Sept. 18, 1954. Kimpo Air Base, Japan (BBU 3213)
5:55 a.m. 2 control tower operators, a weather forecaster and a weather observer, saw a round object, like polished aluminum, fly straight and level. (Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Sept. 18, 1954; Near Denver, Colo., Santa Fe, Las Cruces, New Mexico, to Enid, Okla. (BBU)
8:40 p.m. Green fireball seen by thousands of witnesses heading SE, noiseless, angular size of full moon. (Ruppelt p. 47)

Sept. 18, 1954; New Mexico
Strange green fireball; radio, TV and airport radio interference. (NICAP list)

Sep. 18, 1954; New Baden, Illinois
4:10 a.m. An electrical engineer, out fishing early in the morning on a lake watched a glowing rectangular box-shaped object, the size of a car, that flew across the lake and over the trees. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 29).

Sep. 18, 1954; Casablanca, Morocco
At 8:15 p.m. a car being driven by a Mr. Guitta was approached from the rear by a small gray, disc-shaped object. It flew over the car at very high speed. The car was then pulled to the left by an unseen force, and this was followed by a blast of cold air. (Sources: Ouranos magazine; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210; Thomas M. Olsen, Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case #  47).

Sep. 19, 1954; Col du Beal, Puy-de-Dome, France
At 4:30 p.m. five women saw a flat gray, metallic disc-shaped object that hovered for 30 seconds, then accelerated rapidly and flew away to the northwest. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 62).

Sept.19, 1954; Danane, French West Africa
Officials watched oval UFO with dome and "searchlights". [UFOE, X]

Sept. 20, 1954; Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Dark saucer-shaped UFO arced overhead, leveled off and moved into distance. [UFOE, XII]

Sep. 20, 1954;  Oberdorff, France
9:15 p.m. A bright light was seen in the east by residentst. It came to the ground, lost its brightness, and remained in one spot for approximately 40 seconds. It was reported to be about the size of a small bus, and there was a figure standing in front of it. The object rose and took on the appearance of a red ball. (Sources: Le Parisien, September 23, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 63; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 210).

Sept. 21, 1954; Barstow, Calif. (BBU 3222)
1 a.m. (PST) 2 local policemen, 4 USMC police, and a highway patrolman saw a red-orange ball giving off sparks, and a smaller light, making a zigzag descent then hover. (Don Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Sep. 21, 1954; Durban, South Africa
10:00 a.m. Two weathermen with a theodolite watch a delta-shaped object, larger than balloon, maneuver thru the sky.. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34).

Sep. 21, 1954; Barstow, California
At one o'clock in the morning  two local policemen, four U.S. Marine Corps police, and a California highway patrolman watched a reddish-orange ball of light giving off sparks. A smaller orange ball of light make a zigzag descent and then hovered. Their sighting lasted a total of 20 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3222; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: September, p. 34).

Sept. 21, 1954; Santa Maria Airport, Azores (BBU 3224)
9:45 p.m. Airport guard saw a 10 ft x 5 ft light metallic blue, pecan-shaped object with a clear glass or plastic nose and door, poles or aerials on the nose, humming or whining as it hovered, then land vertically 50 ft away. A blond man, 5 ft 10 in tall appeared, spoke in a strange language, patted the guard on the shoulder, got in the object, hooked up his harness, pushed a button, took off with the object's nose pointed up, then leveled off and climbed vertically. (Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Sept. 22, 1954; 3 miles E of Marshfield, Missouri (BBU 3226)
9 [11?] a.m. Private pilot Jack N. Williams and Ernest J. Ash saw a thin, translucent, tan asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object about 6-7 ft wide revolving as it hovered to the SW about 600 ft height and 600 ft distance, ascended to 1500 ft in 20 secs, descended, then tumbled down behind some trees after emitting white puff of smoke or vapor. Marks were found in the ground "pulverized." (Don Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Sep. 22, 1954: in Fontainebleu, France
At 8:00 p.m. red luminous cloud-cigar was seen by three people emitting disc-shaped UFOs. The object was surrounded by a luminous vapor. The cigar-shaped UFO flew in a manner to avoid a passing airplane. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 66).

Sept. 23, 1954; Gatlinburg, Tenn. (BBU 3227)
9:45 a.m. (EST)  Two witnesses, David Owenby and a woman named Ethel Trainer, had their attention drawn to the reflectivity of two objects moving slowly across thec sky, one behing the other. The twobright silver, bicycle-wheel-shaped objects went from north to south in trail for two minutes until they flew over the horizon.  (Berliner; FUFOR Index)

Sep. 23, 1954; in Moussoulens, France
At three o'clock in the morning an ovoid-shaped UFO was sighted on Highway N269. Two human-looking occupants exited the craft, gestured, then re-entered it and the object took off, flying to the north. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 3617; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 166).

Sep. 23, 1954; in Le Jou, France
At 9:00 p.m.  the Patient family witnessed the landing of a bright object that gave off a magnesium-like light, a red glow, and a narrow beam of light. It took off again a moment later and followed their car until they reached Fontland. Policemen in Plombieres and several other independent witnesses observed the object as it flew erratically over the area for 60 minutes. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 69; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 210).

Sep. 23, 1954; of Lencouacq, France
At the same time as the Patient family sighting, Mrs. Vignolles  saw a luminous object come down from the sky very rapidly. It made no noise as it landed in a nearby field, next to a church. It took off very fast a few seconds later. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 77; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211).

Sep. 24, 1954; Becar, near Diges, France
At 9 o'clock in the morning two women, Mrs. Geoffroy and Miss Gazelle Fin, independently witnessed a dark gray disc, six meters in diameter, in a clearing .. A man of normal height was standing close to it. He wore dark clothes and some kind of cap. Miss Fin came within 30 meters of the craft and said that it looked like the man was repairing it. Traces were found on the grass. (Sources: Le Parisien, September 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211).

Sep. 24, 1954; Almaseda, near Castelibranco, Portugal
At 10 o'clock in the morning Cesar Cardoso and three others saw two individuals, 2.5 meters (8.3 feet) tall emerge from a landed craft . They were dressed in shiny uniforms, and were gathering flowers, shrubs, and other vegetation and putting it in a shiny box. Before they took off they seemed to be inviting the witnesses aboard, but their language was not understood. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 55; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211).

Sep. 24, 1954; Ussel, France
Mr. Cisterne lived on the Farm Lachassagne,. He was driving back to the barn at 11:00 p.m. with his tractor when he saw a luminous object fly very low over him. There were two other witnesses. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 76; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 211).

Sep. 25, 1954; Joinville-le-Pont, France
9:20 p.m. A disc-shaped object descended and landed along the banks of the River Marne. Two humanoids about 1.10 meters tall exited the machine. Their faces were covered with hair. A beam of light paralyzed both of the witnesses, and one of the humanoids approaches the witness with the initials M.P. and tore off his trousers. The short humanoids then boarded their machine, which rose vertically and disappeared at high speed. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 168).

Sept. 26, 1954; Altoona, Penna. (BB)
9:04 p.m. (EST) Capt. Picune and crew of United Airlines DC-6 Flight 606 at 19,000 ft and ground speed 382 mph saw a fire-colored object, flat on bottom rounded on top, approaching, flying parallel for about 1 min, then pulling forward at tremendous speed, disappearing in the E. (Dan Wilson, NARCAP; FUFOR Index)

Sep. 26, 1954;  Chabeuil, France
2:30 p.m. Hearing her dogs barking and howling, Ms. Lucette Leboeuf  saw what first resembled a "scarecrow" in a cornfield. After approaching to within eight feet she saw it to be a "diving suit" of transparent plastic, 3.5 feet high. A little man with large eyes was inside, resembling "a child in a plastic bag, with eyes larger than human eyes." She could see no arms on the creature. When he began waddling toward her she fled. A flat, circular four meter wide disc was seen to rise up making a whistling sound and fly away toward the northeast. An eleven foot wide circle of crushed foliage was found at the site. Ms. Leboeuf was in a state of shock and was in bed for the next two days. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 70; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 211; Gordon I. R. Lore, Jr., Strange Effects from UFOs, p. 67; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-55, citing Aime Michel).

Sep. 26, 1954; Col-de-Chat, Savoie department, France
5:14 p.m. A disc-shaped object maneuvered around the sky and then hovered over a radio station on a mountain peak. There were 15 witnesses, and the sighting lasted at least 4 minutes. A photograph was taken. (Sources: Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 50; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81).

Sep. 26, 1954; at the Challes Airport in Savoie department, France
5:15 p.m. One minute after the radio station sighting a short humanoid in a diver suit was seen by a Mr. Guyard. The being waddled quickly toward and got into a saucer-shaped craft. A ten-foot circle was found at the landing site. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 81).

Sep. 27, 1954;  Foussignargues, France
2:30 a.m. At "Revety," people on a bus saw a reddish light with a halo come down from the sky. Later Mr. and Mrs. Louis Roche noticed a softly glowing red object on the ground a short distance from their house, but were afraid to approach it. It remained there for several hours. It was described as "a sort of glowing tomato, with antennae on top." (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 89-90).

Sep. 27, 1954; in Figeac, France
8:40 a.m. Children  saw "a box" and "an unknown man" standing nearby it.. The object took off. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 90).

Sep. 27, 1954;  Perpignan, France
Afternoon. A college student saw a circular object on the ground. Two beings came out of it, then reentered the craft and left. The witness was reportedly in a state of shock. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212).

Sep. 27, 1954; Lanta, Haute-Garonne, France
8:00 p.m. A luminous disc-shaped object was observed. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92).

Sep. 27, 1954; Premanon, France
8:30 p.m. Four children came outside of their home because their dog was barking furiously. They saw a large object on the ground and a small being they thought was a "ghost" in their yard. Raymond Romand (or Rolland), age 12, threw stones at the intruder. (Sources: Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 212; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 91-92).

Sep. 27, 1954; Sauzet, Drome, France
9:40 p.m. Two flying cigars were seen. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 92).

Sep. 28, 1954: Froncles, France
At 9:30 p.m. Georgette Mongot and Mr. and Mrs. Alexis Lartillot observed a large, bright object oscillate, then land. It changed color and was lost to sight behind some trees. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Aime Michel, Mysterieux Objets celestes, p. 94; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 92).

Sep. 28, 1954: St-Amand-Montrond, France
10:30 p.m.  At "Le Grand Tertre"  Mr. Mercier, a vintner, observed that someone had stolen grapes from his vineyard. He decided to stay late and catch the "robbers." Around 10:30 p.m. he was amazed when he saw a luminous mass descend from the sky about 50 meters away, and found himself paralyzed while three figures emerged from the light and moved about. He lost consciousness. When he came to his senses, everything had vanished. (Sourced: Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 125; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93).

Sep. 28, 1954: near St. Nicolas de Redon, France
At 11:10 p.m. two railroad engineers, Emile Gerard, age 49, and Victor Paroux, age 40, were bringing a locomotive from Nantes to Auray. When they reached "La Butte Rouge" they saw a dark object take off with a purple glow and follow them for 10-15 seconds before veering off. Mr. Paroux was so agitated he had to see a doctor. (Source: Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, Pg.95  (1958), Le Parisien, September 30, 1954; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 112; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 212-213; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 93-94).

Sep. 28, 1954: Albias, Tarn-Garonne department, France
At 11:45 p.m.  a three meter wide disc was seen resting on legs in a field by a single witness. Three beings were seen outside the craft for two minutes. When they reboarded the UFO rose vertically up into the air, then shot away horizontally at high speed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #3661, citing J. Sider, p. 173).

Sep. 29, 1954: in La Riche, near Tours, France
1:20 p.m. Three witnesses in a truck saw a seven-meter long ovoid object on the ground near the road. It rose vertically, then flew off to the south. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 319).

Sep. 30, 1954: in Dearborn, Michigan Lawrence Cardenas
While driving to work , age 41, a laundry employee, saw 15 strange men wearing dark green uniforms along the side of the road to his right. They had cylinders on their shoulders, tight fitting skullcaps with pointed peaks in front, and heavy goggles. They were of medium height, and a taller man seemed to be their leader and giving them instructions. About 80 meters away from them was a 4-meter high craft with colored lights, flickering on and off. The witness drove away as fast as he could. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 230; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213).

Sep. 30, 1954; in Blanzy, France
At one o'clock in the afternoon  two bricklayers, Romain de Bastiani, age 21, and Bruno Burato, age 20, witnessed a partially yellow, partially maroon colored cigar-shaped object landed on the ground. They started to approach the three-meter long object when it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow; the rest of the object was reddish-brown. Two foot-like appendages extended to the ground from the fore section. (Source: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 94-95). [Note: Vallee incorrectly lists the date as October 1.]

Sep. 30, 1954:  in Chereng, France
At 3:30 p.m. 10-year old Jean-Claude Delmotte, a school student, saw a three-meter diameter sphere at the edge of some woods, about 300 meters away. It was yellow-orange in color and quite bright. There were landing traces: a circle 1.5 meters in diameter and landing pad imprints 16 cm long. (Sources: La Voix du Nord, October 6, 1954; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 95-96).

Sep. 30, 1954: in Marcilly-sur-Vienne, France
At 4:30 in the afternoon, Georges Gatay, construction supervisor, and seven construction workers  saw a disc at ground level, with a humanoid standing next to it. Both vanished in a very odd manner. Physiological effects in all witnesses. (Sources: Michel Carrouges, Les apparitions de Martiens, pp. 123 & 125; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 96).

Sep. 30, 1954: At sea between Brest and Roven, France on the Atlantic Ocean
Time not given. The crew of the tanker "Port Lyautey" observed a UFO touch the surface of the sea. It then took off vertically, giving off a red flame before being lost to view. (Source: Le Figaro, October 2, 1954; France Soir, October 3, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 97).

Sep. 30, 1954: in Grand-Couronne, France
10:00 p.m. Jean Andrieux, a ferry operator and another witness, saw a large white sphere. A smaller green sphere accompanied it and hung below, both object remaining stationary above the Seine River for 20 minutes. It eventually flew away to the southwest. Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 213).

Sep. 30, 1954: near La Flotte-en-Re, on the Ile de Re, France
10:00 p.m. Mr. Celeste Simonutti was returning home  when he saw a brilliant light and, fearing a fire, rushed to the scene. There he observed a luminous sphere 12 meters in diameter, hovering one meter above the ground. The object changed colors from red to blue, and took off. Two other witnesses also saw it leave. (Source: Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 214; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 98).

Fall 1954; Korea
Marine Corps weather observer saw 7 discs oscillating in formation. [UFOE, XII]


Oct. 1954; Cherry Valley, N. Y.
Engineer sighted maneuvering disc. [UFOE, I]

Oct. 1, 1954; in Dhubri, Assam, India
A woman  reported to police that she had seen a luminous disc leaving a long trail in the sky. It landed in a field, and then took off again. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 132; Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 169).

Oct. 1, 1954; in Blanzy, Saone-Loire department, France
At 1:00 p.m. two bricklayers, Sebastiani and Buratto, approached a cigar-shaped object that was sitting on the ground. It was three meters long, 80 cm wide, and it took off from the ground with a whistling sound. The pointed section of the object was yellow, the rest brown. From the fore part, two appendages extended to the ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 170).

Oct. 1, 1954; in Bry, Nord department, France
At 4:00 p.m. a man and his dog  were "paralyzed" and frozen in place when a luminous white object dove toward them, then climbed back into the sky. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 171).

Oct. 1, 1954; in Jussey, Haute-Saone department, France
7:00 p.m. Two young men  saw a luminous white disc moving in the sky at 7:00 p.m. It dove to the ground and two very tall beings, dressed in white, emerged from it and made gestures. The witnesses ran away in fear. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 173; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104).

Oct. 1, 1954; Near St. Jean d'Angely, France
8:00 p.m. Two businessmen, Messrs. Estier and Phelippeau, who were driving back from Royan, saw a little man crossing the road in front of their car. When they stopped the car the figure disappeared into the woods. (Sources: Sud-Ouest, October 2, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 174; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105).

Oct. 1, 1954; bt. Lormaison and St-Crepin-Ibouvillers, France
 8:00 p.m. Mechanic Ernest Delattre, age 19, was riding home on his motor scooter  when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw short, dark shapes "like potato bags" moving about the object. He sped up, saw the object, the size of a small bus, taking off while its color changed from orange to blue and then to grayish-blue. The witness fainted while telling his story. Two persons in neighboring villages independently reported observing the object. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 104). [Note: Vallee lists the date as October 2nd but Figuet & Ruchon believe the correct date is October 1st.]

Oct. 1, 1954; of St-Michel-sur-Meurthe, France
At 8:30 p.m. Several inhabitants  saw a cigar-shaped object in the sky with very bright white lights fly towards the north. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106).

Oct. 1, 1954;  Branges, near Louhans in Saone-et-Loire department, France
10:00 p.m. While coming home at night, Gilbert Prudent and one other witness saw a lighted object on the side of the road. It had a flat section and a sort of large "mushroom" on top (domed disc). As he approached it, the object became dark and took off vertically with a soft whistling sound. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 214, case 175; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 105).

Oct. 1,1954; in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France
10:00 p.m. Returning home from work fireman Jean Dufix, age 26, saw an oval light in the sky. He first took it to be a shooting star, but later he was alarmed when his yard looked to be ablaze. Rushing outside, he saw a disc rise from the ground with a whistling sound. It flew off, became luminous again, and then shot off at a fantastic speed. His neighbor, Jean Labonne, age 61, also saw the disc resting on three legs in the yard. They estimated the disc was three meters (10 feet) in diameter. (Sources: Le Figaro, October 6, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings , p. 214, case 176).

Oct. 1 thru Nov. 20, 1954; Killeen Base (Gray AFB), Texas (BB)
Innumerable times during the period 1 October through November 20, 1954, an oval shaped silver glowing object the apparent size of a quarter held at arm's length was seen in the sky by many Security Guards of the 8455th M.P. Co. The sightings were all during the hours of darkness. Description of the course of the object; Flight in horizontal plane, frequently changing direction 90 degrees, disappearing on the horizon to the Southwest. Appeared to be traveling at a very high rate of speed. Angle of elevation given as almost vertical (?). No sound was heard. The observes state that the object and its actions are unlike any object they had previously witnessed including heavenly bodies. By virtue of the observers position the reliability of the sighters must be beyond question. (Dan Wilson, BB files)

Oct. 2, 1954;  Levroux, France
Two single women (Janicki and Lacotte) independently reported to police that a luminous disc about three meters in diameter had flown very low over their village of Cerisier. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 106).

Oct. 2, 1954; in Jonches, France
Two creatures were seen on the ground. Two hours later a luminous red object was observed at the same spot, at a very low altitude. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107).

Oct. 2, 1954; in Louhans, France
2:30 a.m. In the immediate vicinity of the sighting on the day before (October 1), Mr. Nicolas saw a domed disc on the ground between the road and the railroad tracks. Through some openings in the object a strong yellow light shone. (Sources: Bourgogne Republicaine, October 3, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 109; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215).

Oct. 2, 1954; of Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome department, France
At 10:00 o'clock in the morning several people in the city saw a luminous, metallic object oscillating in the sky, then fly off rapidly to the north-northwest. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107).

Oct. 2, 1954; Vichy, Allier department, France
At 6:30 p.m., bus passengers observed a luminous object rapidly traverse the sky flying in the direction of Cote St.-Amand. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107).

Oct. 2, 1954; in Poncey-sur-Lignon and the region of Cote-d'Or, France
At 8:00 p.m. several persons observed a huge cigar-shaped luminous object that flew silently to the east. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 107).

Oct. 2, 1954; in Croix d’Epine, Oise department, France
At 8:00 p.m. Ernest Delattre, age 19, a mechanic, was riding home on his motor scooter when a brilliantly illuminated egg-shaped object landed on the left side of the road 15 meters away. He saw some short, dark shapes, “like potato bags” moving about the object. He sped up, then saw the object, which was the size of a small bus, take off. During the ascent the object's color changed from orange to blue. The object was observed by two other witnesses. As an additional note, Mr. Delattre fainted while telling his story (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-65 (A0267); Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 215).

Oct. 2, 1954; in Bergerac, Dordogne department, France
At 10:00 p.m. a luminous mushroom-shaped object was seen in the garden by J. Labonne, who described it as "constructed of plexiglass." Three meters away moved a short shadowy figure that "slid over to the machine." The object rose into the sky, leaving behind a luminous trail. There were three imprints found in the ground and some black mushrooms. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0268).

Oct. 2, 1954; nr. La Rochelle, France
At 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw a red glowing round object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 216; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 110). [Note: Vallee lists the date as October 3rd, but Figuet & Ruchon believe this is in error and that October 2nd is the correct date].

Oct. 2, 1954; in Guebling, France
At 11:45 p.m. Messrs. Domant and Gilcher saw a disc-shaped UFO in a field. It was emitting a weak green glow. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 105; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 215).

Oct. 3, 1954; Nr. Waben, France
UFO paced car. [UFOE, II]

Oct. 3, 1954
There are 84 UFO and humanoid reports recorded in UFOCAT 2009 for this day. There is one from India, one from Lebanon, one from Quebec, one from Switzerland, two each from England and Italy, and three from Austria. The rest are from France, which appears to be at the center of this massive wave of UFO sightings. Click on map to see the distribution of European reports. Below are some of the more interesting reports for this day:

Oct. 3, 1954; in Bressuire, France
Dawn. Angelo Girardo, age 55, a stockyard employee, was going to work when he saw a circular craft with a three-meter diameter and a small figure wearing a diving suit, standing close by. The object took off at a fantastic speed. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 215, case # 182; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 111).

Oct. 3, 1954; Bt. Rue and Quend, France
Time not given. On Route D27, near the village of Vron, Rene Coudette and B. Devoisin were riding bicycles with a third witness when they saw an orange object, shaped like a beehive, on the road ahead of them. A small strange "man" wearing a diving suit, about 0.9 meters (3 foot) tall, was standing close to it. When they got within 70 meters of it, the object took off very fast.

Oct. 3, 1954; Bt. Rue and Quend, France
Less than three hours later, the same or a similar orange object chased a car down a road in Quend for eight kilometers, then flew away toward the sea. The witness was a butcher named Georges Galant. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 118, 116; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216, case # 183).

Oct. 3, 1954; in Chereng, France
At 7:20 p.m. the crowd at a fair saw a luminous object arrive very fast in the sky, stop in flight, emit sparks, and come down to ground level. As witnesses rushed to the spot it took off again. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 113; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216, case # 184).

Oct. 3, 1954; bt. Montmoreau and Villebois Lavalette, France
At 10:45 p.m. a circular craft was seen by Mr. Jean Allary, age 22, while riding a motorcycle. It seemed to be gliding over the ground. It showed luminous spots and became completely illuminated when it took off. It was about 1.2 meters high. Grass was found flattened and scorched over an area seven meters across. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216, case # 186; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 114).

Oct. 3, 1954;  Nr. La Rochelle, France
At 11:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Guillemoteau saw an object, five meters in diameter and 2.5 meters high, hovering for several minutes one meter above the ground. The UFO then rose vertically. Oily marks were found at the spot. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 131; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216, case # 187).

Oct. 4, 1954
There are 41 UFO and humanoid reports on this date in UFOCAT, including six CE-III reports. One report is from Tel Aviv, Israel and one of the humanoid reports is from Salta, Argentina. The rest are from France, which was at the center of a massive wave of UFO sightings. Below are summaries of some of the more interesting cases.

Oct. 4, 1954; in Limoges, France
Time not given. An object was said to have landed in the yard of Mr. Montagne, a railroad employee. (Sources: France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 216, case # 188).

Oct. 4, 1954; bt. Lagrasse and Villemagne
Time not given. Andre Garcia and Andre Darzais were driving a truck and were near the village of Lezignan, France when they saw a luminous object coming slowly to the ground. It measured about 10 meters in diameter and took off with a burst of light. (Sources: France-Soir, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217, case # 189).

Oct. 4, 1954; in Chaleix, France
Time not given. Mr. Garreau, a farmer, saw an object the size of a carriage land in his field. Two men of normal height emerged through a sliding door. They wore khaki overalls and were of European type. They shook hands with the witness and said some thing like: "Paris? Nord?" (According to another version they spoke indistinct words.) They gave a pat on the back to Mr. Garreau's dog and took off at an amazing speed. (Sources: Liberation, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217, case # 190).

Oct. 4, 1954; e in St-Perdoux, Lot, France
At 8:10 a.m. Mr. Lacambre, a forester, saw a little man or dwarf in a streambed 200 meters from his hous. The being wore a wide leather belt or girdle, boots, and a tunic. He put water in a bottle, and some pebbles in a belt pouch; he then rose up into air and vanished. The creature had two pear-shaped boxes under his arms that may have assisted his ascent. Footprints were found at the site. (Source: Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 116-117).

Oct. 4, 1954; in Tregon, France
Evening. Several people noticed an object hovering near a hilltop. They drove to the site, but it flew away. What seemed to have been the same object was seen at Megrit, 25 km to the southwest, hovering over a farm. It was described as metallic, flat, and emitting light. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 139; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217, case # 191).

Oct. 4, 1954;  Montceau-les-Mines, France
At 6:30 p.m. about 20 people, among them Remy Gaudicourt of Sanvignes, saw a circular, luminous object rise vertically from the vicinity of the railroad tracks. There were no traces found. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217, case # 192; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 118).

Oct. 4, 1954;  Villers-le-Tilleul, France
6:40 p.m. Ten year old Bertiaux saw an object "like a tent" with an unknown man nearby. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217, case # 193).

Oct. 4, 1954; in Lessard-le-National, France
7:20 p.m. On a road  a silver cigar-shaped object stopped in a vertical position when illuminated by car headlights. Landing traces found nearby. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 319).

Oct. 4, 1954; in Taupignac, France
At 7:30 p.m. a six-meter in diameter red, round, domed object, hovered 10-12 meters above the ground. Four little men, one meter tall (3.3 feet) exited. As the three male witnesses approached they quickly entered the object. The domed disc changed color from blue to orange and then to red, and made no noise as it took off. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159).

Oct. 4, 1954; in Poncey-sur-Lignon, France
At 8:00 p.m. Mrs. Fourneret, a housewife, ran away as an orange, circular object 3 meters in diameter that swung in midair and landed near her farm. When Messrs. Girardot and Vincent arrived with rifles, they found that the earth had been "sucked up" over a quadrilateral area. Francois Bouiller confirmed he had seen a luminous object in flight. Extensive investigation by French Air Force and police. (Sources: Liberation, October 7, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 134; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 71; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 217, case # 194).

Oct. 4, 1954; in Megrit, France
At 10:00 p.m. Mr. Henry Leherisse, age 23, saw two shadows moving about inside a flat luminous, metallic, three-meters wide object, that hovered 50 meters above his garage. (Source: newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Michel Figuet and Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 122).

Oct. 4, 1954; Essex, UK
Saturn-shaped disc buzzed RAF Meteor jet.  (Salandin Case) [UFOE, X]

Oct. 5, 1954; Roverbello, Italy
No time given. A red clad being who spoke an unknown language approached a fisherman. It quickly left when the witness called to his wife. (Source: Newspaper clipping, October 7, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 218, case # 195, citing Quincy).

Oct. 5, 1954; Loctudy, France
At 4:00 a.m. a baker, Mr. P. Lucas, was draining water from a well when he noticed an object some distance away. It was circular and about three meters in diameter. From it emerged a dwarf with an oval-shaped face, covered with hair, and big eyes "as large as raven eggs." The short being touched him on the shoulder and spoke to him in an unknown language. The dwarf then went away and the object took off. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 218, case # 196).

Oct. 5, 1954; in Behnay, Egypt
An Egyptian military officer  photographed a "rotating saucer." (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 232).

Oct. 5, 1954; , east of Le Mans, France
At 6:30 a.m. on Route N23, some Renault employees were going to work when they saw by the road a luminous object on the ground and felt a prickling sensation and a form of paralysis. The glowing UFO emitted a burst of green light and flew away, very low over the fields. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 218, case # 197).

Oct. 5, 1954; Mertrud, France
at 7:15 a.m. A road crew member, Mr. Narcy, saw an object near the road  between Voillecomte and La Neuville. In a report to the police, he stated he saw a hairy dwarf wearing an orange tight fitting jacket climb aboard the craft, which consisted of a cigar-shaped section under a flat disk. Between the two sections was a kind of porthole through which the entity entered the object. Traces were found at the site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 218, case # 198).

Oct. 5, 1954; In Wassy, France
Morning. A golden-orange sphere with a dome on top plunged to the ground and bounced several times across a field.. The witness, Mr. G. Oldut, saw a one-meter tall dwarf emerge and then re-enter the craft. It rose up into the sky and disappeared. (Source: Paris Radar, October 17, 1954; David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: A Catalogue of Humanoid Reports).

Oct. 5, 1954; in Bordeaux, France
At 11:45 a.m., five people saw two bright metallic discs fly over a factory. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 125).

Oct. 5, 1954; Ten kilometers from Beaumont, France
3:45 p.m. Several people saw an flying object coming toward them and getting brighter at 3:45 in the afternoon. When it was about 150 meters away they felt "a strange sensation" and found themselves unable to move. The object left a smell compared to that of nitrobenzene. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 218, case # 199).

Oct. 5, 1954; in Cote du Nord, France
Evening. A farmer saw a humanoid occupant inside a UFO. (Source: Jimmy Guieu, Fying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 195; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 217).

Oct. 6, 1954; near Chantonnay, Monchamps, France
On this evening Mr. and Mrs. Laroche from Paris saw a fiery sphere land near Chantonnay.  (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 200-201; (3) Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138).

Oct. 6, 1954; in La Fere, France
At 9:30 p.m. near the military barracks in La Fere, France some soldiers saw a strange torpedo-shaped object on the ground 300 meters away. As one of them approached the craft, which stood about 80 cm high, he found himself paralyzed.  (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 200-201; (3) Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138).

Oct. 6, 1954; Villers-le-Lac, France
Finally, at 10:30 p.m. two women, Mrs. Salabrino and her adult daughter, saw a whitish light in the western sky in Villers-le-Lac, France. It seemed to slowly approach the ground, and was later seen between the railway station and the bridge 100 meters away from their house. When it moved, a very bright light was visible under its dark mass. It gave off a flow of sparks and rose, hovered for a moment, and then flew away rapidly. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 200-201; (3) Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 138).

Oct. 7 (or 9), 1954; Isles-sur-Suippes, France
UFO shaped like "giant artillery shell" with "portholes"; landing or near-landing case. [UFOE, XII]

Oct. 7, 1954; Cuisy (Seine-Et-Marne), France
Car motor and headlights failed as cigar-shaped UFO passed above. (NICAP list)

Oct. 7, 1954; FRANCE, near St-Jeans d'Asse
6:20 a.m. A milk truck driver, when driving up a small hill, experienced a complete failure of the engine and lights of his vehicle. He got out to inspect the motor with a flashlight that functioned normally. He then saw an intense blue light in the sky shining towards him. The light blinked off in a few seconds, and the engine could be restarted and the lights turned on. (Rodeghier, Flying Saucers and the  Straightline Mystery, Michel)

Oct. 7, 1954:  Beruges, France
4:15 a.m. A farmer, Edouard Thebault, age 31, awoke  to see a luminous object, two or three meters in diameter, emitting a beam of light that swept the countryside. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 219, case # 205; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 129).

Oct. 7, 1954;  Hennezis, France
At 6:30 p.m. Claude and Francoise Lanssellin, ages 10 and 9, witnessed the landing of a luminous, red object. It was shaped like a half egg (sliced lengthwise), They saw two occupants who looked like normal men. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 219, case # 203; Jimmy Guieu, Black Out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, pp. 199-202; Aime Michel, A propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 182; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 132-133).

Oct. 7, 1954; Plozevet, France
Early in the day the crew of several fishing boats at sea saw a luminous, orange-colored object over the coast, apparently surrounded by dense smoke. Villagers in Plozevet saw the same object and stated independently that it came within 10 meters of the ground, then flew away to the southeast. (Sources: France-Soir, October 9, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 219, case # 204; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 131).

Oct. 7, 1954; ing in Mendionde, France
Morning. Two red mushroom-shaped objects, six feet in diameter, landed. Two little men, 2.5 feet tall stood beside it, speaking an unknown language and gesticulating to the witness to come closer. However, when he did they shut the door in his face, and the UFO took off straight up. The grass at the site was crushed and turned yellow. (Source: David F. Webb and Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A1689).

Oct. 7, 1954;  Jettingen, France
At dawn a railroad employee, Rene Ott, saw a mushroom-shaped object three meters in diameter, in a field three meters away from Route N16 and one meter above the ground. A luminous rectangle, like a door, was seen on the side. It took off and flew about five meters over the head of the witness, following him to the next village. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 219, case # 206).

Oct. 7, 1954;  Monteux, France
At 2:30 p.m. Rene Margaillon, a farmer, was traveling between Monteux and Althen-des-Paluds when saw a metallic object that had landed in a field. It was hemispherical, about 2.5 meters in diameter. The witness gasped for air and felt "paralyzed." (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 220, case # 208; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 131).

Oct. 7, 1954; in Eurre, Drome, France
7:00 p.m. A red ovoid object was seen at 7 o'clock in the evening. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 133).

Oct. 7, 1954; near the village of St.-Etienne-sous-Barbuise, France
7:30 p.m. Marcel Guyot was coming home from work and his son Jacques followed the same road 10 minutes later. Both saw three objects on the ground at a railroad crossing that gave off a bright white light. One was circular, the other two were cigar-shaped. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 220, case # 209).

Oct. 7, 1954; Bompas, France
Before midnight. Mr. Sebelli saw an object land in the village. He called his neighbors, and they observed the departure of the craft. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 146; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 220, case # 210).

Oct. 8, 1954; Teheran, Iran
2:30 a.m. Mr. Ghaseme Fili, of Amireah Street was on the balcony of the second floor of his house at 2:30 a.m. when he saw a luminous, white flying object stop in mid-air, only 20 meters away from him. Lights shone from the rear and the sides of the craft, and inside there was a small man dressed in black, wearing a mask or breathing apparatus that resembled the trunk of an elephant. "I was standing with both hands on the bar of my balcony, looking with astonishment at this strange object, when I suddenly felt as though I were being drawn up toward the object by a magnet." Mr. Fili cried out in terror and woke up his neighbors. The object shot straight up, emitting sparks, and it was lost to sight almost immediately. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 220, case # 211).

Oct. 8, 1954; in Pas de Calais department, France
At 9:15 p.m., on the road to Boulogne  a bluish domed disc-shaped object dove toward the ground, became white and then flew away. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 212).

Oct. 9, 1954 - A mailman in Huy, Belgium saw a cigar-shaped object land. Two silhouettes "approximately human" in appearance were seen on board the craft. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 221, case # 213).

Oct. 9, 1954 - Between Montaren and Serviers, France, 1 kilometer from "Le Mas Blanc," Dr. Fabre, Mr. Court, and six others saw an orange oval object oscillating in midair. It was very bright and "fiery," and came very low to the ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 221, case # 214).

Oct. 9, 1954 - Some men out hunting in Dreux, France saw a luminous sphere take off from a field and fly toward the southwest. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 221, case # 215).

Oct. 9, 1954 - In Soubran, France several local people saw a luminous, spherical object land in a pasture. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 221, case # 216).

Oct. 9, 1954 - In Rinkerode, Germany Willi Hoge, a projectionist, was returning home in the evening when he saw four occupants of an object that had descended to ground level 70 meters from the road he was on. Seeing a blue light at first, he thought that an airplane had made an emergency landing. However, the cigar-shaped object was wingless. There were four humanoid beings wearing some type of rubber coveralls working under it. They were about 1.2 meters tall and had very large chests and oversized heads; their legs were short and thin. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 221, case # 217).

Oct. 9, 1954: nr. the Landeforet pool in Beauvain, France
Time not given. Christopher Carette saw a fiery sphere flying at treetop level for ten seconds. It had a protuberance or dome on top, and was estimated to be about 4 meters in diameter. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 152; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 221, case # 218).

Oct. 9, 1954; Carcassonne, France
4:00 p.m. As he was driving near Carcassonne, Jean Bertrand saw a bright, metallic sphere ahead on the road. The top half appeared to be made of transparent plastic, and two humanlike figures were seen standing inside. It took off quickly, flying away to the east. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 145; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 221-222, case # 219).

Oct. 9, 1954; Pournoy-la-Chetive, France
6:30 p.m. Four children--Gilbert Calda, age 12; Daniel Hirsch, age 9; J. P. Hirsch, age 5; and Robert Maguin, age 16--were roller skating when they saw a luminous object near the cemetery. It was round, about 2.5 meters in diameter, on stood on three legs. A dwarf, about 1.2 meters tall, dressed in black, having a face covered with hair and large eyes, came out and shone a blinding light at them. It said something in an unknown language. The children ran away, but looked back in time to see the object flying away high in the sky. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 154; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 222, case # 220).

Oct. 9, 1954; in Lavoux, France
7:00 p.m. Mr. Barrault was riding his bicycle when he suddenly saw a figure in a diving suit aiming a double beam of light at him. The individual had boots without heels and very bright eyes. It walked along the road for about a minute and then went into the forest. The witness was paralyzed and was unable to movethroughout the incident. The entity had a hairy chest and two lights, one above the other, in front of him. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 153; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 222, case # 221).

Oct. 9, 1954;- Briatexte, France
At 8:30 p.m. on Route N631 at "La Caiffe," a technician named J. P. Mitto was returning from Toulouse with two other friends when they saw two small figures cross the road in front of their car and jump into a pasture. The beings were about the height of 11-year-old children and crossed only five meters in front of them. Stopping immediately, the witnesses saw a large convex disc take off vertically. It was about six meters in diameter, orange in color, and was literally "sucked up" into the sky. Brown oily spots were found at the landing site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 222, case # 222).

Oct. 9, 1954; FRANCE, Cuisy, Seine-et-Marne
9:20 p.m. As Andre Bartoli was turning his car around when leaving his friend's home, he saw an orange-yellow glow in the sky. His car's motor failed at that point. He jumped out to see a cigar-shaped UFO, half the diameter of the moon, traveling in a straight line SW. His friend also saw the object, which was also colored orange-yellow. Mr. Bartoli then found that his headlights had gone out. Curiously, the speedometer needle still pointed to the position it occupied when the UFO was seen, not at zero. (Rodeghier, Michel)

Oct. 9, 1954; Beirut, Lebanon
At 10:15 p.m. the local company representative of a German firm, Max Favell, saw an white flying object land. It took off vertically, spinning, and was lost from sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 222, case # 223).

Oct. 10, 1954; Mahallat, Iran
On or about this day a large group of farmers witnessed a luminous hemispherical object land. It emitted multi-colored beams of light. The central part of the object appeared to be metallic. The object suddenly shot straight up and was soon gone from sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case # 224, citing Gordon Creighton).

Oct. 10, 1954; Epoisses, France between Epoisses and Toutry
Time not specified. Daniel Grapin and Francois Bolatre, topographers, saw a luminous sphere 3.5 meters in diameter on the ground near Route N454. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case # 225, citing Quincy).

Oct. 10, 1954; Quarouble, France
Time not given. A second landing with occupants was witnessed here by Marius Dewilde and his four-year-old son. A disc, six meters in diameter and about one meter tall, landed again on the railroad tracks. Seven little men emerged and spoke in an unknown language. The craft then vanished without noise or smoke. Traces larger than the first, and symmetrical, were observed. Dewilde refused to report the case to the authorities. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case # 226).

Oct. 10, 1954; in Charmes-la-Cote, France
At 6:30 a.m. Roger Thiriet, jailer in the Ecouvres detention center, was riding his motorcycle when he suddenly saw an aluminium colored object shaped like a plate, with a dome on top and two portholes. It was about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It took off immediately. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case # 227).

Oct. 10, 1954; in St-Germain-de-Livet, France
No time given. A math professor, Mr. Bon, observed a silvery disc about seven meters in diameter rise silently from a point about 250 meters to the side of the road in St-Germain-de-Livet, France. Spinning, it dove towards the ground from an altitude of about 800 meters, then flew off horizontally at a dizzying speed. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223, case # 228).

Oct. 10, 1954; Saillat-sur-Vienne, France
Just after dark. Mssr. Roger Gayout and his family saw a very bright object come very close to the ground. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223-224, case # 229).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Doncourt-Village, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
At 1:30 a.m. farmers  were awakened by a whistling sound and saw a flat object land near the woods. It soon rose up vertically very fast, and flew away. The ground was found calcified. Soil samples were taken by the police for analysis. (Sources: Figaro, October 13, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 230).

Oct. 11, 1954; near Acquigny, Eure, France
At 3:00 a.m. two men riding motorcycles  saw a bell-shaped craft about 2.5 meters tall while it hovered just a meter above the Evreux-Louviers railroad line. The lower part was ringlike, and the object gave off reddish and greenish sparks. A burst of orange light was seen as it jumped about 10 meters high, then it remained motionless for about one hour. During this time a third witness joined the first two. The UFO ultimately brightened and flew away toward the east. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 231).

Oct. 11, 1954; Fonfrede, near Chambon Feugerolles, Loire, France
4:15 a.m. Baptiste Jourdy, who was making the daily collection of milk was suddenly stopped as the engine and headlights of his truck died. He got out and saw a light above him. After it crossed the road, the truck headlights came back on again and he was able to restart his truck. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 157; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 232).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Lacanche, Côte-d'or, France
At 4:20 a.m.  Mr. Labonde was driving at the intersection of D14 and D104 when he was followed by a sort of luminous globe surrounded with a reddish glow, about two meters in size. It stayed within 25 meters of his car. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 224, case # 233).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Sassier, near La Carie, Nievre, France
At 4:30 a.m.  two men, Messrs. Gallois and Vigneron, were driving from Clamecy to Corbigny when they felt an "electric shock" at the same time their car headlights died. They then saw a craft in a pasture 50 meters away. It was cylindrical and fairly thick in shape. Three dwarf humanoids were standing close by. No light was seen, except a small, reddish point of light. Both witnesses were paralyzeduntil the craft left. A third witness, Mr. Chaumeau, had seen a lighted object fly over the woods at La Carie, France. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 158; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 224-225, case # 234; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 52).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Heimersdorf, Haut-Rhin, France
At dawn Ms. Anny Pracht, her sister Roselyne, and two other witnesses  saw a luminous object on the ground. It became fiery red in color and flew away when they came near. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 235).

Oct. 11, 1954; Bauquay, Calvados, France
No time given. A large red object was seen at dawn flying very fast at treetop level while local cattle panicked. There were three witnesses. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 159; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 236).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Lavarande, Algeria
At five o'clock in the morning a large disc flew very low over a road and scared two truck drivers, Messrs. Gaston Breau and Amoura, who stopped their gasoline truck and ran away into some fields while the object flew on toward Medea in silence. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 237; France Soir, October 17, 1954).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Bremondans, Doubs, France
At 6:40 p.m. horses panicked and ran when a bluish yellow saucer approached them to within 20 meters . A figure was seen for two minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3872, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 196).

Oct. 11, 1954; near Taupignac, Charente-Maritime, France
At 7:30 p.m. three men driving . got out of their car to observe an intense red sphere in the sky. Then they discovered a round machine with a dome, 6 meters in diameter, giving off a yellow-red light, only 200 meters away from them at 10 m altitude. It was motionless and silent. It suddenly moved horizontally for a short distance and landed behind a woods. Two witnesses went closer and saw four dwarfs, one meter tall, who seemed busy with the machine. The creatures rushed inside when the witnesses arrived within 15 m. The witnesses was blinded by a sudden burst of light blue, then orange, then red, and the object took off vertically at fantastic speed. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 225, case # 238; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume II: A Thirty Year Report, p. 468).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Birac, Charente, France
At 9:50 p.m. four persons, among them Julia Juste, Maria Barbeau, and Marion Le Tanneur, of Jarnac--saw two luminous spheres flying in the same direction. Having stopped and maneuvered in midair, the larger one took on a deep red color, turned to an intense white light with a red aura, and both landed. Witnesses did not wait around to investigate further. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 160; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 225-226, case # 239; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 2).

Oct. 11, 1954; in Montbazens, Herault, France
At 10:00 p.m. A round craft, four meters in diameter, landed in a pasture. It gave off a powerful red light and took off with extreme acceleration when witnesses (garage owner Mr. Carriere and son; farmer Mr. Gardelle, shoemaker Mr. Ginestre, and two others) came close to it. Mr. Gardelle felt an electric shock. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 162; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 240).

Oct. 11, 1954; FRANCE, Chateauneuf
10:00 p.m. Three young girls, returning from a trip, saw two luminous globes at a low altitude. The engine of their car died and the headlights went out. For five minutes they watched the two globes as they executed several movements. One globe was much larger, and it eventually turned brilliant white with a reddish halo. Both globes eventually disappeared by dropping straight down towards the Charente River valley. The car could then be restarted. (Rodeghier, Michel)

Oct. 11, 1954; over La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendee, France
At 11:00 p.m. a luminous, mushroom-shaped saucer made fast, silent maneuvers . A Mrs. Drouillard was the single witness. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 48).

Oct. 11, 1954; Brosses-Thillot, Saone-Et-Loire (near), France
Motorcycle stalled, round lighted UFO observed about 50 yards ahead.

Oct. 12, 1954;  Mamora Forest, Morocco
Time not given. A French engineer driving to Port Lyautey in the afternoon saw a dwarf about 1.2 meters in height enter an object which soon took off. The little man was wearing silver coveralls. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 241).

Oct. 12, 1954; in Orchamps, France
At 9:00 p.m. a farmer, Mr. Beuc, saw a small pilot enter an object. The UFO then glided over the road for 30 meters and then rose rapidly. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 242).

Oct. 12, 1954; in Montlucon, France
On this evening a railroad employee, Mr. Laugere, saw a metallic looking torpedo-shaped craft on the ground near a gas/oil tank. An hairy humanoid was standing nearby, emitting sounds that were not understood. The witness went to get his friends, but the thing had disappeared in the meantime. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 243).

Oct. 12, 1954; in Leguevin, France
10:30 p.m. Jan Marty, age 42, a mechanic, was in his shop when he saw a luminous disc-shaped object land. It was about 6.5 meters in diameter and 2.5 meters thick. He tried to approach it, but the craft rose vertically and silently at an amazing speed. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 244).

Oct. 12, 1954; Ste.-Marie d'Herblay, France
At 10:30 p.m. Gilbert Lelay, age 13, saw a phosphorescent cigar-shaped UFO in a pasture and a man standing near it, wearing a gray suit, boots, and a gray hat. He held a flashing sphere and told Gilbert in French not to touch it. He went back inside the craft, which flew in loops and then vanished. (Sources: Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 103; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 226, case # 245).

Oct. 12, 1954; Dompierre-les-Tilleuls, France
Night. Mr. Vielle, a businessman, was on Route N471 between Frasnes and Pontarlier on this night when he saw a circular flying craft that gave off a yellowish and a purple light. Losing altitude, the craft came very close to the ground, changed its course to southwest, and then rose again in the sky. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 167; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227, case # 246).

Oct. 12, 1954; in Vielmur, France
Time not noted. Roger Ramond, a night watchman, saw a great light and noticed an oval object land 300 meters away. It looked like a fiery orange ball, illuminated the vineyard for nearly 3 hours, then assumed a vertical position, rose slowly, hovered 30 meters above the ground for a few seconds, and took off at fantastic speed. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 168; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 227, case # 247).

Oct. 13, 1954; in Nouasseur, French Morocco
At 10:05 a.m. a weather observer following a balloon in his theodolite, saw a round, flat, silver object fly straight and level. (Don Berliner, Project Blue Book Unknowns)

Oct. 13, 1954; in Graulhet, Tarn department, France
At 4:30 p.m. Numerous witnesses consistently reported that a white object flew southward at full speed without leaving a vapor trail and then exploded. At the same time a circular object, much smaller and silvery, seemed to spurt out of the mass of debris and continue straight toward the south. The burst of fragments scattered throughout the sky and fell gently down like shreds of paper or cloth. The debris, which resembled silvery filaments clinging together like cobwebs, "wilted away" when handled. This volatile "angel hair" dropped by UFOs, usually in the month of October, has been described many times since 1947. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 170).

Oct. 13, 1954; . in Crocq, France
Three hours later at 7:30 p.m, at Donjon de Montlaur, J. Dubois and four other witnesses saw a round craft maneuver, giving off a blinding light. It had some openings or portholes, and seemed to come down and land far away from them. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227, case # 248).

Oct. 13, 1954; in Bourrasole, France
On that same night at 7:35 p.m. Messrs. Olivier and Perano and a third man saw a reddish disc about 4 meters in diameter with a small humanoid close by. The being stood about 1.2 meters (5 feet) tall, and was wearing a diving suit. "His head was large with respect to the rest of the body and he had two enormous eyes. The suit was bright and shiny like glass." The Disc was surrounded by a sort of misty glow. One of the witnesses came within 20 meters of it and found himself paralyzed. The craft took off, throwing the man who stood closest to the ground, and rose into the sky very fast. (Sources: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, p. 227, case # 249).

Oct. 13, 1954; Nouasseur, French Morocco (BBU 3260)
10:05 a.m. Weather observer following a balloon in his theodolite saw a round, flat, silver object fly straight and level. (Berliner)

Oct. 14, 1954; 5 km N of Nimes, France
At 12:15 a.m. Mr. & Mrs. Dupuy saw an object shaped like a rugby ball resting on crutch-like landing gear. It was lit by a greenish light and had three portholes. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 159-160, citing Le Provencal,  October 15, 1954).

Oct. 14, 1954; in Saint-Pierre-Halte, France
At 3:40 a.m. a brilliant, yellow machine in the shape of a mushroom, two meters in height and four meters in diameter, descended rapidly and was seen resting on some railroad tracks by a baker's assistant from Calais. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, p. 160, citing La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 220; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 180; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230--who lists the date as Oct. 15).

Oct. 14, 1954; in Saint-Ambroix, Gard department, France
Time not given. Several witnesses including one named Chasseurs  saw seven small beings flee into a phosphorescent object when they were approached. It took off immediately. It is claimed that "unknown seeds" were found at the site. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 250; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 104). 

Oct. 14, 1954;  Shamsabad, Iran
At 6:30 a.m. a man coming out of his house saw a luminous object resembling a bright star. When he approached, he observed that it was a 5-meter long object, next to which a "short young man" was standing on a circular piece of metal, laughing at the witness's terrified expression. The witness was 20 meters away when the craft took off at unbelievable speed. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 251). 

Oct. 14, 1954; in Erchin Wood in Lewarde, Nord department, France
At 3:30 p.m. Casimir Starovski, a miner, met a strange being of small height and bulky figure with large slanted eyes. Its body was covered with fur. Its nose was flat, and it had thick lips. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 143; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case # 252; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0301) 

Oct. 14, 1954; in Biot, Alpes-Maritimes department, France
At 6:15 p.m. a municipal employee, Jose Casella, was riding home when he suddenly found in front of him on the road an oval-shaped aluminum object about 5.5 m in diameter, 1 m high. As he applied the brakes, the object took off at very high speed. Sev- eral persons confirmed the sighting. The disk was gray, supported a dome, and emitted a soft whistle. It took off when Casella was only six meters away. (Sources: Paris Presse, October 21, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 253; Michel Figuet& Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 160-161, citing Jimmy Guieu, Black-out sur les Soucoupes Volantes, p. 219).

Oct. 14, 1954; in Angles, Vendee department, France
At dusk, around 6:00 p.m., a farmer saw a bright object, which came almost to the ground. When he tried to approach it the object produced an intense "screen of light" and vanished without a noise. Several other persons in Angles also observed the scene. (Sources: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 254).

Oct. 14, 1954; in Meursanges, Cote-d'or department, France
At 6:30 p.m. a grocer and his wife, Mr. & Mrs. Vitre, inhabitants of the village of Chevigny-en-Valiere, together with some farmers, watched a fast luminous disc-shaped UFO maneuver and change colors over Rte. D111.  (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 173; Aime Michel, A Propos des Soucoupes Volantes, p. 211).

Oct. 14, 1954; in Meral, Mayenne department, France
At around 7:00 p.m. Messr. Duvivier, a farmer observed an orange sphere land and he walked out to approach it. When he got close he found it was shaped like a flattened dome, 5.5 meters in diameter, and it gave off a blinding light, which illuminated the countryside for about 200 meters. It was also transparent, and a dark figure could be seen inside. After remaining at ground level for 10 minutes it left by flying to the north, while a bright cloudy misty material fell slowly to the ground at the site. When the witness arrived home he found his clothes were covered with a white film of adhesive substance, not unlike paraffin wax. (Sources: La Croix, October 16, 1954; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 174; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 255; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 97; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 31). 

Oct. 14, 1954; , in Saint-Germain-du-Bois, Saone-et-Loire department, France
Just after dark, around 7:00 p.m. Mr. Lonjarret observed a luminous circular orange object on the ground near a corn field off of highway D91. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 256, citing Quincy; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 24). 

Oct. 14, 1954;; Chazey Wood, south of Gueugnon, Saone-et- Loire department, France
At 7:30 p.m. Messrs. Jeannet and Garnier saw a reddish fireball fly low over their car as their engine and headlights died. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 257).

Oct. 14, 1954; in Chazey Wood, Saone-et-Loire department, France
A short time later, Andre Cognard, who was coming from Gueugnon, was blinded by a light from a luminous disc-shaped object as it flew low over his car. The projected light beam was so bright and blinding that he was forced to stop his car. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 258; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 163-164). 

Oct. 14, 1954; bt. Saint-Romain-sous-Gourdon and les Brosses-Tillots, Saone-et-Loire department, France
Mr. B. saw a circular craft shaped like an upside-down plate just after dark. At the same time, the engine on his motorcycle stalled. After watching for some time, he pushed the motorcycle down the road, where it could be restarted. In the same area an engineer also saw a luminous object coming down rapidly. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 175; Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3919; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 128). 

Oct. 14, 1954; bt. Thieulloy-la-Ville and Beauvais, Somme, France
At 8:10 p.m. on the road Mr. Covemacker saw an object fly over his car as the headlights died. It went on toward the north, seemingly following a train. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 259). 

Oct. 14, 1954; bt. Ciry-le-Noble and Montceau-les-Mines, Saone-et-Loire, France
At 8:50 p.m. an engineer, Mr. G. Mouillon from Genelard, was driving when he witnessed an enormous luminous object that descended toward the ground without any noise. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Anatomy of a Phenomenon, p. 130; Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le premier dossier complet des rencontres rapprochees en France, pp. 166).

Oct. 15, 1954 – Near the community swimming pool in Saint-Assiscle, Perpignan, France Damien Figueres, age 56, was walking with his dogs when a red luminous sphere landed 30 meters away. A humanoid being in a diving suit got out and walked around it. The dogs barked at him. The being then boarded the craft and it flew away in silence. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 229, case # 261; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 120).

Oct. 15, 1954 – In Boaria, Italy a farmer was leading his cows to a pond when he suddenly saw an object fly over his house. The cows panicked and ran away, knocking a girl to the ground, while the object emitted a burst of light. The farmer ran to the house and then fainted. Three other persons saw the craft depart. It was dark in color but surrounded by short blue and yellow flames. It was egg-shaped, flew at 15 meters above the ground, and emitted intense heat. The little pond was found desiccated, and haystacks caught fire as it flew over while the cattle suffered burns. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 229-230, case # 262).

Oct. 15, 1954 – In Luino, Italy an ovoid object made a pass over a range of trees; two of the trees caught fire. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 264).

Oct. 15, 1954; in Po-di-Gnocca, Italy
On this afternoon farmers saw a disc-shaped object land, then take off vertically. At the site was found a deep crater about 6 m in diameter. Poplar trees were partially burned. Official investigation. (Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 265).

Oct. 15, 1954; in Nimes, France
At 7:50 p.m. at the Courbessac Airfield in Nimes, a yellow, cigar-shaped object with brilliant portholes, 30 m long, 6 m diameter, was seen on the ground. Figures with helmets covering their heads could be seen inside. A sort of haze was observed at both ends of the craft. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 266).

Oct. 15, 1954; Southend, Essex, England
On this night Ms. Pat Hennessey ran away when she saw an object land on the road near Chalkwell Park. It had vanished silently when she looked back. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 267).

Oct. 15, 16, 17, 1954; Kingfisher, Okla. (BBU 3269)
8:45 p.m. 50 objects with illuminated bottoms were seen flying in a V-formation, high speed, on successive nights. Only data is on summary card. (Berliner)

Oct. 15, 1954; in Isbergues, France
A steelworker observed a luminous sphere land in the countryside on this night. After landing it then emitted lights of various colors. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 181; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 268).

Oct. 15, 1954; in Fouesnant, France
While driving at night  truck driver Rene Le Viol saw a flat craft, -shaped like an inverted plate, fly very low toward the sea. A second disc followed shortly afterward. Both emitted a red glow. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 230, case # 269).

Oct. 15, 1954; Saint Privat, Vallongue, Lozere department, France
At 9:00 p.m. a cigar-shaped object landed . It took off vertically making a whistle sound and blazing red in color. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 107).

Oct. 15, 1954; between Niffer and Kembs, France
At 9:00 p.m. a fireball was seen by two witnesses driving in a car as it zig-zagged over the N68 highway. It headed off to the southeast toward the Rhine River. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 182).

Oct. 16, 1954; in Thin le Moutiers, France
On or about this date a UFO landed only thirty meters away from a woman, who promptly fainted. Following the incident the witness suffered from a skin condition that she linked to the encounter. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: the UFO Enigma, p. 53; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231, case #271).

Oct. 16, 1954; in Cier-de-Riviere, France
Time not given. Guy Puyfourcat, age 22, was coming back from the fields leading a mare by her halter when the horse surprised him by suddenly becoming restless and jumpy. Rising from the side of the road, a gray object about 1.5 meters in diameter flew over them. The mare rose about three meters into the air and the witness had to release her. Then the animal fell to the ground like a mass and for 10 minutes was unable to move. At last, it got up and attempted to walk, but it was still trembling and stumbling with fear. The object had long since flown away at high speed. The witness himself had felt absolutely nothing. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231).

Oct. 16, 1954: in Mazaye, France
At 5:30 p.m.  Mr. Bachelard was driving a light truck on road D52E between Chanat and Couhay when suddenly the engine seemed to slow down and he felt "paralyzed. " He then saw in a field near the road a brown object about 10 m long, 2. 5 m high. Silent, it gave off no light and showed no opening. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 231).

Oct. 16, 1954; in Dompierre, France
Messrs. Deschamp and Laclotre saw a craft, about 20 meters in diameter and two meters tall come within four meters of the ground. The object stayed near the ground for 3-4 minutes. It gave off a yellowish light and a glow extended around it for an estimated distance of four meters. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232).

Oct. 16, 1954; in Quasso, Italy
Two objects were seen in Quasso, one of which made a pass at treetop level. It was top-shaped, and a small, gesticulating human figure was seen under it. The witness was a bus driver, Mr. De Rossi. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case # 270, citing Il Tiempo, October 17, 1954).

Oct. 16, 1954; in Siena, Italy
At midnight several people saw a landed object in a meadow. It appeared phosphorescent and to be large in size. It took off very suddenly. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case # 276, citing Il Tiempo, October 16, 1954).

Oct. 16, 1954; Bailloler, France
Night. Dr. Henri Robert, a veterinarian, noticed four circular objects at a height of less than 1,000 feet. They moved in formation, but one then descended in a "falling leaf" maneuver close to the ground ahead of Dr. Robert's auto. At a distance of 100 yards from the UFO, Dr. Robert felt an electric shock and his engine and lights died. The UFO then landed--Dr. Robert was paralyzed. He saw a small humanoid, about three feet tall. The light on the UFO went out and every-thing was dark and silent for several minutes. Then suddenly the headlights came on and Dr. Robert could see the UFO moving away low to the ground. He could now move and had no trouble starting his car. (Rodeghier, Michel)

Oct. 17, 1954; in O Alvito, Portugal
Manuel Madeira saw a landed object while out hunting in O Alvito, Portugal. It took off and flew away as he approached it, rose quickly into the sky, and was lost to sight. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case # 278).

Oct. 17, 1954; in Cabasson, France
2;30 p.m. A 65-year-old man was hunting with his dog near the junction of the Brillance Canal and the Durance River. He saw a gray object, about four meters long and one meter high on the ground and 40 meters away. It had a dome from which two helmeted figures emerged. The witness fled, but his dog started toward the object. The dog soon retreated, walking awkwardly as if partially paralyzed. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case # 279; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0310).

Oct. 17, 1954; Reims, Marne, France
Early evening. A man was returning from fishing along the canal when he saw a brightly lit cigar-shaped object resting on the grass near the canal. As he approached he saw it was about 26 feet long and 7 feet high. From one end came “phosphorescent” lights, which reflected on the metallic hull of the object. A door appeared from which emerged three hairy dwarves, about 3 feet 9 inches tall, walking “crab-wise,” or sideways. Then an even smaller being, a little more than a meter tall appeared, whose lower legs appeared transparent. The witness tried to get closer, but the beings rushed back inside the object at surprising speed. Just then the witness was paralyzed by a red beam of light coming from a porthole in the craft, which turned yellow. The object took off and flew rapidly towards Tinquex. The witness was then able to recover his freedom of movement. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-31 (A0340); Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 206).

Oct. 17, 1954; in Dole Gray, Jura department, Franc
At 8:30 p.m. three witnessese reported watching a luminous object maneuver in the sky, changing colors for ten minutes. Each color lasted several minutes. It finally shot away at high speed. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 187).

Oct. 17, 1954; in Varigney, Haute-Saone department, France
At 8:30 p.m.  several witnesses, among them policeman Beuclair, saw a bright red dome-shaped object descend to ground level 20 meters away. The underside displayed red and white lights. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 188; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232, case 280; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case 56).

Oct. 17, 1954; Naples, Italy
At 7:20 p.m. a luminous orb descended over Naples. It stopped and hovered just five meters above the ground. It rose again, then flew away to the north, generating a great deal of national excitement and press coverage. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 3977).

Oct. 17, 1954; Cape Massulo, Italy
On the Isle of Capri an artist, Raffael Castelle, saw a disc five meters in diameter land on the property of Curzio Malaparte on this night. Upon approaching it he discovered it was not a helicopter as he first thought, and he saw four dwarfs wearing coveralls emerge from it. After 30 minutes the craft made a soft whirring sound and rose vertically, leaving blue sparks. (Sources: France Soir, October 20, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 232-233, case # 281; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-103 (A0311) ).

Oct. 17, 1954; Ascoli Pisceno, Marche, Italy
At 10:00 p.m. several people in the town of Ascoli Pisceno witnessed an umbrella-shaped disc that slowed down, then shot straight up vertically. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, citing Voce Adriatic).

Oct. 18, 1954; in Moutier-Rozeille, Creuse, France
10:00 a.m. Mrs. Paquet was tending her cows in a field when she suddenly heard a peculiar sounding language which she could not understand. The conversation came from a nearby heather field. Then two men approached to within 50 meters of Mrs. Paquet. One of them turned towards the mill of Mr. Blanchon, emitting a yell and making gestures. Two more men next showed up, and walked in the direction of the Rozeille River, where they then joined the first two and all four vanished. Fiteen minutes later Mrs. Paquet's dog began to bark furiously, and she see a silent dark cigar-shaped object rise into the air and disappear towards the southwest. The men were approximately 1.80 meters in height and wore dark blue combinations suits. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 184-185, citing La Montagne, October 27, 1954).

Oct. 18, 1954; Cisternes-la-Foret, Puy-de-Dome, France
Messrs. J. Augard and J. Chanzotte saw an oval object with a dome, emitting a bright white light and resting in a field. When they approached it the object rose vertically, leaving a reddish trail, and flew off toward the northeast. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233).

Oct. 18, 1954; at Pont l’Abbe d’Arnoult, Charente-Maritime, France
Mr. Meunier, a construction supervisor, was terrified by a strange craft, which rose vertically from the ground. He said he had never been so afraid, even during the war. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 196; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 283).

Oct. 18, 1954; four miles from Coheix, Puy-de-Dome, France
5:30 p.m. Driving a van  Mr. Bachelard, age 42, was going around a bend in the road when he felt half paralyzed and his van's motor began missing and slowed to 20 mph. He then saw hovering in a nearby field a motionless, silent elongated or flattened object 30 feet long. A police investigation was conducted. (Source: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 198; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 3).

Oct. 18, 1954;  Louvigne-Du-Desert, Ille-Et-Vilaine, France
An anonymous schoolboy returning from his evening studies was approaching the hamlet of Salmoniere when he suddenly saw a small being with an odd face, which frightened him enormously. The creature entered a machine that was lying in a ditch, and then the machine rose up in the air at a tremendous rate of speed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste).

Oct. 18, 1954; Fontenay-Torey, Oise, France
8:40 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Lherminier saw a red, cigar-shaped object dive toward them with a reddish trail and land near the road. Upon reaching the top of the hill, they were confronted by a bulky human figure about one meter (3.3 feet) tall. The creature wore a helmet and his eyes were glowing with an orange light. One witness fainted on the spot. Four others saw the object in flight from separate locations. The countryside was illuminated over 2 or 3 kilometers. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-104).

Oct. 18, 1954; in Formerie, Oise department, France.
At 8:45 p.m. three witnesses observed a cylinder or rocket shaped device with several illuminated portholes following a complex trajectory along a river in Formerie, Oise department, France. The craft then landed close to the witnesses and several humanoids described as about 1.50 meters in height, with dark skin and wearing metallic helmets and metallic garments, exited the craft. As the witnesses watched stupefied they suddenly experienced headaches and memory loss. Apparently they did not see the object and its occupants depart. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Claude Poher, GEPA “Statistics from 735 UFO observations”).

Oct. 18, 1954; in Royan, Charente-Maritime, France
9:00 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. Labassiere and other witnesses saw two discs in the sky, one orange and the other red, with a sort of luminous "bridge" between them. They landed, and one dwarf came out of each craft and went into the other without any sign. After this exchange of pilots both objects flew away with a tremendous flash. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 193; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 233, case 285).

Oct. 18, 1954; in St.-Point Lake, Le Vezenay, Doubs, France
At 10:45 p.m. Miss Marie Louise Bourriot saw a bright red light on Route N437 near an old factory. She was on a motorbike and saw that the luminous object was over the road. Next to it stood a man of normal stature in a trenchcoat. He was motionless, and he was joined by two dwarves who crossed the road ahead of her. She had to swerve to avoid hitting them.The craft took off, flying over the lake at a high speed. Small footprints were later found at the site. Jean-Luc Rivera thinks that woman was witnessing an abduction taking place, and that the man in trenchcoat was an abductee, and not one of the UFO occupants.  (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue no. 97; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 197; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 233-234; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-106 (A0314); J. Tyrode, FSR Case Histories, October 1970, p. 16; Jerome Clark, Anomalist, April 2000, p. 20). 

Oct. 18, 1954; between Andigne and Saint-Martin du Bois, Maine-et-Loire, France
Sometime before midnight 15-year-old Albert Geraud was on his bicycle on route D216.  when he saw a light that turned from green to red. It descended in a jerky motion and landed on the road, revealing a saucer-shaped object giving off a red gleam on the ground. The panicked witness felt like his legs were paralyzed. Inside the object he could see a small being covered with hair, that stared at him with large eyes. Abruptly the object lifted off, emitting a strong gush of wind toward the teenager, and it zipped away in the direction of Lyon. After the incident the witness had to lie prostrate in bed for several days. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, pp. 182-183, citing Ouest France, October 20, 1954; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 2435, citing Figuet & Ruchon).

Oct. 18, 1954; in Erba, Como, Italy
At just before midnight salesman Renzo Pugina, age 37, was parking his carafter returning home from seeing a movie. Pugina noticed a soft glow in the park of the villa, but he attributed this to the moon. After he had climbed a half-flight of stairs connecting the lane to the villa, he observed a strange figure at the top of the steps, near to a tree. The creature was [continued] (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Maurizio Verga, When Saucers Came to Earth).

Oct. 19, 1954; over Taza, Tetouan, Morocco
At 9:10 a.m. a silent aluminum colored cigar-shaped object flew to the southeast, then curved its trajectory to the east, becoming spherical. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4005, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #228).

Oct. 19, 1954; over Avignon, Vaucluse, France
On this day two French Air Force jets chased a white disc-shaped object with colored lights.The flying disc easily outpaced them. (Sources: Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, November 1954, p. 5; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: October, p. 67).

Oct. 19, 1954;  of Amiens, Somme, France
At noon 70 people in the city saw a fiery object spinning high in sky, shooting out green beams of light. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 321 & 260)

Oct 19, 1954; in Montandon, Haute-Marne, France
Also, at the same time a teenager saw a saucer-shaped object land by some woods near a pasture. A man wearing a white spacesuit exited the craft. His report was investigated by the police. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issues # 321 & 260).

Oct. 19, 1954; in Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Bruno Senesi saw two shining objects emitting smoke land in a field. Out of the craft came several small, monstrous red beings that chased after him. Mr. Senesi was brought to a hospital in a state of great distress , where he tried to hide under a bed while screaming and trembling in terror. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 287, citing Il Messagero, October 20, 1954).

Oct. 19, 1954; in Montlandon, France
A 14-year-old girl reported seeing a strange disc-shaped object descend and land in a field next to some woods. A man dressed in a sort of white cassock or smock was seen briefly onboard the object. The craft immediately took off again and disappeared from sight. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue).

Oct. 19, 1954; in St. Avold, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
At 7:00 p.m. a disc-shaped object landed in a field. Trees were scorched and the ground was plowed up at the landing site. Figures may have been seen. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 116).

Oct. 19, 1954; in Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
At 7:20 p.m. Filippo Corridoni saw what he thought was a half empty balloon at ground level near the Isonzo River. Near it, a ten-meter wide disc-shaped object was resting on a strange frame. The upper part of the disc was white with a black dome, around which was a series of portholes. Some of the portholes gave off a very bright, bluish-white light that suddenly went out as the object took off. The disc rose vertically while spinning and pulling the balloon with it. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 288, citing Il Messagero, October 21, 1954).

Oct. 19, 1954; in St. Didier-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
At 8:45 p.m a flaming object buzzed a truck driving causing the engine and headlights to die. They functioned again after the object departed. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115).

Oct. 19, 1954; near St. Samson-La-Poterie, France
Also at 8:45 p.m. 25-year-old Andre Vasseur and his wife were returning home on their tandem bicycle and were approaching the descent that precedes Hericourt-St. Samson when their attention was drawn to a hovering red cigar shape gleaming in the sky. The shiny cigar-shaped object plunged abruptly towards the ground at a terrific clip, leaving behind a red trail and disappearing behind a hedge a few hundred meters from the road. When the young couple arrived at the top of the hill, Mrs. Vasseur cried about when she was confronted by a strange being on the edge of the road, just inches from her handlebars. The figure was of human shape, but squat, and his head was capped with a helmet that came down to the shoulders. The strange being stood staring fixedly at her, and a pencil beam of orange light came from its eyes, which followed the woman. His wife lost consciousness and fell into her husband's arms, but Andre continued on with his wife. When he turned around to look back the being had still not moved. They both suffered from insomnia after the incident. Police reportedly found mysterious footprints at the site. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing LDLN).

Oct. 19, 1954; Bondowoso, East Java, Indonesia
At 9:00 p.m. several UFOs flew over. (Source: NICAP files; Jacques Vallee citing Jimmy Guieu and Aime Michel).

Oct. 19, 1954; in Fabriano, Marche, Italy
At 10:30 p.m.  two men, satirist Paolo Cutizi and writer Guilio Emery, were in a local park when they saw a disc-shaped object, six meters in diameter, hovering and emitting small violet flashes. On top of the object was a very tall antenna. Two small robot-like beings, 1.2 meters or four feet tall, descended from it on a long ladder. Their eyes were dark red and "sharp." They spoke something that sounded like "Dbanoda skigyay o dbano," then went back aboard their craft and flew away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 289, citing Il Messagero, October 24, 1954).

Oct. 19, 1954; in Laqueuille, Puy-de-Dome, France
At 11:50 p.m. a disc or orb-shaped object was seen at ground level in some woods. It was seen by two witnesses from a truck, and reportedly had an 'arc-welder' glare.(Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 115).

Oct. 20, 1954; FRANCE, Turquenstein
Evening. While driving his automobile in a wooded region, the single witness noticed a luminous shape resting on the road ahead. He slowed, but when he was within 60 feet, he felt paralyzed. His hands were frozen to the steering wheel. His car motor also went dead, but as the car coasted to a stop, he noticed an increasing sensation of heat. The UFO quickly rose and left to the northeast; the sensation of heat vanished, the witness could move, and the engine was restarted. (Rodeghier, Michel)

Oct. 20, 1954; near Route N83 in Issenheim, Haut-Rhin, France
Lucien Fisch saw an object land. It was luminous. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 234, case 290).

Oct. 20, 1954; in Raon-l'Etape, Vosges, France
At 2:30 a.m. Lazlo Ujvari, age 40, saw a dark domed disc that made a whining noise. He was suddenly confronted by a man wearing a jacket, boots, and some type of cloth headgear, like a pilot's leather helmet. The man pointed a gun at him and said something he could not understand. When Ujvari spoke to him in Russian, the man answered in the same language. He asked whether he was in Spain or Italy, and how far he was from Germany. When he asked the time, Ujvari said "2:30." The man took out a watch and said "You lie, it's 4:00." Then he wanted to know how far away and in what direction was Marseilles. He forced Ujvari to walk with him on the road, and they soon came to a gray craft with an antenna on top. The man left him there and went aboard. When Ujvari had walked about 200 meters from the craft he heard a soft whistling sound and saw it fly straight up, then take an oblique trajectory. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 291; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 99).

Oct. 20, 1954; in Binghamton, New York
On or about this date,  a Mr. White reported that he met two humanoids dressed in metallic snowsuits on the golf course. They spoke English with a peculiar accent, and said they would intervene in the event of a nuclear war. The UFO they arrived in was round, disc-shaped with a glass ring on the rim. Ground traces included burnt soil in a circle 14 feet in diameter. (Source: NICAP case files).

Oct. 20, 1954; in the Lusigny Forest in Aube department, France
During a rainstorm on this day Roger Reveille saw an oval flying object close to the ground. It was six meters long and hovered at treetop level. He felt intense heat coming from it. It shot up vertically at great speed. Inside the woods the heat had become intolerable and a cloud of dense smoke had formed under the rain. After 15 minutes the witness was able to approach the site, and he found the trees, grass, and ground perfectly dry. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 292).

Oct. 20, 1954; of St-Valery, Somme, France
Several unknown objects maneuvered for two hours near the village. One of them was very brilliant and landed in a pasture. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 293; Paris Presse, October 22, 1954).

Oct. 20, 1954; in Mers, France
Two others were seen near a cliff . They appeared to be in communication with UFOs in another group by means of light signals. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 293; Paris Presse, October 22, 1954).

Oct. 20, 1954; In Turquenstein, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
At 6:30 p.m. Mr. Schoubrenner, a 25-year-old truck driver, saw a bright light in the distance and soon found his road blocked by a strange object. The engine died, and he felt paralyzed: "My hands were as though glued to the wheel." He also felt a sensation of heat inside his vehicle. The craft looked like an inverted cone, the lower part phosphorescent, the middle dull, and the top luminous with a yellow or orange point. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, pp. 203-204; Flying Saucers, September 1962, p. 34; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 235, case 294).

Oct. 20, 1954; in Parravicino d'Erba, Italy
On this evening Mr. Renzo Pugina, age 37, had just parked his car in the garage at his residence when he saw a strange being wearing a "scaly" luminous suit. It stood near a tree and was about 1.3 meters (4.3 feet) tall. The entity had what looked like a flashlight, and aimed a beam of light from it at him. He felt paralyzed and was unable to move until he made a clenching motion with his fist on the garage keys that he held in his hand. Freed from the temporary paralysis he ran to attack the intruder, who fled with a soft whirring sound. An oily spot was found at the site. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, pp. 235-236, case 295).

Oct. 21, 1954; Woomera Test Range, S. Australia
An erratic dancing light was sighted adjacent to rocket Launcher Apron 1, Range B. The light alternated from a deep orange to yellow and was egg shaped, approximately 500 feet away. Its apparent size was three times the magnitude of Venus. Clouds at the time were at 15,000 feet altitude. (Source: Debbie Payne, Australasian Ufologist, October 2004, p. 33, citing documents released by the R.A.A.F.).

Oct. 21, 1954; in Melito, Italy
At 8:00 a.m. a young man walking in a field  heard a rustling noise and saw a strange craft land nearby. Getting closer to investigate, he saw a pilot in a diving suit coming out of the craft, which emitted bronze-green rays of light, flooding the whole countryside. The witness was paralyzed. A dog barking about 100 meters away caused the rapid escape of the pilot into the craft, which took off. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236, case 297).

Oct. 21, 1954; in Girancourt, Vosges, France
At 8:30 a.m. a vertical cylinder-shaped object hung in the sky, and changed colors. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4026).

Oct. 21, 1954; in Ranton, England near Shrewsbury
4:45 p.m. Jennie Roestenberg and her two children observed a disc-shaped, aluminium object hovering above their house. Through two transparent panels they saw two men with white skin, having shoulder length hair and very high foreheads. They wore transparent helmets and turquoise-blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene "sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately." (Sources: Gordon Creighton, FSR Special Issue #1: The Humanoids, p. 4; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236, case 298).

Oct. 21, 1954; in Pons, Charente-Maritime, France
On this night an egg-shaped object, about 5.5 meters in diameter, hovered and landed near the road. Two dwarf humanoids, about 1.25 meters (4.1 feet) tall, emerged from it, and went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically leaving a red trail. (Sources: France Soir, October 22, 1954; Michel Carrouges, Les Apparitions de Martiens, p. 103; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236, case 296).

Oct. 21, 1954; in Saint Martin-Aux-Chartrains, Calvados, France
At 7:30 p.m. several people saw a disc-shaped object rise from some roadside bushes . (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4031, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 118).

Oct. 21, 1954; in Criteuil-la-Madeleine, Charente, France
At 8:00 p.m. a car being driven by a bricklayer, Mr. Fillonneau, stopped running when a large fiery ball flew near it. A violent air displacement was felt. "The battery was dead and the headlights were burned out." A thorough police investigation failed to identify the cause of the phenomenon. (Sources: France Soir, October 14, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236, case 299; Gregory Falla, BUFORA Vehicle Interference Report, p. 8; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4).

Oct. 21, 1954;  Pouzou, Charente-Maritime, France
At 9:30 p.m. a man from Cherbonnieres who was driving between Serifere and Paille suddenly felt painful pricklings similar to electric shocks and his 4-year-old child started crying. They felt increasing pain as the car went on, and suddenly the engine died and the lights went off. They were blinded by a strong red light, which turned orange. It came from an object hovering above the road, and everything returned to normal when it went away. (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 236-237, case 300)

Oct. 21, 1954; FRANCE, LaRochelle
Night. A man and his three-year-old son were out on a drive when the man felt an electric-shock all over his body. He also had a sensation of increased heat, and his son began to cry. The engine of the car then died and the head-lights went out. Suddenly an object on the road directly in front of the car became very bright. The witness had not seen it before. It was red in color, which changed to orange as it rose into the air. The car could then be restarted and the physical symptoms disappeared. (Rodeghier, Michel)

Oct. 21, 1954; FRANCE, Criteuil-la-Madeleine
8:00 p.m. A bricklayer's car engine and lights failed when a ball of fire passed nearby. The witness felt a violent displacement of air as it passed. The car could not be restarted--it was found to have a dead battery and burned-out headlight bulbs. (Rodeghier, Passport to Magonia, Vallee; The Humanoids, Bowen)

Oct. 22, 1954; Marysville, Ohio
School principal, teacher, 60 students saw silver cigar-shaped UFO with "portholes" hover over school, then speed away; "angel's hair" fell. [UFOE, VIII]Oct. 22, 1954; in Segre, Maine-et-Loire, France

4:00 AM. An object that resembled a white cloud with lights on each end descended over a country road . It illuminated the road like daylight. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 119).

Oct. 22, 1954; in Ecaillon, Nord, France
7:20 PM. Eengine of a motorcycle diedand then a cigar-shaped UFO was seen in a field by the rider. Four of more beings were seen inside the craft. One spoke an unintelligible language which sounded like "Chinese" to the listener. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4039, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 216).

Oct. 22, 1954; Guethary, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France
11:00 PM. A disc-shaped object emerged from the ocean off the coast. When it dove down it illuminated the surface of the water. It then made a final ascent and flew away. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4040, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 118).

Oct. 22, 1954; Marysville, Ohio
3:15 PM. A cigar-shaped object with portholes maneuvered in the sky over a school in Marysville, accompanied by many smaller discs. It was witnessed by 60 students of Jerome Elementary School and teachers Rodney Warrick and Mrs. George Dittmar, as well as thousands of witnesses at an afternoon high school football game. The silver cigar-shaped object traveled at high speed, and wafted a blanket of a web-like material, commonly referred to as "angel hair," which fell to the ground over a three mile area. The UFO flew off quickly in a westward direction. Within minutes of touching the substance it would disappear, leaving a green stain on the fingers. (Sources: Marysville (OH) Journal-Tribune, October 25, 1954 & July 22, 1958; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO News, December 1954, p. 5; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference to Outstanding UFO Reports, case 59; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 185).

Oct. 23, 1954; Cincinnati, Ohio
At 1:30 a.m. EDT a witness heard his radio shriek and his dog began barking. He looked out and saw a huge silent red disc surrounded by halo circles circling overhead. (Source: Leonard Stringfield, CRIFO Newsletter, December 1954, p. 5).

Oct. 23, 1954; Tripoli, Libya
3:00 AM.  A farmer named Carmelo Papotto  saw a flying craft descend to ground level. It hovered about 50 meters away, making a sound like that of an air compressor. It was an egg-shaped machine with six wheels and complex machinery. The top half was transparent and flooded with a bright white light. Aboard were six men in yellowish coveralls; they looked human and had on facemasks. When he touched part of the craft he got a strong electric shock. One of the occupants motioned for him to stay away. For the next twenty minutes the witness was able to observe the six men, apparently busy with their instruments. Reliable investigations were made. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 303; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-113).

Oct. 23, 1954;  Ernemont, France
At 5:10 a.m. a brilliant crescent-shaped object landed. Three shadowy figures exited the object and went in different directions. This was followed by a power outage. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4044).

Oct. 23, 1954; San Giovanni Vesuviano, Italy
9:00 AM. Two persons in a car saw an object resting by the side of the road. They stopped and walked toward the craft, which was two meters in diameter. As they approached it suddenly changed its clear light into a red glow and took off. (Source: Il Tempo, October 23, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 302).

Oct. 23, 1954; Trondes, France
On this afternoon, baker M. Lelu was in his vehicle on Route 101 and had come to a bend on the road when he spotted two phosphorescent points of light near a glade. He approached the area, thinking it was another car, when he saw a tall blond haired man standing immobile in a nearby field. Thinking that the figure might be an extraterrestrial he drove away from the area in order to get additional witnesses. Later, the harassed owner of the field claimed that the mysterious blond figure was merely a Polish farmer, but this was never confirmed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue).

Oct. 23, 1954; St. Hilaire-des-Loges, Vendee, France
Evening. Mrs. Boeuf was coming out of her farmhouse when she saw a luminous disc hovering in the sky and called to her family. When everyone saw the object come closer they locked all the doors and spent a sleepless night inside. They did not observe the object's departure, but noticed an unnatural silence that pervaded the area. (Sources: France-Soir, October 26, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 237, case 301).

Oct. 23, 1954; Olmstead AFB, Pennsylvania (BB)
8:45 p.m. EST. The pilot of a T-33 jet aircraft observed a blue round object the apparent size of a baseball held at arm's length. The object made a 10 o'clock fighter pass from the left down in front of nose of aircraft making loop and pursuit curves. There was another sighting one hour later. Location of observers: 3410N  8130W (South Carolina) / 3450N  7905W, (North Carolina). The length of the observation was 3-5 seconds. The location given on the PROJECT 10073 RECORD is Olmstead AFB, Penn., a Flight Service Center.  (Dan Wilson, Blue Book files)

Oct. 23, 1954; Tinker AFB, Oklahoma (BBU)
9:23 p.m. (CST)  Objects on FPS-10 (PPI scope). Upon initial pickup speed was in excess of 3200 nautical mph, but changed to 250 nautical mph. The target appeared in size, shape and brillance equal to a normal IFF.  (Dan Wilson, McDonald list)

Oct. 23, 1954; Cincinnati, Ohio
Radio made harsh shrieking noise, volume increased; then reddish disc seen circling overhead.



Oct. 24, 1954; Tuscany, Italy
Approx. 6:00 AM. Ulderico Cardinali, a farmworker, was walking down a path in a marshy meadow in Castiglion Della Pescaia, Grosseto, He entered a patch of fog and started hearing a buzzing noise. When the fog became less dense, he could see a strange object on the ground which he first thought was a downed airplane. It resembled a large "plate" resting on the ground; it was two meters wide and made of some sort of highly polished material. There was a very peculiar looking creature standing beside the craft, who appeared to be no taller than 1.40 meters and was dressed in a yellowish-brown uniform. It seemed that the being was performing some sort of task, moving about the craft. Once it had stopped moving about it went inside the object, entering a sort of cabin, and disappeared from sight. Then the object took off from the location, emitting a slight buzzing noise and flying at very low altitude, nearly brushing the tops of the trees in the meadow. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1600, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing ITACAT).

Oct. 24, 1954;  over Gravatai Air Force Base in Porto Alegre, Brazil
1:00 PM. At first, a dull white aluminum colored UFO was seen zig-zagging in the sky.  It began making fast tight circular turns through the clear blue sky and kept up this behavior for two hours. There was a misty halo around the object when it moved. A second UFO arrived sometime after two hours had elapsed, and circled the first one. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 212; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 119; UNICAT, case 561; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 104; Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23).

Oct. 24, 1954; Saint Etienne de Baigorry, Pyrenees-Atlantiques, France
At around 3:00 p.m. a shepherd watching his flock on a mountain peak called “Moumboa”, located at about 800 meters, reported seeing two “men” standing on the slope opposite him, looking around. At first he thought they were excursionists, but he soon noticed a brown craft shaped like a large shell between them, so he did not dare approach. It was three to four meters in diameter and a little more than a meter in height. In the center there was a small cabin, and at the two ends he could distinguish a number of small propellers. He said he did not notice any portholes. At the broad back end there was a bent tripod. After awhile the two men approached the machine, which they then placed upright on the tripod. The witness supposed that the machine must have been made out of some very light weight material. One of the men then opened a narrow door and both individuals disappeared into the cabin. Without any noise the two groups of propellers started to turn, but in opposite directions. The machine took off vertically to an altitude of about 100 meters, and then flew off quickly to the north. The two men were similar to humans, Caucasian in appearance, and between 1.70-1.75 meters tall. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, computerized catalog (N=3073), case 1793, citing Jimmy Guieu; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Jean Sider).

Oct. 24, 1954; Les Egots, Rhone, France near Sainte Catherine
At 5:30 p.m. , a child saw a man emerge from a strange craft. He was "dressed in red, his clothes looked like iron." He walked stiff-legged, and had long hair and a hairy face. His eyes were large, "like those of the cows." (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, pp. 237-238, case 305; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-115 (A0323)).

Oct. 24, 1954 - Bt. Biozat and Effiat, Puy-de-Dome, France
9:00 PM. On the road from Clermont to Vichy, the engine of a motor scooter died when an egg-shaped object took off from the side of the road and rose without a noise, leaving a bright trail behind. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 306; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4).

Oct. 24, 1954; in Pancole, Tuscany, Italy
9:00 p.m. a doctor driving his car  saw a luminous globe stop at 20 meters altitude, just 50 meters away. It took off when he stopped his car. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case #4055, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT).

Oct. 24, 1954; FRANCE, near Biozat
9:00 p.m. A motorcyclist's engine died suddenly. He was just beginning to inspect it when an egg-shaped object rose into the air from the side of the road. The UFO left a bright trail. The motorcycle could be restarted after the UFO left. (Rodeghier, Passport to Magonia, Vallee; The Humanoids, Bowen)

Oct. 25, 1954; in northern Italy
6:00 AM. Ulderico Cardinali saw a disc-shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp. It was two meters in diameter and near it stood a small being, 1.40 m (4.6 feet) tall, clad in yellowish-brown coveralls. This creature went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds as it flew away. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 308; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0326, citing Oltre il Cielo-Missili e Razzi).

Oct. 25, 1954; Belgrade, Yugoslavia
6:15 AM. At least four witnesses at the airport sighted over twenty UFOs. There was one large cigar shaped object and some high speed circular and egg-shaped objects, which were reportedly seen by hundreds. (Sources: Robert Gribble, MUFON UFO Journal, October 1989, p. 23; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 58).

Oct. 25, 1954; Vienna, Austria
6:15 AM. A brilliant disc-shaped object was seen by many independent observers spinning over the city. It left a trail behind, and the event lasted five minutes. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue 326).

Oct. 25, 1954; Allier, France
6:30 AM. A round silver disc with a flashing light crossed the sky quickly in Varennes-sur-Teche. (Source: Michel Figuet & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 199).

Oct. 25, 1954; in Calais, France
6:30 AM. A luminous disc-shaped object with a glowing light was seen rising from a field nearby some beet scales. It was absolutely silent.  (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121).

Oct. 25, 1954; Colcerasa Di Cing, Marche, Italy
Around 5:00 PM. Two 12-year-olds, Giampieri and Santucci, were walking home next to a field when their dog became agitated and started barking. One of the youths went ahead to see what was wrong and observed three very short, dark figures with huge flattened heads standing next to a large keg like object. They wore shiny black outfits. The first boy yelled for his friend to come and look, whereupon the short humanoids ran into the object. It took off emitting a loud whistling sound, knocking the first witness down with a strong gust of wind. Another witness who was nearby saw the same or a similar object fly over the area. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0327; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database).

Oct. 25, 1954; Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
6:30 PM. Mr. G. Mahou, age 30, a municipal councilor in Arraye-et-Han saw a phosphorescent craft shaped like a chicken brooder, about two meters in diameter and one meter high. It rose vertically from the road leaving a luminous trail. (Sources: Parisien, October 27, 1954; France-Soir, October 27, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 309).

Oct. 25, 1954; in Benabbio, Liguria, Italy
Around 8:00 PM.A reddish disc-shaped object that emitted a luminous streak from its rear landed near a witness. Two human like figures briefly emerged from the object, then went back inside. The object then took off at high speed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1569, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database, quoting from Nuovo Corrier).

Oct. 25, 1954; on Terceira Island, The Azores in the Atlantic Ocean
9:30 PM. Many observers watched a four meter long cigar-shaped object fly through the sky for two minutes, making a noise and emitting smoke and fire. (Sources: Lourenco Victor, PORTUCAT - Portuguese UFO database; Project Blue Book case # 3287).

Oct. 25, 1954; Jonquerets-de-Livet, Eure, France
11:00 PM.  two 18-year-old farm workers, Jean Cheradame and Rene Marais, encountered a bright light source in a field. When they approached the light, two featureless illuminated humanoid forms emerged from the light source. They lacked both arms and legs, and essentially resembled "white plastic bags" lit from within. The figures emerged from the light source in the field and separated into two distinct forms as they approached. When they receded they again merged into one form before merging with the light source. They were about five feet tall. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-117, citing Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 220).

Oct. 26, 1954; 18 kilometers from the town of Angouleme, Charente, France
6:00 AM. Vincent Casamajou and his wife saw a large cauldron-shaped craft, the size of a truck (about seven meters long) at 50 meters distance. It was near the road to Paris. It took off without a sound, leaving a white trail. (Sources: Le Parisien, October 28, 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 238, case 310).

Oct. 26, 1954; in Ranes, Orne, France
No time given. A five meter long cigar-shaped object came down in some woods and began to rise off the ground slowly, then shot away when the witness approached. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 121).

Oct. 26, 1954; Chateaudun, Eure-et-Loir, France
6:00 PM. Several railroad workers ran toward a luminous ball of light over the railroad tracks. It floated out over a field and then vanished. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122).

Oct. 26, 1954; nr Saint Quirin, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Late in the day at Les Metairies, Mrs. Louis and her sons Marc and Yvon observed a six-meter diameter orange craft that flew over them as their tractor engine died. The headlights on the tractor also went out, and the battery was found to be dead after the sighting. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 312; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 4).

Oct. 26, 1954; Heiteren, Haut-Rhin department, France
At 9:30 p.m. Mrs. Spinner and another witness  saw a flying object come from the west and land a kilometer away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 239, case 313).

Oct. 26, 1954; over Antimachia, Kos Island, Greece
On this night Mrs. Irene Sarris and Mr. Socrates Caraliamis saw a flying object emitting a blinding light in the sky. The UFO had the shape of a basket, and for a while it headed toward Antimachia, but changed course suddenly and went away. That same night Mr. George Cacamoundis saw a "winged man" crossing the sky over the village, at approximately the same time as the luminous UFO. The witness, terrified, ran to hide in the nearby church, where he stayed for a long time refusing to come out. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Thanassis Vembos, Hellenicos Vorras).

Oct. 27, 1954; FRANCE, Linzeux
Evening. A merchant and his deliveryman saw a bright light pass quickly overhead. The motor of their truck stalled and the headlights failed at this point, and both men felt electric shocks. The UFO was shaped like a sphere and quickly traveled out of view. Other people in the area saw the same object in the distance, but experienced no effects. (Rodeghier, Michel)

October 27, 1954; Mezieres, France
Policemen saw a craft which took off from the ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 314 & 315; Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight Line Mystery, p. 204) 

Oct. 27, 1954; Ciolica Alta, Italy
2:00 PM.  a young man named Fabrizio Bruni heard a strange hissing sound and saw an object in a field  that was emitting a blinding glare. It was stationary, hovering one meter above the ground, and seemed transparent. The witness fell to the ground "because of his strong emotions".. The object took off vertically and suddenly, leaving a trail. Very white, glistening threads were found on the ground. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 316). 

Oct. 27, 1954; Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France
7:30 PM. A farmer Gilbert Hee was gathering pears when he suddenly saw an elongated object with a light at both ends resting in the pasture. He didn't dare get closer to investigate, but he did see cows gathering around the object. A minute later, the lights on the object went out, and the witness lost interest and went home.

Oct. 27, 1954; NE of Plouezoch, Finistere, France
Time not given. A 12-year-old girl approached a one-meter long ovoid object on the road. She received electric shocks and was temporarily paralyzed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4074, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 122).

Oct. 27, 1954;in Moussey, France
At 8:30 p.m. a schoolboy and his school director saw a UFO on the ground. Triangular ground traces were reported.

Oct. 27, 1954; Les-Jonquerets-de-Livet, France
9:30 PM. An 18-year-old man named Cheradame fell from his motorcycle when it suddenly failed at the same spot, and alerted neighbors saw the object again. It had moved only slightly and two occupants were seen. They were short, about one meter tall, and walked in a stiff fashion. They had on clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without making a sound.  

Oct. 27, 1954;Oye-Plage, France
At 11:15 p.m. on Route N40, the Mayor's secretary saw a bright, cigar-shaped object for 15 minutes. It was flying very low and following the turns of the road at 20 meters altitude. It suddenly tumed at a right angle from the road and flew away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, cases 317-319; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-120, citing Vallee).

Oct. 28, 1954; Miho Air Base, Japan (BBU 3281)
5:32 p.m. USAF pilots Lt. Col. O. C. Cook and Lt. J. W. Brown, on ground using 7x50 binoculars, saw a brilliant white, round-oval object initially at 12-15 degrees elevation in the SSW, disappearing at 20-25 degree elevation in the SW.  Object climbing at same azimuth passing in front of cloud layer aty 21,000' grew larger and brighter. After 45-seconds object made right angle turn to the North, movement lateral, disappearing behing cloud at 4,000'.  (Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Oct. 28, 1954; Padua (Padova), Italy
9:00 PM. Three witnesses watched an eight meter long ovoid object hover just 12 meters over a tree. It directed a beam of light at the house, and one of the witness's eyes were red and irritated for days following the encounter. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4088; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO catalogue).

Oct. 28, 1954; Rome, Italy
Time not given. Mrs. Clare Booth Luce, American Ambassador to Italy, and others sighted a luminous, round UFO. Angel hair residue reportedly fell to the ground. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 100; Charles A. Maney, The Challenge of  Unidentified Flying Objects, p. 59; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 50).

Oct. 28, 1954; Thoury, Allier, France
9:30 PM. An orange football shaped object bounced up and down, then blinked out. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4089; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128).

Oct. 28, 1954; Chatel-Blanc, Doubs, France
10:00 PM ?. A group of nocturnal lights zigzagged through the sky and may have landed, but the witness fled the scene. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4090, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 123).

Oct. 29, 1954; in Coulogne, Pas-de-Calais, France
1:30 AM. A glowing cylindrical object was seen along the roadside . It had a row of portholes on its side, four tubes and four fins, and took off vertically. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4092, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 124).

Oct. 29, 1954; Mesples, France
7:45 a.m.  A 14-year-old boy sought asylum in the farmhouse owned by Mrs. Gentil, screaming that he was being chased by a flying saucer. A disc three times the apparent diameter of the sun, red and purple in color, and spinning rapidly, was seen descending swiftly toward the ground. It then vanished. There was an investigation of the incident by the local police. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 321; Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 232).

Oct. 29, 1954; Palagonia, Italy
2:25 PM. Several workers in a field  sighted a luminous translucent disc-shaped object with two red lights on top descend and then hover above them. From inside of the object an unknown creature (not described) could be seen staring at the workers. As the creature scrutinized them they became frightened. The object suddenly descended then shot back up into the sky, emitting a very loud sound as it quickly disappeared from sight. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1598; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database).

Oct. 29, 1954; Philippines
6:00 PM. The crew of a U. S. Air Force C-47D transport plane flying over the Philippines saw a long narrow bright blue oblong object emitting deep ­orange sparks from the front and rear. (Sources: Dominique Weinstein, Aircraft UFO Encounters, p. 24; Jan Aldrich, Project 1947 website).

Oct. 29, 1954; Terciera Islands, Azores (BBU 3287)
9:00 PM. Four Portuguese nationals at the airport Terciera Island sighted a UFO shaped like a stovepipe. It had a central bulge and short wings; they estimated it was 10 in length, three feet in diameter, and had wings three feet long. The wings of the object had concave wingtips, and it was gray in color. The UFO made a gargling sound when hovering, then disappeared into the glare of the airplane's landing lights. The sighting lasted 4-5 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3287; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos files, newspaper clipping dated November 3, 1954).

Oct. 30, 1954; Muro Lucano, Italy
Time not given. Two UFOs were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50 meters away. It was rhomboid in shape, and a cylinder was hanging from the bottom. A peculiar sound could also be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. The craft then gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 322).

Oct. 30, 1954; 28 km N. of Tapas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
11:35 PM. Four lights approached, then surrounded a car until the four witnesses drove away. The UFO changed color from white to blue to violet to orange to red. When the round lights on the object changed color they saw the shape was that of either a dome or sphere. (Source: UNICAT, case # 558 citing Olavo T. Fontes).

Oct. 31, 1954; in Corrompu, Somme, France
Night? Mr. P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with shop owner Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took off the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 meters (15 feet) in length and emitted a bright light similar to a welder's torch. It came back, turned, and flew off toward the southwest. It reportedly made the same noise as a swarm of bees. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 240, case 323; Mark Rodeghier, UFO Reports Involving Vehicle Interference, p. 5).

Noon (approx). According to a War Office statement a few days after the events, radars in an undisclosed area of the UK registered "formations" of unidentified echoes on 6 occasions. The story was covered by numerous British and European newspapers. There were not just one but several radar stations that picked this up ­ a formation (more than 40 objects) that changed patterns as the sweeps occurred creating in sequence “U=Z”. (Martin Shough)

November 1954, five miles off the Matanzas coast between Cuba and Florida
04:30 (local?)  According to this report from anonymous persons, the Cuban Navy frigates “José Martí” and “Máximo Gómez” were patrolling in route to Havana when intense lights were observed on the northwest horizon. Within seconds three lights forming a V were located over the ships for 4 to 6 minutes. Most of the sailors were witnessing them. One photographer on board filmed the UFOs until they very slowly moved to the west to disappear on the horizon. The black and white film lasted 7 to 10 minutes and was of a “superior quality. Ten days later the footage was shown to the Cuban military High Commands. The story informs that the UFOs were detected by radar too. The film is said to have flown to the US Navy Intelligence in Key West, Florida. Alleged sources are Cuban high-rank officers and sailors currently living in Florida. No images have been ever known. (Source is Virgilio Sánchez-Ocejo, a deceased Miami-resident ufologist.- Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos)

Nov. 1, 1954; Cennina, Toscana, Italy
At 6:30 a.m. Rosa Lotti, age 40, was walking into Cennina carrying her stockings and shoes and a bunch of carnations on her way to visit the cemetery when she suddenly observed an object, shaped like two cones with a common base, resting on a grassy space. Two small seats were visible inside the lower cone. From behind the object appeared two dwarfs, one meter tall, who approached her with friendly expressions, the older one laughing. They wore a sort of gray tight fitting one-piece coverall that covered their feet, short gray cloaks, and doublets with shiny buttons; on their heads were reddish helmets with what looked like leather earflaps. They were speaking an unintelligible language that sounded like Chinese, ‘liu, lai, loi.” Their mouths showed strong, rather protruding white teeth. Approaching Lotti, they snatched from her the carnations and one of her stockings, wrapped the flowers in the stocking, and then threw them into the “spindle” shaped UFO. Then one of them took out a brown wrapped circular object, carrying it in the crook of the arm. Lotti ran away, and when she looked back after running 100 yards she saw the little men were still there. A stonemason, R. Berti, saw the object, which he described as a luminous “rocket,” rise up into the air. A deep hole in the ground was later found at the site. (Sources: Sergio Conti, FSR, September-October 1971, p. 11; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-123 (A0331); UNICAT, case # 615; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241, case # 324).

Nov. 1, 1954; Modigliana, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
At 3:30 p.m. a farmer named Adelmo Monti saw a “dark spot” just over the ground, about 500 meters away from him. The object had an apparent diameter of one meter and was surrounded by a number of small cylinders. Monti observed a “very tiny, hard to make out figure” to one side of the object. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # A0332; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1567, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT).

Nov. 1, 1954; Mogliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy
A fisherman, G. Seenza, was on the Dese River  on this foggy night placing nets in the water. He noticed a greenish light through the thick fog. Because there were no houses in the area, Sr. Seenza began shouting in order to make contact with the people he thought were associated with the light. When he got no reply he decided to get closer. Seenza sighted a mushroom-shaped object that had landed on the river bank. The object was emitting a green light and around it there were several small stocky beings. They were moving back and forth in an erratic manner. Seenza shouted again and made gestures so as to be noticed, but was unsuccessful. Then suddenly, the object silently took off straight up. Some beams of silver colored light emanated from the object’s “stem” illuminating the surrounding area. The object made aerial maneuvers and then disappeared. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1568, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT).

Nov. 1, 1954; Ordenes, La Coruna, Spain
At 10:40 p.m. taxi driver Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos' cab broke down. He saw a strange white spherical object take off, estimated to be six meters in diameter, while at the same time all the dogs in the area were barking. Other witnesses nearby reported seeing the UFO, estimated to have been 400 meters away. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 15, citing Oscar Rey; UNICAT, case 437).

Nov. 1, 1954; Bucine, Tuscany, Italy
At 11:45 p.m. a red ovoid object buzzed a man on a motorcycle at a low altitude on a road near Bucine.. It had a blinding light that illuminated the area. (Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT Italian UFO database).

Nov. 2, 1954; Viomenil-Bataille, France
6:15 AM. A green disc landed on a farm. It left no physical traces, but there were independent witnesses to the event, who reported seeing a second disc fly over heading quickly to the west. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125).

Nov. 2, 1954; Santo Amaro, Brazil
At 10:30 a.m. Maurilio Braga Godoi left the streetcar terminal and started to walk home. The area was deserted at that hour, and when he arrived at a street corner he was surprised to see a large circular object sitting in an empty lot between two [continued] (Source: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 198-199).

Nov. 2, 1954; Cremona, Italy
Around six o'clock in the evening two students, Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, were hunting when they saw a one meter tall dwarf with a "rubber" head and a flexible tube connecting his face mask to a cylindrial container on his back. When they got closer to it the being wrapped itself in a bluish cloud. When that happened the witnesses ran away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 325).

Nov. 3, 1954; Oued Beth, Morocco
Time not given. Maroc Presse reported that one of its employees, Mr. E., the driver of a delivery truck and "a man of sane judgment and excellent eyesight," observed an object flying over the Beth River. "I am positive it was not an aircraft or any known machine but a circular, flat craft which had the appearance of copper. It flew normally for some time, and then it suddenly flipped over. Therefore, I was able to see the whole disc and was amazed when it came down into a field where it landed on edge, very gently. Almost immediately it rose into the sky at great speed, resumed its horizontal position and was soon lost to sight." (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 241; Maroc-Presse, November 4, 1954).

Nov. 3, 1954; Palavas, Herault, France
At 6:00 a.m. a reportedly reliable witness encountered a thick fog. Inside was a hovering blue, disc-shaped UFO. It stayed stationary a short while, and then shot straight up at an extremely fast speed. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4122, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 223).

Nov. 3, 1954; Mareil-sur-Loir, France
6:30 AM. Two dwarf humanoids wearing metallic suits with helmets were seen in a thick fog at a farm. They glided over ground. There is the possibility that the two witnesses experienced an episode of missing time. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4123, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 224).

Nov. 4, 1954; in Le Sourn, Morbihan department, France
At 6:30 a.m. a six-meter wide diameter disc was seen spinning in the sky over a farm. It flew toward the south, making multiple landings and emitting beams of light. The farm animals were frightened by it. The incident lasted 30 minutes. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4129, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 125).

Nov. 4, 1954; on the island of Sardinia
3:15 PM.  A domed disc-shaped UFO, estimated to be 15 meters in diameter, was observed on the roadside in Nuoro, Italy near Monte Ortobene. It had grates on the bottom. After eight minutes it took off vertically making a noise. (Sources: Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 5; Maurizio Verga, ITACAT, Italian UFO Catalogue).

Nov. 4, 1954; in Pontal, Sao Paulo state, Brazil
On this evening Jose Alves was fishing on the river when he saw a luminous object come "wobbling" down from the sky. It was 3-4 meters (10-15 feet) in diameter, and it looked like "two washbowls joined together." It came down and hovered six feet above the ground and only a few feet away from the witness. Three small dwarfish men with dark skin and wearing white uniforms with "skull caps" emerged from the disc. They collected foliage and a sample of the river water in a metal tube. They then jumped back in the craft. The UFO rose vertically, making no sound. (Sources: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4136, citing Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Encounters with UFO Occupants, p. 146; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 50; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-126 (A0338), citing Olavo T. Fontes, APRO Bulletin, July 1957, p. 9; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 327).

Nov. 4, 1954 (on or about this date); in the Amacuro Delta
At night. Venezuela Fernando de Moya, age 39, was hunting from his launch, when he saw a luminous sphere hovering six feet above the ground. The two Indians with him fled in terror, but he approached and saw two three-foot tall figures with round heads and large eyes running back and forth to the sphere. They ran making little jumps, and picking up various things. They entered through one of two windows in the UFO. When they saw De Moya, they jumped into the object, which ascended vertically. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-127 (A0338), citing APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue, p. 68).

Nov. 5, 1954;  La Coruna, Spain
No time given. Gonzalo Rubinos Ramos, whose car had broken down, saw a large, shining disc rise 150 meters away with a slight noise like an explosion. It flew away at fantastic speed. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 328, citing Le Parisien, November 8, 1954).

Nov. 5, 1954; La Roche-en-Brenil, France
10:10 AM. Raymond R. saw a craft that made a noise like a large transformer and gave off an orange light, land in a pasture. Three men in dark coveralls were standing nearby. One was holding a sort of box, "which emitted a beam of light three meters long." The other two were holding objects that looked like weapons. Another witness fled and felt pricklings on his face as he ran. Four photographs of the scene were taken. Traces included a whitish substance and a circle three meters in diameter where the ground had an ashlike appearance. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 329; Michel Figeut & Jean-Louis Ruchon, OVNI: Le Premier Dossier Complet des Rencontres Rapprochees en France, p. 445).

Nov. 5, 1954; Lookout Point, N.Z.
Orange elliptical object with blue "portholes" observed. [UFOE, XII]

Nov. 6, 1954; Rome, Italy
11:00 AM. Alberto Perego watched about 100 white spots traveling in the sky with short white trails. They flew in formations of two, three, four, seven, and twelve for over a two hour period. They often would form lozenge-shaped formations of four objects ov V-shaped formations of seven. They executed curves, and an "angel hair" residue fell to the ground. On the same day several unknown radar blips were tracked over England for a two hour period. (Sources: Alberto Perego, Flying Saucers, March-April 1970, p. 17; Richard F. Haines, Project Delta: A Study of Multiple UFO, p. 37).

Nov. 7, 1954; Monte Ortobene, Sardinia, Italy
Time not given. A motorcyclist saw a disc-shaped machine land near the road. He tried to turn too sharply and fell off his motocycle 50 meters away from it. A taxi driver stopped to observe the object, which gave off a soft whirring sound and soon took off. Farmers on the other side of the mountain saw it fly away. The disc, about 15 meters in diameter, was made of a silvery, rough metal. It supported a dome and showed several portholes. (Sources: Harold T. Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242, case 330).

Nov. 7, 1954; Baltimore, Maryland
5:08 PM. Two witnesses sighted a luminous vertical cigar-shaped object that turned to a horizontal position, then flew off through some clouds and was lost from sight. (Source: Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 16).

Nov. 8, 1954; Monza, Italy
10:30 AM. A crowd of about 150 people jumped barriers to get closer to a luminous craft that had landed in the stadium. The object rested on three legs and had a dome emitting a blinding white light and supported an antenna. Two small figures dressed in white and gray, wearing transparent helmets, were seen. They spoke with guttural sounds. One of them had a black face with sort of trunk. When a man sicced a boxer dog onto the dwarfs, the animal turned around and bit him. The object rose with a shrill sound and vanished rapidly. Probable fabrication according to Italian researchers on the Project 1947 list. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 237; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 242, case 331).

Nov. 8, 1954; Voussac, France
6:00 PM. A number of people in the Vacheresse Forest reported seeing a luminous sphere land at the edge of the forest and then become dark. The next morning, an investigation disclosed that an area 4 or 5 meters in diameter had no leaves, while the ground elsewhere was covered with them. The earth seemed to have been dug up. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 238; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 243, case 332).

Nov, 8, 1954; FRANCE, La-Tessoualle
Dusk. As a single witness saw a blue disc, his car engine died and the headlights went out. The disc came closer and the witness was paralyzed with a feeling of pricklings on his hands. When the blue light on the UFO disappeared, he could move and start the car. The UFO, which was five to six meters in size, now appeared again 200 meters away. As he drove towards it, the object again turned off the blue light and flew away with a soft whistling sound. (Rodeghier, The Humanoids, Bowen)

Nov. 8, 1954; Knoxville, Tennessee (BB)
7:00 p.m. Mrs. Holbert riding in a car with her husband saw two round silver objects the size of a nickel at arm's length at an elevation of 45 degrees at 170 degrees azimuth. The objects with one in front and the other slightly to the right moved from the SE to the NW until they were almost over the observer. At one point the objects appeared to stop. The objects then changed directions and headed SE. No sound was heard. The objects were observed for approximately 5 minutes. The sketch in the AIR INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION REPORT shows a sharp turn made by the objects from NW to SE. (BB files, Dan Wilson)

Nov. 9, 1954; Bois de Villers, Belgium
Time not given. Two villagers reported the landing of a two-meter-high "flying egg" in a pasture. Screams seemed to be emanating from it. (Source: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 251; Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 334).

Nov. 10, 1954; Porte Alegre, Brazil
Time not given. An agronomist and his family driving in their car saw a landed disc-shaped object from which two men, normal in height, with long hair and coverall-like uniforms, emerged and came toward their car with arms raised. As the frightened witnesses sped away, they saw the men reenter the disc, which rose and flew off at very great speed. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 42; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 335).

Nov. 11, 1954; Ispica, Sicily, Italy
Night. Two men, Raffaele Favara and a journalist named Tino, and were walking down a road after the conclusion of the last movie show that night, when they noticed a greenish-blue light coming from inside the nearby soccer field. Approaching the gate, they noticed a triangular object on the ground. It had wheel-like floppy disks on each tip that rested on the ground. There were bright flashing silvery lights that at times illuminated several strange figures who appeared to have membrane wings, moving around the craft. The two men ran to find additional witnesses but as they did so the triangle rose up into the air and quickly left towards the sea. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing CISU Sicily).

Nov. 12, 1954; Arqua'Polesine, Italy
8:00 AM. A fisherman watched a three meter wide transparent globe descend, stop and hover momentarily, and then dive into the canal  leaving behind a cloud of vapor. At eleven o'clock that same morning a Brazilian priest working at the Vatican's Castel Gandolfo mountain residence in Italy had a close encounter with two UFOs. (Sources: Verga Maurizio, ITACAT Italian UFO Catalogue; Alberto Perego, FSR Case Histories, June 1973, p. 6).

Nov. 12, 1954; Louisville, Kentucky (BB)
3-6 p.m. A spherical UFO hovered for a long period over Louisville. U.S. Air Force jets chased it over Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio. It was also observed from the ground through a theodolite. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 134).

Nov. 13, 1954, Curitiba, Brazil
At 3:30 a.m. Mr. Cheminot, a Brazilian railway employee, saw three short beings in tight fitting, luminous coveralls examining the ballast on the ground around the railroad tracks with a lantern. When they saw him, they entered a lens or oval-shaped craft, which rose rapidly into the sky. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, pp. 109-110; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-129 [A0343], citing Jim & Coral Lorenzen).

Nov. 13, 1954; FRANCE, near Buchy
A luminous UFO rose from the ground as the engine of the witnesses' car slowed but did not fail completely. They also were paralyzed and felt pricklings on their skin. (Rodeghier, The Humanoids, Bowen)

Nov. 14, 1954; Curitiba, Parana State.  Brazilov
3:30 a.m. A disk-shaped object was seen landed on the railroad tracks at a place between the railroad stations of Coponhae and Uray, Parana State.  The witness, Mr. Jose Rodrigues, working with Group 19 from “Parama-Santa Catarina Railroad  Network”, reported that three little “men” of small size, dressed in shiny, close-fitted clothes and with very strong colors, jumped from the machine, an oval-shaped object, and began to inspect the tracks with the help of luminous objects they had in their hands. "They were examining the 'ballast' with the aid of lanterns.  When they spotted me, they hurried back to their apparatus, which took off at a great speed."  Approximately at the same hour, a professor saw a “shiny” object over the village of Urai, mentioned before. The prefect (sheriff) of this city and several inhabitants of the region went to the place of the incident.(CUFOS Rob Swiatek, Barry Greenwood, Rio's newspapers, “CORRETO DA MANHA, etc.).

Nov. 14, 1954; St. Maudan, France
6:00 AM.  A 12-year-old girl saw a luminous boat-shaped craft land in a nearby field. Three hairy humanoids emerged from the object and began to gather apples from a nearby orchard. (Source: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 325).

Nov. 14, 1954; Forli, Italy
Three tractor drivers watched a bright red, luminous UFO approach them in a farm field. As it came near, the two engines that worked by internal combustion failed, but the diesel engine still ran. The men ran away; when they returned, the UFO had departed. The two engines that had failed still caused some trouble after the sighting.  (Sources: Aime Michel, Flying Saucers and the Straight-Line Mystery, p. 211; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 74; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 341).

Nov. 14, 1954;  Isola, near La Spezia, Italy
7:45 PM. A bright cigar-shaped object landed in a farmer's field. Three dwarf humanoids wearing metallic "diving suits" emerged from the craft, speaking among themselves in an unintelligible language. When Sr. Lorenzini became convinced that the humanoids were intent on stealing some of his rabbits, he attempted to shoot at them with his shotgun, but the gun suddenly felt heavy, failed to fire, and he became unable to move or speak; he suddenly felt so weak that he dropped the gun. The dwarfs took the rabbits, and the paralysis wore off when the UFO took off.  (Sources: Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 236; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 339; Project Blue Book).

Nov. 14, 1954; Frederick, Maryland
2:00 PM. Another electro-magnetic interference effect case occurred. A large rotating silver disc-shaped object passed over the car of a civilian witness, causing static on the car radio. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 22).

Nov. 14 (?), 1954; Wasmes, Belgium
On this night on or about this date Marcel Pipers, a gardener, saw a disc-shaped craft resting near the road  that gave off a very bright light. His clothing was partially burned when he went close to it. (Sources: Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 104, Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 340, citing Quincy).

Nov. 15. 1954,  Verviers, Belgium
 "Flying cigar" escorted by 4 other "shining objects" on Saturday night. No further information. (Egyptian Gazette)

Nov. 15, 1954; Augusta, Maine (BBU 3326)
4 p.m. N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV, saw 10 gold, circular objects fly in vertical V-formation, straight and level. (Don Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Nov. 16, 1954; Catania, Sicily, Italy
11:30 p.m. Four young men, Salvatore Rapisardi, Antonio Espada, Gaetano Nicolosi and Cavallaio Angel, observed a disc-shaped object descend in front of the main entrance to the cemetery of Acquicella. It hovered 50 meters above the ground. The object resembled a circular metallic platform, about seven meters in diameter, which emitted a strange sound. There was a sudden flash and a hatch was opened, and then a small human looking occupant stuck its head out. Moments later the object ascended at very high speed. (Sources: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1566, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4175).

Nov. 18, 1954; St. Maudan, Cotes-Nord, France ;
6:00 PM. A 12-year-old girl saw a UFO looking like "a glowing boat" land in a nearby field. Three hairy dwarf humanoids emerged from the object and began to gather apples from the nearby orchard. (Sources: Lumieres dan la Nuit, issue #325; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4177; Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 225).

Nov. 19, 1954; 130 miles ESE of New Orleans, Louisiana (BBU)
9:04 p.m. Crew of National Airlines Flight 918 at 17,500 ft en route from New Orleans to Tampa, Flor., heading about 105°, saw a light flashing blue and white moving up and down directly in front at an unknown distance for 3-5 mins when it moved to the NE out of sight. (NARCAP; McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS)

Nov. 19, 1954; Corvallis, Oregon
4:15 PM. P. J. Gunn, an assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and an ex-U.S. Navy aviation cadet, sighted a bright white light hovering. It remained stationary for 8.5 to nine minutes, then crossed 20 degrees of sky in 3-3.5 minutes. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 3331; Don Berliner, Project Bluebook UFO Unknowns, p. 24).

Nov. 20, 1954; Blaison, Maine-et-Loire, France
3:00 PM. Mrs. Besnier was returning from fetching some onions and garlic cloves from storage. As she walked out from the cellar she saw a circular metallic object that had landed in her farm's courtyard. It appeared to be made out of aluminum. A small being, the size of a child, rushed at her and took the onions, which she held in a fold of her apron. Other short humanoids now became visible. The humanoids were human in appearance and were totally wrapped in a brown costume. In their mouths they carried some kind of pipe that connected to a sort of hood and breathing apparatus attached to their backs. Their skin was yellow and they had small black piercing eyes. Mrs. Besnier ran away and did not see the humanoids return to their “saucer”. Mrs. Besnier could not eat for 48 hours after the incident and remained confined to her bed for some time. (Sources: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 226; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue # 325; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database # 2398, citing LDLN).

Nov. 20, 1954; Laize-la-Ville, Calvados, France9:10 PM. A 15-year-old boy saw a huge top-shaped saucer cross the road at near ground level. It was rotating and glowed red. (Source: Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 132).

Nov. 20, 1954; bt. Uberaba & Sao Paulo, Brazil
5:45 AM. Two men, Sobral and Hardy, aboard a Brazilian Air Force mail plane flying from Uberaba to Sao Paulo, Brazil saw a UFO that was hovering close to the uninhabited island on Rio Grande. It was surrounded by a yellow halo, and took off at 30 degree angle. (Source: UNICAT, case # 540, citing Olavo T. Fontes).

Nov. 21, 1954; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
11:30 a.m. local. Crew, passenger of Brazilian airliner saw 19 glowing UFOs. [UFOE, X]

Nov. 21, 1954; Teignmouth, Devon, England
At noon  20 golden spheres raced across the sky in formation, causing a huge wave of radar blips. They flew off to the south out to sea. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4182, citing FSR).

Nov. 22, 1954; Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
9:45 PM. A radio operator at the Santa Maria Air Force Base, saw a huge, dark object about 30 meters in diameter hovering at treetop height. With four other persons he watched it for several hours, sometimesglowing softly, sometimes coming down almost to the ground. (Sources: APRO Bulletin, July 1957; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 51; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 342).

Nov. 23, 1954; Colcerasa, Macerata, Italy
At around five o'clock in the evening two young shepherds, M. G. and P. T., age 12, were returning to their flock when they noticed that the sheep had moved from were they had left them and that their sheep dog was barking. M. G. observed three “dark colored, animal like creatures” moving between some bushes and a couple of bonfires that the shepherds had lit earlier. They also saw what looked like a small barrel, 60-70 centimeters wide by 1.5 meters long. The edges of the object were flattened. M. G. was unable to view the beings clearly; they stood approximately 35 cm tall and had rather disproportionately large, flat-topped heads. They appeared to be dressed in dark shiny suits, as if made out of plastic. The creatures quickly retreated into the object, which quickly took off producing a hissing sound. When the object had reached an altitude of 20 meters it expelled a large fireball. This exploded just before touching the ground, and a strong gust of wind struck both boys. The object sported something like “antennae” situated on its forward section, which vibrated when the object lifted off. The craft zipped rapidly in an easterly direction and disappeared from view to the left of Mount La Cesa. Both boys ran home to relate what they had just seen. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1602, citing Maurizio Verga, ITACAT).

Nov. 23, 1954; Torpo, Norway, Anne & Tora Storedal and Tora Moy Hauge
On this afternoon three 10-year-old girls returning from school--found themselves being followed by a flying saucer. It came down to hover only 3 or 4 feet away from them. It was round, about 10 feet in diameter, and the bottom was black, trimmed with yellow spots which could have been lights, with a number of small, "red jags." The upper part was a transparent dome, and a man who was operating controls was visible inside. He wore black trousers, a black jacket, and immense red goggles over his eyes. He stared at one of the girls. When the craft rose it collided with a high-tension power line with a shower of sparks, and the girls ran away. They noticed a smell "like fried sausages." A "streak" was found in the snow, apparently left by the craft having brushed the surface of the snow covered ground. (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-132 (A0345), citing Oddvar J. Larsen, CSI-New York).

Nov. 25, 1954; Calcerosa, Sicily, Italy
On this evening two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, watched three 1.2-foot-tall beings with very large heads and gray skin enter a small sphere concealed 10 meters away from them, behind some bushes. The UFO had two propellers in front that started spinning. The object took off with a hissing sound. (Sources: Harold Wilkins, Flying Saucers Uncensored, p. 136; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, case 343, citing Oltre Cielo).

Nov. 25, 1954; Cordoba, Argentina
A weatherman and an air traffic controller watched two luminous objects hover over the Cordoba airport for two hours starting at 5:25 a.m. (Sources: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p.  119; Leonard H. Stringfield, CRIFO Orbit, June 1955, p. 1; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 29).

Nov. 26, 1954; Millville, New Jersey
On this night an object with four reddish-yellow lights forming a rectangle circled over Millville. Shortly afterward a searchlight caught the object, revealing it to be a huge disc. As soon as the light touched it, the UFO sped up and swiftly disappeared. (Sources: Donald Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 232; Otto Binder, What We Really Know About Flying Saucers, p. 171).

Nov. 27, 1954; Red Square in Moscow, Russia
10:15 AM. A green colored cylindrical object hovered over  Red Square for more than 25 minutes. It was estimated to be about 250 meters in length. It rose into the sky like a jet, and flew off toward the northwest. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 133; Ion Hobana and Julien Weverbergh, UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain, p. 282).

Nov. 27, 1954; Kariambkam, Madras, India
At 8:30 p.m. about a hundred people  saw the passage of a UFO described as “a flying boat” with a brilliant light on the back. The object then approached the ground and performed a vertical landing. Three people wearing “western” suits emerged and made hand gestures to the locals, who panicked and ran to their houses. The object remained on the ground for five minutes and took off in a vertical ascent, disappearing at high speed. (Source: Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, citing Michael David Hall, UFOs: A Century of Sightings).

Nov. 28, 1954; Petare, Venezuela
2:00 AM. two men had a violent encounter with three hairy dwarfs. They first saw a luminous sphere on the ground with a hatch door open. Out of it came three hairy dwarfs wearing loincloths. They were about three feet tall with clawed fingers. The dwarves fought with the men, who reported that they appeared to have phenomenal strength. At one point one of the man attempted to stab one of the creatures with a knife, but the blade glanced off as if the creature’s body was made of steel.  There was a blinding light and the creatures and the craft were gone. (Sources: newspaper clipping dated November 30, 1954; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52 & 103; APRO Bulletin, November 1954; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 344).

Nov. 28, 1954; Palmarito, Venezuela
On that same night a group of peasants saw a sphere land and discharge three very short dwarfish men. When they re-boarded and the object flew away, they reported the craft left behind a slightly visible trail in the sky. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen and Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 63; Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucer Conspiracy, p. 239).

Nov. 28, 1954; Manila, Philippines (BBU 3341)
10:50 a.m. AIIR states that a confidential source, a medical doctor, considered fairly reliable, was traveling in the back seat with his chauffeur driving after a game of golf when he noticed a strange orange glow in the south approaching the area. The witness ordered the car stopped and then got out to observe. The object at 30-degree elevation grew in size, and after 3 minutes stopped at 45-degree elevation for 1 minute, then reversed its path, then made a 180-degree turn due North and was gone 3 seconds. Object described as being at about 8,000', bright orange, flat-bottomed, domed, 65-70 ft across, 18-20 ft high. AIIR states: "UFOB had 4 evenly-spaced bright yellow discs along the sides with a portion of a 5th disc visible." Object had a bright orange exhaust trail while in motion. No sound. Duration: 4 mins 3 secs.  Listed by the Air Force as an "unknown": "This report is significant, in that if true, an airborne object which cannot be positively identified has on at least one occasion been sighted in the Manila skies."  (Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Nov. 28, 1954; five miles east of the city of Manila in the Philippines
12:45 PM. Two 39-year-old men, one of them a doctor, watched an orange domed disc maneuver through the sky. The craft was about 70 feet in diameter, and had five evenly spaced yellow portholes. The body of the object itself was flecked with red streaks, and it made no sound as it moved. The UFO reversed direction and was gone in three seconds. Listed as a Project Blue Book “unknown” case. (Sources: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case number 3341; Thomas M. Olsen, The Reference for Outstanding UFO Reports, case # 61; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 59).

Nov. 29, 1954; Moze-sur-Louet, Maine-et-Loire, France
6:00 AM. A beam of light from the sky searched back and forth, then struck and gave an electric shock to a bicyclist. It then shocked him a second time, but no object was seen. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4196, citing Jean Sider, Dossier 1954 et l'Imposture Rationaliste, p. 132).

Nov. 29, 1954; St. Martin-d'L-Place, Maine-et-Loire, France
7:00 PM. A single witness saw a luminous object that had landed in a wheatfield at the same time as a power outage. A 1.2 meter (4 foot) tall humanoid was seen standing next to it. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4197, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #325).

Nov. 29, 1954; Bourbon-L'Archambault, Allier, France
8:30 PM. An orange cigar-shaped object flew toward the northeast from Bourbon-L'Archambault. It stopped in midair, then shot back toward the southwest into the clouds. (Source: Larry Hatch, U computer database, case 4198, citing Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #128).

Dec. 1, 1954; in Bassoues, Gers, France
4:30 AM. A 39-year-old civilian saw a very bright oval light. It was illuminating the countryside. After some maneuvers and oscillations in mid-air, it landed for a couple of minutes less than three kilometers away, and then flew off to the east. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 346).

Dec. 2, 1954; Ceuta, Spanish Morocco (BBU)
2:10 p.m. local. A French military radar site at Ceuta tracked a target which was simultaneously observed visually by the crew of a fighter in the air. The speeds and altitudes of the target were recorded for a continuous period of about one hour from 1410 to 1510, during which time its altitude varied between 7 km (23.000') and 18 km (59,000') with variations in speed from 10 kph (6 mph) to 220 kph (137 mph). The altitude/speed diagram shows a rate-of-climb of >1500 fpm maintained for some 17 minutes (speed 100 mph slowing latterly to 40 mph) up to an altitude of nearly 59,000', levelling off with speed dropping briefly to near-zero, then accelerating steadily to 137 mph over about 12 minutes at the same altitude before suddenly dropping 20,000' in 1 minute down to 39,000' and again levelling off, still at 137 mph, for about 10 minutes, at which point the target dropped, with a simultaneous rapid deceleration, at a mean rate of about 5000 fpm for 3 minutes down to another level of 23,000' at <60 mph, maintaining this speed and level for some 10 minutes until contact was lost. Radar duration: 60 mins. approx. (Vallee CS 1966 186; NARCAP TR -6, Pg. 52, McDonald list)

Dec. 3, 1954; Gulfport, Mississippi (BBU 3352)
12:12 p.m. Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Mellen saw a translucent grey, round, flat object rotating on its vertical axis at high rate. Headed SE at 500-600 mph. (Berliner, Dan Wilson)

Dec. 3, 1954; Wilmington, N. C.
Civil Aeronautics Administration personnel watched round, yellowish UFO through binoculars. [UFOE, V]

Dec. 4, 1954; Zuaga, Spain
Time not given. Twelve workers saw what they described as a square machine, ten meters on a side, land and take off at great speed, flying toward the south. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 347.

Dec. 4, 1954; Caselle di Nogara, Italy
On this night a waiter saw a circular object in a pasture. It remained stationary for several minutes, and was about 50 meters away. It was blue with symmetrical openings which emitted a bright red light. The witness got a rifle and fired twice at a very tall figure that emerged from the turret on the craft. Immediately, a very strong wind was felt and the craft took off amidst a reddish glow. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-137, citing Vallee).

Dec. 4, 1954; Coronel Pringles, Argentina
6:00 AM.  Sr. E. Aguirre Zavala, an employee of a commercial firm, observed a very bright disc come down to just 20 inches above the ground, where it remained suspended. In the middle of this disc there moved about a strange looking figure, which seemed to be a dwarf with an enormous head. The UFO rose up shortly afterward after emitting a very bright light. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-136, citing a newspaper source).

Dec. 5, 1954; North East, Pa.
Domed object with double row of square "ports" hovered low over Lake Erie. [UFOE, XII]

Dec. 7, 1954; Gainchurizqueta, Irun, Spain
Time not given. A 26-year-old man riding a bicycle near a farm saw an object land nearby. It came from the sea on a north to south flight path, and passed within 6 meters. It was round, three meters in diameter, with a headlight and four fins. Traces: ground marks and metallic samples. (Source: Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 16).

Dec. 7, 1954; Cape Province, South Africa (BBU 3356)
1:15 p.m. Weather officer, using a theodolite was tracking a weather balloon, when the reflected light from another object attracted his attention. He reported that he saw a white, semi-circular, flat object with a dome on top, same size as the balloon,  move slowly from W to E, then turn N.  Observed for 7 minutes. (Berliner; UFOE, X)

Dec. 7, 1954; Edenton, North Carolina (BB)
At 3:05 p.m. Capt. Dayton Robinson, Jr. was flying a Marine TV-2 aircraft near Norfolk, Va., with his passenger Cpl. Edwin G. Capone, when they observed a dull white balloon-shaped object. Robinson rolled the aircraft toward the object with the intention of circling the object. At this time the object appeared to accelerate rapidly and moved to the south in a slight climb at approximately 15,000 feet. The speed of the object was estimated to be 2,700 to 3,000 mph. The object was observed for approximately 20-23 seconds. (BB files).

Dec. 8, 1954; Zuera, Zaragoza, Spain
Time not given. Mr. M. Sevilla Galvez, a hunter, saw a luminous craft 60 feet in diameter and 12 ft high, with antennas and propellers, land 50 yards away. A door opened, and two men speaking an unintelligible language emerged. They re-entered, the door closed, and the craft rose vertically at great speed with a hissing sound. (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-138, citing FSR Special Issue # 4; Data-Net Report, March 1971, p. 11). 

Dec. 8, 1954; Gricignano Di Aversa, Caserta, Italy
Early in the morning. A 100-year-old farmer, Giovanni Aquilante, left home early to do his chores and did not return that day. The evening of the day after his disappearance, two of his sons and another relative were returning home from searching for the old man when they encountered two odd looking beings with phosphorescent eyes hiding beyond a low wall. The three men were utterly petrified by the vision, but one of Aquilante’s sons (Andrea) managed to move towards the two “phantoms”. When he got to the rear of the wall, the figures had vanished. The third day at about 6:00 am, the elder Aquilante returned home. He was hungry and in shock, and he did not respond to the questions of his wife and sons. Despite the fact that it had rained over the previous two days, Aquilante’s clothes and shoes were completely dry. A few hours later he told his story to one of his relatives. The morning he disappeared he was walking past the village railroad bridge when two dwarves emerged from behind a bush. They both wore suits “having colors like the rainbow.” They took him by his hands and lifted him skyward. Aquilante didn’t recall how he had spent the 48 hours away. He remembers that the dwarves left him next to his house, telling him they would return to get him again. According to one of his sons, Paolo, his father suffered a lot from the experience, and lived in a nearly perpetual confused state, having difficulties speaking. The old man was regularly frightened that “they might come back to get me.” (Sources: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A2273; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 132, citing Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, October-November 1991).

Dec. 8, 1954; Miranda province, Venezuela
Time not given.  “Saucers” were reported to have landed at several places in the town of Chacao. Toms Betancourt said he threw himself on one of the “Martians” and grappled with him. “He was gelatinous and very slippery,” and got out of my hands.” (Source: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case # 1954-37 (A1782), citing El Universal, December 9, 1954).

Dec. 9, 1954; in Dorf-Gull, Germany
7:30 p.m.  Ernst Jung and his wife saw an intense red, luminous object descending toward them at great speed. It stopped and hovered five meters above the ground when they stopped their motorcycle. It was cigar shaped, five meters long and two meters wide. They saw it turn off its lights and fly towards a forest. Other people in a bus saw the same thing. (Sources: UFO Nachrichten, October 1956; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case # 350).

Dec. 9, 1954; Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
On this evening Sr. Da Costa e Rosa, a farmer living inBrazil heard a sound something like a sewing machine, and saw a cream-colored object "shaped like a tropical helmet" hovering just above the ground. A broad-shouldered man with pale skin was inside the craft. Another was outside examining a fence, while a third was closer to the farmer. Da Costa dropped his hoe, and this third man, with a smile, picked it up and gave it back to him. All three men were broad shouldered, with very pale skin, slanted eyes, and long blond hair. They wore light brown coveralls fastened to shoes without heels. After plucking a few plants, the men returned to their craft, which rose into the air slowly for 30 feet and then shot off at a high speed. The witness had never previously heard about flying saucers. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 52; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-139 (A0351), citing Donald Hanlon, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20).

Dec. 10, 1954; El Tigre, Venezuela
Several daylight disc sightings and two humanoid encounters, one at night, occurred in Venezuela on this date. A photograph of five objects was taken in El Tigre.

Dec. 10, 1954; Floresta, Venezuela
At 6:30 p.m. a doctor driving with his father in Floresta stopped his car to watch two little men run into some bushes. Shortly afterward they saw a luminous, disc-shaped object take off from behind the bushes at a high speed and dart off into the sky with a sharp "sizzling" sound. Later that same night in Chico-Cerro de las Tres Torres, Venezuela two hunters, Lorenzo Flores and Jesus Gomez, saw a luminous object "like two washbowls put together." It was three meters wide and hovering just two feet off the ground. Flames emanated from the base of the object. Four hairy dwarfs, three feet tall, emerged and grabbed Gomez and tried to drag him toward their craft. Flores struck one with his gun butt, but it had no effect and felt like striking rock. The wooden rifle butt cracked from the impact. Gomez fainted from fright, and both young men were scratched and bruised. When they told their story to the police it was obvious that their shirts had been shredded into ribbons. (Sources: Coral Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion From Outer Space, p. 49; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-141, citing APRO Bulletin, January 1955).

Dec. 11, 1954; in Predale, Casina, Italy
On this morning a young girl, Miss Frassinetti, saw a luminous barrel hovering vertically over a nearby field. She said that a "man" was watching her through a window in the object. (Sources: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT: Italian UFO Catalogue; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0354). 

Dec. 11, 1954; Linha Bela Vista, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
At 5:00 p.m. farmer Pedro Morais first noticed a disturbance among his chickens in the farmyard. He then saw a UFO shaped like an "enormous polished brass kettle" with a rectangular structure on top, making a sound like a sewing machine, hovering in the air with an oscillating motion. Two small humanoids "enveloped in a kind of yellow sack from head to toe" were standing in a nearby field. As he approached, one ran toward him, the other raised its arm. The first one knelt down and plucked a tobacco plant from the field, then both jumped into the craft, which vanished within a few seconds. (Sources: Donald Hanlon, FSR Special Report #1: The Humanoids, p. 34; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 53; Coral & Jim Lorenzen, UFOs: The Whole Story, p. 171; Gordon Creighton, FSR, May-June 1970, p. 30; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-142 (A0355), citing Donald Hanlon & Coral Lorenzen; Jader U. Pereira, Les Extra-Terrestres, p. 80, citing O Cruzeiro, January 15, 1955; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 353).

Dec. 11, 1954; Jacksonville Naval Air Station, Florida
Navy jets were involved in a dogfight with a round, reddish UFO at 9:00 p.m. The UFO encounter was tracked on military radar. (Sources: Donald E. Keyhoe, Flying Saucers: Top Secret, p. 195).

Dec. 13, 1954; Campinas, Sao Paulo state, Brazil
At dusk. Three gray discs performed acrobatics over farmland. One peeled off from the others, diving low over the roof of a woman's house, where it dropped a liquid substance "like silver rain." Chemical analysis revealed that the metallic material collected at the site was 90% tin with some other alloys. Jacques Vallee believes this case may provide clues to the propulsion system employed by the vehicles. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, in Peter Sturrock, The UFO Enigma, p. 242; Donald H. Menzel, The World of Flying Saucers, p. 231; Jacques Vallee, Confrontations: A Scientist's Search for Alien Contact, p. 49).

Dec. 15, 1954; in Campo Grande in the state of Mato Grosso del Sol
Time not given. A man had a close encounter with three aliens in Brazil while fishing in the river. He saw a small sphere revolving around a larger sphere, about two meters above the ground. The larger object had landing gear shaped like three round balls. Three human-looking occupants who were small in stature got out. They had with them a luminous basket and a metal tube with a cone-shaped end. They used these tools to collect soil samples. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 195, citing an investigation by Olavo T. Fontes).

Dec. 15, 1954; Australia
Bogus report says that during the day a Royal Australian Navy pilot reported that two UFOs paced his aircraft. The UFOs appeared on radar.  [Bogus report - Jan Aldrich] (Source: Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up 1941-1973, p. 408).

Dec. 16, 1954; near San Carlos del Zulia, Venezuela
Time not given. Taking a rest stop while driving along the Pan-American highway, Jesus Paz left his two friends in their car and walked off a short distance to relieve himself. They heard him screaming and then saw him fall unconscious. A small hairy dwarf ran off from the spot to a flat, shiny hovering UFO. The machine shot off with a loud whistle. Jesus Paz had deep scratches on his body from the creature. (Sources: Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 55; APRO Bulletin, January 1955, p. 15; Frank Edwards, Flying Saucers--Serious Business, p. 177).

Dec. 17, 1954; Bersaillin, France
At 5:00 p.m. on a country road in Jura department, a woodsman sighted a very bright light on the road, coming from a dark craft some 80 meters away. When the light became brighter the man felt an intense wave of heat and he thought that he would die. After a short while the light moved away. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 355).

Dec. 18, 1954; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
At 3:45 a.m. several hundred people, including sentries guarding the Catete Palace witnessed a yellow glowing object that slowed from a high speed and stopped in just three seconds, and then hovered for 20 minutes. It illuminated the surface of the water in Guanabara Bay, and finally climbed up at an oblique angle, and was gone in 4-5 seconds. Two small jets of exhaust were seen flowing from the lower part of the object while it was accelerating. (Source: UNICAT, case 557, citing Colonel Adil de Oliveira, Brazilian Government report dated October 1956; APRO Bulletin, July 1957).

Dec. 19, 1954; Vienna, Austria
UFOs shot through the sky over Vienna. There were many reports including several from police witnesses. (Source: Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 122; Loren E. Gross, The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse: UFOs: A History. 1954: November-December, p. 65).

Dec. 19, 1954; Cartaya, Huelva Province, Spain
On the same night a circular craft landed 50 meters away from two witnesses. As the witnesses walked towards it the UFO rose up to a very high altitude and flew away toward Portugal, making a great deal of noise. (Sources: Noticiero Uni,newspaper clipping dated December 20, 1954; Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Catalogue of 200 Type-I UFO Events in Spain and Portugal, case 17).

Dec. 19, 1954; Valencia, Venezuela
At eleven o’clock in the evening Mr. Parra, an 18-year-old jockey watched a disc-shaped UFO land and six three foot tall humanoids disembark and set about collecting vegetation samples and loading stones into the disc. When he attempted to approach them he was paralyzed by a violet beam aimed at him by one of the creatures. All the short beings entered the craft, and it took off. The UFO left behind ground traces. (Sources: Newspaper clipping dated December 21, 1954; APRO Bulletin, January 1955, p. 15; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space, p. 52; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 356).

Dec. 19, 1954; Vienna, Austria
High-speed UFOs reported. [UFOE, X]

Dec. 20, 1954; Pontiac, Michigan
Red-orange circular UFO, with white glow from "portholes" at front, sped overhead. [UFOE, XII]

Dec. 20, 1954; Valencia, Venezuela
At 3:00 a.m. on this day an employee of the Barbula Sanatorium saw a luminous UFO on the ground but decided not to report it until another employee, three hours later, saw the same craft. It took off soon after the second witness spotted it. (Sources: Passport to Magonia, A Century of Landings, case 357; Coral E. Lorenzen, Flying Saucer Occupants, p. 52).

Dec. 23, 1954; NE of Nogales, Arizona (BBU)
At 10:19 p.m. MST, an F-86D pilot had both radar and visual contact with an object described as a hazy glow of red and green flashes. The object remained 5,000 to 10,000 feet above the F-86 at all times. The length of the observation was approx. 40 minutes. Momentary interference was noted on radar scopes both in the F-86D and at the 684th AC&W Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB.  (Dan Wilson, Weinstein)

Dec. 27, 1954; in Mooi River, South Africa
Around 10:00 AM. Alerted by some children to the presence of a UFO, Elizabeth Klarer ran to a nearby hill. Twenty yards away was a domed disc-shaped object, about 60 feet in diameter, that silently descended to 10-12 feet above the ground. It had a flat hull rotating around a flattish dome, which contained portholes. In one of the porthole windows she saw a man "with a thin face, aquiline nose, and high cheekbones," who looked at her with hypnotic intensity. Then, with a blast of hot air, the craft rose and shot away at tremendous speed. Ms. Klarer had a contactee experience 18 months later. (Sources: Cynthia Hind, Fate, August 1969; John Wallace Spencer, World Atlas of UFOs, p. 146; David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-146 (A0359), citing Cynthia Hind, Fate Magazine, August 1969).

Dec. 28, 1954; nr San Rafae Moreno, Mendoza province, Argentina
3:30 AM. Traveling by car to Mendoza on Route # 143 Garvia Holgado de Amaya, a concert pianist and history professor, and six others traveling together saw a brilliant glow at the side of the road near San Rafael Moreno, Mendoza province. It was a luminous object about 100-200 meters away in a nearby field, and it was emitting a bluish light like that from a welding torch. According to the description by Professor Maria Luisa de Amaya, it had the form of two deep dishes placed together rim to rim. They could not make out any structural details. The witnesses stopped their car and got out, then walked toward the object. When they were about 50 meters away they noticed two human figures next to it. The beings were of normal height, wearing dark one-piece diver's suits, with their heads covered with a kind of cowl. One of the humanoids was crouching next to the object. After he got up, the two individuals entered the UFO through a rectangular door. The object began to emit smoke from its central region and rose up vertically, stopping a few meters from the ground and throwing out two flickering red lights. Alarmed, the witnesses rushed back to their car and took off driving at high speed. The object pursued them for 20 minutes, until by the first light of dawn they could no longer see it. (Sources: Oscar A Uriondo, MUFON UFO Journal, September 1979, p. 10, David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case 1954-38 (A1532), citing Roberto Banchs, UNICAT, case 542).

Dec. 29, 1954; San Diego, Calif. (BBU)
Daytime. Crew flying B-47 saw 2 objects pass the plane. (Weinstein; BB files??)

Dec. 29, 1954; near Gardonne, Gironde, France
At 9:00 p.m. a red oval-shaped object was seen on the ground near a river in Bru,  50 meters away from witnesses. The main witness, a Mr. Gamba, tried to approach it but was unable to move. The object rose up into the air, and as it did it changed color from white to red. Traces found at the site showed that the ground had been dug up, and some small trees had been cut. (Sources: Jacques Vallee, The Humanoids: FSR Special Edition No. 1, p. 20; Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, case 358, citing Sud Quest, December 31, 1954).

Dec. 29, 1954; in Bergamo, near Clusone, Italy
Time not given. A cigar-shaped object was seen hovering 25 meters from the ground at midnight. Several figures could be seen inside a transparent compartment. (Sources: Jimmy Guieu, Flying Saucers Come from Another World, p. 240; Lumieres dans la Nuit, issue #326).

Dec. 30, 1954;  in Sommaprado, Lombardia, Italy
6:30 AM. A man, age 62, was walking along a path near a local church when he heard a sound like a motor. He looked around but did not see anything, but moments later he heard the noise again. This time he saw a shiny brass colored cigar-shaped object hovering nearby. It had a "bump"  or dome in the middle and six rotor blades, three in front and three in the rear. The rear of the object was transparent and inside he could see two short beings dressed in black and wearing large helmets. The beings looked human with olive colored skin and black hair. They looked at the witness and smiled at him. The frightened witness fell to the ground and watched as the object departed at high speed. (Sources: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT; Larry Hatch, U computer database, case # 4251; Albert S. Rosales, Humanoid Contact Database 1954, case # 1564, citing ITACAT).

Dec. 31, 1954; in Camaqua, Brazil
At ten minutes after midnight, four men in a forest in the State of Rio Grande do Sul, saw a 30 meter wide disc stop and hover silently one meter above the ground. A human looking occupant got out of the craft and walked around it with a lamp of some kind. (Source: Felipe Machado Carrion, Phenomenes Spatiaux, December 1971, p. 32).