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INFORMATION
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SIGHTINGS
OVER TWO CONSECUTIVE DAYS
By Fran Ridge and
Franz W. Nentwich
| There is plenty of evidence to suggest that
when MADAR is triggered on one day with no visual, and
something of significance is observed and reported prior
to or after the anomaly in the same area, that something
important may be going on. Skeptics will argue that UAP
are not "up to something" because they don't exist. The
truth is, because some UAP ARE real, they MUST be "up to
something". All the more reason to take MADAR anomalies
seriously. Here are just a few cases where there were
sightings for two or more days in the same area. This
first group takes us up to the start of 1950. Later we
back up and cover the period 1942 to May of 1949. We're
just getting started! But for-the-record, anytime we
have a good MADAR anomaly we routinely check for
potential sightings of interest for the same day and
also the day prior and the day after the anomaly. And
anytime we come across a good sighting we use our online
MADAR Alert Search to see if there were any anomalies
logged in the area that day, the day prior or the day
after. |
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May 6, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 8:40 p.m. [May 7 at 02:40 UT]. A UFO was tracked at the base.
May 7, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 7:40 p.m. [May 8 at 01:40 UT]. A silent, brilliant white diamond-shaped craft flew 1,300 mph, changing from white to reddish to greenish as it descended, and then dimmed and disappeared.
May 8, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 10:08 p.m. [May 9 at 04:08 UT]; Lieutenant Ward and observers at two other posts reported a brilliant diamond-shaped craft at 1,600 feet altitude that descended slowly, accompanied by severe radio interference during the sighting but none later.
Although the following 4 incidents have similar descriptions, Fawcett and Greenwood pointed out that they were all distinct sightings as follows:
May 18,1949; New Orleans, Louisiana Late afternoon. A flying disc was seen heading north (Fawcett & Greenwood, 1992/1984, p. 163).
May 19, 1949; New Orleans, Louisiana Late afternoon. A flying disc was seen heading north (Fawcett & Greenwood, 1992/1984, p. 163).
May 20, 1949; New Orleans Airport, New Orleans, Louisiana 4:25 p.m. [22:25 UT]. A shiny silvery disc was joined by 5 similar but smaller discs that together circled the airport, after which the larger craft rotated around its horizontal axis and disappeared.
May 23, 1949; New Orleans, Louisiana Late afternoon. A flying disc was seen heading north (Fawcett & Greenwood, 1992/1984, p. 163).
The
following three are
important:
May 23, 1949; near Fort Hood, Texas (nuclear weapons storage site) 10:10 p.m. [May 24 at 04:10 UT], duration 2-3 mins. A stationary round light about 3 feet in diameter was seen changing colour from amber to greenish-yellow.
May 23, 1949; Fort Hood, Texas near the nuclear weapons storage site 11:30 p.m. [May 24 at 05:30 UT]. A light moved up and down and slightly left to right; in another section of Fort Hood a round light the angular size of a light bulb held at arm’s length was seen for about one minute moving up and down slowly.
May 24, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 12:30 a.m. [18:30 UT]. A round slow-moving yellowish light was seen.
Here are two more near nuclear facilities:
June 20, 1949; Oak Ridge, Tennessee 7:00 p.m. [June 21 at 01:00 UT]. Three objects were seen (Fawcett & Greenwood, 1992/1984, p. 171).
June 22, 1949; over the center of the Oak Ridge nuclear facilities in Tennessee A
flying saucer accompanied by two
rectangular objects was seen flying
slowly.
There were 5 sightings at the Los Alamos-Sandia Base in June, 1947, of which one was on June 27. It is not clear when the other 4 sightings were made.
June, 1949; Los Alamos-Sandia Base [Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant] – Five UFO sightings (Maccabee, 2000, p. 119).
June 27, 1949; Albuquerque, New Mexico, close to the Sandia Nuclear Weapons Assembly Plant. 1:38
a.m. [8:38 UT], duration 2 mins. A UFO
was seen. The following sightings were made near the Killeen Base:
July 28, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 8:45 p.m. [July 29 at 02:45 UT]. Three sightings were made, a white light with a tint of blue-green, a round object with a tail, and another one which faded out (Sparks, 2020, p. 68).
July 30, 1949; Killeen Base/Site B [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 9:35 pm [July 31 at 03:35 UT]. A blue-white object 35° above the horizon climbed an arc of about 15° in ~2 seconds (Sparks, 2020, p. 69).
July 30, 1949; Killeen Base/Site B [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 10:04 p.m. [July 31 at 04:04 UT], duration 2-3 secs. A bluish-white light was seen about 30° above the horizon flying a straight trajectory while losing altitude (Sparks, 2020, p. 69).
The following sightings were on 3 consecutive days at the Killeen Base, and 2 others later:
Aug. 10, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas Eight sightings of UFOs were reported (Maccabee, 2000, p. 118).
Aug. 11, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas A UFO was reported (Maccabee, 2000, p. 118).
Aug. 12, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas Two UFOs were reported (Maccabee, 2000, p. 118).
Aug. 14, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas Two UFOs were reported (Maccabee, 2000, p. 118).
Aug. 20, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas – A UFO was reported (Maccabee, 2000, p. 118).
Aug., 1949; Los
Alamos-Sandia Base – Ten UFO
sightings (Maccabee,
2000, p. 119). However,
none of these were identified by
date.
The Oct. 14, 1949 entry mentioned that for the next 10 days another 21 incidents of off-scale Geiger counter values were recorded that fit a periodic 1.5-hour time schedule, so I have added those below. The 1.5 hour time schedule happens to be the time period that it takes for a satellite in a prograde orbit about 250 km above the Earth’s surface to go around the Earth once. One scenario is that a carrier craft would be in Earth orbit, release scout craft which would rapidly descend to the Earth’s surface, and return to the carrier craft at some multiple of 1.5 hours, or a longer time if the carrier craft increased its distance from the Earth, though this would increase the distance that the scout craft would have to travel. The time or distance from the earth would be different if it went into a retrograde orbit instead of the usual prograde orbit, which is typical of most Earth satellites. On Oct. 23 the Norwood, Ohio incident took place in which a stationary carrier craft was calculated to be 10,000 feet in diameter. Given that all this happened between Oct. 14 and 24, one could propose that the Norwood UFO was the carrier craft that had been in Earth orbit from Oct. 14 to Oct. 23 and that on Oct. 23 for some reason, it stopped to hover over Norwood, Ohio. It reappeared hovering on Oct. 24, Nov. 19, Dec. 20, and into 1950 until Mar. 10 (Stringfield, 1957, p. 74). Incidentally, the known times (periods) for satellites are given at https://www.n2yo.com/browse/
Oct. 14, 1949; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego California 1:15 and 1:20 p.m. [21:15 & 21:20 UT]. The Observatory Manager of Public Relations saw a V-formation of 16 to 18 silvery round craft at about the time that readings of the cosmic ray Geiger counter detector went off-scale. For the next 10 days another 21 incidents of off-scale Geiger counter values were recorded that fit a periodic 1.5-hour time schedule.
Oct. 15 & 16, 1949; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego, California - Off-scale Geiger counter values were recorded.
Oct. 17, 1949; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego, California 7:20 a.m. [15:20 UT]. A small black object was seen at the same time as the cosmic-ray Geiger counter went off-scale again.
Oct. 18, 1949; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego, California - Off-scale Geiger counter values were recorded.
Oct. 19 & 20, 1949; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego, California - Off-scale Geiger counter values were recorded.
1949, Oct. 21; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego, California 2:30 p.m. [22:30 UT]. A member of the observatory staff, B. B. Traxler, saw a slightly curved elongated craft. However, this craft did not affect the Geiger counters (Maccabee, 2000, p. 125). Independently, and without being aware of Traxler’s sighting, George Adamski at nearby Palomar Gardens, saw a dark cigar-shaped craft.
Oct. 22, 23 & 24, 1949; Mount Palomar Observatory, 65 km NNE of San Diego, California - Off-scale Geiger counter values were recorded.
References
Fawcett, L., & Greenwood, B. J. (1992/1984). The UFO cover-up: what the government won't say. (Originally published as "Clear Intent"). New York: Simon & Schuster. Maccabee, B. (2000). UFO-FBI connection: the secret history of the Government's cover-up. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn. Retrieved August 13, 2017, from https://archive.org/details/ufofbiconnection00phdb Sparks, B. (2020, Jan. 26). Comprehensive catalog of 2,200 Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns. (1.26). Retrieved Jan. 31, 2020, from https://www.nicap.org/bb/BB_Unknowns.pdf Stringfield, L. H. (1957). Inside Saucer Post...3-0 Blue. Cincinnati, OH: Civilian Research, Interplanetary Flying Objects. Retrieved July 31, 2020, from http://www.nicap.org/books/3-0Blue/InsidesaucerPost3-0Blue.htm
Correction – Dec. 5 to
14 should be 1948, not 1946 .
The year 1948 looked like a
1946 to me and my computer
because of the poor
reproduction). However, these
were the green fireballs of
1948.
Sightings for 2 or more days in the same small area (finished to start of 1947)
The following incident was seen for two days because it says so: A few days after April 4, 1942; Ouallen, Algeria A slowly rotating silvery disc, hovering at 15,000 to 18,000 feet altitude, was seen for two days (Michel, 1957, p. 96).
July/Aug., 1945 or 1944; Wollaston Beach, Massachusetts 2 p.m. Two days in a row at the same time of day, nine objects were seen for one to two minutes (Liljegren, 2016).
Aug. 2, 1946; Norrland, Sweden Two cigar-shaped craft were seen exploding in the sky (FSR, May, 1969, p. 18).
Aug. 3, 1946; Norrland, Sweden As happened a day earlier, 2 cigar-shaped craft exploded in the sky (FSR, May, 1969, p. 18).
The following Dec. 5 to Dec. 14, 1948 sightings are important:
Dec. 5, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 6, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 7, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 8, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 11, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 13, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 14, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 20, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Dec. 28, 1948; Los Alamos A.E.C. Installation, New Mexico An FBI memo reported a sighting (Good, 1988, p. 483).
Most of the following are the same incident with different dates assigned
I know that for his computer database, Hatch assigned specific dates so that the computer could deal with the information. In reality, the date may not have been known exactly.
The following two April 1943 sighting reports seem to be the same incident with different dates:
April 3, 1943; near Long Beach, California 9:50 a.m. A domed saucer dove at an AAF BT13A Trainer airplane (Hatch, 2017).
April 5, 1943; near Long Beach, California A glowing orange disc
was seen by a flight instructor
and a student pilot diving at
their airplane, after which it
paced alongside, and, finally,
flew away.
I have to wonder if the following two Feb., 1944 weren’t the same incident with different dates:
Feb. 4, 1944; Frankfurt, Germany A tear-drop shaped object hovered and a shiny silver ball was seen. PA: V-2 missiles in January.
Feb. 8, 1944; Frankfurt, Germany A silvery sphere
hovered. July/Aug., 1944 or 1945, at 2 pm; Wollaston Beach, Massachusetts [near Boston] Two days in a row at the same time, nine objects were seen for one to two minutes (Liljegren, 2016).
The following two are probably the same incident:
Oct. 29, 1944; Munich, Germany A light blue fireball about three feet in diameter was seen.
Oct. 30, 1944; Munich, Germany 1:45 a.m. A light blue fireball paced a USAAF B-17 bomber (Weinstein, 2001, p. 6).
The following two are probably the same incident reported for two different months:
Jan, 1945; Hanford Lab, near Richland, Washington Radar targets were detected but an attempted interception by F6F Hellcats was unsuccessful. Commander Hendershot of the USNR in an SJS airplane also attempted an interception at high altitude but was unsuccessful. PA: Hanford Plant, Washington. This plant produced the plutonium used at the Trinity site and in the bomb dropped at Nagasaki, Japan.
Feb., 1945; Hanford Lab, near Richland, Washington - Radar targets were detected but an attempted interception by F6F Hellcats was unsuccessful. Commander Hendershot of the USNR in an SJS airplane also attempted an interception at high altitude but was unsuccessful. PA: Hanford Plant, Washington. This plant produced the plutonium used at the Trinity site and in the bomb dropped at Nagasaki, Japan.
The following two might be one and the same: Mar., 1945; the Brenner pass [at the boundary of Austria and Italy] A slightly yellow light approached a military plane in flight (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7). Note another sighting in Italy on Mar. 23 (above).
Mar., 1945; Italy A small yellow sphere was seen for three minutes by a B-25 pilot (Liljegren, 2016).
The following 4 may be the same incident: April 3, 1945; Kawasaki, Japan Balls of fire (foo fighters) followed an airplane on an incendiary mission to Japan.
April 3, 1945, at night; Japan Two orange fireballs, one of which came from the ground, accompanied a USAAF B-29 bomber formation (Weinstein, 2001, p. 9).
April 3, 4, 1945; Honshu, Japan Basketball-sized balls of fire followed a B-29 airplane, the pilot of which attempted evasive maneuvers.
April 4 1945; Tokyo Bay, Japan 3:17 a.m. [18:17 UT]. This incident may be the same as the one in the above entry. A fireball followed a USAAF B-29, in spite of evasive maneuvers by the pilot (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7).
The following two incidents have different times of day but are otherwise similar:
April 18, 1945,; 20 miles north of Iwo Jima, Japan 3:00 a.m. [April 17 at 18:00 UT]. In this radar/visual incident, a yellowish light was seen by the gunner of a USAAF P-61B approaching the airplane and losing altitude; Ground Control Intercept (GCI) radar also detected the object (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7).
April 18, 1945; 20 miles from Iwo Jima, Japan 4:15 a.m. [April 17 at 19:15 UT]. In this radar/visual incident, a reddish round light was seen by the gunner of a USAAF P-61B; Ground Control Intercept (GCI) radar detected two blips taking evasive action (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7). Compare with the 3:00 am entry above.
The following two might be the same incident: April 7, 1945; Linz, Austria (48°19’N, 14°18’E) Morning. One person in a U.S. military airplane saw one UFO (Haines R. F., 1983, p. 39).
April, 1945; Linz, Austria Morning. A solid bright object resembling a “crystal ball” paced a B-24 bomber (UFO Investigator, 1968, Mar., p. 7).
The following two entries are probably the same incident: May 2, 1945; Fala Island, Truck Atoll - Circular lights changing colours from red to orange to white to red, followed an airplane for more than an hour, but the object had no radar return. This is no doubt the same report as the one for May 3 below. PA: Airplane.
May 3, 1945; Fala island and Truck Atoll in the Pacific Ocean Morning. The pilot of a B-24 bomber saw two red objects changing colour which followed the B-24 in spite of the pilot’s evasive maneuvers (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7). This is no doubt the same report as for May 2 above.
The following two may be the same incident: May 14, 1945; Nagoya, Japan A stationary red light was seen.
May 15, 1945; Nagoya, Japan Night. A fireball was
seen by the pilot of a USAAF
B-29 airplane (Weinstein,
2001, p. 7). The following two might be the same incident with a wrong date: May 23, 1945; Tokyo, Japan Night. Fireballs approached and followed a U.S. bombing group and were seen by one of the pilots (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7). After the B-29s had made their incendiary bomb raids, Tomoyo Okada came out of his bomb shelter and noticed silent, blue-grey saucer-shaped craft following the B-17s, saucers which were “about 20 square yards...[in size] and which were followed several times by six feet wide and 30 feet long colored air waves” (Gross L. E., 1976, p. 60).
May 25,1945; near Tokyo, Japan A fireball followed a B-29 bomber for 50 miles. PA: B-29 airplane.
The following two might be the same incident: June 18, 1945; Japan - A fluctuating round light changed from bright red to dim orange. June 19, 1945; near Fukuoka, Japan - A bright ball of fire followed a B-29 bomber. PA: A B-29 airplane.
The following two might be the same incident: July 7, 1945; Sasebo, Japan A B-29 bomber fired on a large ball of fuzzy orange-red light with no effect. PA: B-29 airplane.
July, 1945; near Sasebo, Japan Night. The crew of a USAAF B-29 saw a large spherical fuzzy orange-red fireball accompanying the airplane (Weinstein, 2001, p. 7).
The following two might be the same incident: 1945, Aug.; Okinawa, Japan A metallic cigar-shaped craft 35 to 50 feet long was seen.
1945, Summer, evening; northern Okinawa, Japan Captain William A. Mandel was on a bluff facing the China Sea when the following happened, according to the Mufon Journal [Skylook] (1971, Sept., p. 14pdf): a light approached, which came from the back end of a cigar-shaped craft 30 to 40 feet long and 6 feet in diameter; except for the tail, it gave off no light; it was flying about 200 to 300 mph at an altitude of not more than 200 feet about 1,500 feet away from Mandel.
The following two were probably the same incident: June 9, 1946; Helsinki, Finland Night. A brilliant light streaked over the city, accompanied by the sound of thunder; the smoke trail was luminous for 10 minutes (Berliner, 1995, p. 23).
June 10, 1946; Helsinki, Finland A glowing object trailing smoke at an altitude of 900-1200 feet was seen (Aldrich, 2000, p. 9). News reports stated that the object turned and went back in the direction from which it came (Berliner, 1995, p. 23).
The following three (July 9, 9, and 10) are probably the same as the July 10 incident at 2:30 pm one (below) and can be omitted. The Aug. 14 report is also similar to the July 10 incident except for the date. July 9, 1946; near the town of Sundsvall, Sweden A missile fell and exploded (Aldrich, 2000, p. 9).
July 9, 1946; near Stockholm, Sweden 2:30 p.m. A missile landed on a beach though no explosion was heard (Aldrich, 2000, p. 11).
July 10, 1946; Stockholm, Sweden 2:30 p.m. [13:30 UT] A bluish cigar-shaped craft about 20 times as long as it was wide was seen (Gross L. E., 1988b, p. 9).
July 10, 1946; Bjorkon [20 km SE of Sundsvall], Sweden 2:30 p.m. [13:30 UT]. This sighting involved a projectile trailing a luminous smoke which impacted on a beach, leaving a yard-wide shallow crater (Randle & Estes, 2000, p. 47). The beach was described as 3 km from Bjorkovagen, Sweden; strangely, 10 m from the crater was found a cylinder 20 to 30 mm in diameter containing a tiny piece of paper or film a quarter mm in size on which was a checkered pattern; the impact site was visited the next day by three Swedish military personnel who concluded that no projectile had crashed on the beach and that the material recovered had been there before the supposed fall (Gross L. E., 1988b, p. 10). The same incident was described in FSR (1969, Mar., p. 17) as follows: at 2:30 pm, a luminous object with a fiery tail about 100 feet long hit a beach at Njurunda, Sweden, leaving a crater 6ft wide and a few inches deep, around which several kilograms of slag-like material was found; the recovered pieces were analysed by Dr. B. Backlund at the Cellulose Company Investigational Laboratory at Kubikenborg, Sweden who found that the samples contained carbon and much organic matter, and a metallic cylinder an inch long; inside the cylinder Backlund found an item resembling a paper or film fragment a quarter mm in size which resembed a miniature chess board when examined through a magnifying glass. Clearly, the cylinder and checkered item had been manufactured.
Aug. 14, 1946; near Sundsvall, Sweden A person heard a noise and recovered about 10 cubic decimetres of a slag-like material that had hit the ground.
The following two are obviously the same incident and I have omitted the second one because it is less accurate. Skane simply refers to an area of southern Sweden.
Aug. 13, 1946; southern Sweden 10:15 pm [21:15 UT]. Three large, silent “ghost rockets” came at five minute intervals, flying at high speed and constant height, the first one emitting red light, the next two, white light (Aldrich, 2000, p. 31).
Aug. 13 [sic. 14], 1946; Skane, Sweden Three rockets emitting light were seen at 5 minute intervals (FSR, 1969, May, p. 19).
The following two are obviously the same incident. I have omitted the second one because of the less specific information.
The following Hatch reference (with his assigned date) can be deleted in favour of the Mufon Journal one: Aug. 25, 1946; Tinker AFB, near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 5:20 pm [23:20 UT]. A saucer 60 m in diameter was seen with a head looking out each porthole (Hatch, 2017).
1946, Summer, probably the end of Aug.; near Tinker Air Force Base, near Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ~5:15 pm [23:15 UT], duration 1.5 min. In this single-witness case, Mrs. Margaret Schoonover claimed to have seen a biconvex disc of diameter ~75 feet, with 12-14 square windows, behind which ufonauts were visible from the neck up, showing large bald heads and dark, close-set eyes (Mufon Journal [Skylook], 1974, July, p. 4).
Late Aug, 1946; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - A disc-shaped craft hovered near the ground, with humanoids visible through the windows of the craft.
The following four are probably the same incident, but the second one gives the location as Sweden, not Norway. I have omitted the first three and retained the last one, which provides the most information:
July 18, 1946; SE Norway 12 noon [11:00 UT]. A craft 2.5 m long, resembling a V-1, crashed into a lake.
Norway for the following? July 19, 1946; Sweden 11:45 a.m. A craft resembling a V-1 dove into a lake.
Last week in August 1946; Norway The London Daily Telegraph stated that two projectiles were seen over Oslo, and two entered Lake Mjoesen, just to the north (Randle & Estes, 2000, p. 49).
July 20, 1946; Lake Mjösa, Norway 12:00 noon [11:00 UT]. A farmer and his wife, son and daughter had the following experience, according to FSR (1969, Mar., p. 18); his wife heard a sound like a strong wind blowing; two rocket-like objects passed so low that the two people threw themselves on the ground; Sigvat Skaug saw this happening from about 150 feet away and noticed that each craft was about 7 feet long with wings 3 feet long on either side attached almost in the middle; the objects followed a parabolic course and fell into the water.
The following 3 might refer to the same incident and I think I am going to delete the Randle & Estes entry, which probably is the same incident as the Sept. 8 or 10 ones:
Sept. 8, 1946; ~70 miles west of Salonica, Greece A rocket flying from north to south was seen by police officers (Aldrich, 2000, pp. 155, 160).
Sept. 10, 1946; in Greece at Kozani and Salonika 10:00 p.m. A “ghost rocket” was reported (Hatch, 2017).
Sept. 1946; Greece Newspapers reported
that rockets had been seen (Randle
& Estes, 2000, p. 49).
The following two are probably the same incident: 1946, Sept. 11 at night; Srinagar, Kashmir - A luminous object resembling a squash racket was seen flying toward the west, leaving behind a smoke-like trail (Aldrich, 2000, p. 159).
1946, Sept. 14; Srinagar, Kashmir region - A luminous object headed west, leaving behind a smoke trail (Gross L. E., 1988b, p. 66). Similar to the Sept. 11 description.
The following two are the same Aldrich has more information so the Randle and Estes entry can be deleted: Sept. 17, 1946; Fez [not Casablanca as I had it, which is where it was reported from], Morocco A projectile was seen with a tail of flame (Randle & Estes, 2000, p. 49).
1946, Sept. 17 at night; Morocco A flying projectile much faster than any airplane with a flaming tail was seen flying at low altitude from east to west over Fez, and at about the same time, at Tangier (Aldrich, 2000, p. 159).
The following two are probably the same incident with different dates, or they were separate incidents: Sept. 26, 1946; the Lingen-Meppen area over the Dutch-German border - “Ghost rockets” were seen flying westward by British Army personnel (Gross L. E., 1988b, p. 70).
Sept. 28, 1946; the Lingen-Meppen area, NW Germany - Several missiles, similar to flying bombs moving at high speed from east to west were seen by British troops (Aldrich, 2000, pp. 155, 170).
References
Aldrich, J. L. (2000). The ghost rocket file: documents and news articles concerning anomalous objects seen over Scandinavia in 1946. Mount Rainier, Maryland: Fund for UFO Research, Inc. Retrieved Dec. 2, 2019, from http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized_by_AFU/Aldrich,%20Jan%20-%20The%20Ghost%20Rockets%20File.pdf Berliner, D. (1995). Unidentified flying objects briefing document: the best available evidence. United States: UFO Research Coalition. Retrieved June 9, 2017, from https://www.pdf-archive.com/2016/10/11/unidentified-flying-objects-briefing-document/unidentified-flying-objects-briefing-document.pdf Good, T. (1988). Above top secret. Toronto, ON: MacMillan of Canada. Retrieved August 29, 2017, from https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-055 Gross, L. E. (1976). Charles Fort, the Fortean Society and Unidentified Flying Objects. Fremont, California: L. E. Gross. Retrieved Jan. 2, 2016, from http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-Charles-Fort-The-Fortean-Society-&-UFOs.pdf Gross, L. E. (1988b). UFO's, a history: 1946: The ghost rockets. Fremont: Gross, L. E. Retrieved January 2, 2016, from http://sohp.us/collections/ufos-a-history/pdf/GROSS-1946-The-Ghost-Rockets.pdf Haines, R. F. (1983). A review of selected aerial phenomenon sightings from aircraft from 1942 to 1952. In W. Andrus (Ed.), UFO: The Burden of Proof: Fourteenth annual MUFON UFO Symposium, July 1-3 (pp. 13-44). Seguin, Texas: MUFON, web page created by Francis Ridge for the NICAP web site. Retrieved July 11, 2020, from https://www.nicap.org/papers/83rsaps.htm Hatch, L. (2017). Database [UFO chronology]. Retrieved March 18, 2017, from http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Databases/Larry%20Hatch/derivations/ Liljegren, A. (2016, Aug. 8). A bibliography of references to UFO incidents during World War II. Retrieved Dec. 13, 2019, from Archives for UFO Research (AFU): files.afu.se/downloads Michel, A. (1957). The truth about flying saucers. London: Northumberland Press. Retrieved June 17, 2017, from https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209899?q=donald+keyhoe Randle, K. D., & Estes, R. (2000). Spaceships of the visitors: an illustrated guide to alien spacecraft. New York: Fireside. Weinstein, D. F. (2001). Unidentified aerial phenomena - Eighty years of pilot sightings. Boulder Creek, California: National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena (NARCAP). Retrieved Dec. 18, 2016, from http://www.narcap.org/files/narcap_revised_tr-4.pdf
Sightings for 2 or more consecutive days in the same small area (finished to May, 2, 1949)
July 2, 1947; Denver, Colorado 8:00 p.m. [July 3 at 03:00 UT]. Two people in a car saw several bright thin discs at 5,000 feet altitude, flying to the SW at high speed and coming back on July 3 (Hatch, 2017).
July 3, 1947; Texarkana, Arkansas Late night (~10 p.m.) [July 4 at ~04:00 UT]. Two restaurant operators, returning from a ball game at Burnett Park, reported one saucer with a continuous light on it that flew toward the east and passed directly over them at a height of ~400 feet; this was the third consecutive night in which silvery disc-shaped craft were seen (Mufon Journal, 1982, May, no. 171, p. 7).
Portland, Oregon on July 1and 2 (between Hillsboro and Portland), July 4 (several) and July 7.
Mar. 6, 7, 8, and 17, 1949; Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Camp Hood, Texas Several lights and objects were seen for three consecutive days.
Los Alamos was visited April 5 and 6, 1949 as follows:
April 5, 1949; Pajarito Mountain, Los Alamos, New Mexico 10:00 p.m. [April 6 at 05:00 UT], duration 1 sec. An enormous green object with a red afterglow disappeared behind the mountain.
April 6, 1949, at 12:05 p.m. [19:05 UT]; Los Alamos, New Mexico Green lights were seen (Sparks, 2020, p. 54).
Killeen Base was visited on April 27 and 28, 1949 as follows:
April 27, 1949; SE of Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 9:20 p.m. [April 28 at 03:20 UT], duration 19 mins. Various lights less than a few inches in size were seen blinking, one of which zigzagged.
1949, April 28; near Killeen Base [Nuclear Weapons National Stockpile], Fort Hood, Texas 8:30 p.m. [April 29 at 02:30 UT]. Slow moving lights were seen changing from white to red to green.
Most of the following are the same incident with different dates assigned
The following two are the same except for the month:
Feb. 28, 1947; 30 miles north of Lake Meade, Nevada Air Force jet pilot named Armstrong saw a formation of 5 or 6 white discs at an altitude of 6,000 feet (Dolan, 2000, p. 40).
June 28, 1947; thirty miles NW of Lake Meade, Nevada 1:15 p.m. PST [21:43 UT]. U.S. Army Air Force pilot Lieutenant Armstrong was flying an F-51 at 6,000 feet altitude when he saw 5 or 6 white circular craft, each about 3 feet in diameter, pass his plane heading at 120° in the opposite direction at ~285 mph.
The following two entries are of the same incident:
June 29, 1947; ~33 km ENE of Las Cruces and 7 km from White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico ~1:15 p.m. [20:15 UT]. Rocket scientist-engineer Dr. Carl J. Zohn, assigned temporarily to the White Sands Proving Ground and 3 other witnesses, saw a rotating disc or sphere heading north at a height of 8,000 to 10,000 feet that suddenly seemed to disappear in mid-air in a clear sky. PA: White Sands Proving Ground.
June 29, 1947; in New Mexico at Organ [10 km west of the White Sands Proving Ground] 1:20 p.m. [20:20 UT]. Rocket experts and two other people saw a silvery saucer in the northwestern sky, flying north at 9,000 feet altitude (Hatch, 2017).
The following two are the same incident
July 8, 1947; Mount Baldy, California 3:50 p.m. [21:50 UT]. The 1st Lt. in a fighter squadron was flying at 20,000 feet altitude when he saw a flat craft with no wings or vertical fin that was flying at ~35,000 feet altitude (MJ, 1977, Dec., p. 13).
July 8, 1947; ~40 miles south of Muroc Army Airfield [near Edwards], California 4 p.m. [24:00 UT]. A
flat object with no wings or vertical fin
was seen by a pilot flying an F-51 airplane
at 20,000 feet, but the object was too high
to reach (Ruppelt E.
J., 1956).
The following two are probably the same incident because Frostburg is 12 km west of Cumberland. Of the two, the Frostburg one has more details: July 20, 1947; near Cumberland, Maryland A silver-white disc was seen flying at high speed (Randle & Schmitt, 1991, p. 6).
July 20, 1947; Frostburg, Maryland at 9:15 am EDT [13:15 UT] A circular white object flew above broken clouds making a noise (MJ, 1977, Dec., p. 13).
The following two may be of the same incident with different dates: Early July, 1947; 20 mi S. of Malta” (evening) The description of this sighting is a near duplicate of the “June 8?, 1947” entry, except for the 2:30 pm (EST) time, which would indicate a daytime sighting.
June 8?, 1947; Twenty miles south of Malta Evening. A fisherman in a boat saw an object resembling a black submarine floating on the surface of the sea. When the boat’s engine was started, the black craft lit up the area and “little men” ran over the top and entered the craft, which then emitted a blinding light and submerged.
The second entry below is the same as the first sentence in the first entry below, so I made separate sighting reports for the Clark Airfield and the South China Sea incidents, as after these two sighting reports:
Aug. 1, 1948, morning; the South China Sea - Everyone on an Air France airliner saw a large metallic cigar-shaped craft flying south. A torpedo-shaped craft with a double row of lights was seen at Clark Airfield in the Philippine Islands, similar to the one seen July 20 in the Netherlands and by Chiles and Whitted on July 24 near Montgomery, Alabama (Vallee, 1965, p. 94).
1948, Aug. 1; between Hong Kong, China and Saigon, Vietnam - An elongated craft about twice the size of a heavy bomber was seen (Stanton, 1966, p. 39).
The two different incidents are as follows:
Aug. 1, 1948; the South China Sea Morning. Everyone on an Air France airliner saw a large metallic cigar-shaped craft flying south and make a right angle turn into clouds, leaving no rocket exhaust. Another object flew along with, but below the large craft, and also made a right angle turn with the large craft (Stanton, 1966, p. 39).
Aug. 1, 1948; Clark Airfield, Philippine Islands A torpedo-shaped craft with a double row of lights was seen, similar to the one reported on July 20 in the Netherlands and the one seen by Chiles and Whitted on July 24 near Montgomery, Alabama (Vallee, 1965, p. 94).
The following two sighting reports are no doubt of the same incident. 1948, Oct. 29; Neubiberg Air Base, [Munich, Germany] - Five U.S. Air Force pilots saw a silvery flying saucer hovering at a high altitude for more than 30 minutes, after which it flew away at terrific speed (Mufon Journal, 2000, April, no. 384, p. 18).
1948, Oct.; Neubiberg Air Base, [Munich, Germany] - A flying saucer was seen hovering for about 30 minutes the week before Nov. 4 (USAFE, 1948). This was no doubt the Oct. 29 incident (see above).
The Nov. 3-4 and Nov. 23 incidents in the NICAP Chronology are obviously the same. Probably, the Nov. 23 entry should be deleted.
1948, Nov. 3 or 4 at 9:30 pm [Nov. 4 or 5 at 04:30 UT]; ten miles east of Vaughn, New Mexico – U.S. Army Colonel Hayes saw a 1 foot diameter reddish-white sphere fall slowly from a height of 400-500 feet, and then explode silently 100 to 200 feet above the ground, giving off a reddish colour before reaching the ground (Blue Book Report).
The two April 5, 1949, 10 and 11 p.m. entries are of the same incident.
The April 12 sighting below may have been of a V-2 missile launched on April 11 at 22:05 UT if the date was actually April 11. The April 15 incident seems to be the same as the April 12 one except for the date.
April 11, 1949, at 3:05 pm [22:05 UT]; White Sands, NM - A V-2 reached an altitude of 85 km.
April 12, 1949; El Paso, Texas 4:30 p.m. [22:30 UT]. The witness saw a grey object go straight up and leave a smoke trail. The proximity of El Paso to White Sands (70 km), the straight up ascent, the smoke trail and the similarity in the time-of day (25 minutes after the V-2 launch), suggests that the witness saw the V-2 flight of April 11, and that the April 12 date is incorrect.
1949, April 15 at 4:30
pm [22:30 UT], duration 15 mins.; El Paso,
Texas – A greyish object went straight up,
leaving a thin trail (Sparks,
2020, p. 55).
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