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UAP & Aliens, 1940s48 stories · page 2

The Villa Santina Encounter: L. R. Johannis and the Red Disc of Raveo

August 14, 1947 · Chiarsò valley, lower slopes of Col Gentile, near Raveo and Villa Santina, Carnia, province of Udine, Friuli

UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources

13Thinly documented

Snake River Canyon Disc: The A.C. Urie Sighting

August 13, 1947 · Auger Falls Trout Farm, Snake River Canyon, near Twin Falls, Idaho

UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources

23Thinly documented

The Kerry Priests' Rocket-Like Object

c. 1947 · Killarney district, County Kerry

UAP · Other · 9 sources

25Thinly documented

The Hamilton Field Escort Discs: Two Milky-White Objects Pace a P-80, 1947

July 29, 1947 · Hamilton Army Airfield, Novato, Marin County, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

26Thinly documented

The José Higgins Encounter at Goio-Bang, Paraná

July 23, 1947 · Colônia Goio-Bang, northwest of Pitanga (today Luiziana), Paraná

UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources

16Thinly documented

Twin Falls saucer hoax

July 11, 1947 · T. H. Thompson residence, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho

UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources · 1 photos

28Thinly documented

Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs

July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland

UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources

32Partially documented

Roswell Incident

July 8, 1947 · Foster ranch, about 30 miles south of Corona, New Mexico (announced from Roswell Army Air Field)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 80 sources · 6 photos

64Well documented

Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings

July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California

UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources

40Partially documented

Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947

July 7, 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona

UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos

41Partially documented

United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho

July 4, 1947 · Over Emmett, Idaho, northwest of Boise

UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources

23Thinly documented

The Caherciveen "Doughnut" Disc

c. 1947 · Caherciveen, Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry

UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources

23Thinly documented

The Kenneth Arnold Sighting

June 24, 1947 · Near Mount Rainier and Mineral, Washington

UAP · Other · 67 sources

35Partially documented

The 1947 Flying Disc Craze: America's First Flying Saucer Wave

c. 1947 · United States (nationwide, heaviest in the Pacific states: California, Washington and Oregon)

UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources

55Partially documented

The Maury Island Incident

June 21, 1947 · East Passage of Puget Sound, off Maury Island, King County, Washington

UAP · Other · 77 sources

35Partially documented

The Malta fishermen's "submarine" with little men on deck

c. 1947 · At sea, 20 miles south of Malta, central Mediterranean

UAP · Being / humanoid · 10 sources

11Thinly documented

The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946

July 19, 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Överkalix, Norrbotten, Sweden (wave across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark)

UAP · Cigar · 54 sources · 3 photos

86Well documented

The Ängelholm Landing (Gösta Carlsson)

May 18, 1946 · Clearing in Kronoskogen, south of Ängelholm, Skåne

UAP · Disc / saucer · 41 sources

26Thinly documented

The Man Who Melted: João Prestes Filho, Araçariguama, 1946

March 4, 1946 · Araçariguama, São Paulo state

UAP · Other · 21 sources

16Thinly documented

The Trinity UFO Crash Claim

August 16, 1945 · Padilla ranch, west of San Antonio, Socorro County, New Mexico (near Interstate 25 exit 139)

UAP · Egg · 62 sources

21Thinly documented

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