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UAP & Aliens, 1950s187 stories · page 7

Albert K. Bender and the original Men in Black (Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1953)
c. 1953 · 784 Broad Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut
United States
UAP · Being / humanoid · 56 sources
25Thinly documented
The Kingman, Arizona Crash-Retrieval Claim
May 21, 1953 · Near Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona (exact site disputed)
United States
UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
15Thinly documented
Brush Creek Flying Saucer Ambush
May 20, 1953 · Marble Creek and Jordan Creek diggings, near Brush Creek, Plumas National Forest, Butte County, California
United States
UAP · Being / humanoid · 9 sources
24Thinly documented
The Tujunga Canyon Contacts
March 22, 1953 · Big Tujunga Canyon, San Gabriel Mountains, north of Los Angeles, California
United States
UAP · Other · 23 sources
18Thinly documented
F-94 and Ground Radar Sighting at Nemuro, Hokkaido, 1953
February 7, 1953 · Nemuro AF Detachment, Nemuro, Hokkaido (also listed as "Korean area" and "Okinawa")
Japan
UAP · Unknown · 12 sources
40Partially documented
The Robertson Panel: The CIA's Secret UFO Review
January 14, 1953 · Washington, D.C. (exact building unresolved; CIA headquarters and the Pentagon both claimed)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos
46Partially documented
The Tulli Papyrus: the "circles of fire" of Thutmose III
1953 · Vatican Museums, Vatican City (where the claim originated; the text names no place)
Vatican City
UAP · Other · 13 sources
16Thinly documented
Beachy Head radar 'blip' over the English Channel (1953)
1953 · RAF Beachy Head, near Eastbourne, East Sussex
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 12 sources
24Thinly documented
The F-94 Interceptor Encounter near Hanford (Odessa Case)
December 10, 1952 · Odessa, Washington (popularly placed near the Hanford plant)
United States
UAP · Sphere · 20 sources
49Partially documented
B-29 radar-visual encounter over the Gulf of Mexico (Karas, Naumann / "Harter and Coleman")
December 6, 1952 · Gulf of Mexico, about 100 miles south of the Louisiana coast, about 190 miles from Galveston, Texas
United States
UAP · Other · 23 sources
47Partially documented
George Adamski's Desert Center Contact
November 20, 1952 · Colorado Desert, about 10 miles from Desert Center on the road toward Parker, Arizona, Riverside County, California
United States
UAP · Being / humanoid · 46 sources
39Partially documented
Napier / Sugarloaf Hill bright light reported to police (1952)
October 30, 1952 · Sugarloaf Hill (Sugar Loaf / Pukekura), Taradale, near Napier, Hawke's Bay
New Zealand
UAP · Unknown · 11 sources
27Thinly documented
The Marignane Airport Landing (Gabriel Gachignard)
October 27, 1952 · Marignane airport (now Marseille Provence Airport), Bouches-du-Rhône
France
UAP · Cigar · 11 sources
14Thinly documented
The Akureyri Spheres
October 26, 1952 · Akureyri, Eyjafjörður, northern Iceland
Iceland
UAP · Sphere · 17 sources
25Thinly documented
Little Rissington UFO Incident
October 21, 1952 · RAF Little Rissington, Gloucestershire
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
46Partially documented
The Angel Hair Sightings at Oloron-Sainte-Marie and Gaillac
October 17, 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Béarn (Pyrénées-Atlantiques), and Gaillac, Tarn
France
UAP · Cigar · 15 sources
28Thinly documented
The RAF Topcliffe "Perfect Flying Saucer" During Exercise Mainbrace
September 19, 1952 · RAF Topcliffe, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire (approach to RAF Dishforth)
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
33Partially documented
Yaak Air Force Station radar-visual sightings
September 1, 1952 · Yaak Air Force Station, Hensley Hill, Lincoln County, Montana
United States
UAP · Cigar · 12 sources
40Partially documented
William Squyres and the Propeller-Rimmed Disc, Pittsburg, Kansas
August 25, 1952 · Yale road, about 200 yards north of US Highway 160, northeast of Frontenac, near Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 9 sources
24Thinly documented
The Florida Scoutmaster Case: Sonny DesVergers and the Palmetto Scrub Encounter
August 19, 1952 · Military Trail, inland from West Palm Beach, Palm Beach County, Florida
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
36Partially documented

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