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Mount Palomar Observatory Sightings and Cosmic-Ray Counter Anomalies
October 14, 1949 · Palomar Observatory, Palomar Mountain, San Diego County, California
United States
UAP · Formation · 18 sources
36Partially documented
Pro early
The Heroldsbach Apparitions and Sun Miracle, Upper Franconia (1949-1952)
October 9, 1949 · Birch wood at the edge of the Schloss Thurn park, Heroldsbach, Forchheim district, Upper Franconia, Bavaria
Germany
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 21 sources
35Partially documented
Clyde Tombaugh sighting, Las Cruces
August 20, 1949 · Las Cruces, Doña Ana County, New Mexico
United States
UAP · Formation · 19 sources
22Thinly documented
Pro early
The Norwood Searchlight Disc Sightings
August 19, 1949 · Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Norwood, Ohio (also Madeira and Milford, Ohio)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 22 sources · 12 photos
45Partially documented
Pro early
RAF Bircham Newton: the sick-quarters footsteps and the haunted squash court
August 1949 · RAF Bircham Newton, near Docking, Norfolk, England
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 17 sources
22Thinly documented
Pro early
The Alexandria Flying Saucer Wave and the Convention That Never Was
July 5, 1949 · Madison Street, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana (with reports from Pineville and Tullos)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
35Partially documented
Pro early
The Lublin Miracle: the Weeping Madonna of Lublin Cathedral
July 3, 1949 · Archcathedral of St John the Baptist and St John the Evangelist, ul. Królewska 10, Lublin
Poland
Paranormal · Other · 32 sources
45Partially documented
Pro early
The Paget Silver Sphere, Bermuda 1949
June 20, 1949 · South Shore, Paget Parish, Bermuda
Bermuda
UAP · Sphere · 6 sources
21Thinly documented
Pro early
The Thorntown Gorilla and the Four-Posse Search
June 14, 1949 · Sugar Creek, Thorntown, Sugar Creek Township, Boone County, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
Rogue River Disc Sighting, Gold Beach, Oregon
May 24, 1949 · Rogue River near Elephant Rock, about 2 to 2.5 miles upstream of the mouth, Gold Beach, Curry County, Oregon
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
36Partially documented
Pro early
Two flat silvery discs over Tucson seen by M/Sgt. Troy Putnam (Blue Book Incident 337)
May 9, 1949 · Tucson, Pima County, Arizona
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources
29Thinly documented
The Charles B. Moore Theodolite Sighting, Arrey, New Mexico
April 24, 1949 · Launch site about 3 miles north of Arrey, Sierra County, New Mexico
United States
UAP · Egg · 26 sources
35Partially documented
Pro early
The Camp Hood "Balls of Fire": Lights Over the Killeen Base Atomic Bomb Site
March 1949 · Killeen Base (Site Baker), beside Camp Hood, Bell County, Texas
United States
UAP · Formation · 23 sources
33Partially documented
Pro early
The "Two Pullman Cars" Object of Cortez Road: Captain Sames of Eglin AFB
January 27, 1949 · Cortez Road between Bradenton and Cortez, Manatee County, Florida
United States
UAP · Cigar · 11 sources
18Thinly documented
The Exorcism of Roland Doe: The Haunted Boy Behind The Exorcist
c. 1949 · Cottage City, Maryland, and St. Louis, Missouri
United States
Paranormal · Other · 37 sources
35Partially documented
Pro early
The Jackson "Megaphone" Object: Pilot Thomas A. Rush and Blue Book Incident 233 (1949)
January 1, 1949 · In the air east of Jackson, Hinds County, Mississippi, on approach to North Jackson Airpark
United States
UAP · Cigar · 15 sources
30Partially documented
The Green Fireballs over New Mexico
December 5, 1948 · Los Alamos, Sandia Base and Kirtland AFB (Albuquerque), northern and eastern New Mexico, and West Texas
United States
UAP · Orb / light · 61 sources
52Partially documented
Munich / Fürstenfeldbruck Radar-Visual Sighting
November 23, 1948 · Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base, near Munich, Bavaria
Germany
UAP · Orb / light · 17 sources
42Partially documented
The Fukuoka F-61 Black Widow Radar-Visual Intercept
October 15, 1948 · About 50 miles northwest of Fukuoka, off the northwest coast of Kyushu, over the Korea Strait
Japan
UAP · Cigar · 16 sources
46Partially documented
The Gorman Dogfight
October 1, 1948 · Hector Airport, Fargo, North Dakota
United States
UAP · Orb / light · 58 sources
47Partially documented

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