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Every story, 1950s240 stories · page 12

Pro early
Pope Pius XII sees the 'miracle of the sun' in the Vatican Gardens (1950)
October 30, 1950 · Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes (Lourdes Grotto), Vatican Gardens
Vatican City
Paranormal · Orb / light · 26 sources
14Thinly documented
The Oak Ridge Atomic Plant Radar-Visual Flap
October 1950 · Oak Ridge and Knoxville, Tennessee
United States
UAP · Other · 23 sources
58Partially documented
The Mariana UFO Film
August 15, 1950 · Legion Park, Great Falls, Montana
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 63 sources · 3 photos
55Partially documented
The Necedah Apparitions: Mary Ann Van Hoof and the Assumption Day Crowd
August 15, 1950 · Van Hoof farm, Necedah, Juneau County, Wisconsin
United States
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 25 sources
32Partially documented
Pro early
Flight Lieutenant Stan Hubbard's Farnborough discs
August 14, 1950 · Royal Aircraft Establishment airfield, Farnborough, Hampshire
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 15 sources
28Thinly documented
Daniel Fry's White Sands Saucer Ride
July 4, 1950 · White Sands Proving Ground, near Las Cruces, New Mexico
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 32 sources
22Thinly documented
The Little Green Men of Steep Rock Lake
July 2, 1950 · Sawbill Bay, near Steep Rock Lake, Atikokan, Ontario
Canada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 14 sources
7Thinly documented
The Oskar Linke Landing at Haselbach
June 17, 1950 · Near Haselbach, by Gleimershausen, Thuringia (Soviet Zone)
Germany
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
37Partially documented
The RAF Tangmere Meteor Flying Saucer and the Wartling Radar Return
June 1, 1950 · Portsmouth area, Hampshire (pilot from RAF Tangmere, radar at RAF Wartling)
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 8 sources
42Partially documented
Capt. Willis T. Sperry and the American Airlines DC-6 sighting near Mount Vernon, Virginia
May 29, 1950 · About seven miles west of Mount Vernon, Fairfax County, Virginia, after departure from Washington National Airport
United States
UAP · Cigar · 13 sources
23Thinly documented
Seymour Hess sighting at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, 1950
May 20, 1950 · Lowell Observatory, Mars Hill, Flagstaff, Coconino County, Arizona
United States
UAP · Sphere · 15 sources
21Thinly documented
The McMinnville (Trent) UFO Photographs
May 11, 1950 · Trent farm, southwest of McMinnville, Yamhill County, Oregon
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 56 sources · 6 photos
37Partially documented
Pro early
TWA Flight 117 "red wheel" sighting, Goshen, Indiana
April 27, 1950 · Over Goshen toward South Bend, Indiana
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 10 sources
27Thinly documented
Bruno Facchini's encounter at Abbiate Guazzone
April 24, 1950 · Abbiate Guazzone, Tradate, Province of Varese, Lombardy
Italy
UAP · Being / humanoid · 19 sources
25Thinly documented
Pro early
Chicago & Southern Airlines DC-3 porthole disc, Hazen, Arkansas
March 20, 1950 · Near Hazen, Prairie County, Arkansas, about 40 miles east of Little Rock, north of Stuttgart
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
20Thinly documented
The Farmington Saucer Armada
March 17, 1950 · Main Street, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources
35Partially documented
Radar-Visual Sighting Over Dayton and Wright-Patterson AFB (ATIC)
March 8, 1950 · Dayton Municipal Airport, Vandalia, and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
United States
UAP · Sphere · 12 sources
50Partially documented
Pro early
Tubby, the Toothless Sea Monster: the Old Hairy carcass of Delake, Oregon
March 4, 1950 · Ocean beach at Delake (now Lincoln City), Lincoln County, Oregon
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
24Thinly documented
Pro early
Kodiak Naval Radar-Visual Encounters: P2V-3 Patrol Plane and USS Tillamook
January 22, 1950 · Naval Air Station Kodiak, Kodiak, Alaska
United States
UAP · Other · 18 sources
51Partially documented
Pro early
The Nechtansmere Battle Vision, Letham, Angus (1950)
January 2, 1950 · Near Dunnichen Hill, outside Letham, Angus, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 21 sources
17Thinly documented

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