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José Parra's Valencia road encounter: six small men and a violet ray
December 19, 1954 · Road between Valencia and Caracas, near Valencia, Carabobo state, with a second sighting near the Bárbula sanatorium
Venezuela
UAP · Being / humanoid · 15 sources
28Thinly documented
The Carora Hunters' Encounter: Lorenzo Flores and Jesús Gómez Fight the Hairy Dwarfs
December 9, 1954 · Countryside near Carora, Lara State
Venezuela
UAP · Being / humanoid · 13 sources
22Thinly documented
The Petare Hairy Dwarf Encounter, Venezuela 1954
November 29, 1954 · Calle Bella Vista, Petare, Miranda State (eastern Caracas)
Venezuela
UAP · Being / humanoid · 20 sources
17Thinly documented
The Taormina "Twin Disc" Photograph (Giuseppe Grasso), Sicily, 1954
November 19, 1954 · Taormina and Giardini (Giardini Naxos), Ionian coast, Messina province, Sicily
Italy
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
8Thinly documented
The Cennina Landing: Rosa Lotti Dainelli and the Two Small Beings
November 1, 1954 · Path between Capannole and Cennina, Bucine, province of Arezzo, Tuscany
Italy
UAP · Being / humanoid · 26 sources
27Thinly documented
The Day UFOs Stopped Play: Florence Stadium Mass Sighting
October 27, 1954 · Stadio Comunale (now Stadio Artemio Franchi), Campo di Marte, Florence, Tuscany
Italy
UAP · Egg · 49 sources
39Partially documented
Flying spheres with green trails over Belgrade, Zagreb and other Yugoslav towns
October 25, 1954 · Belgrade, Zagreb, Sombor, Apatin and other towns, Yugoslavia
Serbia
UAP · Sphere · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
The Gravataí Air Force Base sighting and the Brazilian Air Force's statements
October 24, 1954 · Gravataí Air Force Base (now Canoas Air Force Base), near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul
Brazil
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
36Partially documented
The Unsmiling Men of Ranton: Jessie Roestenburg's Saucer at Vicarage Farm
October 21, 1954 · Vicarage Farm, Ranton, near Stafford, Staffordshire
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
13Thinly documented
Flt Lt James Salandin's Meteor near miss over Southend-on-Sea
October 14, 1954 · Over the outlying districts of Southend-on-Sea, Thames Estuary, Essex
United Kingdom
UAP · Disc / saucer · 6 sources
17Thinly documented
The Lavoux "Diver": Roger Barrault's Mustached Martian
October 9, 1954 · Road near Lavoux, Vienne, about 12 to 14 km east of Poitiers
France
UAP · Being / humanoid · 11 sources
11Thinly documented
Pournoy-la-Chétive landing: the children's "Martian in a cassock"
October 8, 1954 · Near the cemetery, Pournoy-la-Chétive, near Verny, Moselle
France
UAP · Being / humanoid · 14 sources
15Thinly documented
Poncey-sur-l'Ignon Landing Traces, the Fourneret Case (1954)
October 4, 1954 · Poncey-sur-l'Ignon, Côte-d'Or, Burgundy
France
UAP · Sphere · 13 sources
29Thinly documented
The Great Greek UFO Flap of 1954 and the Agiasos Mass Sighting
October 1954 · Agiasos, Lesvos, and sites across Greece
Greece
UAP · Orb / light · 20 sources
23Thinly documented
The East African Saucer Wave and the Nairobi Police Patrol-Car Pursuits
c. 1954 · Nairobi, Kenya (wave also reported at Dar es Salaam, Mombasa and Kampala)
Kenya
UAP · Other · 12 sources
23Thinly documented
The Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon Locomotive Crew Sighting
September 28, 1954 · La Butte du Rouge, marshes of Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon, near Redon, Loire-Atlantique
France
UAP · Cigar · 10 sources
15Thinly documented
The Prémanon encounter: the "giant sugar lump"
September 27, 1954 · Sous la Roche, Prémanon, Jura
France
UAP · Being / humanoid · 16 sources
26Thinly documented
Chabeuil "child in a cellophane bag" landing, Mme Leboeuf (1954)
September 26, 1954 · Sunken lane beside Chabeuil cemetery, Drôme
France
UAP · Being / humanoid · 12 sources
23Thinly documented
The Gorbals Vampire hunt, Southern Necropolis, Glasgow
September 23, 1954 · Southern Necropolis, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 26 sources
25Thinly documented
The Gorbals Vampire hunt
September 23, 1954 · Southern Necropolis, Caledonia Road, Gorbals, Glasgow, Scotland
United Kingdom
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
18Thinly documented

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