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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)

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The Kenneth Arnold Sighting
June 24, 1947 · Near Mount Rainier and Mineral, Washington
United States
UAP · Other · 67 sources
35Partially documented
81% match
Francis Chichester's Airship over the Tasman Sea
June 6, 1931 · Tasman Sea, off the coast of New South Wales, between Lord Howe Island and Jervis Bay (estimated about 80 miles east of Sydney)
International waters
UAP · Cigar · 12 sources
15Thinly documented
70% match
Orly Airport Radar and Air France DC-3 Sighting
February 17, 1956 · Orly Airport, Paris
France
UAP · Unknown · 22 sources
45Partially documented
69% match
The Spitsbergen Flying Saucer Crash
1952 · Hinlopen Strait, Nordaustlandet, Svalbard
Norway
UAP · Disc / saucer · 22 sources
25Thinly documented
68% match
United Air Lines Flight 105 Sighting, Emmett, Idaho
July 4, 1947 · Over Emmett, Idaho, northwest of Boise
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
68% match
R. J. Childerhose's disc photograph from an RCAF Sabre, Alberta, 1956
August 27, 1956 · Foothills of the Canadian Rockies near Fort Macleod, Alberta
Canada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 16 sources · 1 photos
27Thinly documented
66% match
Carlos Antonio de los Santos Montiel radar-visual encounter
May 3, 1975 · Near Lake Tequesquitengo, Morelos, on the airway from Zihuatanejo to Mexico City
Mexico
UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources
47Partially documented
65% match
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
65% match
VASP Flight 169: Captain Britto's Light over Brazil
February 8, 1982 · Airspace between Bom Jesus da Lapa, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro (Galeão), Brazil
Brazil
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
67Well documented
50% match
Roswell Incident
July 8, 1947 · Foster ranch, about 30 miles south of Corona, New Mexico (announced from Roswell Army Air Field)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 80 sources · 6 photos
64Well documented
50% match
Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept
August 5, 1952 · Haneda Air Force Base, Tokyo (now Tokyo International Airport), Japan
Japan
UAP · Disc / saucer · 24 sources
61Well documented
50% match
Billy Meier's Pleiadian Beamships
January 28, 1975 · Frecht nature reserve (Betzholz area), near Hinwil, Zürcher Oberland, Canton Zurich
Switzerland
UAP · Disc / saucer · 104 sources · 1 photos
56Partially documented
50% match
The Mariana UFO Film
August 15, 1950 · Legion Park, Great Falls, Montana
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 63 sources · 3 photos
55Partially documented
50% match