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Louis Staub's Phantom Kangaroo, Grove City, Ohio (1949)
January 1949 · Highway about 2 miles south of Grove City, Franklin County, Ohio
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
14Thinly documented
Rediscovery of the takahē, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland (1948)
November 20, 1948 · Takahē Valley and Lake Orbell, Murchison Mountains, Fiordland
New Zealand
Cryptid · Creature · 32 sources · 5 photos
55Partially documented
The Beast of 'Busco: Oscar, the Giant Turtle of Fulk Lake
July 1948 · Fulk Lake, near Churubusco, Indiana
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 29 sources
23Thinly documented
Platillos volantes sobre Asunción: Incident #119
February 20, 1948 · Barrio Obrero, Asunción, with reports from Areguá, Cordillera and the Paraguayan Chaco
Paraguay
UAP · Egg · 7 sources
19Thinly documented
Peter Byrne's First Yeti Footprint
1948 · Near the Zemu Glacier, northern Sikkim (disputed; other accounts place the find in Nepal)
India
Cryptid · Creature · 21 sources
26Thinly documented
The Santa Clara Sea Serpent: A Ship Strikes a Monster off North Carolina
December 30, 1947 · Atlantic Ocean, off Cape Lookout and Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
15Thinly documented
The Villa Santina Encounter: L. R. Johannis and the Red Disc of Raveo
August 14, 1947 · Chiarsò valley, lower slopes of Col Gentile, near Raveo and Villa Santina, Carnia, province of Udine, Friuli
Italy
UAP · Disc / saucer · 20 sources
13Thinly documented
Snake River Canyon Disc: The A.C. Urie Sighting
August 13, 1947 · Auger Falls Trout Farm, Snake River Canyon, near Twin Falls, Idaho
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
23Thinly documented
The Hamilton Field Escort Discs: Two Milky-White Objects Pace a P-80, 1947
July 29, 1947 · Hamilton Army Airfield, Novato, Marin County, California
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources
26Thinly documented
The José Higgins Encounter at Goio-Bang, Paraná
July 23, 1947 · Colônia Goio-Bang, northwest of Pitanga (today Luiziana), Paraná
Brazil
UAP · Being / humanoid · 23 sources
16Thinly documented
Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs
July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland
Canada
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources
32Partially documented
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
Rhodes UFO photographs ("shoe-heel" photos), Phoenix, Arizona, 1947
July 7, 1947 · Phoenix, Arizona
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 33 sources · 1 photos
41Partially documented
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)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 31 sources
55Partially documented
The Maury Island Incident
June 21, 1947 · East Passage of Puget Sound, off Maury Island, King County, Washington
United States
UAP · Other · 77 sources
35Partially documented
The Glasbury Farm poltergeist, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire (1946)
December 1946 · Glasbury Farm, Trimsaran, Carmarthenshire, Wales (farm not located; village-level coordinates)
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Other · 11 sources
19Thinly documented
The Lariosauro of Lake Como: two hunters fire on a crested creature at Pian di Spagna
c. 1946 · Pian di Spagna, near Colico, northern tip of Lake Como, Lombardy
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
13Thinly documented
The Anchor Point "lizard-like monster": a beached carcass hailed as a dinosaur and identified as a killer whale (1946)
October 1946 · Anchor Point, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska (near Homer and Kachemak Bay)
United States
Cryptid · Creature · 7 sources · 1 photos
31Partially documented
The Bête du Cézallier, the post-war beast of Auvergne
September 1946 · Cézallier and Sancy massifs, around Saint-Alyre-ès-Montagne, Auvergne
France
Cryptid · Creature · 13 sources
34Partially documented
The Ghost Rockets (Spökraketer), Scandinavia, 1946
July 19, 1946 · Lake Kölmjärv, Överkalix, Norrbotten, Sweden (wave across Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark)
Sweden
UAP · Cigar · 54 sources · 2 photos
86Well documented
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-01-05· 6 pages· 3 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …Also included in the photographic package were five photographs of the alleged exposure station and surrounding vicinity. These photographs (attachment…
    • p. 2 …These photographs along with the measurement sketches and investigation report provided a means of obtaining an approximate photographic scale. This…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1967-02-17· 6 pages· 3 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …Also included in the photographic package were five photographs of the alleged exposure station and surrounding vicinity. These photographs (attachment…
    • p. 2 …These photographs along with the measurement sketches and investigation report provided a means of obtaining an approximate photographic scale. This…
  • Estado-Maior da Armada via NICAP· 12 pages· 9 pages mention it
    • p. 3 That, after having taken the above-mentioned photographs, the photographer, in the presence of CC Bacellar and other persons, took…
    • p. 10 …photographs were taken and immediately developed, the atmosphere in which this was done and the state of the photographer, as…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 2013-06-26· 3 pages· 3 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …Also included in the photographic package were five photographs of the alleged exposure station and surrounding vicinity. These photographs (attachment…
    • p. 2 …Photo Analysis of UFO Photography photographs (attachments 6, 7 and 8). These photographs along with the measurement sketches and investigation…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-08-03· 4 pages· 3 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOURCE As indicated ## SIGHTINGS OF UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS 10 JUNE-15 JULY 1954 UNIDENTIFIED OBJECTS PHOTOGRAPHED…
    • p. 2 …According to informed circles, a round object which appears on the photographs is not the moon or a cloud. One…
  • Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-09-03· 3 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …During the course of his photographic experiments in the last three months he managed, it is reported to me, to…
    • p. 2 …During the course of his photographic experiments in the last three months he managed, it is reported to me, to…

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