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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
Helen Duncan's Portsmouth séances: the HMS Barham sailor and the 1944 police raid
November 1941 · Master Temple Psychic Centre, 301 Copnor Road, Copnor, Portsmouth, Hampshire
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 35 sources
41Partially documented
The Largs Bay sea serpent off Aden, 1933
May 1933 · Off Aden, Gulf of Aden
Yemen
Cryptid · Creature · 10 sources
18Thinly documented
The Sheerness Phantom Zeppelin (The Sheerness Incident)
October 14, 1912 · Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, Kent
United Kingdom
UAP · Unknown · 20 sources
38Partially documented
The Wildman of Valdez Island: the Pitcock (Pidcock) family's encounters at Quathiaski Cove, 1905
October 1905 · Quathiaski Cove, Quadra Island (then Valdes or "Valdez" Island), British Columbia
Canada
Cryptid · Creature · 17 sources
34Partially documented
The HMS Caroline "Chinese Lanterns" off Quelpart (Jeju)
February 24, 1893 · At sea, sixteen to seventeen miles south of Quelpart (Jeju Island), North China Sea
South Korea
UAP · Orb / light · 19 sources
24Thinly documented
The Flying Dutchman Seen by Prince George, Later George V (1881)
July 11, 1881 · At sea between Melbourne and Sydney, usually placed in Bass Strait
Australia
Paranormal · Other · 21 sources
23Thinly documented
The Royal Yacht Osborne Sea Monster off Sicily
June 2, 1877 · Off the north coast of Sicily, toward Cape Vito (Capo San Vito)
Italy
Cryptid · Creature · 18 sources
21Thinly documented
The Haunting of HMS Asp
1850 · Royal Dockyard and Paterchurch ruins, Pembroke Dock, Pembrokeshire, Wales
United Kingdom
Paranormal · Being / humanoid · 24 sources
29Thinly documented
The HMS Plumper Sea Serpent
December 31, 1848 · Open Atlantic, nearly due west of Oporto (41°13′N, 12°31′W)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
11Thinly documented
The Brig Daphne Sea Serpent Hoax
September 20, 1848 · Gulf of Guinea, off Gabon and the Republic of Congo (lat. 4° 11′ S., long. 10° 15′ E.)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 14 sources
2Thinly documented
HMS Daedalus sea serpent: Captain M'Quhae's report and the Richard Owen dispute, 1848
August 6, 1848 · South Atlantic, between the Cape of Good Hope and St Helena, about 300 miles off present-day Namibia (24°44′S, 9°22′E)
International waters
Cryptid · Creature · 25 sources
28Thinly documented
  • The National Archives· 13 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 2 …This led the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, to order an investigation. Inquiries by naval intelligence failed to…
    • p. 4 …Turney, head of scientific intelligence at the Admiralty. This team reviewed what was known about the subject and investigated a…
  • The National Archives· 2011-08· 15 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 2 …This led the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, to order an investigation. Inquiries by naval intelligence failed to…
    • p. 4 …Turney, head of scientific intelligence at the Admiralty. This team reviewed what was known about the subject and investigated a…
  • The National Archives· 15 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 2 …This led the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, to order an investigation. Inquiries by naval intelligence failed to…
    • p. 4 …Turney, head of scientific intelligence at the Admiralty. This team reviewed what was known about the subject and investigated a…
  • The National Archives· 15 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 2 …This led the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, to order an investigation. Inquiries by naval intelligence failed to…
    • p. 4 …Turney, head of scientific intelligence at the Admiralty. This team reviewed what was known about the subject and investigated a…
  • The National Archives· 22 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 7 …Turney, head of scientific intelligence at the Admiralty, it included five intelligence officers, two of whom were scientists, the other…
  • U.S. Department of War· 1948· 45 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 38 …it was demonstrated before Winston Churchill in the hope of securing orders from the Admiralty. Altogether, 11,000 miles were…

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