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Stories19

Pro early
Vidhas hunters' vehicle stall under blue and red lights
c. 2008 · Forest road toward Vidhas, former Papër commune, Elbasan County
Albania
UAP · Disc / saucer · 13 sources
14Thinly documented
Ubatuba Magnesium Fragments (1957)
September 1957 · Praia das Toninhas, near Ubatuba, São Paulo state
Brazil
UAP · Disc / saucer · 29 sources
24Thinly documented
Senator Richard Russell's Train Sighting of Two Discs over Transcaucasia
October 4, 1955 · Baku to Tbilisi rail line between Alyat and Hajıqabul (Kazi-Magomed), Azerbaijan SSR
Azerbaijan
UAP · Disc / saucer · 19 sources
41Partially documented
Pro early
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 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 Barra da Tijuca Flying Disc Photographs
May 7, 1952 · Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
UAP · Disc / saucer · 29 sources · 18 photos
41Partially 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
The Alexandria Flying Saucer Wave and the Convention That Never Was
July 5, 1949 · Madison Street, Alexandria, Rapides Parish, Louisiana (with reports from Pineville and Tullos)
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 18 sources
35Partially documented
The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'
September 23, 1947 · Headquarters, Air Materiel Command, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 27 sources
28Thinly 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
Pro early
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
Twin Falls saucer hoax
July 11, 1947 · T. H. Thompson residence, Twin Falls, Twin Falls County, Idaho
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources · 1 photos
28Thinly 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
Muroc Army Air Field disc sightings
July 8, 1947 · Muroc Army Air Field and Rogers Dry Lake, Kern County, California
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 25 sources
40Partially 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
Pro early
The Caherciveen "Doughnut" Disc
c. 1947 · Caherciveen, Iveragh Peninsula, County Kerry
Ireland
UAP · Disc / saucer · 11 sources
23Thinly 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 Miracle of the Sun at Fátima
October 13, 1917 · Cova da Iria, Fátima, Ourém, Portugal
Portugal
UAP · Disc / saucer · 47 sources · 4 photos
48Partially documented

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Documents195 · see all

  • FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 01 FOIA release
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· 69 pages· 21 pages mention it
    • p. 17 …FLYING DISCS SABOTAGE Reference is made to Bureau Bulletin No. 42, Series 1947, dated July 30, 1947, Section (B), which…
    • p. 47 ## O ## O (B) FLYING DISCS -- The Bureau, at the request of the Army Air Forces Intelligence, has agreed to cooperate…
  • FBI file: UFO, UFO Part 05 FOIA release
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· 74 pages· 31 pages mention it
    • p. 16 …FLYING DISCS SIGHTED BY 67c TACOLA, WASHINGTON SL - X The following, in general, are the facts regarding the flying disc…
    • p. 18 …deny, however, that they actually started the flying disc story and their actual part in the story. United Airlines pilot…
  • FBI file: silas-newton, Silas M Newton Part 06 FOIA release
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 2 …FLYING DISCS DATE: March 31, 1950 Special Agent of the New Orleans Division, has a brother. of the advertising agency…
  • FBI file: Kenneth Arnold Document
    Internet Archive (FBI)· 24 pages· 15 pages mention it
    • p. 1 …The following, in general, are the facts regarding the flying disc story that started by FRED CRISMAN and HAROLD A…
    • p. 7 …DAHL stated he made some remark that they possibly could have come from a flying disc and that he immediately…
  • FBI file 62-HQ-83894 Flying Discs, section 3 Document
    Department of War· 2026-05-08· 190 pages· 50 pages mention it
    • p. 37 …DAHL and CRI~AN deny, however, that they actually started the flying disc story and their actual part in the…
    • p. 41 …DAHL stated he made some remark that they possibly could have come from a flying disc and that he immediately…
  • 65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Section 003 Official release
    Federal Bureau of Investigation· 190 pages· 50 pages mention it
    • p. 37 …DAHL and CRI~AN deny, however, that they actually started the flying disc story and their actual part in the…
    • p. 41 …DAHL stated he made some remark that they possibly could have come from a flying disc and that he immediately…

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Video1947
U.F.O. Investigations: The Cover Up
From The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'
Video1947
Reminiscences of Nathan F. Twining, 1967
From The Twining Memo: AMC Opinion Concerning 'Flying Discs'