1845 – 1849: UFO & Alien Sightings

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Date: March 29, 1845
Location. London, England
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Summary: At 11 P.M. Mr. Goddart observed an unusual object and reported it to an English journal: “The sky was perfectly clear and the stars sparkled (…) My attention was suddenly diverted by a weak light in the constellation of Canes Venatici, resembling a speck of fog about 4 in magnitude but clearly of a yellow color. I immediately pointed my telescope toward it, which gives small but very clear and bright vision. The meteor appeared as a fog of four stars, with the center of an orange color. From Alpha Can.Ven. it moved slowly towards Coma Berenices, gaining ever more brilliance. It took two minutes before it went out.”
Source: L’institut Journal general des societes et travaux scientifiques de la France et de L’etranger. lere section, Sciences mathematiques, physiques et naturelles, vol. 13, no. 590 (Paris, 1845): 148. There is a reference to this observation in Poggendorff’s catalog in Annalen der Physik und Chemie (1854).

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Date: May 11, 1845
Location. Naples, Italy
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Summary: Astronomers at a Naples observatory recorded the appearance of several luminous discs, which left trails.
Source: Correspondence between mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss and astronomer Schumacher. Briefwechsel Zwischen C.F. Gauss und H.C. Schumacher, edited by C.A.F. Peters, vol. 5 (Altona, 1863), 46-47; Report of the nineteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (year 1849) (London, 1850): 46.

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Date: May 11, 1845
Location. Moreton Bay, Queensland, Australia 
Time: 20:00
Summary: An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object, the size of the moon, was observed by several witnesses at a lake.
Source: British Assn Advancement of Science

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Date: June 18, 1845
Location. between Malta and Turkey
Time: 9:30 P.M.
Summary: “At 9:30 P.M. the brig Victoria, from Newcastle to Malta, in lat. 36° 40′ 56″, long. 13° 44′ 36″ was becalmed, with no appearance of bad weather; when her top-gallant and royal masts suddenly went over the side as if carried away by a squall. Two hours it blew very hard from the east; and whilst all hands were aloft reefing topsails, it suddenly fell calm again, and they felt an overpowering heat and stench of sulphur. At this moment three luminous bodies issued from the sea, about half a mile from the vessel, and remained visible for ten minutes. Soon after it began to blow hard again, and the vessel got into a current of cold fresh air.”
Source: “Malta Mail”, cited by London Times, 18 August 1845, and James Glaisher, et al. “Report on observations of luminous meteors, 1860-1861.” Annual Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1861): 1-44, at 30.

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Date: June 18, 1845
Location. Ainab Mountain, Lebanon
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Summary: “At Ainab, on Mount Lebanon, at half an hour after sunset, the heavens presented an extraordinary and beautiful though awful spectacle.” Witnesses described the phenomenon as “composed of two large bodies, each apparently at least 5 times larger than the moon, with streamers or appendages from each joining the two, and looking precisely like large flags blown out by a gentle breeze.” They appeared in the west, remaining visible for an hour, taking an easterly course, and gradually disappeared. “The appendages appeared to shine from the reflected light of main bodies, which it was painful to look at for any time. The moon has risen about half an hour before, and there was scarcely any wind.” This phenomenon may well have been related to the first sighting for this date, above.
Source: James Glaisher, et al. “Report on observations of luminous meteors, 1860-1861,” Annual Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, (1861): 1-44. 

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Date: July 25, 1845
Location.  Firenze (Florence), Italy
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Summary:  A flying disc was observed. One disc, about 600 feet across, was observed
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

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Date: December 2 1845
Location. Ryook Phyoo, China
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Summary:  An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object was observed.
Source: Fort, Charles Book of the Damned Boni-Liveright, 1919

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Date: 1846
Location. Eastern Seaboard, United States of America
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Summary: A ‘luminous flying disc’ was reported over this eastern seaboard area.
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Date: 1846: Brazil’s very first official UFO reported

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Date: July 28, 1846
Location. Liverpool, England
Time: 3 P.M.
Summary: In the Transactions of the British Association for the Advancement of Science of 1847, Dr. D.P. Thomson reported that “during the exhibition of a panoramic model of Edinburgh, in the Zoological Gardens at Liverpool, on Sept. 27, 1846, about 3 P.M., an erect image of Edinburgh, depicted on the clouds over Liverpool, was seen by two residents in the Great Park at Birkenhead, for a period of forty minutes.” Edinburgh is about 325 kilometres north of Liverpool.
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Date: August 25, 1846
Location. Saint-Apre, France
Time: 2:30 A.M.
Summary: At 2:30 A.M. Dr. Moreau was returning from a visit to a patient’s home by warm, calm weather when he found himself bathed in the light coming from a globe that seemed to open up, emitting hundreds of star-like objects. This was observed for three to four minutes, after which the display slowed down and the globe disappeared.
Source: “Sur un meteore lumineux,” Comptes-Rendus de lAcademie des Sciences 23 (Paris, 1846): 549-550.

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Date: September 19, 1846
Location. La Salette, France
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 Summary: Two cowherds, an eleven year old boy, Maximin, and a fourteen year old girl, Melanie Calvat, saw a sudden flash of light. She testified: “I could see our cows grazing peacefully and I was on my way down, with Maximin on his way up, when all at once I saw a beautiful light shining more brightly than the sun. ‘Maximim, do you see what is over there? Oh! My God!’ At the same moment, I dropped the stick I was holding. Something inconceivably fantastic passed through me in that moment, and I felt myself being drawn. I felt great respect, full of love, and my heart beat faster. I kept my eyes firmly fixed on this light, which was static, and as if it had opened up, I caught sight of another, much more brilliant light which was moving, and in this light I saw a most beautiful lady. ” The “lady” was dressed in white and gold, with a cap of roses on her head. She was surrounded by a brilliant light and was weeping. The lady complained that Sunday was being desecrated and the peasants were blaspheming the saints in swearing. (The Cure d’Ars and other clergy were complaining about these very sins in their sermons). If there was no amendment, there would be great disaster, the harvest would fail and people would starve The parish priest declared the lady to be the Blessed Virgin; the apparitions were later approved by the Bishop of Grenoble, and pilgrimages began. Melanie became a nun and continued to receive revelations.
Source: Melanie wrote down her testimony in 1878. On 15 Nov. 1879 it was published with the “Imprimatur” of the Bishop of Lecce. In 1904, a few weeks before her death, it was reprinted “ne varietur” at Lyon.

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Date: October 26 1846
Location. Lowell, Massachusetts
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Summary: A flying disc was observed. Metallic traces found. One disc was observed.
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

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Date: November 1846
Location. Rangoon River, China
Time:   7:30 P.M.
Summary: By a dark night, at about 7:30 P.M., a bright light appeared, accompanied by extreme heat, and moved rapidly in front of the ship where the witness, (the wife of the ship’s  owner) was standing with the captain and a 4 year old child. The light did not come as a bolt of lightning but rather as a compact flame that terrified the witnesses. Several people in the vicinity felt the sudden increase in heat, although they were not in a position to see the light.
Source: Collingwood, Philosoph. Magazine, and L’Institut, 29 April 1868, 144.

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Date: March 19, 1847
Location. Holloway, London, England
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Summary: “On the evening of Friday, March 19, “A” and I left Albion road, [Holloway], about halfpast eight. Not any stars were then visible, but when we were in Highbury place, “A” called my attention to what we thought a fire-balloon ascending slowly. It was in the west, a little inclining to the south. As it passed on slowly to the west, its intense brilliance convinced me that it was not an earthly thing. “When it appeared to be over Hampstead (but as high in the heavens as the sun is at six o’clock in the evening when the days are longest) it shot forth several fiery coruscations, and whilst we were gazing at it broke into an intensely radiant cloud: this cloud sailed on slowly, and we never took our eyes off it. At this time the stars were shining. When we were in the gravel path opposite to Highbury terrace, the cloud was higher in the heavens and more to the west. It cast a most brilliant light on the houses there, brighter than moonlight, and unlike any light I ever saw. It appeared of a blue tint on the bricks, but there was no blue light in the cloud itself. “Suddenly, over the radiant cloud appeared another cloud still more brilliant, but I now felt so awe-struck, that I cannot say precisely how long they hung one over the other before the most wonderful sight happened. Perhaps they remained so for two or three minutes, when from the upper cloud a small fiery ball (about the size that the largest planets appear to the naked eye) dropped into the lower cloud, and was instantly absorbed. Soon after, another similar ball dropped from the upper to the lower cloud and then a ball apparently four or five times the size of the two preceding, fell from one cloud to the other. “Shortly after this both clouds disappeared, apparently absorbed in the heavens, though I did see a few particles of the brilliant clouds floating about for a minute or so. Presently the moon appeared, considerably to the northward of the place where the clouds had hung. We then saw the bright light across the heavens, which you told me, was zodiacal light, which lasted for more than an hour.”
Source: “Meteoric Stones,” The Living age, vol. 56, No. 717 (Feb 20, 1858), 503. Also Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science and Literature, vol. V (London: James Nisbetand Co., 1856)

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Date: October 11, 1847
Location. Bonn, Germany – Sun
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Summary: Single object, a small black spot rapidly crossing the disk of the sun, reported by astronomer Schmidt. It was “neither a bird nor an insect crossing before the telescope.”
Source: R. C. Carrington, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 20 (January 1860): 100-1.

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Date: October 12-13 1847 until October 6 1848
Location. Near Balashov, Saratov region, Russia
Time: various
Summary: During the night local residents noticed four fiery columns of light in the clear northeastern sky. The columns or beams of light were in close proximity of each other, with blue and white shades. The phenomenon lasted for about 2hours. After that the area became dark again and the sky again appeared normal. Soon after this observation, bizarre looking strangers appeared in the Saratov region. These “men” looked aged, like elderly men, with strange yellow-greenish looking faces, and all the men were beardless. These strangers visited several villages but never begged for alms. When the locals attempted to communicate with the strangers these only mumbled in an unrecognizable language which the Russian villagers could not understand. So the strangers were then considered eccentric or crazy (if indeed extraterrestrials, a perfect disguise which did not attract too much attention). Neither village elders nor district policemen detained the strangers. But as was found out later the strangers aroused the suspicion of local representatives and authorities. The strangers seemed to move very quickly in between villages, and never stayed one night in any of the villages. But the authorities could never corner or pinpoint the whereabouts of the strangers. All of the strangers appeared to vanish soon after October 6 1848 when a report was sent to the Ministry of Internal affairs from the town of Balashov. This report stated that on the above date at around 2100 there was very bright lighting over the area corresponding with the rumble of thunder which lighted the sky. And then at 2200 a blood red colored spot appeared in the center of the sky which was visible for 5 minutes, the spot then took an elongated form, becoming pinkish in color and moving towards the northwest, in half an hour the sky appeared to clear and the red “spot” moved to the west and separated into several dozen cone-shaped columns stretching to the horizon and becoming dark red in color. After that the north was covered with whitish-red stripes which slowly drifted towards the west. The phenomenon vanished around 2300.
Source: “Sekretnye Isslendovaniya v Ukraine” (Secret investigations, Ukrainian variant) # 6 2003

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Date: November 19, 1847
Location. Oxford, Wytham Park, England
Time:  04:30
Summary: A large object reported by Mr. Symonds was stationary at two points of its trajectory, which took seven minutes.
Source: Report of the eighteenth meeting of the British Association for the Advancement ol Science (year 1848) (London, 1849): 9-10.

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Date: September 9 1848
Location. Quigley’s Point, Lough Foyle, Ireland
Time: early morning
Summary: The sky turned dark and seemed to open, with a reddish opening, with a regiment of soldiers appearing in the reddish area. These were followed by war vessels under full sail, then “a man and a woman and a swan and a peahen,” after which the “opening” closed.
Source: T. Peter Park, The Anomalist # 10

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Date: September 18(19), 1848
Location. Inverness, Scotland
Time:  Evening
Summary: Two large, bright lights that looked like stars were seen in the sky. Sometimes they were stationary, but occasionally they moved at high velocity.
Source: The Times, 19 Sept. 1848

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Date: August 8 1849
Location.  Gais, Appenzell-Ausser Rhoden, Switzerland
Time: 15:00
Summary: Unidentified objects were sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. Physiological effects were noted. Many objects were observed by one witness at an observatory for over 25 minutes (Inglis).
Source: Fort, Charles Book of the Damned Boni-Liveright, 1919

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Date: October 1849
Location.  Deal, England
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Summary: Many objects were observed.
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

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