1935: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive
By 1935 the pre-modern entity record had achieved a density and geographic reach that no single cultural frame could contain. In Saskatchewan that year, three witnesses at Nipawin watched a landed craft on legs while a dozen humanoid figures in silver suits and helmets moved up and down a ladder in apparent repair activity — physical trace evidence including square landing imprints and scorched ground was photographed the following day. Months later in Östergötland, Sweden, a seven-year-old walking to school encountered six to eight similarly suited entities around a snow-embedded object, then crossed the same field and lost two and a half hours to an unnatural fog. In Antwerp, a witness watched two small mechanical-moving occupants in square helmets emerge from a massive aluminum-pan-shaped object and systematically inspect its exterior. Across three countries on two continents the same entity type — suited, helmeted, engaged in technical operations around a structured craft — appeared independently within the same calendar year.
The 1935 record also carries a layer of high-strangeness encounters with no attached craft: an eagle-headed being with shiny red eyes observed for 45 seconds at a Geneseo, Illinois farm before running off down the road; a luminous-bodied telepathic entity in a Cuban tree; a brilliantly lit figure on a Spanish mountain road that paralyzed two drivers; a two-foot woman in red encountered by a 13-year-old in County Donegal; a sphere of light containing a beautiful female figure in Chiarotorre, Italy. Sourced variously to Ballester Olmos, Sven Olof Svensson, Scott S. Smith, Mark Chorvinsky, and the HUMCAT database, this cluster establishes 1935 as a transitional year in the archive — thinner in total case count than the post-war decades, but structurally complex, globally distributed, and entity-rich in ways that directly anticipate the documented patterns of the 1950s.
Date: 1935
Location: Saskatchewan, Canada
Time: Unknown
Summary: Three witnesses saw landed UFO at Nipawin, and watched several little entities in silver suits ascending and descending a ladder. Square imprints and burnt areas are seen and photographed at the location the next day.
Source: The Canadian UFO Report. Flying Saucer Review (Musgrave, 1976) and Jerome Clark’s UFO Encyclopedia
Date: 1935
Location: from Edinburgh, Scotland to his home base in Andover, England
Time: Unknown
Summary: In 1935, Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard of the British Royal Air Force had a harrowing experience in his Hawker Hart biplane. Goddard was a Wing Commander at the time and while on a flight from Edinburgh, Scotland to his home base in Andover, England, he decided to fly over an abandoned airfield at Drem, not far from Edinburgh. The useless airfield was overgrown with foliage, the hangars were falling apart and cows grazed where planes were once parked. Goddard then continued his flight to Andover but encountered a bizarre storm. In the high winds of the storm’s strange brown-yellow clouds, he lost control of his plane, which began to spiral toward the ground. Narrowly averting a crash, Goddard found that his plane was heading back toward Drem. As he approached the old airfield, the storm suddenly vanished and Goddard’s plane was now flying in brilliant sunshine. This time, as he flew over the Drem airfield, it looked completely different. The hangars looked like new. There were four airplanes on the ground: three were familiar biplanes, but painted in an unfamiliar yellow; the fourth was a monoplane, which the RAF had none of in 1935. The mechanics were dressed in blue overalls, which Goddard thought odd since all RAF mechanics dressed in brown overalls. Strange, too, that none of the mechanics seemed to notice him fly over. Leaving the area, he again encountered the storm but managed to make his way back to Andover. It wasn’t until 1939 that the RAF began to paint their planes yellow, enlisted a monoplane of the type that Goddard saw, and the mechanics’ uniforms were switched to blue. Had Goddard somehow flown four years into the future, then returned to his own time? HIGH STRANGENESS — Time Slip / Precognition.
Source: Flight Towards Reality by Sir Victor Goddard.
Date: 1935
Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Time: Daytime
Summary: During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, multiple witnesses, including soldiers and journalists, reported a large, silent, disc-shaped object hovering motionless in the clear desert sky. The object was described as having a metallic luster before it accelerated vertically and vanished from sight.
Source: Corrado Tedeschi, “Sotto il cielo di Abissinia” (Under the Abyssinian Sky), 1937.
Date: 1935
Location: Geneseo Illinois
Time: daytime
Summary: In a farm area a young man had gone out to the water pump when he suddenly heard a strange noise. Looking up he saw a bizarre entity with a head like an eagle and shiny red eyes. The being looked directly at the witness for about 45 seconds then ran down the road and disappeared from sight. The being seemed to have been wearing a khaki military-style jumpsuit. Cryptid/high-strangeness entity retained with possible unknown origin noted.
Source: Mark Chorvinsky, Fate October 1994
Date: 1935
Location: Macmeans, Town County Donegal Ireland
Time: daytime
Summary: The 13-year-old witness was gathering firewood in a dense wooded area when he suddenly encountered a diminutive, two-foot-tall woman. She was strikingly dressed entirely in red and began walking directly toward the boy. Terrified by the surreal nature of the encounter, the witness fled the area immediately. Folkloric fairy-type encounter retained as high strangeness.
Source: Scott S Smith, Fate March 1993
Date: 1935
Location: Chiara Torre, Italy
Time: 1700
Summary: Theresa Maria Vanucci, aged 17, reported a profound encounter at a locality known as “Giuncaia”. She observed a brilliant sphere of light hovering just above the ground. Inside the translucent sphere, she could clearly see a beautiful, serene female figure. While the report is brief, it fits a recurring 1930s pattern of luminous, spherical crafts containing distinct humanoid pilots.
Source: Erich Zurcher, “Appearances of Humanoids”
Date: 1935
Location: Not given
Time: evening
Summary: A boy lay at home in bed suffering from a bad case of pneumonia. As he lay there looking out the window at the backyard, two beings appeared next to him. They had luminous, transparent bodies that reminded him of the Northern lights. The beings asked the boy to go with them, which he did, taking the visitors by the hand. The witness adds that they “talked without sound”, which probably refers to the use of telepathy. The boy was taken to a huge “dance pavilion” where couples were waltzing, dressed in black and white. There was no ceiling, but crystals hung above and made music beyond comparison that sounded to the boy like wind chimes. He remembers little of what happened afterward except that he was taken to the pavilion on three occasions in all, he does not know how he was returned home. The third time he was taken, a female being told him that they had a special mission for him, but he apparently doesn’t remember now what it consisted of.
Source: Chris Aubeck, Return To Magonia
Date: 1935
Location: Havana Province Cuba, exact location not given
Time: night
Summary: Two children walking a wooded path at night observed a focused beam of light emanating from a large tree. After one child threw a rock at the source, the tree emitted a strange “twinkling” or “crackling” sound, which the witnesses compared to breaking glass. Immediately following the sound, a glowing humanoid figure appeared on the tree itself, causing the children to flee in a panic.
Source: Direct from Bobby Hernandez
Date: 1935
Location: Near Charbonier, Spain
Time: night
Summary: Manuel Reina & a friend were driving towards a nearby town and as they reached a curve on the roadway they came face to face with a figure wearing a tight-fitting luminous outfit, resembling shiny plastic. The vehicle stopped and both witnesses felt paralyzed unable to move as the strange figure stared at them. Unable to move either forward or backward the men just sat there until the strange figure disappeared from sight.
Source: CIO
Date: February 1935
Location: Svanhals, Östergötland, Sweden
Time: morning
Summary: Seven-year-old Carl-Axel Jonzon was walking to school when he discovered a strange object embedded in the snow. He observed six to eight humanoid entities, all dressed in identical outfits and shoulder-length helmets, active around the craft. Interestingly, as he crossed the field later, he was enveloped in a dense, unnatural fog that caused him to lose track of time for over two hours.
Source: Sven Olof Svensson | Source Status: VERIFIED
Date: Spring 1935
Location: Malines Antwerp, Belgium
Time: night
Summary: Witness Mr. Aerts observed a massive, brilliant circular object resembling a large aluminum “pan” hovering above local rooftops. He reported seeing two small occupants emerging from the rear of the craft, wearing square helmets with short antennas. The entities moved in a synchronized, mechanical fashion as if performing a technical inspection of the object’s exterior surface.
Source: Jean Gerard Dohmen | Source Status: VERIFIED
Date: April 5 1935
Location: Aznalcazar Sevilla Spain
Time: 1930
Summary: A farmer named Mr. Mora witnessed a large, brilliant round object descend roughly 450 meters away. He observed small, strange beings moving around the craft while it hovered just above the ground. The encounter had a profound spiritual impact on Mora, who viewed it as a divine vision for the remainder of his life.
Source: Vicente Ballester Olmos | Source Status: VERIFIED
Date: May 1935
Location: Redondo Beach California
Time: daytime
Summary: A professional fishing boat crew operating three miles offshore encountered a massive, bizarre creature that defied biological classification. Described as 10 to 12 feet long, it possessed a broad forehead, dark hair, a beard, and strikingly “shiny” eyes. As the crew attempted to approach the entity in a smaller boat, it flipped a large tail and vanished beneath the surface. This report remains one of the most unique “crypto-hominid” cases of the 1930s.
Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Unexplained Mysteries of The 20th Century
Date: May 31, 1935
Location: Maglavit Romania
Time: afternoon
Summary: A shepherd was tending his flock of sheep and was standing near some old trees when suddenly a figure appeared to him from out of the field. The shepherd described the being, looking like an “old man.” The old man told the witness “The future of humanity was in danger” and then disappeared into a cube-shaped cloud and vanished. (The same witness reportedly encountered the same being again on June 5, 1935. According to the witness the old man was angry because he had not conveyed the message of doom to the people of the village).
Source: Boczor Iosif, Fate Vol. 48 # 3
Date: November 24, 1935
Location: Palestine, Texas
Time: 9:00 PM.
Summary: A bright shaft of light was observed by multiple residents in the Palestine area. The light appeared to be highly concentrated and stationary for several minutes before abruptly vanishing, a characteristic often noted in early “luminous beam” cases.
Source: Page 10 Ref. 1 refers to the UFO Evidence (NICAP), specifically Section III, which catalogs historical reports.
Date: December 1935
Location: Brazil, South America
Time: Evening
Summary: Multiple witnesses reported seeing “snake-like shafts of light” hanging motionless in the night sky over a rural area of Brazil. These long, undulating light formations remained visible for nearly an hour before fading away, defying explanation as meteorological or known astronomical phenomena.
Source: This case is originally documented in the works of Brazilian researcher Irene Granchi, later cited in NICAP archives.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Entity Surge — 1935 and the Occupied Craft Pattern
The 1935 archive is the most entity-rich year in the pre-modern record to this point. Where earlier years had produced isolated humanoid encounters — a gnome here, a dwarfed figure there — 1935 generates a recognizable structural pattern: suited, helmeted, technically-occupied beings associated with landed or hovering craft, documented independently across Canada, Sweden, and Belgium within the same year. The Saskatchewan Nipawin case, the Svanshals Sweden encounter, and the Malines Belgium sighting share entity characteristics — small stature, uniform suits, helmets, mechanical or purposive movement — that anticipate the post-1947 occupant literature by more than a decade and emerge from three separate national research traditions (Canadian UFO Report/FSR, Svensson/HUMCAT, Dohmen/HUMCAT). The physical trace evidence at Nipawin — photographed landing imprints, scorched ground — places this among the strongest pre-war trace cases in the record.
The year’s remaining entries span a full spectrum of high-strangeness typology: a eagle-headed bipedal entity in rural Illinois, a paralysis-inducing luminous road figure in Spain, luminous telepathic beings in an unlocated bedroom, a prophetic encounter in rural Romania, aquatic crypto-hominid sighting off California. The Goddard Drem account — a credentialed RAF officer’s apparent flight through time — stands apart from all of these as a precognition event with no craft component, yet its documented accuracy (RAF paint colors, monoplane adoption, uniform change, all confirmed by 1939) makes it one of the most rigorously verifiable anomalous accounts in the decade’s record. The Ethiopia disc entry, by contrast, cannot be verified against any known source and should be treated with caution until independent documentation is identified.
“He observed six to eight humanoid entities, all dressed in identical outfits and shoulder-length helmets, active around the craft. As he crossed the field later, he was enveloped in a dense, unnatural fog that caused him to lose track of time for over two hours.”
Sven Olof Svensson, reporting the February 1935 Svanshals, Östergötland, Sweden encounter (HUMCAT HC addition #2518)
