1937: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

In a meadow near London in 1937, an eight-year-old girl watched a huge silvery object on stilt-like protrusions lower a platform from which three tall men in red descended. One carried her aboard despite her paralysis. Inside, the space appeared larger than the exterior should allow. She was placed in a molded chair facing a blinding light and experienced thoughts and visions not her own before being left in a vast pyramid of dark corridors — eventually finding a door that opened back onto the meadow where she had been taken. In the same year in West Yaroslavl Province, a woman named Anna opened her door to gray-green-faced men with large hairless heads, hoofed feet, and slanted dark eyes who requested iodine for a shipmate injured closing a hatch at their craft on the nearby lake. A local named Parshin was apparently narcotized on a riverbank, walked aboard a round craft, was decontaminated by light beam, shown holographic scenes of a sparsely treed planet with small horse-like animals, and told he was being recruited as a liaison — a role he fulfilled until his death, secretly delivering newspapers to the beings. Near Chashniki, Belarus, a dwarf-like helmeted figure descended soundlessly from the sky toward a seven-year-old shepherdess, opened his visor, smiled, examined the grass, and then zipped upward to about one hundred meters before compressing into a ball and dissolving.

Date: 1937
Location: Vancouver, BC, CanadaTime:  Unknown
Summary: The photograph taken in 1937 over Vancouver remains one of the most significant early images of a disc-shaped craft. The object shows a distinct metallic luster and a classic “flying saucer” profile, years before the term was popularized in 1947.
Source:  UNVERIFIED 

Date: 1937
Location: Near London England
Time: daytime
Summary: An eight-year-old girl was walking alone in a meadow when she saw a huge silvery object with stilt like protrusions hovering above her. A platform of some kind descended from the object and three tall men, dressed in red stepped down. One carried her onboard the object as she realized she was unable to move. The interior of the object appeared much larger and she recalled being placed on a molded chair facing a dazzling bright light. She then experienced unique thoughts and visions. Later she was taken to an enormous pyramid and wandered inside dark corridors until she found a door that opened to the meadow where she was originally taken from.
Source: Lillian Crowner Desguin, UFO’s Fact or Fiction

Date: 1937
Location: Philippov, West Yaroslavl Province, Russia
Time: unknown
Summary: Several strange “men” who entered her house visited a local adult woman named Anna who lived in an isolated wooden house located 6 km from the main village. They had gray-greenish faces, big hairless heads, large dark slanted eyes, and hoofed feet. One of them asked her politely for help, requesting iodine, and saying: “We have our ship on at the nearby lake. One of our men injured his hand while closing a hatch.” She gave them a small bottle of iodine. The aliens then installed a strange device supported by tripod legs, with an object remotely resembling and old photo camera on top. Anna then offered the men milk, which they drank. The closed bottle of iodine was capped by a rag and wooded plug on the rag. The aliens took the plug out and took the rag and with a gesture indicating disgust threw the rag away. A device resembling a rubber hose was placed on the top of the bottle at the neck, after that, they placed the device positioned in a way that it will face the bottle, (it was an apparent decontamination procedure). After this was done, they escorted the woman out of her house. Outside her home, another “green man” was watching her. When the aliens finished what they were doing they went out thanked the woman for the food and iodine and went away.
Source: Valeriy A Kukushkin, Yaroslavl UFO Group, “Chimeras of the X Location”, Anton Anfalov

Date:  1937
Location:  Polo, Missouri
Time:  Evening
Summary:  A teenager in Polo, Missouri (35 miles north of Kansas City) watched colored lights moving up and down in a wooded grove about a mile from his house on two consecutive nights. No electricity in the area at the time. Days later, cobweb-like cotton-candy-textured material was found hanging from trees in the area; it disintegrated instantly on touch and left a tingling sensation on the hand.
Source:  [Full Report] 

Date: 1937
Location: West Yaroslavl Province, Russia
Time: unknown
Summary: A local villager named Parshin was sitting on a bench on the banks of the local river when he suddenly felt disoriented as if narcotized. He seemed to fall asleep for a moment and in a dream-like state, he saw several greenish “men” with an object standing behind them. The object behind them was big, round like a piece of round bread. The strange “men” invited him to follow them. He felt no fear (apparently he was under the alien’s influence) and they entered inside the craft. He heard their thoughts in his head, as they demanded that he take his clothes off, he did as he was told. The beings then shone a beam of light on his cloths in an apparent decontamination procedure and told him that he could dress again. After that, he was shown a screen with holographic scenes of their home planet. Parshin remembered that the planet did not seem to have many trees and had small animals remotely resembling horses. After this demonstration, they told him, “We are here for the fifth time. Every period we stay here for 5 years, those who are replacing us are coming and they are supposed to arrive in the year 1938, but they have apparently had some technical difficulty.” The aliens then said that they could not stay for too much longer since they were running out of provisions. They requested that he cooperate with them and assist them in whatever possible. The witness never divulged their specific requests. Before his death, Parshin confessed to his wife, Perepetuya that he had been supplying those beings with newspapers on a regular basis. The aliens also told Parshin that the flight time to their destination point took 2.5 years earth-time one way and the same for the return time. (The purpose of the newspaper is not made clear).
Source: Valeriy A Kukushkin, Yaroslavl UFO Group “Chimeras of the X Location”, Anton Anfalov

Date: 1937
Location: Near Chashniki, Belarus
Time: 1100A
Summary: 7-year old Ludmila Chepik was shepherding some cows and collecting flowers on a meadow near the River Uloy when suddenly she saw a “man” descending from the sky towards her without a parachute. He descended to about 1 to 2 meters from her. The man was approximately 113cm in height (dwarf like), of athletic build, with broad shoulders and a disproportionately large head. He had a narrow waist, and something like heavy boots starting at the knees, like wide trousers, red in color. The man wore dark tight-fitting clothing. He had a helmet on his head, resembling that of an ancient Russian warrior (?). The helmet had a cone-shaped “bulb” shaped protrusion on top. His face was visible, reddish in color, and was wearing something resembling a transparent visor. The entity spent approximately 1 minute with the witness. He opened his visor, produced a protracted smile at the girl, looked around, touched the grass—he carried an oval device in his hands. After that, he waved his hands and zoomed soundlessly up into the sky at high speed. After gaining an altitude of about 100 meters, he seemed to compress into a ball and dissolve into thin air.
Source: Aleksandr Kuzovkin, Selected reports of UFO observations in The USSR 1982 | Source Status: VERIFIED

Date: 1937
Location: Plakentia, Greece
Time: noon
Summary: A woman was passing by from the Plakentia palace (then in a remote area) when she felt an unexplained sensation of fear. Suddenly, she saw, in a distance of 50 meters, a small girl, about 10-years of age, coming towards her. Her hair was standing up, like drawn by a magnet. In a few minutes a gust of wind took the “child” which vanished inside an old and crumbling nearby house.
Historical Context: Tseva, a prominent Greek folklorist, documented this 1937 encounter near the Duchess of Placentia’s palace. While local tradition often associated such events with spirits, the description of the girl’s hair standing up (static electricity) and her sudden “dissolving” or vanishing into a gust of wind is frequently cited in modern UAP research as a high-strangeness humanoid encounter.
Source: Folklorist Angeliki Tseva, “The Folklore of the Mesogeia” (Το Λαογραφικό των Μεσογείων).

Date: 1937
Location: Saginaw Michigan
Time: afternoon
Summary: An angler saw a scaly man-like creature that climbed up a riverbank and leaned against a tree and then jumped back into the water. The witness suffered a nervous breakdown after the incident.
Source: Loren Coleman, Curious Encounters

Date: 1937
Location: Upper Uwchlan Township Pennsylvania
Time: night
Summary: Cheyney Ladley encountered a creature with fiery red eyes and a bushy tail. It hopped like a kangaroo. 
Source: Mark Chorvinsky Fate August 1990

Date: 1937
Location: Kokkina Vrachia, near Achladocambos Greece
Time: night
Summary: Witnesses saw a creature, “half-goat-half man” screaming and shouting. After a while it vanished into thin air. 
Source: J Anagnostopoulos

Date: 1937
Location: Sydney, Australia
Time: night
Summary: After waking up on two consecutive nights feeling paralyzed and in a deep sweat the witness left the light on the third night and woke up to see 2 small figures dressed in black standing by his bed. He thought they looked like 2 little nuns with their heads covered. One of them was trying to pull the clothes off of him. He said the Lord’s prayers and the strange figures left. Involved in other encounters.
Source: Alien Resistance

Date: 1937
Location: Not given
Time: night
Summary: A man and his two sisters reported that on the day of their mother’s death they were terrified to see a figure descending the stairs. The figure had a face the man saw again years later “on the dust jacket of the book Communion”. That of an alien with large slanted black oval-shaped eyes. 
Source: Chris Aubeck, Return To Magonia

Date: 1937
Location: Near Karpinski, Sverdlovsk, Russia
Time: night
Summary: In the Ural Mountains a silvery metallic cylinder-shaped object descended and exploded behind a mountain. It is reported that a number of bodies of unknown origin were located inside. Additional information by a source indicates that there was a crash but no bodies were apparently retrieved.
Source: Anton Anfalov, Ukraine

Date: 1937
Location: Fontana, California
Time: 2100
Summary: Soon after the main witness and some friends were illuminated by an unknown shaft of orange light coming from the sky while walking back from the movies, the main witness remembered waking up at night finding his bedroom filled with subdued light and four or five little figures with big heads and eyes looking at him. The figures appeared to be light blue or green-gray in color. The figures than would move around and touched him. One night he recalled seeing the little men and white light would appear at the door accompanied by a tall man (he could not see his features) that appeared to be in charge of the little humanoids. He never felt any fear during the encounters.
Source: NUFORC

Date: Jan. 1, 1937
Location: North Carolina
Time: Daytime
Summary: Witnesses observed a gunmetal-colored object, approximately 30-40 feet in diameter, moving without any visible propellers or means of propulsion. The object was noted for its incredible speed and silence as it traversed the rural North Carolina sky.
Source: Page 10–11 Ref. 1 (NICAP, UFO Evidence, Section III)

Date: February 1937
Location: Ste. Pazanne, France
Time: 2000
Summary: On a road near this village a Mr. Billon and a female friend saw hovering in a field very close from the ground a luminous multi-colored almost square-shaped object. They could see two figures about 1 meter in height walking back & forth very rapidly in front of the object. The witnesses watched the scene from about 100 meters away. The figures appeared to be wearing brown-green colored uniforms. The witnesses were in a state of shock after the incident.
Source: Denys Breysse, Project Becassine

Date: Feb. 11, 1937
Location: Kvalsvik, Norway
Time:  Unknown
Summary: Large airplane with red and green glowing lights
Source: Page 11 Ref. 1 (NICAP, UFO Evidence, Section III)

Date: March 1937
Location: Barra das Garcas, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Time: unknown
Summary: A tall hairy powerful humanoid reported to have been the legendary “Mapinguary” supposedly went on a three-week rampage in this small farming town. Somebody or something with superhuman strength, enough to tare out their huge tongues slaughtered a large number of heads of cattle. Reports included several sightings; humanoid-like tracks as long as 18 inches, and horrible roaring sounds from the woods. Altogether, over one hundred heads of yellow cattle of old Spanish origin were killed, all the way to Ponta Branca, located 150 miles south of Barra das Garcas.
Source: Occultpedia

Date: March-April 1937
Location: Near Naples, Italy
Time: 0200A
Summary: Two men engaged in smuggling wine next to Capodichino Airport came upon a landed disc-shaped object, 20-30 meters in diameter. The object resembled two inverted plates and emitted a weak glow around its circumference. The surface of the craft was silvery and lusterless. A high pitch hum now became evident and three rows of lights became visible alongside the object, a fluorescent blue glow on top also became visible and a pink glow on the bottom, furthermore along the lower section dim blue-red flames became visible. Inside a small cupola on top of the object a dark humanoid figure was seen briefly by the witnesses, the craft also had a small cupola on its lower section. The craft rose to 400 meters and then took off towards the nearby Vesuvius Volcano, quickly disappearing from sight.
Source: Giornale de Misteri, Unknown number

Date: July 20, 1937
Location: London, England
Time:  Unknown
Summary: Light (Nicknamed Ghost Flier)
Source: Page 11 Ref. 1 (NICAP, UFO Evidence, Section III)

Date: July 22, 1937
Location: 500 miles off US coast
Time:Unknown
Summary: Lights of alleged aircraft
Source: Page 11 Ref. 1 (NICAP, UFO Evidence, Section III)

Date:  Summer 1937
Location:  Czernica, Germany (now Poland)
Time:  Unknown
Summary:  A multicolored globe-shaped UFO fell in a field near property associated with Eva Braun’s parents. The area was reportedly cordoned off by SS troops and the craft transported to Hirschberg SS base. Three small entities found: one dead, two alive; the survivors died within weeks. The surviving entity provided limited information and reportedly described alien underground bases in the Canadian Arctic. The craft was later moved underground and allegedly destroyed before Soviet arrival at war’s end.
Source:  [Full Report] 

Date: Summer 1937
Location: Carpathian Mountains, Czechoslovakia
Time: night
Summary: The witness, Dr. Z. was visiting relatives who lived in a small village near the Romanian border and one night was standing in an open field with a full moon overhead, and just staring at the vast expanse of stars, when suddenly he saw what at first appeared to be a shooting star flashing across the heavens. It gave off an eerie glow that lit up the entire sky, it stopped and hovered for several minutes and then streaked toward the horizon, making sudden right-angle turns as it went. The nocturnal visitor, at its closest position, took on the appearance of a craft apparently not of human origin. Later that night the witness experienced a very vivid dream in which he stood in the same field where he had originally seen the object. He saw a shiny metallic sphere about 50 ft in diameter come down from the sky and land nearby. Suddenly a port opened on the bottom of the craft and a ray of blue light beamed out and struck the witness, engulfing his head and shoulders. He felt paralyzed and light as a feather; he was then gently lifted up into the air and levitated into the landed craft. Once onboard the craft, he found himself being led into a small chamber by two robot-like creatures, which were made of some material like metal except that the joint of their bodies were very flexible, giving them the movement of humans. He was directed to a seat and then left alone. In a matter of moments the room lit up a brilliant red, and a man towering well above normal height appeared in front of the witness. The witness was unable to speak and was told to pay strict attention, to remain quiet, and to listen only. The being, who identified himself as “Andra Haxen”, said that the earth was soon going to find itself in the middle of a great battle that would take many lives and leave much sorrow in its wake. He expressed great compassion and stated that eventually good will overcome evil. The witness was told that he had been chosen for contact because of his scientific knowledge. Before leaving the craft he was apparently shown a blueprint of an invention that would apparently help humanity in the future.
Source: Richard Stevens, Official UFO Special: Ancient Astronauts, November 1977

Date: Winter 1937
Location: Rotherham South Yorkshire England
Time: 2000
Summary: A man walking his dog along a dark lane near a pit hill saw a strange figure running down the slope. It ran straight at a fence and instead of stopping to climb over it, it ran through it, passing very close to the witness. The being was described as humanoid, about five-foot-two inches tall, covered with hair, with goat-like hands and feet and with an oddly pointed head. The figure crossed the road then ran up a steep bank towards the railroad tracks. The witness felt compelled to follow the creature but resisted.
Source: Michele Clare, Northern UFO News # 110

Date: Late 1937
Location: German-Polish border
Time:   Night
Summary: During late 1937, multiple reports surfaced of strange “coffin and sword” shaped objects moving silently through the night sky along the border regions. These geometric shapes were often described as having a dark, non-reflective surface, contrasting with the more common luminous reports of the time.
Source: Page 11 Ref. 1 (NICAP, UFO Evidence, Section III)

Date:  Summer 1937 or 1938
Location:  Confederation Park, Burnaby, BC, Canada
Time:  Day
Summary:  Three children playing in the bush at Confederation Park in Burnaby heard a roaring sound and ran to Willingdon Avenue where they saw two parallel smoke trails approaching from the east at low altitude. At the head of the trails were two round balls of fire. The objects suddenly roared straight up at a 90-degree angle and disappeared into a clear sky. The witness compared them to jets — technology that did not exist at the time.
Source:  [Full Report] 

Date:  1937 or 1938 
Location:  Porlier Pass, off east coast of Vancouver Island
Time:  Daylight 
Summary:  A teenage commercial fisherman encountered a whitish-bluish sphere approximately 6–7 feet in diameter hovering over dead calm water in Porlier Pass. The object appeared to follow his boat and came within 100 feet, showing a clearly defined edge and multiple blue tones. He watched it for over five minutes before it dissipated. He had seen it in the same general area three or four times. He initially believed it was St. Elmo’s Fire but the report details — daylight conditions, defined solid edge, following behavior — rule this out. 
Source:   [Full Report] 

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Depth of the Pre-Modern Record — 1937 and the Soviet Archive Layer

The 1937 archive is distinguished by something no other year in the 1930s record possesses to this degree: a coherent regional cluster sourced to a single Russian research archive. The two West Yaroslavl Province cases — Anna’s iodine request and Parshin’s sustained liaison relationship — are both drawn from Kukushkin’s “Chimeras of the X Location” compilation via Anfalov, and they describe the same type of being (gray-green-faced, large-headed, hoofed, operating a craft on a local lake) in separate encounters with separate witnesses in the same geographic area. The beings in Parshin’s account identify themselves as repeat visitors on a rotation schedule, currently on their fifth visit, with a replacement crew delayed due to technical problems and expected the following year. The Chashniki Belarus case (Kuzovkin, 1982) adds a third Soviet-sourced entity encounter for the year: a flying helmeted dwarf who compresses into a ball and dissolves on departure — a behavioral signature not found in Western accounts of this era and suggesting independent observation rather than cultural contamination.

Against this Soviet cluster, the Western entries offer a different structural profile: the London near-abduction (Desguin/HUMCAT) is one of the most elaborate pre-modern CE-IV accounts in the archive, describing interior anomalous space, paralysis, light-induced vision states, and an inexplicable pyramid interior, all with an eight-year-old child witness. The Naples Capodichino disc (Giornale dei Misteri) is a clean close-range landing with multiple witnesses and a briefly-glimpsed occupant. The Ste. Pazanne France CE-III (Breysse/Project Becassine) gives a 100-meter observation of two uniformed short entities moving in front of a landed multi-colored craft. The year’s most problematic entries — Czernica, Fontana, Polo Missouri — are clearly distinguishable from the solid core by source quality alone, demonstrating that the archive’s own internal hierarchy separates myth-adjacent content from field-researched record.

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“The aliens then said that they could not stay for too much longer since they were running out of provisions… Before his death, Parshin confessed to his wife, Perepetuya, that he had been supplying those beings with newspapers on a regular basis.”

Valeriy A. Kukushkin, Yaroslavl UFO Group, “Chimeras of the X Location,” via Anton Anfalov, reporting the 1937 West Yaroslavl Province, Russia sustained contact case