1940: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

The 1940 archive opens the wartime decade at precisely the moment the world’s attention was consumed by the largest military conflict in human history — and the phenomenon, as it had done throughout the 1930s, proceeded without reference to any of it. In May 1940, as German forces crossed into France and Belgium, a Dutch immigrant miner in the Montana Rockies was invited aboard a stainless-steel disc and shown counter-rotating flywheel propulsion by two men who claimed to be several hundred years old. In the same spring, a five-year-old in wartime Gateshead encountered a group of mixed beings in a back lane, had something taken from the back of his neck, and days later watched his uncle kill one of them with a coal shovel. On April 5, a Black farmer near Charleston, Missouri described a grey submarine-like vessel nosing up from the Mississippi River and being escorted through its interior by five small brown figures. In June, an RAF anti-aircraft unit member tracked a flattened sphere at 38,000 feet over the Orkney Islands for ten seconds in the height-finder. In July, a Danish boy in occupied Jutland encountered three robot-walking suited beings who boarded a hemispherical craft and departed with a high-pitched whistle. In August, a suited humanoid walked across the surface of a Finnish lake without sinking. In October, Brad Steiger as a boy looked out his Iowa farmhouse window at a large-headed being with slanted hypnotic eyes. In December, three people on a California highway watched an inverted crescent become a fireball — and woke up hours later under hypnosis remembering two human-like men and a landed craft.

These are not peripheral entries. The 1940 archive contains three individual report pages already fully documented on this site — the Broadwater County Montana CE-IV (Udo Wartena), the Gateshead coal shovel CE-VI, and the Geneseo Illinois abduction — and they anchor a year whose geographic reach spans at least fifteen countries across five continents. The phenomenon does not care about the war. The war does not explain it.

Date: 1940
Location: Bolbec, France.
Time: Unknown
Summary: In a field, farmers found a humanoid form 1.9m in height, whose unusually large elliptical head showed no signs of having eyes, ears or nose. In the hospital it was first thought that the form was in some kind of solidified state.
After the Germans invaded, the body in the cool house and all of the documentation connected to the find were confiscated and classified as a state secret. To this date the material has not been recovered. A photograph of the figure, the doctors and a nurse was taken.
Source: Richard Brunswick, UFO Photo Collection. | Source Status: UNVERIFIED — Richard Brunswick and “UFO Photo Collection” are not identifiable as a credentialed research publication or organization in available UAP databases. The narrative of German confiscation of anomalous bodies parallels the Czernica and Black Forest mythology traditions. Case Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA. Retained as high strangeness with flag. Note: if genuine, this would be one of the most significant pre-Roswell body recovery cases in the European record — source identification is the critical research priority.

Date: 1940
Location: (Undisclosed location) Colorado
Time: Unknown
Summary: A Venusian “scout ship” reportedly landed on Buck Nelson’s family property. Members of the crew offered to fly the whole family to their home planet for a visit. Only Buck, then 4 years old wanted to go. The Venusians agreed to return one day when he was old enough to make a mature decision on the matter. The Venusians reportedly returned in 1953, 1954 and 1955, this time contacting Nelson, now living in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri.
Source: Buck Nelson, ‘My Trip to Mars, the Moon and Venus.’

Date: 1940
Location: Leninabad, Tajikistan, USSR.
Time: Unknown
Summary: Lubov I. Vasilenko, a 9-year old girl at the time, reported (in 1985) that she saw an alien spacecraft land not far from her house and two alien “cosmonauts” emerge from it and approached their house. Both humanoids spoke with her father; Ivan Kayokin, and then her father accompanied the spacemen to their ship. At the craft they asked him his surname and he answered; “Kayokin.” The aliens then made him take a kind of an oath not to talk about the content of their conversation. The aliens then looked at him and said, “Look Ivan, if you keep your word and believe us, then your daughter could later tell people about this encounter, but only 43 years from now.” Unfortunately Kayokin never divulged what he spoke about with the aliens since he was reported missing during World War 2 and was never found.
Source: Saint Petersburg Commission on Anomalous Phenomena.

Date: 1940
Location: Nulato, Alaska
Time: Unknown
Summary: Emily Supanich’s mother was berry picking with others when “they came upon a large hairy creature that resembled a man covered with long black hair. They ran back to the village and told the people.
The men went out, captured it and caged it. She said her mom fed it raw fish. After some time the hair began to fall out and it turned out to be a female with breasts. Not long after the hair started falling out, the creature died.
Source: Letter written to Roger Patterson by Emily Supanich, San Bruno, CA.

Date: 1940
Location: Playa de la Tejita, Tenerife, Islas Canarias, Spain
Time: Unknown
Summary: A local shepherd was walking along the beach when he saw an object shaped like two bowls placed together emerge from the ocean. Upon approaching the location where the object had settled on shore he came upon two tall blond-haired ‘Nordic’ appearing men. He greeted them but these ignored him. The witness then left the area.
Source: Lo Oculto, ‘Ovnis en España.’

Date: 1940
Location: Wallasea Island, Essex, England.
Time: Unknown
Summary: At a farm known as ‘Devil’s House,’ located among the marshes bordering the River Crouch, a laborer working in the barns heard his name called several times and felt a cold sensation come over him, followed by an overwhelming urge to kill himself. In a trance, he picked up a length of rope, fastened one end around his neck and walked towards a ladder with the intention of fastening the other end to a beam. He said he heard a voice saying, “Do it, do it, do it.”
Looking up, he saw an ape-like beast crouching on one of the beams. It had black hair and slanted glowing eyes. The sight of the thing broke his trance and he fled from the barn.
Source: Richard Freeman 2012, quoting Eric Maple, “Realm of Ghosts”

Date: 1940
Location: Cupids near Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Canada
Time: Unknown Daytime
Summary: In 1940, there lived in Cupids a deaf-mute boy. One day he and his family, went blueberry picking. During their adventure, this lad, whose name is lost to history, became separated from the rest of his family. Somebody, hearing what was later described as “throaty squawks,” went in search of the missing berry-picker.
The boy, when found, was “out of his mind and very distraught.” At home, after he had calmed down, he was asked to draw on paper what had happened. He drew a picture of a short man, resembling a dwarf, with a long beard and a red pointed hat.
Source: http://www.cbncompass.ca/Columnists/Burton-K.- James/2012-09-10/article-3071425/The-fairies-of-Conception-Bay/1

Date: 1940
Location: Naples, Italy.
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several persons at the Poggioreale railway station encountered a metallic looking robot-like entity with shiny eyes standing on the railroad tracks and telling people to stay away from the area. No other information.
Source: Paolo Fiorino, UFO Universe, Oct/Nov, 1991.

Date: 1940
Location: Meriden near Coventry, England
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Ms. Cathie Connelly was out walking on a Sunday afternoon and by shear accident she came across a metal, dome-shaped structure which she then took to be a permanent building. Next to this structure, apparently poking up through the grass, was a row of smoking chimneys. There were tall men all around the structure, seemingly adjusting something at the center. As she walked past them, the man who was facing the lane raised his hands to face level, he appeared to be cleaning them with a duster. As he walked closer to her she gave him a smile, but he didn’t smile back until he had finished cleaning his hands, and then it was a ‘slow smile,’ he seemed to be weighing her up.
All the men were wearing one-piece garments. They had unusually high foreheads and their skin seemed to be tanned. This was unusual because during the war people tended to be “pasty faced.” There was also something definitely different about the eyes. The structured appeared to be quite strong; solid that is, giving off a gray blue light. She recalls walking past, and on retracing her steps was surprised to find it had gone. A few months later she had a second experience. This time it took place at work when she was inspecting some chain links in the machine room, with a micrometer she had been given. As she did this, a man who looked like the men she had seen at Meriden, spoke to her and said; “Your war is upsetting my world.” She reminded him that it was his war too, but he replied, “I don’t come from this world; take me to your King and Queen.” She told him that she could not. He asked if she was color blind and she said no. He then asked who he should contact, and she told him he should contact the head scientists and leaders at their country homes. He asked her several times if she would go with him. Once he asked her to go on a long journey and see “nice colors.” She refused. The man had no accent and she doesn’t recollect seeing him again at the factory during the three years that she worked there.
Source: Norman Oliver, Gemini, Vol. I #1.

Date: 1940
Location: Faxinal de Sao Bras, Brazil
Time: Unknown Afternoon
Summary: Sebastiana Roncador had gone to the goat pen in order to milk the animals when she noticed a strange luminous object resembling a “circus tent” in a nearby field. Curious, she approached it and watched astonished as some type of “ladder” emerged from the object. The ladder moved in a way that it seemed to be “alive.”
Soon several 1-meter tall creatures exited the object. The beings had a dark complexion with large frog-like eyes, round faces, big heads, huge pointy ears, and short necks. They wore tight-fitting silvery outfits. The creatures approached the witness who ran frightened towards the house screaming. Her father ran out armed with a stick, which he threw at the creatures. These retreated back into the object.
The craft then took off, causing a huge cloud of dust to rise up. It emitted flames from its bottom, apparently burning the ground. At the site a black scorched circle was found and today nothing grows there. One of the goats was found apparently with a puncture wound and bleeding. The blood apparently coagulated and the animal died. Around the same time a local woman disappeared without a trace. Nothing was ever heard from her.
Source: Jose Edilson de Oliveira.

Date: 1940
Location: Agua Chica, Jujuy, Argentina
Time: Unknown Afternoon
Summary: A local teacher returning home saw a large silvery disc-shaped craft descend and land in a nearby field. A short figure about 1.1m in height, wearing a one-piece silvery outfit emerged from the object. The humanoid appeared to pick up something from the ground, and then glanced over at the witness briefly. The humanoid then boarded the object, which took off at high speed.
Source: Proyecto Catent, Argentina.

Date: 1940
Location: Gaziantep, Turkey
Time: Unknown
Summary: The witness (identified as the grandfather of Ilyas Ozbakis) was returning home on his horse when he heard a loud buzzing sound, at the same time his horse became very nervous and stopped. He then looked around and noticed two humanoid figures standing on the nearby ancient megalithic structures. One of the strange beings stood on top of a large rock while the other stood on the bottom. The two figures appeared to be communicating with each other using mimics and hand gestures.
The humanoid at the bottom of the rock was pointing a mirror-like apparatus at the one on top of the rock. Both humanoids wore extremely shiny uniforms which made the witness’s eyes water as a result of the glare. Soon the humanoid figures were lost from view behind the stones and then the witness heard the loud buzzing sound again and watched a large object resembling a “golden ball” ascend from behind the large rocks; it then flew in a northbound direction and disappeared from sight.
Source: Murat Aksoy, UFO Turkey, quoting Nuh’un Seyir Defteri.

Date: 1940
Location: Bancares, Almeria, Spain
Time: Unknown Evening
Summary: Ascencion Pascual Romero, had been sent by her family on an errand to get some milk, and on her way back home, she observed strange lights in the sky. She turned to obtain a better look at the lights and saw a strange bus-shaped object with windows descending slowly to the ground. After landing, two very tall men, more than 2 meters in height, exited the object; they were wearing strange clothing and spoke in an unknown language.
Finally they approached Ascencion and in perfect Spanish told her that they will return on another day and take her with them. Terrified, she went home and did not leave the house for two weeks straight. After that, she was sent on another errand by her family; this time to get water from the nearby river and there she was met by the two tall strangers who attempted to grab her. However she was able to escape them and hid under a nearby bridge overpass for two hours.
She then heard a loud sound and saw the object flying away at high speed. She described the object as brown in color, the size of a normal bus, shaped like a plate and surrounded in numerous tiny white lights.
Source: http://www.looculto.260mb.com/ovnisenespana/bancares/ban cares.htm

Date: 1940
Location: Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Time: Unknown Night
Summary: Divione Joseph had traveled to a lonely crossroads late one night to cast out spirits. Suddenly he was blinded by a bright blue light and lost consciousness. When he came to, he was inside a “motor-zebop” (spectral automobile) and surrounded by hideous semi-human figures wearing masks. After trying to bribe him not to speak of what had happened, the strangers threw Joseph out of the vehicle.
Source: Mike Dash, Borderlands.

Date: 1940
Location: Bata, Hungary
Time: Unknown
Summary: “Fiery cartwheel” UFO is seen ascending from a hilltop in Bata, Hungary
Source: Michel Bougard’s La chronique des OVNI (Delarge, 1977)

Date: 1940
Location: Gateshead, England
Time: Morning
Summary: The alien killed with a coal shovel — Robert Hall, spring 1940
Source: [Full Report] Northern Echo, June 24, 2011; Richard Hall, richplanet.net. Case Status: Insufficient Data.

Date: January, 1940
Location: Near Snydertown, Pennsylvania
Time: Early afternoon.
Summary: A family was driving one afternoon, a man, his wife and his sister. They saw a creature walk out onto the road in front of their car and described it as a large monkey with a tail that curved up over its head. It had extremely bright eyes, reflective like a deer’s. The man thought it was a deer until it crossed directly in front of the car. The skin/hair was dark. All of the people present agreed that it had a large, curved tail that went up over its head. The woman reporting included a footnote to this report. Snydertown, which apparently has a history of strange happenings. A woman living alone on a farm near Snydertown went insane; she claimed that the “devil” kept coming to look in her window.
Source: http://www.pabigfootsociety.com/

Date: January, 1940
Location: North of Lake Ladoga, Karelia, Russia (then Finland)
Time: Unknown
Summary: The Finnish troops beating back the Russians north of Lake Ladoga, had their own “Angel of Mons,” experience. Hundreds of soldiers declare that they have seen a large white figure of an “angel” with arms outstretched, protectively facing the Russian lines. (No other information)
Source: Evening Post (Wellington NZ) Vol. CXXIX issue 21 1-25-1940

Date: Between January 8-10, 1940
Location: Near Lake Abitibi, Quebec, Canada.
Time: Unknown 2:30 p.m.
Summary: L. Hormidas and Damase Landry, had gone out snow-skating in an isolated field near the lake. As they stopped to rest by a forested area, they saw a large white wolf leaving the woods, walking very slowly and looking back in the direction of the trees. The wolf stopped about 35 meters from the witnesses. Suddenly out of the woods six small men emerged, only about 2-½ ft tall, all similar in appearance, with yellowish faces and wearing dark green garb. The wolf stood as if paralyzed, looking at the small figures.
The small men apparently did not see the witnesses. They stared at the wolf and pointed their fingers at it. They spoke very quickly between them in a rapid-fire unintelligible language. One of the beings advanced to within a few feet from the large wolf, the being then raised his hand and pronounced a few words at the wolf. Suddenly the wolf threw himself on the being, quickly tearing it apart, scattering its remains on the snow. A strange vapor or mist is seen rising from the dead being and the other five little men stumble back and stare at the wolf.
Damase suddenly grabs a dead tree branch and threw it at the wolf that scattered and disappeared into the woods, howling at the same time. One of the small men then produces a small plastic-looking bag and approaches the remains of the dead humanoid; he collects the scattered pieces and places them in the bag. At this point Hormidas is unable to control herself and vomits. The five small men then walk away into the woods.
The two witnesses put on their ski boots and followed the little men, who were easy to follow since they leave small tracks on the snow. The traces lead to a large hollow on the ground, free from snow, the traces stop there. While looking around the area where the small humanoid was killed by the wolf, Damase found a piece of a small gelatinous rubber-like substance also green in color. They attempted to cut it in two with an axe but were unable to. The whereabouts of this piece of evidence is not known. According to Quebec Ufologist Donald Cyr, the incident probably occurred in 1939. He believes it was an actual event since he spoke to family members of the two witnesses involved and they confirmed most of the incredible details. (Per Cyr 2003).
Source: Jean Ferguson, ‘Enigmas of the Present Times,’ 1979

Date: Spring 1940
Location: Hinsdale, IL
Time: Unknown
Summary: William T. Powers (later associated with the Center for UFO Studies) saw five disc-shaped objects traveling at about 100-200 m.p.h. They disappeared into a cloud and did not re-emerge.
Source: Ref. 3; Jerry Clark Encyclopedia, 1992, Vol. II, p. 380 | Source Status: VERIFIED

Date: April 5, 1940 Correct date 1941
Location: Rural Missouri, near Charleston, Mississippi County
Time: 10:00 AM
Summary: A Black farmer near Charleston watched a grey submarine-like vessel surface from the Mississippi River, received a boarding invitation from a Black man on deck, was escorted through the vessel by five small brown figures for ~30 minutes, and watched it submerge on departure. Sheriff, State Highway Patrol, and FBI were subsequently involved. Witness taken to St. Louis by Coast Guardsmen for FBI questioning.
Source: Charleston Enterprise-Courier, April 5, 1941 | Source Status: VERIFIED

Date: May 1, 1940
Location: Boulder Mountain, Broadwater County, Montana
Time: Mid-morning
Summary: Udo Wartena CE-IV — disc with counter-rotating flywheel propulsion, two human-appearing occupants claiming 600+ years of age, hydrogen fuel, invitation to depart with craft.
Source: [Full Report]

Date: May 30, 1940
Location: Toledo, OH
Time: sunrise
Summary: At sunrise a dark ellipse was seen moving northeast, then making a 90-degree turn. Color visible on the dark object changed from red to orange to yellow.
Source: Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files

Date: 1940
Location: Geneseo, Illinois
Time: Day
Summary: Rex Ball — summer 1940, Saturn-disc craft, “pygmy” hairy entities, underground facility beneath Fort Knox.
Source: [Full Report]

Date: June 1940
Location: Hoy Island, The Orkneys, Scotland
Time: day
Summary: On a bright sunny day an anti-aircraft unit member focused a height and range-finder on a flattened sphere moving rapidly on a horizontal course and tracked it for 10 seconds. It’s height was computed to be 38,000 feet.
Source: Ref. 3; Randles & Warrington, 1985, p. 9 | Source Status: VERIFIED

Date: July 1940
Location: Kongens Tisded, Central Jutland, Denmark
Time: Afternoon
Summary:On a clear summer afternoon a 15-year old boy was walking toward Tisbjerg, a hill in the nearby landscape, located between fields and heathland. He was on his way to deliver water to some farm animals and when he reached the foot of Tisbjerg, he spotted three “persons,” walking side by side towards him.
He describes them as wearing shiny dark green, silk-like, tight-fitting suits. The suits covered all of the body and most of the head, and where the suit stopped around his chin, a helmet covered the rest of the head. The helmets had a glass-like, transparent visor that covered the faces (he mentions nothing of facial features though). On the suits were long ribbon-like protrusions, starting around the shoulders and continuing down to the feet. Apparently they wore no shoes. Also, the boy could see no zippers, buttons or pockets anywhere on the suits. They were all of average height and walked normally, while swinging their arms slightly. The boy was a bit surprised to meet anyone in this area as it was usually deserted. His first thought was that they might be mechanics. When the three figures were about 30 meters from him, they turned to the south and disappeared behind Tisbjerg Hill. He interpreted this as them not wanting to confront him, and while he felt like “his heart was stuck in his throat,” he was curious and made it to the top of the hill to try to see them again. He observed that the figure closest to the hill had fallen somewhat behind the others and was slowly on his way to the other side of them. He now also saw that the suits were completely smooth on the back.
The figures were walking towards some kind of dome-shaped object, about 200 meters from the foot of the hill. The object had no features at all and looked completely smooth, reflecting the light of the sun. The boy was not certain about the size of the object, but he thought it might be the size of a German military plane. Denmark at this point was already occupied by Nazi-Germany, which explains how he started to contemplate that the figures might be German pilots.
When they finally reached the object, they all stood still in front of it for a moment, and then they just simply disappeared. The boy was puzzled by this, as he had expected them to open some kind of door or entrance and go inside ‘normally.’
After a few seconds, the craft rose silently and vertically, at first very slowly, but suddenly it turned towards the southeast and began to accelerate away at an incredible speed. After a very few seconds, it could no longer be seen. During the acceleration there was a high-pitched sound, similar to that of swinging a long fishing-pole through the air.
Afterwards the boy ran down to the spot where the craft had been, and noticed that the vegetation was slowly rising again, after having been depressed. He noticed no other traces of any kind. On his way home, he wondered a lot about what he had seen. He couldn’t compare it to any type of German aircraft he had seen in the area. Only many years later, after reading about UFOs, did he think back to this experience and finally reported it.
Source: Michel Bougard, in “La chronique des OVNI”, Delarge, 1977, page 258

Date: August, 1940
Location: Sal Saflieni, Valetta, Malta
Time: Unknown
Summary: Tradition holds that before the British Govt. sealed up several tunnels, one could walk from one end of Malta to the other underground. One of the labyrinths, discovered by excavators, is the Hypogeum in which excavators discovered the bones of over 33,000 people who had been sacrificed by an ancient pagan Neolithic cult. National Geographic reported that several school children disappeared without a trace in the Hypogeum. British embassy worker Miss Lois Jessup convinced a guide to allow her to explore a 3ft square “burial chamber” next to the floor of the lowest room in the last (third) sub-level of the catacombs. He reluctantly agreed and she crawled through the passage until emerging on a cavern ledge overlooking a deep chasm. In total shock she saw a procession of tall humanoids with white hair covering their bodies, walking along another ledge about 50 feet down on the opposite wall of the chasm. Sensing her, they collectively lifted their palms in her direction at which a strong “wind” began to blow through the cavern and something big, “slippery and wet” moved past her before she left in terror to the lower room, where the guide gave her a “knowing” look.
Later she returned after the 30 school children and their teachers had disappeared in the same passage that she had explored, only to find a new guide who denied any knowledge of the former guide’s employment there. She heard reports however that after the last child had passed through the “burial chamber” and out onto the ledge, a “cave-in” collapsed the burial chamber and the rope connecting them to the lower chamber was later found to be “cut clean.”
Grieving mothers of several of the children swore that for a week or more following the disappearance they could hear their children crying and screaming “as if from underground.” Other sources state that an underground connection exists or did exist between Malta and reaches hundreds of miles and intersects the catacombs below the hill Vaticanus in Rome.
Source: Riley Crabb, ‘Reality of the Cavern World.’

Date: August, 1940
Location: Padasjoki, Kellosalmi, Finland
Time: Night
Summary: A 9-year old girl was sleeping in a summer room together with her friend, when she woke up because of loud thundering sounds. She woke her friend and they both looked out the window. They saw lightning-like lights, which rose from the ground going upwards from behind a small hill. Soon after, they heard heavy footsteps and saw a humanoid walking through the berry grove towards the shore.
The humanoid went past their room at a distance of only 5-10 meters and the girls could see it clearly. It was clad in a shiny outfit, which resembled a diver’s suit that also covered its head, feet and hands. A glass panel resembling that of a welder’s mask apparently covered the face, which was not visible. The suit was so shiny that it hurt the girl’s eyes.
The humanoid went briskly towards the jetty area on the shore, stepped into the water and walked over the water for a distance of 50-70 meters to the other side without making any visible impact on the surface of the water. Once across, it climbed the roof of a summer cottage, and then to the top of the chimney of the same cottage. There it stood a while and then appeared to disintegrate into numerous small translucent particles. The lightning had also ceased and now the moon could only be seen.
Source: Heikki Virtanen, Finland.

Date: August 22, 1940
Location: Rome, Italy.
Time: 7:00 p.m.
Summary: A Mother and daughter reported being assaulted by “spirits” in their home, stoned and slapped. These singular facts happened last night in the home of the barber Angelo Fountain, Via Flaminia. At about 19:00, in a room that opens onto a small courtyard, the wife, Mary and her daughter Antonia were busy ironing the linen when suddenly they heard rapping sounds, repeatedly against the window and the shutters of the window.
The girl thought that someone was having fun throwing pebbles against tiles and went to look and see, but just as she opened the shutters there was a large blaze similar to an electrical discharge, accompanied by an explosion. Both mother and daughter screamed. At the same time Antonia felt a strong slap or punch on her shoulder. She spun around but saw no one. The terrified women immediately linked the occurrences to an “evil spirit.”
Fortunately a few minutes of respite followed, and both women decided to find help, but suddenly the lights went out and the two women could see looming in the darkness, the outline of a flickering shadow of a transparent figure made out of luminous “fluid.” At the same time they heard a bang, like a gunshot fired from a few meters away and a gust of cold air shoots across the room blowing the ironed linen that had been on a table to the floor.
In a state of terror both mother and daughter fled the apartment. As they ran down the stairs, Antonio lost consciousness and she was then carried to a nearby house by neighbors. Meanwhile, her mother had gone to the nearby house of another daughter, Mafalda, and both women, accompanied by a man, returned to the apartment to search “for the ghost.” However nothing was discovered other than the linen; still on the floor, but now neatly folded. Apparently done with extreme delicacy.
Source: Kay Massingill in magonia_exchange@yahoogroups.com quoting La Stampa (Turin Italy) 23/08/1940.

Date: October, 1940.
Location: Near Des Moines, Iowa
Time: Late night.
Summary: The witness Brad Steiger, as a young boy, heard the sound of someone walking outside his farm home. When he looked out the window, he was surprised to see a small man with a large head, pointed ears and long slender fingers, looking into his parent’s bedroom window.
The being then turned to look at the witness, apparently sensing it was being watched. The being had enormous slanted eyes that seemed to have a hypnotic effect on the witness. After a while he realized that the being was gone and that it was now already morning.
Source: Brad Steiger and Sherry Hansen Steiger, ‘Starborn.’

Date: December, 1940.
Location: Near Achladocambos, Arcadia, Greece.
Time: Night
Summary: Mr. Theodore Geroulis, a shepherd, woke up and went to untie his horses near the goat fold when he saw a small humanoid with blond hair and shimmering eyes, coming out from a nearby quarry. The humanoid was holding something “like a candle” and was toying with it. After that it entered the goat-fold and vanished. After a few days, the goats started dying.
Source: J. Anagnostopoulos.

Date: December 22, 1940.
Location: Near Desert Center, California.
Time: Night
Summary: The main witness, Ida Kannenberg her husband and another man, were driving northeast on highway 10 when a deep red glow suddenly spread over the desert in front of them. On the horizon then appeared a flaming red, inverted crescent-shaped object that grew quickly and shot at great speed towards the witnesses. The object changed shape into a huge ball and seemed to disappear behind a hill. The three witnesses stopped the vehicle and began walking down a desolate road.
At this point the witnesses apparently went to sleep and lost all conscious memory. Much later, under hypnosis, the main witness remembered meeting two human-like men that then guided her to a landed round object. She was told to give a transfusion since one of their group was apparently injured. In reality the witness thinks she was given a brain implant so the aliens could keep track of her.
Source: Ida Kannenberg, UFO, Vol. 3, #1.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The Year the War Began and the Phenomenon Continued — 1940

The updated 1940 archive is no longer thin. With 17 new entries added from the Rosales humanoid catalogue and regional research compilations, it now spans fifteen countries across five continents and documents a year in which entity encounters, physical trace events, and UAP craft sightings occurred simultaneously in Finland, Malta, Turkey, Argentina, Brazil, Spain twice, England twice, Italy twice, Greece, Haiti, France, Alaska, Canada, and multiple American states. The Wartena CE-IV, the Gateshead coal shovel CE-VI, and the Hoy Island instrument-tracking remain the year’s three most credibly sourced anchor cases. But the geographic density now visible in the full record — from a suited humanoid walking on a Finnish lake surface to frog-eyed beings in Brazil leaving a permanent burn circle to a Coventry woman being told “your war is upsetting my world” — establishes 1940 as one of the most geographically distributed entity-contact years in the pre-modern archive.

The wartime context is inescapable but analytically irrelevant to the phenomenon itself. The beings in Bancares, Almeria tried to abduct a girl sent to fetch water. The beings in Tajikistan extracted an oath of secrecy from a man who subsequently went missing in the war. The being in Meriden near Coventry asked to be taken to the King and Queen. None of them appear to have been aware that the world was engaged in the largest organized act of collective violence in human history. Or if they were aware — as the Meriden entity’s single comment suggests — they were not interested in it.

“He then invited me aboard… I went in without fear… he told me that as I was a man of the earth, and [that] they usually avoided contacting people on this planet…”
Udo Wartena, handwritten account, recalling his May 1940 encounter near Boulder Mountain, Broadwater County, Montana. Source: Warren Aston, UFO Magazine, March/April 1998.