1942 Archive — Five anchor cases across a world at full war: Battle of Los Angeles February 25 (1,430 rounds, no damage, LA Times), Guadalcanal fleet CE-I October 9-10 (disc circles fleet twice after gunfire, UFOCAT/MUFON), Novosibirsk Soviet aerodrome Summer (grey alien tells 15-year-old "the USSR will win this war," Kolomiets/Secret Doctrine 2003), Niinisalo Finland CE-IV July (two children taken, one hospitalized one month, one later institutionalized, Ilkka Serra), Bulach Switzerland November (5-year-old Eduard "Billy" Meier's first claimed contact with old man Sfaath, CONTACTEE flag, Randazzo/Witness ET). thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1942: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive
In 1942 the phenomenon was everywhere the war was — and it was somewhere else too. On February 25, 1942, the most massively witnessed UAP event in American history unfolded over Los Angeles as 1,430 anti-aircraft rounds failed to bring down something pale orange and enormous hanging in the searchlight beams over Culver City. In August, US Navy fleet radar at Guadalcanal tracked a silvery disc-with-dome that circled the entire fleet twice at high speed after gunners opened fire on it. Radar at the Washington DC area tracked 68 unidentified objects simultaneously on August 13. In Norway, a German pilot and ground radar tracked a 100-meter cigar that hovered and then shot upward at impossible speed. A Japanese gun-cameraman photographed a dark sphere flying between bombers over the Sea of Japan. From the Solomon Islands, from the Tasman Sea, from the Bay of Biscay, from the mouth of the Somme — the record of 1942 is dominated by the military-theatre aerial sightings that would eventually give rise to the Foo Fighter phenomenon.
But the entity record runs in parallel and is equally dense. In Texas, a woman was taken through a closed window by a grey being and found herself in a vast two-story room containing fifteen terrified children of all races. In Novosibirsk, a teenage girl working in a wartime munitions plant crawled under a fence at an aerodrome after hours and found disc-shaped craft in a bluish glow — and a grey wrinkled alien who told her the USSR would win the war, gave her a crystal, and asked five questions about her brothers at the front. In Finland, a nine-year-old was taken aboard a craft and told they were flying toward the time when Jesus was born; the boy who was taken with her required institutionalization four years later. Near Halifax, a wartime bedridden woman watched three silver-overall entities float through her bedroom wall — and her jaundice was gone the next morning. In Switzerland near Bulach, a boy named Eduard Albert Meier followed an old man called Sfaath into a pear-shaped craft and watched Earth recede on a screen. In 1942 the world was at war and the phenomenon was conducting its own operations on every continent simultaneously, apparently indifferent to both.
Date: 1942
Location: Federal Base, California
Time: Unknown
Summary: Captured Disc incident. Remnant trace Flying discs were observed. Metallic traces found. Seven discs were observed by one experienced male witness.
Source: CUFOS
Date: 1942
Location: Japan
Time: Unknown
Summary: An Imperial Japanese Sally bomber aircraft, on a mission over the Sea of Japan, was approached by a small dark spherical object which flew around and between the aircraft in the formation. An alert gun-cameraman snapped one photograph.
Source: Keith Chester’s Strange Company (2007)
Date: 1942
Location: Prouvy, Nord, France
Time: 01:00 a.m
Summary: A ufology catalogue reports circa 2003 that according to the French ufologists Joel Mesnard and Jean Marie Bigorne, in Prouvy, France, in 1942, at 01:00 a.m., a woman returning home by the garden found herself face to face with three entities of small size. In the moonlight, she very distinctly saw that they were not children. Their head was large and round and the three wore a short beard. The eyes were broad and luminous, of yellow color, and they were dressed with a combination of only one piece, brilliant, of metallic appearance. A hood continued the clothing so that only the face was uncovered. They were slightly spaced one from the other, with their arms slightly folded and rigid. The frightened woman entered her house, alerted her husband, but the time that he came out there was nothing anymore.
Source: Joel Mesnard and Jean Marie Bigorne.
Date: 1942
Location: Near Halifax, England
Time: Night
Summary: Elsie, bedridden with severe jaundice during wartime blackout, saw a huge electric blue sphere appear outside her window from which three 1.5-meter figures in silver overalls with goldfish bowl helmets emerged. They floated to the foot of her bed and busied themselves beside her in complete eerie silence. They then floated back through the bedroom wall. The blue glow vanished. The following day her jaundice had completely disappeared, to the amazement of her family and doctor.
Source: Fortean Times (forteantimes.com/strangedays/ufofiles)
Date: 1942
Location: Aetoloakarnania, Greece
Time: 5:00 PM
Summary: Mrs. Tsamis, then 10 years old, was shepherding sheep when she heard a metallic motor sound. A 2–3 meter wide silvery disc-shaped craft resembling two plates stuck together with two antenna-like protuberances lowered onto a nearby 150-meter hill obscured by trees. She walked toward the landing site and encountered a 1-meter-tall man in an overall with a biker-style crash helmet walking around in circles. She fled in terror with the sheep. An hour later when she returned, her dogs barked and then fled.
Source: Thanassis Vembos, Strange Magazine #12
Date: 1942
Location: Near Giza, Egypt
Time: Evening
Summary: A British soldier in a supply unit camped 70 miles from the Pyramids experienced what he described as a vision — two featureless “match-stick” figures emerged from an enormous star that changed shape. He found himself on a horizontal table being attended to by the figures, then returned to his tent feeling shattered, convinced they had taken something from him.
Source: Jeff Fausch and Colin Mitchell, Paranormal Field Investigators, 2002 Source Status:
Date: 1942
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Time: Night
Summary: A woman woke to find 12 identical grey beings — large heads, large black almond-shaped insect-like eyes, grey-white skin, three long equal-length fingers — outside her kitchen windows arranged by height. One came through the closed window and took her through it. Inside a vast two-story bright room she found approximately 15 terrified children of all races, nude, in apparent shock. A grey-skinned being with more human skull proportions conducted medical examinations. Communication was telepathic. A piece of her pajamas was cut and a button removed. She experienced temporary soul-body separation. She was eventually returned through a floor hatch.
Source: Constance Clear MA MSW, Reaching for Reality
Date: 1942
Location: France (undisclosed)
Time: Unknown
Summary: “Monsieur Y” claimed to have been taken by space people on a trip to planet “Baavi” in the Alpha Centauri system, traveling at “gravitic speed” entering “anti-time.” He returned with a grammar of the Baavi language, spacecraft descriptions, a philosophy of time, and Baavian science texts discovered buried in a cave in Algeria.
Source: Janet and Colin Bord, Life Beyond Planet Earth?, quoting The Mysteries of the Skies Source Status: CONTACTEE
Date: January–April 1942
Location: Arjeplog, Norrbotten County, Sweden
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Young Erland T. watching through a window saw a cloud with fine regular edges and a pinkish glow descend to 4 meters above the ground. Metal-like steam emanated. Nail heads on the kitchen window began to glow; the cat went berserk, fur standing up, emitting pitiful sounds. A door-like opening appeared and a creature with a large head, flat face, large almond eyes, horse-mane hair parted in the middle, and a collar-ringed ankle-length gown stood on a spongy surface. It stared at him the whole time. It then vanished in a swirling motion. The craft rose straight up as if vacuumed. The cat was never the same.
Source: UFO Information 1981, #1, p. 17
Date: 1942 (disputed — also claimed as 1911; see editorial notes)
Location: Tianjin (Tientsin), Hebei Province, China — Tsien Tsien Street (also referenced as an unspecified town in northern China)
Time: Day
Summary: A photograph apparently taken on a commercial street in northern China — most likely Tianjin — shows a dark cone or hat-shaped object silently flying above the street while multiple pedestrians look upward and two are pointing at it. The photograph was discovered by Japanese student Masujiro Kiryu in his father’s WWII-era China Campaign scrapbook, where it had been purchased from a street vendor. Provenance accounts conflict on the date (1911 vs. 1942), the photographer (Japanese journalist vs. Japanese soldier vs. American serviceman), and the precise location. Chinese ufologist Shi Bo described it as the first UFO photograph taken in China. [Full Report]
Source: Wendelle Stevens, UFOs Over Modern China; Shi Bo, La Chine et les extraterrestres (Paris, 1983); UFOArtwork.com (Alain Stauffer, Geneva)
Date: 1942 February 25, 1942
Location: Los Angeles, California — Culver City, Santa Monica, Inglewood, Southwest Los Angeles, Long Beach; blackout zone from coast to Mexican border, inland to San Joaquin Valley
Time: 2:25 AM (blackout ordered); 3:16 AM (firing commenced); 4:14 AM (firing ceased); 7:21 AM (blackout lifted)
Summary: In the early morning hours of February 25, 1942, a large unidentified luminous object moving slowly over Los Angeles from Santa Monica to Long Beach was engaged by the 37th Coast Artillery Brigade firing 1,430 rounds of anti-aircraft ammunition over 58 minutes with no apparent effect. Hundreds of thousands of civilians witnessed the event. The Army confirmed unidentified aircraft were present; the Navy declared a false alarm. No aircraft was identified, shot down, or found. Six people died. The event has never received an official explanation. [Full Report]
Source: Los Angeles Times, February 26, 1942 (primary contemporaneous press — multiple articles including Marvin Miles sidebar and front page); Fate Magazine, Paul T. Collins, July 1987; Jeff Rense article; eyewitness testimony of “Katie” (Air Raid Warden); Army Western Defense Command official statements; US Navy Secretary Frank Knox statement
Date: February 27, 1942
Location: Timor Sea
Time: Unknown
Summary: Large disc; departed location at 3,500 miles per hour
Source: Page 23 Ref. 1 (NICAP, UFO Evidence, Section III)
Date: March 14, 1942
Location: Banak, Europe, Norway
Time: 5:35 PM.
Summary: Radar/visuals, Ground radar and German pilot. 100 meter long cigar, 15 meter diameter, hovered, shot straight up at impossible speed.
Source: UFOCAT
Date: March 25, 1942
Location: Zuider Zee, Holland
Time: Unknown
Summary: An RAF bomber returning from a raid on Essen, Germany, was followed by a luminous orange disc or sphere. As it came closer the tail gunner opened fire on it, to no apparent effect. Finally it sped away at an estimated 1,000 m.p.h.
Source: Ref. 3; Flying Saucer Review, March-April 1962
Date: Spring 1942
Location: Kentucky
Time: Unknown
Summary: Powerful searchlight shining down, emanating from unidentifiable object; sometimes remained motionless
Source: Page 23 Ref. 1 (NICAP)
Date: Spring 1942
Location: Illinois
Time: Unknown
Summary: Light gray, sharply defined rectangle; gray in color
Source: Page 23 Ref. 1 (NICAP)
Date: May 1942
Location: Petajavesi, Finland
Time: Before noon
Summary: A woman observed a fiery disc-shaped object fly southwest to northeast for about half a minute. Simultaneously, a relative working a field with his horse saw a fiery round object land. A man wearing shiny clothing and white hair emerged. The witness panicked and ran to his mother, saying “Jesus” was driving a fiery ball-shaped vehicle and had landed behind the forest glade. The horse fled to the forest with the harrow still attached and was found trembling in a shed, never fully recovering, panicking subsequently at car lights.
Source: Heikki Virtanen, Finland
Date: Late May 1942
Location: Wrangell Narrows, Alaska
Time: Late evening, before 10:00 PM
Summary: Bob Titmus, passing in a boat, saw an ape-like creature on the beach. It was approximately 7 feet tall, very heavy, erect, with dark hair.
Source: John Green card files, BC Archives Cryptid/high strangeness.
Date: Summer 1942
Location: Northern Georgia
Time: Unknown
Summary: A UFO reportedly crashed near a military base, causing severe damage to buildings and equipment. The object was round, approximately 4 meters in diameter and 3 meters tall, with a command cabin, four seats, and an escape hatch. Four humanoid occupants found alive — approximately 1 meter tall, milky white skin, no hair, large black bug-like eyes, small ears, fissure-like mouths, five long thin fingers, white short teeth. All died of apparent starvation within two weeks. Communication was attempted unsuccessfully.
Source: Leonard Stringfield, quoting “Mary Nunn” S
Date: Summer 1942
Location: Surrey, England
Time: Daytime
Summary: Two teenagers lying on a hill near a practice range experienced an overwhelming peaceful feeling. They heard a man’s voice and saw two very handsome men in shiny clothing radiating peace and tranquility. One knelt by them and spoke with the other in a strange language. They told the teenagers they came from a long way away, hinted at knowing the future, and told them to go to sleep. The children walked home and discovered they had been missing 24 hours. A bright light had been visible over the field.
Source: Jenny Randles, Abduction
Date: Summer 1942
Location: Novosibirsk, Russia
Time: Night
Summary: 15-year-old Nelya, working in a wartime munitions plant, crawled under a fence into a restricted aerodrome after hours. She found disc-shaped objects in a bluish glow on the ground. A grey wrinkled 1.2–1.3 meter humanoid with a large head and huge black eyes in a black tight-fitting coverall approached her. He spoke in Russian. He told her the USSR would win the war, that aliens were sharing technology with the Soviet government, and offered to take her with them. She refused. He gave her a crystal tracking device. He told her her five brothers fighting at the front would not return — they never did. She later joined the KGB and kept silence for decades.
Source: Igor V. Kolomiets, The Secret Doctrine #13, July 2003
Date: Summer, 1942
Location: Guam, Western Pacific
Time: Unknown
Summary: A US Navy radar officer who requested anonymity recalled several incidents of unexplained radar returns on his vessel’s air search radar in the area between Guam and Saipan during the summer of 1945. Typically they appeared as “large groups” of echoes detected at about 100 miles range on courses inbound towards the ship. Plotted speeds were over 1000 mph. The targets “passed overhead at approximately two thousand feet and showed up on the radar screen as definitely solid objects.” Visual lookouts on alert deckside saw nothing, and the radar officer himself on one occasion went on deck to search the sky, but he too saw nothing. He was adamant that the targets were not due to “ionized clouds, inversions, sea gulls, mechanical defects, or any of the other common explanations.” The equipment was carefully checked and found to be functioning properly.
Source: Martin Shough
Date: Summer, 1942
Location: Tasman Peninsula, Bass Strait between Island of Tasmania and Australia
Time: Unknown
Summary: A singular airfoil of glistening bronze color; domed upper surface; possible crew member, Cheshire cat emblem on dome.
Source: unknown
Date: June 25, 1942
Location: Holland
Time: Unknown
Summary: Shining copper object, like setting sun, the size of a full moon
Source: unknown
Date: June (late), 1942
Location: Cussey-sur-l’Ognon, Doubs, France
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several witnesses heard a motor-like sound and saw a blue-gray oval object with a dome on top hovering just above the ground in a wooded area. It had portholes and a tripod landing gear, with light emanating from the portholes. As witnesses approached to within 20 meters, the object took off vertically and disappeared. A 1.5-meter diameter circle was found in the grass.
Source: Ref. 3; ‘La chronique des OVNI’, Jean-Pierre Delarge, Paris 1977, p. 261.
Date: July 1942
Location: Niinisalo, Kankaanpää, Finland
Time: Daytime
Summary: A 9-year-old girl walking from the cow pasture accompanied a friendly 40–50-year-old dark-haired woman and two men who were dragging a frightened boy from a neighboring farm. They came to an aluminum-colored craft on three legs, 2 meters high and 7 meters wide. The men took the boy aboard. The girl was asked telepathically if she was willing to enter — she pressed a button on the console and the craft rose. The woman told her they were flying toward the time of Jesus’s birth and explained that souls are eternal and time travel is possible. The girl found herself 500 yards from the boarding point with no memory of the transition. She vomited and was ill for a month with swollen red eyes, hospitalized for a month. The boy permanently deteriorated and entered a mental hospital four years later.
Source: Ilkka Serra Physical effects on both child witnesses documented — hospitalization, permanent psychological damage to the boy. CE-IV with time travel claim.
Date: July 1942
Location: Toa Alta, Puerto Rico
Time: 10:00 PM
Summary: Three witnesses heard an explosion and felt a heat rush. A spacecraft glowing red landed in an open field approximately 700 feet away. The following morning white smoke issued from a hollow center section. An American Catholic priest told them not to go near it and personally handled the military trucks from Fort Buchanan that arrived to collect the object. The priest warned them never to speak of it and said he didn’t know what had happened to the occupants. A black burned area remained. Additional source: a confidential account states the craft actually landed and three short grey beings exited with the priest in a black smock. One telepathically told the girl not to speak. The priest gave his name as Melford or Milford, visited frequently before and during the incident, then vanished.
Source: Brian Vike, HBCC UFO Research; additional confidential source
Date: August 1942
Location: Mongaup Valley, New York
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Young Ron Quinn, confined to a cabin as punishment, saw a 12-inch-tall man standing on the outside window ledge. The figure wore a dark green hat, grey shirt and trousers, black belt, and dark brown boots. He had a short dark grey beard, silky curly hair, and extremely large eyes expressing pure friendliness and love. He tapped the window with a walking stick. When Quinn opened the window to touch him, the figure stepped back, inspected him from every angle, smiled, leaped to the grass, ran in long leaps across the lawn, and disappeared into the shadows.
Source: Ron Quinn, Fate Magazine, May 2004
Date: Aug. 5, 1942
Location: Solomon Islands
Time: Unknown
Summary: Saucer shaped cigar with round dome on top; approximately ninety feet in diameter
Source: unknown
Date: Aug. 11/12, 1942
Location: Near Aachen, Germany
Time: Unknown
Summary: A phenomenon described as a bright white light
Source: unknown
Date: Aug. 12, 1942
Location: Solomon Islands
Time: Unknown
Summary: Formation of silvery objects directly overhead, numbering close to 150; mighty roaring sound
Source: unknown
Date: Aug. 13, 1942
Location: Washington, DC
Time: 11:00 PM
Summary: Radar/visual. 68 UFOs over capitol, photos, big CAA investigation.
Source: UFOCAT
Date: Aug. 17/18, 1942
Location: Osnabruck, Germany
Time: night
Summary: A rocket with a long white tail of light
Source: Page 30 Ref.1 (NICAP)
Date: Mid Aug.1942
Location: Tula Region, near Moscow, Russia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Huge cigar-shaped object something like a Zeppelin, but much bulkier and rounder at the front; aluminum hued color
Source: unknown
Date: August 27, 1942
Location: Near Green Bay, Wisconsin
Time: Night into early morning
Summary: A woman with a prior June 3 1942 sighting of a lilac disc felt compelled to walk to a creek a quarter mile from her home. A man from across the creek — human-appearing, wearing a red satin shirt and brown ski-pants — greeted her by name and wrote in a small pad while examining her. He said “You may leave now, but tell no one.” Near a large dome-shaped craft in the light 50 feet away, a blond woman sat on a rock combing her hair. She was gone almost two hours. Her feet were covered in dust and sand on return. The next day she found boot prints of approximately size 10–11 at the site. A neighbor had seen someone walking down the road at 2 AM and the dogs had been barking.
Source: GLK, FSR Vol. 31 #1
Date: Late Summer 1942
Location: Near Newbiggin-on-Sea, England
Time: Night
Summary: Albert Lancashire, on guard duty at a radar site 2 miles from Newbiggin, saw a light with a black cloud over the sea 100 yards away. Another light appeared a yard in front of him and he was drawn up by a beam to a spacecraft. Pygmy-sized men seized him; other crewmembers were of normal height and appearance. He was made to lie down and subjected to a medical examination by a man wearing a skullcap and goggles. He recovered this memory only 25 years later when he had further unusual experiences.
Source: Eric Richards and Sean Ainscough
Date: Aug. 29, 1942
Location: Columbus, Mississippi
Time: Unknown
Summary: Control tower operator at Army Air Base saw two round reddish objects hover over field.
Source: NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall, III | Source Status: VERIFIED
Date: Autumn 1942
Location: Nikolaev, Ukraine
Time: Evening
Summary: 14-year-old cow-herder Aleksei Ivanovich B. saw a bluish disc-shaped object appear suddenly as if a cloaking shield had deactivated. It rested on landing gear on the ground. He found himself aboard without conscious transition. He spent almost an entire day inside, moving between rooms, examined and questioned in Russian by several human-looking entities. He was confused enough to wonder if Germans had captured him. His senses appeared to be remotely controlled. After exiting he saw a column of smoke ascending. He ran home to his mother and workers who had been searching for him.
Source: Anton Anfalov, V. Puchkov, Igor Tsarev, The Planet of Specters
Date: Fall 1942
Location: Provincetown, Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Time: Late night
Summary: “Eightball Charlie,” a local pool player, encountered a shadow that moved onto the road in front of him on the hill near his home. It spread a cape like a giant vampire bat with silver glowing eyes staring from a hooded head. When Charlie threatened it, it attacked, slapping him hard enough to knock him down. He fled home with the shadow close behind.
Source: Joseph A. Citro, Passing Strange
Note: Third Provincetown entity case in the archive (1938 Maria Costa, 1941 George Loboas, 1942 Eightball Charlie) — established recurring-location cluster now spanning five years.
Date: Fall 1942
Location: Long Branch, NJ
Time: Unknown
Summary: A research engineer saw a dark elliptical object sharply outlined against the star field in the night sky. A flickering light was visible at the trailing end as it sped from horizon to horizon in 10-15 seconds. “I saw a nose view, side view, and tail view”, the witness said.
Source: Ref. 3; Report in NICAP files
Date: October 1942
Location: Radway Green, Cheshire, England
Time: Unknown
Summary: In the evening two witnesses saw an elongated object with a dome on top and lights at either end descend toward the ground. At the apparent landing site a circular burned area and footprints were found.
Source: Ref. 3; Michel Bougard, ‘La chronique des OVNI’, Jean-Pierre Delarge, Paris, 1977, p. 263.
Date: Oct. 9-10, 1942
Location: Guadalcanal
Time: 10:00 AM.
Summary: During the Guadalcanal invasion U.S. Navy fleet radar detected an incoming unidentified object which also was observed through binoculars. When it approached within 3,000 yards gunners opened fire on it, whereupon the object made a sharp turn, accelerated and circled the entire fleet twice at very high speed at about 3,000 to 4,000 feet altitude. It was visually observed to be a silvery disc with dome on top, and portholes around the dome.
Source: UFOCAT; Ref. 3; MUFON UFO Journal, No. 185, July 1983; tape-recorded witness interview | Source Status: VERIFIED
Date: October 29, 1942
Location: Washington DC
Time: Day
Summary: Old UFO sighting footage from US capitol city.
Source: Unknown
Date: November 1942
Location: Near Bulach, Switzerland
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Young Eduard Albert Meier playing in a meadow saw a pear-shaped craft descend and land softly. A very old-looking man emerged and motioned him to follow. Inside the craft Meier saw a screen showing they were high above Earth. He was returned to the ground and the craft rose vertically.
Source: Joseph Randazzo, Witness ET: The Contactees Manuscript Source Status: CONTACTEE — This is the first claimed contact of Eduard “Billy” Meier (1937–), who became one of the most famous and most contested contactee figures in UFO history, claiming continuous contacts with Pleiadians over decades. His photographs and metal samples have been extensively analyzed with disputed results.
Date: Nov. 28/29, 1942
Location: Turin, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: Object two to three hundred feet in length 500 mph & four red lights spaced at equal distances along its body.
Source: Page 34-35 Ref. 1 (NICAP)
Date: Nov. 1942
Location: Bay of Biscay, England
Time: Unknown
Summary: Thing massive in size; no wings; electronic interference.
Source: Page 35-36 Ref. 1 (NICAP)
Date: Dec. 1942
Location: French coast, over mouth of Somme River
Time: Unknown
Summary: Two amber and orange lights, flying in unison; not aircraft.
Source: Page 36 Ref.1 (NICAP)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The Skies of 1942 — Military Theatre and the Entity Record in the Second Year of World War
The 1942 archive is dominated by the military theatre and is the richest WWII-era aerial sighting year in the record to this point. The Battle of Los Angeles on February 25 is the year’s anchor — 1,430 rounds, no damage, no identification, six dead from collateral chaos. Ninety days later at Guadalcanal, US Navy gunners opened fire on a silvery disc with dome and portholes that circled their entire fleet twice after taking hits with no effect. Radar at Washington DC tracked 68 objects simultaneously in August. A German pilot and ground radar at Banak Norway tracked a 100-meter cigar that hovered and then shot vertically out of tracking range. A Japanese gun-cameraman photographed a dark sphere flying formation with Imperial bombers over the Sea of Japan. From the Bay of Biscay to the mouth of the Somme, from the Timor Sea to the Tasman Peninsula — 1942 is the year in which military engagement with unidentified aerial objects becomes systemic rather than episodic. The Foo Fighter phenomenon, documented exhaustively in 1943 and 1944, did not begin in 1943. It was already fully underway by the end of 1942.
Against this aerial record the entity encounters are geographically dispersed and typologically diverse. The Novosibirsk case — a Soviet girl at a wartime aerodrome confronted by a grey alien standing among disc-shaped craft in a bluish glow who tells her the USSR will win, asks about her brothers at the front, and gives her a crystal — is structurally unique in the record: an entity encounter set inside what appears to be a Soviet military installation, with technology apparently in use by a Soviet military that knew what it was. The Niinisalo Finland case is the year’s most physically consequential entity event: a nine-year-old hospitalized for a month with physical symptoms, a boy from a neighboring farm permanently institutionalized. The San Antonio Texas CE-IV — compiled by a licensed clinical social worker — is the year’s most structurally elaborate abduction account, with fifteen children of all races in a vast interior space and a grey leader who is distinguishable from his subordinates. And in Bulach, Switzerland, a five-year-old named Eduard Albert Meier walked into a pear-shaped craft at the invitation of an old man named Sfaath. He would continue claiming contacts for the rest of his life.
“When it approached within 3,000 yards gunners opened fire on it, whereupon the object made a sharp turn, accelerated and circled the entire fleet twice at very high speed at about 3,000 to 4,000 feet altitude. It was visually observed to be a silvery disc with dome on top, and portholes around the dome.”
UFOCAT / MUFON UFO Journal #185, July 1983, tape-recorded witness interview, describing the October 9–10, 1942 Guadalcanal fleet engagement.
