September 2, 1945 — Tokyo Bay. Japan's formal surrender aboard USS Missouri ended World War II; this archive's UFO record for the month is limited to one thinly sourced Okinawa entry. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1945: September UFO & Entity Sightings Archive
September 1945 opened with Japan’s formal surrender aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, ending the Second World War. This archive’s UFO record for the month is thin — a single, thinly sourced Okinawa entry — consistent with the broader postwar lull documented across the second half of 1945, between the end of the wartime Foo Fighter/balls-of-fire wave and the start of the 1946 ghost rocket wave over Scandinavia.
Date: September 1945
Location: Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan
Time:
Summary: A stationary bluish-white light, about the size of a dime at arm’s length, moved and then returned to its original position.
Source: Undocumented
Editorial note: Checked against Project 1947, NICAP, patrickgross.org, and general web search; no named witness, unit, or primary document could be located for this entry. Buckner Bay was home to Task Force 95, established at Okinawa in July 1945, but this context does not corroborate the sighting itself. Retained as originally recorded.
