1945, date unknown — four cases that survive in the record without a specific month: a disputed North Korea dogfight, the recurring Delarof sphere, a bare Guam radar contact, and a German landing case. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1945: Unknown Date UFO & Entity Sightings Archive
This page holds 1945-dated UFO and entity reports where no specific month or day could be established from available sources — cases that surface in the broader record only as “sometime in 1945.” Five such entries, previously scattered at the top of the January archive under a bare “1945” date, are consolidated here: a Japanese-versus-disc dogfight claim over North Korea, a wreckage-transport claim out of Bulgaria connected to the long-running Soviet Zhitkur legend, the Aleutian Delarof sphere in its fifth appearance across this project’s 1945 pages, an undetailed radar contact near Guam, and a landed-craft account from occupied Germany sourced to a named secondary compilation. None carry enough dating precision to sit on a monthly page, and this archive treats that gap honestly rather than assigning them a guessed date.
Date: 1945 (month/day unknown)
Location: Wonsan, North Korea
Time: Unknown
Summary: Three Japanese Zeroes engage two daylight discs in a dogfight. One Zero is shot down, and the UFOs flee into space.
Source: Undocumented
Source Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA — no named witness, unit, or primary document located. The phrase “flee into space” is an extraordinary claim beyond what a WWII-era dogfight account would typically assert (atmospheric departure vs. simply flying away at speed) and is flagged as likely embellishment somewhere in this account’s transmission history.
Date: 1945 (month/day unknown)
Location: Bulgaria
Time: Unknown
Summary: Wreckage again transported to Zhitkur.
Source: Undocumented
Source Status: DISPUTED / HOAX-ADJACENT — this entry references the Zhitkur (Kapustin Yar-adjacent) Soviet UFO-crash-retrieval legend, a body of claims with no verified primary Soviet military or scientific documentation, popularized primarily through post-Soviet-era fringe and tabloid sources. The word “again” implies this archive or its source material references an earlier, similarly unverified transport claim; no such prior entry has been located elsewhere in this project. Retained for the historical record of the claim, not as an established event.
Date: 1945 (month/day unknown; most reliable sourcing points to summer 1945 — see Related Cases)
Location: Aleutian Islands, Alaska
Time: Unknown
Summary: Fourteen men on the USAT Delarof saw a dark spherical object rise out of the water, circle their ship, and fly off to the south. [Full Report]
Source: Undocumented on this entry specifically; see full report for the complete named-witness source chain (Robert S. Crawford; NICAP; Dr. James E. McDonald)
Editorial note: This is at least the fifth appearance of this case across this project’s 1945 pages (previously dated “1945” on January, “Mar. 1945” on March, “Summer, 1945” on June, and “Summer 1945” on July). Named witness Robert S. Crawford’s own account, independently investigated by NICAP and Dr. James McDonald, points to summer 1945 as the most reliable dating — this bare “1945” version is retained here only because it carries no month of its own to place it on a monthly page.
Date: 1945 (month/day unknown)
Location: Near Guam, Okinawa
Time: Unknown
Summary: Ground radar contact. No further details survive in this archive’s sourcing.
Source: Undocumented
Date: 1945 (month/day unknown)
Location: Habbebishopsheim, Germany
Time: Unknown
Summary: An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark. The event took place 35 km northwest of the town.
Source: Magonia #52, ATIC (Air Technical Intelligence Center) Source Status: PLAUSIBLE — named secondary compilation citing an ATIC-derived source, though no primary ATIC document has been independently located by this archive.
Editorial note: The place name “Habbebishopsheim” does not match any confirmed German locality; likely a transcription or OCR error somewhere in this account’s secondary sourcing history for a place name such as Bischofsheim or a similarly-rendered compound (several German towns carry “-bischofsheim” or “-heim” suffixes). Not corrected here absent a confirmed original source, but flagged for anyone able to trace the Magonia #52 citation directly.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Five Cases Without a Calendar
Every entry on this page shares one trait: enough detail survived to record a location and a summary, but not enough to place the event on a specific month. That’s a meaningfully different problem than the confirmed empty months elsewhere in this archive (September, October, November before the Rivers correction, December) — those months are empty because nothing happened, or because nothing survived at all. These five entries prove something did happen, or was at least claimed to happen, but the “when” got lost somewhere between the original event and whatever secondary compilation eventually recorded it.
The strongest entry here isn’t really new: it’s the Delarof sphere case, making its fifth appearance across this project’s 1945 pages, now cross-referenced rather than retold. The two weakest — Wonsan and the Bulgaria/Zhitkur wreckage claim — are flagged plainly as thin and disputed respectively. The Habbebishopsheim entry sits in between: a named secondary source, an ATIC citation, and a place name that likely garbled somewhere along the way.
“An American soldier saw a disk-shaped object come down rapidly, oscillate, and land. The site could not be found in the dark.”
Magonia #52, citing ATIC, describing an undated 1945 landing claim in occupied Germany.
