February 1947 — three cases: verified military witnesses in Frankfurt, Germany, a Lake Mead, Nevada sighting with a corrected-date flag, and an unverified entity encounter reported near Lima, Peru. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1947: February UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
Six miles south of Lima, Peru, on February 28, 1947, a driver identified only as “C.A.V.” says a sand-colored, disc-shaped object settled six or seven feet off the ground and three mummy-like figures emerged — humanoid in profile, but with fused legs, mitten-like hands, and no facial features apart from a transparent patch where eyes should have been. It’s the month’s most dramatic entry and its least verifiable. Three weeks earlier, on February 3, three female military witnesses at Frankfurt, Germany watched unconventional, aerobatic objects for half an hour, a case well-corroborated in Jan Aldrich’s Project 1947 compilation. And a real, well-documented Nevada case — a military pilot’s close encounter with a tight formation of white discs over Lake Mead — appears on this page too, though its true date belongs later in the year.
Date: Feb. 3, 1947
Location: Frankfurt, Germany
Time: 12:00
Case Status: Unexplained
Summary: Unusual objects were sighted, with unconventional appearance and aerobatic performance. Three objects were observed by three female military witnesses for 30 minutes. [Full Report]
Source: Jan L. Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave, UFO Research Coalition, Washington, 1997 Source Status: VERIFIED — a serious, widely cited primary compilation built from period military and press records of the 1947 wave; named witness context, occupation-era setting, and duration are all consistent with a genuine case entry.
Date: Feb. 28, 1947 (date discrepancy — see Source Status)
Location: Lake Mead, Nevada
Time: Unknown
Summary: Flying discs were observed. Several formations of objects were reported.
Source: Richard M. Dolan, UFO’s and the National Security State: An Unclassified History, Volume One: 1941-1973, Keyhole Publishing Company, Rochester, 2000 Source Status: DATE DISCREPANCY — a real, well-documented Lake Mead case exists and is covered in Nevada UFO histories including Preston Dennett’s UFOs Over Nevada, but every independently located source dates it to June 28, 1947, not February 28, and describes a military pilot’s airborne sighting of five to six white circular objects in tight formation traveling roughly 285 mph — not objects “observed at a military facility,” as this entry’s summary has it. Kept here rather than corrected in place, with the discrepancy stated plainly; the properly dated version belongs on this archive’s June 1947 page.
Date: Feb. 28, 1947
Location: 6 miles south of Lima, Peru
Time: Not given
Case Status: Insufficient Data
No. of Entity’s: Three
Entity Type: Mummy-like humanoids: fused legs, mitten-like hands with an opposable thumb, sand-colored skin, no facial features apart from a transparent area where eyes should have been
Summary: While driving, a witness identified only as “C.A.V.” saw a sand-colored, very shiny, disc-shaped object hovering six to seven feet off the ground. Three mummy-like figures emerged before the object departed.
Source: Undocumented Source Status: UNVERIFIED — no source is listed, and no independent record of a “C.A.V.” witness or this case has been located. This is a distinct, unrelated matter from the 2017/2023 Peruvian “Nazca alien mummies” controversy (fraudulent doll-like artifacts examined decades later); no connection exists between the two. The distinctive physical description ought to be traceable to a named humanoid-catalogue compiler if a real source exists; none was found.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
February 1947 — A Short Month of Mixed Evidence
Three entries, three very different evidentiary standings. The Frankfurt, Germany case is the month’s best-anchored: named-context military witnesses, a specific duration, and sourcing to Jan Aldrich’s Project 1947, a serious compilation built directly from period records of the 1947 wave. The Lake Mead, Nevada entry describes a real and often-cited case, but every independently located source places it four months later, on June 28, 1947, and describes an airborne pilot’s sighting rather than the “observed at a military facility” framing given here — this archive keeps the entry in place with that discrepancy stated directly rather than silently correcting or deleting it.
The Lima, Peru entry is the outlier. Its physical description — fused legs, mitten-like hands, a featureless face with only a transparent patch where eyes should sit — is distinctive enough that a real source, if one exists, should be traceable to a named humanoid-catalogue compiler. None was located, and the entry carries no source at all. It is not connected to the later, unrelated “Nazca mummies” controversy. This archive retains it as a documented, dramatic claim rather than an established case, and says so plainly.
“Three objects were observed by three female military witnesses for 30 minutes.”
Jan L. Aldrich, Project 1947: A Preliminary Report on the 1947 UFO Sighting Wave (1997), describing the February 3 Frankfurt, Germany sighting.
