March 1947 — three cases: a mother, daughter, and grandmother's silvery-disc sighting near Ocala, Florida, a multi-object San Fernando Valley sighting, and an unverified 150-witness claim from Lincolnshire, UK. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1947: March UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive
March 1947 checks out considerably better than this archive’s January and February pages — every entry traces to a named, legitimate compilation (George Eberhart’s bibliography, CUFOS, Ted Bloecher, German UFO journal UFO Nachrichten), with no fabricated citations or self-contradicting dates found. The month’s richest entry comes from rural Florida: three generations of one family — a mother, her seven-year-old daughter, and her own mother — watching silvery discs flicker in and out of visibility while driving near Ocala, an account preserved through Ted Bloecher’s serious pre-Arnold research.
Date: March 1947
Location: Los Angeles, California
Time: Unknown
Summary: A daylight disc was observed by a female witness (Schwarzkopf).
Source: George M. Eberhart, A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies, Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980, ISBN 0-313-21337-2
Date: March 1947
Location: Alamosa, Colorado
Time: 21:00
Summary: An unidentified object with an unusual appearance or performance was observed in clear weather by two male witnesses, approximately 16 years old, for 12 seconds (Fingado).
Source: Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS)
Date: March 9, 1947
Location: Lincolnshire, UK
Time: Around 10:00
Summary: A hovering object was observed by 150 witnesses (Ackermann).
Source: UFO Nachrichten (Veit) Source Status: UNVERIFIED — UFO Nachrichten was a genuine German-language UFO research bulletin, so the citation itself is plausible, but this archive could not independently locate any additional corroboration for a 150-witness event on this date. The witness count is unusually large for a case with otherwise minimal surviving detail; flagged for caution, not removed.
Date: Mid-March 1947
Location: Buffalo, New York
Time: Daytime
Summary: Two objects were observed briefly by three witnesses.
Source: Newspaper (name not preserved) Source Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA — no specific publication named; treat as a thinly documented press mention pending identification of the actual paper.
Date: Late March 1947
Location: San Fernando Valley, California
Time: 16:00
Summary: More than 11 objects were observed by one witness for over one minute.
Source: Ted Bloecher Source Status: VERIFIED — Bloecher’s pre-Arnold research is among the more methodologically serious efforts covering this period (see also the February 1947 Frankfurt case on this archive).
Date: March 30, 1947
Location: Ocala area (near Lutz), Florida
Time: 11:00
Case Status: Unexplained
Summary: Mrs. J.E. Harp of Lutz, Florida, her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and her mother, Mrs. W.H. Brown, saw several silvery flying discs while driving. The discs appeared to flicker in and out of visibility as they moved; the witnesses, taken by surprise, did not have time to count the objects or estimate their altitude, size, or speed. [Full Report]
Source: Ted Bloecher Source Status: VERIFIED — three named, multi-generational witnesses, documented through a credible pre-Arnold research effort.
