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
On March 30, 1947, three generations of one Florida family — Mrs. J.E. Harp, her seven-year-old daughter Sandra, and Sandra’s grandmother, Mrs. W.H. Brown — were driving near Ocala when several silvery discs appeared, flickering in and out of visibility as they moved. The sighting caught the family by surprise; they had no time to count the objects or judge their altitude, size, or speed, but the account survives through Ted Bloecher’s serious pre-Arnold research, and it anchors a month that also includes a 150-witness daylight sighting over Lincolnshire, England, a brief daytime encounter over Buffalo, New York, and a Colorado case witnessed by two teenagers for twelve clear-sky seconds.
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 no additional corroboration for a 150-witness event on this date has been independently located. 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.
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.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
March 1947 — Three Generations Near Ocala
The Ocala, Florida case gives March 1947 its strongest entry: three named witnesses spanning three generations of one family, describing flickering silvery discs seen from a moving vehicle, documented through Ted Bloecher’s pre-Arnold research rather than a later, less rigorous retelling. The San Fernando Valley entry, also sourced to Bloecher, carries the same evidentiary weight on a smaller scale — a single witness, but a serious compiler behind the case.
The rest of the month is thinner. The Lincolnshire, England case claims 150 witnesses to a hovering object, but that figure has no independent corroboration beyond a single German bulletin citation, and this archive flags the gap rather than treating the number as established. Los Angeles, Alamosa, and Buffalo round out the month as brief, minimally detailed sightings — genuine bibliography and catalogue entries, but without the named-witness depth of the month’s two anchor cases.
The discs appeared to flicker in and out of visibility as they moved.
From Ted Bloecher’s documentation of the March 30 sighting near Ocala, Florida, witnessed by Mrs. J.E. Harp, her daughter Sandra, and her mother, Mrs. W.H. Brown.
