1947, date unknown — three cases: the Island of Muck, Scotland mermaid sighting, the Valle de Santiago, Mexico stranger's vegetable formula, and the Platonovo, Russia entity encounter. thinkaboutitdocs.com.
1947: Unknown Date UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
This catch-all page holds 1947 cases carrying no specific month. One entry checked out as a probable duplicate: a “Tucson, Arizona” disc sighting credited to a witness named Rhodes almost certainly describes the same William A. Rhodes Phoenix photograph case already fully documented on this archive’s July 1947 page, with the city apparently garbled between the two entries. Another — a detailed missing-time and military-silencing account from near Griffith Air Force Base, New York — carries several motifs (a popped-up perimeter fence, telepathic communication, a military visit “three or four months later” enforcing silence) that read as more consistent with later abduction-genre conventions than with a contemporaneous 1947 account, and is sourced only to a modern enthusiast website rather than a named period investigator.
Date: 1947
Location: Island of Muck, Highland Region, Scotland
Time: Unknown
Summary: 80-year-old angler Alexander Gunn saw a mermaid-like creature off the coast of the island — a female humanoid figure, seated on a floating wooden box and appearing to comb her long blond hair. She plunged into the sea upon noticing the witness watching her.
Source: Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain
Date: 1947
Location: Valle de Santiago, Mexico
Time: Morning
Summary: A young farmer plowing his field was confronted by a very tall, gaunt figure resembling an albino with distorted features, who claimed to have been held captive by “humanoids” inside a nearby inactive volcano. The stranger sketched a formula on paper, described as the secret to growing enormous vegetables, then walked away and disappeared. The farmer reportedly grew giant vegetables from that point forward.
Source: Fortean Times #33
Date: 1947: Near Malta, Little People on a Type of Submarine
Editorial note: This is the fourth appearance of this same case across this archive, previously documented twice on the June 1947 page (with named witness Pawlu Zammit) and once on the July 1947 page. See the June 1947 archive for the fullest, named-witness version.
Date: 1947 (see editorial note — likely a duplicate)
Location: Tucson, Arizona
Time: Unknown
Summary: An object was observed and photographed; a daytime disc was reported (Rhodes).
Source: John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1970
Editorial note: This entry is almost certainly the same case as William A. Rhodes’s July 7, 1947 photographed disc sighting, already given a full report on this archive’s July 1947 page — a named witness “Rhodes,” a photographed daytime disc, and no other 1947 Rhodes case located anywhere else in the literature. The location here, “Tucson,” conflicts with the well-documented “Phoenix” location of the Rhodes case; this appears to be a location transcription error carried through Keel’s secondary citation rather than a second, independent Rhodes sighting.
Date: 1947
Location: Cascade Mountains, Washington
Time: Unknown
Summary: An object was observed and photographed.
Source: Gordon I.R. Lore Jr., Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968
Date: 1947
Location: Cortland, New York
Time: 15:00
Summary: Several silver, cigar-shaped objects were observed in clear weather by numerous female witnesses, typical age 20; a droning sound was heard.
Source: Flying Saucer Review
Date: 1947
Location: Lima (Callao), Peru
Time: Unknown
Summary: A close encounter with an unidentified craft and its occupants; one object was observed by one witness.
Source: John A. Keel, UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1970
Date: 1947
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Time: Daytime
Summary: A young woman driving on the outskirts of Fort Worth saw a discoidal craft, 25 feet in diameter, passing overhead. Jumping out of her car, she waved; the object tipped, and its occupants appeared to wave back. It then flew away in silence.
Source: Peter Rogerson
Date: 1947: Craft & Two Aliens at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio
Date: 1947
Location: Near Griffiss Air Force Base, New York
Time: 13:00
Summary: A young girl named Jackie, with her brother and cousins, walking down a country road after visiting a local store, noticed a bright mirror-like reflection to her left and went to investigate. She found a large, silvery, round vehicle on the ground; as she approached, a fence appeared to spring up from the ground within seconds, surrounding it. Her cousins tried to pull her back, but a being — not otherwise described — approached and, without moving its lips, asked what she was doing there, telling her they would not hurt her. She vaguely remembered her siblings crying afterward; her next memory was of her parents and aunt searching for the group along the road. They had been missing for five hours. Three or four months later, a man in military uniform reportedly visited Jackie’s home and spoke at length with her parents; she was told never to mention the incident to anyone.
Source: Pine Bush UFO (community/enthusiast website)
Source Status: INSUFFICIENT DATA — the combination of elements here (a suddenly-appearing perimeter fence, non-verbal telepathic communication, missing time, and a delayed military visit enforcing silence) closely tracks conventions that became standard in abduction-genre literature well after 1947, and this account is sourced only to a modern community website rather than a period investigator or contemporaneous record. “Griffith Air Force Base” appears to refer to Griffiss Air Force Base, Rome, New York (renamed in 1942 for Lt. Col. Townsend Griffiss); the base name itself is not anachronistic for 1947, but no further named source, date, or independent corroboration for this specific account was located.
Date: 1947
Location: Écosse (Scotland)
Time: Night
Summary: No further information preserved beyond a period photograph.
Source: Undocumented
Date: 1947
Location: Czaplinek, Poland
Time: Night
Summary: No further information preserved beyond a period photograph.
Source: Undocumented
Date: 1947: Kingston, Jamaica Sighting
Date: 1947
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Time: Night
Summary: Witnesses saw a low-flying, luminous, triangular craft; several moving figures were visible inside what appeared to be a cabin. Around the same time, an undocumented report described a UFO landing and occupant contact at a place called Bom Sucesso. A close encounter with an unidentified craft and its occupants was reported by more than two witnesses (Rego), with one masculine-presenting being observed.
Source: GEPUC Brazil
Date: 1947
Location: Platonovo, Oryel Region, Russia
Time: Late night
Summary: 7-year-old Mikhail Zybunovskiy, asleep, was awakened by a soft nudge and saw a tall entity dressed entirely in green, wearing a cap that shone with a weak orange light, resembling a “soldier.” Frightened, he woke his mother, who also saw the entity and demanded, trembling, to know who it was; the entity did not respond and stood silently. The mother hid her daughter and the boy under blankets and continued questioning the being, which made a deep breathing sound and then vanished in plain sight. A bright flash of light, like fire, followed outside the window before it too vanished.
Source: Aleksey Priyma, UFO Witnesses to the Unknown
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
1947, Unknown Date — A Fourth Malta Sighting, and Two Corrections
Two corrections define this revision. First, a “Tucson, Arizona” entry crediting a witness named Rhodes with a photographed daytime disc is almost certainly the same case as William A. Rhodes’s well-documented July 7, 1947 Phoenix sighting — no other 1947 “Rhodes” photographic case exists anywhere in the literature this archive consulted, and the location discrepancy appears to be a transcription error carried through John Keel’s 1970 secondary citation. Second, the Griffiss Air Force Base, New York account — missing time, a suddenly-appearing perimeter fence, telepathic communication, a delayed military visit enforcing silence — carries a cluster of motifs more characteristic of later abduction-genre convention than of a contemporaneous 1947 account, and traces only to a modern enthusiast website rather than any period source. Both are flagged rather than silently corrected or removed. The Malta “little people” case also appears here for a fourth time across this archive; readers are directed to the fuller, named-witness version on the June 1947 page.
“She plunged into the sea when she noticed the witness looking at her.”
Janet & Colin Bord, Modern Mysteries of Britain, describing the 1947 Island of Muck mermaid sighting.
