Four representative cases from the undated April 1950 UFO reports archived on this page, headlined by the Canby, Oregon tiny-humanoid encounter.
1950: April Unknown Date
UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
This log gathers reports from April 1950 — and a handful more broadly dated only to “Spring 1950” — whose sources give no specific day. It includes one of this archive’s more unusual reports: a Canby, Oregon woman’s account of a foot-tall humanoid figure in her neighbor’s yard, alongside a filmed disc-landing case in Alaska, a South Pole sighting, and a Missouri report of telepathic contact.
Date: April 1950
Location: Canby, Oregon
Time: Daytime
Summary: Mrs. Ellen Jonerson was working on her lawn when she saw, on a neighbor’s lot, a very tiny person, no more than 12 inches tall, standing with his back turned toward her. He turned to face her: a man with a heavily tanned face, clad in coveralls and a plaid shirt, wearing a skullcap over hair the same color as his face, wide-shouldered and stocky. Mrs. Jonerson went back to her house to call a friend; when she returned, the being was “waddling” away. He walked under a 1937 Dodge without stooping, and that was the last she saw of him.
Source: Kenneth Arnold & Jerome Clark
Date: Spring 1950
Location: Cocoa, Florida
Time: 01:00
Summary: An unidentified object and its occupants were observed at close range by one witness on a road (McLendon).
Source: Webb, David HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports
Date: Spring 1950
Location: Bex, Vaud, Switzerland
Time: 06:30
Summary: An unidentifiable object was observed at close range.
Source: Mancusi, Bruno SWICAT (Swiss UFO Catalogue)
Date: Spring 1950
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 19:00
Summary: One object was observed by four witnesses for under two hours (Curtis).
Source: NICAP
Date: Spring 1950
Location: South Pole, Antarctica
Time: Night
Summary: An object of huge size was observed on the ice (Orrego).
Source: Poher, Claude Etudes Statistiques Portant Sur 1000 Temoignages Author, undated
Date: April 1950
Location: Chissey-en-Morvan, France
Time: Unknown
Summary: Four flying discs were observed.
Source: Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack Ace Star A-11, New York, 1967
Date: April 1950
Location: Geetbets, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Time: Unknown
Summary: One object was observed by several witnesses.
Source: SOBEPS
Date: April 1950
Location: Bluefield, West Virginia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Nocturnal lights were observed by a male witness (Robertson).
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980. ISBN: 0-313-21337-2
Date: April 1950
Location: Preston, United Kingdom
Time: 01:45
Summary: One object was observed by several witnesses on the ocean for over four minutes (Sharpe).
Source: Hill, H. Edward Catalog Through 1950
Date: April 1950
Location: Corpac Airport, Chiclayo, Peru
Time: 12:00
Summary: A luminous, disc-shaped UFO, followed by a plane, disappeared into clouds; observed by two male military witnesses, one an experienced observer, at the airport.
Source: Weinstein, Dominique Aircraft UFO Encounters Project ACUFOE, Paris, 1999
Date: April 1950
Location: White Sands, New Mexico
Time: Daytime
Summary: A blurred object was captured on motion picture film by a guided-missile tracker; animal reactions to the object were also reported. Observed by a male military witness near a missile.
Source: Condon Committee
Date: April 1950
Location: West Plains, Missouri
Time: Afternoon
Summary: An object was observed by one female witness at a building (Atha); telepathic phenomena were reported to have occurred in connection with the sighting.
Source: Herb, Gert
Date: April 1950
Location: Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, Austria
Time: Night
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: Schoenherr, Luis
Date: April 1950
Location: Kauai Island, Hawaii
Time: 23:00
Summary: Six red points of light were observed on the ocean by a group of male witnesses for two minutes, accompanied by a disturbance in all magnetic and electrical instruments aboard.
Source: Weinstein, Dominique Aircraft UFO Encounters Project ACUFOE, Paris, 1999
Date: April 1950
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Time: Unknown
Summary: This entry is the same case as the more specifically dated April 29, 1950 Juneau, Alaska entry on the April 15th-30th archive page — motion picture actor and pilot Mikel Konrad’s film of eight discs landing and taking off roughly 60 kilometers north of Juneau. Consolidated there rather than duplicated here; see that page for the full entry.
Source: Vallee, Jacques Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A Foot-Tall Figure and a Month Without Fixed Dates
The undated entries from April 1950 range from the routine — nocturnal lights over West Virginia and Austria, a daytime disc off the English coast — to the genuinely strange: the Canby, Oregon report of a foot-tall humanoid figure remains one of this archive’s more unusual small-entity accounts, distinct from the more common tall, human-scaled occupant reports found elsewhere in the 1950 record. The Juneau, Alaska filmed disc case appears here only as a cross-reference, since the same event is more precisely dated to April 29 on the April 15th-30th page and is documented in full there to avoid duplicating the entry across two pages.
“He walked under a 1937 Dodge without stooping.”
— Kenneth Arnold & Jerome Clark, on the Canby, Oregon sighting
