Four representative cases from the undated March 1950 UFO reports archived on this page.
1950: March Unknown Date
UFO & Entity Sightings Archive
Not every report from the March 1950 wave carries a day. The entries below include sightings from Alabama to France and Africa that sources place only in March, and they are kept in the archive so the month’s picture is complete.
Date: March 1950
Location: St. Raphael, France
Time: Unknown
Summary: Objects were observed and photographed; five objects in total were seen.
Source: Vallee, Jacques
Date: March 1950
Location: Algorta, Spain
Time: Unknown
Summary: One disc was observed on a river for over one minute.
Source: Stendek (CEONI)
Date: March 1950
Location: Ohio/Indiana Border
Time: Unknown
Summary: A long, white, cigar-shaped craft was reportedly observed hovering silently before ascending at a 45-degree angle.
Source: Unknown
Date: March 1950
Location: Vlasic, Yugoslavia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Shining discs were reportedly seen moving in formation over the mountains.
Source: Unknown
Date: March 1950
Location: Ethiopia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several flying discs, the size of the moon, were observed.
Source: Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack Ace Star A-11, New York, 1967
Date: March 1950 (reported March 14)
Location: Between Haleyville and Bear Creek, Alabama
Time: Late afternoon
Summary: An insurance representative named Phillips and his wife, driving on Highway 5, saw a white object like a large electric light bulb with a streamer behind it come from the west, cross the highway and railroad a few hundred yards from them and descend at 45 degrees toward a nearby hill, where it seemed to disintegrate before landing. He and others searched the hill days later and found nothing. Military intelligence was told of the report, and Birmingham Air Force Base’s public information officer said no local unit investigates saucer reports.
Source: Birmingham Post, March 14, 1950; Third Army G-2 letter of March 17, 1950 (Control No. A-1917), as filed in Project Blue Book (No Case, information only)
Source Status: Blue Book filed it as information only and did not evaluate it.
Date: March 1950
Location: Mina Hassan Tani, Morocco
Time: Unknown
Summary: One flying disc was observed.
Source: Schoenherr, Luis
Date: March 1950
Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
Time: Unknown
Summary: An object was observed by more than two witnesses (Davis); animal reactions to the object were also reported.
Source: Keyhoe, Donald E. Flying Saucers Are Real Fawcett 107, New York, 1950
Date: March 1950
Location: Chile
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several flying discs, the size of the moon, were observed.
Source: Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack Ace Star A-11, New York, 1967
Date: March 1950
Location: Cyprus
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several flying discs, the size of the moon, were observed.
Source: Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack Ace Star A-11, New York, 1967
Date: March 1950
Location: Heliopolis, Egypt
Time: Unknown
Summary: One object was observed.
Source: Poher, Claude Etudes Statistiques Portant Sur 1000 Temoignages Author, undated
Date: March 1950
Location: Ankara, Turkey
Time: Unknown
Summary: Six flying discs were observed by one witness (Arik).
Source: Newspaper
Date: March 1950
Location: Sidi Slimane, Morocco
Time: Unknown
Summary: A flying disc was observed.
Source: Newspaper
Date: March 1950
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Time: Unknown
Summary: A flying disc was observed.
Source: Schoenherr, Luis
Date: March 1950
Location: Messina, Sicily, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: Two discs were observed by a male witness.
Source: Newspaper
Date: March 1950
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Time: Unknown
Summary: Several flying discs, the size of the moon, were observed.
Source: Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack Ace Star A-11, New York, 1967
Date: March 1950
Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Time: Unknown
Summary: A procession of objects was observed by a male witness in the city — part of a larger wave of UFO reports in the area.
Source: Vallee, Jacques
Date: March 1950
Location: Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France
Time: 01:30
Summary: A close encounter with an unidentified craft and its occupants — an unidentifiable object and its occupants were observed at close range.
Source: Delaire, J. Bernard UFO Register Volume 7 (1976) Data Research, Oxford, 1976
Date: March 1950
Location: Chinhoyi, Mashonaland West, Zimbabwe
Time: 16:00
Summary: A silent, 20-meter-diameter metallic disc was observed to the south at 500 meters altitude, stopping and turning rapidly to the west; observed on a farm for ten minutes, with no sound heard.
Source: Hind, Cynthia UFO Afri News
Date: March 1950
Location: Las Catalinas, Argentina
Time: 20:25
Summary: One object, about 20 feet across, was observed by six witnesses on a farm for 20 minutes (Girotti).
Source: FSR (Flying Saucer Review)
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Reports Fixed Only to the Month
Where the sources fix only the month, the entries here say so and name them. Each stands in the archive as a report of what was seen, with the source that carried it.
“…looked like a large electric light bulb.”
From the Birmingham Post’s account of the Haleyville, Alabama sighting, March 14, 1950.
