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 great March 1950 wave carries a specific day. This log gathers the sightings from that month whose sources give only “March 1950” — spanning a photographed formation over St. Raphael, France, a silent metallic disc over Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, and a close encounter with occupants near Orange, France, alongside a handful of entries whose original sourcing could not be recovered and are marked accordingly.
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: Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ontario, Canada
Time: Unknown
Summary: Circular craft reportedly emitting fiery vapor trails were seen during low-level passes over the mining infrastructure.
Source: Unknown
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: Terrace Bay, Ontario, Canada
Time: Unknown
Summary: A soundless, spherical object with a “mother-of-pearl” sheen was reportedly seen traveling westward at great altitude.
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
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
A Global Month Without Fixed Dates
The entries on this page share only their month, not their day, but together they confirm how genuinely global the March 1950 wave was: photographed formations in France, a silent metallic disc in Zimbabwe, mass reports of moon-sized discs relayed secondhand across three continents by Harold T. Wilkins, and a close encounter with occupants near Orange, France that stands apart from the mostly distant-light and disc reports making up the rest of this log. A handful of entries — from Steep Rock Iron Mines and Terrace Bay, Ontario, the Ohio/Indiana border, and Vlasic, Yugoslavia — carry no recoverable source and are marked Unknown; they are preserved here rather than deleted, consistent with this archive’s practice of not erasing entries for being poorly documented, but they should be read with that caveat pending further research.
“A silent, 20-meter disc that stopped, turned, and vanished to the west.”
— Cynthia Hind, UFO Afri News, on the March 1950 Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe sighting
