1950: October UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
Date: October 1950
Location: Moose Factory, Quebec Canada
Time: various
Summary: Locals reported different incidents. Three Indians reported seeing a “water going object” which they identified as the top of a submarine in James Bay near the mouth of the Moose River. A strange red light hung almost stationary over the area. Other Indians observed two “airplanes” one large one small, which stood still in the sky. Three huge explosions shook every building over a period of two minutes. Later several Indians encountered “strange white men” which ran to hide in the forest when observed. The Royal Mounted Police was notified.
Source: HBCC UFO Research
Date: October 3, 1950
Location: Pomona, Calif.
Time:
Summary: Disc-shaped UFO reported by scientist.
Source: [VI]
Date: 1950: Above Van Nuys and San Fernando Aircraft Sighting
Date: October 12, 1950 BBU
Location:
Time: 1:25 p.m.
Summary: A military radar unit at Knoxville Airport suddenly detected 11, “and possibly more,” unidentified targets moving over the restricted flight zone at Oak Ridge. This time action was taken. At 11:30, the radar station commander scrambled an F-82 fighter. It was in the air nine minutes later. The fighter was vectored toward two targets and, according to the radar, closed with the targets, but the pilot saw nothing. Ground observations also failed to detect anything in the sky. No unusual objects were seen visually or on radar for the next two days. Then the “dam broke.” On October 15, at 3:25 PM, three Oak Ridge security guards and a caretaker saw an exceedingly strange object.
Source: (McDonald list)
Date: October 12, 1950
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
Time:
Summary: Late Thursday, a saucer-looking object was observed over the K-25 area near the NEPA Project area. The object was described as round, as big as a four room house, silver in color, and had a blister at the top of the saucer. The object also had windows. The object rose slowly for about 100 feet, moved forward, rose again about the same distance and then it was gone at a high rate of speed.
Source: BB files/The Knoxville Journal, October 26, 1950
Date: mid-October, 1950
Location: Bennington, Vermont
Time:
Summary: In mid-October, 1950, 8-year old Paul Jepson disappeared from a farm. Paul’s mother, who earned a living as an animal caretaker, left her small son happily playing near a pig sty while she tended to the animals. A short time later, she returned to find him missing. An extensive search of the area proved fruitless.
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Date: Oct. 15, 1950 BBU 819
Location: Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Time: 3:20 p.m.
Summary: AESS Trooper Rymer, J. Moneymaker, and Capt. Zarzecki saw 2 shiny silver objects shaped like bullet or bladder dive with a smoke trail, one vanished, the other hovered at 5-6 ft altitude, 50 ft away, left and returned several times somewhat further away.
Source: Berliner Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 142-3
Date: Oct. 15, 1950 BBU 821
Location: Pope AFB, North Carolina
Time: 4:20 p.m.
Summary: Miami Airlines DC-4 pilot and copilot Daniel and Woodward saw 4 round shiny 100 ft objects descended slowly then took off in a line. The objects were pursued by the pilots for an estimated 3 minutes at an estimated 180 mph.
Source: Berliner; FUFOR Index
Date: Oct. 16, 1950
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Time: 3:20 (1520) EST.
Summary: “While Special Agent William S. Price was present, a report came from the AEC Patrol to the radar station relating that a Trooper Isabell and four civilian employees at Oak Sidge had observed a “silver disc” hovering over the K-25 Plant in the controlled area. The radar screen was able to pick up an indistinct target about every three (3) or four (4) sweeps of the indicator. An F-82 fighter plane was sent to attempt an intercept of the object. The airborne radar of the fighter picked up a target which later proved to be a light aircraft. The ground observers reported that the F-82 passed under the “silver disc” while it was in pursuit of the light plane. The crew of the fighter observed nothing unusual. Nothing further was learned of the sightings.”
Source: NARA doc./Fran Ridge/Dan Wilson
Date: Oct. 20, 1950
Location: Oak Ridge, Tenn.
Time: 4:55 p.m.
Summary: Not listed in either BB Unknown list, but has aspects that may ultimately classify it as an unknown. Larry Riordan, the Superintendent of Security for the X-10 control zone became a witness. While driving to a residential area he saw an object which he thought at first was a balloon which had lost its “basket.” It was generally round, appeared to “come together at the bottom in wrinkles (rather indistinct and something was hanging below.” It appeared to be 8 to 10 feet long and lead or gunmetal colored. It didn’t seem to be moving but, since he was traveling and only saw it for a number of seconds, he couldn’t be sure. He was sure it wasn’t a weather balloon, although he thought it might have been a gas bag balloon launched by the nearby University of Tennessee Agricultural Research Farm. On the same day at 3:27 PM the radar unit at the Knoxville airport detected radar targets near the area of Mr. Riordan’s sighting and scrambled a fighter plane. The pilot searched the area for about an hour and a half, which included the time of Mr. Riordan’s sighting, and found nothing.
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Date: Oct. 23, 1950 BBU 824
Location: Bonlee, North Carolina
Time: 12:42 p.m.
Summary: Ex-USAF pilot Frank Risher saw an aluminum object shaped like a dirigible or Convair C-99 cargo plane, with 3 portholes, arrive from SE, hover 3-5 secs and fly away to the SSE. 40 secs
Source: Berliner
Date: Oct. 24, 1950
Location: Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Summary: FBI documents show several visual sightings at Oak Ridge and a radar track at Knoxville. An unidentified object appeared at 6:30 PM at an altitude of approximately 5,000 feet in the same general vicinity as the object observed by Fry (see FBI doc below). The radar target disappeared at 7:20 p.m.. The complete radar report to the CIC investigator says that targets appeared at 6:23 p.m. moving over the restricted flight zone and at 6:26 a fighter was scrambled to the area of the targets but failed to see anything.
Source: Fran Ridge
