Date: 1952: Aliens and Abduction in Redding, California
Date: Fall 1952: Lost River Sinks, Idaho
Date: September 1952: Pointy-Head Alien in Sutton, West Virginia
Date: 1952: 3 white, odd shaped forms seen in Central Point, Oregon
Date: Sept. of 1952
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Radar detected a 700 m.p.h. target near Kirtland AFB which slowed to 100 m.p.h.. Two F-86’s were scrambled. One fired on the UFO. Report ordered destroyed. Exact date unknown.
Source: Ruppelt
Date: Sept. ?, 1952
Location: Summerland British Columbia Canada Latitude 49-36 N, Longitude 119-40 W
Time:
Summary: “We were living at Summerland on Lake Okanagan at the time,” Stewart said,” and Dorothy and Gordon had just arrived from Vancouver to visit us for a while. As it was her, first trip to the Okanagan since leaving her home in England, we had set out on a motor trip for the day to see some of the Country.
“It was a clear bright morning in September, and when we reached the ferry slip to cross over to Kelowna we realized we would have to wait a bit because we could see the ferry still on the other side. And then about half a mile north of the ferry we noticed this other thing.”
“I remember pointing it out and saying what a beautiful white boat it was,” Dorothy S. added,” It was moving around so gracefully, and though we still couldn’t make it out very well at that distance, it seemed to have a smooth round design we had never seen before.”
As the three watched from their car in admiring curiosity, they noticed the strange craft had started to move across the lake in their direction. By that time cars from the ferry were beginning to line up behind them, so they were also in a position to observe what happened next.
“We could see the wash coming out from either side, yet somehow the boat, as we thought it was, didn’t seem to be moving very fast,” Stewart said. (Dorothy compared it to a line from Dante, “Hasten slowly.”) “As it came closer we still thought it must be some unusual kind of modern boat. It looked like a round hard hat sitting on a platter. But there was something about that wash that looked different and that started us wondering.”
Although neither could explain precisely what the difference was, possibly it was caused by the circular shape of the craft moving lightly on the surface, like a flatly thrown stone.
“Then suddenly it really surprised us,” Stewart continued. “It was a few hundred yards away when all at once the wake disappeared and we realized the thing was in the air. It changed direction to the right so that it came straight toward the ferry dock and then it stopped dead, less than 100 feet in front of us and about 50 feet above the water.”
Despite the 17 years that had since elapsed, Stewart’s memory of that experience was obviously still very much with him. He shook his head in amazement, as he spoke of it and seemed to live the whole experience over again.
His cousin, on the other hand, said she had not thought of it for long while, though she was sufficiently impressed at the time to make a note of it in her diary’.
“We sat in the car spellbound,” she said. “We couldn’t believe what was happening and afterwards, for some reason, we had no desire to talk about it. It was as if we had been told not to.”
The witnesses described the object as about 30 feet in diameter and having a haziness which made the outline indistinct. Also it had a translucent quality which gave them the impression that anyone inside could have seen them without being seen in return. (A description of translucence often occurs in sighting reports in which the UFO is dome shaped, such as this one.)
“It stayed there, absolutely silent, for a minute or so,” Stewart said. “and we definitely had a feeling it was watching us. Then it started back across time lake. By this time I was out of the car to get a better look and I told the others I wished I had a pair of binoculars. An American tourist in the car behind heard me and said, ‘Here take mine. I’ve seen enough.’ He looked as if it had scared him.”
Through the binoculars Stewart watched the object reach the opposite shore, just over two miles away, in five or six minutes, giving it a leisurely speed of about 20 mph. “Then it seemed to fly parallel to a trail bordering the lake before it shot up and disappeared.
The witnesses described the object as about 30 feet in diameter and having a haziness which made the outline indistinct. Also it had a translucent quality which gave them the impression that anyone inside could have seen them without being seen in return. (A description of translucence often occurs in sighting reports in which the UFO is dome shaped, such as this one.)
“It stayed there, absolutely silent, for a minute or so,” Stewart said. “and we definitely had a feeling it was watching us. Then it started back across time lake. By this time I was out of the car to get a better look and I told the others I wished I had a pair of binoculars. An American tourist in the car behind heard me and said, ‘Here take mine. I’ve seen enough.’ He looked as if it had scared him.”
Through the binoculars Stewart watched the object reach the opposite shore, just over two miles away, in five or six minutes, giving it a leisurely speed of about 20 mph. “Then it seemed to fly parallel to a trail bordering the lake before it shot up and disappeared.
After a moment Stewart handed the binoculars back to their owner, and he remembers how they stared silently at each other in disbelief.
“I guess I looked just as shocked as he did,” Stewart said, “and it must have affected the others the same way. We were a pretty quiet bunch going across on the ferry”
Having seen and been examined by craft that may have come from a world light years away, it was no wonder.
Source: NARA
Date: Sept. 1, 1952 BBU
Location: Atlanta, Georgia
Time: 9:43 p.m.
Summary: Mrs. William Davis and 9 others saw a light, similar to the evening star, move up and down for a long period of time.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 1, 1952 BBU2022
Location: Marietta,
Time: 10:30 p.m.
Summary: Mr. Bowman (ex-artillery officer) and 24 others saw a red, white, and blue-green object which spun and shot off sparks. An unidentified witness using binoculars saw 2 large objects shaped like spinning tops with red, blue and green colors, fly side by side, leaving a sparkling trail for 30 mins. 15-30 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 1, 1952 BBU
Location: Marietta, Georgia
Time: 10:50 p.m.
Summary: ExAAF B-25 gunner saw 2 large white disc-shaped objects with green vapor trails fly in trail formation, merge, fly away very fast.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 1, 1952 BBU2023
Location: Yaak, Montana
Time: 4:45 a.m.
Summary: Visual sighting by 2 USAF enlisted men, radar tracking by 3 men using FPS-3 radar set. 2 small, varicolored lights became black silhouettes [of “dark, cigar-shaped object”?] at dawn, flew erratically. 1 hours.
Source: Berliner; cf. Ruppelt p. 194
Date: Sept. 2, 1952 BBU
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Time:
Summary: Beginning at 2015 hours unidentified flying objects were picked up by the GCA unit at Haneda AFB and later contacted by GCI at Shiroi AFB. When first observed the target was 9 miles north of Haneda traveling at 40 to 60 mph on a heading of 90 degrees. During the next hour sightings were made on radar of targets ranging in number from 1 to 3. The targets produced a clearly visible echo on the PPI scope and about the size caused by a C-124 aircraft.
Source: McDonald list
Date: Sept. 2, 1952 BBU2025
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Time: 3 a.m.
Summary: Radar controller Turason (GCA) at Midway Airport tracked 40 targets flying in miscellaneous directions, up to 175 mph, 2 targets seemed to fly in formation with DC-6 airliner. 8 hours total.
Source: Dan Wilson, Berliner
Date: Sept. 3, 1952 BBU
Location: Tucson, Ariz.
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Summary: Mr. Donald L. McCraven, an instructor pilot at Marana Air Base, and Mr. N. D. Thomas, observed an elliptical shaped object, dark in color which freely reflected sunlight. The object made three well-coordinated turns and made no perceptible sound. Tremendous speed was shown by the object while in a slight climb. The object was observed for approximately one and a half minutes. Project Blue Book evaluation: UNIDENTIFIED.
Source: Berliner, Dan Wilson
Date: September 4 1952: Sighting in Anost Saone-et-Loire France
Date: 1952: Creature in Weston West Virginia
Date: ept. 6, 1952 BBU2045
Location: Lake Charles AFB, Louisiana
Time: 1:30 a.m.
Summary: T/Sgt. J. E. Wilson and 2 enlisted men saw a bright star-like light move about the sky. 2 hrs.
Source: Berliner
Date: ept. 6, 1952 BBU2048
Location: Tucson, Ariz.
Time: 4:55 p.m.
Summary: Ex-Congresswoman Mrs. Isabella King and Bill McClain saw an orange teardrop-shaped object whirl on its vertical axis, descend very fast, stop, retrace its path upwards, while whirling in the opposite direction. 1.5 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 7, 1952 BBU2049
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Time: 10:30 p.m.
Summary: Chemist J. W. Gibson and others saw an orange object or light (color temperature 2,000° F.) explode into view. 3-20 secs.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 7, 1952 BBU2052
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Time:
Summary:
Source:NARA
Date: Sept. 9, 1952 BBU2062
Location: Rabat, French Morocco
Time: 9 p.m.
Summary: USAF Intelligence civilian illustrator E. J. Colisimo saw a disc with lights along part of its circumference, fly twice as fast as a T-33 jet trainer, in a slightly curved path. 5 secs.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 9, 1952
Location: Portland, Oregon
Time:
Summary: Two oval objects observed in searchlight beam.
Source: UFOE, XII
Date: Sept. 12, 1952 BBU2077
Location: Allen, Maryland
Time: 9:30 p.m.
Summary: GOC observers Mr. and Mrs. David Kolb using binoculars saw a white light with red trim and streamers fly NE. 35 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: September 12 1952: The Flatwoods Monster
Date: September 13 1952
Location: Frametown West Virginia
Time: 2000
Summary: Mr. Mrs George Snitowski and their little girl suddenly found their car stalled, and an unpleasant smell (ether mingled with sulfurous smoke) filled the air. Thinking a chemical plant might be burning, Mr. Snitowski got out of the car and searched for what smelled so badly. Looking down the slope of the highway, he saw a large globe moving slowly back and forth, hovering over the ground, and giving off a soft, violet light. George moved closer and felt the “sensation of thousands of needle-like vibrations” on his skin. Then he got sick and staggered back to the car. Edith Snitowski screamed and yelled that something was behind him. He turned to see “a figure about eight or nine feet tall with a big head, bloated body, and long, spindly arms gliding rapidly” toward him. The couple, safely inside the car, locked it quickly. Terrified, they watched as one of those long spindly, arms stretched across their windshield. The end was forked. The couple crouched in horror. When George looked up, he saw the monster gliding away. Waiting and waiting, they finally saw a glowing globe, swaying back and forth, lift above the trees and take off into the sky, leaving a luminous trail. A gas station attendant found a V-shaped burned brown spot on the car hood.
Source: Paul Lieb, Jacques Vallee & Mark Hall
Date: Sept. 13, 1952 BBU2085
Location: Near Allentown, Penna.
Time: 7:40 p.m.
Summary: Private pilot W. A. Hobler, flying a Beech Bonanza at 10,000 ft from Allentown to the Caldwell-Bright Omni station, saw a 3 ft object, shaped like a fat football, flaming orange-red color, at his 11 o’clock high position about 450-600 ft away descend at a 30° angle on a collision course, Hobler made a sharp climb to avoid it, object then pulled up in a 65° climb in front of Hobler’s airplane, Hobler made a rapid 180° right turn but lost the object traveling at about 700 mph. 15 secs.
Source: Berliner; NARCAP
Date: Sept. 14, 1952 BBU2086
Location: Santa Barbara, Calif.
Time: 8:40 p.m.
Summary: USAF C-54 transport pilot Tarbutton saw a blue white light travel straight and level, then fly up. 30 secs. (Berliner)
Source:
Date: Sept. 14, 1952 BBU2087
Location: North Atlantic between Ireland and Iceland.
Time:
Summary: Military personnel from several countries aboard ships in the NATO Operation MAINBRACE exercise. Sightings include a blue-green triangle flying 1,500 mph and 3 objects in triangular formation giving off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph.
Source: Berliner, Wilson, Ridge, BB files
Date: Sept. 14, 1952 BBU2089
Location: White Lake, South Dakota
Time: 7 p.m.
Summary: GOC observer L. W. Barnes, using binoculars saw a red, cigar-shaped object, with three puffs behind it, fly W, then S, then was gone. 30-40 mins.
Source: Dan Wilson, Don Berliner
Date: Sept. 14, 1952 BBU2093
Location: Olmsted AFB, Penna.
Time: Time not known.
Summary: Pilot of Flying Tiger Airlines airplane N67977 saw a blue light fly very fast on a collision course with the airliner. Note: the summary card attached to the file showed completely different information. ()
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 14, 1952 BBU2092
Location: El Paso, Texas.
Time: 11:30 p.m.
Summary: three civilians (1 engineer) observed six groups of luminous spherical or disc-shaped objects traveling in an arc to an inverted “Y” formation at an estimated speed of 4,000 mph at an estimated altitude of 10-12 miles. Maneuvers were erratic and included hovering and extremely high speed. Project Blue Book Evaluation: UNIDENTIFIED.
Source:
Date: September 14 1952: Remedios, Santa Clara, Cuba
Date: 1952: Charleston West Virginia Sighting
Date: September 15 1952: Wheeling West Virginia Monster
Date: Sept. 14-15, 1952 BBU
Location: Ciudad Jaurez, Mexico
Time: 11:30 p.m. – 1:20 a.m.
Summary: Consulting engineer R. J. Portis and 3 others saw 6 groups of 12-15 luminous spheres or discs, which flew in formations varying from arcs to inverted-Y’s, very fast. 1 hr. 50 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 16, 1952 BBU2099
Location: Portand, ME
Time: 6:22 p.m.
Summary: Crew of U.S. Navy P2V Neptune patrol plane saw a group of 5 lights in circular formation at the same time a long, thin blip was tracked on radar. Note: Possible USAF KC-97 airplanes involved in a refueling operation. 20 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 16, 1952 BBU2100
Location: Warner-Robbins AFB, Georgia
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Summary: 3 USAF officers and 2 civilians saw white lights fly abreast at 100 mph. 15 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 16, 1952
Location: Belle Glade, Florida.
Time:
Summary: Circular object with row of lights on underside passed low overhead; cattle bolted.
Source: UFOE, XII
Date: Sept. 17, 1952 BBU2105
Location: Tucson, Ariz.
Time: 11:40 a.m.
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hollingsworth saw 2 groups of 3 large, flat, shiny objects fly in tight formations, the first group slow, the second faster. 2 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 20, 1952 BBU
Location: Denmark & Norway
Time: 4:00 p.m. +.
Summary: Spherical UFO photographed from U. S. Navy aircraft carrier participating in “Operation Mainbrace,” NATO maneuvers. [UFOE, XII] Personnel of the U.S.S. Franklin D. Roosevelt, an aircraft carrier participating in the Mainbrace maneuvers, observed a silvery, spherical object which was also photographed. (The pictures have never been made public). The UFO was seen moving across the sky behind the fleet. Reporter Wallace Litwin took a series of color photographs, which were examined by Navy Intelligence officers. The weather man aboard said a balloon was launched at 3:30 p.m. and it rose up and out of sight in the overcast in about 50 seconds. [incorrect date in UFOE as Sept. 19]
Source: Richard Hall, Dan Wilson
Date: Sept. 20 [19? 21?], 1952 BBU
Location: Topcliffe RAF Station, Yorkshire, England, UK.
Time: 10:53 a.m. [4:14 p.m.?]
Summary: Operation MAINBRACE Meteor jet fighter (flown by Flight Lt. John W. Kilburn and Flight Lt. Cybulski ?) was descending to land at 5,000 ft when they saw a slow-moving circular silver [or white?] object about 5 miles behind them at about 15,000 ft following a similar course then swinging like a “falling sycamore leaf” or pendulum and began descending. As the Meteor turned towards Dishforth the object followed, then stopped falling leaf motion and descent, began rotation on its axis, suddenly accelerated at “incredible speed” faster than a meteor to the W then turned to SE [and disappeared]. Ground ? observers included Flying Officer Paris, Master Signaller Thompson, Higgins ? and 5 other aircrew [on the ground?]. (Jan Aldrich; Ruppelt pp. 195-6; 15-20 secs +
Source: NICAP; FUFOR Index
Date: September 21, 1952.
Location: Morocco
Time:
Summary:
Source: The UFO Encylcopedia by Margaret Sachs.
Date: Sept. 21?, 1952 BBU
Location: North Sea near England, UK.
Time:
Summary: Operation MAINBRACE sighting by 6 British pilots in a formation of Meteor jets who pursued shiny spherical object but lost it in 1-2 mins then it reappeared following one of the jets which turned to pursue but the object outmaneuvered the jet. Several mins.
Source: Ruppelt p. 196; BB files??; FUFOR Index ?
Date: Sept. 22, 1952
Location:
Time:
Summary: Police observed 3-4 UFOs maneuvering erratically.
Source: UFOE, VII
Date: Sept. 23, 1952 BBU2119
Location: Gander Lake, Newfoundland, Canada
Time:
Summary: No time shown. Pepperrell AFB operations officer and 7 other campers saw bright white light, which reflected on the lake, fly straight and level at 100 mph. 10 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 24, 1952 BBU
Location: Aurora, Colo.
Time: 3:15 p.m.
Summary: USAF T/Sgt. B. R. Hughes saw 5-6 circular objects, bright white but not shiny, circle in trail formation. [Same as Denver Sept. 30 case?] 5-6 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 24, 1952 BBU212
Location: Charleston, West Virginia
Time: 3:30 p.m.
Summary: Crew of USAF B-29 bomber saw a lot of bright, metallic particles or flashes, up to 3 ft in length, stream past the B-29. 15 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 24, 1952 BBU
Location: Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
Time: 7:45 p.m.
Summary: USN crew of TBM-18 chased an orange light with greenish tail.
Source: Weinstein
Date: Sept. 26, 1952 BBU2126
Location: 400 miles NNW of Azores Islands [CCL Item # 22]
Time: 11:16 p.m. P
Summary: ilot, copilot, engineer and aircraft commander of USAF C-124 transport plane saw 2 distinct green lights to the right and slightly above the C-124, at one time seemed to turn toward it, the lights alternated leading each other. 1 hr +
Source:Berliner
Date: Sept. 27, 1952 BBU
Location: Hempstead, Texas
Time:
Summary: 2 USAF T-33 pilots saw a white-silver circular flat disc flying erratically at 600-700 mph.
Source: Weinstein
Date: Sept. 27, 1952 BBU2128
Location: Inyokern, Calif.
Time: 10 p.m.
Summary: 2 couples, using a 5x telescope saw a large, round object, which went through the color spectrum every 2 secs, fly straight and level. 15 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 28, 1952 BBU
Location: Tsushima Island, Japan
Time:
Summary:
Source: McDonald list
Date: Sept. 28, 1952 BBU
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada
Time:
Summary: An object resembling an aircraft traveling north to south at approximately 120 mph, was seen on GCA radar as it passed 1 1/2 miles east of runway 27. The object had to be at an altitude of less that 4000 feet due to the limitations of the GCA unit. The signal on the scope was strong and clear.
Source: McDonald list
Date: Sept. 29, 1952 BBU2136
Location: Rochester, England, UK [?].
Time: 3:55 p.m.
Summary: Witnesses unknown, but report came via the Rochester Police Dept., of 2 flat objects hovering then speeding away. 3 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 29, 1952 BBU2140
Location: Southern Pines, North Carolina
Time: 8:15 p.m.
Summary: U.S. Army Res. 1st Lt. C. H. Stevens and 2 others saw a green ellipse. with a long tail, orbiting. 15 mins.
Source: Berliner
Date: Sept. 30, 1952
Location: Edwards AFB, California
Time:
Summary:
Aviation photographer, others, observed two discs alternately hovering and darting around.
Source: UFOE, VI
Date: Sept. 30, 1952 BBU2138
Location: Denver, Colo.
Time:
Summary:
Source: NARA Same as Sept. 29 Aurora case?
Date: 1952
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