1958: May UFO & Alien Sightings

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Date: May ?,1958
Location: Richmond, Virginia
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Summary: Cat. 3. Engine of car began running roughly, driver then noticed UFO following car.
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Date: May 2, 1958
Location: Bogota, Colombia
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Summary: Eight people working in a wood saw a green creature with scaly skin and very long arms, the pointed nails of its long fingers nearly touching the ground.
Source: Passport to Magonia 467

Date: May 3, 1958
Location: Flagstaff, Ariz. BBU
Time: 8:25 a.m. PST.
Summary: A white object with the appearance of an elongated balloon was observed by a USMC pilot in an F3D aircraft flying at 35,000 feet. The object was detected on airborne radar. The object was said the be the size of a basketball held at arm’s length and appeared to be motionless. At the radar station SM-163 (Las Vegas AFS, Nevada?), they were unable to make radar contact with the Marine aircraft or the unidentified object due to a local maintenance situation. The length of the observation was 15 minutes.
Source: McDonald list; FUFOR Index

Date: May 5, 1958
Location: Pan De Azucar, Uruguay
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Summary: Cat. 3, 11. Aerial encounter, heat, between Piper Cub and “top-shaped” object. Well-known pilot watched a brilliant object come near his plane, felt intense heat.
Source: UFOE, X

Date: May 9, 1958
Location: Bohol Island, Philippines BBU 580
Time: 11:05 a.m.
Summary: Philippine Airlines pilot saw an object with a shiny, metallic surface, falling and spinning.
Source: Berliner

Date: May 15, 1958
Location: Caracas, Venezuela BBU
Time: ??.
Summary: Venezuelan Air Force aircraft pilot saw a formation of circular saucers disappear in the NW at high speed.
Source: Project 1947

Date: May (middle), 1958
Location: Malmstrom AFB, Montana
Time: Nighttime
Summary: UFO approached from the north and hovered over the alert hanger, at about 1,000 feet, appeared as a round metallic looking object (called a flying saucer by the guard), no estimate of size is recalled, nor any other details on the object itself. The base radar 1-1/2 miles distant picked up the object as did the FAA radar about five miles away across the city of Great Falls. Object was apparently hovering over the alert hanger and atomic missile and bomb storage building right nearby. Object then slowly moved down the length of the runway, then moved across town (about 3 miles) to the Municipal Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard (F-89) parking ramp, then flew off.
Source: Jan Aldrich, Bay Area Subcommittee NICAP

Date: May 15, 1958
Location: Fort Bragg, North Carolina BBU
Time: 10:57 p.m. (EDT).
Summary: Military pilot Beck [?] and 2 civilian airline pilots saw an orange round object heading N at high speed.
Source: Project 1947; FUFOR Index

Date: May 17, 1958
Location: Giant Rock, California
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Date: May 17, 1958
Location: Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
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Summary: UFO sped away when light was shone at it.
Source: UFOE, II

Date: May 25, 1958
Location: Kirchberg, Hunsruck, Germany
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Summary: Circular silvery UFO observed moving through clouds.
Source: UFOE, X

Date: May 27, 1958
Location: Bahia State Coast, Brazil
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Summary: Varig Airlines pilot watched a brightly luminous circular object maneuver under his plane. []
Source: UFOE, X

Date: May 27, 1958
Location: Boa del Tigre Argentina
Time: late
Summary: ). Remo dall’Armellina was driving a truck toward Santa Fe when he saw a figure, 3 m tall, blocking the road. He went toward it with an iron bar but could not approach because of the stench and the blinding phosphorescent light emanating from it. It had very long arms, a scaly body, and wore a flight coverall. The witness fainted; nothing was left to be seen when he regained consciousness.
Source: Magonia 468

Date: May 28, 1958
Location: Tempelhof, Germany BBU
Time: 1:30 p.m. (GMT).
Summary:
Source: McDonald list; FUFOR Index