1952: June UFO & Alien Sightings

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Date: Summer of 1952
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Summary: F-86 Shooting incident.
Source: Ruppelt, see Sept. 1952

Date: Summer 1952
Location: MacDill AFB, Florida
Time:
Summary: USAF Colonel, B-29 pilot investigated radar target, saw glowing ellipse which reversed direction and sped away.
Source: UFOE, III

Date: June, 1952
Location: Tombstone, Arizona
Time:
Summary: Cat 11. Williams case (M)
Source:

Date: June 1, 1952
Location: Los Angeles, California
Time:
Summary: At Hughes Aircraft Company, a crew of test section radar technicians were tracking what they thought was an airliner, when it suddenly climbed rapidly to 55,000 feet, leveled off and sped away.
Source: Ruppelt

Date: June 1, 1952
Location: Walla Walla, Washington BBU 1245
Time: 1 p.m.
Summary: Ex-military pilot Reserve Maj. W. C. Vollendorf saw an oval object with a “definite airfoil” perform a fast climb.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 1, 1952
Location: Soap Lake, Washington BBU 1246
Time: 3 p.m. [+-?]
Summary: Ray Lottman saw 3 glimmering objects fly straight and level.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 1, 1952
Location: Rapid City, South Dakota BBU 1243
Time: 6:00 p.m.
Summary: A/1C William Beatty saw two civilians looking and pointing at something in the sky. Beatty then also looked to the sky and saw five or more objects that he did not recognize as airplanes. They were long and slender silver colored objects flying in a box-like formation with a leader in front. The objects were traveling to the south at a high rate of speed with no sound or exhaust visible. Beatty watched the object for 15-20 seconds before they disappeared. Beatty was steadfast in stating that the objects were not conventional aircraft.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 2, 1952
Location: Bayview, Washington BBU 1249
Time: 5:02 p.m.
Summary: Larry McWade saw a purple object for unknown length of time. No further information in files.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 2, 1952
Location: Fulda, West Germany BBU 1250
Time: unknown
Summary: 1st Lt. John Hendry, photo-navigator on an RB-26C recon bomber, saw a porcelain-white object fly very fast for an unknown length of time.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 3, 1952
Location: Chicago, Illinois BB
Time: 9:27 a.m.
Summary: Six to 10 targets were detected on AN/CPS 6B radar of the 755th AC&W Squadron. These targets were at the GEO. REF. position of DM 3012, on a heading of 310 degrees at an altitude of 25,000 feet at an estimated speed of 450 mph. The controller on duty checked with C.A.A. and M.F.S. for flight plans, but they had no flight plans. These radar targets were then declared unknowns, and an F-86 aircraft was scrambled out of O’Hare Field. The F-86 flying at 29,000 feet was radar directed toward the unknowns and merged with the unknown track. The F-86 was unable to sight any aircraft at the position occupied by the unknown track. At 9: 46 a.m., the unknown track turned to a heading of 140 degrees and followed the lake shore to position CM 5542. The unknowns then turned to a heading of 90 degrees and maintained this until position DM 3545. Now the unknown turned to a heading of 120 degrees and faded out at 10:16 p.m. The target indication was very strong on the PPI scope. During this incident a total of eight (8) aircraft were scrambled from three (3) different bases but no interception was accomplished.
Source: Dan Wilson

Date: June 4, 1952
Location: Stuttgart, West Germany BBU
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Summary: USAF pilot and copilot of C-47 transport saw a circular object with white lights on the leading edge. One witness was a Lt. Colonel Whitman who was shortly thereafter assigned to the Directorate of Intelligence, Headquarters, United States Air Force. The object/light crossed in front of the C-47 aircraft at about 7,000 feet, about 2,000 feet higher than the C-47. The object was on a heading of approximately 270 degrees at a speed as great or greater than a jet fighter at cruise. The object was estimated to be 1 to 2 miles west of the C-47 and at this time the object made a fairly tight turn of approximately 145 degrees. The pilot, Capt. Gerald M. Jones turned the aircraft to try and intercept the object. The object approached rapidly. At this time Capt. Jones was able to observer the silhouette of the object. It appeared to be circular with white lights on the leading edge. At this point the object made a sharp turn to the left on a heading of 270 degrees and disappeared under the nose of the aircraft. The estimated total time the object was observed was not more than 3 minutes.
Source: Weinstein, BB files, Dan Wilson

Date: June 5, 1952
Location: Lubbock, Texas BBU 1255
Time: 11 p.m.
Summary: Dan Benson and Mr. Bacon saw a total of 8 yellow circular objects, like large stars, the first 2 in a trail formation, the others seen singly.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 5, 1952
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico BBU 1256
Time: 6:45 p.m.
Summary: S/Sgt T. H. Shorey saw a shiny round object fly 5-6x as fast as an F-86 jet fighter.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 5, 1952
Location: Offutt AFB, Omaha, Nebraska BBU 1257
Time: 11 p.m.
Summary: 2nd Lt. W. R. Soper, a Strategic Air Command TOP SECRET Control Officer, former AFOSI agent; and 2 others saw a bright red stationary object for 4.5 mins before speeding away with a short tail.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 6, 1952
Location: Kimpo AB, Korea. 8:42 a.m. BBU missing
Time:
Summary: Flight Sergeant saw cylinder-section flat disc-shaped object, width/diameter ratio 1:7, doing a series of erratic spinning and tumbling motions, level flight, hovering, shooting straight up, level flight, tumbling, changing course, disappearing into the sun in the E, reappearing back and forth across the sun. At one point an F-86 fighter passed in front of object.
Source: Battelle Unknown No. 7

Date: June 7, 1952
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico BBU 1260
Time: 11:18 a.m.
Summary: Crew of B-25 bomber #8840 at 11,500 ft saw a rectangular aluminum object, about 6 ft x 4 ft, fly 250-300 ft below them.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 8, 1952
Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico. BBU 1263
Time: 10:50 a.m.
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Markland saw 4 shiny objects fly straight and level in a diamond formation.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 9, 1952
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota BBU missing
Time:
Summary:
Source: Berliner

Date: June 12, 1952
Location: Ft. Smith, Arkansas BBU 1269
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Summary: U.S. Army Major and Lt. Colonel using binoculars saw an orange ball with a tail fly with a low angular velocity.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 12, 1952
Location: Marrakech, Morocco BBU 1270
Time: 11:26 a.m.
Summary: T/Sgt. H. D. Adams, using an SCR-584 radar set, tracked an unidentified target at 650 knots (750 mph) at 60,000+ ft altitude.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 13, 1952
Location: Fox Hill, Virginia, OSI UFO Report
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Summary: An aluminum awning salesman observed an object described as similar to a discussed in athletics, about 25 to 30 feet in diameter hovering approximately 200 feet over a group of pine trees at Fox Hill, Virginia. The object made a slight whistling sound. After approximately 10 seconds the object tilted slightly, flew upward at an angle of 45 degrees and away from him at a tremendous speed.
Source:

Date: June 13, 1952
Location: Le Bourget; France (airport).
Time:
Summary: Control tower operators and pilot watched brilliant light source cross sky SW of field after hovering for about an hour.
Source: UFOE, X

Date: June 13, 1952
Location: Middletown, Pennsylvania BBU 1273
Time: 8:45 p.m.
Summary: R. S. Thomas, Olmsted AFB employee and former control tower operator, saw a round orange object travel S, stop for 1 sec, turn E, stop 1 sec, and drop down.
Source: Berliner; FUFOR Index

Date: June 15 [16?], 1952
Location: Louisville [Boundsville], Kentucky BBU 1285
Time: 11:50 pm.
Summary: Edward Duke, A former Navy radar technician saw an unidentified cigar-shaped object in the vicinity of Standiford Field. It had a light on either side of the fuselage and a reddish hue on the trailing end. The object appeared to be moving at about 400-500 m.p.h., and maneuvered around in several directions for 15 minutes, then descended and flew away to the northeast.
Source: Berliner; FUFOR Index

Date: June 16, 1952
Location: Walker AFB, Roswell, New Mexico BBU 1295
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Summary: USAF maintenance specialist S/Sgt. Sparks saw 5-6 grayish discs, in a half-moon formation, fly at 500-600 mph.
Source: Berliner

Date: 1952: Abduction in Tucson Arizona
Location: Catalina Tucson Arizona
Time: afternoon
Summary: The witness was walking along a desert trail looking for interesting rocks when she noticed a ball of fire in the sky that descended and disappeared behind a nearby mountain ridge. The witness walked towards the direction where the light had gone down & then stopped to pick up a sparkling rock when she noticed a small gray man walking towards her saying “Do not be afraid” apparently using telepathy. The witness then apparently fell asleep. She woke up later lying on an examining table in a small room illuminated by a fuzzy light. Four little gray humanoids with large baldheads and huge bulging black eyes were examining her with instruments. They pulled down an apparatus with a light from the ceiling and ran it up and down her body. A small device was apparently planted in her ear and one in her abdomen. She was also shown a book with strange symbols and a scene with stars in a large 3-dimensional viewing screen.
Source: Wendelle C Stevens

Date: June 17 1952
Location: Near Hasselbach Germany
Time: 0230A
Summary: Oskar Linke, the former mayor of Germershausen was riding home on his motorcycle with his 11-year old stepdaughter Gabrielle when a tire burst near Hasselbach. They saw 60 yards away a “deer” which proved to be 2 human figures wearing shimmering metallic clothing, which were examining something on the ground. Approaching to within 30 ft, he saw an object, “like a huge oval warming pan” 40-50 ft across. Along the sides were 2 parallel rows of 1 ft diameter holes, and in the middle was a black cylindrical “conning tower” about 10 ft high. Hearing Linke’s daughter call to him, the figures (one of whom had a flashing lamp on his chest) rushed back to the object & entered the tower. Then the edge of the saucer started to glow—first green, then red—and to spin like a top, rising up the tower; then the whole machine rose (the cylinder once more protruding from the top) and flew away. At the site the cylinder had left a circular depression in the earth. Linke did not hear of flying saucers until after he had escaped to West Berlin.
Source: Dr Leon Davidson

Date: June 17, 1952
Location: Cape Cod, Mass BBU 1299
Time: 1:28 a.m.
Summary: 1 USAF pilot of F-94 jet interceptor saw a light like a bright star cross the nose of the jet. No further information in the files.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 17, 1952
Location: McChord AFB, Wash. BBU 1298
Time: Between 7:30 and 10:20 p.m.
Summary: Many witnesses saw 1-5 large silver yellow objects flying erratically, stop and start.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 18, 1952
Location: Columbus, Wisconsin BBU 1302
Time: 9 a.m.
Summary: R. A. Finger saw a crescent-shaped object hover then speed away.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 18, 1952
Location: Walnut Lake [Pontiac], Mich. BBU 1305
Time:
Summary: 1952;
10 p.m. Marron [Marion ?] Hoffman and 4 relatives, using 4x binoculars, saw an orange light zigzag then hover for an unspecified length of time. [Same witness(es) as in April 27, May 25, 1952, cases??]
Source: Berliner

Date: June 18, 1952
Location: 100 miles E of March AFB, Calif. BBU
Time:
Summary: A UFO paced a B-25 bomber for 30 minutes. No explanation could be found for the object and it was classified as an unknown.
Source: Ruppelt p. 146; etc.

Date: June 19, 1952
Location: Goose Bay, Labrador, Canada BBU 1308
Time: 2:37 a.m.
Summary: 2nd Lt. D’AGostino and unidentified radar operator saw a red light turn white while wobbling. Radar tracked a stationary target that suddenly enlarged then returned to previous size possibly a disc rotating to present wider reflective surface.
Source: Berliner; cf. Ruppelt p. 146

Date: June 19, 1952
Location: Yuma, Ariz BBU 1310
Time: 2 p.m.
Summary: USAF pilot John Lane saw a round, white object fly straight and level.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 20, 1952
Location: Central Korea BBU 1313
Time: 3:03 p.m.
Summary: A flight of 4 USMC Capts. and pilots of F4U-4B Corsair fighters with 7302nd Sq five Marine Corps on a mission spotted a silvery-white object passing below them, banking into a left turn. As the object circled around, the Marine flight leader dove toward the object, which appeared to be 10-20 feet in diameter and it flew away at an estimated speed of 1,000 m.p.h. and disappeared toward friendly lines.
Source: BB files

Date: June 20, 1952
Location: Near Paulette, Mississippi BBU
Time: 8:26 p.m.
Summary: USAF pilot Lt. Milo Roberts and bombardier Lt. Julius Prottengeier with 308th Bomb Sq, 310th Bomb Wing, Forbes AFB, Kansas, flying a B-29 bomber (s/n 44-62204) at 190 mph at 17,000 ft saw a cone-shaped object approach on collision course from the 2 o’clock position, before evasive action object made sharp left left and disappeared, followed by a 2nd object [?]. Object’s length/width ratio 3:1, about 8-10 ft long at 1,2001,500 ft away or 100 ft if at 15 miles away.
Source: NARCAP; BB files??

Date: June 21, 1952
Location: Kelly AFB, Texas BBU 1319
Time: 12:30 p.m.
Summary: 1952; )
T/Sgt. Howard Davis, flight engineer of B-29 bomber at 8,000 ft altitude, saw a flat object with a sharply pointed front and rounded rear, white with a dark blue center and red rim, trailing sparks as it dove past the B-29 at a distance of 500 ft, in 1 sec.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 21 [23?], 1952
Location: Oak Ridge [Marxville?], Tenn. BBU
Time: 10:58 p.m.
Summary: GOC post spotted target, confirmed by ADC radar, followed by F-47 fighter interception of a 6-8-inch white blinking light which made ramming attacks on the F-47 from 10,000 to 27,000 ft.
Source: Ruppelt p. 43

Date: June 22, 1952
Location: Pyeongtaek, South Korea BBU 1323
Time: 10:45 p.m.
Summary: 1952; )
2 U.S. Marine Sgts. saw a 4 ft diameter orange object dive at a runway from the N dropping from 800 ft to 100 ft altitude over W end of runway, shooting 2-5 ft red flames, then head W at about 300-450 mph for 2-3 secs, hover briefly over a hill, turn 180° in 45-60 secs, flash, head E 1/2 mile, flash again and blink out. No sound.
Source: Hynek UFO Rpt pp. 82-83

Date: June 23, 1952
Location: Oak Ridge, Tenn. BBU 1334
Time: 3:30 a.m.
Summary: Secretary Martha Milligan saw a bullet-shaped object with burnt-orange exhaust fly straight and level.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 23, 1952
Location: unknown, but information came via Japan Hq CV 4359 BBU
Time: 6:08 a.m.
Summary: USAF pilot Wermack of the 18th Fighter-Bomber Group saw a black coin-shaped object, 15-20 ft in diameter, at 6,000 ft approach to within 1,500 ft, then make an irregular descent.
Source: Berliner; Project 1947

Date: June 23, 1952
Location: Near Owensboro, Kentucky BBU 1335
Time: 10 a.m.
Summary: National Guard Lt. Col. O. L. Depp saw 2 objects looking like giant soap bubbles reflecting yellow and lavender colors, fly in trail.)
Source: Berliner

Date: June 23, 1952
Location: Spokane, Wash BBU 1331
Time: 4:05 p.m.
Summary: Airport weather observer Rex Thompson saw a round disc with a metallic shine flash, and flutter like a flipped coin.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 23, 1952
Location: McChord AFB, Wash BBU 1332
Time: 9 p.m.
Summary: 2nd Lt. K. Thompson saw a very large light fly straight and level. No further information.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 23, 1952
Location: Kirksville AFS, Missouri BBU
Time: 7:30 or 7:35 p.m.
Summary: USAF ADC radar operators Lt. A. N. Robinson, Jr., and Airman Ray H. Foote, plus 5 other controllers, officers and maintenance technicians, tracked one (two?) unidentified target with a clear sharp return about the size of a B-29’s (or B-50 or B36) suddenly appear 80-85 miles NNW of radar site moving at a constant speed of about 3,600 mph [to 4,300 mph] on a straight path of about 120-125 miles headed 357° or almost due N to disappearance off scope.
Source: Hynek-CUFOS files

Date: June 25, 1952
Location: Tokyo, Japan. BBU 1340
Time:
Summary:
Source: Berliner

Date: June 25, 1952
Location: Michigan BBU
Time:
Summary:
Source: FUFOR Index

Date: June 25, 1952
Location: Japan-Korea area. BBU 1347
Time:
Summary: Military witness(es).
Source: NARA

Date: June 25, 1952
Location: Chicago, Illinois BBU 1344
Time: 8:30 p.m.
Summary: Mrs. Norbury and Mr. Matheis saw a bright yellow-white, egg-shaped object, sometimes with a red tail, make 7 circles.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 26, 1952
Location: Terre Haute, Indiana BBU 1348
Time: 2:45 a.m.
Summary: USAF 2nd Lt. C. W. Povelites saw an un-described object fly at 600 mph then stop. No further information in files.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 26, 1952
Location: Pottstown, Pa BBU 1351
Time: 11:50 p.m.
Summary: Assistant manager of airport Mr. Wells made 3 sightings of flashing lights: (1) 2 lights separated by 2 miles, with the leader flashing steadily and the other irregularly; (2) 2 similarly flashing lights, but with 1 mile separation; (3) Finally a single light. Speed estimated at 150-250 mph.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 27, 1952
Location: Topeka, Kansas BBU 1355
Time: 6:50 p.m.
Summary: Forbes AFB USAF pilot 2nd Lt. K. P. Kelly and wife saw a pulsating red object change shape from circular to a vertical oval as it pulsed, first stationary then moving.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 28, 1952
Location: Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico BBU
Time: 1:20 p.m.
Summary: 2 observers with CARCO air service saw 2 silvery disc-like objects high in the sky moving slowly to the S, noiseless, suddenly climbed nearly vertically at high speed, one going SSE the other almost due E.
Source: Hynek UFO Exp ch. 6, case DD7

Date: June 28, 1952
Location: Lake Koshkonong, Wi. BBU 1361
Time: 6 p.m.
Summary: June 28, 1952;)
Metcalfe saw a silver-white sphere become an ellipse as it turned and climbed away very fast.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 28, 1952
Location: Nagoya, Japan BBU 1363
Time: 4:10 p.m.
Summary: Capt. T. W. Barger, USAF Electronics Counter Measures officer, saw a dark blue elliptical-shaped object with a pulsing border fly straight and level at 700-800 mph.
Source: Berliner

Date: June 28, 1952
Location: Pacific bet. Hawaii and Calif. BBU
Time: 10:50 p.m.
Summary: June 28, 1952;)
USAF C-47 pilot saw a very bright light pass across the flight path from left to right.
Source: Project 1947

Date: June 29, 1952
Location: O’Hare Airport, Chicago, Illinois. BBU 1364
Time: 5:45-6:30 p.m.
Summary: 3 USAF air policemen, 83rd Air Base Sq, Air Police Detachment, S/Sgt. Lopez, A/1c Weber, and A/3c Korkowski, saw a bright silver, smooth surfaced, flat oval 30 ft object at about 5001,000 ft height about 2-3 miles away reflecting sunlight surrounded by a blue circle of haze for the first 20-25 mins, hovering, appeared between radio towers for stations WGN and WBBN 7 miles away [at 42° 0′ 42″ N, 88° 2′ 7″ W, and 41° 59′ 32″ N, 88° 1’6″ W] to the WSW at about 2° elevation and to the left and S of the setting sun (which was at 284° azimuth 20° elevation at 6:30), then move very fast to the right and left, and up and down relative to the radio towers, moving almost instantaneously and much faster than any jet fighter. Object rocked on its longitudinal axis, appeared oval (major/minor axis ratio about 2.2) when oriented vertically, thin and difficult to see when horizontal. Object receded at high speed then disappeared like shutting off a light. No trail, no noise. Independently witnessed by Chicago firemen several miles away..
Source: Jan Aldrich; unpublished Ruppelt manuscript

Date: June 30, 1952
Location: Columbia, Missouri BBU
Time: 1:46-3:54 a.m.
Summary: U.S. Weather Bureau observer tracked by theodolite an object at extreme distance irregularly changing color from red to green, seeming to move away, to the NNE making only “small” angular movement in the 14 recorded measurements of position in 2 hrs.
Source: Jan Aldrich

Date: June 30 [July 1?], 1952
Location: Phoenix, Ariz. BBU
Time:
Summary: Gaudet [and Wolf?].
Source: Jan Aldrich; FUFOR Index

Date: June 30, 1952
Location: Sea of Japan BBU
Time: 7 p.m.
Summary: 3 USAF crew members of C-54 transport saw circular object flattened on top and bottom.
Source: Weinstein; BB files??