1950: April Unknown Date

UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

This log gathers April 1950 reports whose sources give no specific day, along with a handful dated only to spring 1950. They include a Canby, Oregon woman’s account of a foot-tall humanoid figure in her neighbor’s yard, a filmed disc-landing case in Alaska, a Peruvian airport sighting, and a Blue Book-evaluated daylight meteor in Arizona.

Date: April 1950
Location: Canby, Oregon
Time: Daytime
Summary: Mrs. Ellen Jonerson was working on her lawn when she saw, on a neighbor’s lot, a very tiny person, no more than 12 inches tall, standing with his back turned toward her. He turned to face her: a man with a heavily tanned face, clad in coveralls and a plaid shirt, wearing a skullcap over hair the same color as his face, wide-shouldered and stocky. Mrs. Jonerson went back to her house to call a friend; when she returned, the being was “waddling” away. He walked under a 1937 Dodge without stooping, and that was the last she saw of him.
Source: Kenneth Arnold & Jerome Clark

Date: Spring 1950
Location: Cocoa, Florida
Time: 01:00
Summary: An unidentified object and its occupants were observed at close range by one witness on a road (McLendon).
Source: Webb, David HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports

Date: Spring 1950
Location: Bex, Vaud, Switzerland
Time: 06:30
Summary: An unidentifiable object was observed at close range.
Source: Mancusi, Bruno SWICAT (Swiss UFO Catalogue)

Date: Spring 1950
Location: Berkeley, California
Time: 19:00
Summary: One object was observed by four witnesses for under two hours (Curtis).
Source: NICAP

Date: Spring 1950
Location: Capitán Arturo Prat Base, Antarctica
Time: Night
Summary: An object of huge size was observed on the ice (Orrego), according to Poher’s catalog. The base’s commander, Cdr. Augusto Vars Orrego, reported saucers seen on several nights in February 1950.
Source: Poher, Claude. Etudes Statistiques Portant Sur 1000 Temoignages, undated

Source Status: Same case as the February 23, 1950 Capitán Arturo Prat Base entry on the February 1950 page.

Date: April 1950
Location: Chissey-en-Morvan, France
Time: Unknown
Summary: Four flying discs were observed.
Source: Wilkins, Harold T. Flying Saucers on the Attack Ace Star A-11, New York, 1967

Date: April 1950
Location: Geetbets, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Time: Unknown
Summary: One object was observed by several witnesses.
Source: SOBEPS

Date: April 1950
Location: Bluefield, West Virginia
Time: Unknown
Summary: Nocturnal lights were observed by a male witness (Robertson).
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980. ISBN: 0-313-21337-2

Date: April 1950
Location: Preston, United Kingdom
Time: 01:45
Summary: One object was observed by several witnesses on the ocean for over four minutes (Sharpe).
Source: Hill, H. Edward Catalog Through 1950

Date: April 1950
Location: Corpac Airport, Chiclayo, Peru
Time: 12:00
Summary: A luminous, disc-shaped UFO, followed by a plane, disappeared into clouds; observed by two male military witnesses, one an experienced observer, at the airport.
Source: Weinstein, Dominique Aircraft UFO Encounters Project ACUFOE, Paris, 1999

Date: April 1950
Location: Williams AFB, Chandler, Arizona
Time: Daylight
Summary: A civilian saw a round, dull off-white object like a balloon or ping-pong ball move from nearly overhead to the horizon in the north in about 10 seconds. It moved at roughly 9 degrees of arc per second, which, at the obvious distance, implied a velocity far greater than the reported 1,200 mph.
Source: Project Blue Book record card

Source Status: Blue Book’s card concludes Astro (Meteor), noting this was one of the rare daylight sightings of a meteor.

Date: April 1950
Location: White Sands, New Mexico
Time: Daytime
Summary: A blurred object was captured on motion picture film by a guided-missile tracker, and animal reactions to the object were also reported. A male military witness observed it near a missile.
Source: Condon Committee

Source Status: Possibly the April 27, 1950 Land-Air filming at Holloman AFB, which is on the April 15th-30th page.

Date: April 1950
Location: West Plains, Missouri
Time: Afternoon
Summary: An object was observed by one female witness at a building (Atha); telepathic phenomena were reported to have occurred in connection with the sighting.
Source: Herb, Gert

Date: April 1950
Location: Wiener Neustadt, Lower Austria, Austria
Time: Night
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: Schoenherr, Luis

Date: April 1950
Location: Kauai Island, Hawaii
Time: 23:00
Summary: Six red points of light were observed on the ocean by a group of male witnesses for two minutes, accompanied by a disturbance in all magnetic and electrical instruments aboard.
Source: Weinstein, Dominique Aircraft UFO Encounters Project ACUFOE, Paris, 1999

Date: April 1950
Location: Juneau, Alaska
Time: Unknown
Summary: Motion picture actor and pilot Mikel Konrad filmed eight discs landing and taking off roughly 60 kilometers north of Juneau, with animal reactions to the objects reported.
Source: Vallee, Jacques. Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, Henry Regnery, Chicago, 1966; Scully, Frank. Behind the Flying Saucers, Holt, 1950

Source Status: Same case as the April 29, 1950 Juneau entry on the April 15th-30th page. One of the cited sources, Scully’s Behind the Flying Saucers, is a flagged source for this period.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Reports Fixed Only to the Month

Several undated April entries duplicate dated reports elsewhere: the South Pole entry is the February 23 Antarctic case, the Juneau film is the April 29 case, and the White Sands film may be the April 27 Holloman tracking. They are kept here with their source labels so each dating is traceable. The Canby, Oregon report of a foot-tall figure remains one of the archive’s more unusual small-entity accounts, set apart from the tall, human-scaled occupants in other 1950 reports.

“…one of the rare daylight sightings of this phenomena.”
From the Project Blue Book record card for the April 1950 Williams AFB, Chandler, Arizona sighting.