1920 – 1929 Sightings

Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1920 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left sixteen-year-old Albert Coe standing beside a silver-suited instrument-panel-wearing occupant near a 20-foot tripod-legged silver disc on the Mattawa River Ontario in the opening moment of the Coe contactee case, upper center-left approximately 200 Rushville Missouri witnesses filling the street as a dark cylinder at 75 feet altitude executes a sharp 90-degree turn in the evening sky overhead, center two hunters in a Gulf of Mexico duck blind at Galveston Texas watching four 30-foot silver discs in tight formation alternating orange and blue-green rim emissions at high speed, upper center-right a Colorado rancher in the Sangre de Cristo foothills watching multiple objects with electromagnetic effects that have extinguished his lantern and the ranch house lights, and right a coastal walker on the Dawlish Devon England cliff path watching a flat metallic disc catch the afternoon sun above the English Channel

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1920: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: December 13, 2012 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1920: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1920 opens the first full peacetime decade of the anomalous record — no wartime censorship, no...

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Three panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1921 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left an eight-year-old boy crying and suspended between two very tall slim metallic-suited beings lifting him toward a dark rectangular-ported craft in the post-WWI industrial wasteland near the Canal du Nord outside Marseilles France in the summer of 1921 sourced to a 1954 Paris Match reader's letter, center multiple Parisian pedestrians including a gendarme stopped on a Haussmann boulevard looking up at a dark stationary unidentified object above the roofline in the pale morning sky for over fifteen minutes on March 5 1921, and right a Connecticut man at a split-rail fence at night watching diffuse circular glows press down through heavy overcast from bright circular objects above the cloud deck near Killingly

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1921: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1921: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1921 is the leanest in the 1920–1929 series — six entries total, three of them currently undocumented placeholders,...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1922 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left a Warsaw Poland crowd watching a large Saturn-shaped silvery object with rotating equatorial ring fire a cold white beam of light downward into the street in August 1922, upper center-left William C. Lamb pressed against a cottonwood tree watching a luminous-rimmed circular craft in a snowy Nebraska hollow as an eight-foot creature crosses the snowfield away from it at pre-dawn in February 1922, center John Morris and William James on the Barmouth Wales harbour wall watching a dark structured object descend in a controlled slow vertical entry into Cardigan Bay while their boat waits below in September 1922, upper center-right Irish Free State military officers examining a circular burn mark and ground impression on a rocky County Donegal Atlantic headland left by an observed object in April 1922, and right a crowd of Medford Oregon pedestrians stopped on a summer main street watching an unidentified dark form moving slowly above the building line in July 1922

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1922: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1922: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1922 is the richest in the 1920s archive by case count and contains the decade’s most...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1923 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left Soviet river workers and a named witness on a Vyatka River steamship watching a crescent-shaped object the size of the full moon in clear morning sky near Sosnovka Russia sourced to Felix Zigel's unpublished Moscow Aviation Institute manuscript, upper center-left an Italian farmer observing a fish-shaped craft with clear dome two portholes and rotating propeller above a Pieve di Teco Liguria hillside, center a colonial Quetta Pakistan street with a mid-air explosion raining flaming debris on buildings with melted slag and thin wire residue on the ground and an unsourced case status of insufficient data, upper center-right the Barcelona Spain CE-III witness Bley frozen at his doorway facing an indistinct craft with visible occupants on a wet gas-lit cobblestone street, and right two DePauw University college professors on a Greencastle Indiana lawn tracking a revolving red object transiting overhead from northeast to southwest

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1923: UFO & Entity Sightings

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1923: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1923 spans ten entries across seven countries and produces the decade’s best-documented Soviet-era craft observation: July...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1924 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left schoolgirl Evelyn Wendt watching flower-shaped beings with petal-gold coloring carry a device from an egg-shaped craft at Dade City Florida Holy Name Convent School, upper center-left two Oklahoma horseback riders watching a large oval craft with white side lights and a blue rear flame beam its light onto winter snow in the Osage Hills, center a group of seven or more Australian farm workers watching six silver metallic discs with visible occupants and physical ground traces in a rural Victorian paddock near Melbourne, upper center-right a lone Saskatchewan prairie farmer at dawn on August 23 1924 facing a grounded craft with indistinct humanoid occupants in the pale amber horizon light on the Mars opposition date, and right two County Wexford Ireland boys watching a self-propelled solid cylinder of cold white light travel at walking pace through their field and climb a hedge before following a railway track

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1924: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1924: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1924 opens with an unusual concentration of anomalous aerial observations in a single calendar month —...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1925 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left a five-year-old Port Burwell Ontario girl in a white nightgown being lifted by a cold white-blue beam from a train-like craft in the first of two summer 1925 abduction incidents, upper center-left two Australian farm workers in broad-brimmed hats frozen in alarm facing a disc with oval windows on four legs in a Moora Western Australia paddock before fleeing and returning days later to find ground traces, center a Spanish farmer stopped on a La Mancha noon path facing a 1.2-meter green-uniformed rigid-limbed dwarf entity in hard midday shadow, upper center-right the same Port Burwell girl now lying calmly on afternoon grass watching wrinkled yellow-skinned beings emerge from a dull silver disc in the second separate abduction incident of the same summer, and right a group of Swedish teenage mine workers at Blecket watching an anomalous object perform beyond-known-aircraft maneuvers over a clear winter evening sky above the mine headframe

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1925: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: January 25, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1925: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1925 carries the most analytically significant pre-Hill abduction account in the 1920–1929 series — not as...

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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1926 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left a 1920s air mail biplane pilot watching a long cylindrical object pace his aircraft at 50 yards as his engine sputters and misfires before his emergency landing in a Utah pasture in September 1926, upper center-left Zofia frozen in a Polish meadow near Ujazd facing three gray hovering discs with open doors and three small dark-green-suited entities staring at her from 100 meters in total silence in September 1926, center four young people cowering in a narrow Scremerston hedge-lane as a 20-to-25-foot tricolor object with red top white middle and blue bottom zones swoops over them at pre-dawn making a terrific noise recorded in the McDonald University of Arizona collection, upper center-right a Jura mountain woodcutter watching a large luminous sphere at treetop level with human-like figure silhouettes visible inside hovering above the French fir forest in winter 1926, and right an Illinois witness watching one large disc and five smaller discs in formation heading west while their combined light reflects gold off the cirrus layer above in Westmont in 1926

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1926: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1926: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1926 is the richest in the 1920–1929 series for aviation encounters, producing the first documented case...

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1920 – 1929 Sightings

1920: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1921: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings

1922: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1923: UFO & Entity Sightings

1924: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1925: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1926: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

From the Archive

1952: A B-29 Bombardier at 30,000 Feet Watches a Pulsing, Fan-Shaped White Light Cross Overhead in Two Seconds North of Goodland, Kansas

1952: A C-124 Crew Watches Three Blue Objects in Fingertip Formation Pace Their Aircraft Over Vermont, Disappear and Return

1952: Radar Engineers on Great Blue Hill Track Two Wobbling, Dull-Orange Objects Through a Battery Commander’s Telescope

1952: Two Navy Pilots Over Memphis Watch a Bright Inverted Bowl with Vertical Slots and a Red Glowing Trail Pass 100 Yards Away