1953 Sightings

Four-panel collage of January 1953 UFO sightings: an F-94 radar lock over Misawa Japan on January 9, a silver saucer over Craig Montana on January 1, silver-suited humanoids beside a domed disc in Santana Dos Montes Brazil, and a scaly creature in Berri South Australia on January 2

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1953 Sightings

1953: January UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: October 29, 2012 | Updated: September 3, 2026

1953: January UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive January 1953 opened with a saucer over the Missouri River in Montana and closed with test pilots...

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Four-panel collage of February 1953 UFO sightings: an F9F Panther jet intercept near the Virginia-North Carolina border on February 9, a Misawa Japan radar scope on February 10, a burned field in Vayres France, and the Los Angeles entity encounter

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1953 Sightings

1953: February UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: October 27, 2013 | Updated: September 3, 2026

1953: February UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive Five days before the Robertson Panel sat down in Washington to decide what to make of the...

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Four-panel collage of March 1953 UFO sightings: an F-84 gun-camera pursuit near Parker Dam on March 3, the Tujunga Canyon cabin encounter on March 22, a Congaree AFB radar scope on March 5, and a landed object at Nouasseur AFB Morocco on March 25

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1953 Sightings

1953: March UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: September 22, 2013 | Updated: September 11, 2026

1953: March UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive March 1953 gave Project Blue Book something it rarely got: film. When Capt. Roderick Thompson chased a...

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Four-panel collage of April 1953 UFO sightings: the Bagley Minnesota abduction case, the Angatuba Brazil Ganymede contact, and the two-day Ano Ilioupolis Greece strange woman and landed craft encounter

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1953 Sightings

1953: April UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 6, 2016 | Updated: September 9, 2026

1953: April UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive April 1953 is a month where the archive’s strangest entries came without a single military witness attached....

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Four-panel collage of May 1953 UFO sightings: the Cagnes-sur-Mer France sighting and face encounter, the second Brush Creek California landed-disc sighting, the alleged Kingman Arizona crash retrieval, and an F-94 intercept near Goose Bay Labrador

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1953 Sightings

1953: May UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 6, 2016 | Updated: September 9, 2026

1953: May UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive May 1953 opens with a cinema projectionist in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, watching a luminous orange cigar cross the...

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