1940s UFO

Five-panel period-accurate intelligence dossier collage showing one landmark UFO or entity encounter per decade from 1900 to 1944 — the 1909 New England Christmas airship wave with searchlight craft over a snow-covered town, the 1916 WWI Western Front aerial disc observed by trench soldiers, the 1926 Chulumani Bolivia CE-III with two humanoid entities beside a landed disc, the 1933-1934 Scandinavian ghost flier wave with an unmarked phantom aircraft caught in a searchlight during a snowstorm, and the 1944 WWII Foo Fighters keeping pace with a USAAF B-17 over occupied Europe

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1900 - 1949 Sightings

1900 – 1944: UFO | UAP | Entity Sightings by Date

Published: September 24, 2025 | Updated: August 23, 2026

1900 – 1944: UFO|UAP | Entity Sightings by Date The Pre-Modern Era: Anomalies Before Roswell The forty-four years between 1900 and 1944 represent the...

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Five-panel 1941 WWII wartime press photography dossier: Reverend Huffman kneeling at a Missouri crash site praying over a dying alien as military personnel move through the broken disc wreckage, NKVD troops recovering radioactive disc fragments on Zelyenyi Island in the River Don, Soviet soldier Terekhov and his German executioners rising off the ground toward a hovering circumferentially-lit disc at Orsha Belarus, General Ryan watching three Naval vessels depart San Francisco Bay to hunt the base of 15 unidentified aircraft at the Golden Gate, and a blacked-out Los Angeles with Army searchlight beams sweeping empty sky as civilians listen in darkness.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1941: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 19, 2026

1941: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The 1941 archive is the first full wartime year in the record and the most operationally dense of...

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Two-panel 1940 press photography dossier for the Udo Wartena Broadwater County Montana CE-IV: left panel shows a Dutch immigrant miner in work clothes meeting a human-appearing white-haired man in gray overalls at the base of a circular stairway lowered from a massive disc-shaped craft hovering above a Montana mountain meadow; right panel shows the craft's interior entry room where the occupant gestures toward a diagram of counter-rotating flywheel rings explaining the electromagnetic propulsion system to a seated and attentive Udo Wartena as an older white-haired man watches.

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Montana Sightings

1940: Broadwater County Montana

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 19, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP | SIGHTING/ABDUCTION REPORT 1940: Broadwater County Montana On a mid-morning in May 1940, a 37-year-old Dutch immigrant named Udo...

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1940s UFO

1900 – 1944: UFO | UAP | Entity Sightings by Date

1941: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1940: Broadwater County Montana

From the Archive

1947: W.D. Seacrest’s Chickamauga Creek Sighting: A Cockpit View of Two Occupants

1947: The Muroc Double Sighting: Two Groups, One Object

1947: Andrew Cherry’s Edinburgh Sighting: A Close-Range Occupant Encounter

1947: The St. Maries, Idaho Landing: A Family, Eight Objects, and a National Guard Search