1954

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1954 Sightings

1954: July UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: May 30, 2016 | Updated: September 14, 2026

1954: July UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive July 1954 holds this archive’s most sober entry of the year: the Walesville, New York crash, a...

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Illustration of an elderly man conversing with a glowing-suited entity beside a two-domed saucer at a Naples convent at night, November 1954

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Italy Sightings

1954: Camaldoli, Naples, Italy Encounter — Vincenzo Dattilo

Published: January 14, 2015 | Updated: September 16, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP & ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT 1954: The Camaldoli, Naples, Italy Encounter — Vincenzo Dattilo A 67-year-old lawyer, journalist, and poet praying before...

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Intelligence-dossier reconstruction of the 1954 Osceola Iowa CE-IV showing a preschool-aged boy standing in a circle of solid-looking beaming lights in a flat Iowa field at night with several small uniformed figures around him and a large disc with colorful rim lights hovering directly overhead

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Iowa Sightings

1954: Osceola, Iowa Abduction

Published: January 14, 2015 | Updated: June 15, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT ABDUCTION REPORT 1954: Osceola, Iowa Abduction Sometime in 1954, a preschool-aged boy named Michael Kelly found himself outside late at night in Osceola,...

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Illustration of a gray lens-shaped disc sliding sideways through the sky over rural Cherry Valley, New York, October 1954

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New York Sightings

1954: Engineer observes lens-shaped disc in New York

Published: April 13, 2014 | Updated: September 15, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1954: The Cherry Valley, New York Engineer’s Sighting A trained engineer near Cherry Valley, New York didn’t reach for...

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Four-panel collage of June 1954 UFO sightings: the Sesto Fiorentino Italy encounter, the North Caucasus Russia entity case, the Floyd's Knob Indiana abduction, and the Indian Lake Ohio radar-confirmed sighting

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1954 Sightings

1954: June UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: October 27, 2013 | Updated: September 14, 2026

1954: June UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive June 1954 is the largest month this archive has documented for the year, and it earns that...

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Four-panel collage of April 1954 UFO sightings: the Muroc AFB Eisenhower legend's origin letter, the Fentress Virginia Navy pilot pursuit, the USS Curtiss sighting at sea, and the opening incident of Venezuela's hairy dwarves wave

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1954 Sightings

1954: April UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: October 27, 2013 | Updated: September 13, 2026

1954: April UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive April 1954 is the densest month this archive has documented yet, and it opens with a story...

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Four-panel collage of February 1954 UFO sightings: the Savannah River AEC radar case, the disputed Edwards AFB Eisenhower legend, the Terni Italy encounter, and the Lombez France sighting

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1954 Sightings

1954: February UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: October 27, 2013 | Updated: September 12, 2026

1954: February UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive February 1954 is a month that rewards reading carefully. Its most dramatic entries are also its shakiest:...

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1954

1954: July UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1954: Camaldoli, Naples, Italy Encounter — Vincenzo Dattilo

1954: Osceola, Iowa Abduction

1954: Engineer observes lens-shaped disc in New York

1954: June UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1954: April UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1954: February UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

From the Archive

1955: Colorado: A Five-Year-Old’s Nine Hours of Missing Time

1955: Rockford, Illinois: The Unsourced Claim of Jets Destroying a UFO

1955: Dahlgren, Virginia: A Theodolite-Tracked, Radar-Confirmed UFO

1955: Ryukyu Islands, Japan: The Hat-Shaped Object That Failed a Beechcraft’s Instruments