Contemporaneous Source

Two-panel 1941 WWII-era press photography dossier for the Charleston Missouri USO encounter: left panel shows a grey submarine-like vessel nosing up a sloping rip-rapped Mississippi River levee bank near Charleston as a Black man on the deck waves to a Black farmer standing at the bank edge who is deciding whether to board; right panel shows the same farmer sitting calmly across a St. Louis office table from two 1941 FBI agents with notepads as he maintains his unchanged story after being picked up by Coast Guardsmen at 3 AM and transported for federal questioning.

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Missouri Sightings

1941: Charleston, Missouri Encounter

Published: August 31, 2016 | Updated: August 19, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP | ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT 1941: Charleston, Missouri Encounter On the morning of April 5, 1941 — the same date...