pre-1947 CE-III

Five panel early 1930s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1933 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left four Royal Air Force Hawker Fury I biplane fighters in night formation over Sussex England being penetrated by a brilliant cold white circular light descending from above causing engine failures in two aircraft and burns on Lieutenant Thomas on July 5 1933, upper center-left the vicar of Langtrask standing in the flat grey northern Swedish landscape as an unmarked grey monoplane passes at near-ground level with two figures visible in the cabin in one of twelve overflights during the Scandinavian Ghost Aeroplane wave, center a Pennsylvania witness pushing open the slightly-ajar circular hatch of a ball-shaped craft in a dark roadside field at 2:30 AM revealing the faint violet glow of the interior he will spend 10 minutes examining alone finding dials tubing marble-like walls a central console and an ammonia smell with no occupants in Summer 1933, upper center-right seven-year-old Alexander Zolotov pressed against the wall of his Nizhegorodskaya Province room watching a large-eyed wrinkle-skinned high-foreheaded humanoid move across the floor in a frog-like all-fours jumping posture with a calm emotionless gaze, and right an elderly Yakut nomad at the metallic entrance of the Valley of the Dead cave looking back inside at thin single-eyed figures in metallic clothing in the Siberian taiga

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1933: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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

1933: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1933 carries the pre-war archive’s most consequential military aviation incident: the night of July 5, when...

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Five panel early 1930s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1931 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left Yakov Tabunshikov in a Simferopol Crimea lane watching a 2-meter transparent globe float above a roofline containing a red-clothed red-bearded man seated on an invisible support with a fixed emotionless gaze ignoring the witness, upper center-left Helge Eriksson in heavy winter coat watching a group of small bearded brown-smocked beings march in goose formation across a frozen Swedish snowfield toward a cold blue-violet light in a misty cloud with a strong chemical smell in the Eslöv January 1931 encounter, center Sir Francis Chichester leaning forward at his 1930s light aircraft controls over the empty Tasman Sea watching a dull gray-white pearl-shaped object emit a brilliant cold white flash as it periodically vanishes and reappears, upper center-right an Arnhem Land Aboriginal elder watching a child being carried back from a landed craft as a woman near a second landing craft receives a telepathic message before the station manager arrives with a rifle and red ochre ground circle traces mark both landing sites, and right French streetcar conductor M Blanc frozen at his controls as a gray-white luminous curtain parts on the road ahead to reveal a white-robed blue-girdle-wearing veiled figure with an outstretched hand before it rises into a departing lenticular cloud corroborated by a Nice newspaper account

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1931: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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

1931: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1931 produces twelve entries across nine countries and carries the pre-war archive’s most visually specific occupied-craft...

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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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Five panel 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1928 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left Harry Dillon half out of his 1920s car on an unpaved Yakima Washington road watching an olive drab riveted hexagonal dome craft with a framed rectangular window through which a dark-uniformed human-appearing occupant looks back at him in late April 1928, upper center-left young Henry Thomson frozen at the entrance to a dark Bolton Lancashire alley as three rubber-suited dome-helmeted tank-backed entities with ribbed silver eyepiece dividers turn from a lighted house window and begin advancing toward him in November 1928, center frightened cattle bolting from a North Dakota fence as cold blue-white illuminating rays from an inverted-soup-plate round craft strike the pasture ground below during its overhead pass near Milton in November 1928, upper center-right adult witness Berger in an English Midlands hayfield at close-range proximity to a structured craft and its occupants off Anstey Lane Leicester in mid 1928, and right four Swedish teenage boys watching two objects of unusual performance in the cold pale blue late-evening sky near Orebro in mid 1928

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1928: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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

1928: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1928 produces the decade’s most structurally detailed CE-III craft observation in late April near Yakima, Washington,...

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Five panel late 1920s silver gelatin halftone intelligence dossier collage for the 1929 UFO UAP sightings archive showing left Levis Brosseau on a panicking horse on a dark Quebec hillside road watching a large dark craft with warm golden moon-lit circumferential windows and four or five small yellowish figures running around it at Ferme-Neuve in June 1929, upper center-left a young man on the running board of a stopped Oregon automobile watching two human-like figures point downward from the transparent windows of a hovering two-toned brown craft above the Burns Harney County rim rocks in July 1929, center seventeen-year-old Anna Poletayeva frozen beside Gusevski Lake watching a round craft with a copper-yellow lower hull reflected in the water and two smiling gray-suited occupants visible through its glassy dome above the Novgorod region lake in August 1929, upper center-right a southern Italian farm girl watching a cold white luminous sphere dim to reveal an opening from which a floating female figure in black 19th-century garments emerges above a Roccagloriosa Salerno field in summer 1929 while small beings move inside, and right nineteen-year-old Theocharis Moustakas watching three cold-white-clad small beings leap easily over a fence and speak an unknown language near a parachute-shaped landed object in a Krini Chalkidiki Greece midnight field in August 1929

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1920 - 1929 Sightings

1929: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 18, 2026

1929: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The year 1929 closes the 1920s with the densest concentration of occupied-craft CE-III observations in the decade —...

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