pre-modern UFO

Three-panel intelligence archive illustration showing the 1810 one-eyed silver-suited humanoid encounter in Thailand, the 1811 Chimney Rock aerial cavalry battle over North Carolina, and the 1820 Joseph Smith luminous entity visitation in upstate New York

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1800 – 1899 Sightings

1810 – 1824: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

Published: April 28, 2019 | Updated: August 13, 2026

1810 – 1824: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE The years 1810 through 1824 represent one of the most densely documented periods of anomalous activity...

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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...

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Five-panel 1930s press photography dossier illustrating 1936 UFO and alien sightings: children watching a landed egg-shaped craft with white-suited occupant in Athens Greece, a teenage girl facing a black-garbed flying humanoid on a Kazakhstan steppe at dawn, three Spanish Civil War soldiers engulfed in white light before two tall white-garbed humanoids in Guadalajara, witnesses at B'Bugia Bay Malta watching a fast zeppelin-shaped craft with helmeted occupants, and a Canadian teenager approaching a landed disc with occupants near Port Colborne Ontario.

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1936: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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

1936: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive In the summer of 1936, twelve-year-old Maria K and five or six other children playing in a sparsely...

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Five-panel 1930s press photography dossier illustrating 1934 UFO and alien sightings: Norwegian freighter crew observing a gray craft with beam at Tromsø, a metallic cylinder landed on a Dollis Hill street with two figures, landing traces in Malselv mountain snow, a Puerto Rican man levitated into a silvery sphere at Mayaguez, and a luminous entity observed near a rocky crag in Cáceres Spain.

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1934: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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

1934: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The mid-1930s represent a transitional threshold in the pre-modern UAP record — a moment when the global phenomenon...

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Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing a large sphere resting in a hillside crater near Alençon Normandy France on June 12 1790 with a door open in its surface and a figure in a skintight garment caught in the moment of seeing the assembled crowd of two mayors a physician and five civic officials before fleeing into the forest, rendered in late 18th-century French engraving style with tactical HUD overlay

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France Sightings

1790: A Sphere Exploded over Alencon, France

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

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1790: A Sphere Exploded over Alencon, France On the morning of June 12, 1790, at five o’clock, peasants working...

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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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pre-modern UFO

1810 – 1824: UFO|UAP & ENTITY SIGHTINGS ARCHIVE

1941: Charleston, Missouri Encounter

1936: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1934: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1790: A Sphere Exploded over Alencon, France

1942: UFO over China

1940: Broadwater County Montana

From the Archive

1952: A B-29 Bombardier at 30,000 Feet Watches a Pulsing, Fan-Shaped White Light Cross Overhead in Two Seconds North of Goodland, Kansas

1952: A C-124 Crew Watches Three Blue Objects in Fingertip Formation Pace Their Aircraft Over Vermont, Disappear and Return

1952: Radar Engineers on Great Blue Hill Track Two Wobbling, Dull-Orange Objects Through a Battery Commander’s Telescope

1952: Two Navy Pilots Over Memphis Watch a Bright Inverted Bowl with Vertical Slots and a Red Glowing Trail Pass 100 Yards Away