pre-modern UFO

Silver gelatin halftone dossier illustration of the 1933 Discovery Well Great Sandy Desert Western Australia CE-IV abduction showing an Aboriginal woman frozen rigid in the open desert as a grey-skinned being points a stunning device at her while a large shining egg-shaped craft rests on the sand with its hatch open and the rest of her tribe seen fleeing in the far background.

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Australia Sightings

1933: Western Australia Abduction

Published: February 17, 2014 | Updated: May 31, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT ABDUCTION REPORT 1933: Western Australia Abduction In 1933, in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia near Discovery Well — one of...

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Silver gelatin halftone dossier illustration of the December 10 1941 Los Angeles wartime blackout showing a completely darkened Los Angeles cityscape silhouette at night as three Army searchlight beams sweep cold white-blue light upward into empty sky 25 miles from the waterfront while a small group of civilians stand in a dark street with hands cupped to ears hearing nothing, and a newspaper boy at the frame's edge holds the December 11 Los Angeles Times front page with the headline City's Black-out Called Success visible.

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California Sightings

1941: City’s Black-Out Called Success

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: June 1, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1941: City’s Black-Out Called Success Four days after Pearl Harbor, on the evening of December 10, 1941,...

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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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Silver gelatin halftone dossier illustration of three boys in 1930s rural clothing caught in a brilliant cold white shaft of light descending from above on a dark rural road near Fontana California as they turn and run toward a nearby orange grove in this NICAP-documented pre-modern nocturnal light case.

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California Sightings

1930?: Fontana Sighting

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: May 30, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1930?: Fontana Sighting Somewhere in the late 1930s, on a rural road outside Fontana, California, three boys...

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