pre-modern UFO

Five-panel 1940 WWII wartime press photography dossier: Udo Wartena shaking hands with a white-haired grey-overall occupant at a Montana disc craft stairway in May 1940, Uncle Ernie completing a coal shovel swing at a fallen grey alien on a Tyneside pavement in spring 1940, a Black farmer watching a grey submarine-like vessel surface from the Mississippi River near Charleston Missouri, an anti-aircraft soldier tracking a flattened sphere at 38,000 feet over the Hoy Island Orkneys with a height-finder in June 1940, and a Danish 15-year-old watching three pipe-suited robot-walking beings approach a hemispherical craft in Jutland in July 1940.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1940: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: December 13, 2012 | Updated: August 19, 2026

1940: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The 1940 archive opens the wartime decade at precisely the moment the world’s attention was consumed by the...

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Five-panel 1930s-to-wartime press photography dossier for 1939 UFO and alien sightings: a Finnish teenager watching a kettle-shaped craft on landing legs with a suited operator directing articulated robot beings the day before the Winter War at Saarijarvi, children in coastal Spain watching two stiff silver-suited black-eyed figures emerge from a landed metallic disc with ground traces at Zahara de los Atunes July 1939, a Greek shepherd frozen on a mountain path as two diver-suited entities stand at ground level in a searchlight beam from a hovering mushroom-shaped craft on Pentelikon Mountain, a mother and boy on English heather with a six-foot white globe nearby and two tiny helmeted figures pointing from the hill brow at Roseberry Topping, and an elderly Russian woman at a rough table across from a small dark-faced stranger hiding hoofed feet beneath the chair who pulls a wire from a cigar-case device saying he must not miss his craft in the final West Yaroslavl contact of the series.

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1939: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: December 13, 2012 | Updated: August 18, 2026

1939: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive On November 29, 1939 — one day before the Soviet invasion of Finland launched the Winter War —...

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Five-panel collage of 1937 UFO and entity sightings from London England to West Yaroslavl Russia, Belarus, Naples Italy, and Vancouver Canada

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1937: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: December 30, 1937 | Updated: August 18, 2026

1937: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive In a meadow near London in 1937, an eight-year-old girl watched a huge silvery object on stilt-like protrusions...

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Five-panel collage of 1935 UFO and entity sightings from Nipawin Saskatchewan to Drem Scotland and Geneseo Illinois

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1930 - 1939 Sightings

1935: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: December 30, 1935 | Updated: August 17, 2026

1935: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive By 1935 the pre-modern entity record had achieved a density and geographic reach that no single cultural frame...

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1940: The alien killed with a coal shovel

1940: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1939: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1937: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1935: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

From the Archive

1948: The Circleville, Ohio Occupant — Farmer B. Stevens

1948: The Chehalis Birdman — Bernice Zaikowski

1947: The Pilot Hill Triangular Fire

1947: The London Hypnosis Case — A Mark That Predates Its Own Genre