pre-Roswell

Five-panel period-accurate intelligence dossier collage showing one landmark UFO or entity encounter per decade from 1900 to 1944 — the 1909 New England Christmas airship wave with searchlight craft over a snow-covered town, the 1916 WWI Western Front aerial disc observed by trench soldiers, the 1926 Chulumani Bolivia CE-III with two humanoid entities beside a landed disc, the 1933-1934 Scandinavian ghost flier wave with an unmarked phantom aircraft caught in a searchlight during a snowstorm, and the 1944 WWII Foo Fighters keeping pace with a USAAF B-17 over occupied Europe

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1900 - 1949 Sightings

1900 – 1944: UFO | UAP | Entity Sightings by Date

Published: September 24, 2025 | Updated: August 23, 2026

1900 – 1944: UFO|UAP | Entity Sightings by Date The Pre-Modern Era: Anomalies Before Roswell The forty-four years between 1900 and 1944 represent the...

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Two-panel 1945 WWII wartime Denmark press photography dossier: left panel shows a 13-year-old Danish schoolboy on a Jutland road with both arms raised waving at three P-51 Mustangs crossing overhead as German flak muzzle flashes erupt from a nearby treeline with a Würzburg Reise radar dish visible at the roadside; right panel shows two of the three Mustangs in banking turn encountering a clearly defined collared grey hat-shaped disc object hovering silently at under 100 metres altitude with a German Balkenkreuz military cross visible on its side as it begins to accelerate away in the SSW direction.

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Denmark Sightings

1945: Fraser Jutland Denmark Sighting

Published: August 31, 2016 | Updated: August 22, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1945: Fraer Jutland Denmark Sighting At 16:03 on May 4, 1945 — fourteen hours before Germany’s formal...

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Five-panel 1941 WWII wartime press photography dossier: Reverend Huffman kneeling at a Missouri crash site praying over a dying alien as military personnel move through the broken disc wreckage, NKVD troops recovering radioactive disc fragments on Zelyenyi Island in the River Don, Soviet soldier Terekhov and his German executioners rising off the ground toward a hovering circumferentially-lit disc at Orsha Belarus, General Ryan watching three Naval vessels depart San Francisco Bay to hunt the base of 15 unidentified aircraft at the Golden Gate, and a blacked-out Los Angeles with Army searchlight beams sweeping empty sky as civilians listen in darkness.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1941: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 19, 2026

1941: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The 1941 archive is the first full wartime year in the record and the most operationally dense of...

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Five-panel 1942 WWII wartime press photography dossier: Army searchlight beams converging on a pale orange unidentified object over blacked-out Los Angeles with anti-aircraft shell bursts around it in the Battle of Los Angeles February 25 1942, a silvery disc with dome and portholes banking above US Navy warships at Guadalcanal as anti-aircraft fire fails to affect it, a Soviet teenage girl crouching at an aerodrome fence looking at disc-shaped craft in a bluish glow as a short grey wrinkled alien faces her at Novosibirsk, a Finnish 9-year-old girl with a frightened reluctant boy being led by two tall men toward an aluminum-colored craft on three legs at Niinisalo, and 5-year-old Eduard Albert Meier standing at the entrance of a pear-shaped craft in a Swiss meadow as a very old man beckons him inside.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1942: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: August 21, 2026

1942: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive In 1942 the phenomenon was everywhere the war was — and it was somewhere else too. On February...

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Single-panel intelligence archive illustration showing Rocky Mountain trapper James Lumley standing before a large compartmented object with strange hieroglyphic markings driven deep into a Montana mountain face at dusk in September 1865, surrounded by a mile-wide corridor of uprooted giant trees and glass-like debris, rendered in wet-plate collodion photographic style with tactical HUD overlay and Missouri Democrat newspaper reference

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Montana Sightings

1865: Montana Trapper Reports Crash of ‘Compartmented Craft With Strange Hieroglyphics’

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

THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT 1865: Montana Trapper Reports Crash of ‘Compartmented Craft With Strange Hieroglyphics’ In September 1865, while the United States was still absorbing...

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