Udo Wartena

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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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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1940: Broadwater County Montana

1940: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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