ufo sightings

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 & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: June 3, 2026

1941: UFO|UAP & Alien 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 & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: June 5, 2026

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

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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 & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: May 30, 2026

1936: UFO|UAP & Alien 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 & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 22, 2016 | Updated: May 30, 2026

1934: UFO|UAP & Alien 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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Three-panel 1902 Edwardian silver gelatin style intelligence dossier collage showing left the SS Fort Salisbury crew observing a massive 200-meter dark object with red lights sinking into the Gulf of Guinea at 03:05 on October 28 1902 as documented in the ship's log and reported to The Zoologist, top right Parisian pedestrians watching a luminous body complete a visible turning arc over boulevard rooftops on February 9 1902 in the 12-second maneuver that ruled out meteor identification, and bottom right two experienced observers at the Adelaide South Australia observatory tracking an elliptical object through 20 degrees of arc over four minutes on November 20 1902

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1900 - 1909 Sightings

1902: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 20, 2016 | Updated: May 21, 2026

1902: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive The year 1902 sits in the archive as one of the most geographically diverse single-year records of the...

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Three-panel early 1900s silver gelatin photographic style intelligence dossier collage showing a ten-year-old Edwardian boy in a Bournebrook England yard watching a five-foot disc with humanoid occupants overhead, a man with a box camera photographing three cigar-shaped lashed objects over Silver City New Mexico in March 1901, and three Missouri forest witnesses observing a hovering luminous disc through the tree canopy at night

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1900 - 1909 Sightings

1901: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive

Published: June 20, 2016 | Updated: May 21, 2026

1901: UFO|UAP & Alien Sightings Archive The year 1901 opened the twentieth century four years before Einstein published special relativity and two years before...

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