WWII

Two-panel 1941 WWII wartime press photography dossier: left panel shows the darkened Golden Gate Bridge silhouette at night as a loose formation of unidentified aerial objects approaching from the Pacific begins wheeling and turning back southwest while Army spotters on the Marin headland watch with binoculars and field telephone and searchlights activate over the city; right panel shows three dark 1941 US Navy destroyer silhouettes departing San Francisco Bay in line at speed toward the Golden Gate as General Ryan stands on the pier with aides watching them go while a journalist writes on a notepad partially reading were not Army were not Navy were not civilian.

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California Sightings

1941: Three Naval Craft Sent Out To Hunt Plane Base

Published: August 8, 2013 | Updated: August 19, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1941: Three Naval Craft Sent Out To Hunt Plane Base On the evening of December 9, 1941...

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Five-panel 1943 WWII wartime press photography dossier: small silver Foo Fighter discs moving silently through the 384th Bomb Group B-17 formation over Schweinfurt with German fighters absent, RAF armorer John Warren on a dark Norfolk lane watching a round-faced grinning entity in a chest-box glowing green suit behind a hedgerow with a grey bell-tent craft and second sampling figure behind it, Daniel Leger kneeling in Polish sand dunes scooping sand from a buried disc as a very tall blond woman in a dark one-piece suit with square silver buckle watches, two Argentine police officers watching tall slow-moving metallic-suited figures carrying buckets around a luminous disc near Tres Arroyos as their car engine refuses to start, and Swedish border guard Arne Svensson doubled over in agony as a welding-flame-belted disc descends above him leaving him with a watch stopped at 22:13 welded from within and a 30x30 meter burnt square.

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1940 - 1944 Sightings

1943: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: December 13, 2012 | Updated: August 20, 2026

1943: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive By 1943 the war had reached its industrial apex — Schweinfurt, Dortmund, Essen, Stuttgart were burning under Allied...

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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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1943: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1940: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

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Greenville, South Carolina: Four Amateur Astronomers and a Diamond of Glowing Ovals

George AFB, California: Nine Reports in Three Weeks and Ruppelt’s Balloon Hunt