Event 7600 (5C19DFCD)
Date: 10/2/1949
Location: HOLLAND, MICH
Description: Project Bluebook Case #473. Vibrant bright saucer going west into cloud. Then exits / same point going quickly east!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 248)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1449
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “2”, Elev: “203”, HatchDesc: “HOLLAND,MICH:BBK#473:VBRITE SCR > W INTO CLOUD:then EXITS/SAME POINT >>E!”, LatLong: “42.794446 -86.111115”, LatLongDMS: “42:47:40 N 86:06:40 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Michigan”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 7601 (ED4EC185)
Date: 10/2/1949
Time: 21:30
Location: NEW YORK, NY
Description: Scientist/science writer / (seen thru) telescope for eclipse. Dark ovoid crosses moon. / r133#2p49.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 442)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1450
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “30”, HatchDesc: “NEW YORK,NY:Sci.WRITER/TSCOPE for ECLIPSE:DRK OVOID CROSSES MOON:/r133#2p49”, LatLong: “40.716669 -74.005559”, LatLongDMS: “40:43:00 N 74:00:20 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “New York”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 7602 (E34B44C9)
Date: 10/2/1949
Description: On this day in Holland, Michigan a very bright disc flew into a cloud heading west, then exited the cloud from the same point and flew off rapidly to the east.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, case # 473
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_6481
Event 7603 (C7F01CB6)
Date: 10/6/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_377
Rocket type: V-2
Event 7604 (34C7F87F)
Date: 10/7/1949
Description: (Translated from French) Founding of the GDR. (7 October)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_807
Event 7605 (D40FA755)
Date: 10/10/1949
Location: Sandia Base, New Mexico
Description: 1:07 a.m. A bluish-green fireball is seen moving to the northeast at 45° above the horizon at Sandia Base, New Mexico. Duration is from 4 to 15 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1436
Event 7606 (3C918462)
Date: 10/11/1949
Description: The Navy releases only a brief summary of its findings in the death of James Forrestal. The complete transcript is not released until 2004.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Ayn Rand Institute Watch, “The Willcutts Report on the Death of James Forrestal”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1437
Event 7607 (40467C04)
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_378
Event 7608 (FC41CBF7)
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: USA, New Mexico
Description: (Translated from French) (Note from vog: in my opinion, all this can only be the biggest hoax ever put together by Scully himself and others, including the famous Doctor G. alias GeBauer) October 12, 1949: Variety (New York) Title “A Flying Saucer Lands in New Mexico” - A two-column article by Frank Scully, announcing the landing of a flying saucer and giving all the details according to the accounts of scientists who had examined the craft. “It was 100 feet in diameter and 72 inches high”. Scully adds that “sixteen men” with charred skin were found inside the cabin and that the craft was made of “two metals still unknown on this earth”.
Reference: F. Scully: “The Mystery of Flying Saucers”, ed. Del Duca, Paris “Les éditions Mondiales” 1951, p. 176 which thus cites itself!
Reference: The magazine “Variety” of November 23, 1949, publishes other details due to Scully’s pen
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_1426
Event 7609 (FAEA4FC5)
Date: 10/12/1949
Time: 11:20
Location: HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE, NM
Description: Blue Book. 3 military. Silver sphere/orb/globe / 35’ altitude. Fantastic speed. Silent. Going quickly northeast going [to] Alamogordo.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 249)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1451
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “1248”, HatchDesc: “HOLLOMAN AFB,NM:BBK:3 MIL:SLVR ORB/35’alt:FANT.SPEED:SILENT:>>NE>ALAMOGORDO”, LatLong: “32.866668 -106.083338”, LatLongDMS: “32:52:00 N 106:05:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “New Mexico”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7610 (085EA520)
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ
Description: Four Airman View Metallic Craft (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5)
Reference: NICAP: 491012
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_633
Event 7611 (4F3B6D1F)
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: Holloman AFB, CA
Description: H. S. Object Observed By Flight Engineer & Mechanics (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, Code: D, Rating: 5, BB: BB)
Reference: NICAP: 491012
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_634
Event 7612 (BB4F3A8A)
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: southwestern desert
Description: Columnist Frank Scully writes an article in Variety alleging that the US government has retrieved crashed spaceships in the southwestern desert.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Frank Scully, “Scully’s Scrapbook,” Variety, October 12, 1949; Clark III 595, 1044
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1438
Event 7613 (12518B83)
Date: 10/12/1949
Location: New Mexico
Description: “Captured Saucers” first reported in New Mexico.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID: HostileFawcett_10
Event 7614 (77BFE1BF)
Date: 10/14/1949
Description: (Translated from French) A meeting is held to discuss the sightings of green fireballs. Representatives from G-2 section of the 4th Army (possibly including some members of the IPU), the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project, FBI, AEC, the Geophysical Research Division of the AMC, and the AFOSI are present, a memo of which states: A logical explanation has not been issued concerning the origin of the green fireballs. It was generally concluded, however, that the phenomena existed and should be scientifically studied until these cases are satisfactorily explained. Especially since the continued occurrence of unexplained phenomena of this nature in the vicinity of sensitive installations is a cause for concern… (October 14)
Reference: Good 1987
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_808
Event 7615 (58BE6992)
Date: 10/14/1949
Time: 13:20
Location: MT. PALOMAR, CA
Description: Astronomers and more. 18 night lights / V formation. Geiger-center chart-recorder offscale.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1452
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), RDA: Radiation/high energy fields detected, TRC: Physical traces, TCH: New technical details/clues, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “4”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “1871”, HatchDesc: “Mt PALOMAR,CA:ASTRONOMERS+:18 NLTS/VFORM:GEIGER-CTR CHART-RECORDER OFFSCALE”, LatLong: “33.366668 -116.850006”, LatLongDMS: “33:22:00 N 116:51:00 W”, Locale: “Mountains”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “California”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7616 (11270C79)
Date: 10/14/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA
Description: Perfect “V of V’s” formation of about 16-18 silver [round?] objects (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 491014
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_635
Event 7617 (1CB44F66)
Date: 10/14/1949
Locations: Los Alamos, New Mexico; Bedford, Massachusetts
Description: At another conference in Los Alamos, New Mexico, attended by 16 representatives of AFOSI, AMC (Joseph Kaplan and Maj. Frederic C. E. Oder), Fourth Army, the FBI, AFSWP, and Los Alamos scientists (Edward Teller, George Gamow, and Stanislaw Ulam), the green fireballs are identified as probably atmospheric in origin, but more observational data is needed. LaPaz and Neef speak at length. Oder’s Cambridge Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB in Bedford, Massachusetts, is selected for a field project, under LaPaz’s supervision.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; Clark III 544; Swords 81; Good Above, pp. 266–267
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1439
Event 7618 (1FAB3C11)
Date: 10/14/1949
Locations: San Diego County, California; Point Loma, California; Palomar Gardens Café
Description: 1:15 p.m. Harley C. Marshall, manager of public relations at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County, California, is driving away from the observatory when he sees a perfect “V of V’s” formation of about 16–18 silver objects without tails or wings overhead traveling at high speed to the northwest and emitting a sound like jets. He stops and watches them disappear behind the cloud cover. Returning to the observatory, he phones electrician Benjamin B. Traxler, who at 1:20 p.m. sees one dark UFO traveling to the southwest. Marshall checks the Navy Electronics Laboratory Geiger counter on site and sees that the needle has jumped off the scale for several seconds. For the next 10 days, another 21 incidents of off-scale cosmic-ray detector incidents occur at scattered times, fitting a periodic 1.5-hour time schedule, a phenomenon not seen before or after, and unexplainable by equipment failure or radio interference from aircraft. Two representatives of the Office of Naval Research and two from the Naval Electronics Laboratory in Point Loma, California (Joseph P. Maxfield and G. L. Bloom), visit the observatory to investigate the readings, but not before they stop in at Alice Wells’s Palomar Gardens Café on the way in. After George Adamski claims he has seen increased UFO activity in the area (including a sighting about the same time as another observation by Traxler on October 21), they ask him if he would send them any photos he might take with one of his telescopes. He gives them a copy of a telescopic photo he took in February 1949 with his 15-inch reflector. The Naval Electronics Lab later attributes the photo to “electric discharge which frequently occurs in cameras during film pulling in dry or cold climates.” Several Navy aircraft of differing prop and jet types are flown near the observatory using radio, altimeter, and radars on October 21 and November 2 in an unsuccessful effort to trigger the Geiger counter.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: NICAP, “Geiger Counters Detect UFO Presence”; Clark III 38, 949–950; Sparks, pp. 74–75; Swords 86–87; Maurice Weekley and George Adamski, “Flying Saucers As Astronomers See Them,” Fate 3, no. 6 (September 1950): 56–59; Colin Bennett, Looking for Orthon, Paraview, 2001, pp. 29–30
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1440
Event 7619 (3AE5FEC5)
Date: 10/17/1949
Time: 07:20
Location: MT. PALOMAR, CA
Description: Small black dot zips along below 7K’ altitude clouds. Geiger center offscale!
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 251)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1453
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCI: Scientist involvement, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), EME: Electro-Magnetic Effects, TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “1871”, HatchDesc: “Mt PALOMAR,CA:SML BLK DOT ZIPS ALONG BELOW 7K’alt CLOUDS:GEIGER CTR OFFSCALE!”, LatLong: “33.350002 -116.850006”, LatLongDMS: “33:21:00 N 116:51:00 W”, Locale: “Mountains”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “California”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 7620 (C330DA29)
Date: 10/17/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory and Palomar Gardens, CA
Description: Observatory Asst. Superintendent-Electrical B. B. Traxler saw a small black object without apparent projections moving at high speed (Sparks) (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_636
Event 7621 (DFAD0B9B)
Date: 10/21/1949 (approximate)
Time: 14:30
Location: MT. PALOMAR, CA
Description: Banana-object nearby. No Geiger radiation/radioactivity recorded this time. No further details.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 254)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1454
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “1871”, HatchDesc: “Mt PALOMAR,CA:BANANA-OBJ NEARBY:NO GEIGER RDA RECORDED THIS TIME:NFD”, LatLong: “33.366668 -116.833339”, LatLongDMS: “33:22:00 N 116:50:00 W”, Locale: “Mountains”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “California”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7622 (BE922665)
Date: 10/21/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar Observatory, CA
Description: Elongated slightly curved or banana shaped object (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_637
Event 7623 (93159AA4)
Date: 10/23/1949
Time: 21:20
Location: NORWOOD, OH
Description: Many and press. Saucer with searchlight. Delta/triangle/box-like crafts exit. Objects back 24 October and 20 December and 11 Jan. '50.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 253)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1455
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, MID: Likely mis-identification, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, RAY: Odd light/searchlight/beam/laser-like, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “11”, Duration: “96”, Elev: “201”, HatchDesc: “NORWOOD,OH:MANY+PRESS:SCR W/SEARCHLITE:DLTS EXIT:OBJS BACK 24OCT+20DEC+11JAN50”, LatLong: “39.150002 -84.466671”, LatLongDMS: “39:09:00 N 84:28:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Ohio”, Strangeness: “4”
Event 7624 (D62EB202)
Date: 10/23/1949
Location: St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio
Description: 7:15–10:45 p.m. Rev. Gregory Miller has set up his searchlight once again at St. Peter and Paul Church in Norwood, Ohio. Sgt. Berger turns on the light and picks up a large object in the beam. At about 10:00 p.m., the searchlight picks up two distinct groups of five triangular objects that seem to emerge from the main disc. They descend on the beam then turn out of it. The same performance is repeated 30 minutes later. About 50 persons, including newspaper reporters observe the objects. Miller takes several photographs and asks Sgt. Leo Davidson of the Norwood police department to film the display. He uses three rolls, 25 feet each, and a Hugo-Meyer F-19- 3" camera with telephoto lens. Davidson also takes 10 still photographs of the large disc-shaped object that flies in and out of the searchlight beam, using a Speed-Graphic camera with a 14-inch Wallensach telephoto lens. Two of these are exceptional shots, showing both the parent object and the smaller group. These two pictures are last seen by Time-Life correspondent Harry Mayo, who has prepared a feature story for Time, which was to include them. But Mayo’s story and Miller’s photos were not used in Time or Life and, in spite of requests by Miller, these two photos are never returned.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Harry Mayo, “What Glows on Here? Norwood Muses,” Cincinnati Post, April 6, 1950, p. 1; “More Proof That ‘Saucers’ Exist,” CRIFO Orbit 1, no. 5 (August 6, 1954): 1–2; NICAP, “The Ohio Searchlight Incident”; Patrick Gross, “The Norwood Searchlight Incident”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1441
Event 7625 (1CC1804A)
Date: 10/23/1949
Description: In Norwood, Hamilton County, Ohio outside of Cincinnati a black-and-white motion picture film was made showing a large disc-shaped craft hovering in a searchlight beam; it emitted five triangular or delta-shaped objects. The entire event began at 7:15 p.m., lasted over 210 minutes, and was witnessed by more than 50 people.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Leonard H. Stringfield, Inside Saucer Post…3-0 Blue, p. 72; Richard Hall, The UFO Evidence, p. 88
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7033
Event 7626 (34A967FE)
Date: 10/24/1949
Location: FT WILLIAM AND HYMERS, ONT
Description: Huge streak / fire. Does neat loop and vanishes / newspapers.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 254)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1456
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, ODD: Atypical/Forteana/paranormal, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: “Canada”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “15”, Elev: “183”, HatchDesc: “Ft WILLIAM+HYMERS,ONT:HUGE STREAK/FIRE:DOES NEAT LOOP AND VANISHES/NEWSPAPERS”, LatLong: “48.400002 -89.233338”, LatLongDMS: “48:24:00 N 89:14:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Ontario”, Strangeness: “5”
Event 7627 (7D0BCC63)
Date: 10/28/1949 (approximate)
Time: 06:30
Location: MONTECAROTTO, IT
Description: Several separate observer(s). 8M cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly NNE 200M overhead. Oak branches thrash. / r39p31.
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 243)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1457
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “Italy”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “1”, HatchDesc: “MONTECAROTTO,IT:SVRL SEP.OBS:8M CGR>>NNE 200M OVHD:OAK BRANCHES THRASH:/r39p31”, LatLong: “43.527780 13.066667”, LatLongDMS: “43:31:40 N 13:04:00 E”, Locale: “Coastlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Ancona”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7628 (CB774326)
Date: 10/28/1949
Description: At six o’clock in the morning several independent observers in Montecarotto, Italy watched an eight meter long cigar-shaped object as it flew 100 meters overhead towards the north-northeast. Tree branches thrashed about as it passed by.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Solas Boncompagni, UFO in Italia, Volume I (Periodo 1907-1953), p. 103
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7214
Event 7629 (AEEF938B)
Date: 10/30/1949
Location: Novato (10 miles N of), CA
Description: Observed a white round solid disc-shaped object that was approximately 50 feet in diameter. (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters)
Reference: NICAP: 491030
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_638
Event 7630 (514EECFF)
Date: 11/1949
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object.
Type: witness statement
Reference: book “The UFO Crash at Aztec” by Steinman and Stevens
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_379
See also: 3/25/1948
See also: 4/1948
Event 7631 (C164747F)
Date: 11/1949
Location: BELGIUM, Brussels
Description: (Translated from French) At around 7:30 PM, Mr. Toussaint observed 6 red objects, rolling along the southern horizon at a speed of approximately 200km/h - elevation 40° on the horizon.
Reference: list by Daniel BUKENS, Remicourt, Belgium.
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_1428
Event 7632 (464A4A81)
Date: 11/3/1949
Location: Baja (near), CA
Description: Donnelly Case, (M) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_639
Event 7633 (25C7C4AA)
Date: 11/3/1949
Locations: Pentagon; Los Alamos
Description: Joseph Kaplan brings the green fireball plan to the USAF Scientific Advisory Board at the Pentagon. By this time, he is convinced the fireballs are a rare type of meteor. But others are puzzled by the brightness, trajectories, and soundlessness, Kaplan says, “This high selectivity of direction seems to indicate that some group was trying to pinpoint Los Alamos with a new sort of weapon.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1442
Event 7634 (2192E226)
Date: 11/3/1949
Description: Karl Taylor Compton resigns as chairman of the Research and Development Board around the same time that Lawrence R. Hafstad succeeds Lloyd Berkner as executive secretary.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Michael Hall and Wendy Connors, “The Research and Development Board: Unanswered Questions,” IUR 26, no. 2 (Summer 2001): 9
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1443
Event 7635 (4758ACFA)
Date: 11/3/1949
Location: Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico
Description: 11:00 a.m. USAF Capt. William H. Donnelly is driving south about 2 miles north of Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico, with a friend when he sees four objects to the east at a high altitude. All are oval and a metallic white color. They are constantly changing formation, moving up and down, back and forth. The objects continue to fly south rapidly and move in a horizontal line and disappear from sight in 20–40 seconds.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Jan Aldrich
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1444
Event 7636 (722AA289)
Date: 11/3/1949
Description: U.S. Air Force Captain W. Donnelly sighted a flight of four disc-shaped object north of Rosarita Beach, Baja California, Mexico. The objects had a cavorting flight formation.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Edward Sullivan, CSI/LA investigation files, letter dated April 6, 1952; Richard H. Hall, The UFO Evidence, Volume I, p. 20
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7422
Event 7637 (6D334684)
Date: 11/7/1949
Location: Osborne, Kansas
Description: KANSAS OBSERVES THEIR ‘FLIP’. Delmar Remick and Erwin Legg of Osborne, saw a flying saucer in the air, a mile up and moving northwest, rapidly takin six or seven seconds to get out of sight. It moved with a little flip every half second.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Frank Scully Papers, American Heritage Center, Box 3 FF5
Source: Scully, ID: Scully_45
Event 7638 (1CBB3DA9)
Date: 11/11/1949
Location: Straights of Hormuz
Description: USN commander, others, see “light wheel” in water.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Cover-up, 1941–1973, by Richard Dolan
Source: Dolan, ID: Dolan_49
Event 7639 (98948C34)
Date: 11/11/1949
Locations: Strait of Hormuz; Persian Gulf; Gulf of Oman
Description: 6:30 p.m. USNR Commander J. R. Bodler is in charge of a merchant vessel (possibly the USS Hemminger) in the Strait of Hormuz between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. He observes a huge, pulsating submarine light wheel, some 1,000–1,500 feet in diameter, one mile from his ship. It is revolving around an ill-defined center with streaks of light like searchlight beams moving counterclockwise “like the spokes of a gigantic wheel.” He thinks it is caused by natural phosphorescence, stimulated by some marine life.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: J. R. Bodler, “An Unexplained Phenomenon of the Sea,” US Naval Institute Proceedings 72 (January 1952): 66–67; Carl Feindt, waterufo.net
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1445
Event 7640 (075543D5)
Date: 11/14/1949
Location: GULF OF OMAN
Description: 1200’ circle / light nears ship. Spokes / light turn. 3 smaller ones after.
Type: sighting
Reference: LORENZEN, Coral & Jim: UFO’s OVER THE AMERICAS; Signet Books, NY 1968. 243p. (Index 49)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1458
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, MIL: Observer(s) military, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, SUB: Submersible: Rises from or submerges into water, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “Indian Ocean + islands”, Credibility: “10”, Duration: “60”, Elev: “0”, HatchDesc: “GULF of OMAN:1200’ CCL/LITE NEARS SHIP:SPOKES/LITE TURN:3 SMALLER ONES AFTER”, LatLong: “25.000001 57.500003”, LatLongDMS: “25:00:00 N 57:30:00 E”, Locale: “High Seas”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “GOM”, Strangeness: “8”
Event 7641 (B2F5D312)
Date: 11/16/1949
Time: 09:30
Location: OXFORD, MS
Description: Project Bluebook Case #510. Several farmers and more. Silent upright cylinder/cigar-shape makes 2 90-turns. 2’ diameter. 40mph.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 259)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1459
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “10”, Elev: “127”, HatchDesc: “OXFORD,MS:BBK#510:SVRL FARMERS+:SLNT UPRIGHT CGR MAKES 2 90-TURNS:2’diam:40mph”, LatLong: “34.366668 -89.500004”, LatLongDMS: “34:22:00 N 89:30:00 W”, Locale: “Farmlands”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Mississippi”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 7642 (DE959BB8)
Date: 11/16/1949
Time: 19:50
Location: LOS ALAMOS, NM
Description: Kids and Scientist. 2 blue-green night lights stationary. Then curve going north. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1460
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), MID: Likely mis-identification, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, PRB: Probe: Possibly remote controlled, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), NUC: Nuclear facility related, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “2”, Elev: “2231”, HatchDesc: “LOS ALAMOS,NM:KIDS+SCIENTIST:2 BLU-GRN NLTS STATIONARY:THEN CURVE>N:SILENT”, LatLong: “35.877779 -106.305561”, LatLongDMS: “35:52:40 N 106:18:20 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “New Mexico”, Strangeness: “3”
Event 7643 (364FB846)
Date: 11/18/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_381
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 123.9km
Event 7644 (C4274587)
Date: 11/18/1949
Location: USA, White Sands
Description: (Translated from French) V2 Launch #56 at 09:03, altitude 124 km. (November 18, 1949)
Reference: GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_1427
Event 7645 (85A058CB)
Date: 11/18/1949
Time: 09:30
Location: SOUTH / RACELAND, LA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #unknown. 4 observer(s). Shiny fuselage-cylinder/cigar-shape going quickly southwest. Makes 2 90-turns. Silent.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1461
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “5”, Elev: “4”, HatchDesc: “S/RACELAND,LA:BBK#UNK:4 OBS:SHINY FUSELAGE-CGR >>SW:MAKES 2 90-TURNS:SILENT”, LatLong: “29.727779 -90.600004”, LatLongDMS: “29:43:40 N 90:36:00 W”, Locale: “Oil & Coal”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Louisiana”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7646 (55490D4C)
Date: 11/18/1949
Time: 10:00
Location: BILOXI, MS
Description: Blue Book. 3 observer(s). Silent 200’ white cylinder/cigar-shape / 3000’ altitude. 50mph by hospital. Straight and level flight.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 259)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1462
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “25”, Elev: “7”, HatchDesc: “BILOXI,MS:BBK:3 OBS:SLNT 200’WHT CGR/3000’alt:50mph BY HOSPITAL:S/L FLIGHT”, LatLong: “30.400001 -88.916671”, LatLongDMS: “30:24:00 N 88:55:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “900”, State/Prov: “Mississippi”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7647 (B74B06BE)
Date: 11/21/1949
Location: AKITA, HONSHU, JP
Description: Project Bluebook Case #501. F80 pilot. 60x20’ rectangle. 500mph. 30K’ altitude. No explanation.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 257)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1463
Attributes: SEA: Observer(s) at sea, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “Japan”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “2”, HatchDesc: “AKITA,HONSHU,JP:BBK#501:F80 PILOT:60x20’ RECTANGLE:500mph:30K’alt:NO EXPLAN.”, LatLong: “39.733335 140.133340”, LatLongDMS: “39:44:00 N 140:08:00 E”, Locale: “Metropolis”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Honshu Island”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 7648 (B04C3FF1)
Date: 11/21/1949
Location: Akita, Honshu, Japan
Description: Rectangular object flying at 500 mph (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_640
Event 7649 (71B80281)
Date: 11/21/1949
Description: An F-80 fighter pilot flying over Akita, Japan saw a rectangular-shaped UFO flying at 500 mph.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Project Blue Book files counted in official statistics, November 1949 report
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7762
Event 7650 (A677888E)
Date: 11/23/1949
Location: Hollywood, CA
Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_380
Event 7651 (93DC5226)
Date: 11/25/1949
Location: INEZ, TX
Description: Several observer(s). Cloud-saucer radiates heat and causes steam. Going quickly south. Seen / Edna, TX also.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 258)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1464
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues, CMF: Camouflage/disguise
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “3”, Elev: “19”, HatchDesc: “INEZ,TX:SVRL OBS:CLOUD-SCR RADIATES HEAT+CAUSES STEAM:>>S:SEEN/EDNA,TX also”, LatLong: “28.905557 -96.788894”, LatLongDMS: “28:54:20 N 96:47:20 W”, Locale: “Residential”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Texas”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 7652 (8AFD6885)
Date: 11/25/1949
Location: Mt. Palomar, CA
Description: Flying discs first observed near the observatory at Mt. Palomar. A recording geiger counter was so activated at the times of these sightings, that it went completely off scale (NICAP: 10 - Nuclear Connection)
Reference: NICAP: 491125
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_641
Event 7653 (76C97D64)
Date: 11/25/1949
Description: In 1949 a cloud cigar-shaped object was sighted by three witnesses driving between Edna and Inez, Texas at 2:30 p.m. It flew off rapidly to the south toward Edna.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Kenneth Arnold & Ray Palmer, The Coming of the Saucers, p. 145
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_7899
Event 7654 (6767640F)
Date: 11/27/1949
Location: Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Description: 5:49 p.m. Civil Aeronautics Administration Chief Controller W. W. Jones watches a blue-white fireball moving 5°–7° per second over Kirtland Air Force Base, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Francis Ridge, “The Nuclear Connection Project: The New Mexico Sightings,” September 3, 2005
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1446
Event 7655 (6355A297)
Date: 11/27/1949
Locations: Kirtland AFB; McIntosh, New Mexico; Albuquerque
Description: 6:00 p.m. Kirtland AFB Deputy Base Commander Lt. Col. Charles E. Lancaster Jr. is driving near McIntosh, New Mexico, when he sees a green fireball descend near Albuquerque.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Sparks, p. 77
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1447
Event 7656 (16B24909)
Date: 12/1949
Location: WA
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_390
Event 7657 (5B9B5308)
Date: 12/1949
Description: (Translated from French) The popular magazine True publishes a series of articles in favor of the extraterrestrial explanation of UFO observations: according to well-informed sources, the UFOs that appeared some time ago in Scandinavia were interplanetary vehicles driven by men belonging to a different and more advanced civilization than ours.
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_809
Event 7658 (2EA1286A)
Date: 12/1949
Description: Capt. Bernard Baruch Jr. suggests to Gen. Hoyt Vandenberg that UFOs be added to JANAP 146 as required reporting subjects and that civilian pilots report UFO sightings according to military chains of command.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Swords 122
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1448
Event 7659 (D1A96833)
Date: 12/1949
Location: New Jersey
Description: Air Force Jets fired on UFO over New Jersey.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID: HostileFawcett_11
Event 7660 (566E82F0)
Date: 12/2/1949
End date: 12/3/1949
Locations: Hanford Site plutonium production facility; eastern Washington
Description: The US government releases radioactive fission products at the Hanford Site plutonium production facility in eastern Washington in an operation called Green Run. The radioisotopes are supposed to be detected by US Air Force reconnaissance. Sources cite 5,500–12,000 curies of iodine-131 are released and an even greater amount of xenon-133. The radiation is distributed over 500,000 acres encompassing three small towns and causes the cessation of intentional radioactive releases at Hanford until 1962, when more experiments commence. There are some indications that many other tests are conducted in the 1940s prior to Green Run, although this is a particularly large test. Evidence suggests that filters to remove the iodine are disabled during the test.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Wikipedia, “Green Run”
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1449
Event 7661 (4AE029D4)
Date: 12/4/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: VOLTA REDONDA, BRZ
Description: 15M saucer going down. 2 pseudo-human/entity invite observer(s) / their planet. Returned 14 Apr. '50!
Type: sighting
Reference: FLYING SAUCER REVIEW (FSR), London. Bimonthly. PO Box 162; High Wycombe, Bucks. HP135 DZ, England. (Index 329)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1465
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HOX: Suspicion of hoax, CNT: Contactee related, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, RBT: Possible robot or “Grey”, mechanical motions, PSH: Pseudo-human: Clone/organic robot/human-like, CVS: Conversation/communication, LND: UFO landing or any part touches ground
Extra Data: Country: “Brazil”, Credibility: “4”, Duration: “231”, Elev: “298”, HatchDesc: “VOLTA REDONDA,BRZ:15M SCR ↓:2 PSH INVITE OBS/THEIR PLANET:RETURNED 14APR50!”, LatLong: “-22.533334 -44.116669”, LatLongDMS: “22:32:00 S 44:07:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “RDJ”, Strangeness: “10”
Event 7662 (ADBBF190)
Date: 12/4/1949
Location: Hammond (bet Covington and), LA
Description: C-47 Crew Encounters 600 MPH+ Silver Sphere (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, Code: A, Rating: 5, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 491204
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_642
Event 7663 (7F81F446)
Date: 12/4/1949
Location: Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Description: 5:00 p.m. Mario Restier is returning home from his father’s place in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, when he notices a disc land about 32–50 feet from the road. He hears a voice telling him not to be afraid and asking if he wants to know what it’s all about. Two beings about 5 feet 5 inches emerge from the UFO wearing togas and helmets. Restier asks them if they believe in God, and they answer, “God is one.” Encouraged, he enters the craft where he is offered a trip, put in a tub filled with liquid, and taken on a trip to a city on another world. He is shown a screen that depicts human nature, ambitions, and violence. After about 6 hours, he is returned to the spot where he was abducted. Returning to his father’s house, he finds it is April 14, 1950, and has lost nearly four months of earth time.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Brazil 23–24
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1450
Event 7664 (64033C5C)
Date: 12/4/1949
Description: A 23-year-old man named Restier was driving home from Barra Mansa to Volta Redonda, Brazil at around 5:00 a.m. when he saw a 15-meter diameter disc land near the highway. Two beings came out, who looked human and were 1.65 meters tall but acted robotic in many ways. He claimed he went with them on an otherworld journey, during which he was put into a tub of liquid for the duration. After what seemed like three days he was returned, but the elapsed time had actually been four months (the return date was April 14th, 1950).
Reference: Johnson
Reference: David F. Webb & Ted Bloecher, HUMCAT: Catalogue of Humanoid Reports, case A0155, citing Walter Buhler, SBEDV Bulletin, April 1968, p. 15; Thomas E. Bullard, UFO Abductions: The Measure of a Mystery, case 157
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8171
Event 7665 (94C300AC)
Date: 12/8/1949
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_382
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 130.3km
Event 7666 (CF6B4FE4)
Date: 12/8/1949
Location: USA, White Sands
Description: (Translated from French) At 00:15, launch of V2 No. 31, altitude 127 km (GESAG, Launches: Ley 1958, General Electric 09/1959 and Nieuwenhuis H. 1988, 17) “Albert IV” the monkey is the last to be launched by a V2. The parachute does not work. (December 8, 1949)
Reference: Inforespace No. 49, 1980, p. 14, 15 which dates this to December 12
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_1429
Event 7667 (3E2C3BA4)
Date: 12/13/1949
Time: 20:10
Location: ALAMOGORDO, NM
Description: OSI agent. Object / 15km altitude. Stops / 5 minute(s). Changes color(s). Shoots flames. Going quickly.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 261)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1466
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, FBL: Fireball: Blazing undistinguished form/orb., NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “6”, Elev: “1351”, HatchDesc: “ALAMOGORDO,NM:OSI AGENT:OBJ/15km alt:STOPS/5min:CHANGES CLRS:SHOOTS FLAMES:>>”, LatLong: “32.850002 -105.966672”, LatLongDMS: “32:51:00 N 105:58:00 W”, Locale: “Pasture”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, RelAlt: “15000”, State/Prov: “New Mexico”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7668 (54B98F03)
Date: 12/13/1949
Location: Holloman AFB, NM
Description: Unknown Aerial Phenomenon Sighted (NICAP: 01 - Distant Encounters, NC)
Reference: NICAP: 491213
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_643
Event 7669 (DD8A24CF)
Date: 12/17/1949 (approximate)
Location: PUGET SOUND, WA
Description: 2 / Seattle to/from/between Victoria ferry. Night light zigzags going northwest. No plane. Spirals going up.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 261)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1467
Attributes: CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, SEA: Observer(s) at sea, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, NWS: News media report, NLT: Nightlights/points of light, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “7”, Duration: “2”, Elev: “0”, HatchDesc: “PUGET SOUND,WA:2/SEATTLE<>VICTORIA FERRY:NLT ZIGZAGS>NW:NO PLANE:SPIRALS ↑”, LatLong: “48.000002 -122.666673”, LatLongDMS: “48:00:00 N 122:40:00 W”, Locale: “Offshore”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Washington”, Strangeness: “4”
Event 7670 (DBB935F7)
Date: 12/17/1949
Description: On this evening in 1949 two witnesses aboard a ferry in Puget Sound bound for Victoria, British Columbia from Seattle, Washington saw a nocturnal light zigzagging in the sky toward the northwest. It spiralled up into the night sky.
Reference: Johnson
Reference: Larry Hatch, U computer database, citing Loren Gross, UFOs: A History. 1949 (volume 2), p. 61
Source: Johnson, ID: Johnson_8456
Event 7671 (2DC3488C)
Date: 12/20/1949
Description: Following consideration by the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board, Joseph Kaplan’s green fireball project is approved by AMC.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Col. B. G. Holzman, “Light Phenomena,” December 20, 1949; Brad Sparks and Jerome Clark, “The Southwestern Lights, Part Three,” IUR 10, no. 5 (Sept./Oct. 1985): 16; Clark III 544
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1451
Event 7672 (6B9D6898)
Date: 12/24/1949
Time: 18:00?
Location: ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD
Description: Blue Book. F51 chases / classic domed saucer. F81 crash lands. Saucer departs.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 264)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1468
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, VEH: Vehicle affected: Marks/damage/EME effects, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “85”, HatchDesc: “ANDREWS AFB,MD:BBK:F51 CHASES/CLASSIC DOMED SCR:F81 CRASH LANDS:SCR DEPARTS”, LatLong: “38.816669 -76.883337”, LatLongDMS: “38:49:00 N 76:53:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Maryland”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7673 (FE9169EB)
Date: 12/24/1949
Description: The January 1950 issue of True magazine is published, with Donald Keyhoe’s article, “The Flying Saucers Are Real.” Keyhoe argues that the Air Force knows UFOs are real, alien, and covering up information from the public in order to avoid panic: “For the past 175 years, the planet Earth has been under systematic close- range examination by living, intelligent observers from another planet.” The Air Force finds itself buried in letters, telegrams, and phone calls demanding information about flying saucers.
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Donald E. Keyhoe, “The Flying Saucers Are Real,” True, January 1950, pp. 11–13, 83–87
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1452
Event 7674 (3A052B41)
Date: 12/25/1949
Location: ISRAEL, Tel-Aviv
Description: (Translated from French) Uri Geller, then aged 3, saw a large, shining, saucer-shaped object in the sky above him. He also saw, in the garden, a very large radiant figure with no discernible face, only a radiant form. This is the beginning of Uri Geller’s story with all that surrounds the character. (1949, 25 December)
Reference: Mini catalogue chronologique des observations OVNI, by Godelieve Van Overmeire
Source: Overmeire, ID: Overmeire_1430
Event 7675 (25726E88)
Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF Project “Saucer” closed
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_105
Event 7676 (2AAA4F05)
Date: 12/27/1949
Location: US
Description: Project Grudge report released: Explained away all reports to date as delusions, hysteria, hoaxes and crackpot reports. Announcement that project had disbanded.
Type: report released
Reference: “The UFO Evidence” (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108
Reference: “Report on Unidentified Flying Objects” (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_860
Event 7677 (D3B162A7)
Date: 12/27/1949
Description: (Translated from French) The annual 629-49 US-AF report of the Grudge project based on the Hynek’s report of April 30th states: Flying saucers do not exist, summarizing the technical report that closes the Grudge project (102-AC-49/15-100 UFO\PG Grudge Report): - of 237 cases, there are still 23% of observations that we cannot explain, but to which we must nevertheless find an explanation because we do not believe in flying saucers. And the report concludes with the need to reduce the study. (December 27)
Reference: rr0 - Beau
Source: rr0, ID: rr0_810
Event 7678 (27BD769A)
Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF announces that Project Grudge is terminated. Its files are put into storage. The Grudge report is released again, reiterating that UFOs are the “result of (1) misinterpretations of various conventional objects; (2) a mild form of mass hysteria; or (3) hoaxes.”
Reference: Eberhart
Reference: Clark III 932–933
Source: EberhartUFOI, ID: Eberhart_1453
Event 7679 (1D9D278A)
Date: 12/28/1949
Location: Richmond, VA
Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen
Type: radio show
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_383
Event 7680 (529E7B64)
Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 13:20
Location: LANGLEY FIELD, VA
Description: Project Bluebook Case #520. Military observer(s). White curvy cone. 20’ high. Tip slowly oscillates.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1469
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CST: Observer(s) in coastal area/just offshore, MIL: Observer(s) military, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, DLT: Delta/vee/boomerang/rectangular shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “6”, Duration: “1”, Elev: “78”, HatchDesc: “LANGLEY FIELD,VA:BBK#520:MIL OBS:WHT CURVY CONE:20’HI:TIP SLOWLY OSCILLATES”, LatLong: “37.083335 -76.350004”, LatLongDMS: “37:05:00 N 76:21:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Virginia”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7681 (F6E7BF42)
Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 16:30
Location: FAYETTEVILLE, NC
Description: Huge silver saucer dives / sky. Very high and large. Private pilots can’t catch up.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1470
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s)
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “20”, Elev: “73”, HatchDesc: “FAYETTEVILLE,NC:HUGE SLVR SCR DIVES/SKY:VERY HI+LARGE:PVT PILOTS CANT CATCH UP”, LatLong: “35.050002 -78.866670”, LatLongDMS: “35:03:00 N 78:52:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “North Carolina”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7682 (3A5F46A4)
Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: GREENWOOD, SC
Description: Several observer(s). “Fluor-light tube” hovers / 30 minute(s). Changes shape. Terrific speed/velocity.
Type: sighting
Reference: MUFON UFO JOURNAL, Seguin, TX USA. Monthly. (Index 260)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1471
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), TCH: New technical details/clues
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “30”, Elev: “203”, HatchDesc: “GREENWOOD,SC:SVRL OBS:“FLUOR-LITE TUBE” HVRS/30min:CHANGES SHAPE:TERRIFIC SPD”, LatLong: “34.194446 -82.161115”, LatLongDMS: “34:11:40 N 82:09:40 W”, Locale: “Forest”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “South Carolina”, Strangeness: “7”
Event 7683 (D57C310E)
Date: 12/28/1949
Time: 17:00
Location: NEWBERRY, SC
Description: 10+observer(s). Slender shiny cylinder/cigar-shape. Slow level flight. Veers off and gently rises.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’S a HISTORY 1949: 3 books: 1988 & 2000 2001 Supplements. (Index 268)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1472
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, CIV: Observer(s) civilian, HQO: High-quality observer(s), NWS: News media report, CIG: Torpedo/cigar/cylinder shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “9”, Duration: “5”, Elev: “153”, HatchDesc: “NEWBERRY,SC:10+OBS:SLENDER SHINY CGR:SLOW LEVEL FLITE:VEERS OFF+GENTLY RISES:”, LatLong: “34.272224 -81.616671”, LatLongDMS: “34:16:20 N 81:37:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “South Carolina”, Strangeness: “6”
Event 7684 (F2F8981F)
Date: 12/29/1949
Location: Greenwood (Bet Hamlet and), NC
Description: Blimp-shaped object outdistance the [4?] planes at high speed. (Project 1947; FUFOR Index) (NICAP: 11 - Aviation Cases, BB: BBU)
Reference: NICAP: 491229
Reference: NICAP Listing by Date PDF
Source: NICAP_DB, ID: NICAP_DB_644
Event 7685 (151C92F6)
Date: 12/30/1949
Location: US
Description: Major Jeremiah Boggs, Air Force Intelligence, said that some pilots had fired at UFOs to bring them down for closer examination.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: The Flying Saucers are Hostile!, by George D. Fawcett 1961
Source: HostileFawcett, ID: HostileFawcett_12
Event 7686 (E19D3A3C)
Date: 12/31/1949
Description: Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 months, 23 days between 7/8/1947 and 12/31/1949.
Type: newspaper articles
Reference: link
Reference: link
Source: Maj2, ID: Maj2_384
Event 7687 (48B2A22E)
Date: 12/31/1949
Time: 22:00?
Location: 15 NM NORTH / DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, AZ
Description: Silver saucer hovers / 15 minute(s). Going quickly northeast / 500mph when 3 B29s near.
Type: sighting
Reference: GROSS, Loren: UFO’s a HISTORY-1950 (4+books) 1989+2000 Self published. (Index 102)
Source: Hatch, ID: Hatch_UDB_1473
Attributes: GND: Observer(s) on ground, AIR: Observer(s) on aircraft, MIL: Observer(s) military, HQO: High-quality observer(s), SCR: Classic saucer/disk/sphere shaped UFO, NOC: No entity/occupant seen by observer(s), OBS: Observation/chasing vehicles, BLD: Building/man-made structure/roads/power lines, MIL: Military investigation, BBK: Project BLUEBOOK
Extra Data: Country: “USA”, Credibility: “8”, Duration: “16”, Elev: “850”, HatchDesc: “15nm N/DAVIS-MONTHAN AFB,AZ:SLVR SCR HVRS/15min:>>NE/500mph WHEN 3 B29s NEAR”, LatLong: “32.416668 -110.883339”, LatLongDMS: “32:25:00 N 110:53:00 W”, Locale: “Town & City”, LocationLink: “Google Maps”, State/Prov: “Arizona”, Strangeness: “6”