Onthisday

January 12 1950 – Flying over the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Cuba, a USAF B-29 picked up three unidentified radar blips. The bogeys hovered for awhile, and then orbited the B-29 at 3,000 mph. The bomber’s airborne radar jammed for an additional ten minutes after the sighting. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History.…

1954 – In Tooma, New South Wales, Australia three bright orbs moved very fast through the sky to the west at noon, orbited one another, then turned to the south in a line. (Source: Loren E. Gross, UFOs: A History. 1954: January-May, p. 9). 1954 – A red circular object landed and took off at night…

1948 – At 4:56 p.m. a farmer in Stockton, Kansas saw a 4-foot wide disc that approached to within six feet and appeared to aim some type of tube or pipe at him. The UFO then wobbled and emitted some flames. It shot away flying toward the northwest. At 5:05 p.m. a Mr. Wray took…

 1902 – At 7:40 p.m. a “meteor” turned, looped, and curved for 12 seconds over Paris, France. Its tail lasted 90 seconds. (Source: Jacques Vallee, Challenge to Science: The UFO Enigma, p. 5). 1913 – At 9:02 p.m. a formation of lights resembling an express train in the sky was seen over Eesterhazy, Mortlach and…

1883 – A huge fireball flew over Lake Glasfjorden near Arvika, Sweden towards the northwest for 18 seconds. It turned toward the southeast and zigzagged through the sky for an additional 50 seconds. (Source: Willy Smith, International UFO Reporter, May-June 1984, p. 4, citing Nature, March 1883). 1934 – On this evening an unknown mysterious…

1869 – Around midday a luminous square body settled near the center of an empty lot in Adamstown, Pennsylvania in Lancaster county. It shot up a shiny column four feet high and two feet thick that glittered like burnished silver. It gradually faded away, and was gone in 10 minutes. It frightened the four witnesses,…

1897 – The whole town of Everest, Kansas saw an object fly in under the cloud cover. It came down slowly, then flew away very fast to the southeast. When directly over the town it swept the ground with a powerful searchlight. It was seen to rise up at a fantastic speed until barely discernible,…

1897 – A man in Louisville, Kentucky heard a buzzing noise, looked up, and saw a cigar-shaped craft 200 feet up. He could see the form of a man standing at the stern. “He looked at me, and I waved my hat. Two other men were sitting in the helm.” (Source: Louisville Courier Journal, April…

by Donald A. Johnson, Ph.D. 1952, May 21 – Coral E. Lorenzen, who would go on to found the Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) with her husband Jim, and many others at various locations around Sturgeon Bay, sighted a very large hovering flying saucer at around 7 p.m. They called each other by phone and were…