1920
Iowa: Fishermen see a blue egg-shaped UFO touch down near Mount Pleasant.
1921
USA, Connecticut, Killingly: Bright circular UFOs seen above a cloud overcast at
night.
1922 Poland: Many witnesses in observe a silvery
object, two hemispheres divided by a rotating ring. The object 'shoots' a beam
of light, and then rises with a loud noise.
USA, Iowa, Davenport: Twin girls aged 8 see a daylight disc UFO near
Davenport.
USA, Nebraska, Hubbell: William C. Lamb was following strange tracks when he
heard a high-pitched sound and saw a circular object intercepting starlight. It
became brilliantly lighted and landed in a hollow. Soon afterward, a creature
over 2.4 m tall was seen flying from the direction where the object had landed.
It left tracks in the snow, which Lamb followed without results.
Wales, Barmouth: John Morris and William James saw an object fall into the
ocean so slowly that it was thought to be a plane. A boat was sent out, but
nothing was found. 1923
Pakistan, Quetta: A UFO explodes in mid-air over Quetta. Flaming debris rains
down, destroying a few buildings. The fire lasts for hours, leaving only melted
slag and "thin wires."
1924
Ireland, County Wexford: Two boys watched for several minutes as a solid beam
of light several feet long traveled through the air a few feet from the ground.
It moved at approximately 10mph, climbing a hedge and crossing a field, before
encountering a railroad track and moving off along its length.
1925 USA, Maryland, Chevy Chase: Mysterious
fireball explodes just outside Chevy Chase.
Australia, Moora: Two teenagers stumbled upon a saucer-shaped shimmering
object resting on four legs in a paddock near. They ran off in fear.
1926 China: Nicholas Roerich sees a daylight disc
UFO in a clear blue sky in northern China.
Mongolia: During his expedition explorer Nicholas Roerich and members of his
caravan, caught sight of a huge oval-shaped object high in the sky. It had a
shiny surface that reflected the sun on one side and moved at great speed north
to south.
1927 Romania: A cylindrical object flew over a
Rumanian village at an altitude of 200-300 m from west to east. Smoke gray in
color it was an estimated 15-20 m in length and had a diameter of 3-4 m. It was
not illuminated and passed soundlessly.
USA, California,Sausalito: Writer Ella Young said that while sitting outside
the Madrona Hotel she saw 'a cigar shaped craft shoot out of a cloud beyond the
bay, and across the sky toward Tamalpais.' It was not shaped like any airship
she knew. 'It was long and slender, of yellow color, and traveling at great
speed... it seemed to progress by alternately contracting and elongating its
body.'
USA, Nebraska, Scottsbluff: While flying near Scottsbluff, pilot Barney
Oldfield finds his biplane flanked by "flying manhole covers."
1929 Canada, Fermeneuve: Levis Brosseau, 2O was
returning home when he saw a dark object with a yellow light and his horse
became very nervous. Within 6 m of the object four or five dwarfish figures were
running back and forth. He heard their pointed, childlike voices, then saw the
dark object take off with a machinelike sound and a rush of air. Estimated size
of object: 15 m diameter, 5 m high.
Canada, Robsart: Five persons among them Einar Rostivold, saw a huge ball of
light giving off fiery colors, 25 km from Robsart. It landed slowly, vanished
gradually after illuminating the whole countryside for 30 min.
North Atlantic: Thomas Stuart, third mate of the SS Coldwater, reported that
at 400 mile off the coast of Virginia he saw a light traveling at an estimated
100 mph toward Bermuda. 'There was something that gave the impression that it
was a large, passenger craft,' he said, though investigation failed to show any
airship or airplane on that course at that time.
1930
Australia. Small humanoid alien shows up at a farm in Mandurah, W.A., asking for
water. Shot to death by terrified farmer.
1931 Tasman
Sea: The late Sir Francis Chichester was on a flight across the Tasman Sea when
what looked like a dull gray-white airship approached him. It was pearl-shaped,
flashing brightly, periodically vanishing, re-appearing, accelerating and
finally disappeared.
1932
USA, Ohio, St. Paris: A picture of George Sutton taken near mid-day shows an
unidentified flying object over Sutton's left shoulder in this photograph. A
vintage automobile with a 1932 license plate on the front bumper is in the
photo. Nobody has been able to account for the dark object seen this picture. It
could not have been a street lamp, simply because there were no street lamps
there at that time. There are no power poles or power lines visible anywhere in
this picture.
1933 Australia, Queensland: Small disc hovers
behind a house in Nambour, It is grabbed by a boy, who suffers itching and
blistering on his hands as a result of grabbing the object.
Scandinavia: The month of December saw the beginning of the Swedish 'Ghost
Flier' Wave. It ended four years later with an accumulation of 1,000 reports
that also covered neighboring Finland and Norway. Most sightings involved
airplane-shaped craft and luminous phenomena, none identified.
USA, Pennsylvania, Chrysville: A man observed a faint violet light in a field
between this town and Morrestown. Walking to it, he found an ovoid object 3 m in
diameter and 2 m thick with a circular opening similar to a vault door. Pushing
it, he found the room full of violet light and observed many instruments, no
occupant. Smell of ammonia.
1934 USA,
New York, New York: During a winter blizzard, mysterious engine noises are
heard above the clouds.
1935 Canada, Saskatchewan: Three witnesses saw
landed UFO at Nipawin, and watched several little entities in silver suits
ascending and descending a ladder. Square imprints and burnt areas seen and
photographed at the location the next day.
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa: During the Ethiopian War a disc-shaped object hovered
motionless in the sky above and was seen by many witnesses.
1936
Spain, Guipuzcoa: A sighting in the midst of the Spanish Civil War. English
novelist and former soldier Valentine Williams and two others were driving from
General Franco's headquarters in Burgos to Biarritz, France. The sighting
occurred at 4:18 pm in the Basque province of Guipuzcoa, about 75 miles from
San Sebastian. Williams' companions gasped in amazement; he turned to see what
he thought was a flare or traced round on a course at right angles to the road,
heading northward at an amazing velocity. Williams later described it as 'like a
streamer of white smoke... As it went, it burst into a bright orange flame.
There was no sound or explosion.' When they reached Biarritz, they told their
story. Tom Dupree, from the British Consulate at Hendaye, said the had been at
San Sebastian (about 30 miles west of Biarritz) at the same time of that day and
had seen the same object. This UFO could have been a particularly large
fireball, burning brightly enough to be visible by daylight. However, the
accounts give the impression that the object was traveling paralleled to the
ground, not falling towards the earth.
1938 Canada, Tabor: "Mysterious lights" hover over
Tabor, Saskatchewan.
Estonia, Juminda: Two observers watched a 1-meter long object that was
greenish -brown in color until it finally disappeared.
USA: The Orson Welles Radio Broadcast. H. G. Wells novel, War of the Worlds,
was the first story of interplanetary warfare involving Earth. Before his
story, previous tales described peaceful beings visiting Earth, but Wells
aliens came with weapons and were ready to take over the Earth as their new
home. These aliens, who came from Mars, had so much power that humans could not
stand a chance against them (in the end a type of bacteria finally kills the
aliens). As a direct result of this novel, people began to believe that that
any alien invasion would mean the termination of mankind. Orson Welles with his
Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcasted their version of Wells novel on
Halloween night, 1938. It began at 8 p.m., and even before the broadcast was
through, millions of people were frightened to the point that they cried,
prayed, tried to rescue loved ones, and called upon ambulances and police.
There was nationwide panic like never before. The people perceived this play as
being reality because at the time radio was their most reliable source of news,
and everything was portrayed so realistically. Also some of the specific places
described, for example, street names, were real for many people. From this
intense reaction, we can conclude that at this time in history, our culture
believed that extraterrestrial life exists, and that aliens are capable of
travelling to Earth by UFOs to invade our planet.
1940 Hungary, Bata: "Fiery cartwheel" UFO is seen
ascending from a hilltop in Bata, Hungary.
Japan: While flying over Japan, Wing Commander D.J. Blakeslee sighted an
object he described as having red, green and white lights. The craft moved
rapidly to escape detection. Blakeslee was guided by ground radar. He was
reported to be stable and reliable. The Air Force officially ruled the sighting
to be Jupiter, although it was tracked by radar.
1941 Germany: German aviatrix Hannah Reisch sees a
UFO speeding by at an altitude of 66,000 feet. USA, Missouri, Cape
Giradeau: Charlotte Mann states her grandfather, Rev. Wm. Huffman, told her
about a UFO crash site story which occurred in July 1941 outside of Cape
Giradeau. The Cape Giradeau police department and some military personnel were
at what they thought was a plane crash site, but Rev. Hoffman said it obviously
was not a plane. There was crumpled aluminum like metal debris scattered over
the area and an object that was disc shaped. There were three humanoid bodies,
child-like with large heads, big black eyes, no nose, slit for a mouth, and a
form fitting uniform covered with debris. The MJ-12 cited this Missouri Ozarks
1941 UFO crash site story along with the 3 Roswell 1947 crash sites as recovered
exhibits deemed extraterrestrial.