UFO Sightings in the 1940s
154 UFO sightings reported during the 1940s, peaking in 1947 (52 reports); most often described as disk.
- Total sightings
- 154
- Span
- 1940–1949
- Peak year
- 1947 (52 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Disk
1940–1949 · peak 1947 (52 reports)
Moody · TX, USA
UFO in central Texas, 3 spacemen on the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Witness describes himself as a medical professional, Ph.D.. PD))
San Marcos · TX, USA
This event took place in early fall around 1949-50. It occurred after a Boy Scout meeting in the Baptist Church. The Baptist Church sit
Lackland AFB · TX, USA
1949 Lackland AFB, TX. Lights racing across the sky & making 90 degree turns on a dime.
Baltimore · MD, USA
It was around 8:PM and I was walking home,it was a full moon but something made me lookup, there was no noise, but an object came in fr
Mt Gilead · OH, USA
Brilliant dime sized objects rotating in a circle
Post · TX, USA
Disk object appeared very close to ground above Post, Texas for just a few seconds in about 1949 or 1950
Excelsior · MN, USA
large ball of brite light above pine trees lighting up the tops of trees.Almost directly above my father who took one photo.Then object
Wilmington · DE, USA
I was ascending a external staircase from our basement. Suddenly above me in the evening dark sky a very large, wide cylinder appeared
Mill Valley · CA, USA
3 lights appeared, manuevering rapidly and at impossible flight angles, changing formation until winking out after little more than a m
Tarrant City · AL, USA
Glowing large orange ball in Alabama sky August, 1949.
Steilacoom · WA, USA
AS A GIRL OF ABOUT NINE AND MY SISTER WHO WAS EIGHT AND OUR FATHER WERE DOWN AT THE WATER, AT DUSK SITTING AND LOOKING OUT, ALL ALONE.
Fairbanks · AK, USA
Enormous metallic disc in Alaska sky, 1949.
Marion · AL, USA
GEORGIA UFO GROUP Report/Tom Sheets: Witness Debriefing-Alabama Orbs, 1949
Booneville · MS, USA
Returning home from a movie, we witnessed a large craft about 75 yards behind our house, hovering silently approx. 100 ft. high...
Los Angeles · CT, USA
Six objects seen by many over Los Angeles in 1949
Anchorage · AK, USA
Disk encountered operation difficulties and crashed.
Seattle · WA, USA
Student called Air Force and was told to submit all photos and negatives to them.
Knoxville · TN, USA
We saw a small object the size of a car shaped like a jet that hovered near the ground in 1949 or 1950.
Salem · OR, USA
Cigar Craft, Body Marks and Missing Time
Little America (near) · WY, USA
One night as a child, I saw a little man in a green dome working at a machine with all sorts of dials near Little America.
Oak Ridge (drive) · WV, USA
log shape whooshing object observed near charleston w.v.
Grays · SC, USA
I am not sure of the exact date or time of this event but it took place in the early morning hours somtime in the late 40's to early 50
Seattle · WA, USA
UFO Hovers over Seattle sky
Sharpsburg · MD, USA
Small UFO at 100', airspeed less than 20mph, absolutely silent, saw crew, normal, white uniforms.
Brownstown · IN, USA
UFO captured during the 1948 Centennial Parade - Jackson County Indiana - 11-07-48