06-24-1947 ( From previous article )

Finally that night State Highway Patrol Sgt. David Menary, of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge detail, reported seeing a dozen bright metal objects “about the size of a football” whiz overhead and fall into the sea.

This reference: Norman (Oklahoma) Transcript, 4 July 1947 “More Flying Discs Reported”

Note: File copy lost. Need replacement

UFOCAT PRN – None

North America – United States, California

San Francisco, California, USA – Latitude 37-47 N, Longitude 122-25 W ( D-M )

Reference:
http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=San+Francisco&lang=e

6~8-??-1947 (Summer of 1947)

A USO report from MUFOR on the internet as follows:

Witnesses: Pawlu Zammit and others

Location: 20 miles S of Malta

Object: Black submarine

Sound: None

Notes: Fishermen on a boat 20 miles south of Malta were raising their nets with a catch of fish when they saw an object floating on the water's surface that looked like a black submarine. The fishermen were frightened because they thought it looked more like a monster than a submarine, so they quickly pulled in their nets and started the boat's engine. At that moment a bright light from the "submarine" lit up the whole area and "little men" began running over the deck of the object. The fishermen couldn't make out much detail from their boat but whenever the light illuminated the "little men", they could see some sort of apparatus around their waist.

When the witness was asked how tall these men were, he replied, "About the size of a 10 year old boy". After a few minutes, the "little men" entered the "submarine" which began to glow so brightly that the fishermen couldn't see the object. It then submerged.

This reference: From the Website: http://www.mufor.org/ ( Note MUFOR stands for “Malta UFO Research” )

Original reference: "UFOs fuq iI-Gzejjer Maltin" by David Pace

UFOCAT PRN – None

Mediterranean Sea - Malta

20 miles south of Malta is Approximately – Latitude 35.39 N, Longitude 14.25 E ( D-M )

Reference: Malta gazetteer, U.S. Army Topographic Command, Washington, D.C., November 1971

??-??-1948

(Extract)

The shape of the objects involved in the Rio and Trindade incidents may be of more than passing interest. You recall that it was a giant metallic sphere which Captain Thomas Mantell reported he was chasing near Fort Knox, Ky., on that fateful afternoon in January, 1948. So far as my records show there were no other sightings of spherical UFO in the northern hemisphere with the exception of one which reportedly sank into the water of a remote Canadian lake, also in 1948.

This reference: Fate magazine, September 1960, pp. 42-49 “Flying Saucers Over Brazil” by Frank Edwards.

Secondary reference: - Invisible Residents by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 226, 1970

UFOCAT PRN – 76768 ( No Location )

North America - Canada

Location unknown

11-14-1949 [ Possible date error. See UFOCAT reference ]

One account of an undersea wheel of light which was most impressive was that described by Commander J. R. Bodler, U.S.N.R. (Inactive), and printed first in the January, 1952, issue of the United States Naval Institute Proceedings, and later in FATE magazine. Commander Bodler's account is thorough and his description of weather conditions (visibility good, clear, bright with no moon) indicates that there was little if anything to interfere with his observation.

The date of this particular incident was November 14, 1949. Bodler's ship had passed through the Strait of Hormuz, bound for India. On the starboard quarter, Little Quoin Island Light still lay in sight. The third mate called Bodler to the bridge saying he had spotted something which the commander should see.

When Bodler arrived on the bridge the third mate pointed out, about four points off the port bow, a luminous band which seemed to be pulsating. It had the appearance of the aurora borealis but was much lower on, or even below, the horizon. Bodler observed the strange sight with binoculars, which revealed that the luminous area was definitely below the horizon, under the water. It appeared to be approaching the vessel. As it drew nearer, Bodler could see that the pulsations seemed to start at the center of the band of light and flow outward toward its edges.

When the lighted area was about a mile from Bodler's ship he could see that at was roughly circular in shape and from 1000 to 1500 feet in diameter. The pulsations were apparently caused by the revolving motion of an entire light pattern around an ill-defined center, from which radiated streaks of light like the beams of searchlights, resembling the spokes of a huge wheel.

Ultimately, the ship passed through the luminous area, right over its central portion; the light was sufficient to illuminate the upper portions of the ship. After it had passed beyond the ship and was several miles astern, another smaller, luminous area showed up on the starboard bow. It was less brilliant as well as smaller than the first phenomenon. About a half hour after the first two luminous patches were seen, a third was observed. It had the same general characteristics but was much smaller and less brilliant than the previous two.

Bodler offered his opinion that the illumination was caused by natural phosphorescence in the water which was periodically stimulated by "regular waves of energy." He also noted that the shape of the "pinwheel," the well-defined spokes, the revolutions about the center, and the speed with which each band of light traversed through the water (the bands of luminescence seemed to pass a given point at about half-second intervals) precluded the possibility that the phenomenon could have been caused by schools of fish, porpoises, or other similar undersea manifestations. Bodler wound up his report with a comment on similar phenomena having been observed in the Indian Ocean, and quoted Oddities by T. R. Gould (England) as containing a whole chapter dealing with the same type of unidentified undersea objects.

This reference: UFOs Over The Americas, by Jim & Coral Lorenzen, pp. 49-50, Pub. 1968

Original: January, 1952, issue of the United States Naval Institute Proceedings

UFOCAT PRN – 136608. Date given 11-11-1949. Ref. Richard Dolan (493-048) No Location

Southwestern Asia

Strait of Hormus: Latitude: 26.34 N, Longitude 56.15 E. ( D-M ) Located between The United Arab Emirates/Oman and Iran
Reference: Arabian Peninsula Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of
the Interior, Washington, D.C., June 1961

Little Quoin Island, Oman Latitude: 26.30 N, Longitude 56.31 E

Reference: Oman Gazetteer, Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center, Washington,
D.C., March 1976

04-14-1950
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NOTE: I received an e-mail from Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos on Sept. 16, 2001, stating that “a reinquiry showed it to be an oil capsule or container –IFO-” The case has been shown as a misidentification on the website copies and is retained here only for records purposes. –CF-

UFOCAT PRN – None

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06-??-1950

(extract p. 4)

Atlantic Manifestations

The oldest Argentine case is that concerning Sr. Romeo Ernesto Suarez which occurred in June 1950. This individual was employed as a driver in the fire department at Ushuala, Capital of Tierra del Fuego, when he decided to undertake a long journey, on foot from this city to Buenos Aires, which he succeeded in completing in 5 months and 14 days, after traveling practically 4,000 kilometers.

The majority of Argentine newspapers carried accounts of this journey, including the various troubles and problems which he had to overcome but, what he did not relate at that time, through fear of ridicule, he revealed in 1968 due to growing interest shown by official Argentine groups in the consideration of the UFO phenomenon. According to Suarez, 4 or 5 days after his departure from Ushuala, he was between San Sebastían and Río Grande (still within the territory of Tierra del Fuego) and was walking through a coastal region about 600 meters from the Atlantic Ocean. It was approximately 11:00 PM: Suddenly and breaking the nocturnal silence, he heard something similar to a loud noise of water violently disturbed. Several sheep, who were sleeping in a field, jumped up alarmed and hurriedly ran away. There was no wind, storm, or thunderstorm that might have explained the event. Immediately a luminous object of oval form appeared emerging from the sea about 500 meters from the shore. It rose up vertically to a certain altitude and then made a turn of ninety degrees and disappeared towards the northeast in the direction of Argentine territory.

Some 15 days later, also at night and when he was between Río Gallegos and the city of Santa Cruz (in the neighborhood of Puerto Coyle, in the province of Santa Cruz) a similar phenomenon occurred. This time, although he could not determine the exact distance from the coast, four small luminous objects came up out of the waters of the Atlantic. They repeated the same maneuver as the previous object; that is, they gained altitude vertically and then in perfect formation approached the coastline and moved off towards the west, in the direction of the Andes Mountains.

These observations of veritable luminous fleets seem to constitute a quite frequent event in the Patagonian region of Argentina (approximately from the 40th parallel on to the south). In August 1962, for example, Sr. Vincente A. Bordoli, a truck driver based in Mar del Plata (province of Buenos Aires), reported to the police that in the south along National Route 3, which follows the Atlantic coast of Argentina, he together with his son Hugo had observed a strange, brilliant formation which -- periodically --entered the Gulf of San Matías (province of Rio Negro) and afterward emerged climbing up into the sky and disappeared.

This reference: The MUFON Journal, Vol. #130, pp.3-5 September 1978 “Are UFOs operating from underwater bases off the coast of Argentina” by Joseph M. Brill.

Secondary reference: UFO Contact from Undersea by Dr. Virgilio Sanchez-Ocejo and Lt.

Col. Wendelle C. Stevens (Ret.), Published 1982, pp. 165-166

Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century by Janet and Colin
Bord, pp. 170, Published 1989

Original reference: Phenomena Spatiaux , September 1968 (UFOCAT)

UFOCAT PRN – 76687 ( No location )

South America - Argentina

Note: Ushuaia, San Sebastian and Río Grande are all on the “Ilsa Grande de Tierra del Fuego. An island at the tip of Argentina and Chile split between the two countries.

Ushuaia Latitude 54-48 S, Longitude 68-18 W ( D-M )

Tierra del Fuego Latitude 54-00 S, Longitude 70-00 W

San Sebastían Latitude 53-18 S, Longitude 68-28 W

Río Grande Latitude 54-47 S, Longitude 67-42 W

Río Gallegos Latitude 51-38 S, Longitude 69-13 W

Santa Cruz Latitude 50-01 S, Longitude 68-31 W

Puerto Coyle (Coig) Latitude 50-57 S, Longitude 69-12 W

Gulf of San Matías Latitude 41-30 S, Longitude 64-15 W

Reference: Argentina gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., February 1968.

07-02-1950 – HOAX
Another hoax involving a claim about little men in UFOs appeared originally in the September/October 1950 issue of the “Steep Rock Echo”, the mimeographed house organ of Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd., of Steep Rock Lake, Ontario. In a detailed letter to the editor, an anonymous correspondent claimed that on July 2, while picnicking on the shore of a cove in Sawbill Bay, he and his wife saw a flying saucer on the water:
       The top had what looked like hatch covers open and moving around over its surface were
       about 10 queer-looking little figures .... These figures I estimated to be roughly three feet
       six inches to four feet high and all were the same size .... The most noticeable thing was
       that they looked like automatons, and did not turn around …[T]hey just changed the
       direction of their feet.
Several Canadian newspapers reprinted the story, but when Fate ran it in its February/March 1952 issue, it was quickly picked up by UFO writers and was cited from time to time in the literature over the next two decades (Bloecher, 1956; Edwards, op. cit.; Lorenzen and Lorenzen, 1967; Wilkins, op. cit.; Nicholson, 1958; Vallee, 1969). No one bothered to investigate the story, however, until the mid-1970s, when Robert Badgley, a Scarborough, Ontario, member of the Tucson-based Aerial Phenomena Research Organization [APRO), found that Steep Rock employee Gordon Edwards had written the tale, which was entirely fictitious, to entertain readers of the magazine and to satirize belief in little green men from flying saucers ("1950 Steep Rock," 1977; Colombo, 1991)
This reference Thanks to Jerome Clark’s “The UFO Encyclopedia, 2^nd Edition, Ommigraphics, Inc., p. 506.
With thanks also to the CUFOS for tracking it down (Previously listed as ??-??-1950)

UFOCAT PRN 76823 Location – Latitude 48.81 N, Longitude 91.65 W. Original reference News Clip.

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FALL-1950

Fall of 1950; a round object skimmed over a stream at Solway Firth, Scotland, hit with a splash, then slanted upward and went out of sight.

This reference: UFO Investigator, a NICAP publication, Vol. 4, No. 5, p. 5, (March 1968) with Thanks to the Donald E. Keyhoe Archives.

UFOCAT PRN – None

Europe –United Kingdom

Solway Firth (estuary) – Latitude 54.45 N, Longitude 3.40 W ( D-M )

Reference: United Kingdom Gazetteer. Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., USA, April 1950

12-??-1950

Sighting Flying Discs Again?

USS GARDINERS BAY--While steaming up the channel from Inchon, Korea, two mysterious missiles trailing long white smoke trails in the sky struck the water at great speed off the ship's port bow.

Two huge columns of water rose to about 100 feet in height at the point of contact. No aircraft could be sighted by radar or visually overhead although the ceiling was unlimited. Identification of the missiles remains a great mystery.

This is the original reference: Naval Aviation News, February 1951, p. 26

Secondary: Several news clips Thanks to CUFOS

Anatomy Of a Phenomenon, by Jacques Vallee, p. 133, published 1966

Invisible Residents, by Ivan T. Sanderson, pp. 36-37, published 1970

Unexplained Mysteries of the 20^th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord, p. 168,

published 1989.

UFOCAT PRN – 56404 ( No location ). Ref. Donald E. Keyhoe ? May 1957, p. 16

Eastern Asia - Korea

Inch’on Harbor – Latitude 37-28 N, Longitude 126-37 E (D-M )

Reference: South Korea Gazetteer, Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., USA, December 1966

12-16-1950

December 16th.

It sped downward gathering speed while throwing off light. Below were the waters of Lake Michigan, dark and forbidding at the hour of midnight. Some five miles away on shore near Grand Haven, Michigan, an Otto Herny watched in fascination. The light in the black sky looked like a big curve-like harvest moon, said Herny, as he observed the thing plunging into the water. It appeared as a distant camp fire for a brief moment before the glow on the surface vanished. 191

This reference: UFOs a History-1950/3 Books, Book #3, by Loren Gross, p. 67

With thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATABASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

Original - Note: Call # 191 refers to Grand Haven, Michigan, Dec. 16, 1950 (UP – United Press)

UFOCAT PRN – 129391

North America – United States, Michigan

Grand Haven - Latitude 43-04 N, Longitude 86-14 W ( D-M )

Reference:
http://www.astro.com/cgi-bin/atlw3/aq.cgi?country_list=&expr=Grand+Haven&lang=e

UFO location (UFOCAT) - Latitude 43.03 N, Longitude 86.28 W ( D.% )

02-08-1951
UFO INVESTIGATOR/SEPTEMBER 1970, p.3
Date February 8, 1951
LOCATION: North Atlantic
       Chapter 1 of Major Donald Keyhoe's last book, Flying Saucers, Top Secret, is entitled "Encounter Above the Atlantic." The chapter describes a sighting made in the 1950s by the crew of a U.S Navy aircraft en route from Iceland to Newfoundland. Keyhoe's source for the report was Captain James Taylor, a retired Naval officer living in Washington, D.C., whose name had been given to Keyhoe by another Naval officer, Admiral D.S. Fahrney, a close friend of the Major.
       Taylor learned of the incident in 1956 from a friend and former associate, a Navy pilot who was one of the primary witnesses. This man, a Lieutenant at the time of the sighting and now a Commander, is identified in the book under the fictitious name George Benton. Keyhoe used the pseudonym to protect the officer from publicity, because Benton was still on active duty at the time the book appeared (1960).
       In April of this year, NICAP contacted Benton and requested a personal interview, in hopes that the original report could be updated and corrected with first-hand information.
       The interview was conducted a few weeks later at Benton's home in New Jersey. it was the first time he had confided details of his experience to anyone except military intelligence and his own friends and associates. His memory of the incident was only slightly affected by the passage of time, since, as he explained, "I have seen nothing like it in all my years of flying."
       The sighting occurred in the early morning of February 8, 1951. Benton, 30 years old, was flying an R5D transport, which was returning to the United States from England via Iceland and Newfoundland. Benton had flown the Atlantic many times, having operated seaplanes over the South Atlantic for two years, and been assigned to the Naval Air Station in Brooklyn, New York, and later to a flight squadron at Norfolk. Virginia. At the time of the sighting, he was stationed at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, where he qualified for 38 types of military aircraft.

Predawn sighting occurred on second leg of trans-Atlantic flight. "X" marks spot where encounter took place.

[ Photo of a military Lockheed Constellation with superimposed saucer sketch – too poor in quality to reproduce here ] [Text below photo - Artist version of sighting, based on faulty data. shows too much detail. Night was not this clear, and object did not come this close ]

       The weather on the night of the sighting was excellent. The moon had set, but visibility was still good. As Benton remembers it, "You could make out the horizon clearly but .. you could not see the white caps on the water clearly."
       Seated opposite Benton in the co-pilot's seat was the plane commander, Lt. Com. F.K. (identified in Keyhoe's book as Peter Mooney). Back in the plane, asleep, were two extra crews, one a relief crew for Benton's men and the other on board as passengers. The aircraft was flying at 10,000 feet, on due course for Newfoundland. Ground speed was over 200 knots (230 miles per hour).
       Approximately three and a half hours out of Iceland, at mid-point in the flight, the plane passed over a weather ship, which was on station below, off the coast of Greenland. The ship reported everything normal.

Eyewitness sketch depicts UFO at various stages of its ascent toward aircraft. Shrouded in white glow, object had fiery ring at outer edge.

UFO INVESTIGATOR/OCTOBER 1970, p. 3
LOCATION North Atlantic
       "The aircraft was on automatic-pilot (this was standard procedure during clear weather, so both pilots could watch for other aircraft). Lt. Com. F.K. and myself were on constant watch for other aircraft. I observed a yellow glow in the distance about 30 to 35 miles away, at about the 1 o'clock position and below the horizon. My impression was that there was a small city ahead, because it was the same glow you get from a group of lights on the surface before you get close enough to pick them out individually.
       "Knowing that we pass the tip of Greenland, my first thought was that we were behind schedule and had drifted north, but remembering that we had passed over the weather ship, I knew this was not the case. I called F.K.'s attention to the glow and asked him what he thought it was. He said that it looked like we were approaching land. I asked our navigator to check his navigation. He did and replied that we were on flight plan and on course.
       "The lights were farther away than we thought because it took us from eight to ten minutes to get close enough to where the lights had a pattern (our ground speed was over three miles per minute), about 15 or 18 miles away. At that time, due to the circular pattern of lights, I got the impression that possibly two ships were tied up together and that lights were strung between them for either transferring cargo from one to the other or that one was in some kind of trouble.
       "I asked the navigator to check his ship plot. He replied that there were no ships plotted in this area and that we were not close to the shipping lanes anyway. The radioman also went on the air to the weather ship, which verified that there were no ships in the area.
       "Since it was time for Lt. J.'s crew to relieve us, I had the plane captain awaken them. When Lt. J. and Lt. M. came up forward, I pointed the lights out to them. Their only comment was that it had to be a ship because it was on the water and we were overtaking it fast. At this time, we were five to seven miles away; it was about 30 degrees to our right; and we had to look down at about a 45-degree angle. The lights had a definite circular pattern and were bright white.
       "Suddenly, the lights went out. There appeared a yellow halo on the water. It turned to an orange, to a fiery red, and then started movement toward us at a fantastic speed, turning to a blueish red around the perimeter. Due to its high speed, its direction of travel, and its size, it looked as though we were going to be engulfed. I quickly disengaged the automatic-pilot and stood by to push the nose of the plane over in hopes that we could pass under it due to the angle it was ascending. The relief crew was standing behind us; everyone began ducking, and a few heads were hit on objects.

Pilot's drawing shows view from cockpit as strange object rose from ocean's surface and approached aircraft on apparent collision course,

       "It stopped its movement toward us and began moving along with us about 45 degrees off the bow to the right, about 100 feet or so below us and about 200 to 300 feet in front of us. It was not in a level position; it was tilted about 25 degrees.
       "It stayed in this position for a minute or so. It appeared to be from 200 to 300 feet in diameter, translucent or metallic, shaped like a saucer, a purple-red fiery ring around the perimeter and a frosted white glow around the entire object. The purple-red glow around the perimeter was the same type of glow you get around the commutator of an auto generator when you observe it at night.
       "When the object moved away from us, it made no turns, as though it was backing up about 170 degrees from the direction that it approached us, and was still tilted. It was only a few seconds before it was out of sight. (Speed estimated in excess of 1500 mph.)

"All of our cameras were within reach, but no one was calm enough to think about taking a picture. Most of us were wondering what it was. Our impression was that this was a controlled craft. It was either hovering over the water or sitting on it, then it detected us and came up to investigate.

"After Lt. J.'s crew had taken over, I proceeded aft and learned that most of the passengers had observed the same thing. Since I was unable to identify the object, I asked Dr. M., CDR U.S. Navy, if he had observed the object. He replied that he had and that he did not look because it was a flying saucer and he did not believe in such things. I immediately re turned to the cockpit and informed the crew to keep quiet about what we observed because it might have been our first sighting of a flying saucer (during those years when you mentioned you had such a sighting, you were believed to be crazy). Lt. J. informed me that it was too late because he had called Gander airfield in Newfoundland to see if the object could be tracked by radar.

"When we landed at Argentia (Newfoundland), we were met by intelligence officers. The types of questions they asked us were like Henry Ford asking about the Model T. You got the feeling that they were putting words in your mouth. It was obvious that there had been many sightings in the same area, and most of the observers did not let the cat out of the bag openly. When we arrived in the United States, we had to make a full report to Navy Intelligence.

"I found out a few months later that Gander radar did track the object in excess of 1800 mph. I did not see the reports made by other members aboard the aircraft. I did talk to the Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1957 but did not took at the report. They said they had it and many similar reports."

This reference: UFO Investigator (Publication of NICAP), September 1970, p. 3 and October 1970, p. 3

Secondary references: Alien Base by Timothy Good, pp. 86-89, 1998

UFOCAT PRN – 16656 ( No Location). Same reference

UFOCAT PRN – 144300 ( No Location). Reference: UFOs over Canada: Personal accounts of sightings and close encounters, by John R. Colombo p. 211, 1991. NOTE: Different date 02-10-1951.

North America – Canada, Newfoundland

Argentia, Newfoundland – Latitude 47-18 N, Longitude 54-00 W ( D-M )

Reference: Canada gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., November 1953.

??-??-1952 a

CISU Case #005
Location: Francavilla (CH)
CISU Classification: C ( Object that come out of the water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information

*** A fisherman saw an obscure cigar shape object of six meters coming out of the river, staying on the surface of the water and then taking off.

Original reference: “Morgana” no. 1 page. 8

“ItaCat” case no. 5205.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Europe – Italy, Chieti

Francavilla al Mare - Latitude 42-25 N, Longitude 14-17 E ( D-M )

This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.

08-02-1952

CISU Case #006
Location: Ancona
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Probable meteorite

*** A flaming object was seen sinking into the sea

Original reference: “Space Review” paper no. 1 pp. 1-2
“ItaCat” case no. 5206.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Europe - Italy

Ancona – Latitude 43-38 N, Longitude 13-30 E ( D-M )

This reference: Italy Gazetteer, United States Board On Geographical Names, Department of the Interior, Washington D.C., August 1956.

08-25-1952

AUG 27 1952, 3 Carpenters 'See' Saucer Dive Into Lake

.WATKINS GLENN, N. Y. (U.P.)

Three carpenters yesterday swore they saw a flying saucer dive into Seneca Lake at Watkins Glen. The carpenters said the saucer flashed "like a bright sheet of silver" across the horizon, and then took a nose-dive into the lake, kicking up a l0-foot splash. But state police said as far as they are concerned, they are not going to investigate. They pointed out that the lake is 200 feet deep In some places, and they do not intend to waste their time with any grappling operations.

This source: “The original RomeikE Press Clippings”. Original from The Herald, Sharon, PA.

ALSO

“FLYING SAUCERS” REPORTED SEEN OVER VILLAGE, PLUNGING INTO SENECA

Report of two “flying saucers” over the village was made by Mrs. Marion Granston of 315 N. Glen Ave., Monday morning. She said that the two saucers were seen at 9:30 just over the “Top of our elm tree.” They were like big silver balls gliding through the air,” she added. They were very plain.” The two “balls” disappeared over Seneca Lake after proceeding eastward, the woman reported. The woman added that neighborhood children could also plainly see the “saucers.” She identified them as William, Ronald and Robert Pierce, who lived nearby. They called Mrs. William Pierce Sr., but she came out too late to see the discs. The woman who reported the occurrence to newsmen, was told to call Civil Defense headquarters at the office of Atty. Lafayette Argetsinger Jr.. Another “flying saucer” was reported to have plunged into Seneca Lake Monday morning. The incident was reported by three workmen who said the object fell into the lake about 150 feet off-shore near Glen Eldridge on the east side of the lake about five miles from the village. They said it splashed water about 8 or 10 feet into the air.

The men, all carpenters, were Ray Andrew, Alfred Sullivan and Clayton Crout. They told state police that while working near the lake they saw a “bright object like a sheet of steel come through the air.”

“Suddenly it crashed into the lake.” they said, “and splashed water eight to 10 feet high.” In the Tompkins County village of Trumansburg, due northeast of here, several persons reported that they saw five jet planes pursuing a flying saucer. U.S. Air Force officials at Hancock Field, Syracuse, said that jet planes from the base of the 32^nd Air Division Defense here were on maneuvers in the Schuyler County area of Watkins Glen but said they did not know they were chasing flying saucers. Air Force officials said they would investigate the Seneca Lake incident. Air spotters in the Schuyler area said they did not sight anything unusual in the area during the day. This is the first time that flying saucers have been reported in Schuyler County.

This Source is the original: Watkins Glen, N.Y., “Express” 8-27-1952

Note: His date is really the date of his newspaper reference – the Buffalo, NY “Evening

News” of 26 August 1952. Monday as referred to in the text was 25 August.

UFOCAT PRN 76769

North America – United States, New York

Watkins Glen Latitude 42-23 N, Longitude 76-52 W ( D-M )

Trumansburg Latitude 42-33 N, Longitude 76-40 W

Reference: The National Gazetteer of the United States of America, Prepared by the U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names, Washington D.C., 1990

Glen Eldridge – Is a privately owned point about 2 miles up the east side of the lake out of Watkins Glen. There is no public access.

Reference: E-mail from www.watkinsglen.com in response to location request.

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) - Latitude 42.38 N, Longitude 76.87 W ( D.% )

09-??-1952

Underwater UFO? 1952

Source - Canadian UFO Report - July 1969

There is one clue in the behavior of UFOs which suggests strongly that their origin lies beyond our solar system. It is their attitude toward water. As far as we know, Earth is the most watery of planets in our particular system. Perhaps in some form water lies in or under the clouds of Venus or in the gaseous layers of the outer planets. To a small degree it is almost certainly present on Mars.

But large deep bodies of water such as ours seem definitely unique in our solar system. Presumably, therefore, if our space visitors came from a neighboring planet, they would approach our lakes and oceans with wary respect. Without such watery expanses of their own, they would never feel at ease on or in ours, no matter how advanced their technical development.

But the striking fact is that, where water is concerned, UFOs appear far more at home even than ourselves. They seem to regard it as an element barely distinguishable from air and, except for an apparent interest in sampling it (ref. May-June issue), they treat it with indifference. They have been seen flying into it and emerging from it at full speed. Observations of strange subsurface luminous discs suggest they may even live under it.

Now we have learned of a case in which a UFO was observed boating on lake much as we would on a casual outing. For a few minutes the object looked like any vacation craft, but then there were differences.

Although the incident occurred in 1952, it did not come to light until recently when it was reported to us by two of the witnesses. They were Stewart S. of Ladysmith, BC, an electrical operator with the provincial power system, and his cousin by marriage, Dorothy S., a Red Cross nurse now responsible for the medical care of an Indian settlement in BC's Caribou county Another witness was Dorothy S's late husband.

"We were living at Summerland on Lake Okanagan at the time," Stewart said," and Dorothy and Gordon had just arrived from Vancouver to visit us for a while. As it was her, first trip to the Okanagan since leaving her home in England, we had set out on a motor trip for the day to see some of the Country.

"It was a clear bright morning in September, and when we reached the ferry slip to cross over to Kelowna we realized we would have to wait a bit because we could see the ferry still on the other side. And then about half a mile north of the ferry we noticed this other thing."

"I remember pointing it out and saying what a beautiful white boat it was," Dorothy S. added," It was moving around so gracefully, and though we still couldn't make it out very well at that distance, it seemed to have a smooth round design we had never seen before."

As the three watched from their car in admiring curiosity, they noticed the strange craft had started to move across the lake in their direction. By that time cars from the ferry were beginning to line up behind them, so they were also in a position to observe what happened next.

"We could see the wash coming out from either side, yet somehow the boat, as we thought it was, didn't seem to be moving very fast," Stewart said. (Dorothy compared it to a line from Dante, "Hasten slowly.") "As it came closer we still thought it must be some unusual kind of modern boat. It looked like a round hard hat sitting on a platter. But there was something about that wash that looked different and that started us wondering."

Although neither could explain precisely what the difference was, possibly it was caused by the circular shape of the craft moving lightly on the surface, like a flatly thrown stone.

"Then suddenly it really surprised us," Stewart continued. "It was a few hundred yards away when all at once the wake disappeared and we realized the thing was in the air. It changed direction to the right so that it came straight toward the ferry dock and then it stopped dead, less than 100 feet in front of us and about 50 feet above the water."

Despite the 17 years that had since elapsed, Stewart's memory of that experience was obviously still very much with him. He shook his head in amazement, as he spoke of it and seemed to live the whole experience over again.

His cousin, on the other hand, said she had not thought of it for long while, though she was sufficiently impressed at the time to make a note of it in her diary'.

"We sat in the car spellbound," she said. "We couldn't believe what was happening and afterwards, for some reason, we had no desire to talk about it. It was as if we had been told not to."

The witnesses described the object as about 30 feet in diameter and having a haziness which made the outline indistinct. Also it had a translucent quality which gave them the impression that anyone inside could have seen them without being seen in return. (A description of translucence often occurs in sighting reports in which the UFO is dome shaped, such as this one.)

"It stayed there, absolutely silent, for a minute or so," Stewart said. "and we definitely had a feeling it was watching us. Then it started back across time lake. By this time I was out of the car to get a better look and I told the others I wished I had a pair of binoculars. An American tourist in the car behind heard me and said, 'Here take mine. I've seen enough.' He looked as if it had scared him."

Through the binoculars Stewart watched the object reach the opposite shore, just over two miles away, in five or six minutes, giving it a leisurely speed of about 20 mph. "Then it seemed to fly parallel to a trail bordering the lake before it shot up and disappeared.

After a moment Stewart handed the binoculars back to their owner, and he remembers how they stared silently at each other in disbelief.

"I guess I looked just as shocked as he did," Stewart said, "and it must have affected the others the same way. We were a pretty quiet bunch going across on the ferry"

Having seen and been examined by craft that may have come from a world light years away, it was no wonder.

This Reference: http://ufobc.org/underwat.htm 12/25/98

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

North America – Canada, British Columbia

Summerland Latitude 49-36 N, Longitude 119-40 W ( D-M )

Kelowna Latitude 49-54 N, Longitude 119-29 W

Lake Okanagan Latitude 49.55 N, Longitude 119.30 W

Reference: Canada Gazetteer, Prepared in the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., USA, November 1953

09-10-1952

CISU Case #007
Location: Brenno (VA)
CISU Classification: B ( Objects that fall or dive into water )
Evaluation: Insufficient Information

*** A flaming round object sank into a lake after being broken into many pieces.

Original reference: “La Provincia“ of 9/11/1952

                                    “ItaCat” case no. 5207
                                    “Il Messaggero” of 9/11/1952
                                      CrashCat case no. 008.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Europe – Italy, Varese

Brenno – None found in U.S. Gazetteers or online. However there is a Brenno-Usérla in that

Province, which is very close to Induno Olona.
Induno Olona - Latitude 45-51-00 N, Longitude 8-49-60 E ( D-M-S )

http://www3.calle.com/info.cgi?lat=45.8500&long=8.8333&name=Induno%20Olona&cty=Italy&alt=1272

10-??-1952

Observations of unidentified submarine objects in Norway

by Ole Jonny Brænne

Shortly before 7 a.m. one Thursday in October 1952, Johannes Nordlien was waiting for coworkers when he suddenly heard a howling, jet like sound. A moment later a saucer-shaped object, four meters in diameter, came at high speed from the west and passed by him 100 meters away. It impacted with a violent splash in the river Lågen. The object was white as snow, and Nordlien clearly observed its fiat and round shape as it hit the water. When his fellow workers showed up, the water was still boiling. The loud howling sound vanished as soon as he saw the object.

This Reference: IUR, January/February 1995 pp. 12-13 & 17

Ole Jonny Brcenne is associated with UFO-Norway, that nation's leading UFO-research group. An earlier article of his, "Legend of the Spitsbergen Saucer," appeared in the November/December 1992 issue of IUR.

UFOCAT PRN – NONE

Europe - Norway

River Lågen – Two coordinates given:
Latitude 59-03 N, Longitude 10-05 E ( D-M )

Latitude 61-08 N, Longitude 10-25 E

Reference: Norway Gazetteer, Prepared in the Office of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., May 1963

10-23-1952

UFO activity on October 23rd.

Forced landing?

Did a flying saucer make a forced landing at sea? That was the question asked by the crew of a Gloucester. Massachusetts, fishing boat when they encountered something bizarre some 34 miles southeast of Seal Island off Nova Scotia in the Atlantic. The press interviewed the Captain of the fishing vessel upon his return to port about the mysterious fiery object seen bobbing on the water. The Captain at first thought a ship was in distress so he immediately altered course to effect a rescue:

" 'Reaching the area, we could see nothing but this bright light,' he said. 'Even with our searchlight we were unable to clearly make out what caused it. Because of the swell, water swept over the object repeatedly, causing a loud crackling noise.'

"After notifying the Coast Guard at Marchfield, Mass., the fishermen remained in the vicinity a half hour watching the object which, Captain Cecilo said, 'seemed to skip about on the surface of the water. '" ^293.

This reference: UFOs a History-1952/6 Books, Book #5 by Loren Gross, p. 81

With Thanks to Larry Hatch’s *U* UFO DATA BASE, see http://www.larryhatch.net

Note: Call # 293 - is shown as “Boston, Mass. October 23, 1952 (UP- United Press)

UFOCAT PRN 129126

North America – Canada, Nova Scotia

Seal Island ( Southern tip ) – Latitude 43-24 N, Longitude 66-01 W ( D-M )

Note: Next to impossible to locate on a standard map, However it is 14 miles west of Cape Sable at the southern end of Nova Scotia.

Reference: http://www.twrsoft.com/seal/sailing1.htm

Map: http://142.227.51.1/educ/heritage/nslps/south_sh.htm

UFO location (UFOCAT) - Latitude 43.17 N, Longitude 65.67 W ( D.% )

NOTE: THIS IS VERY CLOSE TO THE POINT WHERE A MAJOR WATER UFO EVENT OCCURRED ON OCTOBER 4, 1967 KNOW AS “SHAG HARBOUR” !!!!!

LATE-1952

In late 1952 the Sunday Times of Cape Town, South Africa, reported that a "rocket" had been seen over Table Bay. It was said to have gone straight up and then down again, but it was not clear if it came out or went into the water. A police launch searched the area since it was believed to have been a distress rocket but there were no ships in the area.³⁷ (There are dozens of similar reports of "distress rockets," "flares," and the like seen off many coasts.)

Original: 37. Cape Town, South Africa Sunday Times – No date

UFOCAT PRN – 73287 ( No location )

Africa – South Africa

Table Bay – Latitude 33-53 S, Longitude 18-27 E ( D-M )

Reference: South Africa gazetteer, Prepared by the Division of Geography, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., April 1954.

??-??-1953 a

In still another case which I have in sworn affidavits from the General Manager and Chief Engineer of a St. Louis broadcasting station, they state that they were starting out to fish one morning in 1953 on the famed Lake of the Ozarks. Out some three or four hundred yards from shore, their outboard motor died. They were sitting there in the fog, listening for a passing boat which might help them, when they heard a heavy humming sound. They co