UFO Report: “1900-1938 UFO Sighting Chronology”

Created: 18 December 2006

Updated: 6 April 2016

(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:

“This report is derived from three major sources: 1) the Magonia Database, sightings catalogued by Jacques Vallee and presented in his great work, Passport to Magonia, and,  2) The UFO Evidence, 1964, Richard Hall, and, 3) Strange Company (2007), Keith Chester. This report deals only with sightings AFTER the turn of the 20th Century and up to the end of 1938. For the WWII years (1939-1946) click here. The illustration used above came from Jim Klotz’ wonderful web site, ufopop.org/. All of the beautiful magazine covers that can be found on the site were produced during this period, and are a must-see.

Our thanks for ALL these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (The UFO Evidence, 1963, and Vol. II The UFO Evidence, 2001), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), and Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns). Last, but not least, our thanks to Jean Waskiewicz who created the online NICAP DBase (NSID) that helped make it possible to link from the cases to the reports themselves. .

Francis Ridge

NICAP Site Coordinator

Early 20th Century Sightings up to, and including, the year 1938

May 13, 1909; King’s Lynn, England

9:45 PM. A cigar-shaped object illuminated the terrain brightly in King’s Lynn. A witness’s attention was drawn to the object by a ‘whirring noise’ and seeing the ground lit up like day. Looking up, he saw the airship-like object speed overhead, two men visible in an undercarriage, and disappear in the distance within a few minutes. (Hall, 2000, p. 7)

May 19, 1909; Wroxsam (Wroxham) [my addition], Norfolk, England

23:30. A lone motorcyclist observed a globular light traveling in a straight trajectory overhead. During its passage, the motocycle headlamp failed to operate. He stopped his machine when this occurred, but the headlamp began to operate again after the UFO’s passage. (Rodeghier; East Anglican  Daily Times, May 21, 1909)

May 18, 1909; Caerphilly, Wales

11:00 p.m. Mr. Lethbridge was walking along a road near the mountains when he saw on the grass a large tube-like machine. Aboard were two men wearing furs and talking excitedly in a language the witness could not understand. The grass was found depressed at the site after the object had flown off. (Magonia #36, 198; Anatomy 21)

June 16, 1909; Donghoi (Dong Hoi) [my addition], Annam

4:10 a.m. An elongated object following a west to east trajectory flew over the town. It gave off a strong light and was seen by two fishermen to plunge into the sea 6 km away from the coast, after a steady flight of about 9 min. (Magonia #37, Anatomy 21)

Dec. 22, 1909; Worcester, Mass

‘Mysterious Airship’ emitting a bright beam of light appeared moving SE to NW, hovered over city, moved away. Seen again two hours later; hovered, moved away to south and turned east. Observed over Boston and Lynn, Mass, next night. [N.Y. Tribune, 12-23-09; N.Y. Sun, 12-24-09]”

http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1900-1938.htm

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Satellite photo of Wroxham, UK (tageo.com)

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UFO Case Report: “06-16-1909”

By Carl W. Feindt

(Water UFO, Claymont, Delaware)

The whole UFO case report:

“M. Beljonne, at Phu-Lien Observatory, Tonkin, sends us peculiar bolide observations. The first one, especially remarkable, was made at Dong Hoi, Annam, by M. Delingette, Inspector in the Civil Guard, head of the meteorological station. At Dong Hoi, on June 16 at 4:10 A.M., a bolide of an elongated shape, truncated at both ends, flew over the city on a west-east course, casting a great luminosity. The witnesses--Hoang Nic, of Dong Hoi; Tran Ninh, of Sa-Dong-Danh; Quyen, of Dong-Duong-Hoi; and Danh Lui, of the same village--who were fishing at sea, reported that the phenomenon lasted from eight to ten minutes, between the time the object appeared and the time it fell into the sea, at about six kilometers from shore.   
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This Reference: Anatomy of a Phenomenon by Jacques Vallee, p. 21, © 1966

Original Reference: Lumieres dans la Nuit & L’Astronomie 22, 1909, p. 28

                                                                                                      

UFOCAT PRN 10775

UFOCAT URN – 10774 Anatomy of a Phenomenon by Jacques Vallee, p. 21, © 1966

UFOCAT URN – 10776 A Century of Landings (N=923), by Jacques Vallee, #0037, © 1969.

UFOCAT URN – 73282 Invisible Residents, by Ivan T. Sanderson, p. 35, © 1970

UFOCAT URN – 100124 Flying Saucer (Ray Palmer), June 1970, p. 8

UFOCAT URN – None Unexplained Mysteries of the 20th Century, by Janet & Colin Bord, p. 168, © 1989.

UFOCAT URN – None UFO Chronicles of the Soviet Union, by Jacques Vallee, p. 28, © 1992

UFOCAT URN – 146089 From Airships To Arnold (Catalog), by Richard H. Hall, # 007, © 2000

UFOCAT URN - 10775 Computerized Catalog (N=3073) #255 by Jacques Vallee No date of publication

UFOCAT URN – 10777 Computerized Catalog (N=3173) by Luis Schoenherr, #2374. No date of publication

UFOCAT URN – 68671 World-Wide Catalog of Type 1 Reports, by Peter Rogerson #0073. No date of publication.

Indochina - Annam is now Vietnam.

Tonkin                          X

Dong Hoi                      Latitude 17-29 N, Longitude 106-36 E ( D-M )

Sa-Dong-Danh             X

Dong-Duong-Hoi          X

Note: Many of these may be old names. I have tried several sources but cannot come up with an exact match.

UFO Location ( UFOCAT ) – Latitude 17.53 N, Longitude 106.58 E ( D.% )

http://www.waterufo.net/10671946/10671946HtmlText2.htm#06161909

Wikipedia article: “Đồng Hới”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BB%93ng_H%E1%BB%9Bi

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Dong Hoi, Quang Binh, Vietnam (text by Wikipedia)

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UFO Case Report: “06-10-1909”

By Carl W. Feindt

(Water UFO, Claymont, Delaware)

The whole UFO case report:

“That, in the Nautical Meteorological Annual, published by the Danish Meteorological Institute, appears a report upon a ‘singular phenomenon’ that was seen by Capt. Gabe, of the Danish East Asiatic Co.’s steamship Bintang. At 3 A.M., June l0, 1909, while sailing through the Straits of Malacca, Captain Gabe saw a vast revolving wheel of light, flat upon the water—‘long arms issuing from a center around which the whole system appeared to rotate.’ So vast was the appearance that only half of it could be seen at a time, the center lying near the horizon. This display lasted about fifteen minutes. Heretofore we have not been clear upon the important point that forward motions of these wheels do not synchronize with a vessel’s motions, and freaks of disregard, or, rather, commonplaces of disregard, might attempt to assimilate with lights of a vessel. This time we are told that the vast wheel moved forward, decreasing in brilliancy, and also in speed of rotation, disappearing when the center was right ahead of the vessel-or my own interpretation would be that the source of light was submerging deeper and deeper and slowing down because meeting more and more resistance.

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This reference: The Complete Books Of Charles Fort, p. 278, published 1974 by Dover Publications, Inc. From Fort’s original work ‘Book of the Damned’, published in 1919           

Scientific American, 106-51

Original reference: Nautical Meteorological Annual, published by the Danish Meteorological Institute”

Carl William Feindt, who passed on 21 April 2019, was in my opinion one of the best USO/UFO researchers of all time. Many thanks to the late Mr. Feindt for his hard work and devotion to USO/UFO research – and for the fact that he has published all his research work on the Internet.

http://www.waterufo.net/10671946/10671946HtmlText2.htm#06101909

Wikipedia article: “Strait of Malacca”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Malacca

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UFO News Article (part of a larger article): “NEWS OF SCANDINAVIA. NORWAY.”

10 June 1909

(Warren Sheaf, Minnesota)

Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Quote from the article:

“Capt. Egenas (Egenæs?), comamnding [sic] the St. Olaf, reports that he was surprised by an airship in the middle of the night, on the North sea. The airship passed right over his steamer, and at the most opportune moment the deck was strongly illuminated by a searchlight. The airship left in a southerly direction. Capt. Egenas could see that the airship threw a searchlight on the deck of another steamer, too.”

https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90059228/1909-06-10/ed-1/seq-8/

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Map of the North Sea

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