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48 well-documented UFO/UAP encounters of the 1950s, 1950 to 1959: 23 disputed, 17 unresolved, 8 explained. Each case has its sources, timeline and the official or best explanation.
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Farmington “armada” — a town watches discs for three days 17 March 1950 · Farmington, New Mexico DISPUTED McMinnville (Trent) photographs 11 May 1950 · Trent farm near Sheridan / McMinnville, Oregon DISPUTED Farnborough test pilot’s disc — the Flying Saucer Working Party 14 August 1950 · Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, Hampshire EXPLAINED Mariana film, Great Falls 15 August 1950 · Great Falls, Montana DISPUTED U.S. Navy R5D — object over the North Atlantic 10 February 1951 · North Atlantic, east of Newfoundland DISPUTED Lubbock Lights 30 August 1951 · Lubbock, Texas DISPUTED Fort Monmouth radar and T-33 sighting 10 September 1951 · Fort Monmouth and the Jersey Shore, New Jersey EXPLAINED Long Beach — six F-86s chase an object they cannot reach 23 September 1951 · Over Long Beach, California DISPUTED Mitchel AFB — a Navy TBM chases a “parachute” over Long Island 21 January 1952 · Mitchel Air Force Base, Hempstead, Long Island, New York DISPUTED Wonsan and Sunchon B-29 sightings 29 January 1952 · Wonsan and Sunchon, North Korea UNRESOLVED Barra da Tijuca — the O Cruzeiro disc photographs 7 May 1952 · Coast at Barra da Tijuca, near Pedra do Marisco, Rio de Janeiro DISPUTED Tremonton, Utah film 2 July 1952 · Near Tremonton, Utah DISPUTED Nash–Fortenberry sighting 14 July 1952 · Chesapeake Bay near Newport News, Virginia UNRESOLVED Salem Coast Guard Air Station photograph 16 July 1952 · U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Salem, Winter Island, Salem, Massachusetts DISPUTED Washington, D.C. radar-visual sightings 19 July 1952 · Washington, D.C. DISPUTED Carson Sink — two colonels in a B-25 meet three deltas 24 July 1952 · Over the Carson Sink, Nevada, on the airway to Salt Lake City UNRESOLVED The Florida scoutmaster — burned, and called a hoax 19 August 1952 · Palmetto scrub off a back road inland from West Palm Beach, Florida DISPUTED Flatwoods "monster" 12 September 1952 · Flatwoods, Braxton County, West Virginia EXPLAINED RAF Topcliffe disc — Exercise Mainbrace 19 September 1952 · RAF Topcliffe / Dishforth, North Yorkshire UNRESOLVED Oloron-Sainte-Marie "angel hair" 17 October 1952 · Oloron-Sainte-Marie, Pyrénées-Atlantiques DISPUTED Little Rissington Meteor encounter 21 October 1952 · Over Gloucestershire from RAF Little Rissington UNRESOLVED Ellsworth AFB — the Black Hawk light and the F-84 chase 5 August 1953 · Black Hawk and Ellsworth Air Force Base, Rapid City, South Dakota; later Bismarck, North Dakota DISPUTED West Malling Vampire sighting 3 November 1953 · Over RAF West Malling, Kent DISPUTED Kinross F-89 disappearance over Lake Superior 23 November 1953 · Lake Superior, off the Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan UNRESOLVED BOAC Stratocruiser paced by seven objects 29 June 1954 · Gulf of St. Lawrence, near Sept-Îles, Quebec UNRESOLVED The Nowra Sea Fury — two lights on the radar 31 August 1954 · South-west of Goulburn, New South Wales, on the way back to Naval Air Station Nowra UNRESOLVED Quarouble railway encounter — Marius Dewilde 10 September 1954 · Quarouble, near Valenciennes, Nord, France UNRESOLVED Salandin near-miss over Southend 14 October 1954 · Over Southend-on-Sea, Essex UNRESOLVED Gravataí Air Base — the Brazilian Air Force communiqué 24 October 1954 · Gravataí Air Base (today Canoas Air Force Base), near Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul UNRESOLVED Florence stadium sighting 27 October 1954 · Stadio Comunale (Artemio Franchi), Florence DISPUTED Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter 21 August 1955 · Sutton farm, Kelly, Kentucky EXPLAINED Lakenheath–Bentwaters radar-visual case 13 August 1956 · RAF Bentwaters & RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk UNRESOLVED West Freugh radar incident 4 April 1957 · RAF West Freugh, near Stranraer, Scotland UNRESOLVED Milton Torres — ordered to fire on a UFO 20 May 1957 · Over East Anglia, from RAF Manston DISPUTED Marfa lights 1 July 1957 · Mitchell Flat, east of Marfa, Texas EXPLAINED RB-47 radar–ECM–visual encounter 17 July 1957 · Gulf Coast to Oklahoma UNRESOLVED Portuguese Air Force F-84s — the Lemos Ferreira sighting 4 September 1957 · Over the Portuguese–Spanish border region, returning to Ota air base UNRESOLVED Ubatuba magnesium fragments 14 September 1957 · Ubatuba, São Paulo, Brazil DISPUTED Antônio Vilas-Boas abduction claim 16 October 1957 · São Francisco de Sales, Minas Gerais, Brazil DISPUTED Levelland vehicle-stopping reports 2 November 1957 · Levelland, Texas DISPUTED White Sands military police patrols 3 November 1957 · White Sands Proving Ground (up-range), New Mexico EXPLAINED Fort Itaipu sentries burned 4 November 1957 · Fort Itaipu, Praia Grande, São Paulo UNRESOLVED Kirtland Air Force Base tower sighting 4 November 1957 · Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico EXPLAINED Coast Guard cutter Sebago — radar contacts in the Gulf of Mexico 5 November 1957 · USCGC Sebago, about 200 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi, Gulf of Mexico EXPLAINED Trindade Island photographs 16 January 1958 · Trindade Island, South Atlantic DISPUTED American Airlines Captain Peter Killian’s three lights 24 February 1959 · Over central and northern Pennsylvania, between Philipsburg and Bradford DISPUTED Father Gill’s sightings at Boianai 26 June 1959 · Boianai Mission, Papua (Papua New Guinea) UNRESOLVED Redmond, Oregon — an FAA station reports a hovering light 24 September 1959 · Redmond Airport, Redmond, Oregon DISPUTED
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