Date: 1860
Location. Shreveport, Louisiana
Time: Night
Summary: “Our attention was called to a strange light in the heavens. On going out into the gallery we had a magnificent view of it. It appeared to the naked eye, about 300 yards in length, extending from North to West appearing just above the tallest trees. Its color was that of a red hot stove from the center beautiful rays resembling those of the sun drawing water would ascend to a considerable height, the whole presenting a very beautiful and sublime appearance. We watched it for about an hour without perceiving it to change any.
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Date: January 29, 1860
Location: London, England
Time:
Summary: An unknown object of planetary size is reported by Mr. Russell and three other observers.
Source: F. A. R. Russell, “An Intra-Mercurial planet,” Nature 14 (October 5, 1876): 505.
Date: March 1, 1860
Location: Moscow, Russia
Time: 9:45 P.M.
Summary: At 9:45 P.M. “a star to the southwest of the Great Bear suddenly commenced to wax larger, assuming at the same time the color of iron at a red heat, but without the appearance of any sparks or rays.” It was observed in this condition until 11:30 P.M., growing to half the size of the moon. It then became dimmer, and by midnight it had disappeared. In its stead “a sort of black speck was to be noticed by the light of the other stars.” The writer adds: “It remains for the astronomers to describe, and poets to sing, the destruction of the luminary, which, for ought we know, may have been the abode of a race superior to our own.”
Source: The Russian correspondent of the London Telegraph, quoted in The Banner of Liberty (Middletown, New York), 6 June 1860.
Date: July 13, 1860
Location: Wilmington, Delaware
Time: 21:45
Summary: a pale blue light illuminated a 200-foot long cloud-like object in the sky that moved slowly and silently through the sky. At regular distances behind the cloud followed three “very red and glowing balls. Four pale blue cloud-like objects, about 300 feet across, were observed by a male witness in a city for over one minute.
Source: Lore, Jr., Gordon I. R. Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968
Date: July 17, 1860
Location: Dharamsala, India
Time: about 7 P.M.
Summary: On the evening of the day when a remarkable meteor had fallen in the area, a man who was observing the sky about 7 P.M. saw a pattern of lights, each lasting for one minute or more, over places where there were no houses or roads: “Some were high up in the air moving like fire balloons, but the greater part of them were in the distance in the direction of the lower hills in front of my house, others were closer to the house and between Sir Alexander Lawrence’s and the Barracks. I am sure 231 from some which I observed closely that they were neither fire balloons (sic), lanterns nor bonfires, nor any other thing of that sort, but bona fide lights in the heavens. Though I have made inquiries among the Natives the next day, I have never been able to find out what they were or the cause of their appearance.”
Source: The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art, Canadian Institute (1849-1914), vol 7 (1862): 197.
Date: Aug. 6, 1860
Location. Norfolk, Virginia
Summary: Two objects, one red and one green, flew overhead together, moving with an undulating motion.
Source: (NICAP UFO Evidence, 1964, Hall)
Date: September 24, 1860
Location: Nebraska City, Nebraska
Time:
Summary: After sunset Mr. Joel Draper and ferryman Mr. Beebout saw a bright object low in the West. “While gazing with amazement at that, which in size, color, brightness and shape resembled one-fourth of the sun taken from its edge, we soon discovered another spot further to the right and a little higher, which was about one-third the size of the first; then another directly above the first, one-third the size of the second. All of these we soon discovered to be moving towards the south, or to the left of their former position, with great rapidity (…) as they moved, they all retained the same relation to each other as when they first appeared.” The account goes on: “This took place after sunset, but, by means of the brightness of these bodies, it was as light as some ten or fifteen minutes before sunset. There were no clouds or vapors in the sky in that direction. They could not have been sun dogs or mock suns, for (such phenomena) remain, as long as they continue, in the same relative position to the sun.”
Source: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 12 October 1860.
Date: November 10, 1860
Location: Washington, D.C.
Time:
Summary: Just about sunset several witnesses observed an object “the size of a balloon” moving with great rapidity in a south-westerly direction: “Notwithstanding the light of day was still strong and clear, the illumination of the object was brilliant and distinct (…) We heard, while gazing at this wonder, that two similar ones had passed previously. The one we saw, after moving south-westerly, at an angle with the path of the sun, took a course directly west, and straight from us; fading gradually and very rapidly until lost from sight.
Source: Washington D.C. Herald and Brooklyn Eagle, front page, Friday 16 November.1860.
Date: 1861
Location: North Atlantic Ocean
Time:
Summary: Three luminous bodies are reported to have come from the North Atlantic Ocean and stayed in view for no less than ten minutes during a squall.
Source: “A Catalogue of Observations of Luminous Meteors,” Report of the British Association, 1861.
Date: February 16, 1861
Location: Singapore
Time:
Summary: “At 10 o’clock the sun lifted and from my window I saw a large number of Malays and Chinese filling baskets with fishes which they picked up in the pools of rain water which covered the ground. On being asked where the fishes came from, the natives replied that they had fallen from the sky. Three days afterwards, when the pools had dried up, we found many dead fishes. Having examined the animals, I recognized them as Slarias battrachi, a species of catfish which is very abundant in fresh water in Singapore, and in the Malayan Peninsula. They were from 25-30 centimeters long and therefore adult. These silurioids,…are able to live a long time out of water, and to progress some distance on land, and I thought at once that they had come from some small overflowing stream nearby; but the yard of the house I inhabited is enclosed by a wall that would prevent them entering in this manner.An old Malay has since told me that in his youth he had seen a similar phenomenon.”
Source: “Comptes Rendus hebdomadaries des seances de l’academie des sciences 52:880-81, 1861
Date: October 4, 1861
Location: New York
Time: About 6 P.M.
Summary: About 6 P.M. a “mysterious balloon” passed over the city, with two men in it, from west to east at great height. Witnesses speculated that it was either ” in the service of the traitors” or that it was “a device built by Professor Lowe, which had parted its fastenings,” both impossible explanations.
Source: The New York Times, 5 October, 1861.
Date: March 20 1862
Location. Manchester, England
Time:
Summary: An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object was observed by two witnesses (Lummis).
Source: Contact U.K.
Date: August 1862
Location. Cwm Dwr, Wales
Time: 1400
Summary: Two men, David Evans and Evan Lewis had stopped their horses for a rest opposite to a farm known as Maestwynog, and were looking in the direction of a hillside not far off, when they noticed several little figures walking up a hill on a winding footpath. As they reached the top of a hill the little men jumped up and made a circle and began dancing in earnest. Suddenly all the little men suddenly scattered in different directions and disappeared from sight.
Source: Janet Bord, Faeries, Real Encounters with The Little People
Date: September 1862
Location. Indian Ocean
Time: unknown
Summary: The Danish brig “Christine” was wrecked on a desert rock or island several miles in size. The survivors, including a Mr. Oleson had gathered at the base of a cliff waiting for the end as the waves dashed & the winds howled on the rocks. Suddenly from high in the air they saw what seemed to be an immense ship, driven, uncontrolled in the elements. It was headed straight toward the frightened mariners, who cried aloud in despair. But suddenly a whirl of wind changed the course of the object and it crashed against the cliff a few hundred yards from the miserable sailors. Afraid they crept toward the wreck. It appeared to be a vessel as large as a modern battleship, but the machinery was so crushed that they could form no idea as to how the power was applied to the immense wings or sails. Strange implements and articles of furniture could be seen jumbled in an almost shapeless mass. They found in metal boxes covered with strange characters what they afterward discovered to be very wholesome and palatable food, which, with the water in the rocks, saved them from immediate death. Their horror was intensified when they found the bodies of more than a dozen men dressed in garments of strange fashion and texture. The bodies were dark bronze in color, but the strangest feature of all was the immense size of the men. They were estimated to have been more than 12 ft high. They had long hair and beards. They found tools of almost every kind but to large to be used. One man was driven insane & jumped from the cliff into the boiling waters. The others fled in horror from the fearful sight. But hunger forced them to return to the site. After eating heartily of the strange food, they summoned courage to drag the gigantic bodies to the cliff and tumble them over. The survivors were finally able to build a raft and left the island.
Source: Jerome Clark, Fate September 1990
Date: 1862
Location. Lorenco Marques, Mozambique
Time: unknown
Summary: Just before the war between the two rival Gaza chiefs, a “mulungwana”, or little white man, alighted on a hill in the area, many people saw it. It was reported that the “white men” had seized the little entity and took him to the capital. No other information.
Source: Brian Aubeck, Return to Magonia
Date: April 27, 1863
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Time: Daytime
Summary: Physiological effects were noted. More than 10 objects were observed by one experienced witness at an observatory (Waldner; Wolf).
Source: Poher, Claude Etudes Statistiques Portant sur 1000 Temoignag.
Date: August 5, 1863
Location: Spences Bridge, British Columbia, Canada
Time:
Summary: Disappearance Reported encounter with inhuman beings involving teleportation. Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980
Date: August 8, 1863
Location: Yale, British Columbia, Canada
Time:
Summary: Disappearance Reported encounter with inhuman beings involving teleportation. Nocturnal lights were reported.
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980
Date: August 12, 1863
Location: Madrid, Spain
Time: 23:00
Summary: “The night before last there was observed on the horizon a luminous body that appeared towards the east, and it was promptly thought to be a comet. Its colour was reddish, and on the top part there could be seen an appendix or crown, that was doubtlessly ablaze. It was stationary for a long time; but later it began to move quickly in different directions: horizontally, rising, and lowering.”
Source: Gaceta de Madrid, 14 August 1863 (issue 226). Recorded by Franck Marie and Daniel Villain archives. Cited by Charles Garreau in Alerte dans le Ciel, 142.
Date: September 1 1863
Location. Near Lewisburg, West Virginia
Time: 1500
Summary: A remarkable phenomenon was witnessed a few miles west of this place, at the house of Mrs Pearcy, by Mr. Moses Dwyer, her neighbor, who happened to be seated in her porch at the time, as well as by others at or near the house. The weather was quite hot and dry, not a cloud could be seen, and no wind even ruffled the foliage on the surrounding trees. All things being propitious the grand panorama began to move—just over and through the tops of the trees on the adjacent hills on the South, immense numbers of rolls resembling cotton or smoke, apparently thousands of them, and were, perhaps, an hour in getting by. After these had passed over and out of sight, the scene was changed from the air above to the earth beneath, and became more intensely interesting to the spectators who were witnessing the panorama from different standpoints. In the deep valley beneath thousands upon thousands of apparently human beings (men) came in low traveling in the same direction of the rolls marching in good order, some thirty or forty in depth, moving rapidly—“double quick,” and commence ascending the sides of the almost insurmountable hills opposite, and had the stoop peculiar to men when they ascend a steep mountain. There seemed to be great variety in the size of the men, some were very large whilst others were quite small. Their arms, legs, and heads could be distinctly seen in motion. They seemed to observe strict military discipline and there were no stragglers. There was uniformity of dress, loose white blouses or shirts with white pants wore hats and were without guns, swords, or anything they indicated “men of war.” On they came through the valley and over the steep hill crossing the road and finally passing out of sight, in a direction due North from those who were looking on. On the 14th of the same month, the same scene almost identical, was seen by 8 or 10 of our pickets at Bunger’s Mill, and by many of the citizens in that neighborhood; this is about 4 miles east of Pearcy’s. It lasted about an hour.
Source: Chris Aubeck, Return to Magonia
Date: October 1, 1863
Location: Lewisburg, West Virginia
Time: 15:00
Summary: Cottony rolls fringed with green light seen passing over adjacent hills at treetop level, size and shape of doors, in procession. 1000s of human like beings came marching in order in same direction. Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. Thousands of objects were observed by a group of witnesses for several hours (Dwyer).
Source: Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
Date: October 14, 1863
Location: Runger’s Mill, West Virginia
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Cottony rolls fringed with green light seen passing over adjacent hills at treetop level, size and shape of doors, in procession. 1000s of human like beings came marching in order in same direction.
Source: Aerial Phenomena Research Organization
Date: May 16 1864
Location: Cave Springs, Georgia
Time: 08:00
Summary: In 1864, prior to airplanes, a white object was observed about half a mile high and moving rapidly toward the south. A Confederate soldier’s war journal was published as “Blood & Sacrifice,” by Blue Acorn Press, Huntington, WV in 1994. On Page 140, the author reports, “Prior to our arrival at Cave Springs, quite early in the forenoon in fact, a white object was observed in the sky to the southeast, apparently about half a mile high and moving rapidly toward the south. We decided that it was a balloon, and that the enemy was endeavoring by that means to ascertain the strength of the reinforcements that were coming to Gen. Johnston.” The book editor notes that Union General Sherman’s troops did not have balloons with them on the Atlanta Campaign. It should also be noted that observation balloons were tied to the ground and only moved vertically up and down. If a balloon were untethered by accident, it would only move as fast as any winds prevailing at the time, or certainly not “rapidly.” The observer (book author) was a Sergeant in Company B, 46th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, and later Sergeant Major, and finally Acting Adjutant of the Regiment. He had been a school teacher prior to the War Between The States, and the book is a very factual chronology of his daily experiences during the War.
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Date: September 1864
Location Cadotte Pass, Montana
Time:
Summary:
Source: Original newspaper article of 1864.
Date: October 10 1864
Location France
Time:
Summary: M. Leverrier had sent to the Academy three letters from witnesses of a long luminous body, tapering at both ends, that had been seen in the sky.
Source: Fort, Charles Book of the Damned Boni-Liveright, 1919
Date: November 1, 1864
Location: Florence, Italy
Time:
Summary: “A white globe of fire many times larger than the full moon seemed hanging almost motionless in the air.” Shades of orange and blue passed over its surface. After a full minute it suddenly disappeared, vanishing on the spot. The witness adds: “Only just before its disappearance a smaller ball was seen immediately below it, of a fiery orange colour, the first one appearing at that moment of the same hue.”
Source: Madame Baldelli, “Large Fireball,” Astronomical Register 3(1865): 53
Date: 1865
Location. Siberia, Russia, exact location not given
Time: afternoon
Summary: A shepherd was looking for a lost animal from his herd when he came upon a forest glade. There he saw a giant sphere with supports, and large humanoid looking “monsters.” Right next to them lay his lost cow. It was dead, and its stomach was slit open, yet there was no blood anywhere in sight. The “monsters” bent over the animal, and studied something inside it. It appeared to the witness that they were cutting something out. Some time later they noticed the young man, and gestured to him in a strange fashion. Frightened he ran away from the area.
Source: Paul Stonehill, The Soviet UFO Files
Date: 1865
Location. Durham, England
Time:
Summary: A toad estimated to be over 6000 years old was freed from it’s stony prison in 1865, by excavators in Durham, England. The live toad was found in a block of magnesian limestone 25 feet underground. Its eyes were reported to be especially bright, its hind claws were particularly long and the claws of its forefeet were turned in. It grew darker in color, from a pale color matching the stone it was found in to a darker olive brown. It appeared to have difficulty breathing as it made a barking sound from its nostrils.
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Date: 1865: Montana Trapper Reports Crash of ‘Compartmented Craft With Strange Hieroglyphics’
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