1890 – 1895: UFO & Alien Sightings

Date: 1890
Location: South Boisdale, England
Time: Night 
Summary:  An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object was observed by one witness (Maclean).
Source: Contact U.K.

Date: 1890
Location:  in the desert between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains, Arizona
Time: Night 
Summary:  The Tombstone Epitaph reported that two ranchers had allegedly killed a “winged monster”, similar to an “alligator”, in the desert between the Whetstone and Huachuca mountains.
Source:  chroniclingamerica.loc.gov

Date: August 29, 1890
Location: Cape Hatteras, North Carolina
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Summary:  One object was observed on the ocean for over one minute (Ohling). Doris incident.
Source: Lore, Jr., Gordon I. R. Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968

Date: September 28, 1890
Location: Nankin, China
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Summary:  Drawn by painter Wu You-run, one of over 100 gathered on the Shu Que bridge, to see a “red fireball that moved slowly to the east.” The UFO (faint, circled) is described as “looking like an egg but not shining.” An old man said, “when the ball appeared, I heard a very loud sound like running man.”
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Date: October 19, 1890
Location. Edward L Mayberry, Atlantic
Time: 10:00
Summary: An object was observed. Physiological effects were noted. One object was observed on the ocean (Knight).
Source: Sparks, Brad Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150)

Date: December 25, 1890
Location. South Bend, Indiana       HOAX
Time: 22:00
Summary: A Reported encounter with inhuman beings involving teleportation. An abduction by alien entities was reported in snowy weather by 20 witnesses, typical age 11, in a yard (Larch; Lerch).
Source: Guieu, Jimmy  Flying Saucers Come from Another World Citadel, New York, 1956

Date: September 5, 1891
Location. Crawfordsville, Indiana
Time: 2:00am
Summary: As reported in the Brooklyn Eagle newspaper on September 10, 1891, two icemen were working outside in Crawfordsville at about 2:00 am five nights previously when a bizarre object sailed overhead. The icemen described the UFO as a ‘seemingly headless monster’, although there is no reason to believe that it was an animal of any kind.  It was about 20ft long, and 8ft wide, moving in the sky toward the two men, and ‘seemingly propelled by fin-like attachments.’  The men moved, and the UFO flew off.  The noise awoke Methodist pastor G.W. Swittze, who saw it circling in the sky. The story is as follows; September 5, 1891, at around 2 o’clock in the morning, two men were hitching up a wagon when they sighted a “horrible apparition”. Jerome Clark continues One hundred feet in the air, twenty feet long and eight feet wide, the headless, oblong thing – apparently some bizarre variety of living creature – propelled itself with several pairs of fins and circled a nearby house. They were not, however, the only witnesses. A Methodist pastor, the Rev. G. W. Switzer, and his wife also observed the phenomenon. Clark notes that this creature hadn’t tired of harassing Crawfordsville quite yet. Continuing Clark relates: The creature was back the following evening, and this time hundreds of Crawfordsville citizens saw its violently flapping fins and flaming red “eye”. The creature “squirmed as if in agony” and made a “wheezing, plaintive sound” as it hovered at 300 feet. At one point it swooped over a band of onlookers, who swore they felt its “hot breath”. 
Source: Contact U.K.

Date: 1891: UFO Crash in North Texas – Newspaper

Date: 1892
Location. Poland
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Summary: A phantom airship scare began appearing.  As in later ‘flaps’ of this sort, the craft often appeared at night and was usually equipped with powerful searchlights.
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Date: Early 1892
Location.  West Coast Baja California, Mexico
Time: Daytime
Summary: Flock of objects first thought to be birds, but changed appearance from dark to a brilliantly polished mirror, balloon shape changed to an hourglass, swoop over the lagoon, lit with a halo of light, polymorphed. One shiny shifting-shape object was observed by two experienced male witnesses on an estuary for over 15 minutes (Crusselle).
Source: CUFOS

Date: April 4, 1892
Location. Netherlands
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Summary: An astronomer called Muller was observing the moon through his telescope when a black disk moved across his field of view.
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

Date: June 19, 1892
Location.  Conyers, Georgia
Time: Night 
Summary:  light visible in the heavens and balls of fire fell around him. Ran home.
Source: CUFOS

Date: 1893
Location.  Central Park, New South Wales, Australia
Time: Daytime
Summary: Disc landed in a paddock, a man in strange clothing emerged. Stranger shone a light, stunned witness, unconscious and thrown to the ground. Where beam struck paralysis for life. Farmer incident. Occupants of the craft were seen. Gravity and physiological effects were noted. A witness was burnt. A witness later died.
Source: Chalker, Bill

Date: February 1893
Location. North China Sea
Time:
Summary: In February of 1893, the ship, H.M.S. Carolina was sailing in the North China Sea, when a report from an officer of unusual light activity in the sky came to the attention of Captain J.N. Norcross. The officer told Captain Norcross that the lights appeared sometimes in a huge mass, others spread out in unusual patterns. He said that they resembled Chinese lanterns set between the masts of a ship. The next night these strange lights reappeared but with a reddish glow and emitting small amounts of smoke.
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Date: February 24, 1893
Location. Cheju Island S17M, South Korea 
Time: 22:00
Summary:  An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object was observed on the ocean for two hours.
Source: Fort, Charles Book of the Damned Boni-Liveright, 1919

Date: July 2 to 3, 1893
Location: Black Fish Bay, Washington
Time: Around midnight
Summary: An object was observed. Electromagnetic and physiological effects were noted. One object, about 150 feet across, was observed by a male witness on the shore (Fitzhenry).
Source: Tacoma News-Ledger Newspaper Article

Date:  July 31, 1893: Fayette County, Pennsylvania Monster

Date: August 26, 1893
Location.  Leslie, Kentucky
Time: Morning
Summary: In Leslie, Kentucky thirty minutes after sunrise the sun took on a ‘peculiar color’ and the sky became filled with thousands of discs, the size of wagon wheels, in motion. They would change shape into triangles, squares, and odd forms. They were various colors, including red, green, black, and red. observed for over 60 minutes. No sound was heard.
Source: CUFOS

Date: December 20, 1893
Location. Rossland, British Columbia, Canada
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Summary: Ball of light inside multicolored halo, motionless, then makes circles and goes away on a straight course.
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Date: December 20, 1893
Location. Virginia
Time: Morning
Summary: A hovering object was observed before it exploded. One object was observed by a male witness for 20 minutes
Source: Fort, Charles Book of the Damned Boni-Liveright, 1919

Date: December 30, 1893
Location. Timmonsville, South Carolina
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Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported
Source: Eberhart, George M. A Geo-Bibliography of Anomalies Greenwood Press, Westport, 1980 ISBN:0-313-21337-2

Date: July 20, 1894
Location. Marriott, Utah
Time: Dusk
Summary: A disk was seen rising above some trees and disappearing into the east. Black clouds approached swiftly when within 150 yards of the road stopped, hovered in place. Sides appeared folded toward the center like a tri-corner hat. Many small black and white birds seemed to be in the center.
Source: CUFOS

Date: February 7, 1895
Location. Florida, Florida
Time: Noon 
Summary: Objects were sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. Several objects were observed
Source: Contact U.K.

Date: August 31, 1895
Location. Oxford, England
Time: 20:00
Summary: A   – Oxford, UK – An object was sighted that had an appearance and performance beyond the capability of known earthly aircraft. One object was observed by one witness (Murray).
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953

Date: December 20, 1895
Location. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina
Time: Morning
Summary: A hovering object was observed. One object was observed for over 15 minutes.
Source: FSR