1835 – 1844: UFO & Alien Sightings

 Date: October 6, 1835
Location. Cosenza, Italy
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Summary: A pyramid-shaped meteor appears and heads off towards a mountain, leaving a “gloomy tail.” It first appeared as a lighted object seen flying West of Cosenza. It rose into the air and changed shape, leaving a vaporous trail, moving slowly towards the south. It followed a parabolic curve and disappeared towards Fiumefreddo harbor.
Source: “Casistica dei Fenomeni Straordinari” in Orizonti Sconosciuti 5, “Periodo: 1819-1857” (1976); Nicola Leoni, Delia Magna Grecia e delle tre Calabrie (Napoli, 1844), 325-326.

Date: 1836: Szeged, Hungary Sightings

Date: January 12, 1836
Location. Cherbourg, France
Time: 6:30 P.M.
Summary: A “luminous body, seemingly two-thirds the size of the moon” was witnessed at 6:30 P.M. “Central to it there seemed to be a dark cavity.” The object was traveling at around half a mile per second at an altitude of 1000 feet or so and seemed to rotate on its axis. It cast shadows on the ground as it whistled past.
Source: Rept. British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science 77 (1860). The object was not 4doughnut-shaped’ as many have written.

Date: July 1836
Location. Szeged, Csongrad, Hungary
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Summary:  Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. More than one object was observed by numerous witnesses in a city.
Source: Hobana, Ion UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain Bantam Y8898, New York, 1975

Date: July 8, 1836
Location. Saratov Province, Russia
Time: 10 P.M.
Summary: At 10 P.M. there appeared, almost on the horizon to the north, a globe-shaped whitish mass as large as the moon; for several minutes it hovered in the air, after which it slowly descended to the ground and disappeared, leaving a zigzag trail.
Source: Mikhail Gershtein, Potu storonu NLO (Beyond the other side of UFOs) (Moscow: Dilya ed., 2002), 159, citing Utkin S.NLO 200 let nazad? (UFO 200 years ago?) in the newspaper Zarya Molodezhi, Saratov, 3 Feb. 1990.

Date: 1837
Location. Scarborough, England
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Summary: By a clear starlight night Mr. White, chief officer of the preventive service of the Scarborough station (“a most respectable authority”) was proceeding from his house to a cliff where one of his men, named Trotter, had the lookout. According to a letter from his son to a science magazine, “He passed a plantation in his way, in which he heard a loud crash among the trees, as if it had been the fall of an aerolite (…) He saw before him what he thought were balls of fire, about the size of an 218 orange, appearing and disappearing with an undulating motion, about five or six feet from the ground; not accompanied by any noise, nor did they move over the hedges; but he observed other luminous appearances shooting across the road and sky, emitting a hissing noise like a rocket, but not so loud. “The same appearances (particularly the latter) had so frightened the man, that he had actually hid himself for fear of them.”
Source: The Magazine of Natural History (Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1837): 550-551.

Date: August 9 1837
Location. Geneva, Switzerland
Time: Night
Summary: Three objects, larger than a star, were observed.
Source: Contact U.K.

Date: August 29 1837
Location. Tirgu Neamt, Romania
Time: Night
Summary: One object, about 10 feet across, was observed on a farm.
Source: Hobana, Ion UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain Bantam Y8898, New York, 1975

Date: 1838
Location. India
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Summary: A flying disk, about the apparent size of the moon but brighter, from which projected a hook-shaped appendage, was reported by G. Pettitt. It was visible about 20 minutes.
Source: Baden Powell. “A catalogue of observations of luminous meteors,” Annual Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1849): 1-53, at 2, 44.

Date: February 18 1838
Location. Green Dragon Alley, UK
Time: Night
Summary:  Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by two witnesses (Scales).
Source: Sparks, Brad Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150)

Date: February 20 1838
Location. Old Ford, England
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Summary: Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by two witnesses (Alsop).
Source: Sparks, Brad Computer Catalog of Type 9 Cases (N=150)

Date: 1838: Spring Heeled Jack sighted in London, England

Date: 1838: Spring Heeled Jack Sighted in London

Date: 1838: Spring Heeled Jack still in London England

Date: October 2, 1839
Location. Rome, Italy
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Summary: Astronomer De Cuppis of the Royal College: unknown body similar to a planet passes in front of the sun. This is one of the main observations selected by Le Verrier to compute his orbit of Vulcan. The object was “a perfectly round and defined spot, moving at such a rate that it would cross the sun in about 6 hours.”
Source: E. Dunkin, “The suspected Intra-Mercurial planet.” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 37 (February 1877): 229-30.

Date: 1841
Location.  Pedang, on the coast of Sumatra
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Summary: Mr. M. N. Ward, a gentleman connected with the mission at Pedang, on the coast of Sumatra, has published a well attested account of a flying serpent seen by the narrator. He saw the animal fly from a tree at the height of some fifty or sixty feet, to another tree some forty fathoms distant. It supports itself in the air by drawing its belly, widening itself and forming an arch as far as the ribs extend, and forces itself ahead with the rapidity of a bird, by sinuous motions, like a serpent swimming. There is nothing in the reptile which bears any resemblance to a wing. Its length is about four feet, and bite is dangerous. Another description of flying or darting serpents, is described by the natives, whose bite is instant death. It leaps or flies only about half the distance of the other, and makes none of the sinuous waving motion in the air. This discovery, of the truth of which there can be no doubt, shows the portion of Scripture which speaks of “burning fiery serpents” had a literal fact for the basis of its figurative language, though the species is now extinct in the region spoken of in the Bible. What a terrible scourge must be such an animal. Give us the sterility of the frozen, rather than the fertility of the torrid zones with such drawbacks. Polar bears are more agreeable than flying serpents. –
Source:   Holly Springs Gazette (Holly Springs, Mississippi), August 04, 1841

Date: 1842: Man encounters Fairies in Stowmarket, England

Date: 1842
Location. Orenburg, Russia
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Summary: Small metal objects, perfectly hexagonal, fell out of the sky after a “strange cloud” appeared.
Source: Hobana, Ion UFOs from Behind the Iron Curtain Bantam Y8898, New York, 1975

Date: June 30 1842
Location.  Cupar, Scotland
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Summary: A daytime disc was reported.
Source: Hatch, Larry

Date: March 5 1843
Location.  Bucharest (Bucuresti), Romania
Time: 01:00
Summary: One pyramidal object was observed by a male witness in a city for six hours.
Source: Contact U.K.

Date: April 9, 1843
Location. Greenville, Tennessee
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Summary: According to the Greenville (Tennessee) Miscellany “About eight o’clock, there was seen in the south-western sky a luminous ball, to appearance two feet in circumference, constantly emitting small meteors from one or the other side of it. It appeared in brightness to outrival the great luminary of day. 2 “On its first appearance it was stationary one or two minutes, then, as quick as thought, it rose apparently thirty feet, and paused – then fell to the point from whence it had started, and continued to perform this motion for about fifteen times. Then it moved horizontally about the same distance, and for nearly the same space of time. At length it assumed its first position; then rose again perpendicularly about twelve feet, and remained somewhat stationary, continuing to grow less for an hour and a quarter, when it entirely disappeared.”
Source: Brother Jonathan, Vol. 5:2 (May 13, 1843): 55.

Date: May 7 1843
Location. Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
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Summary:  An object with the “resemblance of a ship” sailed through the air over Quebec, and cast a shadow on the ground.
Source: Colombo, John Robert UFOs over Canada: Personal Accounts of Sightings and Close Encounters Hounslow Press, Willowdale, 1991

Date: October 3 1843
Location. Warwick, England
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Summary: A remarkable cloud passed over Warwick and Charles Cooper reported seeing three beings in the sky.
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Date: October 3 1843
Location. Near Warwick Ontario Canada
Time: daytime
Summary: A man was laboring in a field under a slight rain when soon the sky became clear and the witness heard a distant rumbling coming from the west, he did not see anything so he kept working. The rumbling sound became louder and seemed to approach. The witness looked again and saw a strange cloud approaching and underneath the cloud, the saw three men, all three completely white in color. These men sailed through the air one following the other. The three men passed directly above the witness at treetop level. The men were motionless and seemed to emit “moaning” sounds. The moans sounded like loud “Woe’s.” The three figures eventually drifted out of sight.
Source: John Robert Colombo, UFOs over Canada

Date: October 22 1844
Location. Montreal S30M, Quebec, Canada 
Time: Around 2200
Summary: Nocturnal lights were reported
Source: Lore, Jr., Gordon I. R.  Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective  Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968