Date: 1850
Location. Sandwick Rigg, UK
Time: unknown
Summary: Close encounter with a an unidentified craft and its occupants. An unidentified object at close range and its occupants were observed by one male witness.
Source: FSR
Date: 1850
Location. Brown Mountain, North Carolina
Time: unknown
Summary: Ghost lights were observed. Many objects were observed
Source:
Date: 1850
Location. Lacar Lake, Neuquen, Argentina
Time: unknown
Summary: A mermaid like creature, apparently half amphibian, and half human was reportedly seen in the area. The mermaid was reported to be able to levitate over the water, and supposedly lived in an underwater city. No other information.
Source: Fabio Picasso, Strange Magazine # 10
Date: January 15, 1850
Location. Cherbourg, France
Time: 7:45 P.M.
Summary: About 7:45 P.M., by snowy weather, a bright light appeared above the trees. It was observed by Mr. Fleury, swinging about its base, which was in line with the horizon. It scintillated, seemed ready to disappear, then was reignited and finally disappeared. Small flashes continued to be seen, moving south.
Source: Camille Flammarion, Bolides Inexpliques par leur aspect bizarre et la lenteur de leurparcours – Bradytes, citing Sestier, La Foudre et ses formes, T.I., 205.
Date: February 5, 1850
Location. Sandwich, Kent, England
Time: 6:50 P.M.
Summary: At 6:50 P.M. according to Mr. W. H. Weekes, a small luminous object appeared stationary near Orion and approached slowly on a straight line, growing to one third the apparent diameter of the moon. It went from a speck of light to a “red-hot iron ball,” hovered for about three minutes and disappeared in a shower of fire. The object had remained
stationary for 1 min 45 seconds, then moved horizontally for a full 45 seconds.
Source: Report of the British Astronomical Association (1851): 1-52 at 2-3, 38, and Baden Powell, On Observations of luminous meteors, op. cit.
Date: 1850: Virgin Mary Sighting in Lichen, Poland
Date: September 15, 1850
Location. Wellington Channel, Ontario, Canada
Time: 6:20 P.M.
Summary: A sphere, thought to be a balloon, sighted from rescue ship US Grinnell. Object hovered north of vessel, appeared about 2′ long x 18″ wide with appendage.
Source: Lore, Jr., Gordon I. R. Mysteries of the Skies: UFOs in Perspective Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, 1968
Date: October 1850
Location. Washington, District Of Columbia
Time: Night
Summary: One object was observed by one male witness at a building (Ferguson).
Source: Contact U.K.
Date: October 3, 1850
Location. Talcot Mt., near Hartford, Connecticut
Time:
Summary: According to a paper read by Professor Brocklesby before the American Association in 1851, an observer named Graylord Wells, who was on the eastern slope of Talcot 227 Mountain saw an unidentified object: “The evening was clear and the moon near the meridian, when Mr. Wells saw, a little south of west, and full 60 degrees above the horizon, a bright meteor apparently a foot in diameter. It shone with an orange hue, and below was a train which seemed to be 15 or 16 feet in length, fan-shaped, and possessing an apparent breath at its further extremity of two feet. The meteor rose from east to west with a slow and steady motion, and in its progress passed above or to the north of the moon. And when it had arrived on the eastern side, directly turned toward the southeast, and dropping below the moon, a part of its attendant train swept over the lunar disk.” The phenomenon gradually descended to the horizon in the southeast. The observer stated that this could not have lasted less than three minutes in moving the length of its train, and that the time of its visibility “could not possibly have been less than an hour, and was probably an hour and a half.”
Source: The Ohio Journal of Education 2 (Dec. 1853): 411
Date: 1851: Cloud Object with a Giant Man seen in Howick, England?
Date: 1851
Location. London, England
Time: 9:30
Summary: Unidentified objects were sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. Physiological effects were noted. Many discs were observed by one experienced male witness for 99 minutes.
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 1953
Date: August 13 1852
Location. Holyhead, Wales
Time: 21:20
Summary: One object was observed by one witness in a city for 42 seconds
Source: FSR
Date: September 11 1852
Location. Wolverhampton, England
Time: 04:15
Summary: A flying disc was observed. One disc was observed by a male witness for 30 minutes.
Source: British Assn Advancement of Science
Date: December 17 1852
Location. Dover, England
Time: 04:50
Summary: Red flashes emerging from dense, triangular cloud in southeast. Cloud had right-angle with hypotenuse east to west, single hissing noise. In 10 minutes cloud had doubled in size. Center had red fireball 1/2 moon diameter
Source: Corliss, William R. Remarkable Luminous Phenomena in Nature The Sourcebook Project, Glen Arm, 2001
Date: July 9 1853
Location. Paris, France
Time:
Summary: A witness named Amede Guillemin, who lived on Rue Arnelot, observed an object moving extremely slowly, horizontally above Pere-Lachaise cemetery. The object was “a pale red disk.”
Source: Flammarion, Bradytes, op. cit., 155.
Date: 1853
Location. Unknown
Time:
Summary: In 1853, a live horned lizard was freed from a block of solid stone. It was sent to the Smithsonian Institution. The lizard only lived two days after being freed.
Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained, Reader’s Digest
Date: October 26 1853
Location. Ragusa, Sizilien, Italy
Time: 02:00
Summary: An unidentified object was sighted, that had an unusual appearance or performance. One object, the size of the moon, was observed by a male witness.
Source: Leslie, Desmond Flying Saucers Have Landed British Book Center, 195
Date: October 28 1853
Location. Nottingham, UK
Time: 16:04
Summary: One object, about 150 feet across, was observed for two minutes
Source: FSR
Date: circa 1853
Location. Washington Island, Wisconsin
Time: evening
Summary: An eight-year old girl named Anna was out in the fields collecting wild berries when she was reportedly accosted by several tiny human-like figures wearing shiny clothing and small funny pointy hats and shoes. They told her they were very hungry and asked for some of the berries. They talked to the girl and allowed her to dance with them they also taught her a new son, that resembled “a haunting melody.”
Source: W. Files
Date: 1855
Location. Waldoboro, Maine
Time: unknown
Summary: A local man wrote a letter to a local publication describing how he chased and captured a “miniature human being” near this town. It was 18 inches in height, with limbs in perfect proportion. With the exception of his face, hands and feet, he was covered with hair of a jet-black hue. The man concluded his letter by inviting any interested parties to come by to view the “strange specimen” for themselves. Its not known what became of the little men.
Source: Phillip L Rife, America’s Nightmare Monsters
Date: January 21, 1855
Location. New Haven, Connecticut
Time: 10 P.M.
Summary: About 10 P.M. a man saw a brilliant red ball about two minutes in diameter, first visible about eight degrees below the guards in Ursa Minor. It seemed stationary at first, but in about fifteen seconds commenced moving slowly towards the east in an almost horizontal line, with what seemed like a slight undulatory motion. It passed below and about one degree from the star Benetuash in Ursa Major and disappeared in the distance, not far from Denebola in the constellation Leo. The observation had lasted ten minutes. The writer adds: “there was no explosion, nor was any scintillation thrown off at any time.”
Source: New Haven Palladium, 23 January 1855.
Date: circa 1855
Location. Central Russia, European Part (Exact location unknown)
Time: unknown
Summary: The famous Russian writer Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883) was once swimming in a quite forest lake in a remote area of Central Russia when he felt someone’s hand touching his shoulder. He turned around and saw a “horrible” female humanoid creature, similar to a monkey, with a huge grimacing face, covered in long red hair. Turgenev was seized by panic and horror and rushed to the shore, but the “monster” chased him. Luckily there was another witness near the shore, a young boy, a shepherd who came running, reacting to Turgenev’s screams. Using a lash or whip the boy kept the monster away from Turgenev until he reached safety.
Source: Alexander Bogatikov “Water Man” in: Interesnaya Gazeta” Kiev # 101 D+ bock, June 2005
Date: June 11, 1855
Location. Unknown
Time: 11:30 P.M.
Summary: An unidentified object was sighted, but with appearance and behavior that most likely would have a conventional explanation. One object, about 150 feet across, was observed by two experienced male witnesses (Ritter).
Source: Flying Saucers Magazine.
Date: August 11, 1855
Location. Tillington, Sussex, England
Time: 11:30 P.M.
Summary: At 11:30 P.M. a Mrs. Ayling and other witnesses watched in awe as a red wheel-like object with spokes emerged from behind some hills and remained visible in the sky for an hour and a half.
Source: Baden Powell, “Report on observations of luminous meteors, 1855-56,” Annual Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1856): 53-62, at 54-55.
Date: December 10, 1855
Location. Copenhagen, Denmark
Time:
Summary: An object varying in size from the apparent diameter of the sun to that of a star was visible in the south-western atmosphere for 10 to 12 minutes. It “changed its configuration several times, having appeared now in one mass, then in two, then again in three, and so forth alternately, lighting up the heavens to a considerable distance.”
Source: Copenhagen Faedrelandet, quoted by the Manchester Guardian of 5 January, 1856, under the heading “Prussia, from our own correspondent.”
Date: winter of 1856
Location. France
Time:
Summary: Workmen were digging a railway tunnel through a layer of Jurassic limestone. They were startled to find a large creature stumbling out of a recently split boulder, flapping what looked like wings and croaking. It died immediately. The creature was identified as a pterodactyl by a local paleontology student who recognized the characteristic features of the extinct reptile. The stone in which it was found was consistent with the time period in which pterodactyls lived and formed an exact mold of the creature’s body.
Source: Mysteries of the Unexplained, Reader’s Digest
Date: June 4 1857
Location. Off the coast of Britain
Time: unknown
Summary: A Scottish seaman reported spotting a creature, “in the shape of a woman with full breast, dark complexion, and comely face.” No other information.
Source: The Historical Mermaid
Date: 1857: Neston, England UFO Sighting
Date: 1858
Location. Ft. Bridger, Utah
Time: unknown
Summary: During the founding of Ft Bridger by the colonists they reportedly found a “tribe” of small, smelly people, who were called the Northern Paiutes. They only ate corn, which they got from the local Indians and lived, in “holes” in the ground. They left shortly before the main force of “white people” made it to the area.
Source: UFO Updates, Toronto
Date: February 11 1858
Location. Lourdes, France
Time: mid-day
Summary: 14-year old Bernadette Soubirous was scavenging for animal bones along the banks of a stream just outside the town. Her two young companions decided to cross to the opposite side and Bernadette paused in front of a small grotto in the cliff face to remove her shoes and stockings. She soon noticed a white object in the shape of a woman or girl inside the cave. This vision seems to have sent her into a state of ecstasy, since she proceeded to paddle across the stream without being bothered by the freezing waters. She described the woman as being dressed in white, a white dress and a blue sash and a yellow rose on each foot the color of the chair of her rosary. At first she thought she was seeing things and found her rosary. She attempted to make the sign of the cross but could not get her hand up to her forehead. The vision made the sign of the cross, and then Bernadette’s hand shook. After reading her rosary, the vision suddenly disappeared. Interpreted as a Virgin Mary encounter.
Source: Mike Dash, Borderlands
Date: April 10 1858
Location. Lourdes, France
Time: afternoon
Summary: Some women from Lourdes claimed to see the Blessed Virgin while praying at the grotto, and they were the first of many. They climbed up to the back of the grotto and along a small shaft to a hidden cavern. One of these, Claire-Marie Cazenave, aged 22, claimed to have seen something in the shape of a woman, carrying a child, and dressed in white. Two older women alleged that they too saw “something” but they variously described it as a ten-year old or a four-year old girl. Their only source of lighting was candles.
Source: Theotokos.org
Date: April 14 1858
Location. Lourdes, France
Time: afternoon
Summary: Another woman also claimed to have seen “something” in the cavern. A few days later a young girl had to be brought down from the cavern in some distress, claiming to have seen, “the immaculate Conception, carrying a child in her arms, and standing beside her a man with a long beard.” This led to a great deal of confusion.
Source: Theotokos.org
Date: 1858
Location. Jay Ohio
Time: daytime
Summary: Mr. Henry Wallace and other residents of this town reported seeing a shadow that was thrown over the place where they were; this necessarily attracted their attentions to the heavens, where they one and all beheld a large and curiously constructed vessel, not over one hundred yards from the earth. They could plainly discern a large number of people onboard of her, whose average height appeared to be about twelve feet. Wheels and other mechanical appendages all of which worked with a precision and a degree of beauty never yet attained by any mechanical skill upon this planet evidently worked the vessel.
Source: Chris Aubeck, Return To Magonia
Date: February 25 1858
Location. Mohan, India
Time: unknown
Summary: What was termed as “phantom soldiers” wearing traditional Hindu costumes were seen in the sky above this city by British witnesses.
Source: T Peter Park, The Anomalist # 10
Date: February 9 1859
Location. Mountain Ash, Glamorganshire, England
Time: unknown
Summary: “On Wednesday, February 9, I was getting out a piece of timber, for the purpose of setting it for the saw, when I was startled by something falling all over me-down my neck, on my head, and on my back. On putting my hand down my neck I was surprised to find they were little fish. By this time I saw the whole ground covered with them. I took off my hat, the brim of which was full of them. They were jumping all about. They covered the ground in a long strip of about 80 yards by 12, as we measured afterwards. That shed was covered with them, and the shoots were quite full of them. My mate and I might have gathered bucketsful of them, scraping with our hands. We did gather a great many, about a bucketful, and threw them into the rain pool, where some of them now are. There were two showers with an interval of about ten minutes, and each shower lasted about two minutes or thereabouts. The time was 11 AM. The morning up-train to Aberdare was just then passing. It was not blowing very hard, but uncommon wet; just about the same wind as there is today, and it came from this quarter. They came down with the rain in a body, like.”
Source: Annual Register, 101:14-15, 1859
Date: October 9 1859
Location. Robinsonville, Wisconsin
Time: afternoon
Summary: Adele Brise was on her way to the grist mill with a sack of wheat on her head and as she came near the place, she saw a lady in white standing between two trees, one a maple, the other a hemlock. Adele was frightened and stood still. The vision slowly disappeared, leaving a white cloud after it. Adele continued on her errand and returned home without seeing anything more. On the following Sunday, she had to pass on her way to Mass at Bay Settlement this time she was not alone, but was accompanied by her sister Isabel and a neighbor Mrs. Vander Niessen. When they came near the trees, the same lady in white was at the place where Adele had seen her before. Adele was again frightened, and said, almost in a tone of reproach, “Oh, there is that lady again.” The other two did not see anything, but they could tell by Adele’s look that she was afraid. Adele then saw the lady disappear as the first time, and all she could see was a little mist or white cloud. After Mass, her two companions and a man who was clearing land for the Holy Cross Fathers at Bay Settlement accompanied Adele. As they approached the “hallowed” spot Adele could see the beautiful lady, clothed in dazzling white, with a yellow sash around her waist. Her dress fell to her knees in graceful folds. She had a crown of stars around her head, and her long, golden wavy hair fell loosely around her shoulders. Overcome by this heavenly light and the beauty of her amiable visitor, Adele fell to her knees. At this point the mysterious lady told Adele: “I am the Queen of Heaven, who prays for the conversion of sinners, and I wish you to do the same. You received Holy Communion this morning, and that is well. But you must do more. Make a general confession, and offer Communion for the conversion of sinners. If they do not convert and do penance, my Son will be obliged to punish them.” Soon the manifestation then lifted her hands, as though beseeching a blessing for those at her feet and slowly vanished, leaving Adele overwhelmed and prostrate on the ground.
Source: Sister Pauline LaPlant, Robinsonville, Wisconsin
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