November 1954's deepest evidentiary cases, closing out the year's great UFO wave.
1954: November UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive
November 1954 carries the year’s great wave into its final full month, anchored by two of this archive’s most thoroughly investigated cases: the Cennina, Italy landing, quoted by Jacques Vallee as one of history’s most credible UFO contacts, and the La Roche-en-Brenil, France encounter, which left behind developed photographs, a burn site, and a recovered substance a laboratory later identified as silver nitrate — evidence dense enough to distinguish it from nearly everything else in this year’s record. Three named schoolgirls in Norway, a Brazilian taxi driver’s alleged two-hour tour across Latin America, and the opening chapter of the Petare, Venezuela “hairy dwarves” case this archive already documented in April round out a month that closes the 1954 wave without losing any of its intensity.
Date: November 1954
Location: Hamilton, New Zealand
Time: Night
Summary: UFO investigator John Stuart and Doreen Wilkinson reported an encounter with a large, grotesque humanoid figure behind Stuart’s house, preceded by a strong chemical-like odor and an unseen presence. The account describes the entity approaching Doreen in a manner both witnesses found deeply disturbing before it retreated and vanished. Note: portions of this account involve distressing, assault-adjacent content; this archive documents it factually and without elaboration, consistent with its original published source.
Source: Jerome Clark, “Unexplained!”
Date: November 1954
Location: Camaldoli, Naples, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: Vincenzo Dattilo, 67, a lawyer, journalist, writer, and poet, praying before a convent, saw a rapidly spinning “star” descend into a 10-m saucer with two domes and two thin, wind-responsive antennae. Two 1-m entities in transparent, bluish-glowing, apparently impermeable suits emerged and spoke in guttural sounds, in a voluntary bilateral contact. [Full Report]
Source: Full case documentation
Date: November 1954
Location: Dudzele, West Flanders, Belgium
Time: 21:30
Summary: Mr. Roelants, bicycling, saw a bright light descend and land with a thumping sound near a dairy, then dim, rise, and depart rapidly toward Holland. Examining the site with a flashlight, he found no ground traces but reportedly discovered a small ivory case containing a Hebrew parchment extract from the Book of Deuteronomy.
Source: Jean Bastide, GESAG #197
Date: November 1954
Location: La Basse Gorce, France
Time: Near midnight
Summary: A woman saw a flattened, lenticular, tripod-legged object with juxtaposed yellow, red, and orange bands; two short beings gathered items from the ground before entering beneath the craft, which departed gently, trembling and silently.
Source: Michel Figuet
Date: November 1954
Location: Maubeuge, Nord, France
Time: Midnight
Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Mozin, driving, saw a whitish-metallic, shell-shaped object on three legs with a wide opening revealing thick cables and a stout, “Michelin man”-like suited being, about 4 ft tall. Their headlights failed within 300 ft of the object and returned past it. The next day, an 8-in carbonized, benzene-smelling spot ringed by three 4-in imprints was found.
Source: Jean Marie Bigorne & Fernand Legarde
Date: November 1, 1954
Location: Cennina, Province of Arezzo, Italy
Time: 06:30
Summary: Rosa Lotti, 40, walking to church carrying carnations, encountered a spindle-shaped craft “like two cones joined at their bases”; two friendly, 3-ft entities speaking a Chinese-sounding language approached and snatched her carnations and a stocking before she fled. A deep hole was later found at the site, and the case has drawn decades of continued investigation, including corroborating collateral witness accounts. [Full Report]
Source: Sergio Conti, excerpt from Flying Saucer Review (Sept/Oct 1972)
Date: November 1, 1954
Location: Modigliana, Italy
Time: 15:30
Summary: Farmer Adelmo Monti saw a dark spot roughly 1 m across, hovering just above the ground 500 m away, surrounded by small cylinders, with a very small, indistinct figure beside it.
Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT
Date: November 1, 1954
Location: Mogliano Veneto, Treviso, Italy (Dese River)
Time: Night
Summary: Angler G. Seenza, setting nets in dense fog, saw a greenish light and shouted toward it without reply; approaching, he found a mushroom-shaped, green-glowing landed object with several small, stocky beings moving erratically around it. Unable to get their attention, he watched it take off vertically and silently, emitting silver light from its “stem” before departing.
Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT
Date: November 1, 1954
Location: Poggio d’Ambra, Italy
Time: 07:30
Summary: A 40-year-old woman on her way to a cemetery saw a double-cone-shaped object resting in a grassy space, with two seats visible in its lower half. Two smiling dwarfs emerged, spoke unintelligibly, took a pot of flowers from her, and flew away.
Source: Magonia 324
Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Malaga, Spain
Time: Unknown
Summary: This entry exists only as a placeholder in the source record — an image with no accompanying summary or source citation. It is preserved here as a flagged gap pending further research, rather than filled in with invented content.
Source: Unknown (incomplete entry)
Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Frejus, Var, France
Time: 06:00
Summary: Soldiers Christophe De Devi and A. Zopina, hearing a “solex”-like hum, found a white, spherical, orange-red-banded, tailed object near a ravine. A bronzed, dark-curly-haired man in pilot-style coveralls stood on a platform at its base; a second, similar man emerged and spoke to him unintelligibly. Both approached the fleeing soldiers, who returned with two more and watched the object depart at very high speed.
Source: Figuet/Ruchon, “Ovni Dossier”; Guy Tarade
Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Cremona, Italy
Time: 18:00
Summary: Students Pietro Alberini and Pericle Sacchi, hunting, saw a 3-ft dwarf with a rubber head connected by a flexible tube to a cylindrical back-mounted container; approaching, they watched it wrap itself in a bluish cloud, and they fled.
Source: FSR Vol. 9 #2; Magonia 325
Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Santo Amaro, Brazil
Time: 22:30
Summary: Taxi driver Marcilio Godoi first saw a round craft with beings visible through an open, blue-lit door near his home. Days later, revisiting, a hypnotic force drew him inside, where tall, snug-suited men ignored him while studying a map behind opaque, passable walls. Given a small cup of liquid that reportedly removed the hypnotic effect, he was then, by his account, transported around Latin America for roughly two hours in total silence before being returned to the same spot and released.
Source: Jose Escobar Faria & Richard Hall
Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Giulianova, Teramo, Italy
Time: 22:30
Summary: Anna Spiadiacci, 52, and Adele Orsini, 37, returning from a movie, saw a roughly one-meter creature in a gray diving suit and leather helmet, convulsing and making guttural sounds, a bluish light emanating from its forehead. It spoke words resembling “Axgi etam anul” before vanishing in a thick white cloud.
Source: Maurizio Verga, “When Saucers Came to Earth”
Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Calcutta, India
Time: Night
Summary: Several witnesses saw a brightly illuminated, circular object over the suburbs, flying east to west; one witness claimed to see human forms aboard before it disappeared.
Source: Patrick Gross, ufologie.net
Date: November 3, 1954
Location: Oued Beth, Morocco
Time: 07:00
Summary: A delivery truck driver, described by his employer as sane and sharp-sighted, watched a flat, copper-colored circular craft flip over in flight, then land gently on edge in a field before rising again at great speed, resuming horizontal flight, and vanishing.
Source: Maroc-Presse; FSR Vol. 9 #2; Magonia 326
Date: November 3, 1954
Location: Mareil-en-Champagne, Sarthe, France
Time: 06:30
Summary: 15-year-old farmhand Roland Poirier, in fog, saw two hairy-faced, large-nosed, slant-eyed beings in metallic clothing and round transparent helmets, moving as if skating and circling him in opposite directions. Terrified, he fled, screaming, and remained sick and sleepless the rest of the day.
Source: LDLN #325
Date: About November 4, 1954
Location: Amacuro Delta area, Venezuela
Time: Night
Summary: Fernando de Moya, 39, hunting, saw a luminous sphere hovering 6 ft up; two Indigenous companions fled, but de Moya watched two 3-ft, round-headed, large-eyed figures jumping between the sphere and the ground collecting objects, before they noticed him and boarded, the sphere ascending vertically.
Source: APRO Bulletin, 11/54
Date: November 4, 1954
Location: Pardo River, near Pontal, Brazil
Time: Night
Summary: Jose Alves, fishing on a quiet night, watched a craft descend toward the river; the well-known “UFO lands in water” case, extensively documented in UFO literature. [Full Report]
Source: Full case documentation
Date: November 5, 1954
Location: La Roche-en-Brenil, Cote-d’Or, France
Time: 10:10 a.m. and 3:05 p.m.
Summary: M. Raymond R. and a 13-year-old boy photographed three suited entities beside a 30-ft, portholed, disc-shaped craft; a paralyzing green beam struck the fleeing boy before the craft departed, leaving burnt earth and a substance later analyzed as largely silver nitrate, which burned the witness’s fingers. Nine additional lights returned to the exact same spot hours later. [Full Report]
Source: LDLN #125; Magonia 329
Date: November 5, 1954
Location: Lookout Point, New Zealand
Time: Unknown
Summary: An orange, elliptical object with blue “portholes” was observed.
Source: UFOE, XII
Date: November 8 or 9, 1954
Location: Shirley, Surrey, England
Time: 01:00
Summary: 13-year-old orphanage resident Phillip Molava, keeping watch after baby rabbits went missing, saw a small, unmarked, white discus-shaped object drift low toward him before departing. He was paralyzed and hospitalized the following day, then woke to a misty mass forming at his bed, from which three robed, faceless figures emerged and bent over him, seeming intent on comforting him, before he lost memory of their departure. He recovered the next day; the rabbits were subsequently taken from him by the orphanage.
Source: Janet & Colin Bord, FSR Vol. 24 #3
Date: November 8, 1954
Location: Monza, Italy
Time: 03:30
Summary: A large crowd investigating a light found three creatures speaking in guttural sounds beside a three-legged, disc-shaped craft.
Source: Randle/Estes, “FOV,” p. 271; Magonia 331
Date: November 8, 1954
Location: Voussac, France
Time: 18:00
Summary: Reliable witnesses saw a luminous sphere land at the forest’s edge and go dark; investigation the next morning found a 4-5 m leafless, apparently disturbed patch of ground amid otherwise leaf-covered terrain.
Source: Magonia 332
Date: November 8, 1954
Location: La Tessoualle, France
Time: Dusk
Summary: Andre Chaillou felt prickling in his gloved hands as a blue disk approached his motorcycle and his electrical system failed; briefly unable to move or speak, he recovered once the light went off and later saw the object, a 5.5-m cone, rise with a soft whistle and fly north.
Source: Magonia 333
Date: November 9, 1954
Location: Bois de Villers, Belgium
Time: Dusk
Summary: Two villagers reported a 2-m-high “flying egg” landing in a pasture, from which screams seemed to emanate.
Source: Magonia 334
Date: November 10, 1954
Location: Porto Alegre, Brazil
Time: Unknown
Summary: An agronomist and family saw a landed disc from which two normal-height, long-haired men in coverall-like clothing emerged and approached their car with raised arms; as the frightened family sped off, the men re-boarded and the disc flew away at dizzying speed.
Source: Jim & Coral Lorenzen, “FS Occupants”; Magonia 335
Date: November 11, 1954
Location: Ispica, Sicily, Italy
Time: Night
Summary: Journalist Tino and Raffaele Favara saw a green-bluish light from a soccer field, resolving into a triangular object with disc-like fittings on each tip. Strange, membrane-winged figures moved around it in flashing silvery light before the men could return with more witnesses; the triangle rose and departed toward the sea.
Source: CISU Sicily
Date: November 11, 1954
Location: Predale, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: A young girl saw a luminous boat-shaped object on the ground with a small window, through which a small “man” looked at her. It suddenly vanished, leaving a strong pungent odor; ground traces were reportedly found afterward.
Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT
Date: November 12, 1954
Location: Rovigo, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: A “meatball-shaped” object roughly 3 m across touched the water’s surface, rose, then plunged into the sea.
Source: “Gazzettino della Sera,” November 13-14, 1954
Date: November 12, 1954
Location: Louisville, Kentucky
Time: Unknown
Summary: A spherical object moved quickly south, then hovered for an extended period.
Source: UFOE, VIII
Date: November 13, 1954
Location: Berck, France
Time: 03:30
Summary: Mr. Davril, near the local airport, saw a round, hut-like craft 300 m away, which took off without noise.
Source: Magonia 336
Date: November 13, 1954
Location: Buchy, France
Time: Unknown
Summary: Mr. R.L., of Rouen, saw a luminous craft take off while feeling prickling sensations and paralysis; his car’s engine slowed but did not stall.
Source: Magonia 337
Date: November 14, 1954
Location: Curitiba, Brazil
Time: 03:30
Summary: A railway employee saw three beings in tight-fitting luminous clothing examining the track ballast by lantern light; noticing him, they boarded an oval craft that rose rapidly into the sky.
Source: Jim & Coral Lorenzen; Magonia 338
Date: November 14, 1954
Location: St. Maudan, France
Time: 06:00
Summary: A 12-year-old girl saw a luminous boat-shaped craft land nearby; three hairy humanoids emerged and gathered apples from a neighboring orchard.
Source: LDLN #325
Date: November 14, 1954
Location: Ortonovo, La Spezia, Italy
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Farmer Amerigo Lorenzini, blinded and briefly knocked unconscious by a light, watched metal-suited entities take every rabbit from his hutch, his rifle failing to fire twice and becoming too heavy to hold, his voice failing him as he tried to shout. The craft departed rapidly toward Avenza. [Full Report]
Source: Maurizio Verga, “When Saucers Came to Earth”
Date: November 14, 1954
Location: Forli, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: A conventional tractor and a diesel tractor driving side by side experienced different outcomes as a luminous UFO flew overhead: the conventional engine stalled, the diesel did not.
Source: Unknown
Date: November 15, 1954 BBU 3326
Location: Augusta, Maine
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Summary: N. Gallant, manager of radio station WFAV, saw ten gold, circular objects flying in vertical V-formation, straight and level.
Source: Berliner
Date: November 16, 1954
Location: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Time: 23:30
Summary: Four named young men saw a roughly 7-m, circular metallic platform descend and hover near a cemetery entrance, emitting a strange sound. A flash preceded a hatch opening, revealing a small human-like head briefly looking out before the object ascended at very high speed.
Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT
Date: November 17, 1954
Location: Madrid, Spain
Time: Midnight
Summary: Dr. Alberto Sanmartin, drawn by an unexplained impulse to a bridge, met a shoulder-length-haired man in a dark toga, who smiled, tapped his shoulder, and returned from beneath the bridge with a small, inscribed pink-purple stone he presented to Sanmartin before a luminous disc emerged from beneath the bridge and departed with a slight buzz.
Source: N. Ozerovskiy, from a New York City newspaper
Date: November 18, 1954
Location: Castello Di Brolio, Siena, Italy
Time: 08:00
Summary: Dish peddler N. Bastianucci, 52, saw a red-and-green-striped, spindle-shaped object on the road; a small leg in floral-patterned fabric hung from an open hatch. As Bastianucci approached, the leg retracted and the object departed vertically, shrinking from view.
Source: UFO in Italia Vol. #2
Date: November 19, 1954 BBU
Location: 130 miles ESE of New Orleans, Louisiana
Time: 9:04 p.m.
Summary: The crew of National Airlines Flight 918, at 17,500 ft, saw a light flashing blue and white, moving up and down directly ahead for 3-5 minutes before moving northeast out of sight.
Source: NARCAP; McDonald list; Mary Castner/CUFOS
Date: November 19, 1954 BBU 3331
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Time: 4:15 p.m.
Summary: P.J. Gunn, assistant professor of art at Oregon State University and ex-USN aviation cadet, saw a bright white light hover for 8.5-9 minutes, then cross 20° of sky in 3-3.5 minutes.
Source: Berliner
Date: November 19, 1954
Location: Taormina, Italy
Time: Unknown
Summary: Two objects were seen touching the water’s surface; one sank into the sea.
Source: USOCAT, CISU Italy, 1996
Date: November 20, 1954
Location: Blaison, Maine-et-Loire, France
Time: 15:00
Summary: Mrs. Besnier, descending from her attic with onions and garlic, found an aluminum, circular object in her courtyard; a small, child-sized figure rushed her and took the onions, and other brown-robed, yellow-skinned, black-eyed humanoids became visible, each with a pipe-and-hood breathing apparatus. She fled without seeing them depart, and did not eat for 48 hours afterward, remaining bedridden.
Source: LDLN #325
Date: November 21, 1954
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Time: 11:30 a.m.
Summary: The crew and passengers of a Brazilian airliner saw 19 glowing objects.
Source: UFOE, X
Date: November 22, 1954
Location: Santa Maria, Brazil
Time: 21:45
Summary: A radio operator at a local air base and four others watched a huge, dark, 30-m object hovering at treetop height for several hours, alternately glowing softly and descending nearly to the ground.
Source: Magonia 342
Date: November 23, 1954
Location: Colcerasa, Macerata, Italy
Time: 17:00
Summary: Two 12-year-old shepherds, alerted by their dog and displaced sheep, found three dark, animal-like, roughly 35-cm creatures with flat, disproportionately large heads near a small barrel-shaped object. They retreated into the object, which departed hissing, dispatched a fireball that exploded before reaching the ground, and knocked the boys down with a gust of wind before speeding east.
Source: Maurizio Verga, ITACAT
Date: November 23, 1954
Location: Torpo, Norway
Time: Afternoon
Summary: Three schoolgirls, Anne and Tora Storedal and Tora Moy Hauge, were followed home by a round, black-and-yellow-spotted craft that hovered 3-4 ft away, its transparent dome revealing a goggled man at the controls, watching one of them. It rose and struck a power line in a shower of sparks; the girls fled, noting a smell like fried sausages, and a streak was later found in the snow. [Full Report]
Source: Oddvar J. Larsen, CSI
Date: November 25, 1954
Location: Colcerasa, Italy
Time: 17:00
Summary: Two 12-year-old boys, G. Marziano and P. Santucci, saw three roughly 35-cm, large-headed, lead-gray-skinned figures enter a concealed spherical craft with two pointed front propellers, which then took off with a hissing sound. Note: possibly the same underlying wave or location as the very similar Nov 23 Colcerasa entry above.
Source: Magonia 343
Date: November 25, 1954
Location: Cordoba, Argentina
Time: Unknown
Summary: A meteorologist and control tower operator watched two hovering luminous objects, per an official report from the Argentine Embassy.
Source: UFOE, X
Date: November 26, 1954
Location: Matasquan, New Jersey / Millville, New Jersey
Time: Unknown
Summary: A formation of round objects was seen at Matasquan; a disc with four body lights was seen at Millville.
Source: UFOE, VII; UFOE, II
Date: November 27, 1954
Location: Kariambkam, Madras, India
Time: 20:30
Summary: About a hundred people saw a “flying boat” with a brilliant rear light perform a vertical landing; three western-suited occupants emerged, gestured to the panicking crowd, and after five minutes re-boarded and departed vertically at high speed.
Source: Michael David Hall, “UFOs: A Century of Sightings”
Date: November 27, 1954
Location: Acquanegra Sul Chiese, Mantova, Italy
Time: Evening
Summary: A man encountered a one-meter creature in the countryside; both he and the creature fled in opposite directions. Returning later with others, nothing was found.
Source: Maurizio Verga, “When Saucers Came to Earth”
Date: November 28, 1954
Location: Petare, Venezuela
Time: 02:00
Summary: Truck driver Gustavo Gonzalez and helper Jose Ponce, blocked by a luminous 8-10 ft sphere, were confronted by a clawed, glowing-eyed, 3-ft dwarfish being; a knife blade glanced off it as though striking steel, and it fled with two companions carrying soil after blinding Gonzalez with light. This is the second incident in this archive’s previously documented Venezuelan “hairy dwarves” wave. [Full Report — The Complete 1954 Wave]
Source: APRO Bulletin, 11/54; Magonia 344
Date: Around November 28, 1954
Location: Near Palmarito, Venezuela
Time: Night
Summary: A group of peasants saw a globular craft land and release three very small men; the craft left a slight trail when it departed.
Source: Jim & Coral Lorenzen
Date: November 28, 1954 BBU 3341
Location: Manila, Philippines
Time: 10:50 a.m.
Summary: An anonymous medical doctor saw a flat-bottomed, domed, bright orange object, 65-70 ft across and 18-20 ft high, with attached yellow discs and an exhaust trail, which flew north, stopped, and reversed course.
Source: Berliner
Date: November 29, 1954
Location: St. Martin De La Place, France
Time: 19:00
Summary: A witness saw a luminous object in a wheat field with a short humanoid figure standing beside it; a power outage was reported in the area at the same time.
Source: LDLN #325
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Closing the Year’s Great Wave With Its Deepest Evidence
November’s two anchor cases — Cennina and La Roche-en-Brenil — represent close to the strongest evidentiary combinations this archive has documented for all of 1954: decades of sustained, corroborated investigation in the first case, and photographs, a chemically identified substance, and a documented physical injury in the second. Around them, this month’s density barely slackens from earlier in the wave, closing with the Petare, Venezuela case that opens this archive’s own previously documented “hairy dwarves” cluster.
This month also required unusually careful handling of one entry — the Hamilton, New Zealand case — whose disturbing content this archive has presented factually and without elaboration, true to its original published source but without dwelling on its most difficult details.
“The powder was later analyzed and found to consist largely of silver nitrate.”
— LDLN #125, on the November 5, 1954 La Roche-en-Brenil, France case
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Date: November 2, 1954
Location: Malaga, Spain
Time:
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Date: November 28 1954
Location: Petare Venezuela
Time: 0200A
Summary: Driving a truck, Gustavo Gonzalez and his helper Jose Ponce found the street blocked by a luminous sphere 8-10 ft in diameter, hovering 6 ft above the ground. They got out to investigate, and saw coming toward them a dwarfish being 3 ft tall, with claws & glowing eyes. Gonzalez grabbed the little man, who wore only a loincloth, & lifted him up, finding him surprisingly light, hard, & hairy. The entity gave him a push than knocked him 15 ft. Gonzalez then tried to stab him, but the knife glanced off. Ponce saw 2 others emerging from the bushes with soil in their hands. They jumped up into the sphere, and shone a blinding light at Gonzalez. His antagonist also jumped in, and the craft flew away. Gonzalez was left with a deep scratch in his side.
Source: Apro Bulletin, 11/54; Magonia 344
