October 20th – 31st 1954: October UFO & Alien Sightings
Date: October 20 1954
Location: Raon-l ‘Etape, Vosges France
Time: 0230A
Summary: Lazlo Ujvari, going to work late at night, encountered a heavy set man of medium height wearing a gray jacket with insignias on the shoulders, and a motorcycle helmet, which threatened him with a revolver and spoke words he did not understand. Ujvari spoke Russian to him and got a reply in that language. The unknown man then asked whether he was in Spain or Italy; then, what time it was. ‘0230”, said Ujvari. “You lie,” replied the man, taking out his own watch and announcing “Four o’clock!” He then escorted Ujvari past an inverted dish shaped, lightless saucer bearing a 2-foot antenna, which took up almost the whole width of the road. After 30 yards, he said, he said ‘Adieu!” After a few paces, Ujvari looked back; with a whine like an electric motor, the saucer rose vertically.
Source: Pierre Masson & Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 291
Date: October 20 1954
Location: Gavres, Morbihan, France
Time: 1800
Summary: 23-year old Marie C was closing the shutters of her home when she saw a red orange light hovering above the nearby road. Coming from this hovering light, was a very powerful pencil of light that’s directed vertically downward to the roadway. Five small beings of humanoid shape then appear in the bottom of the light beam and move towards Marie’s home. The house door open and the humanoids enter the house. Marie stated later that their height was from 1m to 1.20m and that their body was entirely covered with russet-red hair except for their heads, which bore a kind of nose resembling that of a pig. The humanoids moved one behind the other and all five made three turns around Marie who in a state of shock began to shout. Soon the humanoids moved towards the beam of light where they had appeared in the beginning and disappear therein, the beam also disappeared and Marie heard a high-pitched whistling sound coming from it. At the same time that this whistle was heard, a bottle that Marie held in her hand broke in two on the level of its neck, it was later noted that the cut was clean and even as if made by a saw. Marie’s husband, during this time, was shopping at the grocer’s just some 30 meters form the location, and when he heard his wife shouting, he ran towards their home but could not see anything else only his wife partially fainted on the floor and in shock. Immediately she was taken to a local hospital where Marie suffered a miscarriage. She had been pregnant for 2 months. Soon after the incident Marie developed a cardiac disease.
Source: Gerard Champetier LDLN
Date: October 20 1954
Location: Grosseto, Italy
Time: 2230
Summary: A woman Ermelinda Lanzillo emerged from her home to attend to some animals including hens, rabbits, and pigs, just 10-15 meters from her building. It was a rainy night, even though the moon was at times visible through the clouds. When Lanzillo had not returned after 15 minutes, her nephew went out to look for her. He called her name aloud a few times, but got no response. Thereafter, when the nephew reached a point next to the gate leading to the garden of the home, he suddenly discovered his aunt before him. She did not stop and continued toward the house, beckoning to her 26-year old nephew to get back inside and quickly lock the door. Once inside the house, Lanzillo told his nephew, named, Oscar, as well as two other nephews that she had observed 2 or 3 figures next to the hog pen. The figures were about 1.7m in height and sturdy in stature. They wore some strange metallic outfits (blue green in color and somewhat shiny according to a sketch made by the investigators from the nephew Oscar’s recollections), as well as diver-like helmets. Over their shoulders, there appeared a “halo.” Oscar asked his aunt why she hadn’t replied when he called out to her, she told him that she had heard him but had been unable to answer. Mrs. Lanzillo and her nephew Oscar re-emerged from the house all in all about 10 minutes later, however they did not discover anything odd.
Source: Maurizio Verga “When Saucers Came to Earth”
Date: October 20 1954
Location: Parravicino d’Erba Italy
Time: night
Summary: In his garden, Renzo Pugina, 37, encountered a luminous man less than 5 ft tall, wearing a transparent helmet and a coverall with metallic scales, which became a metal tube below his waist. A narrow tube, “a sort of tail” 3 ft long, connected him to a disc the size of a bicycle wheel. This being turned around and pointed at Pugina a sort of flashlight emitting a dim light, which paralyzed him, until he broke the spell by gripping a bunch of keys. He asked “From Mars?” The being gave a grunt of vexation, and with a slight hum rose from the ground and “dissolved in the air in a strange luminosity.”
Source: Humcat quoting Newspaper source
Date: October 21 1954
Location: Melito, Naples, Italy
Time: unknown
Summary: While in a field belonging to his father, a young man heard a rustling noise and observed a saucer-shaped object landing not far from him. He approached it and saw a human-like figure exiting the object, from an opening in the object’s upper part. The individual was dressed in a sort of diving suit, and emitted greenish-bronze beams of light which illuminated the surrounding landscape. A dog, about 100 meters distance from the young man, began to bark. Possibly as a result of this, the creature re-entered the object and it departed thereafter.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 297
Date: October 21 1954
Location: Ranton, Stafford England
Time: 1645
Summary: Near Stafford, Mrs. Jessie Roestenburg heard a noise like an aircraft and she ran out into the garden. There she found her two children lying prostrate and terrified. Above the children was a huge saucer-like object with a dome, the front par of which was transparent stated Mrs. Roestenburg. Staring at the children from the machine were two unsmiling human-like creatures, with long faces and long hair. Jessie then ran to the back of the house in fright. The object then moved over the house, hovered there for about 15 seconds and then shot off at high speed. The men inside the object had white skin, long hair to their shoulders, and very high foreheads. They wore turquoise blue clothing, resembling ski suits. The object hovered at a tilted angle while the two occupants looked at the scene “sternly, not in an unkind fashion, but almost sadly, compassionately.” After about 15 seconds during which these men gazed at her, the craft ascended at 45-degree angle, with a blinking violet light in front. Leaving a contrail, it circled the house, and then streaked out of sight.
Source: Gavin Gibbons, for FSR also Wolverhampton Express & Star: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 298
Date: October 21 1954
Location: Pons France
Time: night
Summary: An egg shaped object about 18 feet in diameter hovered & landed near a road. 2 Dwarfin (Dwarfs) about 4 ft tall emerged from it, but went back inside almost immediately. The craft took off vertically, leaving a red trail.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 296
Date: October 22 1954
Location: Ecaillon, France
Time: 1915
Summary: Casimir Szimura was riding on his motorcycle on route N-43 when he sees in front of him an illuminated machine. His motorcycle stops abruptly. The object resembles a submarine, and he sees four small occupants inside. One of them leaves the object and approaches the witness; its head reaches the level of Szimura’s shoulders. They exchange a handshake. The humanoid then speaks in an unknown language resembling Chinese remaining there a few minutes. The being then returns to the object, which takes off and flies away at vertiginous speed. Casimir noticed that the little being was very strong, according to the handshake.
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Summary: Oct. 22, 1954; Marysville, Ohio
School principal, teacher, 60 students saw silver cigar-shaped UFO with “portholes” hover over school, then speed away; “angel’s hair” fell. [UFOE, VIII]
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Date: October 23 1954
Location: Berri, South Australia
Time: unknown
Summary: A ghastly animal, 2 meters in length with a peculiar head and eyes, and a long scaly body was reportedly seen in the area. It hissed at residents from the top of a tree, leapt and disappeared into the brush.
Source: Hervey, M, UFOs over the Southern Hemisphere
Date: October 23 1954
Location: Near Tripoli Libya
Time: 0300A
Summary: Carmelo Papotto saw an egg shaped craft about 18 ft long land a few dozen yards away. The upper half was transparent and very brightly lit the lower metallic; there were 2 cylindrical protruding tubes, and a Y-shaped wheeled undercarriage. Inside were 6 men in yellow coveralls wearing gas masks; when one took his mask off temporarily, his face was normally human. One also wore earphones; all confronted instrument panels. When Papotto touched the machine an electric shock threw him to the ground, and an occupant gestured him away. After about 20 minutes, the machine took off silently; when 150 ft up, it departed at dizzying speed. Tracks of the wheels were found.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 303
Date: October 23 1954
Location: Ernemont, France
Time: 0510A
Summary: A witness watched a brilliant crescent-shaped object land near the outskirts of town. Three shadowy figures exited the object and went in different directions, apparently exploring the area. This was followed by a power outage. No other information.
Source: UFOCAT quoting Larry Hatch U computer database
Date: October 23 1954
Location: Trondes, France
Time: afternoon
Summary: Baker M. Lelu was in his vehicle on Route 101 and had arrived at a bend on the road when he spotted two phosphorescent points of light near a glade. He approached the area thinking it was another car when he saw a tall blond haired man standing immobile in the field. Thinking that the figure was an extraterrestrial (he thought a Venusian?) he drove away from the area in order to obtain additional witnesses. (Later the harassed owner of the field claimed that the mysterious blond figure was a Polish farmer). This however was never confirmed.
Source: Raoul Robe, Regional Catalogue
Date: October 23 1954
Location: Wittenheim France
Time: night
Summary: M Muller, a police officer, saw a “Martian” in his garden that resembled a big bifurcated black radish. There were three other witnesses. No other information.
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Summary: Oct. 23, 1954; Tinker AFB, Oklahoma (BBU)
9:23 p.m. (CST) Objects on FPS-10 (PPI scope). Upon initial pickup speed was in excess of 3200 nautical mph, but changed to 250 nautical mph. The target appeared in size, shape and brillance equal to a normal IFF. (Dan Wilson, McDonald list)
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Summary: Oct. 23, 1954; Cincinnati, Ohio
Radio made harsh shrieking noise, volume increased; then reddish disc seen circling overhead.
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Date: October 24 1954
Location: Castiglion Della Pescaia, Grosseto, Italy
Time: 0600A
Summary: A farm-worker, Ulderico Cardinali, was walking along a pathway in a meadow. Suddenly he heard a buzzing noise and he started to pass through an area of fog. Shortly afterwards, when the fog became less dense, Cardinali observed a strange object which he thought to be a downed plane. It resembled a sort of highly polished, 2 meter wide “plate” landed on the ground. There was a very peculiar creature beside the craft. It appeared to be no taller than 1.40m and was dressed in a yellowish-brown uniform. It seemed like the creature was moving about the object with some task. Once it had stopped moving about, the creature went inside the object, entering a sort of “cabin” and disappearing from sight. Then the object departed from the location—emitting a slight buzzing noise and flying at very low altitude, nearly brushing the tops of the meadow trees.
Source: Maurizio Verga, Itacat
Date: October 24, 1954
Location: Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France
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Date: October 24 1954
Location: Saint Etienne de Baigorry, Pyrenees Atlantique, France
Time: 1500
Summary: A shepherd guarding his flock at a peak called “Moumboa” located at about 800meters altitude reported seeing two “men” standing on the side opposite to him, looking around. At first he thought they were excursionists but he soon saw between them at about 50meters a craft shaped like a large shell, from three to four meters in diameter and of a little more than one meter in height. He did not dare to approach the object which was brown in color. In its center there was a cabin, and at the two ends he could distinguish a number of small propellers similar to pine cones. At the back end, the broadest end was a bent tripod. After a while, the two men approached the machine which they then placed upright on the tripod. The witness supposed that the machine was made out of some very light weight material or plastic. He says he did not notice any portholes. One of the men then opened a narrow door and both individuals disappeared into the cabin. Without any noise the two groups of propellers started to turn, but in opposite directions. The machine took off vertically at about 100 meters and then disappeared quickly towards the north. The two men were similar to humans, Caucasian, between 1.70-1.75m in height.
Source: Jean Sider
Date: October 24 1954
Location: Les Ergots France
Time: 1730
Summary: A child saw a man emerged from a strange craft. He was “dressed in red, his clothes like iron. He walked with his legs stiff, had long hair & a hairy face. His eyes were large, like a cow.” No other information.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 305
Date: October 24 1954
Location: Ain El Turck Algeria
Time: night
Summary: A small man with strange glowing eyes was seen on the Mediterranean shore. No other information.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 304
Date: October 25 1954
Location: Bagni Di Luca, Benabbio, Italy
Time: evening
Summary: A reddish disc shaped object that emitted a luminous streak from its rear landed near the witness. Two human-like figures briefly emerged from the object, and then went back inside. The object then took off at high speed
Source: Maurizio Verga, Itacat
Date: October 25 1954
Location: Jonquerets-de-Livet Eure France
Time: 2300
Summary: Two 18-year old farm workers, Jean Cheradame & Rene Marais, encountered a bright light source on a field. As they approached the light, two featureless illuminated human forms emerged from the light source. They lacked both arms & legs, and essentially resembled “white plastic bags” lit from within. They emerged from the light source in the field and separated into two distinct forms as they approached; when they receded they again merged into one form before merging with the light source. They were about five feet tall.
Source: Joel Mesnard & Jean Marie Bigorne
Date: October 25 1954
Location: Northern Italy, exact location not given
Time: 0600A
Summary: Ulderico Cardinali saw a disc shaped craft among the reeds of a swamp. It was 6 ft in diameter, and near it was a small being, 4.5 tall, clad in yellowish brown coveralls. This being went inside the machine, which took off at very high speed, touching the tops of the reeds.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia
Date: October 25 1954
Location: Colcerasa Italy
Time: 1700
Summary: Two twelve year old pastors were walking home along a field when their dog became agitated and started barking. One of the juveniles went ahead to see what was wrong and observed three very short dark figures with huge flattened heads and wearing shiny black outfits, standing next to a large keg like object. The witness yelled for his friend to come and see. Then the short humanoids ran into the object, which took off emitting a loud whistling sound, knocking the witness down with a strong gust of wind. Another witness that was nearby saw a similar object flying over the area.
Source: Maurizio Verga, Itacat
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Summary: Octo. 24, 1954; Porto Alegre, Brazil
Formation of silver, circular objects sped over Air Force base. [UFOE, X]
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Summary: Oct. 25, 1954; Belgrade, Yugoslavia
High speed objects some egg-shaped seen by hundreds. [UFOE, X]
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Date: October 26 1954
Location: La Madiere France
Time: evening
Summary: Aime Brousard, 47, stopped to look at someone on the footpath. This person, who had been crouching down, rose suddenly & turned upon him 2 very bright pale-blue lamps. At the sides of his helmeted head were 2 weaker light green lamps. The effect of the blue light on Brousard was to fling him to the other side of the road, where he lay paralyzed, unable to call out, for 10 minutes. Then the lamps went out, and the being crossed the road & disappeared from view. Brousard then recovered, but still felt pain in his legs & hands.
Source: Humcat quoting newspaper source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 311
POSSIBLE HOAX
Date: October 26 1954
Location: Antimachia, Kos Island, Greece
Time: night
Summary: Mrs Irene Sarris and Mr. Socrates Caraliamis saw a flying object, which was emitting a blinding light. The UFO had the shape of a basket, and for a while it was heading to Antimachia, but suddenly changed course and went away. That same night, a Mr. George Cacamoundis, saw a “winged man” crossing the sky over the village, at roughly the same time with the luminous UFO. The witness, terrified, sought to hide in a nearby church, where he stayed for a long time refusing to come out.
Source: Thanassis Vembos, quoting “Hellenicos Vorras”
Date: October 27 1954
Location: Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence, Italy
Time: 1930
Summary: during a football game at Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence, Italy. Play was halted when a group of cigar-shaped UFOs traveling at high speed reportedly stopped suddenly over the stadium filled with 10,000 people One player described glitter falling from the sky, a glitter that some compared to spider webs falling from spaceships from Mars.
Source: mysteriousuniverse.org
Date: October 27 1954
Location: Les Jonquerets-de-Livet France
Time: 1930
Summary: Farmer Gilbert Hee saw cows gathering about an elongated object with lights at both ends, resting in his pasture. 2 hours later an 18-year-old man fell from his motorcycle as it suddenly failed at the same spot; the object had moved only slightly. Hee and his neighbors saw the object & 2 occupants, who were about 3 ft tall, walked stiffly, and had clothes resembling bright armor. They vanished suddenly, and the craft took off without noise.
Source: Jacques Vallee, Passport to Magonia 317
Date: October 28 1954
Location: Tradate Italy
Time: 2200
Summary: Mr. Guidola, bicycling home, saw a very luminous object in a field behind the sports field. When he approached, he was met by “2 little shadows, which made strange guttural sounds.” He fled, but returned with 22 others from a nearby café. The beings wore “white trousers, tapering as if they covered only a single leg, with very wide girdles of dark color. The thorax was confined in an iron gray metallic garment, and on the head was a transparent helmet; the intense light from the disc made it possible to see a dark colored countenance, with a proboscis resembling a little elephant.” The witnesses threw stones at the entities and at their craft, whose upper portion was a transparent dome illuminated by a white light so strong as to hurt the eyes. Surmounting this dome was a silvery “antenna” 8” thick and 5 ft high. Stones striking the craft gave no metallic sound. One man tried to sic his boxer on the “Martians,” but, terrified, it bit another of the witnesses instead. A few moments later, with a piercing sound like a steamboat’s whistle, the spaceship rose vertically.
Source: Humcat quoting local police and Newspaper sources
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Summary: Oct. 29, 1954; SE of Taiwan (BBU)
6 p.m. USAF crew of C-47D transport plane saw a long narrow bright blue object emitting deep orange sparks from front and rear. (Project 1947)
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Summary: Oct. 29, 1954; Terciera Islands, Azores (BBU 3287)
9 p.m. 4 Portuguese nationals saw a grey object, shaped like a stovepipe with a center bulge and short wings (10 ft long, 3 ft in diameter, 3 ft wings) having concave wingtips, make a gargling sound when hovering, then disappear in the glare of airplane landing lights. (Berliner)
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Date: October 29 1954
Location: Between Catania & Palagonia, Sicily Italy
Time: 1425
Summary: Seven laborers, Giuseppe Licandro, 42, the Oration brothers, 25 & 36, Giovanni Santonocito 40, brothers Giovanni and Salvatore Poma and Francisco Cantone and at least three other witnesses traveling on the road connecting this two locations reported seeing a transparent “like cellophane” torpedo shaped object, smooth in texture and with two red lights on its inferior section gliding down low over the road, the craft was silent and inside they all saw a creature with a very pale face that seemed to stare at the men. The craft then suddenly emitted a loud droning noise and went away without leaving a smoke trail behind.
Source: Maurizio Verga, Itacat and CISU Italy
Date: October 30, 1954
Location: Muro Lucano Italy
Time: 0930
Summary: Two objects were seen by hunters. One touched the ground 50 m away. It was rhomboidal, and from the bottom a cylinder was hanging. A peculiar sound could be heard. The object shifted its position and the cylinder hit trees, bouncing three times. Then the craft gained altitude and flew away, leaving a bluish trail.
Source: Magonia 322
Date: October 31, 1954
Location: Corrompu, France
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Summary: Near Long, P. Petit and his employee, Mr. Tillier, with a shop owner, Mr. Pecquet, saw an oval object on the ground. When it took off, the lights of a tractor went out. It measured about 4.5 m, emitted a bright light similar to a welder’s torch. It came back, turned, and flew to the southwest. It made the same noise as a swarm of bees.
Source: Magonia 323
Date: late October 1954
Location: Longuetire, Siran, Cantal, France
Time: unknown
Summary: A widow named Maurel reported encountered a landed object shaped like a large bowl on a meadow near the village of Longuetire. An individual all covered with hair left the machine. At the sight of Mrs. Maurel the individual ran back into the craft which left immediately.
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