In our book “Who The Are, And What They’re Up To” my husband and I rounded up a bunch of what we considered to be the most credible UFO crash reports that happened in the United States.
A lot of the crashes were listed in the comprehensive online list generated by Patrick Gloss, though we included other crashes that didn’t make Gloss’ list.
We didn’t include UFO reports from other countries, but readers can find some of them below with their corresponding references.
Searching the Internet for UFO crashes can be a frustrating process due to what we think is government suppression. Hundreds of references when clicked on go to pages that no longer exist. Have they been scrubbed to suppress them? We think it’s possible.
We’ve collected a few of the most interesting cases of international UFO activity.
July 10, 1946. Bjorkon, Sweden
A number of people watched as a “projectile trailing luminous smoke” slammed into a beach leaving a yard wide, shallow crater containing a slag-like material, some of it reduced to powder. A newspaper reporter found a cylinder about twenty or thirty meters in diameter. Military authorities investigated, produced ambiguous results, and finally accused the witnesses of imagining things.
Link: https://www.oocities.org/topsecretresearch/crash.html
May, 1947, Spitzbergen, Norway
A report by journalist Dorothy Kilgallen stated that British scientists and airmen were excavating the wreckage of a mysterious flying ship.
The Swedish military is said to have acknowledged its extraterrestrial origin and reported 17 bodies were found. The story appeared as a tiny blip for only one day in the U.S. news media before it was allegedly silenced by the military.
Her mysterious informer “added that an airship of this type could not in any way have been constructed on Earth. It is known that the British Government is preparing some information regarding the examination made of the remains of what is assumed to be a flying saucer but they are not making it public in order not to alarm the public.”
Link: https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/crashes.htm#TheTop
February 18, 1950:
“In Copenhagen, Denmark, farmer Christian Sandersen and his wife claimed to have seen two flying saucers over their farmhouse. One saucer stayed airborne while the other landed and disintegrated into thousands of brightly glowing sparks.
Sandersen and his wife said they “seen two flying saucers, one passing above the roof of the farm, the other landing in their yard and disaggregating in less than one minute in thousands of sparks. It is said that the saucer had a shining light at its bottom of transparent aspect and flew a red ribbon.”
Link: https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/crashes.htm#TheTop
Gloss references “A History of UFO Crashes”, by Kevin D. Randle.
September 10, 1957. Ubatuba, Brazil (1)
While fishing on the ocean three men “saw a flying-disk plunging toward the ocean.”
Just before entering the water, “it turned sharply upward and exploded into thousands of fiery fragments.”
The fishermen retrieved some metallic debris.
The chemical analysis revealed “the metal was magnesium of a higher purity than attainable in purification methods known to mankind.”
An engineer “described the magnesium as having a close-packed hexagonal crystalline structure. The strength of this alloy may be relevant in the context of spacecraft construction.” Metallurgists found that “when the metal was solidified, the grain runs in a single direction. No studies in directional graining were carried out before 1957 lends support to the fishermen’s claims.”
Link: https://www.oocities.org/topsecretresearch/crash.html
1959 Poland
Injured in a crash, an alien was “taken to a hospital.” Doctors had difficulty taking off the alien’s metal suit.
“When they removed an unusual armband, the patient died.”
Before…”examination, it was observed that he had an unusual number of digits and that his blood and organs were different from those of human beings.”
Link: https://www.oocities.org/topsecretresearch/crash.html
Also posted on Gloss’ crash list…
Source articles and a website describe a crashed UFO in 1973 on Cyprus.
A six-man British Army unit claimed to have seen “strange lights in the sky.” They saw a very bright, bluish light they described as “dazzling.” Though there was no explosion, the men were hit and knocked to the ground by a strange shock wave.
One man gave a detailed account.
A magazine editor, Gary Heseltine, took possession of “several items of unidentified debris collected by a former British soldier who claims to have witnessed a UFO fall to earth in 1973.”
“The light just disappeared or went out.”
The men found the crash site and were told to collect debris into plastic bags. ”Military personnel were called in to investigate.”
The soldiers were ordered to collect debris and place it into black plastic bags.
The man who gave the account said he managed to “conceal some small pieces of golden tinted foil.”
The men were emphatically ordered not to talk about the incident, “under threat of Court Martial.”
The six men endured a long grilling describing everything they’d seen in detail. The men were then scattered to different posts.
Heseltine visited the informant’s home.
“There I examined his service papers and I have no reason to doubt the following account of the incident that took place during an army exercise high in the Troodos Mountains of Cyprus.”
In the home interview, he revealed more details.
After being knocked to the ground, “We all took up a defensive position, believing we were under attack, and I remember being very afraid.”
The men were told “to stay put as recovery and manpower was on its way and we were to help in securing the area and retrieving any wreckage.”
Helicopters arrive and men in black clothing exit from them. ”We were only allowed on the site when all the large pieces had been lifted off the area under slung loads.”
Their job was “to comb the area for anything we thought might belong to the crash site.
“I picked up a piece of what looked like coke to me but on one side it had what looked like gold tiles covering it.”
He saved three pieces of the metal.
”The shock wave was extremely powerful and again there was no noise. At no point did they ever hear an explosion on the mountain that would account for the crash debris.”
Link: https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/crashes.htm#TheTop
1978, Ul’ken-Borly Lake, Kustanay region, Kazakhstan
Ukrainian Anton Belousov reportedly told that southwest of Ul’ken-Borly Lake in Kustanay region, Kazakhstan, in 1978, at an unspecified, a disc-shaped metallic craft was found apparently crashed near the lake.
Allegedly, one dwarf-like humanoid was found inside the object. It is claimed that the disc and its occupant were delivered to Semipalatinsk, that the body of the humanoid is stored in the underground laboratory near the government airport at Vnukovo, that the humanoid apparently lived temporarily at Semipalatinsk apparently placed into an altitude chamber with a carbon dioxide atmosphere. Allegedly, the disc was stored for sometime at the Kustanay Airfield and was later transported to Stepnogorsk, where it was hidden in the underground bunker together with another three UFOs.
Link: https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/htm/crashes.htm#TheTop
January 20, 1996, Varginha, Brazil.
What is called “The Varginha affair” is reported by Gloss with links to many articles on the event.
A UFO crashed in the city of Varginha, in Brazil and aliens were taken by the military.
“Despite the black-out on this spectacular event, the news spread all around the world very fast, only to dissolve in media oblivion.”
Several people saw the UFO crash.
Firemen responded and then the Brazilian Army took over.
The event continued over a few days. Aliens were spotted by witnesses were trying to evade military personnel.
“One of the alien bodies is reported dead and autopsied at the local hospital, then taken away to another location.”
The case aired on Brazilian TV and spread around the world.
“In June 1997, fifteen witnesses confirmed the involvement of soldiers in alien capture.”
