The 1954 UFO Wave
- By
Marcus Lowth
- October 20, 2019
- November 14, 2021
- 28 min read
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- UFOs, Waves
Perhaps of all the UFO waves, the world-wide panic of 1954 is arguably the most active and intense. Sightings of all kinds of crafts took place as well as multiple encounters with varying degrees of interaction. Furthermore, although there are many retrospective accounts on record previously, it is during this wave that the first hints of what would become the alien abduction phenomena over the coming decades would surface. And what’s more, while highly speculative, there could be a sound reason for this. For example, as we have examined previously, the wave occurred around some of the most intriguing, if outlandish alleged encounters of the modern UFO era. Not least an apparent meeting between the (then) President of the Uni...
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Marcus Lowth
Marcus Lowth is a writer with a love for UFOs, aliens, and the Ancient Astronaut Theory, to the paranormal, general conspiracies, and unsolved mysteries. He has been writing and researching with over 20 years of experience.
Marcus has been Editor-in-Chief for several years due to his excellent knowledge in these fields. Marcus also regularly appears as an expert on radio talk shows including Troubled Minds and Unexplained Radio discussing these topics.
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In my possession is a photograph taken in 1954 by J.W. Wagner of his new speedboat. In the upper right hand
corner is what looks to be a flying saucer. He gave a print
to my father and said he saw nothing but a glint when he
took the picture of his boat. When the negatives were
developed, the blurry saucer like image appeared.
When I went to put the photo in my safe deposit box,
a teller said she watched a declassified video of a saucer
sighting about the same time. Puddingstone Dam is only
60 air miles from Edwards AF Base. The date of the photo
is March 14, 1954, coincidently “Pi Day.”
I can’t find the newspaper article my photo appeared in
or that declassified sighting anywhere although I did
find it before.
In the summer of 1954, I was 5 years old and our family lived at Oak Point, WA, a very remote area, with very few neighbors. Our family owned 80 mountainous acres with a large field near our house up on the hill.
We had been gone to the outdoor drive-in theater 10 miles away to Longview, Wa one night in the summer and came home somewhere around midnight on a clear stary night.
Driving up the our gravel driveway my dad stopped up close to the top of the road when seeing a gold very bright light coming from behind our home. He turned off his lights and moved up closer.I was the youngest of 3 kids and stood up in the middle from the back seat and saw a hugh gold ball that was larger than our one story house that had a raised wooden walkway in between our storage buildings that was hovering above the ground behind it and near house.
My parents were scared and showed it in the way they were planning how to get us kids into the house and to safety. Dad pulled up to the side of the house as I watched this perfectly round glassy shing gold hugh hovering ball that had no sound. We ran to the house and went inside and watched the glow from the windows for abour 1 hour until Dad and mom assured us we could go to bed and they would protect us.
Later that morning when we woke up dad and mom told us the ball moved up the mowed field and around into our back field at almost daylight. They said walked out there at daylight and only saw a hugh circular grass shape and the glowing ball was gone. They told us kids to never tell anyone because we would be made fun of.
I have always wondered if anyone else has ever seen a round shiny gold ball hovering or flying in 1954 because all I read about is saucer shapes. Just wondering.
I have a photo of an UFO taken on March 14, 1954. It was
taken by a friend of my father who only wanted a picture
of his new boat. When he took the pic, he saw nothing but
a glint. The negative showed the saucer.
When I went to put the photo in my safe deposit box, a
teller said she saw a video on UFO’s and it was about the
same time and place. The pilot said if he showed it to
anyone, he’d be punished and lose his pension. I looked
it up on a map and Puddingstone Dam is only about 60
miles from Edwards A.F. Base. Not very far as the crow,
plane or U.F.O. flies.
I can’t find the news article which also has my picture or
the video she saw. I did as recently as 2015.