The November 1957 UFO Wave
- By
Marcus Lowth
- November 3, 2019
- November 14, 2021
- 19 min read
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- UFOs, Waves
Although 1957 was, generally speaking, a year of increased UFO activity, the last weeks of the year, in particular, November, would see a significant spike in such sightings and encounters. And what’s more, the vast majority of these sightings and reports were of an extremely similar nature. Perhaps more so than other UFO waves of the 1950s, the accounts were so similar that it would be bordering on irresponsible to not acknowledge such an abundance of almost identical incidents. For skeptics to state that such sightings could be down to mistakes on the part of the witnesses, or even hallucinations or outright falsehoods, would be equally irresponsible. In short, there was something very definite taking place during the last ...
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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 1957September me and my friend saw a orange globe in Whitley ave Warrington it floated towards us it was as high as the houses and as wide as the road we ran to her house in Richmond ave and called for her mum she came out and we all ran to the corner it was hovering on our right hand side no noise then it shot up into the sky and shot off at great speed it was seen the next evening high in the sky just an orange colour kids were shouting ufo it moved at great speed and just disappeared
A very interesting monograph of the 1957 UFO wave. I have not heard of many of these incidents.
You mention one that occurred between Mobile and Selma Alabama. I wonder whether that should have been Semmes, Alabama, a town just outside of Mobile. Selma is about 4 hours away.