ACUFO:

ACUFO is my comprehensive catalog of cases of encounters between aircraft and UFOs, whether they are “explained” or “unexplained”.

The ACUFO catalog is made of case files with a case number, summary, quantitative information (date, location, number of witnesses...), classifications, all sources mentioning the case with their references, a discussion of the case in order to evaluate its causes, and a history of the changes made to the file.

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India, in the Summer of 1945:

Case number:

ACUFO-1945-00-00-INDIA-1

Summary:

Dr. Louis Winkler, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, compiled a catalog in 1982-1984 for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), including a catalog of encounters between pilots and UFOs.

He noted a case from the summer of 1945, during the day, in India, summarized as follows:

An oval object, which appeared below the airplane, became hazy and changed in color from heliotrope to pink. It paced the airplane for 5 min. as it pulsated and then disappeared.

Dr. Winkler gave only “Macvey” as reference of his source.

Data:

Temporal data:

Date:	Summer 1945
Time:	Day.
Duration:	?
First known report date:	1982
Reporting delay:	4 decades.

Geographical data:

Country:	India
State/Department:	?
City or place:	?

Witnesses data:

Number of alleged witnesses:	1 or more.
Number of known witnesses:	?
Number of named witnesses:	0

Ufology data:

Reporting channel:	Ufology catalogue by Louis Winkler.
Visibility conditions:	Day.
UFO observed:	Yes.
UFO arrival observed:	?
UFO departure observed:	Yes.
UFO action:	Flies under the plane.
Witnesses action:
Photographs:	No.
Sketch(s) by witness(es):	No.
Sketch(es) approved by witness(es):	No.
Witness(es) feelings:	?
Witnesses interpretation:	?

Classifications:

Sensors:	[X] Visual: 1 or more. [ ] Airborne radar: [ ] Directional ground radar: [ ] Height finder ground radar: [ ] Photo: [ ] Film/video: [ ] EM Effects: [ ] Failures: [ ] Damages:
Hynek:	DD
Armed / unarmed:	Probably armed.
Reliability 1-3:	1
Strangeness 1-3:	3
ACUFO:	Unknown credibility.

Sources:

[Ref. lwr1:] DR. LOUIS WINKLER:

1945 summer; day/India/Macvey

An oval object, which appeared below the airplane, became hazy and changed in color from heliotrope to pink. It paced the airplane for 5 min. as it pulsated and then disappeared.

Aircraft information:

Discussion:

I found a “John W. Macvey” who wrote in the 1960's - 1970's books such as “Alone in the Universe”, “Space Weapons Space War”, “Interstellar Travel: Past, Present, and Future”, “Colonizing Other Worlds: A Field Guide”, “Journey to Alpha Centauri”, etc.

But I found no biography information at all about this author.

He may be the source Dr. Winkler referred to, or not.

If found no other source on the case.

Evaluation:

Unknown credibility.

Sources references:

* = Source is available to me.
? = Source I am told about but could not get so far. Help needed.

[lwr1] * "Catalog/database, and analysis, of pre-1947 'UFO-like phenomena'", report by Dr Louis Winkler, astronomer, Pennsylvania State University, for the Fund for UFO Research (FUFOR), USA, 1982-1984.

File history:

Authoring:

Main author:	Patrick Gross
Contributors:	None
Reviewers:	None
Editor:	Patrick Gross

Changes history:

Version:	Create/changed by:	Date:	Description:
0.1	Patrick Gross	December 17, 2023	Creation, [lwr1].
1.0	Patrick Gross	December 17, 2023	First published.

This page was last updated on December 17, 2023.