📖 Encyclopedia History · · 18 min read
Project Silver Bug and the Avrocar
The Air Force acknowledges a contract with Avro Canada, later known as the flying-saucer project Silverbug.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
NSC 5412 Special Group
A secret National Security Council group is formed to coordinate covert operations.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
4602d AISS crashed-object claim (1954)
A Marine aviator says he was told an Air Force intelligence squadron ran a crashed-object program.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Lockheed–Kelly Johnson sighting (1953)
Lockheed test crew members flying a Navy aircraft follow a flying saucer over the Pacific.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Air Force Regulation 200-2
Air Force Regulation 200-2 tightens UAP reporting and routes key reports away from Project Blue Book.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 27 min read
Robertson Panel
The CIA's Robertson Panel recommends stripping UAP of special status and reducing public interest.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Pentacle memo
A Battelle scientist suggests using Project Stork to reassure the public that everything is under control.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Fort Monmouth desert-disc film
A radar technician says he was shown a film of a silver disc embedded in the desert at Fort Monmouth.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 9 min read
Ruppelt held back before the Robertson Panel
An Air Force colonel stops Blue Book's Edward Ruppelt from sharing strong cases with the CIA before the Robertson Panel.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
CIA–MIT talks on UFO study (1952)
A CIA science chief meets MIT leaders about studying UAP through Project Lincoln.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Submarine encounters study (1952)
Air Force and Navy intelligence study nine undersea UAP encounters reported by U.S. submarines.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 15 min read
Project Twinkle kept classified (1952)
The Air Force's science advisers recommend keeping Project Twinkle, a UAP study at atomic sites, classified.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 4 min read
Project Moonstruck brain-stimulation claim
An alleged CIA project is said to study long-range brain stimulation by radio frequencies.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
Project Winterhaven
Physicist Thomas Townsend Brown proposes Project Winterhaven, a military study of electrogravitic propulsion.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Anthony Mirarchi's challenge to the balloon explanation
The head of Project Twinkle tells reporters the Navy is misleading the public and real UAP show controlled motion.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Dewey Fournet's motion study and Navy inquiry
A Blue Book officer reportedly runs a private, Navy-assisted inquiry into undersea and aerial UAP.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 4 min read
RAND memorandum RM-365
An Air Force-funded RAND paper studies using superstition and the paranormal for psychological warfare.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Henry J. Taylor secret-weapon broadcast (1950)
A broadcaster announces saucers are secret U.S. weapons; the story is later called CIA disinformation.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 4 min read
Alleged CIA report on recovered disc technology (1949)
An alleged CIA report names a secret Defense Department program for exploiting recovered disc technology.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 4 min read
Albert Collins metal samples claim
Scientist Albert Collins claims he studied strange recovered metal samples that the Army later took away.
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