📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
John McCormack's doubts about the Air Force (1961)
House leader John McCormack says the Air Force isn't sharing all it knows about UFOs.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
Philip Corso's Roswell claims
Army Col. Philip Corso claims he handled autopsy reports and recovered alien artifacts.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Graduate Research Center of the Southwest
Texas Instruments sets up a research center that hires gravitational physicists.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Ben Guerir guards' sighting (1960)
An airman in Morocco says glowing UAP prompted jet fighters to scramble.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Hillenkoetter's 1960 call for hearings
Former CIA Director Hillenkoetter tells a newspaper UFOs are under intelligent control.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Ekuk, Alaska sighting (1960)
Alaska residents report a silver object hovering and dragging trash cans; the Air Force investigates.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
French scientist Mr. L at Wright-Patterson
A French scientist claims he was asked to work at Wright-Patterson on recovered material.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 4 min read
Airline pilots and the "Big Brother" gag rules (1958)
About 50 airline pilots criticize the Air Force's UAP gag rules as 'Big Brother'.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt sighting (1958)
A Navy veteran says he saw an orange cigar-shaped object with figures inside near Cuba.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Hunter AFB "UFO crash" letter (1958)
An Air Force colonel writes about a 'UFO crash' near Hunter AFB, Georgia.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
McCormack subcommittee UFO briefing (1958)
The Air Force tells a House committee civilian UAP groups are its biggest UAP-related challenge.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Henderson UFO briefing (1958)
The Air Force briefs members of Congress on handling constituent questions about UAP.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
McClellan subcommittee persuaded against hearings (1958)
An Air Force general says informal talks persuaded Senate investigators no UAP hearings were needed.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
John Lilly and the alleged hypnosis project
An alleged Air Force project used drugs and hypnosis; one participant believed he contacted aliens.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
Rudolf Lusar and the Nazi disc claims
An Air Force intelligence group analyzes a German author's claims about Nazi flying discs.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
NATO science grants and anti-gravity claim
NATO begins supporting anti-gravity research through its science grants.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 9 min read
Man in Space Soonest
The Air Force's pre-NASA 'Man-In-Space-Soonest' program funds a Lockheed spacecraft, later cancelled.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Hill AFB landing claim (1958)
An anonymous military source claims a UAP deliberately landed at Hill AFB.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Pantex nuclear plant sightings (1957)
Guards at the Pantex nuclear plant in Texas report three flashing objects landing nearby.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 10 min read
Mach 3 radar target alert (1957)
The Air Force intelligence chief warns of a radar target crossing the U.S. at Mach 3.
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