📖 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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#unidentified flying object articles
Investigations, analysis and news from the community.
📖 Encyclopedia History · · 7 min read
Kingman UFO crash
An engineer using the pseudonym Fritz Werner swears he investigated a crashed craft near Kingman, Arizona.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Albert Chop and the Tremonton film release
Air Force spokesman Albert Chop claims the CIA killed a press release and ordered a debunking campaign.
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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 · · 6 min read
Fort Polk crash claim (1953)
An Army source says he saw an egg-shaped craft crash-land at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
Toronto dematerialization claim (1953)
An RAF instructor claims he saw a successful 'dematerialization' experiment in Toronto.
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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 · · 16 min read
Urner Liddel's Skyhook balloon explanation
A Navy physicist publicly says all UAP reports are mirages or balloons.
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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 · · 6 min read
Proposal to collect UFO home movies (1950)
An Air Force officer wants to quietly collect UAP home movies from the public with FBI help.
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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 · · 6 min read
Truman's oral UFO briefings
President Truman reportedly asks for spoken-only quarterly briefings on UAP research, with no records kept.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Research and Development Board dismisses the discs (1948)
A Pentagon research board publicly dismisses flying saucers as mirages and mass self-hypnosis.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Pretty memo on the Horten brothers (1947)
A U.S. Army officer reports locating the German Horten brothers, designers of flying-wing aircraft.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 6 min read
Selman Graves and the Paradise Valley crash claim
Pilot Selman Graves says he saw a crashed craft and two humanoid bodies recovered in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
Twining memo (1947)
Gen. Nathan Twining writes that the flying discs are real and could be a secret U.S. or Soviet project.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
War Department denial of a U.S. disc program (1947)
The War Department says it knows of no U.S. program that could explain the flying discs.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
Garrett's suspicion of secret U.S. tests (1947)
An Air Force officer tells the FBI he suspects secret U.S. military tests explain some flying disc reports.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 8 min read
Art McQuiddy and the Roswell press release
Roswell newspaper editor Art McQuiddy says the base announced a recovered disc, then asked him to call it a weather balloon.
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