📖 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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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 5 min read
White Sands blown-window crash claim (1948)
An anonymous source claims a disc crashed at White Sands with its occupants dead from a blown-out window.
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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
Laredo UFO crash claim (1948)
An anonymous retired colonel claims a craft crashed near Laredo, Texas, and witnesses were sworn to secrecy.
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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 · · 5 min read
Mexican mystery missile (1947)
An unknown missile allegedly crashes in Mexico and the State Department is said to seek the wreckage.
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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 · · 5 min read
Hillenkoetter letter of 24 September 1947
A letter attributed to the CIA director allegedly names Air Force and Navy intelligence units as leads on recovered objects.
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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 · · 5 min read
Hillenkoetter MJ-12 memo of 19 September 1947
A disputed memo attributed to CIA Director Hillenkoetter calls for a presidential directive and scientific study of the discs.
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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 · · 6 min read
Robert Shirkey affidavit on the Roswell debris flights
Lt. Robert Shirkey's affidavit says he saw debris loaded for flights from Roswell to Fort Worth and Wright Field.
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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 11 min read
Thomas DuBose affidavit on the Roswell debris
Col. Thomas DuBose's affidavit says the Roswell debris went via Fort Worth to Wright Field and the balloon photos were a cover story.
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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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📖 Encyclopedia History · · 10 min read
Walter Haut sealed affidavit
Roswell press officer Walter Haut's affidavit says his commander told him the base had recovered crash debris from a disc.
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