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UFO sightings in the 1950s

Sightings from 1950 to 1959.

35 sightings 🎥 6 videos 🗓️ 1950–1959 📍 Most from Texas, Salem, Japan

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One of the best UFO photos ever - taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon in 1950. Majority of experts who studied photo claims it's legit however identity of the object remains unknownFirst Disc-shaped UAP caught on photographic film; 1950 Louisville, KY 🛸UFO sighting in Riverside, CA, November 23, 1951 National Archives, Records of Headquarters U.S. Air Force (Air Staff)A photo of a Tic Tac was taken over Japan on August 20, 1957. The witness reported that the object made a 90-degree left turn, accelerated, and disappeared into the clouds.Astronomer accidentally takes a photo of a UFO flying away from the moon in 1959.Cigar shaped UFOReal Coast Guard Photo of UFOs, 1952 - image found on Navy.govCoast Guard Air Station, Salem MA (August 1, 1952)1954: Torpo, Norway - Three Schoolgirls saw a black-and-yellow-spotted disc that dropped to within a few feet of them, inside sat a man at controls with red goggles hiding his eyes, the saucer hit a…These three amazing pictures were photographed from a Brazilian Navy vessel cruising off Trinidad Island in the Atlantic Ocean, February 23 1958.The Troncoso Photograph - July 19th, 1952The Washington UFOs were toying with the fighter jets that tried to get close to them during the 1952 incident over Washington D.C.March 22, 1950: Eleven members of an Atomic Test Group witnessed a tan coloured 'flying wing' shaped UFO northwest of Kirtland AFB - "extremely high speed"1957 - "torpedo" shaped UAP circles Atomic Plant at Shippingport, USA, the top half green-coloured and the bottom half a reddish-orange, both separated by a strip of yellowThe Montana UFO Film76 years after Palomar photographed nine “stars” that vanished, an open challenge wants to settle whether they were realThe Petty UFO Sighting of 1950, United States military over Japan, validated documents in US National Archives.1953 Kingsman UFO Crash (Colorized). Is this legit?70 Years Ago: Mysterious Silver Discs Over LotenhulleTIL this was ruled “unidentified” by Project Blue Book. It was taken on July 16, 1952 by a Coast Guard photographer.Italy 1952, the alleged case of Carlo Rossi - the UAP was drawing up water from the river with a tube, propellers on top and bottom, he also claimed to see a figure poke their head out of the top…My attempt to find the exact location of UFO photo taken in Perú in 195170th anniversary of the Kelly-Hopkinsville Goblins case tomorrow1956 - RCAF pilot photograph this strange disc ar 36.000ft over canadian rockies​​The "Dust Bowl" Incident: Case File #44-BUS National Archive Case File 978 August 25,1951. Lubbock TexasUPDATED: US National Archive Case File 978, 08/25/1951. Lubbock Texas.1955: England UFO encounter, three spheres inset into its base, one of which “flopped out”, landing on the ground before it rose up from the ground and into the sky, 30 + witnessesThe Topcliffe sighting -1952 (Declassified CIA Document)McMinnville 1950 UFO : Revisited + Similarities to F18 UFO VideoWhen UFO:s are chasing children. 2 classic cases from Norway and Sweden.Images of UAPs: Objects Discovered Same Day UFOs Flew Over D.C. in 1952 with Beatriz Villarroel | 38 min YouTubeLe véritable monstre de flatwoodsUFOs and Weird Animal StoriesHistorical Film of Reported UFOs, Utah, 1952🏛️ B6

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