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🗓️ Event · 4 min readAirline pilots and the "Big Brother" gag rules (1958)On December 22, 1958, the Newark Star-Ledger published a report by John Lester about more than fifty veteran airline pilots criticizing Air Force UFO secrecy as ridiculous. The anonymous pilots stated that military reporting rules and directives like JANAP 14…
🛸 Case · 9 min readNimitz Tic Tac encounterThe Nimitz Tic Tac encounter occurred in November 2004 off the coast of southern California, where U.S. Navy personnel from the USS Nimitz and USS Princeton tracked and observed an unidentified, wingless, oval-shaped object.More collections
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