1955 in UFO history
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1955 in UFO history
| Year | 1955 |
|---|---|
| Events | 9 |
| Decade | 1950s |
| Topics | Government programs (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic), Beings & bodies (topic), Crashes & retrievals (topic) |
| Timeline | 1955 on the UAP Timeline |
1955 in UFO history — the UAP Timeline records 9 events in 1955, mostly about government programs and secrecy & cover-up. People named in these events include William Tompkins, Louis Witten, George Trimble, Wolfgang Klemperer, Jacques Vallée.
Events
- Project Silver Bug and the Avrocar (1955) — The Air Force acknowledges a contract with Avro Canada, later known as the flying-saucer project Silverbug.
- Louis Witten and the Martin gravity institute (1955) — Physicist Louis Witten says he was recruited into a Glenn L. Martin institute studying gravity.
- Douglas Aircraft unconventional propulsion study (1955) — An aerospace executive claims he worked in a UAP group at Douglas Aircraft from 1955.
- Mrs. G and the Wright-Patterson catalogue (1955) — A Wright-Patterson worker reportedly said she catalogued about 1,000 incoming UAP items.
- William Tompkins and the Douglas documents (1 March 1955) — Documents from engineer William Tompkins suggest Douglas studied unconventional propulsion.
- Tompkins's secret space program claims (1 March 1955) — Tompkins also describes alleged secret underground bases tied to a hidden space program.
- Blue Book Special Report No. 14 (5 May 1955) — Blue Book Special Report No. 14 analyzes 3,200 sightings and finds no proof of advanced craft.
- Senator Russell's Soviet sighting (1955) (15 October 1955) — Sen. Richard Russell sees two discs in the Soviet Union; the CIA classifies the case.
- Herald Tribune "Conquest of Gravity" series (20 November 1955) — A newspaper reports on research into the 'secret of gravity' at top U.S. laboratories.
People
- William Tompkins — Douglas Aircraft draftsman who claimed late in life that he worked on a secret space program.
- Louis Witten — Physicist who joined the Glenn L. Martin Company's research institute in 1955 to study gravity.
- George Trimble — Glenn L. Martin Company executive who backed gravity research in the 1950s.
- Wolfgang Klemperer — Douglas Aircraft missile engineer who led a 1954–55 study of unconventional propulsion.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Leonard Stringfield — Former Air Force intelligence officer and NICAP researcher who collected anonymous crash-retrieval accounts from 1978 to 1994.
- J. Allen Hynek — Astronomer and Air Force UFO consultant from 1948 to 1969 who later founded the Center for UFO Studies.
- Bruce Maccabee — Navy optical physicist and leading analyst of UFO photographs.
- Richard Russell — U.S. senator from Georgia who saw two disc-shaped craft in the Soviet Union in 1955.
- Ansel Talbert — Herald Tribune aviation writer who reported on corporate gravity research in 1955.
Programs, places and terms
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This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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