Intro to UFOs
Famed American filmmaker Orson Welles, 23 years old at the time, narrated an adaptation of the H.G. Wells 1897 novel The War of The Worlds for a Halloween episode of... Read full entry »
US air defenses, at high alert over the prospect of a Japanese invasion, fired over 1400 rounds into the night sky around Los Angeles in February 1942 after observing radar and... Read full entry »
The German V-2 rocket, then known as the A-4, was the first rocket to cross the Karman line, thus officially reaching outer space. The rocket platform was originally conceived as... Read full entry »
The term foo fighter was used by Allied aircraft pilots during World War II to describe various UFOs or mysterious aerial phenomena seen in the skies over both the European and... Read full entry »
The Trinity test was the first test detonation of a nuclear weapon in world history. The explosion on July 16, 1945 lit up the night sky over Alamogordo, New Mexico at the site of... Read full entry »
The Trinity crash refers to a purported UFO crash that occurred in San Antonio, New Mexico in August 1945. The crash happened very near to the site of the Trinity nuclear test... Read full entry »
The United States dropped the first atomic bomb, a "Little Boy" enriched uranium fission type bomb, on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. This event was followed three days later... Read full entry »
Throughout 1946, over 2000 sightings of "rockets" in the skies over the Nordic countries were reported. There was much speculation as to the origin of the rockets, with many... Read full entry »
Kenneth Arnold, an experienced pilot from Idaho, allegedly witnessed 9 UFOs on June 24, 1947 while flying over Washington state. Arnold believed the disc shaped objects, which... Read full entry »
The Roswell incident is one of the most famous UFO events in history. In mid-June/early-July of 1947 (the exact date is in dispute), wreckage of a purported aeronautical crash was... Read full entry »
Majestic 12 is an alleged secret committee of US military officials, scientists, and government officials formed to investigate UFO phenomenon and to determine a path forward for... Read full entry »
The National Security Act of 1947 was one of the largest reorganizations of military structure in American history. Under the act, the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force were... Read full entry »
Project Sign (Project Saucer) was an official U.S. government study of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) undertaken by the United States Air Force (USAF) and active for most of... Read full entry »
Project Grudge was an official U.S. government program run by the U.S. Air Force that was successor to Project Sign. The program was tasked with analyzing information on UFO... Read full entry »
The Soviet Union detonated their first atomic weapon--an RDS-1 nicknamed Joe-1 (after Joseph Stalin)--on August 29, 1949 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. Radioactive... Read full entry »
The Flying Saucers Are Real is a book by Donald Keyhoe published in 1950. Keyhoe was a former Marine Corps aviator who alleged that earth had been visited by UFOs for... Read full entry »
1950 independent Cold War drama directed by Mikel Conrad. The plot of the film deals with a flying saucer invented by an American scientist and Soviet spies who are trying to... Read full entry »
Two of the most iconic UFO photographs in American history were taken by farmer Paul Trent near Mcminnville, OR on May 11, 1950. He and his wife Evelyn saw the classic disc shaped... Read full entry »
Following in the legacy of Project Sign and Project Grudge, Project Blue Book was the 1952 iteration of a centralized UFO intelligence gathering program within the U.S. Air Force.... Read full entry »
Multiple UFO sightings were reported in Washington D.C. in the summer of 1952. Two different outbreaks of sightings made national news: on July 19-20 and on July 26-27,... Read full entry »
