{
	"Majestic Timeline" : 
	[
		{
			"date" : "0's",
			"desc" : "Greek and Roman records of UFO's",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1600's",
			"desc" : "Significant sightings",
			"ref" : "[Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1700's",
			"desc" : "Significant sightings",
			"ref" : "[Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},
		{ 
			"date" : "1780's",
			"desc" : "Coulomb’s law of electrostatics",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations)",
			"type" : "scientific advanced"
		},
		{ 
			"date" : "1800's",
			"desc" : "Significant sightings",
			"ref" : "[Charles Fort](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},
		{ 
			"date" : "1825",
			"desc" : "Ampère published his \"Ampère’s law.\"",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},
		{ 
			"date" : "1831",
			"desc" : "Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},

		{ 
			"date" : "1838",
			"desc" : "Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-the-telegraph-1773842)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},		

		{ 
			"date" : "7/10/1858",
			"end_date" : "1/7/1943",
			"desc" : "Nikola Tesla born (dies 1/7/1943)",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)",
			"type" : "scientist"
		},		

		{ 
			"date" : "1860",
			"end_date" : "1864",
			"desc" : "Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease#19th_and_20th_centuries)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},				
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1865",
			"desc" : "James Clerk Maxwell publishes “A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field” on electromagnetism. Maxwell derives an electromagnetic wave equation with a velocity for light in close agreement with measurements made by experiment, and deduces that light is an electromagnetic wave.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dynamical_Theory_of_the_Electromagnetic_Field)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},				
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1873",
			"desc" : "Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},						
		
		{ 
			"date" : "3/14/1879",
			"end_date" : "4/18/1955",
			"desc" : "Albert Einstein born",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},						
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1885",
			"desc" : "The Benz Patent-Motorwagen by the German Carl Benz is widely regarded as the world’s first practical modern automobile and was the first car put into series production.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen)",
			"type" : "industrial advance"
		},					

		{ 
			"date" : "11/1886",
			"desc" : "Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Hertz)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},					
						
		{ 
			"date" : "4/20/1889",
			"end_date" : "4/30/1945",
			"desc" : "German dictator Adolf Hitler, who initiated World War 2 and was closely involved in military operations throughout the war, and was central to the perpetration of the Holocaust, is born in Austria-Hungary.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler)",
			"type" : "historical figure"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "Winter 1889",
			"desc" : "Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs",
			"ref" : "[link](https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/landmarks/colorado-springs-experimental-station)",
			"type" : "scientific event"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1890's",
			"desc" : "The experimental proof of Maxwell’s equations was demonstrated by Heinrich Hertz in a series of experiments. After that, Maxwell’s equations were fully accepted by scientists.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla/landmarks/colorado-springs-experimental-station)",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Maxwell%27s_equations)",
                        "type" : "scientific advance"
		},		
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1894",
			"end_date" : "1895",
			"desc" : "The first practical radio [transmitters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmitter) and [receivers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_receiver) invented in by [Guglielmo Marconi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi) using radiotelegraphy",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_telegraphy)",
			"type" : "industrial advance"
		},				
		
		{ 
			"date" : "11/8/1895",
			"desc" : "X-Rays discovered",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},				
		
		{ 
			"date" : "4/17/1897",
			"desc" : "Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Aurora, TX"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "9/6/1905",
			"desc" : "Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper published",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_relativity)",
			"type" : "scientific advance",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "10/1/1908",
			"end_date" : "5/26/1927",
			"desc" : "The Ford Model T is an automobile that was produced by the Ford Motor Company. It is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, which made car travel available to middle-class Americans. The relatively low price was partly the result of Ford’s efficient fabrication, including assembly line production instead of individual handcrafting.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Model_T)",
			"type" : "industrial advance"
		},		
		
		{ 
			"date" : "4/15/1912",
			"desc" : "Sinking of the Titanic",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic)",
			"type" : "disaster"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1/1/1914",
			"desc" : "The world’s first scheduled passenger airline service took off from St. Petersburg, FL and landed at its destination in Tampa, FL, about 17 miles (27 kilometers) away. The St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line was a short-lived endeavor — only four months — but it paved the way for today’s daily transcontinental flights.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.space.com/16657-worlds-first-commercial-airline-the-greatest-moments-in-flight.html)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "St. Petersburg, FL"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "7/28/1914",
			"end_date" : "11/11/1918",
			"desc" : "World War 1",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I)",
			"type" : "war"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "5/24/1915",
			"desc" : "The Allied Powers (Britain, France, and Russia) jointly issued a statement which for the first time ever explicitly charged a government, the Ottoman Empire, with committing a \"crime against humanity\" in reference to that regime's persecution of its Christian minorities, including Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "11/1915",
			"desc" : "Einstein presents to the Prussian Academy of Science what are now known as the Einstein field equations, which form the core of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_relativity)",
			"type" : "scientific advance",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "11/11/1918",
			"desc" : "End of World War 1",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I)",
			"type" : "war"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "6/28/1919",
			"desc" : "Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. One of the most important treaties of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Versailles)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1/16/1920",
			"desc" : "First meeting of the League of Nations",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"see_also" : "4/20/46"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "11/2/1920",
			"desc" : "First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh PA",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/history-of-commercial-radio)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1922",
			"desc" : "County Donegal, Ireland: Irish Republic Army man, Lawrence Bradley, wrote to the editor of “Watfordand West-Hersts Post” magazine (4/30/64) that while he was fighting a scattered rear-guard, mostly in the mountains of Donegal, he came upon a cave with vegetation at the entrance that had been scorched. The only occupants in the cave were the sick and the wounded that had been unable to walk. The six able-bodied soldiers that were looking after them said they had been awakened early pre-dawn by a whirring noise outside of the cave and had fired their rifles in the direction of the noise, thinking that it was an armored car. Suddenly the object retaliated by firing jets of flame at the cave entrance. After near suffocation, the soldiers ran out to see the flame throwing UFO ascending into the sky. Clearly visible, it was circular in shape and glowing and of a shiny metal.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "UFO sighting",
			"location" : "County Donegal, Ireland"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1926",
			"desc" : "UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sighting",
			"location" : "Himalaya Mountains"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "10/1928",
			"desc" : "Richard E. Byrd’s first expedition to Antarctica. He set up a large base on the Ross Ice Shelf, called Little America. This was the first of the American bases on the continent and was well-equipped.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Antarctica"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "Spring 1929",
			"desc" : "SAUCER SIGHTED YEAR WALL STREET COLLAPSES - Larry Reynolds of San Francisco, California saw a mysterious object in the clouds. The day was early spring and occasional clouds hid the oval-shaped craft from time to time. At times it was clearly visible and Reynolds judged its size to be tremendous.",
			"ref" : "Fate Magazine 1952 (Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5))",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Bainbridge Island, WA"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "10/4/1929",
			"desc" : "US stock market crashes",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "New York City, New York"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "11/29/1929",
			"desc" : "Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19 hours to fly from Little America to the Pole and return.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Antartica"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1933",
			"end_data" : "1935",
			"desc" : "Richard E. Byrd’s 2nd expedition to Antarctica. In 1934 he spends 5 months alone in a hut, 100’s of km’s from the nearest support, in total darkness. He almost dies from carbon monoxide poisoning.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Antartica"
		},		
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1/30/1933",
			"desc" : "Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},		
		
		{ 
			"date" : "3/4/1933",
			"end_date" : "4/12/1945",
			"desc" : "President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{ 
			"date" : "7/4/1933",
			"desc" : "The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, after all other parties are banned or split up.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1934",
			"desc" : "INDIAN RESERVATION HAS THREE SPACE VISITORS - Earl J. Duncan of Chamblee, Ga., saw three bright round orange objects in the sky above Shoshone Indian Reservation near Fort Washakie. They were soundless and moved at a snail's pace. Duncan's sighting has many things in common with the January 29, 1952 sighting over Korea by Army planes, as appeared in Life Magazine, April 7 1952.",
			"ref" : "Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Fort Washakie, WY"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "6/19/1934",
			"desc" : "The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, replacing the Federal Radio Commission.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/history-of-commercial-radio)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "7/29/1934",
			"desc" : "Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born in Elizabeth, NJ.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_T._Friedman)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Elizabeth, NJ"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "1935",
			"end_date" : "1937",
			"desc" : "UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO activity",
			"location" : "Ethiopia"
		},
		
		{ 
			"date" : "6/26/1936",
			"desc" : "Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrich_Focke)", "[link](https://upperlimitaviation.edu/when-was-the-first-helicopter-invented/)" ],
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/30/1938",
			"desc" : "Orson Welles “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast performed and broadcast live over the CBS Radio Network. The episode is famous for inciting a panic by convincing some members of the listening audience that a Martian invasion was taking place, though the scale of panic is disputed.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1938_radio_drama))",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "New York City, New York"			
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1939",
			"desc" : "The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, made its first flight",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_aircraft)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Germany"			
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1939",
			"end_date" : "1941",
			"desc" : "Richard E. Byrd’s third Antarctic expedition. President Roosevelt asked Byrd to command the U.S. Antarctic programme. This time they again used the Little America base but also set up on Stonington Island, near the Antarctic Peninsula. This expedition would complete extensive studies of Antarctic geology, biology, meteorology and continue exploring new areas. Due to the impending involvement of America in the Second World War, Byrd was recalled to active duty in 1940 and assigned to the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations. The expedition continued without him.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Antartica"			
		},				

		{
			"date" : "8/2/1939",
			"desc" : "Einstein’s atomic bomb warning letter to President Roosevelt stating \"it may be possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium, by which vast amounts of power and large quantities of new radium-like elements would be generated. Now it appears almost certain that this could be achieved in the immediate future... This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs\"",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/documents/beginnings/einstein.html)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "9/1/1939",
			"end_date" : "9/2/1945",
			"desc" : "World War 2",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II)",
			"type" : "war"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/26/1940",
			"end_date" : "6/4/1940",
			"desc" : "Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk_evacuation)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Dunkirk"
		},

		{
			"date" : "7/10/1940",
			"end_date" : "10/31/1940",
			"desc" : "Battle of Britain",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain)",
			"location" : "Britain",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/10/1940",
			"desc" : "Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false)",
			"book_ref" : "The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1941",
			"desc" : "Charles Fort’s four famous books",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fort)" ],
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1941",
			"desc" : "Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sighting",
			"location" : "Bakersfield, CA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "Late 4/1941",
			"desc" : "Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.kfvs12.com/2021/05/26/alleged-ufo-crash-cape-girardeau-area/)",
			"type" : "UFO crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Cape Girardeau, MO"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "3/17/1941",
			"desc" : "US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Defense_Command)",
			"type" : "military",
			"location" : "West Coast"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "2/24/1942",
			"end_date" : "2/25/1942",
			"desc" : "Battle of LA",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles)",
			"type" : "military",
			"location" : "Los Angeles, CA"
		},
        
		{
			"date" : "2/26/1942",
			"desc" : "Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, G. C. Marshall stating: UFO's appeared over Los Angeles, CA, yesterday morning. The 37th Brigade (AA) expended 1430 rounds of ammunition against them. No bombs dropped, no casualties among our troops, no planes (UFOs) shot down, no AA or Navy planes were inaction. (AA Document, OCS 21347–86.)",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p17, 446)", "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Los_Angeles)" ],
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/27/1942",
			"desc" : "Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study completed",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerikabomber)",
			"type" : "project study",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/13/1942",
			"desc" : "The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, begins operations",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/)",
			"type" : "historical",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/3/1942",
			"desc" : "First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, 85–90km",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1942",
			"alt_date" : "1/1943",
			"desc" : "THEY FOLLOW THE LEADER - Mrs. A.M. Strickler, while out walking between 9 and 10pm, sighted in the sky over the Susquehanna Bridge, on Route 30, a string of highly illuminated objects which, she says she can best describe as being similar to a train of passenger coaches, seeming to weave in and out in a highly specialized follow-the-leader pattern. Illumination seemed to emanate from an endless string of portholes which were arranged on a straight line or plane and were yellowish like an incandescent bulb. The objects were cigar-shaped, but could have been one side of a flat, saucer-shaped form. Each \"coach\" was identical in size and shape except the first, which was larger, brighter and seemed to have a proboscis-shaped appendage in front like a figure head. The objects traveled extremely fast, emitting no noise, jet exhaust, or flame.",
			"ref" : "Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Columbia, PA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/2/1942",
			"desc" : "Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1)",
			"type" : "scientific advance",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
						
		{
			"date" : "1943",
			"desc" : "SAUCERS GIVE NAVAL GUNS THE BRUSHOFF - In conversing with a former Navy man who is presently a radio technician for the Santa Fe railroad, he related that sometime in 1943 while he was stationed at San Diego and assigned to a gun crew on a naval destroyer they were alerted to their stations. Shortly five saucers (such as those pictured by George Adamski) appeared over the ship and hovered. Orders were given to fire upon them. He asserted that they could see the tracers and shells heading directly toward the saucers. The shells either exploded or disintegrated before reaching the objects. This attack continued for 10 minutes but nothing affected them. At the approach of naval planes the saucers disappeared.",
			"ref" : "Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff 5)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "1/7/1943",
			"desc" : "Nikola Test dies",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "United States"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/16/1943",
			"desc" : "Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium production",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Site)",
			"type" : "nuclear weapons",
			"location" : "Hanford, WA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/18/1943",
			"desc" : "Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-12_National_Security_Complex)",
			"type" : "nuclear weapons",
			"location" : "Oak Ridge, TN"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "Spring 1943",
			"desc" : "Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped",
			"ref" : "[link](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APRO%20Bulletin/APRO%20Bulletin%20-%201957%2001%2000%20-%20January.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away",
			"location" : "Laguna Beach, California"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1/1943",
			"desc" : "Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Y#Construction)",
			"type" : "nuclear weapons",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1943",
			"desc" : "Einstein hired by USN to work on sub warfare/high explosives. Dr. Vannever Bush asks Einstein to consult for the OSRD, but apparently Einstein turned him down.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false)",
			"book_ref" : "The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist",
			"type" : "nuclear weapons",
			"location" : "Princeton, NJ",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/1943",
			"desc" : "The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works)",
			"type" : "aerospace"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/15/1943",
			"desc" : "Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News Bulletin",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.jta.org/archive/prof-einstein-working-on-explosives-for-u-s-navy-department)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},

		{
			"date" : "7/1943",
			"desc" : "Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunk_Works)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Burbank, CA"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "7/1/1943",
			"end_date" : "3/31/1944",
			"desc" : "Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National Archives.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://weare.guru/albert-einsteins-time-sheets/)", "[link](https://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2015/03/albert-einstein-part-time-civil-servant.html)" ],
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/18/1943",
			"end_date" : "10/15/1944",
			"desc" : "Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN",
			"ref" : "[link](https://books.google.com/books?id=weECGK2rChcC&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=Einstein+cleared+by+the+Office+of+Naval+Intelligence+to+work+on+sub+warfare+and+high+explosives+projects&source=bl&ots=dOj5bHKA38&sig=ACfU3U29cLMN28JMmHEVhZ1yH_8cicl53w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjno9nW8a38AhUmF1kFHQ49BOcQ6AF6BAgFEAM#v=onepage&q=Einstein%20cleared%20by%20the%20Office%20of%20Naval%20Intelligence%20to%20work%20on%20sub%20warfare%20and%20high%20explosives%20projects&f=false)",
			"book_ref" : "The Einstein File: J. Edgar Hoover's Secret War Against the World's Most Famous Scientist",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1944",
			"desc" : "During WW2, E.L. (initials), serving as Carpenter Mate, 1st Class, Hqt. Co. 112th Construction Battalion, came across a landed saucer near a wooded ridge, near the beach of Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii. Description: 50 ft. diam.; metallic; looked like an igloo; topped with a clear glass dome about a foot high with agold colored weather vane-like device spinning inside.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C)",
			"type" : "scientist"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1944",
			"desc" : "Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "paranormal phenomenon"
		},				

		{
			"date" : "4/1944",
			"desc" : "The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_Me_262)",
			"type" : "aerospace"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1944",
			"desc" : "Twelve dismantled V-2 rockets were shipped to Japan. These left Bordeaux in August 1944 on the transport U-boats U-219 and U-195, which reached Jakarta in December 1944. A civilian V-2 expert was a passenger on U-234, bound for Japan in May 1945 when the war ended in Europe. The fate of these V-2 rockets is unknown.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/7/1944",
			"desc" : "First V-2 rocket attacks begin. Two launched at Paris. V-2’s speed and trajectory made it practically invulnerable to anti-aircraft guns and fighters, as it dropped from an altitude of 100–110 km (62–68 mi) at up to three times the speed of sound at sea level (approximately 3550 km/h). The British government, concerned about spreading panic or giving away vital intelligence to German forces, initially attempted to conceal the cause of the explosions by making no official announcement, and euphemistically blaming them on defective gas mains. The public did not believe this explanation and therefore began referring to the V-2s as “flying gas mains”.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/8/1944",
			"desc" : "Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},
		
		
		{
			"date" : "1945",
			"desc" : "Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "anomalous phenomenon",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1945",
			"desc" : "(Approximate date.) Radar signals secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2 according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. Lee.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/we-secretly-bounced-radar-signals-off-the-moon-during-ww2-f4699297038f)",
			"type" : "scientific advance",
			"location" : "New Jersey"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "Summer 1945",
			"desc" : "Ensign Rolan D. Powell and 5 others, while stationed at US Naval Air Station in Pasco WA, were scrambled in their F6F Hellcats to intercept unknown flying craft the size of three aircraft carriers. These craft where hovering at high altitude above the top-secret Plutonium production facility in Hanford, WA. Pilots were ordered above 42k feet, well above their rated ceiling, but were unable to reach the unknown craft.",
			"ref" : "\"Alien Base\", Timothy Good, page 152 (photos)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Hanford, WA"
		},				
			
		{
			"date" : "1946",
			"desc" : "Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings",
			"location" : "Scandinavia"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "6/21/1947",
			"desc" : "Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops metal residue.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings",
			"location" : "Maury Island, WA",
			"attributes" : [ "metals" ]
		},						

		{
			"date" : "6/23/1947",
			"desc" : "In the afternoon, a railroad engineer sees something very strange in the sky and reports it to the local newspaper. \"They looked like ten shiny, disc-shaped things. They were very, very high, fluttering along in a string and pretty soon they vanished toward the northwest.\" He guessed they were travelling at 500mph - faster than any plane he ever saw.",
			"ref" : "Frank Edwards, [\"My First 10,000,000 Sponsors\"](https://www.amazon.com/first-sponsers-1956-Leather-Bound/dp/B09SHHSV34), page 111 (paperback)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Cedar Rapids, Iowa"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/24/1947",
			"desc" : "Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, Washington",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings",
			"location" : "Mt. Rainer, WA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/23/1947",
			"desc" : "Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by Fred Johnson",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/23/1947",
			"desc" : "USAF project \"SIGN\" started",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/30/1947",
			"desc" : "USAF project \"Saucer\" started",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},

		{
			"date" : "1/7/1948",
			"desc" : "Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO encounter",
			"location" : "Godman Air Base, Kentucky"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1948",
			"desc" : "More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings",
			"location" : "Europe"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/24/1948",
			"desc" : "Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings",
			"location" : "Montgomery, Alabama"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1/1948",
			"desc" : "Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "UFO sightings",
			"location" : "Fargo, North Dakota"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/1948",
			"desc" : "Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "anomalous phenomenon",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM"
		},

		{
			"date" : "2/11/1949",
			"desc" : "USAF Project \"GRUDGE\" started",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/27/1949",
			"desc" : "USAF press release admits that saucers may exist",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1949",
			"desc" : "2 UFO's tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New Mexico.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Summer 1949",
			"desc" : "USAF Project \"Twinkle\" started",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/19/1949",
			"desc" : "Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/27/1949",
			"desc" : "USAF Project \"Saucer\" closed",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/1950",
			"desc" : "TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying Saucers",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/22/1950",
			"desc" : "USAF denies existance of flying saucers",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/8/1950",
			"desc" : "Mysterious \"Silas Newton\" speaks at University of Denver",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/27/1950",
			"desc" : "TWA flight 117 sights UFO",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting"
		},

		{
			"date" : "6/1950",
			"desc" : "Many sightings",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/4/1950",
			"desc" : "Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back in 30 minutes",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1950",
			"desc" : "Project \"Magnet\" authorized in Canada",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Canada"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Summer 1951",
			"desc" : "USAF project \"Bluebook\" is started",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/1952",
			"desc" : "Reports of UFO's in Korean War",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "6/1952",
			"desc" : "Big month for sightings",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "6/1952",
			"desc" : "Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many times",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1952",
			"desc" : "Ohio Northern University sets up Project \"A\" to investigate the UFO's.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Ohio Northern University"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1952",
			"desc" : "Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/14/1952",
			"desc" : "Pan American pilots see formation of UFO's.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/19/1952",
			"end_date" : "7/26/1952",
			"desc" : "UFO's detected by radar over Washington., D.C.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"attributes" : [ "radar" ]
		},

		{
			"date" : "7/29/1952",
			"desc" : "USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Michigan"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/29/1952",
			"desc" : "USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/27/1952",
			"desc" : "Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other visits.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event"
		},

		{
			"date" : "7/23/1952",
			"desc" : "Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "8/19/1952",
			"desc" : "J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is burned.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"attributes" : [ "injury" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/12/1952",
			"desc" : "Space \"monster\" appears from saucer near Sutton, West VA",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Sutton, West Virgina"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/20/1952",
			"desc" : "George Adamski contacts man from Venus.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/1953",
			"desc" : "Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco - mysterious, then disappear.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "anomalous event",
			"location" : "San Francisco, CA"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "11/10/1953",
			"desc" : "A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1/1954",
			"desc" : "Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting"
		},

		{
			"date" : "2/18/1954",
			"desc" : "Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from Mars and saucer.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/15/1954",
			"desc" : "Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston, England.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"attributes" : [ "ufo photo" ],
			"location" : "Coniston, England"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1954",
			"desc" : "Sec. of Air Force Talbott's aircraft paced by UFO over Fresno, CA",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter",
			"location" : "Fresno, CA"
		},	
						
		{
			"date" : "8/1954",
			"desc" : "Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "8/25/1954",
			"desc" : "Two girls in Norway meet spaceman.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "Norway"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "8/28/1954",
			"desc" : "Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three men get out.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Quebec, Canada"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1954",
			"desc" : "Project \"Magnet\" discontinued",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Canada"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "11/6/1954",
			"desc" : "Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Padre Island, TX"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/30/1954",
			"desc" : "Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in Alabama.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "anomalous event",
			"location" : "Alabama"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/22/1954",
			"desc" : "World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "channelling"
		},
						
		{
			"date" : "4/24/1954",
			"desc" : "Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in saucer.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "Mt. View, MO"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/21/1954",
			"desc" : "Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Hopkinsville, Kentucky"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1956",
			"desc" : "Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Mexico"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1956",
			"desc" : "Much UFO activity in South America",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "South America"
		},

		{
			"date" : "4/7/1956",
			"desc" : "Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks to Venusians.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "South Africa"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/19/1956",
			"desc" : "Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"attributes" : [ "ufo photo" ],
			"location" : "California"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "1956",
			"desc" : "E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs steer from farm",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"attributes" : [ "cattle mutilation" ],
			"location" : "Twin Falls, Idaho"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "8/29/1956",
			"desc" : "National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena organized in Washington DC",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "9/7/1956",
			"desc" : "Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc escapes.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter",
			"location" : "Moneymore, Ireland"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/10/1957",
			"desc" : "Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run)",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter",
			"attributes" : [ "aerospace" ],
			"location" : "New York"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/10/1957",
			"desc" : "Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run)",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"attributes" : [ "aerospace" ],
			"location" : "New York"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/3/1957",
			"desc" : "Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper) spots a UFO landing at Edwards AFB.",
			"ref" : "[YouTube](https://youtu.be/1GlVRrk0qgU)",
			"type" : "ce2 event",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/30/1957",
			"desc" : "Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for 45 minutes",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce2 event",
			"location" : "Galt, Ontario"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1957",
			"desc" : "Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by spacemen",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Birmingham, England"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/2/1957",
			"end_date" : "11/3/1957",
			"desc" : "Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars stalled",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Levelland, TX"
		},

		{
			"date" : "11/5/1957",
			"desc" : "Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks to spacepeople",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "Kearney, NE"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/6/1957",
			"desc" : "Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars, talk to spacepeople",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "1/22/1958",
			"desc" : "Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO discussion",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},				

		{
			"date" : "2/1958",
			"desc" : "Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "2/5/1958",
			"desc" : "Reinhold Schmidt's 2nd contact with saucers & spacepeople, takes ride.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "Kearney, NE"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1958",
			"desc" : "Big \"flap\" in Arizona. Much activity.",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Arizona"
		},						
				
		{
			"date" : "4/1958",
			"desc" : "All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in respective countries",
			"ref" : "[Keziah Poster](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources/blob/main/Keziah58.pdf)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "New York City, New York"
		},						

		{
			"date" : "2/1945",
			"desc" : "Borderland Sciences Research Association (BSRA) Founded by Meade Layne. Works with expert medium Mark A. Probert. Their motto: \"Serving Higher Intelligence since 1945\".",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "4/12/1945",
			"end_date" : "1/20/1953",
			"desc" : "President Harry S. Truman in office",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "3/17/1945",
			"desc" : "Nazis fired eleven V-2 missiles at a bridge, their first use against a tactical target and the only time they were fired on a German target during the war",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "3/27/1945",
			"desc" : "Final V-2 rockets used during WW2",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "6/26/1945",
			"desc" : "United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on 10/24/1945",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "New York City"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "7/16/1945",
			"desc" : "First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile Range)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "18.6",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "8/6/1945",
			"desc" : "First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "16",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Hiroshima, Japan"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "8/9/1945",
			"desc" : "Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "21",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Nagasaki, Japan"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "8/16/1945",
			"desc" : "“Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.howandwhys.com/astronomer-jacques-vallee-trinity-ufo-crash-encounter/)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "San Antonio, NM"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "8/22/1945",
			"desc" : "Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic bomb effort",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Moscow, Russia"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "9/2/1945",
			"desc" : "End of WW2",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},

		{
			"date" : "10/1945",
			"desc" : "The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Langley, VA"	
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/2/1945",
			"desc" : "British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"location" : "Cuxhaven, Germany"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/15/1945",
			"desc" : "British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"location" : "Cuxhaven, Germany"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/24/1945",
			"desc" : "United Nations charter in full force",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "New York City, New York"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1946",
			"desc" : "Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fourth Antarctic expedition (Operation High Jump). Involved 4,700 men, 13 ships (including the aircraft carrier Philippine Sea), and 25 aircraft. It was the largest Antarctic expedition ever attempted and would map and photograph almost 1,400,000 square km of the Antarctic continent, especially the coastline. Byrd made his second flight over the South Pole and was involved in a number of other flights. In 1948 the U.S. Navy produced a documentary about the operation. It was called The Secret Land and won an Academy Award for best documentary.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://captainantarctica.com.au/exploration/admiral-byrd/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Antarctica"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1946",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the Soviet \"Los Alamos\" (Weapons design and research, warhead assembly)",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
				"[link](https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html#Chagan)" ],
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1946",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment)",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1946",
			"end_date" : "1951",
			"desc" : "Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_V-2_Launching_Site)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/10/1946",
			"desc" : "Public announcements of radar signals bounced off Moon",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/some-recovered-post-trinity-pre-1947-history-4d653bbff4c3)",
			"type" : "scientific advance",
			"location" : "New Jersey"
		},		
		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/26/1946",
			"desc" : "Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Scandinavia"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/6/1946",
			"desc" : "The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is deactivated",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Defense_Command)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Pacific Coast Region, US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/15/1946",
			"desc" : "First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad 33",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/16/1946",
			"desc" : "First V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, reaching 5.5km altitude (radio cut off after launch, fin 4 failed prior to cutoff)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "5.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/20/1946",
			"desc" : "League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United Nations (UN)",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_of_Nations)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1946",
			"end_date" : "12/1946",
			"desc" : "2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_rockets)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Scandinavia"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/10/1946",
			"desc" : "First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.6km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "112.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/13/1946",
			"desc" : "Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/)",
				"[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar)" ],
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Astrakhan Oblast"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/29/1946",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "112.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/13/1946",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "117.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/28/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude (nose separation failure)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "107.8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},				

		{
			"date" : "7/5/1946",
			"end_date" : "12/1946",
			"desc" : "Dr. Oliver J. Lee, director of Dearborn Observatory at Northwestern University, states in a Los Angeles Examiner article that radar signals were secretly bounced off the Moon during WW2. He also speculates that the saucers are remotely controlled.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/we-secretly-bounced-radar-signals-off-the-moon-during-ww2-f4699297038f)",
			"type" : "Newspaper Article",
			"location" : "Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "7/9/1946",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "134.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "7/19/1946",
			"desc" : "Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (oxygen pump explodes)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "4.8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "7/30/1946",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "161.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/15/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude (Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "6.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/22/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude (Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "0km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "9/4/1946",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Memo, to Mr. Morgan, from Mr. Lyon stating: 800 UFO reports have been reported with new ones coming in daily from Sweden. Full details of these reports have been forwarded to Wash., D.C. by our Military and Naval Attaches",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p22,447)",
			"type" : "top secret memo",
			"location" : "Sweden"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/9/1946",
			"desc" : "Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established contact and reported it would return",
			"ref" : "rg",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "10/10/1946",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "173.8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/10/1946",
			"desc" : "First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion performance)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "104.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "11/7/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude (Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : ".32km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "11/21/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude (Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "102.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "12/5/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude (Control system failed at altitude)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "152.9km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "12/17/1946",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude (Rocket exploded at 440s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "184.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "1947",
			"desc" : "Einstein sees \"Greys\" for the first time",
			"ref" : "anonymous information (R.G.)",
			"type" : "rumor",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein", "gallant" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1945",
			"desc" : "Soviet underground city Ozyorsk starts construction, using 70,000 prisoners from 12 labor camps. Later turned into the “Chelyabinsk-40” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/)",
				"[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)" ],
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Ozyorsk, Russia",
			"see_also" : "1947"
		},
		 
		{
			"date" : "1947",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
				"[link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/)" ],
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Ozyorsk, Russia"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1957",
			"desc" : "A radioactive waste containment sector near Ozyorsk failed and exploded with a force between 70-100 tons of TNT. Radiation was immediately spread throughout the region, affecting over 250,000 people. The radioactivity released into the atmosphere was estimated to only be one-fourth that of the later Chernobyl disaster. By 1959 every tree within a 12-mile radius of the Chelyabinsk-40 complex was dead.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/)",
			"type" : "radiological event",
			"location" : "Ozyorsk, Russia"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1967",
			"desc" : "In 1967 a drought reduced water levels in Lake Karachay where nuclear waste was being dumped, exposing radioactive dust. The dust was spread by gale-force winds in the area, spread over 25,000 square kilometers and exposing another 500,000 residents to nuclear fallout. The lake would eventually accumulate over 120 million curies of radionuclides. To put that in perspective, the Chernobyl incident released 1 million.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://sometimes-interesting.com/the-most-contaminated-place-on-earth-chelyabinsk-40/)",
			"type" : "radiological event",
			"location" : "Lake Karachay, Russia"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1947",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)", "[link](https://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/sverdlovsk-45_nuc.htm)" ],
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "N 58 39 E 59 47"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/1947",
			"desc" : "W.H. (initials) of Yucca Valley, Calif., while still serving in the U.S. Navy, was on leave with C.C. (initials) who was just out of the U.S. army. While they were looking for desert property to buy they came upon the Papagos Indian Reservation, north of the rugged Superstition Mtns. west of Globe, Arizona. While traveling on a dirt trail, they came upon a group of military personnel guarding a crashed saucer half buried in the sand. Description: Disc shaped with a domed top; about 30 ft. diam.; two rings on its outer edge which seemed to have windows between them. There was no evidence of an encampment or heavy equipment.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Papago Indian Reservation"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/7/1947",
			"desc" : "SKY OBJECT A MYSTERY ROCKET? - A laboratory analysis of the cylindrical object which fell in Portland yesterday from a clear sky established presence of aluminum, titanium, magnesium, calcium, chrome, and zircon. Dr. John E. Allen, chief geologist of the Oregon department of geology and mineral industries, said it gives reasonable basis for the hypothesis that it could have been used in rocket construction. Largest portion of the object has been taken over by an Army investigator for examination. The object was found when a mysterious ice shower occurred Saturday confined to a fifteen foot square area of Hill Military Academy.",
			"ref" : "Los Angeles Examiner - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Portland, OR"
		},											

		{
			"date" : "1/10/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "116.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},									
		
		{
			"date" : "1/23/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "49.9km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},											
		
		{
			"date" : "2/9/1947",
			"desc" : "Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins writing essay competition",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"location" : "Coral Gables, FL",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},													
		
		{
			"date" : "2/20/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude (Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "109.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "3/7/1947",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "165.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "3/17/1947",
			"desc" : "Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young students to find their directions”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/101810588/einstein-student/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},
		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1/1947",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "129.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "4/8/1947",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "102.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "4/17/1947",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "142.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1/1947",
			"desc" : "Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter replaces Hoyt Vandenberg as Director of Central Intelligence. Dr. Leon Davidson notes this as the actual beginning of the CIA in 1961.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "5/15/1947",
			"desc" : "A V-2 test missile at White Sands goes off course. Reaches 135.2km, internal explosion at 64.3s. Commanding Officer blames “peculiar phenomena” for the accident. Former state representative Jon Andrew Kissner finds evidence in 1994 that possibly another object was seen in the vicinity of the rocket after the launch that might have been responsible for the failure.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf)", "[link](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/of-roswell-and-rockets-v2-film)" ],
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "135.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/15/1947",
			"desc" : "UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly 5/21/1947)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Oklahoma City, OK"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "5/19/1947",
			"desc" : "UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Manitou Springs, CO"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "5/19/1947",
			"desc" : "UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Manitou Springs, CO"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "5/29/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 79.3km altitude (Hermes II prototype with dummy Organ ramjet test. Lost control after 4s and crashed outside range near Juarez, Mexico.",
			"ref" : "[link](http://www.cufos.org/pdfs/UFOsandIntelligence.pdf)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "79.3km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/31/1947",
			"desc" : "Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class photo in newspaper",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright/blob/main/miami_news_31_may_1947_diploma_pic.png)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Coral Gables, FL",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "6/1947",
			"desc" : "Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”",
			"ref" : "[Majestic Document](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/oppenheimer_einstein.pdf)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein", "majestic" ]
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "6/11/1947 (estimated)",
			"desc" : "Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day of high school",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},	
		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/21/1947",
			"desc" : "Maury Island Incident",
			"ref" : [ "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/so-whatever-happened-to-harold-a-dahl-of-the-1947-maury-island-incident-fb5a4cdb626e)",
				"[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"attributes" : [ "metals" ]
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "6/24/1947",
			"desc" : "A civilian pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reports seeing 9 flying saucers flying in formation at an altitude of 9200 feet and at almost 1700 mph. He estimated them to be 20 to 25 miles away from him and between 45 to 50feet long",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "6/29/1947",
			"desc" : "Days before the Roswell Incident on June 29, 1947, Dr. C. J. Zohn (working for a Washington naval research lab) and 3 others see UFO's 20 miles from the V-2 rocket testing grounds at White Sands (which would probably be Pad 33).",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116987855/c-j-zohn-v2-flying-saucer-sighting/)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "White Sands, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1947",
			"desc" : "Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein",
			"ref" : "[Bragalia](https://www.ufoexplorations.com/einsteins-secret-trip-to-view-roswell-ufo)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1/1947",
			"desc" : "Military installations at White Sands, Alamogordo, and Roswell, New Mexico track high-speed objects on radar, all flying at speeds well above what current jet fighters were capable of doing. With the radar blips penetrating highly secure air space at will, all three facilities go on full alert.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.ufosightingsfootage.uk/2016/11/heres-actual-roswell-main-crash-site.html)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : [ "White Sands, NM", "Alamogordo, NM", "Roswell, NM" ]
		},
		   
		{
			"date" : "7/2/1947",
			"desc" : "Roswell area crash ",
			"ref" : "Valerian, Matrix 1",
			"type" : "ufo crash"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "7/2/1947",
			"desc" : "Roswell area crash ",
			"ref" : "\"Matrix 1\", Valerian",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "7/2/1947",
			"desc" : "Magdalena, N.M.: Mr. Barnett sighted a shiny object out in the desert and, upon investigation, came upon a crashed disc-shaped object, 9 meters (30 ft.) across. Later a military truck arrived to supervise the investigation of the crash site. Barnett saw dead bodies strewn about the crash site. They weren’t wearing military uniforms, and in fact didn’t even look human. Seen from a distance, the bodies had on silvery suits and appeared to be about 3 ft. tall.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Magdalena, N.M."
		},									
		
		{
			"date" : "7/3/1947",
			"desc" : "Magdalena, NM area crash",
			"ref" : "\"Matrix 1\", Valerian",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Magdalena, NM"
		},											
		
		{
			"date" : "7/4/1947",
			"desc" : "UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one heavily injured, one surviving",
			"ref" : "anonymous information (R.G.)",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Magdalena, NM",
            "attributes" : [ "gallant" ]
		},													
		
		{
			"date" : "7/4/1947",
			"desc" : "Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue Book Report includes state and local police witnesses",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/ItsBS_YouTube/status/1608646571675226114)",
			"type" : "mass ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Portland, OR"
		},													
		
		{
			"date" : "7/4/1947",
			"desc" : "Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in PNW",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident)",
				"[Twitter](https://twitter.com/ItsBS_YouTube/status/1611422054758158349)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Pacific Northwest"
		},													
		
		{
			"date" : "7/5/1947",
			"desc" : "Plains of San Agustin area: Gerald Anderson and family/friends witness a crashed UFO with 4 ET’s, later passes a polygraph test, interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.donkeyjunk.com/post/gerald-anderson-ufo-interview-the-man-who-claims-he-witnessed-a-crashed-ufo-and-four-aliens-in-1947)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Plains of San Agustin, NM"
		},															
		
		{
			"date" : "7/5/1947",
			"desc" : "Frank Cooley, a former Marine Corps observer now with radio station KOIN in Portland, confirmed numerous reports of witnesses in the Portland are Friday afternoon. Cooley estimated the disks were flying at 20,000 feet. He saw twelve of them and flatly declared them to be manned and maneuverable.",
			"ref" : "Los Angeles Examiner, Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Portland, OR"
		},															
		
		{
			"date" : "7/7/1947",
			"desc" : "Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (crash)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM"
		},															
		
		{
			"date" : "7/7/1947",
			"desc" : "Newspaper article: A P-38 tangles with a flying disc at 32k ft near LA, gets caught in prop wash and appears to disintegrate and crash, pilots forced to recant their story in contradictory manner",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/forgotten-history-a-p-38-tangles-with-a-flying-disc-at-32-400-feet-on-july-7-1947-4a89a5a8c7bb)",
			"type" : "anomalous incident",
			"location" : "Los Angeles, CA"
		},

		{
			"date" : "7/7/1947",
			"desc" : "Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in Spokane area",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/forgotten-history-a-p-38-tangles-with-a-flying-disc-at-32-400-feet-on-july-7-1947-4a89a5a8c7bb)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Spokane, CA"
		},				
		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/7/1947",
			"desc" : "OREGON HAS MORE SAUCERS - David W. chase of Phoenix, Oregon, radar technician saw an object five miles south of Medford, flying eastward, going 6-700 miles an hour at approximately 10,000 feet. It was in view about 60 or 70 seconds before disappearing over the horizon. The total view of the course was about 150 degrees. The saucer flew on edge at right angles to the plane of the earth and gave off a bright blue-white light.",
			"ref" : "Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Medford, OR"
		},						

		{
			"date" : "7/7/1947",
			"desc" : "CAMERA CATCHES TWO IN FLIGHT - Photographer Al Hixenbaugh took a photo of a flying saucer at 10:15. There were three objects in the sky, but he had time to snap only two. They made no sound. Neither did Hixenbaugh. He had no comment as to what they might be. They look like either two very bright saucer trails, or two saucers seen flat edge on against a dark sky.",
			"ref" : "Louisville Times - Fortean Society Sightings (Scully box 3 ff5 )",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Louisville, Kentucky"
		},																			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special plane to Wright Field",
			"ref" : "[YouTube](https://youtu.be/zUlCBY-K9A8)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and was recovered near Roswell NM",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "teletype",
			"location" : "Dallas, TX"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "Urgent FBI Memo from Gen. Roger Ramey concerning “flying disc information”: “Maj. Curtan, HQ 8th AF, telephonically advised this office that an object purporting to be a flying disc was recovered near Roswell, N.M., this date...Information provided this office because of national interest in case and fact that (certain media sources) attempting to break the story of location of disc today...(the recovered disc was) being transported to Wright Field by special plane for examination...Maj. Curtan advised would request Wright Field to advise (FBI) results of examination.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "memo",
			"see_also" : [ "7/2/1947", "7/7/1947" ]
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: “absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/108417286/einstein-silent-on-theory-relative-to/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "BSRA (Borderlands) Memorandum found in official FBI UFO files, addressed to “important aeronautical and military authorities, to a number of public officials” that “a serious situation may develop at any time with regard to the flying saucers”. “If one of these should be attacked, the attacking plane will be almost surely destroyed.” “Part of the discs carry crews, others are under remote control.” “Heat resistant metal or alloy not yet known.”",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a)",
			"type" : "FOIA release"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "7/8/1947",
			"desc" : "Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University",
			"ref" : [ "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107820309/metallic-rain/)", "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107820455/harold-dahl-metal/)" ],
			"type" : "Newspaper article"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/10/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude (Early yaw led to termination at 32s.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "16.25km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/10/1947",
			"desc" : "Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 months, 21 days old.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/10/1947",
			"desc" : "FBI Memo: Gen. George F. Schulgen (Chief of the Air Intelligence Requirements Division) organizes top scientists to determine if the flying discs are indeed fact and whether or not they are a foreign body mechanically devised and controlled. He desired the assistance of the FBI in locating and questioning the individuals who first sighted the discs. Col. L. R. Forney of MID indicated that it has been established that the flying discs are not the result of any Army or Navy experiments and should be of interest to the FBI",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p148)", "[link](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/2995977/george-francis-schulgen/)" ],
			"type" : "memo"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "7/11/1947",
			"desc" : "A Washington beltway newspaper column reporters that a visitor found Einstein “sick”, but Einstein stated not to worry, that the world is sick and the “military mass-minded approach” he saw in Germany was coming here.",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106015905/einstein-sick-july-11-1947/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/12/1947",
			"desc" : "In a declassified statement, Kenneth Arnold points out why the unidentified discs he saw couldn’t have been mirages: “I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view (without sunglasses).”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G, p16)",
			"type" : "declassified statement"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/12/1947",
			"desc" : "Announcement of Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law” next Thursday (so either July 17th, or the 24th)",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106016511/dr-einstein-in-interview/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1947",
			"desc" : "Alternate date for the organization of the MAJESTIC-12 group by General George C. Marshall. Established in order to study the crash debris from the Roswell-Magdalena area.",
			"ref" : "\"Matrix 1\", Valerian",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"see_also" : "9/24/1947"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1947",
			"desc" : "Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/1947) and 15 other UFO encounters during the first month of the “flying saucer” mystery the conclusion is “this flying saucer situation is not all imaginary or seeing too much in some natural phenomenon. Something is really flying around.” (This report was declassified FOIA, 1976.)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"see_also" : [ "6/24/1947", "9/23/1947" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Mid 7/1947",
			"desc" : "In a paper by U.S. Navy Physicist, Dr. Bruce Maccabee, he stated: “...the Air Force knew by the middle of July, 1947 that saucers were real and not manmade...the technology represented by the (recovered) disc...was so far beyond our own that it could not be understood immediately...Therefore it would be necessary to treat the disc as a military secret. This would mean containing all information about it within some small group.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"see_also" : "1/31/1949"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/15/1947",
			"desc" : "Memo to Mr. Ladd with a handwritten note from J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI stating, ”...before agreeing (to the investigation of crashed saucers)...we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the Soc. (Socorro, N.M.) case the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p541, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "memo"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/24/1947",
			"desc" : "Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law”",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106016511/dr-einstein-in-interview/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/29/1947",
			"desc" : "Kenneth Arnold interviews Dahl in Tacoma WA, near Maury Island. Retrieved metals sent to Ray Palmer and sent to a lab for analysis. Metals confiscated by the military from Ray Palmer. Dahl leaves in terror and is tracked down in public archives to the southern Oregon area.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/so-whatever-happened-to-harold-a-dahl-of-the-1947-maury-island-incident-fb5a4cdb626e)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/29/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude (Near vertical trajectory.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "160.7km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1/1947",
			"desc" : "A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maury_Island_incident)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/3/1947",
			"desc" : "Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying ‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324)",
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/6/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "1.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/18/1947",
			"desc" : "CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.cia.gov/legacy/cia-history/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Langley, Virginia"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/19/1947",
			"desc" : "Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"see_also" : "11/30/1947",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)", "[link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence)" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/23/1947",
			"desc" : "Secret Briefing Document to Brig. General George Schulgen, AC/AS-2, from Lt. Gen. Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4), Commanding Officer, AMC, stating: Flying Saucers are REAL! Concerning “Flying Discs” the phenomenon reported is something real, not fictitious. These objects approximate the shape of a disc and appear to be as large as man-made aircraft. They have operating characteristics such as extreme rate ofclimb and maneuverability. Under a Security Code Name copies of this information will be sent to Army, Navy, AEC, JRDB, SAG, NACA, RAND and NEPA Projects. (AAF Record, U-39552)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "secret briefing",
			"see_also" : [ "7/1947", "9/15/1950", "8/1954" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/24/1947",
			"desc" : "A covert operation, MAJESTIC-12, is established and classified Top Secret by President H.Truman. It consists of 12 persons selected to control all branches of government, both military and non-military. This ultimately led to silencing of UFO witnesses, confiscating of UFO photos, harassing and debunking of witnesses (and rumors of worse). (ref. “Black Budget”; JMP letter)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"see_also" : [ "2/15/1987", "9/4/1987", "7/1947" ],
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence)" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/28/1947",
			"desc" : "Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},		
						
		{
			"date" : "10/1947",
			"desc" : "Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"attributes" : [ "Einstein" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1/1947",
			"desc" : "First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/9/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude (Internal explosion at 83.5s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "156.1km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/18/1947",
			"desc" : "First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km (Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "207km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/20/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated 181 kilometres from intended flight path)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "231km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/23/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Observation of vehicle was hampered by low cloud cover. Vehicle disintegrated, possibly due to the warhead failure.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "29km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/28/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Success)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "29km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/31/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started rolling after lift-off and crashed)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "2km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "11/2/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km (Success)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "260km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "11/2/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), 260km (Lost fins after launch)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "260km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},						

		{
			"date" : "11/4/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km (Success)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "268km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "11/10/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control failure)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "24km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/13/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "270km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},

		{
			"date" : "11/13/1947",
			"desc" : "Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_range" : "270km",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/20/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE technology proving flight)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "26.7km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/30/1947",
			"desc" : "In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities).",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)", "[link](https://coolinterestingstuff.com/the-facts-about-the-majestic-12-and-ufo-evidence)" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/8/1947",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (Stable flight but less than planned altitude)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "104.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "12/23/1947",
			"desc" : "First transistor was successfully demonstrated at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, NJ. Bell Labs was the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T).",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor)",
			"type" : "scientific advance",
			"location" : "Muray Hill, NJ"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "12/30/1947",
			"desc" : "Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with \"2A\" Security Classification at Wright-Patterson)",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sign)", "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, B1-G p23)" ],
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "1948",
			"desc" : "Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.”",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_J._Ruppelt)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/1948",
			"desc" : "Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide metal”",
			"ref" : [ "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324)",
				"[link](https://ia904604.us.archive.org/17/items/fate-1948-1_202110/FATE_1948_1.pdf)" ],
			"type" : "ufological event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/7/1948",
			"desc" : "Maysville, KN: The local Highway Patrol are notified that an UFO has been sighted high up in the sky and they notify Godman AFB of the sighting...At 1:45 pm T. Sgt. Quinton Blackwell visually scanned the skies south of Godman AFB and picked out a dim light in the hazy sky. By the time base commander Col. Guy Hixarrived at 2:20 pm the UFO looked like “an ice cream cone” through binoculars. About 20 minutes later 4 National Guard aircraft flew into the vicinity with Capt. Thomas Mantell in one of the F-51s.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Maysville, KN"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1/7/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec. k.) Capt. Thomas Mantell, a Nat. Guard pilot, was killed trying to chase an UFO up to 30,000 ft. His last message to the tower was, “it appears to be metallic object....of tremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above....I am trying to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded in mid-air and disintegrated before it struck the ground. The aircraft’s metal was hit with fragments before it collided with the ground. State Police estimated the saucer to be 250 ft. diam. (On Mantell's online obituary, Jim Marrs added: A man by the name of Richard T. Miller claims he was in the Scott AFB operations room in Belleville, Illinois during the chase and he states that Capt. Mantell's last words were, \"My God, I see people in this thing!\")",
			"ref" : [
            "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
            "[Grave][(https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14958603/thomas-francis-mantell)" ],
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Maysville, KN"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1/15/1948",
			"desc" : "USAF officially a separate service",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_United_States_Air_Force)",
			"type" : "history",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "2/13/1948",
			"desc" : "Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based), ALIENS",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Aztec, NM",
			"see_also" : "3/25,1948"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "1/22/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude (Payload separation failure)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "159.3km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "2/6/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude (Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of flight)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "111km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "3/19/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low altitude flight prevented any data recovery)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "5.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "3/25/1948",
			"desc" : "Aztec area NM landing and retrieval incident near Hart Canyon. UFO detected by 3 strategically located radars in the southwest, including a powerful experimental radar in the Four Corners region. The Army OSI and the IPU put on Red Alert and the ADC activated the local military units when a UFO crashed in the vicinity of Aztec, NM. When the saucer got into range of a Special High-Powered radar at the Four Corners Range (Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado) it began to flutter and wobble from side-to-side and took a trajectory towards the ground. It seems that the beam from this special radar had an ill-effect on the control system of the saucer. The 100 ft. saucer crash-landed on Mr. H.D.’s (initials) property. H.D. and family were sworn to secrecy. Note: This may have been the White Sands 1948 incident mentioned by Virgil Armstrong.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)",
				"[book link](https://www.amazon.com/Aztec-UFO-Incident-Elaborate-Perplexing/dp/B01CPKBOUC)",
				"[book link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)",
				"[book link](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC)",
				"[Robert Spencer Carr](https://www.theufochronicles.com/2020/05/robert-spencer-carr-aztec-ufo-incident.html)",
				"[Robert Spencer Carr](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html)" ],
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Aztec, NM",
			"see_also" : "2/13/1948"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "3/25/1948",
			"desc" : "IPU Scout Team sights the object 12 miles NE of Aztec NM, radios back to HQ in Camp Hale, which relayed the message to General Marshall. Marshall orders head of IPU to conduct a recovery operation, Marshall contacts Dr. Vannevar Bush (director of the Research and Development Board) who organizes an impromptu scientific team. Team meets at Durango Airfield in Durano CO.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)" ],
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Aztec, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1948",
			"desc" : "Capt. Virgil Armstrong Postlethwaite Captain of G-2 Air, received a Top Secret incoming TWX from 3rd Army Headquarters, Atlanta, directed to the Commanding General (with a copy sent to G-2), White Sands Proving Grounds. Message: Crash of a 100 ft. diam. saucer, 30 ft. ht.; one portal window blown; 5 Aliens suffocated; each Alien approx. 4 ft. in ht., oversized heads; hull of craft paper-thin but impenetrable by conventional tools. Private property purchased to facilitate movement of recovered disc. (Armstrong’s book confusingly indicated the craft landed inside the secure area of White Sands.)",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)", "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1552547805369143296)" ],
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds, NM",
			"see_also" : [ "3/25/1948", "2/13/1948" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1948 (estimated)",
			"desc" : "Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and boards a bus with blacked-out windows. He sees and photographs a huge disc-shaped object sitting on the ground with military brass, intelligence guards and officers, and scientific personnel all around it, also photographs small bodies.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)",
			"type" : "witness statement",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/2/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude (Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent performance)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "144km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "4/5/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. L.): 3 trained balloon observers from the Geophysics Lab, NJ spot UFO moving quickly undergoing “violent” maneuvers at high speed near Holloman AFB",
			"ref" : [ "[NICAP — Air Intelligence Report — ONI](http://www.nicap.org/docs/airintelrpt100-203-79.pdf)", "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)" ],
			"type" : "top secret report",
			"location" : "Holloman AFB"
		},

	
		{
			"date" : "4/19/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude (Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight termination)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "56km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},										
		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/30/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. M.): Lt. Comdr. Marcus L. Lowe while on a flight observed a yellow or light colored sphere 25 to 40 ft. diam. moving at a speed of approx. 100 mph against wind",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
			"type" : "top secret report"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/13/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude (Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "127.3m",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/27/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "139.7",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "5/27/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "139.7",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "6/1948 (approximate)",
			"desc" : "“Cornet” or “Coronet” Magazine article on a saucer landing and retrieval with dead occupants. Issue was near-instantly censored/banned and almost all copies recalled, several copies still in private hands. This would have been the first article revealing the crash retrieval program.",
			"ref" : "[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Armstrong-Report-Virgil/dp/0925390070)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "US"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "6/11/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude (Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "62.3",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "6/15/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-2): Mr. Booneville observed a reddish glow with a jet exhaust in the vicinity of Miles City, Montana. Made no sound, traveled at twice the speed of conventional aircraft",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p481)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Miles City, MT"
		},		
		
		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/19/1948",
			"desc" : "A silver cigarette-like object appeared above the Soviet Kapustin Yar secret atomic/missile test site. Several military planes were sent to intercept the object. One of them likened the “flying cigarette” to a rocket, but the UFO managed to emit a bright beam that blinded the pilot. It is said that both the plane and the UFO crashed and the wreckages were taken to the underground hangars before they could attract attention.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. N.): Maj. Hammer, Rapid City Air Base, reported seeing 12 discs over the base. These disks were oval-shaped and about 100 ft. diam., speed in excess of 500 mph. Made 30 and 40 degree climbing turn, accelerating very rapidly out of sight",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Ellsworth Air Force Base"
		},	
		

		{
			"date" : "7/17/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79, p.12,Sec. O): Kirtland AFB reported 7 UFOs flying a “J” formation in the vicinity of San Acacia, N.M., at altitude of 20,000 ft. Formation varied from “J” to “L” to “O” after passing zenith. Est. speed 1500 mph",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Kirtland Air Force Base"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/20/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.Q): A.D. Otter and his daughter Arnham, in the Netherlands, sight UFO similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Netherlands",
			"see_also" : "7/25/1948"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "7/24/1948",
			"desc" : "Chiles-Whitted UFO encounter: At roughly 2:45 AM on July 24, 1948, two commercial pilots, Clarence S. Chiles and John B. Whitted, claimed to have observed a \"glowing object\" pass by their plane before it appeared to pull up into a cloud and travel out of sight. The object closed on their DC-3 in a matter of seconds, and both men later said they saw the object fly past the right side of their plane at high speed before it pulled \"up with a tremendous burst of flame out of its rear and zoomed up into the clouds.\" They observed the object for a total of ten to fifteen seconds. Chiles and Whitted stated that the object \"looked like a wingless aircraft...it seemed to have two rows of windows through which glowed a very bright light, as brilliant as a magnesium flare.\"",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiles-Whitted_UFO_encounter)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Montgomery, Alabama"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/25/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,sec.Q): Two Eastern Airlines pilots reported seeing an object like a huge V-2 Rocket pass their jet. Sighted 4 times through scattered clouds and unlimited visibility, travelling at high speed and high altitude. Description: Appeared wingless, had two decks, and made a sound similar to that of a V-2.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : [ "7/20/1948", "8/3/1948", "1/31/1950" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/26/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 86.9km altitude (Turbine overspeed led to premature propellant cut-off at 61s. 2rpm roll began at 70s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "86.9",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "8/3/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.R): UFO sighted over Moscow that is similar to the UFO sighted on July 25, 1948, by two Eastern Airlines pilots.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Moscow",
			"see_also" : "7/25/1948"
		},							
		
		{
			"date" : "8/5/1948",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km altitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "165.7km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "9/12/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.P-1) Pilot and Co-pilot of a Pan Am aircraft en route from Midway to Honolulu, saw a blue-white light approaching, changing to twin reddish glows upon withdrawal. Est. speed: 1000 knots",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Midway"
		},	
		
        {
			"date" : "8/19/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude (Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "13.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

        {
			"date" : "9/2/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude (Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "150.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

        {
			"date" : "9/30/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude (Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "150.3km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

        {
			"date" : "10/1/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Report (100–203–79,p.12,Sec.S) 2nd Lt. George F. Gorman (North Dakota Air Nat. Guard), sighted a UFO 3000 ft. below him while he was flying his F-51 at 4500 ft. The pilot pursued the UFO which took evasive tactics. The UFO out-turned, out-speeded and out-climbed the F-51 in every attempt at intercept. The pilot lost contact with the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "North Dakota"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "10/15/1948",
			"desc" : "An F-61 “Black Widow” fighter tracked UFO on radar and tried to intercept it 6 times without success. It would speed up from 200 mph to 1200 mph, leaving the interceptor behind. Description: shaped like a rifle bullet and apparently 20 to 30 feet long",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p235)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Japan"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "11/1/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "4.8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/18/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 145.3km altitude (First Hermes B ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section. Nominal performance.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "145.3km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

		{
			"date" : "11/18/1948",
			"desc" : "Report from Project SIGN, incident ?207 in Blue Book files: at approx. 2200 hours, Lt. Henry G. Combs (AFRes) spotted an oval shaped UFO while flying in a T-6 plane. The UFO accelerated rapidly from 80mph to 500 or 600 mph. It remained under observation for some 10 minutes. The UFO displayed “evasive controlled tactics and an ability to perform tight circles, quick variation of air speed, vertical ascents and evasive movements.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "Andrews AFB"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "12/9/1948",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude (Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "108.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/23/1948",
			"desc" : "Wire Report from Germany to Project SIGN: Capt. (blank) is an experienced pilot and completely reliable. While flying an F-80 over a US Air Base in the Fursten-Feldbruck area of Germany, he had radar and visual contact with a circling red-lighted UFO at 2200 hours at 27,000 ft. Ground radar determined that it was going 900 mph and climbed quickly to 50,000 ft. in a matter of minutes and disappeared",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p237)",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1948",
			"desc" : "Project SIGN evolves into Project GRUDGE and is conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK. The liaison between Project GRUDGE and MJ-12 is the Air Force officer in head of BLUE BOOK. (Capt. Ruppelt?)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : "3/1952"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/10/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "top secret report",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : [ "1/7/1948", "11/1/1948" ]
		},


		{
			"date" : "1949",
			"desc" : "United States Air Force’s Strategic Air Command had F-86 Sabres in service from 1949 through 1950. The F-86 was the primary U.S. air combat fighter during the Korean War, with significant numbers of the first three production models seeing combat.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86_Sabre#Operational_history)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Early 1949",
			"desc" : "USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949.",
			"ref" : "[Leon Davidson](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1949",
			"desc" : "Claude E. Steene Sr., Fullerton CA: While practicing in Bishop CA in 1949, was called on by a member of a special military unit to examine a living being reportedly taken from a crashed saucer. Kept alive in a controlled environment, appeared reptilian.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Bishop, CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1949",
			"end_date" : "1990",
			"desc" : "Soviet Union tests 969 nuclear devices — the more nuclear testing than any nation in the planet. 214 nuclear devices were tested in the open atmosphere between 1949–1962.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1949",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic plant",
			"location" : "Siberia"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/6/1949",
			"desc" : "Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM",
			"see_also" : [ "1/31/1949", "7/25/1948" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/13/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II test)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
        {
			"date" : "1/13/1949",
			"desc" : "CONFIDENTIAL 4th Army MESSAGE: Col. Eustis L. Poland stated: “Unconventional Aircraft” have been sighted (see Report, Control No. A-1917). Possible Radiological warfare tests are being made over sensitive Bases in NM area. A foreign power may be making “sensing shots” with some super-stratosphere devise designed to be self-disintegrating.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p482)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "NM"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "1/28/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km attitude (Defective performance)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "59.9km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

        {
			"date" : "1/31/1949",
			"desc" : "Confidential Army Staff Message: Approx. 30 people sighted UFO’s on Jan. 30, 1949. Estimate at least 100 total sightings. Sightings reported from El Paso, Albuquerque, Alamogordo, Roswell, Socorro, and other locations. All sightings appear to be of the same object viewed from different angles. Will attempt to locate the impact point, if any. (Possible search teams in UFOs.)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p53, CRASH)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "NM"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "1/31/1949",
			"desc" : "MEMO, Director of FBI: Flying Saucers have been discussed by the OSI, FBI and the Fourth Army and is “considered TOP SECRET by Intelligence Officers of both the Army and the Air Forces.” It was thought that the first UFOs over Sweden were of Russian origin. Memo also makes reference to the Eastern Airlines sighting of July 25, 1948. Also, on 10 different days, between 12/05/1948 and 01/06/1949, sightings of UFOs were concentrated over the A.E.C. plant at Los Alamos, N.M. (Circulation of this Memo to: El Paso, Little Rock, Dallas, Oklahoma City)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p483, B1-G p30)",
			"type" : "memo",
			"location" : "NM",
			"see_also" : [ "7/25/1948", "7/1947", "8/4/1950" ]
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "2/1949",
			"desc" : "Part of the Final Report of Project SIGN, written by Prof. George Valley, of MIT stating: “If there is an extraterrestrial civilization which can make objects as are reported, then it is most probable that its development is far in advance of ours. Such a civilization might observe that on earth we now have atomic bombs and are fast developing rockets. In view of the past history of mankind, they would be alarmed. We should, therefore, expect at this time above all to behold such visitations.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "final report",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH"
		},

        {
			"date" : "2/4/1949",
			"desc" : "CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "confidential message"
		},

        {
			"date" : "2/17/1949",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 100.6km attitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "100.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/24/1949",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 km)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "129km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

		{
			"date" : "3/1949",
			"desc" : "An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324)",
			"type" : "publication",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},

		{
			"date" : "3/21/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "133.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/11/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "87.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "4/21/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "49.9km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},				

		{
			"date" : "4/24/1949",
			"desc" : "Arrey, NM: Aerologist Charles B. Moore, Jr., while tracking a weather balloon for General Mills Co. with a theodolite, suddenly noticed a UFO rapidly crossing the sky. He and 4 other technicians turned the 25 power theodolite to track the UFO. It was a featureless ellipse, its length about 2–1/2 times its width. After about 60 seconds the object disappeared in a sharp climb. Based on measurements with the mountain range behind it, it was calculated to be going between 18,000 mph and 25,000 mph (in the atmosphere!).",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Arrey, NM"
		},				

        {
			"date" : "5/5/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8.85km attitude (Second Hermes II ‘Organ’ test of ramjet diffuser in place of payload section)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "8.85km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	

        {
			"date" : "5/11/1949",
			"desc" : "Israel admitted to the UN",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "New York City"
		},	
		
		{
		
			"date" : "5/13/1949",
			"desc" : "Newspaper coverage of BSRA's “second memorandum of importance” on flying discs.",
			"ref" : [ "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/106990093/etheria/)", "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/bsras-2nd-memorandum-of-importance-d79897233025)" ],
			"location" : "Minneapolis, Minnesota",
			"type" : "publication"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "5/18/1949",
			"desc" : "Reply letter concerning BSRA’s “second memorandum of importance”, concerning a solution to the flying saucer mystery, from Air Materiel Command Wright-Patterson AFB Col. Clingerman, Chief Analysis Division, Intelligence Department. Memorandum was forwarded to analysts for review and study. Found in the private BSRA archives now at the AFU in Sweden.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555607667770626048)",
			"type" : "memorandum",
			"location" : "Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH"
		},	

        {
			"date" : "5/22/1949",
			"desc" : "Secretary Forrestal (MJ-3) found dead after falling 16 floors from an insane asylum window, supposedly shouting, “we’re being invaded!” before he fell to his death. Some suspect he was murdered to silence him.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland"
		},	
		
        {
			"date" : "6/10/1949",
			"desc" : "White Sands, NM: Scientists tracking a test missile at 2k ft/second suddenly picked up two small circular UFOs that paced the missile. One of the UFO’s passed thru the missiles exhaust and rejoined the other UFO, and together they quickly accelerated upwards leaving the missile behind. Cmdr. McLaughlin received reports from 5 observation posts: ALL had witnessed the performance of the 2 circular UFOs.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p238)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "6/14/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "133.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "8/29/1949",
			"desc" : "First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1)",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_%28nuclear_test%29)", "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-1)" ],
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "22",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/3/1949",
			"desc" : "USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.ll.mit.edu/about/history/sage-semi-automatic-ground-environment-air-defense-system)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Eielson Air Force Base, AL"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "9/9/1949",
			"desc" : "DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic explosion on the continent of Asia.”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-09/detection-first-soviet-nuclear-test-september-1949)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/16/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early termination)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "4.2km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},				

        {
			"date" : "9/23/1949",
			"desc" : "Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier",
			"ref" : "[link](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-09-09/detection-first-soviet-nuclear-test-september-1949)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},	
		
        {
			"date" : "9/29/1949",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 150.8km attitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "150.8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	

        {
			"date" : "10/6/1949",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "10/12/1949",
			"desc" : "Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Frank_Scully)",
			"type" : "publication",
			"location" : "Hollywood, CA"
		},

		{
			"date" : "11/1949",
			"desc" : "Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/1949 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object.",
			"ref" : "[book \"The UFO Crash at Aztec\" by Steinman and Stevens](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)",
			"type" : "witness statement",
			"see_also" : [ "3/25/1948", "4/1948" ]
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "11/23/1949",
			"desc" : "Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://hatch.kookscience.com/wiki/Frank_Scully)",
			"type" : "publication",
			"location" : "Hollywood, CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/18/1949",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "123.9km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "12/8/1949",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "130.3km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "12/28/1949",
			"desc" : "Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105319343/flying-saucer-crash-12-midetmen-crewman/)",
			"type" : "radio show",
			"location" : "Richmond, VA"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "12/31/1949",
			"desc" : "Newspaper articles on a crash saucer “almost 3 years ago”, research program, exotic metals defying analysis, small occupants, very high technology, acclimation program references. There are 2 years, 5 months, 23 days between 7/8/1947 and 12/31/1949.",
			"type" : "newspaper articles",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105191549/crash-retrieval/)",
			          "[link](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/107741958/wes-izzard-columnist-tells-story-of/)" ]
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "1950's",
			"desc" : "“Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps.",
			"type" : "book reference",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Lazar",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "1950's",
			"desc" : "At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kapustin_Yar)",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "Early 1950's",
			"desc" : "Carson’s Field (speculated location), New Zealand: A New Zealand investigator receives a letter from a respected US researcher who spoke with a young American pilot. The pilot mentions he had just been sent on a mission to Australia, where he landed at a vast airport. A gigantic spacecraft was already there, where he meets a group of friendly, intelligent and good-looking men. He was told they were scientists from other planets, and he was to fly them to Scotland for a meeting. He flew them to Scotland and remained with his plane during the conference. He said that scientists from many of the world’s nations were also present.",
			"type" : "book reference",
			"ref" : "“Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69",
			"location" : "Carson's Field, New Zealand"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "1950",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens (Plutonium production)",
			"type" : "atomic plant",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1950",
			"desc" : "Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying Saucer as I Saw It”",
			"type" : "publication",
			"ref" : "[Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22The+Flying+Saucer+As+I+Saw+It%22)",
			"location" : "WA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1949",
			"desc" : "Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine",
			"type" : "publication",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Saucers_Are_Real)",
			"location" : "WA"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "1/1/1950",
			"desc" : "Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying Saucers are Real” in Newspapers",
			"type" : "publication",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116737446/the-flying-saucers-are-real-keyhoe/)"
		},
						
		{
			"date" : "Early 1950",
			"desc" : "Author and military historian Fletcher Pratt initiated rumor waves in the press by announcing that he had obtained through confidential channels information that a flying saucer had crashed to earth and that bodies of a vaguely human appearance and about 35 inches tall had been found dead in the wreckage.",
			"type" : "rumors",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/a-list-of-forgotten-pre-roswell-crash-retrieval-c-r-authors-lecturers-d68daebe6dba)"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/6/1950",
			"desc" : "Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper: “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, saucer near a radar installation, exotic metals, acclimation program, etc.",
			"type" : "rumors",
			"ref" : [ "[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)",
			  "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115954706/car-dealer-reports-saucer-from-venus/)" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/16/1950",
			"desc" : "CLASSIFIED USAF Staff Message: At a radar station near New Mexico a person reported seeing 2 saucers. One was badly damaged the other almost perfectly intact. Description: Each consisted of 2 parts, a cockpit or cabin about 6 ft. diam.; a ring approx. 18 ft. across and 2 ft. thick surrounding cabin, resembling aluminum, but actual metal has defied analysis by the Dearborn Plant. Two crew members in the damaged ship were charred but in the undamaged ship the two crew members were perfectly preserved.",
			"type" : "classified staff message",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)",
			"see_also" : [ "1/6/1950", "1/30/1950" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/22/1950",
			"desc" : "U.S. Navy patrol plane pilot, Lt. Smith, was on routine security flight when he picked up a radar track on an UFO, two times. Smith then radioed Kodiak radar station and was advised that no known traffic was in his radar area. Moored south of Kodiak was the USS Tillamook with Master Morgan standing on watch. Suddenly, at 3 a.m., “a very fast moving red glow appeared to be of exhaust nature, seemed to come from the south-east, moved clockwise in a large circle in the direction of, and around Kodiak and returned out in a generally south-east direction. The UFO was moving so fast that it was actually leaving a streak on Smith’s radarscreen. It was estimated to be moving at a speed of 1800 mph. Described as “two orange lights rotating about a common center like two jet aircraft making slow rolls in tight formation.” The UFO then made an abrupt turn and headed directly towards Smiths’ aircraft in a threatening gesture so Smith quickly turned off all of his lights turn make his plane less conspicuous in the inky colored sky. The UFO flew by him and disappeared in the south-east in a matter of minutes.",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"location" : "Kodiak, Alaska"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/30/1950",
			"desc" : "The Knoxville Journal, Knoxville, Tennessee, prints article referring to the Wyandotte Echo Kansas City newspaper article on “Coulter” (George T. Koehler) story on 2 recovered saucers, acclimation program.",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115954706/car-dealer-reports-saucer-from-venus/)",
			"location" : "Kodiak, Alaska",
			"see_also" : "1/6/1950"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/31/1950",
			"desc" : "Office MEMO, Director FBI, SAC, San Antonio: A UFO resembling a rocket ship without wings appeared out of a thunderhead of clouds narrowly missing an Eastern Airlines flight and disappeared into another cloud. It was traveling approx. 2700 mph and no sound or air disturbance was noted with it. During the past two months the UFO sightings appeared to be concentrated near Los Alamos, N.M. This UFO was also sighted near Los Alamos on Jan. 6, 1949.",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM",
			"see_also" : "1/6/1950"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/17/1950",
			"desc" : "Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 148.7km attitude",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "148.7km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "3/8/1950",
			"desc" : "Tape recorded University of Denver lecture on three crash retrievals. Tape recently found at the AHC in Frank Scully’s papers in Laramie WY. Was going to be given by a scientist involved in the retrieval that knew or worked with Dr. Vannever Bush during WW2, but was instead given by Silas Newton at the last minute.",
			"ref" : [ "[YouTube - Part 1](https://youtu.be/ASCUGdnsQxw)", "[YouTube - Part 2](https://youtu.be/aNcpr3f8Eew)" ],
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "University of Denver"
		},					
		
		{
			"date" : "3/16/1950",
			"desc" : "Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special)",
			"ref" : [ "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116741771/swiss-engineer-sees-ufo-behind-the/)",
				"[\"Behind the Flying Saucers\" by Frank Scully](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Lima, Peru"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/16/1950",
			"end_date" : "3/18/1950",
			"desc" : "Farmington Armada mass UFO sighting: 100’s of UFO’s spotted over town, and from nearby Aztec. Some UFO’s appeared red colored. Seen by thousands of witnesses over a period of several days. Local newspapers reportedly censored.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.daily-times.com/story/news/local/2020/03/17/ufo-armada-reportedly-filled-skies-above-farmington-1950/5073795002/)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : [ "Farmington, NM", "Aztec, NM" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/22/1950",
			"desc" : "FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM (corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/1950). Description: Circular with raised centers, approx. 50 ft. diam. Each one occupied by 3 bodies, only 3 ft. tall, dressed in metallic suite, taped like high-speed flyers. It is believed that a very high powered Radar Station interfered with their control mechanisms, causing them to crash.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, [\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p527, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "memo",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "3/25/1948"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/22/1950",
			"desc" : "Dept. Transportation, Ottawa Canada, announces plans to build and test free energy geomagnetic engine. Also state that \"Dr. Vannevar Bush heads highest secret saucer research group in the USA",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, [\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p464)",
			"type" : "announcement",
			"location" : "Ottawa, CA"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/31/1950",
			"desc" : "Secret tape of an AFOSI interrogation of radio time salesmen George Koehler (“Coulter” in newspaper articles), recorded at station KMYR in Denver. The 2 federal agents were looking for “parts” and “gadgets” from crashed flying saucers. Digitized from the Frank Scully archive at the American Heritage Center (Box #34 Item #17).",
			"ref" : "[YouTube](https://youtu.be/aVzZy9dKY1Q)",
			"type" : "tape recording",
			"location" : "Denver, CO"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "3/31/1950",
			"desc" : "Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio transmitter.",
			"ref" : "[YouTube](https://youtu.be/aVzZy9dKY1Q)",
			"type" : "memo",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/7/1950",
			"desc" : "Letter sent from BSRA to President",
			"ref" : "[Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555559492540157954)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA",
			"see_also" : "5/16/1950"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/17/1950",
			"desc" : "Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Sauces” announced coming soon.",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/115865814/behind-the-flying-saucers-book/)",
			"type" : "announcement",
			"location" : "Glens Falls, NY"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/11/1950",
			"desc" : "McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near McMinnville, Oregon.",
			"ref" : [
				"[link](https://kval.com/news/local/fight-over-ufo-photos-pits-family-versus-newspaper)",
				"[link](https://saucerco.com/blogs/saucer-encounters/mcminnville-ufo-photos)" ],
			"type" : "ufo photo",
			"location" : "McMinnville, OR"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/16/1950",
			"desc" : "Reply letter from White House to BSRA",
			"ref" : "[Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555559492540157954)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "4/7/1950"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/25/1950",
			"end_data" : "7/27/1953",
			"desc" : "Korean War",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Korea"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1950",
			"desc" : "Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR FICTION?”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/ahcpublic/UFO/1950_Flying%20magazine_ah12722.pdf)",
			"type" : "publication"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/24/1950",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "16.1km",
			"rocket_range" : "320km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "7/29/1950",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "16.1km",
			"rocket_range" : "320km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1950",
			"desc" : "Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers” published",
			"ref" : "[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Behind-Flying-Saucers-Frank-Scully-ebook/dp/B00OEM62AC)",
			"type" : "publication",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/31/1950",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "136.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},	
		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1/1950",
			"desc" : "Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/4/1950",
			"desc" : "CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: From Lt. Colonel Mildren (G-3) to Maj. U.G. Carlan (GSC Survey Section): Since July 30, 1950, UFO’s have been sighted over the Hanford AEC Plant. Air Force jets fails to intercept them. FBI, anti-aircraft battalion, radar units and fighter squadrons alerted for further observation. Atomic Energy Commission still investigating.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p485)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Hanford, WA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/15/1950",
			"desc" : "In a conference between Canadian Wilbert Smith and Dr. Sarbacher (a consultant to the US Research and Development Board), scientist reveals Frank Scully’s 1950 \"Behind the Flying Saucers\" book is true and substantially correct, Flying Saucers exist, we haven’t been able to duplicate their performance, it’s pretty certain they didn’t originate on the earth, the subject is classified more highly than the H-bomb.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p519)",
			"type" : "conference",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : [ "9/23/1947", "1/26/1953" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/6/1950",
			"desc" : "Confidential Memo: Headquarters, 5th Army Division: John de Reneaux photographed the saucer which crashed near Aztec, N.M. He said that “army officials” had attempted to take the photographs away from him but that he had given them another roll of film. In a further interview with the 5th Headquarters, de Reneaux denied any knowledge of the Aztec crash.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "confidental memo",
			"location" : "Fort Sam Houston, TX",
			"see_also" : [ "3/25/1948" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/26/1950",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},

		{
			"date" : "11/10/1950",
			"desc" : "Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of 1946.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter Link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1599287488123576321)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/11/1950",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final Hermes II test)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/21/1950",
			"desc" : "Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government research into UFO’s and propulsion technology.",
			"type" : "top secret memo",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.howandwhys.com/wilbert-smith-project-magnet/)",
			"location" : "Canada"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "12/3/1950",
			"desc" : "Stanton Friedman used the Freedom of Information Act to procure a previously classified communique from a field agent named Auerbach (first name not given) in Richmond, Virginia, to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. According to Auerbach, of the Counter Intelligence Corps, his office had been asked to stay attuned to “any data on flying saucers.” Any information, the memo added, would be telephoned, immediately, to Air Force Intelligence.",
			"type" : "classified communique",
			"ref" : "[link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022)",
			"location" : "Richmond, Virginia"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/6/1950",
			"desc" : "The ConAC Air Defense Controller notified the Headquarters USAF Command Post that at 1030 hours a number of unidentified aircraft were approaching the northeast area of the United States and that there was no reason to believe the aircraft were friendly. By 1040 hours, 40 aircraft at an altitude of 32,000 feet were confirmed by radar in the vicinity of Limestone, Maine. President Truman had been notified and interceptors scrambled. Truman even mentioned the incident in his memoirs, not published until 1979. At the time, he noted in his diary, \"It looks like World War III is here. I hope not--but we must meet whatever comes--and we will.\"",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"ref" : "[link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022)",
			"location" : "Limestone, Maine"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/6/1950",
			"desc" : "A second flying saucer crashes in El Indio-Guerrero area. The saucer is recovered and taken to the AEC facility at Sandia, NM.",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[link](https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A16595647&v=2.1&it=r&sid=AONE&asid=c4b5e022)" ],
			"location" : "Guerrero, Mexico"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Late 1950's",
			"desc" : "The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished and all records were transferred to the Air Force.",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p55)",
			"see_also" : "5/16/84"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1951",
			"desc" : "Meade Layne, BSRA director, founds the “Borderland Sciences Research Foundation” as a CA non-profit (C0254263) research and educational organization for the purpose of studying parapsychology, UFO’s and extended consciousness. Previously, the BSRA was a loose/unofficial association.",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"ref" : "[link](https://borderlandsciences.org/about.html)"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/14/1951",
			"desc" : "Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities”",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/dr_shirley_wright)"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/18/1951",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "1.6km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/10/1951",
			"desc" : "Confidential Memo to Air Transport Squadron One: Lt. Graham E. Bethune, U.S. Naval Reserve reported seeing a circular, reddish-orange UFO flying at a speed in excess of 1000 mph, approx. 300 ft. diam. approaching and reversing direction within 5 miles of his plane (Flight 125 from Keflavik, Iceland.)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up), p486)",
			"location" : "Keflavik, Iceland"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/25/1951",
			"desc" : "BSRA’s “Gerald Light” associate reports that he was attacked suffering injuries by a saucer, and his neighbor and his neighbor's dog were also affected.",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"ref" : "[link](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555309019648196610)",
			"location" : "Los Angeles, CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/8/1951",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 3.1km (Blossom 8 — Three explosions at 15.5; 18.5 and 19.5s destroying tail section)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "3.1km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/27/1951",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is released",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/14/1951",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "0km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/28/1951",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.8km (Blossom 9 — Tail explosion at 8s and then cut-off signal given at 22s.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "5.8km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "7/9/1951",
			"desc" : "Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Columbus, GA",
			"see_also" : "7/10/1951"
		},	
		
        {
			"date" : "7/10/1951",
			"desc" : "Classified OSI Message from Robins AFB, Macon: UFO sighted by Lt. George H. Kinmon Jr. on July 9, 1951. Description: Flat on top and bottom and appeared from front view to have rounded edges, slightly beveled. Color was white. When it dived from its position it appeared circular with a clockwise spinning motion. Appeared to have a fractured surface. No exhaust fumes or visible means of propulsion. At an approx. distance from his plane the UFO appeared to be 10 to 15 feet in diam. UFO caused air disturbance as it barrel-rolled under his plane. His nose camera malfunctioned.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Macon, GA"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "7/22/1951",
			"desc" : "The Soviet R-1V carrier rocket brought the dogs of Dezik and Tsygan to the upper atmosphere and returned them to earth alive. It was the first successful flight of animals into space, but for 40 years the story was classified due to the numerous unsuccessful flights before that.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/)",
				"[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-1_(missile))" ],
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/22/1951",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "213.4km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/10/1951",
			"desc" : "CONFIDENTIAL Air Intel REPORT: Maj. Ballard and Lt. Rogers while flying at 20,000 ft. in a T-33 spotted a disc-shaped UFO the size of an F-86 flying below them at 8000 ft. It was travelling much faster than they were (900+ mph). It was steady in flight, with no visible means of propulsion and shiny silver in color. The radar station at Ft. Monmouth plotted the same UFO on radar at 1110 EDT flying above 700 mph. (p127 of Ruppelt’s book)",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p487)", "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/chronos/1951fullrep.htm)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Asbury, NJ"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/18/1951",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Earth_Stood_Still)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/24/1951",
			"desc" : "Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "38.3",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1951",
			"desc" : "Project Grudge is on hold, Intelligence Officer Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt has been assigned to reshape the study and field mounting concern for the Pentagon.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : [ "12/1948", "3/1952" ]
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/18/1951",
			"desc" : "Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "41.2",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "10/21/1951",
			"desc" : "Air Intelligence Report: Mr. (name withheld), a civilian pilot of 14 years experience sighted a disk-like, highly polished UFO which closed head on with his Navy aircraft at an extremely high rate of speed near Battle Creek, MI.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Battle Creek, MI"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "10/29/1951",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "140.9km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1952?",
			"desc" : "SECRET SECURITY INFORMATION: CIA, (not dated): Walter B. Smith, (MJ-3 replacement), Director of CIA notifies the Psychological Strategy Board that “Flying Saucers” have implications for psychological warfare as well as for intelligence and operations. Suggests discussion on the possible offensive or defensive utilization of these phenomena for psychological warfare purposes.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p511)",
			"type" : "secret information",
			"location" : "Langley, Virginia",
			"see_also" : "10/2/1952"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "1952",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly)",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic plant",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1952",
			"desc" : "Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project Grudge, “Project Blue Book”.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : [ "12/1948", "10/1951" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1952",
			"desc" : "Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?”",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "article",
			"see_also" : [ "12/1948", "10/1951" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/25/1952",
			"desc" : "UFO sighted flying over San Jose, CA, near Mt. Hamilton by two scientists, Dr. W (biochemist; name withheld) and Dr. Y (bacteriologist, name also withheld). Description of hovering disk: at about 50 ft. it appeared to be 4 to 5 ft. in diam. The wobble of the disk allowed them to estimate it’s thickness to be approx. 1.5ft. No sound or means of propulsion observed. Later they observed a higher flying silvery disc approx. 100 ft. in diam. Next to it more UFOs appeared and bobbed around like boats in a stream. The objects disappeared around 11:15 a.m. The two scientists decided not to report the incident to Moffett Field for fear of ridicule.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p241)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "San Jose, CA"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "5/10/1952",
			"desc" : "RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report signed by Col. William L. Travis, Chief USAF Intelligence Division. stating: at 2030 hours, in the city of Paphos, S.W. Cypress, a group of persons including a noted British Scientist sighted an UFO which appeared to rise sharply from the level of the sea and disappeared into the sky. It was of a circular shape and emitted a luminous light. It appeared to waver back and forth before fading out of sight directly overhead.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p540)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Paphos, Cypress"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "5/12/1952",
			"desc" : "“Blue Flash” phenomenon reported over Seattle on front page of NY Times, reported as possible meteor but meteorologists were not convinced as it did not follow the usual patterns",
			"ref" : [ "[Dr. Leon Davidson](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
					"[NY Times](https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1952/05/12/84315928.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&ip=0)" ],
			"type" : "anomalous phenomenon",
			"location" : "Seattle, WA"
		},		

        {
			"date" : "5/20/1952",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army training test. Also designated TF-2)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "103.5km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/4/1952",
			"desc" : "RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report.",
			"type" : "intelligence report",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"see_also" : "5/10/1952"
		},
				
        {
			"date" : "6/18/1952",
			"desc" : "EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter Aquarius document",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"ref" : "[link](https://obscurantist.com/texts/396-2/)"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "Summer 1952",
			"desc" : "While Operation INTERCEPT was in effect, two North American F-86 Operation INTERCEPT Sabre fighters were vectored onto a target UFO. The pilots had a broad daylight view of the UFO and fired tracer bullets at it before it accelerated out of range. The officer who fired the bullets was debriefed by his Colonel (name withheld) and the base commander told Capt. Ruppelt to destroy the report (according to Ruppelt himself).",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"see_also" : "7/1952"
		},        
		
        {
			"date" : "6/15/1952",
			"desc" : "An intercept operation took place in Richmond, VA. An Air Force T-33 jet tried to intercept a “shiny sphere” south of Gordonsville. It was a “round, shiny object with a golden glow” above 35000 feet altitude. At 20:05 the jet lost sight of the UFO.",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"location" : "Gordonsville, VA"
		},        
		
        {
			"date" : "7/16/1952",
			"desc" : "German mayor states two human-like figures wearing shimmer metallic clothing about 4 feet high come out of a landed 40ft diameter saucer",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/)",
			"location" : "Germany"
		},        
		
		
        {
			"date" : "7/19/1952",
			"desc" : "Washington, D.C.: Long range “overfly” RADAR picked up a formation of seven blips that were 15 miles south and not far from Andrews AFB. Radar operator, Ed Nugent, thought that they were military traffic until two of the targets suddenly accelerated at fantastic speeds and disappeared off the radar scope. These strange UFOs were monitored by Harry Barnes, Senior Controller, and controllers Howard Cocklin and Joe Zacko. Also, Andrews AFB had also been tracking the UFOs as they intruded over the White House which was Washington Air Space restricted air space. The UFOs were traveling at speeds of up to 7000 mph before stopping abruptly and then cruising about in unconventional patterns.",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "7/26/1952",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)"
		},        
		
        {
			"date" : "7/20/1952",
			"desc" : "Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/1952): 3 UFO spotted by 5 base personnel at Andrews AFB at 0030 hours EST. UFOs reddish orange in color, moving erratically at an undetermined altitude. Approach Control picked up another UFO at 0415 EST which was on the radar scope for 30 seconds before fading. Lt. Hyatt, Operations Officer during this period, said that he had been receiving “flying saucer” reports that evening and the objects had been picked up by radar.",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Andrews AFB",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)"
		},        

        {
			"date" : "7/23/1952",
			"desc" : "In an Air Mail reply from Dr. Einstein to Mr. Louis A. Gardner in LA, he said in regards to UFO's “Those people have seen something. What they saw I do not know, and I am not curious to know”.",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Los Angeles, CA",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Crash-Aztec-Well-Secret/dp/093426905X)", "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p128)" ]
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "7/24/1952",
			"desc" : "BSRA sends a warning letter to the President, a large swath the US military, US government, representatives, and press concerning the recently announced USAF “Shoot Down” order. Warning found in official FBI UFO files.",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1528563227612913666)"
		},		
		
        {
			"date" : "7/26/1952",
			"desc" : "Washington, DC: Long range “overfly” RADAR picks more blips, just one week after the previous invasion of restricted air space over Washington, D.C. Capt. Ruppelt told Maj. Dewey Fournet to get over to the airport in Washington. Fournet was a radar specialist with Project HOLCOMBE and arrived at the airport with Al Chop, AF Press Officer, just in time to see the UFO blips on the radar sets and to hear ground-to-air conversations of the pilots of two F-94s vectored towards the UFOs.",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)"
		},				
		
        {
			"date" : "7/28/1952",
			"desc" : "USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper articles",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102175368/jets-keeping-24-hour-alert-for-saucers/)"
		},				
		
        {
			"date" : "7/28/1952",
			"desc" : "Personal Minute from Prime Minister W.S. Churchill to Secretary of xxxxxxx Air Ministry stating: What does all this stuff about Flying Saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth? Let me have a report at your convenience.",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Britain",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p505, Churchhill)",
			"see_also" : "8/9/1952"
		},						
		
        {
			"date" : "7/29/1952",
			"desc" : "SECRET, EYES ONLY MEMO to Deputy Director/Intelligence from Ralph L. Clark, Acting Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence stating: In the past several weeks numerous UFOs have been sighted visually and on RADAR. This office (CIA) has maintained a continuing review of reputed sightings for the past three years and a special group has been formed to review the sightings to date. O/CI and O/SI will participate in this study and prepare a report on UFOs by August 15, 1952.",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Britain",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p505)"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "End of 7/1952",
			"desc" : "SECRET MEMO to Director, CIA, from H. Marshall Chadwell, Office of Scientific Intelligence stating: ATIC has set up a worldwide reporting network for Flying Saucers and major Air Force bases have been ordered to make INTERCEPTIONS of UFO’s. Battello Memorial Institute is to handle machine indexing of all official reported sightings. From 1947 to date, there have been 1500 official sightings with 250 of them in 1952 alone. Of the 1500, 28% remain UNEXPLAINED. UFO’s are of such importance that the matter should be brought before the National Security Council.",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Dayton OH",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p31,506, war escalation)",
			"see_also" : [ "9/19/76", "5/10/80", "5/19/86", "9/4/87" ]
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1/1952",
			"desc" : "CIA Memo from acting Chief of Weapons and Equipment Division: “It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public.”",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Langley, Virginia",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "8/9/1952",
			"desc" : "Reply from Air Ministry, Whitehall, S.W. to W.S. Churchill stating: All UFO sightings are either astronomical phenomena, mistaken sightings of balloons, birds, etc., optical illusions or hoaxes. The Americans have reached a similar conclusion.",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Britain",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p449)",
			"see_also" : "7/28/1952"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "8/16/1952",
			"desc" : "CIA analysis report of a Vienna news article of a UFO report from the Belgian Congo: Commander Pierre of Elisabethville Airfield was sent out to intercept two Flying Saucers. They had a diam. of 12 to 15 meters with a stationary central hub with visible portholes and an extremely fast rotating outer disk that glowed as if on fire. Color similar to aluminum. They emitted a loud whistling sound which could be heard over his own engines. He estimated their speed at over 1500 kilometers/hour.",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "Langley, Virginia",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p512)"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/20/1952",
			"desc" : "Memorandom for Director CIA: the DCI, after a briefing by OSI on the subject of UFOs, directed the preparation of an NSCID for submission to the Council stating the need for investigation and directing agencies concerned to cooperate in such investigations. It was decided that Dr. Whitman, chairman of P&DB, would investigate undertaking R&D studies through Air Force agencies. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell. (See continuation of this briefing.)",
			"type" : "memorandom",
			"location" : "Langley, Virginia",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"see_also" : "11/25/1952"
		},
		
        {
			"date" : "8/22/1952",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "78km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/23/1952",
			"desc" : "CIA analysis report of an Athens news article of an UFO landing in Communist Berlin, Germany: Former Mayor of Gleimershausen, Oscar Linke and his 11 year old daughter, Gabriella, spotted a landed Flying Saucer near the town of Hasselbach. The huge “frying pan” was approx. 13 to 15 meters in diameter and had two rows of holes on its periphery, about 30 centimeters in circumference. The space between the two rows was about 0.45 meters. On top was a black conical object about 3 meters high. Two men dressed in shiny metallic clothing were standing outside the craft. Upon hearing my daughters voice the two men retreated into the UFO which then began to rotate. As the UFO began to spin the conical tower slid down into the UFO and the UFO began to rise and rotate like a top. It seemed to be supported by the conical tower that was now underneath it. (More details were included in report, see 02/23/1955, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”)",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "Langley, Virginia",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p513)",
			"see_also" : "2/23/1955"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/14/1952",
			"desc" : "Iceland, North Atlantic, between Ireland and Iceland. Witnesses: military persons from several countries aboard ships in the NATO “Operation Mainbrace” exercise. Among the sightings: one blue-green triangle was observed flying 1,500 mph; three objects in a triangular formation gave off white light exhaust at 1,500 mph",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "North Atlantic",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/19/1952",
			"desc" : "V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_V-2_test_launches#Launches_of_captured_V-2_rockets_in_the_USA_after_1945)",
			"type" : "rocket launch",
			"rocket_type" : "V-2",
			"rocket_altitude" : "27km",
			"location" : "White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/20/1952",
			"desc" : "Air Ministry, London: A number of airmen and officers of the R.A.F., Topcliffe, observed an UFO. As it descended it was swinging in a pendular motion like a falling leaf. Pendulous motion ceased and object began rotary motion about its own axis. Suddenly accelerated at an incredible speed. (9/19/1952, cont’d) It was not identifiable with any known aircraft and acceleration was in excess of that of a shooting star! Craft was silver in color and circular. (Operation Mainbrace)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p31,450, B1-G p43)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "North Yorkshire, England",
			"see_also" : "9/20/1952"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/20/1952",
			"desc" : "An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/1952) is sighted over a U.S. Carrier ship out with the fleet between England and Scandinavia. An American photographer doing a story of the fleet exercise took pictures of the UFO which was ascertained not to have been a balloon. The Navy never released the photos of the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Between England and Scandinavia",
			"see_also" : "9/19/1952"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/21/1952",
			"desc" : "Six RAF jets on maneuvers over the North Sea saw a “sphere” heading towards them, coming from the direction of the English fleet. It was tracked on radar then disappeared and reappeared behind them. One Meteor pilot attempted an intercept but was completely outrun by the UFO. Capt. Ruppelt was later told by RAF Intelligence that the incidents of the past three days caused the RAF to officially recognize the UFO situation.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "North Sea",
			"see_also" : [ "7/1952", "6/24/1953" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/2/1952",
			"desc" : "SECRET MEMO to Director CIA from H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence: ATIC is the only group devoting appreciable effort to the study of UFOs. Flying Saucers pose two elements of danger to the United States. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns vulnerability of the U.S. to air attack. Recommend that the DCI discuss this subject with the Psychological Strategy Board.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p509)",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Langley, VA",
			"see_also" : "11/25/1952"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/27/1952",
			"desc" : "Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary ships.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "secret memo",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/4/1952",
			"desc" : "NSA is established",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.nsa.gov/portals/75/documents/news-features/declassified-documents/cryptologic-spectrum/early_history_nsa.pdf)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Fort Meade, Maryland"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/18/1952",
			"desc" : "MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President (elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1)",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)", "[link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/)" ],
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/25/1952",
			"desc" : "(cont’d briefing from 8/20/1952): Memorandum for Director CIA: Another meeting by A-2 and ATIC personnel was held on this date. UFOs must have immediate attention. UFOs have been sighted at great altitudes and at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations and can NOT be attributed to natural phenomena or KNOWN types of aerial vehicles. OSI is proceeding to establish an immediate PRIORITY research and development on UFOs under the aegis of CANIS. Signed: H. Marshall Chadwell.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/)",
			"type" : "memorandum",
			"location" : "Langley, VA",
			"see_also" : [ "8/10/1952", "10/2/1952", "11/25/1952" ]
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "12/2/1952",
			"desc" : "Statement by H. Marshall Chadwell, Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence, CIA: “The reports of (UFO) incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "statement",
			"location" : "Langley, VA",
			"see_also" : [ "10/2/1952", "11/25/1952" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1953",
			"desc" : "Director of Project Blue Book, Capt. Ruppelt stated: “Two RAF Intelligence Officers who were in the US on a classified mission brought six single-spaced typed pages of questions they and their friends wanted answered regarding UFOs.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "classified mission",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : "9/21/1952"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1953?",
			"desc" : "Pilot (name withheld) stated, “a saucer crashed in a desert area”. He was sure that it was just inside the Arizona border. He also saw the bodies first-hand at Wright-Patterson AFB. The crates arrived at night by DC-7. Description of bodies: approx. 4 ft. high. Resting un-shrouded on a special blanket on dry ice. Heads were hairless, narrow, disproportionately large for their bodies. Skin had brown tint. Open eyes, small mouth, indistinct nose, hands and feet. Wore tight fitting, dark colored suites. One Alien appeared to be female. One Alien had been alive at the crash site but attempts to save its’ life with oxygen failed.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : [ "Arizona", "Wright-Patterson AFB" ]
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "9/1953",
			"desc" : "The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski published.",
			"ref" : "[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-Have-Landed/dp/1500235040)",
			"type" : "book",
			"location" : "California"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1953",
			"desc" : "Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (AQUARIUS, B1-A)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1953",
			"end_date" : "1/20/1961",
			"desc" : "President Eisenhower in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/26/1953",
			"desc" : "The ROBERTSON PANEL convenes, headed by Prof. H.P. Robertson. He was chosen because of being renowned as a nuclear physicist. Some of the persons involved with this panel were Capt. Ruppelt, Dr. Allen Hynek, Prof. S. GOUDSMIT, L. ALVAREZ, Sam Goudsmit, Prof. Luis Alvarez, Dr. Lloyd Berkner and Prof. Thornton Page.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1/26/1953",
			"desc" : "The Dept. of Defense, Washington, D.C. states in a letter to the Henry Holt & Co. that Maj. Donald Keyhoes’ book on “flying saucers” is accurate and that if the reported controlled maneuvers of the saucers are accurate then the saucers may be from another planet. Signed, Albert M. Chop, Air Force Press Desk.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A10, [\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p542)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"see_also" : "9/15/1950",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},						

		{
			"date" : "3/19/1953",
			"desc" : "Jack Clerk (Jack Charles Pryal Clerk, 1919–1996, US Marine Corps Reserves), an Electrical Engineer attached to Army Ordinance as a consultant, was giving public presentations at the Glendale CA Lions Club area about three Crash Retrievals (“grounded saucers”) that occurred in the southwest. His talks were “cleared by Security”, and it says parts of his talk had to be “dummied up” at the request of the government.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-50s-public-presentations-about-crash-retrievals-64d2cc8766e3)",
			"type" : "public presentation",
			"location" : "Glendale, CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/20/1953",
			"desc" : "Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Kingman, AZ",
			"see_also" : "5/21/1953"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/21/1953",
			"desc" : "Fritz Werner (pseudonym), engineer at Wright-Patterson AFB, assisted in the investigation of a crashed UFO. It was constructed of an unfamiliar metal, similar to aluminum [magnesium?]. It had impacted 20 inches into the sand without any signs of structural damage. It was oval and 30 ft. in diam. An opened hatchway was 3 1/2 ft. long and 1 1/2 ft. wide. Inside the craft were 2 swivel seats, oval cabin and lots of instrumentation and displays. A tent pitched nearby contained the corpse of the pilot. It was approx. 4 ft. tall and had a brown complexion, two eyes, a small round mouth, two nostrils [no nose?], and two ears. It wore a silvery metallic-like suite and a skull cap of the same material.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Kingman, AZ",
			"see_also" : "5/20/1953"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Summer 1953",
			"desc" : "Saucer crash lands near Camp Polk, Louisiana. US Army Pvt. H.J. (initials) under Sgt. R.S. (initials) in Company B ordered to stay by the saucer until the ambulance and superior officers arrive. Three Aliens walked away from the crash. One Alien was carried on a stretcher. All aliens eventually died, taken to storage facility near Washington D.C. Alien description: Large helmeted heads, tight fitting suits, legs stiff when they walked, 3.5 to 4.0 feet tall, used Alien language.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Camp Polk, Louisiana"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/20/1953",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "California Coast"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/24/1953",
			"desc" : "USAF EMERGENCY Intelligence Report: Two jets out of Quonset Point have had mid-air collision at 2130E with UFO. American and Eastern Airlines pilots reported UFO. Jets fell in flames 15 miles West of Quonset Point.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p488)",
			"type" : "ufo collision",
			"location" : "Quonset Point, Rhode Island",
			"see_also" : "6/26/1953"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/26/1953",
			"desc" : "USAF Intelligence Report, EMERGENCY JEDUP JEDEN JEDFF JEPHQ JEPRS 555. Distribution: OOP, OOP-CP, OAC, ARMY, NAVY, JCS, CIA, NSA, Tech Intelligence Center Wright Patterson AFB. (see 06/24/1953 for details of report)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p488)",
			"type" : "ufo collision",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : "6/24/1953"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/19/1953",
			"desc" : "Confidential Message to the Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.: An F-86 aircraft was observed in flight over the Oak Ridge residential area by a writer and his wife. While observing the F-86 through 6 power field glasses an UFO, black in color, moved out of a high white cloud directly over the area where the F-86 had been circling. The UFO began circling at a tremendous speed for at least 5 minutes. It appeared at times to be cigar shaped and at other times to be round in shape. No sound or visible means of propulsion was observed from the UFO. It flew away at tremendous speed for 3 miles where it was joined by 2 other UFOs into a ‘V’ formation and sped away.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Oak Ridge, TN",
			"see_also" : "7/27/1953"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/20/1953",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "California Coast"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/26/1953",
			"desc" : "Emergency Message to Air Defence Command: CIRVIS 3346N 9632W sighted 7 UFOs hovering at altitude of 5 to 8 thousand feet near Perrin Tower, TX. Visually observed by citizens of Denison and Sherman, TX. The UFOs were grouped in a Z (Zebra) formation, then circled to higher altitudes and faded from sight. Each UFO had one bright red light on it.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p359)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Perrin Tower, TX"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/27/1953",
			"desc" : "Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "Confidential Message",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "7/19/1953"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "8/12/1953",
			"desc" : "First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt, Semipalatinsk Test Site",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "400",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
		},	

		{
			"date" : "8/13/1953",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds” released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_(1953_film))",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "8/17/1953",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "8/23/1953",
			"desc" : "Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "28",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "8/26/1953",
			"desc" : "Air Force Regulation 200-2 issued by Secretary of Air Force: \"Intelligence. Unidentified Flying Objects Reporting.\" Paragraph 9 forbids public release of unexplained sightings. Paragraph 8 requires classification of radar-scope photographs of UFOs. Air Force personnel instructed to discuss sightings only with \"authorized personnel.\" (Note rapid drop-off of officially reported sightings after this date.)",
			"ref" : [ "The UFO Evidence page 22, Richard H. Hall", "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)" ],
			"type" : "regulation",
			"see_also" : "8/12/1954"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "11/2/1953",
			"desc" : "Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR 200–2A.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "regulation"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "9/16/1953",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North Miami area",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "10/2/1953",
			"desc" : "Industrial engineer Jack W. Grant gives a presentation titled \"Flying Saucers Have Landed\" to the Federation of Women's Clubs at a hotel. He had travelled the country for the past 6 years and was convinced the topic was of immense significance. He said the government would eventually tell the public and his presentation would help soften the blow.",
			"ref" : [ "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116905302/jack-w-grant-flying-saucers-are-real/)",
					  "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116904993/jack-w-grant-on-flying-saucers-have/)" ],
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Lancaster, Ohio"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/9/1953",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at the Aerodex Management club",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "11/13/1953",
			"desc" : "Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},			
		
		{
			"date" : "Mid 11/1953",
			"desc" : "Rumors a saucer and its occupant were in custody at Edwards AFB, originally heard up by ex-Naval aviator and intelligence officer George Williams. Recorded by author Frank Scully in his private notes now at the AHC.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4)",
			"type" : "private notes",
			"location" : "CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1953",
			"desc" : "Meeting of a private “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” concerning custody of several beings off a saucer. Meeting was to be held at “Muroc Dry Lake” (Edwards AFB), but it was held somewhere else.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4)",
			"type" : "private notes",
			"location" : "CA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "Winter 1953",
			"desc" : "Salisbury Plain, England: Flight Lt. C.G. Townsend- Withers was flying an experimental Canberra aircraft at 55,000 ft. when he picked up on the new experimental radar an UFO following his plane. The science officer went up to the turret for a visual and spotted a circular craft five miles behind them. They tried to outpace the UFO by accelerating to 225 knots but it kept up with their plane. Townsend-Withers initiated a wide sweeping turn and lost radar contact with the UFO but came into direct visual on a collision course with the UFO. Then the UFO flipped vertically in the air and climbed from 50 to 70 thousand feet, as quickly as you could say it. Description: Round, thin disc with two tail fins at the rear, appearing metallic and enormous. Leaving no vapor trail, wake or detectable sound, it vanished within a couple of seconds up into the blue sky.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Salisbury Plain, England"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "12/8/1953",
			"desc" : "CIA Evaluation of the UFO situation: It was pleased to note that the number of sightings had decreased dramatically, due, it believed, to the success of its’ implemented policies. Some sightings still would have “possible scientific intelligence value”. The CIA concluded that the panel’s (name?) recommendations might have been interpreted by saucer believers as “debunking”.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "report",
			"location" : "Langley, VA"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1954",
			"desc" : "US Satellite Program: “The U.S. Earth satellite program began in 1954 as a joint U.S. Army and U.S. Navy proposal, called Project Orbiter, to put a scientific satellite into orbit during the International Geophysical Year. The proposal, using a military Redstone missile, was rejected in 1955 by the Eisenhower administration in favor of the Navy’s Project Vanguard, using a booster advertised as more civilian in nature. Following the launch of the Soviet satellite Sputnik 1 on 4 October 1957, the initial Project Orbiter program was revived as the Explorer program to catch up with the Soviet Union.”",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1954",
			"desc" : "Project SIGMA established as part of Project xxxx (name CENSURED). Top Secret project that looked into how to communicate with aliens. That projects existence was revealed in the PROJECT AQUARIUS Briefing Document and is said to have succeeded in 1964 when a USAF intelligence officer met two other aliens at a prearranged location in a desert in New Mexico. Became a separate project in 1976.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SIGMA)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/1954",
			"desc" : "Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US government has an “object” under examination in California.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4)",
			"type" : "radio",
			"location" : "California"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/24/1954",
			"desc" : "Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/1953 rumors of a saucer and its occupant in custody at Edwards AFB. He also records that an “industrial group” discussing matters that “confront the country” will be meeting at Muroc Dry Lake concerning the custody of several beings off a saucer.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4)",
			"type" : "private notes",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB",
			"see_also" : [ "11/1953", "12/1953" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/6/1954",
			"desc" : "CONFIDENTIAL Air Force Staff Message: (DTG 061800Z) From Commander 19, A-Division, Carswell AFB, TX: UFO sighted over base. Had long fuselage, elliptical wings, stabilizer and no visible means of propulsion. It was larger than a B-36, had no tail, left no trail of exhaust and emitted no sound. Passed directly over tower at an Alt. of 3000 to 4000 ft. and was visible to all persons on duty. The UFO, when viewed on 10 mile scope gave a return of 1 inch. Copy of this report sent to: CSAF, WASH DC; COMDR ADC, ENT AFB, COLO; COMDR ATINTEL, CRT WPAFB, OHIO; COMDR 8TH AF, CARSWELL AFB, TEX.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p495)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Carswell AFB, TX"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/20/1954",
			"desc" : "Rumors of President Eisenhower disappearing from reporters at Palm Springs for a secret meeting at Edwards AFB to captured saucers and perhaps have a meeting. One reporter issues and then immediately retracts a wire story that the President was dead. Dentist visit a cover story.",
			"ref" : "[book link](https://www.amazon.com/President-Eisenhowers-Close-Encounters-Blake-ebook/dp/B08KFM46H3)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB, CA",
			"see_also" : "4/2/1954"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/22/1954",
			"desc" : "Lecturer and engineer Norman S. Bean states that saucers are already in “captivity”, one saucer was or still is in Dayton OH, military is investigating the saucer, saucer people look like humans, after the British atomic bomb tests in Australia saucer reports took off there, claimed Air Force permission to talk.",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/104864241/flying-saucers-real-thing-engineer-says/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1/1954",
			"desc" : "\"Castle Bravo\" hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States at 15mt.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Bravo)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_mt" : "15",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "3/11/1954",
			"desc" : "Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers.",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1954",
			"desc" : "SOM1–01 \"MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual\" document",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/som101_part1.pdf)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "12/1994"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "4/12/1954",
			"desc" : "Between 6:30 and 7:15 PM a saucer crashed in the desert, NM. K.A. (initials) and Rescue Team 4 were sent from Roswell AFB to investigate the crashed disc. The saucer was 40–50 ft. in diameter. There were 4 dead Aliens scattered about the desert by the saucer. Alien description (seen from helicopter at 30 ft. alt.): Height was between 4.0 to 4.5 ft. Large proportioned heads, no helmets. Tight fitting dark blue suite. Faces, under ‘copter spotlight, were light green with a luminous tint. The saucer was stored in Hanger-18, Top Security. Hanger-18 was later expanded to 9 stories high and 11 stories deep with heavy refrigeration equipment, radar equip., and sophisticated computer equip.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "NM",
			"see_also" : [ "2/10/1954", "4/24/1954", "3/7/1955" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/13/1954",
			"desc" : "Approximate date of Eisenhower meeting with others at Edwards AFB. Event witnessed by occultist, medium and author “Gerald Light” (possibly R.G. McFarland, his “publisher”) and a detailed account along with 3 other witness names is immediately published by the BSRA. Einstein, Paperclip scientists, and government officials were present according to witnesses.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB",
			"see_also" : "4/15/1954"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/15/1954",
			"desc" : "Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with others at Edwards AFB.",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/early-contactees-and-ufologists-millen-cooke-gerald-light-and-meade-layne-1ee70154f31a)",
			"type" : "public bulletin",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB",
			"see_also" : "4/13/1954"
		},		
		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/24/1954",
			"desc" : "A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A. (initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB",
			"see_also" : "4/12/1954"
		},				
		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/12/1954",
			"desc" : "Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept",
			"ref" : "Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "5/15/1954",
			"desc" : "Air Force Chief Nathan Twining tells audience in Amarillo that best brains of Air Force are trying to solve the riddle of the flying saucers: \"If they come from Mars, there is nothing to be alarmed about!\"",
			"ref" : "[\"My First 10,000,000 Sponsors\" by Frank Edwards](https://www.amazon.com/My-First-10-000-Sponsors/dp/B0018MZV76), page 123",
			"type" : "statement",
			"location" : "Amarillo, TX"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "5/20/1954",
			"desc" : "Private Frank Scully note at AHC: CIC officers told 3 weeks ago by Maj. May that 30 diamond drill bits were destroyed attempting to drill into a saucer with no effect (actual event could have been a long time before).",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4)",
			"type" : "private notes",
			"location" : "California"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/4/1954",
			"desc" : "From Leonard Stringfield’s CRIFO newsletter: “Mantle of Mystery Shrouds Muroc”. A source in CA writes in a letter that the US government has “captured discs”. “In the strictness secrecy these objects are being examined by the top ‘brains’ in the country…Information regarding the discs propulsion, metal and structure would be sugar in the hands of the Russians.”",
			"ref" : "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/edwards-afb-1954-rumors-from-frank-scullys-private-notes-df6c32e910d4)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Edwards AFB"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/29/1954",
			"desc" : "A BOAC Strato Cruiser (British Airways) on a trans Atlantic flight with Capt. James Howard in command was traveling at 260 knots at 19,000 ft. when the crew saw a large CIGAR shaped UFO with six smaller UFOs flying close to it. Among the others to witness these events were First Officer Lee Boyd and Navigator Capt. H. McDonnell. After 15 minutes of observing the UFOs, Capt. Howard radioed Goose Bay, Canada, for backup escort, upon which the smaller UFOs entered the bigger Cigar shaped one which then shot away. Upon landing, Howard and Boyd were debriefed by intelligence officers and their flight logs were confiscated by USAF personnel.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Atlantic Ocean"
		},
						
		{
			"date" : "7/14/1954",
			"desc" : "MJ-12 SSP briefing letter, briefing scheduled for July 16, 1954. MEMO to General Nathan F. Twining (MJ-4) requesting his presence at an MAJESTIC-12 meeting with President Eisenhower on July 16. Note by Stanton Friedman: Letter was discovered in the National Archives by Wm. Moore and Jamie Shandera on 1985 in the 126th box of USAF files. Carbon of the original form.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/03/22/mj4-majestic-dan-burisch-stargates-and-et/)",
					"[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p84, majic)" ],
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/16/1954",
			"desc" : "Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and President Eisenhower.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (MJ-4)",
			"type" : "secret meeting",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1954",
			"desc" : "Statement by Air Chief Marshall Lord Dowding, head of the RAF during WWII: “Of course the flying saucers are real! And, they are inter planetary!”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "public statement",
			"see_also" : [ "9/23/1947", "10/9/1955" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/12/1954",
			"desc" : "EMERGENCY CIA MESSAGE: Sighted Saucer hovering at 2000 ft. above Maxwell AFB, Alabama. Dispatched local helicopter NBR ARMY267 to investigate. Definitely NOT a star. Helicopters fuel low, returned to base. In coming helicopter ARMY294 proceeded toward UFO which then completely disappeared. Pilot of ARMY294 lost sight of it, would be glad to be called upon to verify saucer light. Pilots of Army helicopters were: R.T. Wade, 506th helicopter Co., U.S. Tarma, also of the 506th, Ft. Genning, GA.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p493)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Maxwell AFB"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/12/1954",
			"desc" : "New updated reporting of UFOs. Regulation AFR 200–2, (see Aug. 26, 1953), by order of N.F. Twining (MJ-4), Chief of Staff, USAF.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p489)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "8/26/1953"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/14/1954",
			"desc" : "Flight Lt. Jimmy Salandin took off in his Meteor jet at 4:15pm and climbed up to 16,000 ft. When he was over Southend, England, two circular UFOs shot past him at 9o’clock high. One UFO was silvery and the other gold in color. A third UFO appeared ahead of him on a collision course. It had a bun-shaped top, a flange like two saucers in the center and a bun shaped dome underneath and was silvery in color. It flew close enough to his jet to overlap his windshield.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "North Weald Airfield, Essex, England"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/22/1954",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in Northwest Miami",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Northwest Miami, FL"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/1955",
			"end_date" : "4/1956",
			"desc" : "Admiral Richard E. Byrd’s fifth Antarctic expedition (Operation Deep Freeze). By 1955 Byrd was in charge of the United States’ Antarctic program and supervised the U.S. Navy’s Operation Deep Freeze, which was sent to support the International Geophysical Year (1957–58). This was Byrd’s final visit to Antarctica and although he was only there for a week, he also took his last flight over the South Pole on January 8, 1956. This expedition also established permanent Antarctic bases at McMurdo Sound (McMurdo Station) and the South Pole (Amundsen-Scott Base).",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Deep_Freeze)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "McMurdo Station"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1955",
			"desc" : "According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, USSR’s Ministry of Defence formed a UFO Research Committee. Stroganov claimed that Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the problem in 1956. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research grounds.",
			"ref" : "[“The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69](https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Gene-Interactions-Humanity-Visitors/dp/0958704538)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1955",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic plant",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "2/23/1955",
			"desc" : "Broadlands Archives Record: Sworn statement by Lord Mountbatten and Frederick Briggs describing a Saucer that landed on Lord Mountbattens property. It was shaped like a child’s humming top, between 10 to 30 ft. diameter. Looked like kitchen saucepan. Had cylindrical column about the size of a man descending from the center. Had portholes all around the middle, like a steamer boat. I noticed a man standing on the end of the central column. He was dressed in a dark suit of overalls, and wearing a close fitting hat or helmet. As the Saucer powered up a bright blue light came from one of the portholes (like a mercury-vapor lamp). A force knocked me over. The Flying Saucer proceeded to rise and retract the central column. (See movie ”Earth vs. the F.S.”)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p451-453, ALIEN)",
			"type" : "ce2 event",
			"location" : "Britain",
			"see_also" : "8/23/1952"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/7/1955",
			"desc" : "K.A. (initials) from Rescue Team 4, Roswell AFB, N.M. given a general discharge from the USAF because he told his Sergeant about the Top Secret recovery of a UFO on April 12, 1954.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C)",
			"type" : "personnel discharged",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM",
			"see_also" : "4/12/1954"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/18/1955",
			"desc" : "Albert Einstein dies",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein)",
			"type" : "scientist",
			"location" : "Princeton, NJ"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/21/1955",
			"desc" : "Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter, 5 adult and 7 child witnesses, UFO spotted, “twelve to fifteen” short, dark figures who repeatedly popped up at the doorway or peered into the windows.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.thinkaboutitdocs.com/the-hopkinsville-alien-invasion-of-1955/)",
			"type" : "ufological event",
			"location" : "Hopkinsville, KY"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "5/18/1955",
			"desc" : "News release from AEC announcing “preliminary work” had begun “on a small satellite installation” within the Las Vegas Bombing and Gunnery Range. Contractor was adding “Limited additional facilities and modifications” to a small installation near Groom Lake (now known as Area 51).",
			"ref" : "[“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar](https://www.amazon.com/Dreamland-Autobiography-Bob-Lazar/dp/0578437058)",
			"type" : "news release",
			"location" : "Groom Lake"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/10/1955",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “This Island Earth” is released. A group of scientists receive special materials that are technologically more sophisticated than anything available at the time from a secret research group.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Island_Earth)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/12/1955",
			"desc" : "Unusual UFOB report from Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland. UFO sighted by a tanker aircraft (KC97) pilot and ground radar. “Unusual” in that the pilot of the Archie 29 called direction changes of the UFO to ground radar which correlated exactly with those painted by the radar scope. This observation went on for 49 minutes. Signed: Todos M. Odarenko.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "9/21/1955",
			"desc" : "Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : "3.5",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "10/5/1955",
			"desc" : "Letter from US Navy Rear Admiral J. L. Herlihy at Pearl Harbor to the future director of the BSRA, Riley Crabb. They gave him an award of $200 in recognition of his superior performance in his duties.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555631683269009410)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Pearl Harbor"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "11/22/1955",
			"desc" : "First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-37)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_mt" : "1.6",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Semipalatinsk Test Site"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "1956",
			"desc" : "According to researcher Yuri Stroganov, Russian intel chiefs met with counterparts from France, Britain, and the USA to discuss the UFO problem. The agreed upon the necessity to keep the issue top secret and maintain a unified approach in handling witnesses, the media and UFO research groups.",
			"ref" : "[“The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69](https://www.amazon.com/Alien-Gene-Interactions-Humanity-Visitors/dp/0958704538)",
			"type" : "secret meeting",
			"see_also" : "1955"
		},												
		
		{
			"date" : "1956",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Uranium enrichment)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic plant",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "2/5/1956",
			"desc" : "Soviet atomic bomb test R-5M. The RDS-4 comprised the warhead of the R-5M, the first medium-range ballistic missile in the world, which was tested with a live warhead for the first and only time on February 5, 1956.",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)", "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Soviet_nuclear_tests)" ],
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_kt" : ".3",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Kapustin Yar"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/7/1956",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion group in Coral Gables, FL",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Coral Gables, FL"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/8/1956",
			"desc" : "Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/3/1956",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "6/13/1956",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_vs._the_Flying_Saucers)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Late 1956",
			"desc" : "Castle AFB, California: A.A. and J.R. (names withheld) were flying F-86’s near Modesto, CA, on alert duty due to civilian UFO reports in a nearby town. Base instructed them to return because their was an UFO near the control tower. With afterburners on they closed rapidly on a luminous elliptical UFO that moved above and below cloud cover at 10 to 12 thousand feet as if to elude them. The two pilots played cat-and-mouse with the UFO until they ran low of fuel and returned to base. Local citizens that witnessed these events were told by the Air Force that the pilots had been chasing ducks or geese.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "Castle AFB, CA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/2/1956",
			"desc" : "Harry Sturdevant, a night watchman of some 20 years, said, “a red light in the sky shot at him. This UFO had no wings, fins or propulsion sounds, except for the sound of “escaping steam”. It was about 60 to 100 ft. in diam. and cigar shaped. The UFO gave him “the greatest shock of my life”. There was a nauseating smell like sulfur and brimstone. He lost the sense of taste and smell and couldn’t swallow properly. He collapsed on the ground and was unable to move for half an hour, after which he managed to drive to his home and call for aid. Six weeks later, a New Jersey workmen’s compensation referee decided that Sturdevant should be paid for medical expenses incurred for the injury done by the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting with injury",
			"location" : "Trenton, NJ"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/24/1956",
			"desc" : "NICAP established. One of its board of directors was Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, former CIA director and rumored MJ-12 member. From this position Hillenkoetter and others could steeer NICAP from the inside in any direction they wanted.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/1/1957",
			"end_data" : "12/31/1958",
			"desc" : "International Geophysical Year (IGY). It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West had been seriously interrupted. Sixty-seven countries participated in IGY projects. The IGY encompassed eleven Earth sciences: aurora and airglow, cosmic rays, geomagnetism, gravity, ionospheric physics, longitude and latitude determinations (precision mapping), meteorology, oceanography, seismology, and solar activity. The timing of the IGY was particularly suited for studying some of these phenomena, since it covered the peak of solar cycle 19. Both the Soviet Union and the U.S. launched artificial satellites for this event; the Soviet Union’s _Sputnik 1_, launched on October 4, 1957, was the first successful artificial satellite.[3] Other significant achievements of the IGY included the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts by Explorer 1 and the defining of mid-ocean submarine ridges, an important confirmation of plate-tectonic theory.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1957",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Weapons design and research)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)",
			"type" : "atomic plant"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1957",
			"desc" : "Pilot Milton Torres flew a F-86 D Sabre from the Royal Air Force base at Manston, Kent and ordered to shoot down a large “aircraft carrier” sized UFO flying at more than 7600mph. Object disappeared, ordered to stay silent and threatened with a national security breach if he talked.",
			"ref" : "[Reuters Link](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-ufo/u-s-pilot-was-ordered-to-shoot-down-ufo-idUKTRE49J1P620081020)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Manston, Kent"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/20/1957",
			"desc" : "OPERATION INTERCEPT: Two USAF fighters intercept a UFO. The F-86D’s fired Mighty Mouse missiles at the UFO and missed it. The UFO left their 30 mile range area and fell off the radar scope.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://web.archive.org/web/20070828174845/http://www.virtuallystrange.net/ufo/updates/1998/jun/m07-034.shtml)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Manston, Kent"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/2/1957",
			"desc" : "Letter to BSRA about a recent nuclear test that was postponed for 2 weeks because the winds would blow fallout in occupied areas. The eventually conducted test blew the fallout over occupied areas anyway.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1556515931978956801)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Nevada"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/31/1957",
			"desc" : "In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "letter"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/4/1957",
			"desc" : "Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on 1/4/58",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"see_also" : "11/12/1957"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/15/1957",
			"desc" : "Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an human-looking female.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1)",
			"type" : "abduction",
			"location" : "Brazil"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/2/1957",
			"desc" : "Multiple landings on roadways, E-M (electro-magnetic) effects, etc. Sheriff Weir Clem was sent out to search the roads as a result of earlier UFO reports and saw a reddish oval crossing the road and illuminating the pavement. Ronald Martin saw an UFO land in front of his truck and turn from red to bluish-green at which time the truck’s electrical system failed. It then turned reddish again and took off. Within the next few hours an Army Jeep Patrol at White Sands, N.M., reported an egg-shaped UFO that descended to about 50 yards above a bunker used during the first A-bomb explosion. This wave of sightings continued for 2–3 weeks. After retirement in 1975, Sheriff W. Clem gave a more graphic description of the UFO he saw: “The object was shaped like a huge football and had bright white lights. No living human could believe how fast it traveled. The thing was as bright as day. It lit up the whole area.” In an interview in 1977, Sheriff Clem said, “After the publicity of UFOs over the next few days, the number of witnesses to them rose to about a hundred people.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ce2 event",
			"location" : "Loveland, TX",
			"see_also" : "11/5/1957"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "11/5/1957",
			"desc" : "A single investigator from Project Blue Book headquarters arrived at Loveland, TX. He interviewed only two persons who had stalled cars and reported that all the UFO activity in Texas between Nov. 2–4 was the result of a “rather heavy electrical storm…All witnesses saw the same streak of lightning…which stimulated the populace into a high level of excitement….and resulted in an inflation of stories by some witnesses.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "investigation",
			"location" : "Loveland, TX"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/12/1957",
			"desc" : "FBI STATUS REPORT: “Ever since the Russians release ‘Sputnik’ there has been a great increase in the number of flying saucers and other UFOs reportedly seen by people all over the U.S.” [Angle: Artificial satellite spurs Alien interest in mankind. Other Angle: Artificial satellite causes populace to go sky crazy.]",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "status report",
			"location" : "Washington, DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "12/5/1957",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and Saucers”",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "status report",
			"location" : "Washington, DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "12/28/1957",
			"desc" : "Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterians)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "Japan"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1958",
			"desc" : "DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon program",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon)", "Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's Manuscript" ],
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Washington, DC"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "1/4/1958",
			"desc" : "Sputnik deorbits",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_1)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Washington, DC"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "2/1/1958",
			"desc" : "First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26"
		},												
		
		{
			"date" : "5/23/1958",
			"desc" : "Explorer 1 loses contact",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "medium earth orbit"
		},														
		
	
		{
			"date" : "5/1958",
			"desc" : "Maelstrom AFB, Montana: Just after midnight an UFO approached the alert hanger where one guard was standing on duty. At about 1000 ft. altitude. The UFO appeared as a round metallic looking object (called a “Flying Saucer” by the guard). The base radar and FAA radar picked up the UFO as it was apparently hovering over the alert hanger and the atomic bomb storage nearby. The saucer then moved slowly down the length of runway and then proceeded across town to the Muni Airport at Great Falls and hovered over the National Guard parking ramp for the F-89’s and then flew off.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Maelstrom AFB, Montana"
		},																
		
		{
			"date" : "12/20/1958",
			"desc" : "Patrolmen Le Roy A. Arboreen and B. Talada while on patrol suddenly spotted a glowing red object which came directly toward them at a phenomenal rate of speed from the West, Increasing rapidly in size, then coming to an abrupt stop, it was ellipsoid in shape and solid bright red while giving off a pulsating glow. After hovering a few seconds it went straight up like a shot and faded beyond the stars. Visibility: unlimited.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Dunellen, NJ"
		},																		
				
		{
			"date" : "3/20/1959",
			"alt_date" : "6/8/1959",
			"desc" : "A group at the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) produced for the Army a classified study report titled Project Horizon, A U.S. Army Study for the Establishment of a Lunar Military Outpost by 1965.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Horizon)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Redstone Arsenal"
		},																		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/26/1959",
			"desc" : "Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral Gables, FL.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar)",
			"type" : "whistleblower",
			"location" : "Coral Gables, FL"
		},																		

		{
			"date" : "4/1/1959",
			"desc" : "An Air Force C-118 transport plane with four passengers suddenly radioed in ”MAYDAY, we’ve been hit!” Col. R.E. Booth told reporters that a mid-air collision had taken place at 8:19 p.m. APRG (Aerial Phenomena Research Group) investigators determined that from 7:00 p.m. on through the early evening several mysterious aerial explosions had shaken the Seattle, WA, area. Several residents had reported seeing mysterious UFOs from 20 miles north of the crash scene to about 8 miles southeast of it. These sightings were confirmed by the Orting Chief of Police and by Public Information Officer at McChord AFB. Several persons told APRG investigator, R. Gribble, that as the C-118 passed over their area it was followed by 2 parachute-shaped objects and that the C-118 was missing its tail assembly. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Jones reported 3 or 4 parachute-shaped UFOs following the C-118 as it passed over their home. Chief of Police, Fred Emard, told R. Gribble that he would be glad to furnish information on the UFOs to APRG, but changed his mind the next day after an interview with an Air Force Colonel. “The Chief and other officials of Orting had been silenced,” Gribble reported.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "mid-air collision",
			"location" : "Orting, WA",
			"see_also" : [ "9/29/59", "5/61" ]
		},																		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/29/1959",
			"desc" : "Maj. R.O. Braswell, while flying an C-47 at 6500 ft. alt., spotted an UFO. “It was colored like a large red fire and looked like an atomic cloud”, he stated. At about 5 degrees above my plane it appeared massive and was at about 13000 ft. alt. The UFO appeared to be about 1000 ft. thick (top to bottom). Billie Guyton of Centerville, TX, also observed the UFO and said that he observed a smaller UFO emerge from it. Another ground observer, Jackie J. Cox, schoolteacher, saw a “bright light in the sky that spread to cover the entire sky.” W.S. Webb of Buffalo, N.Y., glanced out his bedroom window and saw a ball of fire shooting through the sky, after which he heard a noise, as if something was falling from the sky. The next day Braniff Airways Flight 542, carrying 28 passengers and 6 crew members, was found shredded in a thousand pieces. Subsequent inquiry found that there had been no fire or explosion aboard the jet before or after the crash and that scorch marks found on the exterior windows, fuselage and parted tail section showed signs of having been exposed to tremendous exterior heat. Also the force causing the plane to come down did not come from within the plane. Radar Operator, E.H. Tindale, later told investigators that he had plotted an UFO twice on the night Flight 542 crashed. Both plots of the UFO were in the area where the wreckage of the airliner was found. The UFO was stationary both times it was tracked.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "mid-air collision",
			"location" : "Buffalo, Texas",
			"see_also" : [ "4/1/59", "5/61" ]
		},																		
		
		{
			"date" : "1959",
			"desc" : "Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact with Aliens.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"see_also" : "4/15/64"
		},																				
		
		{
			"date" : "1960",
			"desc" : "The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_transistor)",
			"type" : "scientific advance"
		},																				
		
		{
			"date" : "1960's",
			"end_date" : "Mid 1980's",
			"desc" : "ex-Navy worker Riley Hansard Crabb (April 2, 1912 — January 20, 1994) takes over as director of the BSRF. One of the first major things he does is discredit “Gerald Light”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://borderlandsciences.org/cart/riley-hansard-crabb/)",
			"type" : "research group"
		},																						
		
		{
			"date" : "1960's",
			"desc" : "“Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Lazar",
			"type" : "secret location"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/31/1960",
			"desc" : "Telegram from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to President Eisenhower over “inspection of secret aircraft” rumors of a Feb. 1954 meeting at Edwards AFB.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-1960-leon-davidson-eisenhower-telegram-8d60b191b9c8)",
			"type" : "telegram"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1960",
			"desc" : "“Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "article"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/13/1960",
			"desc" : "Red Bluff, CA: CHP Officers Charles A. Carson and Stanley Scott were on patrol when they sighted what they thought was an airliner about to crash. When the UFO had descended to about 100 or 200 feet altitude it suddenly reversed direction and climbed to 500 ft. Description: round or oblong surrounded by a glow (color not mentioned) and having definite red lights at each end. They continued to watch the UFO as it performed ”unbelievable” aerial feats. The local RADAR operator confirmed the UFO at this time but denied it the next day. Other Tehema County Sheriffs’ officers also saw this UFO and another similar one that same night. (NICAP, 1964)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Red Bluff, CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1961",
			"desc" : "ex-Lt. Col Philip J. Corso said in 1961 he was given a file cabinet from his superior General Trudeau which contained material recovered from ET craft. He was instructed to use these items for “utilization and exploitation,” farming the objects out to various companies such as Bell Labs to reverse engineer and further develop. Among the technologies he said arose from this were: night vision, fiber optics, food irradiation, integrated circuits, and lasers.",
			"ref" : [ "\"The Day after Roswell\", by Philip J. Corso", "Philip J. Corso's Manuscript" ],
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1961",
			"end_date" : "1963",
			"desc" : "Near [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base), NE: “Mat”, a radio maintenance engineer at Nevada’s AEC between 1961–1963 provided evidence to the MUFON Journal that Project REDLIGHT was secretly being conducted at nearby “Area 51”, a 50-mile-square quadrant of land east of [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base). This Project “involved flight-testing of an UFO which had been shipped there from Edwards AFB.” The craft flew silently, was about 20 to 30 ft. in diam., and had no wings or tail.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo testing",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1961",
			"end_date" : "11/22/1963",
			"desc" : "President John F. Kennedy in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/28/1961",
			"desc" : "US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese troops during operations in Vietnam",
			"ref" : "[link](https://constitutionus.com/war/when-did-vietnam-war-start/)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Vietnam"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/28/1961",
			"desc" : "Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1961",
			"desc" : "Russia: Vladimir Azhazha found an elliptical area where he claimed that an alien craft had plummeted to Earth in 1961. A local resident, Zoya Shubenkina, corroborated Azhazha’s story about the 1961 crash, claiming she had witnessed it for herself. She said a big, fiery, red sphere flew over her house and crashed in the valley by the river.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo crash",
			"location" : "Russia"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1961",
			"desc" : "In the May issue of “Fate” magazine, Master Sgt. O.D. Hill admits that we are still losing Air Force planes to UFOs. The first case was an F-86 jet fighter that was sent aloft to investigate an UFO that had been plotted on the Radar scope of an Air Base (name and dates classified). The Radar Operator spied the UFO heading straight for the craft. The operator radioed for the F-86 to climb at once, but it was too late. The two blips merged as one and the UFO was tracked moving away. Classified as “mysterious” not a single shred of the F-86 was ever found. (ref. Kinross AFB where an F-89 with crew of two merged with an UFO and disappeared.-Donald Keyhoe) Second Case: A radar operator was tracking a transport plane carrying 26 persons aboard when, suddenly, another blip appeared on the screen closing at 2500 mph on the transport. Before the operator could warn the transport the two blips emerged as one. The remaining blip sped straight up at tremendous speed. A surface search in the vicinity revealed no oil slicks on the water, although a Generals’ briefcase was found floating around.",
			"ref" : "Fate Magazine, 5/1961",
			"type" : "publication",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : [ "4/1/59", "9/29/59" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/21/1961",
			"desc" : "Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).",
			"ref" : "Fate Magazine, 5/1961",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "1/27/67"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/19/1961",
			"end_date" : "9/20/1961",
			"desc" : "Betty and Barney Hill abduction incident in Lincoln, New Hampshire. Three miles south of the city of Lancaster, New Hampshire: Barney noticed what appeared to be a bright star, or planet, which seemed to move erratically. Barney pointed this out to Betty… As the object moved to within a hundred feet of him, he could see occupants inside. Frightened, he ran back to his car where Betty waited. They climbed inside and sped away. Soon, two hours of their lives would vanish into oblivion.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill_incident)",
			"type" : "abduction",
			"location" : "Lincoln, New Hampshire"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/3/1961",
			"desc" : "Soviet “Tsar Bomba” hydrogen bomb test, the most powerful thermonuclear weapon ever detonated, 50mt yield, Novaya Zemlya archipelago, 10x the amount of all the explosives used in WW2 combined, heat of explosion was estimated to potentially inflict 3rd degree burns at 100km distance.",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba)", "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_atomic_bomb_project)" ],
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_mt" : "50",
			"atomic_type" : "aboveground",
			"location" : "Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/8/1961",
			"desc" : "Privately circulated letter from Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson to members of the UFO community over his concerns that all UFO’s are actually CIA psychological warfare.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/interesting-1961-letter-from-manhattan-project-scientist-dr-46a781aeccfb)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1962",
			"desc" : "Flight Commander P.J. (initials), attached to TAC Fighter Wing was deployed at Wright-Patterson AFB and mistakenly entered into an air hanger where he thought the gym was located. Upon entering the hanger he was approached by an air police sentry with a sub-machine gun. Behind the sentry was a saucer approx. 12–15 ft. diam. suspended off the ground by two engine test stands. There were no markings or insignia on the saucer. It had no rivet markings. The saucer was roped-off and 8 guards stood at parade rest around it. P.J. and his friend were encouraged to leave the hanger. P.J. returned to Myrtle Beach AFB, SC",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "witness statement",
			"location" : "Wright Patterson AFB"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/18/1962",
			"desc" : "Object was first spotted over Oneida, New York and was heading in a westerly direction. Object reported over Kansas, Colorado and Eureka, Utah. The object was reported by over a thousand people. The object appeared to land and then take off again from Eureka, CA. The town of Eureka experienced a blackout when it landed.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : [ "Oneida, NY", "Kansas", "Colorado", "Eureka, Utah" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/12/1962",
			"desc" : "General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/macarthur-planets-war/)",
			"type" : "speach",
			"location" : "West Point Academy"
		},												
		
		{
			"date" : "7/17/1963",
			"desc" : "A passenger of a Convair-880 related to UFO investigator, James Moseley, that the 4 engine jet airliner she had been flying in was pursued by an UFO. The jet, traveling at 600 mph, made a sharp turn to avoid the UFO, now rapidly closing in on the plane. Just as they were about to collide, the UFO swerved away at fantastic speed and disappeared in the night sky. When the (unnamed) woman confronted the pilot about the incident, he said, “I wouldn’t dare risk telling the airline of the incident. If I could tell you of some of the experiences my buddies have had, you’d never fly again!”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "8/5/1963",
			"desc" : "Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear tests were conducted",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprehensive_Nuclear-Test-Ban_Treaty)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/22/1963",
			"desc" : "President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/22/1963",
			"end_date" : "1/20/1969",
			"desc" : "President Lyndon B. Johnson in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndon_B._Johnson)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/2/1964",
			"desc" : "Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_incident)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Vietnam"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/7/1964",
			"desc" : "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against Vietnam begin",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Vietnam"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/15/1964",
			"alt_date" : "4/24/1964",
			"desc" : "USAF Intelligence officer meets with 2 Aliens at prearranged location in the desert of New Mexico near Holloman AFB. Project SIGMA operates at AFB, New Mexico.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)",
			"type" : "alien meeting",
			"location" : "Holloman AFB"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "6/23/1964",
			"desc" : "Author of “Behind the Flying Saucers” and journalist Frank Scully dies in Palm Springs, CA. In 1988 his large archive of 1950’s-early 60's material (personal notes, private correspondences, newspaper clippings, etc.) is contributed by his wife Alice to the American Heritage Center (University of Wyoming) in Laramie, WY.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Scully)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Palm Springs, CA"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1964",
			"desc" : "Air Force and Army radar stations tracked an UFO as it hovered over and flew along the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. The UFO was visible for over an hour.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Korea"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "12/10/1964",
			"desc" : "Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials).",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Fort Riley, KA",
			"see_also" : "11/65"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "12/19/1964",
			"desc" : "Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured): Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Naval Air Station between 1500 and 1530 hours. Two UFOs approached Air Base at 3800 mph. Another UFO approached at 6000 mph. Radar operator, Chief Pinkerton had visual on Radar. US Coast Guard had “visual” on the UFOs. Official statement to press: the (single) blip was caused by faulty radar equipment!",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Patuxent Naval Air Station",
			"see_also" : "1/25/65"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "1965",
			"desc" : "While visiting the Air Force Museum in Fairborn, Ohio, R.M. (initials), a government employee of 23 yrs., went through a double- door marked “Off Limits” and suddenly came face to face with an Alien in a self contained space suite. Description: About 4.5 ft. tall with a translucent dome over its’ large head; wasn’t human; large eyes under a heavy brow; no noticeable nose; a slit for a mouth; bluish skin. When the creature walked it didn’t bend its’ knees. R.M. later found out from a retired Air Force Colonel from Wight-Patterson AFB, that 2 live Aliens were held in captivity in an artificial environment. The Colonel also said that a 2-man sized craft crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana, as a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere. (The Alien would have to lock his knees in a high-gravity environment to avoid falling down.)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "alien sighting",
			"location" : "Fairborn, Ohio"
		},												
		
		{
			"date" : "1/15/1965",
			"desc" : "Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a diameter of 408m, 100m deep",
			"ref" : "[link](https://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/Sovwpnprog.html#Chagan)",
			"type" : "atomic",
			"atomic_type" : "subsurface",
			"atomic_kt" : "140",
			"location" : "Kazakhstan"
		},														
		
		{
			"date" : "1/25/1965",
			"desc" : "Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case #(censured).",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "memo",
			"see_also" : "12/19/64"
		},																
		
		{
			"date" : "2/11/1965",
			"desc" : "Personal Interview report by Capt. D.M. (initials): Aerial encounter of three UFOs with radar and visual sightings. Air Force flight F-169 en route from Anchorage, AL, to Japan. Capt. R.W. (initials) and Capt. W.(initial) observed 3 UFOs on radar 5 miles off the wing. The UFOs paced the Flying Tiger freighter aircraft for 30 minutes then climbed away at a steep angle at about 1200 knots ground speed. Estimated size (thumb and finger method) approx. 200 to 1000 ft. diam., glowing red and oval shaped. The pilot remarked, “we often see UFOs on the Alaskan run!”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Pacific Ocean"
		},																
		
		{
			"date" : "5/28/1965",
			"desc" : "Police statement (interview); Bougainville Reef, Australia: An Ansett-A.N.A. DC-6B airliner (VH-INH) en route to Port Moresby, New Guinea, was buzzed by a UFO at about 3:25 a.m. The pilot radioed the Townsville Ground Control Tower and talked to Mr. O. (initial). Description: slightly spherical and oblate, flattened on top and bottom; appeared to have exhaust gasses coming from it. Photos of the UFO were taken by the pilot but were later confiscated at Canberra as was the taped conversation to Mr. O., the Tower operator. Mr. O. was threatened with dismissal if he talked about the incident.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Bougainville Reef, Australia"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/3/1965",
			"desc" : "Newspaper reports, Antartica: Argentine, British and Chilean military and scientific personnel observed an UFO moving at a frightening speed doing incredible maneuvers. It was something solid, glowing blue-green and causing E/M interference with our equipment. Lenticular shaped “flying saucer”. Tracked by theodolite, binoculars and magnetograph tapes. Also, 10 color photographs were taken of the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Antartica"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/3/1965",
			"desc" : "Project Blue Book File #(?): Damon/Angleton, TX. Deputy Sheriffs Billy E. McCoy and Robert W. Goode were investigating an UFO in the back-woods roads when the purplish UFO shot instantly towards them to within 150 feet and hovered at 100 feet off the ground. The bright glow illuminated the interior of the car and the surrounding fields (11:30 p.m.). “Every blade of grass stood out clearly” in the field. Officer Goode, who was driving with his arm out the window, felt heat on his arm and later reported that a cut that was on his arm healed more rapidly than normal [U/V effects].",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter",
			"location" : "Angleton, TX"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/16/1965",
			"desc" : "NICAP Report #(?): Pretoria, S. Africa: Constables John Lockem and Koos de Klerk while on patrol (after midnight) suddenly had a domed, disc shaped object come into their van headlights. It was sitting on the road. The UFO was copper colored and about 30 ft. in diam. Immediately the UFO lifted off, emitting tongues of flame from two tubes or channels on the underside. The flames deflected about three feet off the macadam road surface and were still visible after loosing sight of the craft. Road damage: part of the road was caved-in, and in a 6 foot area the gravel was separated from the tar. Samples of the road surface were taken for analysis, report was never released. Lt. Col. J.B. Brits, District Commandant of Pretoria North said the incident was “highly secret”, and inquiry is being conducted in top circles.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Pretoria, South Africa"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1965",
			"desc" : "Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket))",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/1965",
			"desc" : "Fort Riley, KA: “AK” (Aaron Kaback) was on guard duty at 2 a.m. when the duty officer drove up and ordered him to hop into the jeep. He and 3 other officers were driven out to a remote area where a large oval object was resting. An army chopper was hovering above the object and shining a bright light on it. The object was approx. 35–48 ft. in diam., had a fin on the end and an exhaust port or some kind of hole below the fin. It had rows of squares around the rim and remained completely dead for the 2 1/2 hours they guarded it. (Kaback seems to be confused as to the actual date this incident occurred.)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Fort Riley, KA",
			"see_also" : "12/10/64"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/9/1965",
			"desc" : "A UFO crash-landed in the Kecksburgh, PA woods. It had appeared as a fireball flying across several U.S. states and Canada. Dozens of witnesses described military personnel cordoning off the landing area. The object was transported away by military truck. In Feb. 1969, the key witness (John Murphy ) to this incident was struck and killed by a car on a highway near Ventura. Researcher, Stan Gordon kept the research of this incident alive. The Blue Book report changed the name of Kecksburg to “Acme” PA. After 20 yrs. Bill Bulebush came forward with a description of the downed UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Kecksburgh, PA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1966",
			"desc" : "Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the 4/1954 Edwards AFB meeting.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555315016508776448)",
			"type" : "hand written note",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/20/1966",
			"desc" : "Dexter, MI.: Frank Mannor, age 47, and Ronald Mannor, age 19, went out at night through swampy, hummocky terrain to investigate flashing lights in the swamp. They saw a domed, elliptical object with aquilted surface hovering about 8 ft. off the ground in a patch of apparent mist. The object glowed “blood red” and the body lights disappeared. They lost sight of the UFO and didn’t see it again.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1555315016508776448)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Dexter, MI",
			"see_also" : [ "3/21/66", "4/1/66" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/20/1966",
			"desc" : "La Porte, IN: Patrolman Michael Spevak was on duty when 2 youths pulled over and pointed out an UFO that they said had been following them from Michigan City to La Porte. According to the young men, the object frequently burst into such a bright glare that it blinded them, forcing them off the highway. It had been following them at an altitude of about 60 ft. Both the young men and the patrolman noticed a cross-shaped appendage protruding from the lower portion of the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F, p257)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "La Porte, IN"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/21/1966",
			"desc" : "Engineer, inventor, and lecturer Norman S. Bean is quoted in the Miami News: “We have good reason to believe that the Air Force has wreckage from at least four of these small vehicles and has been conducting studies of such wreckage at Wright Field for years”. Also mentions what is now known as the US Gravity Control Research Program.",
			"ref" : [ "[Medium](https://medium.com/@richgel99/television-engineer-inventor-and-speaker-norman-s-6bb01740bd05)",
			  "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_gravity_control_propulsion_research)" ],
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/21/1966",
			"desc" : "Law enforcement officer F.B. (initials) at Dexter, Michigan, and officer “C” (initial) on patrol sighted a landed saucer in a swamp. Description: Large craft, like a pot; no windows; had a dull glow and steam was coming up from the water. Sounded like a turbine, a low whine or hum. He notified Selfridge AFB which immediately sent out MP’s, well armed. All law officers were ordered back and their film was confiscated. Later his report and other reports disappeared from police headquarters. Then, everyone in the force, including he and “C”, were transferred to other parts of the county. The UFO wasn’t disabled. F.B. saw it take-off and climb straight up.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Dexter, MI",
			"see_also" : "3/1/67"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1/1966",
			"desc" : "From LIFE magazine: In a hastily called press conference, the USAF spokesman J. Allen Hynek suggested that the Dextor, MI, UFO and others seen in the swamps near Hillsdale may have been marsh (or swamp) gas that had spontaneously ignited.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "magazine article",
			"location" : "Dextor, MI",
			"see_also" : [ "3/20/66", "3/21/66" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/5/1966",
			"desc" : "Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-G p64)",
			"type" : "announcement",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/11/1966",
			"desc" : "Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at Palm Beach Towers, FL",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "lecture",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/22/1966",
			"desc" : "Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Exeter, NH"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/22/1966",
			"desc" : "Miami News: Engineer, inventor and lecturer Norman S. Bean is interviewed. States that after enough reports are gathered flight paths can be determined, craft can fly at 5000mph, wobble after stopping and can turn on a dime, must use some sort of gravitational propulsion to avoid destruction from high G-forces, occupant description, Wright-Field has had wreckage of 4 crashed discs for years, many sightings are related to water being pumped in or out of crafts. Reports forwarded to the Foreign Technology Division at Wright-Patterson AFB.",
			"ref" : "[NICAP](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Miami, FL"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "4/17/1966",
			"desc" : "Ravenna, OH, to Conway, Penn.: Deputy Sheriffs Dale Spaur and Wilbur Neff of Portage Countywere on patrol when an UFO stopped above them, illuminating them and the surroundings (it was just about dawn). As the UFO moved away from them at about 300–500 ft. above the road, it would alternately start and stop ahead of them playing cat and mouse. At E. Palestine, OH, officer Wayne Huston joined in the pursuit. At speeds of 100 mph in unfamiliar territory, they were soon low on gas and had to give up the game with the UFO. Through local police dispatch the officers alerted the Air Force, who sent out fighter planes to investigate the UFO. As the officers saw the AF planes approaching the UFO shot straight up and out of sight.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p259)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Ravenna, OH",
			"see_also" : "6/24/66"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Summer 1966",
			"desc" : "Results of an Iowa Poll, Iowa: 45% Iowans queried believe UFOs to be real objects. Of the 45%, 21% were of the opinion that the UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "poll",
			"location" : "Iowa"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "Summer 1966",
			"desc" : "Nha Trang, Vietnam: At this active Army Base at about 9:45 p.m., what was thought to be a flare lit up the north sky. The bright UFO approached the base alternately moving at low to high speeds. Upon descending toward the soldiers it hovered at an altitude of 300–500 ft. All of a sudden the 6 generators failed along with the engines of the idling Skyraiders, bulldozers and trucks. The entire valley and surrounding mountains were illuminated by the hovering UFO for about 4 min. after which it went straight up and disappeared in about 3 sec. After the incident a plane load of officials from Washington arrived to investigate.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Nha Trang, Vietnam",
			"see_also" : "3/4/1969"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/24/1966",
			"desc" : "Officer William L. Stevens, Jr., observed a dirigible-shaped UFO at 3:30 in the morning near the fairgrounds. It was about 100 ft. long and 30 ft. thick with greenish-yellow lights on its perimeter. Stevens attempted to chase the UFO but it maintained an even distance from him even though he sped up and slowed down. “The object seemed to be playing cat & mouse with me,” he later said. After 10–15 min. the UFO accelerated and sped away.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Richmond, VA",
			"see_also" : "4/17/66"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1/1967",
			"desc" : "Lt. Gen. Hewitt T. Wheless, USAF, sends notice to all branches of the military warning of persons imitating military officers and harassing private citizens and confiscating UFO photos.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "notice",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH",
			"see_also" : "3/21/66"
		},		
		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/3/1967",
			"desc" : "R. T. (initials), with ALPHA RED TOP SECRET CRYPTO Clearance, rank PFC, assigned to Canine Corps at Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA., states that he and his dogs were air transported 2.5 hrs. to a sight in a desert (unknown location) UFO crash-sight. Saucer: Metallic, 30 ft. diameter, domed top, no windows. He also observed: Large walk-in refrigerator, empty body bags, men at work with technical instruments.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "12/3/1967",
			"desc" : "Abduction of Herbert Schirmer, a Nebraska patrolmen. Was told there were alien bases off the Florida coast, the polar region, and off the coast of Argentina. Motherships were cigar shaped, 6ft diameters discs for recon surveillance.",
			"ref" : "Matrix 1, Valerian",
			"type" : "abduction",
			"location" : "Nebraska"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1968",
			"desc" : "Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate all UFO information pertinent to space technology.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"see_also" : [ "1953", "12/1969", "1976" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/19/1968",
			"desc" : "DIA Intelligence Report from Liaison in Moscow, Russia mentioning an attempt by the British Government in 1967 to collaborate with the Soviets in UFO research.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "intelligence report ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p543)",
			"see_also" : "2/22/68",
			"location" : "Moscow, Russia"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/2/1968",
			"desc" : "Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_(film))",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "2/22/1968",
			"desc" : "UNCLASSIFIED AIR GRAM, U.S. Dept. of the State regarding UFOs in the Soviet Union: Feb. 1968, Soviet Life published three pages pertinent to UFOs, by Felix Zigel. He also published a UFO article in 1966. Until recently no study of UFOs had been made in the Soviet Union.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p473)",
			"type" : "unclassified air gram",
			"location" : "Soviet Union",
			"see_also" : "1/19/68"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1969?",
			"desc" : "A retired Colonel from Wright-Patterson AFB with Top Secret Clearance states that a 2-man saucer crashed near Whitewater Lake, Indiana as a result of an electrical disturbance in the atmosphere.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Whitewater Lake, Indiana",
			"see_also" : "1968"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1969",
			"desc" : "Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project BLUEBOOK is closed.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1969",
			"end_date" : "8/9/1974",
			"desc" : "President Richard Nixon in office",
			"ref" : "(Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "2/21/1969",
			"desc" : "Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket))",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Baikonur Cosmodrome"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/4/1969",
			"desc" : "Near Atlanta, Missouri: The City Marshall and Mail Carrier in Elmer, Missouri, William R. Overstreet observed an UFO at early dawn over the road ahead of him. It was about 100 ft. in diam. apparently rotating clockwise and emitting a strong white beam of light down to the road which seemed to magnify the size of theroad it was shining on. He felt intense heat from the direction of the UFO and his CB radio was dead. As heneared the light beam from the UFO his truck motor and radio quit. As the beam moved away from his truck he was able to start the engine again. He followed the UFO for about 4 mi. staying away from the beam. The UFO followed the contour of the land it was flying over. After 7–8 min. the UFO veered away and went out of sight. “I had never believed in them too much until I saw this,” he said. “Now I know that there is something to these UFOs!”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p265)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"see_also" : [ "8/13/75", "6/66" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/28/1969",
			"desc" : "Dwight D. Eisenhower dies",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/3/1969",
			"desc" : "Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test attempt",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_(rocket))",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Baikonur Cosmodrome"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1969",
			"desc" : "Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p516)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Leary, Georgia"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1970's",
			"desc" : "Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot asking for information.",
			"ref" : "BSRA archive",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "San Diego, CA"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/31/1970",
			"desc" : "Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia Link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explorer_1)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"see_also" : "2/1/58"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "6/26/1971",
			"desc" : "Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test attempt",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_rocket)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Baikonur Cosmodrome"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "1972",
			"desc" : "Project SNOWBIRD established to test fly a captured flying saucer. This was an alleged ongoing 1972 Top Secret project that researched, developed and implemented alien spacecraft technology and test flown recovered UFOs. It is possible that the UFO involved in the CASH/LANDRUM CASE was built by the Americans as part of this project, however another “Project Snowbird” has been found described as a “Joint Army/Air Force peacetime military exercise in the sub-arctic region in 1955” in the 1963 Gale Research’s Code Names Dictionary. Project SNOWBIRD is another project that was revealed in the Project AQUARIUS Briefing Document.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SNOWBIRD)",
			 "[archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20010224011519/http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndyPage/SNOWBIRD.htm)" ],
			"type" : "majestic document"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/2/1972",
			"desc" : "A letter from the Dept. of National Defense, Canada, Brig. Gen. L.A. Bourgeois states: All UFOs reported to CFHQ are investigated by the Director of Operations. It isn’t a practice to allow the public to study these files. Since the beginning of 1968 these UFO reports have been passed along to the NRC. Evidence suggests that UFOs present no threat to the world. They exhibit a unique scientifically advanced technology.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p467)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"see_also" : "9/19/26"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/23/1972",
			"desc" : "Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final test attempt",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_rocket)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Baikonur Cosmodrome"
		},	
		
		{
			"date" : "3/29/1973",
			"desc" : "The last United States combat troops left Vietnam",
			"ref" : "[link](https://constitutionus.com/war/when-did-vietnam-war-start/)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Vietnam"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/1973",
			"desc" : "At Great Lakes Naval Base, Instructor R. K., Gunnery School Grade E-4, while delivering a sealed envelope to the Commandant in the quonset hut, was surprised to see a saucer 30 ft. diam. and 10 ft. ht. resting on a wooden platform. Description: Silvery blue and shimmering, it tapered like a teardrop with a flange running along its topside from one end to the other and there were no windows. R.K. believed this saucer to be the one shot down on its third pass over a Navy vessel by a missile. The saucer crashed in 350 ft. water between Hawaii and the mainland. It was retrieved by a Glomar Explorer, shipped to Hawaii then stateside to Chicago.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII)",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Hawaii"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/18/1973",
			"desc" : "Capt. Lawrence Coyne, while flying an Army helicopter with three other crewmen were 45 minutes out over Mansfield when Staff Sgt. Robert Yanacsek spotted a red glowing UFO headed toward their helicopter at an estimated 600 mph. It stopped abruptly 500 ft. above them. It had a big, gray, metallic looking hull about 60 ft. long, shaped like an airfoil or streamlined cigar with a red light in front and a green light in the rear, the lead edge glowed red a short distance from the nose. There was a center dome. The ‘copter radio wouldn’t function and the copter was set for a 20 degree dive but gained altitude from 1700 ft. to 3500 ft. with no power applied. After a slight “bounce” the UFO took off to the N.E.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p319, 271)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Mansfield, OH"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/25/1973",
			"desc" : "Director of FBI, Clarence M. Kelley, states: UFOs are not and never has been a matter that is within the investigative jurisdiction of the FBI.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p475)",
			"type" : "statement",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/13/1973",
			"desc" : "Patrick Thrush spots a hovering UFO above a river with a tube leading from the craft to the water. Witness takes 2 photos with his flash, the tube retracts and the UFO goes over his car and drops warm dry “rocks” on it. UFO seen by another witness. Norman S. Bean contacted.",
			"ref" : "[link](http://www.nicap.org/articles/Bean,%20N.pdf#page=6)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Bradenton, FL"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1974",
			"desc" : "Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(United_States))",
			"type" : "law",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "8/9/1974",
			"end_data" : "1/20/1977",
			"desc" : "President Gerald Ford in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ford)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "10/11/1974",
			"desc" : "Robert Spencer Carr described in great detail on a local radio show interview the Aztec crash, had anonymous military and civilian witnesses, made international news.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Tampa, Florida",
			"see_also" : "3/25/1948"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1974",
			"desc" : "Date given by Professor Carr on 10/11/74 predicting the government will launch a carefully-engineered acclimation effort to prepare American public for an announcement of the existence of extraterrestrial life.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2018/05/robert-spencer-carr-and-hangar-18.html)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Tampa, Florida"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/8/1975",
			"desc" : "Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air Base",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p459)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Las Bardenas Reales, Spain"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/28/1975",
			"desc" : "Letter from Senator Barry Goldwater stating: Ten or twelve years ago I tried to get access to the building at Wright-Patterson (HANGER-18) where UFO artifacts were stored and I was understandably denied access. It is still classified above TOP SECRET. I’ve heard they plan to release some of the information in the near future and hope not to have to wait too much longer.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p2)", "See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue Room" ],
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "8/13/1975",
			"desc" : "Near Haderslev, Denmark: Police Officer Evald Hansen Maarup was driving home at 10:50 p.m. when all of a sudden his car was engulfed by a bright blue light while at the same time his car lost all power. The temperature in his car rose to that of a warm summer day and his radio was dead so he couldn’t call for help. The bright beam from the UFO was conical in shape with a bottom diam. of 4–5 meters and a top diam. at the UFO of 10 meters. Two dome-like protrusions were visible on the underside of the UFO that was hovering at about 20 meters altitude. He activated a special camera on the patrol car which automatically took 3 pictures of the UFO. As the UFO sped away he regained power to his car. The developed film which was later turned over to the Danish AF showed the light source of the UFO on it. No report or analysis has been available from the AF to date.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p281)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Haderslev, Denmark",
			"see_also" : "3/4/1969"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "8/13/1975",
			"desc" : "Staff Sgt. Charles L. Moody, USAF, drove out to the outskirts of town late one night to watch for meteors. As a disc-shaped UFO descended toward him, he tried to start his car to get away but it wouldn’t start. He heard a high pitched whining sound from the UFO and saw shadowy figures in it and felt numbness, after which the UFO departed. After driving home he found he couldn’t account for 1.5 hours. The next day his back was inflamed and he discovered a small puncture wound over his spine and a few days later he developed a body rash. As months passed he regained memory of the missing 1.5 hours. He remembered that he had been in the UFO and in telepathic communication with small 4'8\" humanoids. They had whitish gray skin, large heads, large eyes, small slit-like mouths and mask-like features. He had been in a drug-like state on a table and they had poked a rod like device into his back. After this they escorted him about the ship and later dropped him off at his car.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-F p282)",
			"type" : "ce4 event",
			"location" : "Alamogordo, NM",
			"see_also" : "3/4/1969"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/27/1975",
			"desc" : "The Loring AFB incidents are extremely well documented, both in terms of personal testimonials and declassified CIA and National Military Command Center (NMCC) documents. Retired Sgt. Stephen B. Eichner was on duty when a strange object hovered over the Loring ammunition dump. Eichner told how he and fellow airmen had seen a football-shaped reddish orange object, three or four car-lengths long, hovering over the Loring ammunition dump. He said the object suddenly vanished, then reappeared some distance away at the end of a runway. Numerous other visual and radar sightings were made at Loring. Air Force planes were scrambled in a luckless attempt to track down the object. Eichner said it made no noise and could not be mistaken for a helicopter.",
			"ref" : [ "[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/)",
					"[Debrief](https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35674/the-bizarre-mystery-of-unexplained-aerial-incursions-over-loring-air-force-base)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Loring AFB"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/28/1975",
			"desc" : "Confidential CINC/NORAD Report: UFOs, suspicious objects seen by ground personnel. Sounded like jet aircraft. Intermittent radar contact made with object. Jets scrambled to intercept but objects lights went out, interceptors passed and then came on again. Then the object increased in speed and raised to a high altitude and could not be discerned from the stars. Description: Through binoculars, looked like 100 ft. sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. To date, AF and SAC helicopters have failed to provide a positive I.D. of the UFO.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p468)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Loring AFB",
			"see_also" : [ "11/11/75", "7/1952" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/29/1975",
			"desc" : "NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: AFB penetration. At 290200 EST, AFOC informed NMCC that an unidentified helicopter (UFO), possibly two, had been sighted flying low over Loring AFB, Maine, in proximity to a weapons storage area. Army Nat. Guard helos called in to assist in locating UFO. NORAD informed of the incident by SAC. Received authority to proceed into Canadian airspace, if necessary, to locate UFO. A similar incident was reported the evening before.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p468)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Loring AFB"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/1975",
			"end_date" : "12/1975",
			"desc" : "Reliable military personnel saw unconventional and unexplained aerial objects hovering around nuclear weapons storage sites, aircraft alert areas and missile control complexes at installations across the northern United States. In some instances, as radar sightings of the objects were made, Air Force fighter planes were sent aloft in unsuccessful pursuit, although the records gave no indication that the fighters fired on the intruders.”",
			"ref" : "[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "US"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "11/11/1975",
			"desc" : "Confidential CINC/NORAD Report related to sightings over nuclear missile bases in 1975",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/468/mode/2up) p468)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "10/28/75"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1976",
			"desc" : "Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project xxxxxxx.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A, SIGMA)",
			"attributes" : [ "Majestic" ],
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "1968"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "1/21/1976",
			"desc" : "MEMO from NMCC by Rear Adm. J. B. Morin stating: Two UFOs reported near the flight line at Cannon AFB, N.M. Security Police report the UFOs to be 25 yards (75 ft.) in diameter, gold/silver in color with blue light on top, hole in the middle and red light on the bottom.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p524, B1-F p342)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Cannon AFB, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/9/1976",
			"desc" : "CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should remain classified.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p508)",
			"type" : "confidential message",
			"location" : "Langley, VA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/30/1976",
			"desc" : "NMCC Joint Staff Memo: Subject: Reports of UFOs. At approx. 0345, EDT, the ANMCC received several reports of UFOs near Fort Ritchie. At 0130, civilians reported an UFO to the NAB. At 0255, two separate patrols sighted three UFOs; oblong with a reddish tint. At 0300, the Desk Sgt. (name with held) sighted an UFO over the ammo storage area at 100–200 yds. altitude. At 0345, an Army Police Sgt. sighted an UFO in the vicinity of sight R. ANMCC was requested to have each individual write a statement on the sightings. One person said the UFO was the size of a 2.5 ton truck.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/19/1976",
			"desc" : "Tehran, Iran: Civilians reported an UFO to the AFB. The Iranian AF scrambled an American F-4 for intercept. As the F-4 was vectored towards the brilliant UFO, all communications and instrumentation were suddenly lost. As the pilot broke off pursuit, all aircraft functions returned to normal. A second F-4 that was scrambled began closing in on the UFO at greater than Mach 1 and was closing on the UFO at 150 nautical mph., but the UFO accelerated and stayed ahead of the F-4 (confirmed by Radar). Multi-colored flashing lights were visible on the UFO. The moment the F-4 pilot tried to lock an AIM-9 missile at the UFO he lost all weapons panel and communication control. The UFO launched two smaller UFOs, one of which began to follow the F-4. After evasive action by the F-4, the smaller UFO returned and united with the larger UFO. The other smaller UFO seemed to have landed on the ground so the pilot flew down to investigate it. The landed UFO appeared to be 12feet in diameter. As the pilot descended the light from the landed UFO went out and he lost sight of it. The DIA termed this sighting as “an outstanding report. This case is a classic which meets all the criteria necessary for a study of a UFO phenomenon.” And, “an inordinate amount of maneuverability was displayed by the UFOs.”",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Tehran, Iran",
			"see_also" : [ "10/2/72", "9/20/76" ]
		},

		{
			"date" : "1977",
			"desc" : "CAUS (Citizens Against UFO Secrecy), a non-profit freedom of information activist group that advocates for the release of classified information regarding UFOs, is founded.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipeda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Against_UFO_Secrecy)",
			"type" : "non-profit organization",
			"location" : "Scottsdale, Arizona"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1977",
			"end_date" : "1/20/1981",
			"desc" : "President Jimmy Carter in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipeda](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1977",
			"desc" : "Former USAF Sergeant, Mario Woods, claims that Richard Doty was present at the debriefing of his 1977 UFO incident over a nuclear silo at Ellsworth AFB.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://twitter.com/RyanSprague51/status/1612522327488487435)",
			"type" : "debriefing",
			"location" : "Ellsworth AFB"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Late 1970's",
			"desc" : "In an interview, Colonel-General Gennady Reshetnikov, chief of the Top Command Academy of the Air Defence Forces reported several incidents where aircraft were scrambled to chase UFO’s. He also investigated sightings of a cigar shaped object with portholes in the late 70’s over Arctic region of Norilsk, alarming local military units.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Norilsk, Soviet Union"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1977",
			"desc" : "V. Alexeyev said that at some “unnamed” weapons test ranges when UFO’s appeared soldiers signaled, mostly in a physical way. The UFO’s responded by “compressing” their visual shape.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"attributes" : [ "communication" ],
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/1/1977",
			"desc" : "Air Force Letter from Col. Charles H. Senn, Wash., D.C., to Gen. Duward L. Crow (Ret.), NASA, Wash., D.C. stating: Enclosed are the UFO Fact Sheet and standard response to UFO public inquiries you requested. I sincerely hope you are successful in preventing a reopening of UFO investigations.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p581)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "End of 1978",
			"desc" : "UFO research at the USSR Academy of Sciences came under the umbrella of STEKA-AN. UFO acronym was banned until 1989, instead “Anomalous Atmospheric Phenomena” was the sanctioned acronym.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV)",
			"type" : "book reference",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},

		{
			"date" : "1/18/1978",
			"desc" : "During the early morning hours of January 18, 1978, UFOs were sighted flying over Fort Dix and McGuire AFB, adjacent military bases. Shortly afterward, an Air Force security patrol was ordered to the back gate of McGuire AFB to allow entry to New Jersey State Police who were searching for something.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://nationalufocenter.com/blog/2013/09/30/alien-being-shot-dead-by-mps-january-18-1978-ft-dix-mcguire/)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Ft. Dix, NJ"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "1/18/1978",
			"desc" : "MP at Ft. Dix shoots and kills an Alien. Incident report sent to Col. Landon and Brig. Gen. Brown (AFOSI). The reporting officer was S. W. (initials), Lt. 1st Class. Sgt. J.M. (initials), Security Police Squad (PACAF) also witnessed and reported the incident (Sept. 16, 1980).",
			"ref" : "[link](https://nationalufocenter.com/blog/2013/09/30/alien-being-shot-dead-by-mps-january-18-1978-ft-dix-mcguire/)",
			"type" : "alien encounter",
			"location" : "Ft. Dix, NJ"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/1/1978",
			"desc" : "NASA Information Sheet claims NASA is not involved in a research program involving UFOs, nor is any other government agency. The U.S. Air Force no longer investigates UFOs. (see NASA arrest laws re. private citizens)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p515)",
			"type" : "information sheet",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/18/1978",
			"desc" : "DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran, Iran",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p501)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Tehran, Iran"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/29/1978",
			"desc" : "Ufologist Leonard Stringfield gives his first talk on Crash Retrievals in Dayton, OH. He is threatened twice (by phone and then in person), moved to a location not of his choosing by security men with radios.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/crash-retrieval-researcher-leonard-stringfield-was-threatened-twice-before-his-first-1978-talk-595d255f2c9b)",
			"type" : "public presentation",
			"location" : "Dayton, OH"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/21/1978",
			"desc" : "Aircraft Accident Investigation Summary Report: Fredrick Valentich vanished while reporting a UFO playing cat and mouse with his airplane which was a Cessna 182L. It’s hovering above me… it’s got a greenlight and sort of metallic (like) it’s all shiny (on) the outside… it’s hovering and it’s Airplane not an aircraft… (end of transmission…pilot presumed dead).",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p461-463, B1-F p298)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1951",
			"desc" : "Project Mercury Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), describes seeing 100's of UFO's flying in formation at very high altitudes over Europe.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://youtu.be/1GlVRrk0qgU)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Europe"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/9/1978",
			"desc" : "Project Mercury Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), in a letter to the U.N., states that UFOs are interplanetary vehicles and crewed by aliens. He also describes seeing 100's of UFO's over Europe during 1951.",
			"ref" : "[link](http://www.ufoevidence.org/news/article161.htm)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "New York City"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1979",
			"desc" : "Ufologist Paul Bennewitz, President and owner of Thunder Scientific Company in Albuquerque, NM, lives next to the Manzano Weapons Storage Area, near Sandia Base. He’s also an investigator for APRO (Aerial Phenomenon Research Organization), and others see strange lights in the night sky over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Albuquerque, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/1979",
			"desc" : "Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO changing colors and hovering for 30 minutes over secret rocket test range (Kapustin Test Range — where V-2 was tested)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Kapustin Test Range"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/4/1979",
			"desc" : "Iran Hostage Crisis",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Iran"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1980's",
			"desc" : "Area-51 workers and widows said that throughout the 1980s the Air Force and its contractors regularly filled 55-gallon drums with toxic wastes, emptied them into football-field size trenches, doused them with jet-fuel and burned them. They claimed that the U.S. Air Force generated and mishandled hazardous substances, and that the Environmental Protection Agency failed to take necessary action to enforce the requirements of the resource conservation act against the Air Force.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.rcfp.org/high-court-wont-review-state-secrets-privilege-area-51-case/)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/10/1980",
			"desc" : "DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p503)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Area 51",
			"see_also" : "7/1952"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Summer 1980",
			"desc" : "Ex Soviet test pilot Lev Vyatkin plane collided with an aircraft emitting a “hard beam”. The pilot managed to land successfully, but the wing, touched by the beam, continued to glow for several more hours.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/28/1980",
			"desc" : "Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at night.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1612248787770114050)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "New York City"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "8/9/1980",
			"end_date" : "9/3/1980",
			"desc" : "AFOSI Complaint Form: At Kirtland AFB three persons report seeing UFO over a Restricted Test Range. On Aug. 9th a Sandia Security Guard drove down the Coyote Canyon access road to check out an alarmed building and observed a landed UFO next to an alarmed building. The UFO was around disk shaped object. As he approached the object on foot equipped with a shotgun the object took off in a vertical direction at a high rate of speed. His radio wasn’t working right at the time so he couldn’t reach dispatch. The building contained HQ CR 44 material. (Nature of material not known.)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1612248787770114050)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Kirtland AFB"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "8/1980",
			"desc" : "Three guards reported sighting an aerial light which descended on the Sandia Military Reservation. Ernest Edwards reported the sighting to AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty, unaware that Doty had already heard from Russ Curtis (the Sandia Security Chief) that a Sandia Security guard had sighted a disc-shaped object near a structure just minutes after the sighting by the three Manzano guards. Doty included these reports and several others in his formal report, forwarding it to AFOSI (Air Force Office of Special Investigations) Headquarters in Washington DC.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Manzano Test Range"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/1/1980",
			"desc" : "The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore is published.",
			"ref" : "[Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Roswell-Incident-Charles-Berlitz/dp/1567311326)",
			"type" : "book",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/16/1980",
			"desc" : "Sgt. J.M. (initials) of the PACAF writes to Len Stringfield that he was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ, when, on Jan. 18, 1978, an MP shot and killed an alien at the Ft. Dix Army base next to the AFB.",
			"ref" : "([link](https://nationalufocenter.com/blog/2013/09/30/alien-being-shot-dead-by-mps-january-18-1978-ft-dix-mcguire/)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "McGuire AFB, NJ",
			"see_also" : "1/18/78"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/24/1980",
			"desc" : "Investigator Paul Bennewitz contacts Major Ernest Edwards of the Kirtland AFB Security Police who, over the period of the next few months, became concerned and requested the guards on the Manzano Weapons Storage Area to report to him any sightings of unusual aerial lights.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Manzano Test Range"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "11/17/1980",
			"desc" : "SECRET USAF OSI Document: Analysis of photo of UFO following C-5A aircraft inclusive. Photo analysis of Cylinder Shaped UFO legitimate. Photo E. showed legitimate disc shaped UFO of 37 ft. diameter with trilateral insignia on object. USAF still has an interest in all UFO sightings over installations and test ranges. Several other Government agencies, lead by NASA, actively investigate legitimate sightings through COVERT COVER. One agency that deceives the public which such covert cover is the UFO reporting center at U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, Rockville, MD. 20852. (The results of PROJECT AQUARIUS is still classified TOP SECRET with access limited to “MJ-12”.)",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p528)",
			"attributes" : "majestic",
			"type" : "secret document",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/10/1980",
			"desc" : "Investigator Paul Bennewitz presented his evidence of sightings near the Kirtland Air Force Base and the Manzano range to high ranking Air Force personnel including Brigadier General William Brooksher. In the report of this meeting, it is noted that Bennewitz was advised to apply for an Air Force grant to study the phenomena.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz)",
			"type" : "private presentation",
			"location" : "Manzano Test Range"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1980",
			"desc" : "UFO landing between the Bentwaters and Woodbridge NATA bases in England. Nearby animals driven into a frenzy, surrounding trees damaged, left moderate levels of radiation, 17 firsthand witnesses, event filmed.",
			"ref" : "APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985",
			"type" : "ufo landing",
			"location" : "between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge",
			"see_also" : "3/3/1985"
		},

		{
			"date" : "12/27/1980",
			"desc" : "USAF UFO report signed by Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander, RAF Woodbridge stating: Two USAF security police patrolmen saw a UFO either hovering or on legs outside the backgate, Woodbridge. Being early morning, it illuminated the entire forest with a white light. Description: Metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, pulsing red light on top and banks of blue lights underneath. Approx. 2–3 meters across and 2 meters high. It maneuvered through the trees and disappeared.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p456)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "RAF Woodbridge",
			"see_also" : "12/29/1980"
		},		

		{
			"date" : "12/29/1980",
			"desc" : "Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs and later sees 3 other UFOs.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p456)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "RAF Woodbridge",
			"see_also" : "12/27/1980"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/29/1980",
			"desc" : "A low flying UFO was escorted by a large number of helicopters (23) including some Chinooks and possibly Hueys, near Dayton, Texas. It was probably escorted to the Top Secret underground installation within Fort Hood, Texas. The secret air force base is NOT listed in the Air Force Officer’s Guide or the Air Force Almanac (it is an Army AFB). The name of the Secret base is Gray AAF, Texas. The special group piloting the helicopters escort for UFO are known as the “BLUE BOYS”. The Texas Department of Public Safety works closely with Gray AAF on UFO cases.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Dayton, TX",
			"see_also" : "6/6/88"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/29/1980",
			"desc" : "Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.roswellufomuseum.com/post/the-cash-landrum-ufo-incident)",
			"type" : "ufo encounter",
			"location" : "north of Houston, TX"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1981",
			"desc" : "The \"China Society of UFO Research\" (CSUR) research organization was established. More than 600 UFO's have been reported within the past 5 years in China. Studies will be done on UFO's and human body science relationships.",
			"ref" : "\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good page 219",
			"type" : "research organization",
			"location" : "China"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/13/1981",
			"desc" : "Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "memo",
			"location" : "Bentwaters AFB",
			"see_also" : [ "12/27/80", "12/29/80" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1981",
			"end_date" : "1/20/1989",
			"desc" : "President Ronald Reagan in office.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : [ "12/27/80", "12/29/80" ]
		},

		{
			"date" : "10/19/1981",
			"desc" : "Barry Goldwater, Senator, Arizona, in a letter to Lee Graham, Aerojet Electric Systems, Azusa, CA, states that he has given up trying to get into the BLUE ROOM at Wright-Patterson AFB where UFO artifacts are stored by the Air Force.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/3/1981",
			"desc" : "Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”.",
			"ref" : "[Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1981/11/03/suit-seeks-to-lift-secrecy-veil-from-agencys-ufo-documents/c6ab8756-7268-4a3a-a657-316a5bcc4e80/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/3/1981",
			"desc" : "Civil Action, Case #80–1562, goes against the plaintiff and for the defendant, the NSA. The NSA retains the right to withhold 156 Top Secret records containing communications intelligence (COMINT) reports which were produced between 1958 and 1979. Only military personnel with a Top Secret Clearance were allowed to view the documents for the court hearing. NOT even the Judge was allowed to see them, even though he ruled against the plaintiff (CAUS).",
			"ref" : "Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A)",
			"type" : "court case",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "6/24/83"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1982",
			"desc" : "Investigator Paul Bennewitz was sending regular reports to the APRO and contacted US Senator Harrison Schmidt and Senator Peter Domenici, as well as other UFO investigators such as Linda Moulton Howe and John Lear. By 1982, APRO had decided to investigate Bennewitz’s claims. They sent William Moore, one of their directors and a former schoolteacher turned writer and ufologist, to talk to Bennewitz. Bill Moore later stated in a public confession that he was recruited by someone with the code name Falcon to lead Paul Bennewitz astray by giving him false information. He claimed that he was given his orders by AFOSI agents (believed to be Richard Doty and Steve Atwater), and that for four years, he was asked to feed disinformation, including the forged “Aquarius Document” to Bennewitz. This disinformation included “verification” of Bennewitz’s beliefs about the “grays” and the underground base at Dulce. Bennewitz had to be hospitalized for “exhaustion”. He later died on June 23, 2003.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Paul+Bennewitz)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Albuquerque, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2/6/1982",
			"desc" : "Prof. John Spencer Carr of Clearwater FL calls ufologist Leonard Stringfield and revealed a key USAF officer’s witness name to the 1948 Aztec C/R. Stringfield sat back dumbfounded, because in the past this officer had spoken to Stringfield and told him about UFO’s. The USAF officer saw the occupant bodies on location.",
			"ref" : "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1552424352683016192)",
			"type" : "telephone call",
			"location" : "Clearwater FL",
			"see_also" : "3/25/1948"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "7/28/1982",
			"desc" : "Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a presentation.",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "meeting",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/27/1982",
			"desc" : "Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los Alamos Monitor”",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Los Alamos, NM"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/21/1982",
			"desc" : "Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National Laboratory”",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/90486974/bob-lazar-los-alamos/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Phoenix, AZ"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "11/27/1982",
			"desc" : "Police Commander Michael McDonald was on patrol at 5:00 a.m. when the area around his car was lighted, as if by a phosphorous flare. Looking up he saw a large white UFO with tinges of red at an altitude of 900–1000 ft. Two other officers, alerted by radio, also observed the UFO. The other two cars gave pursuit to the UFO at speeds of between 60–65 mph but the UFO outdistanced them. A few minutes later another UFO was noted by the commander and then the other two officers. It was a diffuse “domed disc” which was seen to emit a beam of light towards the ground. The UFO then disappeared behind the tree line of a forest preserve. The police report includes a tape recording of the radio communications during the sighting.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Palatine, IL"
		},
						
		{
			"date" : "3/27/1983",
			"desc" : "A cigar-shaped UFO about the size of a Boeing 747 hovered over Gorki Airport at low altitude for 40 minutes. No jets were scrambled. The Soviet Government appointed a cosmonaut Pavel Popovich to head the Commission on Abnormal Atmospheric Phenomena. Popovich declared the incident definitely had taken place.",
			"ref" : "\"Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us\" by George C. Andrews",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/24/1983",
			"desc" : "Larry W. Bryant, Director of CAUS, filed a Civil Action, Case #83–1932 (Judge Oliver Gasch) petitioning for a Writ of Habeas Corpus Extraterrestrial, in the United States District Court for the Dist. of Columbia, seeking to obtain the release from custody of “one or more occupants of apparent extraterrestrial origin.” Mr. Bryant contends that the Government action in maintaining secret custody, detention, and prosecution of such extraterrestrials is unlawful and a violation of their basic rights and is seeking to restore their civil rights.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "lawsuit",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "11/3/81"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/23/1983",
			"desc" : "1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombings)",
			"type" : "terrorist attack",
			"location" : "Beirut, Lebanon"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/29/1983",
			"desc" : "Dr. Robert I Sarbacher, consultant US Research and Development Board and President and Chairman of the Board, Washington Institute of Technology, in a letter to Dr. William I. Steinman states that Frank Scully’s book (“Behind the Flying Saucers”) story is true and persons definitely involved in operations of recovered saucers were John von Neuman and Dr. Vannever Bush. Also, Dr. Sarbacher thought that Robert Oppenheimer was also involved. Dr. Sarbacher had been invited by President Eisenhower to attend several discussions associated with the reported recoveries, but was unable to attend them. He did receive Special Reports on the recoveries at the Pentagon but was instructed NOT to remove them from his office.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (A2, [\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p525, B1-G p49)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1984",
			"desc" : "From the Air Traffic Controllers Manual: Controllers MUST report UFOs immediately to AIS (Military), LATCC. A completed report MUST be sent to MOD (AFOR). A list of phone numbers and locations is shown in the directory at Appendix H.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p458)",
			"type" : "manual",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1984",
			"desc" : "USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom Lake",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "land seizure",
			"location" : "Area-51"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1/13/1984",
			"desc" : "New York Post: Soviet scientists are puzzled by the flight of a mysterious bright sphere followed by seven small lights which flew at great speed but low altitude across southern Russia and Ukraine. The objects changed altitude and direction and were flying less than half a mile above the ground.",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up?q=%22The+Flying+Saucer+As+I+Saw+It%22)",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1/1984",
			"desc" : "The book “Clear Intent”, later renamed to “The UFO Cover-up: What the Government Won’t Say” in 1990, written by Lawrence Fawcett and Barry J. Greenwood is published.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_Against_UFO_Secrecy)",
			"type" : "book",
			"location" : "US"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "4/1984",
			"desc" : "Reported in APRO Bulletin: D.M., who lives just south of White Swan, WA went out to his rural mailbox just before dawn to get his paper. He observed a large flying triangle passing overheard. It was lighted completely around its perimeter with multicolored lights which burned steadily. He estimated it was 8k-10k feet high, made no noise and was in sight for several minutes as it wasn't moving at high speed.",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"ref" : "[Archive.org](https://archive.org/details/AFU_19840500_APRO_Bulletin_v32_n3/page/n1/mode/2up)",
			"location" : "White Swan, WA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/16/1984",
			"desc" : "Dept. of the Army letter to W. S. Steinman stating that the IPU was disestablished in the late 1950s and all records were transferred to the Air Force. Therefore the Army isn’t aware of what their function was even though it was a Secret unit of the Army. (FOIA requests to USAF)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (B1-A p55)",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1985",
			"desc" : "Scientific UFO Conference in Darlian, China. China Daily reported that 20,000 people involved in UFO research. Professor Renglin of Guangzhou Jinan University said more than 600 reports in China in prev. 5 years.",
			"type" : "conference",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"location" : "China"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/3/1985",
			"desc" : "Meeting between researchers Ray Boeche and Scott Colborn and US Senator J. J. Exon D-Neb concerning the 12/1980 Bentwaters and other incidents. Exon is described as concerned that as a member of the Armed Services Committee he has not been fully appraised of the Bentwaters and other UFO events.",
			"type" : "meeting",
			"ref" : "APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : "12/1980"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "4/19/1985",
			"desc" : "In a letter from Ministry of Defense, Lord Trefgarne states, “There is no organization in the MOD appointed solely for the purpose of studying UFOs, and no staff are employed on the subject full time… the staff in the Department… examine the reports as part of their normal duties… and we cannot inform observers of the probable identity of the objects seen.”",
			"type" : "letter",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"location" : "London, England"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/28/1985",
			"desc" : "USAF ACCESS RESTRICTED NOTICE: Report TR-DE-3A, Oct. 15, 1955, from Air Tech. Intel. Ctr., file no. TS5–2862, has been WITHDRAWN from the National Archives and is classified a TOP SECRET UFO Report.",
			"type" : "report",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p529)",
			"location" : "National Archives, Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/27/1985",
			"desc" : "Darlian, China, the “China Daily” reports: 20,000 people are involved in UFO research. The first recognized photo of a UFO in China was taken in 1945.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p472)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Darlian, China"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1986",
			"desc" : "Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test Range",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.amazon.com/RUSSIAS-ROSWELL-INCIDENT-Amazing-Former-ebook/dp/B06XD2BNXV)",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Kapustin Test Range",
			"see_also" : "11/79"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/11/1986",
			"desc" : "Minister Robert H. Henderson and his wife, Nann, of Phoenix, AR, were flying at an altitude of 8500 ft. at 4 p.m. when a very bright UFO was seen approaching head-on to them. As he prepared to take evasive action the UFO passed quickly to the left and below of his plane. The UFO was seen to be wingless and resembling a “modified half-sphere, with the flat side down.” The closure rate was estimated at about 1200 mph.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "aerial ufo encounter",
			"location" : "near Sedona, AR"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/19/1986",
			"desc" : "Near Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Between 9:00 to 12 midnight the Brazilian Air Defense and the Civil Air System were swamped with Radar and pilot UFO sightings. As Ospires Silva, President of Petrobras Oil Company were preparing to land, the control tower informed him of UFO targets on their radar. He and his companion, Alcir Pereira da Silva, saw bright red-orange UFOs, not at all like stars or planes. They attempted to pursue the UFOs for 30 min. but gave up as the UFOs seemed to be jumping from place to place. At this time three F-5E fighter jets were scrambled from Santa Cruz AFB. Capt. Marcio Jordao was able to approach within 12 miles of an UFO, visible to him as a bright light changing from white to green. Lt. Kleber Caldas Marinho chased another UFO which was a very intense light, changing from white to green then red again. Both pilots broke off chase as they were running low on fuel. Ground Radar picked up 10–13 more UFOs that surrounded another plane with Capt. Armindo Souza Viriato de Marinho, K.C. Freitas piloting it. Capt. Freitas tracked the UFOs on his radar, but only de Freitas, A.S.V. saw them visually once as they climbed vertically past him. Brig. Gen. Octavio Moreira Lima made these events public at a press conference and allowed the pilots and radar operators to be questioned by the media.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : ["Sao Paulo, Brazil", "Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" ],
			"see_also" : "7/1952"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/17/1986",
			"desc" : "Japan Airlines flight #1628, a Boeing 747 freighter, was cruising at 35000 ft. altitude and at 5:11 p.m. the pilots noticed bright lights 30 degrees to the left and below them. The UFOs moved up directly in front of the 747 and, said Capt. Kenju Terauchi, “most unexpectedly, two spaceships stopped in front of our face, shooting off lights (like numerous exhaust pipes). The inside cockpit shined brightly and I felt warm in the face.” The UFOs appeared as two rectangular clusters or arrays of light, one above the other. As the larger UFOs moved away from the 747 Airlines Flight 1628 there remained two smaller flat white UFOs. At about 5:30 p.m. Capt. Terauchi checked the pale white light behind their craft visually. He saw a gigantic “walnut-shaped” UFO (Saturn-shaped) following them. As an evasive action the Capt. ordered the 747 to turn away from the giant UFO that was following them, at which time the UFO “spaceship” disappeared.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "Fort Yukon, Alaska"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/15/1987",
			"desc" : "The San Jose Mercury states that the Pentagon has a “Black Budget” which has become a “Black Hole” for secret projects spending. It is far bigger than the federal budget for education, transportation, agriculture or the environment. These Projects are classified above TOP SECRET, therefore very few federal investigators have the security clearances necessary to audit black programs.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (J4-B)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "San Jose, CA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/12/1987",
			"desc" : "US Army Intelligence letter: The IPU (Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit) of the Scientific and Technical Branch, Counter intelligence Directorate, Department of the Army was disestablished during the 1950’s and never reactivated. All of its records were turned over to the USAF (which can’t seem to locate them). This letter was sent to Timothy Good.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) ([\"Above Top Secret\" by Timothy Good](https://archive.org/details/abovetopsecretwo00good/page/n7/mode/2up) p484)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "5/16/84"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/21/1987",
			"desc" : "President Reagan states to the UN General Assembly “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world.”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.cultureready.org/blog/reagans-1987-un-speech-alien-threat-resonates-now)",
			"type" : "statement",
			"location" : "New York City"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/4/1987",
			"desc" : "JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut [Gordon Cooper](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper), Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC, Ret.) (now deceased), MUFON (Sequin, TX), APRO (Tucson, AZ) and Just Cause (Coventry, CT) states that: “WE (military personnel) have been ordered by the CIA to shoot at UFOs, silence pilots who have seen UFOs, intimidate, harass, jail, confine to institutions, and destroy military careers of witnesses to UFO sightings. We VIOLATED the Freedom of Information Act by hiding Government documents.” Maj. Keyhoe sent this letter to PEA Research in 1987.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (JMP)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Washington DC",
			"see_also" : [ "7/1952", "9/24/1947" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/25/1987",
			"desc" : "Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Men_%28film%29)",
			"type" : "movie",
			"location" : "DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "12/13/1987",
			"desc" : "Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12",
			"ref" : "Article by John Lear (TODO)",
			"type" : "statement",
			"location" : "Nevada"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/21/1987",
			"desc" : "CIA letter to former assistant director of NICAP Mr. Richard H. Hall stating the CIA’s reasons for denying certain FOIA requests about himself on the basis of national defense reasons and must be kept secret. Mr. Hall is an UFO investigator and book author.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_H._Hall)" ],
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "Langley, VA"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1988",
			"desc" : "Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John Lear",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "meeting",
			"location" : "NV"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1975",
			"desc" : "Ex-CIA Pilot John Lear stated \"The main Air Force sightings were in 1975. And the UFOs descended on every Strategic Air Command base guarding the perimeter of the northern United States. They hovered over the nuclear weapons storage area and they stayed there with impunity for up to two and three hours over a period of three days.\"",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-pilot-claimed-to-receive-25-secret-cia-memos-about-aliens-on-earth/)",
			"location" : "Loring AFB",
			"type" : "ufo sightings"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/28/1988",
			"desc" : "Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About Aliens On Earth",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-pilot-claimed-to-receive-25-secret-cia-memos-about-aliens-on-earth/)",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
			"type" : "interview"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/5/1988",
			"desc" : "For the third time, publicly, President Ronald Reagan states that the nations of the earth would unite if we were threatened by an Alien race from a hostile planet.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based) (J4-A)",
			"type" : "statement",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/6/1988",
			"desc" : "Letter received from ufologist Paul F. Bennewitz describing Project Beta: Alien base located in New Mexico consisting of type \"Grey\" Aliens. NASA CIR film has aided in locating this base and revealing US Military involvement with the \"Greys\". Aliens helped US Military to build a working saucer, Atomic Powered. Two women and a boy exposed to radiation burns by this saucer. Government is not picking up the medical bills. \"Grey\" base is currently abandoned. Another group called \"Orange\" is based on the west slope of Mt. Archeleta near \"the Diamond\". Goal of Project Beta: to locate, inventory and propose ways of destroying Alien bases.",
			"ref" : "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)",
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "New Mexico",
			"see_also" : "12/29/80"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/19/1988",
			"desc" : "The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction research.",
			"ref" : "[link](http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Documents/0%20-%20UFO%20Researchers/Elaine%20Douglass/Elaine%20Douglass%20files.pdf)",
			"type" : "funding",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "10/14/1988",
			"desc" : "“UFO Cover-Up?: Live!” Broadcast from Washington DC on 130 syndicated stations throughout the US. Soviet ufologists appeared live by satellite. AFOSI officer Rick Doty played the part of ‘Falcon’ in the Kodak-produced documentary, but it is generally accepted he wasn’t the ‘real’ Falcon of the Aviary.",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0846738/)", "[link](https://www.exopaedia.org/Richard+Doty)" ],
			"type" : "TV broadcast",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "11/15/1988",
			"desc" : "First and only test of the Soviet Buran orbital spaceplane. It was the first spaceplane to perform an uncrewed flight, including landing in fully automatic mode.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buran_%28spacecraft%29#Orbital_flight)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Soviet Union"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "11/29/1988",
			"desc" : "Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "telephone call",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1988",
			"desc" : "Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface)",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1989",
			"desc" : "The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1989",
			"end_date" : "1/20/1993",
			"desc" : "President George H. W. Bush in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush)",
			"type" : "historical event"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1989",
			"desc" : "Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2 statement",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "tax statement",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Spring 1989",
			"desc" : "Bob Lazar takes groups of friends on Wednesday nights into the desert around Papoose Dry Lake, 15 miles south of Groom Lake. They appeared to be large glowing, disc-shaped objects. At least one sighting was recorded on video.",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Papoose Dry Lake"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1989 (approximate)",
			"desc" : "Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Papoose Dry Lake"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "3/29/1989",
			"desc" : "Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to viewing area for 2nd time",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Papoose Dry Lake"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "4/2/1989",
			"desc" : "Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom Lake",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "Papoose Dry Lake"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/7/1989",
			"desc" : "Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at work",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "employment",
			"location" : "Papoose Dry Lake"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/14/1989",
			"desc" : "Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp.",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "5/17/1989",
			"desc" : "Kalahari Desert, close to the borders between the Republics of South Africa and Botswana: UFO shot down by 2 scrambled Mirage jets. 2 live EBE’s and craft debris transported to Wright Patterson AFB. A South African Air Force Intelligence officer leaks photos of the EBE’s.",
			"ref" : "AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African Sky”",
			"type" : "crash retrieval",
			"location" : "Kalahari Desert"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/24/1989",
			"desc" : "Bob Lazar interviews on KLAS-TV in silhouette using assumed identity “Dennis”. Sometime after this, Popular host Billy Goodman organizes bus trips to the outskirts of Groom Lake for UFO viewing parties.",
			"ref" : [ "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar", "[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbQG8-XA5Gc)" ],
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/1989",
			"end_date" : "11/1989",
			"desc" : "Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things Bob Lazar.",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "11/1989",
			"desc" : "“UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public.",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)",
			"type" : "TV series",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/28/1989",
			"desc" : "UFO landing and Government attempt at intercept: Six helicopters circle around an UFO, between 574–1000 ft. in diam. while it was close to a downed UFO on the beach. The UFOs apparently got away. The eyewitness took 48 photos of the event. This even occurred in Suffolk County.",
			"ref" : [ "[Pea Research](https://www.academia.edu/9813787/GOVERNMENT_INVOLVEMENT_IN_THE_UFO_COVER_UP_CHRONOLOGY_based)", "[Archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20070126112739/ttp://www.20kweb.com/weird_stuff/ufo_landing_government_intercept.html)" ],
			"type" : "ufo retrieval attempt",
			"location" : "Smith's Point Beach, Shirley, NY"
		},

		{
			"date" : "1990's",
			"desc" : "USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name Area 51",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Lazar",
			"type" : "court filings",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		
		{
			"date" : "8/2/1990",
			"end_date" : "1/17/1991",
			"desc" : "Operation Desert Shield",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Iraq"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/28/1991",
			"desc" : "Operation Desert Storm",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Iraq"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/1993",
			"end_date" : "1/20/2001",			
			"desc" : "President Bill Clinton in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/20/1994",
			"desc" : "“Groom Lake Toxic Burning Alleged” A former worker at the secret Air Force base says poisonous substances were routinely ignited. Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mar. 20, 1994, Page 1B.",
			"ref" : "[link](http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1994/rj_940320.txt)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Groom Lake"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "9/16/1994",
			"desc" : "Ariel school incident",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariel_School_UFO_incident)",
			"type" : "ce3 event",
			"location" : "Ruwa, Zimbabwe"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/18/1994",
			"desc" : "Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_H._Stringfield)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Cincinnati, OK"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1994",
			"desc" : "SOM1–01 \"MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual\" document “leaked” to UFO researcher",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://majesticdocuments.com/pdf/som101_part1.pdf)",
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "4/1954"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "1996",
			"end_date" : "1997",
			"desc" : "Crimean ufologist Anton Anfalov made a map of the Soviet secret sensitive site “Zhitkur” with instructions on the location of all sites and drew diagrams of their devices.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://curiosmos.com/kapustin-yar-russias-alleged-area-51-10-things-you-should-know/)",
			"type" : "document",
			"location" : "Crimea"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/8/1996",
			"desc" : "Wall Street Journal on Area 51 worker toxic disposal fires lawsuits: “A Secret Air Base Hazardous Waste Act, Workers’ Suit Alleges U.S. Cites National Security In Fighting Claims Tied to Toxic Disposal Fires Plaintiffs Fear Retaliation”",
			"ref" : "[link](http://www.ufomind.com/area51/articles/1996/wsj_960208.html)",
			"type" : "article",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},		
		
		
		{
			"date" : "1996",
			"desc" : "Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skinwalker_Ranch)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Skinwalker Ranch"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/1996",
			"desc" : "Area-51 workers and their widows lose suite against the federal government in Las Vegas. “..the Air Force could invoke the common law state secrets privilege to protect military secrets at Area 51, and that once invoked, the privilege is absolute, protecting even innocuous-seeming information from disclosure.”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.rcfp.org/high-court-wont-review-state-secrets-privilege-area-51-case/)",
			"type" : "lawsuit",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "1997",
			"desc" : "ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland” radio show",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Roswell)",
			"type" : "radio appearance",
			"location" : "Rachel, NV"
		},								
		
		{
			"date" : "2/1997 (approximate)",
			"desc" : "“Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4, speaks in “Area 51: The Alien Interview” by Rocket Pictures. Claims two psychics were present to interpret the responses from an alien in custody. Aliens were highly psychic.",
			"ref" : [ "[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viqc7DJWhs&list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A&index=7)", 
					"[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404780/)" ],
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : [ "5/23/97", "2008" ]
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "5/23/1997",
			"desc" : "Art Bell anonymously interviews “Victor”, who claimed to have worked at Area-51 S-4 (see 2/1997). Claims no successful communication has taken place and that most psychics used in the program were frauds.",
			"ref" : "[Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viqc7DJWhs&list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A&index=7)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "US"
		},										
		
		{
			"date" : "7/23/1997",
			"desc" : "ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appeared on Coast to Coast AM and again was interviewed by Art Bell. This time, he was accompanied by Dr. John Alexander who represented that he had gone to Washington D.C. and gone to the National Archives and other records to verify the facts of Corso’s public service. He indeed had served honorably as a Lieutenant Colonel under Lieutenant General Arthur Trudeau and worked in the White House for four years.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2006-04-09-show/)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Rachel, NV"
		},												
		
		{
			"date" : "11/16/1998",
			"desc" : "Newspaper Article: “High court won’t review “state secrets” privilege in ‘Area 51’ case”. The U.S. Supreme Court refused in early November to hear an appeal of a lawsuit by workers at a “secret” air base near Groom Lake, Nev., dubbed “Area 51.”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.rcfp.org/high-court-wont-review-state-secrets-privilege-area-51-case/)",
			"type" : "lawsuit",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "2/28/1998",
			"end_date" : "6/11/1999",
			"desc" : "Kosovo War and NATO intervention",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo_War)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Kosovo"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/2001",
			"end_date" : "1/20/2009",
			"desc" : "President George W. Bush in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "7/4/2001",
			"desc" : "Art Bell interviews Linda Moulton Howe, Philip J. Corso, and Bill Birnes were interviewed live in Roswell, NM, about the infamous UFO crash in 1947.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2016-11-05-art/)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "Roswell, NM"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "9/11/2001",
			"desc" : "September 11 Terrorist Attack",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks)",
			"type" : "terrorist attack",
			"location" : [ "Washington DC", "New York City" ]
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "10/7/2001",
			"end_date" : "8/30/2021",
			"desc" : "Afghanistan War begins",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%932021%29)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Afghanistan"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/2003",
			"end_date" : "4/2003",
			"desc" : "Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Gulf+War+II)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Iraq"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "2004",
			"desc" : "TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel off the coast of southern California",
			"ref" : "TODO",
			"type" : "ufo sighting",
			"location" : "off the coast of southern California"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "2007",
			"desc" : "NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, an astrophysicist, starts working as a subcontractor and then a consultant for the Pentagon U.F.O. program (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, or AATIP)",
			"ref" : [ "[NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)",
			          "[NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/03/us/ufos-report.html)" ],
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},						

		{
			"date" : "2008",
			"desc" : "Claimed Area-51 S-4 worker named “Victor” appears anonymously in bonus footage for the re-release of “Alien Interview”. “Victor” claims that Donald Rumsfeld has been aware of alien interviews since 1974.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-viqc7DJWhs&list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A&index=7)",
			"type" : "video interview",
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : [ "2/1997", "5/23/97" ]
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/2009",
			"end_date" : "1/20/2017",
			"desc" : "President Barack Obama in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Barack_Obama)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "11/6/2009",
			"desc" : "ex-Police Detective and ufologist James Clarkson gives a presentation at a UFO Conference about ex-Wright Patterson AFB worker June Crain, who had heard of 3 crash retrievals during her time working there.",
			"ref" : "[Newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116248479/james-clarkson-june-crain-presentation/)",
			"type" : "presentation",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "6/4/2010",
			"desc" : "First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Spacecraft_Qualification_Unit)",
			"type" : "aerospace",
			"location" : "Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/1961",
			"desc" : "Project 1794, a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers, was cancelled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer-like design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).",
			"ref" : [ "[Mike Colangelo](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1620153118540578816)",
				"[livescience.com: Flying saucers to mind control: 24 declassified military & CIA secrets](https://www.livescience.com/declassified-military-secrets)" ],
			"type" : [ "secret project", "declassified documents" ],
			"location" : "US",
			"see_also" : "Late 2012"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "Late 2012",
			"desc" : "The U.S. Air Force declassified a trove of documents, including records of a secret program to build a flying saucer-type aircraft designed to shoot down Soviet bombers. The ambitious program, called Project 1794, was initiated in the 1950s, and a team of engineers was tasked with building a disc-shape vehicle capable of traveling at supersonic speeds at high altitudes. The declassified documents reveal plans for the plane to reach a top speed of Mach 4 (four times the speed of sound), and reach an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,480 meters). The project's estimated cost was more than $3 million, which in today's dollars would be more than $26 million. Project 1794 was cancelled in December 1961 after tests suggested the flying saucer design was aerodynamically unstable and would likely be uncontrollable at high speeds (let alone supersonic speeds).",
			"ref" : [ "[Mike Colangelo](https://twitter.com/MikeColangelo/status/1620153118540578816)",
				"[livescience.com: Flying saucers to mind control: 24 declassified military & CIA secrets](https://www.livescience.com/declassified-military-secrets)" ],
			"type" : [ "secret project", "declassified documents" ],
			"location": "US",
			"see_also" : "12/1961"
		},
						
		{
			"date" : "3/1/2015",
			"desc" : "Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope in Supreme Court ruling”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/military/area-51-worker-sees-hope-in-supreme-court-ruling/)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/2017",
			"desc" : "Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash, EBE-1",
			"ref" : [ 
				"[link](https://exopolitics.org/new-investigation-shows-disputed-mj-12-document-exposing-extraterrestrial-contact-is-authentic/)]",
				"[archive.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20170614101208/http://d3adcc0j1hezoq.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Ultra-Top-Secret-MITD.pdf)" ],
			"type" : "majestic document",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/2017",
			"end_date" : "1/20/2021",
			"desc" : "President Donald Trump in office",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Donald_Trump)",
			"type" : "historical document",
			"location" : "Washington DC, US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/18/2017",
			"desc" : "The Washington State Senate passed Resolution 8648 about the Maury Island Incident. It stated “The FBI’s conclusions and Dahl’s (the main witness) secret were sealed for fifty years.” It also states “Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation conducted an investigation of the deaths of Davidson and Brown and ultimately concluded that Dahl did not recant his story but that his claim of hoax was itself a fabrication to avoid further public attention and ridicule.”",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/the-bsra-tested-fragments-from-the-maury-island-incident-cd20c2d14324)",
				"[link](https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2017-18/Htm/Bills/Senate%20Resolutions/8648-Maury%20Island%20Incident.htm)" ],
			"type" : "state resolution",
			"location" : "Olympia, WA",
			"see_also" : "6/21/1947"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/12/2017",
			"desc" : "Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research (TTSA)",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tom-delonge-announces-stars-academy-for-outer-edges-of-science-research-125580/)",
			"type" : "company formation",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "12/16/2017",
			"desc" : "NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program",
			"ref" : "[NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "6/13/2018",
            "time" : "0400",
			"desc" : "TTSA’s “ADAM Project” (an acronym for Acquisition & Data Analysis of Materials) hand delivers exotic materials claimed to be from a crashed UFO to EarthTech in Austin, TX.",
			"ref" : "[YouTube](https://youtu.be/MzrnJtNbwZE)",
			"type" : "material delivery",
			"location" : [ "San Diego, CA", "Austin, TX" ]
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "10/11/2018",
			"desc" : "Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning UFO's.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dean_%28ufologist%29)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Tucson, AZ"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "5/31/2019",
			"end_date" : "8/22/2020",
			"desc" : "First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation”",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidentified%3A_Inside_America%27s_UFO_Investigation)",
			"type" : "documentary",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/2020",
			"desc" : "NY Times: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD, Aerospace Corporation (a defense contractor), gives a classified briefing to a Defense Department agency about retrievals from “off-world vehicles not made on this earth.”",
			"ref" : "[NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)",
			"type" : "senate briefing",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "4/30/2019",
			"desc" : "In an interview, Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD (who has a security clearance) talks about the “crash retrieval program” that was terminated in 1989 for lack of progress.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://github.com/richgel999/uap_resources)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "US"
		},		            
		
		{
			"date" : "5/13/2019",
			"desc" : "Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies age 84",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanton_T._Friedman)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Toronto, Canada"
		},		            		
		
		{
			"date" : "6/20/2019",
			"desc" : "Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an interview with Joe Rogan",
			"ref" : "“Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "US"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "9/20/2019",
			"desc" : "“Storm Area-51” event planned",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Area_51)",
			"type" : "event",
			"location" : "Area 51"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/21/2019",
			"desc" : "Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on \"retrievals of unexplained objects\" to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.",
			"ref" : "[NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)",
			"type" : "senate briefing",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "10/23/2019",
			"desc" : "Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on \"retrievals of unexplained objects\" to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee",
			"ref" : "[NY Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/us/politics/pentagon-ufo-harry-reid-navy.html)",
			"type" : "senate briefing",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "1/20/2020",
			"desc" : "President Joe Biden in office",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Biden)",
			"type" : "historical event",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},				
		
		{
			"date" : "3/11/2020",
			"desc" : "COVID-19 Pandemic: The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020.",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic)",
			"type" : "pandemic"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "3/23/2020",
			"desc" : "Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce",
			"ref" : "[link](https://spacenews.com/bigelow-aerospace-lays-off-entire-workforce/)",
			"type" : "layoff",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},						
		
		{
			"date" : "6/6/2020",
			"desc" : "Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler dies",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11890347/ex-nasa-man-dies-of-cancer/)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Edgewater, Maryland"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "7/28/2020",
			"desc" : "NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved materials”, all information is classified",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/insider/UFO-reporting.html)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "New York, New York"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/23/2021",
			"desc" : "Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles, CA",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_King)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Los Angeles, CA"
		},		
		
		{
			"date" : "4/26/2021",
			"desc" : "Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD program",
			"ref" : "TODO",
			"type" : "letter"
		},				
		
		{		
			"date" : "6/4/2021",
			"desc" : "South China Morning Post: China military uses AI to track rapidly increasing UFOs. To the People’s Liberation Army they are ‘unidentified air conditions’ and artificial intelligence is the best way to keep up with them.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3136078/china-military-uses-ai-track-rapidly-increasing-ufos)",
			"type" : "newspaper article",
			"location" : "China"
		},						
		
		{		
			"date" : "8/30/2021",
			"desc" : "Afghanistan War ends",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_%282001%E2%80%932021%29)",
			"type" : "war",
			"location" : "Afghanistan"
		},
		
		{		
			"date" : "12/28/2021",
			"desc" : "Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82",
			"ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "US"
		},		
		
		{		
			"date" : "2/6/2022",
			"desc" : "Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with the show title “UFOs and Aliens”",
			"ref" : "[YouTube](https://youtu.be/uTCc2-1tbBQ)",
			"type" : "interview",
			"location" : "US"
		},				
		
		{		
			"date" : "3/29/2022",
			"desc" : "Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79",
			"ref" : "[link](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lear)",
			"type" : "death",
			"location" : "Las Vegas, NV"
		},				
		
		{		
			"date" : "6/3/2022",
			"desc" : "Ex-US Navy Aviator Ryan Graves gives a keynote titled “UAP & Government: The Innovation Imperative” at the SCU AAPC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL. Graves states at the conference that aviators are reporting sightings, but are being ignored, and if this continues they will stop reporting them.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.explorescu.org/_files/ugd/8374d8_ff2696792d7d4d23b1354cf52b031941.pdf)",
			"type" : "public presentation",
			"location" : "Huntsville, AL"
		},				
		
		{		
			"date" : "6/4/2022",
			"desc" : "ex-Col. John B. Alexander states on video at the SCU AAPC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL that MJ-12 was real, but then claimed it had nothing to do with UFO’s. Stubblebine said it was very secret.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.explorescu.org/aapc-2022b)",
			"type" : "public statement",
			"location" : "Huntsville, AL"
		},
		
		{		
			"date" : "6/4/2022",
			"desc" : "Panel held at the SCU APC conference near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL: “The National Security Implications of Scientifically Studying UAP”- Dr. Joseph DiNoto (moderator), Dr. Matthew Szydagis, Dr. Garry Nolan, Dr. Joshua Pierson, and Mr. Richard Hoffman.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.explorescu.org/aapc-2022b)",
			"type" : "public panel",
			"location" : "Huntsville, AL"
		},		
		
		{		
			"date" : "6/4/2022",
			"desc" : "Dr. Alexander Wendt gives the virtual presentation “Dangerous Knowledge — UFO Science and the Last Humans” at the SCU AAPC conference, near the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville AL, on potential societal collapse and mass panic if Disclosure of the reality of UFO’s is rushed. Mentions a 20 year process of acclimation focusing on young people.",
			"ref" : "[link](https://medium.com/@richgel99/dangerous-knowledge-ufo-science-and-the-last-humans-by-dr-alexander-wendt-b7a544052bda?source=user_profile---------11----------------------------)",
			"type" : "public presentation",
			"location" : "Huntsville, AL"
		},				
		
		{		
			"date" : "12/23/2022",
			"desc" : "President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections and references to back-engineering",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/3252968/biden-signs-national-defense-authorization-act-into-law/)",
			"type" : "law",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},
		
		{
			"date" : "1/12/2023",
			"desc" : "CBS News: “Hundreds more UFO sightings included in latest report”. “On Thursday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released an unclassified version of its annual report on UFOs, or what the government calls unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP). The office tracking reports of UFOs has added nearly 400 additional sightings to its catalog over the last year, either because of new sightings or older sightings discovered in existing files, bringing the total number of UFO sightings to over 500. The assessment revealed that the office tracking UAPs has had a total of 510 sightings since 2004. This is significantly up from the 144 sightings included in the initial report in 2021. Department of Defense has determined that about half of the additional sightings displayed “unremarkable characteristics.” A U.S. official told CBS News that none of the incidents have yet been definitively linked to China, Russia or any other country.”",
			"ref" : "[link](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-more-ufo-sightings-included-latest-report/)",
			"type" : "unclassified report",
			"location" : "Washington DC"
		},									
		
		{
			"date" : "1/12/2023",
			"desc" : "CNBC: \"More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021\"",
			"ref" : [ "[link](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/12/more-than-360-new-ufo-cases-have-been-reported-to-us-intelligence-agencies-since-march-2021.html)",
				"[link](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/hundreds-more-ufo-sightings-included-latest-report/)" ],
			"type" : "ufo sightings",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "7/1947",
			"desc" : "The Air Force began investigating UFO reports seriously after sightings by airline pilots, other qualified observers.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "investigation",
			"location" : "US"
		},									
        
        {
			"date" : "9/23/1947",
			"desc" : "The Chief of Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) sent a letter to the Air Force Commanding General stating the conclusion of ATIC that UFOs were real, and urging the establishment of a permanent project to analyze future reports.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 31](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "letter",
			"location" : "US"
		},									
        
        {
			"date" : "1/22/1948",
			"desc" : "Project \"Sign\" (popular name \"Saucer\") established at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, to investigate UFO reports.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "project established",
			"location" : "Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "9/1948",
			"desc" : "Top Secret \"Estimate of the Situation\", concluding UFOs were interplanetary, sent from ATIC to Air Force Chief of Staff, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. (Report was kicked back for additional proof; later declassified and burned).",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 62-63, 67](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "top secret report",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "2/11/1949",
			"desc" : "Project name changed to \"Grudge.\" Because of internal disagreement about the significance of UFOs, reports were then \"evaluated on the premise that UFOs couldn't exist.\"",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 85-88](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "project name change",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "4/27/1949",
			"desc" : "Project Saucer report released: About 30% of the sightings investigated to date were said to be explained as conventional objects. An equal number, the report said, probably would be explainable after further probing.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "report released",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "12/27/1949",
			"desc" : "Project Grudge report released: Explained away all reports to date as delusions, hysteria, hoaxes and crackpot reports. Announcement that project had disbanded.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "report released",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "1950",
            "end_date" : "1951",
			"desc" : "This period has been called the \"Dark Ages\" of UFO investigation. Following the Project Grudge report, the project was not disbanded. However, those who believed in a more positive investigation could not win support for their views--until late in 1951 when the situation was reviewed partly due to public protests.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "time period",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "9/15/1951",
			"desc" : "Lt. Jerry Cummings, and a Lt. Col. from ATIC, were called to Washington to brief a General (and a disgruntled group of industrialists and scientists) about the conduct of the investigation. Received orders to set up a new project.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, pg. 128-130](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "briefing",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "9/1951",
			"desc" : "Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt became chief of the newly revitalized AF UFO project (which later became Project Blue Book).",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "personell assignment",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
			"date" : "10/27/1951",
			"desc" : "New AF UFO project (which later became Project Blue Book) officially established.",
			"ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 154](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
			"type" : "project established",
			"location" : "US"
		},
        
        {
            "date" : "3/1952",
            "desc" : "Project Grudge had become a full-fledged organization, the \"Aerial Phenomena Group.\" Soon thereafter, the code name was changed to \"Blue Book.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 176](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "organization established",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "4/1952",
            "desc" : "Al Chop appointed public information officer for UFO's.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "personell appointment",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "4/1952",
            "desc" : "Air Force Letter 200-5 gave Project Blue Book authority to cut red tape, contact any Air Force unit in the U.S. without going through channels; provided for wire transmission of reports to ATIC, followed with details via Air Mail.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "air force letter",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "4/7/1952",
            "desc" : "Life Magazine article \"Have We Visitors From Space?\", inspired by several top officers in the Pentagon.",
            "ref" : [ "[Project 1947: LIFE Magazine - April 7, 1952](http://www.project1947.com/shg/articles/lifemag52.html)",
                      "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 177-178](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "magazine article",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "5/8/1952",
            "desc" : "Capt. Ruppelt and a Lt. Col. from ATIC briefed Air Force Secretary Thomas K. Finletter for one hour.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 185](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "briefing",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "Mid 6/1952",
            "desc" : "Capt. Ruppelt briefed General Samford, Director of Intelligence, others; given directive to take further steps to obtain positive identification of UFOs.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 196-199](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "briefing",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "Mid 7/1952",
            "desc" : "Every Air Force installation in U.S. swamped with UFO reports.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 205](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sightings",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "8/1952",
            "desc" : "Study of UFO maneuvers initiated, to determine whether objects displayed intelligent control.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 250-251](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "study initiated",
            "location" : "Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "11/1952",
            "desc" : "Panel of four scientists convened at ATIC to make preliminary review of accumulated reports. Recommended convening panel of top scientists.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 250-251](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "scientific panel",
            "location" : "Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton OH"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1/12/1953",
            "desc" : "The Air Force (reportedly with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency) convened a panel of top scientists to weigh the accumulated evidence. [\"Robertson Panel\" - headed by Howard P. Robertson] The panel was to decide whether the evidence indicated UFOs were interplanetary, whether it was all explainable, or whether the project should continue and seek better data. (p. 275). A study of UFO maneuvers concluding the objects were interplanetary was presented to the panel by Maj. Dewey Fournet.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 285](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "scientific panel",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
         {
            "date" : "1/17/1953",
            "desc" : "The conclusions of the scientific Robertson Panel were not made public at the time. Since then, two conflicting versions have been released:<br/><br/>Conclusions Reported by Ruppelt, 1956: The panel recommended that the UFO project be expanded, the investigative force quadrupled in size and staffed by trained scientists; that tracking instruments be established all over the country, and that the public be told \"every detail of every phase\" of the investigation. The scientists believed this program would \"dispel any of the mystery\" created by military security procedures, and also keep the investigation on a scientific basis. The recommendations were not adopted.<br/><br/>Summary Released by Air Force, 1958: The panel concluded that UFOs constituted no \"direct physical threat to national security,\" there was no evidence of \"foreign artifacts capable of hostile acts,\" and no \"need for the revision of current scientific concepts.\" The panel recommended \"immediate steps to strip the Unidentified Flying Objects of the special status they have been given and the aura of mystery they have unfortunately acquired.\" The panel suggested \"an integrated program designed to reassure the public of the total lack of evidence of inimical forces behind the phenomena.\"<br/><br/>Exactly what transpired at the conclusion of this meeting is not clear, though it is strongly suggested that the whole story has not been told. If the decision of the panel had been clearly negative, as the 1958 summary implies, there would have been no reason to be so secretive about it. On the contrary, there would have been every reason to make an immediate public announcement.<br/><br/> What is known about the affair is the public manifestation of the UFO project following the meeting. After a period of apparent serious interest in gathering better data (which supports Ruppelt's version of the panel conclusions), the Air Force began debunking UFOs. Since then the Air Force does not admit to having the slightest shred of evidence that anything at all out of the ordinary is taking place.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt, page 293-298](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "scientific panel conclusions",
            "location" : "US"
        },
                
         {
            "date" : "8/26/1953",
            "desc" : "AF Regulation 200-2 issued by Secretary of Air Force; procedures for reporting UFOs, restrictions on public discussion.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "Air Force regulation",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "12/1/1953",
            "desc" : "The Air Force announced in Washington it had set up cameras around the country equipped with diffraction gratings to analyze the nature of light from UFOs.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "public annoucement",
            "location" : "Washington DC"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1/6/1954",
            "desc" : "Reporters seeking information on UFOs were banned from Wright-Patterson AFB. [Cleveland Press]",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "historical event",
            "location" : "Wright-Patterson AFB"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "2/23/1954",
            "desc" : "Scripps-Howard papers said the Air Force had worked out a plan with commercial airline companies to report sightings quickly.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "newspaper article",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "5/15/1954",
            "desc" : "General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, stated the best brains in the country were working on the UFO problem; Air Force could not explain 10 per cent of the sightings. [Quoted by United Press; Amarillo, Texas].",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "public statement",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "5/5/1955",
            "desc" : "Project Blue Book \"Special Report No. 14\" declassified.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "declassified report",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "10/25/1955",
            "desc" : "Summary of Blue Book report released to press; linked with statement that Air Force would soon have its own saucer-shaped aircraft, the AVRO disc. (The AVRO disc project subsequently was scrapped without producing a flying model). Reported no evidence that UFOs \"constituted a threat to the security of the United States. . .\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "summary of report",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1955",
            "end_date" : "1957",
            "desc" : "UFOs all but faded out of the news. Queries to the Air Force were answered by a \"fact sheet\" referring back to the 1955 report. A 1957 \"fact sheet\" stated the unexplained cases had been reduced \"from approximately 10% in 1954 to 3%, as of now.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "USAF fact sheets",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "11/1957",
            "desc" : "When the \"flap\" of UFO reports began about November 1, \"fact sheets\" were issued on the letterhead of the Department of Defense, Office of Public Affairs. These emphasized the percentages of explained cases, and again the lack of evidence of \"a threat to the security of the country.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "USAF fact sheets",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1958",
            "end_date" : "1959",
            "desc" : "USAF issues \"Fact Sheets\" - issued approximately semiannually.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "historical event",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "12/24/1959",
            "desc" : "Air Force Inspector General brief to Operations and Training Commands: \"UFOs Serious Business.\" Stated that UFO investigators on base level \"should be equipped with binoculars, camera, geiger counter, magnifying glass and have a source for containers in which to store samples.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "briefing",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "8/15/1960",
            "desc" : "\"Air Force Information Policy Letter; For Commanders,\" Vol. XIV, No. 12, issued by Office of Secretary of Air Force. Under title \"AF Keeping Watchful Eye on Aerospace,\" stated, \"There is a relationship between the Air Force's interest in space surveillance and its continuous surveillance of the atmosphere near Earth for unidentified flying objects--'UFOs.'\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "policy letter",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1960",
            "end_date" : "1961",
            "desc" : "Through its spokesman in the Pentagon, Lt. Col. Lawrence J. Tacker, the Air Force began answering critics of its UFO program publicly. Late in 1960, Col. Tacker's book [\"Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force\" by Lawrence J. Tacker](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersusa0000lawr) (Van Nostrand) was published, with a foreword by General Thomas D. White, Air Force Chief of Staff. Col. Tacker went on a public tour to publicize the book, appearing on radio and television, and giving lectures.",
            "ref" : [ "Archive.org: [\"Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force\" by Lawrence J. Tacker](https://archive.org/details/flyingsaucersusa0000lawr)",
                        "[Amazon: \"Flying Saucers and the U.S. Air Force\" by Lawrence J. Tacker](https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Saucers-U-S-Air-Force/dp/125818060X)",
                        "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "book release",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "12/5/1960",
            "desc" : "Debate with NICAP Director and USAF Col. Tacker on Dave Garroway's network television program.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "debate",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "12/18/1960",
            "desc" : "Interview with USAF Col. Tacker on Westinghouse network radio program, \"Washington Viewpoint.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "interview",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "3/17/1961",
            "desc" : "USAF Col. Tacker lectures to the Aero Club of Buffalo, N.Y.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "lecture",
            "location" : "Buffalo, NY"
        },
        
         {
            "date" : "3/1961",
            "desc" : "Article in Argosy magazine. AF Col. Tacker used the strongest language to date in denouncing critics of the UFO investigation. Their claims were \"absolutely erroneous;\" \"a hoax:\" \"sensational theories:\" the work of \"amateur hobby groups.\" NICAP's evidence was \"drivel,\" its claims \"ridiculous\" and it was making \"senseless accusations.\" In April 1961, after being associated with the UFO project for over three years, Col. Tacker was shipped to Europe on \"routine reassignment.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "magazine article",
            "location" : "US"
        },
               
         {
            "date" : "6/1961",
            "desc" : "The outspoken new policy, if that is what it was, apparently backfired. Angered by USAF Col. Tacker's attitude, NICAP members and other citizens deluged Congress with requests for an investigation of the Air Force project. Congressional hearings were contemplated but never came about. Instead, Air Force Congressional Liaison personnel briefed key Congressional committees in private.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "congressional briefings",
            "location" : "US"
        }, 
        
        {
            "date" : "2/6/1962",
            "desc" : "The Air Force issued the last \"fact sheet\" (No. 179-62) of the old style, then dropped that format.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "USAF fact sheets",
            "location" : "US"
        }, 
                
         {
            "date" : "1963",
            "end_date" : "1964",
            "desc" : "In the past two years, packets of information-- including some details of specific cases--have been substituted for the generalized Air Force \"fact sheets.\" The unexplained cases for each year are briefly described. (In the new \"fact sheets\", the \"unknown\" category has been rendered meaningless by the inclusion of vague and incomplete cases. Formerly the term \"unknown\" was applied to the most detailed and inexplicable cases from the best observers. Now the distinction between \"unknowns\", and cases which lack detail or apparently have natural explanations, has been blurred.)",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "USAF fact sheets",
            "location" : "US"
        }, 
        
        {
            "date" : "1947",
            "end_date" : "1949",
            "desc" : "USAF Investigation Summary: Serious investigation, conclusions UFOs real and interplanetary.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "investigation",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1950",
            "end_date" : "1951",
            "desc" : "USAF Investigation Summary: These conclusions challenged on basis of lack of proof; \"explain-away\" approach adopted by investigators.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "investigation",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1952",
            "end_date" : "1953",
            "desc" : "USAF Investigation Summary: After review of situation, new serious investigation started; evidence uncovered led many high-ranking officers to conclude UFOs were interplanetary.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "investigation",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1954",
            "end_date" : "1964",
            "desc" : "USAF Investigation Summary: Evidence again challenged as \"proof,\" this time by panel of scientists. Conflicting versions of whether expanded investigation was recommended (and adopted) to obtain more data. Public relations program adopted to assure public UFOs posed no danger, or threat to national security.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"The UFO Evidence\" (1964) by Richard H. Hall, page 106-108](https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Evidence-Richard-Hall/dp/0760706271)", 
                      "[\"Report on Unidentified Flying Objects\" (Dec. 1956) by Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt](https://archive.org/details/reportonunidenti00rupp/mode/1up)" ],
            "type" : "investigation",
            "location" : "US"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "Spring 1959",
            "desc" : "ex-CIA Whistleblower Kewper Stein (likely Oscar Wayne Wolff 1935-2015), part of the CIA's secret UFO investigation project, claims in the spring of 1959, he returned to Washington D.C. and met with President Eisenhower, Vice President Nixon, and a CIA official at FBI headquarters. A few FBI officials took part in the meeting but not Director J. Edgar Hoover. Stein gave these leaders a thorough briefing on his fact-finding mission. The evidence he shared included a variety of reports and photographic images of flying saucers and unknown aerial crafts taken by various sources worldwide. Eisenhower looked them over with substantial interest and made informed remarks. He seemed to know a good deal more than Nixon, who was seemingly “stunned” and somewhat “out of the loop” on the otherworldly topic. Decades later starting in the 1990's, Kewper claimed that Project Blue Book was just window dressing and for public relations, and the most interesting reports were secretly forwarded to the CIA for investigation.",
            "ref" : [ "[\"Deanonymizing “Anonymous” (“Agent Kewper”)\" by Richard Geldreich, Jr.](https://medium.com/@richgel99/deanonymizing-anonymous-agent-kewper-a1284fdab3fe)",
                "[\"Anonymous: A Former CIA Agent comes out of the Shadows to Brief the White House about UFOs\", by  C. Ronald Garner](https://www.amazon.com/Former-Agent-comes-Shadows-Brief/dp/1936517841)",
                "\"The Nixon-Gleason Alien Encounter\" by Paul Blake Smith, page 10",
                "[\"Ex-CIA Agent Deathbed Confession On UFOs: Visited Area-51 & Saw Living Aliens\"](https://www.howandwhys.com/ex-cia-agent-deathbed-confession-on-ufos-visited-area-51-saw-living-aliens/)",
                "[Part 1: Army/CIA Unit Studied the Real UFO Blue Book Cases](https://www.lowelegacy.com/flying-saucers/part-1-army-cia-unit)" ],
            "type" : "secret meeting",
            "location" : "Washington DC"
        },
        
        {
            "date": "1951",
            "location" : "Georgia", 
            "desc" : "David Huggins was born in Georgia in 1943 on a farm and claims to be an abductee. At night strange creatures would appear in his bedroom and escort him to a metallic, egg shaped craft. On his first encounter he saw a short alien, covered in brown fur, with large glowing eyes. He also encountered an \"Alien Mantis\", which often seemed to be in control, followed by typical Alien Grays, eight the first time. There were also short creatures wearing identical blue jumpsuits, and a hybrid named Crescent who appeared initially as a mother figure. Crescent had large eyes, pale skin, long hair that seemed to be a wig, with definite human anatomical features. These encounters ceased when he was 11 and the family moved to Acworth, but then continued when he turned 17.",
            "ref" : "[Website: \"The Night Sky II\", Article: David Huggins](https://www.thenightskyii.org/huggins.html)",
            "type" : "abduction",
            "location" : "Georgia"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "11/16/2021",
            "desc" : "In 2021, a woman in Argentina named Irma Rick, after regaining her memory of the event, claimed she was abducted by a bright UFO, carried for 40 miles, then left on a road 24 hours later where she was found and taken to a hospital. Details of her experience were scarce, and her phone, which would have traveled with her and could have clues to what happened, seems to have disappeared. She had unexplained injuries. Tracking dogs lost her scent near where she was allegedly abducted and government officials are still investigating the incident.",
            "ref" : "[Website: \"The Night Sky II\", Article: Irma Rick](https://www.thenightskyii.org/irmarick.html)",
            "type" : "abduction",
            "location" : "Jacinto Aráuz, Hucal, La Pampa Province, Argentina"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "3/1978",
            "desc" : "David and several soldiers were out on a routine patrol. While resting David was putting on his backpack when he noticed a flash of light from an object just above the trees. The object was metallic and elliptical in shaped, was hovering 300' away and was completely silent. Then it shot away at an incredible speed without a sound. Years later, David had started having flashbacks of what really happened. He remembers putting on his backpack when a dwarf-like creature in a cloak and hood approached him. He said the creature would take him into the forest where he would be given something. He was led away from the rest of the group, who did not react at all to what was going on. He was taken to a clearing in the woods where a ship had landed.",
            "ref" : "[Website: \"The Night Sky II\", Article: Soldier Meets His Doppelgänger](https://www.thenightskyii.org/david.html)",
            "type" : "abduction",
            "location" : "Near Bulawayo Zimbabwe"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1/6/1976",
            "desc" : "Three women, Mona Stafford, Louise Smith and Elaine Thomas where driving on Hustonville Road in Stanford, KY around 11:15 p.m., headed for the home of Mrs. Smith. Their car began driving as if it had a mind of its own, reaching 85 MPH even though Mona was hitting the brakes. A glowing red UFO descended and emitted a bright light into the car with a gaseous hazy quality. The UFO stayed close to the car and the women described it as enormous, metallic and disk shaped with a dome on top, a ring of red lights around its mid section, and a yellow, blinking light on the bottom. When the chaos subsided, they were in the car still driving down the road at a normal speed, but they were covered with burns. Upon reaching Mrs. Smith's home, they realized it was 1:20 a.m., meaning they had over an hour of missing time. They contacted the police, and soon their story hit nationwide headlines. UFO investigators began studying their case eagerly, and found a number of strange verifiable phenomena. Mechanical and electrical devices often stopped working in their presence, and Mrs. Smith's pet bird went wild with fear in her presence, and no longer would allow her near it. All took polygraph tests administered by the Lexington Police Department. All passed. Under a series of hypnotic sessions, the women all recalled being abducted by alien beings on a spaceship, and probed in many uncomfortable ways. Elaine Thomas died two years after the abduction, of unknown causes. The women have sought no fame or fortune from their UFO experience, and have tried hard to be left alone.",
            "ref" : "[Website: \"The Night Sky II\", Article: Stanford UFO Abductions](https://www.thenightskyii.org/stanford.html)",
            "type" : "abduction",
            "location" : "Stanford, KY"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "6/1944",
            "location" : "Palmyra Atoll",
            "desc" : "A Coast Guard ship receives a message that a Navy plane has been lost at sea, and they were requested to join the search. They searched for almost 24 hours and found nothing. The following night, Ed Ludwig (of Stockton, CA) while on watch notices a brilliant, globalar light in the sky that was absolutely silent. It was about three times brighter than the brightest star or planet, and large enough that he made out its roundness. It appeared stationary for a minute or so, then began to move in slow, slight movements. The witness had the feeling they were being watched, as if the ball was observing the island. It covered an area of the sky approx. 100 degrees. It speeded up and traveled away from the island towards the direction where the plane was lost.",
            "ref" : [ "[BSRA Round Robin - Sept 1945 Edition, article by John P. Bessor](http://iapsop.com/archive/materials/journal_of_borderland_research/round_robin_v5_n6_sep_1949.pdf)", 
            "[Twitter](https://twitter.com/richgel999/status/1558663538624892930)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1967",
            "end_date" : "1969",
            "location" : "Santa Monica, California",
            "desc" : "A $500,000 effort by the [McDonnell-Douglas Aircraft Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas) (formely the [Douglas Aircraft Company](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Aircraft_Company)), to derive some commercial advantage from studying UFO reports (including reports by abductees and contactees). They planned a mobile field unit to gather data using various instruments and also employed a psychic.",
            "ref" : [ "[Isaac Koi's Blog](https://isaackoiup.blogspot.com/2022/09/mcdonnell-douglas-aircraft-company-ufo.html)", "Oke Shannon's notes", "Presentation by Dr. Robert M. Wood" ],
            "type" : "UFO research project"
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "12/1992",
            "desc" : "Glenn Campbell wrote in his *Area 51 Viewer's Guide* that he saw some \"unusual lightning\" over Railroad Valley and the northwestern part of [Nellis Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range). lt struck upward from the clouds into an apparently empty sky. The lightning occurred in groups of several bolts that struck upward, then fanned out like a flower, reminiscent of a fireworks display. The lightning produced no sound, and there was no local precipitation.",
            "ref" : [ "[Glenn Campbell's website](http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-viewers-guide-now-available.html)", "[Amazon - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Area-Viewers-Guide-Glenn-Campbell/dp/B0006QZTYK)", "[UPDB - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized_by_AFU/Campbell,%20Glenn%20-%20Area%2051%20Viewer's%20Guide.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "atmospheric phenomenom",
            "location" : "Nellis AFB, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },

        { 
            "date" : "10/20/1992",
            "end_date" : "10/21/1992",
            "time" : "21:00",
            "desc" : "Glenn Campbell wrote in his *Area 51 Viewer's Guide* that he saw two orbs moving together, rising above the horizon many times between 9pm and midnight. Triangulation suggested a location near Desert Valley in the [Nellis Bombing Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range), not over Groom or Papoose Lakes. It was unclear if the orbs were magnesium flares or UFO's.",  
            "ref" : [ "[Glenn Campbell's website](http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-viewers-guide-now-available.html)", "[Amazon - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Area-Viewers-Guide-Glenn-Campbell/dp/B0006QZTYK)", "[UPDB - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized_by_AFU/Campbell,%20Glenn%20-%20Area%2051%20Viewer's%20Guide.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sightings",
            "location" : "Nellis Bombing Range, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },

        { 
            "date" : "10/1992",
            "end_date" : "8/9/1995",
            "desc" : "Glenn Campbell wrote in his *Area 51 Viewer's Guide* that \"Bob Lazar's story has been impossible to confirm, but also curiously difficult to refute. If it is a hoax it is coherent and well crafted and includes many plausible technical details. The alleged location was a good one--an off-limits area near Papoose Dry Lake-and no government agency seems willing to directly deny his claims. Even people who believe Lazar find it hard to make sense of it all. Where did the saucers come from? Why hasn't the public been told about them? There is no consensus on these questions, and one person's theory seems as good as anyone else's. Whatever you think about Lazar and his truthfulness, his story is consistent and disciplined enough for investigators to draw logical conclusions about how to proceed. If the government did have alien hardware in its possession, Area 51 or nearby areas in the [Nellis Air Force Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range) or Nevada Test Site would be the logical place to keep them.\" ... \"The Nellis Air Force Range can offer many bizarre shows that involve no shred of alien technology. There are many military operations taking place here that most civilians have never seen before, and it takes some skepticism and patience to figure out what could be alien and what is not.\"",  
            "ref" : [ "[Glenn Campbell's website](http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-viewers-guide-now-available.html)", "[Amazon - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Area-Viewers-Guide-Glenn-Campbell/dp/B0006QZTYK)", "[UPDB - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized_by_AFU/Campbell,%20Glenn%20-%20Area%2051%20Viewer's%20Guide.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "commentary",
            "location" : "Rachel, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis", "Lazar" ]
        },

        {
            "date" : "3/1993",
            "desc" : "Glenn Campbell wrote in his \"Area 51 Viewer's Guide\" that cattle mutilations have been reported nearby Area 51. Reputable ranchers in Lincoln County claim to have lost a number of animals to this mysterious \"disease\"-that is, all blood drained from the body without a drop on the ground, laser-like \"zipper\" incisions in the corpse and parts of the body surgically removed-but most such incidents happened in the 70's and 80's. Human abductions have also been reported: A prominent ufologist and bis companion claim to have been abducted in the Tikaboo Valley in March 1993",
            "ref" : [ "[Glenn Campbell's website](http://area51looseends.blogspot.com/2012/05/area-51-viewers-guide-now-available.html)", "[Amazon - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://www.amazon.com/Area-Viewers-Guide-Glenn-Campbell/dp/B0006QZTYK)", "[UPDB - Area 51 Viewer's Guide](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Digitized_by_AFU/Campbell,%20Glenn%20-%20Area%2051%20Viewer's%20Guide.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "mutilation, abduction",
            "location" : "Nellis Air Force Range, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "6/17/1959",
            "time" : "22:55",
            "desc" : "AP Newswire: *Mystery Object Flits Over Vegas*: An unidentified object, visible to the naked eye but not on radar, was reported in the Las Vegas area. It was the 3rd mysterious sighting in the area in the last three weeks. A sherriff's sergeant, control tower crewman at McCarran Field, and Air Force men were amoung those reporting seeing a bright object flash down towards the desert northwest of Las Vegas at 10:55pm. Airman at the Air Force radar installation at Angel's Peak, 30 miles NW of Las Vegas, saw the object. Radar was not able to track it. The Air Force said none of the objects sighted could have been planes.",
            "ref" : [ "[Quest International - Journal of UFO Investigation - Issue 145 (1947-1973), 1990](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_010-Rare_news_reports_1947-1973.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },

        { 
            "date" : "5/27/1959 (approximate)",
            "desc" : "AP Newswire: *Mystery Object Flits Over Vegas*: Unidentified objects, visible to the naked eye but not on radar, were reported in the Las Vegas area during a 3 week period. A man told [Nellis Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) officials that he saw 4 unidentified objects flying in apparent formation at tremendous speed over the Black Mountains, 40 miles SE of Las Vegas area. The Air Force said none of the objects sighted could have been planes.",
            "ref" : [ "[Quest International - Journal of UFO Investigation - Issue 145 (1947-1973), 1990](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_010-Rare_news_reports_1947-1973.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Black Mountain, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },

        { 
            "date" : "6/3/1959 (approximate)",
            "desc" : "AP Newswire: *Mystery Object Flits Over Vegas*: Unidentified objects, visible to the naked eye but not on radar, were reported in the Las Vegas area during a 3 week period. One object was reported sighted over Las Vegas, over the eastern horizon near the city. The Air Force said none of the objects sighted could have been planes.",
            "ref" : [ "[Quest International - Journal of UFO Investigation - Issue 145 (1947-1973), 1990](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Quest_Publications/Quest_Publications_010-Rare_news_reports_1947-1973.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "2013",
            "desc" : "In recent years much attention has been being focused on the [Nellis Test Range Complex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_and_Training_Range), a large area of highly-restricted (and heavily-secured) land in Southern Nevada, USA, used to develop various classified aircraft. Past examples of devices tested and perfected in this locale include the U2 spy plane, the SR-71 and the F-117A and B-2 stealth aircraft. Sites within this region (semi-officially termed [\"Area 51\"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51)) include Groom Lake Air Force Base. Film taken from just outside the bases' parameter show lights moving in an anomalous manner; performing turning manoeuvres which would render unconscious any human pilot contained within such a device). However, most Ufologists feel that (at least) the majority of this footage depict UAVs (remotely piloted vehicles) developed at [Groom Lake](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Groom+Lake), which (due to being teleoperated or robotically controlled) can perform manoeuvres impossible for a manned aircraft. The USAF refuses to make any detailed comments concerning their activities at Area 51.",
            "ref" : [ "[*The Ufology Handbook - 2013 Edition*, by Robert Moore](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Books/Other/Moore,%20Robert%20-%20The%20Ufology%20Handbook.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "commentary",
            "location" : "US",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "7/9/1978",
            "time" : "22:00",
            "desc" : "Las Vegas Sun: *UFO, Or Whatever. LV Sees the Light* by C.J. SCHIFFLER: A number of residents saw a bright light lingering in the sky west of town that lasted several hours. A local radio station was inundated with calls. [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) officers offered some explanations. Capt. Tom Wiesweaver, on duty when the command post started receiving calls, said the bright light may have been two Metro helicopters searching for a robbery suspect, although persons who saw the light said it was stationary. The officers were not sure what it was, and stated that they \"get UFO sigthings frequently\". They also said \"We just act as a sounding board and pass on the information to our UFO Department in San Diego.\" When asked if it could have been a UFO hovering over Las Vegas, he thought for a minute and replied \"It could be, you know.\"",
            "ref" : [ "[AERIAL PHENOMENON CLIPPING INFORMATION CENTER, Cleveland OH, Aug. 1978, Vol. 3 No 8](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2003%20No%2008%20-%201978.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "11/27/1978",
            "time" : "18:30",
            "desc" : "A local resident, his family, and other residents report seeing a UFO to the *Las Vegas Sun*. One resident reported that the UFO \"looked like an upside-down plate with a dome on it. My kids and I were outside our house about 6:30 p.m. when we saw a huge white cloud in the black sky. Then all of a sudden it came toward us. It was fantastic. It must have been about two or three houses wide. The sky was lit up. I could see the whole farm.\" The mysterious object was reported in 3 separate sightings in the Reno and Battle Mountain areas Monday night. A total of 6 persons reported seeing the object, described as a large ball of light that spawned a domed, winged craft. One person reported seeing the object in the sky while in the Red Rock Canyon area as she was driving west on Spring Mountain Road at about 6:30pm. [Nellis Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) officials were called but more or less ignored the reports.",
            "ref" : [ "[AERIAL PHENOMENON CLIPPING INFORMATION CENTER, Cleveland OH, Jan. 1979, Vol. 4 No 1](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2004%20No%2001%20-%201979.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : [ "Blue Diamond Road, Las Vegas, NV", "Battle Mountain, NV", "Red Rock Canyon, NV" ],
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "12/16/1978",
            "time" : "~05:30",
            "desc" : "*Las Vegas Sun*: A couple on the ground, one a commercial airline pilot, observed a disc-shaped object with glowing white lights hovering near [McCarran International Airport (now called Harry Reid International Airport)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Reid_International_Airport) before disappearing into the morning sky. He said \"At first I thought it was a bright star or planet, but then I saw it move, like a leaf falling from a tree.\" The woman said she ran into the house and grabbed a pair of high-powered binoculars. Closer inspection revealed that it was a disc or saucer-shaped object, hovering just below the clouds. It would occasionally bank fom side to side, readily displaying its saucer-like appearance. It was covered with a series of white lights. Tower personnel scanned the skies trying to see the object to no avail. Radar indicated all was normal, said controller Bob Turner. Fearing that a military jet might have strayed into McCarran airspace, controllers telephoned [Nellis Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base), but they said all their planes were down.",  
            "ref" : [ "[AERIAL PHENOMENON CLIPPING INFORMATION CENTER, Cleveland OH, Feb. 1979, Vol. 4 No 2](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2004%20No%2002%20-%201979.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "near McCarran International Airport, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "12/18/1980",
            "time" : "15:30",
            "desc" : "A Las Vegas pilot for Omni Airlines and his teenage passenger escaped uninjured after a midair collision with an unidentified object that ripped off part of the right wing and sent their plane into an uncontrollable spin at 5000ft. The pilot nursed his crippled Cessna 172 back to [North Las Vegas Airport](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Las_Vegas_Airport). The object striked with such force that it almost ripped off the wing. He stated he thought it was a missile. The object appeared as \"just a streak\" as it fell past the nose of the plane. [Nellis Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) spokesman said there were no Nellis-based aircraft or missiles anywhere in the area at the time of the accident. The spokesman added that AF jets enroute to the test range rarely approached the area. A call was immediately placed to Palmdale's regional facility for radar emergency response.",  
            "ref" : [ "[AERIAL PHENOMENON CLIPPING INFORMATION CENTER, Cleveland OH, Feb. 1981, Vol. 6 No 2](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2006%20No%2002%20-%201981.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "midair collision",
            "location" : "2 miles west of Lone Mountain, Las Vegas, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "2/24/1985",
            "desc" : "[Las Vegas Review Journal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Review-Journal): *Experts ponder Vegans' reports of tremors, lights in sky*: Large article on Las Vegans frequently feeling unexplained tremors or seeing unidentified flying objects. Many conjecture what they felt or saw was caused by an unannounced test at the [Nevada Test Site](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site), by a sonic boom or some secret military aircraft maneuver. Typically news authorities have been baffled in trying to find explanations. [Nellis Air Force Base](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) officials say the rattling of windows and mild tremors isn't them. Chances of Nellis aircraft causing booms that would be felt in Las Vegas are \"rare,\" said Col. John Kuminecz, the base's chief spokesmen. The article stated that since 1951 more than 630 nuclear weapons have been detonated on the test site.",
            "ref" : [ "[AERIAL PHENOMENON CLIPPING INFORMATION CENTER, Cleveland OH, April 1985, Vol. 10 No 4](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2010%20No%2004%20-%201985.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "",
            "location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "3/23/1985",
            "desc" : "[Gary IN Post Tribune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Tribune_(Indiana_newspaper)): *The U.S. Government's project to track UFO's*: Barbara Drakis wrote \"Operation Starlight\" was ostensibly an electronic network operated by the United States government in order to catch outerspace radio signals. She stated that in fact \"Operation Starlight\" was a tracking system for UFO's. The trackers activate alarms when radar spots UFO's and spotters, armed with cameras and binoculars, set out to sight them. The author stated that [Prof. Hynek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Allen_Hynek), of [Northwestern University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University) and head of the [Center for UFO Studies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_UFO_Studies), took a sabbatical from his teaching position about the same time as an anomalous aerial phenomenom appeared over the northern sky over Lake Michigan, without disclosing his location. She speculated that he may be part of Operation Starlight.",
            "ref" : [ "[AERIAL PHENOMENON CLIPPING INFORMATION CENTER, Cleveland OH, April 1985, Vol. 10 No 4](https://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/APCIC%20clipping%20service/APCIC%20-%20Vol%2010%20No%2004%20-%201985.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "newspaper article",
            "location" : "Merrillville, Indiana"
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "7/14/1956",
            "time" : "0140",
            "desc" : "A pale yellow ball of indistinct outline and approximately one fourth the diameter of the sun's image was seen rapidly approaching Holloman AFB from the direction of White Sands, approximately SW. The object was apparently following a flat trajectory when the yellow glow was replaced by two close-set red lights, which appeared to rise straight up and disappeared at a high rate of speed. The observer was anonymous, but his profession was Chemical Engineering.",     
            "ref" : [ "[APRO Bulletin, 1/1957, page 5](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1957.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Holloman AFB-White Sands range area, NM"
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "12/15/1956 (approximate)",
            "desc" : "During a missile test firing at a point in space, a UAO was tracked on radar. Result: near-miss with the Unconventional Aerial Object. Anonymous source.",     
            "ref" : [ "[APRO Bulletin, 1/1957, page 6](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1957.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, NM"
        },
        
        { 
            "date" : "1/17/1957",
            "time" : "0500",
            "desc" : "Art Johnson and his wife, driving north on Decatur Bldv., observed a huge white ball which came straight down out of the sky, then headed towards [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base). \"The object shot out a blast like at least 50 jet planes at once. It had a flaming exhaust colored reddish, blue and orange.\" A similar object was seen at approximately the same location on 1/3/1957. (Reported in the *Las Vegas Sun*, Cr. W.B. Nash)",     
            "ref" : [ "[APRO Bulletin, 1/1957, page 6](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1957.pdf)" ],
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "2/19/1954 (approximate)",
            "desc" : "Around the year 2000, Cristoforo Barbato, editor of *Stargate Magazine*, received many e-mails from a person who qualified himself as a Vatican insider. From those e-mails rose up the story of a presumed Vatican Intelligence Agency named S.I.V.: \"Servizio Informazioni del Vaticano\" After one year of such contacts, where he revealed to him that he was a S.I.V. member from the Jesuit order working in structures of the Holy See, they finally met in a public place in Rome. According to this person, the reason to establish the S.I.V. was the meeting with an Alien delegation at [Muroc Air Field (Edwards AFB)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwards_Air_Force_Base) in February 1954, in presence of president Dwight Eisenhower and [James Francis McIntyre, bishop of Los Angeles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Francis_McIntyre). After that incredible event, McIntyre flew to Rome to refer everything to [Pope Pius XII](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII), who decided to found the S.I.V with the aim to get every possible information about Aliens and how they interacted with the American government. From then on Bishop McIntyre and Detroit [Archbishop Edward Mooney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Aloysius_Mooney) became the main information co-ordinators between the USA and the Vatican State.",
            "type" : "intelligence agency formation",
            "ref" : [ "[Usenet: \"Conspiracy Journal\", Cristoforo Barbato, 12/23/2005](https://groups.google.com/g/ccoonnssppiirraacciieess/c/BpAcpptWfLQ/m/PzqjunEwTaIJ)",
              "[archive.org - \"The Vatican UFOs & Secretum Omega\", Cristoforo Barbato](https://web.archive.org/web/20060501095316/https://uforeview.tripod.com/conspiracyjournal345.html)",
                "[www.bibliotecapleyades.net: Vatican and UFO - Secretum Omega](https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_secretumomega01.htm)",
                "[\"SECRETUM OMEGA - A Jesuit Confesses a Pact Between Aliens and the Vatican\"](https://thechurchandtheextraterrestrials.wordpress.com/2018/09/01/secretum-omega-a-jesuit-confesses-a-pact-between-aliens-and-the-vatican/)"
              ],
            "location" : "Rome"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1/3/1960",
            "time" : "23:05",
            "desc" : "A blue light, which raced silently across the Las Vegas, Nevada sky, puzzled McCarran Field tower controlmen. \"It was the fastest thing I ever saw,\" said tower employee Jack McMillen who spotted the light at about 11:05 p.m. A departing private plane also saw the object. Earlier that evening, four different pilots in two commercial airlines planes flying between Bryce Canyon and Mormon Mesa reported observing a similar light. Their reports of the object to Salt Lake City were intercepted by the McCarran tower. McMillen said he saw the light for about two or perhaps three seconds, going north to south at about a 15-20 degree elevation. He also said he had thought it might have been a meteor but changed his mind as it left no trail, and had a horizontal trajectory. He said he contacted a private plane which had just taken off and asked the pilot for confirmation. The pilot confirmed McMillen's sighting. An Air Force T-33 inbound to [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) also confirmed its pilot had also seen a strange light.",
            "type" : "ufo sighting",
            "ref" : "[APRO Bulletin - Jan. 1960, Page 3](https://www.openminds.tv/pdf/apro/apro_jan_1960.pdf)",
            "location" : "McCarran Field, Las Vegas NV",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "6/26/1971",
            "desc" : "Four residents of the \"Blue Diamond\" area a few miles from Las Vegas, Nevada have reported that a bright unidentified aerial object hovered over their ranches on the night of June 26th, a Friday The object, described as a brilliant white lighted object with a pinkish cast, caused panic among the animals on one ranch and simultaneously the generator which furnishes power to the ranch stopped functioning as the object dropped to about 500 feet altitude. Three other individuals living in the area reported the same object, all calls reaching the authorities within a short span of time. Officials at [Nellis AFB](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base) said they had not received any reports of the object from pilots nor did an objects show on their radar. Officials at the McCarran International Airport control tower said they had not seen the object nor did they have any official sighting of the object. Witnesses said that the object had hovered from two to three minutes before leaving at high speed toward the south.",
            "type" : "ufo sighting, electromagnetic effects",
            "ref" : "[APRO Bulletin, May-June 1971](https://archive.org/details/apro-may-june-1971)",
            "location" : "Blue Diamond area, near Las Vegas, Nevada",
            "attributes" : [ "Nellis" ]
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "1955",
            "desc" : "The site for [Area 51](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_51) was selected after an aerial survey by the CIA and USAF. It was originally used for the [U-2](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_U-2) program.",
            "ref" : "[bbc.com: \"Area 51 'declassified' in U-2 spy plane history\"](https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-23731759)",
            "type" : "secret base",
            "location" : "Groom Lake, NV"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "7/3/1947",
            "desc" : "The first instance of the ET hypothesis to appear in the media, in a letter by [Ole Johannes Sneide 1886-8/31/1947](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/saucer-mystery-solved.html). His letter first appeared in the *San Francisco Chronicle*. The flying discs were “oblate spheroid space ships from the older planets.” “Usually they travel in outer space with speeds approximating that of light by use of anti-gravity devices and hyperspace. In our space they travel much slower, and, of course, become visible either by intent or by accident, for in their travels they use the invisibility screen.” “This space navigation has been going on for millions of years, these ‘nova’ having come into our galaxy originally from the Great Magellanic Cloud via the Lesser Magellanic Cloud, 47 Tucanae, Omega and Alpha Centauri clusters.” “Their masters planted the original humanities here and which did not develop sui generis. They have been absent from our planet since before the fall of the Roman Empire when the Great Master left earth for the outer galaxy by fohatic teleportation.” “He is now back and what is going to be done depends upon mankind, but my advice is that physical man set up no belligerence, for a small concentration of those disks just beyond the range of our atmosphere could clean the surface of our planet completely in a matter of less than 24 hours. “Their present local headquarters is on the unseen side of our moon. I discovered this by teleportation visits hither and yon in and between our galaxy.” “Mankind,” he concluded, “will just have to learn their physics all over again, someday, if they live. Ah! If they live!”",
            "type" : "newspaper article",
            "location" : "San Francisco, CA",
            "ref" : [ "[The Saucers That Time Forgot - blogspot.com](https://thesaucersthattimeforgot.blogspot.com/2021/12/a-1947-pioneer-of-ufo-extraterrestrial.html)",
            "[Jason Colavito - Saucer Mystery Solved?](https://www.jasoncolavito.com/saucer-mystery-solved.html)",
            "[Stockton Evening and Sunday Record, 7/3/1947, newspapers.com](https://www.newspapers.com/clip/119726162/ole-j-sneide/)" ]
        },   
        
        {
            "date" : "7/1/1947",
            "desc" : "Military officials, both officers and the enlisted technicians had been tracking, on their radar, an unidentified object in flight over southern New Mexico since July 1. The object had first appeared over the highly restricted areas near the White Sands Proving Grounds. On July 2, Steve MacKenzie (a pseudonym, actually Frank Kaufmann), stationed at [Roswell Army Air Field](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Air_Force_Base), had received a call from [Brigadier General Martin F. Scanlon](https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Biographies/Display/Article/105707/brigadier-general-martin-f-scanlon/) of the [Air Defense Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerospace_Defense_Command), ordering him to report to the radar sites at [White Sands](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Sands_Missile_Range). MacKenzie was to monitor the object's movements and report them directly to the general. MacKenzie could not leave the scope unattended for even the shortest of times. In fact, once he had his watch established, he set up a system of mirrors so that he could see the screen even when he needed to use the latrine. MacKenzie stayed at his post for twenty-four hours straight, but nothing changed. The object appeared periodically over southern New Mexico, but usually just \"flitting from one location to another.\" When MacKenzie reported that nothing had changed significantly during his twenty-four-hour watch, Scanlon decided to end MacKenzie's part of the operation. Although MacKenzie was ordered back to Roswell, the operators at White Sands were told to continue to monitor the object, as were the radarmen at Roswell and Albuquerque. (R.G.: Interestingly, this case was deleted and \"declared a hoax\" in NICAP's records and by K. Randle, but after re-reading all the relevant research I don't believe at all that this is a matter of a simple hoax. It fits into the historical timeline well and should be re-examined.)",
            "location" : [ "Roswell Army Air Field, Roswell NM", "White Sands, NM" ],
            "type" : "radar sightings",
            "ref" : [ "[Radar Tracks Object - nipcap.org](https://web.archive.org/web/20050227234151/http://www.nicap.org/whitesands470701.htm)",
            "[Frank Kaufmann (aka Steve McKenzie) - roswellfiles.com](http://www.roswellfiles.com/Witnesses/Kaufmann.htm)" ]
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "8/1/1952",
            "desc" : "In a document declassifed on 2/20/2000, Edward Tauss, acting chief of OSI's Weapons and Equipment Division, reported for the group that most UFO sightings could be easily explained. Nevertheless, he recommended that the Agency continue monitoring the problem, in coordination with ATIC. He also urged that CIA conceal its interest from the media and the public, \"in view of their probable alarmist tendencies\" to accept such interest as confirming the existence of UFOs. Tauss used the phrase \"interplanetary aspects and alien origin\". On 5/29/2023, ex-CIA (GS-15, 30 years) Officer John Ramirez mentioned that Ed Tauss was in charge of the CIA's UFO disinformation program, which started in 1952.",
            "location" : "Washington, DC",
            "type" : "declassified document",
            "ref" : [
                "[CIA Reading Room](https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0005515936.pdf)",
                "[Interview between John Ramirez and Holly Wood](https://youtu.be/bI4VKmY03nE?list=FL-kvdFF-6XoQqmANxWYoP2A)",
                "[NRO Historian Gerald K. Haines - \"CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90\"](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA525986.pdf)" ]
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "6/5/2023",
            "desc" : "Intelligence Officials say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin, by Leslie Kean and Ralph Blumenthal. A former intelligence official turned whistleblower has given Congress and the Intelligence Community Inspector General extensive classified information about deeply covert programs that he says possess retrieved intact and partially intact craft of non-human origin. The information, he says, has been illegally withheld from Congress, and he filed a complaint alleging that he suffered illegal retaliation for his confidential disclosures, reported here for the first time. Other intelligence officials, both active and retired, with knowledge of these programs through their work in various agencies, have independently provided similar, corroborating information, both on and off the record. The whistleblower, David Charles Grusch, 36, a decorated former combat officer in Afghanistan, is a veteran of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). He served as the reconnaissance office’s representative to the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force from 2019-2021. From late 2021 to July 2022, he was the NGA’s co-lead for UAP analysis and its representative to the task force.",
            "location": "US",
            "type" : "article",
            "ref" : [ "[The Debrief](https://thedebrief.org/intelligence-officials-say-u-s-has-retrieved-non-human-craft/)",
            "[UFO ‘whistleblower’ says government has ‘intact’ non-human craft](https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/ufo-whistleblower-says-government-intact-144702119.html)" ]
        },
        
        {
			"date" : "12/7/1941",
			"desc" : "The attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii, just before 8:00 a.m. (local time) on Sunday. The United States was a neutral country at the time; the attack led to its formal entry into World War II on the side of the Allies the next day. The Japanese military leadership referred to the attack as the Hawaii Operation and Operation AI and as Operation Z during its planning. (Author Moira McGhee wrote in her book \"Alien Gene\" that the Pearl Harbor attacks were being observed by one or more UFO's.)",
			"ref" : [ "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor)" ],
			"type" : "attack",
			"location" : "[U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Honolulu, Hawaii](https://www.google.com/maps/place/Naval+Station+Pearl+Harbor,+Joint+Base+Pearl+Harbor-Hickam,+HI/@21.3537311,-157.9730976)"
		},
        
        {
            "date" : "3/22/1989",
            "desc" : "Video of John Lear with Bob Lazar near Groom Lake",
            "ref" : "[archive.org video](https://archive.org/details/john-lear-bob-lazar-at-groom-lake)",
            "type" : "videotaped statement",
            "location" : "Tikaboo Peak, Nevada, off Highway 375"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "8/1/1954",
            "desc" : "A 1954 letter addressed to broadcaster Frank Edwards, found in the BSRA/BSRF archives at the [Archives for the Unexplained in Sweden](https://afu.info/). It was composed by Edward W. Hermann, Manager, Agency and Advertiser Service, McGraw Hill. The physical letter was scanned by AFU staff, and was marked item #540801. The letter covers Pan-American airline pilot UFO sightings of 8-10 flying discs, which were not reported to the press. It also mentions that Aviation Week was trying to get any news out of Edwards AFB about 5 UFO's landing there earlier that year, but all they received was \"utter silence to our wires\".",
            "ref" : "[archive.org letter PDF](https://archive.org/details/540801-letter-from-edward-w-hermann-to-frank-edwards-437)",
            "type" : "letter",
            "location" : "Washington DC"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "12/29/1987",
            "desc" : "Statement released by ex-CIA pilot John Lear. It appeared in a physical letter sent to the BSRF, which was found in the BSRA/BSRF (Borderland Sciences Research Foundation) archives at the [Archives for the Unexplained in Sweden](https://afu.info/). Lear's statement was likely uploaded to the \"ParaNet\" BBS system sometime in early 1988. It mentions MJ-12 and is very much a reflection of 1980's ufology.",
            "location" : "Las Vegas, NV",
            "type" : "statement",
            "ref" : "[archive.org](https://archive.org/details/john-lear-statement-1987)"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "11/9/1989",
            "desc" : "The fall of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall), during the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, preceded by the Solidarity Movement in Poland. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterwards. An end to the Cold War was declared at the Malta Summit three weeks later and the German reunification took place in October the following year.",
            "type" : "historical event",
            "location" : "Berlin, Germany",
            "ref" : "[Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_the_Berlin_Wall)"
            
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "7/29/1978",
            "desc" : "Leonard Stringfield, who was US Army Air Force intelligence during WW2, gave his first major presentation on Crash Retrievals at the 1978 MUFON Symposium. Rich Hoffman (one of the organizers) and Stringfield said he was threatened several times, had to move hotel rooms, and a security team showed up. It has never been explained who threatened him.",
            "type" : "proceedings",
            "location" : "Dayton, OH",
            "ref" : "[Link to Symposium PDF](http://www.noufors.com/Documents/1978%20Mufon%20Symposium.pdf)"
        },
        
        {
            "date" : "9/1966",
            "desc" : "Air Force members, including Capt. David Schindele, from the Minot base experienced an incident in the Minot missile field in which a flying object took “off alert” all 10 of the nuclear-tipped missiles, causing them to be unlaunchable. About a dozen military members topside at the missile launch control facility observed the mysterious flying object with bright flashing lights hovering near the perimeter fence on that September night. Schindele, a Minuteman ICBM launch control officer and deputy missile combat crew commander, was at a launch control center near Mohall, where the incident occurred.",
            "type" : "article",
            "location" : "Minot, North Dakota",
            "ref" : [ "[Minot Daily News](https://www.minotdailynews.com/news/local-news/2023/06/former-missile-officer-ufo-whistleblower-demonstrates-tremendous-courage/)",
                "[Archived link](https://archive.ph/2NXea)" ]
        }
     


	]

}