7.1 KiB
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2 January: The Soviet mission Luna 1 passes 6000 km from the Moon.
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8 January: Fidel Castro enters Havana.
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20 January: Unidentified luminous objects are observed in Sweden.
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February 26: An unidentified luminous object(s) is/are observed above London Heathrow Airport.
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February 28: Gerry Irwin observes a luminous object near Cedar City. He is found "asleep".
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March 3: The American mission Pioneer 4 passes 59000 km from the Moon.
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March 12: Unidentified luminous objects are observed in Norway.
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March 15: Gerry Irwin faints in a street of El Paso.
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March 16, 2 AM: Gerry Irwin wakes up, convinced he is February 28. He is taken back to William Beaumont Hospital.
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26-27 March: Observation in Corsica (Pennsylvania) [[case Blue Book #6317 unsolved]]{.source}.
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April 1st: A C-118 cargo plane taking off from Mac Chord military airbase in Washington state collides with an unknown luminous object. Several witnesses see 2 yellow-orange lights approach the plane. The crew has time to send a distress message before crashing: We've hit something... or something has hit us! MAYDAY, MAYDAY, this time it's it, this time it's it!
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April 9: The NASA selects 9 astronauts.
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April 13: The press headlines "A Red Glint in the Sky: a black sphere with a red light was observed above St-Lambert, east of Montreal, by hundreds of witnesses.
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April 17: Gerry Irwin leaves William Beaumont Hospital.
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April 18: Gerry Irwin leaves Fort Bliss heading to Cedar City.
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April 19: Gerry Irwin arrives in Cedar City and goes to the site of his observation. He finds his missing jacket, a pencil inside, and burns a paper rolled around it. As if coming out of a trance, he struggles to find his way back to Cedar City.
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April 20: Doctor Jessup is found dying in his van (car?) in a public garden in Dade County, asphyxiated by a pipe attached to the exhaust of his vehicle and passed through the window of a door.
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Spring: Another jet is sent to intercept a stationary object detected on radar off the northeast coast of Japan. The pilot sees the object and is authorized to fire. The missiles have no effect on the unknown object which begins to pursue the plane as the radar follows the scene. The two signals overlap, the single object that results remains stationary for a moment then disappears. The searches conducted for several days fail: no trace of the jet is found. Even if it is advanced that the plane disappeared over the water, it remains that the radars never detected any fall after the "meeting" of the "blips", that a localized crash with precision at sea leaves traces on the surface and that one of the aircrafts left by its own means, which excludes for it the devastating effects of a collision Maccabee{.source}.
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June 18: Sighting in Edmonton, Alberta (Canada) [[case Blue Book #6400 unsolved]]{.source}.
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According to some sources, the United States is establishing primitive communications with extraterrestrials.
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An odd object falls into the port of Frdynia (Poland). Divers recover a shiny metal piece, which would have been examined by the Polytechnic Institute and the Polish Navy, but part of it would have disappeared. In the following days, the body of a small humanoid found on a nearby beach would be sent to the Soviet Union.
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June 26-27: Multiple Observations of Boianai (Papua New Guinea).
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June 30: Observation at Patuxent River (Maryland) [[case Blue Book #6409 unsolved]]{.source}.
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July 10: Gerry Irwin re-admitted to hospital.
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July 25: Sighting in Irondequoit (New York) [[case Blue Book #6446 unsolved]]{.source}.
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1st August: Gerry Irwin does not show up for roll call.
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August 7: Explorer 6 sends the first images of Earth.
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August 10: Observation at Goose Air Base (Labrador) [[case Blue Book #6462 unsolved]]{.source}.
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August 12: Luna 2 crashes on the Moon.
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August 17: In Uberlandia (Brazil), many witnesses observe a bright flying object following a high-tension line. As it approaches, my switches jump and plunge the region into darkness. After its passage, the devices reposition themselves and the current is restored. No damage is reported afterwards on the installations.
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1st September: Gerry Irwin is declared a deserter. He will never be seen again.
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September 13: Observation at Bunker Hill Air Force Base (Indiana) [[case Blue Book #6507 unsolved]]{.source}.
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September 17: Creation of the SEREB.
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September 21: USGS takes a photo (13-146) of Groom Lake base as part of a routine mapping program, still available.
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24 September: Radar observation in Redmont (Oregon) Chauvin 1973{.source}.
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October 1st: Observation at Telephone Ridge (Oregon) [[case Blue Book #6534 unsolved]]{.source}.
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4 October
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1st photo of the far side of the Moon, by Luna 3.
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Observation in the Philippines [[case Blue Book #6538 unsolved]]{.source}.
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October 6: Sighting in Lincoln (Nebraska) [[case Blue Book #6543 unsolved]]{.source}.
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October 16 : Death of General George C. Marshall.
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October 19: Sighting in Plainville (Kansas) [[case Blue Book #6563 unsolved]]{.source}.
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November
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A full-scale mockup of an A-12 is delivered to Groom Lake by truck, for radar signature testing McIninch{.source}.
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November 18: Observation in the South of Crystal Springs (Mississippi) [[case Blue Book #6600 unsolved]]{.source}.
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December 24: Letter from the USAF to base commanders stating that UFO matters should be considered "serious" for the USAF and should ultimately be disclosed to the public (vice versa?).
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Joseph Hynek sets up a number of informal meetings between members of the Blue Book project and the ATIC. It is decided to use the term Unidentified Flying Object and to reexamine cases in light of scientific knowledge of the time.
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Ruppelt changed the conclusion of his book published 3 years earlier.
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Two physicists from Cornell University, Giuseppi Cocconi and Philip Morrison, published an article in the scientific journal Nature in which they discussed the use of microwaves for interstellar communication. They recommended listening on the frequency of 1420 MHz. This article motivated Frank Drake for his project OZMA.