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Event 0

Date: 0's
Description: Greek and Roman records of UFO's
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 1

Date: 1600's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort

Event 2

Date: 1700's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort

Event 3

Date: 1780's
Description: Coulomb’s law of electrostatics
Type: scientific advanced
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 4

Date: 1800's
Description: Significant sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Charles Fort

Event 5

Date: 1825
Description: Ampère published his "Ampère’s law."
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 6

Date: 1831
Description: Michael Faraday is generally credited with the discovery of induction
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 7

Date: 1838
Description: Samuel F. B. Morse demonstrates telegraph transmission across two miles of wire in Morristown, NJ
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link

Event 8

Date: 7/10/1858
End date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Test born (dies 1/7/1943)
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 9

Date: 1860
End date: 1864
Description: Louis Pasteur’s key germ theory experiments
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 10

Date: 1865
Description: 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.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 11

Date: 1873
Description: Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism as a summary of his work on electromagnetism
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 12

Date: 3/14/1879
End date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein born
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 13

Date: 1885
Description: 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
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 14

Date: 11/1886
Description: Heinrich Hertz became the first person to transmit and receive controlled radio waves.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link

Event 15

Date: 4/20/1889
End date: 4/30/1945
Description: 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
Type: historical figure
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 16

Date: Winter 1889
Description: Nikola Tesla’s experiments at his Experimental Station on wireless electricity transmission in Colorado Springs
Type: scientific event
Reference: link

Event 17

Date: 1890's
Description: 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.
Type: Wikipedia
Reference: link

Event 18

Date: 1894
End date: 1895
Description: The first practical radio transmitters and receivers invented in by Guglielmo Marconi using radiotelegraphy
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 19

Date: 11/8/1895
Description: X-Rays discovered
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 20

Date: 4/17/1897
Description: Aurora, TX: An “airship” crashed into Judge Proctor’s windmill and disgorged the mangled body of a little man.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Aurora, TX

Event 21

Date: 9/6/1905
Description: Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity paper published
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 22

Date: 10/1/1908
End date: 5/26/1927
Description: 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.
Type: industrial advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 23

Date: 4/15/1912
Description: Sinking of the Titanic
Type: disaster
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 24

Date: 1/1/1914
Description: 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.
Type: aerospace
Reference: link

Event 25

Date: 7/28/1914
End date: 11/11/1918
Description: World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 26

Date: 5/24/1915
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_in_history_(World_War_I_through_World_War_II)#Ottoman_Empire

Event 27

Date: 11/1915
Description: 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.
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 28

Date: 11/11/1918
Description: End of World War 1
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 29

Date: 6/28/1919
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 30

Date: 1/16/1920
Description: First meeting of the League of Nations
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
See also: 4/20/46

Event 31

Date: 11/2/1920
Description: First commercial radio broadcast from KDKA in Pittsburgh PA
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 32

Date: 1922
Description: 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.
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: County Donegal, Ireland

Event 33

Date: 1926
Description: UFO’s seen around Altai Himalaya
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Himalaya Mountains

Event 34

Date: 10/1928
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antarctica

Event 35

Date: 10/4/1929
Description: US stock market crashes
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City, New York

Event 36

Date: 11/29/1929
Description: Richard E. Byrd and his companions would become the first to fly over the South Pole. The flight took 19hrs to fly from Little America to the Pole and return.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antartica

Event 37

Date: 1933
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antartica

Event 38

Date: 1/30/1933
Description: Hitler is made Chancellor of Germany
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
Location: Germany

Event 39

Date: 3/4/1933
End date: 4/12/1945
Description: President Franklin D. Roosevelt in office
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Location: Washington DC

Event 40

Date: 7/4/1933
Description: The Nazis become the only political party left in Germany, after all other parties are banned or split up
Type: historical event
Reference: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler's_rise_to_power
Location: Germany

Event 41

Date: 6/19/1934
Description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is established, replacing the Federal Radio Commission.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 42

Date: 7/29/1934
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman is born in Elizabeth, NJ
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Elizabeth, NJ

Event 43

Date: 1935
End date: 1937
Description: UFO activity around Second Italo-Ethiopian War
Type: UFO activity
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Ethiopia

Event 44

Date: 6/26/1936
Description: Heinrich Focke designed the world’s first practical, stable transverse twin rotor helicopter
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Location: Germany

Event 45

Date: 10/30/1938
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: New York City, New York

Event 46

Date: 1939
End date: 1941
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Antartica

Event 47

Date: 8/1939
Description: The turbojet powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, made its first flight
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 48

Date: 8/2/1939
Description: 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"
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Einstein

Event 49

Date: 9/1/1939
End date: 9/2/1945
Description: World War 2
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 50

Date: 5/26/1940
End date: 6/4/1940
Description: Dunkirk evacuation (Operation Dynamo)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Dunkirk

Event 51

Date: 7/10/1940
End date: 10/31/1940
Description: Battle of Britain
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Britain

Event 52

Date: 7/10/1940
Description: Einstein security clearance approved by the Office of Naval Intelligence, 16 days before the US Army G-2 turned him down.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 53

Date: 1941
Description: Charles Fort’s four famous books
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 54

Date: 1941
Description: Physicist and his wife north of Bakersfield, California watch a long slender UFO traveling at 50mph, 200–300 feet altitude
Type: UFO sighting
Reference: link
Location: Bakersfield, CA

Event 55

Date: 3/17/1941
Description: US Army establishes the Western Defense Command for coordinating the defense of the Pacific Coast
Type: military
Reference: link
Location: West Coast

Event 56

Date: Late 4/1941
Description: Cape Girardeau, MO Crash Retrieval (MO41)
Type: UFO crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Cape Girardeau, MO

Event 57

Date: 2/24/1942
End date: 2/25/1942
Description: Battle of LA
Type: military
Reference: link
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 58

Date: 2/26/1942
Description: Secret Memo to the President from Chief of Staff, C.G. 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.)
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p15,446)
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 59

Date: 4/27/1942
Description: Nazi Amerikabomber long range bomber project study completed
Type: project study
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 60

Date: 6/13/1942
Description: The Office of Strategic Services (OSS), predecessor of the CIA, begins operations
Type: historical
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 61

Date: 10/3/1942
Description: First German V-2 rocket test to get very close to space, 85–90km
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: Germany

Event 62

Date: 12/2/1942
Description: Chicago Pile-1 (CP-1), the first human-made self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (criticality) was initiated during an experiment led by Enrico Fermi
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 63

Date: 1/7/1943
Description: Nikola Test dies
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: United States

Event 64

Date: 1/16/1943
Description: Approval for the Hanford Site for plutonium production
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Hanford, WA

Event 65

Date: 2/18/1943
Description: Construction begins for Y-12 electromagnetic separation plant for enriching uranium at Oak Ridge
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Oak Ridge, TN

Event 66

Date: Spring 1943
Description: Air Craft warning observer spots a very bright repeatedly flashing light SW of Laguna, P-38 dispatched, flashing stopped
Type: UFO spotted, P-38 dispatched, UFO got away
Reference: link
Location: Laguna Beach, California

Event 67

Date: 4/1/1943
Description: Los Alamos Laboratory begins operations in New Mexico
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 68

Date: 5/1943
Description: 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.
Type: nuclear weapons
Reference: link
Location: Princeton, NJ
Attributes: Einstein

Event 69

Date: 6/1943
Description: The Army Air Force’s Air Tactical Service Command asks Lockheed to develop a jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link

Event 70

Date: 6/15/1943
Description: Einstein’s USN work announced in JTA Daily News Bulletin
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 71

Date: 7/1943
Description: Skunk Works begins in Burbank CA. Lockheed Engineer Kelly Johnson deliver proposal for the XP-80 jet fighter
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: Burbank, CA

Event 72

Date: 7/1/1943
End date: 3/31/1944
Description: Date range of Einstein’s USN pay stubs at National Archives.
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 73

Date: 7/18/1943
End date: 10/15/1944
Description: Einstein reports on his “explosives” work to USN
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 74

Date: 1944
Description: 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.
Type: scientist
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)

Event 75

Date: 1944
Description: Richard Shaver's stories re. UFO
Type: paranormal phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 76

Date: 4/1944
Description: The first operation jet fighter, the Messerschmitt Me 262, is introduced
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 77

Date: 8/1944
Description: 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
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 78

Date: 9/7/1944
Description: 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”.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 79

Date: 11/8/1944
Description: Nazis officially announce the V-2 rocket on 11/8/1944
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 80

Date: 1945
Description: Green Fireballs seen in Southwestern US
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 81

Date: 1945
Description: Radar signals secretly bounced off the Moon “during WW2” according to a public statement by Dr. Oliver J. Lee
Type: scientific advance
Reference: link
Location: New Jersey

Event 82

Date: 1945
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia
See also: 1947

Event 83

Date: 2/1945
Description: 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

Event 84

Date: 3/17/1945
Description: 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
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 85

Date: 3/27/1945
Description: Final V-2 rockets used during WW2
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Germany

Event 86

Date: 4/12/1945
End date: 1/20/1953
Description: President Harry S. Truman in office
Type: historical event
Location: Washington DC

Event 87

Date: Summer 1945
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: "Alien Base", Timothy Good, page 152 (photos)
Location: Hanford, WA

Event 88

Date: 6/26/1945
Description: United Nations charter signed, goes into full force on 10/24/1945
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City

Event 89

Date: 7/16/1945
Description: First atomic bomb test “Trinity”, 35 miles (56 km) southeast of Socorro, NM (now part of the White Sands Missile Range)
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 18.6

Event 90

Date: 8/6/1945
Description: First atomic bomb attack at Hiroshima, Japan. 20,000 soldiers killed, 70,000–126,000 civilians killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Hiroshima, Japan
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 16

Event 91

Date: 8/9/1945
Description: Second atomic bomb attack at Nagasaki, Japan. 39,000–80,000 killed, At least 150 soldiers killed.
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Nagasaki, Japan
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 21

Event 92

Date: 8/16/1945
Description: “Trinity” Crash Retrieval near San Antonio, NM
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: San Antonio, NM

Event 93

Date: 8/22/1945
Description: Stalin appoints Lavrentiy Beria to direct Soviet atomic bomb effort
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Moscow, Russia

Event 94

Date: 9/2/1945
Description: End of WW2
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 95

Date: 10/1945
Description: The temporary successor to the OSS, the Strategic Services Unit (SSU), begins
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Langley, VA

Event 96

Date: 10/2/1945
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Rocket type: V-2

Event 97

Date: 10/15/1945
Description: British Operation Backfire near Cuxhaven: V-2 launch test
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Cuxhaven, Germany
Rocket type: V-2

Event 98

Date: 10/24/1945
Description: United Nations charter in full force
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City, New York

Event 99

Date: 1946
Description: Ghost Rockets seen in Scandinavia
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Scandinavia

Event 100

Date: 1946
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Antarctica

Event 101

Date: 1946
Description: Soviet “Arzamas-16” atomic bomb project plant opened - the Soviet "Los Alamos" (Weapons design and research, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 102

Date: 1946
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-44” atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 103

Date: 1946
End date: 1951
Description: Between 1946–1951 the Army fires 67 V-2 rockets from the White Sands V-2 Launching Sight, Launch Complex 33
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Launch Complex 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 104

Date: 1/10/1946
Description: Public announcements of radar signals bounced off Moon
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Medium Article
Location: New Jersey

Event 105

Date: 2/26/1946
Description: Ghost Rocket reports in Scandinavia, Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Scandinavia

Event 106

Date: 3/6/1946
Description: The Western Defense Command, activated on 3/17/1941, is deactivated
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Pacific Coast Region, US

Event 107

Date: 3/15/1946
Description: First static test fire of V-2 missile at White Sands Pad 33
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 108

Date: 4/16/1946
Description: 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)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km

Event 109

Date: 4/20/1946
Description: League of Nations dissolved, succeeded by the United Nations (UN)
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 110

Date: 5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Description: 2,000 Ghost Rocket sightings in Sweden/Finland
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Scandinavia

Event 111

Date: 5/10/1946
Description: First nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.6km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km

Event 112

Date: 5/13/1946
Description: Plans for a new test site for the first Soviet ballistic missiles and atomic bombs at Kapustin Yar test site
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Astrakhan Oblast

Event 113

Date: 5/29/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 112.1km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 112.6km

Event 114

Date: 6/13/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 117.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 117.2km

Event 115

Date: 6/28/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 107.8km altitude (nose separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 107.8km

Event 116

Date: 7/5/1946
End date: 12/1946
Description: 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.
Type: Newspaper Article
Reference: link
Location: Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois

Event 117

Date: 7/9/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 134.4km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 134.4km

Event 118

Date: 7/19/1946
Description: Failed V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (oxygen pump explodes)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km

Event 119

Date: 7/30/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 161.5km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 161.5km

Event 120

Date: 8/15/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 6.4km altitude (Radio cut-off 16.5s after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 6.4km

Event 121

Date: 8/22/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km altitude (Control failure led to cut-off command at 6.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km

Event 122

Date: 9/4/1946
Description: 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
Type: top secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p22,447)
Location: Sweden

Event 123

Date: 10/9/1946
Description: Newspaper/radio UFO reports after meteor shower over southern CA. BSRA received many phone calls. BSRA mediums established contact and reported it would return
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: rg
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 124

Date: 10/10/1946
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 173.8km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 173.8km

Event 125

Date: 10/10/1946
Description: First picture of Earth from space. V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (subnormal propulsion performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km

Event 126

Date: 11/7/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, .32km altitude (Guidance failure preceded emergency cut-off at 31s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: .32km

Event 127

Date: 11/21/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 101.4km altitude (Sub-normal propulsion performance, beyond Kármán line)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.4km

Event 128

Date: 12/5/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 152.9km altitude (Control system failed at altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 152.9km

Event 129

Date: 12/17/1946
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 184.4km altitude (Rocket exploded at 440s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 184.4km

Event 130

Date: 1947
Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-40 and later 65” atomic bomb project plant opened (Plutonium production, component manufacturing). Now one of the most contaminated places on Earth.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia

Event 131

Date: 1947
Description: Soviet “Sverdlovsk-45” (Plant 418) atomic bomb project plant opened (Uranium enrichment, warhead assembly)
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: N 58 39 E 59 47

Event 132

Date: 1947
Description: Einstein sees "Greys" for the first time
Type: rumor
Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
Location: Roswell, NM
Attributes: Einstein
Attributes: channeled

Event 133

Date: 1/1947
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Location: Papago Indian Reservation

Event 134

Date: 1/10/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 116.2km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 60 rpm)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 116.2km

Event 135

Date: 1/23/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 49.9km altitude (Degraded performance led to roll rate of 80 rpm)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km

Event 136

Date: 2/9/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright wins writing essay competition
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Attributes: Einstein

Event 137

Date: 2/20/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 109.4km altitude (Blossom 1 — Propulsion degraded at 55.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 109.4km

Event 138

Date: 3/7/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.2km

Event 139

Date: 3/17/1947
Description: Newspaper article stating Einstein “has helped many young students to find their directions”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 140

Date: 4/1/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 129.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129.2km

Event 141

Date: 4/8/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 102.2km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 102.2km

Event 142

Date: 4/17/1947
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 142.4km altitude (Successful test of ram-jet payload)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 142.4km

Event 143

Date: 5/1/1947
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 144

Date: 5/15/1947
Description: 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.
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 135.2km

Event 145

Date: 5/15/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Oklahoma City: round, disc-like, ten times longer than thick, high speed, Project Grudge case #82. (Possibly 5/21/47)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Oklahoma City, OK

Event 146

Date: 5/19/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge case #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manitou Springs, CO

Event 147

Date: 5/19/1947
Description: UFO sighting in Manitou Springs CO: “Reversal of direction of fight, manoeuvres” , Project Grudge chase #92
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manitou Springs, CO

Event 148

Date: 5/29/1947
Description: 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.
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 79.3km

Event 149

Date: 5/31/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright class photo in newspaper
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Coral Gables, FL
Attributes: Einstein

Event 150

Date: 6/1947
Description: Oppenheimer-Einstein Majestic Document on US Space Law, “Relationships with Inhabitants of Celestial Bodies”
Type: majestic document
Reference: Majestic Document
Attributes: Einstein
Attributes: majestic

Event 151

Date: 6/11/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright’s last day of high school (estimate)
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 152

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Harold Dahl sees 6 discs near Tacoma Harbor, WA. Drops metal residue.
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Maury Island, WA
Attributes: metals

Event 153

Date: 6/21/1947
Description: Maury Island Incident
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Medium
Reference: link
Attributes: metals

Event 154

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research

Event 155

Date: 6/24/1947
Description: Kenneth Arnold sights 9 discs near Mt. Rainer, Washington
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Mt. Rainer, WA

Event 156

Date: 6/29/1947
Description: 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).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: White Sands, NM

Event 157

Date: 7/1947
Description: Conclusion to an FBI/ARMY Intelligence Report: Based on a detailed study of the Kenneth Arnold case (6/24/47) 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.)
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 6/24/47
See also: 9/23/47

Event 158

Date: 7/1947
Description: 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.
Type: majestic document
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 9/24/1947

Event 159

Date: 7/1947
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright visits Princeton and studies under Einstein
Type: scientist
Reference: Bragalia
Attributes: Einstein

Event 160

Date: 7/1/1947
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: White Sands, NM
Location: Alamogordo, NM
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 161

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: 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.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Magdalena, N.M.

Event 162

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Valerian, Matrix 1

Event 163

Date: 7/2/1947
Description: Roswell area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 164

Date: 7/3/1947
Description: Magdalena, NM area crash
Type: ufo crash
Reference: "Matrix 1", Valerian
Location: Magdalena, NM

Event 165

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: UFO crashes in Horse Mountain Canyon: 2 dead grays, one heavily injured, one surviving
Type: ufo crash
Reference: anonymous (channeled) information (R.G.)
Location: Magdalena, NM

Event 166

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Portland area mass sightings, hundreds of witnesses, Blue Book Report includes state and local police witnesses
Type: mass ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Location: Portland, OR

Event 167

Date: 7/4/1947
Description: Capt. E. J. Smith co-pilot & stewardess see UFO’s in PNW
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Twitter
Location: Pacific Northwest

Event 168

Date: 7/5/1947
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Plains of San Agustin, NM

Event 169

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: Secret operation to recover a crashed saucer in NM 75 miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (RAAF)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (crash)
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 170

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: 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
Type: anomalous incident
Reference: Medium
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 171

Date: 7/7/1947
Description: Newspaper article: “Army can’t locate crashed saucers” in Spokane area
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Location: Spokane, CA

Event 172

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Roswell radio announcement, debris being flown by special plane to Wright Field
Type: ufological event
Reference: YouTube
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 173

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Intel. Officer Maj. Marcel reports Roswell Army Air Force captures a downed flying saucer near Roswell NM
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-B, J2, RECOVERY)
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 174

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: FBI Dallas teletype to Director: flying saucer crashed and was recovered near Roswell NM
Type: teletype
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, RECOVERY)
Location: Dallas, TX

Event 175

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: Newspaper article in England: Maury Island incident fragments sent for analysis to metallurgists at Chicago University
Type: Newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 176

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: 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.”
Type: FOIA release
Reference: Medium

Event 177

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: United Press reports on a phone call to Einstein: “absolutely no comment”, claimed no knowledge
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 178

Date: 7/8/1947
Description: 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.”
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 7/2/47
See also: 7/7/47

Event 179

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 16.25km altitude (Early yaw led to termination at 32s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.25km

Event 180

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: Estimated date student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright accompanies Einstein to Roswell area. She was 17 years, 10 months, 21 days old.
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 181

Date: 7/10/1947
Description: 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
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p148)
Reference: link

Event 182

Date: 7/11/1947
Description: 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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 183

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: 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).”
Type: declassified statement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G, p16)

Event 184

Date: 7/12/1947
Description: 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)
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 185

Date: Mid 7/1947
Description: 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 Flying Saucers are REAL! and not manmade...the technology represented by the (recovered) disc...was so far beyond our own that it could not be understoodimmediately...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.”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 1/31/49

Event 186

Date: 7/15/1947
Description: 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.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E, p541, RECOVERY)

Event 187

Date: 7/24/1947
Description: Einstein’s ABC Special live radio broadcast on “The Immediate Need for World Law”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 188

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: 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.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium Article

Event 189

Date: 7/29/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 160.7km altitude (Near vertical trajectory.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 160.7km

Event 190

Date: 8/1/1947
Description: A B-25 plane containing materials retrieved from Harold Dahl near Maury Island WA crashes near Kelso, WA
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link

Event 191

Date: 8/3/1947
Description: Newspaper article: “Crashed Bomber Reported Carrying ‘Flying Disc’”. Maury Island incident metallic fragments were reported to be extremely heavy and subjected to extreme heat.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium

Event 192

Date: 9/6/1947
Description: V-2 missile test from USS Midway reaches 1.5km (Operation Sandy. Aircraft carrier launch successful. Exploded at 1524m)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.5km

Event 193

Date: 9/18/1947
Description: CIA officially begins, directed by Rear Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, USN
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Langley, Virginia

Event 194

Date: 9/19/47
Description: Dr. Bronk’s team determines the recovered saucer from NM is a short range reconnaissance craft (from a mother ship)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 11/30/47

Event 195

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: Confirmation sighting of Arnold's discs by Fred Johnson
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 196

Date: 9/23/1947
Description: USAF project "SIGN" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 197

Date: 9/23/47
Description: 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)
Type: secret briefing
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 7/47
See also: 9/15/50
See also: 8/54

Event 198

Date: 9/24/47
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 2/15/87
See also: 9/4/87
See also: 7/47

Event 199

Date: 9/28/47
Description: Student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright: Newspaper college freshman photo
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 200

Date: 10/47
Description: Article on student and Einstein assistant Shirley J. Wright receiving Barry Scholarship
Type: scientist
Reference: link
Attributes: Einstein

Event 201

Date: 10/1/47
Description: First flight of the prototype jet fighter XP-86 flies from Muroc Dry Lake (now Edwards AFB), CA — led to the F-86 Sabre
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 202

Date: 10/9/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 156.1km altitude (Internal explosion at 83.5s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 156.1km

Event 203

Date: 10/18/1947
Description: First Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 207km (Vehicle disintegrated at atmospheric reentry)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 207km

Event 204

Date: 10/20/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 231km (Deviated 181 kilometres from intended flight path)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 231km

Event 205

Date: 10/23/1947
Description: 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.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km

Event 206

Date: 10/28/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 29km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 29km

Event 207

Date: 10/31/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 2km (Started rolling after lift-off and crashed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 2km

Event 208

Date: 11/2/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 260km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km

Event 209

Date: 11/2/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar (2nd that day), 260km (Lost fins after launch)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 260km

Event 210

Date: 11/4/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 268km (Success)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 268km

Event 211

Date: 11/10/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 24km (Control failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 24km

Event 212

Date: 11/13/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Broke up upon re-entry. Landed within 180m of target.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km

Event 213

Date: 11/13/1947
Description: Russian V-2 missile test at Kapustin Yar, 270km (Launched 5 hours after previous rocket and landed within 700 m of target)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket range: 270km

Event 214

Date: 11/20/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 26.7km altitude (GE technology proving flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 26.7km

Event 215

Date: 11/30/47
Description: In a Top Secret Document, Dr. Bronk’s scientific team classifies extraterrestrials as EBE’s (Extra Biological Entities).
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic

Event 216

Date: 12/8/1947
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 104.6km altitude (Stable flight but less than planned altitude)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 104.6km

Event 217

Date: 12/23/1947
Description: 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).
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Muray Hill, NJ

Event 218

Date: 12/30/1947
Description: USAF project "Saucer" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 219

Date: 12/30/1947
Description: Project SIGN formed to obtain information about saucer performance characteristics and their purpose on earth (with "2A" Security Classification at Wright-Patterson)
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, B1-G p23)
Location: Washington DC

Event 220

Date: 1948
Description: More Ghost Rockets seen in Europe
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Europe

Event 221

Date: 1948
Description: 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.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Reference: Twitter
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
See also: 3/25/48
See also: 2/13/1948

Event 222

Date: 1948
Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt stated: “With the Soviets practically eliminated as a UFO source the idea of interplanetary spaceships was becoming more popular.”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Wikipedia link
Location: Washington DC

Event 223

Date: 1/1948
Description: Fate Magazine 1948 Volume 1 #1 page 26 reports on the Maury Island incident metallic fragments, described as a “lava oxide metal”
Type: ufological event
Reference: Medium
Reference: link

Event 224

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
Type: UFO encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky

Event 225

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: Capt. Mantell of USAF is killed while pursuing UFO
Type: UFO encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Godman Air Base, Kentucky

Event 226

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: 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 skiessouth 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Maysville, KN

Event 227

Date: 1/7/1948
Description: 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....oftremendous size.directly ahead and slightly above....I am trying to close for a better look.” The F-51 exploded inmid-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.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Maysville, KN

Event 228

Date: 1/15/1948
Description: USAF officially a separate service
Type: history
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 229

Date: 1/22/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 159.3km altitude (Payload separation failure)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 159.3km

Event 230

Date: 2/6/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 111km altitude (Successfully maneuvered by ground control for first 40s of flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 111km

Event 231

Date: 2/13/1948
Description: Alternate date for Crash/Recovery at Aztec, N.M. 16 little human-like beings were found dead aboard a crashed saucer in NM.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research, ALIENS
Location: Aztec, NM
See also: 3/25,1948

Event 232

Date: 3/19/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 5.5km altitude (Low altitude flight prevented any data recovery)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.5km

Event 233

Date: 3/25/1948
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Location: Aztec, NM

Event 234

Date: 3/25/1948
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
Reference: book link
Reference: book link
Reference: book link
Reference: Robert Spencer Carr
Reference: Robert Spencer Carr
Location: Aztec, NM
See also: 2/13/1948

Event 235

Date: 4/1948 (estimated)
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 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.
Type: witness statement
Reference: link
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 236

Date: 4/2/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 144km altitude (Three previous launch attempts failed in year prior. Excellent performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 144km

Event 237

Date: 4/5/1948
Description: 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
Type: top secret report
Reference: NICAP — Air Intelligence Report — ONI
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Holloman AFB

Event 238

Date: 4/19/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 56km altitude (Faulty steering led to high roll rate and then flight termination)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 56km

Event 239

Date: 4/30/1948
Description: 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
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)

Event 240

Date: 5/13/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 127.3km altitude (Bumper 1 Premature cut-off of WAC 2nd stage)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 127.3m

Event 241

Date: 5/27/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7

Event 242

Date: 5/27/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 139.7km altitude (Steady flight with low roll rate)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 139.7

Event 243

Date: 6/1948 (approximate)
Description: “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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Amazon
Location: US

Event 244

Date: 6/11/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 62.3km altitude (Blossom 2 — Cut-off at 57.7s; payload separation at 96s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 62.3

Event 245

Date: 6/15/1948
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E, p481)
Location: Miles City, MT

Event 246

Date: 6/19/1948
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Yar

Event 247

Date: 7/1/1948
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Ellsworth Air Force Base

Event 248

Date: 7/17/1948
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Kirtland Air Force Base

Event 249

Date: 7/20/1948
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Netherlands
See also: 7/25/48

Event 250

Date: 7/24/1948
Description: Eastern Airlines pilots Chiles and Whitted see UFO
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Event 251

Date: 7/24/1948
Description: 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."
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Montgomery, Alabama

Event 252

Date: 7/25/1948
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: US
See also: 7/20/48
See also: 8/3/48
See also: 1/31/50

Event 253

Date: 7/26/1948
Description: 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)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 86.9

Event 254

Date: 8/3/1948
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Moscow
See also: 7/25/48

Event 255

Date: 8/5/1948
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 165.7km altitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 165.7km

Event 256

Date: 8/19/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 13.4km altitude (Bumper 2 First stage failed due to propellant flow interruption)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 13.4km

Event 257

Date: 9/2/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.6km altitude (Vehicle broke up at 370s at 84 km altitude.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.6km

Event 258

Date: 9/12/1948
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481)
Location: Midway

Event 259

Date: 9/30/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 150.3km altitude (Bumper 3 WAC stage failed)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.3km

Event 260

Date: 10/1/1948
Description: Lt. G. Gorman air duels with UFO for 25 minutes
Type: UFO sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Fargo, North Dakota

Event 261

Date: 10/1/1948
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p481, B1-F p234, B1-G p28)
Location: North Dakota

Event 262

Date: 10/15/1948
Description: 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
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p235)
Location: Japan

Event 263

Date: 11/1948
Description: Green fireballs prominent in New Mexico
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 264

Date: 11/1/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 4.8km altitude (Bumper 4 Explosion in tail of V-2)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.8km

Event 265

Date: 11/18/1948
Description: 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.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 145.3km

Event 266

Date: 11/18/1948
Description: 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.”
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G p28, B1-F p236)
Location: Andrews AFB

Event 267

Date: 11/23/1948
Description: 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
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p237)
Location: Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Event 268

Date: 12/1948
Description: 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?)
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 3/52

Event 269

Date: 12/9/1948
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 108.4km altitude (Vane failure at 22s caused erratic flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 108.4km

Event 270

Date: 12/10/1948
Description: Top Secret Air Intelligence Report 100–203–79 issued
Type: top secret report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 1/7/1948
See also: 11/1/1948

Event 271

Date: 1949
Description: 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.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 272

Date: 1949
Description: 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.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Bishop, CA

Event 273

Date: 1949
End date: 1990
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 274

Date: 1949
Description: Soviet “Tomsk-7” atomic weapons project plant opens (Uranium enrichment, component manufacturing)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Siberia

Event 275

Date: Early 1949
Description: USAF General Orders the AF to stop investigating saucers and Project GRUDGE is ordered to close at the end of 1949.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Leon Davidson
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 276

Date: 1/6/1949
Description: Rocket shaped UFO sighted near Los Alamos, NM
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Los Alamos, NM
See also: 1/31/49
See also: 7/25/48

Event 277

Date: 1/13/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (1st Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2

Event 278

Date: 1/13/1949
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p482)
Location: NM

Event 279

Date: 1/28/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 59.9km attitude (Defective performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 59.9km

Event 280

Date: 1/31/1949
Description: 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 12/05/48 and 01/06/49, 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)
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p483, B1-G p30)
Location: NM
See also: 7/25/48
See also: 7/47
See also: 8/4/50

Event 281

Date: 1/31/1949
Description: 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.)
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p53, CRASH)
Location: NM

Event 282

Date: 2/1949
Description: 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.”
Type: final report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 283

Date: 2/4/1949
Description: CONFIDENTIAL Army Staff MESSAGE dated Jan. 31, 1949 read by OSI: “all out investigation of possible crashed saucer, OK’d.”
Type: confidential message
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p53, RECOVERY)

Event 284

Date: 2/11/1949
Description: USAF Project "GRUDGE" started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH

Event 285

Date: 2/17/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 100.6km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 100.6km

Event 286

Date: 2/24/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 129km attitude (Successful flight. Separation of stages at 32.2 km)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 129km

Event 287

Date: 3/1949
Description: An analysis of the Maury Island incident metal fragments appears in the BSRA’s “Round Robin” publication
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 288

Date: 3/21/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 3 — Parachute not ejected)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km

Event 289

Date: 4/1949
Description: 2 UFO's tracked by theodolite at White Sands, New Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, New Mexico

Event 290

Date: 4/11/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 87.2km attitude (Degraded performance from 43s)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 87.2km

Event 291

Date: 4/21/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 49.9km attitude (Premature V-2 cut-off; WAC stage failed to fire)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 49.9km

Event 292

Date: 4/24/1949
Description: 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!).
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Arrey, NM

Event 293

Date: 4/27/1949
Description: USAF press release admits that saucers may exist
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 294

Date: 5/5/1949
Description: 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)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8.85km

Event 295

Date: 5/11/1949
Description: Israel admitted to the UN
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: New York City

Event 296

Date: 5/13/1949
Description: Newspaper coverage of BSRA's “second memorandum of importance” on flying discs.
Type: publication
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Medium
Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota

Event 297

Date: 5/18/1949
Description: 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.
Type: memorandum
Reference: Twitter
Location: Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton OH

Event 298

Date: 5/22/1949
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Bethesda Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland

Event 299

Date: 6/10/1949
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p238)
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 300

Date: 6/14/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 133.5km attitude (Blossom 4 — Nominal performance.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 133.5km

Event 301

Date: Summer 1949
Description: USAF Project "Twinkle" started
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 302

Date: 8/19/1949
Description: Fitzgerald and Gamey see little men in desert.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 303

Date: 8/29/1949
Description: First Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-1 “First Lightning” at Semipalatinsk in Semipalatinsk Test Site, NE Kazakhstan (Joe 1)
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 22

Event 304

Date: 9/3/1949
Description: USAF WB-29 lands at Eielson Air Force Base AL with filter paper samples indicating a Soviet nuclear weapons test
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Eielson Air Force Base, AL

Event 305

Date: 9/9/1949
Description: DCI Admiral Hillenkoetter hands Truman a carefully worded report of “an abnormal radio-active contamination” indicating “An atomic explosion on the continent of Asia.”
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 306

Date: 9/16/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 4.2km attitude (Blossom 5 — payload. Explosions led to early termination)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 4.2km

Event 307

Date: 9/23/1949
Description: Truman made headlines with an announcement that the Soviet Union had tested a nuclear device several weeks earlier
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 308

Date: 9/29/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 150.8km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 150.8km

Event 309

Date: 10/6/1949
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (2nd Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2

Event 310

Date: 10/12/1949
Description: Frank Scully’s Variety article “One Flying Saucer Lands In New Mexico”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: Hollywood, CA

Event 311

Date: 11/1949
Description: Photographer Nicholas Van Poppen, an aerospace photography expert, tells Dr. George C. Tyler on 11/49 he flew from Hollywood with Dr. Wang to the Los Alamos complex and sees and makes detailed photographs of a large disc-like object.
Type: witness statement
Reference: [book "The UFO Crash at Aztec" by Steinman and Stevens](link
See also: 3/25/48
See also: 4/48

Event 312

Date: 11/18/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 123.9km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 123.9km

Event 313

Date: 11/23/1949
Description: Frank Scully Variety article “Flying Saucers Dismantled, Secrets May Be Lost”
Type: publication
Reference: link
Location: Hollywood, CA

Event 314

Date: 12/1949
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes “The Flying Saucers are Real” in True Magazine
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: WA

Event 315

Date: 12/8/1949
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 130.3km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 130.3km

Event 316

Date: 12/27/1949
Description: USAF Project "Saucer" closed
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 317

Date: 12/28/1949
Description: Richmond VA area: Radio play about a crashed saucer with 12 dead midget crewmen
Type: radio show
Reference: link
Location: Richmond, VA

Event 318

Date: 12/31/1949
Description: 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 7/8/47 and 12/31/49.
Type: newspaper articles
Reference: link
Reference: link

Event 319

Date: 1950's
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps.
Type: book reference
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Location: Area 51

Event 320

Date: 1950's
Description: At least 11 nuclear explosions were carried out at the Soviet Kapustin Yar test site, in addition to all other launches
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kapustin Yar

Event 321

Date: 1950
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-26” atomic weapons project plant opens (Plutonium production)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 322

Date: 1950
Description: Aviator Kenneth Arnold publishes the pamphlet “The Flying Saucer as I Saw It”
Type: publication
Reference: Archive.org
Location: WA

Event 323

Date: Early 1950
Description: 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
Reference: Medium

Event 324

Date: 1/1950
Description: TRUE magazine publishes first article on Flying Saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 325

Date: 1/1/1950
Description: Donald Keyhoe publishes a condensed version of “The Flying Saucers are Real” in Newspapers
Type: publication
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 326

Date: 1/6/1950
Description: 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
Reference: Amazon
Reference: Newspapers.com

Event 327

Date: 1/16/1950
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p27, RECOVERY)
See also: 1/6/50
See also: 1/30/50

Event 328

Date: 1/22/1950
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kodiak, Alaska

Event 329

Date: 1/30/1950
Description: 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
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Kodiak, Alaska
See also: 1/6/50

Event 330

Date: 1/31/1950
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Los Alamos, NM
See also: 1/6/50

Event 331

Date: 2/17/1950
Description: Nominal V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 148.7km attitude
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 148.7km

Event 332

Date: 2/22/1950
Description: USAF denies existance of flying saucers
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 333

Date: 3/8/1950
Description: 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.
Type: lecture
Reference: YouTube - Part 1
Reference: YouTube - Part 2
Location: University of Denver

Event 334

Date: 3/8/1950
Description: Mysterious "Silas Newton" speaks at University of Denver
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 335

Date: 3/16/1950
Description: Swiss engineer Julian Gardiol reported he spotted a UFO stop in the air stop for 5 minutes (Denver Post Special)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: "Behind the Flying Saucers" by Frank Scully
Location: Lima, Peru

Event 336

Date: 3/16/1950
End date: 3/18/1950
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Farmington, NM
Location: Aztec, NM

Event 337

Date: 3/22/1950
Description: FBI “Guy Hottel” Memo: 3 saucers recovered in NM (corroborating Frank Scully’s later book on 8/50). 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.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p116, B1-F p326, B1-E p527, RECOVERY)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 3/25/48

Event 338

Date: 3/22/1950
Description: 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
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, B1-E p464)
Location: Ottawa, CA

Event 339

Date: 3/31/1950
Description: 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).
Type: tape recording
Reference: YouTube
Location: Denver, CO

Event 340

Date: 3/31/1950
Description: Memo to Director, FBI pertaining to flying saucers. Memo names a person in Denver, Colorado that claims to possess a UFO radio transmitter.
Type: memo
Reference: YouTube
Location: Washington DC

Event 341

Date: 4/7/1950
Description: Letter sent from BSRA to President
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter Link
Location: San Diego, CA
See also: 5/16/1950

Event 342

Date: 4/17/1950
Description: Variety author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Sauces” announced coming soon.
Type: announcement
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Glens Falls, NY

Event 343

Date: 4/27/1950
Description: TWA flight 117 sights UFO
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 344

Date: 5/11/1950
Description: McMinnville UFO photographs, also known as the Trent UFO photos, were taken by a farming couple, Paul and Evelyn Trent near McMinnville, Oregon.
Type: ufo photo
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: McMinnville, OR

Event 345

Date: 5/16/1950
Description: Reply letter from White House to BSRA
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter Link
Location: Washington DC
See also: 4/7/1950

Event 346

Date: 6/1950
Description: Many sightings
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 347

Date: 6/25/1950
Description: Korean War
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Korea

Event 348

Date: 7/1950
Description: Flying Magazine: “THE FLYING SAUCERS-FACT OR FICTION?”
Type: publication
Reference: link

Event 349

Date: 7/4/1950
Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back in 30 minutes
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 350

Date: 7/4/1950
Description: Daniel Fry makes UFO contact and is taken to NYC and back in 30 minutes
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: White Sands Proving Grounds, NM

Event 351

Date: 7/24/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km

Event 352

Date: 7/29/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at Cape Canaveral LC3, Reaches 16.1km attitude (Low-angle atmospheric flight over 320 km range)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 16.1km
Rocket range: 320km

Event 353

Date: 8/1950
Description: Author Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers” published
Type: publication
Reference: Amazon
Location: US

Event 354

Date: 8/1/1950
Description: Gen. Walter B. Smith fills the vacant MJ-3 position.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Washington DC

Event 355

Date: 8/4/1950
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p485)
Location: Hanford, WA

Event 356

Date: 8/31/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 136.4km attitude (Blossom 7- Nominal performance)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 136.4km

Event 357

Date: 9/15/1950
Description: 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.
Type: conference
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p519)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 9/23/47
See also: 1/26/53

Event 358

Date: 10/6/1950
Description: 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.
Type: confidental memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p117, RECOVERY)
Location: Fort Sam Houston, TX
See also: 3/25/1948

Event 359

Date: 10/26/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, Reaches 8km attitude (Explosion at 50s at Mach 3 terminated flight)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 8km

Event 360

Date: 11/10/1950
Description: Private letter from BSRA Director Meade Layne to Frank Scully. Mentions increased volume of correspondence since the fall of 1946.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter Link
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 361

Date: 11/11/1950
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33 (3rd and Final Hermes II test)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2

Event 362

Date: 11/21/1950
Description: Mr. Smith writes a “Top Secret” Memo on Canadian government research into UFO’s and propulsion technology.
Type: top secret memo
Reference: link
Location: Canada

Event 363

Date: 12/1950
Description: Project "Magnet" authorized in Canada
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Canada

Event 364

Date: 12/3/1950
Description: 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
Reference: link
Location: Richmond, Virginia

Event 365

Date: 12/6/1950
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: link
Location: Guerrero, Mexico

Event 366

Date: 12/6/1950
Description: 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
Reference: link
Location: Limestone, Maine

Event 367

Date: 1951
Description: 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
Reference: link

Event 368

Date: 1951
Description: Project Mercury Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, describes seeing 100's of UFO's flying in formation at very high altitudes over Europe.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Europe

Event 369

Date: Early 1950's
Description: 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
Reference: “Alien Gene”, McGhee, page 69
Location: Carson's Field, New Zealand

Event 370

Date: 1/14/1951
Description: Einstein student and Roswell witness Shirley J. Wright picked for “Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities”
Type: scientist
Reference: link

Event 371

Date: 1/18/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 1.6km (Stalled on pad for 13s then rose slowly for 38s before exploding)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 1.6km

Event 372

Date: 2/10/1951
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E, p486)
Location: Keflavik, Iceland

Event 373

Date: 2/25/1951
Description: 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
Reference: link
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 374

Date: 3/8/1951
Description: 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)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 3.1km

Event 375

Date: 4/27/1951
Description: Science fiction movie “The Thing from Another World” is released
Type: movie
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 376

Date: 6/14/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 0km (Exploded on pad at start of main-stage thrust after rising 6-inches)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 0km

Event 377

Date: Summer 1951
Description: USAF project "Bluebook" is started
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: US

Event 378

Date: 6/28/1951
Description: 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.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 5.8km

Event 379

Date: 7/9/1951
Description: Pilot Lt. Kinmon sees and reports an UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: NICAP
Location: Columbus, GA
See also: 7/10/1951

Event 380

Date: 7/10/1951
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: NICAP
Location: Macon, GA

Event 381

Date: 7/22/1951
Description: 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.
Type: aerospace
Reference: link
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 382

Date: 8/22/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 213.4km (Army training test — last 5 launches by “Broomstick Scientists”)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 213.4km

Event 383

Date: 9/10/1951
Description: 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)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p487)
Reference: NICAP
Location: Asbury, NJ

Event 384

Date: 9/18/1951
Description: Science fiction movie “The Day the Earth Stood Still” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 385

Date: 9/24/1951
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-2 (Joe 2), 38.3kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 38.3

Event 386

Date: 10/1951
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 12/48
See also: 3/52

Event 387

Date: 10/18/1951
Description: Soviet atomic bomb test RDS-3 (Joe 3), 41.2kt, first air dropped, released at 10km detonated at 400m
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 41.2

Event 388

Date: 10/21/1951
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Battle Creek, MI

Event 389

Date: 10/29/1951
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 140.9km (Army training test. Payload released but damaged on impact.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 140.9km

Event 390

Date: 1952?
Description: 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.
Type: secret information
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p511)
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 10/2/52

Event 391

Date: 1952
Description: Soviet “Zlatoust-36” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 392

Date: 3/1952
Description: Capt. Edward J. Ruppelt recommends a new name for Project Grudge, “Project Blue Book”.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 12/48
See also: 10/51

Event 393

Date: 4/1952
Description: Life Magazine article: “Have We Visitors from Space?”
Type: article
Reference: Medium
See also: 12/48
See also: 10/51

Event 394

Date: 4/25/1952
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p241)
Location: San Jose, CA

Event 395

Date: 5/10/1952
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p540)
Location: Paphos, Cypress

Event 396

Date: 5/12/1952
Description: “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
Type: anomalous phenomenon
Reference: Dr. Leon Davidson
Reference: NY Times
Location: Seattle, WA

Event 397

Date: 5/20/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 103.5km (Army training test. Also designated TF-2)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 103.5km

Event 398

Date: 6/1952
Description: Truman Bethurum meets Aura Rhanes and visits saucer many times
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 399

Date: 6/1952
Description: Big month for sightings
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: US

Event 400

Date: 6/1952
Description: Reports of UFO's in Korean War
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: US

Event 401

Date: 6/4/1952
Description: RESTRICTED USAF Intelligence Report.
Type: intelligence report
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 5/10/1952

Event 402

Date: 6/15/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Gordonsville, VA

Event 403

Date: 6/18/1952
Description: EBE1 dies of unknown causes according to the Carter Aquarius document
Type: majestic document
Reference: link
Attributes: Majestic

Event 404

Date: Summer 1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 7/52

Event 405

Date: 7/1952
Description: Pilots Nash and Fortenberry see 6 discs.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 406

Date: 7/1952
Description: Ohio Northern University sets up Project "A" to investigate the UFO's.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Ohio Northern University

Event 407

Date: 7/14/1952
Description: Pan American pilots see formation of UFO's.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 408

Date: 7/16/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Germany

Event 409

Date: 7/19/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/26/52

Event 410

Date: 7/19/1952
End date: 7/26/1952
Description: UFO's detected by radar over Washington., D.C.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: radar

Event 411

Date: 7/20/1952
Description: Classified Spot Intelligence Report (dated 7/23/52): 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Andrews AFB

Event 412

Date: 7/23/1952
Description: Orfeo Angelucci takes ride in saucer
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 413

Date: 7/23/1952
Description: 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
Reference: link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p128)
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 414

Date: 7/24/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Twitter
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 415

Date: 7/26/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC

Event 416

Date: 7/27/1952
Description: Truman Bethurum visits spaceship and meets crew. Many other visits.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 417

Date: 7/28/1952
Description: USAF on 24 hour alert. Shoot Down order newspaper articles
Type: letter
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Washington DC

Event 418

Date: 7/28/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p505, Churchhill)
Location: Britain
See also: 8/9/52

Event 419

Date: End of 7/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p31,506, war escalation)
Location: Dayton OH
See also: 9/19/76
See also: 5/10/80
See also: 5/19/86
See also: 9/4/87

Event 420

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p505)
Location: Britain

Event 421

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: USAF Gen. Samford holds UFO press conference
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Washington DC

Event 422

Date: 7/29/1952
Description: USAF pilot pursues UFO over Michigan
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Michigan

Event 423

Date: End of 8/1/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, Virginia

Event 424

Date: 8/9/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p449)
Location: Britain
See also: 7/28/52

Event 425

Date: 8/16/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p512)
Location: Langley, Virginia

Event 426

Date: 8/19/1952
Description: J. D. Desvergers (scoutmaster) has contact with saucer. Is burned.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Attributes: injury

Event 427

Date: 8/20/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 11/25/52

Event 428

Date: 8/22/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 78km (Army training test. Thrust decreased after 53s. Tail separation at 217s.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 78km

Event 429

Date: 8/23/1952
Description: 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 02/23/55, See also the movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers”)
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p513)
Location: Langley, Virginia
See also: 2/23/1955

Event 430

Date: 9/12/1952
Description: Space "monster" appears from saucer near Sutton, West VA
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Sutton, West Virgina

Event 431

Date: 9/14/1952
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: North Atlantic

Event 432

Date: 9/19/1952
Description: V-2 missile test at White Sands Pad 33, 27km (Army training test. Tail explosion at 27s terminating thrust.)
Type: rocket launch
Reference: link
Location: White Sands Pad 33, White Sands Proving Grounds, NM
Rocket type: V-2
Rocket altitude: 27km

Event 433

Date: 9/20/1952
Description: An UFO similar to the Topcliffe one (see 9/19/52) 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Between England and Scandinavia
See also: 9/19/52

Event 434

Date: 9/20/1952
Description: 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. (9/19/52, 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)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p31,450, B1-G p43)
Location: North Yorkshire, England
See also: 9/20/1952

Event 435

Date: 9/21/1952
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: North Sea
See also: 7/52
See also: 6/24/53

Event 436

Date: 10/2/1952
Description: 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.
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p509)
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 11/25/1952

Event 437

Date: 10/27/1952
Description: Air Intelligence Memo: “Some military officials are seriously considering the possibility of (UFOs being) interplanetary ships.”
Type: secret memo
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 438

Date: 11/4/1952
Description: NSA is established
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Fort Meade, Maryland

Event 439

Date: 11/18/1952
Description: MAJESTIC “Preliminary Briefing” document to President (elect) Eisenhower from Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter (MJ-1)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Majestic

Event 440

Date: 11/20/1952
Description: George Adamski contacts man from Venus.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: CA

Event 441

Date: 11/25/1952
Description: (cont’d briefing from 8/20/52): 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.
Type: memorandum
Reference: link
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 8/10/52
See also: 10/2/52
See also: 11/25/52

Event 442

Date: 12/2/1952
Description: 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.”
Type: statement
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, VA
See also: 10/2/52
See also: 11/25/52

Event 443

Date: 1953?
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B3-B Case A-1 p2,3, RECOVERY, BODIES)
Location: Arizona
Location: Wright-Patterson AFB

Event 444

Date: 1953
Description: 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.”
Type: classified mission
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 9/21/52

Event 445

Date: 1953
Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) established by President Eisenhower and renamed Project AQUARIUS (1960, 1968)
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (AQUARIUS, B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic

Event 446

Date: 1/20/1953
End date: 1/20/1961
Description: President Eisenhower in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 447

Date: 1/26/1953
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (A10, B1-E p542)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 9/15/50

Event 448

Date: 1/26/1953
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research

Event 449

Date: 2/1953
Description: Two strange men from another planet hired in San Francisco - mysterious, then disappear.
Type: anomalous event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: San Francisco, CA

Event 450

Date: 3/19/1953
Description: 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.
Type: public presentation
Reference: Medium
Location: Glendale, CA

Event 451

Date: 5/20/1953
Description: Dr. Ed Doll orders Fritz Werner to report for special duty the next day. (Indian Springs AFB.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kingman, AZ
See also: 5/21/53

Event 452

Date: 5/21/1953
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kingman, AZ
See also: 5/20/53

Event 453

Date: 6/20/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: California Coast

Event 454

Date: Summer 1953
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B3-C, RECOVERY, ALIENS)
Location: Camp Polk, Louisiana

Event 455

Date: 6/24/1953
Description: 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.
Type: ufo collision
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p488)
Location: Quonset Point, Rhode Island
See also: 6/26/1953

Event 456

Date: 6/26/1953
Description: 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 06/24/53 for details of report)
Type: ufo collision
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p488)
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 6/24/53

Event 457

Date: 7/19/1953
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Oak Ridge, TN
See also: 7/27/53

Event 458

Date: 7/20/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean reports that two fisherman in CA spot UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: California Coast

Event 459

Date: 7/26/1953
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p359)
Location: Perrin Tower, TX

Event 460

Date: 7/27/1953
Description: Security Information, Confidential Message to Adjutant General, Wash. 25 D.C.
Type: Confidential Message
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/19/53

Event 461

Date: 8/12/1953
Description: First Soviet hydrogen bomb test (Joe 4), 400kt, Semipalatinsk Test Site
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 400

Event 462

Date: 8/13/1953
Description: Science fiction movie “The War of the Worlds” released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 463

Date: 8/17/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the Southern Cross Astronomical Society in the Miami area
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 464

Date: 8/23/1953
Description: Soviet tactical atomic bomb test RDS-4, 28kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 28

Event 465

Date: 8/26/1953
Description: Regulation AFR 200–2 issued to Air Force personnel for reporting UFOs.
Type: regulation
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 8/12/54

Event 466

Date: 9/1953
Description: The book “Flying Saucers Have Landed” by Desmond Leslie and George Adamski published.
Type: book
Reference: Amazon
Location: California

Event 467

Date: 9/16/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on saucers to the USAF Air Reserve 9882nd Volunteer Air Reserve Squadron in the North Miami area
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 468

Date: 10/2/1953
Description: 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.
Type: lecture
Reference: Newspapers.com
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Lancaster, Ohio

Event 469

Date: 10/9/1953
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at the Aerodex Management club
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 470

Date: 11/2/1953
Description: Changes updated for UFO reporting. New Regulation AFR 200–2A.
Type: regulation
Reference: Pea Research

Event 471

Date: 11/10/1953
Description: A. K. Bender UFO researcher silenced.
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 472

Date: 11/13/1953
Description: Miami Herald: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 473

Date: mid 11/1953
Description: 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.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: CA

Event 474

Date: 12/1953
Description: 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.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: CA

Event 475

Date: 12/8/1953
Description: 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”.
Type: report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Langley, VA

Event 476

Date: Winter 1953
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Salisbury Plain, England

Event 477

Date: 1954
Description: 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.”
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 478

Date: 1954
Description: 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.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
Location: US
Attributes: Majestic

Event 479

Date: 1/1954
Description: Radio commentator Frank Edwards states that the US government has an “object” under examination in California.
Type: radio
Reference: Medium
Location: California

Event 480

Date: 1/1954
Description: Giant UFO Over Baltimore and Washington.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 481

Date: 1/24/1954
Description: Author Frank Scully records in his private notes 11/53 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.
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 11/53
See also: 12/53

Event 482

Date: 2/6/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p495)
Location: Carswell AFB, TX

Event 483

Date: 2/15/1954
Description: Two small boys see and take pic of UFO near Coniston, England.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Coniston, England
Attributes: ufo photo

Event 484

Date: 2/18/1954
Description: Cedric Allingham meets and takes a picture of a man from Mars and saucer.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 485

Date: 2/20/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: book link
Location: Edwards AFB, CA
See also: 4/2/54

Event 486

Date: 2/24/1954
Description: 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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Miami, FL

Event 487

Date: 3/1954
Description: Sec. of Air Force Talbott's aircraft paced by UFO over Fresno, CA
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Fresno, CA

Event 488

Date: 3/1/1954
Description: "Castle Bravo" hydrogen bomb test at the Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, the most powerful nuclear device detonated by the United States at 15mt.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 15

Event 489

Date: 3/11/1954
Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers.
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 490

Date: 4/1954
Description: SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document
Type: majestic document
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
See also: 12/1994

Event 491

Date: 4/12/1954
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (B3-C, A5, RECOVERY, desert - NM)
Location: NM
See also: 2/10/54
See also: 4/24/54
See also: 3/7/55

Event 492

Date: 4/13/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/15/1954

Event 493

Date: 4/15/1954
Description: Date of Gerald Light’s detailed bulletin of meeting with others at Edwards AFB.
Type: public bulletin
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/13/1954

Event 494

Date: 4/24/1954
Description: A saucer crashed at Bandelier, NM, as reported by K.A. (initials) of the Roswell, N.M. Rescue Team 4.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (RECOVERY)
Location: Edwards AFB
See also: 4/12/54

Event 495

Date: 4/24/1954
Description: Buck Nelson takes a trip to Venus, Moon, Mars in saucer.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Mt. View, MO

Event 496

Date: 5/12/1954
Description: Multiple witnesses spot a disc hovering for 15 minutes over Dayton, OH, close to Wright-Patterson AFB, jets intercept
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Leonard Stringfield’s CFIRO Newsletter 6/4/1954
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 497

Date: 5/15/1954
Description: 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!"
Type: statement
Reference: "My First 10,000,000 Sponsors" by Frank Edwards, page 123
Location: Amarillo, TX

Event 498

Date: 5/20/1954
Description: 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).
Type: private notes
Reference: Medium
Location: California

Event 499

Date: 6/4/1954
Description: 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.”
Type: letter
Reference: Medium
Location: Edwards AFB

Event 500

Date: 6/29/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Atlantic Ocean

Event 501

Date: 7/14/1954
Description: 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.
Type: majestic document
Reference: link
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p84, majic)
Location: Washington DC
Attributes: Majestic

Event 502

Date: 7/16/1954
Description: Secret Meeting between Gen. Nathan Twining (MJ-4) and President Eisenhower.
Type: secret meeting
Reference: Pea Research (MJ-4)
Location: Washington DC

Event 503

Date: 8/1954
Description: Frank Edwards, pro-saucer newscaster fired.
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 504

Date: 8/1954
Description: 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!”
Type: public statement
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 9/23/47
See also: 10/9/55

Event 505

Date: 8/12/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p493)
Location: Maxwell AFB

Event 506

Date: 8/12/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p489)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 8/26/1953

Event 507

Date: 8/21/1954
Description: Cecil Sutton and family have run in with spacemen.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Hopkinsville, Kentucky

Event 508

Date: 8/25/1954
Description: Two girls in Norway meet spaceman.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Norway

Event 509

Date: 8/28/1954
Description: Two boys in Quebec, Canada see spaceship land. Two or three men get out.
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Quebec, Canada

Event 510

Date: 10/1954
Description: Project "Magnet" discontinued
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Canada

Event 511

Date: 10/14/1954
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: North Weald Airfield, Essex, England: 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.

Event 512

Date: 11/6/1954
Description: Ray Stanford contacts spacecraft with many witnesses
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Padre Island, TX

Event 513

Date: 11/22/1954
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk on flying saucers in Northwest Miami
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Northwest Miami, FL

Event 514

Date: 11/30/1954
Description: Meteorite or something hurls thru roof of Mrs. H. Hodges in Alabama.
Type: anomalous event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Alabama

Event 515

Date: 12/22/1954
Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin.
Type: channelling
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 516

Date: 12/22/1954
Description: World catastrophe predicted by Prof. Loughead via Dorothy Martin.
Type: channelling
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 517

Date: 1955
Description: Soviet “Penza-19” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Warhead assembly)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 518

Date: 1955
Description: 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.
Type: ufological event
Reference: “The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
Location: Soviet Union

Event 519

Date: 2/23/1955
Description: 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.”)
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p451-453, ALIEN)
Location: Britain
See also: 8/23/52

Event 520

Date: 3/7/1955
Description: 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.
Type: personnel discharged
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)
Location: Roswell, NM
See also: 4/12/54

Event 521

Date: 4/18/1955
Description: Albert Einstein dies
Type: scientist
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Princeton, NJ

Event 522

Date: 4/21/1955
Description: 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.
Type: ufological event
Reference: link
Location: Hopkinsville, KY

Event 523

Date: 5/18/1955
Description: 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).
Type: news release
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Groom Lake

Event 524

Date: 6/10/1955
Description: 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.
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 525

Date: 7/12/1955
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Pepperrel AFB, Newfoundland

Event 526

Date: 9/21/1955
Description: Soviet underwater atomic bomb test, 3.5kt
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: 3.5

Event 527

Date: 10/5/1955
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: Pearl Harbor

Event 528

Date: 11/1955
End date: 4/1956
Description: 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).
Type: lecture
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: McMurdo Station

Event 529

Date: 11/22/1955
Description: First megaton-class Soviet hydrogen bomb test RDS-37 at the Semipalatinsk Test Site
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Semipalatinsk Test Site
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 1.6

Event 530

Date: 1956
Description: Much UFO activity and interest in Mexico.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Mexico

Event 531

Date: 1956
Description: Much UFO activity in South America
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: South America

Event 532

Date: 1956
Description: E. R. Rayburn, Twin Falls, Idaho see saucer capture 400lbs steer from farm
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Twin Falls, Idaho
Attributes: cattle mutilation

Event 533

Date: 1956
Description: 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.
Type: secret meeting
Reference: “The Alien Gene”, Moira McGhee, page 69
See also: 1955

Event 534

Date: 1956
Description: Soviet “Krasnoyarsk-45” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Uranium enrichment)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 535

Date: 2/5/1956
Description: 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.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kapustin Yar
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic KT: .3

Event 536

Date: 2/7/1956
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture to a discussion group in Coral Gables, FL
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Coral Gables, FL

Event 537

Date: 2/8/1956
Description: Miami News: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 538

Date: 3/3/1956
Description: Science fiction movie “Forbidden Planet” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 539

Date: 4/7/1956
Description: Elizabeth Klarer, South Africa takes ride in saucer, talks to Venusians.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: South Africa

Event 540

Date: 6/13/1956
Description: Science fiction movie “Earth vs. the Flying Saucers” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 541

Date: 7/19/1956
Description: Michael Savage, Cal. takes pic of saucer.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: California
Attributes: ufo photo

Event 542

Date: 8/29/1956
Description: National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena organized in Washington DC
Type: historical event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Washington DC

Event 543

Date: 9/7/1956
Description: Hutchinson of Moneymore, Ireland wrestles with UFO. Disc escapes.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Moneymore, Ireland

Event 544

Date: 10/2/1956
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting with injury
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Trenton, NJ

Event 545

Date: Late 1956
Description: 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.
Type: movie
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Castle AFB, CA

Event 546

Date: 10/24/1956
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC

Event 547

Date: 1957
Description: Cynthia Appleton, Birmingham, England is visited by spacemen
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Birmingham, England

Event 548

Date: 1957
Description: 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.
Type: radiological event
Reference: link
Location: Ozyorsk, Russia

Event 549

Date: 1957
Description: Soviet “Chelyabinsk-70” nuclear weapons program plant opens (Weapons design and research)
Type: atomic plant
Reference: link

Event 550

Date: 3/10/1957
Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run)
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: New York
Attributes: aerospace

Event 551

Date: 3/10/1957
Description: Pan American Airways Plane almost collides with UFO (NY to San Juan, P.R. run)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: New York
Attributes: aerospace

Event 552

Date: 5/1957
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Reuters Link
Location: Manston, Kent

Event 553

Date: 5/20/1957
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Manston, Kent

Event 554

Date: 6/2/1957
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Twitter
Location: Nevada

Event 555

Date: 7/1/1957
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 556

Date: 7/30/1957
Description: Jack Stephens, Galt, Ontario sees spaceship on ground for 45 minutes
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Galt, Ontario

Event 557

Date: 8/31/1957
Description: In a letter about UFOs to a constituent, Senator Barry Goldwater said, “I, frankly, feel there is a great deal to this.”
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research

Event 558

Date: 10/4/1957
Description: Sputnik 1 launched, transmits for 3 weeks, deorbits on 1/4/58
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
See also: 11/12/57

Event 559

Date: 10/15/1957
Description: Villas Boas abduction. Has intercourse with an human-looking female.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Brazil

Event 560

Date: 11/2/1957
End date: 11/3/1957
Description: Levelland, TX: many sightings, with numerous cars stalled
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Levelland, TX

Event 561

Date: 11/2/1957
Description: 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.”
Type: ce2 event
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Loveland, TX
See also: 11/5/57

Event 562

Date: 11/5/1957
Description: Reinhold Schmidt, Kearney, Nebr., goes aboard saucer, talks to spacepeople
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Kearney, NE

Event 563

Date: 11/5/57
Description: 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.”
Type: investigation
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Loveland, TX

Event 564

Date: 11/6/1957
Description: Richard Kehoe & others see landed saucer, stalled cars, talk to spacepeople
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 565

Date: 11/12/57
Description: 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.]
Type: status report
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington, DC

Event 566

Date: 12/5/57
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a talk titled “Satellites and Saucers”
Type: status report
Reference: NICAP
Location: Washington, DC

Event 567

Date: 12/28/57
Description: Japanese science fiction movie “The Mysterians” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Japan

Event 568

Date: Late 1950's
Description: The Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) was disestablished and all records were transferred to the Air Force.
Type: historical event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p55)
See also: 5/16/84

Event 569

Date: 1958
Description: DoD kills “Project Horizon”, a military colony on the moon program
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Lt. Col. Philip J. Corso's Manuscript
Location: Washington, DC

Event 570

Date: 1/4/1958
Description: Sputnik deorbits
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington, DC

Event 571

Date: 1/22/1958
Description: Major D. Keyhoe cut off TV show dealing with UFO discussion
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 572

Date: 2/1958
Description: Brazilian Navy releases authentic picture of UFO
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster

Event 573

Date: 2/1/1958
Description: First US Satellite Explorer 1 launched into a geocentric medium earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 26

Event 574

Date: 2/5/1958
Description: Reinhold Schmidt's 2nd contact with saucers & spacepeople, takes ride.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Kearney, NE

Event 575

Date: 3/1958
Description: Big "flap" in Arizona. Much activity.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: Arizona

Event 576

Date: 4/1958
Description: All UN members queried as to status of UFO activity in respective countries
Type: ufological event
Reference: Keziah Poster
Location: New York City, New York

Event 577

Date: 5/1958
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Maelstrom AFB, Montana

Event 578

Date: 5/23/1958
Description: Explorer 1 loses contact
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: medium earth orbit

Event 579

Date: 12/20/1958
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dunellen, NJ

Event 580

Date: 1959
Description: Project SIGMA meets with success and establishes contact with Aliens.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 4/15/64

Event 581

Date: 1/26/1959
Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar is born in Coral Gables, FL.
Type: whistleblower
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Coral Gables, FL

Event 582

Date: 3/20/1959
Description: 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.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Redstone Arsenal

Event 583

Date: 4/1/1959
Description: 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 Mc Chord 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.
Type: ufo midair collision
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Orting, WA
See also: 9/29/59
See also: 5/61

Event 584

Date: 9/29/1959
Description: 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.
Type: ufo midair collision
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Buffalo, Texas
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 5/61

Event 585

Date: 1960
Description: The first planar monolithic integrated circuit (IC) chip was demonstrated
Type: scientific advance
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 586

Date: 1960's
End date: mid 1980's
Description: 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”
Type: research group
Reference: link

Event 587

Date: 1960's
Description: “Area 51” designation appears on several atomic fallout maps
Type: secret location
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar

Event 588

Date: 1/31/1960
Description: 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.
Type: telegram
Reference: link

Event 589

Date: 3/1960
Description: “Flying Saucer Review” article by Manhattan Project scientist Dr. Leon Davidson
Type: article
Reference: link

Event 590

Date: 8/13/1960
Description: 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)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Red Bluff, CA

Event 591

Date: 1961
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: "The Day after Roswell", by Philip J. Corso
Reference: Philip J. Corso's Manuscript
Location: Washington DC

Event 592

Date: 1961
End date: 1963
Description: Near Nellis AFB, 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. 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.
Type: ufo testing
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Area 51

Event 593

Date: 1961
Description: 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.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Russia

Event 594

Date: 1/20/1961
End date: 11/22/1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 595

Date: 2/28/1961
Description: US military advisors first accompany South Vietnamese troops during operations in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Vietnam

Event 596

Date: 4/28/1961
Description: Traces of a crashed UFO were found in this area.
Type: ufo crash
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Korb Lake, Leningrad, Russia

Event 597

Date: 5/1961
Description: 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.
Type: publication
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Location: US
See also: 4/1/59
See also: 9/29/59

Event 598

Date: 7/21/1961
Description: Mercury program : Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission — Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
Type: aerospace
Reference: Fate Magazine, 5/1961
Location: US
See also: 1/27/67

Event 599

Date: 9/19/1961
End date: 9/20/1961
Description: 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.
Type: abduction
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Lincoln, New Hampshire

Event 600

Date: 10/3/1961
Description: 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.
Type: atomic
Reference: Wikipedia
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Severny Island, Novaya Zemlya
Atomic type: aboveground
Atomic MT: 50

Event 601

Date: 10/8/1961
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 602

Date: 4/1962
Description: 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
Type: witness statement
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY)
Location: Wright Patterson AFB

Event 603

Date: 4/18/1962
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Oneida, NY
Location: Kansas
Location: Colorado
Location: Eureka, Utah

Event 604

Date: 5/12/1962
Description: General Douglas McArthur states, “of ultimate conflict between a united human race and the sinister forces of some other planetary galaxy”
Type: speach
Reference: link
Location: West Point Academy

Event 605

Date: 7/17/1963
Description: 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!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: US

Event 606

Date: 8/5/1963
Description: Partial Test Ban Treaty (PTBT). At this point, 499 nuclear tests were conducted
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 607

Date: 11/22/1963
Description: President John F. Kennedy Assassinated at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, TX.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 608

Date: 11/22/1963
End date: 1/20/69
Description: President Lyndon B. Johnson in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 609

Date: 4/15/1964
Description: 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.
Type: alien meeting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Location: Holloman AFB

Event 610

Date: 6/23/1964
Description: 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.
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Palm Springs, CA

Event 611

Date: 8/2/1964
Description: Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Vietnam

Event 612

Date: 8/7/1964
Description: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution is passed, airstrikes against Vietnam begin
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Vietnam

Event 613

Date: 10/1964
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Korea

Event 614

Date: 12/10/1964
Description: Recovery of Saucer by A.K. (initials).
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Riley, KA
See also: 11/65

Event 615

Date: 12/19/1964
Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP case #(censured): Subject: UFOs over Patuxent Navel 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!
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Patuxent Navel Air Station
See also: 1/25/65

Event 616

Date: 1965
Description: 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.)
Type: alien sighting
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
Location: Fairborn, Ohio

Event 617

Date: 1/15/1965
Description: Soviet subsurface nuclear explosion “Chagan”, crater had a diameter of 408m, 100m deep
Type: atomic
Reference: link
Location: Kazakhstan
Atomic type: subsurface
Atomic KT: 140

Event 618

Date: 1/25/1965
Description: Memo to Chief, Contact Division: NICAP Case #(censured).
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
See also: 12/19/64

Event 619

Date: 2/11/1965
Description: 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!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Pacific Ocean

Event 620

Date: 5/28/1965
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Bougainville Reef, Australia

Event 621

Date: 7/3/1965
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Antartica

Event 622

Date: 9/3/1965
Description: 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].
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Angleton, TX

Event 623

Date: 9/16/1965
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Pretoria, South Africa

Event 624

Date: 10/1965
Description: Soviet N-1 super heavy rocket development is begun
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome, Soviet Kazakhstan

Event 625

Date: 11/1965
Description: 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.)
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Riley, KA
See also: 12/10/64

Event 626

Date: 12/9/1965
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Kecksburgh, PA

Event 627

Date: 1966
Description: Envelope found with hand written notes in private BSRA/BSRF archives containing the addresses of the 3 other named witnesses to the 4/54 Edwards AFB meeting.
Type: hand written note
Reference: Twitter
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 628

Date: 1/11/1966
Description: Engineer Norman S. Bean gives a lecture on flying saucers at Palm Beach Towers, FL
Type: lecture
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 629

Date: 2/22/1966
Description: Look Magazine reports UFO sightings near Exeter, NH. In one sighting the witness went and got a policeman, who also witnessed the UFO.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: NICAP
Location: Exeter, NH

Event 630

Date: 2/22/1966
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: NICAP
Location: Miami, FL

Event 631

Date: 3/20/1966
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Twitter
Location: Dexter, MI
See also: 3/21/66
See also: 4/1/66

Event 632

Date: 3/20/1966
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F, p257)
Location: La Porte, IN

Event 633

Date: 3/21/1966
Description: 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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Medium
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Miami, FL

Event 634

Date: 3/21/1966
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C)
Location: Dexter, MI
See also: 3/1/67

Event 635

Date: 4/1/1966
Description: 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.
Type: magazine article
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dextor, MI
See also: 3/20/66
See also: 3/21/66

Event 636

Date: 4/5/1966
Description: Congressman, Gerald Ford announces to Congress the need to extensively examine UFOs. Brief Hearing, C. Sagan.
Type: announcement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-G p64)
Location: Washington DC

Event 637

Date: 4/17/1966
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p259)
Location: Ravenna, OH
See also: 6/24/66

Event 638

Date: Summer 1966
Description: 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.
Type: poll
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Iowa

Event 639

Date: Summer 1966
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Nha Trang, Vietnam
See also: 3/4/69

Event 640

Date: 6/24/1966
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Richmond, VA
See also: 4/17/66

Event 641

Date: 1967
Description: 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.
Type: radiological event
Reference: link
Location: Lake Karachay, Russia

Event 642

Date: 3/1/1967
Description: 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.
Type: notice
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, OH
See also: 3/21/66

Event 643

Date: 7/3/1967
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Camp Pendleton, San Diego, CA

Event 644

Date: 12/3/1967
Description: 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.
Type: abduction
Reference: Matrix 1, Valerian
Location: Nebraska

Event 645

Date: 1968
Description: Project xxxxxxxx (name censured) established to evaluate all UFO information pertinent to space technology.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 1953
See also: 12/69
See also: 1976

Event 646

Date: 1/19/1968
Description: 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.
Type: intelligence report (B1-E p543)
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Moscow, Russia
See also: 2/22/68

Event 647

Date: 2/22/1968
Description: 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.
Type: unclassified air gram
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p473)
Location: Soviet Union
See also: 1/19/68

Event 648

Date: 4/2/1968
Description: Science fiction movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 649

Date: 1969?
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, WHITEWATER RECOVERY)
Location: Whitewater Lake, Indiana
See also: 1968

Event 650

Date: 1/20/1969
End date: 8/9/1974
Description: President Richard Nixon in office
Type: historical event
Reference: (Wikipedia)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon)

Event 651

Date: 2/21/1969
Description: Soviet super-heavy N-1 rocket fails its first attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 652

Date: 3/4/1969
Description: 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!”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p265)
See also: 8/13/75
See also: 6/66

Event 653

Date: 3/28/1969
Description: Dwight D. Eisenhower dies
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 654

Date: 7/3/1969
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its second test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 655

Date: 10/1969
Description: Jimmy Carter sees and reports a UFO.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p516)
Location: Leary, Georgia

Event 656

Date: 12/1969
Description: Project xxxxxx (name censured) continues after Project BLUEBOOK is closed.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A)
Attributes: Majestic

Event 657

Date: 1970's
Description: Private letter sent to BSRF from an active duty USAF pilot asking for information.
Type: letter
Reference: BSRA archive
Location: San Diego, CA

Event 658

Date: 3/31/1970
Description: Explorer 1, the first US satellite, decays
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia Link
See also: 2/1/58

Event 659

Date: 6/26/1971
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its third test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 660

Date: 1972
Description: 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.
Type: majestic document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, SNOWBIRD)
Reference: archive.org

Event 661

Date: 10/2/1972
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p467)
See also: 9/19/26

Event 662

Date: 11/23/1972
Description: Soviet super heavy N-1 rocket fails its fourth and final test attempt
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Baikonur Cosmodrome

Event 663

Date: 3/29/1973
Description: The last United States combat troops left Vietnam
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Vietnam

Event 664

Date: 9/1973
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: Pea Research (A5, B3-C, RECOVERY, HAWAII)
Location: Hawaii

Event 665

Date: 10/18/1973
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p319, 271)
Location: Mansfield, OH

Event 666

Date: 10/25/1973
Description: 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.
Type: statement
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p475)
Location: Washington DC

Event 667

Date: 12/13/1973
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Bradenton, FL

Event 668

Date: 1974
Description: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) renewed
Type: law
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 669

Date: 8/9/1974
Description: President Gerald Ford in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 670

Date: 10/11/1974
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Tampa, Florida
See also: 3/25/48

Event 671

Date: 12/1974
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Tampa, Florida

Event 672

Date: 1975
Description: 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."
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Loring AFB

Event 673

Date: 1/8/1975
Description: Confidential Spanish Report, Spanish Air Force: UFO spotted by military personnel at Las Bardenas Reales, near Zaragoza Air Base
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p459)
Location: Las Bardenas Reales, Spain

Event 674

Date: 3/28/1975
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p2)
Reference: See Barry Goldwater’s “Blue Room” letters and released FOIA Material 1975–1984, Burbank CA, asked General Curtis LeMay to see Blue Room
Location: Washington DC

Event 675

Date: 8/13/1975
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p281)
Location: Haderslev, Denmark
See also: 3/4/69

Event 676

Date: 8/13/1975
Description: 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.
Type: ce4 event
Reference: Pea Research (B1-F p282)
Location: Alamogordo, NM
See also: 3/4/69

Event 677

Date: 10/1975
End date: 12/1975
Description: 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.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Washington Post
Location: US

Event 678

Date: 10/27/1975
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Washington Post
Reference: Debrief
Location: Loring AFB

Event 679

Date: 10/28/1975
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p468)
Location: Loring AFB
See also: 11/11/75
See also: 7/52

Event 680

Date: 10/29/1975
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p468)
Location: Loring AFB

Event 681

Date: 11/11/1975
Description: Confidential CINC/NORAD Report
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p468)
Location: US
See also: 10/28/75

Event 682

Date: 1976
Description: Project SIGMA becomes an independent project from Project xxxxxxx.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A, SIGMA)
Location: US
Attributes: Majestic
See also: 1968

Event 683

Date: 1/21/1976
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p524, B1-F p342)
Location: Cannon AFB, NM

Event 684

Date: 4/9/1976
Description: CONFIDENTIAL CIA Message: Source (name Censored) seeks guidance from CIA UFO experts as to material in his report that should remain classified.
Type: confidential message
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p508)
Location: Langley, VA

Event 685

Date: 7/30/1976
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Ritchie, Cascade, Maryland

Event 686

Date: 9/19/1976
Description: 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.”
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p497, TEHRAN, B1-F p288, B1-G p72)
Location: Tehran, Iran
See also: 10/2/72
See also: 9/20/76

Event 687

Date: 1977
Description: 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.
Type: non-profit organization
Reference: Wikipeda
Location: Scottsdale, Arizona

Event 688

Date: 1977
Description: 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.
Type: debriefing
Reference: link
Location: Ellsworth AFB

Event 689

Date: 1977
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union
Attributes: communication

Event 690

Date: 1/20/1977
End date: 1/20/1981
Description: President Jimmy Carter in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipeda
Location: Washington DC

Event 691

Date: 9/1/1977
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p581)
Location: Washington DC

Event 692

Date: Late 70's
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Norilsk, Soviet Union

Event 693

Date: 1/18/1978
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Ft. Dix, NJ

Event 694

Date: 1/18/1978
Description: 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).
Type: alien encounter
Reference: link
Location: Ft. Dix, NJ

Event 695

Date: 2/1/1978
Description: 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)
Type: information sheet
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p515)
Location: Washington DC

Event 696

Date: 7/18/1978
Description: DoD Staff Message: UFO spotted over North Tehran, Iran
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p501)
Location: Tehran, Iran

Event 697

Date: 7/29/1978
Description: 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.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Dayton, OH

Event 698

Date: 10/21/1978
Description: 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).
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p461-463, B1-F p298)

Event 699

Date: 11/9/1978
Description: Project Mercury Astronaut L. 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.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: New York City

Event 700

Date: End of 1978
Description: 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.
Type: book reference
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 701

Date: 1979
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: link
Location: Albuquerque, NM

Event 702

Date: 11/1979
Description: 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)
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Test Range

Event 703

Date: 11/4/1979
Description: Iran Hostage Crisis
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iran

Event 704

Date: 1980's
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Area 51

Event 705

Date: 5/10/1980
Description: DoD Report: The FAP (Peruvian Air Force) spotted a UFO twice and tried to intercept and destroy the UFO without success.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p503)
Location: Area 51
See also: 7/1952

Event 706

Date: Summer 1980
Description: 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.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Location: Soviet Union

Event 707

Date: 7/28/1980
Description: Author and researcher John Keel is interviewed by David Letterman. Keel says that animal mutilation cases keep him up at night.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: New York City

Event 708

Date: 8/1980
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range

Event 709

Date: 8/9/1980
End date: 9/3/1980
Description: 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.)
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Kirtland AFB

Event 710

Date: 9/1/1980
Description: The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore is published.
Type: book
Reference: Amazon
Location: US

Event 711

Date: 9/16/1980
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: (link
Location: McGuire AFB, NJ
See also: 1/18/78

Event 712

Date: 10/24/1980
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range

Event 713

Date: 11/10/1980
Description: 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.
Type: private presentation
Reference: link
Location: Manzano Test Range

Event 714

Date: 11/17/1980
Description: 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”.)
Type: secret document
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p528)
Location: US
Attributes: majestic

Event 715

Date: 12/1980
Description: 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.
Type: ufo landing
Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4–1985
Location: between the Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge
See also: 3/3/1985

Event 716

Date: 12/27/1980
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p456)
Location: RAF Woodbridge
See also: 12/29/1980

Event 717

Date: 12/29/1980
Description: Lt. Col. C. I. Halt, sees a UFO that separates into 5 UFOs and later sees 3 other UFOs.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p456)
Location: RAF Woodbridge
See also: 12/27/1980

Event 718

Date: 12/29/1980
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Dayton, TX
See also: 6/6/88

Event 719

Date: 12/29/1980
Description: Cash-Landrum incident. It was investigated by ex-Col. John B. Alexander on behalf of the inspector General of the Pentagon.
Type: ufo encounter
Reference: link
Location: north of Houston, TX

Event 720

Date: 1981
Description: 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.
Type: research organization
Reference: "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good page 219
Location: China

Event 721

Date: 1/13/1981
Description: Bentwaters AFB Air Force Memo from Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, Deputy Base Commander.
Type: memo
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Bentwaters AFB
See also: 12/27/80
See also: 12/29/80

Event 722

Date: 1/20/1981
End date: 1/20/1989
Description: President Ronald Reagan in office.
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
See also: 12/27/80
See also: 12/29/80

Event 723

Date: 10/19/1981
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC

Event 724

Date: 11/3/1981
Description: Newspaper article on CAUS vs. NSA: “Suit Seeks to Lift Secrecy Veil From Agency’s UFO Documents”.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Washington Post
Location: US

Event 725

Date: 11/3/1981
Description: 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).
Type: court case
Reference: Pea Reseach (A3, B1-A)
Location: US
See also: 6/24/83

Event 726

Date: 1982
Description: 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.
Type: historical event
Reference: link
Location: Albuquerque, NM

Event 727

Date: 2/6/1982
Description: 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.
Type: telephone call
Reference: Twitter
Location: Clearwater FL
See also: 3/25/48

Event 728

Date: 6/27/1982
Description: Bob Lazar appears on the front Sunday page of the “Los Alamos Monitor”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 729

Date: 7/28/1982
Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets Dr. Edward Teller at a presentation.
Type: meeting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Los Alamos, NM

Event 730

Date: 8/21/1982
Description: Bob Lazar appears in the “Arizona Republic” newspaper in Phoenix AZ and is said to be working in “Los Alamos, NM National Laboratory”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: Phoenix, AZ

Event 731

Date: 11/27/1982
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Palatine, IL

Event 732

Date: 3/27/1983
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: "Extra-Terrestrials Amoung Us" by George C. Andrews
Location: Gorki, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus

Event 733

Date: 6/24/1983
Description: 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.
Type: lawsuit
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Washington DC
See also: 11/3/81

Event 734

Date: 10/23/1983
Description: 1983 Beirut Barracks Bombings
Type: terrorist attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Beirut, Lebanon

Event 735

Date: 11/29/1983
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (A2, B1-E p525, B1-G p49)
Location: US

Event 736

Date: 1984
Description: 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.
Type: manual
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p458)
Location: US

Event 737

Date: 1984
Description: USAF seizes 89,000 acres of public land adjacent to Groom Lake
Type: land seizure
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Area-51

Event 738

Date: 1/13/1984
Description: 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
Reference: Archive.org
Location: Soviet Union

Event 739

Date: 4/1984
Description: 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
Reference: Archive.org
Location: White Swan, WA

Event 740

Date: 5/1/1984
Description: 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.
Type: book
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 741

Date: 5/16/1984
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-A p55)
Location: US

Event 742

Date: 1985
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: China

Event 743

Date: 3/3/1985
Description: 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
Reference: APCIC Vol 10 #4 1985
Location: Washington DC
See also: 12/1980

Event 744

Date: 4/19/1985
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research
Location: London, England

Event 745

Date: 6/28/1985
Description: 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
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p529)
Location: National Archives, Washington DC

Event 746

Date: 8/27/1985
Description: 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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p472)
Location: Darlian, China

Event 747

Date: 1986
Description: Colonel General Sapkov observes UFO over Kapustin Test Range
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: link
Location: Kapustin Test Range
See also: 11/79

Event 748

Date: 5/11/1986
Description: 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.
Type: aerial ufo encounter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: near Sedona, AR

Event 749

Date: 5/19/1986
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
See also: 7/52

Event 750

Date: 11/17/1986
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: Pea Research
Location: Fort Yukon, Alaska

Event 751

Date: 2/15/1987
Description: 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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: Pea Research (J4-B)
Location: San Jose, CA

Event 752

Date: 3/12/1987
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (B1-E p484)
Location: US
See also: 5/16/84

Event 753

Date: 9/4/1987
Description: JMP (Justice for Military Personnel) letter sent to President Ronald Reagan. This letter, verified by: Astronaut L. 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research (JMP)
Location: Washington DC
See also: 7/52
See also: 9/24/47

Event 754

Date: 9/21/1987
Description: 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.”
Type: statement
Reference: link
Location: New York City

Event 755

Date: 9/25/1987
Description: Contactee spy comedy “Real Men” movie is released
Type: movie
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: DC

Event 756

Date: 12/13/1987
Description: Ufologist John Lear claims Dr. Edward Teller is MJ-12
Type: statement
Reference: Article by John Lear (TODO)
Location: Nevada

Event 757

Date: 12/21/1987
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Langley, VA

Event 758

Date: 1988
Description: Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar meets ufologist John Lear
Type: meeting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: NV

Event 759

Date: 1/28/1988
Description: Ex-CIA Pilot Claimed To Receive 25 Secret CIA Memos About Aliens On Earth
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 760

Date: 5/5/1988
Description: 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.
Type: statement
Reference: Pea Research (J4-A)
Location: Washington DC

Event 761

Date: 6/6/1988
Description: 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.
Type: letter
Reference: Pea Research
Location: New Mexico
See also: 12/29/80

Event 762

Date: 9/19/1988
Description: The Fund for UFO Research Inc. provides $500 in funding to Elaine Douglas and Mr. Richard Hall for Washington DC area Abduction research.
Type: funding
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 763

Date: 10/14/1988
Description: “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.
Type: TV broadcast
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 764

Date: 11/15/1988
Description: 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.
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Soviet Union

Event 765

Date: 11/29/1988
Description: Dr. Edward Teller calls Area-51/S-4 worker Bob Lazar
Type: telephone call
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 766

Date: 12/1988
Description: Crash Retrieval Program worker Bob Lazar starts working at Area-51/S-4 (Unclear: Lazar’s book says 1/89 in Preface)
Type: historical event
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Area 51

Event 767

Date: 1989
Description: The date provided in an interview by Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD for the failure of the “Crash Retrieval Program”
Type: historical event
Reference: link

Event 768

Date: 1989
Description: Year of Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s W-2 statement
Type: tax statement
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 769

Date: 1/20/1989
End date: 1/20/1993
Description: President George H. W. Bush in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 770

Date: 3/1989 (approximate)
Description: Lazar takes group near Groom Lake to view UFO’s
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 771

Date: Spring 1989
Description: 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.
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 772

Date: 3/29/1989
Description: Lazar records the mean outdoor temp, heads with group to viewing area for 2nd time
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 773

Date: 4/2/1989
Description: Lazar’s 3rd trip with group to view UFO’s near Groom Lake
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 774

Date: 4/7/1989
Description: Area-51/S-4 whistleblower Bob Lazar’s last day at work
Type: employment
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Papoose Dry Lake

Event 775

Date: 5/1989
End date: 11/1989
Description: Journalist George Knapp is assigned to research all things Bob Lazar.
Type: historical event
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 776

Date: 5/14/1989
Description: Bob Lazar, at ex-CIA contractor and ufologist John Lear’s secure house, is first interviewed by journalist George Knapp.
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar page 213
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 777

Date: 5/17/1989
Description: 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.
Type: crash retrieval
Reference: AFU Archives, “Space Craft Shot Out of South African Sky”
Location: Kalahari Desert

Event 778

Date: 5/24/1989
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar
Reference: YouTube
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 779

Date: 9/28/1989
Description: 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.
Type: ufo retrieval attempt
Reference: Pea Research
Reference: Archive.org
Location: Smith's Point Beach, Shirley, NY

Event 780

Date: 11/1989
Description: “UFO’s: The Best Evidence” multi-part series released by George Knapp, revealing Bob Lazar’s identity to the public.
Type: TV series
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 781

Date: 1990's
Description: USAF argues in court filings that it never used the name Area 51
Type: court filings
Reference: “Dreamland” by Lazar
Location: US

Event 782

Date: 8/2/1990
End date: 1/17/1991
Description: Operation Desert Shield
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iraq

Event 783

Date: 2/28/1991
Description: Operation Desert Storm
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Iraq

Event 784

Date: 1/20/1993
End date: 1/20/2001
Description: President Bill Clinton in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 785

Date: 3/20/1994
Description: “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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Groom Lake

Event 786

Date: 9/16/1994
Description: Ariel school incident
Type: ce3 event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Ruwa, Zimbabwe

Event 787

Date: 12/1994
Description: SOM1–01 "MAJESTIC-12 Group Special Operations Manual" document “leaked” to UFO researcher
Type: majestic document
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US
See also: 4/1954

Event 788

Date: 12/18/1994
Description: Ufologist Leonard Stringfield dies
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cincinnati, OK

Event 789

Date: 1996
End date: 1997
Description: 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.
Type: document
Reference: link
Location: Crimea

Event 790

Date: 1996
Description: Skinwalker Ranch is purchased by Robert Bigelow
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Skinwalker Ranch

Event 791

Date: 2/8/1996
Description: 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”
Type: article
Reference: link
Location: Area 51

Event 792

Date: 3/1996
Description: 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.”
Type: lawsuit
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 793

Date: 1997
Description: ex-US Army Lt. Col Corso appears on Art Bell’s “Dreamland” radio show
Type: radio appearance
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Rachel, NV

Event 794

Date: 2/1997 (approximate)
Description: “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.
Type: interview
Reference: Youtube
Reference: IMDB
Location: US
See also: 5/23/97
See also: 2008

Event 795

Date: 5/23/1997
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: Youtube
Location: US

Event 796

Date: 7/23/1997
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Rachel, NV

Event 797

Date: 2/28/1998
End date: 6/11/1999
Description: Kosovo War and NATO intervention
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Kosovo

Event 798

Date: 11/16/1998
Description: 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.”
Type: lawsuit
Reference: link
Location: Area 51

Event 799

Date: 1/20/2001
End date: 1/20/2009
Description: President George W. Bush in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 800

Date: 7/4/2001
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: Roswell, NM

Event 801

Date: 9/11/2001
Description: September 11 Terrorist Attack
Type: terrorist attack
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC
Location: New York City

Event 802

Date: 10/7/2001
End date: 8/30/2021
Description: Afghanistan War begins
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Afghanistan

Event 803

Date: 3/2003
End date: 4/2003
Description: Second Persian Gulf War (Gulf War II)
Type: war
Reference: link
Location: Iraq

Event 804

Date: 2004
Description: TicTac craft witnessed by Fravor and other Navy personnel off the coast of southern California
Type: ufo sighting
Reference: TODO
Location: off the coast of southern California

Event 805

Date: 2007
Description: 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)
Type: newspaper article
Reference: NY Times
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 806

Date: 2008
Description: 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.
Type: video interview
Reference: link
Location: US
See also: 2/1997
See also: 5/23/97

Event 807

Date: 1/20/2009
End date: 1/20/2017
Description: President Barack Obama in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 808

Date: 11/6/2009
Description: 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.
Type: presentation
Reference: Newspapers.com
Location: US

Event 809

Date: 6/4/2010
Description: First Falcon 9 Technology Demonstration launch
Type: aerospace
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Cape Canaveral SLC-40, FL

Event 810

Date: 3/1/2015
Description: Las Vegas Review-Journal Article: “Area 51 worker sees hope in Supreme Court ruling”
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 811

Date: 1/20/2017
End date: 1/20/2021
Description: President Donald Trump in office
Type: historical document
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC, US

Event 812

Date: 4/18/2017
Description: 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.”
Type: state resolution
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: Olympia, WA
See also: 6/21/1947

Event 813

Date: 6/2017
Description: Majestic document mentions Frank Scully, Aztec crash, EBE-1
Type: majestic document
Reference: link]
Reference: archive.org
Location: US

Event 814

Date: 10/12/2017
Description: Tom DeLonge Announces To The Stars Academy for ‘Outer Edges of Science’ Research (TTSA)
Type: company formation
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 815

Date: 12/16/2017
Description: NY Times discloses the Pentagon’s AATIP program
Type: newspaper article
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 816

Date: 8/14/2018
Description: 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.
Type: delivery
Reference: YouTube)
Location: Austin, TX

Event 817

Date: 10/11/2018
Description: Ufologist Robert O. Dean dies at age 89. Dean gave public presentations about secret documents we read at NATO SHAPE concerning UFO's.
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Tucson, AZ

Event 818

Date: 3/2019
Description: 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.”
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 819

Date: 4/30/2019
Description: 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.
Type: interview
Reference: link
Location: US

Event 820

Date: 5/13/2019
Description: Ufologist and nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman dies age 84
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Toronto, Canada

Event 821

Date: 5/31/2019
End date: 8/22/2020
Description: First season of History Channel’s “Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation”
Type: documentary
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 822

Date: 6/20/2019
Description: Bob Lazar and film maker Jeremy Corbell sit down for an interview with Joe Rogan
Type: interview
Reference: “Dreamland” by Bob Lazar (TODO)
Location: US

Event 823

Date: 9/20/2019
Description: “Storm Area-51” event planned
Type: event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Area 51

Event 824

Date: 10/21/2019
Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 825

Date: 10/23/2019
Description: Dr. Eric W. Davis PhD gave classified briefings on retrievals of unexplained objects to staff members of the Senate Intelligence Committee
Type: senate briefing
Reference: NY Times
Location: Washington DC

Event 826

Date: 1/20/2020
Description: President Joe Biden in office
Type: historical event
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Washington DC

Event 827

Date: 3/11/2020
Description: 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.
Type: pandemic
Reference: Wikipedia

Event 828

Date: 3/23/2020
Description: Bigelow Aerospace laws off entire workforce
Type: layoff
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 829

Date: 6/6/2020
Description: Ufologist and ex-NASA mission specialist Bob Oechsler dies
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Edgewater, Maryland

Event 830

Date: 7/28/2020
Description: NY Times confirms Crash Retrievals with “retrieved materials”, all information is classified
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: New York, New York

Event 831

Date: 1/23/2021
Description: Radio and TV host Larry King dies at age 87 in Los Angeles, CA
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Los Angeles, CA

Event 832

Date: 4/26/2021
Description: Letter from Senate Majority leader Harry Reid confirming the existence of AATIP and Lue Elizondo’s leadership role within the DoD program
Type: letter
Reference: TODO

Event 833

Date: 6/4/2021
Description: 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.
Type: newspaper article
Reference: link
Location: China

Event 834

Date: 8/30/2021
Description: Afghanistan War ends
Type: war
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: Afghanistan

Event 835

Date: 12/28/2021
Description: Nevada Senator Harry Reid dies at age 82
Type: death
Reference: Wikipedia
Location: US

Event 836

Date: 2/6/2022
Description: Garry Nolan appears on Lex Fridman Podcast’s podcast with the show title “UFOs and Aliens”
Type: interview
Reference: YouTube
Location: US

Event 837

Date: 3/29/2022
Description: Ufologist and pilot John Lear, son of industrialist and Learjet founder Bill Lear, dies at aged 79
Type: death
Reference: link
Location: Las Vegas, NV

Event 838

Date: 6/3/2022
Description: 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.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 839

Date: 6/4/2022
Description: 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.
Type: public statement
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 840

Date: 6/4/2022
Description: 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.
Type: public panel
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 841

Date: 6/4/2022
Description: 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.
Type: public presentation
Reference: link
Location: Huntsville, AL

Event 842

Date: 12/23/2022
Description: President Biden signs the 2023 NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) into law, containing UFO whistleblower protections and references to back-engineering
Type: law
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 843

Date: 1/12/2023
Description: 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.”
Type: unclassified report
Reference: link
Location: Washington DC

Event 844

Date: 1/12/2023
Description: CNBC: "More than 360 new UFO cases have been reported to U.S. intelligence agencies since March 2021"
Type: ufo sightings
Reference: link
Reference: link
Location: US