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The May M.T Almanac

On the surface, it is all blossom, bank holidays, bright evenings and the first proper sense that Summer might actually be thinking about turning up. But underneath? Underneath, May has always had one foot in the uncanny…

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April – Today in UFO History

1943 April 1 — Los Alamos Laboratory is established in New Mexico and begins operations. 1950 April 1 — Project Twinkle officially begins. 1959 April […]

March – Today in UFO History

1880 March 26 — Night. The train depot operator and a few friends are walking at Galisteo, New Mexico, when they hear loud voices and […]

February 10th & 11th – Today in UFO History

The Pentagon sends Blue Book chief Maj. Hector Quintanilla to Richmond, Virginia, on a debunking tour. Stressing delusions and hoaxes, he tells reporters that not a single UFO report is genuine. His press display includes false UFO photos etc. “I am a facts man,” Quintanilla says. “I cannot explain why people want to see UFOs.”

January – Today in UFO History

Alan walks his dog in Caversham, Berkshire, UK, when he sees a group of bright lights to the east. He calls his wife, Clarice, and they view them through binoculars. They are moving slowly in a line from east-west and are above the house. The brightest lights are orange-yellow and in a triangle formation.

December – Today in UFO History

As it passes over, he feels vibrations in his chest. The lights go out and three blinding-white lights in the shape of a triangle appear. Seconds later, the colored ones return, and the object drifts away. Warehouse foreman Edwin Hansen, 55, sees the same object as he is driving down Interstate 84.

November – Today in UFO History

A witness at Glenelg, Adelaide, South Australia, sees lengths of glistening material wrapped around a signpost and on looking up sees that more is falling from the sky. He collects a small sample of the thickest section, but the strands dissolve in his fingers.

OCTOBER – Today in UFO History

a visual sighting of an unidentified object is reported 4 miles northwest of Loring AFB, Maine. The alert helicopter is launched to identify the object but is unable to make contact and is launched again at 1:46 a.m., in response to a slow-moving target picked up by RAPCON radar.

September – Today in UFO History

Space scientist Yves Sillard is interviewed on Radio France International about GEIPAN. He states that the UFO phenomenon is serious and involves many witnesses who deserve an answer about what they have seen. The sightings, he says, include impressive radar-visual cases and landing traces.

August – Today in UFO history

Randy Springsteen, 8, and Dennis Mauer, 10, sons of military personnel, are sitting on the swings and see an entity with a big head, big pointed “cat” ears, wrinkled skin, and a greenish complexion in an open hatch. It has a thin, spindly body, long webbed fingers and toes, and tabs or suction cups on the ends of its fingers and toes. It also has a wrinkled mouth “like an old grandma’s.” The boys estimate the being is about 6 feet tall. It points a device that directed a beam of energy at the two boys on the swings, causing the levitation of the metal swings. The boys flee quickly into the Springsteen home and get Charlene Springsteen, who sees a row of lights in the sky as the UFO takes off and flies away.

July – Today in UFO History

July’s Complete Today in UFO History Archive

June – Today In UFO History

JUNE 1: 1892 June 1 — Night. A large balloon carrying a searchlight and four passengers passes over Newark, New Jersey, descending as low as […]

May – Today in UFO History

1952 May 1 — 9:10 a.m. Air intelligence officer Maj. Rudolph Pestalozzi and an airman standing outside the Davis-Monthan AFB base hospital, Tucson, Arizona, watch […]