• 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 1 — An Air Force C-118 plane with four on board crashes between Sumner and Orting, Washington, about an hour after taking off from McChord AFB [now Joint Base Lewis-McChord]…

  • 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…

  • July – Today in UFO History

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  • 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 20 feet from the ground. 1898 June 1 — 8:30 p.m. Harry McCandliss is riding in the country near Emporia, Kansas, when he sees a cigar-shaped object flying toward the…

  • 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 two shiny, round objects overtake a B-36 flying above. The objects slow down to match the plane’s speed and remain in formation with them for 20 seconds. Then they make…