Today in UFO History
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A Mysterious Times field guide to Spring Skies, Strange Lights and Unfinished Mysteries
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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]…
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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.”
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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…