

The US Air Force reported that Moncla had crashed and that the "unknown" object was a misidentified Canadian Air Force airplane, but the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) disputed this claim, reporting that none of their craft were near the area in question. Robert Wilson while pursuing an unidentified flying object over Lake Superior in 1953. was a United States Air Force pilot who disappeared with 2nd Lt. Six local boys and a local woman of Flatwoods, West Virginia reported sighting a UFO landing and later discovered a bizarre-looking creature near the site on September 12, 1952.įelix Moncla, Jr. A July headline from the New York Times read: “flying objects near washington spotted by both pilots and radar: air force reveals reports of something, perhaps ‘saucers,’ traveling slowly but jumping up and down.”
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UFO incident was a series of unidentified flying object reports from July 13 to 29, 1952, over Washington, D.C. The Lubbock Lights were a v-shaped formation of lights seen over the town of Lubbock, Texas in August 1951.īeginning in the summer of 1952, according to Angelucci in his book The Secret of the Saucers (1955), he began to encounter flying saucers and their friendly human-appearing pilots during his drives home from an aircraft plant. The event garnered national media attention, as the concept of UFOs and alien invasion was extremely popular amongst Americans at the time. The Mariana UFO incident occurred during the summer of 1950 in Great Falls, Montana. The McMinnville UFO photographs were taken on a farm near McMinnville, Oregon on May 11, 1950, by Paul and Evelyn Trent. The Gorman Dogfight is alleged to have occurred on October 1, 1948, when a US Air Force pilot sighted and pursued a UFO for 27 minutes over Fargo, North Dakota. The incident was investigated by the US Air Force's Project Sign. The Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter is alleged to have occurred on July 24, 1948, when two American commercial pilots reported that their Douglas DC-3 had nearly collided with a strange torpedo shaped object. Historian David Michael Jacobs argued that the Mantell case marked a shift in both public and governmental perceptions of UFOs. Mantell, on January 7, 1948, while in pursuit of a UFO. The Mantell Incident involved the crash and death of 25-year-old Kentucky Air National Guard pilot, Captain Thomas F. The incident has evolved into a recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed, whereas many ufologists believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened. The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, in early July 1947 which have since become the subject of intense speculation and research. He described the objects as almost blindingly bright when they reflected the sun's rays their flight as "erratic" ("like the tail of a Chinese kite") and flying at "tremendous speed." Arnold's story was widely carried by the Associated Press and other news outlets. On June 24, 1947, Arnold said he saw nine unusual objects flying in a chain near Mount Rainier, Washington while he was searching for a missing military aircraft in his CallAir A-2. It is also one of the earliest reported instances of an alleged encounter with so-called "Men in black suits."

It was reported after the sighting of the original flying saucers by Kenneth Arnold. The Maury Island incident happened on June 21, 1947. Initially, the target of the aerial barrage was thought to be an attacking force from Japan, but Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, speaking at a press conference shortly afterward, called the incident a "false alarm." When documenting the incident in 1983, the US Office of Air Force History attributed the event to a case of "war nerves," likely triggered by a lost weather balloon, and exacerbated by stray flares and shell bursts from adjoining batteries. The "Battle of Los Angeles," also known as "The Great Los Angeles Air Raid," is the name given by contemporary sources to the fictional enemy attack, and subsequent anti-aircraft artillery barrage which took place from late February 24 to early February 25, 1942, over Los Angeles, California. This is a list of alleged UFO sightings in the United States.
