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Historic UFO Encounters: Newspaper / Magazine Articles

feinman said:
1965:
The Bryan Times - Google News Archive Search
"viewed through 8-power binoculars, the star appeared as a small flat spot"
"Sometimes the crescent is preceded and flanked by what appear to be first-magnitude stars which keep a constant distance from the crescent"

1902:
Richmond dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, August 19, 1902, Page 1, Image 1
"was only a shapeless spot of light"
"crown of gold over which twinkled a star of unusual proportions"

Yep.
Gimme an "A"!...Gimme an "L"!... :-D
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I draw green skin alien girls too but they're much boonies ;)
 
feinman said:
1965:
The Bryan Times - Google News Archive Search
"viewed through 8-power binoculars, the star appeared as a small flat spot"
"Sometimes the crescent is preceded and flanked by what appear to be first-magnitude stars which keep a constant distance from the crescent"

1902:
Richmond dispatch. (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, August 19, 1902, Page 1, Image 1
"was only a shapeless spot of light"
"crown of gold over which twinkled a star of unusual proportions"

Yep.
Gimme an "A"!...Gimme an "L"!... :-D
DwOWRO3emz-11.png

https://cdn.drawception.com/images/panels/2013/12-9/DwOWRO3emz-11.png
Click to expand...
I draw green skinned alien girls too but they are much bustier ;)
 
Comfortably Numb said:
Is there any documented substance to Robert Hastings's claims re 10 missiles being disabled?
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I haven't found any reason to dismiss it; the missiles have triple redundancy in power too. iiirc, in at least one cases they started the countdown for the missiles somehow, stopping it at the last second. You can probably find it here:


http://www.ufosandnukes.com/#trailer

https://www.history.com/news/ufos-near-nuclear-facilities-uss-roosevelt-rendlesham

This is a good overview:

:eek::eek::eek:
Yeah, it is a lot about the nukes... Hopefully they will intervene if we blow things in a big way, on this planet we are destroying.
 
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feinman said:
I haven't found any reason to dismiss it; the missiles have triple redundancy in power too. iiirc, in at least one cases they started the countdown for the missiles somehow, stopping it at the last second. You can probably find it here:


http://www.ufosandnukes.com/#trailer

https://www.history.com/news/ufos-near-nuclear-facilities-uss-roosevelt-rendlesham

This is a good overview:

:eek::eek::eek:
Yeah, it is a lot about the nukes... Hopefully they will intervene if we blow things in a big way, on this planet we are destroying.
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The Nukes...
The Bend Bulletin
(Bend, Oregon)
02 Dec 1950, Sat

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I'm looking for that old triangle sighting, and more over on Historum, but it is slow going and there are hundreds of pages and the it's not indexed to an extent to make it very searchable. As I look I find things I don't think I've posted before.

The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, August 27, 1917, Image 1
Image provided by Minnesota Historical Society; Saint Paul, MN
Persistent link: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86063381/1917-08-27/ed-1/seq-1/

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Tabor City tribune., February 18, 1953
Another fun one..
Booth gets an honorary Darwin Award for being such a violent dipstick, imho.

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San Bernardino Sun, 10 December 1978

https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SBS1978...strange+OR+mysterious+star+sky+bright-------1

...what flew over these military installations may never be explained . . .
CONTINUED
Then, starting Nov. 7 for four straight nights, Malmstrom AFB and a series of ICBM launch control facilities in Montana, along with Minot AFB in North Dakota, began reporting flyovers of brightly lit objects this time referred to in the 24th NORAD region commander's log as "UFO's." The mysterious activity was so intense that on the second night, Malmstrom sent up two F-106 interceptors after its radar picked up seven separate aircraft between 9500 feet and 15,500 feet. They were flying at only 7 knots, later sped up to 150 knots, and then virtually hovered at 3 knots. A memorandum from the National Military Command Center at the Pentagon describes what happened after the seven objects were picked up on radar: "Ground witnesses observed lights in the sky and the sounds of engines similar to jet fighters. Cross-tell with FAA Federal Aviation Administration revealed no jet aircraft within 100 NM nautical miles of the sightings. Radar tracked the objects over Lewistown, Mont., at a speed of 7 knots " The jets took off but were unable to make contact because the objects began a cat-and-mouse game with the F-106's. "Personnel at 4 SAC sites reported observing intercepting F-106's arrive in area; sighted objects turned off their lights upon arrival of interceptors, and back on upon their departure." The Pentagon memo makes it clear that radar operators checked out their equipment, and it was functioning properly. Also ruled out were atmospheric tricks caused by the northern lights. Other entries from the 24th NORAD region commander's log detail the strangehappenings throughout this period: "7 Nov. Received a call from the 341st SAC CP saying that the following missile locations reported seeing a large red to orange to yellow object. . . ." "7 Nov. SAC advised that the LCF at Harlowton, Mont., observed an object which emitted a light which illuminated the site driveway." "7 Nov. L-1 reports that the object to their northeast seems to be issuing a black object from it, tubular in shape." "8 Nov. A security camper team at K-4 reported UFO's with white lights, one red light 50 yards behind white light. Personnel at K-1 seeing same object" "8 Nov. L-5 reported object in
creased in speed high velocity, raised in altitude and now cannot tell the object from the stars." "9 Nov. SAC CP reports UFO 20 miles southeast of Lewistown Mont., orange white disc object." "10 Nov. UFO sighting reported by Minot Air Force station, a bright starlike object in the west, moving east, about the size of a car. The object, passed over the radar station, 1000 feet to 2000 feet high, no noise heard." The following night, Canadian Air Force personnel at NORAD's Falconbridge radar station near Sudbury, On- . ta-io along with many civilians and local policemen saw a similar brightly lit object. F-106's from Selfridge AFB in Michigan failed to make contact A confidential report issued by the Combat Operations Center, NORAD, describes the incident: "Falconbridge reported search and height finder radar paints on an object
25 to 30 NM south of the sight ranging in altitude from 26,000 feet to 72,000 feet. The site commander and other personnel say the object appeared as a bright starbut much closer. "With binoculars, the object appeared as a 100-ft diameter sphere and appeared to have craters around the outside. Be assured that this command is doing everything possible to identify and provide solid factual information on these sitings sic. "I have also expressed my concern to SAFOI Air Force information that we come up soonest with a proposed answer to queries from the press to prevent overreaction by the public to reports by the media that may be blown out of proportion. To date efforts by Air Guard helicopters, SAC helicopters and NORAD F-106's have failed to produce positive ID." News reports on the strange activi
ties were confined to sketchy stories in such local newspapers as the Bangor (Maine) Daily News and the Sudbury (Ontario) Star. Reporters had no idea that UFOtype activity had occurred at any bases other than their local installation, and the Pentagon issued instructions to its information officers to keep the lid on. Despite three weeks of intense and similar activity across the northern tier states, a Pentagon telex ordered information officers: "Unless there is evidence which links sightings or unless media queries link sightings, queries can best be handled individually . . . responses should be direct, forthright and emphasize that the action taken was in response to an isolated or specific incident." During these three weeks, the Air Force constantly checked with other military installations, the Federal Aviation Administration, local airports, law enforcement agencies, the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and others to determine if any of the craft might belong to these agencies. The results were negative. What flew over the military installations during those 24 nights between Oct. 27 and Nov. 19 will probably never be fully explained, and the last entries in the 24th NORAD region commander's log serve only to offer more tantalizing hints: "12 Nov. UFO reported from KOI. They say the object is over Big Snowy mountain with a red light on it at high altitude." "12 Nov. Second UFO in same area reported. Appeared to be sending a beam of light to the ground intermittently." "19 Nov. SAC command post observed object traveling NE at a fast rate of speed. Object bright white light seen 45 to 50 sec following terrain 200 ft off ground. The light was two to three times brighter than .landing lights on a jet " For UFO Watchers Several UFO study groups welcome inquiries and reports of sightings from the public. Among the principal groups are: Center for UFO Studies, 1609 Sherman Ave., Suite 207, Evanston, HI. 60201. National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, 1 Bank St., Suite 307, Gaithersburg, Md. 20760. Aerial Phenomena Research Organization, 3910 E. Kleindale Rd.. Tucson, Ariz. 85712. Citizens Against UFO Secrecy, 191 E. 161st St., Bronx, N.Y. 10451.
UFO'S
10 PARADE DECEMBER 10, 1978
 
I have a new term for what is going on:
"Asymmetric Contact" or "Asymmetric Alien Contact"
That's what we have. And there is no respecting our species' anthropic exceptionalism or artificial territorial boundaries with this type of contact with a far superior and alien intelligence. We are not in control of the situation.
 
One reason for the large number of UFO reports in the USSR was the similarly large number of rocket launches at that time. The various exhaust clouds and outgassing phenomena associated with these launches were often mistaken for unknown craft in the atmosphere.

And, of course, these launches were routinely secret, so no-one could make connections between the observations and the launches.
 
Comfortably Numb said:
...the July, 1947 Rhodes, Pheonix, photograph and published in the press at that time.
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The following front page insight is elemental.

This seems to be the only, conceivably, related account supporting an observation re the type of objects Arnold described.

Every other subsequent report in our formative years is centralised on 'flying saucers', which as copiously evidenced, were resultant from an extraordinary misinterpretation of the nine objects undulating flight characteristics and how Arnold remarked they flew, ' like a saucer woul if you skipped it across water'.

If there are any other possibly similar reports of non 'flying saucer' shaped objects, similar to Arnold's clear depiction, where are they?

It's essential there should be, instead of 'flying saucers'.

However, apparently nowhere, excepting this single article and impossible to escape a blatantly obvious conclusion concerning the genesis of 'flying saucer' mythology.

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Agreed. After the misinterpretation of Arnold's description, almost all objects after that were called "flying saucers" regardless of whether they were discs or not.
 
The daily banner., January 25, 1916:

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The Ogden standard. February 03, 1916:

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Formation of "silvery boomerangs" seen over Moonee Ponds around '34.

Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Wednesday 13 January 1954, page 10
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Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Friday 20 November 1953, page 1

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I ran into this YouTube video some years ago. I don't know anything more about its provenance than what is listed with the video. It supposedly shows some crescent UFOs flying in NY. The date of the footage is listed as1950.
I took a look at historic weather reports for snow in that area that year, assuming it was taken at roughly the same time as the snowy scenes; the light seems to indicate that time of year too, though I haven't done a detailed analysis of that.
I found that the footage could have been taken on this day:
http://www.nicap.org/reports/rina4.htm

"THE COLONEL'S MEMORANDUM

On December 6, Air Force Colonel Charles Winkle, Assistant Executive in the Directorate for Plans, wrote a memorandum for Secretary of Defense George Marshall about this event. It confirms the alert:

SUBJECT: Air Alert - 1030 Hours , 6 December 1950
1. The ConAC (Continental Air Command) 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.
2. This information was further amplified at 1040 hours as follows. By radar contact it was determined that approximately 40 aircraft were in flight, at 32,000 feet, on a course of 200 degrees in the vicinity of Limestone, Maine.
3. The emergency alert procedure went into effect immediately.
4. The Office of the President was notified. Brigadier General Landry returned the call and stated that the President had been notified and that:
a. All information in this matter was to be released by the Department of the Air Force.
b. Office of the President would release no information.
c. The substance of a and b above was to be passed to the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
5. At 1104 hours the ConAC Air Defense Controller states that the original track had faded out and it appeared that the flight as originally identified is a friendly flight.
6. ConAC took immediate action to dispatch interceptors on the initial contact."
 
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