#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Daylight Oval September 24, 1978 — Vineland, NJ 5:30 p.m. Two witnesses see a silver oval moving from east to west in Vineland, New Jersey. [Eberhart] Source: “Daylight Oval,” IUR 4, no. 1 (July 1979): 13;

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Strange Meeting With MIB? September 24, 1976 — 1/7:30 p.m. John Hopkins, the son of hypnotist Herbert Hopkins, and his wife Maureen, meet two odd individuals, “Bill” and “Jane,”

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Dark Object Over Lake Red Rock September 24, 1976 — Otley, IA 1/2:30 a.m. A conservation officer and his wife watch a dark object fly over Lake Red Rock near Otley, Iowa. It moves noiselessly at 40 mph and about 600 feet altitude.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Space Monster September 24 (approximately), 1973 — Sidney, NC 1/Rose Williamson, her father, and her sister are allegedly harassed for several days by two 7–8 feet tall “space monsters” with pointed ears at their home in Sidney, North Carolina,

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - UFOs: A Case Study in Public Misinformation September 24, 1968 — James E. McDonald gives a talk on “UFOs: A Case Study in Public Misinformation” at Kent State University, Ohio. [Eberhart]

#ufosky #Ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Blue Sphere Interferes With Car September 24, 1966 — Peoria, IL 1/3:30 a.m. A man named Gaines is driving his girlfriend home in Peoria, Illinois, when they see a large, luminous, blue sphere hovering low in the sky.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Triangle Emerges from Baltic September 24, 1961 — Łeba, Poland 1/11:35 p.m. Czeslaw K. Kawecki is walking along the sand dunes separating Łebsko Lake from the Baltic Sea to the west of Łeba, Poland.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Almaceda Hoax September 24, 1954 — Castelo Branco, Portugal 1/Hoaxed story of an alleged sighting by Cesar Cardoso at Castelo Branco, Portugal,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Chadwell Memo to CIA Dir. Walter B. Smith on UFO Issue September 24, 1952 — 1/CIA Assistant Director of Scientific Intelligence H. Marshall Chadwell writes a 4-page memo to CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Fake Truman-Forrestal Memo Authorizing Majestic Twelve (MJ-12 Hoax) September 24, 1947 — 1/A fake memo from President Truman to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal allegedly establishes a top-secret control group, Operation Majestic Twelve (MJ-12),

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Jacques Vallée's Birthday September 24, 1939 - Pontoise, France Ufologist Jacques Francis Vallée was born in Pontois, France.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Airship Over Sweden September 24, 1909 — Uppsala, Sweden 1/An object similar to a Parseval airship flies low over Gräsön [now Hindersön island] and Östhammar, Uppsala, Sweden, moving from northeast to west.

#ufosky #Ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Redmond Oregon Case September 24, 1959 — Redmond, OR 1/About 4:55 a.m. In Redmond, Oregon, police officer Robert Dickerson sees a bright white light rapidly descending north of the airport.

Stupid Wordle. Went to play, accidentally closed my tab a couple guesses in. Reloaded tab, instead of restarting where I left off, it gave me an entirely new word. Which I didn't know it did that, so I wasted guesses to continue the word I thought I was working towards. 2 wasted guesses.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Westchester Wing September 23, 1983 — Sandy Hook, CT 1/11:00 p.m. Three high-school girls and one adult watch a large, kite-shaped object with four steady, glowing lights (two red, two blue) above Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Another Daylight Cigar September 23, 1978 — Dexter, IA 1/1:28 p.m. A man is driving past a cattle lot 2 miles north of Dexter, Iowa, when he sees a silver cigar-shaped object 150 feet above the ground.

#ufosky #Ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Many Report UFO in Shelby County September 23, 1973 — Memphis, TN 1/8:41 p.m. After a local resident reports seeing a UFO hovering above the Tennessee Highway Patrol office at 6348 Summer Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Truck Driver Sees Shape Shifting Object September 23, 1973 — nr Tyler, TX 1/5:00 a.m. A truck driver is driving to work near Tyler, Texas, when a small “cub airplane” seems to fly directly in front of another car on the highway, nearly causing a wreck.

#ufosky #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Flying Cigars September 23, 1967 — btw. Amherst and Sunderland, MA 1/1:37 p.m. Geology professor Bryce M. Hand is driving north on State Highway 47 between Amherst and Sunderland, Massachusetts, when he notices a silvery, elongated object in the sky ahead.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence September 23, 1965 — 1/Lambros D. Callimahos, a cryptologist with the National Security Agency, presents a paper on “Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence” ...

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Swept Wing Aircraft at above 50,000ʹ September 23, 1951 — March AFB, CA At March AFB [now March Air Reserve Base] near Long Beach, California, two F-86 jets try to intercept an object in controlled orbit at around 55,000 feet,

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Dime On-Edge Observed by Lab Personnel September 23, 1948 — Santa Fe, NM 1/9:40 a.m. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, a group of people are waiting for an airplane at the landing strip when one of them notices something glint in the sun.

#ufotsky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - David Lang Vanishes / Hoax September 23, 1880 — Gallatin, TN 1/David Lang of Gallatin, Tennessee, is said to disappear in full view of five witnesses and vanish without a trace.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Twining Memo September 23, 1947 — 1/Head of Air Materiel Command Gen. Nathan Twining responds to Schulgen’s request for UFO information with a classified letter composed by Col. McCoy with the assistance of Alfred Loedding,

#ufosky #Ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - UFO Gives Rally Car a Lift September 23, 1978 — Buenos Aires, Argentina 1/Around 3:00 a.m. Carlos Acevedo and Miguel Ángel Moya, two Chilean racecar drivers, are driving a Citroën CG on the flat pampas south of Bahia Blanca, Argentina,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Cuernavaca Blackout September 23, 1965 — Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 1/A major blackout in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, coincides with the appearance of a glowing, disc-shaped UFO hovering low over the city.

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Large Triangle September 22, 1987 — Bossier City, LA 1/9:00 p.m. A young couple is sitting outside in Bossier City, Louisiana, when they see a large, conical or triangular object pass silently in the sky.

#ufosky #Ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Chiles-Whitted Revisited September 22, 1980 — Caribbean Sea 1/3:43a.m. Pan Am Flight 440, flying at 39,000 feet and piloted by Capt. Dave Garber, nearly collides with an unidentified blue-green cigar-shaped object over the Caribbean Sea south of Haiti.

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Erratic Pulsing Star September 22, 1977 — Ardmore, OK 10:25 p.m. A police detective in Ardmore, Oklahoma, watches a pulsating star rush about erratically. [Eberhart] Source: “Case 2-11-12,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): 3;

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - FAA Radar Tracks Formation September 22, 1977 — Omaha, NE Four FAA radar controllers in Omaha, Nebraska, track a large formation of unidentified objects. They are gone from the scope in less than a minute at an estimated speed of 17,000 mph. [Eberhart]

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Airline Crew Spots UFO September 22, 1977 — El Paso, TX 1/5:25 a.m. Capt. George Didlake, piloting Continental Airlines Flight 954, is climbing to 33,000 feet out of El Paso, Texas, when he sees an elongated object rapidly overtaking his DC-10.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Little Green Man w/Cube-shaped Craft September 22, 1976 — Regal, MN 1/10:30 p.m. A 10-year-old-boy in Regal, Minnesota, sees a 3.5-foot-tall creature with a large bald head, large red eyes, and green skin floating outside his bedroom window.

#ufosky #Ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Flashing Silver Disc September 22, 1967 — Allen [or Fittstown], OK 1/8:00 p.m. Simon Williams and his son Eugene, 14, are starting a pickup truck with jumper cables in Allen [or Fittstown], Oklahoma,

#ufosky #Ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Hynek Suggest UFO Database September 22, 1966 — 1/Hynek appeals to Secretary of the Air Force Harold Brown to create a program to put UFO reports into a machine-readable database.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Satellite Objects September 22, 1966 — Deadwood, SD 1/3:00 a.m. Police from several vantage points in Deadwood, South Dakota, see a large white hovering object, changing color to green to red then back to white.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Close Encounter With 4' Sphere September 22, 1965 — Clover, MN 1/1:50 p.m. A witness sees a steel-gray sphere approximately four feet in diameter descend from the sky and land about 75 yards away.

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Thousands See 80-Ft Saucer Over Lincolnshire September 22, 1956 - Lincolnshire, England 1/Afternoon. A spherical object about 80 feet in diameter at a height of 54,000 feet is detected on radar, hovering in spite of a 40 mph wind at that altitude.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Amat. Astronomer Sees Dull-Metallic Object September 22, 1956 — Williston, ND 1/7:50 p.m. Amateur astronomer Reuben O. Borrud in Williston, North Dakota, sees a dull-metallic, elliptical object the size of a small airplane,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Civilian Research Society of Maryland September 22, 1955 — 1/Murray Shockett and H. Charles Robinson organize the Civilian Research Society of Maryland in Baltimore, with Gladys Rose Hackett as secretary.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Rainbow Flying Saucers / Star? September 22, 1954 — Tulle, Corrèze, France 1/11:00 p.m. Jean Besse, a draftsman for a power company in Tulle, Corrèze, France, watches a UFO through binoculars.

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Cloud Cigar Case in Fontainebleau September 22, 1954 — Fontainebleau, France 1/Shortly after 8:00 p.m. Mme. Gamundi is driving on the N7 north of Fontainebleau, France, when she notices a light in the sky.

#Ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Boomerang Revolves, Hovers & Descends September 22, 1954 — nr. Marshfield, MO 1/11:00 a.m. Private pilot Jack N. Williams and Ernest J. Ash see a thin, translucent, tan, asymmetrical boomerang-shaped object about 6–7 ft wide,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Mysterious, Gyrating Object Looks Down on Camp Drum September 22, 1952 — Watertown, NY 1/Night. A UFO hovers over the Army’s Camp Drum [now Fort Drum] near Watertown, New York, for 30 minutes.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Co-Pilot in C-47 Sees Wingless Metallic Object September 22, 1948 — nr. Turner AFB, GA 1/3:30 p.m. USAF Lt. Martin G. Rubisch, Asst. Combat Ops Officer at Eglin AFB, Florida,

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in Ghost Rocket History - Rocket-Shaped Object over Florence September 22, 1946 — Florence, Italy 3:15 a.m. A rocket-shaped object is seen for 90 seconds over Florence, Italy. It makes an abrupt turn, then speeds south toward Rome. [Eberhart]

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My 5000th "Today in" post I have prepared. I was 2 short, so decided to work on two cases from "Our Space Age" for today. This case, and Yecapixtla, I worked backwards from the comics. They don't always come from the UFO literature, but I was able to dig up quite a bit for this one⬇️

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Gone in a Puff of Smoke September 21, 1968 — Yecapixtla, Mexico Raimundo M. Sanchez, a municipal employee of Yecapixtla, Mexico, saw a circular flying object that suddenly disappears while discharging black smoke.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Large Sky Doughnut / Rocket Test September 21, 1961 — Pacific Ocean 1/7:00 a.m. Two airliners and a U.S. ship at sea simultaneously observe a UFO over the North Pacific for about 10 minutes.

#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Reagan Address to the 42d Session of UN September 21, 1987 — 1/In an address to the United Nations, President Reagan says, “Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.