admin ELINT YS. UFO Possessing the most sophisticated electronic intelligence (ELINT) gear available to the U.S. Air Force, the RB-47 could handle anything. Unfortunately, in the morning hours of July 17, 1957, over the southern United States, an RB-47 came across something it was unprepared for. In the first hint of what was to come, one … Read more
A ROARING UFO AND FIGURES AT SOCORRO Officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeder south of Socorro, New Mexico, late on the afternoon of April 24, 1964, but he was about to enter UFO history. No less than the head of Project Blue Book would later tell a CIA audience that Zamora’s experience was the … Read more
UFOs: THE OFFICIAL STORY From the beginning, society—in the persons of prominent scientists, government officials, military officers, journalists, and ordinary citizens—would make things disagreeable for those who insisted they had seen strange flying objects and those who believed them. Wherever there were “flying saucers,” there was also ridicule, dished out in generous portions to anyone … Read more
UFO Encounters, Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations: THE FIRST UFOLOGIST Although these strange sky objects were reported with increasing frequency, the press and the scientific community treated each sighting as a one-time occurrence. There was no sense that such events, far from being isolated, were part of a larger phenomenon. Even the air¬ ship wave of … Read more
A little remembered cartoon character named Smokey Stover used to declare, “Where there’s foo, there’s fire.” So when enigmatic aerial phenomena kept pace with airplanes and ships in both the European and Pacific theaters during World War II, someone called them “foo fighters.” The name stuck. Nobody knew for sure what the foo fighters were, … Read more
UFO Encounters, Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations: THE ARRIVAL OF UFOs In the 19th century, however, accounts of UFOs took on a more believable tone. As day dawned June 1, 1853, students at Burritt College in Tennessee noticed two luminous, unusual objects just to the north of the rising sun. One looked like a “small new … Read more
RUSTLERS FROM MARS On April 23, 1897, a Kansas newspaper, the Yates Center Farmer’s Advocate, reported an incredible story. On the evening of April 19, local rancher Alexander Hamilton, his son, and a hired man saw a giant cigarshaped ship hovering above a corral near the house. Hamilton claimed that in a carriage underneath the … Read more
Ufo Encounters, Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations: CLOSE ENCOUNTER, 1897 STYLE Late on the evening of April 13, 1897, as they were passing through Lake Elmo, Minnesota, on their way to Hudson, Wisconsin, Frederick Chamberlain and O. L. Jones spotted a shadowy figure in a clearing two blocks away. The figure carried a lantern and seemed … Read more
SAUCERS FROM WITHIN? In the early 19th century an American eccentric, John Cleves Symmes (1779-1829), sought funding for an expedition to enter the Earth through one of two 4,000-mile wide polar holes. Inside the Earth, he was convinced, a benevolent advanced civilization existed. Though an object of derision to most people, some took him seriously, … Read more
Ufo Encounters, Sightings, Visitations, and Investigations: EARLY UFOs In A.D. 1211 Gervase of Tilbury, an English chronicler of historical events and curiosities, recorded this bizarre story: There happened in the borough of Cloera, one Sunday, while the people were at Mass, a marvel. In this town is a church dedicated to St. Kinarus. It befell … Read more
