In 1953, military personnel at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota reported a UFO sighting that defied explanation. This case study from Project Blue Book examines the incident, detailing the object’s advanced maneuvers and the witnesses’ accounts.
The Mantell UFO Incident of 1948 is a tragic and mysterious chapter in UFO history, marked by the death of Captain Thomas Mantell during a high-speed pursuit of an unidentified object over Kentucky. This event, involving a decorated World War II pilot and a strange metallic craft, continues to fuel debate and speculation, leaving questions…
The Tehran UFO Incident of 1976 remains one of the most well-documented and intriguing encounters with an unidentified flying object (UFO) in modern history. Occurring over the Iranian capital, Tehran, this event involved multiple credible witnesses, including military personnel and radar operators, and resulted in the scramble of two F-4 Phantom II jet interceptors from…
On February 24, 1942, when air raid sirens began blaring across Los Angeles, and the city was plunged into a blackout. At 2:25 AM on February 25, radar detected an unidentified object approximately 120 miles west of Los Angeles, moving towards the city. The object then disappeared from radar, but visual sightings soon followed, prompting…
In 1951, the city of Lubbock, Texas, was the site of a series of mysterious UFO sightings known as the Lubbock Lights. Multiple witnesses, including professors and students, observed strange lights in the sky, some of which were captured in photographs.