A US military channel preserved Iranian accounts of a bright object, radar contact and instrument failures. The document establishes the reporting, not an extraterrestrial interpretation.
A brilliant daytime object crossed the upper atmosphere on a grazing trajectory.
The first successful planetary rover arrived in November 1970 and traveled more than ten kilometers. Decades later orbital images helped researchers use its laser reflector again.
In September 1970 a Soviet probe landed in lunar darkness, collected a sample and sent it to Earth: the first successful fully robotic return of lunar material.
On 13 March 1970 television coverage and newspaper disputes brought a crowd to the cemetery. Documents establish a public scare, while the vampire remained the subject of incompatible claim…
A witnessed fall supplied samples for research into chemistry preceding life.
The documented Eagle landing, surface activities and coordinates refined from orbital imagery.
A shower of stones brought scientists and local residents to a large strewn field and supplied material for studying the early Solar System.
A hairy figure in ice attracted investigators and the Smithsonian; evidence of a model explains the sensational exhibit.
An Air Force-sponsored investigation collected new cases and revisited older ones; its overall recommendation and individual case analyses operate at different levels.
