The Condon study: a university, disputed cases and the end of Blue Book
An Air Force-sponsored investigation collected new cases and revisited older ones; its overall recommendation and individual case anal…
Under review#0141
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Observations
Documented events, historical claims and public reports. Event dates and review status are listed separately; unidentified does not mean extraterrestrial.
Event year, not the article publication date.
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The Robertson panel: films, air alerts and competing demands for attention
In January 1953 scientists reviewed UFO reports and films; their recommendations also addressed communications overload and public ala…
Under review#0139
Project Sign: how disc reports became an intelligence task
An early Air Force program collected sightings amid fears of unknown aviation technology; its records preserve uncertainties as well a…
Under review#0137
The Mariana film: two lights above a baseball stadium
A short color film from 1950 survived repeated investigations, a date dispute and differences between visual testimony and what the im…
Insufficient evidence#0135
Tremonton: a family stop and 1,600 disputed frames
Delbert Newhouse filmed a group of bright points in color; military image analysts and physicists differed over their possible explana…
Under review#0133
Roswell: from a disc announcement to balloon records
Changing announcements in July 1947 and a later records search produced two connected histories: a debris recovery and the growth of a…
Under review#0131
Kenneth Arnold: nine objects and the word 'saucer'
A private pilot's June 1947 report became a landmark in press history, although what he saw was never securely identified.
Insufficient evidence#0129
Luna 9: a panorama intercepted by an observatory on Earth
The first soft landing produced surface photographs; independent reception in Britain made it a story of radio tracking and newspaper …
An explanation exists#0127
Luna 3: how the first photograph of the far side appeared
Grainy pictures from October 1959 revealed an unseen hemisphere, traveling from film inside a spacecraft to retouched newspaper prints.
An explanation exists#0125