On June 25 of this year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a brief report entitled “Preliminary Assessment: Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.”
As in the United States, the question of UFOs is gaining more attention, particularly as it relates to Japanese security.
The Pentagon, along with other federal agencies, is expected to release a report on unidentified flying objects (UFOs) this month that includes a detailed analysis of UFO data as well as plans to centralize future data collection.
As the NDAC (now NDSU) Bison took on the Augustana Vikings on a crisp fall evening in 1948, if fans looked up, they might have caught a glimpse of an even-more spectacular show in the nightime sky — a dogfight between a former WWII fighter pilot and an unidentified flying object that would go down as one of the most credible accounts of UFO activity in the country. What exactly happened and did any Bison football fans see it?
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It’s tempting to envision UFO sightings as only happening along backwoods roads with no witnesses, no cameras, and a single frothing abductee describing a scene lifted from The X-Files.
A red flaming cone trailing a gaseous green mist appeared in the sky over Clinton County Air Base between 7:20 and 8:55 p.m. on January 7, 1948. At least, that’s what observers told the All Weather Flying Center, a subdivision of the airbase, for their press release. This was the second report of the UFO sighting that day.
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At first, the witnesses claimed, all you noticed were the lights.
On a summer night in 1992, Ellen Booth saw a bright light as she looked out the window of her home west of La Veta. So bright, she had to turn her head.
