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Conspiracy Theories

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1870 'Earliest UFO Photo' Taken From Summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire
It was either shot in 1870, 1880 or 1896, depending on the source. Supposedly this was taken in New Hampshire looking at Mt. Washington. The classic cigar shape UFO, that was seen in the ...
1883 Aug 12 José Bonilla Observation—First Photographing of an Unidentified Flying Object
On August 12, 1883, the astronomer José Bonilla reported that he saw more than 300 dark, unidentified objects crossing before the sun while observing sunspot activity at Zacatecas Observa...
1886 Oct 24 The Maracaibo Incident
"During the night of the 24th of October last [1886], which was rainy and tempestuous, a family of nine persons, sleeping in a hut a few leagues from Maracaibo [Venezuela], were awakened b..." —Walter Cowgill
1897 Apr 17 Aurora UFO Incident
The Aurora crash differs from the Roswell crash in that original documentation was not tampered with by the military nor were the still living eye witnesses debriefed, or told to keep qui...
1908 Jun 30 Tunguska Explosion
[T]he peasants saw a body shining very brightly (too bright for the naked eye) with a bluish-white light... The body was in the form of 'a pipe', i.e. cylindrical. The sky was cloudless, ...
1917 Oct 13 Miracle of the Sun
According to the very words of the Reverend General Vicar of Leiria, who was one of the witnesses, the lady came in an 'aeroplane of light,' an 'immense globe, flying westwards, at modera...
1942 Hopeh Incident
Masujiro Kiru was going through his father's photo album from the China Campaign just before WWII when he found a photograph of a flying object. His father, now deceased, had bought the p...
1942 Feb 24
to 1942 Feb 25
 The Battle of Los Angeles
During the night of 24/25 February 1942, unidentified objects caused a succession of alerts in southern California. On the 24th, a warning issued by naval intelligence indicated that an a...
1945 Jan 15 Time Magazine Publishes Story Entitled 'Foo-Fighter' Regarding Multiple Alleged UFO Sightings by WWII Pilots
If it was not a hoax or an optical illusion, it was certainly the most puzzling secret weapon that Allied fighters have yet encountered. Last week U.S. night fighter pilots based in Franc...
1947 Jun 21 The Maury Island Incident
The incident took place shortly after June 21, 1947. On that date, seaman Harold A. Dahl, out scavenging for drifting logs, claimed to have seen six UFOs near Maury Island (which is now a...
1947 Jun 24 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
While there are no grounds to question his sincerity, some ufologists express reservations about the psychology of the man. His unorthodox speculations about UFOs being space animals wi...
1947 Jul 8 Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) Announces Capture of "Flying Disc"
When the first reports of a crashed alien craft reached the general public, many felt that the long awaited proof of extraterrestrial intelligence had come. The news spread world wide whe...
1948 Jul 24 Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter
A classic UFO event that has all but been forgotten is the Chiles-Whitted sighting which unfolded over Montgomery, Alabama on July 24 1948. This case was one of the very first reports of ...
1953 Jun Otis Air Force Base Incident
In June 1953, Pilot Captain Suggs along with his radar operator Robert Markhoff were flying an intercept mission with a F-94C Starfire of a UFO that was seen over the alert area at Otis A...
1957 May 20 Milton Torres 1957 UFO Encounter
If you believe former fighter pilot Milton Torres' story — and news organizations are running with it — the Air Force was seconds from attacking an alien aircraft over England late one c...
1995 May 5 'Alien Autopsy' Presented at the Museum of London
Mr. Darnell's first major hit was ''Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction'' in 1995. The idea originated when a freelance producer came to him, claiming to have found film from 1947 of an alien ...