1950

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Montana Sightings

1950: The Great Falls, Montana UFO Film

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 11, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP|ENTITY SIGHTINGS REPORT 1950: The Great Falls, Montana UFO Film (Nicholas Mariana) It is one of the oldest pieces of motion-picture footage...

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Dossier-style evidence board reframing the Yokohama UFO photograph, showing the pinned vintage black-and-white print of a small dark disc over a rooftop at center, surrounded by red-thread-linked correction cards changing the date from "mid-1950s" to January 17 1957, the location from "rural" to urban Isogo-ku Yokohama, and identifying photographer Yusuke Matsumura and the contactee Cosmic Brotherhood Association, with HUD stamps reading CE-II corrected to DD, scale indeterminate, and Status: Insufficient Data (low credibility), in an indigo-charcoal register with a single dull-red accent.

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Japan Sightings

1957: Yokohama, Japan UFO|UAP Sighting

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: July 23, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1957: Yokohama, Japan UFO|UAP Sighting The uncaptioned “Picture” on this page is almost certainly one of the...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the October 1950 Van Nuys–San Fernando airliner near-miss, showing a night view over the dark San Fernando Valley of a twin-engine 1950 California Central airliner climbing with its lights on while an elongated dark object with no visible fuselage and a single row of six to eight bright blinking lights along its top swerves and passes beneath the airliner's left wing, rendered in cold grainy 1950 night film stock with the two pilots distant and unidentifiable in the cockpit; restrained warm-white tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification CE-I close encounter, two airline-crew witnesses, source 1950 press reports, status Unexplained.

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California Sightings

1950: Above Van Nuys and San Fernando — Airliner Near-Miss

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: Above Van Nuys and San Fernando — Airliner Near-Miss Five minutes after lifting off from Burbank...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the March 1950 cylindrical UFO photograph over New York City, showing a vintage 1950 black-and-white silver-gelatin night photo of the Art Deco Manhattan skyline with a long smooth glowing cylindrical form hanging in the sky above and faint stars visible across the frame, the cylinder given a streak-like motion-blurred quality; a clipped clinical inset diagrams how a long-exposure camera streak could draw a bright disc such as the Moon into a cylinder, with a note that stars visible over a lit city imply a long or multiple exposure, and restrained cool-cyan tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, an anonymous photographer, sourced to Project Grudge and Blue Book files, with the Grudge assessment "the moon" and status Insufficient Data.

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New York Sightings

1950: Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City It is one of the more striking images...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the May 1950 McMinnville Trent UFO photographs, showing a faithful black-and-white silver-gelatin re-creation of the iconic Trent viewpoint — a rural Oregon farmyard at dusk with a garage eave and overhead power lines crossing the frame, distant hills, and a silvery tilted metallic disc with a small off-center mast hanging in the evening sky — rendered in coarse grainy 1950 photographic texture with no people; clipped analysis insets show a photogrammetry panel noting that the disc's shadowed underside is brighter than the nearby water tank, implying a distant object within about thirty percent accuracy, and a second panel neutrally diagramming the competing hoax hypothesis of a small model suspended from the overhead wire, with restrained cool-cyan tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification DD daylight disc, two witnesses the Trents, sourced to the Condon Committee and Hartmann, Maccabee, and Life 1950, status Unexplained and contested.

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Oregon Sightings

1950: McMinnville, Oregon UFO Photographs

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The McMinnville (Trent) Photographs — Oregon Just before sunset on May 11, 1950, Evelyn Trent was...

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Skeptical intelligence-dossier evidence board for the March 1950 Mexico City "midget pilot" flying-saucer crash claim, showing a vintage 1950 newspaper-fragment motif headlined about a reported flying-saucer midget pilot with an AP dateline and illegible gray column type pinned to the board, beside a dim washed-out vague depiction of a roped-off rocky Mexican mountainside with only an indistinct metallic strip on the ground and no saucer or body shown; a small clipped evidence card carries a neutral diagrammatic human-outline silhouette and a scale ruler marked twenty-three inches, claimed, secondhand, unverified, kept strictly non-graphic, with a faint diagonal "unsubstantiated" watermark and restrained red tactical HUD overlays marking the case as a crash-retrieval claim with no Hynek class, one claimant Ray Dimmick who saw only a metal strip, sourced to the Associated Press and Washington Herald of March 10 1950, status Insufficient Data and probable hoax.

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Mexico Sightings

1950: Mexico City UFO Crash with Midget Pilot

Published: December 26, 2012 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP CRASH-RETRIEVAL REPORT 1950: The Mexico City “Midget Pilot” Crash Claim In March 1950, as the country was buzzing with...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the April 1950 Bruno Facchini close encounter near Varese, Italy, showing a dark rain-wet Lombardy field at night with a high-voltage pylon and a large flattened-spherical craft resting beside it, a ladder beneath it and a greenish welding glow flaring as three or four heavily suited helmeted human-sized figures move slowly around the hull, one welding and throwing sparks, while the lone working-man witness stumbles away non-graphically with his face turned aside as a figure raises a hand-held tube toward him; a clipped inset diagram shows the four one-meter circular ground depressions in a six-meter square with burnt grass and a labeled bronze fragment, and restrained green tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification CE-III occupants, one witness, ground-ring bronze and burn traces, sourced to Flying Saucer Review and Domenica del Corriere, status Unexplained.

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Italy Sightings

1950: The Bruno Facchini Encounter — Abbiate Guazzone (Varese), Italy

Published: December 22, 2012 | Updated: June 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP | ENTITY ENCOUNTER REPORT 1950: The Bruno Facchini Encounter — Abbiate Guazzone (Varese), Italy A violent thunderstorm had just...

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1950

1950: The Great Falls, Montana UFO Film

1957: Yokohama, Japan UFO|UAP Sighting

1950: Above Van Nuys and San Fernando — Airliner Near-Miss

1950: Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City

1950: McMinnville, Oregon UFO Photographs

1950: Mexico City UFO Crash with Midget Pilot

1950: The Bruno Facchini Encounter — Abbiate Guazzone (Varese), Italy

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