September 24, 2026

4602d AISS

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1950s-style illustration of a Navy physicist and her children at their front door watching a silver disc over Almy Pond, Newport, Rhode Island in April 1955.
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1955: Almy Pond, Newport, Rhode Island: A Navy Physicist Watches a Silver Disc

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1950s-style illustration of lab technician Bassett standing on the Grand River bank at Grand Ledge, Michigan in pre-dawn darkness as a glowing orange metallic sphere hovers ten feet away at four feet altitude, March 23, 1956.
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1956: Grand Ledge, Michigan: The Sphere That Stopped Ten Feet Away

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1950s-style illustration of an Air France DC-3 banking away from a flashing red light over Paris, with an inset of Orly radar technicians watching a giant echo in February 1956.
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1956: Orly Airport, France: The Radar Ghost That Stalked Paris Air Traffic

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1950s-style illustration of a red-and-green light circling a USAF F-89D Scorpion over snowy Goose Bay, Labrador on February 12, 1956.
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1956: Goose Bay, Labrador: A Red-and-Green Object Circles an F-89D

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