August 25, 2026

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A Soviet test pilot's aircraft loses all power as a beam of light from a banana-shaped object strikes it over Kapustin Yar, June 16, 1948
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1948: The Kapustin Yar Electrical Failure — Test Pilot Apraksin

Published: August 25, 2026 | Updated: August 25, 2026 0
A farmer watches a silhouetted occupant through a glowing orange dome above his Circleville, Ohio barn, February 1, 1948
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1948: The Circleville, Ohio Occupant — Farmer B. Stevens

Published: August 24, 2026 | Updated: August 24, 2026 0
A man with silver wings hovers 200 feet above a Chehalis, Washington barn, watched by six witnesses, January 6, 1948
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1948: The Chehalis Birdman — Bernice Zaikowski

Published: August 24, 2026 | Updated: August 24, 2026 0
A triangular ground fire burns with unusual blue-green flames in the California hills near Pilot Hill, December 30, 1947
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1947: The Pilot Hill Triangular Fire

Published: August 24, 2026 | Updated: August 24, 2026 0