October 12, 2026

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Three weather-station airmen outside a Niagara Falls airport building watching a glowing saucer with arc-shaped wings under broken cloud, May 1951.
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1951: A glowing yellow-orange saucer climbs into the overcast at Niagara Falls

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Nine people in a Tacoma yard watching a light with a silver trail shoot upward over Puget Sound, April 1951
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1951: A light bursts, dims and shoots straight up over Point Defiance, Tacoma

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Bell Aircraft technicians at a Holloman hardstand watching a swarm of white bodies form a V over the desert, March 1951.
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1951: Bell Aircraft crew watch swirling white bodies over Holloman Air Force Base

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A driver at the end of Union Bridge watches a round craft with colored lights resting in a field at night, March 1951.
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1951: A driver’s engine and lights die at Union Bridge, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

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