Eastern Airlines

Illustration of a B-29 pilot watching a rocket-like object with a long flame trail cross the night sky above Tampa, Florida, on February 8, 1950

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Florida Sightings

1950: Tampa, Florida B-29 Rocket Sighting

Published: September 29, 2026 | Updated: September 29, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1950: Tampa, Florida B-29 Rocket Sighting At about 11:45 p.m. on February 8, 1950, Maj. Holly W. Anderson was...

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1950s-style illustration of a Douglas DC-4 Eastern Airlines aircraft flying at night near the Azores with an intensely bright orange-white pulsating light floating alongside it at dangerously close range, August 1956.

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Aircraft Encounters

1956: Near the Azores: The Light That Came Within 40 Feet of Eastern Airlines Flight 49

Published: September 26, 2026 | Updated: September 26, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1956: Near the Azores — Eastern Airlines Flight 49: The Light That Came Within 40 Feet At 0145Z on...

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Four-panel 1950s press-photo collage: a Venom jet with a light behind it over Lakenheath, an RCAF pilot photographing a disc over the Rockies, an Eastern Airlines DC-4 with a pulsating light at the window, and a Bornholm radar scope with four returns.

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1956 Sightings

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: June 5, 2016 | Updated: September 26, 2026

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive On the night of August 13-14, 1956, a radar contact first picked up by the Ground Controlled...

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Eastern Airlines

1950: Tampa, Florida B-29 Rocket Sighting

1956: Near the Azores: The Light That Came Within 40 Feet of Eastern Airlines Flight 49

1956: August UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

From the Archive

1952: A B-29 Bombardier at 30,000 Feet Watches a Pulsing, Fan-Shaped White Light Cross Overhead in Two Seconds North of Goodland, Kansas

1952: A C-124 Crew Watches Three Blue Objects in Fingertip Formation Pace Their Aircraft Over Vermont, Disappear and Return

1952: Radar Engineers on Great Blue Hill Track Two Wobbling, Dull-Orange Objects Through a Battery Commander’s Telescope

1952: Two Navy Pilots Over Memphis Watch a Bright Inverted Bowl with Vertical Slots and a Red Glowing Trail Pass 100 Yards Away