October 13, 2026

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Two airmen in a car on U.S. Route 1 pointing at a long, glassy, polka-dotted tube crossing the sky near the Portsmouth toll bridge, July 1951
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1951: A long, glassy, polka-dotted tube crosses the sky over Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Published: October 13, 2026 | Updated: October 13, 2026 0
A man and woman beside a stopped car on a Finnish country road watching an aluminum disk cross a gap in broken cloud, June 1951.
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1951: A former Finnish envoy watches a silent aluminum disc cross the sky at Mikkeli

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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

Published: October 12, 2026 | Updated: October 13, 2026 0
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

Published: October 12, 2026 | Updated: October 12, 2026 0