August 26, 2026

Gorman Dogfight

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An Air Force radar observer watches a formation of white, egg-shaped objects cross in front of his F-82 fighter off the Washington coast, October 30, 1948
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1948: The Pacific Beach Formation — Lt. Robert Kunzman’s Radar-Visual Encounter

Published: August 26, 2026 | Updated: August 26, 2026 0
A thick, TOP SECRET-stamped document — the Estimate of the Situation — lies on a Pentagon desk shortly before its 1948 destruction
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1948: The Estimate of the Situation — The Document That Was Burned

Published: August 25, 2026 | Updated: August 25, 2026 0
A small silver plate-shaped object lands between two boys in Hamel, Minnesota, August 1948
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1948: The Hamel, Minnesota Ground Trace — The Leuer Boys and CIC Special Agent Victor

Published: August 25, 2026 | Updated: August 25, 2026 0
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