August 25, 2026

Hoyt Vandenberg

From the Archive

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
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