James McDonald

Dossier-style reconstruction of the March 17 1950 Farmington New Mexico UFO armada showing townspeople on a dust-hazed Main Street pointing upward at dozens of small silvery discs scattered across a pale sky with one larger red "leader" disc ahead of them, slowed cars in the street, overlaid with triangulation and reticle HUD elements and stenciled date, location, and "Status: Unexplained" stamps, in a muted dust-shifted indigo-charcoal register with a single red accent.

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New Mexico Sightings

1950: The Farmington UFO Armada

Published: May 10, 2013 | Updated: June 8, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The Farmington UFO Armada For three days running in March 1950, always between eleven and noon,...

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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the July 4 1947 United Air Lines Flight 105 sighting rendered in muted early-postwar color showing a 1947 United DC-3 airliner in flight at twilight near Emmett Idaho with its landing lights on, against a dusk sky grading from indigo overhead to a low warm amber horizon band over silhouetted ridgelines, with two separate formations of wingless flat-bottomed rounded-top disc-shaped objects ahead and above the aircraft, a nearer group of five with one larger and a farther higher group of four in a three-plus-one arrangement, one streaked as if speeding away, with HUD overlays marking the two formations, the wingless tailless larger-than-aircraft description, the Flight 105 Boise-to-Seattle climb-out at about 8000 feet, the dusk DD classification with a nocturnal caveat and Blue Book number 34, the witnesses Captain Emil Smith co-pilot Ralph Stevens and a stewardess, the McDonald 1968 Congressional and Haines sources with the Blue Book Unidentified listing, and the Unexplained status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Idaho Sightings

1947: 105 pilots witness disc-shaped objects

Published: May 10, 2013 | Updated: June 4, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1947: United Airlines Flight 105 pilots witness disc-shaped objects “I’ll believe in those discs when I see...

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Illustration of the 1963 Willow Grove, Victoria UFO encounter showing a battleship-grey disc with a glowing blue rotating underside hovering over a dairy farm

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Australia Sightings

1963: The Willow Grove Close Encounter

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 3, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO ENCOUNTER REPORT 1963 Willow Grove Close Encounter: The Moe, Victoria UFO Case At 7 a.m. on February 15, 1963, dairy farmer...

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Dossier-style aerial reconstruction of the May 1 1952 Davis-Monthan UFO case showing a large six-engine B-36 bomber in level flight at altitude over Tucson Arizona in clear morning light with two shiny lens-shaped metallic discs pacing it close alongside and one breaking away in a sharp no-radius turn while another hovers, a small inset of a manila report folder stamped "missing — reconstructed 1966," and HUD stamps reading Daylight Disc, two objects, Blue Book Unknown BBU 1175, and Status: Unexplained, in a muted warm 1952 register with a single cold silver accent on the discs.

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Arizona Sightings

1952: Air Force Bomber Encounters Discs

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 8, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP|ENTITY SIGHTINGS REPORT 1952: Air Force Bomber Encounters Discs The ideal UFO witness is the man whose job is to debunk UFO...

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1966: Burkes Flat UFO – The “Bent Headlight Beams”

1950: The Farmington UFO Armada

1947: 105 pilots witness disc-shaped objects

1963: The Willow Grove Close Encounter

1952: Air Force Bomber Encounters Discs

1948: The Chiles-Whitted Case

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