September 29, 2026

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1950s-style French press illustration of two uniformed gendarmes pressed against a barn wall by a hot wind, watching a landed black disc with an illuminated white dome and colored rays 50 yards away in a Lozère field at night, with four silhouettes at the craft's perimeter and a luminous probe ball over a distant hilltop, and an inset close-up of a stopped wristwatch, early 1956.
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1956: Barre-des-Cévennes, France — The Gendarmes Who Couldn’t Draw Their Weapons

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1950s-style illustration viewed from inside a USAF RB-36H aft compartment scanner window showing the aircraft's left wing with a 100-foot metallic disc with a domed portholes-ringed top flying in tight formation off the wingtip at 40,000 feet over the Dakota plains, with a crew member's hand holding a 35mm camera in the foreground, late 1956.
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1956: North/South Dakota Border — The Disc That Flew in Formation With the RB-36H

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1950s-style illustration of two USAF F-86D Sabre-dog interceptors over the Korea Strait east of Tsushima Island with a small tan rounded object visible ahead maintaining distance, and a panel insert showing the lead aircraft's radar scope covered in ECM jamming interference, December 17, 1956.
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1956: Near Itazuke AFB, Japan — The Object That Jammed Both Jets

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Two-panel image: a reproduction of a Blue Book File 4517 GCA radar scope photograph showing a massive saturating central return with radial streaks and smaller blips at El Toro MCAS California on November 11-12 1956, captioned USA/IC-UFOB-4-56/EL TORO GCA SCOPE/11 NOV 56; and the File 4517 cover sheet typed "34 photos."
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1956: El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, California: Eight Hours on the Scope

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