March 20 1950

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the March 1950 Stuttgart, Arkansas airline-pilot UFO sighting, showing a night sky over flat Arkansas rice country with a 1950 Chicago & Southern Airlines twin-engine DC-3 in silhouette at altitude while a flat circular disc about 100 feet across passes nearby and slightly above, a brilliant blue-white beacon pulsing at its top and a ring of nine to twelve oval portholes glowing soft purple along its underside, the two pilots distant and unidentifiable in the cockpit; rendered in cold grainy low-saturation 1950 silver-gelatin night film character, with a clipped line-diagram inset of the disc's porthole ring and top beacon plus geometry annotations, and restrained purple tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, two witnesses an airline captain and a USAF Reserve captain, sourced to Blue Book and Battelle Special Report 14 Unknown 11, status Unexplained Blue Book Unknown 671.

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Arkansas Sightings

1950: Pilots observe fast-moving, disc-shaped UFO

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: Airline Pilots Observe a Fast-Moving Disc — Stuttgart, Arkansas A little after nine-thirty on the night...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the March 1950 cylindrical UFO photograph over New York City, showing a vintage 1950 black-and-white silver-gelatin night photo of the Art Deco Manhattan skyline with a long smooth glowing cylindrical form hanging in the sky above and faint stars visible across the frame, the cylinder given a streak-like motion-blurred quality; a clipped clinical inset diagrams how a long-exposure camera streak could draw a bright disc such as the Moon into a cylinder, with a note that stars visible over a lit city imply a long or multiple exposure, and restrained cool-cyan tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, an anonymous photographer, sourced to Project Grudge and Blue Book files, with the Grudge assessment "the moon" and status Insufficient Data.

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New York Sightings

1950: Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City It is one of the more striking images...

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March 20 1950

1950: Pilots observe fast-moving, disc-shaped UFO

1950: Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City

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