October 14, 2026

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Vintage 1951 press photo style image of a blinding orange light with a red light on top circling a light plane over a small Illinois airfield at night
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1951: Pilot Ray Williams Is Circled by a Blinding Orange Light Over Vandalia, Illinois

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Vintage 1951 press photo style image of three airmen looking up at a bright yellow light over hangars at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston
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1951: Ellington AFB Airmen Watch an Erratic Yellow Light Over Houston, Texas

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Vintage 1951 press photo style image of Air Force radar operators watching a fast unidentified blip cross a radar scope at Larson AFB while an F-86 waits outside
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1951: Larson AFB Radar Tracks an Unidentified Target at 950 MPH Over Washington State

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Vintage 1951 press photo style image of a silver pear-shaped object with a porthole hovering over a two-lane Texas highway while two women stand by their car
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1951: Two Women See a Pear-Shaped Object With a Porthole Near Matador, Texas

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