September 26, 2026

Panorama City

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1956 Van Nuys Panorama City Venusian Contact Cluster Collage
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1956: Van Nuys and Panorama City, California: The July Venusian Contact Cluster

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1950s-style illustration of a Douglas DC-4 Eastern Airlines aircraft flying at night near the Azores with an intensely bright orange-white pulsating light floating alongside it at dangerously close range, August 1956.
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1956: Near the Azores: The Light That Came Within 40 Feet of Eastern Airlines Flight 49

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1950s-style illustration of a USAF radar operator watching a CPN-18A scope at Westover AFB, Massachusetts, as an oversized blip executes a rapid reversal arc on the display, July 17, 1956.
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1956: Westover AFB, Massachusetts: The Target That Made a 180 in Six Seconds

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1950s-style polar expedition illustration of four figures in parkas at Robertson Island, Antarctica, watching two tall vertical cigar-shaped objects hanging motionless in the Antarctic sky in January 1956, with a Geiger counter on a crate in the foreground — labeled Disputed.
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1956: Robertson Island, Antarctica: Two Vertical Cigars Over the Ice — A Disputed Account

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