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Four-panel collage of 1950's defining UFO cases: Farmington Armada, Oak Ridge Flap, Daniel Fry White Sands, TWA Flight 117

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1950 - 1999 Sightings

1950: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings, By Month, Yearly Hub

Published: October 9, 2026 | Updated: October 20, 2026

1950: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings, By Month, Yearly Hub 1950 opened with the Air Force announcing the end of its saucer investigation and the...

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F-86 jets attempting to intercept a swept-wing object holding a high-altitude orbit over Southern California, September 1951

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California Sightings

1951: The March Field Intercept — Southern California

Published: September 2, 2026 | Updated: September 2, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1951: The March Field Intercept — Southern California On the morning of September 23, 1951, the U.S. Air Force...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the 1949 Norwood, Ohio searchlight UFO incident, showing a night carnival scene with tents, a church steeple, and a distant crowd looking up as a single powerful surplus searchlight beam rises into a hazy night sky and catches a stationary glowing circular object, the beam appearing to bend slightly into it, with the uniformed searchlight operator in unidentifiable silhouette; rendered in coarse late-1940s black-and-white silver-gelatin and 16mm-frame texture, with a clipped degraded film-frame inset and a note questioning whether the Albee Theater and church searchlights were bouncing off cloud, and restrained warm-white tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, many civilian clergy police and military witnesses, sourced to the Berger logs, Stringfield, and Kenny Young, status Explained by searchlight for the mass episode and Insufficient Data for the residual reports.

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Ohio Sightings

1949: Norwood, Ohio Searchlight UFO Incident

Published: April 5, 2015 | Updated: June 7, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: The Norwood Searchlight Incident — Norwood, Ohio On the night of August 19, 1949, a parish...

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Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the January 1950 Kodiak, Alaska radar-visual UFO case, showing a night scene over the dark waters off Kodiak Island with a Lockheed P2V-3 Neptune patrol aircraft in silhouette at altitude and the ocean tug USS Tillamook below on a black sea as a single fast red-orange ball of fire arcs across the sky between them, rendered in cold grainy 1950 night film stock with distant unidentifiable crew; a clipped inset shows a phosphor radar scope with a smeared high-speed contact and a redacted Office of Naval Intelligence memo, while restrained orange tactical HUD overlays mark the case as Classification RV radar-visual, multiple air-sea-ground witnesses, source the 1950 ONI/FBI memo, status Unexplained Blue Book Unknown.

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Alaska Sightings

1950: A major Air Force encounter with a UFO in Alaska

Published: August 28, 2013 | Updated: June 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1950: The Kodiak, Alaska Radar-Visual — A Major Air Force/Navy UFO Encounter For two hours before dawn...

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Four-panel vintage press-photo collage of September 1951 UFO sightings: Withdean garden entities, Claremont orange lights, a Sandy Hook silver disc and F-86 jets over March AFB

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1951 Sightings

1951: September UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: August 27, 2013 | Updated: October 15, 2026

1951: September UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive The UFO sightings of September 1951 are anchored by two cases that tested the Air Force’s own...

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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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Project Grudge

1950: UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings, By Month, Yearly Hub

1951: The March Field Intercept — Southern California

1949: Norwood, Ohio Searchlight UFO Incident

1950: A major Air Force encounter with a UFO in Alaska

1951: September UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1951: The Fort Monmouth UFO Case

1950: Cylindrical UFO Photographed Over New York City

From the Archive

1951: A Sunbury, Ohio Farmer With a Telescope Watches a Silvery Sphere Break Apart Into a Dark Cloud and Specks

1951: A K-25 Guard at Oak Ridge, Tennessee Watches a Square Gray Object Rise Into the Clouds and Drop Back Three Times

1951: Fast Bright Object Seen From Four Points in Lower Michigan, Capital Flight 94 and Selfridge Radar Stops Operating

1951: F-51 Pilot Near Mankato, Minnesota Sees a Small White Flying-Wing Object Pass 100 Feet Away at 25,000 Feet