Ruppelt

Korea B-29 Orange Sphere, January 29, 1952

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Korean Sightings

1952: Two B-29 Crews Over Korea Watch an Orange Sphere Fly Formation With Their Bombers

Published: October 22, 2026 | Updated: October 22, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1952: Two B-29 Crews Over Korea Watch an Orange Sphere Fly Formation With Their Bombers At 2300 hours on...

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Illustration of a Murphy Dome radar operator tracking a target while F-94 jets take off in the Alaska night, January 22, 1952

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Alaska Sightings

1952: A Radar Target Over Alaska Reverses Course in an Eight-Mile Turn and Outruns Two F-94 Jets

Published: October 22, 2026 | Updated: October 22, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1952: A Radar Target Over Alaska Reverses Course in an Eight-Mile Turn and Outruns Two F-94 Jets At 47...

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Illustration of a B-29 crew watching a bluish-green fireball fall toward the Gulf horizon near Cedar Keys, Florida, January 19, 1952

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Florida Sightings

1952: A B-29 Crew Over the Gulf Watches a Blue-Green Fireball Fall and Explode

Published: October 22, 2026 | Updated: October 22, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1952: A B-29 Crew Over the Gulf Watches a Blue-Green Fireball Fall and Explode At 8:56 on the evening...

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Illustration of airmen at a hilltop outpost on Okinawa looking out at a white light falling toward a lagoon at night, November 1950

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Japan Sightings

1950: Okinawa — A Light Falls Into the Sea, and Captain Ruppelt Interviews the Sergeant Who Saw It

Published: October 8, 2026 | Updated: October 8, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1950: Okinawa A Light Falls Into the Sea, and Captain Ruppelt Interviews the Sergeant Who Saw It Two days...

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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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Vintage 1951 press photo style image of a young man photographing a V-shaped formation of lights over a Lubbock, Texas backyard while three professors watch from lawn chairs

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Texas Sightings

1951: The Lubbock Lights — Texas Tech Professors, Carl Hart’s Photographs and an Air Force Verdict of Birds

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: October 15, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO|UAP SIGHTINGS REPORT 1951: The Lubbock Lights — Texas Tech Professors, Carl Hart’s Photographs and an Air Force Verdict of Birds At...

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1952: A Washington Man Watches an Orange Saucer-Shaped Light Jump Twice “Like the Bounce of a Basketball” Over Centreville, Maryland

1952: Two B-29 Crews Over Korea Watch an Orange Sphere Fly Formation With Their Bombers

1952: A Radar Target Over Alaska Reverses Course in an Eight-Mile Turn and Outruns Two F-94 Jets

1952: A B-29 Crew Over the Gulf Watches a Blue-Green Fireball Fall and Explode

1950: Okinawa — A Light Falls Into the Sea, and Captain Ruppelt Interviews the Sergeant Who Saw It

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

1951: The Lubbock Lights — Texas Tech Professors, Carl Hart’s Photographs and an Air Force Verdict of Birds

From the Archive

1952: A B-29 Bombardier at 30,000 Feet Watches a Pulsing, Fan-Shaped White Light Cross Overhead in Two Seconds North of Goodland, Kansas

1952: A C-124 Crew Watches Three Blue Objects in Fingertip Formation Pace Their Aircraft Over Vermont, Disappear and Return

1952: Radar Engineers on Great Blue Hill Track Two Wobbling, Dull-Orange Objects Through a Battery Commander’s Telescope

1952: Two Navy Pilots Over Memphis Watch a Bright Inverted Bowl with Vertical Slots and a Red Glowing Trail Pass 100 Yards Away