Tomato Man

Three-panel dossier collage: the Yakima Washington flying blob, the Indianapolis propeller-shaped object, and the Chamblee Georgia student sighting, July 1948

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1948 Sightings

1948: July UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

Published: February 1, 2016 | Updated: August 24, 2026

1948: July UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive July 1948 is a dense month anchored by two already-documented landmark cases: the Chiles-Whitted encounter over Alabama...

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Single panel intelligence dossier image for the 1948 Tomato Man Laredo Texas crash claim rendered as a debunked investigator's evidence board over a dark indigo-charcoal backing, deliberately non-graphic with no body shown, featuring a central withheld evidence-photo placard with an abstract chalk outline tagged identified as incinerated human by a burn unit, surrounded by pinned period typed letters with red checked stamps including a Kodak letter marked no authentication on record, a White Sands letter marked no air disaster on date, a Shriners Burns Institute letter marked body equals incinerated human, and an anachronism log card listing the DEW Line not existing until 1957, the F-94 not flown until 1949 to 1950, the L-19 Bird Dog not existing until 1950 and seating only two, Dias AFB never existing, and the USAF Class-A uniform being post-1957, plus a small map inset showing a flight path from Washington State overshooting into Oklahoma and Kansas with an implausible bend toward Mexico tagged flight path fails, with HUD overlays marking the crash-retrieval claim classification, the anonymous Tennessee source via McIntyre and MARCEN, the Ron Schaffner OUFOIL 1979 to 1982 investigation, and the Explained hoax and misidentified human remains status, with a lower strip reading thinkaboutitdocs.com — UAP/Entity Archive by Date

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Mexico Sightings

1948: ‘Tomato Man’ Photographs and Laredo, Texas UFO Crash

Published: April 8, 2013 | Updated: August 24, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT CRASH REPORT 1948: ‘Tomato Man’ Photographs and Laredo, Texas UFO Crash In 1978 an anonymous man in Tennessee began mailing photographs of...

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1948: July UFO|UAP & Entity Sightings Archive

1948: ‘Tomato Man’ Photographs and Laredo, Texas UFO Crash

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