October 11, 1966, Police Sergeant Robert Gordon was wrangled out of his comfy chair onto the front lawn by his frantic ufo enthusiast wife. Not expecting an actual flying saucer, he watched as something flew across the sky and out of sight somewhere above the Wanaque reservoir. He called the Reservoir Police force who dispatched Sergeant Ben Thompson on the strangest call of his career…
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US Air Force Major Hector Qintanilla tells all (or at least what he can) about Project Blue Book, probably the best known American inquiry into the phenomenon of UFOs. This article hails from the last golden era of noteworthy UFO inquiry by official agencies, which seems to be having a resurgence in 2020-2021.
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There will be more. Bits and pieces from the dusty corners of strange history.
Even as it was hot on the newsstands, the Condon Report on UFOs had doubters who found Condon’s assertions more fanciful than the UFOs themselves. This article by Lloyd Mallan was found in the May 1969 issue of Science and Mechanix. An interesting fragment of UFO Americana.
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