UFOs: Then And Now

Mysterious Universe

Well, it’s very clear that after reading my most recent article – Where are the UFOs? – many people took what I actually wrote totally out of context. That is abundantly obvious from the dozens of comments that now follow the article. Despite what some incorrectly said, I did not deny the fact that UFOs are still seen today. Nor did I deny that people still report UFO sightings in large numbers. Rather, what I actually said (and only said) was that, today, we simply do not get anywhere near the numbers and percentages of so-called “classic” cases of years and decades gone by.

Yes, every now and again there is a case like Stephenville, Texas, but in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s such events were most assuredly not of the “every now and again” kind. They were all over the place – like a nasty rash! And to demonstrate that to those who still fail to understand what I said, I’m going to share with you a number of cases from the 1950s, which will serve perfectly to prove my point about the significant differences between UFO activity back then and today.

All of the following reports are taken from official documentation that has surfaced via the American and UK Freedom of Information Acts. They collectively demonstrate the significant contrast between what was afoot then and the current state of play in the early 21st Century.

We’ll start with a U.S. Navy document of January 1950, which details a series of encounters involving military personnel in the vicinity of Kodiak, Alaska. As the documentation notes, multiple UFO encounters were reported. They involved encounters with (a) small, orb-like objects that circled around the USS Tilbrook, which was anchored in the area; and (b) sightings of a classic disc-shaped craft that, according to the military, acted in a “highly threatening” fashion.

Moving on to 1951, in the first part of the year there were literally dozens of UFO sightings reported from the highly sensitive Oak Ridge atomic-energy installation in Tennessee. One particular report, of March 3 of that year, refers to the radar-tracking of an unknown target near the facility that was described as having a “density” similar to that of a DC-3 aircraft and a speed referred to as “terrific.”

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