A History of Military Encounters with UFOs

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he observed a
damaged saucer-shaped craft, two dead aliens, and one in the process of dying as it, too, lay on the ground.

consulting MO41 The Bombshell Before Roswell, I

, near Cape Girardeau, in April 1941

, for now, I must conclude that the Cape Girardeau crash is a myth founded on family and community legends, not provable, material facts.

, an air-raid alert sounded at 2:25 a.m., Wednesday morning, 25 February 1942, in the Los Angeles Basin.3

After more than an hour, over 1,400 shells had been fired into the air, but with the arrival of daylight there was an amazing discovery: it seemed there had been no enemy air attack. No wrecked planes were found. No bombs had fallen. There was damage on the ground, all caused by metal shrapnel raining down, and anti-aircraft ammunition that had not exploded until falling from the sky.

. The Navy Secretary declared that it had been a false alarm,

, “In 1983, the Office of Air Force History … noted that meteorological balloons had been released prior to the barrage to help determine wind conditions.”8 The “lights” seen flying overhead were evidently anti-aircraft search beams bouncing off panels of thin, reflective tinfoil affixed to the balloons so they could be more easily detected by radar, and the balloons’ silver color could have been what first triggered the alerts. Once the shooting began, the disorienting combination of searchlights, smoke and anti-aircraft flak might have led gunners to continue to “believe they were firing on enemy planes even though none were actually present.”

On 14 December 1943, Beaufighter pilot Squadron Leader P. Wells wrote in the log-book entry, “Screaming dogfight with the light.

On 26 February 1946, several people in Finland spotted what they described as a rocket-like craft zooming past overhead.

Soviet Union.

It seems the sudden ghost-rocket near-hysteria, with up to 2,000 sightings overall, came at a time that was, perhaps “coincidentally,” convenient for both Swedish authorities and Allied leaders.

The year 1947 kicked off with a Royal Air Force interceptor pursuing an unidentified radar target over the North Sea, 50 miles from the Netherlands and heading toward Norfolk, Great Britain.9

On 1 August 1946, Captain Jack E. Puckett, Second World War combat veteran, and later Assistant Chief of Flying Safety, Tactical Air Command, Langley Field, Virginia, piloted a C-47 transport plane

“We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately the size of a B-29 bomber.” The craft evidently streamed an exhaust trail.

the UFO had a row of windows

26 Jun, 1947, by military pilot, 30 miles NW of Lake Mead (Nevada): 5–6 circular objects in formation, heading south, at 120 degrees.”

the Roswell Army Air Field was then home to the 509th Composite Group – the only air unit in the world in 1947 trained, equipped and experienced in the delivery of atomic bombs.