Jeff Knox

@mrjeffknox.bsky.social

Full-time UFO historian/archivist PNW, 30+yrs studying the phenomena. http://patreon.com/jeffknox Interest: Geology, Arch/Anthropology, Philosophy, Sociology

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Flock of ‘Saucer’ Objects Again Puzzles Wash. DC August 5, 1952 — Washington, D.C. Area 1/9:46–12:00 midnight. A visual sighting is made at 9:46 p.m. by an observer on the ground at Manassas, Virginia, who spots a brilliant oval flying south.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Ignis Fatuus August 5, 1892 — Visalia, CA 1/11:00 p.m. Maud Dismore and Arthur Bull are sitting on a porch on Court Street in Visalia, California, when a reddish-blue light suddenly descends and hovers opposite the end of the porch.

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One of the last cases Ruppelt investigated before he leaves Blue Book at the end of August. He took a trip there to personally look into the incident. He calls it “the best” in the USAF files.

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Jeff Knox@mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 18h ago

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Rapid City / Ellsworth AFB Incident (RV) August 5–6, 1953 — Rapid City, SD 1/ Around 8:00 p.m. Ground Observer Corps observer Phyllis Killian spots a UFO in Black Hawk, South Dakota.

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The United Airlines Case August 5, 1992 — 50 mi NE of Victorville, CA 1/ 1:45 p.m. Pilots of United Airlines Flight 934 are flying at 23,000 feet some 50 miles northeast of George AFB [now Southern California Logistics Airport],

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#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Silver Metallic 'Cigar' August 4, 1978 — East Leroy, MI 1/9:30 p.m. A 12-year-old boy in East Leroy, Michigan, hears a noise and looks out his window to watch a silver cigar drop vertically downward to a position 100 feet away and 15 feet up.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - UFOs at Hanford August 4, 1950 — 1/ A memo from Army Maj. Ulysses Grant Carlan states that UFOs since July 30 have been seen at the Hanford Site in Washington State. They are above 15,000 feet. Jets attempting interception fail.

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#ufosky #ufo #Ufohistory Today in UFO History - Pan Am Airliner Encounters Elliptical Object August 4, 1947 — btw. Bedford / Everett, MA 1/ 4:00 p.m. Pan American Airlines pilot Alpheas D. Powell and navigator Walter I. White are flying between Bedford and Everett, Massachusetts,

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I binged the Bulldog Drummond 1960s movie again yesterday. So now Dean Martin as Matt Helm in The Ambushers (1967). Secret agent Matt Helm embarks on a mission to recover an experimental flying saucer that has been hijacked. Along the way, he fights foreign spies and the ruler of a rogue nation.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Rex Heflin Photos August 3, 1965 — nr. Santa Ana, CA 1/12:37 p.m. Los Angeles County Highway Accident Investigator Rex Heflin takes four clear Polaroid photos of a hat-shaped UFO on a lonely stretch of road near Santa Ana, California.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Eight Huge Objects Observed by 8 Witnesses and Radar August 3, 1952 — Hamilton AFB, CA 1/4:15 p.m. Two huge silvery discs are observed visually and tracked on radar for 1 hour and 15 minutes over Hamilton AFB [now closed] near Novato, California.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Slow Revolving Disc August 3, 1947 — Hackensack, NJ Late afternoon. Charles Casella Jr. and William Truax (or Truex) watch a slowly revolving flying disc 600 feet in the air moving swiftly in Hackensack, New Jersey. [Eberhart]

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#ufosky #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Sherman Photo Case August 2, 1965 — Sherman, TX 1/3 a.m. KXWI-TV news photographer Robert Campbell hears on his radio a conversation between Oklahoma and Texas highway patrolmen that a UFO has been tracked on radar and is streaking towards the Texas border.

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#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Landing Rprt August 2, 1965 — Justin, TX As they patrol near Eagle Mountain Lake, two Tarrant County, Texas, deputy sheriffs see an object as bright as burning magnesium land. An extensive investigation by police finds no traces.

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