Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about the post war UFO wave.
That's correct, the post war UFO wave.
Now, this is made-up by a series of UFO sightings and encounters
that happened just after the end of World War 2.
Lots of cool sightings. And what I really like about
these is that a lot of these encounters and sightings really
make up the foundation for the study of UFO ology.
Here we are 70 years later, still talking about them.
Now, this first article comes to us from spokesman.com.
That's spokesman.com. It's written by Charles Apple,
says the spokesman. Review UFOs over Washington.
That's Washington state. It's got a picture of Kenneth
Arnold here back in 1947 wearing a suit in front of his little
single engine airplane. It says on June 24th, 1947,
seventy three years ago. So it's been a little bit longer
than that. Wednesday, Automatic
Firefighting Systems company owner and licensed pilot Kenneth
Arnold of Boise, flying from Chalet to Yakima, spotted 9
large metallic looking objects flying rapidly near Mount
Rainier. It would be the first of many
reports of flying saucers or unidentified flying objects from
around the world. While flying to Yakima on a
sales call, Arnold read about a downed Marine C46 transport that
had crashed near Mount Rainier in January.
With skies clear and a little time on his hand, Arnold
lingered over the area in hopes of spotting the wreckage and
earning a $10,000 reward. I think about it, in 1947 you
could have got those $10,000 in the form of silver dollars.
Imagine what those of you worth today, Couple 100 grand maybe?
Arnold gave up his search shortly before at 3:00 PM and
was proceeding to Yakima when a series of bright flashes caught
his eye. At first, he thought the objects
might be geese, but they seemed to reflect an awful lot of
sunlight. Is if someone had started an
arclight in front of my eyes, Arnold would say.
And they appear to be moving incredibly fast.
Arnold figured the objects were 25 or 30 miles away, flying at
an altitude of 10,000 feet, judging from their distance,
speed and size against the mountaintop.
See objects patched in front of and behind.
Arnold estimated the size of each to be larger than ADC 4
airliner and moving about 1200 mph, which would have suggested
the craft were traveling at nearly twice the speed of sound.
The first Air Force pilot to break the sound barrier wouldn't
do that until October, four months later.
Once he was back on the ground, Arnold filed a report of his
sighting. He said the objects didn't alarm
him, he had just assumed they were some kind of experimental
aircraft. But the military was baffled by
the report. Both the Army and the FBI would
interview Arnold and come away impressed by his character and
apparent integrity. But they had no clue what Arnold
had seen or what might travel that fast.
As far as we know, nothing flies that fast except the Vt rocket,
which travels about 3500 mph and Army spokesman in Washington,
DC, told reporters. And that's too fast to be seen.
Everyone says I'm nuts, Arnold told The Associated Press.
And I guess I'd say it too, if someone else reported those
things, But I saw them and watch them closely.
It seems impossible, but there it is.
Arnold described the objects as being flat, like a pie pan and
saucer shaped. So that's what reporters wrote
in their news stories. Headlines slashed around the
country of flying saucers. 1 notable exception in a page one
story. On June 27th, just three days
after Kenneth's encounter, the Spokane Daily Chronicle called
them flying pie pans. Arnold didn't enjoy the
publicity in the least. A preacher in Texas told his
flock the sighting was a harbinger of doomsday.
Later that week, Arnold was in Pendleton, OR for an air show
when a woman in a cafe recognized him from newspaper
reports and ran out of the joint, sobbing.
There's the man who saw the first men from Mars.
However, Arnold spent $150 on your camera with telescopic lens
just to be ready if you saw the flying pipe hands again.
We know he sounds like a pretty reasonable guy, you know,
business owner. He wasn't somebody I don't think
that was really looking for attention.
He just saw this thing and he had the presence of mind to
report it. Now, this was kind of the
kickoff for these things we go on down here in the article.
We see July 5th, 1947. Now.
I remember this happened in June of 1947.
This is July 5th, 1947. Boise, ID.
Shortly after takeoff on a flight from Boise to Portland,
OR, United Airline Captain EJ Smith and his copilot Ralph
Stevens see 5 flying disc. Smith later tells reporters that
before his own sighting, he'd been skeptical of Arnold's
widely reported account. And nothing like having your own
sighting to make you a believer. Huh?
July 7th, 1947, Roswell, NM. The Army Air Force reportedly
recovers a crashed saucer and alien bodies.
The saucer, oh boy, listen to this, turns out to be a new top
secret balloon borne device intended to detect nuclear
blast. And there were never any alien
bodies. Still, conspiracy theories would
persist 73 years later. And we know that that statement
right there is completely false because we've had the documents
released showing that there was no secret balloon born device
released that day because of the wind conditions.
So even though this is this statement has been disproven,
OK, that that narrative persist all these years later.
This is what I'm talking about when I talk about breaking the
narrative and how narratives are used to control us.
I'll just get a little bit of a side here.
You know, I did the show on dinosaurs the other day.
I do a lot of different shows and I just read different
articles. And basically what the the
premise of the show was. Hey, look, they found dinosaur
DNA and there's two schools of thought on this.
Either we were wrong the whole time and it turns out that
dinosaur DNA can hang around for 200 million years, or perhaps
this turns the whole idea of the old earth theory on its head and
these dinosaurs actually did coexist at the same time of man.
Boy, I got a lot of hate mail for that.
And The thing is, is that one of the proponents of this is a kind
of a Christian off suit that believes in young earth theory.
What, you know, funny thing is that show made $0.00 in AD
revenue. Now I don't make a lot of money
in this podcast. I might bring in 20 to on a good
day, $50 on ad revenue, probably run about $30.00 on average per
day that brought in exactly 0 unless it's changed to my
knowledge. That's weird.
I had people, I had some people make some really nasty comments
on that because it challenged this narrative, this, this old
earth narrative. Now I was just reading the
article and talking about, well, wow, this is interesting.
What do you think about this? But but people construe that in
all sorts of different ways. Somehow I was a religious bigot
when you know, I've been pro Christianity on this podcast
since day one. But suddenly I'm anti Christian
because I pointed out the fact that this openly Christian
group, they're like a nonprofit who they they are proponents of
young Earth theory. We're talking about this whole
idea of, hey, here's this dinosaur DNA.
There's no way it could have lasted this long.
So it just goes to show that the the Earth is young, not old.
Now I just read the article and commented on it.
That's not me saying this is what I believe or, or this is
how it has to be. But just bringing up something
that could challenge the narrative seemed to really
frustrate, anger people on both sides of the fence.
To the point where I don't know if some kind of complaint was
lodged or if I just found the third rail.
But it was like, oh, guess what you get for ad revenue today on
that zero $0.00. So not sure what's going on
there. You know, I guess I'll just wait
and see if that gets straightened out later.
Hopefully it will. If it does, I'll let you know.
But this is what we're talking about, the narrative, how
narratives are used to control us and why it's so important to
judge these people in our own with with our own intellect.
When these new whistle wars come out, are they bringing real
information or are they just, you know, helping tweak the
narrative? And this whole narrative with
Roswell, NM, even though it's been disproven repeatedly and
the, the story from the deep state has changed over time,
multiple times, people still repeat the lies even though
they've been disproven as total falsehoods.
So it's just, it's just so in your face.
So I'm just, I'm just, I'm just putting that out there.
I'm saying, look, challenge the narrative.
What no matter what it is, always challenge the narrative.
Always question the narrative. And if it's true, then fine.
If it's not, well, maybe there's a different answer to it.
OK. This next one is Fort Knox, KY,
January 7th, 1948. This is Air National Guard pilot
Thomas Mantel, this dispatch to investigate a UFO sighting.
The object goes into a steep climb.
Mantel follows but has no oxygen gear in his cockpit.
He blacks out after he passes 25,000 feet and is killed when
his P51 Mustang crashes. Well, there's so many blacked
out. Maybe, you know, we don't know
for sure what all went on there, but that's kind of the the
narrative of this thing. Well, the guy got so excited he
went up too high that he blocked out Montgomery, AL.
July 24th, 1948 The crew of ADC 3 passenger liner flying from
Houston to Atlanta passes a glowing, fast moving, wingless
torpedo shaped aircraft that appears to have two rows of lit
windows. Air Force investigators say they
probably saw a meteor. Yeah, it seems really plausible
because meteors all have windows along the sides of them, don't
they? So there you go.
There's the narrative. No matter how ridiculous it is,
they get it out there and just keep repeating it.
This was dated October 10th, 1948.
Fargo, ND Air Force pilot George Gorman, flying AP 51 Mustang,
chases and is chased by a rapidly moving ball of light.
Other pilots flying in the area also see the light.
Afterwards, a Geiger counter chose Gorman's plane measures
higher in radioactivity than it should.
Explanations. Oh no, do we need any?
Nope, no explanations there. Just saw a ball of light.
Wow. May 11th 1950.
Mcminnville OR a farm couple photographs a slow moving saucer
shaped craft flying over a nearby field.
Experts find no evidence the photo had been taken.
The photo had been faked. Skeptics point out the crack is
exactly the same shape as the rear view mirror of a 1961 Ford
F-100 pickup. Yeah, but I wondered how they
got it up in the air like that. Amazing isn't it?
August 5th, 1950 Great Falls, Mt.
The general manager of the local minor League Baseball team uses
a 16mm movie camera to film 2 silvery objects flying over the
city. Air Force experts examine the
film but are accused of removing some of the footage.
Well, you know, that's the risk you run when you allow the
military to have your original copy of film.
Great thing about the day is you put the stuff online and it's
out there. But yeah, another one here's.
So there's your narrative. You get the film, you get the
indisputable truth, and you just cut the purse out.
That proved the point. And guess what?
Nothing to see here. Move along.
August 25th, 1951. Lubbock, TX Professors of what
would have become professors of what would become Texas Tech
Watch groups of 20 to 30 bright lights fly overhead.
The lights return over the next few weeks, and one student even
manages to photograph them at Air Force Invest.
An Air Force investigator would say the lights were actually
plover birds. Now, remember, this is a group
of professors. Yeah.
They can't tell the difference between an orb and a bird.
There's your narrative. We got some dumb professors out
there, I guess. July 12th through 29th, 1952,
Washington DC. A series of radar sightings of
unexplained objects coincides with reports of white moving
lights and orange balls of fire with tails like a comet.
While investigating, an Air Force F-94 fighter pilot reports
he is surrounded by 4 white glowing objects.
This is 1 you had comments from Harry Truman made on it.
Got these orbs everywhere but nothing to see here.
Move along. July 14th, 1952, Norfolk,
Virginia 2 commercial pilots flying a Pan Am DC-4 from New
York to Miami. Spot 8 red, brightly glowing
saucer shaped objects flying in tight formation at 2000 feet
above the Chesapeake Bay. Observers on the ground also see
the objects. Now see if you get something
like this. But you got pilots in the air.
Observers on the ground, They both report seeing the same
thing. Well, hard to dispute that
narrative. So what do we do?
We just ignore it. Here we go.
July 24th, 1952 Carson Sink, Nevada 2 Air Force colonels
flying AB25 bomber from San Francisco to Colorado Spring to
Colorado Springs spot 3 silver Delta Wing aircraft flying at
high speed. Air Defense Command officials
would say no civilian or military aircraft was flying
nearby. Wow, just another, just another
delta wing aircraft flying along there that nobody can explain.
August 5th through 6th, 1953, Rapid City, SD and Bismarck, ND
civilians and military personnel observed colored glowing lights
dancing in the sky. Flight commanders follow along
on radar as Air Force planes pursue the lights which managed
to stay miles in front of them. Or was playing cat and mouse.
No narrative necessary there. I guess it's hard to it's hard
to explain that one away. August 21st through 22nd 1955.
Hopkins, Hopkinsville, KY. Two families should report a
landed disc shaped craft near their house near their homes and
that they shot at glowing humanoids who appeared at them
through their windows. Air Force investigators would
label a case as a hoax and I guess they had nothing better to
do but make up stories about aliens.
July 24th, 1956. Drakinsburg, South Africa.
A meteorology, just a former Royal Air Force intelligence
staffer, photographs and flying objects.
She would later claim to have had repeated contact with
occupants of alien craft and that her son was fathered by one
of the aliens. And again, I wonder about some
of these to get a little bit out there.
But, you know, a very interesting stuff.
It would be really fun to find out that kick to take ADNA test
today and see if there was anything unusual about that.
Yeah, a pretty good article overall.
I want to go back and look at a couple of these really good ones
that kind of make up this UFO wave that happened in about a 10
year period just after World War 2.
You know, this is pre cell phone, this is pre mass
communication, pre Internet. And so I really enjoy these
sightings because man, what did people have to go through to
take the time to report these and for these things to actually
make it into the mainline news? Now in this July 5th 1947 Boise,
ID sighting we find it. Shortly after take off on a
routine flight from Boise, ID to Portland, OR United Airlines,
Captain EJ Smith along with his copilot First Officer Ralph
Stevens and a stewardess witnessed 5 mysterious flying
discs in the evening sky. The objects appear to be moving
in formation, maintaining a steady course and speed.
Initially, Smith and Stevens observed 4 disc, followed
shortly by a fifth, which appears to join the group.
Captain Smith, a seasoned pilot with years of experience, later
recounts that before his own encounter, he had been highly
skeptical of the recent reports of unidentified flying objects,
particularly the widely publicized sighting by private
pilot Kenneth Arnold on June 24th, 1947 near Mount Rainier.
Arnold's account of nine fast moving Crescent shaped objects
had ignited a media frenzy and popularized the term flying
saucer. However, after his first hand
experience, Smith acknowledged that there is something
unexplained in the skies. The flight crew watches the
objects maneuver for several minutes before they vanish from
view. Despite their efforts, they are
unable to identify any conventional explanation for the
strange aerial phenomena. Smith later tells reporters that
the sighting left him convinced that UFOs were a real and
significant mystery, reinforcing the growing wave of reports from
other pilots and civilians in the summer of 1947, the period
that marked the beginning of the modern UFO era.
Next, we look at this July 24th, 1948 sighting.
This is called the Child's Witted UFO Encounter.
In the early hours of July 24th, 1948, at approximately 2:45 AM,
2 veteran pilots, Captain Clarence's Chiles and copilot
John B Witted, were at the controls of an Eastern Airlines
DC3 passenger liner flying from Houston, TX to Atlanta, GA.
As they approached Montgomery, AL at an altitude of about 5000
feet, the crew was suddenly startled by the sight of a
mysterious glowing object hurtling toward them at high
speed. And imagine they're in this
airplane, those things coming toward them.
According to Charles and Wyden, the unidentified craft was
wingless and had a distinct torpedo like shape.
It was illuminated by an eerie bluish white glow and appeared
to have two rows of rectangular windows from which a brilliant
light emanated. The object's trajectory brought
it within close proximity to the DC3, passing just off the right
side of the aircraft before vanishing into the night sky.
The encounter was brief but dramatic, lasting only a few
seconds. Some accounts suggest that one
of the passengers, looking out of a window at the time, also
caught a glimpse of the strange craft.
Charles and Witted later described it as a solid
mechanical object with a fiery exhaust trail, suggesting it was
powered by some form of advanced propulsion.
They insisted it was not a conventional aircraft, and
certainly not a meteor, as the Air Force investigator but later
proposed. So there you have the 2 pilots
who saw this thing, challenging the narrative that the Air Force
tried to put out there after the fact.
Investigation and controversy. The sighting was reported to
military authorities, drawing immediate interest from the US
Air Force, which was actively investigating UFO reports as
part of the Project Sign, an early effort to study the
growing number of unusual aerial sightings in post World War 2
era. Say maybe cover up.
Also. While some investigators
speculated that the pilots had witnessed a bolide that's a
particularly bright meteor, others within Project Sign were
less convinced. The structured appearance of the
object, it's apparent windows, and the fact that it seemed to
maneuver rather than simply streak across the sky let some
officials to privately consider the possibility of an
extraterrestrial craft. The child's wooded sighting
became one of the most famous UFO cases of the time, adding to
the growing wave of reports. That trouble both military and
civilian observers. The Air Force ultimately listed
the sighting as unexplained in early reports, though later more
skeptical analysis attempted to attribute it to natural
phenomena. So you see, they come back
later, try to adjust the narrative.
It's all about the narrative. Despite official skepticism, the
event left a lasting impression on both pilots.
Charles and Witted, both highly experienced aviators with combat
backgrounds, remain firm in their accounts of the mysterious
structured craft that passed dangerously close to the DC3 and
the skies over Alabama that night.
So you're talking about two guys who I guess were either Co
pilots or pilots and combat pilots.
This is World War Two, man. They're up there.
They're up there in these old World War 2 fighter planes
shooting it out. Pretty important, I think, that
they were able to identify the planes you were shooting at.
But they tell me they saw a UFO. They saw a UFO sighting October
10th, 1948 The Gorman Dogfight Fargo, ND On the evening of
October 10th, 1948, a chilling aerial encounter took place over
Fargo, ND. A 25 year old National Guard
pilot, George F Gorman, found himself engaged in bizarre high
speed chase with an unidentified flying object.
The encounter, which lasted nearly half an hour, remains one
of the most compelling UFO cases of the late 1940s and is often
cited as one of the first documented dogfights between a
military pilot and a UFO. At approximately 9:00 PM, Gorman
was piloting AP 51 Mustang on a Seoul night training flight.
The skies were clear with excellent visibility.
As he prepared to land at Hector Airport in Fargo, he noticed a
bright round light below him moving fast over the city.
At first, he assumed it was a civilian aircraft, but when air
traffic control confirmed there were no other planes in his
vicinity aside from a Piper Cub flying nearby, he grew
suspicious. Gorman decided to investigate,
changing course to intercept the light.
As he closed the distance, the object abruptly accelerated,
executing sharp, rapid maneuvers that seemed beyond the
capabilities of any known aircraft at the time.
When Gorman attempted to engage, the object dodged his advances,
responding with instantaneous direction changes and bursts of
extreme speed. At one point, the glowing object
reversed course and headed directly at him, forcing Gorman
to take evasive action. As he banked hard to avoid a
collision, the light whipped past his canopy and ascended
sharply. Determined to to keep pace, he
pushed his P51 to its maximum speed, but the mysterious object
effortlessly outmaneuvered him. The aerial duel lasted for 27
minutes, during which Gorman reported experiencing severe
difficulty keeping up with the object's movement.
Eventually, after executing one final sharp turn, the unknown
light shot straight up into the sky and vanished at an
incredible speed. Exhausted and bewildered, Gorman
landed safely and immediately reported the incident.
Obviously this is kind of a cat mouse game, this things playing.
If it can do movements like that, it could have shot this
P51 down if it wanted to without a problem.
I think. Gorman was not alone at
witnessing the strange aerial phenomena.
The pilot of the Piper Cub, as well as his passenger, observed
the glowing object as it engaged with Gorman's Aircraft 2 Control
tower operators at Hector Airport also confirmed seeing
the mysterious light moving erratically through the sky.
Their accounts corroborated Gorman's report, adding
credibility to his experience. Following the encounter
performance, P51 Mustang was subjected to a routine
inspection using a Geiger counter.
To the shock of investigators, the aircraft showed elevated
levels of radioactivity, significantly higher than
expected. While this finding was never
fully explained, it added an eerie layer of mystery to an
already perplexing case, the US Air Force, which had recently
launched Project Sign. This could have called a project
cover up as far as I'm concerned.
A precursor to Project Blue Book to study UFO sightings
immediately investigated the incident.
Their final explanation dismissed the object as either a
weather balloon or a misidentified celestial body,
such as Venus or Jupiter. Yeah, because Venus and Jupiter
dart all over the place like that.
However, this conclusion did not set well with Norman, who
insisted that the object was under intelligent control and
performed maneuvers no balloon or planet can replicate.
Some skeptics later suggested that Gorman may have been
chasing an optical illusion or after image, possibly caused by
his own cockpit reflections, as an astronomical phenomena
magnified by atmospheric conditions.
However, such explanations fail to account for the multiple
eyewitnesses and the Geiger counter readings on his
aircraft. Yeah, I suppose that the
radioactive fallout on the aircraft just got there
inexplicably, huh? The Gorman encounter remains one
of the most famous UFO cases in American history, primarily
because it involved inexperienced military pilot
engaging in direct aerial combat with an unknown craft.
Unlike many UFO sightings, which are fleeting and lack
corroboration, the lengthy duration of this event, the
multiple witnesses, and the physical evidence of increased
radiation make it particularly compelling.
Despite official explanations George Gorman obtained for the
rest of his life, but that what he had encountered that night
was not of this world, the incident remains unsolved and
continues to fuel speculation about advanced aerial technology
beyond human comprehension. Well, of course.
So you had to. I mean, you've got this
experienced pilot, it tells you what happened.
You've got eyewitnesses on the ground.
You've got eyewitnesses in a nearby airplane.
And hey, none of that matters because the narrative doesn't
agree with what the deep state wants you to believe.
We'll do three more here and we'll wrap this up.
I think this is a great case because the people involved,
just rural folks, simple folks who happen to grab a camera and
take an iconic picture. This is May 11th, 1950.
The Mcminnville UFO Photographs Mcminnville, OR On the evening
of May 11th, 1950, a rural farm couple in Mcminnville, OR Paul
and Evelyn Trent captured two of the most famous and debated UFO
photographs in history. Their images, showing a saucer
shaped craft hovering over their property remain among the most
enduring pieces of photographic evidence in UFO history.
According to the Trents, at around 7:30 PM, Evelyn Trent was
outside feeding the rabbits when she noticed a large metallic
disc shaped object silently moving across the sky.
She quickly ran inside to alert her husband Paul, who grabbed
his Kodak Roamer camera and ran outside.
As the unidentified craft continue to slow trajectory over
a nearby field, Paul managed to take two photographs before it
speed off to the West and disappeared.
The couple later described the object as solid, metallic and
reflecting sunlight, moving without any visible means of
propulsion. They emphasized that the UFO
made no discernible sound as it moved through the sky.
The trance initially did not develop the film immediately
thinking little of the encounter.
However, after sharing their story with friends and
neighbors, they were encouraged to develop the negatives.
Once printed, the images quickly drew attention from the local
community. The photos first appeared in the
Mcminnville Telephone Register on June 8th, 1950, and were soon
reprinted by The Oregonian newspaper.
Within weeks, the story had spread nationally, catching the
attention of Life magazine, which published a photograph in
its June 26th, 1950 edition. This exposure helped cement the
images is some of the most widely recognized UFO photos
ever taken. Over the years, the Minville UFO
photographs have been subjected to intense scrutiny by experts
and skeptics alike. Notably, in 1967, the Condon
Committee, a government funded study of UFOs at the University
of Colorado, examined the photographs and found no
evidence of tampering or hoaxing.
Investigators determine that the object in the photos was a
genuine 3 dimensional airborne object, ruling out obvious hoax
methods like suspending a small model with a string.
Later analysis, including one conducted in 1974 by Doctor
William K Hartman for the US Air Forces Project Blue Book,
concluded that the object was real and distant, rather than a
small close up object like a thrown hubcap or mirror.
Optical density measurements indicate that the UFO was not a
lightweight object hanging by a string, the skeptics had
suggested. Despite the credibility of the
trends and the lack of evidence suggesting a hoax, skeptics have
long attempted to debunk the minimal UFO photos.
One of the most widely circulated claims is that the
object bears a striking resemblance to the side view
mirror of a Ford F-100 pickup from the 1960s.
However, this argument is flawed.
The Ford F-100 model with that particular mirror design did not
exist until 1961, eleven years after the photos were taken.
Others have suggested the UFO could have been a garage light
fixture or a discarded hubcap suspended by wire, but thorough
analysis have failed to produce conclusive evidence supporting
these claims. The Mcminnville photographs
remain one of the most famous and debated UFO sightings in
history. Unlike many UFO cases where
witnesses faded to obscurity, Paul and Evelyn Trent stood by
their story until their deaths, maintaining that they had seen
and photographed something extraordinary and unexplained.
The town of Mcminnville has embraced his place in UFO
history, hosting the annual Magnanimous UFO Festival, second
only to the famous Roswell UFO Festival.
The event celebrates the 1950s sighting with speakers,
researchers, and even a parade, keeping the mystery alive for
new generations. Even in the modern era of
advanced image analysis, the Mcminnville UFO photographs
continue to defy conclusive debunking, making them one of
the most compelling and enduring UFO cases on record.
No matter how hard they try, they couldn't debunk this.
So this was August 25th, 1951 called the Lubbock Lights,
Lubbock, TX. On the night of August 25th,
1951, a group of respected science professors at Texas
Technological College, now Texas Tech University, witnessed a
stunning and unexplained aerial phenomena over the city of
Lubbock, TX. The sighting, later dubbed the
Lubbock Big Lights, would become one of the most famous UFO cases
in the early 1950s, sparking national attention and drawing
the interests of the US Air Force.
Now keep in mind this is a collection of professors that
are seeing this stuff. The first sighting at around
9:20 PM, three professors of Science and engineering, Doctor
AG Oberg, Dr. WI Robinson and Doctor George were sitting in
one of their backyards in Lubbock, TX when they noticed a
formation of 20 to 30 bright bluish white lights moving
silently across the sky. The lights travelled swiftly in
AV shaped or semi circular formation flying from north to
South. Astonished, the professors
continued watching the sky for more signs of the lights.
Within the next hour they saw several more formations of
lights flying overhead in a consistent pattern.
The men, all trained observers with scientific backgrounds,
ruled out Meteors aircraft for weather related explanations for
what they had seen. Over the next several weeks,
dozens of Lubbock residents reported seeing the strange
formations of lights, describing them as glowing, circular and
moving at high speeds. On August 30th, 1951, Carl Hart
Junior, an 18 year old freshman at Texas Tech, managed to
capture 5 photographs of the lights using his Kodak 35mm
camera. Hart, who had heard of the
sightings from others, was watching the sky when the lights
appeared again. Acting quickly, he took a series
of photos which clearly showed AV shaped formation of glowing
lights. The images were published in
newspapers across the country, including Life magazine, making
the Lubbock lights one of the most widely publicized UFO cases
of the decade. As reports continue to pour in,
the US Air Force launched an investigation under Project Blue
Book, the government's official study of UFO phenomena.
One of the primary investigators assigned to the case was Captain
Edward J Rupelt, who would later become the first director of
Project Blue Book. Rupelt travelled to Lubbock and
conducted interviews with the Professors Hart and other
witnesses. While he was convinced the
sightings were genuine, he struggled to find a conventional
explanation. Eventually, the Air Force
suggested the lights were reflections of city lights off
the undersides of plover birds, a common species in the Lubbock
area that migrates at night. Wow, what a stretch.
However, many experts, including the professors, dismissed this
explanation. They pointed out that the
formations of lights were too precise and uniform for a flock
of birds and that the lights moved at a much higher speed
than any known bird species. Additionally, the Plover theory
did not account for Carl Hart's photograph, which showed
distinct circular lights rather than reflections or scattered
points. While the Air Force officially
closed the case, stating that the Lubbock lights have been
explained as a natural phenomena, many researchers and
eyewitnesses remain unconvinced. The professors at Texas Tech
never accepted the plover theory, and Captain Repel
himself later admitted in his book The Report on Unidentified
Flying Objects, that the Lubbock lights remained one of the most
puzzling and credible UFO cases he had ever investigated.
Some alternative explanations suggest the lights could have
been classified military aircraft being tested at nearby
air base, but no official records have ever confirmed this
theory. Others speculated about
atmospheric plasma formations or unknown aerial technology,
though no conclusive evidence has been found.
Well, I mean think about it this 1950, do you rather think
they're going to have that kind of tech is going to be
available? The Lubbock Lights case remains
one of the most well documented and debated UFO sightings in
American history. Unlike many other UFO cases
which rely on and little evidence this the event had
multiple highly credible witnesses, photographic
evidence, and repeat occurrences over several weeks.
To this day, the mystery of the Lubbock Lights remains
unresolved, Continuing to intrigue UFO researchers and
skeptics alike. The case stands as one of the
earliest mass UFO sightings of the modern era and help shape
public perception of unidentified aerial phenomena in
the 1950s. Well, no doubt about it.
These things were not burged. It's amazing how far the deep
state will go establishment to come up with some kind of a
narrative to explain away these UFOs.
They don't care how crazy it is. They just don't care.
Whatever they, whatever they have to say, that's what they'll
say. OK, we're going to go ahead and
we're going to finish up one last one here.
There's a bunch we could do, but just for sake of time I'll have
to wrap this up. This last night we're talking
about from this 1950s UFO wave is the July 14th, 1952 Norfolk
UFO Encounter. On the evening of July 14th,
1952, a routine Pan Am Airways flight from New York to Miami
turned into a chilling encounter with unidentified flying objects
over the skies at Norfolk, VA. The sighting, witnessed by both
the flight crew and observers on the ground, added to the growing
wave of UFO reports in the summer of 1952, a period that
would later be known as one of the most active UFO flaps in
U.S. history. At approximately 8:10 PM, the
Pan Am DC-4 airliner, piloted by Captain William B Nash and First
Officer William H Fortenberry, was cruising at 8000 feet above
the Chesapeake Bay just South of Norfolk.
Suddenly, Nash and Fortenberry noticed a group of eight glowing
red orange objects rapidly approaching from the West at an
estimated altitude of 2000 feet. The objects were described as
disc shaped, glowing brilliant red, and flying a tight V
formation at an incredible speed.
As the crew watched in astonishment, the objects
suddenly reversed direction in unison, making a sharp 120° turn
without slowing down and maneuver far beyond the
capabilities of any known aircraft of the time.
The pilot estimated the object speed to be well over 1000 mph,
significantly faster than the top speeds of contemporary
fighter jets like the F86 Sabre, which had a maximum speed of
about 600 and 70 mile per hour. As Nash and Fortenberry continue
to watch, the objects briefly disappeared behind a thin cloud
layer before reemerging in a new formation of pairs, suggesting
intelligent control. Moments later, they accelerated
and vanished over the horizon within seconds.
Simultaneously, multiple witnesses on the ground in the
Norfolk area also reported seeing the strange red lights
darting across the sky. These independent confirmations
strengthen the credibility of the pilot's account.
Upon landing in Miami, the crew immediately reported the
incident to Pan Am officials and later to US Air Force
investigators. The report was taken so
seriously that it was quickly passed along to Project Blue
Book, the Air Force's official UFO investigation program.
Air Force analysts were unable to identify the objects.
No known military exercises, aircraft, or celestial phenomena
could explain the sighting. While some skeptics suggested
that the lights might have been reflections or meter activity,
this theory failed to account for the disk light shape of the
objects, their coordinated maneuvers and abrupt changes in
directions, their extreme speed, or the fact that multiple ground
observers also saw them. The Norfolk sighting was just
days before one of the most famous UFO sightings in history,
the Washington, DC UFO sightings of July 19th through 20th and
July 26th through 27th, 1952. During those nights, multiple
unidentified objects were detected on radar over the
nation's capital, causing national security concerns and
prompting fighter jets to be scrambled.
Many UFO researchers believe the Norfolk site may have been
related to the Washington instance, suggesting that both
are part of a larger wave of unexplained aerial activity
across the US during that summer.
Despite extensive investigations, the Norfolk UFO
encounter remains unexplained. Captain Nash, a highly respected
commercial pilot, stood by his testimony for the rest of his
life, dismissing conventional explanations and insisting that
what he and his copilot saw that night was not a human origin.
The sighting remains one of the most credible and well
documented cases in aviation and UFO history, reinforcing the
mystery of the unexplained aerial phenomena that dominated
the skies in the summer of 1952. Oh what a cool sighting.
I just love these post World War 2 sightings from the 40s and
50s. The people just seemed so
sincere and credible to me. These guys were coming out of
World War 2, they'd been through a lot of trauma, they knew how
to how to behave under pressure and to me their stories couldn't
be more credible. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.