America’s “other” missile crisis: UFO incursions plagued U.S. ICBM bases throughout the 1960s and ’70s.
Rumors persist that an American jet fighter shot down a UFO during the first Gulf War.
In possibly the most dramatic UFO photo ever taken, anti-aircraft batteries fire away at an unknown object caught in searchlights above Los Angeles on the morning of February 25, 1942.
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Why did UFOs haunt the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt throughout its three decades of service? Was it because the ship was the first U. S. Navy aircraft carrier to carry nuclear weapons?
Photo by U.S. Navy
Cruise missile technology wasn’t perfected until the 1980s, and the first cruise missiles weren’t used in combat until the 1990s. So why were cruise missiles like this spotted over Sweden in 1946?
Photo by U.S. Navy
A rare RB-47 shown in flight. Full of electronic countermeasures gear and other radar detection equipment, in 1957, one of these reconnaissance bombers was relentlessly stalked by a UFO over Louisiana and Texas for more than an hour.
Photo by U.S. Air Force
One of the first U.S. Air Force jet fighters to carry both a pilot and a radar operator, the F-94 Starfire was an unwitting player in several UFO incidents during the 1950s, including the especially baffling Haneda Case.
Photo by U.S. Air Force