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The UFO Issue Short UFO Timeline Version 1.3 Back to index The following (incomplete) timeline is put together from the information contained in the mainstream news reports that can also be found in this section. Information from FOIA and leaked documents have been left out. That includes all information about the Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit and MJ-12. For more information about these groups look at majesticdocuments.com. This summary is nowhere near complete.
February 25, 1942 | Battle of Los Angeles incident. One or more objects appear above the West Coast. One of them hovers above L.A. for 30 minutes while anti-aircraft batteries are continuously firing on it. The object does not seem to be affected by it and moves on.
Summer 1946 | Extremely fast red, green, white, blue, and yellow balls of light with fiery tails appear over the skies of Europe. According to Time Magazine a Swiss Army plane collided with one of the objects, killing all 3 occupants. Other witnesses on the water or in the air claimed to have had near misses with some of these things. The press, clueless as usual, speculated that these "ghost rockets" might have been launched from the Russian controlled Peenemunde, the former great German missile base. At the end of the summer, the reports came from Denmark, Norway, Spain, Greece, French Morocco, Portugal, and Turkey. Then the phenomenon left.
June 24, 1947 | The first widely reported flying saucer sighting in the U.S., which marks the beginning of a large UFO wave. The wave peaks in the first 2 weeks of July.
July 7, 1947 | The Roswell incident. After having reviewed debris from the crash site, a local air base sends out a report that it has retrieved a flying saucer. When word reaches the generals in Washington the story rapidly changes to a weather balloon. Haven't seen any mainstream reports about the retrieval of bodies.
July 26, 1947 | The National Security Act creates the National Security Council, the Department of Defense, and the first peace time civilian intelligence agency, the CIA. The Air Force, Navy, and Army, have been merged with the DOD and now fall under the leadership of the Secretary of Defense. The National Security State with all its compartmentalized secrets is born.
December 30, 1947 | Project Sign is established after 3 months of planning. It is later followed up by Project Grudge and Blue Book.
January 1948 | The "ghost rockets" are back and are first seen in countries like North Jutland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. The phenomenon spreads to all of Europe and even to South-America. This time many witnesses are reporting that the fireballs move slowly. In March 1948 the reports have died out again.
December 1948 | The "Green Fireball" phenomenon appears in the United States, especially in the southwest, where all the top secret military research institutions are located. These balls are very large, pale green, noiseless, "meteors", which never seem to crash. In the latter part of 1949 the reports die out.
1950-1953 | UFOs are spotted and sometimes tracked on radar in Korea.
June 1952 | The National Security Agency is created in secret.
July 1952 | The famous Washington sightings. During the latter part of July, UFOs are spotted and tracked on radar above Washington D.C. One picture captures them flying above the White House. The lights react intelligently to the scrambled jet fighters.
1954 | The phenomenon of flying saucers and other UFOs has kept increasing since 1947. They are seen by many many pilots. Reports of them start to decrease, however, because the Air Force tends to ridicule and silence each civilian pilot that wants to speak out. In February 1954 Scripps Howard writes: "Commercial airline pilots report between five and 10 flying saucer sightings each night." In September a large noisy UFO is spotted above Rome, which is tracked on radar for 39 minutes. It stopped in mid-air for a few seconds after which it shot straight up and out of sight. Sightings were going on since 5 days at the time. 40 days later there's another sighting. It is also seen and reported by United States Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce. In December, the New York Times reported: "President Eisenhower said today an Air Force official had assured him that flying saucers were not invading the earth from outer space." Guess there were a lot of sightings.
1953-1955 | The UFO phenomenon kicks off in Europe, first starting in the west and then moving to the south and into the USSR. In 1955, the sightings in Europe drop off although they never disappear. In the U.S. sightings by all kinds of people, including civilian and military pilots, keep becoming more frequent. The Air Force cracks down on these reports, which results in less and less pilots reporting them.
December 1958 | 450 civilian pilots protest against the Air Force's policy of ridiculing pilots that report UFOs. Sightings were briefly on the rise again since the year before.
1960 | National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is established.
1961 | Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is established. Betty and Barney Hill claim they were abducted by a type of Grey alien. Many thousands of reports would follow within a decade.
1962 | Air Force Major Robert White reports a small UFO about 40 feet away from his X-15 rocket plane's window. At the moment he is flying 59 miles above the surface of the earth.
1966 | A lot of UFO activity, which included sightings in Michigan by about 150 people for several hours over a period of two nights. Twelve police officers were among the witnesses and a group of 87 coeds with their mentors had seen the round glowing object fly past their second story windows. They had been making notes for several hours and one of the things they noticed was that the object dimmed its light as soon as the police cars approached. The UFOs moved around in a swamp for most of the time, so the official explanation became "swamp gas".
1967 | The first reports about cattle mutilations appear in the papers.
1969 | Project Blue Book, the official UFO study of the Air Force, is finally wrapped up. As expected, it concludes that there's nothing to the UFO phenomenon. A former head of the project, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, completely disagrees with this conclusion. The same goes for J. Allen Hynek, the astronomical consultant to Project Blue Book.
1973-1975 | The cattle mutilations are becoming a major issue to farmers in many U.S. states and by 1979 the phenomena has claimed the lives of over 10,000 head of cattle. Night-time helicopters are often reported in the vicinity of mutilated cattle. Helicopter pilots take alternative routes or are flying 500 feet higher in order to evade angry stockmen with big guns.
1975 | In October and November a rash of helicopter-sounding, but unidentified UFOs visit nuclear missile sites in Montana, Michigan, and Maine. Sometimes tracked on radar (up to 40 minutes), but also seen by pilots and ground crews. The objects turn out to be too fast for a KC135 tanker plane (max speed is about 650 mph. Today's world record for the helicopter is 250 mph). On one occasion, when two F-106 jet fighters were scrambled the UFO temporarily disappeared. Another object that visited an AFB in Maine disappeared towards the Canadian border.
1976 | UFO sighting over Tehran, Iran. The colored, fast-flashing object is tracked by Iranian ground radar, seen independently by the crew of a commercial airliner and pursued by an Iranian F4-Phantom. When it is preparing to launch an AIM9 missile at a small second UFO that came out of the larger object, the F4's electronic system goes dead, only to be reactivated again when it veers away. A report is compiled by American officials.
Early 1980's | Reports about giant underground bases where humans and aliens are working together start to appear. Questionable people like William Cooper and John Lear are some of the first individuals to research it. Even today very little is known about the subject, although there are many stories and rumors. The grey alien has become commonplace within the UFO community. The first black triangles are filmed. A few were already reported in the seventies.
1989-1990 | The black triangle phenomenon appears over Belgium. The crafts were seen by about 10,000 witnesses, at least one high quality picture was taken of them, and the Belgian Air Force acknowledged the amazing maneuvers of one of the objects they were chasing (pulled 46G when it sped away).
Since 1997 | The black triangle phenomenon appears all over the U.S. in ever increasing frequency. In March 1997 there is the famous Phoenix Lights incident.
1999 | With their Cometa Report France seems to push for more openness about the UFO topic.
2001 | Steven Greer comes forward with many inside witnesses. His Disclosure Project is a milestone in the UFO research community. By this time, astronauts Gordon Cooper and Edgar Mitchell have already expressed their support for disclosure of classified UFO information. Cooper claims he has seen a formation of flying saucers in the early 1950s and that his film crew filmed a landed UFO up close. Update: Greer is a very weird guy, and although the influence of his Disclosure Project shouldn't be marginalized, be careful when it comes to the information many of his witnesses have provided - at the very least it's a very mixed bag.
2004-2005 | There are many UFO sightings in Iran, which has prompted them to start up their own investigation of UFOs, together with the Russians. As usual, most sightings occur near sensitive military sites en nuclear power plants. Mexico and Brazil seem to be pushing for more openness about the UFO topic.
2005 | Many UFO files from Britain have become accessible to the public. It turns out that there have been many sightings over the last decade by both radar personnel and pilots. One UFO that showed up on radar appeared to be 10 miles long and 2 miles wide. A good number of in depth and unbiased mainstream articles about UFOs have also been published in Britain in the past decade.
Compiled by : Joël van der Reijden Original: September 27, 2005 Updated: January 17, 2008