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As the Pentagon posts batch after batch of declassified UFO files in 2026, it is worth recalling that Washington's first serious UFO review did the opposite - a CIA-convened panel of top scientists urged a public 'debunking' campaign and surveillance of civilian UFO groups.
Seventy-four years ago this week, multiple radars tracked unknown objects over Washington's restricted airspace on two consecutive weekends. The Air Force scrambled jets twice. The official explanation was disputed by its own experts - and rejected by a scientific review.
Eleven witnesses saw a large, lit object crash into the sea at Shag Harbour. The RCMP, Coast Guard, and Royal Canadian Navy all investigated - and kept the case officially unidentified. Sixty years on, the files are public. The object is still unexplained.
Two Imperial Iranian Air Force F-4 Phantom jets intercepted a UFO over Tehran in September 1976. Both lost all instrumentation on approach. When one pilot tried to fire, his weapons system went dead. A U.S. DIA report reached the White House within weeks.
