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Less than three months after Pearl Harbor, radar flagged something off the California coast and the guns opened up for an hour over a blacked-out city. The Army said 15 planes were up; the Navy said none. Decades later, the leading suspect was a stray weather balloon.
In late 1948, glowing green objects began streaking over Los Alamos and Sandia. Air Force meteor consultant Lincoln LaPaz triangulated their paths, ruled out ordinary meteors, and told the military the fireballs were probably man-made.
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.
The astronomer who became science's most famous skeptic was one of six members of the 1966 O'Brien Committee, which judged Project Blue Book scientifically hollow and urged universities to investigate. The study it set off ended official UFO research instead.
From 1947 to 1969, the US Air Force ran its longest official inquiry into unidentified flying objects. It reviewed thousands of sightings, explained most - and quietly classified 701 as things it simply could not resolve.
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.
In December 1980, US Air Force personnel at twin NATO bases in Suffolk reported three nights of anomalous lights, physical ground traces, and radiation readings in the forest - producing the most detailed official record of any UAP event in British history.
The 'Tic Tac' case remains the most documented UAP incident in U.S. military history. Here is a careful account of what pilots reported, what sensors recorded, and where the evidence stops.
