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Between May and December 1946, Scandinavians reported roughly 2,000 fast, silent objects, and about 200 were tracked on radar. It became the world's first modern government UFO investigation - and the leading suspect was not aliens, but a captured German rocket program.
Stefan Michalak said he touched a landed craft near Falcon Lake and took a blast of hot gas to the chest. He came home with burns, radioactive soil and an RCMP file - and a Mayo Clinic doctor who wasn't convinced. Nearly 60 years on, the evidence still won't fully resolve.
On a clear morning in suburban Melbourne, more than a hundred students and teachers watched a domed silver object sink behind the pines and, some say, land. Sixty years later, the tidiest explanation - a stray radiation-sampling balloon - still doesn't fit the wind.
Over two hours near Levelland, Texas, farmhands, a college student and the county sheriff independently reported the same thing: an egg-shaped light that killed their engines, then let them restart. The official explanation did not hold up.
