"A secret report done in 1948 by the Air Force and Naval Intelligence is among the most fascinating UFO documents ever to surface because it wasn’t supposed to exist. A confidential memo at the end of the report ordered that all copies should be destroyed. But one copy survived and was taken from the Pentagon in 1985. "That study contains more than 200 of the earliest UFO sightings, including one that occurred in June 1947 near Lake Mead. An Air Force pilot saw a formation of six UFOs. The re...

RT @MvonRen: 1948: One of the first Air Force analyses of UFOs cites “balls of fire” and “silver balls” among the most common morphologies…

A newly released document from the June 2026 UAP release contains a detailed 1948 sighting report from Indianapolis, Indiana. On July 31, 1948, at 8:25 AM, an electrician named Vernon Swigert was standing by his bathroom window when he saw a strange object flying across the sky. He immediately called his wife to come see it. He described it as shaped like a cymbal, with smooth surfaces, approximately 20 feet in diameter at the base and 6 to 8 feet high in the center. The object was white in c...