A podcast for UFO & UAP beginners · Season 1
Episode 3The Book Is Opened
The Air Force starts keeping files on flying saucers, and Project Blue Book begins.
The cases
Every case we cover has a field guide entry: what the record shows, what people claim, and the best explanation so far.
The Twining Memo
A top general tells the Pentagon the saucer reports deserve serious study.
Projects Sign, Grudge & Blue Book
Twenty-two years of Air Force UFO investigation: 12,618 reports, 701 unidentified.
The Death of Captain Mantell
A National Guard pilot died chasing a bright object he could not catch.
The Chiles–Whitted Encounter
Two airline pilots describe a glowing, windowed cigar rushing past their DC-3.
The 'Estimate of the Situation'
A report said to conclude the saucers were interplanetary, then ordered destroyed.
The Lubbock Lights
Texas Tech professors watched V-shaped groups of soft lights glide over town.
The Washington, D.C. Flap
Radar blips over the Capitol, jets scrambled and the biggest Pentagon press briefing since WWII.
The Robertson Panel
The CIA asks top scientists if UFOs are a threat. Their answer shaped policy for decades.
Check the sources
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