Mike Cox

A Texas historian and columnist, Mike Cox appears across three of the archive's Texas stories. In 2010 he retold the Lobo Girl of Devil's River for Texas Escapes. For John Martin's 1878 large saucer, he researched the Dallas Herald link and the 1880 census, and noted that the Austin Daily Statesman stayed silent. His fullest role came with the Camp Hood balls of fire of 1949. Reading the released FOIA documents, he concluded the triangulation net went live around May 4 anyway. In his view, the sightings above the then top secret facility have never been explained.

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The Lobo Girl of Devil's River

1845 · San Felipe Springs (Del Rio) and Devil's River, Val Verde County, Texas

United States

Cryptid · Creature · 22 sources

21Thinly documented

Texas Escapes columnist who retold the story in 2010

John Martin's "Large Saucer" over North Texas, 1878

January 22, 1878 · Near Denison, Grayson County, Texas (possibly near Dallas)

United States

UAP · Other · 12 sources

11Thinly documented

Texas Tales columnist who researched the Dallas Herald link and the 1880 census

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The Camp Hood "Balls of Fire": Lights Over the Killeen Base Atomic Bomb Site

March 1949 · Killeen Base (Site Baker), beside Camp Hood, Bell County, Texas

United States

UAP · Formation · 23 sources

33Partially documented

Texas historian who reconstructed the timeline from FOIA documents