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“ORION”

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The 2024 Drone Wave: New Jersey, Langley AFB and RAF Lakenheath

November 13, 2024 · New Jersey and the US Northeast, with Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia (Dec 2023) and RAF Lakenheath, Mildenhall, Feltwell and Fairford, England (Nov 2024)

United States

UAP · Other · 34 sources · 1 photos

69Well documented

The Christchurch Colour-Changing Sphere: Oisin Lavelle's Footage

June 13, 2016 · Lower Cashmere, Christchurch, Canterbury

New Zealand

UAP · Sphere · 11 sources · 3 photos

17Thinly documented

Kaiyō Maru Radar Encounter, Central North Pacific

December 21, 1986 · Central North Pacific, about 570 km north of Wake Island (25°50.6′ N, 166°10.7′ E, noon position)

International waters

UAP · Egg · 7 sources

33Partially documented

The Valentich Disappearance over Bass Strait

October 21, 1978 · Bass Strait, between Cape Otway and King Island, Victoria

Australia

UAP · Other · 55 sources · 1 photos

46Partially documented

Ennepetal Police Patrol Sighting (Nösler and Roschlaub), 1976

June 12, 1976 · Schweflinghauser Straße, Schweflinghausen, Ennepetal, Ennepe-Ruhr-Kreis, North Rhine-Westphalia

Germany

UAP · Egg · 14 sources

21Thinly documented

The Merxheim cabbage-picking landing

November 6, 1975 · Merxheim, Haut-Rhin, Alsace

France

UAP · Disc / saucer · 10 sources

18Thinly documented

The Adhara Observatory Lunar-Transit Photographs

December 1, 1965 · Adhara Observatory, San Miguel, Buenos Aires Province

Argentina

UAP · Disc / saucer · 13 sources · 1 photos

16Thinly documented

The Killian Case: American Airlines Flight 139 Paced by Three Lights

February 24, 1959 · About 13 miles west of Williamsport, Pennsylvania (airliner route toward Ohio)

United States

UAP · Formation · 17 sources

41Partially documented

The 1913 Great Meteor Procession (the Cyrillids)

February 9, 1913 · From Saskatchewan across Ontario (Toronto, Appin), the northeastern United States and Bermuda to the South Atlantic

Canada

UAP · Formation · 34 sources

37Partially documented

Names1

Raoul Robé Person · 2 stories
A researcher who looked for the source of French sightings on the television screen.

Documents32 · see all

Unidentified Object Observed in the Sky FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-11-04· 3 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …brightness of magnitude 3 (came as the Belt of Orion) cross his position field of vision while source was observing…
- p. 2 …brightness of magnitude 3 (came as the Belt of Orion) cross his position field of vision while source was observing…
Project Blue Book documents on the Killian case, compiled by Dan Wilson Document

NICAP· 83 pages· 19 pages mention it
- p. 75 …Killian had first thought they were the three stars in the belt of Orion, but disproved this by noticing that…
- p. 81 …At first he supposed he was looking at the constellation Orion, for the lights had the same configuration as the…
Defense Intelligence Reference Document Advanced Nuclear Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 37 pages· 7 pages mention it
- p. 6 …He remains convinced that small, clean bombs could propel Orion - but he still fears more than ever that such devices…
- p. 36 …Dyson, Project Orion, The True story of The Atomic Spaceship, Henry and Holt Company, New York, 2002. 6 H. Oberth…
AAWSAP DIRD, Advanced Nuclear Propulsion for Manned Deep Space Missions, March 2010 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2010-03-11· 37 pages· 7 pages mention it
- p. 6 …He remains convinced that small, clean bombs could propel Orion - but he still fears more than ever that such devices…
- p. 36 …Dyson, Project Orion, The True story of The Atomic Spaceship, Henry and Holt Company, New York, 2002. 6) H. Oberth…
Unidentified Object Observed in the Sky FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1958-12-11· 2 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …brightness of magnitude 3 (same as the Belt of Orion) cross his position field of vision while source was observing…
Defense Intelligence Reference Document Aneutronic Fusion Propulsion(1) Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 50 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 29 …General Atomics first proposed this technique in the late 1950s under Project Orion. 11, 12 With a maximum specific impulse…

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