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“Pan American”

Stories3

The Pacific Smoke Ring: BOAC, Pan Am and the S.S. Iberville

September 21, 1961 · North Pacific Ocean, between Tokyo and Honolulu, northwest of Midway

International waters

UAP · Other · 8 sources

26Thinly documented

The Nash-Fortenberry Sighting over Chesapeake Bay

July 14, 1952 · Over Chesapeake Bay, near Newport News, Virginia

United States

UAP · Disc / saucer · 23 sources

25Thinly documented

Harmon Field Disc and Cloud Hole Photographs

July 10, 1947 · Harmon Field, Stephenville, Newfoundland

Canada

UAP · Disc / saucer · 17 sources

32Partially documented

Names6

FAA Organisation · 12 stories
The FAA is the American aviation authority whose controllers, tapes and records keep coming up in this archive's sightings.
Chesapeake Bay Place · 6 stories
A wide estuary on the American East Coast, and a stage for more than one kind of mystery.
National Enquirer Organisation · 5 stories
An American tabloid that kept turning up at the edges of famous cases.
Washington, D.C. Place · 4 stories
Washington, D.C.
Mount Etna Place · 3 stories
Mount Etna is the volcano on the island of Sicily, and it figures in two very different cases.
Washington National Airport Place · 3 stories
Washington National Airport sits at the heart of the capital's most famous radar mystery.

Documents79 · see all

JANAP 146 FOIA release

National Security Agency· 13 pages

…XXX XXX or PAN PAN PAN Military Precedence Y or Emergency Commercial class of Service Indicator RAPID US…
65 HS1-834228961 62-HQ-83894 Serial 130 Official release

Federal Bureau of Investigation· 126 pages· 7 pages mention it
- p. 23 …WOODHUFF, Chief Mechanic, Pan American Airways, Harmon Field, Newfoundland, taken at 1415 HPT, 16 July 1947. by Captain William E…
- p. 29 …LEIDY Station Mechanic Pan American Airways Sworn and subscribed to before no this 17 day of July 1947. S. L…
FOIA Case Log Calender Year 2001-2003 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2022-03-03· 113 pages· 22 pages mention it
- p. 91 …SCHWARTZ & THE AMERICAN JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMIVIETTEE TASK FORCE 158 OR 158TI~l AVIATION BATTALION BERISHA PREVIEWS us VISIT TO DISCUSS…
- p. 95 …Cancefled DehkdinFuH Grantedin Pan No RecordsLocated Grantedin Pan Cancefled Grantedin Pan Referred to Another Agency GmnmdmFW DemedinFuH Cancefled Cancefled Referred…
Department of State AIRGRAM - Subject: Flying Saucers Are a Myth FOIA release

National Security Agency· 5 pages

…But they do not show strangers from space; they show quite ordinary earthly objects uncorrectedly foreshortened pots, pans…
Air Intelligence Report No. 100-203-79 Report

USAF Directorate of Intelligence via NICAP· 19 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 13 …Woodruff, a Pan-American Airways mechanic reported a circular object flying at high velocity, paralleling the earth's surface and…
- p. 15 …of a Pan American (1) On 12 September 1947, the pilot and co-pilot of a Pan American aircraft, en…
Ford Broadcasts, 1965-1966: 12237637 Official release

· 88 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 57 …telling the American people how much he and his lopsided Democratic majorities in Congress are giving the American people. Anything…
- p. 60 …When inflation began its insidious attack upon the American economy last year, President Johnson refused to act. He refused to…

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Harry Houdini VS Mina Crandon: El mago contra la médium - E382

From The "Margery" Séances and Houdini's Sittings for the Scientific American Prize