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The Hook Island Sea Monster Photographs
December 12, 1964 · Stonehaven Bay, Hook Island, Whitsunday Islands, Queensland
Australia
Cryptid · Creature · 15 sources · 2 photos
26Thinly documented
Pro early
The Cleethorpes "Glass Globe" Tracked from RAF Manby
September 22, 1956 · Cleethorpes promenade and the Lincolnshire coast, observed from RAF Manby near Louth
United Kingdom
UAP · Sphere · 10 sources
40Partially documented
Pro early
The F-94 Interceptor Encounter near Hanford (Odessa Case)
December 10, 1952 · Odessa, Washington (popularly placed near the Hanford plant)
United States
UAP · Sphere · 20 sources
49Partially documented
Pro early
The Kaliszewski Balloon-Crew Sightings
October 10, 1951 · About 10 miles east of St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and north of Minneapolis, Minnesota
United States
UAP · Cigar · 24 sources
37Partially documented
Pro early
The Mount Kilimanjaro Sighting from an East African Airways Lodestar
February 19, 1951 · Above Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanganyika (now Tanzania), seen from a Lodestar over southern Kenya
Tanzania
UAP · Cigar · 14 sources
29Thinly documented
The Farmington Saucer Armada
March 17, 1950 · Main Street, Farmington, San Juan County, New Mexico
United States
UAP · Disc / saucer · 40 sources
35Partially documented
The Charles B. Moore Theodolite Sighting, Arrey, New Mexico
April 24, 1949 · Launch site about 3 miles north of Arrey, Sierra County, New Mexico
United States
UAP · Egg · 26 sources
35Partially documented
The Mantell UFO Incident
January 7, 1948 · Godman Field, Fort Knox, to the Phillips farm near Franklin, Simpson County, Kentucky
United States
UAP · Other · 100 sources · 1 photos
50Partially documented

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  • The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (Nicap) FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 186 pages· 7 pages mention it
    • p. 12 …relationship between reported sightings and the flight trajectories of Skyhook balloons. The description of Moore's instrumented sighting of an…
    • p. 134 …General Mills personnel tracking a Skyhook balloon saw two disc-shaped objects approach rapidly, tip on edge, circle the balloon…
  • The Air Force Stand on Flying Saucers- as Stated by CIA, in a Briefing on 22 August 1952 (with Attachments, Flying Saucers, Dated 520819 and 520814) FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1952-08-22· 29 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 10 ## O O There are two types of high altitude balloons, radiosonde and the Navy Skyhook. They may reach altitudes as…
    • p. 11 …At this altitude the pilot could see clearly that the objects were a cluster of three Skyhook balloons still well…
  • FLYING SAUCERS memo Memo
    CIA Reading Room· 36 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 26 …There are two types of high altitude balloons, radiosonde and the Navy Skyhook. They may reach altitudes as high as…
    • p. 27 …At this altitude the pilot could see clearly that the objects were a cluster of three Skyhook balloons still well…
  • Meeting of Upper Atmosphere Rocket Research Panel FOIA release
    Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-09-16· 5 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 3 …The system would be based on the "Skyhook" polyethylene balloon carrying a console equipped to sustain one or two men…
  • Project Twinkle Final Report 1951 (PDF) Report
    KLAS· 16 pages· 1 page mentions it
    • p. 16 …This turned out to be a General Hills balloon functioning for Project "Skyhook". 19 Feb. 1951 - A C-54 pilot…
  • The UFO files extract Document
    The National Archives· 22 pages· 2 pages mention it
    • p. 17 …Mogul project 38, 62; and air miss incidents 131; and Skyhook programme 39–40, 61– 2; UFO sightings put down…
    • p. 20 …circles 113 ‘Silent Vulcans’ 136 Simon, Dr Benjamin 118 Skyhook programme 39–40, 61–2 Soviet Union 40, 61–2…

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