1966: I know the Secret of the Flying Saucers

by Maj. Donald E. Keyhoe, USMC (Ret.) Editor’s Note: Major Keyhoe has been writing about Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO’s) in this magazine and elsewhere for over 15 years. From the outset he has insisted that flying saucers are real and interplanetary, and many authorities have come to agree with him. Now he claims that control over gravity itself is the only explanation for the astounding maneuvers which saucers are said to make.Some physicists dismiss this theory as fundamentally erroneous. But, as you will read, there are others who find Major Keyhoe’s latest chapter in “The Great Flying Saucer Story” important and plausible. One night last February, over the North Pacific, a Flying Tiger Airlines crew had a startling aerial encounter. What they saw is […] Read More

1957: Astronaut Gordon Cooper Witnessed a UFO Landing in 1957

“I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft.” The event Cooper describes happened in 1957. At that time, he was one of the best test pilots at the Edwards Air Force Base in California. He also managed several other projects belonging to the Experimental Flight Test School at Edwards and his credibility has never been called into question. On May 3 of that year, he had his crew of engineers setting […] Read More

2015: Television and the UFO – The Mass Acceptance Agenda and the Dark Skies Reboot

In conspiracy theory we deal with a great many arcane and subversive topics from vast government conspiracies to hidden agendas, aliens to cryptids, and about everything in between. Many times these subjects are subversive by nature and are never able to reach a mass population due to the arcane and paranoid nature of the topics. This is a problem that will always be true, and for those of us heavily invested in the research, we will always dwell in the dark corners of the populace seek out tantalizing snippets of information, following dead-end leads, and speaking with shadowy characters. The shadowy characters though are probably reserved for the more adventitious amongst the theorists but we have all had our run-ins. For myself, I have […] Read More

1971: Official U.S. Navy Photos of Arctic UFOs Encounter LEAKED

A set of newly-released photos detail the U.S. Navy’s close encounter with an enormous UFO/USO. The case was submitted to The Black Vault by researcher/investigator Alex Mistretta, who in turn got them from one of his anonymous sources in Europe. An interesting story is attached to these photos. In March 1971, the USS Trepang, a Sturgeon Class attack submarine, was on a routine military and scientific mission at the edge of the Arctic Ocean. The exact location of the sighting is unknown, but the submarine’s position was somewhere between Iceland and the Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic. The unidentified object was first spotted through the periscope by an officer named John Kilika and the photos were taken by an unnamed officer. The quality […] Read More

1952: Operation Mainbrace

In 1952, a large scale naval operation attracted the attention of several UFOs and unidentified submerged objects. Multiple credible military witnesses saw them and rumors say General Dwight Eisenhower was also present. Called Operation Mainbrace (September 14-25, 1952), this naval exercise organized by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) involved armed forces from the United States, the UK, Canada, France, Denmark, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Approximately 80,000 men aboard 1,000 planes and 200 ships participated in a display of force meant to demonstrate NATO’s effectiveness in the event of the Soviet Union attacking western Europe. This massive operation caught the eye of everyone in the vicinity and, apparently, not all of them were human. The first two incidents occurred during the first day of […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 14: May 19, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor TRIANGULAR UFO SIGHTED NEAR CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA Sunday night, May 12, at 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, a 19-year-old male driver heading east on Route 76, the Pennsylvania Turnpike, spotted a UFO just north of the highway. He said, “I looked up and saw a huge black triangle. It was not moving. It had a bright light at each tip.” At the time of the sighting, the witness was heading home after a visit to his girl friend’s house in Pittsburgh. There were no other cars on the road. The UFO was seen hovering above the Conodoguinet River, about two miles west of Carlisle, near the Army base. At the time he spotted the UFO, the witness was listening to a cassette. He […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 15: May 26, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor This week we’ve got two UFO landing stories, both from South America, but first let’s see what’s happening in the USA. LARGE, SLOW-MOVING FIREBALL SEEN IN UPSTATE NEW YORK On Saturday, May 25, 1996, at 10:45 p.m., a couple parked on the outskirts of Lyons Falls, New York spotted a “large fireball” in the sky. “It was pretty impressive,” the male witness said. “It took about 25 seconds to cross the sky, moving from east to west. It was kind of a dull yellowish-white.” Lyons Falls is on Route 12, just west of the Adirondack Mountains, approximately 36 miles northwest of Utica. Note: Conventional meteors are visible for only 5 to 10 seconds. The Lyons Falls “fireball” was visible for twice […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 13: May 12, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor SAUCER HOVERS OVER NEW JERSEY TOWN Sunday night, May 5, 1996, at approximately 10:12 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, a party of amateur astronomers set up their telescope on a hillside in Wayne, New Jersey. The group hoped to obtain good views of the planet Venus, then prominent on the western horizon. As the first astronomer peered through the telescope’s eyepiece, he saw “a bright flash near Venus.” She said, “At first I thought it was some sort of meteor exploding in the upper atmosphere.” Another member of the group, who’d set up their telescope on Brandon Avenue near Route 23, said the sky explosion was “a whitish green color.” The first astronomer looked again and saw a gray saucer with “two […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 10: April 21, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor GREEN FIREBALL SIGHTED IN SOUTH CAROLINA Last night, Saturday, April 20, 1996, at around 10 p.m., a UFO described as a “green fireball” rocketed over the town of North Augusta, S.C. The object was moving at a high speed and travelling at a very high altitude. The eyewitness was a South Carolina teenaged boy. He added that, immediately after the flyover, about seven jet interceptors travelled over the town, heading in the same direction as the UFO. Note: North Augusta, a community of 34,000, is situated three miles north of the Savannah River, which forms the South Carolina state line. Eight miles southwest of the town, in Georgia, is Fort Gordon, a U.S. Army base. BRAZILIAN MOTORIST MAY HAVE BEEN ABDUCTED […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 12: May 5, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor We’ve had a record-breaking week for UFO sightings. Let’s start off with a case that’s still going down. This one’s hot off the phone, readers, and it’s happening (where else!?) in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. WEEK-LONG UFO FLAP ON BLANCA PEAK From Friday night, April 26, to Friday night, May 3, 1996, a solitary UFO appeared over the eastern side of Blanca Peak, a 14,345-foot mountain in Colorado’s Sangre de Cristo range. The object was visible each night between 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. The UFO was first seen April 26 by Mrs. Helen W., who owns a ranch two miles east of the mountain, just off Colorado Highway 160. Mrs. W and her husband, an Air Force officer, described the object […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 11: April 28, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor We’ve got some late-breaking news from the California desert this week, so let’s go to press… UFO STARTLES SEVEN PEOPLE ON BACKYARD PATIO Friday evening, April 26, 1996, at 9:17 p.m. PDT, seven people were relaxing on a back patio in Victorville, California, in the desert not far from Edwards Air Force Base, when they spotted what they thought was a meteor hurtling into Earth’s atmosphere. According to the homeowner, a certified pilot instructor, the event was witnessed by his wife, himself and five other guests. He said, “I noticed what looked like a shooting star except brighter and without a tail streak.” The UFO was speeding “across the southern sky in a northward direction.” He described the UFO as “bright […] Read More

UFO ROUNDUP: VOLUME 1 NUMBER 9: April 14, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor UFO SURPRISES AMATEUR ASTRONOMER On Wednesday, April 10, 1996, at 8:30 p.m. Central time, a mother and daughter out stargazing near Huntsville, Alabama spotted a UFO making its approach. The sky was clear, and the temperature a comfortable 50 degrees Fahrenheit, as the Huntsville woman and her six-year-old daughter arrived at their observation sight. Looking into the sky directly overhead, they spied “a fuzzy white light…like the Comet Hyakutake” descending in an arc toward the horizon and moving very rapidly. The UFO halted its plunge just above the treeline, and the woman kept it in view for 15 minutes with her telescope. At first she thought it was a meteor, but the UFO “did not decrease in its intensity” and was […] Read More

UFO Roundup: Volume 1 Number 8: April 7, 1996

Editor: Joseph Trainor BRITISH OFFICIAL CONFIRMS 1956 UFO SIGHTING On April 2, 1996, the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) presented a UFO talk show on its shortwave World Service program. Longtime UFO researcher Jenny Randles interviewed a retired air marshal from the Royal Air Force. The air marshal admitted that the famouse UFO case of August 13, 1956 did indeed take place. “We had radar reports of objects travelling at 4,000 miles per hour,” he said, adding that British radar operators tracked the UFOs as they crossed the beach “into British airspace–objects as big as battleships.” The incident began at 9:30 p.m. at RAF Bentwaters when an RAF radar operator reported “a very large object” crossing the North Sea at 5,000 miles per hour. Radarmen […] Read More