In 1947, World War II was over, but tension between the United States and the USSR was still high. UFO sightings were abnormally high that year, because people were on high alert when looking at the sky. The CIA believed that it was always possible that the Russians invented weapons that were far superior to what America had at their disposal.
Michael L
LOVE THIS DIFFERENT KIND OF STUFF ALSO…
Charles R
The History Channel has a pretty good series going on right now called Project Bluebook. I know they are taking liberties and some time line meanderings, but I find it quite good and a bit X file like. Every weeks show is based on some part of an actual case file, currently they are in years of about 1952. Project Bluebooks real goal of course was to find some explanation no matter how crazy for what the witnesses experienced. In the end when it disbanded in 1969 they pretty much achieved their goal. And that was to turn public opinion of flying saucers as an actual phenomena that could be earth changing into a subject that could lead one to ridicule and scorn, very much like our Bigfoot field. I remember in the 1960’s newspapers and investigative journalists took this subject very serious. Stories of Ufos could be found quite regularly and reported fairly. By the 1980s these stories pretty much disappeared. The perfect haired news readers at the channels turned to snickers and snarky remarks and any ridiculous statement by the military became gospel. It was in the early 1980s that I realized the Huntley and Brinkley straight forward news of the 60s I grew up with could no longer be trusted and the fake news era and not reporting at all on events if it did not fit a narrative was taking shape. I said my farewells to the media clowns at this time and never looked back.
As a final note. The astronomer J. Allen Hynek was 100 percent convinced at the closure of Project Bluebook that the UFO phenomena was real and we were most likely being visited by beings far more advanced than us.
Lee D
Pretty horrible how they ended up destroying some of these peoples lives… and using fear of being dubbed crazy or insane for what you seen to shut people up. It is oj interesting that you can pin point exactly when the stigma of reporting sightings came about.