UFOs for Beginners Part 2: UFO Timeline — WWII to Project Blue Book

Before Roswell became synonymous with UFOs, wartime pilots were already reporting strange objects and lights in the skies.

Stu and Neil trace the beginning of the modern UFO story from the Second World War’s “Foo Fighters” through Kenneth Arnold, the birth of the flying-saucer era, Roswell, Project Sign, Project Grudge and into Project Blue Book.

Along the way they ask how much terminology and popular culture shaped later reports, separate Roswell’s contemporary evidence from the story that emerged decades later, and examine what the Air Force’s thousands of UFO investigations actually tell us.

No assumption that “unidentified” means extraterrestrial — just the history, evidence and arguments that shaped the subject.

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