Year File · 1956 45 cases on file
Year File

1956 · paranormal events

45 catalogued cases recorded in 1956.

Featured · 1956

Source document: PURSUE doc 196
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — AARO Records

Unknown location

A KC-97 aircraft accident occurred in 1956, resulting in the deaths of 11 Air Force members. This incident was conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.

Source document: PURSUE doc 213
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D213P22)

Unknown location

A KC-97 aircraft accident occurred in 1956, resulting in the deaths of 11 Air Force members. This incident was conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.

Source document: PURSUE doc 214
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — AARO Records (D214P22)

Unknown location

A KC-97 aircraft accident occurred in 1956, resulting in the deaths of 11 Air Force members. This incident was conflated with reports of “alien bodies” at the Roswell Army Air Force hospital.

Source document: PURSUE doc 8
UFO 1956

1956 UAP Sighting — FBI Files

Unknown location

A letter was received from the Director of National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena requesting information about the FBI's involvement with unidentified flying objects. The committee is a privately funded civilian group. The FBI has been aware of Donald Keyhoe, the c

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UFO 1956

Air Intelligence Information Report, Guam, December 31, 1956 — Department of War File

Guam

This AIIR records a December 31, 1956, incident in the vicinity of Guam in which the pilot of a U.S. Air Force F-86D aircraft reported observing an unidentified aerial blinking light. The report notes that a lighted weather balloon had been launched before the sighting and states that, if the…

Source document: 65_HS1-834228961_62-HQ-83894_Section_8
UFO 1956

Alamogordo, New Mexico UFO Sighting (August 31, 1956) — FBI Files

Alamogordo, New Mexico

FBI files detail a 1956 unidentified object sighting in Alamogobordo, New Mexico, reported by a McDonnell Aircraft Corporation employee.

Archive · 1956