On This Day in 1948: The Chiles-Whitted UFO Encounter That Still Baffles Investigators Over Alabama Skies
On this day back in 1948, something rather extraordinary happened in the skies over Alabama that pilots and investigators still puzzle over today. It was the early morning hours of July 24th, and two ...
24 Jul 0s
The 1952 Washington D.C. UFO Flap: When Unidentified Objects Buzzed the Nation's Capital and Left the Air Force Scrambling for Answers
On this day, July twenty third, one of the strangest chapters of unexplained aerial phenomena continues to hover in the humid summer air over the nation's capital. Back in nineteen fifty two, during t...
23 Jul 0s
Washington's 1952 UFO Flap: The Night Radar and Reason Parted Ways Over the Capital
On the night of July 22nd back in 1952, the skies above Washington D.C. were doing something that, to this day, nobody has ever fully explained. This date falls right in the middle of what came to be ...
22 Jul 0s
Here's a short headline option: The Liberty Bell 7 Mystery: How an Exploding Hatch Nearly Drowned an Astronaut and Puzzled NASA for Decades
On July 21st, we travel back to the year 1961, out over the choppy waters of the Atlantic Ocean, where one of the strangest unsolved mysteries in American space history took place. This was the day of...
21 Jul 0s
The Face on Mars: How a 1976 Viking Photo Sparked a Decades-Long Mystery That Still Captivates Believers Today
On July 20th in the year 1976, something happened up on Mars that would spark decades of wonder, argument, and wild speculation here on Earth. NASA's Viking 1 orbiter, having just settled into orbit a...
20 Jul 4min
The Washington Flap of 1952: How Unidentified Objects Over the Capital Stumped Radar, Pilots, and the Pentagon
On the sultry summer night of July 19th, 1952, something extraordinary began unfolding in the skies above the nation's capital, an event that would come to be known as the Washington D.C. UFO incident...
19 Jul 4min
The Great Fire of Rome: Six Days of Destruction and a 2,000-Year-Old Mystery That Still Refuses to Die
On July 18th in the year 64 A.D., the city of Rome erupted into one of the most catastrophic and mysterious fires in ancient history, an inferno that raged for six days and seven nights, consuming vas...
18 Jul 4min
SS Poet: The Cargo Ship That Vanished Without a Trace in 1980
On July tenth, we turn our attention to one of the most perplexing maritime mysteries of the twentieth century: the strange disappearance of the cargo ship SS Poet. The SS Poet was a massive vessel, ...
10 Jul 3min
