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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Brian Boldman, “Angel Hair Physical Analyses: A Review,” JUFOS 9 (2006): 106–107;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

“Angel-Hair Analysis Complete,” IUR 3, no. 3 (March 1978): insert;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

"Lab Report: This Web Wasn't Left By Spider," Sonora (Calif.) Union-Democrat, December 1, 1977, via APCIC 3, no. 2 (February 1978): 17; files.afu.se/Downloads/Ma...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

4/ A sample tested at the Michael Reese Hospital Microbiology Lab shows it to be contaminated with a low level of radioactive tritium. [Eberhart] Sources: "Angel Hair: Under Analysis,” IUR 2, no. 8 (August 1977): 4, 8;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

3/ They are found to be “whitish, fibrous material of uniform composition being quite fine with frequent branching.” The primary constituents are carbon and nitrogen, but it is not spider web.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

2/ They see a large red oblong UFO hovering with a wobbling motion. After 5 minutes, the UFO shoots upward and disappears. The next day, angel hair strands are found and sent to David Miletich at the University of Chicago.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Saucer Over Sonora w/Angel Hair October 12, 1976 — Sonora, cA 1/ 7:30 p.m. Multiple independent witnesses in Sonora, California, are drawn outside by a loud noise like “six jets.”

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

John M. Webb, "The Story Dick Gregory Has Never Told Before," National Enquirer, February 25, 1975;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Robert Hastings, UFOs and Nukes, 2ED, p. 145;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Sources: [Blue Book documents]; www.fold3.com/image/872622...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

2/ Its flight path is curved upward, with an occasional jerky motion; it moves quickly at first but slows down as it reaches the zenith. It is visible for 5 minutes before fading out. [Eberhart]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Jerky Meteor October 12, 1962 — Forbes AFB, KS 1/ Dawn. An object like an orange or yellow meteor is observed over Forbes AFB [now Topeka Regional Airport], Topeka, Kansas.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

"Deadline," APRO Bulletin, November 1957, p. 6;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Patrick Gross, “The 1954 French Flap,” October 24, 2004; ufologie.patrickgross.org/1954/12oct19...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Jacques Vallée, Passport to Magonia: A Century of Landings, p. 223; [Case 228]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

"Les soucoupes volantes," Le Berry Républicain (Bourges, France), October 14, 1954, p. 8;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Sources: "Soucoupes volantes à profusion," Le Nouveau Nord Maritime (France), October 14, 1954, p. 5;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

2/ when he sees a silvery disc with a diameter of 21–24 feet hovering over a wooden area off the road. It dives toward the ground, then rises suddenly and silently into the sky at tremendous speed. [Eberhart]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Silvery, Silent Disc in Calvados October 12, 1954 — Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France 1/ Around 2:00 p.m. A math professor at Lisieux named Bon is in Saint-Germain-de-Livet, Calvados, France,

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

NICAP, "Military Radar At Knoxville Tracks Eleven Objects"; www.nicap.org/501012oakrid...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Loren E. Gross, UFOs, a History: Volume 7, August–December 1950, The Author, 1982, p. 35;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

J. Edgar Hoover, [teletype in response], December 5, 1950;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Bill Anderson, “Saucers Bob Up Again in Reports,” Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal, October 26, 1950, pp. 1, 9; www.newspapers.com/article/the-... www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

U.S. Army, "Objects Sighted over Oak Ridge, Tennessee," Summary of Information (AGO Form 568), October 21, 1950; www.openminds.tv/wp-content/u...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

memo from FBI Knoxville to FBI Director, “Radar Detection of Unidentified Objects over Oak Ridge, October 12, 15, 16, 1950,” October 18, 1950, [PURSUE release, pp. 73, 92–94]; www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

Sources: William M. Price, "Unidentified Flying Objects over Oak Ridge, Tennessee," memorandum to District Commander, 8th District OSI, October 14, 1950; www.openminds.tv/wp-content/u...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

2/ At 11:30, the radar station commander scrambles an F-82 fighter, which is airborne nine minutes later. The fighter is directed toward two targets, but the pilot sees nothing. Ground observations also fail to detect anything in the sky.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 1h

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today In UFO History - Radar At Knoxville Tracks 11 Objects October 12, 1950 — Knoxville, TN 1/ 11:25 p.m. A military radar unit at Knoxville (Tenn.) Airport suddenly detects 11 “and possibly more” unidentified targets moving over the restricted flight zone at Oak Ridge.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 16h

In October 1954, while stopping on the French Riviera en route to Italy, Steinbeck told reporters that he planned to write a play about flying saucers. He does not appear to have ever done so. time.com/archive/6869... #ufoculture #ufosky

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 16h

"Won't Give Name; Somebody Might Not Believe Him," San Luis Obispo County (Calif.) Telegram-Tribune, October 13, 1954, p. 14; www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 16h

LA case from today's date in 1954. Seems like a joke or a prank. Either that or a C/R operation 😆 "Man from Mars in that fog," Los Angeles (Calif.) Daily News, October 12, 1954, p. 3; www.newspapers.com/article/dail...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 16h

El Universal, Mexico City, Mexico, October 16, 1954

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 23h

Fifth Strip (October 11, 1907) www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 23h

Fifth Strip (October 11, 1907) www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

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NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER @nancycomics.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 10,1944

P1- SLUGGO SEES NANCY IN THE HALLWAY AT SCHOOL
SLUGGO: ARE YOU STAYIN’ AFTER SCHOOL TOO?
NANCY: YEP
P2- NANCY PROUDLY TELLS SLUGGO WHY
NANCY: I WAS VERY GOOD TODAY...
SO THE TEACHER SAID I COULD STAY AND HELP HER DUST THE BOOKS
P3- SLUGGO BUSTS OUT LAUGHING
SLUGGO: HAW HA HO HO HA HA
NANCY: WHAT’S SO FUNNY?
SLUGGO:I WAS BAD TODAY...SO TH' TEACHER SAID I'VE GOT TO STAY AND HELP
HER DUST TH' BOOKS

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sources: James Oberg, “The Failure of the ‘Science’ of Ufology,” New Scientist, October 11, 1979, pp. 102–105; web.archive.org/web/20231106...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - The Failure of the ‘Science’ of Ufology October 11, 1979 — Space journalist James Oberg writes an article in New Scientist pointing out that ufology is less a science than a “movement” that is too reliant on spurious rumors and unfalsifiable claims.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sources: “Case 2-11-53,” IUR 2, no. 11 (November 1977): wrap;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

3/ A second red light approaches from over a nearby house and comes within several hundred feet of the first object; both continue to hover and circle. One vanishes at 11;30 p.m., while the other persists until 1:30 a.m. when the sky becomes cloudy. [Eberhart]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2/ He and his family watch a bright light source (a bright red light flashing next to a dimmer white light) hovering above a swamp. The object shines a light beam down into the swamp as if searching for something.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Light Beam Over Swamp October 11, 1977 — Fairfield, VT 1/ 7:55 p.m. A farmer in Fairfield, Vermont, hears an odd noise and looks out his window.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Joseph S. Accetta, “Angels Hair Revisited,” Journal of UFO Studies, orig. ser. 1 (1979): 32–34;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sources: “San Francisco Covered in White,” Austin (Tex.) American-Statesman, October 12, 1977, p. A7; www.newspapers.com/article/aust...

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

3/ An on-the-scene explanation from the University of California, Berkeley, identifies the substance as aggregations of baby spiders’ webs in the course of “ballooning” travel, and a laboratory analysis supports that explanation. [Eberhart]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2/ The phenomenon is observed as far away as 100 miles from San Francisco and reported dimensions reach 20 feet in length.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - San Francisco Covered in White October 11, 1977 — San Francisco, CA 1/ The area around San Francisco Bay, California, is inundated with white, thick, sticky clumps of “angel’s hair” material.

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Sources: “Astronomers and UFO’s: A Survey, Part 2, Sightings,” IUR 2, no. 4 (April 1977): 4;

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

2/ It moves from southeast to northwest on a level, straight course, but in the last 2–3 seconds it turns upward, accelerating rapidly. The witness’s truck stalls out when he tries to accelerate, but the tape deck keeps operating. [Eberhart]

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Jeff Knox @mrjeffknox.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

#ufosky #ufo #ufohistory Today in UFO History - Astronomers and UFO’s October 11, 1974 — Cloudcroft, NM 1/ 4:10 p.m. An astronomer in Cloudcroft, New Mexico, is driving a pickup truck when he sees a silver-gray domed disc behind him to the west.

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