Created: 9 June 2006,
Updated: 1 November 2013
(NICAP.org)
Quote from the web page:
“Following the UFO wave of 1957, a drought of
sightings ran from 1958 to about 1964. Larry Hatch catalogued about 100 events
per year in that period with his ‘U’ Database, the lowest count being 1963 with
only 61 sightings. The 1954 European wave included some physical trace cases,
and there was a scattering of reports after that. However, cases of this type
increased markedly after 1963. 1964 was the year the landing reports became
more prominent, beginning with the blockbuster event on April 24 at Socorro,
New Mexico. (Note: Brad Sparks: My impression is that 1958-63 were not a ‘drought’
at all, that it is only the civilian outsider's viewpoint not knowing what the
AF was collecting. The BB files indicate
a continuing stream of high quality UFO cases some of astounding merit). As far
as 1964 was concerned, we all note a surprising lack of sightings reported in
the first three months..
Our thanks for these
chronologies must go to our documentation team: Rebecca Wise (Project Blue Book
Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Jean Waskiewicz (UFO dBase), and
Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns).
Fran Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator”:
http://www.nicap.org/waves/1964fullrep.htm
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