UFO Website (Blog) Searches: UFO Newspaper Articles by Year

Website (blog): Archived UFO newspaper reports

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Newspaper articles (as of 10 January 2019) by year:

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1950	1951	1952	1953
1954	1955	1956	1957
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1962	1963	1964	1965
1966	1967	1968	1969
1970	1971	1972	1973
1974	1975	1976	1977
1978	1979	1980	1981
1982	1984	1985	1988
1989

UFO news article:

“Strange Object Seen Over Cherokee County”

31 July 1952

(Sioux City Journal, Iowa)

The whole article:

“There is another report Wednesday (30 July 1952) of mysterious flying objects in Iowa skies, this time from Cherokee county.

Six persons reported seeing a number of disc-shaped silver objects speeding high above a farm near Larrabee. The witnesses reported the discs appeared to hover in the sky at times and remained in sight more than an hour before heading northward out of sight.”

http://ufonewspaper.blogspot.com/2019/01/discs-hover-over-1952-iowa.html

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Satellite photo of Larrabee, Iowa (tageo.com)

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UFO Case Directory (SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT): “UFO Buzzes DC-3 Jan. 20, 1951 Sioux City, Iowa”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Fran Ridge:

Not listed as an ‘Unknown’ by Project Blue Book, this case was important to the Air Force. Blue Book Captain Ed Ruppelt said that, ‘it didn’t take an expert to see that a B-36, even one piloted by an experienced idiot, could not do what the UFO had done - buzz a DC-3 that was in an aircraft traffic pattern.’ That was the AF explanation and the case was closed.

Brad Sparks:

Jan. 20, 1951; Sioux City, Iowa (BBU)

9:20-9:26 p.m. (CST). Capt. Lawrence W. Vinther, copilot James F. Bachmeier, passengers AF Colonel and aide, and CAA tower controller John M. Williams. At 9:20 the 2 CAA tower controllers sighted light in the W [NW?]. After Vinther’s Mid-Continent Airlines DC-3 took off, he was asked by the tower to look for light, then while still in a climbing 360° turn at about 1,000 ft they spotted object to the NNW at about 8,000 ft and 4 miles away that looked like a B-29 fuselage with wings but no engines, which blinked some lights like running lights. Object came at the DC-3, flew across the nose within 200 ft, they had to turn their heads to follow it then suddenly found it instantly appeared on the other side again, paralleled them for 2-3 secs, then flew under them and disappeared in 2-3 secs to the NW. (Battelle Unknown No. 3; cf. NARCAP)”

NOTE: The BBU catalogue (mentioned in Sparks’ text) is Brad Sparks’ Comprehensive Catalog of 1,700 Project Blue Book UFO Unknowns: Database Catalog (Not a Best Evidence List) (nicap.org).

Five observers (airline pilots and multiple tower operators) witnessed the UFO incident. No radar return of the unknown object was registered.

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents (that include several news articles) that pertain to the UFO case.

http://nicap.org/510120siouxcity_dir.htm

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Satellite photo of Sioux City, Iowa (tageo.com)

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30th Air Division’s Official History Excerpts: “30th Air Division UFO Reports”

(30th Air Division, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: PROJECT 1947

Quote from the UFO report:

“The 30th Air Division, active from 1949 until 1968, was originally based at Selfridge Air Force Base, Michigan.  The station then moved to Willow Run Airport (later Willow Run Air Force Station), Michigan, on 7 April, 1952, before transferring to Truax Field, Wisconsin.  The Division was finally declared inactive at Sioux City Municipal Airport, Iowa, on 18 September, 1968.

Assigned to the Air Defense Command (ADC) for most of its existence, the 30th’s initial mission was the equipping, administering, training, and provisioning of operationally ready forces to the appropriate commanders for the air defense of upper Great Lakes area of the United States. Their Area of Operation included maintaining air defenses above the closely guarded AEC nuclear facilities at the Oak Ridge plant, Tennessee.

The following UFO reports are excerpted from the 30th Air Division’s Official History between 1950 and 1952.”

http://www.project1947.com/fig/30adufos.htm

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UFO News Article: “AIRSHIP STORIES.”

16 April 1897

(Deseret Evening News, Great Salt Lake City, Utah)

Source: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

Quote from the article:

“People in Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Iowa seem to have been agitated lately over the appearance of something they believe to be an airship, and others a star. A farmer living in the vicinity of Sioux City, Iowa has given publicity to a story to the effect that he, about midnight on the 3rd (April 1897) of this month saw a strange light in a cornfield. He knew there was no house there. As he came nearer he saw a cigar-shaped object about 35 feet long and under it a gondola. The captain of the craft, the farmer says, suddenly discovered him, gave an order and away went the airship.”

http://udn.lib.utah.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/den1895/id/67851/show/67813/rec/11

Satellite photo of Sioux City, Iowa (tageo.com)
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UFO News Article: “Flying Disk Reported at Sioux City”

31 March 1950 (The Telegraph-Herald, Dubuque, Iowa)

A UFO, described as looking like a straightedge ruler and as a disk, was sighted over Sioux City, Iowa on 30 March 1950:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=NRNRAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8csMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4882,6444402

Quote from the article:

“The object was seen by at least eight persons, including several members of the Iowa air national guard unit here.

Dr. Fred M. Bohmker, 30, a veterinarian, said he saw the object at about 9:30 a.m. while pursuing his hobby of watching wild geese in migration.

‘One particular flock of geese went overhead, but an object remained above their path of flight,’ he said. He declared he watched it through binoculars and ‘all I could think of was a straight-edge ruler.’

Two other persons with Dr. Bohmker also saw the object. They were Sam Baker, about 28, and Harlan Hyde, about 48.

Cpl. Richard Kjos, 21, a member of an air national guard unit, said he saw the object a little later. ‘It followed a T-6 (training plane) right into the traffic pattern. It was white – awfully white – and was blurred around the edges, mist-like.’

Kjos said the object appeared to be ‘quite high’ over a highway near the air base.

Both the corporal and other members of the national guard unit who saw the object said it appeared to be controlled because it ‘made a smooth even flight.’

They said it travelled slowly for a time and then streaked away at high speed. Some of the guardsmen described the object as ‘like a dime turned on edge.’ ”

“Sioux City, Iowa” (City-Data.com):

http://www.city-data.com/city/Sioux-City-Iowa.html






















Aerial view of Sioux City, Iowa
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Satellite photo of Sioux City, Iowa
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UFO News Article:
“ ‘Flying Saucers’ Are Headache for
Canadians From Coast to Coast”,
7 July 1947 (The Windsor Daily Star, Canada)

The Windsor Daily Star reports on the 1947 U.S.-Canada UFO wave:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=nBw_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=hE8MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3867,332052

Several people sighted UFOs over Sioux City, Iowa during the summer of 1947.

The article starts on page 1.






















Aerial view of Sioux City, Iowa
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