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• 1896.0000 Tsiolkovskii article
  

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  Astronautics: In 1896, Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovskii writes “Exploration of Space by Means of Reactive Apparatus”.

   

   

   

   

   

   

• 1947.0714 Newsweek article
  

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  The 14 July 1947 issue of Newsweek contained an article entitled “Flying Saucer Spots Before Their Eyes”.

   

   

   

   

• 1947.0721 "Life" article
  

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  The 21 July 1947 issue of “Life” magazine contains an article entitled “Flying Saucers Break Out over the U. S.”.

   

   

   

   

   

   

• 1949.0430 Sidney Shallett article
  

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  The first part of Sidney Shallett’s two-part article on UFOs appeared in the 30 April 1949 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, entitled “What You Can Believe About Flying Saucers”.

  The second part appeared in the 7^th May 1949 edition.

   

• 1949.1226 True article published
  

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  On 26 December 1949, the January 1950 edition of Truemagazine (containing the article entitled, The Flying Saucers are Real” by Donald Keyhoe) hit the newsstands.

   

   

   

   

• 1950.0000 Electromagnetic launch article
  

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  In an article published in 1950, Arthur C Clarke proposed the direct electromagnetic launch (using a mass driver) of a space vehicle.

  Clarke, Arthur C (1950), Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Volume 9, pages 261-267

   

   

• 1950.0100 Keyhoe's "True" article
  

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  The January 1950 issue of True magazine included the article entitled “The Flying Saucers are Real” written by Donald Keyhoe.

   

   

   

   

   

• 1950.0300 Commander McLaughlin's article
  

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  The March 1950 edition of Truemagazine contains the article entitled “How Scientists Tracked Flying Saucers” by Commander R B McLaughlin.

   

   

   

    

• 1950.0330 Rudolph Schriever article
  

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  On 30 March 1950, the West German magazine “Der Spiegel” reports Flugkapitan Rudolph Schriever as claiming to have begun work on a flying disc. Later reports stated Schriever claimed to begin work in the spring of 1941, with a prototype ready for testing in early 1944

   

   

   

• 1951.0100 Cosmopolitan article
  

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  The January 1951 edition of Cosmopolitanmagazine published an article by Bob Considine entitled “The Disgraceful Flying Saucer Hoax”, resulting in an unsuccessful libel claim by Nick Mariana.

  Cosmopolitan, January 1951, pages 32-33, 100-102

   

   

• 1951.0200 Skyhook article
  

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  During February 1951, an article by Richard Wilson was published in Lookmagazine, quoting Dr. Urner Liddel as suggesting that Skyhook balloons could explain UFO sightings.

   

   

   

• 1952.0407 Ginna's Life article
  

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  An article entitled “Have We Visitors from Outer Space” by H B Darrach Jr and Robert Ginna was published in the 7^th April 1952 issue of Life mazagine.

   

   

   

• 1952.0628 Spitzbergen crash article
  

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  On 28 June 1952, an article is published in the German newspaper “Saarbrücker Zeitung”[i] (and is republished in the German newspaper “Berliner Volksblatt” [ii] on 9 July 1952) alleging that a flying disc crashed on Spitsbergen/ Spitzbergen Island in 1952 and had been recovered by the Norwegian Air Force.
  

• 1952.0800 Ruppelt article
  

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  An article by Captain Edward J Ruppelt appeared in the August 1952 edition of Air Intelligence Digest.

   

   

   

• 1954.0400 Ruppelt's True article
  

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  The April 1954 issue of Truemagazine contained an article by Captain Edward Ruppelt.

   

   

   

• 1955.0523 Dorothy Kilgallen articles

   

  

  Dorothy Kilgallen articles
  On 23 May 1954, articles by Kilgallen, Dorothy of the New York Journal-American published in various American newspapers claimed she had been told by “a British official of cabinet rank” that British scientists and airmen had “examined the wreckage of one mysterious flying ship” and are convinced that “these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions, but are actually flying saucers which originate on another planet”.

   

   

   

• 1957.0617 Room 801 article

   

  

  Room 801 article
  On 17 June 1957, the Sunday newspaper “Reynolds News” printed a story entitled “Flying Saucers are no longer a joke : THE SECRET OF ROOM 801” on the British Air Ministry’s investigations of UFOs.

   

   

• 1957.0914 Ubatuba fragments article

   

  

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  On 14 September 1957, the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globopublished a letter which its columnist Ibrahim Sued claimed to have received a few days earlier. The letter referred to the sighting of a flying disk near Ubatuba, Sao Paulo a few days before the letter was written, which reportedly disintegrated into fragments. The author of the letter purported to enclose a small sample of the fragments. Commonly refered to as “the Ubatuba residue”, “the Ubatuba fragments” and “the Ubatuba incident”.

   

  This incident is Case 28 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 69 of the books covered by that article.

  This was Project Blue Book Case Number 4955. 

   

• 1957.1209 Silpho Moor article

   

  

  Silpho Moor article
  On 9 December 1957, an article in the Scarborough Evening News features an object allegedly found on Silpho Moor. The Silpho Moor object has been linked by some researchers to UFOs.

   

   

• 1959.0919 Cocconi/Morrison article

   

  

  Cocconi/Morrison article
  On 19 September 1959, an article entitled “Searching for Interstellar Communication” by Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison published in the journal Nature, concluding that “the probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero”.