On 31 May 1955, Air Force Regulation (AFR) 200-3, entitled “Reporting Vital Sightings from Aircraft”, sets forth Intelligence regulations governing reporting in accordance with Joint Army-Navy-Air Force Publication 146 (JANAP 146). Superseded Air Force Regulation 200-3 dated 2^nd July 1952. Superseded by AFR 55-88 dated 22^nd October 1955.

 

 

 

In Kelly-Hopkinsville, Kentucky members of the Sutton family reported strange creatures allegedly besieging their farmhouse during the night of 21 / 22 August 1955.

This incident is Case 14 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 92 of the books covered by that article.

This incident has featured in a list of cases produced by Greg Bishop as part of a survey by the Fortean Times in 2007 of various researchers of the ten cases from 1947 onwards that interested them the most.

 

 

 

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”.

 

 

 

On 4 October 1955, Senator Richard Russell reports seeing a disc shaped object from a train in the Transcaucasia region of the USSR.