1957.0717 RB-47 incident

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The RB-47 radar/visual incident occurred during a flight over Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma, South Central United States during the early hours of the morning on 17 July 1957.

This incident is Case 63 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 45 of the books covered by that article.

This was Project Blue Book Case Number 4810.

This incident featured as the top incident in a documentary produced by Paul Kimball entitled “Best Evidence: Top 10 UFO Cases”, purportedly based on the results of a survey conducted by Paul Kimball in 2005/2006 of “a select group of the world’s leading UFO researchers”.

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, ufologist Jerome Clark indicated he considered this incident to be “the most evidential”.

This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:

a list by Paul Kimball of his own nominations for the top 10 cases.

 

1957.0914 Ubatuba fragments article

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On 14 September 1957, the Rio de Janeiro newspaper O Globo published 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. 

 

1957.1016 Villas-Boas abduction

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On 16 October 1957, Antonia Villas-Boas claimed to have been abducted at about 1am, near Sao Francico de Salles in Minas Gerais, Brazil

This incident is Case 7 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 174 of the books covered by that article.

This incident has also 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.

 

1957.1004 Sputnik 1 launched

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Sputnik 1 was launched on 4 October 1957.

 

 

 

1957.1102 Levelland, Texas incident

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The Levelland, Texas incident, involving reports of interference with car headlights and engines, occurred during the night of 2/3 November 1957.

This incident is Case 16 in Isaac Koi's "Top 100" article,  since it was referred to in 91 of the books covered by that article.

This incident featured in a document (“the Rockefeller Briefing Document”) endorsed by Dr Mark Rodeghier (President of CUFOS), Richard Hall (Chairman of FUFOR) and Walter Andrus (President of MUFON) as containing “the best available evidence for the existence of UFOs”.

This incident has also featured in lists by various UFO researchers of the top UFO cases, including the following:

a list by Don Berliner of “the top 10 cases of World Ufology” in an interview made available on the UFO UpDates discussion List on 14 January 2007.

 

 

  1. 1957.1103 Sputnik 2 launched
  2. 1957.1104 Fort Itaipu, Brazil incident
  3. 1957.1104 Kirtland AFB incident
  4. 1957.1105 DoD general press release

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