There’s no doubt that the UFO subject has changed over the decades. And, no, I’m not talking about the various researchers and investigators that have croaked over the years. I’m talking about the ever-warping phenomenon itself, and how it has clearly altered as time has passed. In the late 1890s there was a “flap” of what became known as “Phantom Airships.” As their name suggests, many of the aerial devices in question closely resembled the huge Zeppelin airships of the First World War. Essentially, the 19th century UFO invasion mirrored either what was on the drawing-boards, or what had been envisaged within the minds of both the military war-machine and skilled inventors of the time. Then, in the 1930s, as aviation technology progressed, reports began to surface of so-called Ghost Planes – aircraft that no-one could seemingly identify. A decade later, at the height of the Second World War, the skies of war-torn Europe and the Pacific theater were home to strange invaders known as Foo Fighters: small, glowing balls of light that furiously pursued both Allied- and Axis-aircraft. Now, onto 1946.

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