Fringe Archives: UFOs & Paranormal Mysteries
Exploring UFO Sightings & Mysteries
On January 7, 1948, Captain Thomas F. Mantell Jr., a 25-year-old experienced pilot and flight leader with the Kentucky Air National Guard, died in a tragic crash while pursuing a mysterious object near Godman Army Airfield at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This incident, one of the earliest and most publicized UFO cases in U.S. history, became […]
Continue Reading
Jack Parsons, born John Whiteside Parsons in 1914, was one of the most fascinating and controversial figures of the 20th century. A brilliant self-taught rocket scientist who co-founded the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and helped develop early solid-fuel rockets that laid the groundwork for the U.S. space program, Parsons was equally immersed in the occult. […]
Continue Reading
On the morning of October 3, 1973 (some reports note October 4 due to the early hour), Eddie Doyle Webb, a 45-year-old truck driver from Greenville, Missouri, experienced a dramatic and physically injurious encounter with a UFO while driving southbound on Interstate 55 near Cape Girardeau. Webb was operating a tractor-trailer rig for Sam Tanksley […]
Continue Reading
In April 1979, Soviet cosmonaut Viktor Afanasyev reported witnessing a large, metallic, engineered UFO while en route to the Salyut-6 space station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft. The encounter took place in Earth orbit during the final approach to docking. Afanasyev described the object as turning toward his craft and then shadowing it for approximately half […]
Continue Reading
On the evening of August 19, 1965, one of the most intriguing physical-trace UFO cases investigated by Project Blue Book occurred on the Carr farm near Cherry Creek in Chautauqua County, New York. The incident began around 8:20 p.m. when 16-year-old Harold Butcher, while milking cows in the main barn, heard an unusual high-pitched screeching […]
Continue Reading