UAP events · The 1950s

UAP events in 1955

3 events in the archive

Every documented UAP event from 1955 in the Disclosure Archives record — hearings, document releases, official reports, named witness testimony, and major civilian sightings. Sorted newest to oldest within the year; each entry links to a primary source.

Every event from 1955

Sighting

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October 1955

A U.S. Senator watched something over the Soviet Union in 1955 — and the CIA wrote it off

In October 1955, four Americans travelling by train through the Soviet Union — among them U.S. Senator Richard Russell of Georgia, then chairman-in-waiting of the Senate Armed Services Committee — watched a luminescent, greenish-yellow object climb and pass above their train between Baku and Tiflis, now Tbilisi. PURSUE Release 04 declassifies the CIA's debriefing memo and its companion analysis, which concluded the sighting could 'probably be explained as steep climbing aircraft or missiles.' The analysis also weighs the 1953 Robertson Panel's findings and Project 'Y,' the real U.S.-Canadian program then trying to build a saucer-shaped aircraft.

Former USSR (interior), Soviet Union — USSR (former)#Cold War #Multiple Witnesses #International #Department of War

Sighting

August 21, 1955

Kelly–Hopkinsville encounter reported by Sutton family

Eleven members of an extended family in rural Kentucky report being besieged through the night by small, silver-coated humanoid figures. The Hopkinsville Police, Kentucky State Police, and U.S. Air Force investigate.

Kelly–Hopkinsville, Kentucky — United States#Multiple Witnesses #Law Enforcement #Project Blue Book

Document Release

1955

AFOSI box 7: 233 incident summaries from the Project Blue Book era (1955)

Three-volume Air Force Office of Special Investigations dossier (Box 7) containing 233 incident summary reports from 1955. Released by the Department of War as part of PURSUE Release 01.

#U.S. Air Force #Project Blue Book #PURSUE Release 01 #Afosi

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