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• June 27, 1947 - The UFO Sightings that Launched ‘Men in Black’ Mythology

• In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill became famous as the first Americans to claim that aliens had taken them aboard a spacecraft against their will. Their story—involving a lonely highway late at night, lost memories, and medical examinations by small grey creatures with large eyes— has since become the template for nearly every encounter with aliens in American popular culture.

• 'Bob' Taylor reported, on November 9, 1979,  encountering a 30-foot-high, dome-shaped object in a forest clearing near West Lothian's new town. According to the police report, crime investigators found approximately 32 holes, each about 3.5 inches in diameter; the marks on the ground suggested that an "object of several tons had stood there, but there was no evidence to show it had been driven or towed away. What do you think the mysterious UFO sighting scrutinised by law enforcement was?

• "Roswell Incident" - later revealed to be part of the Top-secret Project Mogul, a weather balloon which sought to detect Soviet nuclear bomb tests - or was it? 1947.