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Episodes and actual incidents

posted 5 years ago by Satan2016 (23977)
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1.1 The Fuller Dogfight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorman_dogfight
Episode very different, Gorman did not crash or have breakdown.

1.2 The Flatwoods Monster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods_monster
Meteor and barn owl: https://www.csicop.org/si/show/flatwoods_ufo_monster

1.3 The Lubbock Lights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubbock_Lights
"The lights... have been positively identified as a very commonplace and easily explainable natural phenomenon. It is very unfortunate that I can't divulge... the way the answer was found.... "

1.4 Operation Paperclip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
In TV land, Wernher von Braun runs a US military base with flying saucer and captive alien.

1.5 Foo fighter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foo_fighter
Not a blue book case. Pilots who saw foo fighters (WW2) now hide out and created a machine to summon the UFOs.

1.6 The Green Fireballs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_fireballs
Actual fireballs seem related to nuclear fallout.

1.7 The Scoutmaster https://www.nicap.org/bhoax.htm
In the actual fire, grass was not burned but its roots were charred!
The head binding by natives is unrelated, it's from South America.

1.8 War Games https://www.nicap.org/springkor.htm
When Dozens of Korean War GIs Claimed a UFO Made Them Sick
https://www.history.com/news/korean-war-us-army-ufo-attack-illness
Changed it from the war zone to a US base. Soldiers had effects of radiation.

1.9 Abduction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_Hill
Very loosely based. Hills were both abducted and inter-racial. Never met Hynek or military. Both were hypnotized and Betty drew star map.

1.10 The Washington Merry-Go Round https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952_Washington,_D.C._UFO_incident
The sightings of July 19–20, 1952, made front-page headlines in newspapers around the nation. A typical example was "SAUCERS SWARM OVER CAPITAL".
(haven't watched it yet)
Title is from an old book/movie/news column.

[–] Satan2016 (23977) 5 years ago

1.2 The official explanation stayed the same. But no fire or meteorites recovered. No Army presense. No redneck mobs or crazy lady.

[spoiler]They are adding a recovered UFO as a theme. No longer based on Proj Blue Book cases, more like X Files.[/spoiler]

Wikipedia:
At 7:15 p.m. on September 12, 1952, two brothers, Edward and Fred May, and their friend Tommy Hyer said they saw a bright object cross the sky and land on the property of local farmer G. Bailey Fisher. The boys went to the home of Kathleen May, where they told their story. May, accompanied by the three boys, local children Neil Nunley and Ronnie Shaver, and West Virginia National Guardsman Eugene Lemon, went to the Fisher farm in an effort to locate whatever it was that the boys said they had seen. The group reached the top of a hill, where Nunley said they saw a pulsing red light. Lemon said he aimed a flashlight in that direction and momentarily saw a tall "man-like figure with a round, red face surrounded by a pointed, hood-like shape".[1]

[–] Commaspace (101) 5 years ago

Yeah, more like X FIles was based on Project Blue Book.

I like this show. They gotta make it interesting for EVERYONE.... they change stuff up to make it more suspenseful.

I could think of other genres that could take a cue from how these guys is doin it!

[–] Satan2016 (23977) 5 years ago

The roller coaster in Foo Fighter (35-39m) is Wooden Roller Coaster at PNE, Vancouver. It looks abandoned, but has been running for 60 years now. First location I recognized.
https://www.pne.ca/rides/wooden-roller-coaster/

[–] Satan2016 (23977) 5 years ago

Just a reminder, I've been updating the list.

[–] eYeDEF (5050) 5 years ago

I appreciate your updates. Reading the real cases behind the episodes has been fascinating and informative.