On This Day in Weird, January 6....
1939: "Superman" debuts as a daily newspaper comic
strip.
1948: Bernice Zaikowski heard a "sizzling and
whizzing" sound overhead, looking skyward to see a "birdman"
hovering 200 feet above her barn at Chehalis, Washington. Five other adults and
several children also watch the "man equipped with long silver wings
fastened over the shoulders with a strap" hover, ascend, and then fly out
of sight.
1949: A diamond-shaped UFO flies over Kirtland Air Force
Base in New Mexico, moving "faster than a jet." The same day brings
reports of "unusual sounds" above and around New Mexico's Los Alamos
National Laboratory.
1950: Three Air Force crewmen aboard a C-47 transport plane
report a silver, football-shaped UFO 30 to 60 feet long flying near Howard,
Kansas.
1953: Air Force radar operators track a UFO passing over
Texas and Oklahoma, flying at an altitude of 7,500 feet, maintaining a speed of
600 knots (690 miles per hour).
1954: The Pentagon bars reporters seeking information on
UFOs from Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, home of "Hangar 18"
which allegedly houses remains of crashed spacecraft.
1968: Robert James Jr. and Leroy Larwick sight a Bigfoot
while flying over Confidence Ridge, California. They estimate its height at 10
to 12 feet.
1987: Astronomers at the University of California catch
their first glimpse a new galaxy's birth.
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