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Aliens & the Unexplained
The national frame: 1947 and the Air Force investigations
Item 1 — Sign, Grudge and Blue Book, stated once from the National Archives' published record
Every case in this section sits inside one federal paper trail, and the National Archives' own account of it is short enough to state whole. The modern era opens on 24 June 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold, searching over…
The 1896–97 airship wave, tested over this ground: Indiana yes, this county no
Item 2 — the wave swept against St. Joseph County and Terre Coupee at published strength — tested negative
Half a century before the saucers, the airships came — and the wave demonstrably reached Indiana without, in any record reached, touching this county. The wave's shape is documented: more than 1,200 newspaper articles in over 400…
The county's case files, worked one by one
Item 3 — file-level case work from the official index and the case summaries — MIXED at file strength, stated per case
St. Each is worked at the strength actually reached, and the strength is stated with it. 13 October 1948, South Bend (Sign era). Twelve days after the celebrated Gorman case at Fargo, two office workers at a window of the…
The Blue Book ledger for St. Joseph County, compiled whole
Item 4 — the county's cases counted and listed, explained ones included, the town's zero stated
The county's complete ledger in the Air Force file, as the record reached compiles it, is four index entries, one corrected near-case, and one press item — and New Carlisle's line in it is a zero. (2) 8 May 1952, Mishawaka …
October 1973: Indiana's wave, and this county's measured share of none
Item 5 — the 1973 wave share measured at press and chronology strength — searched negative for the county
The great wave of October 1973 — the Pascagoula and Coyne autumn — burned across Indiana's centre and south, and the chronology of it contains no St. Joseph County entry. Indiana's documented share, from NICAP's 1973 chronology…
The NUFORC record for this ground: the attempt, printed whole
Item 6 — the National UFO Reporting Center database for New Carlisle, Indiana — MIXED: database reached, city index not readable from this…
The modern, self-reported record lives in one database, and its front door but not its city index — the attempt is the article, and no count is invented to fill it. The National UFO Reporting Center, founded in 1974 by Robert J.…
The drone era tested: winter 2024–25 in northern Indiana
Item 7 — the drone flap as its own period, at press and FAA-record strength — searched negative for this ground
The winter of 2024–25 gave the unexplained a new name — "mystery drones" — and Indiana had its own documented chapter of it, in counties none of which is this one. The national frame, in the federal record: reports beginning in…
Investigators and organizations: the local record
Item 8 — MUFON Indiana and the investigator record for this county — MIXED: the organizations are documented, a county case record is not…
The unexplained over this county has been investigated, across seventy years, by exactly the organizations the national record would predict — and none of them publishes a case that names this town. The historical layer is the…
Closing: what this record can and cannot support
Item 9 — the epistemic article: findings stated, no case promoted beyond its file
This section's record supports a short list of firm statements, a longer list of honest negatives, and no conclusion whatsoever about what, if anything, has ever flown over Terre Coupee prairie. WHAT THE RECORD SUPPORTS. The…