03. Early 20th Century (1900–1940)

The 1908 Tunguska event over Siberia remains Earth’s largest recorded airburst, shaping modern understanding of cosmic impacts and UAP evidence standards.

Explore how early South American newspapers covered the age of flight and why no clear 1908–1910 “airship wave” matches other global scares.

Explore the 1933–34 Swedish “Ghost Flyers” mystery, a wave of unexplained aircraft reports over Norrland that shaped early Scandinavian UAP history.

Explore how early Soviet scientists investigated UAP-like events from Tunguska to Karelia, revealing patterns of mystery, data gaps, and discovery.

Los Angeles has always lived with the idea of spectacle, but the early hours of February 25, 1942 delivered a spectacle nobody wanted. A blackout dropped across the city. Sirens rose and fell. Searchlights swept the sky in disciplined arcs, then began to converge. Anti-aircraft guns followed with a rolling, metallic thunder that seemed to come from every direction at once. For hours, residents watched the night overhead behave as if it contained a target.

Explore the 1913 phantom airship wave, when a rare Great Meteor Procession sparked UAP-like reports across North America.