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Foo Fighters - World War II.  During the second world war both allied and axis pilots saw strange lights which would demonstrate non-conventional aerial maneuvers.  Both sides at the time thought that the lights were secret weapons, but after the war was over it was learned that neither side had weaponry that could account for these sightings.

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Ghost Rockets of Sweden - 1946.  Right after the second world war several sightings were made of rockets over the skies of Sweden.  The sightings began in the spring of 1946 and later spread to other parts of Europe.  Nearly and thousand sightings were reported and several radar confirmations were received.  Some crashes occurred and debris was recovered.  However, the origin of the rockets was never explained.  There was not evidence that the rockets were of extraterrestrial origin.
Suggested reading: UFOs and the National Security State by Richard M. Dolan

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Kenneth Arnold Sights Flying Saucers Over Mt Rainier,Washington - June 24, 1947.  This sighting began the modern wave of UFO sightings.  Right after Arnold's sighting hundreds of people were seeing flying disks in the skies.  Many of the sightings were in the daytime.  The sightings continued into July and dropped off rapidly in late July, 1947. 

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Roswell, NM Mexico Flying Saucer Crash. - July 2, 1947.  No one really knows the date of the alleged crash.  The general accepted dates are July 2 or 4, 1947.  The Roswell crash remained buried for nearly 30 years until Stanton Friedman contacted Jesse Marcel in New Orleans, LA in 1978.  Marcel told a story of a crash recovery of remains of a strange aircraft which he perceived as likely not coming from "this world" in July, 1947.  In the next few years hundreds of civilian and military witnesses came forward and told about their experience with Roswell.  Many relatives of decreased participants also related intriguing stories.  The event has spawned a long list of books and documentaries which continue to be produced.  The Air Force has produced two documents with explanations of the Roswell event.  Officially the Air Force denies that an extraterrestrial vehicle crashed and that a Mogul balloon launched on June 4, 1947 was mistakenly identified as a flying saucer crash.  The Air Force says that the alleged crew members recovered from the crash were really experimental crash dummies.   The Roswell story is long with many witnesses and details involved. 
Suggested Readings:
Crash at Corona by Don Berliner and Stanton Friedman
Top Secret/Majic by Stanton Friedman
The Day After Roswell by Col. Philip Corso
The Roswell UFO Crash by Kal K. Korff (debunks Roswell crash)

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Project Sign.  January, 1948 - January, 1949.  Established by the Air Force.  Sign's role was to serve as the official investigation of UFOs.  At the time Project Sign was known to the public as "project saucer".  In Project Sign 243 domestic sightings and 30 foreign sightings were investigated.  About three dozen reports were classified as unknown.  Officially the "bottom line" conclusion: Although visits from outer space are believed to be possible, they are believed to be very improbable.  In particular, the actions attributed to the "flying objects" reported during 1947 and 1948 seem inconsistent with the requirements for space travel.
Project Sign. - 1948 (Exact Date Unknown).  Unofficially a report was prepared titled the "Estimate of the Situation".  The Situation was "UFOs", the Estimate was "Interplanetary".  General Hoyt Vandenberg (Air Force Chief of Staff at the time) flatly rejected the report and requested a more "mundane" explanation.  All personnel involved in writing the report were reassigned.
Suggested Readings:
UFOs and The National Security State by Richard M. Dolan
Technical Report: Unidentified Aerial Objects, Project "Sign", February, 1949, Air Materiel Command

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Project Grudge "Final Report: - December 27, 1949.  Report prepared by U.S. Air Force (Air Materiel Command - Wright-Patterson Air Force Base).  Of 237 cases examined, 23 percent were not identified.  Project Sign was changed to Project Grudge on February 11, 1949.  The Project Grudge name lasted until March, 1952 at which time it was changed to Project Bluebook.
Suggested Reading:
 Project "Grudge" Unidentified Flying Objects, Release Data, August, 1949.

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Project Blue Book 1952 - 1969.  The Air Force continued to investigate UFOs for another 17 years.  By 1953 the more dramatic (harder-to-explain) sightings were handled by the 4602 AISS (Air Intelligence Services Squadron).  Sightings easier to explain were forwarded to Blue Book.  This an effective implementation of Air Force Regulation 200-2 (AFR 200-2) which ordered that no information of value regarding UFOs reach the public.  Nevertheless Blue Book has been the last "official" Air Force investigation of UFO sightings.  Bluebook was terminated in 1969 when it was determined through a report issued by University of Colorado (Condon Report) that further study of UFOs was not justified.  The conclusion of the report was that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby."
Suggested Readings:
UFOs and the National Security State by Richard M. Dolan
Above Top Secret, The Worldwide UFO Cover-up by Timothy Good

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French Humanoid Encounters - 1954  . Forty-six "creature" reports in France occurred between September 10 to October 27, 1954.  From this number, many were dwarf-like beings and frequently a light beam was sighted and the witnesses would become temporarily paralyzed. 
Suggested Readings:
Flying Saucers and the Straight-line Mystery by Aime Michael
Passport to Magnolia by Jacques Vallee
Situation Red - The UFO Siege by Leonard H. Stringfield

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