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“Sagan”

Stories3

The Face on Mars: Viking 1 photographs Cydonia (1976)

July 25, 1976 · Cydonia Mensae, Mars

UAP · Other · 99 sources · 7 photos

48Partially documented

Betty and Barney Hill Abduction

September 19, 1961 · US Route 3 near Indian Head, Lincoln, New Hampshire

UAP · Being / humanoid · 61 sources

43Partially documented

Reinhold Schmidt and the Kearney Incident

November 5, 1957 · Field near the Platte River, near Kearney, Buffalo County, Nebraska

UAP · Being / humanoid · 32 sources

28Thinly documented

Names1

Carl Sagan Person · 3 stories
An astronomer whose name surfaces on the sceptical side of several cases.

Documents28 · see all

Flying Saucers Again: Do You Believe in Them? FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 2001-03-12· 10 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 7 …The American is Carl Sagan of Harvard University and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory. The Russian is Academician Josef Shmuelovich Shklovskii…
- p. 9 …But even the "cautious optimism" of Sagan and Shklovskil recognizes that there is only a slight chance that the nearest…
Symposium on unidentified flying objects: hearings before the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninetieth Congress, second session, July 29, 1968. Hearing transcript

U.S. House of Representatives· 1968-07-29· 256 pages· 21 pages mention it
- p. 91 …Our next participant is Dr.Carl Sagan. Dr. Sagan is associate professor of astronomy in the Department of Astronomy and…
- p. 197 …SAGAN. Isn't that being done already? Mr. BOONE. No,it doesn't do it below certain altitudes. Dr. SAGAN…
Defense Intelligence Reference Document An Introduction To The Statistical Drake Equation Report

Defense Intelligence Agency· 55 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 7 …We believe that no better introductory description of the Drake equations exists other than the one given by Carl Sagan…
- p. 55 …2008). 2 Carl Sagan, "Cosmos", Random House, New York, 1983. See in particular the pages 298-302. 3 Bennet, Jeffrey…
AAWSAP DIRD, An Introduction to the Statistical Drake Equation, March 2010 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 2010-03-11· 55 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 7 …We believe that no better introductory description of the Drake equations exists other than the one given by Carl Sagan…
- p. 55 …2008). 2 Carl Sagan, "Cosmos", Random House, New York, 1983. See in particular the pages 298-302. 3 Bennet, Jeffrey…
Sky Canada Project report (PDF) Report

Office of the Chief Science Advisor, Government of Canada· 2025· 30 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 8 …This is what renowned astron- omer and author Carl Sagan meant when he famously said, “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence…
Baker report, 1968 congressional hearings Hearing transcript

NICAP· 1968· 68 pages· 5 pages mention it
- p. 63 …to have a real free for all. Dr. Sagan. Dr. Sagan. I just wanted to underline one point that Dr…
- p. 64 …Sagan. Isn't that being done already? Mr. Boone. No, it doesn't do it below certain altitudes. Dr. Sagan…

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Videos3

Video1952

Science in Default

From Haneda AFB radar-visual sighting and F-94 intercept

Video1957

Science in Default

From Kirtland AFB control-tower sighting

Video1957

Science in Default (1969)

From RB-47 Radar and ELINT UFO Encounter