What exactly was in the air that summer? Reports of “flying saucers” -- a new term -- flooded into police stations and newspapers all over the U.S., including in the Upper Midwest. In the summer of ...

NASA has just sent a spacecraft into orbit that looks less like a traditional satellite and more like something from a 1950s movie set, a sleek disk that immediately invites the phrase “flying saucer.

ARE flying saucers real? “Certainly,” says Dr. Donald H. Menzel, Harvard professor of astrophysics. “They are as real as rainbows. No one should be ashamed of seeing them and reporting them. I have ...

FARGO — I can only imagine what it would have been like to live through the summer of 1947, when people kept an eye on the sky wondering what they might see next. A bird? A plane? Superman? Nope. In ...