Flamboyant and futuristic style of mid-twentieth-century American commercial design.
Googie architecture is a flamboyant and futuristic style of mid-twentieth-century American commercial design that emerged in Southern California during the late 1940s and flourished through the 1950s and 1960s.
They reported encountering a towering humanoid figure, with a glowing reddish-orange face, claw-like hands, and a dark, metallic or spade-shaped hood surrounding its head.
The Flatwoods Monster is one of the most enduring and vividly described entities in American UFO and cryptid lore, rooted in a single dramatic evening in rural West Virginia during the early Cold War era, when public anxiety about the unknown—whether from outer space or from secret military projects—was already high. The incident occurred on September 12, 1952, near the small community of Flatwoods in Braxton County,
Halvorsen impulsively promised to drop candy to them during his next flight, signaling his plane by wiggling its wings.
Gail Halvorsen’s life unfolded as one of the most emblematic stories of humanitarian aviation in the twentieth century, beginning with his childhood on a small farm in Garland, Utah, where he developed an early fascination with flight that grew alongside the hardships of the Great Depression.
Create a fleet of underwater aircraft carriers—submarines large enough to travel thousands of miles undetected and capable of launching bombers
The Sensuikan I-400-class submarine was among the most remarkable and ambitious naval projects undertaken by Japan during the Second World War, conceived at a time when Japanese strategists sought ways to strike at distant Allied targets with an element of surprise. The idea originated in 1942 after the attack on Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, when the Imperial Japanese Navy recognized the vulnerability of fixed bases and the need to project air power across the Pacific.
This is a series of posts that will talk about my favorite songs with screams. See if you agree with any of these!
“Child in Time” is a monumental song by Deep Purple, written by all five members of the Mark II lineup—Ian Gillan, Ritchie Blackmore, Roger Glover, Jon Lord, and Ian Paice—and first released on the 1970 album Deep Purple in Rock; inspired in part by “Bombay Calling” by It’s a Beautiful Day, the band transformed it into a 10-minute anti-war epic that showcases
Branch of the U.S. Army that operated from 1945 until 1976, created in the aftermath of World War II.
The United States Army Security Agency (ASA) was a specialized branch of the U.S. Army that operated from 1945 until 1976, created in the aftermath of World War II to consolidate the Army’s signals intelligence (SIGINT) and communications security efforts. Its origins can be traced to wartime cryptologic operations conducted by the Signals Intelligence Service, which had played a decisive role in breaking Japanese codes.
A great day, no rain at all. The winds were light, just enough to cool us down a little under the canopy in the 92 degree heat. I had readied several of Tim’s rockets from the 70’s and 80’s for flight. His Estes Phoenix flew, for the first time ever. It was a beautiful flight, landing close to the pad with the two parachute set-up.
Prince left behind a vast legacy that transcended genre, race, and convention.
Prince Rogers Nelson, known mononymously as Prince, was born on June 7, 1958, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His parents, John L. Nelson and Mattie Della Shaw, were both musically inclined—his father a jazz pianist and songwriter, his mother a jazz singer. This musical environment deeply influenced Prince from an early age.
Location is ideal for satellite tracking and signals intelligence gathering, particularly for geostationary satellites positioned over Asia, the Middle East, and parts of Eastern Europe.
Pine Gap, officially known as the Joint Defence Facility Pine Gap, is a highly secretive satellite surveillance base located near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. Established in 1970, Pine Gap is a joint operation between the United States and Australia and is considered one of the most important intelligence facilities outside the U.S. mainland.
“No UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force was ever an indication of threat to our national security.”
The 1964 Vandenberg Air Force Base (AFB) UFO incident, often referred to as the “Big Sur UFO” case, centers on claims made by former U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Robert Jacobs. In September 1964, Jacobs was involved in filming missile test launches at Vandenberg AFB, California.
