Timeline of American government paranormal investigations (1950-Present Day)

August 1951 - Strange lights over Lubbock, Texas are investigated by the US Air Force.

March 1952 - US Air Force forms Project Blue Book to investigate unidentified flying objects.
July 1952 - Project Blue Book investigates reports of unidentified lights and radar pings around Washington.
September 1952 - Project Blue Book investigates reports of "oddities" around Braxton County, West Virginia.

August 1955 - US Army and Project Blue Book investigate reports around Kelly and Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

September 1961 - Project Blue Book investigation into the Betty and Barney Hill Incident.
December 1965 - US Army and Air Force (most likely from Project Blue Book) close off a suspected crash site near Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. What crashed is widely regarded as a meteor or satellite.
December 1966 - FBI Begins investigations on "Mothman".
October 1967 - FBI begins investigations on suspicious reports around Bluff Creek, California.
December 1967 - FBI investigates reports on Mothman after the Silver Bridge Collapse.
March 1967 - FBI Closes Investigation on Mothman.

April 1977 - FBI reports on sightings of a mysterious creature in Dover, Massachusetts.
March 1979 - FBI planned on investigating reports of Mothman sightings in the days leading up to Three Mile Island.

January(?) 1980 - The Midwestern Union orders the creation of the Department of Civilian Defense after reports of unnatural creatures.
March 1983 - Several Nations come together to form the Tokyo Treaty Anomaly Resolution Sector, the first intergovernmental organization intended on explaining the unexplained.
April 1983 - The United Commonwealth creates the National Bureau of Anomaly Security.
February 1984 - The Western States reopens Project Blue Book.
The NBAS opens an investigation into the Gulf Breeze UFO incident, but finds little thanks to the American Federation's civil war.
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