In this episode, we explore one of the most astonishing and little-known UFO events in American history, the 1950 Farmington UFO Armada Incident. Over the course of three days in March 1950, hundreds of residents in Farmington, New Mexico, watched the skies fill with dozens of fast-moving, metallic discs performing impossible maneuvers in broad daylight. Reported by police officers, bank employees, oil workers, and ordinary citizens, the event made front-page headlines as a mysterious “saucer armada” appeared over the town. Decades later, with no clear explanation from the government or science, the Farmington sightings remain one of the largest mass UFO encounters ever recorded in the United States.

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References: Farmington Daily Times — “Huge ‘Saucer’ Armada Jolts Farmington,” March 18, 1950. Front-page article documenting the mass UFO sighting witnessed by hundreds of residents over three days.

• The Aztec UFO Incident by Scott Ramsey & Suzanne Ramsey (2015). Investigative book examining the alleged 1948 Aztec crash and related UFO activity in the Four Corners region.
• The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Edward J. Ruppelt (1956). Written by the former head of the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book, it includes a discussion of early UFO cases from the late 1940s and early 1950s.
• National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena — The UFO Evidence (1964). One of the earliest large compilations of documented UFO cases, including references to the Farmington sightings.
• UFOs and the National Security State by Richard Dolan (2000). Historical analysis of UFO sightings during the Cold War era, including major early cases in the American Southwest.