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.

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 ...

Seventy-five years ago, America was talking excitedly about saucers — flying saucers, UFOs, extra-terrestrial craft or whatever you wanted to call them. Much of the cause of this hullabaloo was a ...