Editing UFO conspiracy theories (section)

===Timeline===
* '''March 1945''' - Palmer's ''Amazing Stories'' publishes Shaver's "I Remember Lemuria!"<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|116}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|4}}
* '''June 1946''' - Palmer's ''Amazing Stories'' publishes Crisman's letter corroborating Shaver's claims<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|30|quote=Before spotting the flying saucer in Washington, he wrote to Amazing Stories magazine, claiming that he had fought his way out of a cave in Burma during World War II, battling mysterious and evil underground creatures.}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|13}}
* '''July 1947''' -  Palmer hires original saucer witness Kenneth Arnold to investigate Crisman's Maury Island incident;   USAF investigators killed in plane crash <ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|30|quote=This particular connection begins on June 21, 1947, the dawn of the flying saucer age, and two men: Fred Crisman and Harold Dahl. These two men saw a UFO over Puget Sound near Maury Island. They collected debris that they claimed had been ejected from the supposed craft. They later claimed that government officials had threatened them.}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|13}}
* '''October 1947''' - Palmer's ''Amazing Stories'' published letter by Shaver saying the truth behind the discs "will never be disclosed to common people".<ref name="RToronto"/>{{rp|159}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|12}}<!--
* '''April 3, 1949'''  - Winchell alleges cover-up of saucers being Soviet--> 
* '''December 26, 1949''' - Keyhoe's article "The Flying Saucers Are Real" published in ''True''<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|40–41}}
* '''October 1949''' - Scully's article on Aztec hoax introduces alien bodies<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|47–48}}
* '''1952''' - Arnold's ''The Coming of the Saucers'' introduces Maury Island hoax to wider audience<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|92}}
* '''April 1952''' - "Have We Visitors From Space" published in Life Magazine<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|58}}
* '''July 31, 1952''' -  Samford press conference<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|65}}
* '''1955'''  -  Keyhoe authors ''The Flying Saucer Conspiracy''  links UFOs and Bermuda Triangle <ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|111–113}}
* '''1955''' -  Morris Jessup authors ''The Case for the UFO'', an anonymously annotated copy of which introduces "The Philadelphia Experiment".<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|112}}
* '''1956''' -  Ruppelt authors ''The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects''<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|113}}
* '''1956''' -  Chop's film ''Unidentified Flying Objects: The True Story of Flying Saucers'' released
* '''1956''' - Barker authors ''They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers'' introduces Men in Black<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|82}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|106}}
* '''January 22, 1958''' - Keyhoe mic cut on live TV <ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|129|quote=The show, titled "UFOs: Enigma of the Skies," was telecast "live" on January 22, 1958. As Keyhoe began reading the script, his frustration boiled over and he began to ad-lib:
And now I'm going to reveal something that has never been disclosed be- fore.... For the last six months, we have been working with a Congressional committee investigating official secrecy about UFOS. If all the evidence we have given this committee is made public in open hearings it will absolutely prove that the UFOs are real machines under intelligent control.
Before Keyhoe finished the first sentence, his microphone was turned down so the home audience could not hear what he was saying. Millions of people thought the Air Force had (literally) "silenced" Keyhoe. He later claimed that "both CBS and the Armstrong Theater staff must have been warned by the Air Force: Don't permit any startling NICAP revelations, even if they have proof." Keyhoe emerged as the winner of the Armstrong Theater battle. Believers would point to it as an example of "silencing." To the public at large, CBS's cutting off of the audio gave Keyhoe's appearance an impact much greater than anything he said.}} 
* '''March 20–21, 1966''' -  [[Michigan "swamp gas" UFO reports]] occur;  Hynek's explanation is ridiculed<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|169–172}}
* '''April 3, 1968''' - ''2001: A Space Odyssey'' released <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=unbDEAAAQBAJ|title=Conspiracy Theory in Film, Television, and Politics|first=Gordon B.|last=Arnold|date=September 30, 2008|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=978-1-56720-722-4 |via=Google Books}}</ref>{{rp|82–84}}
* '''October 31, 1968''' - Crisman subpoenaed in Clay Shaw JFK assassination case<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|30}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|263}}
* '''January 9, 1969''' - Crisman accused of being one of the three tramps<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|263}}
* '''1974''' - Emenegger releases film ''UFOs: Past, Present, and Future'' introduces summoned landing<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|207}}<ref name="MirageMen"/>{{rp|ch 12}}
* '''1974''' - Carr alleges alien bodies from Aztec are stored in "Hangar 18"<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|40}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|321}}
* '''1974''' - Hynek alleges a 'Cosmic Watergate'<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|6}}
* '''1976''' - Palmer links "flying saucers, The Shaver Mystery, The Kennedy’s assassinations, Watergate and Fred Crisman"<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|323|quote=Crisman was the perfect suspect to create a “link” between UFOs, the occult, and the various assassination theories. His testimony was never released and he is now dead. Garrison’s investigation was worthless, relying on hearsay, nonexistent “links,” and spurious “unanswered questions.” Most of the “suspects” were dead by the time Garrison sought indictments. }}
* '''November 16, 1977''' - ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'' released  <ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|30}}<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|44}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|234}}
* '''November 1979''' - Jesse Marcel suggests Roswell was extraterrestrial in Friedman documentary<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|81}}<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|92–93}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|246–251}}
* '''November 12, 1980'''- Moulton Howe's documentary ''A Strange Harvest'' links cattle mutilations to UFOs.<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|30|quote="In 1979, Linda Moulton Howe, a Denver filmmaker, began work on a documentary that alleged a mutilation-UFO connection. The film, A Strange Harvest, was broadcast in 1980. She later stated that “I am convinced that one or more alien intelligences are affecting this planet. I would like to know who they are, what they want and why the government is silent.” Howe and others, influenced by her film and subsequent publications, began to speculate that aliens mutilated cattle in order to secure body parts or biological substances they needed for their own survival, and that the U.S. government was complicit in these efforts. The idea that aliens were engaged in some obscure effort to “harvest” or otherwise retrieve biological substances from the earth has turned out to be a fertile subject for speculation, which eventually came to include such suggestions as the breeding of alien-human hybrids"}}<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|97}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|218}}
* '''October 14, 1988''' -  UFO Cover Up? Live introduces Majestic 12 and Area 51 to wider audience <ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|20}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|268}}
* '''July 1, 1989''' - Bill Moore addresses MUFON <ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|8–9}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|269}}
* '''November 1989''' - Bob Lazar first televised interview<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|274}}
*  '''1991''' -  Cooper's ''Behold a Pale Horse'' published <ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|36}}<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|42}}<ref name="Peebles"/>{{rp|174–179}}
* '''September 10, 1993''' -''The X-Files'' premieres <ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|33–35}}<ref name="Gulyas2015"/>{{rp|33–34}}
* '''July 3, 1996''' - ''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'' premieres<ref name="Barkun2006"/>{{rp|30}}
* '''July 2, 1997''' - ''[[Men in Black (1997 film)|Men in Black]]'' premieres
* '''December 16, 2017''' - New York Times publishes story about AATIP and the Nimitz case