'Project Blue Book' Season 1 Episode 7: The strange story of a scoutmaster who was attacked by a UFO
History's ongoing series on aliens and UFOs 'Project Blue Book' has done a remarkable job at bringing to the screen the real-life events that spurred the titular investigation undertaken by the US Air Force back in the 1950s. With each episode of the show based on sightings of mysterious flying objects, the upcoming seventh installment of the debut season will follow 'The Scoutmaster' DS "Sonny" DesVergers who was on the receiving end of what was believed to be a direct contact from the extraterrestrial. The incident following his detour into South Florida Everglades on an August night in 1952 had left him burned and barely coherent.
After the encounter with what DesVergers claimed was an unidentified flying object discharging fireballs, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, chief UFO investigator for the US Air Force — the man on whom the current show's character Michael Quinn (Michael Malarkey) is loosely based — labeled the incident as “the best hoax in UFO history.” However, despite experts' claims, the encounter revealed in now-declassified documents is simply unnerving and still remain unsolved.