While I know UFO fans make this their hobbies, I doubt that today I have delusional thinking.
Also, I doubt that I could read news reports like this in the 21st century.
WASHINGTON, May 13 1964 - (AP) Donald K. Keynoe, who writes about such things, sai d tonight the earth is being circled by one or two artificial satellites, and Air Force Secretary Talbott personally has seen a “large, ???, disc shaped object” in the sky.
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After watching the object for several minutes, Secretary Talbott ordered his plane to swing around and approach it," Keynoe said. “The object immediately accelerated and disappeared at high speed.”