On today in 1959 the first radar contact was made with Planet Venus.  Mysterious Planet Venus. What secrets do you hold?

NASA even refers to Venus itself as the “UFO” Planet because it is so bright, and mistakenly reported as a spacecraft, as it is the shiniest object in the sky and may appear to follow your car.  The smartest among us know that this is just another government cover-up, and that really was a UFO following us home the night before.

Eric Davis(NIDS) writes a reasonable response to Philip Klass (Part of the Skeptical Society).  He argues that Venus was not what some Police Officer saw, indeed, it was a real UFO.  Venus does not look like a “UFO as a large (200-600 feet linear, 40-60 feet thick) triangular-shaped object possessing (on its underside) downward pointing white lights arranged at the corners, a red light near the center,”

Raise a cup to Venus, seen by Neanderthals to Modern people and then confirmed by radar, back in early Spring 1959.

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1963AJ.....68...15S

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/03may_maximumvenus.htm

http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc609.htm