One of the most compelling aspect of the UFO story are not the stories alone, but the illustrations that often accompanied the reports of dry words and data. Often these were detailed and created by people with experience with construction, flight, and other technical aspects of a field.
Kingman, Kansas 1950:
Wichita, Kansas 1960 (an engineer observed and described this object):Phoenix, AZ 1947 (pre-Roswell), AF declared it a hoax but it -oddly enough- matched what people were reporting across the country...