{"id":87690,"date":"2026-10-21T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=87690"},"modified":"2026-10-21T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T13:31:38","slug":"did-john-ford-accidentally-capture-a-ufo-in-his-1950-western-rio-grande","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/did-john-ford-accidentally-capture-a-ufo-in-his-1950-western-rio-grande\/","title":{"rendered":"Did John Ford Accidentally Capture a UFO in His 1950 Western \u2018Rio Grande\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Vice.com:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>John Ford\u2019s classic 1950 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/the-truth-about-whether-blazing-saddles-had-the-first-audible-fart-in-movie-history-or-not\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Western<\/a> <em>Rio Grande<\/em> stars John Wayne as Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke, whose regiment is tasked with defending settlers in Texas from Apaches during the late 1800s.<\/p>\n<p>A little over an hour into the film, Kirby tells his wife that he\u2019s decided not to bring Jefferson along with him in pursuit of the Apaches in Mexico. Though <em>Rio Grande<\/em> remains beloved for a great many reasons, this scene in particular has attracted considerable attention in recent years\u2014and not for anything that was intended by the cast or crew. If you keep your eye on the top left-hand part of the screen as Kirby\u2019s breaking the news to Kathleen, you\u2019ll see what looks like a UFO shooting across the sky in the background. Check out the clip for yourself below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Vice.com: John Ford\u2019s classic 1950 Western Rio Grande stars John Wayne as Lieutenant Colonel Kirby Yorke, whose regiment is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87691,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87690\/revisions\/87691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}