On this day in conspiracies

Two young couples, Roger Scarberry and Linda Scarberry, and Steve and Mary Mallette, tell Point Pleasant police they saw a large grey figure with glowing red eyes near the abandoned 'TNT area,' a WWII-era munitions plant. They say it followed their car at high speed.

Helms reports to Johnson that the CIA has found no evidence of contact between prominent peace-movement leaders and foreign embassies in the United States. The program is nonetheless continued and expanded rather than closed.

Walton is given a polygraph by examiner John (Jack) McCarthy, arranged in connection with the National Enquirer and the UFO group APRO. McCarthy concludes Walton showed 'gross deception.' The existence of this test is not publicized at the time; Walton's supporters would later argue it was hastily arranged and improperly conducted.

After an earlier appeal fails and the Criminal Cases Review Commission refers the case, the Court of Appeal quashes George's conviction as unsafe. It rules that the single residue particle was as likely to have come from an innocent source as from a gun he fired, and orders a retrial.

The Lagos State Judicial Panel submits a 309-page report finding that soldiers 'shot, injured and killed unarmed, helpless and defenceless protesters' and describing the events as a 'massacre in context.'

President Biden signs the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58). Section 24220 directs the Secretary of Transportation, through NHTSA, to issue a motor-vehicle safety standard requiring new passenger vehicles to be equipped with “advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology” that can passively detect impairment and prevent or limit operation.