Friday, November 30, 2007

Another Triangular Shaped UFO Spotted - This One Over Halesowen

Dorito UFO Over Halesowen
'Dorito UFO' Seen in Skies

By Expressandstar.com
11-30-07

     A UFO, described by witnesses as looking like a huge “Dorito” crisp has been filmed over the skies of the Black Country, according to a paranormal group.

A flurry of calls has been made to Stourbridge-based UFO Research Midlands (UFORM) from those claiming to have witnessed the flying object in the sky.

Witnesses say they spotted it in Halesowen heading towards Stourbridge on Wednesday at around 7pm.

UFORM is now appealing for anyone else who saw it to get in touch to help it compile its X-files.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

UFO Spotted Over I-5 Freeway

UFO Over I-5
Motorist reports strange object in sky above I-5

By North County Times
11-28-07

     OCEANSIDE ---- A local motorist ---- who happens to be a high school football coach ---- is seeking more information about a strange object he says he saw in the skies above Camp Pendleton late Tuesday.

Heading south on Interstate 5 at about 10:45 p.m., Tony Paopao said he and his wife saw what appeared to be a large, brightly lit vehicle fly overhead and briefly hover in place, before heading toward the mountains of Camp Pendleton and then out of sight.

"It was about 100 yards up. It was too low to be a plane and it was too fast and too quiet to be a helicopter," Paopao said. "I'm just curious if anybody saw what I saw."

He said he slowed down to get a better look at the mysterious object and saw red brake lights all around on the freeway, indicating that others were also slowing to get a gander.

A football coach for El Camino High School in Oceanside, Paopao said the object appeared to be more than 20 feet long and very quick. He said he reported the sighting to an on-line UFO center.

Reached Tuesday at noon, Sgt. Paul Robbins, a communications officer with Camp Pendleton, said there is no vehicle currently operating on base that is silent and of the size and capabilities described by the football coach.

"We've got things flying all the time, but the Marine Corps doesn't have any aircraft that would stop traffic," Robbins said. "I guess it could be an unmanned aerial vehicle, but those things are tiny."

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

"They Took a 'Curved Shape' ... Like The Outside Edge of a Flying Saucer"

UFOs Over Nogales
Lights over Nogales?

By By William Wilczewski
Nogalesinternational.com
11-27-07

     In the last couple of weeks, strange lights have been seen in Santa Cruz County's nighttime sky.

An anonymous caller first contacted the Nogales International Nov. 8 about a sighting the night before. The caller said he and "a bunch" of others in Wal-Mart's parking lot were awestruck by the yellowish-orange lights they observed.

Horne Ford employee Adan Nido was so awestruck that he invited 15 to 20 friends and co-workers, including Carlos Silva and Tony Griffin, to his Rio Rico house Nov. 15, for a sighting carne asada.

"People think you're crazy at first but after they see them, they change their mind," Nido said, adding that this wasn't the first time he's seen the strange phenomenon.

"I started seeing them last year at the same time of year," he said. "And it always seems to be between 8 and 9 at night."

That is when all known accounts of the local mysterious lights have taken place.

According to Larry Tiffin, manager of the Nogales International Airport, though, the lights may not be such a mystery.

Tiffin said he received a bulletin from the Federal Aviation Authority a couple of weeks ago. It advised him that fighter planes from Fort Huachuca would be doing nighttime maneuvers in the restricted air space (military operations area) between their base and Yuma over the next 30 days.

Nido doesn't quite buy that explanation.

"It's something I can't explain, though," he said, "but it's not maneuvers. It's not a plane. It's something out of this place. Those things are not from here. I'm not sure it's aliens, but it's not from here ... unless the government is designing something new."

But the government and military are always a possibility.

That was the official explanation for the "Phoenix Lights" incident, an optical phenomena that took place in the sky over Arizona and Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997.

According to Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia: "Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 7:30 and 10:30 p.m., in a space of about 300 miles from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation (which has not been noted in the Nogales sightings) of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area.

"Although the United States Air Force identified the second group of lights as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft which were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range at Luke Air Force Base, some who observed the event believe differently. Notable among those who thought they had observed alien aircraft is Arizona governor at the time of the incident, Fife Symington, and many other high ranking military, aviation and government officials."

All reports of the Nogales Lights seem to be in a straight horizontal line except for Griffin's. The Horne Ford owner said they took a "curved shape ... like the outside edge of a flying saucer" and "moved very erratically at high rates of speed."

Griffin, however, wasn't exactly saying that what he saw was a Martian spacecraft, but "the hair stood up on the back of my neck," he said. "No matter what it was, it was pretty cool."

What puzzles him most about the lights is that "there are so many in such a small section of the sky," he said. "That's why I have a hard time believing they are conventional aircraft."

Silva counted seven of the lights that Griffin spoke about at one time on Nov. 15.

"I saw seven bursts of light," he said. "I don't know what it was ... but it wasn't a plane or a helicopter."

"I wonder why nobody talks about it more," Nido added. "It's something really different."

Most accounts describe the lights as white and yellowish-orange that flash and reappear in a different spot of the sky.

Very small and quicker flashes of white "star-like" sparks have also been noted before and after the bigger, yellowish-orange beams.

Interestingly, Nido even mentioned seeing standard aircraft "observing" the lights from a distance on at least one occasion.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

MY UFO EXPERIENCE: "The Entire Neighborhood Had Observed a HUGE, Silent Craft Hovering Over Our Apartment Buildings!"

UFO Over Saint-Denis France
By Reader Submitted Report
[Unedited]
11-14-07

     I'd like to know why this wasn't made public in March, 2002:

I'm an American residing permanently in France. About 7:50 pm CET, my husband and I were on our way to a movie in March, 2002, in Saint-Denis, France, a near-suburb of Paris. We watched some UFOs in the night sky for about ten minutes, then went in to see the movie, which we'd very much wanted to see and had waited for. After the movie we checked, and the UFOs were gone, but we'd seen what we'd seen, and discussed it at length.

The next day, I asked some neighbors and shopkeepers in the vicinity if they'd seen anything, and they sure had! For about 45 minutes, around the same time exactly that we'd seen a spectacular display from town center, the entire neighborhood had observed a HUGE, silent craft hovering over our apartment buildings! It was very low, and enormous, and the neighbors were pretty disturbed by it, as it was clearly something "not of this Earth," or not typical in any way.

What my husband and I saw was a big yellow ball of light, quite clear, about a kilometer away, which was periodically visited by smaller balls of light, which joined up with it then shot away, then returned a few minutes later. "The Mother Ship," if you will, joined by little "shuttle ships." These craft darted about in ways and at speeds not normal for ordinary craft, and we'd never seen such a thing before. For us, it was not a frightening experience, just kind of magical and mysterious, and a LOT of people must have seen this! I wish we'd seen the silent hovering craft over our block of apartment towers, but then again, hearing how frightened and disturbed my neighbors were, perhaps it's just as well we didn't. Several hundred people saw this, and of course, it didn't make the news at all, and should have.

A friend in New York City recently had a spectacular daytime sighting, and is utterly disgusted that not a word of this got into the media, when clearly, thousands of people must have seen the event.

Why so hush-hush? It's really a shame.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Before The Phoenix Lights . . . There Was The Trenton Triangle

UFO Over Trenton Mo
After 27 years, only speculation remains regarding identity of North Missouri UFO

By Travis Miles and Gregory Orear
The Kirksville Daily Express
11-23-07

     KIRKSVILLE - As a Missouri State Highway Patrolman, Don Altes has seen some strange things.

But nothing could top what he saw in the north Missouri sky Nov. 18, 1980.

"It was the weirdest looking thing I've ever seen," he said.

Altes was one of hundreds of people from Trenton, Mo., to Edina, Mo., who reported seeing a UFO flying across the sky that Tuesday.

According to an article published in the Daily Express the next day, calls started coming into the Kirksville Police Department around 9 p.m., from people claiming to have seen lights and a strange object traveling from west to east. Many of the callers described the object in the same way, noting it had lights similar to a car's headlights.

Reports of the object were not limited to Kirksville. At approximately 8:30 p.m., residents near Trenton were calling the local radio station to give similar accounts to those in Kirksville.

Shortly after 9 p.m., police in Kirksville contacted the Air Force radar base in Sublette, Mo., seven miles north of town and were told the object was an airplane. More than an hour later, police received a phone call from the radar base saying it was not an airplane.

The FAA in Columbia, Mo., said several private pilots reported seeing some type of lights from an undetermined object.

With that many witnesses there was no doubt something was in the sky that night, but exactly what it was is still up for debate 27 years later.

"Nobody could really explain what it was... but enough people saw something, they couldn't have been dreaming it up," Hank Janssen, the Daily Express reporter who covered the story said. "It shook people up in the area a little bit. It created a buzz for a time."

Altes and his partner received reports over the radio of something odd in the sky and drove west of Trenton to examine it for themselves.

"I know it had a lot of lights, and a lot of different colored lights," he said. "It was really slow moving and then it just took off."

The slow speed of the craft is something that many eyewitnesses noted.

"It was a series of lights and it was slow moving," Charles Cooper said.

At the time Cooper was an Adair County Deputy Sheriff who saw the object north of town when he was called out that night.

"It seemed to me it took quite awhile to move out of the area where we couldn't see it," he said.

Rick Hull, a Truman State University student living in Trenton at the time remembers the same thing.

"It was moving so slowly, and airplanes don't stay in the air and move as slowly as it did," he said.

Hull has some experience in aviation, having spent time flying a crop duster where he says 55 miles per hour is about the slowest speed a plane could travel and still maintain flight.

"I have still yet to see an airplane stay in the air at 25 miles per hour, especially one as big as it was."

Some reports have estimated the craft to be the size of a football field.

Most of the visual interpretations all describe the same characteristics, noting the lights, and referring to the object as triangular, diamond-shaped, or kite-like, and having a domed top.

Mike Leavene, another trooper stationed near Edina has developed his own theory.

"I can remember seeing what I thought was cabin lights that look like today's B-2 stealth bombers," he said. "After all these years, it is my opinion it was some sort of stealth technology."

Missouri's own Whiteman Air Force Base is the home of the B-2 stealth bomber today, but 509th Bomb Wing Historian Dr. Margaret DePalma said the plane didn't arrive there until 1993.

That's not to say stealth technology was not around earlier. The dream of stealth aircraft was a goal of the military as far back as the 1940s.

"The idea was always there but the actual technology began in the 1960s," DePalma said.

Have Blue, the program that would eventually lead to the development of today's modern stealth fighters and bombers began in 1974. By 1978, full-scale development of stealth aircraft was underway.

The first recorded flight of the F-117 stealth fighter occurred in 1981, and while the B-2 did not become a reality until later in the decade, plans for the plane where announced by President Jimmy Carter during the 1980 presidential campaign.

"I would definitely say that it was some kind of experimental aircraft," Cooper said.

He also cites the conflicting reports from the radar station that maybe members of the Air Force knew more about the situation than they were admitting at the time.

DePalma said it's logical to assume some form of early stealth technology might have been in the sky that night. And even though early stealth programs were located in California, if would not be uncommon to test fly a plane all the way to Missouri.

"That would probably be par for the course," DePalma said. "You're testing the plane and testing the pilots."

FAA officials at the time said no military aircraft was scheduled to be in the area at the time of the event. Leavene said it was not unusual for the military to contact local law enforcement to inform them when low-level bombers would make test flights, but there is no indication of that happening on the night in question.

"Military said nothing with that kind of lighting configuration matched up with anything they had," Janssen said.

Altes still doesn't know what to make of the craft after all of these years. He said he has been to some football games where the B-2's have made flyovers and that does not make him think that's what he saw back in 1980.

Even after his close-encounter, Altes is not convinced he saw something extra-terrestrial.

"I have a hard time believing in them, but I have a hard time not believing in them," he said

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Fighter Planes Chase UFO!

Pilot Chasing UFO
UFO report – RAF did send fighters up

By CHichester Observer
11-21-07

     A UFO spotter from Felpham has appealed to anyone else who saw the objects to contact him. Leo Lindsay and his wife, Rosie, watched the visitors from outer space from a bedroom window.

Mr Lindsay has since had unofficial confirmation from the Ministry of Defence that two RAF planes were sent up to investigate the phenomenon.

"The RAF don't do that unless there is a real reason," he stated. "I can't believe no one else saw the objects. I would estimate they were each about the size of a house.

"Anyone walking along Felpham seafront at that time would not have been able to miss them. I hope they will let me know on 01243 855728."

Mr Lindsay estimates the objects must have been above Felpham seafront in a beautiful light blue sky with white puffy clouds. He was looking out of a bedroom window in his home in Roundle Avenue at about 6pm on October 4 when he saw 'two round football-shaped objects' coming over the trees high in the sky.

He went downstairs to tell his wife. He watched as the objects changed to become 'multi-faceted diamond shaped discs which moved further apart'.

The fighter planes appeared on the scene ten minutes later. Two aunts staying with the couple also saw the incident.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Nation's First Solar-Hydrogen House

Solar Panels For Mike Strizki’s House
By Jared Flesher
he Christian Science Monitor
3-15-07

     EAST AMWELL, N.J. - Mike Strizki lives in the nation's first solar-hydrogen house. The technology this civil engineer has been able to string together – solar panels, a hydrogen fuel cell, storage tanks, and a piece of equipment called an electrolyzer – provides electricity to his home year-round, even on the cloudiest of winter days.

Mr. Strizki's monthly utility bill is zero – he's off the power grid – and his system creates no carbon-dioxide emissions. Neither does the fuel-cell car parked in his garage, which runs off the hydrogen his system creates.

Mike Strizki’s Car
It sounds promising, even utopian: homemade, storable energy that doesn't contribute to global warming. But does Strizki's method – converting electricity generated from renewable sources into hydrogen – make sense for widespread adoption?

According to some renewable-energy experts, the answer is "no," at least not anytime soon. The system is too expensive, they say, and the process of creating hydrogen from clean sources is itself laced with inefficiency – the numbers just don't add up.

Strizki's response: "Nothing is as wildly expensive as destroying the whole planet."

Life free from the power grid

Strizki lives with his wife in a rural section of Central New Jersey. His 12-acre property is surrounded by trees and his gravel driveway leads to a winding country road. His 3,500-square-foot house has all the amenities, including a hot tub and a big-screen TV.

It was here, four years ago, that Strizki set out to do something that's never been done in this country – power his home completely through a combination of solar and hydrogen. "My motivation was, I saw what fossil fuels were doing to the environment," he says.

Strizki works for a company that installs solar panels. In previous jobs, he's helped integrate hydrogen fuel cells into cars, a boat, a fire truck, and an airplane. His latest project, the one involving his house, is an extension of that expertise.

The solar-hydrogen house took longer to complete than Strizki expected – a strict local zoning officer and the state permitting process caused delays, he says – but in October 2006, the system finally went online. The total cost, $500,000, was paid for in part with a $250,000 grant from the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities.

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Witness to Roswell Flying Saucer Incident Tells His Story

Milton Sprouse & Dave's Dream
By Pat Sherman
Copley News Service
11-18-07

     Retired Air Force veteran Milton Sprouse clearly remembers the summer day in 1947 when he returned to Roswell Army Air Field aboard the B-29 bomber Dave's Dream from a three-day maneuver in Florida.

Sprouse, then a corporal and engine mechanic in the Army Air Forces, could not believe what his ground crew was telling him: A UFO had crashed in the New Mexico desert, on a ranch 70 miles away.

The story made the front page of the Roswell Daily Record: "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer," read the headline.

According to the July 8 story, "the intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced ... that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer."

The craft supposedly had been recovered after the ranch owner notified the sheriff's department, who sent Maj. Jesse Marcel and a team to investigate.

"Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk," the story stated. "After the intelligence officer here had inspected the instrument it was flown to higher headquarters."

The next day, the paper retracted the story, claiming that the recovered object was a weather balloon - an account the government stuck with until 1995. It was then announced that the weather balloon story had been fabricated to cover up Project Mogul, a top-secret project involving two-dozen high-altitude neoprene balloons designed to detect Russian nuclear explosions.

According to Sprouse, five of his crew were called to the site to collect the remaining debris and load it onto a flatbed truck. Sprouse was ordered to stay with Dave's Dream in case the military should suddenly need the craft.

"I had reservations of what all they were telling me, because each one of them told something different," he said. "I thought, 'I don't know.' ... Later on, when it all started coming out in piecemeal, you could put it together and tell what they said was true."

As years passed, Sprouse grew more comfortable talking about the Roswell Incident.

Author and ufologist Thomas J. Carey interviewed Sprouse three times with co-author Donald Schmitt. Sprouse is mentioned on page 233 of their new book, "Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up."

During his first interview, videotaped at the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, Sprouse was reluctant to talk about the incident, Carey said.

"He was a career Air Force guy, and they're the least likely to speak because of their pensions," Carey said. "When I interviewed him over the phone in 2001, I got a little more information, and then I interviewed him again last year and got even more. It was an evolution of coming forward."

Today, as Sprouse recounts the incident, he leans forward in earnest, a conspiratorial gleam in his eyes.

About 500 soldiers sent to the crash site were lined shoulder to shoulder and ordered to scour the property for debris, he said.

"They lined them up and then said, 'We want you to go through this ranch the way you're facing until we tell you to stop, and we want you to pick up everything unnatural,'" Sprouse said.

"When my crew got back (from the crash site), we talked for weeks," he said. "They told me everything and I believe them. ... They told me, 'Milt, it's true.'"

Among the material discovered was a malleable, foil-like material that could be laid flat with no creases after being squashed into a ball.

Whether fact or lore, one of the most intriguing pieces of the puzzle are reports of five diminutive green bodies allegedly recovered with the UFO. Sprouse believes it.

A staff sergeant in his barracks was called to the hospital shortly after the crash, he said.

"He and two doctors and two nurses were in the emergency room, and they brought in one of those five humanoid bodies that they had recovered," he said. "They said, 'We want this dissected and we want a complete history of how it functions and the parts and everything.'"

The next day, the man from his barracks was transferred from the base, Sprouse said.

"We never heard from him again," he said. "We asked and (they said), 'Oh, we don't know nothing about it.' ... I heard later that both nurses and both doctors were shipped different directions and nobody ever knew where they went."

Sprouse recalled an interesting conversation with the owner of a funeral home in Roswell several years later.

"We had some friend of ours that died, and he said, 'Hey Milt, I want to talk to you,'" he said. "He says, 'You know the base come to me and wanted five children's caskets.' That was two or three days after the crash. I said, 'No kidding.' He says, 'I only had one, and I told them that.' They said, 'One won't do us very good,' and they went somewhere else and got them."

The day the UFO story ran, the debris was allegedly loaded onto two B-29 bombers, one of them Dave's Dream, and sent to a base in Fort Worth, Texas.

Sprouse and Carey believe the material was then shipped to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, where they say it remains today.

"We believe some of the stuff was loaned around, but the main repository was the foreign technology division at Wright-Patterson," said Carey, who holds a master's degree in anthropology and served briefly in the Air Force. "We've heard stories over the years of people who say that they're still trying to figure out what that stuff is."

Various rumors suggest that pieces of the ship and the bodies were stored in a mysterious Hangar 18 at Wright-Patterson.

Derek Kaufman, who works in Wright-Patterson's public affairs office, was tentative when broaching the subject of Roswell and Hangar 18. He said the base tracks all such phone inquiries.

"We might get a couple of queries a month related to strange phenomena. ... Someone who believes that they've seen something very unusual - low-flying, strange aircraft or something along those lines," Kaufman said. "Folks who are UFO enthusiasts are typically the people that inquire about Hangar 18 or about Roswell, but a lot of them don't seem to be credible queries. They seem to be folks bordering on the fanatic. ... I'm hard-pressed to describe where Hangar 18 even is located."

Asked if there was any material from Roswell transferred to the base in 1947, Kaufman said, "I'll just defer to what reports have been exhaustively investigated and are now available to the general public."

Wright-Patterson's Web site includes a section titled "UFOs and other strange phenomena" that includes links to the Air Force Freedom of Information Act Web site and a 993-page document titled "The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert." In the report, the government meticulously makes its case debunking the Roswell Incident.

According to the report, the bodies recovered at the site were not alien beings, but crash-test dummies used to test high-altitude parachutes.

UFO enthusiasts say they couldn't have been dummies because the parachute tests weren't conducted until nearly a decade later.

"That's a non-starter because that project didn't get under way until the mid-'50s," Carey said. "These mannequins were a good 6 feet tall, they looked human and they were in regular flight suits. There's no way you confuse those for little aliens with big heads."

Asked if there are any remnants of the mysterious event stored at Roswell, Rob Young, a historian with the National Air and Space Intelligence Center at Wright-Patterson, answered, "I would not know. I've never seen anything like that. ... To my knowledge there is not."

Sprouse believes the Roswell Incident is a far-reaching cover-up that leads as far as the White House.

"The presidents are briefed on everything ... classified, unclassified, whether they'll acknowledge it or not," Sprouse said. "Clinton, says, 'I don't know nothing.' Carter says, 'I don't know nothing about that.' Bush won't even talk about it."

Sprouse's wife, Peggy, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel, is skeptical about the UFO story. She's been to Roswell with her husband and said once was enough.

"Been there, done that," she said. "I never did believe it and still don't believe it."

Sprouse seems to be enjoying his part in keeping the story alive.

Has the government ever asked him not to speak about Roswell?

"No, but I worry about it," he said. "I'm getting all these telephone calls on that report, and I often wonder if it's somebody looking into this."

Thursday, November 15, 2007

UFOS: Keeping Anderson Cooper & CNN Honest
Part I

Anderson Cooper (O'Hare UFO Segment)
By Frank Warren
© 11-13-07

     By now most folks who have an interest in UFOs or those who are just plain “news junkies” have probably heard about the “press conference” held in Washington D.C. at the “National Press Club on Monday, entitled, ”UFO Close Encounters.” The event was sponsored by FCZ which is co-owned by James Fox, documentary filmmaker and co-producer of “Out of The Blue—The Definitive Investigation of The UFO Phenomenon.”

Teaming up with Fox in this effort was investigative journalist, “Leslie Kean.” Kean is known for her fait accompli regarding the “Coalition for Freedom of Information” (CFI) and its work. In part the organization’s mission is to:
“Achieve scientific, congressional and media credibility for the study of unexplained aerial phenomena while working for the release of official information and physical evidence.”
Monday's press conference was indeed a step in that direction.

Over the years, the neomedia has often erroneously melded Ufology with “blurry pictures, lights in the sky, drunks and jobbernowls. More often then not any coverage of the phenomenon is framed wearing those glasses.

The consensus is, “give us something we can sink our teeth in,” “show us the money!” Now, assuming the ideology (and “I” do) that a small percentage of UFOs reported are in fact “nuts & bolts craft,” and these craft behave and exhibit characteristics beyond that of “man-made technology,” obviously the dope would be “one of those craft,” and or its “pilot(s).” In that vein, and much like anything else that falls from the sky, e.g., satellites, space junk, ours and or “foreign,” the “powers-that-be” are reluctant (to put it mildly) to share the gist of these matters with the American public, much less that of any peoples of any other country.

How often do we read, watch or hear about a “spy satellite” crashing to earth, or its recovery, foreign or domestic, and see it displayed and or recognized by the government? The answer is zip, nil, nada!

Yet the media uses that as a weapon (the unwillingness of the government/military to show its hand) in its quest to pollute public thinking in regards to “proof,” or more accurately what the
pyrrhonists say is the “lack of proof” in regards to UFOs and their genesis.

With that in mind, what would be the “next best thing” in regards to “proof” that some UFOs are indeed of extraterrestrial origin? How about an assemblage of “former High Level Government and Military Officials” sharing personal and insider information on the matter?

Given the erroneous, disingenuous, incompetent flapdoodle that the neomedia tries to pass off as journalism in regards to the subject of UFOs, as well as their unfair criticisms concerning evidence, and their ignorance of it, obviously they would “covet” such a contingency!

This being the logical assumption, I personally monitored the news (all day Monday), specifically "CNN" in great anticipation of the “announcement(s)” of such a “monumental event!” I didn’t have to wait long, as the first “blurb” about the event came in the morning; however, it was to no surprise that the talking heads gave no special attention to this “historical gathering.” In fact, it just “blended in” with the day’s news, and came with the usual “giggle factor” injected; the “wink-wink, and “poke in the ribs” commentary was in full force.

This particular minutiae was repeated a couple of times in the morning and early afternoon; following these snippets was a slightly longer citation on what CNN has dubbed, “The Situation Room” with commentator, Wolf Blitzer.”

The opening remarks seemed promising, but then a familiar name was heard; Blitzer announced to his audience that, “Gary Tuchman” was the “boots on the ground” reporter for the conference. At this point I let my breath out; Tuchman’s “biased reporting” became evident when he covered the
“O’Hare Incident,” which quite frankly was contemptible.

The first word out of Tuchman’s mouth, were:
“ Well Wolf, it's most interesting; a panel discussion within the beltway about what might be taking place in the Milky Way and beyond.”
Followed By:
“Well, 14 men from seven different countries participated in a panel discussion described why they believe UFOs visited earth. These are not guys they picked up off the street.”
Tuchman didn’t use “an obvious” sardonic tone, nor did he need to when he began to “color” the event; the “Milky Way comment” and the inference of what the witnesses “believed” happened to them, rather then “what” happened was enough.

After some video and sound bites from a couple of the witnesses Tuchman further reported:
“We've covered a few of these kinds of stories before, Wolf, and one thing that we always mentioned to the enthusiasts is if one of these crafts came down to earth and did an interview with one of us, the debate would be over. But that hasn't happened yet.”
Note how Tuchman “degrades” former “government & military officials” of multiple countries to “UFO enthusiasts”; followed by his “now evident” sardonic tone, making the cockamamie, “if I could interview the aliens” statement and inferring that the “UFO Conference” was a debate of some sort.

Remember gentle readers this is what CNN calls “reporting the news.” Now, if Tuchman’s flapdoodle wasn’t enough, the segment ends with correspondent Jack Cafferty stating:
“No, Wolf. And Gary Tuchman is one of the most distinguished and capable reporters in this business and that's not the culmination of a fine career being sent to cover the UFO convention, OK.”
No need to highlight the sarcastic innuendo in that statement; just take a moment and reread it; remember that this is from the same media that says UFOs are about “blurry pictures, distant lights and “questionable” witnesses.

Could there be a pattern here? Why is it that no matter what “evidence is thrown at CNN the reporting remains the same? How is it that Tuchman didn’t emphasize the fact that a few of the witnesses were from a nuclear capable Air Force base, and one of the men “touched” a downed craft? Why wasn’t there focus on the “caliber” of these witnesses, that more then one of the witnesses was an “insider” for the government, e.g., “Nick Pope” who actually investigated the UFO phenomenon for Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). How is it that “what makes this story newsworthy” is overlooked, and replaced with sarcasm, innuendo, misrepresentation and censorship? This is reminiscent of the days that the CIA and other “covert agencies” manipulated the media (regarding the UFO phenomenon) . . . is this “still” happening!?

At this point in the day the hopes for a “neutral unbiased news report” were all but gone; the only thing to be culled from CNN’s attention to the matter, was the fact that many millions of people heard about the event and perhaps they could “glean” the significant parts of it even through CNN’s parody.

Sadly, CNN wasn’t done yet; the coverage of one of the most significant moments in history would culminate later that evening with, “Anderson Cooper 360º.”

Veteran Ufologist Richard Hall Reports on NPC UFO Conference

NPC UFO Panel 11-12-07 B
National Press Club Press Conference, November 12, 2007

By Dick Hall
11-15-07


Note-Veteran Ufologist & editor/founder of The Journal of UFO History, "Dick" Hall is on a very short list of some the most respected researchers in the field; his continuing contributions and accumulative efforts are in a league of their own. He is la crème de la crème! -FW

Hall, Dick Resampled, Sharpened     In my 50 years of more or less active involvement with the UFO subject I have been present or a participant in numerous press conferences, private and public meetings with high-level people present...you name it.

This press conference was one of the most impressive experiences I have ever had just sitting in the audience, though I did get a chance to chat with various of the witnesses eventually. The affair was beautifully planned and well-conducted. To me, it struck just exactly the right note...which I will get to in a minute.

First I must say that some people who outspokenly demand alien bodies on a gurney or a crashed saucer with the hull still warm be displayed at a press conference like this have their heads up their posteriors. Only the Government could possibly produce the corpus delecti, and this was decidedly NOT a Government press conference. It was implicitly very critical of governments for failing to openly and honestly address cases like those reported by the panel members.

The press coverage was quite accurate insofar as it went and was widely disseminated (via Reuters, Agence France Presse, ANI, and other news services), but extremely shallow. A mile wide and a foot deep. The presenters-especially the former military pilots of several countries-reported mind-blowing experiences, most of which were well-documented, contained radar verification, etc. They provided smoking guns all over the place and lots of fodder for reporters (old-fashioned reporters, anyway).

The news coverage focused almost exclusively on the carefully orchestrated and well-justified message that some very strange encounters have been experienced by highly credible observers like these, and the need to re-open a serious investigation on a basis of international information sharing, since UFOs are a global phenomenon as illustrated by the reports made. This is exactly the central point that needs to be hammered home.

I don't recall yet seeing any one of the outstanding cases summarized in a news account as an example of what they were talking about. Not one. Something may come of their testimony later, I hope, but in that respect the reporting was superficial.

What questions did the newsmen present ask? "Why would the [U.S.] Government want to cover it up?" This silly question has been asked over and over in the past 40 years, as if suggesting that the witnesses must be mistaken because the Government would have no need or desire to cover up the information. Several of the case reports they had just listened to included specific examples of the information being swept under the rug! Why?

My retort would be, "Ask the Government!" Any veteran UFO researcher could (and has many times) suggested four or five possible reasons for a cover-up, but at bottom that is only speculation and we cannot provide a definitive answer. What we can provide is outstanding and highly credible witnesses whose testimony establishes a serious mystery badly in need of international scientific investigation with a free flow of information. Don't ask for speculations, Mr. or Ms. Reporter, ask for credible witnesses to and documentation of cases like these people described...and there is plenty of that available Ask the Government how they can possibly continue to ignore such cases.

Transcipt of Witness Declarations From NPC UFO Conference Held in Washington D.C.

NPC UFO Panel 11-12-07
From Steve Kaeser and UFO UpDates List
11-15-07


The following is the individual witness testimony distributed to
those who attended the Briefing at the National Press Club on
Monday. This is in the order of the presentations:



Declaration For The Press Conference At The National Press Club
In Washington D.C., United States Of America


Summary by Major General (Ret) Wilfried De Brouwer

My name is Wilt ned De Brouwer. I am a retired Major General of the Belgian Air Force and I was Chief Operations in the Air Staff when an exceptional UFO wave took place over Belgium. Indeed, during the evening of 29 November 1989, in a small area in Eastern Belgium, approximately 140 UFO sightings were reported. Hundreds of people saw a majestic triangular craft with a span of approximately 120 feet, powerful beaming spot lights, moving very slowly without making any significant noise but, in several cases, accelerating to very high speeds.

The following days and months, many more sightings would follow. The UFO wave would last rrore than one year during which a Belgian UFO organization conducted more than 650 investigations and recorded more than 400 hours of audio witness reports. On one occasion, a photograph revealed the triangular shape and four light beams of the object.

Belgium had no official focal point for reporting UFO observations. Nevertheless, in my function of Chief Operations, I was confronted with numerous questio9s about the origin and nature of these craft. In the first instance, and in consultation with other NATO partners, 1 could confirm that no flights of stealth aircraft or any other experimental aircraft look place in the airspace of Belgium. In addition, the Civil Aviation Authorities confirmed that no flight plans had been introduced. This implied that the reported object(s) committed an infraction against the existing aviation rules.

The Belgian Air Force tried to identify the alleged intruder(s) and, on three occasions, launched F 16 aircraft. On one occasion, two F 16 registered rapid changes in speed and altitude which were well outside of the performance envelope of existing aircraft. Nevertheless, the pilots could not establish visual contact and the investigation revealed that specific weather conditions may have caused electromagnetic interferences and false returns on the radar screens. The technical evidence was insufficient to conclude that abnormal air activities took place during that evening.

In short, the Belgian UFO wave was exceptional and the Air Force could not identify the nature, origin and intentions of the reported phenomena.

Claude POllER Scientific Position Statement

Bonjour, I am Dr Claude POHER, retired astrophysicist and space research engineer from the National Center for Space Studies, the French equivalent of NASA. I was the founder of the GEPAN, the Group for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena, which was an official agency devoted to the study of UFO observation reports, and which remains active today, under the name GEIPAN.

I first learned about the existence of official US UFO reports early in the sixties, from Dr J. Alien Hynek, the well known astronomical consultant to the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book. I then began to investigate official French UFO reports, and to undertake scientific analyses of the data. I received approval from ONES to create and direct the GEPAN about 15 years later, in 1977.

I trained our first investigators, teaching them how to conduct official investigations into the different kinds of reports, from lights in the sky to landings with physical evidence and observations of occupants. We had an independent scientific steering committee. This committee recommended that we continue to pursue this work during the two years of my direction. For example, I trained our investigators on the case of CUSSAC, where, in August 1967, two young witnesses were alerted by the agitation of dozens of frightened farm animals at around noon. The witnesses then observed a landed spherical UFO at a distance of 80 yards, with four occupants near it.

Very high luminosity was reported after slow takeoff, leaving physiological effects on the witnesses eyes that were confirmed by the village mayor. The hiss noise described by the two witnesses was also heard by the hunting guard of the village. The UFO acceleration after vertical takeoff was estimated to be about a hundred g’s by GEPAN experts. The occupants were seen floating in the air while entering the craft, from its top, in a hurry.

Physical traces on the ground from the craft were confirmed by the local police, as well as a sulfur oxide odor. CNES experts in meteorology and space debris worked in the field with the witnesses, along with a Juge, a psychologist, an optical engineer and aeronautical engineer. They had full measuring eqtipment and worked with the police as well.

The official conclusion of GEPAN in 1979, was that about 15% of cases remained unidentified after careful analysis by our experts. We concluded that the objects, in most of these cases, were compatibie with flying machines whose flight physics were foreign to the experts knowledge.

What I have stated is about the past. Now there are some recent experimental facts, in direct relation to my GEPAN and UFO investigation involvement, that I believe are of great importance for our future, and for the way you should now handle UFO observations in the USA.

After I left the GEPAN but r9mained at CNES, I continued to work on the UFO subject in the domain of theoretical physics. Last April, the physical theory about gravitation and inertia I was working on since 1980, was successfully tested in the laboratory.

Effectively, I patented and tested devices able to reproduce, in the laboratory, the causes of the strange effects that are described in UFO observation reports. I am talking about such effects as tremendous accelerations, sharp turns, sudden stops, powerful emission of light, silent supersonic speed, etc.

These experimental results are currently open to be demonstrated, in my laboratory in Toulouse, for qualified scientists, scientific journalists and industrial representatives, including those from the USA.

Thanks for your attention.

Jean-Charles DUBOC

My name is Jean-Charles DUBOC, and I am a retired Air France Captain.

During Air France Flight 3532 from Nice to London, on 28 January 1994, 1 observed, with my crew, a dayliqht UFO near Paris. We had few passengers on board and none of them had reported that observation to the crew.

The time was 1:00 P.M, and the visibility was excellent with some altocumulus clouds.

That object had been identified initially by a steward who was in the cockpit and by the copilot as a weather balloon, but when I identified it, it looked quite different.

In fact this UFO was in evolution and it looked like this (I shall then show a drawing), with a bank angle of 45°. It seemed to be a huge flying DISC. It stabilized and stopped moving (moving horizontally the draw.

We observed it over one minute on the LEFT on our plane, surprisingly totally stationary in the sky, and it disappeared progressively (turn of the drawing).

This large object was below us at the altitude of 35, 000 ft (we were at 39 000 if), at a distance of about 25 nautical miles.

The colour was RED BROWN with BLURRED outlines.

The apparent diameter of this object could be compared to the diameter of the moon, or the sun. That means that it was about 1000 feet wide.

We had no idea of the structure of the UFO that seemed to be embedded in a kind of magnetic or gravitational field, with no lights or visual metallic structure, which gave it a really FUZZY appearance.

The most incredible aspect is that it became transparent and disappeared in about 10 to 20 seconds. My co-pilot, chief steward and I quickly realized that what we were seeing did not resemble anything known to us, and we reported our sighting to Reims traffic control. Simultaneously, the radar of the Operational Centre of the Air Defence (the CODA), registered a one minute spot crossing the track of our plane. When I recorded the estimated position of the UFO on an aeronautical map I was surprised to realize that its position was near the base of Tavemy which hosts the headquarters of the French Strategic Air Command.

This sighting has been studied by the French military COMETA group under the direction of General Denis Letty and with the participation of several high ranking officers of the French Defence, as well as by GEPAN under the French National Space Centre (CNES I.

The investigations determined this could not have been a weather balloon, and estimated the approximate length of the UFO to have been 800 feet.
This sighting remains unexplained.

Jean-Claude Ribes Position Statement

My name is Jean-Claude Ribes and I am an astronomer, working for the French Centre National de Ia Recherche Scientifique from 1963 to 1998. I contributed to the French COIvIETA report, a three year military study on UFOs and National Security released in 1999, and more recently to the book Phenomenes aerospatlaux non identifies, under the direction of Yves Sillard, chairman of the Steering Committee of GEIPAN. He asked me to represent him and GEIPAN here today. General Denis Lefty, chairman of the COMETA group, also asked me to represent him here, because he was unable to attend.

The COMETA report was written mainly by high ranking military people from the French High Studies Institute for National Defence. It analyzes the possible explanations for UFOs and their implications in terms of Defence, with the extraterrestrial hypothesis presented as the most logical one, even if not formally proven. Some recommendations are made, including that all managers of the Army, Police, Politics, and pilots be informed about UFOs; that detection systems be modified to take UFOs into account; and that the French government contact the United States and other allied countries to initiate cooperative action on the subject. So far, these recommendations have not been implemented.

However, last March, my country took a big step forward. Jacques Patenet, current director of GEIPAN, released the French UFO files to the public. They were posted on a website - more than 1,600 sightings spanning five decades. Some cases involved multiple sightings and physical evidence such as bum marks and radar trackings. Others documented UFOs with flight patterns or accelerations defying the laws of physics. M. Patenet told the press at the time that We do not have any proof at all that extra-terrestrials are behind the unexplained phenomena. Nor do we have any proof at all that they aren't.

GEIPAN’s Steering Committee plays an important role, with representatives from the Army, Police, Civil Aviation, Meteorology and the scientific community. This Committee insures the best conditions for gathering reports by instructing the agencies involved in investigations, and by protecting any witnesses who request anonymity for fear of ridicule.

My personal opinion is that UFOs should be taken seriously and studied without prejudice. There may be several possible explanations, such as rare atmospheric phenomena, but some cases strongly suggest actual flying machines with characteristics well beyond our terrestrial capacities. If these cases could be completely proven as such, then the extraterrestrial hypothesis would probably be the most likely explanation for these advanced craft. Admittedly, it is a fantastic possibility, but not an irrational one, given the data that we have.

Parviz Jafari

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen

My name is Parviz Jafari, and I am a retired General of Iranian Air Force.

At about 11 pm on the evening of 1 8th September, 1976, citizens were frightened by the circling of an unknown object over Tehran, the Capital city of Iran, at a low altitude. It looked similar to a star, but bigger and brighter. They reported it to the tower and it was seen by the tower man too. He alerted the Air Force command post and Deputy General Yousefi decided to scramble an F-4 jet to investigate.

The pilot in the first jet lcst instrumentation and communications when he got too close to the brilliant object, so he headed back. About 10 minutes later, they scrambled a second jet, which I was piloting. At the time I was Squadron commander. I approached the object, which was flashing with intense red, green, orange and blue light so bright that I was not able to see its body. The sequence of flashes was extremely fast, like a strobe light. We locked on it with radar; it was at 30° left, at a range of 25 miles. The size on the radar scope was comparable to that of a 707 tanker.

Four other objects with different shapes separated from the main one, at different times during this close encounter. Whenever they were close to me, my weapons were jammed and my radio communications were garbled. One of the objects headed toward me. I thought it was a missile. I tried to launch a heat seeking missile to it, but my missile panel went out. Another followed me when I was descending on the way back. One of the separated objects landed in an open area radiating a high bright light, in which the sands on the ground were visible.

We could hear emergency squash all the way, which was reported by other airliners flying at the time and continuei for another couple of days. During my interview at H.Q, after the incident, an American colonel took notes, but after it was over I could not find him to talk with. Later, a once-classified document was released here in America through the Freedom of information Act. The Defense Intelligence Agency documented the event in great detail, and it was sent to NSA, The White House and the CIA. The DIA assessment said this case is a classic that meets all necessary conditions for a legitimate study of the UFO phenomenon.

I would be happy to answer questions and tell you more.

Rodrigo Bravo Garrido

Since the beginning of Chilean history, there have been reports of unidentified phenomena, sometimes called UFOs, observed in our skies.

Over the years, we have increased our capacity to explain many of the sightings, but some continue to remain without a scientific or logical explanation. For that reason, in October of 1997, the Department of Civil Aeronautics, the Chilean equivalent of the American FAA, set up the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena, known as the CEFAA. This agency handles the best reports of unidentified aerial phenomena in cooperation with aeronautic specialists.

In 2000, the Aviation branch of the Army of Chile assigned me to research anomalous aerial phenomena, which they knew were real, and their affect on aerospace security. I then graduated to become a military pilot, and learned that the Aviation Amy had in its files many reports of UFO incidents from military pilots. A link was then established between our Army office and the CEFAA, and as a result, nine official cases have been documented. This has helped to create awareness among The flight crews about UFOs, and they now cooperate with flight security to report any abnormal situation.

One of our most important civil aviation cases occurred in 1988, showing that unidentified flying objects can be a danger for air operations. A Boeing 737 pilot, on a final approach to the runway at The Tepual Airport in Puerto Montt City, suddenly encountered a large white light surrounded by green and red. The light was moving in the opposite direction of the airplane, coming straight at it. The pilot had to make a steep turn to the left in order to avoid a collision. The phenomenon was observed by the control tower personnel.

In 2000, the crew of a Chilean plane from the Aviation branch of the Army, flying South of Santiago, observed a long cigar-shaped object, a brilliant gray. It flew parallei to the right side of the aircraft for two minutes and then disappeared at a very high speed. This object was detected by the radar of the Control Center of Santiago which notified the crew minutes before the incident.

Sadly, the UFO subject has been contaminated with false information, out of touch with reality, provided by unqualified people to the media. This has moved the issue away from a scientific and specialized study where it belongs. In light of that problem, we now make the call to all the countries that are presently working on this issue in a serious and factual way, to unite their efforts. We would like this to include the United States of America. This cooperative effort would help all of us counteract the potentially unsafe effects of UFOS on air operations around the world.

New cases are being documented by pilots, traffic controllers, operations staff at the wor d’s airports, and by many others with the proper training to determine if a flying object is something unusual. The true origin of these UFOs is unknown, yet they do affect aviation all around the planet, and this must be addressed.

Oscar Alfonso Santa Maria Huertas

I am Oscar Santa Maria Huertas, official pilot of the Peruvian Air Force, currently retired.

On April 11, 1980, at 7:15 in the morning, 1800 men were in formation at the Air Base of La Joya, Arequipa. They all observed a stationary object in the sky which looked like a balloon, at about three miles distance, and approximately 1,800 feet altitude. It was luminous because it reflected the sun.

My unit commander ordered me to takeoff in my Sukoi -22 jet to shoot down the spherical object. It was in restricted airspace, without clearance, and we were concerned about espionage. I approached the object and strafed sixty-four 30mm shells at it. Some projectiles went towards the ground, and others hit the object fully, but they had no effect at all. The projectiles didn t bounce off; probably they were absorbed. The cone-shaped wall of fire that I sent out would normally obliterate anything in its path.

The object then began to ascend, and move farther away from the base. When I was at about 36,000 ft., it made a sudden stop, forcing me to veer to the side since I was only 1500 feet away. I flew up higher to attack it from above, but just as I had locked on to the target and was ready to shoot, the object made a straight vertical climb evading the attack. Two more times I had the object on target, when the object was stationary. Each time, it moved away at the very last minute, when I was just about to fire, always eluding my attack.

I decided to climb at full thrust to get above the object, but it began to ascend almost parallel to my plane, and when I reached 63,000 ft., it stopped. At this point, I came to within about 300 feet of the UFO. It was about 30 feet in diameter. It was an enameled, cream-colored dome, with a wide, circular, metallic base. It had no engines, no exhausts, no windows, no wings or antennae. It lacked all the typical aircraft components, with no visible propulsion system. It was at that moment that 1 realized this it was not a spying device, but that it was a UFO, something totally unknown. I was almost out of fuel, so I couldn t attack or maneuver my plane, or make a high speed escape. I was afraid. I thought I might be finished. When I had calmed down, I radioed for another plane to come and have a look, trying to hide my fear. They said no, it’s too high, just come back. I had to glide part way down due to lack of fuel, zigzagging to make my plane harder to hit, always with my eyes on the rearview mirrors hoping it wouldn t chase me. It didn’t.

I had spent 22 minutes maneuvering with this object. After I landed, the object remained stationary in the sky for two hours, for everyone at the base to see.

A US Department of Defense document titled UFO Sighted in Peru described the incident, stating that the vehicle’s origin remains unknown.

It still gives me chills to think about it.

Oscar Alfonso Santa Maria Huertas

Press Release: Peru And The Chulucanas Incident.

First Case Of A UFO Investigation Officially Disclosed.

I am Dr. Anthony Choy, ounding member of the Office of Investigations of Anomaluos Aereal Phenomena (OIFAA), and an investigor for this office. This agency was established by the Peruvian Air Force in December, 2001.

I am the author of Project 33, the first integral study on the UFO phenomenon in Peru. I traveled all over my country for about three years, speaking with witnesses, obtaining audio-visual information such as photographs and videos, and collecting data for this study.

On October 13, 2001, in the northern city of Chulucanas, and before hundreds of people, eight spheres of light, of an intense red-orange color, were recorded on video. We were the first ones to obtain this video and we gave it to the air force. These objects were suspended in the air for over five hours, moving in an apparently intelligent manner, and in absolute silence until they disappeared.

A few days later, on October 25th, the luminous tear-shaped object of some 25 meters diameter (approx. 80 feet), was recorded over the countryside near the city. Within a few minutes, the apparent landing of light spheres in the woods was also recorded.

In February of 2002, the Air Force’s 01 FAA ordered me to investigate these sightings.

Taking responsibility for the so-called Chulucanas Incident, in February 2003 Peruvian Air Force Colonel Jose Raffo Moloche, Director of Aereal and Space Concerns, made an open statement to the media acknowledging that the Chulucanas Incident was the first official UFO investigation in Peru.

The preliminary conclusion was that the sightings, although being physically real, had no explanation. The case remains open, and the investigation continues independently The climax occurred on August 6 of 2004 when, in collaboration with the American television channel of Univision, we were able to record for 55 minutes a distant object of unknown nature and origin, moving at great velocity in the sky, going up and down, and right and left.

I believe the Air Force in Peru has done the right thing by opening an office to conduct these investigations. The evidence we have from actual UFO cases and incidents that have taken place in our country show that the UFO phenomenon remains one of the greatest challenges to our current knowledge of science and technology.

Ray Bowyer

Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen and thank you for coming today. My name is Ray Bowyer and I fly a civilian airliner as Captain. I have been invited here due to my sighting last April of multiple as yet unidentified objects over the Channel Islands region of the English Channel. This encounter lasted for 15 minutes with the first object being visible from 55 miles distant.

On nearing the object a second identical shape appeared beyond the first. Both objects were of a flattened disk shape with a dark area to the right side. They were brilliant yellow with light emanating from them. I estimated them to be up to a mile across.

I found myself astounded but curious. But at 12 miles distant these objects were becoming uncomfortably large, and I was glad to descend and land the aircraft.

Many of my passengers saw the objects as did the pilot of another aircraft 25 miles further south. There is also possible radar information still being investigated.

A team headed by Dr. David Clarke looking at this case will shortly publish a report but I understand that at this time no definitive solution has been discovered to explain the sighting.

I have taken note of the differences between the British and U.S. reporting system. It appears that attitudes on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean are very different when it comes to the required reporting and recording of this type of event.

Air Law stipulates quite clearly that if an operating crew of an aircraft see another aircraft a place that it should not he, then at the earliest opportunity the whole scenario is to be reported to the relevant authority.

In my case the British Civil Aviation Authority knew within 20 minutes of the sighting what was seen, as described in the flight log faxed directly to the relevant CM office. The military were informed by Jersey Air Traffic Control at the same time. This is not an option; it is an obligation that crews react in this manner.

In my experience, having reported the incident as required has had no negative effect. And there was no problem with me talking about it on British television. Indeed, my company Aurigny Air Services have offered every support to date. The assistance of Jersey ATC in releasing recorded information to myself and the investigating team has been a great benefit. I did not feel that I was in any danger of being ridiculed, because all I did was report what actually happened, as was my duty.

I heard about the multiple witness sighting at Chicago O Hare Airport a year ago, on November 7, 2006. I was surprised to hear how this was handled. Despite many pilots and airport personnel witnessing the object hovering over the terminal, there was no investigation by the FAA. It appears that pressure may have been applied to crew members by their company not to discuss this incident.

These witnesses were afraid to talk about what they saw, due to concerns about job security. The FAA told the witnesses that what they saw was actually not what they saw but that it was simply weather.

I would have been shocked if I was told that the CAA would obstruct an investigation, or if the CAA told me that what I had seen was something entirely different. But it seems that pilots in America are used to this kind of thing, as far as I can tell.

I would urge all aircrew to report whatever they see as soon as possible, and to stand up and be counted. It is only when crucial witnesses such as professional pilots make reports that the authorities will be kick-started into a broader investigation of these phenomena.

Nick Pope Position Statement

My name is Nick Pope, formerly with the British Ministry of Defence.

Since 1950 the British Government has received over 10,000 UFO reports. Responsibility for this subject rests with the Ministry of Defense, whose remit is to look for evidence of any potential threat to the UK, or anything else of any defense significance. From 1991 to 1994 I was the desk officer responsible for these investigations.

Most UFO sightings turned out to be misidentification's of things such as aircraft, satellites and meteors, but in around 5 per cent of cases no explanation could be found. These cases include incidents where reliable witnesses such as police officers and pilots reported structured craft performing speeds and maneuvers significantly in excess of anything they had seen military jet aircraft perform. Other cases included in this category involved UFOs tracked on radar and incidents where photos or videos were produced and where the MoD’s technical experts found no evidence of fakery.

The MoD takes no position on the nature of the UFO phenomenon but I and some of my colleagues were privately convinced that whatever was going on, there were important defense, national security and flight safety issues involved.

In March 1993 I investigated a case where a UFO was seen by about 60 witnesses, including military personnel at two air force bases. Witnesses included a patrol of air force police, together with a meteorological officer with 8 years experience.

This latter witness described a triangular-shaped craft midway in size between a c-i 30 and a Boeing 747. He said that it was emitting a low frequency humming sound and he said it moved slowly at first, before accelerating away many times faster than a military jet. My Head of Division’s brief to the As&stant Chief of the Air Staff concluded In summary, there would seem to be some evidence on this occasion that an unidentified object (or objects) of unknown origin was operating over the UK. The case file - published on the MoD website · also mentions related enquiries from the US authorities, asking if the UK had a black programme that might explain some UFO sightings involving large triangular-shaped craft. That’s interesting, given the US government’s public position that UFOs are no longer investigated.

Britain’s best known UFO sighting occurred in 1980 and involved USAF personnel from two military bases in the UK. There were multiple witnesses and an object was seen to land in a place called Rendlesham Forest. A Geiger counter was used to take radiation readings at the landing site and the assessment undertaken by the MoD’s Defence Intelligence Staff stated that the levels recorded seemed significantly higher than the average background. We are fortunate to have two of the witnesses to these events here today and I should like to hand over to one of them now, so that he can give you the specifics.

Thank you.

James Penniston Statement

My name is James Penniston, United States Air Force Retired.

In 1980, I was assigned to the largest Tactical Fighter Wing in the Air Force, RAF Woodbridge in England. I was the senior security officer in charge of base security.

At that time I held a top-secret US and NATO security clearance and was responsible for the protection of war-making resources for that base.

Shortly after midnight on the 26th of December, 1980, Staff Sergeant Steffens briefed me that some lights were seen in Rendlesham Forest, just outside the base. He informed me that what ever it was didnt crash... it landed. I discounted what he said and reported to the control center back at the base that we had a possible downed aircraft. I then ordered Amn. Cabanzak, AIC Burroughs to respond with me.

When we arrived near the suspected crash site it quickly became apparent that we were not dealing with a plane crash or anything else we d ever responded to. There was a bright light emanating from an object on the forest floor. As we approached it on foot, a silhouetted triangular craft about 9 feet long by 6.5 feet high, came into view. The craft was fully intact sitting in a small clearing inside the woods.

As the three of us got closer to the craft we started experiencing problems with our radios. I then asked Cabansag to relay radio transmissions back to the control center. Burroughs and I proceeded towards the craft.

When we came up on the triangular shaped craft there were blue and yellow lights swirling around the exterior as though part of the surface and the air around us was electrically charged. We could feel it on our cloths, skin and hair. Nothing in my training prepared me for what we were witnessing.

After ten minutes without any apparent aggression, I determined the craft was non hostile to my team or to the base. Following security protocol, we completed a thorough on-site investigation, including a full physical examination of the craft. This included photographs, notebook entries, and radio relays through airman Cabansag to the control center as required. On one side of the craft were symbols that measured about 3 inches high and two and a half feet across.

These symbols were pictorial in design; the largest symbol was a triangle, which was centered in the middle of the others. These symbols were etched into the surface of the craft, which was warm to the touch and felt like metal.

The feeling I had during this encounter was no type of aircraft that I ve eve seen before.

After roughly 45 minutes the light from the craft began to intensify. Burroughs and I then took a defensive position away from the craft as it lifted off the ground without any noise or air disturbance. It maneuvered through the trees and shot off at an unbelievable rate of speed. It was gone in the blink of an eye.

In my logbook, (that I have right here) 1 wrote, Speed:
IMPOSSIBLE. Over 80 Air Force Personnel, all trained observers assigned to the 81st Security Police Squadron, witnessed the takeoff.

The information acquired during the investigation was reported through military channels. The team and witnesses were told to treat the investigation as top secret and no further discussion was allowed.

The photos we retrieved from the base lab (two rolls of 35 mm) were apparently over exposed.

Statement By Charles I. Halt

My name is Charles I. Halt. I retired from the US Air Force in 1991 as a Colonel. I was a base commander at two large installations and at the time of my retirement was Director, Inspections Directorate for the DOD 1G. In that position I had inspection oversight of all military services and defense agencies.

In 1980 I was the Deputy Base Commander of RAF Bentwaters, the large twin base complex in East Anglia England. At the time this was the largest Tactical Fighter Wing in the Air Force.

In late December 1980 I was called upon to investigate a strange event that was distracting our Security Police from their primary duties. Early on the morning of December 26, 1980 our police patrolmen discovered strange lights in the forest east of the back gate of RAE Woodbridge. Three patrolmen were dispatched into the forest to investigate. They reported discovering a strange triangular craft sitting on three legs. The craft was approximately 3 meters on a side. The craft had multiple lights. It rapidly maneuvered and quickly left the area.

I was not immediately aware of the details only being told of strange lights and assumed there was a reasonable explanation.

Two nights later the famIy Christmas party was interrupted by the on duty police commander. He told of strange events and claimed it was back. Since my boss had to present awards I was tasked to go out and investigate. I fully expected to find an explanation.

I took two senior Security Police, a Disaster Preparedness expert and the reporting On Duty Police Commander. At the site we found the three 1 ½ indentations in the ground in a triangular pattern. [SHOW PLASTER CAST]

We discovered mild radiation, and evidence including broken branches. We suddenly observed a bright red/orange oval object with a black center. It reminded me of an eye and appeared as though blinking. It maneuvered horizontally through the trees with occasionally vertical movement. When approached it receded and silently broke into five white lights which quickly vanished. We moved out of the forest into a pasture and observed several objects with multiple lights in the Northern sky. They changed in shape from elliptical to round.

Several other objects were seen to the South. One approached at high speed and sent down a concentrated beam near our feet. Another object sent down beams into the weapons storage area. The whole time we had difficulty communicating with the base as all three radio frequencies kept breaking up. This activity continued for about an hour.

During this entire event I had my pocket recorder and taped the event as it unfolded. A copy of the tape was released without my knowledge. This is the original recorder and tape.

I have no idea what we saw but do know whatever we saw was under intelligent control.

John Callahan

What I am about to tell you now, is about an event that never happened.

I am John Callahan, and I was Division Chief of the Accidents, Evaluations and Investigations Division of the FAA in Washington, for 6 years during the 1980’s.

in early January of 1987, 1 received a call from the Air Traffic Quality Control Branch in FAA’s Alaskan regional office, requesting guidance on what to tell the media personnel who were overflowing their office. The media was requesting information about the UFO that chased a Japanese 747 across the Alaskan sky for some 31 minutes at flight levels between 31000 and 35000 ft. on November 17, 1986. Somehow, the word had got out.

What UFO; when did this take place; why wasn’t Washington Headquarters informed? I asked.

Hey, he replied, who believes in UFOs? I just need to know what to tell the media to get them out of here.

The answer to that question was easy: Tell them it’s under investigation. Then, collect all the data - the voice tapes and data disc for both the facility and the military. Send then overnight to the FAA Tech Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Japan Air Lines flight 1628, a cargo jet with a pilot, co-pilot and one crew member, was just north of Anchorage, and it was about 11 pm when the pilot first reported the UFO. He described it as a huge ball with lights running around it. He said it was about 4 times bigger than a 747, and he saw it with his own eyes. So did the other two crew members.

Over the course of 31 minutes, the UFO jumped miles in a few seconds, changing places to different spots around the 747, in one sweep of the radar scope.

After receiving the data from Alaska almost two months later, I briefed my boss Harvey Safer and the FAA Administrator Admiral Engen, and Safer and I went to the FAA Tech Center to observe the playback.

The FAA had developed a program capable of recreating the traffic on the controllers scope, or plan view display. I instructed the FAA specialist to synchronize the voice tapes with the radar data so we could hear everything the controller and pilot said. I video taped the radar display.

Later that day, I requested that the FAA automation specialists plot the radar targets along the route of flight and explain what each target was doing. I video taped the resulting chart.

The print out and radar play back displayed primary targets in the vicinity of the 747. These target returns were displayed about the same time and place as the pilot advised viewing the UFO.

Both the radar and manual controller observed the primary target. The military controllers also viewed the primary target on their radar and identified it as a double primary. The pilot and crew viewed the target on their radar and were able to see the huge UFO at the same time as it approached their aircraft.

If this craft had been a leer jet or military aircraft at the wrong attitude, that would have been clear. The FAA has procedures that cover tracking unidentified aircraft violating another’s airspace - but it has no procedures for UFOs.

Back at FAA headquarters, I gave Administrator Engen a quick briefing and showed him the video. He set up a briefing with President Reagan’s scientific staff, and told me my function was to give them a dog and pony show and hand this event off to them, since the FAA does not deal with UFO s.

I brought along a copy of the video and all the data print outs available at the time.

One of the scientists asked a number of questions, such as, what is the range of the radar, what is the frequency of the radar, what is the band width, what is the formula for the height equipment, etc.

I was impressed with the response from the FAA experts. At the end, one of the three people from the CIA said, This event never happened; we were never here; we re confiscating all this data and you are all sworn to secrecy.

What do you think it was? I asked the CIA person.

A UFO and now they have over 30 minutes of radar to go over, he responded.

Well let’s get a TWIX out and advise the American public that we were visited by a UFO, I suggested.

No way, if we were to tell the American public there are UFOs they would panic, ho informed me.

Some time after the briefing, the detailed FAA report which included extensive interviews with the pilot and crew, the chart prepared at the Tech Center; and facility voice tapes arrived at my office and were placed on a small table waiting for the CIA to request more data. The material stayed there until I retired 2 years later, and I ve had it ever since.

Most people including FAA controllers really aren t familiar with how the FAA radar system works and why all aircraft traveling through our airspace are not caught on radar or displayed on the controllers PVD. But I am.

The system and organization of the FAA is not configured to identify and track these types of performances.

Final Statement Fife Symington

In 1997, during my second term as Governor of Arizona, I saw something that defied logic and challenged my reality.

I witnessed a massive delta-shaped craft silently navigating over the Squaw Peak, Mountain Preserve in Phoenix, Arizona. It was truly breathtaking.

To my astonishment this apparition appeared, and it was a solid structure; dramatically large with a very distinctive leading edge including embedded lights. It was traveling through the Arizona sky.

I still don’t know what it was. As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I'd ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don't fly in formation.

The incident was witnessed by hundreds, if not thousands of people in Arizona and my office was besieged with phone calls from very concerned Arizonians.

The growing hysteria intensified when the story broke nationally. I decided to lighten the mood of the state by calling a press conference where my chief of staff arrived in an alien costume. We managed to lessen the sense of panic but at the same time, upset many of my constituents.

I would now like to set the record straight. I never meant to ridicule anyone. My office did make inquiries as to the origin of the craft, but to this day, they remain unanswered.

Eventually the Air National Guard claimed responsibility stating that their pilots were dropping flares. This is indicative of the attitude from official channels. We get explanations that fly in the face of the facts. Explanations like weather balloons, swamp gas and military flares.

I was never happy with this silly explanation. There might very well have been military flares in the sky later that evening, but what I and hundreds of others saw had nothing to do with that.

I now know that I am not alone in witnessing something extraordinary. There are many high ranking military, aviation and government officials who share my concerns; some of them have joined me here today. There is absolutely no doubt as to the veracity of what these men have told you. They have fought in wars, guarded top secret weapons arsenals and flown countless passengers throughout the world’s skies.

Incidents like these are not going away. One year ago, Chicago's O'Hare airport experienced a UFO event that made national and international headlines. Pilots and many other airline employees observed a metallic disc hovering over the United Airlines terminal for several minutes. It then shot straight up and cut a hole in the clouds. The FAA did not investigate, dismissing the sighting as “weather.”

We want the US government to stop perpetuating the myth that ALL UFOs can be explained away in down-to-earth, conventional terms. Instead, our country needs to re-open its official investigation that it shut down in 1969. The US government can no longer shun an international dialogue about this, and we invite the government to work in cooperation with the countries represented at this table.

When it comes to events of this nature dealing with the great unknown, we deserve more openness and a serious pursuit of the facts by our government.

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