tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-103656802024-03-16T09:10:12.583-07:00THE UFO CHRONICLESUFO / UAP NEWS: CURRENT & HISTORIC REPORTS FROM AROUND THE WORLDFrank Warrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211373074817092828noreply@blogger.comBlogger9632110tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10365680.post-69488195433365812522024-03-16T00:01:00.000-07:002024-03-16T09:07:49.704-07:00UFOs, UAP: AARO's Official Report on the Historical Record of Government Investigation<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="color: white;"><b>Report on the Historical Record of U.S. Government Involvement </b><br><b>
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<blockquote><h4 style="text-align: left;"><i><b><span style="color: white;">"<a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/search/label/AARO">AARO</a> found no evidence that any USG investigation,
academic-sponsored research, or official review panel has confirmed
that any sighting of a UAP represented extraterrestrial
technology."</span></b></i></h4></blockquote><br>
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This report represents Volume I of the All-domain
Anomaly Resolution Office’s (AARO) Historical Record Report (HR2) which
reviews the record of the United States Government (USG)
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pertaining to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP). In completing this report,
AARO reviewed all official USG investigatory efforts since 1945, researched
classified and unclassified archives, conducted approximately 30 interviews, and
partnered with Intelligence Community (IC) and Department of Defense (DoD)
officials responsible for controlled and special access program oversight,
respectively. AARO will publish Volume II in accordance with the date
established in Section 6802 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2023 (FY23); Volume II will provide analysis of information acquired by
AARO after the date of the publication of Volume I.
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Since 1945, the USG has funded and supported UAP investigations with the goal
of determining whether UAP represented a flight safety risk, technological
leaps by competitor nations, or evidence of off-world technology under
intelligent control. These investigations were managed and implemented by a
range of experts, scientists, academics, military, and intelligence officials
under differing leaders—all of whom held their own perspectives that led them
to particular conclusions on the origins of UAP. However, they all had in
common the belief that UAP represented an unknown and, therefore,
theoretically posed a potential threat of an indeterminate nature.
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AARO’s mission is similar to that of these earlier organizations. AARO
methodology applies both the scientific method and intelligence analysis
tradecraft to identify and help mitigate risks UAP may pose to domain safety
and to discover, characterize, and attribute potential competitor
technological systems.
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A consistent theme in popular culture involves a particularly persistent
narrative that the USG—or a secretive organization within it—recovered several
off-world spacecraft and extraterrestrial biological remains, that it operates
a program or programs to reverse engineer the recovered technology, and that
it has conspired since the 1940s to keep this effort hidden from the United
States Congress and the American public.
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AARO recognizes that many people sincerely hold versions of these beliefs
which are based on their perception of past experiences, the experiences of
others whom they trust, or media and online outlets they believe to be sources
of credible and verifiable information. The proliferation of television
programs, books, movies, and the vast amount of internet and social media
content centered on UAP-related topics most likely has influenced the public
conversation on this topic, and reinforced these beliefs within some sections
of the population.
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The goal of this report is not to prove or disprove any particular belief set,
but rather to use a rigorous analytic and scientific approach to investigate
past USG-sponsored UAP investigation efforts and the claims made by
interviewees that the USG and various contractors have recovered and are
hiding off-world technology and biological material. AARO has approached this
project with the widest possible aperture, thoroughly investigating these
assertions and claims without any particular pre-conceived conclusion or
hypothesis. AARO is committed to reaching conclusions based on empirical
evidence.
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Lastly, AARO thanks all participants in this review who include the
interviewees who came forward with information.
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<b>A former government official calls for investigating unidentified anomalous
phenomena without succumbing to conspiracy theories about
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Little else titillates and piques the national
interest like unidentified flying objects and space aliens. After more
than a century of films featuring intelligent creatures from other
worlds, and over seven decades after the U.S. government began
investigating them, UFOs remain a flashpoint for conspiracy
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theorists and science deniers. By any name, UFOs or unidentified anomalous
phenomena (UAP) conjure the most vivid images and plots allowed by Hollywood and
novels alike. Who doesn’t want to believe?
<p>
However, reality, as inconvenient as it can be, remains fundamental. In 2022
Congress found the courage to put into law the creation of the All-domain
Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), jointly managed by the Department of Defense
and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Its mission is
quite straightforward. Apply an unbiased scientific method and intelligence
tradecraft to review existing information and data on historical UAP and
investigate new data as these are provided to the office from military,
federal, state and local entities as well as private citizens.
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>While the
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>1964 Big Sur Incident</a
>
was the most dramatic case documented thus far, encounters involving UFO
surveillance and even interference have occurred on an ongoing
basis.</span
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One only has to do a little research to discover
that the
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>Big Sur Incident</a
>
was not unique. Actually, confirmed episodes of UFOs maneuvering near
airborne U.S. missiles occurred on numerous occasions, both before and
after the now well-publicized event, during which a UFO was filmed
disabling a dummy nuclear warhead in flight, using beams of light.
<br><br>After former USAF Lieutenant Bob Jacobs—head of the
Vandenberg AFB-based telescopic-photography team that inadvertently
filmed the amazing incident—went public with the story in 1982, he
quickly received anonymous death threats over the telephone and,
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independently, was harassed by a small group of “skeptics” with interesting but
unpublicized government connections. An earlier
<a
href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2024/02/big-sur-ufo-film-government_19.html"
>article</a
>
of mine discusses that situation.
<p>
Nevertheless, another officer, retired Major Florenze Mansmann—who analyzed
the Big Sur film frame-by-frame with a magnifier—has
<a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tvf0mFp64JNIGnFIzZOEkLU9GnWSY-W2/view?usp=sharing"
>confirmed</a
>
that it showed a “classic disc” UFO shooting four intensely luminous beams at
the warhead, which then tumbled out of camera frame.
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<p>
But the dramatic 1964 encounter was hardly the first case of UFO surveillance
of our missile tests. For example, in March 1950, a <i>True</i> magazine
article written by U.S. Naval Commander Robert B. McLaughlin, a rocket
specialist at White Sands Proving Ground, in southern New Mexico, revealed
that small, spherical UFOs—we would now call them orbs—had been sighted at the
highly secret base during a V-2 rocket test conducted on June 10, 1949.
Referring to the incident, he wrote,
</p>
<blockquote>
This day we were firing a Navy upper atmosphere missile. Shortly after its
take-off, two small circular objects, guessed to be approximately 20 inches in
diameter, appeared from no place and joined the Navy missile on its upward
flight.<br><br>At about the time the Navy missile was doing well over
2,000 feet per second, the object on the west side passed through the exhaust
gases and joined its friend on the east. They then apparently decided the
missile was not going fast enough for them. They accelerated, passed the Navy
missile and sailed off upward and eastward.
</blockquote>
<p>
<a href="#1.">News coverage</a> of McLaughlin’s revelations was widespread at
the time. According to veteran UFO researcher Richard Hall, McLaughlin was
later punished by the Navy for writing the article—losing his job at White
Sands and being shipped off to sea duty. UFOs snooping on military missile
launches was obviously a highly-sensitive subject that was to be rigorously
kept from public view.
</p>
<p>
In any case, unexplained UFO activity at White Sands in the 1940s and ‘50s was
frequently observed by military and civilian personnel working at the test
range, and nearby Holloman AFB, involving aerial objects that were radically
different in appearance and vastly superior in performance, compared to our
own aircraft and rockets.
<a href="https://www.project1947.com/holloman/eho15.htm">Reports</a>
periodically issued by the Air Force summarized various incidents over time.
</p>
<p>
By the early 1960s, UFO sightings during military missile tests began to occur
at other locations. Major Donald E. Keyhoe (USMC Ret.), Director of the
National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP), a
well-respected UFO research organization, has written,
</p>
<blockquote>
In [NICAP’s] files is a photocopy of an official tracking log from Cape
Canaveral (now Cape Kennedy), covering operations on January 10, 1961. A
Polaris missile was fired that day. According to the log, the missile was on
its way up when an ‘unidentifiable flying object’ came in over the range. The
UFO was evidently so big and maneuvered so close to the Polaris that automatic
tracking radar on the ground, set to follow the Polaris, locked onto the UFO
by mistake. The UFO eventually flew out of the radar's ‘sight.’ It took
trackers 14 minutes to find the Polaris again.
</blockquote>
<p>
A declassified military <a href="#2.">teletype message</a>, known as a TWX,
summarizes the encounter, but the facts first became known to the public after
they were leaked by someone with access to inside information. Importantly,
the intriguing 1961 event occurred only three years before the incident
reported by Bob Jacobs and Florenze Mansmann and the parallels between the two
cases are obvious.
</p>
<p>
Predictably, UFO activity during US missile tests continued to occur following
the Big Sur incident. In one case, a Minuteman ICBM carrying a dummy nuclear
warhead was launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, one day in August 1973.
On June 17, 1974, the <i>Chicago Tribune</i> carried the following
<a href="#3.">news item</a>:
</p>
<blockquote>
HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Experts at an Army missile base say they are puzzled
about strange “ghost ships” picked up by powerful radar scanner in the Pacific
during a tracking exercise last summer.<br><br>
There has been little official comment on what the scientists found during the
exercise, but Major Dallas Van Hoose, an Army spokesman, confirmed recently
that “some unexplained aerial phenomena” were observed during the exercise
last August. Scientists, many of whom are reluctant to be named in interviews
because of general public skepticism over unidentified flying objects, say
privately they have been unable to find any explanation for the “ghost
ships”.<br><br>
“We have never seen anything precisely like this before,” said one ballistic
missile defense expert who works for an Army agency here and who is familiar
with the advanced radar used to test missiles and warheads. Huntsville houses
the Army’s ballistic missile defense systems command which tests in the
Kwajalein Atoll region of the Marshall Island Trust Territory held by the U.S.
<br><br>
Last August the Air Force launched a Minuteman ICBM from Vandenberg Air Force
base aimed for the Kwajalein missile range which is used by the Army, Air
Force, and Navy. The radar experts in the Pacific found they were also
tracking an unidentified flying object next to the ICBM’s nose cone. Radar
picked up an inverted saucer-shape object to the right and above the
descending nose cone and watched it cross the warhead’s trajectory to a point
which was below and to-the-left of it before the phantom ship disappeared. The
ghost ship was described as being 10-feet high and 40-feet long. Two separate
radar systems saw it at the same time which may eliminate the probability that
there was a malfunction in one of the radar systems. It was also reported that
3 other identical objects were seen in the vicinity—the same size, shape, and
dimensions. One scientist said the data indicated that the phantom ship “flew
under its own power” but could not explain what sort of “power” was
involved.<br><br>
So far none of the experts here believe the ghost ship was a natural
phenomenon caused by freak weather conditions or echoes commonly seen on radar
screens.
</blockquote>
<p>
(Radar alone could not have determined that the unknown targets had an
“inverted saucer-shape” so some optical images of the UFOs had to have been
taken as well. The reporter writing the article apparently misunderstood some
of what he was told by Army Major Van Hoose, and mistakenly attributed this
particular discovery to the analysis of radar data.)
</p>
<p>
In any event, the earlier incident at Vandenberg AFB, described by both
Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann, involving close-proximity
UFO activity during an Atlas ICBM test launch, was apparently not only one to
occur at the base.
</p>
<p>
Regarding the unnamed ballistic missile expert’s statement in the article
above, about never having seen “anything precisely like this before”, given
that the 1964 Big Sur incident was immediately classified Top Secret—with only
a handful of individuals knowing the facts—it would have been unknown to other
military and civilian personnel conducting missile tests a decade later.
</p>
<p>
Researcher Barry Greenwood later reprinted this newspaper story in his
co-authored book, <i>Clear Intent</i> (later republished as
<i>The UFO Cover-Up</i>). He wrote,
</p>
<blockquote>
When FOIA inquiries were filed with the Army, they denied having any records
concerning the sighting. We were referred to Vandenberg AFB, California.
Vandenberg responded that “in accordance with Air Force manual 12-50 which
implements the Federal Records Act, the launch operations records for August
1973 have been destroyed.” Note that it is not stated that the UFO tracking
report was destroyed, only a very general statement is given that “launch
operations records” were destroyed. That [records of] such a mysterious event
as this would not be kept somewhere for possible future use is
incomprehensible. Yet this excuse is offered time and time again to deny
access to records…
</blockquote>
<p>
In 2016, researcher Richard Hoffman located the Army spokesman cited in the
article, retired Major Dallas Van Hoose. Upon learning that, I secured Van
Hoose’s contact information and attempted to interview him. Despite repeated
attempted phone calls, he decline to speak with me.
</p>
<p>
Regardless, here we have another reliable story, published by the
<i>Chicago Tribune</i>, involving a UFO maneuvering near a dummy nuclear
warhead (contained within the missile’s nosecone) in flight over the Pacific
Ocean. Considering this case, as well as those at White Sands Proving Ground
and Cape Canaveral, there can be little doubt that those who operate the UFOs
have repeatedly monitored U.S. missile tests since the late 1940s. In fact,
given the ongoing secrecy surrounding these events, the known cases are
undoubtedly only a fraction of the total number that have occurred.
</p>
<p>
Consequently, despite the repeated and unfounded attacks upon them by various
debunkers over the years, Bob Jacobs’ and Florenz Mansmann’s assertions about
having watched on film a UFO maneuvering near, and disabling, a dummy nuclear
warhead in 1964, are unquestionably credible.
</p>
<p>
Indeed, as I recently mentioned in another
<a
href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2024/02/big-sur-ufo-film-government.html"
>article</a
>, former Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) director
Lue Elizondo, has already confirmed to a handful of former US government
personnel that he personally viewed a video copy of the Big Sur UFO encounter
while at the Pentagon.
</p>
<p>
<b
>Thanks to researchers
<a href="http://www.greenwoodufoarchive.com/">Barry Greenwood</a> and
<a href="https://www.project1947.com/">Jan Aldrich</a> for providing
documentation relating to the White Sands, Cape Canaveral, and 1973
Vandenberg AFB cases. And special thanks to researcher Frank Warren of
<a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/"><i>The UFO Chronicles</i></a>
website for posting my articles year after year.</b
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In their years of promoting the story of a 1945
alien-craft crash and recovery, Jacques Vallee, Ph.D., and Paola
Leopizzi Harris constructed a towering skyscraper of speculation on a
thin foundation made of chalk. The foundation has disintegrated, yet
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Vallee and Harris continue to engage in tortured exertions, seeking to avoid
acknowledging the reality that their skyscraper has collapsed.
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In June 2021, Vallee and Harris self-published a co-authored book,
<i><b>Trinity: The Best-Kept Secret</b></i>, reciting a story of the crash and recovery of an alien craft. The event
supposedly occurred a month after and not many miles away from the site of the
first atomic-bomb test, the Trinity test of July 16, 1945. [1] An expanded
Second Edition followed in August 2022. Vallee hired a publicist to promote
the book and the story. By January 2023, the Trinity-crash story had been
featured by media outlets as diverse as the <i>New York Times</i>,
<i>Tucker Carlson Tonight</i> on the Fox News Network, and the
<i>Daily Mail</i> in the UK, and on innumerable UFO-oriented websites and
podcasts. [2]
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The "Trinity" crash tale was originally based solely on the claims of two men
who were both over age 60 when they first told the story in 2003 – Remigio
(Reme) Baca (born October 26, 1938; died June 12, 2013) and Joseph Lopez
(Jose) Padilla (born November 24, 1936, currently age 87). [3] Beginning in
2003, both men made public claims to have witnessed the crash, associated
alien beings, and the subsequent recovery of the damaged alien craft by Army
personnel, all of this ostensibly occurring during August 1945.
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The far-reaching implications of the Trinity crash-recovery story, were it
true, are the only reason why it is worth my time, or anyone's time, to
further scrutinize the credibility of the witnesses, including the
still-living Joseph Lopez Padilla. Padilla is now an 87-year-old man of whom
few people would ever have heard, were it not for years of public promotion of
his UFO crash tale by Vallee and co-author Harris, with Padilla's active
cooperation. If the Padilla-Baca story is true, then the U.S. government has
concealed custody of a crashed alien craft since August 1945, a span of more
than 78 years – a very big deal indeed. [4]
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debunk the Big Sur UFO Incident after it was first publicized in the media
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Identification Program (AATIP) director Lue Elizondo’s recent admission
that he had watched the Big Sur UFO film—actually, a video copy of
it—while heading-up the once-secret Pentagon UFO project from 2008 to
2017. (Funding for the group officially ended in 2012, but Elizondo
maintains that its work was still ongoing at the time of his resignation
from government service.) <br><br>Briefly, in the early 1980s, two
former US Air Force officers—Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze
Mansmann—confirmed that, on September 15, 1964, a domed-disc UFO had
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vertently captured on motion picture film as it paced and then shot down a dummy
nuclear warhead—using mysterious, plasma-like beams—that had been carried aloft
by an Atlas ICBM during a test flight over the Pacific Ocean. The missile launch
took place at Vandenberg AFB, California, and the telescopic-camera team had
been located a hundred miles northwest of the base, up the California coast at
Big Sur, so that it could film such launches from a side view.
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According to Major (later Dr.) Mansmann, he, Jacobs, and two CIA officers
attended a highly-restricted screening of the film at Vandenberg two days
after the dramatic incident occurred. At the CIA officers’ direction, the
footage was immediately classified Top Secret. However, Lieutenant (later Dr.)
Jacobs was apparently only told by Mansmann not to discuss the event with
anyone and that “it never happened”. That verbal admonishment occurred just
before Jacobs left the screening room and apparently prior to the Top Secret
designation being assigned to the case—about which Jacobs says he was unaware.
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In any event, in 1982, thinking that enough time had elapsed since the 1964
incident took place, Jacobs—by then a university professor—wrote an article
about it which, after first being rejected by <i>OMNI</i> magazine, was
published in the <i>National Enquirer</i> tabloid. Shortly thereafter, the
former lieutenant began getting anonymous death threats over the telephone
and, independently, was subjected to other forms of pressure by certain
individuals who turned out to have rather suspicious, if not clearly
incriminating backgrounds.
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In 1989, Jacobs wrote a lengthier, more detailed
<a href="https://www.nicap.org/reports/bigsur2.htm">article</a> on the Big Sur
UFO Incident, which was published by the <i>MUFON UFO Journal</i>. In it, he
complained that following his revelations about the case he had been harassed
by UFO debunker James Oberg, a leading member of the organization responsible
for publishing <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> magazine, then called the Committee
for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), now
renamed the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSI).
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Another CSICOPer, Philip J. Klass, soon piled on, attacking Dr. Jacobs in a
series of rebuking letters. Klass went so far as to contact Jacobs’
Communications Department chairman at the University of Maine, to allege that
the professor was behaving in a manner inappropriate for an academician.
According to Klass, anyone who contended that flying saucers existed and were
shooting down U.S. dummy nuclear warheads in flight was unfit to teach the
school’s students.
</p>
<p>
In response, Jacobs circulated a strongly-worded
<a href="https://www.nicap.org/reports/bigsurrej.htm"
>retort, <i>Low Klass: A Rejoinder</i>.</a
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At one point, wrote Jacobs, Klass had told him in a letter that if he were
uneasy about communicating with the debunker, Klass would provide as
references Admiral Bobby R. Inman—the former Director of the National Security
Agency, who also held Deputy Director positions at both the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Defense Intelligence Agency—and Lt. General Daniel
O. Graham, the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former
Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Klass not only provided
Jacobs with their names, but home addresses as well, and told him, “Both men
have worked with me and gotten to know me in my efforts for
<i>Aviation Week</i> [magazine].” Jacobs, viewing this offer as a veiled
threat and suspecting that Klass was attempting to set him up for a security
violation, consulted an attorney who told him not to respond directly to the
debunker.
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<p>
Klass, now deceased, was often accused of being a disinformation agent for the
U.S. government—a charge he always vehemently denied. And yet, in a private
letter to Jacobs, the long-time UFO debunker openly bragged about his
high-powered intelligence community associates, presumably because he never
thought that Jacobs would actually publish portions of the letter, which he
nevertheless did.
</p>
<p>
For his part, Jim Oberg, the high-profile CSICOP/CSI debunker mentioned above,
repeatedly attempted to discredit Jacobs’ and Mansmann’s amazing story.
Interestingly, he also made self-incriminating comments to Jacobs in a letter
obviously never meant for public view. Unfortunately for Oberg, Jacobs later
published excerpts from that letter as well.
</p>
<p>
While an U.S. Air Force Captain, Oberg did classified work relating to nuclear
weapons at the Air Force Weapons Laboratory, located at Kirtland AFB, New
Mexico. While there, in 1970-72, he had also been a Security Officer for his
immediate group within the lab’s Battle Environments Branch, meaning that he
was responsible for monitoring the security procedures used to safeguard the
classified documents generated by it. In his letter to Dr. Jacobs, Oberg
chastised him, saying, “Since you obviously feel free to discuss top secret
UFO data, what would you be willing to say about other top secret aspects of
the Atlas warhead which you alluded to briefly?”
</p>
<p>
This is rather curious given Oberg’s public face as a UFO debunker who claims
that the mysterious craft do not even exist. One may find numerous articles he
has written over the years in which he pooh-poohs UFO sightings and ridicules
those who report them. And yet, in his private letter to Jacobs, Oberg angrily
railed at the professor’s unauthorized release of “top secret” UFO
information. Once a security officer, always a security officer, I guess.
</p>
<p>
And the “skeptical” attacks on Jacobs’ credibility continued as time went on.
<i>Skeptical Inquirer (SI)</i> magazine featured an
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in its Winter 1993 issue, titled “The Big Sur ‘UFO’: An
<i>Identified</i> Flying Object”, written by Kingston A. George. In 1964,
George had been the project engineer for the experimental telescopic-tracking
and filming of missile launches at the Big Sur site. In that role he had
worked directly with Bob Jacobs.
</p>
<p>
Given CSICOP’s well-established position of debunking all UFO sightings, it is
not too difficult to guess the tone of George’s article. He begins by
dismissing Jacobs’ “weird claims” and then offers an alternate, prosaic
explanation for the events captured on the film in question.
</p>
<p>
George claimed that the supposed UFO that Jacobs had inadvertently filmed was
actually an experimental package of decoys, housed in the missile’s nosecone,
designed to be released in flight to confuse Soviet radar as they flew along
near the actual nuclear warhead. This would make it more difficult for Russian
anti-missile missiles to shoot down the incoming threat. According to George,
it was these released decoys that Jacobs mistook for a UFO.
</p>
<p>
And how did George know this? He claims he viewed and analyzed the specific
film “weeks later”, after Jacobs and Mansmann had already screened it.
Therefore, George insists, he unquestionably knew what it showed—and it was
definitely not a UFO. The only problem with this assertion is that
Mansmann—who by his own account had sole custody of the film—has
<a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wixl7Z4Hq4yqNef2d2yuKeNAld5Hc_m4/view?usp=sharing"
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>
that immediately after the screening in his office, the key frames of the
projectable 16mm copy of the film, as well as the 35mm original, were signed
out to the CIA officers present, who then left the base. Mansmann added that
the film was “rushed East on a special aircraft when we released it.”
</p>
<p>
Consequently, George could not possibly have viewed the <i>same</i> film at
Vandenberg AFB “weeks” after the missile launch, as he claimed in his 1993
article in <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>, because it—both the original and the
only copy ever made—had long since left the base.
</p>
<p>
The fundamental error made by George is that he chose the wrong launch date,
mistakenly selecting another one, September 22, 1964. In his 1989
<i>Mutual UFO Journal</i> article, Jacobs had written that his personal
missile test log—which he kept after leaving the Air Force—strongly suggested
that the launch in question—and the UFO incident—occurred on September 15th.
</p>
<p>
In an effort to establish the actual launch date I consulted the definitive
aerospace history archive, <i>Encyclopedia Astronautica (EA)</i>, and reviewed
records relating to all Atlas launches at Vandenberg AFB during September
1964. There were two such launches which were noted as:
</p>
<blockquote>
1964 Sep 15 - 15:27 GMT - ABRES LORV-3 re-entry vehicle test flight Vandenberg
Launch Pad: 576A1 – Launch Vehicle: Atlas D 245D<br><br>
1964 Sep 22 - 13:08 GMT - NTMP KX-19 Target mission Vandenberg Launch Pad:
576A3 - Launch Vehicle: Atlas D 247D
</blockquote>
<p>
The cumbersome acronyms for the September 15th launch translate to “Advanced
Ballistic Re-entry System” and “Low Observable Re-entry Vehicle”. In plain
English, this is precisely the type of test described by Bob Jacobs all along.
The Air Force had hoped that the warhead, within the RV, would be difficult to
distinguish from the cloud of metallic chaff—aluminum foil strips—accompanying
it through space. If this test was successful, the experimental system might
defeat an enemy’s radar, by effectively rendering invisible the incoming
nuclear warhead.
</p>
<p>
According to <i>Encyclopedia Astronautica</i>, the September 22nd launch—the
one picked by George—was designated a “NTMP KX-19 Target” mission, which means
Nike Target Missile Program, flight number KX-19. Unlike the earlier test on
September 15th, which was designed to evaluate the experimental Re-entry
Vehicle itself, the purpose of the target test was to determine whether the
U.S. Army group on Kwajalein Atoll would be able to track the RV on radar. It
was hoped—if such tests were successful—that incoming Soviet warheads might be
targeted with Nike anti-missile missiles.
</p>
<p>
When I informed Jacobs about the published data, he responded, “Well, Robert,
I think you’ve found the launch. The timing is exactly right [according to my
personal records]. The date, September 15th, is one of the three [possible
dates that] I mentioned. I never believed the launch took place on September
22nd, which is what George keeps saying. The stated mission of
<i>that</i> launch had nothing to do with the experiment we were doing the day
of the incident. We were testing a re-entry vehicle, just as [the published
summary] says.”
</p>
<p>
I gently challenged Jacobs on this point, to gauge his level of certainty. His
response was emphatic, “No, we were testing the RV itself. It was not a target
test.” He then elaborated, “There were several interesting aspects of the
anti-missile-missile tests. This particular one involved a dummy warhead and a
bunch of radar-deflecting aluminum chaff. The dummy warhead was targeted to
splashdown at Eniwetok Lagoon...As far as I know Kwajalein [played no part in
this test] aside from radar tracking. There was no planned Nike launch
[involved with it].”
</p>
<p>
(Significantly, as I mentioned in Part 1 of this article, while a member of
the UAP Taskforce, from 2019 to 2021, government whistleblower David Grusch
tasked a colleague with finding corroborating evidence for the Big Sur UFO
event. That individual had discovered, in a Department of Defense archive, a
radar data summary of the launch on that date selected by Jacobs—September
15th—that revealed the apparent tracking of an anomalous object flying near
the dummy warhead.)
</p>
<p>
So, it’s quite clear that Kingston George chose the wrong launch—and the
filmed record of it—as the basis for his skeptical attack on Bob Jacobs. But
was this an honest error or, on the other hand, part of an intentional effort
to cast doubt on Jacobs’ public summary of the Big Sur Incident? After
extensive evaluation, I have concluded it was the latter. Indeed, George’s
<i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> article is so riddled with <i>other</i> suspicious
factual errors that I cannot help but think he was purposefully engaging in
disinformation intended to discredit Jacobs. And Dr. Jacobs agrees with this
assessment.
</p>
<p>
Moreover, importantly, Kingston George devotes not a single word to Dr.
Florenze Mansmann’s unreserved endorsement of Jacobs’ published account of the
Big Sur UFO Incident. Perhaps George was unaware that, by the time he wrote
his debunking article in <i>SI</i>, Mansmann had already
<a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1a-wOpQHUH0S1I5TlGM0yIxmHjVvc6QWI/view?usp=sharing"
>admitted</a
>
to several people that Jacobs’ account was completely factual.
</p>
<p>
Regardless, a full exposé of George’s demonstrable misstatements, misquotes of
Jacobs’ published commentary, and off-base assertions appears in my 2007
article,
<a href="https://www.nicap.org/reports/6409XXShot_Across_Bow_hastings.pdf"
>“A Shot Across the Bow: Another Look at the Big Sur Incident”</a
>, published by the Center for UFO Studies.
</p>
<p>
My suggestion that George may have deliberately, unfairly tried to spin the
facts to cast doubt on Jacobs’ credibility is not just idle speculation.
Indeed, George’s choice of publisher for his article is, I think, telling.
Although not widely known, the person orchestrating George’s attempted
debunking of the Big Sur UFO Incident, leading CSICOP/CSI member and
<i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> magazine editor Kendrick Frazier, worked for over
two decades as a Public Relations Specialist for Sandia National Laboratories,
which has been instrumental in manufacturing many of the U.S. government’s
nuclear weapons since the 1940s.
</p>
<p>
Curiously, one has to search diligently to discover this highly-relevant fact,
given that the magazine has consistently referred to Frazier only as a
“Science Writer” in its Publisher’s Statement, which appears in every issue.
Moreover, Frazier chose not to mention his day job as a PR guy for the U.S.
government’s nuclear weapons program in his online biography, even though an
earlier editorial position he held with <i>Science News</i> magazine was
readily acknowledged by him. So, for some reason, Frazier seemed to be
exceedingly shy about openly admitting his long-term government Public
Relations job to his magazine’s readers as well as the general public.
</p>
<p>
So, to recap, among the top CSICOP/CSI UFO “skeptics” who have publicly
blasted Bob Jacobs’ and Florenz Mansmann’s revelations about the Big Sur case
we have:
</p>
<blockquote>
● A journalist (Klass) who worked for decades for an intelligence
community-friendly publication, <i>Aviation Week</i>, and who privately cited
as personal references two of the top figures in the NSA and CIA<br><br>
● A former Air Force officer (Oberg) whose job included protecting nuclear
weapons-related secrets<br><br>
● A long-time Public Relations Specialist (Frazier) who worked for the U.S.
government’s nuclear weapons program for more than 20 years.
</blockquote>
<p>
Supposedly, all three of these individuals object to Jacobs and Mansmann’s
unauthorized disclosures about the still-Top Secret incident only because they
are “skeptical” that it actually happened. <br><br>
Yeah, right!
</p>
<p>
Part 3 of this article will be posted soon. It examines other incidents of
UFOs closely monitoring US missile launches, as confirmed by declassified
documents, military witness testimony, and various, credible media accounts.
In short, the Big Sur event was not unique.
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His documentary film,
<i><b>UFOs and Nukes: The Secret Link Revealed</b></i> is available at<a
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Vimeo.com</a
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According to two former US Air Force
officers—Lieutenant Bob Jacobs and Major Florenze Mansmann—a USAF
photographic team based at Vandenberg AFB, California, tasked with
filming missile test launches, inadvertently captured the image of a
domed, disc-shaped UFO as it circled and then disabled—with four flashes
of an intense beam of light—a dummy nuclear warhead flying downrange
over the Pacific Ocean. Jacobs had been in charge of the telescopic
photography site located at Big Sur, California, and Mansmann was
Vandenberg’s chief photographic imagery analyst. <br><br>
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The date of the dramatic incident was September 15, 1964. Two days later, a
highly-restricted screening of the spectacular footage took place at the
base—attended by Jacobs, Mansmann, and two CIA officers who immediately
classified the event Top Secret. The film was then confiscated by the pair and
flown “back East” for analysis and storage, according to Major Mansmann. The
destination was undoubtedly the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation
Center (NPIC) which, it is now known, had already engaged in UFO photo analysis
for years.
<p>
By the early 1980s, Jacobs felt that enough time had passed following the
stunning UFO encounter to allow him to discuss it publicly. He has explained
that, at the time of the 1964 film screening at Vandenberg, Major Mansmann had
only ordered him “not to talk about” the unexpected filming of the UFO with
anyone, pointedly saying that it had “never happened”. No mention was made of
its Top Secret classification, for reasons that remain unclear to the former
Lieutenant. Furthermore, because the two officers lost touch with each other
after leaving the Air Force, 19 years passed before Mansmann was able confirm
to Jacobs that the two mysterious men in civilian clothes at the screening
were in fact CIA personnel.
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In any case, in 1982, Jacobs wrote an article about the extraordinary event
which, unfortunately, was published in the sensationalistic
<i>National Enquirer</i> tabloid, after <i>OMNI</i> magazine had rejected it.
Shortly after the story appeared, Dr. Jacobs—by then a university professor
specializing in Communications—began getting death threats from unidentified
persons who repeatedly harassed him over the telephone. He also received
intimidating letters from certain well-known UFO “skeptics” who attempted to
get Jacobs to retract the story. The suspicious, unpublicized connections
those individuals had with the US Government will be discussed in Part 2 of
this article.
</p>
<p>
I first interviewed Jacobs in 1986, in conjunction with my long-term research
into UFO-related activity at nuclear weapons sites, as summarized in my book,
<a
href="https://www.amazon.com/UFOs-Nukes-Extraordinary-Encounters-Nuclear/dp/1544822197?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=thufch-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=419da5cd6d1358711ea93ee6f14c0b28&camp=1789&creative=9325"
><i
>UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites.</i
></a
>
In 2021, Luis “Lue” Elizondo, the former director of a previously-secret UFO
project at the Pentagon—the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program
(AATIP)—confirmed in a
<a
href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2021/10/pentagon-utilized-ufos-and-nukes-data.html#video-container"
target="_blank"
>podcast
</a>
that his group had utilized the book as a resource when conducting its own
research into UFO incursions at nuclear weapon sites. Said Elizondo, “There
was a lot of information we didn’t have access to that, it turned out, Robert
Hastings did...We were able to validate and substantiate exactly what he was
saying.”
</p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>RECENT DEVELOPMENTS: </b></div>
<p>
In February 2023, a US Senate investigator—who has asked to remain
anonymous—told me that Elizondo had privately confirmed having been given
access to the Big Sur UFO film while with AATIP, and that it showed exactly
what Dr. Jacobs has maintained over the years: A UFO actually interfered with
an Atlas missile in flight, as it carried a dummy nuclear warhead aloft. The
official Air Force video of the encounter captures the moment the unknown
object appears to engage the warhead with a luminous beam—which turned on and
off four times—as it travelled downrange at several thousand miles-per-hour
over the Pacific Ocean.
</p>
<p>
The Senate investigator, knowing of my research, had previously arranged a
teleconference between Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick—then the head of the All-domain Anomaly
Resolution Office (AARO)—and myself, to coordinate the scheduling of
interviews by AARO staffers of several of my sources, all former/retired USAF
personnel who had worked with or guarded nuclear missiles. Those interviews
began in January 2023, as noted in an earlier
<a
href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2023/02/aaro-interviews-ufos-and-nukes-witnesses.html"
>article</a
>
of mine.
</p>
<p>
Regarding Elizondo’s admission about having watched the Big Sur UFO video—it
was on a DVD—the Senate investigator, while accompanying Elizondo to and from
AARO, said Elizondo’s interview was conducted by Dr. Kirkpatrick himself, on
February 2, 2023. During that briefing, the former AATIP director confirmed
the existence of the video, the details regarding what it showed, and the
location of a copy of it in AATIP’s workspaces.
</p>
<p>
The Senate investigator subsequently wrote to me on April 27, 2023, saying,
</p>
<blockquote>
Robert – Sean has told me that [when he searched] for the Big Sur video in the
safe drawer where Lue told him to look, [it] was “empty”. He also claimed to
me that there is an explanation for this event – namely, a test of an ABM
missile (like Nike?) that day. I told Lue about this and he practically
screamed “bullshit”. Thought you should know that we are nowhere on this issue
with AARO. Finding a copy of that video is really important.
</blockquote>
<p>
It is also important to note that the Pentagon has previously admitted it
destroyed all of Elizondo’s files and emails after he resigned his position in
protest, the fall of 2017. This highly unusual move by the Pentagon is in
direct violation of a legal Preservation Order that was mandated based on
Elizondo’s other duties at the time. The order requires all of Elizondo’s
electronic and hard copy files to be preserved indefinitely, including email
and correspondence.
</p>
<p>
Significantly, additional confirmation exists regarding Elizondo’s admission
about having seen the video of the original film while with AATIP. On November
10, 2023, a highly-reliable source—who I am not at liberty to identify—told me
that UAP whistleblower David Grusch has privately confirmed that Elizondo also
told <i>him</i> about having screened the Big Sur film, and that it did indeed
capture an amazing, UFO-related, dummy warhead-interference event.
</p>
<p>
While assigned to the UAP Taskforce, from 2019-21, Grusch apparently went so
far as to have a colleague search one Department of Defense archive, the
Defense Technical Information Center, at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, in an effort
to find out whether any corroborating evidence—other than the film
itself—existed.
</p>
<p>
According to my very credible source, a now-declassified, but as yet
unreleased radar data record of the September 15, 1964 missile launch was
discovered, which confirmed the tracking of an unidentified aerial object near
the dummy warhead at the time of the incident.
</p>
<p>
Analysis contained in the radar summary apparently considered the possibility
that the “object” was actually debris of some kind. Jacobs has stated that
when the warhead separated from the missile booster, it had been surrounded by
a field of metallic chaff—in conjunction with the test being conducted—that
was still visible in the camera frame at the time of the UFO’s appearance. The
Air Force wanted to know whether embedding airborne warheads in chaff, during
an actual war, would prevent the Soviets from identifying the warheads’ exact
positions on their own radars.
</p>
<p>
So, perhaps the mysterious target tracked on radar near the warhead was merely
the chaff. On the other hand, it may have indeed been the actual UFO, whose
presence the author of the radar data report would probably not have known
about, given the incident’s Top Secret status.
</p>
<p>
Regardless, in one 1980s-era
<a
href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Tvf0mFp64JNIGnFIzZOEkLU9GnWSY-W2/view?usp=sharing"
>letter</a
>
written by Dr. Florenze Mansmann—who was by then a part-time biomedical
engineering researcher at Stanford University—he confirmed that his
frame-by-frame analysis of the film with a Loupe magnifier, conducted shortly
after the missile warhead test, revealed the UFO to be “[a] classic disc, the
center seemed to be a raised bubble...the entire lower saucer shape was
glowing and seemed to be rotating slowly. At the point of beam release...the
object turned like an object required to be in a position to fire from a
platform...but again this could be my own assumption from being in aerial
combat.” Mansmann’s contemporary evaluation of the UFO’s origin was explicit:
“...the assumption was, at that time, extraterrestrial.”
</p>
<p>
The Big Sur UFO Incident is arguably the most dramatic case on record of
apparent UFO interference with one of our nuclear weapon systems. As such, its
importance cannot be overstated. While the actual motivation underlying what
Jacobs has referred to as ”the shooting down” of the dummy warhead remains
unknown—he has speculated that it was designed to convey someone’s displeasure
over our possession of nuclear weapons—the act itself was nevertheless
unmistakably provocative and, from a technological perspective, absolutely
astounding.</p>
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<tr><td style="padding-right: 5px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: middle;"> Recently, colleague and noted researcher <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/search/label/By%20Curt%20Collins">Curt Collins</a> reached out and inquired about “a claim that the Aztec hoax was inspired by a joke newspaper story in the <i>Aztec Independent Review</i> by George Bawra.” [sic] Curt discovered a blurb (See below) in Garrett M. Graff's new book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/UFO-Inside-Governments-Search-Here_and/dp/1982196777/ref=sr_1_1?crid=11RFKAW8AOZ0V&amp&keywords=UFO%253A+The+Inside+Story+of+the+US+Government%2527s+Search+for+Alien+Life+Here%25E2%2580%2595and+Out+There&amp&qid=1701887773&amp&s=books&amp&sprefix=ufo+the+inside+story+of+the+us+government%2527s+search+for+alien+life+here+and+out+there%252Cstripbooks%252C144&amp&sr=1-1&_encoding=UTF8&tag=thufch-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=1cb5696211a8826acdb98f924961a7ef&camp=1789&creative=9325">"UFO: The Inside Story of the US Government's Search for Alien Life Here―and Out There,"</a> which precipitated the question. . <br><br>(For the record, the more common, long held precept for the origins of the Aztec UFO crash narrative is that the story was created out of </td>
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<span style="color: gold; font-size: x-small;">By Frank Warren<br>The UFO Chronicles<br> 1-31-2024</span> </div>
</td></tr></tbody></table> whole cloth by two purported conmen, i.e., <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2005/12/aztec-incident-revisited-part-one.html">Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer</a>. This account was borne by then, off and on again newspaper reporter J.P. Cahn as his former employer, the <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i> passed on <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2007/02/flying-saucers-and-mysterious-little.html">the piece</a>, thus Cahn <i>sold</i> it to <i>True</i> Magazine).
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<p>Curt additionally cited, Jeromes Clark’s piece in <i>Omni</i> magazine, in the Sept. 1988 issue and in referencing researcher Bill's Moore previous report on Aztec, he in part wrote: </p><blockquote><span style="color: gold;">
"UFO researcher William Moore who has investigated the Aztec story dismissed the new allegations [By Bill Steinman in the book, "UFO Crash at Aztec, A Well Kept Secret"] as 'unsubstantiated conjecture.' And a reporter for the <i>Daily Times</i> [Debi Yeager] published in nearby Farmington says nobody in Aztec even remembers a UFO crash [*See article below]. 'Several years ago I got a call from a guy in California and that's the first time I ever heard the story', says the reporter. "I decided to check it out. No one knew anything about it, except George Bawra [Sic] who's now dead. At the time he was editor of the <i>Aztec Independent Review</i>. He told me he had written a tongue-in-cheek story about a UFO in the area. Apparently some people picked up the story as gospel."</span></blockquote>
<p>He (Curt) went on to say that, "I've seen this repeated again and again" (as most of us who pay attention have).</p>
The <i>Farmington Daily Times</i> article cited by Moore is seen below:
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<p>In the latter part of 1991, <i>The International UFO Reporter</i> published an in-depth article/report by researchers, William E. Jones and Rebecca D. Minshall concerning Aztec, and the assertions of Bill Steinman; although they didn’t travel to Aztec, they did contact some of the stated witnesses Steinman talked to and concluded the following:</p>
<blockquote>“Neither the Scully book nor the Steinman book is persuasive. The critical information each presents is questionable. Everyone we contacted in Aztec, especially the older people who were adults in March of 1948, is certain that no crash ever took place. It is clear that the flying-saucer-crash story is part of Aztec's folklore but not its history.”</blockquote>
<p>One of the witnesses that Jones & Minshall spoke to (also) brought up Bowra, and stated:</p><blockquote>
"... the crash story may have been started by a newspaper man she believes was named George Bower [sic]; he sometimes wrote partially true and sensational stories for the local paper to help boost circulation."
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<p>In regards to Bowra, McClelland wrote:</p><blockquote>"... George Bowra who owned the Aztec newspaper in 1948. From my conversation with him, he impressed me as one who must have been a colorful individual. He recalled a tongue-in-cheek article he had written for the newspaper years ago describing his abduction by little green men from space."</blockquote>
<br><div style="text-align: center;"><b>Letters From Home</b></div>
<p>On the mind of readers at this point is, why not locate the original article(s) cited over the years? The short answer is various researchers and or interested parties have tried, myself and close colleagues included. </p>
<p>Several years ago with our first pass looking through the microfilm and or copies thereof the <i>Aztec Independent Review</i> for the issues published around 1948—we searched for <i>any <b>articles</b></i> akin to the Aztec narrative, concerning flying saucers, crashes, aliens etc., we got zilch, bupkis, nada. </p>
<p>A breakthrough ocurred when I interviewed George Bowra's son, Jim (RIP) back in 2013. When questioned about the alleged article, he stated:</p><blockquote>"my father periodically wrote a tongue-in-cheek ... uhh, article ... about a boy, kinda of a hillbilly dumb kid named Warty, and he was writing to his grandmother. Occasionally it would be local politics and city government but usually it was just ... something. He wrote this one particularly ... Warty wrote this one about a flying saucer ..." </blockquote>
<p>Armed with that information we took another dive into the microfilm, and with our boots on the ground colleague, B.M. Marshall–we stroke gold; we finally understood why the so-called article(s) were so elusive. As you can see (below), the piece(s) wasn't an article at all, it was a regular <i>column</i>, certainly tongue-in-cheek as described and first published in July of 1949.</p>
<p>The <i>first mention</i> of <b>Flying Saucers</b> <i>specifically</i> in Bowra's <i>Letter From Home</i> column was published in the March 24th, 1950 weekly issue of <i>The Aztec Independent Review.</i></p> (This was not the first mention of Flying Saucers in the paper, more on that later).
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<p>Also in that issue was an editorial likewise by Bowra simply entitled, "Flying Saucers" (see below). The commentary cites the Flying Saucer (UFO) events which occurred for 3 days in neighboring Farmington the week prior, offering a circumspect if not derogatory demeanor to the happenings at that time. In contrast, the <i>Farmington Daily Times</i> felt the sightings merited, front page, headline news. The March 18th (1950) edition of the paper in large, caps, entitled their primary article, as <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2007/05/huge-saucer-armada-jolts-farmington.html">“HUGE ‘SAUCER’ ARMADA JOLTS FARMINGTON.”</a> </p>
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<p> The gist of Bowra’s editorial was continued in his other column, "Rips and Tears." (See below). In absorbing all three elements (the <i>Letter From Home</i> column; the editorial and the <i>Rips and Tears</i> column) of the that edition that addressed or mentioned Flying Saucers, it’s clear that the events of nearby Farmington are what instigated the focus on the Saucers (UFOs). </p>
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Although Bowra's fictional character Warty, in writing to Grandma in the <i>Letter From Home</i> column shown above spoke of saucers, it was in generalizations and not event specific. With the actual articles now in play and conjecture aside, methinks even the most ardent skeptic would agree it would be a stretch, to put it mildly that the aforementioned piece is what birthed the Aztec UFO crash narrative. However, like Flying Saucer/UFO sightings during that time, Warty wasn't done, he would broach the subect again in the May 5th, 1950 issue (of the <i>Aztec Independent Review</i>). This time, he reports a sighting (See below).
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<p>In contrast to the first mention of Flying Saucers in the column, <i>Letter From Home,</i> in where Warty (Bowra) spoke in broad strokes, here (right) albeit in the repeatedly described tongue-in-cheek manner, in this instance, published on the week of May 5th, 1950, Warty is facetiously reporting about a specific (fictional) Flying Saucer (UFO) event. </p>
<p>Although the first mention of George Bowra, in connection with Flying Saucers (UFOs) by an outside source (<i>Desert Magazine</i>) occurred in 1950 (more on that later), the most significant was in McClelland’s piece in <b>December</b> of 1975. Important to note, as stated previously, McClelland wrote:</p>
<blockquote>“He [Bowra] recalled a tongue-in-cheek article he had written for the newspaper years ago describing his abduction by little green men from space."</blockquote>
<p> For the record, beginning with his son, who also worked for the paper—nowhere has there been another report or reference to Bowra writing about “abductions” whimsical or no in the <i>Aztec Independent Review</i>, or anywhere else for that matter. </p>
<p>Conversely, abductions were brought to the American mainstream via “<a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2006/09/anniversary-of-barney-betty-hills-ufo.html">The UFO Incident</a>, the 1975 American made-for-television biographical film starring James Earl Jones and Estelle Parsons based on the alleged 1961 alien abduction of Barney and Betty Hill.” The movie splashed across screens in <b>October</b>, and was the talk across kitchen tables from coast to coast. Bowra was 77 by the time McClelland spoke to him; the former never took Flying Saucers/UFOs seriously as his penscript demonstrates; I believe, given his age, then current media coverage of the TV movie and abductions, and through the fog of time—he conflated “abductions” with his previous writings re <i>Flying Saucers</i> via his pseudonym, Warty back in the day. </p>
<div style="text-align: center;"><b>Conclusions</b></div>
<p>With the Sept. 29th issue of 1950, the title of Bowra’s column was changed to “Letter To Grandma” and by March of ’52 it was taken off the front page. Over time variations would appear, e.g., Letter From Grandma, Letters To Warty from Rimrock and Letters From Cousins.
Warty (Bowra) would write again (Letter To Grandma) about Flying Saucers in the Nov. 9th, 1951 issue, recalling the mass sightings (Farmington Saucer Armada) of the year before and attributing the events to the “power of suggestion.”</p>
<p>As I replied to Curt regarding his inquiry, I wrote:
</p><blockquote>“Did George Bowra write a fictional account that describes what is known today as The Aztec Incident? No. Did he mention Flying Saucers which was an off and on again convo based on media attention? Yes, in his light-hearted letters to Grandma.”</blockquote><p></p>
<p>Additionally, Franky Scully first wrote about “The Aztec Incident” in his column for <i>Variety</i> magazine on Oct. 12th 1949—months before Bowra would generally mention Flying Saucers; said article was basically an abstract of what would later become his bestselling book, <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/search/label/Behind%20The%20Flying%20Saucers">Behind the Flying Saucers</a> (Henry Holt and Company, 1950). Moreover, at the same time, while Scully was enlightening his readers, likewise Silas Newton was spilling the beans on the golf course.</p>
<p>Finally, it’s clear from reading Bowra’s penscript above—there’s nothing that resembles, the Aztec UFO narrative, crashed Flying Saucers, aliens or abductions. The one Flying Saucer/UFO specific event he cites in his fictional, whimsical account published in the May, 5th 1950 issue which described seeing a UFO through the back window of his “store building,” shooting at it, and then realizing it was only a reflection of a “swinging light globe.” Full stop.</p>
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Over the past decades, <a href="https://www.theufochronicles.com/2021/05/evaluation-of-dods-actions-regarding.html">the DoD</a> has initiated
infrequent and inconclusive efforts to identify and understand the
origin, capabilities, and intent of unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).
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Military pilots have historically reported many of the reported UAP sightings.
Also, the Air Force and Navy have been at the forefront of developing policies,
procedures, and mechanisms for reporting UAP. In fact, the DoD has relied
heavily on the Services and Components to detect, report, collect, analyze, and
identify UAP since the 1940s.
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The DoD’s first official UAP-focused activities occurred in December 1947,
when the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff established PROJECT SIGN to investigate
the first recorded observations of unidentified flying objects. From 1947 to
1949, Air Force personnel investigated 243 reported UAP sightings. In 1952,
the U.S. Air Force Director of Intelligence initiated PROJECT BLUE BOOK to
investigate unidentified flying objects. Between 1952 and 1969, Air Force
personnel investigated over 12,000 reported sightings. The DoD did not
officially look at UAP again until mid-2000, when select members of Congress
initiated and funded a program to study UAP, called the Advanced Aerospace
Weapon Systems Applications program, under the direction of the Defense
Intelligence Agency. Since then, the DoD has attempted to establish several
programs for coordinating DoD-wide UAP reporting; however, none of the
programs were ever fully implemented. In 2020, as a result of increased
concerns of flight crew safety, national security, and adversary technology
advances, Congress directed the DoD, through the FY 2022 National Defense
Authorization Act, to develop, fund, and staff a formal interagency entity to
study, collect data, and report on UAP. On July 20, 2022, the DoD established
the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to be that entity.
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Chapter 6, title 10, United States Code, establishes the authorities of
combatant commanders, who are responsible for detecting, deterring, and
preventing threats and attacks against the United States and its territories,
possessions, and bases. After a review of the laws, policies, and guidance
issued by Congress, the DoD, and other Federal agencies, we determined that,
while the Services and Components have an important role to play, the
combatant commands would be the logical organizations to detect, report,
collect, and identify UAP incidents to AARO.
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our capacity for rational, evidence-based critical thinking is eroding, with
deleterious consequences for our ability to effectively deal with multiplying
challenges of ever increasing complexity.
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As director of the Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution
Office (AARO), charged by Congress in 2022 to help bring science-based clarity
and resolution to the long-standing mystery surrounding credible observations
of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also known as UFOs, I experienced
this erosion up close and personal. And it was one factor in my decision to
step down from my position last December. After painstakingly assembling a
team of highly talented and motivated personnel and working with them to
develop a rational, systematic and science-based strategy to investigate these
phenomena, our efforts were ultimately overwhelmed by sensational but
unsupported claims that ignored contradictory evidence yet captured the
attention of policy makers and the public, driving legislative battles and
dominating the public narrative.
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high-profile public hearing that featured tantalizing testimony from a former
military intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower named David Grusch.
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