By Paul Dean, 10 October 2016
(UFOs – Documenting The Evidence, Melbourne,
Australia)
Quote from the article:
“Recently, in Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 of
this series, I have highlighted the use of the US military’s OPREP–3 system to
report apparent UFO events which have occurred over military installations,
and, in air defence environments. OPREP–3 is short for ‘Operational Reporting –
3,’ one of
a number of distinct categories of operational report channels. A December, 1993
dated Instruction, titled ‘Joint
Reporting Structure Event and Incident Reports,’ and promulgated by the
Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), establishes that:
‘The
OPREP–3 reporting system… …is used by military units at any level of command to
report significant events and incidents to the highest levels of command.’
As I have previously outlined in this series, both
Loring AFB and Wurtsmith AFB were, in late 1975, the scene of unusual and
unexpected ‘over flights’ or ‘intrusions’ by objects variously described as ‘unidentified
helicopters,’ ‘unknown helicopters,’ ‘unidentified flying objects,’ ‘unknown
objects’ and ‘UFOs.’ Both these bases were under USAF Stratigic Air Command
(SAC) control, and both held nuclear weapons. These events were reported, via
the OPREP–3 channel, to the National Military Command Center (NMCC), the
Strategic Air Command Headquarters (SAC HQ), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff (CJCS), the USAF’s Major Command Coordination Center (MCCC), the North
American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD), the USAF’s Air Force Intelligence
Service, (AFIS), the 8th Air Force’s Headquarters (8AF HQ), and a number of other
components within the US military and intelligence community. Also, other SAC
bases, including Malmstrom AFB and Minot AFB, plus Canada’s Falconbridge Air
Station, were likewise intruded on by unidentified aircraft, or, at minimum,
some sort of unusual phenomena. As the months went on into 1976, other USAF
installations, including Fort Richie AFB, Cannon AFB and Eglin AFB were the
scene of similar aerial disturbances. Judging by tantalising references in
officially released records, there may have been similar events at other US
military installations too.
In this Part 5, I will be highlighting
never–before–seen US military documents which demonstrate, unmistakably, a
considerable level of investigation
done into the 1975 ‘over flights.’ I will not attempt to assemble the entire
investigative history that was performed by interested commands and agencies,
as such an undertaking would probably require a book–length treatment, and,
many of the documents involved remain classified, or, will have been presumably
destroyed. Rather, I will present, and briefly discuss, a mixture of records
which simply provide a snapshot of government UFO investigation, evaluation,
and very high level concern.”
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