Thursday 28 February 2019

U.S. Government UFO Document:
“PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD:
DATE: 23 Mar 52/
LOCATION: Yakima, Washington”


(Project Blue Book, U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document:
“Firey [sic] color. Flash shape.

Balloon launch was as 2100 and 0300. Only balloon in area could be possible Stray. Sun would be low at this time and could possibly cause flash of light.

Ground radar pick-up at 1805 PST. F-94 scrambled at 1833. Twice F-94 saw flash and unsuccessfully tried for radar plot showed object drifting with wind.

No ground radar pick-up after 1613 (my correction: 1813) PST.”

Project Blue Book listed the case as “Unknown.”

NOTE: NICAP.org gives the date of the UFO incident as 22 March 1952.



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Satellite photo of Yakima, Washington (tageo.com)
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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT):
“F-94 Crew Made Two Sightings /
Gnd Radar Track
March 22, 1952
Yakima, Washington”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
Brad Sparks:
March 22, 1952; 20 miles S. of Yakima, Washington (BBU 1076)
6:05 p.m.local time. USAF pilot and radar operator of F-94 jet interceptor made 2 sightings of a stationary red fireball that increased in brightness then faded over 45 secs. Note: Project Blue Book Status Report #7 (May 31, 1952) says target was also tracked by ground radar at 78 knots (90 mph) at 22,500 ft and 25,000 ft altitude. (Berliner)

Dan Wilson:
According to the PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD the sighting began at 6:05 p.m. local time. (Dan Wilson)”

NICAP.org presents U.S. government (U.S. Air Force) documents that pertain to the UFO case.


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Lockheed F-94B-1-LO Starfigher 50-0930 (text by Wikipedia)
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Wednesday 27 February 2019

UFO Book Chapter:
“Chapter 8: Tacking Against the Wind”


Book: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry
(Google Books)

Chapter 8 (Pages 139-169) focuses on the 1952 UFO situation in the United States

Just click on the “Front Cover” button to find the chapter.


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UFO Map: North America 1952
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U.S. Government UFO Document:
“SUBJECT: Contemplated Action to Determine the Nature and Origin of the Phenomena Connected with the Reports of Unusual Flying Objects”


3 January 1952
(U.S. Air Force, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format):
“1. The continued reports of unusual flying objects requires positive action to determine the nature and origin of this phenomena. The action taken thus far has been designed to track down and evaluate reports from casual observers throughout the country. Thus far, this action has produced results of doubtful value and the inconsistencies inherent in the nature of the reports has given neither positive nor negative proof of the claims.

2. It is logical to relate the reported sightings to the known development of aircraft, jet propulsion, rockets and range extension capabilities in Germany and the U.S.S.R.

3. In view of the above facts and the persistent reports of unusual flying objects over parts of the United States, particularly the east and west coast and in the vicinity of atomic energy production and testing facilities, it is apparent that positive action must be taken to determine the nature of the objects and, if possible, their origin.

4. In view of the facts outlined above, it is considered mandatory that the Air Force take positive action at once to definitely determine the nature and, if possible, the origin of the reported unusual flying objects. The following action is now contemplated:

a. to require ATIC to provide at least three teams to be matched up with an equal number of teams from ADC for the purpose of taking radar scope photographs and visual photographs of the phenomena;

b. to select sites for these teams, based on the concentration of already reported sightings over the United States; (these areas are, generally, the Seattle area, the Albuquerque area, and the New York-Philadelphia area) and

c. to take the initial steps in this project during early January 1952.

W. M. Garland
Brigadier General, USAF
Assistant for Production
Directorate of Intelligence”

Brigadier General William M. Garland sent this letter to Major General (later promoted to Lieutenant General) John A. Samford, Director of Intelligence, U.S. Air Force.

Garland was Samford’s primary aide, according to the book, UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry (Page 132).



Brigadier General William M. Garland (who himself had seen a UFO) and Major General John A. Samford are mentioned in the book, UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry (Google Books). Just write “William Garland,” “Garland,” “John Samford” or “Samford” in the search box to get the text (click on the page link to get the whole page).


U.S. Air Force biography article:
“BRIGADIER GENERAL WILLIAM M. GARLAND”:


U.S. Air Force biography article:
“LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN A. SAMFORD”:


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UFO News Article:
“Whatever’s Up There, Many
People Are Sighting Things”


31 July 1952
(Herald-News, Passaic, New Jersey)

Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com

Quote from the article:
“The sighting yesterday (30 July 1952) of a ‘glowing object, blue-orange colored, flying at terrific speed’ over Teaneck by Fire Lieutenant Mowbray Darby, Captain Harry Davis and Fireman Arthur Backer gives more credibility to flying saucer reports over Bergen and Passaic Counties.”


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Tuesday 26 February 2019

UFO News Article:
“CITY SURVEY CREW SIGHTS SAUCER
THROUGH LENS OF TRANSIT IN RENO”


8 July 1952
(Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada)

Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com

The whole article:
“Flying saucers, as well as daylight meteors, were in the news today in Reno.

Elliott Cann, city engineer, gave a belated report that a city survey crew sighted an object last Thursday (3 July 1952) described as resembling an inverted parachute.

The four members of the crew, as well as two interested bystanders, were able to watch the object through a transit lens for ‘three to four minutes.’

Croyden York, the man in charge of the survey crew, said he and three other city surveyors were in a truck in the Alameda Heights subdivision just north of the race track last Thursday when they first saw the object hovering in the sky over the Spanish Springs mountains at about 3:15 p.m.

‘I stopped the truck, set up the transit and got a sight of it,’ Mr. York said.

The head surveyor said he and the other crew members and a man and a woman who came running to see what was going on all were able to watch the object through the transit.

Mr. York described the ‘flying saucer’ as resembling an inverted 
p a r a c h u t e with three vapor streams rising from its surface up to a point  some ‘150 feet or more’ where they joined together.

And Mr. York said, ‘those six pairs of eyes’ which looked through the transit weren’t all that saw the object that day.

He said he had heard other reports of a saucer-shaped object over Peavine mountain earlier that day, and a ‘reliable person’ reported seeing the same type of object about 150 miles south of Reno Thursday evening, he added.

‘While we were watching it, it hovered over the mountains, almost perfectly still, for three or four minutes, then took off toward the direction of Fernley and disappeared,’ he said.

But while it was traveling away, Mr. York said he and the crewmen were abel to follow its path with the transit.

‘And if it had been a jet plane, it couldn’t have been followed that way,’ he said.

Mr. York said the vapor trail from the object discredited the idea that it might have been a jet plane.

‘If it had been a jet, the vapor would have been parallel to the earth’s surface as it moved across the sky. But the vapor from this was vertical.

Just how high in the sky the object was, Mr. York said he couldn’t estimate. But he said it was close enough to the ground that if there was anybody in it, they could have been taking pictures.

The other crewmen with Mr. York were Burt Chanslor, Terry Whobrey and Wayne Peterson. The two interested bystanders were unidentified.

City Engineer Elliott Cann, in reporting the incident belatedly today, explained that there are so many stories these days about objects in the skies that persons are apt to be sceptical.

‘But every one of these four men swore that they saw something,’ he said.

Mr. Cann wasn’t on the scene himself.”


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Skyline of Reno, Nevada. Camera is looking north towards
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Satellite photo of Reno, Nevada (tageo.com)
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UFO Documentary Film Segment:
“The Washington DC UFO Sightings”


Published: 21 July 2017
(History, New York City, New York)

Source: Unsealed Files (YouTube channel)

Quote from the video text:
“In the spring of 1952, UFO sightings go off the charts. For years, the U.S. government has told the postwar public that UFOs do not exist, but behind the scenes, U.S. Air Force officials are divided. Join us as we investigate the 1952 UFO Wave; a spike in sightings so extreme that the U.S. government is forced to confront the UFO phenomena head on.”


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UFO Documentary Film Segment:
“Unsealed Alien Files, 1952 UFO Wave”


Published: 6 June 2016
(History, New York City, New York)

Source: Unsealed Files (YouTube channel)

Quote from the video text:
“In the spring of 1952, UFO sightings go off the charts. For years, the U.S. government has told the postwar public that UFOs do not exist, but behind the scenes, U.S. Air Force officials are divided. Join us as we investigate the 1952 UFO Wave; a spike in sightings so extreme that the U.S. government is forced to confront the UFO phenomena head on.”


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UFO Map: North America 1952
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Monday 25 February 2019

UFO Case Report
(SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT):
“AF Light Plane Encounters Object / E-M Effects
June 17, 1977
Castelo de Bode Dam, Portugal”


(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:
“noon
Duration ???
aircraft AF Dornier 27
PORTUGAL
Military?
1 observer
EMI
No radar contact

Fran Ridge:
June 17, 1977; Castelo de Bode Dam, Portugal
12:00 noon local. José Fransisco Rodrigues was flying a Portuguese Air Force Dornier 27 light plane over the Castelo de Bode dam, when suddenly, emerging from the clouds, he saw a dark object against a backdrop of white stratocumulus, slightly to the right of his plane. Thinking that the object was perhaps a cargo plane, he banked to the left and immediately radioed to ask if there was any traffic in the vicinity. The reply was negative. As the pilot completed a turn to port, the unknown object suddenly appeared at his eleven o’clock position ‘no more than six meters away’. It was definitely not a cargo plane. The upper section, partially concealed by cloud, was black, and on the lower section there appeared to be four or five panels. The object was approximately  13 to 15 meters in diameter. Suddenly it accelerated and vanished from what the pilot believes was an initial stationary position. The Dornier began to vibrate violently and went into uncontrolled dive. Struggling to regain control, the pilot pushed the control column forward. Air speed increased to 140 knots then 180 knots as the ground came nearer. Control was fortunately regained when almost ‘touching the tree tops’ and the plane was landed in one piece. - with a badly shaken pilot. During the encounter the directional electric gyroscope (connected to a magnetic compass) rotated wildly, and by the time the plane landed it had deviated by 180° relative to magnetic compass. (Source : Beyond Top Secret, by Timothy Good, 1998; Richard Haines, Case 42)

NOTE: The name of the dam is written both “Castelo de Bode” and “Castelo do Bode,” according to Google searches.


Wikipedia article: “Barragem de Castelo do Bode”:


Wikipedia article: “Castelo do Bode Dam” (translation by Google Translate):


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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT):
“Object Tracked on Radar by B-1 Bomber
March 29, 1977
FA - Pacific Ocean, W. of California”


(NICAP.org)

Text by NICAP.org:
Fran Ridge:
3:22 PM. The document has been scanned and presented below and is listed as Case number 310 177. The details from the observer are in the pdf file below the first document.”


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Sunday 24 February 2019

UFO Report:
“The 1977 UFO Chronology”


Created: 15 August 2007
Updated: 4 March 2018
(NICAP.org)

Quote from the UFO report:
“This is currently a 24-page chronology of UFO incidents and events for 1977. Our thanks for these chronologies must go to our documentation team: Richard Hall (the original 1977 chronology from UFOE II), William Wise (Project Blue Book Archive), Dan Wilson (archive researcher), Brad Sparks (Comprehensive Catalog of Project Blue Book Unknowns), and Jean Waskiewicz (online NICAP DBase [NSID]). The latest entries were provided by A-Team member Mike Swords. You will note the many foreign reports that we are now being able to access. Our special thanks to Dan Wilson for getting those to us. As more come in, this page will be updated.

This is the year that the MADAR Project got its real test. Go to July 10th and listen to the datatape recording! There were seven detections of magnetic anomalies by the Multiple Anomaly Detection and Automated Recording system at my Mt. Vernon, Indiana facility, within a six week period! There were UFO sightings within 60 miles NW and 85 miles SW at the same time MADAR was triggered.

Finally, in November, I was invited by the press to view the motion picture ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind’ before it was officially released.

Francis Ridge
NICAP Site Coordinator

April 20, 1977 - CIA Memo Declassified
Memo from CIA Director Walter Bedell Smith to Director, Psychological Strategy Board, declassified 20 April 1977 (Good, Above Top Secret, 511)

May 1977; France. Groupe d'Etude des Phenomenes Aerospatiaux Non-Identifies (GEPAN) organized under the auspices of the French national space agency for the study of UFOs.

July 1, 1977; Aviano, Italy
3:00 AM. Electronic alarms suddenly sounded at the NATO base and then home to the 40th Tactical Group. Something had set off the magnetic and motion detectors in the high hurricane type fence protecting the Victor Alert compound, a facility that housed fighter aircraft, their crews, maintenance and support personnel. Simultaneously a power outage occurred at the Victor Alert facility, and though a back-up system immediately kicked in, minor power fluxes went on for the next 15 to 20 minutes. Soon security personnel were reporting a strange light display off to the northwest, off base, perhaps 200 meters beyond the fence line, over a soybean field. Luminous round object with dome hovered above a NATO base security zone, spinning; changed color, emitted sound like swarm of bees (NICAP UFOE II, NICAP UFOE II, Section II).

July 21, 1977; Porter, TX
4:15 AM. Officer John W. Bruner, a deputy sheriff, was on duty and was the first person to observe the phenomenon. Officer Bruner and his partner Officer Coogler were parked west of the object which appeared to be approximately 1/2 to 1 mile away. Bruner and Coogler got out of their vehicle and tried to observe the object better by shinning their light on it. The object moved toward the men and the officers turned off the light because they became nervous at seeing the object's response to their light. The object then moved back to its first location. The two officers concurred that the object appeared to have six portholes surrounding a type of framework. The two officers observed the UFO for approximately 45 minutes. During that time period, the UFO appeared to stand still in mid air, pulsated, traveled at incredible speeds and flew with erratic mobility. The officers described the UFO's apparent size to be about that of a grapefruit. Officer Bruner is convinced That the object he saw was not a balloon or a helicopter. (Reference: UFO INVESTIGATOR, October 1977, page 4)

Aug. 28, 1977; Windermere, Cumbria, England
12:10 AM An on duty police officer PC IAN MACKENZIE observed two very bright horizontal lights in the vicinity of Langdale Pike that moved towards him and grew brighter. He ruled out any type of aircraft. At the same time PS JOHN McMULLEN also spotted the UFO from his location whilst walking through Keswick with three other officers. He described the object as being hang glider or diamond shaped. At 0020 hours PS JAMES TROHEAR and PC JOHN FISWICK also reported seeing the object from their position at the Fallbarrow Park Caravan Site on the shores of Lake Windermere. Other unnamed officers were also present at that location and saw the object. PS TROHEAR described the object as triangular or diamond shaped. At 0022 hours PC ALEXANDER INGLIS was driving home with three colleagues along the A591Keswick to Bothel road when they too caught sight of the lights. As the object approached them he pulled the car over to have a better look. Despite their efforts they could not make out a distinct shape of the object. All they could make out was two extremely bright lights attached to it and there was a faint purring noise associated with it. At 0025 hours PC JOSEPH MAW and a colleague spotted the object heading in the direction of Buttermere. It was traveling at a low altitude over the surrounding fells. At around the same time PC DAVID WILD spotted the UFO whilst out on foot patrol on the A592 Rayrigg Road to Bowness. He described it as kite shaped and that it was a very large structured craft. At 0030 hours a number of civilian witnesses also spotted the object. At the same time following a police radio request for officer sightings, two further officers, PS GEOFFREY MERCKEL and PC RONALD JONES observed the same UFO from their position at Skelwith Bridge on the A593 road. They described the object as being kite shaped as they watched it go out to sea over Morcambe Bay. Multiple police witness corroboration reported from several geographical locations. On and Off Duty sighting. 17 Officers (nine named plus a number of unspecified officers). Source - A Covert Agenda by Nick Redfern. Pocket Books 1998. Pages 131-132. (Reference: THE 5TH ANNUAL PRUFOS POLICE REPORT 2006 by Detective Constable 1877 HESELTINE British Transport Police )

Dec. 8, 1977; Los Angeles, CA
Four UFOs tracked on radar; bright, circular objects maneuvered around airliner (NICAP UFOE II, Section III).”

Quote from the Wikipedia article, “Porter, Texas”:
“Porter is an unincorporated community in Montgomery County in southeastern Texas within the Houston–The Woodlands–Sugar Land metropolitan area.”


Wikipedia article: “Aviano Air Base”:


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