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Thursday, 5 September 2019

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Robert Powell, U.S. UFO Researcher
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Saturday, 25 June 2016

UFO Video Interview:
“UFOs and Government –
Interview with co-author Robert Powell”


Published: 3 September 2012
(Mutual UFO Network, Irvine, California)

Source: Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry

This is an interview with Robert Powell on a new book he co-authored about UFOs and the government’s response. Robert is also the Director of Research for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).

Governments around the world have had to deal with the UFO phenomenon for a good part of a century. How and why they did so is the subject of UFOs and Government, a history that for the first time tells the story from the perspective of the governments themselves. It’s a perspective that reveals a great deal about what we citizens have seen, and puzzled over, from the ‘outside’ for so many years. The story, which is unmasked by the governments’ own documents, explains much that is new, or at least not commonly known, about the seriousness with which the military and intelligence communities approached the UFO problem internally.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mIvyyBykm4

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Saturday, 23 June 2018

UFO Radio Interview:
“UFOs and Government -
A Historical Inquiry - Robert Powell”


Published: 12 August 2017
UFORadio International, Episode #5
(UFORadio International)

Source: OmniTalk Radio (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“In today’s episode we are talking with prominent researcher - Robert Powell. We will discuss important book titled ‘UFOs and Government - A Historical Inquiry.’ Interview covers important elements of UFO history with 7 rare audio clips that serve as companion pieces. Some of the subjects that we covered were:

Foo Fighters and Ghost Rockets
Kenneth Arnold’s Sighting
Project Sign and Estimate of the Situation
Projects Grudge and Blue Book
Washington UFO Flap 1952
Michigan UFO Flap 1966
Condon’s Committee
FOIA era of UFO Documents in 1970s
Scientific Coalition of Ufology
November 2004 Radar-Visual USS Princeton / USS Nimitz Incident”

The radio show is hosted by journalist and UFO researcher Giuliano Marinkovic.


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Wednesday, 27 February 2019

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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Brigadier General William M. Garland, U.S. Air Force
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Major General John A. Samford, U.S. Air Force
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012

UFO Article (Blog):
“UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry”,
by Robert Barrow, 13 August 2012
(Robert-Barrow.blogspot.com)


The book, “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry,” is written by Michael D. Swords and Robert Powell, with Clas Svahn, Vicente-Juan Ballester Olmos, Bill Chalker, Barry J. Greenwood, Richard Thieme, Jan Aldrich and Steve Purcell:

http://robert-barrow.blogspot.com/2012/08/ufos-and-government-historical-inquiry.html
















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Tuesday, 27 September 2016

UFO Lecture:
“DEF CON 21 – Richard Thieme –
The Government and UFOs A Historical Analysis”


Source: DEFCONConference (YouTube channel)

In this lecture, Richard Thieme talks about the book, “UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry.”

Thieme is co-author of the book.


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Sunday, 31 March 2019

UFO Radio Interview:
“Robert Powell, the USS Nimitz ‘Tic Tac’ UFO,
Part of the Pentagon Secret UFO Search”


Streamed live: 13 December 2017
(Podcast UFO, Sebago, Maine)

Source: Martin Willis Live Shows (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Guest Robert Powell discusses the Aguadilla, Puerto Rico UFO sighting and then the USS Nimitz 2004 UFO Incidents, in hour two he speaks of a very interesting sighting a DOD contractor had while hunting and much more.

BIO: Robert Powell is a charter board member of The Scientific Coalition for Ufology (SCU), has been the Director of Research at MUFON from 2007-2017 and created MUFON's Science Review Board in 2012. He is one of two authors of the detailed radar/witness report on the ‘Stephenville Lights’ as well as the SCU report ‘UAP: 2013 Aguadilla, Puerto Rico’. Robert is also a member of the Society for Scientific Exploration, the UFODATA project, and the National Space Society. Robert is active with FOIA requests to various government organizations to obtain information on historical cases and is a co-author of a book published in July 2012: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry. Robert currently resides in Austin, Texas.”

The November 2004 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group 11 UFO incidents occurred about a hundred miles south west of San Diego, California. The UFOs were observed on radar on and off for several days, according to USS Princeton radar operator Kevin M. Day. The main incident occurred on 14 November 2004.

To my knowledge, five U.S. Navy personnel, Kevin M. Day, David Fravor, P. J. Hughes, Omar Lara and Jim Slaight, have talked about the UFO incidents on the Internet.

Kevin M. Day was a radar operator aboard the USS Princeton.

David Fravor, who chased the UFO (resembled a white Tic Tac), was flying his F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

At the time of the UFO incident, Fravor was the commanding officer of the VFA-41 Black Aces, a U.S. Navy strike fighter squadron.

P. J. Hughes was an aviation technician aboard the USS Nimitz.

Omar Lara was a Flight Decker in Air Ops aboard the USS Nimitz.

Lieutenant Commander (later Commander) Jim Slaight was the pilot of the second F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter.

On 25 April 2013, at around 9:20 p.m., a UFO/USO was filmed over the Rafael Hernández Airport (before it shortly thereafter dived into the sea) in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, by a DHC-8 Turboprop under the command of U.S. Customs and Border Protection.


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Robert Powell, U.S. UFO Researcher
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Freeze-frame of the Tic Tac UFO (filmed from a U.S. Navy
F/A-18F Super Hornet jet fighter on 14 November 2004)
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USS Nimitz ahead of USS Princeton (text by Wikipedia)
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Freeze-frame of the UFO/USO that was filmed over 
Aguadilla, Puerto Rico, on 25 April 2013
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Wednesday, 20 May 2020

UFO Radio Interview:
“Clas Svahn, Files of the Unexplained,
UFOs & More”


Streamed live: 14 January 2020
(Podcast UFO, Sebago, Maine)

Source: Martin Willis Live Shows (YouTube channel)

Video text:
“Clas Svahn will be joining us from Sweden to discuss UFOs in Sweden, [UFO-Sverige’s] massive library and his latest and very interesting book, Files of the Unexplained, The Hidden History and Forgotten Photographs from the world of the Unknown.  https://bit.ly/35H0S2f

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CLAS SVAHN Born: 12 April 1958 in Mariestad, Sweden.
Education: Journalist since 1978 after studies at Journalisthögskolan in Gothenburg.
Occupation: Journalist at Mariestads-Tidningen (Mariestad) 1978-1983, Norrbottens-Kuriren (Luleå) 1983-1990 and Dagens Nyheter (Stockholm), Sweden’s largest morning newspaper, since 1990. Works as a reviewer for UFO, science fiction and other related books for the Swedish libraries.
Family: Wife Anneli and two children, Niklas (born 1992) and Markus (born 1994).
Hobbies: UFO research, amateur astronomy.

UFO-history:
Founded the local organisation UFO-Mariestad on 17 May 1974, member of UFO-Sweden’s board since 1988 and chairman 1991–2013. Since 2013 Svahn is international director for UFO-Sweden [UFO-Sverige] and also vice chairman for the organization. Chairman of Archives For the Unexplained, AFU, in Norrköping since 2017. Editor of UFO-Sweden’s magazine ‘UFO-Aktuellt’. Leader of two expeditions to Lake Nammajaure in 2012 and 2014 trying two locate a sunken Ghost Rocket. Main character in the documentary ‘Ghost Rockets’ 2015.

UFO-books in Swedish:
‘Domstensfallet – en svensk närkontakt 1958’ with Anders Liljegren (‘The Domsten case – a Swedish close encounter in 1958’, AFU 1989); ‘Mötet i gläntan’ with Gösta Carlsson (‘The encounter in the clearing’, NTB Parthenon, 1995); ‘UFO-Mysteriet – från flygande tefat till cirklar i sädesfälten’ (‘The UFO mystery – from flying saucers to crop circles’, Parthenon 1998); ‘Fakta om UFO’ (‘Facts about UFOs’, Parthenon 1998) with Göran Norlén; ‘UFO – möte med det okända’ (‘UFO – encounter with the unknown’, Semic 2000); ‘Vålnader, utomjordingar och mystiska fenomen – Bilder av det okända’, (‘Hauntings, aliens and mystical phenomena – Pictures of the unknown’ Semic 2010); Main contributor to ‘Världens största konspirationer’ (‘The world’s largest conspiracies’, Semic 2012); ‘UFO – spökraketer, ljusglober och utomjordingar’, (‘UFOs – Ghost Rockets, orbs of light and aliens’, Semic 2014); ‘Mötet i gläntan’ with Gösta Carlsson (‘The encounter in the clearing’ Parthenon & UFO-Sverige new and expanded edition 2015); ‘Det okända – övernaturliga möten och fenomen, (‘The Unknown - supernatural meetings and phenomena’, Semic 2018) and ‘Verklighetens Arkiv X’ (‘Files of the unexplained – the hidden history and forgotten photographs from the world of the unknown’ (Semic 2019).

UFO-books in English and contributions to other UFO books:
One chapter in ‘UFOs 1947–1987 – The 40 Year Search for an Explanation’ with Anders Liljegren (Fortean Tomes 1987, ed. Evans/Spencer); One chapter in ‘Phenomenon’ (Futura 1988, ed. Spencer/Evans); One chapter with Robert Bartholomew and Anders Liljegren in ‘UFOs & Alien Contact’, (Prometheus Books 1998, Bartholomew/Howard); One chapter in ‘The Swedish Ghost Rocket Delusion of 1946’ with Robert Bartholomew, Glenn Dawes and Anders Liljegren (Fortean Studies Volume 6, John Brown Publ. 1999, ed. Steve Moore); Two chapters in ‘UFOs and government – A Historical Inquiry’, (Anomalist Books 2012, ed. Michael Swords & Robert Powell); One chapter in ‘Ovnis: Las 50 mejores evidencias’, (Cydonia 2017, ed. José Antonio Caravaca); One chapter in ‘Aliens, Ships and Hoaxes’ (Kindle 2018, ed. Milton W. Hourcade); ‘Files of the unexplained – the hidden history and forgotten photographs from the world of the unknown’ (AFU 2019) and one chapter in ‘2019 International UFO Symposium’ (MUFON 2019, ed. Barbra Schuessler Sobhani).

UFO related books:
‘Övernaturligt’ (‘Supernatural’, coauthor, Semic 1997); ‘Oförklarligt’ (‘Unexplained’, coauthor, Semic 1998); ‘Gåtfullt’ (‘Strange’, coauthor, Semic 1999); ‘Berättelser om det okända’ (‘Tales of the unexplained’, Semic 2008)

Other media:
Svahn has also co-produced several domestic TV-programs in Sweden as well as SciFi Channels ‘Earthscan’ and ‘Sweden special’. During 2019 he produced a series of UFO programs for Dagens Nyheters TV channel. He has contributed with articles in many Swedish and foreign UFO magazines. Svahns pictures have been published in many books and magazines, such as: Evans/Spencer, ed: UFOs 1947–1987 (1987), Stone: UFO Investigation (1993), Moran: Alien art (1998), Clark: The UFO Encyclopedia (1998), Bord: ‘The World of the Unexplained’ (1998) and Nylén: ‘Den nödvändiga boken om Allsvenskan’ (2004).”

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Monday, 11 June 2018

Google Books:
UFO Book Segment:
“Green Fireballs: CENSORSHIP:
THE KIRTLAND FIREBALL CATALOG”


Source: UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry

This very revealing book segment (Chapter 7, Pages 133-135) exposes U.S. Air Force UFO censorship.

The segment focuses on the “green fireball” incident case reports that are contained in a 209-case (cases run from January 1946 through May 1950) catalogue that originated at New Mexico’s Kirtland Air Force Base (17th District, Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI)). The U.S. Air Force entirely deleted two columns on the chart: “Reliability of Observer” and “Evaluation.” The censorship was performed in the late 1970s, according to the book!

The catalogue’s selection of conclusions are as follows:
1” is “Green Fireball Phenomena,” “2” is “Disk or Variation” (!) and “3” is “Probable Meteor.”

The “Disk or Variation” conclusion is curious, the book says—because during the Project Grudge era, “flying disks, or saucers, officially did not exist.”


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Wednesday, 22 August 2018

UFO Article:
“Why Mysterious Green Fireballs
Worried the U.S. Government in 1948”


17 August 2018
(History, New York City, New York)

The U.S. Air Force investigated the “Green Fireball” phenomenon through Project Twinkle.

The Project Twinkle Final Report was released on 27 November 1951, according to the book, UFOs and Government: A Historical Inquiry.


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