UFO News Article: “Top officer backs UFO ‘plot’ claim”

4 September 1995

(The Press and Journal, Aberdeen, UK)

Source: BritishNewspaperArchive.co.uk

The whole article:

“ONE of Britain’s highest-ranking military officers is backing a claim that the Government is concealing evidence of an unidentified flying object.

In a book A Deadly Concealment, to be published next year, author Derek Sheffield tells how on March 30, 1990, four [NATO] air defence radar stations, three in Belgium and one in Germany, tracked a fast-moving triangular craft across Western Europe.

At one stage, it came within six minutes of entering UK airspace, he claims.

Two F-16 fighters from the Belgian Air Force were scrambled to intercept the target but could not keep up with it.

Mr Sheffield says the Ministry of Defence denies any knowledge of the incident despite his claims that British-based tracking stations would automatically have been alerted.

That view is shared by Admiral of the Fleet Lord Hill-Norton, who between 1974 and 1977 was the chairman of [NATO’s] military Committee.

Lord Hill-Norton said: ‘The fact is that, if these European tracking stations detected a UFO, two fighters were sent up to intercept it and it came to be six minutes from British airspace, there is no doubt in my mind that the UK air defence organisation would automatically know about it.’ ”

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000578/19950904/059/0006

Wikipedia article: “NATO”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, /ˈneɪtoʊ/; French: Organisation du traité de l’Atlantique nord, OTAN), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 North American and European countries. The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949.[3][4] NATO constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its independent member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. NATO’s Headquarters are located in Evere, Brussels, Belgium, while the headquarters of Allied Command Operations is near Mons, Belgium.”

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The late Admiral of the Fleet Baron (Peter John) Hill-Norton

(in 1962), former Chief of the Defence Staff (CDS) of the

United Kingdom and former Chairman of the NATO Military

Committee (wikimedia.org photo)

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Website Searches: Focus On UFO News Articles From the Years 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1966

Website: Trove (National Library of Australia, Canberra, ACT, Australia):

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1962-01-01&dateTo=1962-12-31

(Search term: Flying Saucer 1962)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1962-01-01&dateTo=1962-12-31

(UFO 1962)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1963-01-01&dateTo=1963-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1963)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1963-01-01&dateTo=1963-12-31

(UFO 1963)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1964-01-01&dateTo=1964-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1964)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1964-01-01&dateTo=1964-12-31

(UFO 1964) (no results as of 1 February 2020)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1965-01-01&dateTo=1965-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1965)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1965-01-01&dateTo=1965-12-31

(UFO 1965)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1966-01-01&dateTo=1966-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1966)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1966-01-01&dateTo=1966-12-31
(UFO 1966)

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Google Website Search: Focus On the UFO Incidents That Have Occurred At the Selfridge Air National Guard Base and Selfridge AFB Radar Station Through the Years

Website: NICAP.org

Selfridge Air National Guard Base and Selfridge AFB Army Air Defense Command Post are located near Mount Clemens, Michigan.

It is possible to use brilliant – second to none UFO websites like NICAP.org to find the total (or near total) number of UFO cases that have occurred at or near a specific military base, facility or installation.

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=Selfridge+site:NICAP.org

(Search term: Selfridge)

Wikipedia article: “Selfridge Air National Guard Base”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_Air_National_Guard_Base

Quote from the above Wikipedia article:

“Selfridge Air National Guard Base or Selfridge ANGB (IATA: MTC, ICAO: KMTC, FAA LID: MTC) is an Air National Guard installation located in Harrison Township, Michigan, near Mount Clemens. Selfridge Field was one of thirty-two Air Service training camps established after the United States entry into World War I in April 1917.[1]

Units and organizations

The host organization is the 127th Wing (127 WG) of the Michigan Air National Guard, but a variety of Air Force Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Army Reserve, Army National Guard and active duty Coast Guard units use the facility as well.[2] In 1971, Selfridge ANGB became the largest and most complex joint Reserves Forces base in the United States, a position it held until surpassed by NAS JRB Fort Worth (former Carswell AFB) in the late 1990s.

"U.S. Army Garrison-Selfridge serves the Tank-automotive and Armaments Command (TACOM) supporting tank construction in the Detroit area."[3] Civil Air Patrol civilian organizations at Selfridge are the 176th Selfridge Composite Squadron and the headquarters of the Michigan Wing.

Selfridge is home to Headquarters and Service Company, 1st Battalion, 24th Marines and Marine Wing Support Group 47 (MWSG-47.)[4][5]”

Wikipedia article: “Selfridge AFB radar station”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selfridge_AFB_radar_station

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The Selfridge AFB radar station is a United States military facility in Michigan. It began operations in 1949 with a Bendix AN/CPS-5 Radar test that tracked aircraft at 210 mi (340 km).[citation needed] A height finder MIT AN/CPS-4 Radar was added by March 9, 1950;[2] and the station was site L-17 of the Lashup Radar Network and site LP-17[when?] of the subsequent network during construction of the Air Defense Command permanent network. The 661st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was activated at Selfridge in 1951, and with a pair of General Electric AN/CPS-6 Radars,[clarification needed] the station became site LP-20 of the permanent ADC network in 1952. In 1957 the station added a height finder General Electric AN/FPS-6 Radar. The station became part of the Semi Automatic Ground Environment radar network in 1959, supplying radar tracks to SAGE data center DC-06 at Custer Air Force Station, Michigan, for directing interceptor aircraft and CIM-10 Bomarc air defense missiles.

By 1960, the AN/CPS-6 radar had been replaced by a Bendix AN/FPS-20 Radar for general surveillance, and the site had an additional General Electric AN/FPS-6A height-finder radar. A Sperry AN/FPS-35 radar installed at the station's tower in 1961 became operational in 1962, and the AN/FPS-6A height-finder was replaced with an Avco AN/FPS-26A Radar c. 1963. On 31 July 1963, Selfridge AFB was redesignated as NORAD site Z-20.

The 661st AC & WS also operated Gap Filler sites with Bendix AN/FPS-18 Radars before deactivating on July 1, 1974. The radar station was shared with the United States Army for Nike missile command-and-control.

In 1960, Army Air Defense Command Post (AADCP) D-15DC was constructed for coordinating Nike surface-to-air missile launches from numerous Michigan batteries from Algonac/Marine City (D-17) south to Carleton (D-57) & Newport (D-58). The AADCP closed when the Army deactivated the remaining D-06, D-58, & D-87 batteries in April 1974 at Utica, Newport, and Commerce/Union Lake.”

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Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan (wikimedia.org)

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Satellite photo of Mount Clemens, Michigan (tageo.com)

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UFO News Article: “Navy tracks UFO at 3,000mph”

1 May 1982

(News World, New York City, New York)

Sources: U.F.O. Newsclipping Service, Plumerville, Arkansas and AFU.se

The whole article:

“Are UFO’s real? Certainly, most of those people who see them believe they are real. Even more convincing, UFOs are sometimes picked up on radar. Following is a case that occurred at a time when no nation on earth had any rocket or aircraft capable of doing what this object did. In fact, we still don’t have such capabilities. 

The USS Dyess steamed slowly through the night off the Atlantic Coast, keeping track of all air traffic within hundreds of miles to prevent any sneak attack by the Soviet Union.

‘We were afraid the Russians were going to bomb Washington at that time because we had gone into Korea,’ said Dr. Robert Wood, who was then a Navy lieutenant commander.

The Dyess, a radar picket destroyer, was about 125 miles southeast of Cape May, N.J., and Lt. Cmdr. Wood, the ship’s operations officer and an air controller, was manning one of the radars at the time.

‘We were plotting all the aircraft going north and south along the coast and inland as far as the Appalachians and any objects that were comng [sic] in from the northeast, the east and the southeast.

‘Every aircraft had to have a certain set of parameters — distances, heights and whatnot — on their point of arrival over us.

‘On this particular night — it was about 11:30 one night in March 1951, I forget the exact date — this object came in from the east and got within about 30 miles of us when it just stopped dead.

‘It had been moving rather slowly, about 85 to 90 knots. We didn’t have the altitude-determining radar on at the time and we had to get one of the operators to come up. When he did, we found the object was somewhere in the neighborhood of 3,000 to 4,000 feet altitude.

‘This object gave us a blip on the radar screen about the size of a large aircraft, like a DC8 or a DC9. I phoned the bridge and they informed the captain, who ordered the ship to head out in the direction of the object.

We’d been loafing along steaming in circles, and didn’t have all our boiler power on. We did about as much as we could, about 22 knots, out in that direction.

‘We got to within about 15 miles of that object when it suddenly took off at a very high rate of speed. It was going so rapidly that as the radar turned we could see the blip just jumping across the screen.

‘We estimated it was going 5,000 kilometers an hour or roughly 3,000 miles an hour.

‘Then, when it got up within 35 or 40 miles south of Nantuckett, it suddenly just took off and went straight up!

‘I called the bridge and said, ‘We’re losing contact, the object is fading.’ And the operator on the altitude-determining radar in the other end of the room said, ‘NO! I’ve still got it! It’s 100 miles high and it’s still going straight up!’

The object then faded from the second radar.

Altogether, they had tracked the object about 35 to 40 minutes, said Dr. Wood, who is now a professor of astronomy and director of the observatory at Brevard Community College in Cocoa, Fla.

‘We reported it to the Pentagon but we never heard anything more about it.’

‘He couldn’t explain what it was he tracked that night. He has long accepted the idea that it was an unidentified flying object, whatever that may be.’

‘That was in 1951,’ he said. ‘I knew radar and I knew what it could do. We didn’t have any aircraft that could go that fast, especially after it came and hovered. And then when it got up near Nantuckett it just went straight up and disappeared. 

‘There must be something there. There’s more than just smoke. There must be fire.’ ”

The article is written by the late journalist Bob Pratt, who for years investigated the UFO phenomenon.

http://files.afu.se/Downloads/Magazines/United%20States/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service/UFO%20Newsclipping%20Service%20-%201982%2005%20-%20no%20154.pdf

Wikipedia article: “USS Dyess (DD-880)”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Dyess_(DD-880)

Quote from the Wikipedia article:
“USS Dyess (DD/DDR-880), a Gearing-class destroyer, was a ship of the United States Navy named for Aquilla James Dyess (1909–1944).”

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The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Dyess (DDR-880) underway on 
15 January 1962, while serving with the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. (text by Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (wikimedia.org photo)

Satellite photo of Cape May, New Jersey (tageo.com)

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UFO News Articles Archive: “Australian (NSW) UFO Related Newspapers’ Articles (1962 to 2011) as Searchable pdf Documents”

(UFO Research (NSW) Incorporated, Sydney, Australia)

http://www.ufor.asn.au/archives/ufo-related-newspaper-and-magazine-cuttings/

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UFO News Article: “MYSTERIOUS OBJECT SEEN OVER TAUNTON”

26 May 1962

(Taunton Courier, and Western Advertiser, UK)

Source: ufonewspaper.blogspot.com

The whole article:

“What was the object an airline pilot saw in the sky over Taunton on Monday? He is wondering whether it was a flying saucer.

Captain Gordon Pendleton was flying a Viscount airliner from Cork to Brussels when he saw the object.

‘I have never seen anything like it,’ he said. ‘It passed nearly 3,000 feet underneath me. I have always been sceptical about flying saucers.

‘If it had been a plane I should have seen the wings. It didn’t appear to have any.’

None of the 60 passengers, nor the two stewardesses saw the object.

The object was also seen by the plane’s first officer, Peter Murray, who described it as ‘large, brown and irregularly shaped.’ ‘It was smaller than a Viscount and travelling at more than 500 miles an hour,’ he said.

Captain Pendleton’s report was flashed from London Airport to the Air Ministry, where a spokesman later said it was being investigated.

Mr. Roy Julyan, chief air traffic controller at Filton, Bristol, aerodrome said: ‘There was a lot of cloud about, and at the height the thing was reported, no one would have seen it from the ground. I don’t believe in flying saucers, but there must be something in what the pilot has said.’ ”

The UFO incident occurred on 21 May 1962.

http://ufonewspaper.blogspot.com/2018/06/pilots-see-brown-ufo-in-1962-england.html

Wikipedia article: “Vickers Viscount”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Viscount

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Viscount 701 of Cambrian Airways at Bristol Airport, 1963

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U.S. Government UFO Document: “PROJECT 10073 RECORD CARD: DATE: 21 Jun 62/ LOCATION: Indianapolis, Indiana”

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

Source: NICAP.org

Quote from the document:

“Objs like stars, size & brilliande [sic] of 1st mag star. White. One & then 2 obsvd. 1st obsvd at 60dgr elev 40dgr azimuth moving to 10dgr elev 40 dgr azimuth descending toward the horizon disappearing behind clouds in 20-30 secs. Second two obsvd at 60dgr elev 40dgr azimuth & moved to 10dgr elev 210 azimuth. 10sec spacing between pair of objs in second sighting for 2 mins. See case file for complete info.

Unidentified See case file.”

Project Blue Book listed the case as “Unknown.”

NICAP.org also presents the other documents that pertain to the case.

http://www.nicap.org/docs/620621indy_docs.pdf

http://www.nicap.org/reports/620621indy_report.htm

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Aerial top/side view of gray B-52H flying over barren desert land.

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UFO Case Directory (SIGHTINGS FROM AIRCRAFT): “Three Strange Lights Observed By B-52 Crew June 21, 1962 Indianapolis, Indiana”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“4:00 a.m. local Duration 3-4 mins aircraft B-52 United States

Military 2 observers No EMI No radar contact

Brad Sparks:

June 21, 1962; Indianapolis, Indiana (BBU 7957)

4 a.m. Lt. Col. H. King and tail gunner M/Sgt. Roberts, aboard a

B-52 heavy jet bomber, saw 3 bright, star-like lights, first one then

10 secs later 2 more. (Berliner)

Dan Wilson:

June 21, 1962; Indianapolis, Indiana (BBU 7957)

At 4 a.m., Lt. Col. H. King flying in a B-52 aircraft at 35,000 feet, first noticed a light at 75 degrees elevation at 40 degrees azimuth descending towards the NE horizon. This object was viewed for approximately 3 minutes. About 30 seconds after the first light appeared a second light appeared and then 10 seconds later a third light appeared both near the position of 60 degrees elevation at 40 degrees azimuth and moved to 10 degrees elevation at 210 degrees azimuth. These two objects were held visually for about 3 minutes. The tail gunner observed the first object only. The aircraft heading was 133 degrees. The tail gunner MSGT Roberts saw the first object near the horizon prior to its disappearance.”

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

http://www.nicap.org/620621indy_dir.htm

Wikipedia article: “Boeing B-52 Stratofortress”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range, subsonic, jet-powered strategic bomber. The B-52 was designed and built by Boeing, which has continued to provide support and upgrades. It has been operated by the United States Air Force (USAF) since the 1950s. The bomber is capable of carrying up to 70,000 pounds (32,000 kg) of weapons,[5] and has a typical combat range of more than 8,800 miles (14,080 km) without aerial refueling.[6]”

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Aerial top/side view of gray B-52H flying over barren desert land.

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