Chilean Government UFO Article: “CEFAA: 23 años investigando fenómenos aéreos anómalos” (“CEFAA: 23 years investigating anomalous aerial phenomena”)

22 September 2020

(Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil, Santiago, Chile)

The whole article (translated by Google Translate):

“On October 3, 2020, the Committee for the Study of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena (CEFAA), dependent on the General Secretariat of the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC), celebrates 23 years of existence.

On that day and month, but in 1997, CEFAA was born through Exempt Resolution No. 01599 after the interest expressed by the then Commander-in-Chief of the Chilean Air Force, Air General Fernando Rojas Vender, and by the former Commander of that branch, General Ramón Vega Hidalgo, who determined that the investigative body be under the authority of the DGAC. 

In this way, through an official document, the then Director of the Institution, General of the Air Brigade Gonzalo Miranda Aguirre, gave life to CEFAA in the premises of the Aeronautical Technical School, in the Quinta Normal, in Santiago.

In 1996, the written press in our country published articles on 27 sightings, with an average of just over two per month, and in 1997, almost one case was registered per month, according to data provided by engineer Pablo Petrowitsch, one of the first scholars of this type of phenomena in Chile.

Sightings in Arica

Although 1996 was copious in reports of sightings, the decisive cases for the creation of CEFAA occurred in late March and early April 1997. During those days, the press published reports on lights of unknown origin over Arica for three consecutive nights and one of the incidents was even seen by personnel from the Control Tower and by the then head of the Chacalluta Airport.

CEFAA’s mission is to collect, study, analyze and classify all the information related to strange aerial phenomena reported in the national territory, with the aim of supporting the safety of air operations in the airspace of responsibility of the DGAC, which covers 32 million square kilometers. 

History

The first Director of CEFAA was Colonel Enzo Di Nocera and since its birth the Air Traffic Controller Gustavo Rodríguez Navarro was linked to the new entity, who was known within the DGAC because for decades he had been investigating reports of anomalous aerial phenomena by personal interest.

In 1998, Air Brigade General Ricardo Bermúdez Sanhueza assumed the leadership of ETA and also CEFAA, until February 2002. In March of that year, CEFAA's leadership was under the command of Air Brigade General Hernán Henríquez Cobaise, who he held that position until March 2008. During all those years, CEFAA entered a dormant stage.

On December 15, 2009, the then Director General of Civil Aeronautics, General of the Air Brigade José Huepe Pérez, ordered that CEFAA become directly dependent on the General Secretariat of the DGAC, for which reason the Committee left the Aeronautical Technical School, It began to function on the grounds of the National Aeronautical and Space Museum and was again in charge of General (R) Ricardo Bermúdez.

The CEFAA operated for years with General Bermúdez at the head, with the Air Traffic Controller Gustavo Rodríguez as an investigator and with José Lay as the Head of International Relations.

During those first years, CEFAA stood out for giving free talks with different guests at the Aeronautical Technical School, for a high-profile event with international guests during the International Air and Space Fair (FIDAE) 2000 and for similar events during the editions of FIDAE of 2016 and 2018.

In December 2016, General Bermúdez left the leadership of CEFAA and in September 2017, the scientific journalist and historian Hugo Camus Palacios joined by public competition, who soon took over the leadership of the Committee.

Historical heritage

The merit of having initiated the investigation of these phenomena in Chile goes to the Chilean Commission for Studies of Unidentified Space Phenomena, created by the Director of the Chilean Meteorological Office, Sergio Napoleón Bravo, and sponsored by the Scientific Society of Chile, in which featured prominent academics, scientists and researchers of the time. 

In an interview published by the Spanish newspaper ABC in 1969, Sergio Bravo affirmed: “I confess that at first, when the news about it began to invade the world press, we were skeptical. But there were so many stories and the professional solvency of many of the people who referred to it that the concern to investigate these facts in a systematic and scientific way was born in us ".

New CEFAA 

In 2017, in addition to Hugo Camus, Pablo Trigo Marihual joined CEFAA as administrative assistant. At the end of that year, Gustavo Rodríguez and José Lay left the Committee after several years of service and in March 2018, science professor Gustavo Arriagada Bustamante joined the committee as a researcher.

The new CEFAA team was completed in mid-October 2019, when journalist Patricio Abusleme Hoffman joined as a second investigator. 

During the few years in which the new CEFAA has functioned, Director Camus has participated in ufological conferences, has been interviewed by different media and, together with researcher Gustavo Arriagada, has given talks on the work of CEFAA to aeronautical and different branches of the Armed Forces in various cities of Chile.

After the paradigm shift that the global pandemic caused by Covid-19 meant, the members of CEFAA have continued to carry out their work remotely, consulting their internal and external advisers when the cases under study warrant it. 

To report any sighting of anomalous aerial phenomena that have taken place within the territory of the Republic of Chile, users can do so through the CEFAA website at the following link:

http://www.cefaa.gob.cl/home/enviar-caso” 

http://www.cefaa.gob.cl/home/actualidad/noticias/cefaa23anosinvestigandofenomenosaereosanomalos

English translation (by Google Translate): 

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cefaa.gob.cl%2Fhome%2Factualidad%2Fnoticias%2Fcefaa23anosinvestigandofenomenosaereosanomalos

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The current CEFAA team, headed by Director Hugo Camus, at the Committee’s premises in Cerrillos. 

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Members of CEFAA and some advisers to the Committee shortly after its creation in the late 1990s, headed by General (R) Ricardo Bermúdez. 

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UFO News Article (Blog): “Another hat in the ring”

By Billy Cox, 7 July 2020

(De Void, Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida)

Billy Cox writes about U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Larry “Kimo” Rider’s UFO sighting.

Quote from the article:

“He can’t remember the exact date it happened. It was sometime between the death of his first wife in 1992 and his remarriage in 1996. He suspects 1994, maybe ’95. He was living in Phoenix. He was in the back yard of his condo, well before the March 13, 1997, ‘Phoenix Lights’ incident set switchboards ablaze and made national headlines. It was late summertime, maybe. August? 9 p.m.? Dusk, anyway. He was taking a cigar break.

It wasn’t an airplane, or at least, not like anything Rider had seen before. What he saw were extremely bright lights, 10, 15, maybe 20, arrayed in an absolutely silent, rigid, V-shaped formation; from his angle, they appeared to be lining the underbelly of a flying machine whose other details were indiscernible. The lights reminded him of halogen lamps.

Rider guesses the thing was two to three miles away and, judging from the spread of the lights, maybe twice or three times the size of a Boeing 747. As it began to bank left, to the northeast, it was flying so low – 2,000 feet, maybe – that ‘no pilot in his right mind is going to maneuver a plane that big that far away from an airport,’ Rider recalls. Phoenix’s Sky Harbor airport was a good 10 miles off.”

http://devoid.blogs.heraldtribune.com/16009/another-hat-in-the-ring/

Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rider, U.S. Air Force
(Photo: Larry Rider/Sarasota Herald-Tribune)

Website Searches: Focus On UFO News Articles From the Years 1992 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996

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

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1992-01-01&dateTo=1992-12-31

(Search term: UFO 1992)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1992-01-01&dateTo=1992-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1992)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1993-01-01&dateTo=1993-12-31

(UFO 1993)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1993-01-01&dateTo=1993-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1993)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1994-01-01&dateTo=1994-12-31

(UFO 1994)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1994-01-01&dateTo=1994-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1994)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1995-01-01&dateTo=1995-12-31

(UFO 1995)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1995-01-01&dateTo=1995-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1995)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=ufo&dateFrom=1996-01-01&dateTo=1996-12-31

(UFO 1996)

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=flying+saucer&dateFrom=1996-01-01&dateTo=1996-12-31

(Flying Saucer 1996)
(no results as of 18 March 2020)

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UFO News Article: “Local resident awed by UFO sighting after storm – Another cattle mutilation discovered in El Prado pasture”

5 September 1996

(The Taos News, New Mexico)

Source: NewspaperArchive.com

Quote from the article:

“In Gallina Canyon above Valdez, seamstress Jenny Meadowcroft slept fitfully Saturday night (Aug. 31) [1996]. She woke in the dark just before dawn when her cat jumped over her head.

She sat up, looked out the large window beside her bed and saw three globes of soft, luminous light. ‘It was very beautiful. I was awed and amazed,’ she said. ‘I wasn’t afraid.’

She described the lights as white in front, blue and red toward the rear. They weren’t in a triangle, she explained, but in a fixed relationship to each other. ‘I figured they were part of one craft. They took off, moving south very fast without a sound.’ She says they shot past the next window and disappeared. No dogs barked, though one was outside. ‘That was the first UFO I’ve ever seen,’ she said. ‘I’ll never forget it.’

Meadowcroft’s description roughly matched those of three local residents, two from Arroyo Hondo and one from Arroyo Seco, who claim to have seen red, white and blue lights hovering over Gallina Canyon in the past month. UFO sightings commonly coincide with reports of cattle mutilations. Since July 8, two mutilated cows, both belonging to Jesse Gonzales, have been found in Arroyo Hondo.

A third cow that showed classic signs of mutilation was found in a pasture in El Prado Saturday.

…

A round patch of skin the size of a fist had apparently been cut from the middle of the belly, another classic sign, according to private investigator Gail Staehlin who examined the animal Sunday (Sept. 1). All edges of the cuts were smooth and symmetrical. Staehlin said they looked burned. A little bloody liquid seeped from the nose, but otherwise there were no traces of blood, and no tracks. Staehlin estimated that the animal had been dead since Thursday night (Aug. 29), the night of a spectacular thunderstorm in Taos. ‘That seems to be the pattern now,’ Staehlin said, ‘to strike during a violent storm that keeps everyone else inside.’

Some dry cow patties were found flipped over, another characteristic of a mutilation site, Staehlin said. Chamisa bushes 40 feet away were crushed downward and a couple of small branches had been recently snapped off a nearby cottonwood sapling, ‘as if something flew down,’ Staehlin said. ‘A chopper could have done that.’

Staehlin claims that on more than one occasion she has seen black helicopters while investigating cattle mutilations. She said she was followed along the road by a helicopter without any identifying numbers, and once one hovered right over her as she was inspecting a dead cow.

Tom Reed says he has also seen black and dark bue helicopters without identifying numbers flying over his ranch, ‘[but] I was looking at them through binoculars,’ he said. ‘Maybe the numbers were too small to see.’

Reed, who has managed a ranch north of Questa for 15 years, said he lost eight cows and 13 calves between 1989 and 1990. ‘A lot of those could have been from natural causes, disease or predators,’ he said, ‘but some of them weren’t. I’ve seen what animals do. We have a lot of wild dogs around here and some of them have been seen bringing down elk, but predators don’t make nice clean cuts.’

He said he found a full-grown, healthy cow dead and mutilated in an irrigation ditch that had only four inches of water in it. In May of 1990 he found a mutilated calf in a nearby corral with the entrails cut out of it.

…

This soft-spoken, down-to-earth rancher said that when he ran a batch of 1- to 2-month-old calves through a chute to inspect them this spring, he discovered that four steers and five heifers had the tips of their ears cut off. He did not report it, but ‘it did seem kind of strange,’ he said. ‘All of them had at least one ear cropped; two of them had both—just an inch off the top in that smooth cut—but they weren’t dead,’ he said, ‘so maybe they weren’t mutilated.’

The most recent mutilation at his ranch occurred last March when he found a 1-month-old calf with the tongue, right eye and two front teeth missing. ‘The teeth weren’t knocked out; they looked like they had been pulled,’ he said. ‘All the insides were gone and the cut was smooth.’ He noted abrasions on two of the calves legs that might indicate it had been airlifted to or from the site, ‘but who knows where they came from. I get abrasions myself,’ he said.

Perhaps the most curious occurrence was Reed’s discovery of a dark patch of what may have been blood in the grass 12 feet away from the body, in the shape of a recently mutilated calf. ‘There was some gray goo in between them,’ he said, ‘but by the time the brand inspector got here, it was gone.’

He complained that Jerry Valerio, local brand inspector for Taos, had been taken off the cases. ‘It always seems like when you’re getting somewhere, somebody higher comes in and stops it.’ He said the last mutilation he reported, ‘they took the whole calf and I never heard back from any of them. I never got much results from calling them in the past,’ he said. ‘They always say they have no information, they can’t tell you anything’ ”

My comment:

This is a newspaper article (one of many newspaper articles) that clearly proves that there exists a connection between UFO sightings and some of the cattle/animal mutilation incidents.

And – rancher Tom Reed’s testimony reveals that the U.S. government takes the animal mutilation phenomenon very seriously – and hides all information regarding animal mutilation cases.

https://newspaperarchive.com/taos-news-sep-05-1996-p-9/

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Gail Staehlin, U.S. UFO & Animal Mutilation Researcher

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Satellite photo of Arroyo Hondo, New Mexico (tageo.com)

(tageo.com photo)

UFO Article (Redux): The Marit Semeleng UFO Photograph, Valdres Mountains, Norway, Autumn 1983, Daytime (with Involvement by the Royal Norwegian MoD)

UFO-Norge Web article by Odd-Gunnar Røed, UFO-Norge, 1996 in Norwegian (with UFO photograph):

http://www.ufo.no/index.php?q=oldarticle.php&year=96&name=valdres96-3.html

Below you’ll find the UFO-Norge article, translated into English:
“Marit Semeleng from Valdres, Norway, experienced something strange on a berry picking trip together with her husband in the autumn of 1983. She saw and photographed a bin-like object in the sky before it suddenly disappeared after only 5-6 seconds.

A flying ‘trash bin’?

13 years ago, Marit Semeleng, who was then 66 years old, saw a strange phenomenon. Together with her husband, she was on a berry picking trip in the Valdres Mountains. She had just taken some photos with a camera (Kodak 224 with fixed optics) she had brought with her on their trip, when she suddenly saw a glare over their heads. The object was as bright as the sun, and she reacted almost on reflex and took a photograph, before the object disappeared for good. It all happened so fast that her husband didn’t see anything.

The result of her fast reaction can be seen in the photo. The object in the photograph is hard to make sense of, perhaps, but the fact that she saw this object and then photographed it, is a strong argument for that this photo shows something quite extraordinary. It is natural to compare the photographed object with an old trash bin. In addition, one can see two strong light sources on the front of the object.

The negative disappeared at the Norwegian MoD

Some years after the experience, she sent the negative of the photograph to an official at the Fagernes Police Office, who in turn sent it to an official at the Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence’s Defence Intelligence Service. The latter person had previously been a police officer and was a friend of the officials at the Fagernes Police Office.

The negative disappeared at the Ministry of Defence and has not yet been delivered back to Marit Semeleng (as of 1996). She received a letter from the MoD, where she was told that the object, which is shown in the photo, is a damage on the film.

But then why not return the negative to the owner? Marit Semeleng is after all the rightful owner of the photo and she had seen the object she had photographed.

UFO-Norge is at the moment trying to locate the negative and we will write more about this story in number 4.

Mysterious tracks

Marit Semeleng stood in the woods, with a strange feeling of having witnessed something unexplainable. She had seen something highly luminous, silent and very fast-flying. The colour was intensely white. Marit Semeleng doesn’t know of anyone else, who has witnessed the same as she did.

Someone discovered strange vehicle tracks in the area, where the photo was taken, even though it’s only possible to get there by walking. The vehicle tracks were found on stone surface in the area.”

My comment: As seen in the Espevær, Norway, UFO case (the MoD investigated the case) and in this UFO photograph/witness case, one can clearly see that the Royal Norwegian MoD has an interest in the UFO phenomenon and take the subject seriously.

NOTE: An object which was similar to the object photographed by Marit Semeleng – was allegedly seen in Maine, U.S.A., in 1982.

See the following UFO Casebook article (and drawing in the UFO Magazine, Issue # 342, January 19, 2009): “Reader Recounts 1982 Encounter in Maine”:

http://www.ufocasebook.com/2008c/1982eliotmaine.html

Wikipedia article: “Norwegian Armed Forces”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Valdres”:

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

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I first presented this blog post on 18 January 2009.

UFO photographed over the Valdres Mountains, Norway,

autumn 1983 (Marit Semeleng photo/youtube.com image)

View over Begnadalen from Lærskogen, with the large woodland ranging all over to Randsfjorden on the left and Hedalsfjella in the right background [Valdres Mountains, Norway].

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UFO Thread (Forum): “UFOs and the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office).”

1 January 2018

(AboveTopSecret.com, U.S.A.)

The question of whether the National Reconnaissance Office’s sophisticated satellites pick up UFOs has been debated by many UFO researchers from time to time.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1195094/pg1

Wikipedia article: “National Reconnaissance Office”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the ‘big five’ U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of theUnited States government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]

The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce,’ accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”

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NRO ground station at Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, CO

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UFO Article (Blog): “Unidentified Aerial Phenomena and the National Reconnaissance Office”

By Keith Basterfield, 21 July 2019

(UFOs – scientific research, Campbelltown,

New South Wales, Australia)

Quote from the article:

“Background

The To The Stars Academy (TTSA) recently announced that Chris Herndon was joining their Advisory Board. Herndon initially worked as a Department of Navy civilian, supporting a variety of agencies, including the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO.)

This made me ask myself, what did I know about the NRO? Like many other long-time researchers, the NRO had popped up on my radar from time to time. So I decided, that in this blog post, I would take a look at what I could find out about any relationship between the NRO and Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP.)”

http://ufos-scientificresearch.blogspot.com/2019/07/unidentified-aerial-phenomena-and.html

Wikipedia article: “National Reconnaissance Office”:

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

Quote fron the Wikipedia article:

“The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is a member of the United States Intelligence Community and an agency of the United States Department of Defense. NRO is considered, along with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), to be one of the ‘big five’ U.S. intelligence agencies.[2] The NRO is headquartered in unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia,[3] 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Washington Dulles International Airport.

It designs, builds, and operates the reconnaissance satellites of the U.S. federal government, and provides satellite intelligence to several government agencies, particularly signals intelligence (SIGINT) to the NSA, imagery intelligence (IMINT) to the NGA, and measurement and signature intelligence (MASINT) to the DIA.[4]

The Director of the NRO reports to both the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of Defense[5] and serves in an additional capacity as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Intelligence Space Technology). The NRO’s federal workforce consists primarily of Air Force, CIA, NGA, NSA, and Navy personnel.[6] A 1996 bipartisan commission report described the NRO as having by far the largest budget of any intelligence agency, and ‘virtually no federal workforce’, accomplishing most of its work through ‘tens of thousands’ of defense contractor personnel.[7]”

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UFO Case Directory (RADCAT): “America West Airlines Flight 564 / NORAD / F-111 Incident May 25, 1995 Nr. Bovina, TX”

(NICAP.org)

The whole UFO case report:

“Richard Hall:

Time: 10:30 p.m. Witnesses: Capt. Gene Tollefson, First Officer John J. Waller, America West Airlines Flight 564.

Features:

Large silhouetted cigar-shaped object, pulsating lights along body. An America West B-757 airliner was cruising at 39,000 feet near Bovina, Texas, en route from Tampa, Florida, to Las Vegas, Nevada. To their right and somewhat below their altitude, the crew saw a row of bright white lights which sequenced on and off from left to right. The co-pilot contacted the Albuquerque FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center while the sighting was in progress and checks were made with military installations in the area, but no explanation could be found. As the airliner proceeded westerly and the object began dropping behind, the crew observed it against a background of thunderclouds. When the background clouds pulsed with lightning, they could see the silhouette of a dark, wingless, elongated cigar-like object around the strobing lights. Though they did not know the object’s exact distance, the pilot and co-pilot estimated it to be 300-400 feet long. The object was not visible on Albuquerque FAA radar. One of the air traffic controllers contacted the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD), which monitors North American air space by radar, and said that NORAD had confirmed an unidentified radar track in the vicinity. This later proved to be a small aircraft whose transponder was not initially operative. Source: (W. Webb, 1996)”

http://www.nicap.org/950525bovinadir.htm

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Satellite photo of Bovina, Texas (tageo.com)

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UFO TV Series Report: “The Paranormal Borderline”: UFO Researcher Paul R. Hill

Aired: 4 May 1996 (according to the source)

(United Paramount Network (UPN), Los Angeles, California)

Source: Paranormal Videos You may have Missed
(YouTube channel)

Paul R. Hill was a leading research and development engineer and manager for NASA (National Aeronautical and Space Administration) and its predecessor, NACA (National Advisory Council for Aeronautics) between 1939 and 1970,  according to Wikipedia.

Hill, who had personally experienced two UFO sightings, maintained a long-term interest in the UFO subject.

Paul R. Hill’s book, “Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis,” was published posthumously.

The book was published by Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., Charlottesville, Virginia, on 1 December 1995.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU6QPzBfoKY

Wikipedia article: “Paul R. Hill”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_R._Hill

IMDb web page about the The Paranormal Borderline:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125639/companycredits

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The late Paul R. Hill, U.S. Aerodynamicist

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