UFO Paper: “UFOs: GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT, SECRECY, AND DOCUMENTS”

By Barry J. Greenwood, Stoneham, Massachusetts,

22 January 1997

(Project 1947, Canterbury, Connecticut)

Barry J. Greenwood served as an investigator and State Section Director for Massachusetts MUFON for ten years, according to NICAP.org.

I also reported about this UFO paper on 10 April 2013.

https://www.project1947.com/bg/ufogov.htm 

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The Pentagon (2008), Arlington, Virginia 

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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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UK Government UFO Document: “POSSIBLE UFO SIGHTINGS”

March 1993

(Royal Air Force, Ministry of Defence, London, UK)

The whole document (not written in UK Ministry of Defence document format):

“1. I have to report that at RAF Cosford on 31 Mar 93 at 0115 hours in company with Cpl [blacked out text] RAF Police, I was on mobile patrol of Leeming Road, adjacent to the Gravel Car Park when I saw two bright lights in the sky above the Airfield. The lights appeared to be flying at great velocity in a South Easterly direction at an altitude of approximately 1000 feet. The lights were circular in shape and gave off no beam. They were creamy white in colour and constant in size and in relation to each other.

2. I brought the vehicle to a standstill and pointed out the lights to Cpl [blacked out text]. I switched off the vehicle engine and we both got out of the car and observed the lights. There was no sound of any engine noise despite there being no wind and the sky being free from cloud. The lights were observed over-flying the Unit and away towards the Wolverhampton area. A slight red glow could be seen from the rear of the lights as they disappeared from view over the horizon. The lights were visible for approximately one minute.

3. Myself and Cpl [blacked out text] then returned to the COC and I contacted RAF Shawbury. I was informed that there were no aircraft flying from there.

4. At 0125 hours, I contacted ATC at RAF Lyneham and was informed that there were no known aircraft in the area of Cosford.

5. At 0127 hours, I contacted RAF Brize Norton and was informed the same.

6. At 0128 hours, I was informed by the Ord Cpl, Cpl [blacked out text] that a Mr [blacked out text] Brereton, Rugeley, Staffordshire had reported seeing the same lights over Rugeley. Four members of Mr [blacked out text] party had also witnessed the lights. Mr [blacked out text] had followed the lights which he described as being cream in colour at an altitude of 900-1000 feet and at an estimated size of 200 metres. He could hear a humming noise as the object flew directly above him. Mr [blacked out text] stated that he believed that the object landed in an area known as Hazelslade but when he approached he could not find and signs of the landing. Mr [blacked out text] was instructed to inform his local Civil Police Force, which he did, and during a subsequent conversation, it was established that a Constable from Staffordshire Police had visited Mr [blacked out text].

7. At 0130 hours, I informed West Mercia Police, WPC [blacked out text] of the sightings.

8. At 0140 hours, I informed HQ P&SS (UK), Cpl [blacked out text] of the incident.

9. At 0142 hours, I informed RAF West Drayton, Lt Cdr [blacked out text] of the incident, and he confirmed that there was no military aircraft of any kind in UK airspace and there had not been since 0001 hours.

10. At 0143 hours, the Senior Air Traffic Controller at Birmingham International Airport was contacted, and he confirmed that there were no civilian aircraft in Cosford Airspace and had not been for some hours.

11. At 0215 hours, OC RAF Police Flt and the Ord Off, Flt Lt [blacked out text] were informed of the incident.

12. At 0250 hours, Mr [blacked out text] RAF Shawbury Met Office, contacted Cpl [blacked out text] and stated that he had seen two lights in the sky at RAF Shawbury. The lights were first sighted approximately 15-20 kms away and Mr [blacked out text] observed them travel towards him over the Airfield moving erratically at hundreds of miles per hour unlike any aircraft. He described the lights as appearing to be searching for something. He heard a low humming noise and watched the object for 5 minutes until it disappeared from sight in a southerly direction. Mr [blacked out text] stated that he had been a Met Officer for 8 years and had never seen anything like it before.

13. At 0300 hours, Cpl [blacked out text] contacted a Mr [blacked out text], the Met Officer at Bristol Airport, who stated that similar lights had been seen there at 0055 hours. He had initially put the lights down to adverse meteor activity but in the light of the subsequent reports recorded it as unidentified.

14. At 0310 hours, West Marcia Police were made aware of the further reports and would contact Staffordshire and Avon & Somerset Forces to correlate the reports.

15. At 0330 hours I resumed normal duties.

[blacked out text]

RAF Police”

Wikipedia article: “RAF Cosford”:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Cosford

Quote from the above Wikipedia article:

“Royal Air Force Cosford or RAF Cosford (formerly DCAE Cosford)[1] (ICAO: EGWC) is a Royal Air Force station in Cosford, Shropshire, just to the northwest of Wolverhampton and next to Albrighton.

Role and operations

Training

Schools currently stationed there include: No. 1 School of Technical Training, No. 1 Radio School RAF, the Defence School of Photography and the RAF School of Physical Training. Flying units include the University of Birmingham Air Squadron, No 8 Air Experience Flight and The Wales and West regional headquarters and West Mercian Wing headquarters of the Air Training Corps are situated there, along with No 2497 (Cosford) Squadron of the ATC.

Cosford became part of the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE), which was formed on 1 April 2004. Other units located at Cosford include elements of the Defence College of Communications and Information Systems (DCCIS), the Defence School of Photography (DSOP) and the RAF School of Physical Training.

The Defence College at RAF Cosford came under the Defence Technical Training Change Programme (DCTTP) and as such, with effect from 1 October 2012, was renamed the Defence School of Aeronautical Engineering (DSAE).[1]

Air Ambulance

RAF Cosford's airfield site is home to one of the Midlands Air Ambulance helicopters. The first aircraft arrived on site in October 1991 with two other platforms based elsewhere in the region. Cosford remains the operations hub for the service.[21]

Wikipedia article: “RAF Shawbury”:

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

Quote from the Wikipedia article:

“Royal Air Force Shawbury otherwise known as RAF Shawbury is a Royal Air Force station near the village of Shawbury in Shropshire in the West Midlands of England.

1990s and 2000s

No. 2 Flying Training School was disbanded in March 1997 so that in April 1997 the station could start providing training of helicopter pilots for all three of the UK’s armed services, under the newly formed Defence Helicopter Flying School.[13]

Role and operations

RAF Shawbury’s mission statement is ‘To provide a safe, efficient, and effective airfield base environment; to enable and support, commanded, lodged and parented units; and to deliver wider Defence and RAF tasks as directed’.[26]

The station is home to the School of Air Operations Control.[27]”

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(Images: UK Ministry of Defence)

RAF Cosford, UK

(Photo: Google)

RAF Shawbury, UK
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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)

UFO Papers Index: “James E. McDonald papers, (1904-1997)”

(Arizona Archives Online, U.S.A.)

Dr. James E. McDonald researched the UFO phenomenon during the period 1958-1971, according to Arizona Archives Online.

Dr. McDonald was Senior Physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and Professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona, Tucson.

http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/uoa/UAMS412.xml

Wikipedia article: “James E. McDonald”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._McDonald

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The late Dr. James Edward McDonald,
U.S. Physicist & UFO Researcher
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U.S. Government UFO Document: “Subject: FLYING DISKS REPORTEDLY SEEN IN VICINITY OF SAVANNAH RIVER PLANT ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION”

15 May 1952

(Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C.)

Source: NICAP.org

The whole document (not written in U.S. Department of Defense document format):

“SECURITY INFORMATION -- CONFIDENTIAL

United States Department of Justice

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington 25, D. C.

To:         Director of Special Investigations

                The Inspector General

                Department of the Air Force

                The Pentagon

                Washington 25, D. C.

From:    John Edgar Hoover, Director

                Federal Bureau of Investigation

The Savannah Office of this Bureau has been informed that at approximately 10:45 p. m., May 10, 1952, four employees of the DuPont Company employed in the Savannah River Plant near Ellenton, South Carolina saw four disk shaped objects approaching ‘the four hundred area’ from the south which disappeared in a northerly direction. At approximately 11:10 p. m. A similar object was seen by these employees approaching from the northeast and disappearing in a southwesterly direction.  A similar object was also sighted about 11:15 p. m. traveling from south to north by the same employees.

The disks were described by the above-mentioned employees as being approximately fifteen inches in diameter and yellow to gold in color. All of the objects were allegedly traveling at a high rate of speed and at a high altitude without any noise. The disk shaped object referred to above which approached ‘the four hundred area’ from a northeasterly direction was reportedly traveling at such a low altitude it had to rise to pass over some tall tanks which are in ‘the four hundred area.’ The employee referred to above advised the objects were weaving from left to right but seemed to hold a general course. According to these persons because of the speed at which the objects were traveling they were only visible for a few seconds.

The above data, which was previous furnished to your office through this Bureau’s liaison representative, is being furnished for your information and any action you desire to take in this matter. No investigation is being conducted by this Bureau.

cc -- Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2

          Department of the Army

          The Pentagon

          Washington 25, D. C.

          Attention: Chief, Intelligence Division

cc -- Director of Naval Intelligence

          Department of the Navy

          The Pentagon

          Washington 25, D. C.

cc -- Captain John A. Waters

          Director of Security         BY SPECIAL MESSENGER

          Atomic Energy Commission

          Room 805B

          333 Third Street, N. W.

          Washington 25, D. C.

SECURITY INFORMATION – CONFIDENTIAL”

NICAP.org’s comment on the document:

“Jan Aldrich:

Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 11:02:46 -0800

The following item is from the US Army Intelligence UFO files.

The file number written on the letter is 452.1 in pencil. A date in pencil is 15 May 52 in parenthesis is 25 Mar 48 which is on a large number documents which may be the date on the controlling file directive (??). (452.1 is the file number for ‘Unconventional Aircraft.’)”

http://www.nicap.org/reports/savannah520510doctrans.htm

Wikipedia article: “Savannah River Site”:

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

Wikipedia article: “Ellenton, South Carolina”:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellenton,_South_Carolina

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L Reactor Facility: L Area, Savannah River Site, September 16, 1982 (Text: Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (Photo: wikimedia.org)

The Savannah River Site viewed from the International Space Station (Text: Wikipedia) (wikimedia.org) (Photo: wikimedia.org)

UFO Testimony by Brazilian Military Witness: “EMBARCAÇÃO DA MARINHA FOI ‘ENVOLVIDA’ POR UFOs.” (“NAVY VESSEL WAS ‘INVOLVED’ WITH UFOs.”)

Published: 20 February 2019

(Marco Antonio Petit (YouTube channel), Brazil)

Video text (English translation by Google Translate):

“Another EXCLUSIVE testimony given to me [Marco Antonio Petit].

Stay tuned as new recordings are being made in the coming weeks.

Today, I am posting another explosive testimony of a high military rank, which commanded a vessel of the Brazilian Navy, responsible for the nautical signaling of the Paraguay River. This testimony was recorded in 1997 at the military’s own residence, already retired at the time, Captain of Sea and War João Maria Romariz.

I was the only one to have access to this military man, who broke his silence at the opportunity to reveal before his death what had happened to him and his men. The military had previously provided a single statement, when shortly after the experience of contact with several UFOs, he had been summoned to the Secret Service of the Navy, in the city of Rio de Janeiro, where his case was registered.

This is just another testimonial from the documentary that I released in the year of the interview with exclusively Brazilian cases, which today can be seen on my YouTube channel.

The female voice in the introduction comes from my ex-wife and mother of my daughter, Teresa Corrêa, who, at my request, narrated the documentary at the time, making the ‘calls’ and presentations of the cases and statements given to me, which were also edited and illustrated by me.

I am grateful to the friend and ufologist João Marcelo (João Marcelo channel) for recovering the original documentary produced by me on VHS in 1997, transforming the material to digital form, from which also the friend and video producer, David Mendes Duarte , responsible for my YouTube channel, highlighted the testimony of the military for this individual post.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZesnSYeKUA

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